Author Archive for Rachana Sharma

The countdown for the New Year has started. Immature persons are thinking hard to decide on a remarkable New Year resolution which can transform their life in a night and experienced persons like us, who are guilty-ridden about breaking their resolutions every year, are working seriously on the reasons of failure and finding a failure-proof resolution.

What is life? What is the purpose of life? Can we ever solve the mystery of life? The Fine Print of Life neither tries to evolve any theory about it nor does it go into whether these issues are sortable or unsortable. What it does is much more valuable and appreciable: it helps you to [...]

I do not agree. Whenever we hear these words the appropriateness of our thoughts comes into question.  Mostly we react to disagreements the same way regardless of the source of their origination. We do not realize that it is fruitless to try to sort out a disagreement with a random strategy until its origination is [...]

We have a natural tendency to reflect about the past. I often hear people saying wistfully, “Those were the days!” This expression is almost always followed by some criticism of the present life be it environment, economy, society, politics or any other aspect – the pollution has increased, politics has become dirty, the economic world [...]

Love! A thousand thoughts and a million words are available for this one single concept of our lively world. This shows how much it matters to us. We might have multifarious definitions but everybody can perceive clearly when he or she feels it. We might have different approaches to it but we all are touched [...]

Marriage is a combination. There can be as many combinations as the variety of people being combined allows. One’s conception of marriage depends on what kind of combination one experiences. What is marriage; bliss or a curse, a compulsion or a choice, a compromise or an opportunity to learn, a joint project or a one-man [...]

Last night I searched in Google, typing ‘Prof Daya Krishna’, the name of my most loving teacher, rather a lovely, witty friend with white beard. When I joined the philosophy department in university, he had already retired. I met him as a helper student who was supposed to read and write for him as his [...]

The idea of freedom of thought and expression is as old as thinking itself. In contemporary age it is generally discussed under the shadow of democracy. This new version has two new features. First, the notions freedom of thought and freedom of expression are entwined conceptually. Secondly, it appears more as a struggle against others [...]

In my college days my favorite professor used to say that spouse should live three-four houses away. “It is so nice to meet him or her, now and then and spend calm evenings together as the best of the best friends. Then say bye to each other with promises to meet again and go to [...]