News releases, advertising letters, and communications of all manner and shape pour into ManipalBlog.com’s inbox, by the page full each week. Occasionally there is one which, because of its unusualness, is not archived in the spam bin, located in a dark end of our email account below a folder of hate mail and obsolete and [...]

You can’t receive unless you give. Does that sound like a strange statement to you? It is no stranger than the attitude of a number of students who come to Manipal with the idea of taking as much as they can get, and giving as little as possible in return. The best example of this [...]

“I have come to the conclusion that premarital sex isn’t good for anything.” , Bhondoo concluded. People who have had sex wish they shouldn’t have and the ones who haven’t, wish they could. Many women equate sex wilht love. They think that if they have sex with someone that the relationship will last forever. That [...]

Amit was a nice guy. A little shy maybe, but he had the basic ingredients for a normal human being. Amit didn’t go out much, said he was looking for the right girl to come along. But God, Amit was 34 years old. Anyway, Amit just kept plugging along, confident that some day the heavens [...]

Like the strange adventures of “Alice In Wonderland.” author Robert A. Heinlien captures the same aura of belief in his science fiction novel “Stranger in a Strange Land” which describes the odyssey of a human reared on Mars. Heinlien’s main character, Valentine Michael Smith, finds himself like Alice, confronted with a new incomprehensible way of [...]