‘Contentment’
3rd September, 2023 On a 17th-century tsukubai (water basin) stone at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, there’s an ancient inscription where four Chinese characters are written on the stone. Read alone, these characters are of no significance. But when combined with the borders of the central square, they can be read as “ware Tada taru […]
‘Don’t Judge’
23rd August, 2023 If you have a problem on your feet, isn’t it better to wear a pair of slippers than to try & carpet the whole earth. When I was younger, I wanted to change the world but as I grew older & wiser, I felt it was better & easier to change myself. […]
‘The KISS principle’
21st August, 2023 Leonardo da Vinci once said: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” KISS is a design principle that stands for “Keep it simple and straightforward” or sometimes “Keep it short or simple” or “Keep it simple, stupid.” For businesses, KISS can be a useful reminder not to make anything more complicated than it has […]
‘Do a good deed’
5th July, 2023 Sophocles once said, “To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.” One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at […]
The Will to Win
04th May, 2023 Our lives and the work we do rarely follow a straight line, They’re a myriad of dips, twists, turns, catapults, and zigzags. There are people who see you for who you are, and there are people who see you for who you can become. Be the latter for yourself. I recently read […]
‘JUST DROPS’
19th April, 2023 Recently, when I was going to bed after using my bathroom, I started hearing sound of drops of water from the tap in slow successions, but since it was dropping into an empty bucket, I decided to let it be. But, alas! When I woke up the next morning, the bucket was […]
Get Back on your Feet..
14th April, 2023 Baby giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson rather early in life. A lesson that all of us would do well to remember!!! The birth of a baby giraffe is quite an earth-shaking event. The baby falls from its mother’s womb, some eight feet above the ground. […]
What Do You See?
11th April, 2023 A professor asked his students to prepare for the test. The professor handed out the question paper and asked his students to turn the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions, just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor seeing the expression on everyone’s face, […]
‘The Streetlight Effect’
10th April, 2023 An old parable sometimes ascribed to Mulla Nasreddin, the 13th Century witty philosopher from today’s Turkey, tells of a drunkard searching under a street lamp for keys he has lost because the light there is better than where he thinks he lost them. A police officer sees a drunken man intently searching […]
‘Avoid the Wrong Choices ’
03rd April, 2023 In his classic book, ‘Winning the Loser’s Game,’ Charley Ellis gives one of my all-time favourite success analogies: ‘In expert tennis the ultimate outcome is determined by the actions of the winner. Professional tennis players stroke the ball hard with laser like precision through long and often exciting rallies until one player […]