Month: August 2021

Onam is the most widely celebrated festival in the Indian state of Kerala. People make flower carpets at homes and offices and institutions to welcome prosperity and the mythical King Mahabali. On the Onam celebration day at school, students had to bring flowers to class to make the flower carpet. We enjoyed the process and…

I just happened to notice a groundbreaking study on human tactile perception (the sense of touch) by a team of Swedish scientists. They show that people can detect things at nano-scale while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface up to 13 nanometers! For a better understanding, if our fingers are of the scale…

I was casually telling my friend about a book I was planning to buy for my next read. The book was “Numbers Don’t Lie” by the Canadian economic analyst and author Vaclav Smil. After 3 days, surprisingly, my friend bought that book for me 🙂 This book is indeed a really good read. It reflects…

Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that depicts the cyclicality of eternal time! It is also interpreted as the cyclicality of life and life events, as well. If we keenly observe the world and events, even our very life from the micro to macro level, we can see an unexplainable repetition of events at constant intervals…

The other day I was having an interaction with a group of college students on entrepreneurship. It was more of a Q&A mode and a student asked me a question and it was this: “How do you find your inspiration? How do you keep yourself motivated?!” Actually, it was the first time ever I also…

People of Afghanistan are trying to escape from their own motherland, clinging on to aeroplanes, horribly falling from 20000 feet and dying. Today the whole world has been witnessing such heartbreaking visuals from Kabul after the Taliban invasion. These visuals remind me that I’m living in a heaven on earth, my motherland. There is nothing…

Since the first time I flew in an aircraft, on every take off and landing – every bit of turbulence I experience it in the air, I am always a little tense and afraid, if something bad happens to the aircraft, what will I do. I always pray for safe journeys. Today, I was reading…

India is moving towards her 75th year of Independence! The people of our generation (especially post-millennials) never knew the pain of invasion by foreign rulers. We didn’t experience the bloodshed of Partition. When the whole of India was celebrating the day of independence on the 15th of Aug 1947, Mahatma Gandhi was on fasting at…

The other day, I was invited to deliver a keynote speech on entrepreneurial trends at a college. It’s been over a decade since I have been interacting with students across the country. Many colleges and universities have invited me to talk. But they have all been either engineering colleges or business schools or such departments….

Today I got a memory notification from Facebook from 7 years back! It was a post in which I mentioned that I was reading the book Rich Dad and Poor Dad and quoting the below sentence: “People’s lives are forever controlled by two emotions; fear and greed. The ones who come out of it will…