Today, Kochi’s Metro is set to roll. The red carpet rolled out for the PM and CM day before yesterday. The common man can board it, from today. I met a man today. He said- “The Metro is Bullshit”. My eyebrows shot up. That gave him enormous satisfaction. “Amenities for a city will encourage people […]
Category: The anatomy of well-being
Exercise and Health- Why are we naked? And how big are our penises?
I remember being struck by a national geographic programme that I watched years ago. It started with a huge sumo wrestler weighing 150 kilograms boasting on camera about his invincible strength. The idea was to have a tug-of-war between him and a tame orang-utan. The animal was only one third of the man’s size. A […]
Materialism –is there such a thing?
My school friend Sura went to the gulf to escape poverty. He toiled for eighteen years at relatively low level jobs and came back with (what he thought) was a lot of money. To buy a villa in the most expensive part of the city was his first move. When he purchased his second car, […]
Karoshi- Work can kill.
Work is one of the most important determinants of our Happiness. http://www.healthylifehappylife.in/work-and-happiness/ “Hard work never killed anybody”. Yes- I have heard it many times. But there is a problem with that statement. The one who uttered it first may have believed it, but it isn’t true. It has- I mean- killed. The Japanese have a […]
Happiness- not exactly common sense:
On the desk of my former boss, there was a small board that said: “The greatest need- common sense” But it is really surprising how often common sense is wrong. When I was a young adolescent, like most of my peers, I was very concerned about physical beauty. It was my lack of (perceived) height […]