H is for Happiness and I bring you thirty happiness habits to practice every day! The theme for this year’s International Day of Happiness was “Share Happiness – focusing on the importance of relationships, kindness and helping each other.” I thought it was a wonderful theme to spread happiness and make…
Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
It happened in 1982. Most of you reading this were probably not even born (couldn’t resist that—what with most people addressing me as anything but Vidya these days *evil grin*) I was in the first year of college, studying for a B.Sc. and had moved mid-year from Secunderabad to Madras. Yes,…
I first heard the word frenemy three decades ago. I thought the teenager who used it had made it up, and thought it was quite clever, as it made so much sense. But no—it has been used as far back as 1953. The Urban Dictionary’s top definition of Frenemy is: The…



