The Cyber Nag

An uplifting daily fix

Zephyr — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:25:19 +0000

Faith, they say, can move mountains. And what better place to find it than a house of worship, where the faith of thousands effectively makes it throb with positive energy?

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Thank you!

Zephyr — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:30:18 +0000

A note of thanks to my friends and readers on the eve of the third blogaversary of the Cybernag.

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Is ‘big fat’ a status symbol?

Zephyr — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:21:08 +0000

Gifting has now become a crazy game of catch-me-if-you-can, where the sentiment behind the gift is lost in the competition to show off. Weren’t gifts supposed to be something to be selected lovingly, given with a lot of love and cherished?

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Travelling to Lonely Places with Pico Iyer

Zephyr — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:03:45 +0000

Pico Iyer and his 'Falling off the Map' has brought out the book reviewer in me!

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Listening with your heart

Zephyr — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:37:19 +0000

Listening is an art, a therapy, a spiritual act, no less. But for listening to be effective, the listener has to do it with her heart, else the one being listened to finds no solace.

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Of hypocrisy, selfishness, cowardice and more…

Zephyr — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:02:57 +0000

Standing up against injustice is not part of our psyches, at least not when it doesn’t concern us directly. Some truths are uncomfortable: We undertake online causes and join candle vigils, but when it comes to the crunch, we baulk at sticking our necks out for the victim. We make a volte face in our indictment when the criminal is our son or friend, or someone who can benefit us in some way. Isn’t it precisely this attitude that makes the molesters bold and brazen?

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Chalees saal baad – a journey back in time

Zephyr — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:25:53 +0000

It was a reunion that made us forty years younger as we went back to school and relived the memories, acting out some of them, even as the spouses, children and teachers looked indulgently on…

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The gift of life — Organ transplants

Zephyr — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:55:10 +0000

Grief can do a lot of things to people, most of them negative -- including hatred and violence. But grief is at its positive best when a family shattered by the death of a loved one in a traumatic road accident comes forward to donate the organs, because even in death, there is hope for other lives to be saved.

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Mega stores or mega sores?

Zephyr — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:39:30 +0000

Lucky are those who can happily shop in a mega store or mall, finding all they want under one roof. I have to shop at two or three different places as some of the items are only available at certain stores.

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A lesson in faith and surrender

Zephyr — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:39:00 +0000

‘Why do you need to breathe, when I am breathing for you?’ he asks me simply. And then I let go and stop struggling to breathe. For the record, I didn’t die.

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