Akhyayikas

100 Compelling True Stories

“The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creatures in the world that does this; we are the only creature...

Akhyayikas | How and Why We Learn Through Stories

What does “Akhyayikas” mean? Amidst the congratulatory messages, this was the most common question I was asked by almost everyone who...

A Layman Point of View

An engineer in a car manufacturing company designs a world class car. The owner is impressed with the outcome and praised him a lot....

How to Win The Nobel Prize for Physics

The teacher asks a student how he would measure the height of a very tall building using a barometer, evidently expecting to hear about...

When Life Seems Empty

This story is about a beautiful, expensively dressed lady who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt that her whole life was empty,...

#BeingHuman Randomly

As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of the school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers...

Give to Get

There is a legend of a man who was lost in the desert, dying of thirst. He stumbled on until he came to an abandoned house. Outside the...