Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get… Forrest Gump “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable…” Dwight Eisenhower Pretty much sums up two schools of thought when it comes to planning your life ahead. The first believes that life is …
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 …
eBay is a shark in the ocean We are a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we will lose. But if we fight in the river, we will win. Jack Ma There are two processes of designing in engineering. The first is based on iterations to an already existing template …
Many people have asked me about my writing, others have suggested that I make a book. Well, for one, I don’t think I have reached there yet, nor do I aspire to. It it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t, I don’t really get affected. I guess the goal is to write for oneself, as …
A great time to be in Mumbai. The biggest festival of the land, with excitement in the air, and Dhol Tasha ringing in your ears, Mumbai decorates itself to welcome its favorite patron deity – the lovable Ganesha. Having seen the unmissable Durga Puja in Kolkata, am happy to be here for the first time …
Yesterday I wrote about superheroes, both aspiring and reel. I forgot to mention a third category- the real. Yes they do exist. Not the silly Linkedin/Insta reels that speak about ‘not all superheroes wear capes’ and comprise emotion-evoking and boredom-provoking multiple-times copied attempts at garnering a few more likes. I’m speaking of the ones that …
I read this interesting article by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox in the Harvard Business Review. Titled “In praise of extreme moderation”, it speaks of the trend of workaholism being a badge of honor, and extremism is becoming the norm not only in our professional lives but increasingly in our personal lives as well. People take up sports and …
It is said… शत्रुणा न हि सन्दध्यात् सुश्लिष्टेनापि सन्धिना ।सुतप्तम् अपि पानीयं शमयत्य् एव पावकम् ॥ २३ ॥ śatruṇā na hi sandadhyāt suśliṣṭenāpi sandhinā |sutaptam api pānīyaṃ śamayaty eva pāvakam || 23 || One should not make friends with an enemy, even if he seeks a truce. Because, no matter how much heat is given to water, …
Back in the Kyokushin days, we used to have a 45-day training camp before any tournament. Every athlete has a seasonal training schedule – while they do train off-season as well, it is when competition is a few months away, that peak training happens, day after day, over extended periods of time. The Kyokushin camp …
You can conduct a puja, any puja, with an elaborate set of sāmagri (items), or just one flower. What matters is the feeling within. Likewise, Deepawali can be celebrated with an array of dazzling lights, or just one diya, that lights the Jnana Jyothi (the inner wisdom)…the many diyas in your mind are lit by this one …
