A lot has been said about the UAE in the past month. A large section of the western media have sensationalized the issue at hand, and are busy writing obituaries on the Dubai business model, if you can call it that. I wish at least some of them would have taken the trouble to actually …
I recently subscribed to Starzplay again – oddly enough, it was for the T20 finals. And I decided to keep it for a while. Not because I am a huge cricket fan (used to be), but because it’s time now to introduce Keshav to sports and sportsmanship. The best way to do that is to …
The Ramayana teaser set the internet ablaze today. There have been mixed reactions, mine included, and here is why. Firstly, expectations are sky-high, and most of this is due to the producers claiming that they have a budget of 4,000 crore rupees allocated to the project (2 movies). And this has been repeated not once, …
You must all be wondering what suddenly changed from 2020. One day we were all fine and cruising through life, and then COVID happened. Well, we overcame that, and then started cruising through life, and now Trump happened. Doesn’t seem logical, does it? Well… Around a couple of years back, I read this intriguing book …
Our second attempt today, to get Keshav’s passport renewal process initiated. The last time we had an appointment, we ran into the biggest storm in a couple of years, so had to reschedule. Today, as we sat in the car, we heard a few massive interception bangs, and then it started raining again, for good …
We humans are complicated. I mean, things can be simple but we tend to make them complicated. We leave things unsaid, tasks undone and people incomplete. Our desires are not rational, our greed excessive and our satisfaction is elusive. We make things and situations harder than they actually are, and then search for solutions. We …
“In breathing, as in everything in life, the numbers are staggering—indeed fantastical. Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that’s 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day’s breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived.” “And every …
The issue is not that you are not capable of doing it…the issue is that I know you are capable but you don’t. A phrase (or a close derivative) that I have found myself repeating often – to karate’s who I taught, to employees, even to family. The starting point for most people is “I …
The question of eternal life is as old as life itself. Humankind has made great strides in life expectancy, from an average of 30 years over most of our existence, to over 70 years today. In a short span of less than a century, this has gone up twice over. A lot of us do …
द्विः शरं नाभिसन्धत्ते द्विः स्थापयति नाश्रितान् । द्विर्ददाति न चार्थिभ्यो, रामो द्विर्नाभिभाषते ॥ Rāma doesn’t aim twice, he doesn’t give refuge twice, Rāma does not give twice to a seeker, he doesn’t speak the same thing twice. He does it perfectly the very first time. It is said that if our culture was only based …
