Author: Dr Rajagopala Soondron

It was always childhood fun to go and sleep at the maternal grandmother’s place on weekends.

The jury has been out for quite some time now. When will it be back?

It is amazing how we human beings end up taking so many paradoxical stances.

How wonderful it would be if we could preserve a complete audiovisual record of our passage here between the cradle and the tomb.

We always thought that we are the brain and the brain is us; but we’ll have to change that conception, because that very brain is continuously being manipulated

Why do we want to go faster than we can run; why do we want to fly – and beat gravity?

As we sat through the Sunday morning physiology revision class, little did we know that we would be heading towards an English language class. The London qualified professor,

The old man Sol belonging to that generation devastated by apocalyptic famine, abject poverty, and overpopulation knew that his time had come; he made his way to the

When many things will be forgotten and done with, there would still be some simple moments in our life that we would always cherish, somewhere in some soft

Whoever could have believed that such fearful beasts like the dinosaurs would one day spur such wonderful descendants like the birds, thus creating a world for us and

Our ‘confirmation bias’ tells us that it is easier to believe than to stop believing or not to believe at all.

To most of us children, the flame of the forest tree in bloom was synonymous with the advent of vacation time, after a long year at school and

Sometimes our past catches up with us unexpectedly. Our parents might have sung some lullaby to us decades ago, but it is much later that we would appreciate

There is in our mind a hidden blueprint of many things to come or to be done; they will contribute to ‘structurize’ time in our psyche, aided and

As we sat down to dinner, hosted by our Chinese professor of acupuncture in 1987, we were taken aback as we were offered soup of “Barbara” — as