Category: 365DaysofGratitude

One of the coolest transformations I’ve noticed in restaurants these days amidst Covid-19 is that hard copies of food menus have been completely replaced with digital ones. Most restaurants have started placing QR codes on their tables which can be used to easily scan and browse the menus. It may look very simple but I…

There is a spinach seller near my apartment, every evening around 4 p.m. you can see her, at the same location, same junction with bunches of spinach. I happened to talk to her and her name is Nani Amma. She is 78 years old and she has been doing the same spinach business for many…

Last night I was in the departure terminal of Dubai airport having an argument with my airline operators because they rescheduled my flight and that too from another emirate, Sharjah, the next day! During the quarrel, I happened to notice a woman, about 35 years old, frightened, shivering and crying. She was trying to explain…

Yesterday I took an RT-PCR test here in Dubai at midnight in a drive-through facility. It was surprising for me to see the frontline health workers work hand-in-hand 24/7 to make the life of each and everyone here in this country easy in all aspects, which in fact saves a lot of time for everyone…

Today I happened to visit the remains of an old civilization in this country and some monuments. I wondered about the insight that people who built such things which lasted for centuries had. Whatever monuments humankind has ever created, they obviously represent the culture, political scenario, maybe the art and glory of a period. But…

To be a strong individual there are many traits and parameters. People think that a well-built physical body is a trait for a strong individual, sometimes wealth, sometimes power acquired by social machineries like politics, government, key roles we play in the community, aspects like these or others are said to define the strength of…

A master offered a very simple but wonderful perspective which we need to consider, through which we should filter the events of our life every day. He was talking about the banyan tree. The seed of the banyan tree has the potential to grow deep-rooted and flourish into a giant, to expand in a much…

Yesterday I happened to meet a friend of mine here in Dubai and we were chit-chatting about decision making, which is one of my favourite subjects to talk about, the art of decision making. So while we both arrived at common points, there’s one perspective he framed in a way that I really love. He…

Simulation is an approximate imitation of an operation of a process or a system. It has been used in many contexts such as technology, performance-optimisation, safety, engineering, education, entertainment, and others. There is even a theory that even the life we experience on this planet is a simulation, we are not really here, our consciousness…

One of the finest perspectives of eastern philosophy which I find quite compelling is the idea of being a custodian. I think the awareness and idea of being a custodian resolves almost every problem and challenge of human encounters in life. Whatever we have acquired, whatever we have with us is ours for a very…