YES! Need I say more? Subedar Neeraj Chopra threw a spear in Tokyo, and struck our hearts back home. For once, cricket took a backseat, and a seemingly nondescript event, one that does not even register on our radars, found flavor with over a billion people. And I join all Indians in celebrating our first …
Read the previous part here… “To think that you would take up this task at such a desolate place, in the dead of the night!” “It is indeed true, that you are the king of kings, a man of unparalleled courage. You put the interests of others before your own interests. This is indeed the …
Read the previous part here… “So, when he asks you to perform the ashtānga-namaskarā, you should reply – “I don’t know this method. Please demonstrate it for me, and I will then do it.” “He will then prostrate on the ground to show you the correct method of the namaskarā, and that is when you …
The grass is always greener on the other side isn’t it? For those of us, like me, who grew up in an era where it took 2-3 years and a bit of a bribe to get a telephone connection, mobiles would seem like a godsend. 15-odd years later, I am having second thoughts. A phone …
I chanced upon an article that I wrote earlier, about swadharma. I spoke with an investment banker today, one who has been struggling for a while. He is unable to make new clients, unable to even get meetings with big-ticket investors, a career of 20 years seems on the decline. As I was speaking with …
I come from a time when one had to sit with a DTP (Desk Top Publishing) specialist to layout a magazine. Or even a simple brochure for that matter. Today, I log on to Canva for free and do it on my own. What was exotic earlier, is mainstream today. And this trajectory is only …
So, right on the hells on my post last night, comes the delightful news of PV Sindhu becoming the first Indian Olympian to win two individual medals in consecutive Olympics. First Mirabai, then Lovlina in boxing, and now Sindhu. There still also hope in the discuss throw, with Kamalpreet storming into the finals with an …
It’s the Olympics once again. And it’s us once again, clamouring for more than just 1 or 2 medals, and cheering every match in the hope that we land that elusive gold or silver, or at least a bronze. And once the Games end, the same comment on our lips – Why does a nation …
Read the previous part here… The Vetāla understood that he had finally puzzled the king, and so he laughed to himself, and thought… “The king does not know this answer! If he did, he would surely tell me, since my curse is very powerful.” “I should stop deceiving this valorous king now, and deceive that …
I feel wonderful… I am part of a family that accepted me without any hesitation… It takes time to trust, yet they made me a part of their family in just a day! A huge family…hundreds of others. Some I know, some I don’t. We don’t keep in touch much, but the head of the …
