What is the definition of truth? How do you know your leaders or parents are honest? Whatever you have read in your history books is true? Can truth be dependent on our current state or which side of the fence we are sitting on? Do we know what is truth about anything beyond the science …
Author Archives: Atul
Road
Our road to the destination is all about how we walk to it. Each stop has taught us. We are more experienced as we walk. In short, the journey is painful and requires a lot of effort. I understand the social media world has created hype around overnight success by creating celebrities or stars. But …
Love
One thing I have learned is that: Love is a byproduct of tolerance I know we are sold dreams by marketers about how love is magical and how it makes everything perfect. It reminds me of Utopian love, which does not exist. My limited knowledge suggests that love is about tolerating each other, accepting as …
aimlessness
Have you taken a path without a destination?Or have you considered walking a road without knowing where it will lead? In simple terms, have you enjoyed the journey more than the outcome? We are so engrossed in finding results or the future that we leave no room for the present. I wonder if aimlessness should …
memory
I am not sure if it’s my age or growing up in a small town in Bihar; I enjoy reading writers like Satyajit Ray, Kushwant Singh, and Ruskin Bond. The way they narrate their stories, the incidents, and simplicity in writing. It takes me back to my childhood days and memories. It’s like someone with …
Limelight
Limelight is valuable, the reason why social media exists and influencers. Edward Barney’s book title Propaganda talks about how they sold cigarettes to women worldwide calling it empowerment. Or how the fiction of the banana republic was hatched to help American multinationals. With so many internet mediums around our eyes, it is difficult to get …
Time
We underestimate the virtue of time. In the startup world, be it growth in product, hiring, or fundraising. As a result, we build many things half-baked or burn bridges. The race against time makes us all go nuts and affects us in all possible manners. Netflix documentary on Boeing speaks how engineering and safety took …
fear
This fear we live in is a disease in itself. It can do more harm than any good. We can think of fear as a sum of our identity. It can be a collection of our vulnerability about how others are judging us or what will not work well in the future. Another form of …
Pranayam
Yoga is India’s gift to the world. Those sages who came up with it a thousand years back must be happy from heaven. Yoga’s adoption is global now. I picked Be here now last week. The book is a personal journey of Ram Dass. It talks about his psychedelic trips and finding a guru in …
open
Some of us are so locked and hurt by past experiences that we never open up afterward. We end up becoming a living cynic. We see reasons in every opportunity offered to us. We focus on the negative side than conducting an overall holistic evaluation. The other part of any opening or opportunity is its …