I was going through my old posts (more than 10 years old) and found this one. I used to watch a lot of movies those days (I still do), and some that stood out, or stayed with me, used to find their pride of place on the virtual pages of my (then) nascent blog. This …
How many time have we tried to change a habit, or to form a new one – and failed? We start well, but somewhere down the road, we end up slipping into familiar territory again. They say that it takes 21 days to make or change a habit. I say it takes more than just …
A lot of people ask me for book recommendations from time to time. While I do give them a few names, I have been thinking of going beyond mere recommendation, and making some sort of a ‘solution’ around this. Ideas keep bobbing up and down in my head often (much like Mr. Ducky in my …
Read this someplace… Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can’t sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than …
Knowledge is an illusion. No, this isn’t some catchline – it really is an illusion. We all think of ourselves as rational beings, able to view situations and make informed judgements, but studies have shown that we always thought in groups. From the time we hunted, till the time we went to the Moon, and …
The Ramayana trailer was released today. An ambitious project – a supposed budget of 4000 crore rupees for both parts, an ensemble of actors and technicians, effects by 8-time Oscar-winners DNEG…the works. A project on this scale will always attract both praises and brickbats. Purists will cry foul at depictions, advocates will praise it to …
Will Shri Ram capture our hearts and minds again? Read More »
There are some very significant influences in life – parents, grandparents, elder siblings, friends, teachers, mentors, peers…but the most important of them all is the Guru. Notice that I mention the Guru as distinct from a teacher. You can have many teachers – good and bad, but you will only have one Guru. You can …
We may remember Teachers Day as the day when we decorated the blackboard (or green board, as was in our case), and wished our teachers and thanked them for teaching us well. We may not have understood the importance of teachers day then, as we do now. Today, we live in different parts of the …
It’s appraisal season, and I am spending a lot of time speaking with staff – celebrating what they managed to achieve the past few months, and looking ahead at how we can all improve in the coming year. A lot of insights as well, that I record (in poor handwriting) in a book that I …
It’s a bit chaotic nowadays. And I’m not speaking about work. Every once in a while, the world at large undergoes an upheaval, as we humans sideline the basic courtesy of living and let live, and bring out our inherent tribal instincts. We are called social animals, but I believe we are this way not …
