Travelling Times

     "A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. "      Our country has a long history of struggles and revolutions. We might not have had the tea-parties of Boston, or blood-shedding upheavals as in Russia or France. But over the last 10 years, things have changed. We revolt for those negligible things that wouldn't change our everyday lives. A brief synopsis of our modern methods. 1. The Anna way - 10 years back, Anna stood for Rajnikanth and Anna Kournikova. Neither of them had much to revolt against. So the invention is credited to Hazare Sahab without any disclaimers. The method included snippets from of Anna Munna Bhai with Baba Ramdev playing circuit. Pick up a topic of choice, send across online petitions as a part of your MBA project. Poof! The revolt is on. Warning: Cost includes candle-lit marc...

     “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”      Growing up, my report cards in school consistently carried the same comments; "Good with vocabulary, Arithmetic. Needs to improve handwriting." For some strange reason, I had it in my head that if you were good at Math, your handwriting would be a disaster. But, somewhere down the line I developed a fear, rather a disregard for the subject of my choice. It began when I was in my fifth grade. A new Maths teacher had joined the staff and his surname could easily have been Mr. Torture. He would come in every day and get us to memorize the multiplication tables. If there was a mistake, we had to spend the rest of the hour on our knees. Later, the fear of punishment would strangle our thinking and we'd end up walking to the spot as soon as a question was asked.     By the time I reached ninth grade, Maths was alike ...