Month: January 2021

I think the educational system and the way children are being brought up, especially in schools, and further ahead, they are expected to be a bundle of knowledge. Teachers, parents, someone older may be evaluating the worth of a child in terms of a child’s performance in school. Not knowing something, in academics or otherwise,…

A friend of mine, who was a fantastic storyteller, used to sit beside me in lower primary school. Sometimes I provided a thread and he created a story out of it. He drew every frame and told the story, continuously drawing frames and characters, frame after frame, he would erase the slate and draw again…

I was thinking of the phenomenon of truth, it is one of the most glorious values in the history of mankind. For thousands of years, people from different parts of the world, great people – philosophers, rulers, theologians – have spoken about truth and its many dimensions. Among many perspectives, the one thing that I…

The pandemic has set a new normal and sooner or later we all adapted to it to some extent. It has changed us completely – the way we think, eat, travel, engage, and what not… Among the new technologies and applications that emerged during this period, the popular app Zoom is a useful solution that…

It was in 2015 that I visited Hong Kong for the first time. My partner and I were there for discussions with manufacturing facilities, we also happened to be associated with one of the largest startup ecosystem enablers in Hong Kong. When I visited the facility, the very first thing that struck my mind was…

Sometimes you may have unfinished movies in your collection that you watched for a few minutes, and you planned to finish watching but paused for some reason. It’s the same with some books, tasks, plans, initiatives, some projects, habits, studies, efforts, engagements, and things like that. It may happen that because you couldn’t finish it…

I had a discussion with a friend of mine who is a journalist, a person who has been working with a couple of media houses for the last 20 years. Three or four years back he’d said he’s planning to quit and start doing something of his own. Finally, he did it in 2020 and…

It was in January in 2019 that I was in Jaipur, Rajasthan, for the first time. I had a meeting in Delhi after which I took an Uber from Delhi to Jaipur which was cheaper and faster than catching a flight. Also, one of my friends told me that the route we would take would…

This is a time when people across the world talk about instant messengers, their technicalities and privacy policies, priorities, and other stuff. I thought about the very first instant messenger I used, Yahoo Messenger, at the beginning of the 21st century. In those days smileys, the usage of abbreviations and such things were quite new…

For a majority of people, when thinking of taking uncommon initiatives in life, the greatest fear that pulls them back is the thought of how or what others might think about that particular action or move. In this context, I happened to read an excerpt from Elizabeth Gilbert’s book “Big Magic”. In that book, there’s…