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Today I was discussing a piece from old Tamil Sangam literature with a friend of mine. It was quite interesting and led me to do some personal research on it, small but deep. There were three Sangam periods, the first one is said to have been over 7000 years ago. The third Sangam period, between…

Three and a half years back I came across a wonderful business networking community called Business Network International (BNI), their core philosophy is “Givers Gain”. Normally when you attend a networking session, people might have inhibitions when it comes to talking about business and it may seem like bad etiquette, so people find different ways…

Recently I happened to read a wonderful thought about the way work should be done. The author compares two kinds of execution – one is a linear execution and the other is the pulse kind of execution. Say, you wake up by 6 o’clock in the morning and start your work by 9 o’clock, in…

There is an ayurvedic healer in Northern Malabar who’s named Ustad Hamza. He is more a Sufi to me. He has a great, original vision for a peaceful and prosperous life, and is famous for his ayurvedic single-dose medicines (Ottamooli) that can cure any disease we encounter in our day-to-day lives. He has inimitable expertise…

This happened when I was in school in the higher secondary. We were told by the English department to create and perform a drama. I was the leader of one of the groups and I adapted a story and wrote a script for a drama that I directed. We had practised well enough. I felt…

There was a school in our village which was 111 years old. It went up for sale because the existing management was not able to maintain the school – the buildings were about to fall down, the roof tiles were already falling down, children were quitting the school, and only a few children, especially from…

Recently a friend of mine had a wonderful post on his social account titled “Agree to Disagree.” It was very beautiful, and I thought about it a lot. I personally have been trying to implement and practice that perspective in my life. We don’t need to see things in black and white, there are grey…

There are instances in our lives where an idea pops up in our mind – it could be a technology, a story, a movie, a start-up idea, or it could be any creative thing. We observe that if we don’t execute it, or implement it, someone else does it, maybe after 6 months or 6…

People say that I am a serious person and, in my opinion, I am a very light person now, because if I look back 10 years, I was 10 times as serious as the person I am today. So, maybe around 10 years back, a couple of very close friends of mine asked, “Man, why…

Seafood items, especially fish, are an integral part of most Japanese dishes, and the Japanese normally prefer fresh vibrant fish, not sluggish ones. When Japanese companies started fishing with large boats that went far from the shore, caught fish and took it back to the dock, they found that the fish lost their vibrancy and…