I used to have a recurring dream — an enormous elephant chasing me. When I was younger, I’d be terrified. I’d run as fast as I could, desperately trying to find a place to hide from the giant creat…
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You know how you can judge a man by his shoes? Scuffed leather, cracked heels—says more than his résumé ever will. And if his feet look like they’ve trekked the Himalayas barefoot? Well, let’s just say, Namaste and no thanks! Similarly, the soul of a household is reflected not in the drawing room with its fake flowers and laminated sofas, but in two sacred places: the kitchen and the toilet. Clean these two and the gods might just bless your house without a pandit. Now, a close relative of mine…
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I must confess… I was quite the “marriage-crazy” girl in my teenage years! Well, I’m a <strong data-start="224" data-end="234"…
Read MoreFAQs on my Love Story I am really tired of answering the same clichéd questions people ask me regarding my love story! Why can’t people understand a simple love story is beyond me. And then their next question is invariably ‘ Why I did not get married?’. So folks, before you get more inquisitive about my mortal level love story – here is it for you all! FAQs When did you fall in love and with whom? I fell in love in around November – December 1992. I fell in…
Read MoreGarfield is a comic strip by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield , his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle’s dog, Odie. As of 2007, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip. Common themes in the strip include Garfield’s laziness, obsessive eating, and hatred of Mondays and diets. …….inside each one of us, hides a Garfield…..ok, if not in anyone else’s…but…
Read MoreCalvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th-century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th-century English political philosopher. Calvin and Hobbes is set in the contemporary United States in an unspecified suburban area. The strip depicts Calvin’s flights of fantasy…
Read MoreChristie (1890-1976), prolific British author of mystery novels and short stories, is especially famous as the creator of Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, and Miss Jane Marple. Agatha Christiewas born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller andClarissa Miller. Her father died when she was a child. Christie was educated at home, where her mother encouraged her to write from a very early age. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano. In 1914 Christie…
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