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The three largest religious scriptures in this world, The Holy Quran, The Holy Bible and The Veda constantly reminds its followers to submit themselves to the will of the supreme power namely the Almighty God. But over the years, the very definition of God has been modified to suit the situation and circumstances of the modern world. The essence of an almighty power has taken many forms and names over the years. In fact the situation today is such that, the purity of the word GOD has taken a downturn with the ability of languages to play around with this term. For example, the English language makes it possible for the term GOD to have a female gender (GODDESS), the term GOD FATHER or GOD MOTHER attributes a human to the stature of the almighty. The fact is that the supreme power of this universe has no form whatsoever and hence cannot be attributed to a human or have a gender. Today religion, which is technically the message of god to the people of this world to lead a peaceful and ha...

Dear Dad It may have been too late by the time I have gathered up the courage to write this letter to you. We may have gone far apart from each other now. Nevertheless, I am writing this letter to you in hopes that it’ll find you in the best of health and that it may bridge the gap between us. Dad, when I was a kid, mom always used to tell me about you. You were the hero in all my bed time stories. Stories of a brave man who always fought the injustice, fought for his family and his people. But as time flew by, we grew up. We needed a father figure. A person we all could look up to. A man who would come back from the office with handful of goodies for us. But you were never there. When other kids from my class brought their father for career day, I never had anyone to bring. You were never there to teach me how to ride a bike or to play ball with me, or to hold me in your arms when I fell down and got hurt. You were simply not there. It was not after I became a father myself did I real...

Two friends, Jack and Allen decided to go camping. As soon as it was getting dark, they decided to play safe and pitch their tent before it gets too late. Somewhere around mid night, Jack gets up to a strange sound. He opens the tent to peek out and he sees two shiny buttons like things at a distance. With a sudden jolt of fear he realises that it’s the eyes of a tiger ready to pounce at their tent. He wakes up Allen and both of them starts to run for their life. Half way across Allen turns and runs back to the tent to get his pair of Nike shoes. When he caught up with his friend, Jack asked him, “Do you think wearing that will help you run faster than that tiger?” Allen replied, “No. But it’ll definitely help me run faster than you.” This is exactly how the world is today. Every sector has the toughest level of cut throat competition. And to survive this you’ll need to have your own pair of Nike shoes. The best of the best so called ‘ Pair of Nike shoes’ or in other words, your edge ...