It’s crazy to observe how many people have become Thought Leaders on winning & losing, motivation and demotivation, rising and falling, mental analyzers of debacle effects, and content questioners of senior politicians and their commiserations for a team who seem prolifically devastated post the World Cup finals. Just before I succumb to the wave of…

The transformation happened at the old boys’ school reunion in a plush heritage resort up north of India. Till then, I was just like every other successful entrepreneur whose only pitch to ‘stardom’ was a gruesome, soul wrenching description of the journey from scratch. This, most always began, as a nondescript poor soul whose family…

Most often than nought, based purely on who and what you were in the past, your closest relationships may never ever acknowledge your gradual evolution into an awe-inspiring human being, over a period of time. We are who we are – good, bad or ugly, – based on our natural animal instincts to respond to…

It takes a phenomenal amount of determination to make a relationship work. A relationship rarely ever evolves the way it was always meant to be. That’s because each one’s traverse in life is so exclusive, that to accommodate an inclusivity requires exerting meticulous, consistent and sincere efforts to keep the smiles from fading away. Whether…

I grew up tutored by most of the elders in the family, that if one had to request the Almighty to grant a deed, one had to offer something in return to Him. Something very dear. Something akin to a sacrifice of sorts. While this seemed confusing at that time, it sure did become a…

Way back in school we had the great fortune of having spent several knowledgeable years at the feet of one of the best teachers ever chanced upon in our entire academic traverse as young, enthusiastic students. We fondly referred to this brilliant educationalist as ‘Bhardwaj Sirji’ (and let’s keep the real nickname tucked away secretly!).…

One calm blissful evening a few months ago, a dear friend of mine and I were sharing a nice chilled drink together. I was in my usual unplugged, wild, humorous self when I realised that my friend suddenly quietened visibly looking worried and stressed. Which of course, flipped my happy moment to one of genuine…

Those endless moments lying on the grass while staring up into the sky. Watching clouds drift slowly by against a crystal blue background as we conjured up fantasies that we believed could turn into amazing realities. Then one day growing up happens. Somewhere along the journey unknowingly that innocent child gets stifled for a supposedly…

One heck of a true fact of life is that if you think you can have a great relationship with people based purely on similar habits and personalities, then you’ve not heard of another majorly true fact: SIMILARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT! On my bandwagon, my best buddies are those who trigger my mind with radically differing…

The only way out is the way in. Oft quoted by several spiritual ‘Gyani’s’ but seldom explained and hence little understood. The way in is to traverse silently, deep into the portals of one’s inner spheres, to explore the sub-conscious, the super-conscious and the collective conscious and to be able to respond to external stimuli…

In the only traverse we journey…a traverse called Life…we tend to spend too much time blaming circumstances surrounding us for who we always aspired to but never eventually became. The fact is that we are the only ‘circumstance’ to blame. If we had to accept a simple fact that we are solely responsible for who…

We have this spontaneous tendency to centre the cause of our sufferings on every external factor that we can possibly pin-point on, to satisfy ourselves that we never were the reasons for its origin. And then we suffer the pain so ‘magnanimously’! The truth is, if you think you can clap with just one hand,…