“tell me your secret” I ask the small child within “how do you find hope?” she stoops down, picks a dandelion, and blows seeds into the wind. then she smiles and says “make a wish” it’s ok fall to pieces scream into your pillow let yourself break but this time when you are done when …
A small business is anything but small. What it lacks in size, it makes up in impact. If you think of it, prior to the Industrial Revolution, a majority of the businesses, if not all, were small businesses. Traders, livestock, armorers, home smiths, potters…that sort of thing. Guilds were the next stage of evolution, where …
Nostalgia is an odd feeling. One is nostalgic at all points in life – it’s almost as if the times that we passed by were always better than the times that we are in at present. This image below was widely circulated a few months earlier – I too got nostalgic, like most others. It …
Ok. So you know that I have been researching on Artificial Intelligence for a while now. I have also been trying out a variety of tools to rebuild our internal tech stack, and I must say – some of these products are genuinely surprising me. They are ingenious, well thought out and more importantly, they …
There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice… Poetry is a form that shimmers between fact and fiction, a world of suggestions that does not allow one to settle into certainties… The judgements of God are seldom so ambiguous as those of the men who say …
Mobility is a bit broken, isn’t it? I mean, it shouldn’t take so much to ferry people from point A to point B. Yet, mankind has yet to solve this puzzle – they have been at it from a hundred years now, and things are just getting more and more complicated. It started with gasoline-powered …
Is there a God? Are there many Gods? Who writes our destinies? Are they even written? Or does life play out in it’s own way and then we die, never to be seen or heard of again? Do we come back? Even if we do, how would we know? What lies beyond the Universe? Science …
The worldwide lockdown due to COVID-19 resulted in an unexpected benefit – cleaner air, clearer skies, and marked decreases in pollution levels. The Ganga was visibly cleaner, so were the canals of Venice. Delhi’s notorious air quality saw remarkable improvement. There were sightings of wildlife on the streets of Chandigarh, reduced vehicular traffic resulted in …
Fall down seven and get up eight, that my friend, is the way to be. For life throws more than just a punch or two and maybe one more than you can dodge, It may hit you square in the jaw, and before you know it, you are floored. Lying there, rubbing your chin, head …
Malgudi days. To a late 80s- early 90s kid, it brings back sweet memories – Master Manjunath as Swaminathan, the oh-so-familiar beginning credits music, the adventures, the innocence, the sketches by R.K. Narayan…everything about this series was pure gold. And so when a restaurant called Malgudi opens up in Dubai, you would expect it to …
