Innocence is toddlers default: cry, laugh, demand. For some, it can get annoying at times. Honesty plays the same role in us adults. Being honest is not easy.
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Being Right
It’s amazing how many people after accumulating appreciation from their past deeds feel they are right on everything. These are the people who think they are the nucleus of the solar system. We have to be rational and understand the hard truth that the success of our past is not going to be the indicator …
peak
What does it mean by being at Peak? It is self-satisfaction, external appreciation or sense of achievement? I have no clue, but off late peak gets frequent mentions. Going by Freud’s individual difference definition: the meaning of peak differs for us all. Our life is a journey and as a traveler, peak can also mean …
Crib
I have been the biggest cribber in my friend circle. I had a problem with everything: job, people, relationships. Things have gotten better in a few years, I am more interested in my present. I don’t want to crib about what and how things or situations in my life should be. I have accepted the …
Renaissance
Renaissance because gig economy along with automation will make us more independent. Does it mean, robots will clean our lawn and cook for us, I have no idea? But one this is for sure, we will have more time in our hand to kill. We are anyways seeing the adversity of it: keyboard worriers and …
Music
It is backed by science that music has a therapeutic effect on us. That is the reason in the past our princely states had music maestros. From Baiju Bawra to Tansen, the list is uncountable. Even Vedas had a separate book dedicated to music Samaveda. In Hindustani classical music, we have many ragas which fit …
Exams
Winter sun, bone-chilling wind and a glass of Masala Chai. Sometimes waking up early in the morning. These are few things reminds me of my class 10th board exams. There were no smartphones or the internet to distract us. I remember papa had packed the television as well, a different kind of sacrifice from his …
Fiction
Reading fiction written by a few authors is delightful. Reading Khushwant Singh after some time and the way he describes places in his story makes me feel am in there. It is like visiting the world with him. I felt the same reading Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, and Satyajit Ray. It is like going back …
Right answers
There have been times in my life when getting right answers were difficult. These situations were critical and sometimes made me vulnerable. Age has taught me that life is more about living in the moment and making the best of it. Life is not about adding bits and pieces filled with our opinions. Do we …
Small
Many revolutions, movements, and innovations started small. What made is all successful was grit, perseverance, and luck. Modern-day entrepreneurship suggests the contrary. It trumps over a bigger market and continuous pivoting. In some cases, it has resulted in fantastic results while others failed miserably. Neither I am someone successful or a thought leader. All I …