Tales Of The World

Story on Car Care Tips: Check Your Car Tyre Pressure

Informative story on how to do basic car tyre maintenance.

How to know how much tire pressure is needed?

Informative story with car care tips: Check Your Engine Oil

How to check, what to look for and how to top it up?

What happens when you don’t check it regularly?

Story with Cooking Tips: Chhach - Traditional Buttermilk

How to make it?

How chhas differs from buttermilk, commercial buttermilk, cultured buttermilk etc.?

Learn to easily make Chicken or Fish Marinate.

Isha teaches her son how to simply, quickly and safely marinate chicken or fish, and flavor the dish consistently.

Isha teaches how to make Chickpeas Dip - Hummus, a world famous, fast and simple Middle Eastern puree.

Tips on how to tweak ingredients and get different tastes.

Hosh laughed. He knew that frogs were raunchy.

“The dumb shit didn't think," continued Josh, "about what would happen to him, or to his family if he fell from the Eiffel Tower and died. He tried climbing Mount Improbable."

Isha teaches Hosh Coconut Balls dessert recipe.

Cheap & simple, yet all her guests love this dish.

Cooking story with tips on how to make this quick, easy sweet

Science Fiction: Cold Steel - Crucified

An elite commando is captured behind enemy lines, tortured & interrogated.

Can one train against pain or truth serums?

Science Fiction: Cold Steel - Escape

The elite commando journeys back to Space Sector 47B9 with the Dark Energy vials he has stolen.

Unaware of the danger…

Science Fiction: Cold Steel - Unsprung.

Captured elite commando steals Dark Energy vials, activates biological weapons to destroy secret enemy Intergalactic Lab

Rosh lampoons Company Policy again, when his quarterly pay review delivers no increments.

Funny business management story with retold jokes on company policies...

Funny Story: Complementary Relationships

Retold joke on why men earn and why women spend money.

Using comical equations, Satyadev shows that both are donkeys.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy influenced Gandhi & helped shape India’s non-violent resistance movement.

Russian philosopher & political thinker Leo Tolstoy …

Insightful story: Cracked Pot

Nobody is perfect. We're all cracked pots, but can still be useful.

Everything serves a purpose. A fulfilled life is a perfect life.

“Master the Diderot Effect”, Rosh said simply, “Diderot’s story had a lesson. That poverty has its freedoms; opulence has its obstacles.”

“Hundreds of years before Diderot, Kabir preached the same message. That less is more. Be happy as you are. मन लागो मेरो यार फकीरी में (mann laago mero yaar fakiri mein).”

Lying works, and is good for us. When we do it well, we get what we want. If we don't get what we want, we know that we need to improve on our lying skills. More lying practice is needed. That's why we lie all the time.

Tests conducted in 2002 by Feldman, showed that students told three lies on average per ten minutes of conversation.

Informative story on how to drive to the conditions.

Conditions of the road, of your car & yourself, and of traffic & hazards around you.

Good driving habits...

“Unlike many other countries, insurers in New Zealand are almost free to insure or refuse to insure anyone they choose.”

“No Kiwi has a right to insurance, and the insurance industry is free to refuse your application or cancel your policy at its whim. It does not have to provide reasons or justification.”

"Eggs are full of goodness anyway, like proteins, vitamins A,B,D and E, lots of minerals and those very important good-for-you fatty acids."

"But why do you keep eggs in a fridge Ma?" Hosh asked as they sat down to eat the French toasts he had just cooked under her supervision, "Will they not keep outside?"

"This layer, called the cuticle or bloom, is still wet when the egg emerges, but quickly dries after a few minutes."

"This stops bacteria from getting inside the shell and reduces moisture and carbon dioxide loss from an egg which could degrade the egg quality."