A few months ago, it just so happened that there was a mid-week off on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. So, in a global meeting, I might have expressed my excitement about not having to take meetings on a Wednesday. Then someone asked out of curiosity what this festival was…

Every time someone stops you from finishing that thought in your head, it irritates you a little. And why shouldn’t it? Don’t you have the right to even be by yourself every now and then? …

Just another Diary Entry ___ By Himanshu Sometimes it’s best to let things run their natural course. I used to hate being alone at times — I always felt that I needed another company to make the best use of my time. But there are so many things that…

The post may contain a few spoilers. It’s amusing how one’s action at some point in time leads them to seemingly unrelated actions at a later point. A few weeks ago, I was thinking about how robotic my life is. I work, eat, watch TV, and sleep among the other…

We often excuse ourselves from picking something up or taking a new step in the quest for perfection. But what we forget is that it’s not always in our destiny to complete something that we started, or be perfect at it. And not being able to complete a hundred percent of something should not be deemed a failure. It’s a stepping stone, a hand that is helping push the next person to the place where it ended for us.

Second last day of the war — All the characters in Mahabharata have been put to repeated and exhausting tests. And through these characters, Krishna has shown us how the seemingly correct things to do are, in fact, the source of troubles in the future. Karna is one of these souls who defied the discrimination against him…

There’s a difference in reading a story and seeing it being played in a series or a movie. I’ve read Mahabharata so many times, but the anger I felt while watching cheer-haran (or vastra-haran) was not comparable to the reading experience. It’s been two days since I watched a horrible…

Fear. Disgust. Apathy. People say that life is too short and there are too many people around. So I’ve come to live in a way that is not only focused on how I can prosper but also on how I can be better than the others. Because…competition. This bubble of…

We were gobbling up all those delicious croissants as much as we could before leaving to board our train from Helsinki to a town up north in Lapland called Rovaniemi. …