As I saw it

Some years back, a final year MBA student reached out to me on LinkedIn and long story short, I blocked him the moment I realised that he was interested only in building up his LinkedIn connections through my network and more importantly when I learnt that he had cooked multiple MBTI assessment reports to suit the impression he had formed of the companies that were coming for campus placements. No wonder he wasn’t getting selected. It was obvious that the companies could see through his duplicity. Even today, his Whatsapp status reads: I surround myself with people who move towards gunfire...they don't disappoint when shit hits the fan. To the present day now. I was in a session recently where I had to help the participants understand their reports that were generated after they undertook a certain typology based psychometric assessment. One of the deep thinking participant expressed his amazement at the accuracy of the report and asked me how could a psychometric assessment captur...

Originally written on FB on 2nd June 2015 when I had not yet become a full atheist: I don't know why this memory just came up and why I am even writing about it but when I look back, I don't think anything I have been called upon to do or allowed to happen through me, comes this close in terms of leaving me overwhelmed and humbled in my life. I've had my fair share of run-ins with authority, rebellion, ups and down, use of curse words and cuss words and yet to be chosen like this, makes me feel overwhelmed that the divine doesn't judge people. It's people like us who do it with and to each other - judge. It reminds me of what Judson Cornwall wrote in his book 'Give me, Make me - Teaching on the Prodigal Son' that 'God does not need resolution with mankind. It is men who need it with each other.' The one other time when I was overwhelmed like this was when I felt chosen, again, in 2011, to participate in a three day blessings training course and then ...

First posted on FB on 22nd June 2017: Do you believe in miracles? Here is one of the stories from my life that make me believe in them and their importance in our lives and growth. This story is from a time when I was still an ardent follower of one of the gurus from India. For various reasons, I could never get around to sharing this story. Maybe it would be too long to read and maybe it was something deeply personal and I wasn’t sure how to share it. But today in the morning I felt so choked up remembering what happened that day that I had to share this story with the world of that amazing woman I met that day – Lakshmi Paati and what she did for me while getting something done through me. Exactly four years ago on 22nd June 2013, I was supposed to be in Madrid, Spain to facilitate a 4 hour session on the importance of being open to miracles for the 150 odd distribution heads and senior functionaries of the Tata Steel flat products division as part of their annual get together. Even ...