India, March 8 -- Doubting Thomases abound these days in our society. Positive news is scarcely palatable to such worthies. Negativity is assimilated with ease by them. The original Thomas from the Gospel was actually a good soul and a committed follower of Jesus Christ. Our modern-age doubters are of the more hardened variety.

They will rarely believe in the goodness of mankind. Each bit of joyful news will be received with a modicum of suspicion or doubt. They resort to baseless allegations like "He must have bribed the referee" or "His uncle must have called up the owner of the firm", as the case may be.

Such lifelong doubting Toms must lead quite a troubled life, though. To not be able to believe in anything that augurs well must be...