Just stepped down in our building to stand near a dead body being removed. Had no intention of going to the cemetary…suddenly there were not enough people willing to touch a dead body. Whatever be the reason this was the first funeral of a person whose name I do not know. This was the mother […]
Here is something which somebody sent me…a lot of it is what he had sent…some minor changes are mine..but I really think it is a brilliant note on the irony of our times… The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We […]
I am really blessed. Training, writing, teaching takes you places and gives you a lot of time with a very very different set of people. Teaching ensures that you meet the highest energy kids with stars in their eyes and believing that they will change the world. Yes sometimes they do get carried away, but […]
Those of whom who watched Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) would have seen a guy coming from a Rs. 1 crore prize money to Rs. 3.2 lakhs in a jiffy! It is an amazing story of luck vs. skill. I keep telling this to my class – if you are standing in the Melbourne pitch with […]
Not sure how many of you saw Vir Sanghvi’s article on how the older generation has failed the younger gen…he went on the say that the games should have been handed over to the private sector. This is a fantastic statement making an assumption that the private sector has no vested interests, and is full […]
For all those people who love eating out, and eating proceesed foods, there is a website to visit! Funny how we think of healthy living – and believe doctors (and the process food industry) who tell us that wheat bread, wheat pasta, …are all good for us. Why they even tell us that coconut oil […]
USA has completely different problems compared to India. The local population just does not save enough. Of course many of them cannot save but just too many of them do not save, but they play lottery. So if you want to make the Americans save, you need to give them lottery tickets for opening a […]