Woman – a thunderstorm with a touch of lightening
Women in India have a voice that is heard all over the world. Not that their silence went unheard because it was that deathly quiet that has probably given birth to movements like ‘beti bachhao, beti padhao’ and slogans like ‘Equal rights are not special rights‘, ‘Woman is the companion of man’, ‘Gifted with equal...
Thoughts as 2020 comes to an end
What does one say to an year that has made a lot of effort to remain at top of the unpopularity charts? Obviously, a big thank you… because trying times, tough moments, and all the wrongs ever inflicted on us by time invariably metamorphose into happy looking steppingstones that help us go across a struggling...
Abracadabra… education is a magical spell!
There is a relationship between education and magic. For instance, don’t you think creative thinking is more like the mind always up to some conjuring tricks? Or that what we call information is more like a portal that transports us from one plane to another? Jargon or the language understood by a small community of...
September Symphonies
September has, so far, been a month full of actions and actionable dreams. We in India have had everything from the way Modi hugged the ISRO Chief to calm him to the way he hugged Trump to balm him and the world called them economic nationalists. The ‘Seva Saptah’ or week of service from September...
Always give more than what you get
This is the text of my email conversation with Shiv Khera, the iconic speaker on leadership and motivation and author of many books. He says that 85% of self-made millionaires globally today are first generation. A survey said that they read about 50-60 self-help books a year because they realize that one good idea could...
The Increasing Importance of Business Analytics in the Modern World
Analytics is the new religion in the world of job opportunities today. Some insist on using the phrase ‘data analytics’ but the fact remains that without reasonably sound analytics, a company remains vulnerable, specially if it is not protecting its data how it should be (you can learn more about Venyu and learn why data...
A new dimension to relevance in education
Just as the job market has a fair share of those in the wrong jobs, the adapters, and the intuitive skill enhancers and the financial world is full of spenders, savers and wealth creators, the world of education too has its own share of drop-outs, degree hunters, and learners. These categories may not reflect the...
The Humans Defynd Interview
The Humans Defynd Interview #HumansDefynd #Interview Editorial comment: Arvind Passey is 25 years old. Well at least his life and style will make you think so. He’s got more energy than the average reader reading this, and he does more exciting stuff than the most exciting guy on your timeline. Time to meet him. 🙂...
The misguided minds of India
Justice Katju called us all idiots and we protested – on and off the social media. The verbal and wordy protests were wide-scale and intense. But idiocy did feature in a lot of discussions off the record and many did conclude that all those who broke some rule or the other that ended up being...
Reading is an analog fine-tuner
O my luve is like a red, red rose And earthquakes can be read Because technology leads to hand-held devices where it is all Sweetly played in tune… …and this is what life is for non-readers. Robert Burns, seismologists, and tech gurus (and many more) create indecipherable concoctions when reading has not been fine-tuned. It...
How much is too much of freedom
Freedom can never be shackled, imprisoned, and killed. If this happens anywhere, it is invariably when the courage to sustain it and keep it fluttering appears to dissipate or the strength to defend an argument weakens. When does an argument weaken? This happens when it doesn’t have too many takers from the masses. This simply...
Dussehara changes nothing because we haven’t really changed
The locally erected Ravan is barely hundred yards away and I can see it clearly from my seventh floor balcony. I can see that scintilla growing into an enveloping fire… but before I could feel any oy at this symbolic annihilation of evil, I hear this song loud clear… ‘kar chale hum fida jaan-o-tan saathiyon...