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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…

I used to experience and even communicate with some of my friends the fact that some friendships are eternal and it’s like they’re on a plug and play mode. Such friendships don’t require constant follow-ups and communication, we can have enough time between two engagements and when we get connected it remains as fresh as…

A friend of mine was discussing his new startup with me, it’s a building block game completely manufactured using 3D printing technology. We discussed building blocks a lot because personally I love this game, I have played it in my childhood, invested hours and hours in continuously playing it. It’s a beautiful game, it gives…

Today I happened to attend Holy Mass in a church here at the hill station. It was over an hour long. I was listening to the gentle, rather elderly, priest who was delivering the sermon, he was the one leading the ritual. He quoted something significant said by one of his predecessors. He addressed the…

When we learn about the evolution of urban life and the connectivity established between communities across geographical locations, when we think of the way the world and people are connected now, in terms of physical dimensions like roads, we see that there were always some incredible people who were willing to form connections between places….

A very new entrepreneur recently had a discussion with me, and I asked him how his business was going. He said things were good but the main challenge was to maintain the cash flow. Even though projects were being delivered it was hard to get the client to make the payment. I said okay and…