भारुण्डपक्षिकथा The story of Bhārunda, the bird Near the ocean, not so far away from here, lived a bird named Bhārunda. He had one stomach, but two heads. One day, as he was taking his evening walk on the beach, he found a fruit that had been washed ashore. Curious, he picked it up, and …
kya pata hum mein hai kahani, yah hai, kahani mein hum…pum parara rum… Is the story within us, or are we within the story… We started coming down from the trees many thousands of years ago, and at that time little made sense, except food and survival. Once we settled and started farming, the food …
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You know the world isn’t functioning properly when one has loyalty points at a clinic, and when the pharmacy has a discount sale on most of the time. You know the world isn’t functioning properly when VCs pour money into companies that burn cash, with no profits in sight, and not into companies that are …
Arjuna was the most prominent warrior in the Mahabharata. The best archer in the world, with the avatar of Sri Vishnu as a guide, and the establishment of Dharma as the objective, on the biggest stage that humanity had ever seen. It is only natural that the tools available to him had to be exceptional. …
Ok, so Rohāmrta has not gone out for 4 days, since he was sick. He is fine now, but cannot say the same about his dad…anyway. The point is that the kid is quite irritated now. Now and then, he picks up the ball, goes to the main door, and tries to open it in …
I read somewhere that strategy is not planning ahead. Strategy is adapting to change. The faster one adapts to change, the better the strategy. And so as I sit back this weekend and think about my strategy for the coming 12 months, my focus is on adapting to changes. It is exciting and challenging at …
Rohāmrta is a bit under the weather since yesterday. The normal blocked nose, a bit of cough and fever. But enough to trigger an emergency in the minds of us parents. After all, which parent can lie still when their 18-month old sniffs and whimpers while trying to sleep through the night? We tend to …
The great emperor Kṛṣṇadevarāya (Krishnadevaraya) had a lot of wise ministers in his court. The wisest of them was Tenali Ramakrishna. One day, a merchant came to the king’s court from a foreign kingdom. He saluted the king and then said, “Your Majesty, I have heard from many people that you have very wise ministers in your …
We may remember Teachers Day as the day when we decorated the blackboard (or green board, as was in our case), and wished our teachers and thanked them for teaching us well. We may not have understood the importance of teachers day then, as we do now. Today, we live in different parts of the …
Tomorrow is Guru Purnima. Oddly enough, not many people know it is. We do know Teachers Day, although it falls on an arbitrarily selected date, which does not have much to do with the Guru-shishya parampara that has defined our civilization. Gurus have now been reduced to teachers, who are paid for completing a syllabus …
