The Race Against..You.!
The Race Against..You.! In this post, I am sharing my experiences while preparing for a cycling event held in Bombay last December. While it's a little overdue, but whether you're a cyclist or not, I…
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Time For Us To Bhaag
Time For Us To Bhaag In continuation to my previous post on Milkha Singh and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag [BMB], here is another small piece in connection with an article doing the rounds about how Milkha Singh never…
Love at First Bite
Love at First Bite While the title may be a little misleading to some, this post isn't a vampire or cannibal's love story. With this post, I was thinking about some light topic to briefly…
Feedback from a friend about a post
I just received probably the best feedback yet, regarding a post on my blog, 'Death and The Maiden', from Jimmy, a good friend of mine. Now Jimmy's the youngest friend I have. At over 65 years…
Death and The Maiden
Death and The Maiden "Tonight's happy song, kinda like a walk in the park ..the sun coming through the window in the morning on a beautiful day... and you have nothing better to do than…
Au-shitz.!
Au-shitz.! With all the 'do good deeds' and 'do unto thy neighbour...' that has literally been beaten into our souls while we were growing up, I often wondered why some corrupt politicians and other people…
Worth a Thousand Words
Worth a Thousand Words A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words. In the past few months, I have taken a few which, I'll say, left me totally speechless. #7 Somewhere in Rajasthan, left…
Senti-mental
Senti-mental Remember 'Compromise'? Human mentality doesn’t cease to surprise. Astound even. We all have come to believe that the stock markets seem to move much more with tiny human sentiment, and less due to company…
Compromise? Don’t!
Compromise? Don't! Several foreign countries have been following the professional hire-n-fire policy for several years if not decades, now. We Indians on the other hand, still go strong on references and the 'chalta hain' (a…
India – The State of Affairs…
India - The State of Affairs Just when we Indians thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse… We got an opportunity to host the Commonwealth games. But instead, Kalmadi and his cronies stretched their luck way…
An uncle and a friend
An uncle and a friend I just heard a few hours back, that one of dad's closest friends, Eshwaran, passed away this morning. That was extremely bad news. I had probably met Eshwar uncle and his…
Funny Side Up
Funny Side Up All those moments that left you speechless… (No, not like when you saw Claudia Lynx or Mila Kunis on TV). More like the dumbfounded speechless. I was just thinking about it today,…
The Last Straw
The Last Straw Have you ever been in a state where you’re head is filled with the purest rage? Where you think, ‘once more someone messes with me regarding (whatever), and they’re really gonna get…
Be Your Best Judge
Be Your Best Judge This is a small extract from Michael E. Gerber's 'Awakening the Entrepreneur Within'. Michael Gerber is the bestselling author of The E-Myth Revisited, E-Myth Mastery. He says "Unfortunately, most businesses don’t…
Way to go, Alok! The Venture Capital Differentiators
Way to go, Alok! The Venture Capital Differentiators A few years ago, I came across this interview with Alok Mittal on the internet. Alok is the Managing Director at Canaan Partners, one of the leading…