Rumi writes that ‘bougainvillea dances with the wind’ even in the heart of summer’s blaze. Other writers have called it ‘a beacon of hope,’ a ‘symphony of colours,’ a ‘flame burning bright amidst the darkness,’ and the truth is there for each of us to see and experience. If you look close enough beyond the...
Why just Monet. Or Van Gogh. It could also be a word from a sonnet, a beat from a musical composition, a story by Haruki Murakami, or find even Howard Roark dreaming of his creations. It is here that one may stumble upon an inspired moment that created any kind of art anywhere in the...
Interpreting success in the contemporary business environment today with the performance of OnMobile taken as an example.
Yes, there is a God, but… the creator of stories is man. So, while we have an entire universe of raw material thrown at us, it is only the human mind that twists it all into a million different shapes. Manu Bhattathiri is one such human who has done a neat job of twisting innocuous...
Words love other words and have that strange magical power to turn each of their get-togethers into duels, sermons, inquisitions, insights, decisions, barbs, directions or whatever else they are asked to do. Sometimes we just let them clump into complex shapes that defy any description and allow them to go on with their search. It...
There are suspense and thriller tales that hardly ever let the adrenalin rush subside, those where calculated risks abound and then yet others where the power of the narrative scores. ‘The curse of Kuldhara’ by Richa S Mukherjee has all of these in scattered evenly and, in addition, is also like a delectable mix of...
Poor molehills and moles have been a troubled lot ever since Nicholas Udall wrote that ‘the Sophistes of Grece coulde through their copiousness make an Elephant of a flye, and a mountaine of a mollehill’ in 1548. Mole, as a known word had existed for less than two hundred years when this happened. But molehills...
Why do I wish to talk about happiness and not wealth or building judgement, or rational Buddhism, meaning of life, and any other aspect of values that are so vital for us? All these are painstakingly explained in ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant’ written by Eric Jorgenson, a book published by Harper Business. This is...
Entertainment is the only reason why reading a newspaper or vegetating while watching TV debates are so popular despite all the hype about people going into depressive states and wanting to switch to becoming a home chef with the single aim of clicking pictures for Instagram. It is the words and expressions used and the...
Unless you have read Poonachi, you will never know how even a goat can make you shut your eyes and sigh. Poonachi, or the story of a black goat is written by Perumal Murugan and even though it is a fable, it leads you right into the heart of nearly every kind of experience that...
Our RWA, like any other RWA in our universe, is like a circus where even acrobats strive to tickle the funny bone of residents. If you think this is untrue, let me tell you about the day they asked me to complete a form. Form? – I asked – What sort of form do you...
National security situations that have impacted Indian political thinking on war – both limited and otherwise – and even other security-related challenges need not just an unbiased retelling of what happened but must also be insightful and courageous enough to express reflections that are not obfuscated by mere political alliances. The book that I have...
