Category Archives: Personalexperiences-India-skb

This is about my friend “Rajin”. Yeah, you must have developed a tendency to raise the question “What’s so great that he is going to tell us about his `friend’ ”. But, then, before doing so, you must know a little bit about me. If you ask about me to those who “know” me, you will mostly get the answer “Oh!…That fellow?… Horrible!…Simply horrible!…..He does not recognize anybody, except perhaps for himself”. And, I really enjoy that. You know, why? Because, I know about this world better than ninety percent […]

Many a times I tried to choose an ideal “Religion” for myself. But, every time I realized that I did not fit well into any of the conventional religions. The most important reason being the hard shells of rituals by which the cores of these religions appeared to me as covered, so much so that it made me to wonder if it would ever be so easy for an average individual to understand the dictums that lay at the cores of these religions. In other words, I felt that it […]

Bertram Wallace Korn, Jr., from Philadelphia, United States, was somewhat peculiar by Indian standard. He was my classmate in a university of repute in New Delhi, India. During late 1970s, Korn used to come riding a bi-cycle from South Avenue to R.K. Puram (Sector-III), a distance of about eight kilometres, to attend postgraduate classes in our university – summer or winter hardly mattered. But, don’t worry, he used to secure “A+” grade in most of his papers; and everybody in the university recognized him as an extraordinary student. I often […]