Anmol Sagar

October 2nd dawns and India is to go smoke free! Yayyee… finally!! Smoking is going to be illegal in all public spaces. Those include pubs, restaurants, stations, movie halls etc. (any place that requires more than 20 people to congregate in a closed space)
The effective implementation of this ban would enable non smokers to finally [...]

I’m currently reading Gregory David Robert’s ‘Shantaram’. It’s an interesting book, albeit slow and meandering, but interesting none the less. For me, having stayed in Mumbai for a bit, it is especially more interesting as it chronicles many fascinating things about Mumbai that I did not know / have never heard of. One of these [...]

It’s been some time since I read Malcolm Galdwell’s ‘Blink’. At the time when I read it, I thought it was an eye opener. I especially liked his stories/ examples on how instinctively, without even knowing it, we make decisions about people, races, and things in the blink of an eye. In the book, some [...]

I recently went to see Rajat Kapoor’s ‘Hamlet: The clown prince’ at Prithvi. The play, (in gibberish and English as the advet said) was supposedly hilarious. I went in wondering how one could possibly make whiny and serious Hamlet funny….And I came out holding my sides, for they ached from all the laughing I did [...]

Through this post I want to share my wonderful Harewood experience with all of you.  Harewood is pronounced ‘Haar’- ‘Wood’ and not ‘Hare’-‘ wood’…just letting you know and setting your expectation that this is not a post about a bunny and his life in the jungle (!), but one about my visit to the Harewood [...]

I’ve always wondered about this whole human life experience. We are born, have a few carefree years of childhood, a few anxious years of teenage, many stressful years of working and many blissful/cantankerous (depends on one is happily married or not) years of married/ single life and then we’re done. Heavenly gates are hopefully there [...]

Most organized streams of occupation have one thing in common. They have a singular body that controls, augments, approves, and accredits all aspects of the occupation and its practitioners. Some examples would be the Chartered Accountants of India, Bar associations for Lawyers, the Indian Medical Association for Doctors etc.
This kind of setup allows for [...]