Timeless Wisdom from Incredible India!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tête-à-tête with Dr Galyna Kogut, author of An Athiest Gets the Gita. Why did you write An Atheist Gets the Gita? Most books on the Bhagavad Gita are either Word-for-word translation from Sanskrit, or Lengthy purports and commentaries on each verse or A devotional homage This book explains the Bhagavad Gita logically in form of scientific laws and management […]
Ask me Anything (AMA) on Entrepreneurship
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Ask me Anything (AMA) on Crowd Funding
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Singapore Universities’ Mission Oxygen (SUMO)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Singapore Universities’ Mission Oxygen (SUMO) India is going through a challenging time with number of daily COVID-19 deaths hitting new high with each passing day. Families, friends, colleagues and fellow residents are all facing a hardship in managing lives with the current storm of COVID-19. India is dealing with severe shortages on all fronts, […]
Ask me Anything (AMA) on Disability
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Ask me Anything (AMA) on CORONA
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Anil Swarup: Not Just a Civil Servant
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login “In a colossal country like India a solution works only if it is politically acceptable, socially desirable, technologically feasible, financially viable, administratively doable, judicially tenable and emotionally relatable”, says the veteran IAS officer Anil Swarup summing up his dimensional governance framework in a LIVE Ask Me Anything session […]
AMA with Anil Swarup
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mr Anil Swarup is a bureaucrat with 38 years of experience. He graduated with a gold medal for “best officer trainee” of his batch at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (IAS Academy) and was also the Gold Medalist at Allahabad University. A prolific writer, he is the founder of Nexus for Good […]
Forest Day 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login In the Hollywood movie Ice age, The Ice age has started in pre-historic times so the few pre-historic animals and humans set out in search of greener pastures and food. Now imagine if this is not a movie but a reality. Because at the rate […]
Management Lessons from the Jungle – Hyenas
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Management lessons from Tartoo – the lion’s friend Tartoo is the companion of Red. He too is a young inexperienced lion. When he hears Red cry for help he runs to explore the commotion in the neighbouring territory to save his friend and team member […]
Management Lessons from the Jungle – The Lion
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login A young lion went out to explore his territory surrounding enters an unknown territory filled with hyenas and teaches so many management and life lessons Management lessons from Red – the lion Red is a young inexperienced lion out to explore his new territory. He […]
Towards achieving a world of equality, a world beyond labels
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Towards achieving a world of equality, a world beyond labels Nothing says trouble like a woman in pants. That was the attitude in the 1930s, anyway; when Barbara McClintock wore slacks at the University of Missouri, it was considered scandalous. Even worse, she was feisty, […]
Leadership transformation with THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Leadership transformation with the four noble truths Many speak about the bigger picture, but most forget without the minuscule, minute and microscopic elements the bigger picture is useless. It means nothing at all. May I request together we deep dive into this through a simple […]
Shiv Khera – “2021: Turn Setbacks into Comebacks”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mr Khera, an acclaimed author with 8 million books sold, recently spoke on “Turn Setbacks into Comebacks”. During the talk, he inspired and encouraged individuals to realize their true potential. He anecdotally mentioned his own three failed jobs before he became a successful author and now a much-acclaimed motivational speaker. The session itself counts as […]
Holding blank cheques
Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Ever received signed blank cheques from strangers? 🙂 That’s what many times I feel like in life these days. So yesterday I was in a flight from Dehradun to Delhi (and then Ranchi). The guy next to me was sitting on a plane for the […]
Can we integrate inner life and outer life?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login We have become experts in creating strategies and building businesses, but it doesn’t seem to have made us any better (or perhaps worse) in basic life skills are being joyful, cultivating enriching relationships, and if perhaps then helping the society. As I mentioned, we seem […]
Experiments in “richness”
Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Scene 1 A common sight at 1 AM at my office floor, where me (a high performing associate), a pre-MBA analyst and a Vice President with an empathetic bent (and not to forget an eagerness to get promoted to Director) are sitting, trying to work […]
An accidental Author
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Writing: Destiny or Choice? I am an accidental writer. Authorship may have been ordained, but never planned. Though I had penned much desultory poetry in school and college, they remained lost betwixt the pages of notebooks and scraps of misplaced paper. The first short story […]
Contracting AIDS
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login 35 years old Sunita (name changed) belongs to a remote village in Ambedkarnagar district of eastern Uttar Pradesh in India. Her life took a drastic turn four years ago when she was diagnosed to be HIV positive. When I became HIV positive I did not […]
World Television Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Has Television lost its purpose? The year 2020 marks the 30 years of one of the best Television shows ever made – Surabhi, the Indian cultural magazine show that today reminiscences the family time and bonding we had along with the enriched knowledge about the […]
Purpose of Writing
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Did you always want to be an author? How did the transition from the corporate world happen? Circa 1998. I was emigrating to the US. Vikram Seth had made it big on the international writing scene with his novel A Suitable Boy. I bought a […]
An amalgamation of Science and Puranas
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I started reading the Puranas some eight years ago. It began with a conversation with a friend, who told me he was reading an Egyptian version of the flood story of Noah and the Ark. I said to him that there was possibly an Indian […]
Do good and do well by billionaire Ajay Piramal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Conscious Capitalism – A discussion around socially responsible businesses Moderated by Rahul Singh, the discussion features Ajay Piramal (Philanthropist & Chairman, Piramal Group), Radhanath Swami (Spiritual Guru & Founder, Govardhan Eco Village), and Vivek Bindra (Motivational Speaker & Founder, Bada Business) Glimpses of the vision from Ajay Piramal Mr. Ajay Piramal is one of India’s […]
Earn with integrity, spend with compassion by Radhanath Swami
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Conscious Capitalism – A discussion around socially responsible businesses Moderated by Rahul Singh, the discussion features Ajay Piramal (Philanthropist & Chairman, Piramal Group), Radhanath Swami (Spiritual Guru & Founder, Govardhan Eco Village), and Vivek Bindra (Motivational Speaker & Founder, Bada Business) Glimpses of the vision […]
YourDOST: A tête-à-tête with Puneet Manuja
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I was a School Topper in 12th (St. Joseph’s, 92% – meant a lot at that time) –> I had to take a year drop even to get a good rank in AIEEE (couldn’t clear IIT still) I was a Gold Medalist during my UnderGrad […]
Grow, Nourish, Sustain Together – World Food Day 2020
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login World Food Day 2020 The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) designated 16th October to be celebrated as World Food Day each year and it brings to the forefront the importance of food in our lives. This year the theme of the celebrations is “Grow, Nourish, […]
A home for the homeless in Calamity
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login A home for the homeless in Calamity! Imagine offering your resignation to the CEO to start your own venture and in an ironic turn of events the CEO asks, “Why not we do it together?”. This is the story of the Founder of BillionBricks Prasoon […]
Don’t take things for granted!
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Revisiting the struggle and valuing nature! On this occasion of the World Calamity Control day celebrated on the 14th of October 2020, I wish to look back upon the three major calamities that I have faced in the past 20 years. In 2004, on a […]
Caught overseas in a riot
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login A day from my life! It was just another normal day in PT Pertama shipyard when I was heading for an office meeting with the General Manager. The year was 2010 and I was newly married. Still fairly green, I was posted as a project […]
Mental ill-Health – not a personal problem!
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Mental ill-Health – not a personal problem! In India, WHO estimates that the burden of mental health problems is of the tune of 2,443 DALYs per 100,000 population, and the age-adjusted suicide rate per 100,000 population is 21.1. It is estimated that, in India, the […]
True to Self: Journey of a Transgender MBA
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login From Mathew to Maddie: Creating space, enjoying the process and uncovering a thriving environment helped me embrace my Transgender True Self. In 2015, I was a lone American in NTU’s MBA program in Singapore. While I shared passion for finance with some of my classmates, […]
Galyna Kogut
Reading Time: 2 minutes Qualification / Certifications PhD, NTU Singapore About Me A researcher with National Institute of Education (NIE) and PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Galyna focuses on Pedagogy and Teaching with specific emphasis on Language acquisition and Teacher Professional Development. Galyna is Polyglot speakiing English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, German and Hindi. She has widely read Western […]
Navigating Change: A career journey in Singapore
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Krishna Sadashiv or Sada Graduated from IIMB in 1981 and is perhaps the oldest IIMB alumni in Singapore. The change was a big part of his career and as a topline message, he recommended having an open mind and the need to relentlessly drive it by […]
Happiness: Hold one kind thought!
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login To define happiness is a very simple task. Just be kind to someone and the emotion that you feel thereafter is happiness. I belong to a family where values supersede all other dimensions and perspectives of life. School for me was always another […]
Karan Bajaj: A Yogi to a Millionaire
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Picture a bestselling novelist with three books to his credit armed with an IIM MBA maneuvring the corporate world of P&G, Discovery Channel& Kraft and hiking from South America to Europe to the Himalayas during his sabbaticals while dabbling as a Yoga teacher in South […]
Independence: Are we really free?
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login #SheToo Where her mind is without fear and her head is held high Where education is her right Where her world has not been confined by narrow domestic walls Where words and actions resonate with respect and understanding Where her tireless striving is recognized […]
Happiness – Russell’s paradox?
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Russell’s paradox: “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” Counter-intuitive though it appears, it is one of the truths of life. The process of striving for and getting something that you want, and do not have, is […]
Midlife Crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I had never really understood this concept of middle age blues till, of course, I hit middle age myself. Isn’t that true of all of us that only the problems that can afflict us are worth considering while problems that may or may not afflict […]
Clearing the trash in Cyber Space
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login In the earlier post, we discussed what cyberbullying is and why one must raise voice against it. In this article, we shall look at how to deal with cybercrime and online harassment. The three-fold approach of combating cybercrime and online harassment Education and awareness The […]
Independence on social media
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login In my previous article, I had discussed #ItEndsWithMe campaign by me. By speaking up and calling the abusers out we are not allowing them to hide behind their screens and their anonymity to spew hate on the internet. I also started this campaign, aptly called […]
Have you been Cyberbullied?
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Anyone and everyone who has ever tried to put themselves out there in this digital world understands what it is like to be trolled. It has, over the short period that the internet has been around, become an inescapable part of our online experience and […]
I want my Independence
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I want my Independence I want to be able to buy gifts for my dear ones on birthdays I want my name to be recognized I want a meaningful thing, which is only mine Can you guess the life stage of the person saying these? […]
Right Nutrition during COVID 19 times
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login COVID-19 has been ubiquitous in terms of its literal as well as metaphoric reach. It has been on people’s minds as well as affecting world population ever since the first case of the novel Coronavirus was reported from Wuhan in December 2019. It has spread […]
You Are the Steward of Your Legacy
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login You Are the Steward of Your Legacy! Please note that is a statement not a question. When I first thought about writing a blog, like every inexperienced writer, I defaulted to the sophomoric style of introducing the concept in the form of a wonderfully provocative […]
Banking on a Movie Scriptwriter
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Nayanika Mahtani, the scriptwriter of the movie Shakuntala Devi in a candid conversation with Gyanalogy on her life journey and transformation from a banker to a writer. Did you always want to be an author and screenwriter? I actually harbored dreams of studying drama […]
How to find a job during Covid-19?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Covid-19 has had a major impact on the job market. Many employees across industries have been laid off, suffered pay cuts, or been forced to change or rethink their carefully laid-out career plans. Reading about Covid’s devastation versus personally interacting with somebody who has lost […]
Traveling without moving
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login In the second week of March, I had an invitation from Times of India and Madhya Pradesh Tourism to be a part of their culture trail. The travel blogger in me was super excited about it but then I had to opt-out of it. It […]
Why do intelligent people commit suicide?
Reading Time: 7 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Mental Health and Suicide – Is there something we can do? A few weeks back when a famous Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput ended his own life, some of my former students from IIM Bangalore got in touch with me and asked me to write […]
Pivot or Perish – Digital Transformation post COVID-19
Reading Time: 7 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world out of its slumber. This pandemic will lead to increased digitisation (i.e. converting information from a physical format into a digital one) and lead to increasing number of businesses moving online. For starters, video conferencing, and virtual meetings […]
Staying afloat as an Entrepreneur in crisis
Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Background – Investor sentiment: According to a 100X.VC India sentiment outlook survey done in 2Q2020, 45% of Founders in India said that the VC response time has slowed down. Angel Investors and VCs surveyed 64% are worried and changing their strategy, mostly tied to recovery […]
Staying fit in Coronavirus crisis
Reading Time: 7 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Staying fit in Coronavirus Situation Q1. What is wellness according to you? How is physical health important for mental health? Wellness is being able to align your mind, your body, and your soul altogether. It is not just important that you work out to increase […]
I lost my job due to Coronavirus
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I lost my job due to Coronavirus You are angry. You are frustrated. You feel helpless. You feel worried, for yourself and your family. Mostly, you feel a primal cry of “Why me?”. I understand these feelings and emotions because I have gone through them. […]
Impact of Coronavirus on Higher Education
Reading Time: 6 minutes Q1. What impact has COVID-19 had on the higher education sector in India? The education industry had been crying for change. COVID-19 has triggered changes in an industry ripe for disruption. There is a belief that higher education pays off and there are empirical evidences to support the view that average income goes up with […]
Economic Impact of the Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Q1. What is the economic outlook for the rest of the year – both globally and for India? Since I am closest to India, my answers will draw on the visibility that one has from India. The economic outlook in India is, in my mind, a matter of concern. That is for two reasons: first, […]
IIM Bangalore Director on Graduating in Crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Q1. How is this year different for graduating students? This is a year of uncertainties. Uncertainties will last well beyond the COVID-19 crisis as businesses recalibrate their priorities and get things on track. Unless there is a direct correlation of new hires with greater revenue than cost or with building up new business divisions, there […]
The constant struggle of “Getting Married”
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are all your friends getting married? You don’t know how to find a right life partner? You are still struggling if I should do Bumble or matrimony site? Probably you are struggling to balance the six things which are critical in today’s relationships. 1. Need for Companionship Today’s generation is looking for just companionship and […]
How do I use forces in my life?
Reading Time: < 1 minute How do I use forces? People who viewed this also viewed: Can we integrate inner life and outer life? Being able to respond, the way of life! A successful life is not defined
Why this ego? – Part 2: Space (Universe)
Reading Time: 4 minutes In part one I mentioned about the grandeur of time. How long time is and how our 100 years of human life is not even a blip on the scale of time. So is it worth being proud when we can influence some part of the space for some time? Next lets visit how big the […]
The Needle, the Bank Account and Bill Gates
Reading Time: 3 minutes Be nice, looks can be deceiving! A few days back I chanced upon a video from Indian motivational speaker Gaur Gopal Das. While watching it, I got reminded of a story I had read nearly 15 years back in my school – The Needle. A copy of this story may be accessed here. This story […]
