Month: October 2020

The movie Troy is among my all-time favourites. It is based on Homer’s great poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is an account of the Trojan War between the Greeks and the Trojans. One of the characters in the epic, Nestor says, “This is the greatest war the world has ever seen and we…

Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi was a 13th-century Persian scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic who transcended the life and customs of that time. Rumi’s thoughts, perceptions and poetry are timeless, they are relevant today and will be in the future too, I hope. They are universal, full of love, compassion, gratitude, devotion, humility, simplicity, beauty, and…

Recently I happened to watch a video of a science fiction writer and a screenwriter called Arthur C Clarke, an Englishman who envisioned the technological revolution that we experience today. It was in 1945 that he predicted the concept of geostationary satellites for a globally connected world of communication. In those days we were not…

Today I was discussing a piece from old Tamil Sangam literature with a friend of mine. It was quite interesting and led me to do some personal research on it, small but deep. There were three Sangam periods, the first one is said to have been over 7000 years ago. The third Sangam period, between…

Three and a half years back I came across a wonderful business networking community called Business Network International (BNI), their core philosophy is “Givers Gain”. Normally when you attend a networking session, people might have inhibitions when it comes to talking about business and it may seem like bad etiquette, so people find different ways…

Recently I happened to read a wonderful thought about the way work should be done. The author compares two kinds of execution – one is a linear execution and the other is the pulse kind of execution. Say, you wake up by 6 o’clock in the morning and start your work by 9 o’clock, in…

There is an ayurvedic healer in Northern Malabar who’s named Ustad Hamza. He is more a Sufi to me. He has a great, original vision for a peaceful and prosperous life, and is famous for his ayurvedic single-dose medicines (Ottamooli) that can cure any disease we encounter in our day-to-day lives. He has inimitable expertise…

This happened when I was in school in the higher secondary. We were told by the English department to create and perform a drama. I was the leader of one of the groups and I adapted a story and wrote a script for a drama that I directed. We had practised well enough. I felt…

There was a school in our village which was 111 years old. It went up for sale because the existing management was not able to maintain the school – the buildings were about to fall down, the roof tiles were already falling down, children were quitting the school, and only a few children, especially from…

Recently a friend of mine had a wonderful post on his social account titled “Agree to Disagree.” It was very beautiful, and I thought about it a lot. I personally have been trying to implement and practice that perspective in my life. We don’t need to see things in black and white, there are grey…