This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi ….. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
Sushmita was a regular woman married to an army officer. Her son was studying engineering in Assam. She committed suicide at the age of 45 in Oct 2012. Pinki is unable to get her 4 year old son into a good school … Someone was living in a flat that he owned and has moved … Read more
Winston Churchill had a framed copy of this quote on the wall of his study – “If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very … Read more
I have to thank my friends Hareesh and Sunita for having found two of my blogposts plagiarised. The first one was my post titled “A letter to Mr. Aiyar” – it even got printed in a magazine with a few distortions ! I wrote to the magazine and got no response. Now the blogpost on … Read more
Any food wolfed down before someone walks in, tastes so much nicer 🙂 brings back the childhood memories of hiding something from mum or dad and eating it. I went to the Vashi office and Monica and Reshma managed to get me the vada pav that I love … Yes, that’s what I ate quickly … Read more
I had a leader once who never took feedback from me and one other peer of mine in the entire time that he managed us … Because we both had nearly as much experience as him and most importantly he didn’t “like” us. While many years have gone by this still rankles ! This man … Read more
My mother-in-law came and stayed with us for a couple of weeks in March, just before we moved out of Bangalore and in the twenty four years I have known her, this time I felt she has lost a lot of her vitality. My mom-in-law has had every adversity thrown at her and she just … Read more
The not-so-young twit hoping to be the PM doesn’t have time to canvass in his constituency so the not-so-young sister is canvassing on his behalf … The question that begs itself to be asked is – will she also govern on his behalf ? Look around us – nearly everything seems to be rented. The … Read more
Milton was blind and nearly 300 hundred years ago he wrote these two lines – “The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.” Just brilliant and probably a great truth. Look around us, everyone reading this blog is certainly privileged – you have access … Read more
Imagine a day that you need to spend in the summer of Delhi without fans… hot and terrible. And you don’t have the option of cooling yourself with an airconditioner either. What would you do ?Struggle and be in pain, right? Then why do we think that a day in the office without fans is … Read more
Abraham Lincoln is a great man and will probably remain a great man for many many centuries for just this one quality – his ability to separate his like or dislike for a person to influence his judgement of his competence. There is probably no other President in American history who was criticised, denounced, hated … Read more