People get surprised and sometimes even laugh at me when I tell them I do not drink. “Try It”. Come on, “Try It Once!”. “Try It Just Once, You Will Love It”. “You Should Try It At Least Once In Your Life!” – my friends have tried it in several ways; but couldn’t get me to ‘try it’. The ‘bigger shock’ came to them when I tell them I don’t drink ‘soft...

I’ve been a great admirer of Mr. Mahesh Murthy . In one of his writings, he said the purpose of advertising is to scare people and make them buy the products. Now try to recall all your favorite advertisements or simply turn on the TV. You will realize that 99% of them, if not all, are meant to scare us. If we don’t use fair and lovely – we won’t get noticed. If we don’t use Dettol or Lifebuoy, we’ll have all...

I sometimes sit & wonder why is this beautiful world full of stupid people and stupidity. After thinking over the problem of stupidity for some time; I decided to relax and turned on the television. I surfed the channels and found out that almost every news channel had a breaking news. So far, I’ve come across following breaking news:- Shah Rukh Kan’s credit card stolen. [ Believe me, its a 'breaking news' on national...