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“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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

Today (June 28th, 2021) marks the Centenary (100th) birth anniversary of Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, popularly known as PV, the Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. Until recently, I thought he just happened to be at the right place at the right time as the Prime Minister to undertake the massive economic liberalization ofContinueContinue reading “Leadership lessons from the long forgotten, yet one of the most consequential Prime Ministers of India”

At the lunch break, I joined my colleagues to go to cafeteria. There were 5 of us altogether, but then one colleague asked us to go ahead, he would join a bit later. The rest 4 of us went and stood in the food counter queue. I got my meal first and headed in searchContinueContinue reading “Out of Sight – Out of Mind”