It's a small world after all...

Situations -- both real and hypothetical -- often create an emotional response in our minds, which we express in a variety of ways. The g...

There are some characteristic differences between the (20th century forms of the) West and the East in the basic approach to interacting wi...

The culture in which I was born in, is full of ceremonies. There are ceremonies for everything. Ceremonies begin even before one is born, a...

Here is a piece of advice that I often give my research students: Augment thinking with reading, rather than reading with thinking..  ...

A hot topic these days is about "economic development" and its associated strengths and ills. Unfortunately, much of these deba...

Since the last few years, I've been interested in how the web is affecting our lives and changing the way we think. While trying to und...

Several times in the past, I've written about my traumatic and depressive childhood, stemming primarily from what I consider to be seve...