How much is enough? Will this realization going to come anytime soon? Why are we running like a headless chicken towards one goal post to another? Our life was supposed to be lived peacefully with our dear ones around. But it seems the opposite. We are living isolated, working like a robot, buying all the …
Author Archives: Atul
think
Can we think like free-flowing water without the bias of the past?Can we see every adversary as an opportunity? Can we not let the past blind us and make us like/trust the world less? How much do we have to compare our journey with the rest? Are we not different? As in our identity, consciousness?Why …
home
I have been talking to many of my friends who have been working from home for some time. The adversity of COVID has given an opportunity. Most have accepted the fact that working from their hometown, village and, farmland is a reality. Industrialization accumulated talent and wealth both. It resulted overnight and making a city …
Bakri
Budhiya ka dimag kharab ho gaya hai, screamed Renu. Budhiya is Boodhi Dadi; she celebrated her seventieth birthday last month. A stout lady with a potbelly, showering all her elderly love on Gulabo, her dear goat. Gulabo, the goat, is the purpose of her life. The love and care Boodhi Dadi has for Gulabo are …
reach
There are many people we are connected via our network like LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. We have not personally met them. We are added to them for their wisdom, domain expertise. As a founder, we are always on a joyride with things screwing up now and then. I was looking for some help in marketing and …
Havells Story
I picked Havelles: The untold story of Qimat Rai Gupta. It is another rags to riches story. One guy works hard to build an empire by going against all the odds and uncertainties. It reminded me of the MDH group and Haldiram’s founder’s journey. The risk-taking attitude, perseverance, and persistence. I think I have found …
success
The secret sauce of success is sold and glamorized by media and best selling authors. What most don’t tell you about the sufferings one has to go through to achieve the invisible. Tesla, Gandhi, Beethoven, Rudyard Kipling, Helen Keller, Ada, Charlie Munger, Ruskin Bond, Van Gogh, Epictetus, founders of Haldirams, Havell’s Electric: the list is …
want
How much time do we spend thinking about what we want from the world and the people around us? It is like a checklist of expectations from the rest. We build our imaginary castle, and when these expectations are unmet, we turn sad or become violent. In certain instances, we stop believing in humanity altogether …
positive
We are living in a world where being positive is supreme. We have been sedated and pumped up via coaches or best-selling authors why we should think positive. At times I feel capitalism thrives under the cult of positivity. I have been told time and again how acceptance and positive belief does miracles. I understand …
Technology
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is an English-language proverb. We are living across the continents, connected via technology and fighting against hunger, health, poverty, and illiteracy. Internet is no less than Renaissance or the Bhakti movement. We are all on the same rocketship. An individual sitting in a remote part of the world know …