Hustle Culture: From a Gen Z to a Gen Z

Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Why Gen Z needs to let it go? “If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasure ceases to please.” ~ Epictetus I absolutely love the idea of working hard, achieving the biggest of dreams, living in a mansion, and creating a legacy, as […]

The Archer hits the bull’s eye

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Passion, purpose, mindfulness, and the willingness to take risks My 2022 reading spree didn’t just stop at one of Paulo Coelho’s books but two of them and both of them have equally, astronomically, altered my brain chemistry. It was a tough year. In fact, a […]

The Magic of The Alchemist

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Life-Changing Lessons Have you ever had to reassess your entire existence after reading a book? Like, you’re so deeply impacted by it that you’re questioning everything about your life and making it your life’s mission to fix yourself. Now, I don’t know, to what extent […]

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 […]

Collaboration vs Competition: Being 1st or Being Fair?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Being 1st or Being Fair? “You created this?” I asked my son looking at him playing with some new figures in Roblox screen. “Yeah”. “This looks new and kind of cool. Why don’t you share with others what you’ve done, on your page? Write what you did and how”. “No, I don’t want”. “Why? It’s […]

Ask me Anything (AMA) on Entrepreneurship

Reading Time: < 1 minute Date: Saturday, May 15, 2021 Time: 10.00 AM India / 12:30 PM Singapore / 12.30 AM New York Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/AMACapMgmt   People who viewed this also viewed: AMA with Anil Swarup Ask me Anything (AMA) on Crowd Funding Ask me Anything (AMA) on Disability

Ask me Anything (AMA) on Crowd Funding

Reading Time: < 1 minute Date: Saturday, May 8, 2021 Time: 10.00 AM India / 12:30 PM Singapore / 12.30 AM New York Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/GyanalogyAMA   Recording People who viewed this also viewed: AMA with Anil Swarup Ask me Anything (AMA) on Disability Ask me Anything (AMA) on CORONA

Ask me Anything (AMA) on Disability

Reading Time: < 1 minute Date: 1 May, 2021 Time: 10.00 AM India / 12:30 PM Singapore / 12.30 AM New York Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/GyanalogyAMA   Recording People who viewed this also viewed: AMA with Anil Swarup Ask me Anything (AMA) on Crowd Funding Ask me Anything (AMA) on CORONA

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 […]

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, […]

Are you gender-biased?

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Are you gender-biased? I am part of an amazing, dynamic all-women founders/entrepreneurs group. Discussions there range from tech topics that go over my head to GST and Tax laws to valuations and what not. One chat that saw animated participation was on gender bias. I […]

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 […]

Brain enough for Braille?

Reading Time: 3 minutes WORLD BRAILLE DAY 2021 SEE THE UNSEEN As special educators, my mother and I try our best to ensure that we teach the children in the way they are comfortable in learning. We make assistive learning tools and kits, that help children learn their subjects in a better and engaging manner. One day, one of […]

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 […]

A Portfolio Life

Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login  “I lead a portfolio life” is my response to the question, “What do you do now?” It invariably draws a blank stare, a puzzled nod, or a follow on question – “Are you an investor?” A portfolio life is about doing different things that give […]

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 […]

Cerebral Palsy to Writing!

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login ‘An aspiring academician acting as an administrator by accident’, is how I describe myself today. At the age of eight or nine, I decided to do a Ph.D in History from the Andhra University, and nothing, not even the attractive pay packages of doctors, engineers, […]

A Bumpy Ride with Cerebral Palsy

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login A Bundle of Contradictions I was a runaway topper in school, college and university, but when it came to my work, I realised that my past was confined to my efficiency & competence on the job, very much like a record-breaking cricketer, who, for his […]

Myth to Reality of being an Author

Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I began writing when I translated Ranjit Desai’s short stories (they never got published, though!) Ranjit Desai is one of the most prolific Marathi writers and I was keen that my children get to read his translated stories, as they can’t read in Marathi. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

A part Author

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login   A part Author – A story of Partition I was at a much delayed 40th birthday celebration in Goa with my best friend. That’s when the realization dawned. I have been chasing goals after goals from IIT to IIM and beyond never pausing to […]

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 […]

Bada Mindset for Bada Business by Dr Vivek Bindra

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 […]

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 […]

Collaborate to Compete

Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Collaborate to Compete conversation with Sanjiv Aiyar, President Pan IIM Alumni Singapore “Collaborate, Connect & Change” sums up Sanjiv Aiyar’s 40 year career. As he steps down as the Founding President of Pan IIM Alumni Singapore (PIIMA), I caught up with him to get his […]

The Quietest Hour

Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login There have been a few rare moments in my life until now when people have asked me to dish out career advice. I used to find such moments filled with tasteful irony because then, I myself have been groping in the darkness; what light could […]

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 […]

The Fallacy of Sunk Cost

Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login In business, a sunk cost is any cost that has already been paid or incurred and cannot be recovered. This money is now gone and cannot be recovered, hence it really shouldn’t figure into the business’s decision making process. Making future decisions based on what […]

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 […]

Early Childhood Care and Education: New Education Policy 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login   A Generation Empowered! The New Education Policy 2020 is a comprehensive, courageous and powerful re-thinking of the Indian education system. The policy has been the first effort by any Government to address School Education as a continuous process right from birth up to 18 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Freedom and Women

Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login What does freedom mean to you as a woman? Freedom can not be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.                         ——— Nelson Mandela India celebrates its 74th independence day […]

Independence from Chasing Grades

Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login “Do not study to be successful, study to better yourself. Do not chase success; instead, target excellence and success will always follow you.” This is a paraphrased dialogue by the protagonist, Rancho, from the very popular movie ‘3 Idiots’ and I think it is extremely […]

True empowerment: freedom vs. independence

Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login As India’s Independence Day approaches I wonder why it isn’t called Freedom Day.  Did India not free itself from its colonisers?  Does it matter that the subjugation happened slowly over a few hundred years with the tacit consent of the country’s feuding rulers?  The relationship […]

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? […]

Grades do not exist in the real world

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Probably it is school where I have felt every emotion of happiness, sadness, curiosity, anxiety, jealousy, success and failure.  It seems just like yesterday when I was crying because I did not want to attend the Sanskrit classes in my kindergarten. From that to getting […]

Beyond Grades

Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login What’s the purpose of education? Why are millions of rupees spent each year on the schooling of a child? The answer to this lies in the expectations of the parents. The purpose is the growth of the child into a responsible human being who is […]

Toppers are born or made?

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Much more precious than those few moments of success, are those innumerable moments of the journey to the goal; those tears, those smiles, those daily struggles and sleepless nights. It is those moments of hope after disappointing events and determination after small failures that have […]

Being a Board Topper

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login If I were to name my happiest, most fearful and the most exciting memory, it would be in school. I never agreed with the notion ‘Just the four years from class 9th to 12th, and then it’s fun all the way’. I believe it doesn’t […]

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 […]

Self Centered or Selfish?

Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login The Merits of Self-Centred Leadership The world is crying out for leaders who lead from the front and ensure no one is left behind.  We need leaders who have the creativity and courage to create something that goes beyond their personal gain.  We want leaders […]

Money grows on tree?

Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login When I was growing up my parents often told me that money doesn’t grow on tree. I sort of disagreed in my head but never had the courage to confront them – In my head I used to think, if you have mango tree then […]

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 […]

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 […]

Never give up – It’s not a gift, it’s a habit

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login My commute time to work consumes 4 hours of my daily life. You get a whole lot of exposure to different people, who can influence you. It’s a small story of a vegetable seller who showed me, what’s it’s like – “Never giving up“. I […]

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 […]

Break free, be you

Reading Time: 6 minutes Break free, be you In business, a sunk cost is any cost that has already been paid or incurred and cannot be recovered. This money is now gone and cannot be recovered, hence it really shouldn’t figure into the business’s decision making process. Making future decisions based on what you have already spent in the […]

A successful life is not defined

Reading Time: 7 minutes I tend to avoid writing on controversial topics, as there are usually two sides to it and while some might agree with me, some will inevitably look at me as their enemy from high school who begged to differ. Yet, I think it is important to put out your side of it and risk the […]

Compete or Collaborate -Beyond the self

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Compete or Collaborate – A personal journey

Reading Time: 4 minutes About a month ago, I was invited by IIM Bangalore to give a talk on CaSH – Careers, Salary & Happiness. This is the first time I was visiting my alma mater ever since I graduated. As luck would have it a parallel leadership conclave, IIMBue, was happening at Taj Bangalore and since I was […]

The genesis of Knowledge

Reading Time: 4 minutes Last week I wrote about how Knowledge will fail you. After I wrote that, I was having a discussion with a classmate from my MBA program on what next to write on Gyanalogy. Incidentally she asked me, “Where do you get your ideas from?” Truth be told, I actually don’t know from where! Very often I wake up in […]

Knowledge will fail you!

Reading Time: 4 minutes Knowledge will fail you when you need it the most! Have you ever blanked out in an exam? Forgotten the formula you so diligently memorized? Had a tied tongue in an interview? Froze standing in front of an audience? In the Indian epic Mahabharata one of the greatest warriors of all time, Karna, learns from […]

Whose car are you driving?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Last week, my school Principal asked me if in my capacity as the President of the Alumni Association, I could give message to the graduating class 12 (A Level) students who scored 88% and above. I feel that the message I had for the students may be equally relevant to others and hence am sharing […]

Schools create literacy not education

Reading Time: 3 minutes Yesterday in my school whatsapp group someone posted the picture below The picture was a dig on the news that first time in the history of ISC ‘A Level’ examination someone scored a perfect 100 in all subjects! I casually joked that thermometer better be in degree Fahrenheit! The picture triggered a serious discussion in the […]

Ikigai – The Meaning in work

Reading Time: 3 minutes Today is May 1. More than 80 countries across the globe celebrate 1 May as International Workers’ Day or Labor Day. This May Day, I have been thinking about meaning in work. The genesis of May Day or International Labor Day is in the 19th century when post the industrial revolution, trade unions, and labor movements […]

How do I use forces in my life?

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The Reason for Every Reason

Reading Time: 3 minutes When I was in the university, very often I used to listen to this song – The Reason I’ve found a reason for me To change who I used to be A reason to start over new And the reason is you In Physics, we have four fundamental forces viz. Gravitation, Electromagnetic, Weak nuclear force […]

Why this ego? Part 3 – Indra and Ants: Confluence of Mythology, Science and Psychology

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the previous two weeks, we discussed time and universe. This sets the ground ripe for the grand finale: The story of Indra and Ant. From the previous two writings it is clear that time is really long and space is really huge. In fact time is so huge that one day of Brahma is 4.32 billion years […]

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 […]

Why this ego? – Part 1: Time

Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Quite often when we achieve something which is slightly above average (be it wealth, fame, intelligence or beauty) a sense of pride and ego creeps in. All of us know one such person who is very intelligent or very beautiful yet very full of himself/herself. Why […]

What is your duty?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week I wrote about doing one’s duty. An interesting question came from Rastra Kunwar- How do you know what your duty is? This question is quite relevant because very often we perform our roles but not necessarily our duties – A lethargic worker at office, a disengaged spouse at home or disillusioned student in classroom. When can you ask this question? […]

Do your Duty

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do your Duty In my school I read a story “Sanyansi” (The Hermit). The video version of this story written by famed Hindi writer Sudarshan may be accessed here. The story starts with the main protagonist ,Paalu, leading a carefree life loafing around with the boys in his village. At the age of 33, he gets married to […]

Will I be pretty, Will I be rich?

Reading Time: 4 minutes While watching YouTube videos, we often come across the pesky little ads seeing which our instinct is to press the skip ad button. A similar thing happened to me last weekend. I was watching a documentary on YouTube and my reflex action  impulse was to hit the skip ad button. But that didn’t happen until […]

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 […]