I have a friend who is a very intense foodie who eats particular dishes from particular restaurants over and over again. I asked him once, “Bro, if you repeatedly have the same dish from the same restaurant many times, don’t you get bored of it?” I’d definitely get bored, and I wouldn’t repeat the same…
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day106 – Stardust
I was listening to a talk by Natalie Hinkle who’s a famous planetary astrophysicist. She talked about the fundamental existential elements of life on earth, especially about us human beings and our roots in an absolute physical context. Billions of years back there was a Big Bang and the stars were born, they lived, they…
day105 – Idea book
I happened to meet an author who is an interminable resource of ideas. We discussed a lot of stuff and I asked him, “From where you get these ideas and how do you remember them?” He shared a simple technique with me and said, “I keep an idea book, whenever an idea pops up in…
day104 – Beyond the border
Six years back we were doing our very first production in Dubai at Palm Jumeirah where we were using the villa of the famous Emirati businessman Suhail Galadari who is the owner of Khaleej Times. Suhail’s mother is from Karachi and his father is an Emirati. There were many Pakistanis working in his villa, one…
day103 – The man and the dog
Today me and my friend had stopped by a local tea shop near Salem. This particular shop was famous for its tea and coconut buns. While there I noticed a man with a dog walk into the shop for tea, he had a banana too. The dog was looking at him while he drank his…
day102 – Feel good
This morning, my friend and I were coming out of the hotel where we stay in Bangalore and there was a COVID19 protocol inspector in front of the hotel. While he was inspecting me he said, “Sir, you are looking great.” I felt really good about it 😛 I asked my friend to take the…
day101 – Water
I happened to read the news today, Wall Street is all set to trade consumable water, which means that water is officially joining gold, oil, and other commodities that are traded. If this happens, it will enable water users to create a balance between supply and demand. According to a United Nations report, about 5…
day100 – December
The month December is always a phenomenal juncture, it gives way to the new year about to come in, the ending of the year dissolving the past forever! December brings happiness and sadness together, it has the pain of leaving the old behind, it has the excitement that invites and embraces the new… December is…
day99 – Rise
I think any millennial born and brought up in India Café Coffee Day was their kind of trend set in their teenage. It was given as the very first experience of chilling out somewhere, drinking coffee and casually spending lot of time . A lot of discussions, friendships, romance and and memories, as they say,…
day98 – Let’s see
A friend of mine is an entrepreneur, we often catch up and discuss a lot of things, we have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours together, we have travelled, explored restaurants, spent a lot of time together. He uses the phrase “let’s see” often, and I am sure that after many years of engagement with…