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 …
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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 …
Between Life and Death
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login The Sick. The Old. The Corpse. I had always pondered about these three even as a child, mostly because I …
COVID-19 in Sikkim: A heartfelt eulogy
Reading Time: 13 minutes Kamal bhena, my brother-in-law, brother, and father-figure, was a man so strong and so tall that you didn’t realize he was the foundation pillar until he is gone.
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 …
Can we integrate inner life and outer life?
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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 …
Make it happen
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Make it Happen! It was a warm afternoon in the winters of 2012. I was at my desk with multiple …
Gratitude Diary For 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes This Gratitude Note is not for you *
#If others happiness makes you jittery.
#You are addicted to news channels.
#You are a Pessimist.
#Your favorite pastime is cribbing about life.”
No more about myself
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login It was about 10 years ago when I was part of a small volunteer social organization. We used to go …
Let us Volunteer
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Together We Can, Through Volunteering! The 2020 UN Volunteers’ theme this International Volunteer day calls for everyone to volunteer towards …
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 …
An incredible journey with a congenital condition
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Raising the younger siblings when mother felt bed-ridden, travelling by local train of Howrah to college, earning two bachelors degrees, …
Disability or Capability?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020 International Disability Capability Day 2020 The adage goes, “Everybody is a genius. But …
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 …
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. …
AIDS 2020: Resilience and Impact
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login World Health Organisation: World AIDS Day 2020 Theme: Global solidarity, resilient services UNAIDS: Global Solidarity and Shared Responsibility! Centers for …
Living with AIDS
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login It has been a year since I was diagnosed HIV+ and that brought my life crumbling down. The infection was …
Being well and well being – the Art of Well Being!
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Truly said, “the door is there but the key is in your hands”. We ourselves are the artist of our …
Her womb, her choice…
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Meghan, writes about the miscarriage There have been tremendous celebrity trolling for late pregnancies getting reported in the COVID19 times. …
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 …
Being able to respond, the way of life!
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Responsibility or Freedom! Being able to respond, slowly became a way of being alive to everything around me. I understood …
Emotion, Reaction, Action & Outcomes too…
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I realised that most people face the same things/situations. Though the scenery may be different, the characters may be …
Am I Responsible or the Victim?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Responsibility, Responsibility, Responsibility! I attended my first yoga class 3 years back, and in the 2nd or 3rd session, 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 …
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 & …
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 …
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 …
A home for the homeless in Calamity
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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 …
Caught overseas in a riot
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A man-made Disaster?
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Gone with the wind!
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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 …
Suicide note of a 16-year-old!
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Let’s talk! Let’s live! “Dear Mum, It’s with a heavy heart that I write you this note, knowing the …
Mental Health for All: An Inclusive Society
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login For ages, the common and faulty understanding has been to observe people who have mental illness as “lunatics,” “dangerous,” and …
Why and What of Mental Health!
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login “More than a Day, More than the Pandemic”: A Collective Investment in Mental Health Prologue The world is chaotic, thanks …
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 …
Biggest Learning: Self-worth to Freedom
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login I want Freedom for full expression of my personality- Mahatma Gandhi Ahhh! A sigh comes to me whenever I hear …
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 …
True to Self: Journey of a Transgender MBA
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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 …
Paromita Bannerjee
Reading Time: 2 minutes Qualification / Certifications Bachelor of Science, University of Calcutta EGMP, IIM Bangalore About Me Paromita is a leader in People Practices with a knack towards solving problems. An IIM Bangalore alumna and a story …
Thanks for Booking
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afFAIRY Tale: A new beginning!
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login afFAIRY Tale: A new beginning At the end of an extramarital affair, can my marriage survive? Yes! So many …
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 …
Pradheep Padmanathan
Reading Time: 2 minutes Qualification / Certifications B Tech, College of Engineering Guindy MBA, IIM Bangalore About Me Pradheep is the head of operations at Razorhorse. He headed customer support operations at Aurea software …
Rahul Singh
Reading Time: 2 minutes Qualification / Certifications Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), NTU Singapore MBA, IIM Bangalore About Me Rahul Singh currently works for Deutsche Bank in Sales and Content Management. A banker by the …
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
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 …
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 …
In-Dependence with Independence!
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login What happens to my “Me Time” when I am living with my spouse? The modern-day love is not composed of …
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 …
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 …
sMiles Together – the Mantra of Marathon
Reading Time: 5 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login What takes it to run long? In the age of instant gratification do you ever wonder how some relationships …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Right Nutrition during COVID 19 times
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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 …
afFAIRY Tale: Extra-Marital Relationships
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login 2+1 is not crowded! How the social, emotional and the biological requirements of our relationships are different from each …
PanDating: Dream or Date to find the one for you!
Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login PanDating: Dream or Date to find the one for you! Dating is still a taboo in India and often …
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 …
Instant Gratification vs Lifelong Happiness
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Yesterday someone added me on LinkedIn with this note “You have an interesting career trajectory. Would love to hear more …
LockLove in LockDown
Reading Time: 6 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Stay in love while staying together! Make it work like a PRO! Indian Express: June 8, 2020 – Lockdown …
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 …
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 …
Long-Distance Relationship: COping VIDistance
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Miles can’t stop smiles! COVID19 is an unprecedented situation for this generation where every aspect of life is challenged …
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 …
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? …
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 …
Fasting – Hunger over Whim
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, Orthodox Christian world is celebrating Easter – one of the most significant days in a Christian calendar. It symbolizes the victory of good over evil, the sacrifice that Jesus …
Sunflower : Resilience and Happiness
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sunflowers turn according to the position of the sun, in other words, they “chase the light.” You might already know this, but there is another fact that you probably do …
Coronavirus – The root cause?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Is the world paying too high a price for a plate of exotic meat? Have a look at the videos below. WARNING – The videos may be disturbing for some …
