Today was not a very productive day. When I say productive, I mean that kind – the LinkedIn motivator kind. I wake up at 4.30 and don’t waste a minute of my time kind. It’s almost as if one has to wake up and set out on this roller coaster throughout the day, ensuring that …
What matters more? The ability to learn, or the attitude towards learning? Some might argue that we don’t have the ability to learn anything and everything. After all, mental capacities differ. Maybe, but that is not the point. The ability to learn is a factor of the attitude towards learning. our educational system makes us …
A lot of talk about money today. India’s budget is to be announced tomorrow. Personally, the only thing the middle class used to look for (and still does) were tax cuts and better allowances. However, the biggest elephant in the room (besides the BSP) is taxation on agro income. Which does not seem to be …
As I logged into LinkedIn a couple of days back, it gave me an option to create newsletters (and run them on a regular basis). The ever-curious me decided to have a go. And so I headed to Canva, made a banner, thought of a name (a bit of this…and a bit of that…) and …
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 …
Am on the topic of blockchain, since I have been reading extensively about it. As I was getting ready to write today, I chanced upon a news clipping that said that the government was holding a critical meeting on bitcoin and blockchain-related scams that have been circulating recently. On one side there is the crypto …
Came across something today. Those from the 90s and before will surely recognize this. Called “orange mittai”, these sugar candies were (and still are) the tastiest among the simple candy options that we had when we were growing up. One could get these for a ridiculously low amount of money (I guess they were 5 …
Two pieces of news have been making me think. One – the T20 Cricket World Cup that is close to conclusion. When it started, India were hot favorites (or at least some said so) and the first match against Pakistan was to be a formality – an exercise in continuing the humiliation that the Pakistanis …
Birthdays are all about wishes. And you get a lot of them. Ever since the explosion of email, one even gets wishes from the bank, the neighborhood e-grocer and your bike servicing company. Everyone is in bliss apparently, that you were born:| Jokes apart, the ones that matter mostly come on WhatsApp. Cards are passe …
ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दु:खयोनय एव ते |आद्यन्तवन्त: कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुध: || 22|| ye hi sansparśha-jā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva teādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣhu ramate budhaḥ The pleasures that arise from contact with the sense objects, though appearing as enjoyable to worldly-minded people, are actually a source of misery. O son of Kunti, such …
