Greetings! In this first week of October, when Canada celebrates the Mental Health Awareness Week, and shortly after that, on 10th the world celebrates Mental Heath Day, let me begin with wishes for your 'sound mind in a sound body'...

Hi everyone! Hope you have all been at the top of your spirits. It’s the great Indian festive season these days! Time for shopping, traveling, merry-making and for the bongs like me, binge-eating! 10th of October is also marked on the calendar as the World Mental Health Day. But our minds are hopefully quite safe from any mental health conditions at present, thanks to this whirlpool of activities and festivities of the month. We can feel the happiness in the air, there is music in every breath…

Hello friends, the festive season of Dussehra and Diwali must have kept all of you totally engaged with the Colors and Flavours typical of this time of the year. Amidst all the joy and activities let me today share with you some thoughts about peace that beckons from within.

Everyday the newspapers are abuzz with the rising rates of inflation impacting the country’s growth and structure of economy. The analysts worry their heads off dissecting the trend and its projected implications, the socialists scream their throats hoarse over the adverse effects of inflation on common man, and the ever-frightened, cornered-to-the-wall aam janta watch and wince in helpless submission. Inflation in the economy is the dragon that breathes fire to consume the peace and calm of the public mind. But peace and calm do we really have?