
Good Looks.!
‘……May the outer and inward man be one..’ Socrates Years ago as a teenager, I remember seeing Gregory Peck in Mc Kennas Gold and telling myself that wow, I would love to be that man. He was one of the handsomest men I had ever seen on or off screen….

Throw Those Free Glasses Away..!
“What’s happening?” I ask as a man on the street with a loudspeaker announces, “Free! Free! Free!” “A political party is distributing spectacles free of cost for everybody!” says someone in the crowd. “But I have my own glasses!” I tell him. “But these are different,” the man distributing glasses…

Cashing the Confidence Cheque..!
Many years ago I worked as a salesman in my dad’s company and have always been glad for that experience, especially stuff my father taught me. Ever so often I would hit a rough patch when for days I would trudge the roads and not bag a single order. “Take…

Beauty Instead of Violence..!
So often when we are hit, we feel we have to hit back with the same weapons. But we should learn to fight back with the instruments of peace instead and bring in beauty where violence exists. At 4.00 pm on May 27,1992, in the war-torn city of Sarajevo, people…

Mr Nice Guy..!
New Zealand cemeteries are very different from the rest of the world. Elsewhere graves lie serene and somber, but in New Zealand, especially those graves of the Islanders, are curiously explicit. As I walked through a graveyard in Auckland, I saw one with a miniature fire truck, another with a…