This incident happened when I had just joined a school in Kandivali, Mumbai. It was the beginning of the academic year and the 10th std. students just had their prelims exams. The principal requested all the new teachers to help with the correction of the papers and we chipped in. ...

Ask someone who does not have a brother or a sister. Though a cousin can fill the void, cousins don’t live together all through childhood and only meet during vacations perhaps. At the same time, the sister-sister or brother-brother equation is also there. But the brother-sister bond goes to a ...

Indian Hindus, like Maharashtrians and South Indians especially people from Karnataka, perform Naga Panchami Pooja four days after Aadi Amavasya (More here http://ajournalistreveals.com/aadi-amavasya/). In South India, during marriage, the bride gets a small silver snake as gift from her parents. It is said that if we pray to these snakes ...