Month: March 2021

There is a popular English expression about the “elephant in the room” which means there is an issue, something which is not pleasing, that everyone in the room knows about but nobody wants to discuss because it may hurt someone. But it’s a reality, a truth that needs to be addressed. We always face such…

It was an evening in February 2010 when I was in the 6th semester of college that we were all in the canteen watching a match between India versus South Africa on television. Sachin was on the screen and we were all cheering, he scored a fifty, then a century, 130, 150, 180 and 194…

I was always part of a business owners networking community that prefered physical meetings. I have a Facebook memory – exactly a year back in March 2020 was the first time in history we conducted a completely online meeting via a video-conferencing application joining 60+ entrepreneurs across the state for a breakfast meeting. Time flies,…

Just happened to notice mind blowing news from Russia that the oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32000-year-old seeds. The Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, which is a flowering plant native to Siberia which happened to be buried by an ice age squirrel near the banks of…

For many years I was quite hesitant to visit restaurants because in those days my idea of the business model of a restaurant was different. I used to observe that when we go to a restaurant many customers don’t finish a dish completely, they waste a lot of food. My conviction was that leftovers will…

According to studies, our body language makes up almost 55 percent of communication. It is from facial expressions to the direction in which our foot is positioned while being involved in a conversation – everything collectively framed by our body in communication is considered body language or nonverbal communication. In the digital era too there’s…

Today I visited one of the largest and newest shopping centres in the city. It has 6 floors full of garments and textiles. Each floor is dedicated to different categories of customers and we covered almost every floor. While taking the escalator, I recalled my very first escalator experience. I was in the 11th standard…

I was an active member of the mathematics club in high school and the mathematics teacher who headed that club was also my class teacher. Fortunately, I have been able to be in touch with him since then. Today on WhatsApp he shared with me that today is quite special, it’s Pi day. Pi day…

There are many glorious qualities which differentiate humans from animals. One quality which may not be so glorious though is that we humans worry about things. You cannot find another animal that worries about anything because other living beings on this planet live in the present. But if we analyse ourselves we can see that…

We all dream and wish for things to happen in our lives. There are hundreds and thousands of perspectives and interpretations about turning wishes into reality or manifesting our destination… One of the things which I personally have noticed in that context is this – when we wish for something when it is an original…