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    Oops we do it again! (Re: Olympics)

    While we the nation celebrate the victory of few excellent sports personalities, we at the same time make louder hue and cry about the poor state of our sports in our country. Just 4 medals compared what China has won. Shame on us! It is so easy to sit in our cute little offices, warm beds and hot baths and complain about our country. Our sports minister didn’t do this, our coaches don’t know better, our athletes lack talent; the list of complaints is endless.  I ask, how many of us have done anything better than those out there in the field. How many of us gave up our dreams…

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    The Idea Factory

    Where do ideas come from? Is there somewhere a factory in the mind which manufactures these? What inputs does it take and what kind of process would it follow? I have tried to analyze it, and have often wondered that the inputs are events from our daily life. But honestly, some of my best and worst ideas have come from absolutely nowhere. I can find no corelation of their existence from any where around me. That makes me sad. Because, if I could find the inputs and the process, probably I could make the process repeatable and share it with others so everyone could get wonderful ideas and avoid bad ideas. Richard…

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    What would you do without trust?

    What would you do – If you realized your child was lying to you If your team was hiding critical facts If your partner in love was willfully misleading you Would punishing the child, stop them from lying? Would reprimanding the team, stop them from hiding? Would blaming and fighting with the partner, stop them from misleading? All three may seem like very different situations but perhaps stem from the same root cause – Lack of trust. The child doesn’t trust that you will understand, therefore they lie. The team doesn’t trust that you will support,  therefore they hide. And the partner doesn’t trust that you will care, understand and…

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    Scare of Parent Teacher Meetings

    Honestly I was always scared of Parent Teacher Meetings as a child. Probably it is one of the perks of being an average child. I remember the standard comment which followed year on year in all my report cards -” Good show! But can do better”. I could never figure out what it meant and honestly  didn’t really care what my teachers thought, as long as my Mom was happy with the scores. For as long as I remember I wanted to grow up fast, so that I have to stop studying and get out of the cycle of exams and report cards. And then it happens – I grow…

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    Who is Reading?

    I have wondered sometimes who all read my blog. For the first few blogs it was the most important thing to watch for during the day. Another like, another comment, another share were all the metrics I was counting. As the number of blogs increased, the readership slowly decreased. It actually seemed like a straight line co-relation to me. One day I thought, should I stop writing because no one is reading? And then I thought – Did I start writing because someone was reading? I started writing because I loved to write. The feeling still continues and therefore I still write. Perhaps there will be a day when I…