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 …
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. …
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 …
Can we integrate inner life and outer life?
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Experiments in “richness”
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
World Television Day
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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 …
Meet the Astrologer
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login His job at stake? Thanks to the internet and tweets from some celebrities, our neighborhood astrologer in Gomti Nagar of Lucknow became an overnight …
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 …
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 …
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 & …
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 …
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 & …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Early Childhood Care and Education: New Education Policy 2020
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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 …
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 …
Freedom and Women
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
