I have often wondered about myself. Where did i get this patience from ? I am not, by nature, a patient person. So, what happened? I think I figured out that the objects in my path were too large to remove in one, two or three shots. In hind sight I realised that if I…
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1st June 2024 – around 8.00 pm. It’ was approximately at that time that I shrugged my shoulders and started watching something more interesting then the Exit Polls of Election 2024. The INDIA TODAY news channel, which I was watching, had just exclaimed ( that’s the nicest word you can use to describe how that…
20202020Tired Over the last few weeks I have been feeling an enormous sense of tiredness. A feeling of emptiness that I cannot explain. No, it is NOT the worst time in a long time, not at all. However, there is a feeling that I am in a flux. Nothing seems to be moving in the…
20202020In the beginning.. Today, I get a lot of flak from my family and people I know, for being on my phone for too long. I tried to keep it in check but realised that there was a limit to how much I could avoid using it. Then again, I wondered, what was wrong in…
20202020Making a point For most of my life I insisted that I had to make my point while in a discussion, an argument or even a debate. Whatever happens, I had to make my point. If the argument went wrong when I made my point, I never believed it was my fault, at least on…
20202020Before ..when we were growing up While I was growing up, I was born in 1962, every improvement in India was judged by it’s equivalent in the Developed World. The term Third World Country was something that was thrust upon those of us who lived in India. Later, the people who coined such terms placed…
20202020I am being arrogant and calling myself a writer, by saying that I have been suffering a Writer’s Block and am unable to finish Blogs I start. Anyway, do bear with me… Since I wrote last, I turned sixty. For some reason I believed that some wisdom would finally dawn on me but I really…
20202020Alone in a crowd – in Malayalam it can be referred to as ‘ Aalkutathil Thaniye’. Have you ever felt this way? I am sure you have, on that odd occasion. You could be in a group and ask yourself, what are you doing here? Or, just feel alone. Unless you experience it, this feeling…
20202020Two contrasting incidents of Silence come to me. They are from two different concepts in life. They also represent different explanations to the title of this Blog. The first, is the older story. The silence of Bhishma , also known as Pitamaha, Gangaputra and Devavrata, someone who was present during the entire Mahabharat, even before…
20202020I will be lying if I say that I am not a worried person today. However, I look at civilization and the actions of leaders and people, as a larger element that has to be viewed at a Macro Level or using the modern jargon, Holistically. Though, I admit, it is difficult to discuss Macro…
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