… in a constant search of self
…first, did we have anything called a ‘favorite’ book when in school? I think most of us were allergic to ‘books’…for sure I was. Now, let me spin the time machine anti-clockwise and help you remember the days we lived in. If you are someone who grew up in India between late 70s and early […]
Oh no! you don’t have to ‘google’ for this word ‘cos that is what I did for you. Recently, I read something that inspired me to write this post around this term. Provenance = History of origin and ownership of a valued object. Generally used in the context of a treasured art work and more […]
I like a lot of things about the new Indian Rupee symbol except for the line in the middle that almost looks like an imitation of euro or Yen. Well, it is also a story of the fox crying ‘sour grapes’ for me. As everyone would know at least by now that there was a […]
I am not happy with this title of this blog post but neither am I happy about the state of the custodians of Law and Order of the country. We all talk of rooting out corruption in all the government functions and have a clean country and for decades have not even identified where to […]
Let’s talk black and white, after all it is about keeping the light on, in this case turning the lights off. The emerging economies (BRIC) are so much power starved that it is unfair to compare the developed vs developing nations on the same scale. But why am I raising this with a topic ‘Earth […]
For a system to be effective there must first be a high level of participation. To see good participation, there must be good clarity of the benefits. Our election process is more a “must hire” process than really giving people the power to register a clear NO to all of the candidates running the race. […]
“Experience is the lesson that nature gives us when we are bald” – Chinese proverb This perfectly fits when we think about the financial literacy of our countrymen. A traditionally conservative culture. The default wisdom passed on for generations is that education leads to stable job which demands hard work resulting in a decent salary […]
This happened when Amitabh Bachchan and family came out of the polling booth during the past election. It is a common practice for celebrities and wannabe celebrities to pose with their ink mark showing their support to the election process, democracy and also to encourage their followers to participate in the election. I stress here […]
I watched the 3D movie AVATAR. The term ‘Avatar’ is not new to the cyber generation and it is not new even to the older generations in India (In Sanskrit it means incarnation). If I need to choose one word to describe the movie, it is ‘Brilliance’.Imaginations in the human mind has no limits, the […]
If you are in India at this time and you can read/write any of the languages of this country I bet you will know what ‘Mont Blanc’ is or learnt about it in the past couple of weeks. If your answer is ‘yes’, which I am sure it is then it proves the capability of […]
