What you do will be learning for your kids. The way you act, behave and treat them and people around you. Sayings like: monkey see monkey do or charity begins at home exists for these reasons. As a parent, your virtues and vice will leave an impact on your kids, so be very aware of …
Author Archives: Atul
sehar
Samete za rahe hai yadoo ko is sehar se hum. Khusio se bhari ye chand lamho ko, liye za rahe hai saath hum. Ban zainge ye yaddain hamare, simte rahenge ge dil ke sirhanome hamare. Zindgi ki zadozahad me, paiso ki aise numyeesh hai lage ki riste bhi uske ird/gird se ho gaye hai. Kya …
umeed
Ek umeed liye jiye ja rahe hai zindgi ko, na-umeede me zate to ho zate fana. Itne chote se is zindgi me kyun khicataani kiye chale zate hai hum khud he khud me? Apne parchaiye, apne aahat se kyun iss kadar hue zate hai ruswa hum ki auroo ke tukree ke aasiyano ki zarurat aa …
decision
When you have decided to take a particular decision, you are in a man with a hammer syndrome. You will find all reason to nail blame. Our life is too short; everyone is connected via the 6th degree of separation. This attitude does more harm to ourselves than others. Our rationality goes for a toss. …
emptiness
I was reading a WSJ article on the death of Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos. It makes me wonder how someone with all the achievements and accumulation had so much emptiness within. The article cites drug usage, alcohol consumption, and other methods Tony was experimenting with himself. How much wealth or professional success matters when …
IAS
I want to become an IAS officer, said Mahesh. A tall, healthy fellow wearing thick glasses welcomed me as I picked my Uber from the airport. I was returning from an early morning connecting flight from Mumbai. Mahesh is from western Karnataka and studying a bachelor’s in history from correspondence. He asked me where I …
Maasi
Come during day time, don’t take the late-night train, my maasi looked worried as she uttered this. She lives in a village which is 3 km from the nearby railway station. Summers in Bihar are painful because of heat, mosquitoes, power cuts. I was done with my class 8th exams and had 60 days of …
breath
I can’t live with your parents, said Nandini. Ishan and Nandini got married after seven years of courtship. The intercaste marriage took a lot of convincing from both sides. Ishan met Nandini during their bachelor’s degree. Both work at consulting now and are financially settled. Nandini’s great grandfather fought with Britishers during the Champaran movement. …
unknown
A very few lucky ones in our country get the opportunity to figure things out. 99% of us are just running the rat race of earning, learning, and surviving. In India, we youngsters have no time to breathe, spend on ourselves. The treadmill of want begins right after college, fulfilling dreams or paying loans. Only …
insecurity
We are living with our insecurity. About things, actions. How can we live in the present if we dwell on our past, insecurities, and failures? Are we not making ourselves weak? Our past is our teacher and, we can’t just sulk in it. We have to learn from it, so we are not repeating the …