Books, books books! I missed the Annual Sharjah Book Fair last month, and was pretty miffed about it. Couldn’t find time to travel all the way:( But then, as luck would have it, the Big Bad Wolf sale came up, and divine justice, it’s set up just two minutes from my house! No way I …
In continuation of my national day tributes..here is a personal dream that I got an opportunity to realize here in the UAE – my own house. All it took was nineteen years… Nineteen years back in May, I landed in Dubai. First time out of Bangalore, first time out of my comfort zone. First time …
I had an interesting conversation with an Emirati client a couple of years back. A free zone had asked him to wait 6 months before making an application for a cutting-edge fintech. “What the world takes five years to do, we in Dubai do it in six months”, he said. “Asking me to wait six …
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It’s Black Friday. Or Yellow Friday, or White Wednesday, or whatever color is offered in this part of the world by a particular retailer. It’s getting so weird, it’s not even funny anymore. And its in-your-face lies that is peddled in the name of discounts. The prices are shown discounted, but from a price that …
Today was Keshav’s first sports day. Went better than expected, with the pressure of competition removed, the kids were able to enjoy a few obstacle courses and tasks on the field, with hyper-excited parents egging them on, camera phones in hand, clicking memories that would stay forever. And yes, the children were quite disciplined, sticking …
A few days back, I was listening to Lata Mangeshkar’s playlist on Apple Music – they come up with different names – eternal Lata, Lata essentials etc, but they are all small compilations drawn from the ocean of music that was Lataji. I recall what I wrote when she died – To think of it, she …
Ok. What’s common between bolt, buckle, clip, consult, left, dust, screen and Rohāmrta? They are all contronyms. That is, they can, depending on context, have opposite or contradictory meanings. For instance, bolt can mean to secure, or to flee, dust can mean adding fine particles, or removing them…and so on. Which is why many words …
What are your pain points? Let’s touch base and leverage synergies on this topic… Sounds familiar? While I did have such ‘pain points’ before, they seem to have magnified in the post-COVID era of prolonged voice calls. Maybe I’m just noticing them more, since I don’t have a good cup of coffee to compensate:) Why …
Visited the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Abu Dhabi today. A culmination of a dream that we had seen in August 2015, when the announcement was first made. Nine years later, stepped foot inside the magnificent larger-than-life structure that will stand testimony to the friendship between UAE and India for decades to come! A little over …
There is an interesting story as to how Panini, the originator of Sanskrit grammar, received knowledge from Shiva. He was supposed to be the dullest of the students in a group that was studying from a Guru in Taxila, Taksha Shila. The other boys were very intelligent. Panini was the most stupid, the least intelligent, …
