Why, as people get older, are they more inclined to believe in God?
Since they are nearing death, they wouldn’t want to take a chance.

Believe this. Every second day I’m requested on networking sites or in person by aspiring scriptwriters to peruse their “surefire super hits”, an honour which I have to either ignore heartlessly or decline politely.

When I was in school, I wanted to play in the Indian cricket team. But now things have changed, I couldn’t pursue that dream for very long. However, I want to join the film industry and become an actor now. I have a dream to become famous like Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan and you. Please guide me how to go about it. Right now, I am pursuing my MCA degree.
Vishwanathan

I’m a 26-year-old boy and have just completed my post-graduation. I fell in love with a girl during my college days and we were together for almost four years. But recently, her parents selected someone and want her to marry him. Since I am not well settled, we decided to break up. It’s been more than a month now, and I have started missing her. I am preparing for government jobs and am not able to concentrate on my studies. I don’t want to call and disturb her. But I want to settle down in life with a good job. Can you please help me handle this situation?
Anonymous

What is the definition of success for you?
To be able to do what you want from the time you wake up to the time you go back to sleep.

Now a Mumbai-manufactured movie without a song-‘n’-dance is like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Right? Criticise the irrelevant outburst of hippy happy shakes, deride them as “item numbers”, but without them, there’d be no salt or caramel in your tub of popcorn.

I was in college when a friend gave me a copy of a book which, he said, had a very explicit sex scene on page 26. And that is how The Godfather came into my life.

Now, thousands of bouquets — of the verbal kind — may be lavished upon film personalities. But anything resembling a brickbat reduces those roses to ashes. One squeak of dissent and you’ve invoked the wrath of the Mr and Mrs Perfects.

“I feel so mentally worn out all the time… age is catching up.” Yogesh, 52 years.
The “mentally worn out” feeling isn’t age-related, brother. It’s habit-related. All of us, to a greater or lesser degree, repetitively perform the same tasks in the same manner day after day until a point arrives when we do it so mechanically that our brain is switched off and we are not aware that we did it or are doing it.

I think the reason why you are fascinated with criminals is because they are not scared about being selfish. Would you say that’s true?