Amidst the chaos and uncertainties around this “covid era”, people are more than ever contemplating on how they spend Quality time with family. Although we keep hearing this term, I am always curious about what the “quality time with family” actually means. One day when I was winding up my daily Work-From-Home routine, my daughterContinueContinue reading “Spending Quality time with Family”
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A Triumvirate approach towards Habits
Above Picture Courtesy: https://gods-and-demons.fandom.com/wiki/Trimurti An interesting concept in Hinduism (Sanaathana Dharma or Way of life) is that of a Triumvirate consisting of Lord Brahma the creator, Lord Vishnu the preserver, and Lord Shiva the destructor. In normal parlance, it refers to creation, preservation and eventual destruction of life. Well, there is a lot of philosophyContinueContinue reading “A Triumvirate approach towards Habits”
The Lure of Instant Gratification
“If by giving up a lesser happiness a greater happiness could be found, a wise person would renounce the lesser for the sake of the greater” – The Dhammapada “Alexa, play Cant feel my face…”, my daughter requests whilst doing her homework, the order is taken and the song is played, instantly. If she hasContinueContinue reading “The Lure of Instant Gratification”
An Ice Skating experience
The Beijing 2022 winter Olympic games’ opening ceremony was yet another masterclass from the middle kingdom on how to unleash the human potential along with technology in delivering a spectacle, visual treat to the eyes. Although not a big fan, the winter games bug hit me, more so as we lived in China during thisContinueContinue reading “An Ice Skating experience”
Routinize your Resolutions
Well, its that time of the year. A year has gone by, a new year is knocking at the door, staring at us with new possibilities and prospects. Here we go again with the new year resolutions. We all know how most of the resolutions end, after weeks or sometimes even few days of energyContinueContinue reading “Routinize your Resolutions”
Don’t Judge a Fish by its ability to climb a Tree
The proverb’s traditional story is about highlighting the faults of our educational system. Here is a re-spin: A farmer had a lot of animals in his barn, the regular livestock’s, some animals picked from the wild, some from the rivers and he loved them all. Someone asked him one day “Which one is your mostContinueContinue reading “Don’t Judge a Fish by its ability to climb a Tree”
Rani Abbakka – The Warrior Queen of Ullal
In one of the thought provoking videos that I saw few years back, Sanjeev Sanyal, one of my favorite historian/speaker, with his amazing style of story-telling mentioned “Indian History that we are forced to read is not the history of India, its the history of Delhi. Read about all its dynasties, even obscure ones likeContinueContinue reading “Rani Abbakka – The Warrior Queen of Ullal”
A tale of two legendary poet composers of Ancient Karnataka
My grandmother was a religious lady, and as the sun set everyday, she would cajole me to sit in front of God’s chamber and sing few devotional songs. At the time, I didn’t understand the purpose and was not too keen, but for some reasons it felt nice, and hey it did keep my grandmotherContinueContinue reading “A tale of two legendary poet composers of Ancient Karnataka”
The four types of colleagues
My professional career has enabled me to work with different teams around the world. I have worked with a lot of individuals during my career & have had unique experiences. I don’t claim to be an expert on the human psychology, but I have generally seen similar trend anywhere we work in the world. HumansContinueContinue reading “The four types of colleagues”
Music for the soul
In one of my previous articles, I went all gaga on the sense of sight. To be even-steven , let’s give a shout out to another very important aspect of human communication, the human mic interface – the wonderful sense of hearing. If seeing is believing, hearing is feeling. As they say, there is aContinueContinue reading “Music for the soul”
Keep it simple, stupid. 