The Strangeness of it All!

India is a strange country. We are strange people. I’ll say. The observation becomes a wee bit in-our-face when we are celebrating our festivals. Like today I celebrated Durga Ashtami just as countless others. Some more observations here: I worshipped little “Srishti”...

The Virtue of Not Knowing

So I was at this impromptu dinner where I laughed so much that it hurt my cheeks (really grateful for I had had such rough time in the past couple of months). We talked about all sorts of things under the sun or beyond it. There was this German guy who was telling...

Can Passion be Created?

Taking up from where I had left off in the last blog on self discipline, a natural question that arises is: if passion is what it takes, how does one find one’s passion? Deeper yet, does everyone have a passion? Is there something for everybody, discovered or...

Understanding Self Discipline or the Lack of it!

I would say that I have had a love-hate relationship with discipline of any kind. A part of me feels that “things happen”. Trying to push things into happening is unnatural, even brutal. Anything that doesn’t come on its own is an imposition that serves on one....

Try Another Day…

Facebook and Apple will both cover the costs of egg-freezing procedures up to $20,000 for individual employees, according to NBC News. So what are you saying, Facebook and Apple? I have no intention to jump to any conclusions right away based on preconceived notions....