Month: September 2020

Today, I received the Swami Vivekananda Yuva Prathibha Award for entrepreneurship from Sri E.P Jayarajan Honourable Minister for Industries, Sports & Youth Affairs. It’s an award instituted by the Kerala State Youth Welfare Board, of Department of Youth Affairs, Government of Kerala, for young leaders who excel in different fields like Arts, Literature, Sports, Science,…

This happened while I was in college, I studied in a college in Tamil Nadu in a remote village called Kalayarkoil near Madurai. I had to stay back after all my friends had left since I had failed in a paper and needed to retake the exam. It was a paper called English Communication. In…

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is the one of the most distinguished names in Indian war history, his legacy spanned from World War II to the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War during the Bangladesh Liberation War where India won against Pakistan, captured 93,000 soldiers, liberated Bangladesh, and released all those 93,000 captured soldiers back to Pakistan. The country…

Can you imagine witnessing the massacre of thousands of lives every quarter of the year? I do, I have been witnessing it… I am talking about beehives. In my neighbourhood bees build their hives, and every quarter when they become full-fledged it becomes a danger to the people, especially to children living here. The pest…

There used to be a security guard at our apartment, I remember him because whenever we met in the morning he would pleasantly say “Good Morning,” not just a good morning for the sake of greeting, but a truly pleasant one. We rarely interact with security guards, they open our gate, they close it. I…

About 3 months ago one of my friends happened to throw a steel bottle of water to me. I missed the catch and it fell right on my thumb, I was holding a laptop and my thumb got slightly crushed between the laptop and the steel water bottle. The severe pain continued for a couple…

This is a story that’s set in Germany when it was under fascist rule. People were afraid to communicate and talk openly in public about their situation and the troubles they faced because of the fascist government. All communication was censored by the government. There were two close friends who lived in two different cities…

A few years back, I was invited to an engineering college in Tamil Nadu to deliver a session on the adventurous journey of entrepreneurship. There was a crowd of over 500 students, and they were very kind and patient enough to listen to my talk. I spoke for an hour or more, including the interactive…

We are nothing but a result of our habits. Our destiny, our reality is created purely out of our habits. There have been a lot of studies focusing on this human quality of how to create, adapt, break a habit, in different dimensions of science. Among those studies, an idea which I felt was simple…

We all want to improve our performance, we all strongly believe that we are not utilizing ourselves to full capacity in any aspect of life. Something pulls us back from performing at our optimum levels. To overcome such hesitations and pullbacks, we try to improve ourselves with productivity apps, productivity books, training, videos, and other…