Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is the one of the most distinguished names in Indian war history, his legacy spanned from World War II to the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War during the Bangladesh Liberation War where India won against Pakistan, captured 93,000 soldiers, liberated Bangladesh, and released all those 93,000 captured soldiers back to Pakistan. The country…
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day26 – Beeware
Can you imagine witnessing the massacre of thousands of lives every quarter of the year? I do, I have been witnessing it… I am talking about beehives. In my neighbourhood bees build their hives, and every quarter when they become full-fledged it becomes a danger to the people, especially to children living here. The pest…
day25 – Gatekeepers
There used to be a security guard at our apartment, I remember him because whenever we met in the morning he would pleasantly say “Good Morning,” not just a good morning for the sake of greeting, but a truly pleasant one. We rarely interact with security guards, they open our gate, they close it. I…
day24 – Thumb rules
About 3 months ago one of my friends happened to throw a steel bottle of water to me. I missed the catch and it fell right on my thumb, I was holding a laptop and my thumb got slightly crushed between the laptop and the steel water bottle. The severe pain continued for a couple…
day23 – Free world
This is a story that’s set in Germany when it was under fascist rule. People were afraid to communicate and talk openly in public about their situation and the troubles they faced because of the fascist government. All communication was censored by the government. There were two close friends who lived in two different cities…
day22 – Nurture
A few years back, I was invited to an engineering college in Tamil Nadu to deliver a session on the adventurous journey of entrepreneurship. There was a crowd of over 500 students, and they were very kind and patient enough to listen to my talk. I spoke for an hour or more, including the interactive…
day21 – 21 days
We are nothing but a result of our habits. Our destiny, our reality is created purely out of our habits. There have been a lot of studies focusing on this human quality of how to create, adapt, break a habit, in different dimensions of science. Among those studies, an idea which I felt was simple…
day20 – Frogs
We all want to improve our performance, we all strongly believe that we are not utilizing ourselves to full capacity in any aspect of life. Something pulls us back from performing at our optimum levels. To overcome such hesitations and pullbacks, we try to improve ourselves with productivity apps, productivity books, training, videos, and other…
day19 – We can wait a minute
This evening, I was in my car on my way back from Lulu Mall. When I reached a junction there was a traffic block in front of me, everybody blowing their horns and people shouting at something. I even thought it might be an accident, then I saw that it wasn’t. I saw that a…
day18 – The Leader
Recently I saw a video of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, our former president, “The Missile Man.” In that video, he was talking about the experience he had during the launch of the SLV-3 (satellite launch vehicle) in 1979. They had an experimental launch and he was the mission director. His mission was to put the…