‘The Myth of The Moon and Lord Ganesha’
21st September, 2023 There is a popular superstition that advises people not to look at the moon on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. It is believed that the person who looks at the moon on Ganesh Chaturthi will fall victim to Mithya Kalank or Mithya Dosha which means that the person who does Chandra Darshan […]
Action Bias
15th September, 2023 “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in the 17th Century. Action bias is to look active, even if it achieves nothing. We all fall to this bias in our daily life. We go to a doctor and he diagnoses it […]
Challenge The Traditions
14th September, 2023 A little girl was watching her mother prepare fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail off the fish and then placed it into a baking pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the head and tail off the fish. Her mother thought for a while and […]
’Meaningful Accomplishment’
10th September, 2023 Sometimes it’s easy to get carried away with our so-called accomplishments. We spend our lifetimes collecting achievements, earning praise and recognition, and seeking approval – so much so that we lose sight of what is truly meaningful. If you ask the average person, “What is a meaningful accomplishment?” the typical responses will […]
The Importance of Religion
8th September, 2023 Celebration of Festivals for me have always been a medium to express gratitude, to be kind, to bring happiness and to share. My concept of religion is very simple. When I do good, I feel good and when I do bad, I feel bad. Religion for me has always meant synchronisation between […]
‘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 […]
’The responsibility is yours’
2nd September, 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. stated in a 1953 radio address, “One of the most common tendencies of human nature is that of placing responsibility on some external agency for mistakes we have made. We are forever attempting to find some scapegoat on which we cast responsibility for our actions.” We all tend […]
Do you have a mountain to Climb?
1st September, 2023 If two people want to climb a mountain, what’s the most important thing they need? Is it equipment? Or training? Favourable weather conditions? Teamwork? Luck? The answer of course is that while they need all of these for sure, the most important thing they really need is the mountain itself. In our […]
The Last Dance
31st August, 2023 I recently had the opportunity to see the must watch Netflix documentary “The Last Dance” – about the Chicago Bulls’ dream run through the nineties winning six titles in eight seasons. Whilst everyone talks about teamwork as a takeaway from the documentary, I feel this documentary is all about leadership. Phil Jackson, […]
Better fail than regret later.
28th August, 2023 At a school reunion last year, I met a batchmate whom I had not seen for many many years. Vinay was a very bright student and had graduated with honors from a top notch college. His goal, and what he was passionate about, was to start his own business venture. During our […]