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 People who viewed this also viewed: AMA with Anil Swarup Ask me Anything (AMA) on Disability Ask me Anything (AMA) on CORONA
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 “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 hosted by Gyanalogy. The veteran bureaucrat with […]
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, […]
Reboot, Relive, Revive
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Covid-19 wiped off most of 2020 from my life and 2021 feels to me like an opportunity to reboot, relive, revive the hypothetical year past. So here’s my 19-21 “TLDR” survival guide (depending on how you read the list) embracing the new normal and some […]
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 […]
Love conquers it all
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Love conquers it all I am a firm believer in destiny. In my series of talking to a few couples who claimed to have married only for love, I met a couple who re-established my belief in destiny. After meeting Kate and Hari, I met […]
Love knows no boundaries
Reading Time: 3 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Love knows no boundaries Nobel Laureate John Nash says, “It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found”. Truly, only love will create stories to tell, rest all will be obsolete someday. It is better to be […]
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 […]
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 heard about these since the age of 3 years. The three circumstances we cannot avoid and control, no matter who or what we are. Still, […]
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 […]
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 tabs open on my computer screen, each of them acting like pathways to the upcoming opportunities in my life. Yes, I was done with my […]
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 and conduct small activities in orphanages. During one such event, I remember it being the 15th of August, that we were at an Orphanage conducting […]
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 causes they hold dear! Volunteering, in a nutshell, is simply the act of individuals using their skills for the benefit of society, by way of […]
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 […]
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, driving down the kids to schools, trekking in Kashmir or climbing the stairs of forts in Rajasthan. All seems doable unless you are on crutches. […]
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 if we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it’s stupid.” Each of us are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Disease Control and Prevention: Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Resilience & Impact Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first-ever international day for global health. […]
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 traced back to exposure when I had unprotected sex as a part of a casual fling. At the first instance, I was actually thinking that […]
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 life. Changing your lifestyle doesn’t need to be difficult. Sometimes it gets tough when the world is not going the way you want it to, […]
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. And more recently I read the comments on the news of Meghan Markle opened up about her miscarriage. These are not one of the cases […]
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 […]
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 how much of my aliveness was so held back in some corner, being reserved and withheld for god knows what! Who knew, being responsible, meant […]
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 different, the circumstances may be different, but it was the same damn emotion, same reaction/action, and the same outcomes too! It just blew me away […]
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 teacher kept on going about responsibility. About how I was responsible for my life, I was responsible for all the things that happened to me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A man-made Disaster?
Reading Time: 7 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login A man-made disaster? I couldn’t explain that feeling. But all I could say that I wanted to get rid of it as soon as I could. But it seemed like there was no way out. My feet inside those wet socks were there to stay […]
Gone with the wind!
Reading Time: 4 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login A night that was… I remember waking up in the middle of the night, hearing a loud banging noise and an even louder whistling noise coming from the back of the house. The winds and rain were banging against the outside of the house. I […]
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 […]
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 amount of pain it is going to cause you. I didn’t want to do this, but I was compelled by circumstances beyond my control to […]
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 “violent people” who need to be secluded from society. The sustainable development goals were built on the principle of leaving no one behind. The current […]
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 to the last eight months of the pandemic-havoc! Health is considered necessary for the growth, development, and productivity of a society. The maxim “There is […]
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 […]
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 word corporate and the life associated to it. Few metaphors that come to my mind “Rat Race” and “Headless Chicken”. You must be thinking […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 visualizer, her focus is on bridging the gap between education and industry by supporting fresh graduates to kick-start their career and helping the women to return to the workforce […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 a single soul inhabiting two bodies. In the practical demand of today’s society, it will be wise to accept love is an amalgamation of two personas. It is […]
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
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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 survive the test of time? Love? Money? Family? Love marriage? Arranged marriage? Let us ponder over a few facts and stories to understand what works […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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? […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 other is already discussed in the article http://gyanalogy.com/love_sex_marriage/ When I am writing about the relationships I cannot stay away long from writing about extra-marital affairs. Men […]
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 a misunderstood term. This article comes for the rescue and clears the air around it. What is Dating? Dating is the phase between meeting a […]
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 […]
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 about it over a chat if you ever have some time”. Before long we started chatting and discussion shifted to “What are you seeking?” A […]
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 impact: Divorce, child custody cases spike across country, Mumbai tops chart Latestlaws: May 18, 2020 – Divorce in Lockdown: Is it possible? World is asking […]
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 […]
