Wisdom Stories

"Time passed slowly and the expectation that he was finally going to eat made his stomach growl with eager anguish."

"Geshe Ben was so hungry that he found it difficult to wait. His eyes kept returning to the jar of food within his reach."

Funny story with retold men jokes, like:

What do men and beer bottles have in common? What do men and sperm have in common?...

What's the difference between men and...

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?

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."

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.

Build character and learn to control your tongue, and your words, like Rishi Durvasa’s, will have the power to move mountains and create history.

Insightful kids story from Hindu mythology showing that words have power. Words can heal, and words can hurt.

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.

He thought about his father’s future work. Creating and publishing stories – inspired by life.

Creating another Upanishad! A contemporary Upanishad! Perhaps an Upanishad retold!

Would he read it? He knew he would, he loved his father’s stories anyway.

“Have a budget. It helps you determine and set your limits. Stay within your limits. तेते पाँव पसारिये जेती लंबी सौर (tete paon pasaariye jeti lambi saur - meaning stretch your feet only so far as your quilt goes).”

“Isn’t it better to stretch the chadar (expand the capacity, income etc.),” asked Isha, “than to restrict our paanv (our dreams, plans, or expenses)?”

In the Hindu mythology story of Devayani and Kach, should Kacha have married Devyani?

Genetic engineering is a great Sanjivani Vidya, but whether in vivo or in vitro, human cloning or resurrection using borrowed genetic materials can alter existing familial relationships

“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).”

"Can't she just email the bank," Hosh asked, "and just cut-up and throw your card away?"

"Some banks allow that," said Rosh, "but cards and card numbers are the property of the bank."

Inspiring Story: Dignity In Sunset Years

How senior citizen volunteers of the Dignity Foundation became the city of Mumbai’s public works companions…

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.

“I won’t forget to smile”, he said, nuzzling her lovingly “as I face my fears. But do you know how to protect yourself against lightning strikes?”

His face was serious again. She didn’t know what she would do when the crash came, but it didn’t matter.

“They can act as judge, jury and executioner. Their heavy handed actions can ruin the lives of the very people that pay their premiums.”

“Ruined because of a slip. Ruined because an allegation was made. Or ruined because someone dared demand that their contract be respected.”

Insightful story: Drink In The Mosque

Is any place holier than other?

Funny tale with Urdu Shayari Of Ghalib, Mir, Iqbal, Faraz & Wasi on where to drink alcohol