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Challenging the Challenger
The first sign of a 'Jigyasu' or seeker, is that one possesses courage. The willingness to accept being rebuffed, scoffed, rebuked and...
Feb 11, 20192 min read


If you think you are .....
If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, It is almost...
Feb 3, 20191 min read


We already have an encyclopaedia.
Once a man who sold Encyclopaedias, knocked on a house door to make a sales pitch. A woman answered the door. She heard the salesman's...
Feb 1, 20191 min read


Violent Saint
Open any of the Indian school books and you will discover, what we teach our children about Indian independence? That non violence got us...
Jan 28, 20195 min read


Waiting for freedom
My Anglo-Indian schooling conditioned me to be an Anglophile. Amongst the long list of Britishers I admired was Winston Churchill. So...
Jan 22, 20194 min read


Fed up with Teachers
How to think? Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871 -1937), President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, related...
Jan 20, 20193 min read


You want to change the world?
Everyone it seems wants to change the world. Change means wanting something different from what is. What is, is usually known to us, what...
Jan 18, 20192 min read


How to get rid of troublesome people?
Democracies are messy and confusing. They have many advantages and some disadvantages. A peculiar disadvantage is that some people...
Jan 2, 20192 min read


Living the way you love.
The Mughal ruler Akbar (1542 -1605), despite his illiteracy, valued great minds and individuals. He surrounded himself with artists,...
Dec 30, 20183 min read


Disciple or Follower?
Wherever you go, you see people not only talking about religion, but imposing themselves on others and shoving it into the face of...
Dec 24, 20182 min read


Always Wealthy
When they grow up, young birds leave the nest. So in 1985 three years after we got married, Mohini and I moved out from my parent's home...
Dec 18, 20184 min read


You want to win the game?
In life its not sufficient to be merely efficient but to also be effective. Someone once asked my father Man Singh ji, 'What is the...
Nov 28, 20183 min read


Don't worry, you are not lost.
His Holiness, The Dalai Lama could be considered as a perfect master for an imperfect world. Much inspiration and learning can be...
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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