Category: Nice Reads
Contains interesting, touching and thought provoking articles
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Why Me?
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS. One of his fans asked him: “Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”? Arthur Ashe replied: All over the world — 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakh learn to play tennis, 5 lakh learn professional tennis, 50,000 come…
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Line of Fire
We say that we are hardworking . working 16 Hrs a day, stressing our brains and minds, we deserve a high pay package etc.. sitting in the AC , typing abcd, complaining about the canteen food RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!! ……………………….
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Intereseting C Program
This C program won the first prize in International obfuscated C code contest (IOCCC) held recently.It is amazing. My friend sent it to me this morning. I felt that, it’s better to pass it on to you. Answer is given down. But, try to guess the output yourself before watching the answer down. Here it…
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Love by Swami Vivekananda
A nice article from Swami Vivekananda on LOVE…….. I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this: “You see this water…
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A nice poem
Gone are the days……..but not the memories Gone are the days When the school reopened in June, And we settled in our new desks and benches. Gone are the days When we queued up in book depot, And got our new books and notes. Gone are the days When we wanted two Sundays and no…
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Love according to Children
—————————————————– Love – Children’s perspectives A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8-year-olds, “What does love mean?”. The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore.…
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Montly Hall Problem
THE MONTY HALL PROBLEM This story is true, and comes from an American tv game show. Here is the situation. Finalists in a tv game show are invited up onto the stage, where there are three closed doors. The host explains that behind one of the doors is the star prize – a car. Behind…
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Boy and his Blind Father
This teenager lived alone with his father, and the two of them had a very special relationship. The son was crazy about football and was always involved in every game but even though he was always on the bench, his father was always in the stands cheering. He never missed a game. This young man…
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Sentence in which nth Word has n letters
“I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting, nevertheless extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalises intercommunications’ incomprehensibleness.” -> A sentence where nth word is n letters long.
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Does spelling really matter?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do…