A day well spent! Started with a his favorite breakfast, then bath, puja at home and a visit to the swanky new temple. He slept on the way back so had to continue his siesta at home while dad dearest went and fetched his cake. A quiet evening followed, with cake cutting, eating and liberal …
Two years back, on the 1st of February, my life changed forever. Yes, everyone said it would. They warned me. They said that I wouldn’t be able to go back to what I was. It was irreversible. There was one life before, and a completely different life after. In most cases, you would not even …
And so Laghupatakana said “Dear Hiranyaka… सतां साप्तपदं मैत्रम् इत्य् आहुर् विबुधा जनाः ।तस्मात् त्वं मित्रतां प्राप्तो वचनं मम तच् छृणु ॥ ४८ ॥ satāṃ sāptapadaṃ maitram ity āhur vibudhā janāḥ |tasmāt tvaṃ mitratāṃ prāpto vacanaṃ mama tac chṛṇu || 48 || The wise say that a friendship is developed even if one walks seven steps with …
Children’s birthdays – always a tough one. Rohāmrta turns two in a couple of days – and we are yet to figure out what to do on his special day. He is too young to know or demand any sort of thing – so from clothes to gifts to celebrations, we are on our own. …
Domains domains everywhere, and many a payment to make! I manage close to 20 domains of my own, and stuff is bound to happen. A couple of days back, my main site firewall refused to load and I spent close to an hour with tech support to get it done. Today, my personal site and …
It’s appraisal time! Sent a form to all our employees for their annual appraisal. We do stuff a bit differently, but this initial step is needed to help them reflect on their own performance (it is a self-appraisal form). We then sit together to discuss our perspectives and the way ahead. All in all, a …
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. …
