Life is a strange journey that brings you full circle, soon enough to realize mistakes, smile and say, “Oh! now I understand”. As a teenager, I was very rebellious. Set norms and patterns always bothered me. Moreover, not only was I too unreasonable in my demands at times, I was also too vocal about my likes and dislikes, my mother often becoming the soft target of all my frustrations. One thing I vowed was to never bring up my kids on the same mundane laid down patterns and made sure my Mom got to hear what I had to say about it.

Each one of us on this earth has urges to which one is susceptible. An urge, which no matter how much we try to restrict and refrain, does manage to surface every now and then, whenever tempted. Someone has an urge to smoke, someone an urge to shop, someone might have an urge to eat chocolates and Moms in general have an urge to correct.

We all love the 'ideal' in life. The ideal home, the ideal job, the ideal partner and an ideal nation, all amounting to a perfect life and perfection is the ultimate we desire, isn’t it? So, how about a perfect political scene, the ideal one that gives the nation a facelift and all us voters a breather from the war of the parties. Imagine our political arena dominated not by parties but by agendas. How? Read on to find out.

Motherhood is a blessing, true enough, but more blessed I feel are those who are able to sail smoothly through the initial formative years of parenting. In our side of the world the common belief is that, in giving birth to a child a woman is born again. And really, after having two kids of my own today, I completely stand by this belief.

The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee plans to appeal to the international community to seek a ban on the auction of all kinds of religious relics. The decision comes in light of the controversy over the auction of a medieval-era armour, professed to be one, belonging to Guru Gobind Singh Ji by the Sotheby’s in London.

The moment you read this heading you must be thinking how is someone trying to relate all these issues. I am myself not an economist but a keen observer of the economy. In the next few paragraphs I will explain how these things are affecting you and why you should not quit the Army.