Life is about learning to take it easy
By Tinky Ningombam
It was some years back, just a couple of days old in my corporate life; I was chatting with a group of...
Love thy neighbour
By Tinky Ningombam
Prejudices and Steteotypes are age-old maladies in this world. And I believe as long as we have a thinking mind, we will...
The humanities : an important field of study
By Tinky Ningombam
The other day I was having a conversation on how “Humanities” as a subject stream was mostly opted by young people who...
Being true to your emotions
By Tinky Ningombam
It was 6 September 1997 when I saw the Live broadcast of Princess Diana’s funeral service on TV. It was a memorable...
A little respect goes a long way
By Tinky Ningombam
A lot has already started happening in the new year. As Delhi launches its political brigade against corruption, the country waits for...
Three recollections
By Tinky Ningombam
As the year comes to an end, one cannot help feeling the need to set resolutions, One favorite of mine has been...
The Art of Gifting
By Tinky Ningombam
Christmas is around the corner and so are the New Year’s celebrations and all I see are people buying presents. I always...
Why do we choose to forget?
By Tinky Ningombam
Our mind works in wondrous ways. Without the mind’s ability to store our past memories, we will not be the personalities we...
Anyone care for a selfie ?
By Tinky Ningombam
The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year for 2013 is “selfie.” In what seems to be perhaps the most inevitable choice, “Selfies”...
Time to market those secret recipes
By Tinky Ningombam
Winters remind me of good food back home. As the lazy mornings quietly crawl in, we lay out our mats to sun...
How safe is your password?
By Tinky Ningombam
With Smartphones, ATM machines and Internet usage occupying most our day-to-day lives, we have come to realize how difficult life is becoming...
A self-fulfilling prophecy
By Tinky Ningombam
I bet you have friends who are self claimed oracles; People who repeat “I told you so” after every bad incident that...
The games we play
By Tinky Ningombam
About 20 years back, we used to boast about how many marbles we collected or how many dresses our dolls had or...
Finding our role models
By Tinky Ningombam
As children we have lived fantastical lives. We have had imaginary friends, had conversations with imaginary characters and acted like rock-stars, superheroes...