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 […]

Why do intelligent people commit suicide?

Reading Time: 7 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Mental Health and Suicide – Is there something we can do? A few weeks back when a famous Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput ended his own life, some of my former students from IIM Bangalore got in touch with me and asked me to write […]

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 and getting tested at the edge, including our relationships. Relationships, on the other hand, had have been already seen a transformation for the generation in […]

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 […]

Staying fit in Coronavirus crisis

Reading Time: 7 minutes To comment or receive more such wisdom, please register on www.gyanalogy.com/login Staying fit in Coronavirus Situation Q1. What is wellness according to you? How is physical health important for mental health? Wellness is being able to align your mind, your body, and your soul altogether. It is not just important that you work out to increase […]

I lost my job due to Coronavirus

I lost my job to Covid

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 […]

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 made for us and the eternity of life. It is the time of prayer and remembering Christ. I spent my childhood in the USSR and […]

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 not know! Have you ever wondered what happens on cloudy, rainy days when the sun is completely covered by clouds? This is an interesting question, […]

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 viewers Wild animals or domestic animals in food can create a lot of problems. But nobody will ever raise this issue. People are ready to […]

Are we the Virus?

Reading Time: 3 minutes What if we are the virus and Corona is the much-needed vaccine? Biologically speaking virus is simply genetic material (DNA/RNA) encapsulated in a layer of fat. Arguably they are not even living entities and can only reproduce when they attach themselves to a living cell. They instruct the host cell to make more copies of […]

CoronaVirus : Need vs Greed

Reading Time: 3 minutes Who would have imagined that a lowly toilet paper will rock the headlines of 2020. The year 2020 was supposed to be the “Future” and if this is the future then perhaps we have learned nothing from the past. Hong Kong reported armed robbery of toilet paper on 17 Feb and meanwhile in Australia, 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 […]

Date A Girl Who Loves Solitude

Reading Time: 3 minutes Date a girl who loves solitude. Yes, you heard it right! I am asking you to date a girl who loves to spend more time with herself than with her friends and acquaintances. Before you ask me the oh-so-obvious question that how do you date someone who likes to be alone, let me tell you […]

The constant struggle of “Getting Married”

Reading Time: 4 minutes Are all your friends getting married? You don’t know how to find a right life partner? You are still struggling if I should do Bumble or matrimony site? Probably you are struggling to balance the six things which are critical in today’s relationships. 1. Need for Companionship Today’s generation is looking for just companionship and […]

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 – 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

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 […]

Are you doing Nothing?

Reading Time: 3 minutes I was away on vacation and have not written for 4 weeks. When I walked into my office , someone in the lift asked, “What happened to Gyanalogy? Didn’t see any new post for quite sometime”. I smiled and replied, “Actually I was doing nothing” and both of us had a good laugh. Reigniting my […]

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 […]

Everything in Moderation

Reading Time: 3 minutes Today is Buddha Purinma or Vesak day – The day when Buddha was born. A few weeks back I mentioned about the six attributes that attract humans viz fame, money, strength, beauty, knowledge and lastly renunciation. The world has not known a greater renunciant – A 29 year old prince who gave it all: the kingdom, his wife and […]

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 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 […]

Chasing Happiness

Reading Time: 2 minutes Why do we do anything? This question has been asked since time immemorial. By philosophers, by sages, by psychologist and even my management gurus. While on surface people say different things such as they need a lot of money, more love, a bigger house, a faster car or better health but if we keep digging […]

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 […]

Love, Sex and Marriage

Reading Time: 3 minutes Valentine’s Special This is the Valentine’s week and love is in the air or is it? I recall the interaction I had with Gurcharan Das in December last year on the occasion of his latest book launch – Kama the Riddle of Desire. The book largely deals with a married man who gets attracted to a lady he […]

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 […]