“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious” – Albert Einstein And we all know where that landed him as a scientist. Zeal, in whatever we do in life, is essential to success. At least to be successfully happy. If your work seems tedious and uninspiring, it could be because you aren’t doing…
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The morning assembly is an unforgettable memory from school times. Mine was an especially strict one. We all had to line up outside the prayer hall 15 minutes before the morning routine started. There were volunteers and prefects who’d walk along the lines checking for neatly cut nails. polished shoes, ironed skirts and hair tied…
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We live in a world of quick and easy communication, thanks to social media. We live in a world where Shashi Tharoor becomes the butt of ridicule for using the command of language he painstakingly developed in the era of no internet. We live in a world where people don’t pay much attention to language.…
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When I came across the reading challenge, #100BooksPact on Twitter, I was astounded! 100 books in 365 days is quite a feat and needs some consistent effort. Although I’ve never taken that challenge, I know people who taken it and completed it. And I take heart in the fact that reading isn’t dead yet and books are…
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I still remember this incident from almost a decade ago. My husband had just started working for a US based company and was in Portland for his first regional meeting. He reached the meeting room at 8.35 am instead of 8.30 am which was the time given in the official schedule. The President of the…
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We live in a world where we live more in the virtual world than the real one. We pride on the number of friends we have on Facebook and the retweets we get on Twitter. We laugh and cry, celebrate and mourn, outrage and praise – but we do it all in the virtual world. It’s world…
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Listening seems to be a pretty simple skill. Yet, I chose to talk about it during this challenge. There’s a sea change in our communication patterns since 2014 when I first wrote a 2 part series on listening on this blog. The skill has attained even more importance today. We live in a distracted world…
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Remember the time when we – people as old as me will definitely recall with fond nostalgia – had only one TV channel – Doordarshan? And our daily window to the world of news was the bulletin at 8.30pm. The only music program of the week, Chitrahaar, was eagerly looked forward to on Wednesdays at 8…
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