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 !
I forgot both my phones at home today. I picked up some things in both hands and never missed the phones. I realised it only when I was parking at the office and I had no patience to drive back and get them. Initially I asked Bala if she could find someone to go home … Read more
When Mohit told Ashok and I in Jan 2004, that a new cluster manager would join in Feb and that we would like him… We didn’t know that we were to meet a lifelong friend. We also didn’t know then that all three of us will be in the same city, as we celebrate ten … Read more
Do you have a work day start and finish with nothing accomplished ? I have had many days like that and those days also felt heavy and exhaustive … But nothing much got done. Time went by and several pages of notes went by and still a sense of accomplishment wasn’t there. Those days in … Read more
There is a whole host of articles, books and research on what makes a successful leader and somewhere am sure what I am about to write also has been covered. So this is my version 🙂 I feel a successful leader can be assessed only after they move out. I know many people may not … Read more
As four days of the last week were spent at a hospital, the discharge process is fresh in my mind 🙂 and yes every person I spoke to about it has had similar or worse experiences. So am not going to name the hospital where Krishnan’s disc prolapse was treated because the challenges with this … Read more
This is one of Swami Vivekananda’s quotes that’s so easy not to follow 🙂 because he says it’s better to wear slippers than carpet the whole Earth !! It goes completely against what we like to do – change others while we want to remain unchanged. 🙂 As we litter the streets or throw out … Read more
A great question asked by the Master ! Especially for us corporate types …. How often do you become disturbed in the course of a day ? Innumerable times, so often that we can’t count ? The deadlines, targets, politics, comparisons, money all adding up to the stress and “getting disturbed” situation. I get disturbed … Read more
2013 was Swami Viveknanda’s 150 birth anniversary. I have a very special relationship with the Ramakrishna Mission that he setup. There was a large poster of his, cut from a calendar, that dad had in Dehu Road and then in Shillong, we would regularly go to the Ramakrishna Mission near Laitmukrah. My first glimpse of … Read more
The first book I have picked up to read in 2014 is “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life” by Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung. I have gained weight in Bangalore and it has been bothering me since it took a lot of effort to lose the weight in the first place. For good health … Read more
Both have round bellies, are colorful, bring gifts, children love them, their arrival brings joy and their characters have messages to give !! Santa and Vinayaka (Ganesha). Santa is supposedly Saint Nicholas who was called Sinter Klass by the Dutch and the modern day Santa Claus was probably born around 1820, when stores in the … Read more