Category Archives: Health and wellness
Happy birthday * yawn*
I am happy to announce that I passed away yesterday. Now that I have your attention, rest assured I am alive and kicking. When celebrities pass away, there is an outpouring of love and messages that they never get to … Continue reading
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Heaven is a place on earth
Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try… No hell below us, above us only sky. John Lennon, 1971 Physically speaking, earth is as heavenly a body as any other heavenly bodies in the universe. Most religious texts, however, … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Heaven, Hell, Religion
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Too much of anything
Humans were hunter-gatherers. Then we discovered farming and started settlements, along fertile river banks. We formed tribes. The most wise and respected person was appointed as the tribe chief. His (yes, his) job was to protect the tribe from harm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Billionaires, Capitalism, CEO, Kings, Middle Class, Socialism, Wealth Gap
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Magic Quadrant
Back in 1998, I visited Mumbai with my college band Krossbreedz. We were participating in the rock competition at Mood-Indigo, IIT Bombay’s cultural festival. The organizers put us up at one of the IIT hostels. We got a unique chance … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmos, Health and wellness, Music
Tagged Arun, CEO, Connect, Krossbreedz, Materialistic, People, Quadrant, Spiritual
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Fly, don’t die
Everyone dies. Some day it is bound to happen. No one who has ever lived has not not died. If they haven’t yet, they will some day. But then nobody likes to die, not most people. And under most circumstances, we … Continue reading
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Not an ordinary Monday
It was a Monday. But not an ordinary Monday. Not from the vantage point of a relatively junior employee in the 250 people organization. The year was 2002. Cybage had recently implemented Formal Mondays. The reason mentioned in the policy … Continue reading
Hero
“You are my Hero, Papa”, said my almost 4 year old daughter last evening. Her statement triggered various emotions and questions in my mind. Did she mean what she said? Did she know what those words meant? Where did she … Continue reading
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Defragment the mind
A new computer performs very well but half a year into usage, the performance dips. You double click a file and it takes a few seconds before it opens up in the associated application. As your computer gets older, you … Continue reading
Happy 2015
Our little mighty round rock has completed another revolution around the sun by crossing the imaginary, year-marking spatial milestone installed by an ancestral genius. We are in 2015. Last year was another soda-less year for me. I have many times, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Junk, Mental Detox, News, Resolution
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Pointing fingers
“When you point a finger at someone else, you have three pointing back at you.” I am coming to realize that there may be some truth in the above statement most of us would have come across at some point or … Continue reading
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