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Hot fudge, here comes the judge!

Hot fudge, here comes the judge!

Certain memories, not captured in photographs, not laced with emotions, were buried in the subconscious but they had never vanished. At the most unexpected moment, and at the subtlest cue, they sprung up in full liveliness as if they had occurred the last evening…

Having lost Paradise, Humanness is all we have

Having lost Paradise, Humanness is all we have

I am blessed with the friendship of Dr Mpoki Ulisubisya. He came to India in 2005, as part of the follow-up of President Kalam’s visit to Tanzania in 2004. An Anesthesiologist, Dr Mpoki brought with him a team of doctors…

Of Light, Shadow and the Landscape

Of Light, Shadow and the Landscape

This blog coincides with Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. Diwali symbolizes the spiritual victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. It is celebrated on the “darkest night” that ends the lunar month of Ashwin…

What I have seen and foresee

What I have seen and foresee

One thing is clear – the coronavirus pandemic is not going anywhere soon, and worst still,
scientific understanding, claims and predictions have all proven hollow, tentative, and even
contradictory…

The Secret of the Sacred

The Secret of the Sacred

Today is October 15, the birthday of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (1931-2015). Upon being elected the President of India in 2002, he decided to spend this day, away from Delhi, at a sacred place. For the five years of his Presidency…

Fame, of whom, by whom, for whom?

Fame, of whom, by whom, for whom?

What started as the sad end of a young, promising actor, gradually built up as a media frenzy wherein the person departed was turned into an analytical object and as many versions have been created of his life as the fancy of the analyzer allowed…

This world is a stage, not a multiplex

This world is a stage, not a multiplex

Commenting on the blog article – Hack Your Time, Do More of What Matters – a long-standing friend and a spiritually evolved and worldly successful person, RN Bagdalkarji, suggested to me to “write one more blog wherein you can bring out how effective people make use of their time…

Time to Upgrade Our Independence

Time to Upgrade Our Independence

This blog is coinciding with the occasion of India’s 73rd Independence Day observed under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. On high notes, the construction of the Ram Mandir finally began with a billion people watching the Bhoomi…

Hack Your Time, Do More of What Matters

Hack Your Time, Do More of What Matters

My longstanding friend and former CEO of HarperCollins for a decade, PM Sukumar, kept feeding me worthy reading material and last week, he shared an article by Dr Adam Bell about the hacking of one’s perception of time…