As I saw it

Thanks a lot for this Mohor Sir. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🙏 *An era is going to end* A generation is going to leave this world in the coming 10/15 years... This generation people are totally different... Those who sleep early at night, those who wake up early in the morning, those who go out for a walk in the morning. Those who water the courtyard and plants, those who pluck flowers for the worship of God, those who worship, those who Pray in the morning everyday. Those who talk to those who meet on the way, those who ask about their happiness and sorrow, those who seeing the elder join there hands folded, those who don't take food without praying. Fascinating on old phones, maintaining phone number diaries, talking with wrong number, reading newspaper twice to three times a day. Those who have great faith in God, those who fear society, those with old slippers, vests, glasses. Those who make pickle papad in summer, those who use homemade masala and always look for local tomatoes, eggplant, f...

I have never been a jewellery person. In fact I have never been excited by anything that glitters or shines and I don’t know why. But I have always loved beautiful ads even if I never end up buying the products they are marketing. I have been collecting and studying ads with a critical eye all my life and of course some of the best ads have been from the Tata group with Tanishq topping the charts. Here’s the latest one, not because of the jewellery which is placed very subtly towards the end in the form of those small rings but for the important point it makes: marriage is never easy especially today when more and more people are more bothered about their independence and the space they need and not knowing and understanding that a marriage needs mutual understanding, acceptance, compromises, sometimes sacrifices and still a care and affection for the other soul. And in that context, talking about marriage, why one wants to get married to a particular person and having an open conversa...

So what does an old joke you heard back in December 2013 have to do with something interesting in the present times? Well, a lot if you apply the lesson well. So, I was asked to help out with the viva voce of a group of students in the MA in emotional intelligence, life coaching and human relations course last weekend. The viva voce was centered around their lessons in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). Now, I have been unconventional all along. People close to me know that. So I created a bank of 20 questions and requested each participant to choose a question number randomly between 1 - 20 and then I would ask them that question and if need be a couple of follow up questions to test in depth their personal resonance with the concept as well as the practical application of that concept in their life. Sometimes I would ask a question to the entire group based on what a participant had said in the viva voce. This gave me further opportunities to test what else they knew as well as to s...

We are nothing more than just shifting shadows that temporarily interact in the unending spectrum of time. (On the barrage on the Ganga at Veerbhadra, Rishikesh on 15th October 2021.)