Is dream affiliated to wealth, caste, color, or origin? Is it not free? Anyone and everyone can have a dream. Nothing can stop us from dreaming. A vegetable vendor’s son can be a ballerina, a rickshaw puller daughter can become a successful doctor, or a uber driver can be an IAS officer. Our dreams are …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
grateful
Why are we not grateful and appreciate what we have? A family, friends, rooftop are what keeps us going. The glitters and consumerism have made us hoarder and seeker for more and more. But is there an end to our desire? Is it not a goalpost we are chasing? Or some video game difference being …
Fire
Spending some time on social media or news channels, it feels the world is coming to an end. Anything and everything catered is full of negativity and pain. I understand the world is not a beautiful place. There is a great divide between caste, class, religion. But liming the information to gain eyeballs with all …
roots
How does it matter if someone puts me in a bucket based on my place of birth or upbringing? I was talking to my friend the other day, and he was telling me how in this trade you are looked upon differently if you are not from the metros. My head is still spinning. Should …
Divide
India has one of the youngest world population. Our education system is leapfrogging. The society stereotype has forced everyone aspires to become the next software engineer. Many new-age startups have gone steps further selling parents how their kids can become the next Nadella or Pichai by coding at an early age. Aspirational middle-class parents are …
Fermentation
I was watching Sandor Katz: The Art of Fermentation lecture. It was an eye-opener for me. I remember how grandma was very particular about leftover curd to make more curd from it. Fermentation is more of a magic than science. We have made bacteria the villain. They are part of us humans residing in guts …
Reading
We are living in a hyper-connected world. We are always connected, occupied and and short of time. I keep hearing from friends that podcast and audiobooks have replaced their book-reading habits. I have not found replacing book reading with audiobooks. It should not matter how many books you have read for the badge, but the …
people skills
I have been in this startup ecosystem for over a decade now in multiple hats. There is a pattern that I have noticed: you need to be a people’s person before anything else. I have also seen people be it a VC, founder, or an analyst at a fund progressing well in their career with …
anger
How many lives lost because of anger? How many relationships came to a halt because of anger? How many negotiations faltered because of anger? Why do we get angry? Is it our obsession, wanting, or ego? Or is it about being right, running show in my way? Nero, emperor of Rome, burnt the entire city. …
winning
Winning runs in our adrenaline. Be it sports, politics, spelling bee, or business: winning at all cost is the mantra. It is part and parcel of every culture. With time, capitalism only added more fuel to it. Is there any side effect of this teaching? Or this what we have to feed our kids, help …