Ah, the Indian Republic Day! The tribute at the Amar Jawan Jyoti, the parades, the tableaus, the march past…the show of strength… I remember when we were kids…switching on the television early morning, watching India at its finest, on Doordarshan (the only channel available). The commentary was a damper (very boring, and it hasn’t got …
If you have seen Kamal Hassan’s Vikram, you would have mostly been pleasantly surprised during the wedding sequence. Yes, You Tube Tatha was there! I had written about him and his grandsons a few months earlier (as below) and since then, I’ve noticed many new ones, some of them from as far-flung places as Azerbaijan …
One of my team members wants to write. Aha! She is interested in taking up content writing, and wanted to undertake a course. I suggested that she first practice to write, just write without any pre-determined topic or structure. It’s called free writing, in which one does not go back to correct anything that they …
तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया |उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिन: || tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśhnena sevayāupadekṣhyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśhinaḥ Srimad Bhagavad Gīta 4.34 Learn the Truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him with reverence and render service unto him. Such an enlightened Saint can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the Truth. …
Fauda Fauda! Yes, the series Season 4 that premiered this weekend on Netflix, and the fauda in our collective health since the beginning of 2022. We have been taking alternating turns at the clinic, and today Rohāmrta came to visit and have a nightcap at the same hospital where he was born a couple of …
The following is part of the Sādhanā series exercises. I remembered this one today since I actually accomplished quite a bit of work in the past 8-10 hours. I coded six training modules into our digital backend, as part of the 10 Academy internal training courses. Found a good flow even though it was a …
The debate on AI refuses to die down. Was discussing the latest developments in the sector with a client today when he remarked that schools were concerned that students were increasingly turning to ChatGPT to ‘write’ their essays. I took a contrarian view on the subject. Why do students have to write essays? I said. …
Ok, a flurry of activity on the work front, with a license a day coming in, and a new employee joining on Monday. Also, my ops head finally took his well-deserved vacation, with his boss still waiting for his:) So a lot more stuff to be done the next week. A very big development in …
I met a gentleman today, who had two lines of qualification-related acronyms written next to his name on his business card. Not two, but two lines of them. How important is it to have your qualifications mentioned in your business card? If you are meeting someone for the first time, in a business context, yes …
Stress is not inborn nor is it inherited it does not even exist in nature except in your own mind… Yes that same monkey mind as they say that conjures up dreams and situations constructing an imaginary future that exists only in your mind… We get stressed about what may happen we stay stressed because …
