To be Somebody and yet a Nobody
A sure sign of megalomania and approaching insanity is to believe that one's work is so important that the world will stop functioning...
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- Apr 24
- 3 min
Lessons from making 'Stone Soup'
The rains were late and the land was parched. The people in the village were struggling to make ends meet. Afraid that their families...
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- Apr 4
- 2 min
Naughty is good
One crucial factor that usually differentiates successful people from unsuccessful people is their energy levels. Low energy is a trait...
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- Apr 3
- 1 min
Convert vandals and trouble makers into stars
Engaging with troublesome youth - The Vin Diesel example Mark Sinclair (b 1967) popularly known as Vin Diesel, is an American producer,...
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- Mar 6
- 2 min
Reading enhances leadership
Leadership is forged by learning, practice and opportunity. Reading plays a great role in learning. It widens and deepens perspective...
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- Mar 5
- 2 min
Days eat up our life
Our individual and collective existence can be broken into two parts, the material world and the spiritual world. The material world is...
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- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Friendship, not love is the magic ingredient.
Thanks to misplaced notions of romance spread by poets, authors, television and movies, many a potentially great bond between a man and a...
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- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
We create our own 'realities'.
During the war in 1948, American ambassador to the U.N. Warren Austin called upon the Arabs and Jews to settle their differences 'like...
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- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
Avoid Toxicity to be Peaceful and Happy
To protect our bodies we do not eat or drink toxic things, we also do not permit poisonous creatures and things to come near our body....
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- Aug 1, 2022
- 2 min
We can daily meet the Divine
If we examine our modern and urban lives, we discover that we are surrounded by artificiality. Almost everything we use, consume or...
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- Jul 25, 2022
- 3 min
Is the 'problem', my problem?
"I have a problem", that is how many people often approach colleagues and bosses. We humans are fascinated by the problems of others...
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- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
Why does familiarity usually lead to contempt?
When we get together with friends and family we let down the masks we wear and drop the persona we adopt in front of the world, and...
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- Feb 27, 2022
- 2 min
Fundamental questions to answer to achieve goals.
We humans are constantly chasing something or the other, endeavouring to achieve goals. It is just our nature. Yet many, fail most of the...
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 1 min
The difference between Success and Happiness
It is easy to get confused between success and happiness, often mistaking them be similar. 'Success' is getting what we want. 'Happiness'...
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- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
Death by Social Media?
Probably the most valuable thing we possess in equal measure is the time each one of us is given, 24 hours, that is 86,400 seconds a...
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
To continuously seek improvement is an intrinsic human quality. To be able to do is however altogether another matter. So man can only...
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- Aug 30, 2021
- 3 min
I watch my mind more than I do my possessions
Since ancient times, Indians have called humans as 'Manav' or 'Manas' (Sanskrit for 'the being with a mind'). The powerful conscious and...
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- Aug 22, 2021
- 2 min
Ego, Esteem, Respect and Pride
Ego, ambition, self esteem, self respect, pride and arrogance are commonly used terms which are easily confused with one another. Ego, is...
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- Aug 4, 2021
- 3 min
Ego, is a must for success and happiness.
There is so much talk about not having an ego. Yet everyone has an ego no matter how humble they appear to be. The 'Ego' provides each...
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- Jun 26, 2021
- 2 min
Eye of the Storm.
With winds reached speeds of 200 km/hr, two powerful cyclones, Taukate and Yaas lashed India in May 2021, leaving a trail of destruction...
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