Real life at times is boring. You may have heard this enough. But is it true? Must you be laid flat? It depends on how you look at life. This bedside humorous book shows you the path to get over moments not to your liking. Here is a leaf from the book that contains 100 such pearls. Excerpt: The company you keep After he got the Nobel Prize, Einstein was busy with a lecture circuit throughout the US. Incidentally, he had a driver who had a shaggy beard and snow white unruly hair just like him. Every time Einstein gave a lecture, the driver would be seated in the last seat in the auditorium. One day, while they were driving towards a college, the chauffer turned to him and said, “I have heard this lecture so many times that I could give it better than you!” Einstein laughed and decided to try it out at the next venue. The chauffer was introduced as Einstein and he proceeded to give a lecture on the theory of relativity while Einstein sat in the back row. Surprisingly, he spoke really well and the audience gave him an enthusiastic round of applause. Finally came the question and answer session. At the very outset someone asked a difficult question. Unhesitatingly, the driver said, “Ha! This is such a simple question that even my chauffer can answer it,” and pointed towards Einstein in the back row. Even a dumb person imbibes knowledge if he stays constantly with someone intelligent and knowledgeable. A cotton string used to make jasmine garland starts to smell as sweet as the flowers themselves. Joke apart, it is a fact that one benefits immensely from the company of people who are more experienced and more intelligent.

Arthur Ashe, the legendary tennis player was dying of CANCER. From all over the world, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”? To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over – 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learn to play tennis, 5 lakh learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the Grand Slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi finals, 2 to the finals. When I was holding a Cup I never asked GOD “Why me?” And today, in pain, I should not be asking GOD “Why me?” 47 such musings that you can quote in everyday life in all occasions. A must read for the stressed out people to unwind. Sure you will read it once and then a second time and then… What to read more or to buy the book online, go to: http://www.pustakmahal.com/book/book/bid,,9340A/index.html

EVAPOETRY IN BEIJING The pensioner thinks before he lifts the long brush from Kunming Lake, waits for a meter, paints recollected characters of a Li Po verse with water upon the pavement of the palace grounds. Under summer’s sun, the old man’s muscles stretch and roll with the calligraphs as once he moved the minds of students and quickly for the last image must be seen before the first transcends its elements. To write poetry on the walk of the summer palace is an exercise of body and soul.

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. Hamlet (Act II, scene iii)

And what he wanted then, ah then (he had turned right without looking at the sign and was following the path along the wire fence), what he wanted then, he thought, casting one yearning glance at the plains - and at this moment he could have sworn that a figure, the details of whose dress he did not have time to make out before it departed, but apparently in some kind of mourning, had been standing, head bowed in deepest anguish, near the centre of the public garden - what you want then, Geoffrey Firmin, if only as an anecdote against such routine hallucinations, is, why it is, nothing less than to drink; to drink, indeed, all day, just as the clouds once more bid you, and yet not quite; again it is more subtle than this; you do not wish merely to drink, but to drink in a particular place in a particular town.

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