Should I thank my tempered mindset ?

How does your mindset affect your financial success? My father, my role model started my fine tuning, right from scratch… *Distinguish between Need and want… *Penny saved is a Dollar earned 😁 *Don’t run after brands. *He made me do SIP with my merit scholarship money,as he was kindly funding my education.!! Then came the […]

The arrival of facebook!!

If you could erase one event from history, what would it be? I could have started with: The British colonisation of India Thr advent of Religions Invention of Gun powder The Holocaust The Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The partition of India But somehow, the ill effects of Facebook supersedes them all. What Mark […]

Hey Teacher, leave the kids alone!…(Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two )

What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever? https://youtube.com/watch?v=HrxX9TBj2zY&si=9b7HF0r5xoDj1Ofq It was almost an anthem at our school 😁then followed us into college, later to University and now , it continues to stick on forever ❤✌

I will support them,and I have!

What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept? When the Cockroach Janata Party sprung out of the misplaced rantings of a Senior Judge of the apex court of India, I was not only surprised, but awkwardly amazed by the gumption of those who decided to call it just that- “Cockroach Janata Party” […]

Here ❤

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? Sorry for not finding one with English subtitles…. But this song says it all… This is ‘how my country is…. I would only live here 🙏

a Phew!

Which languages do you speak and how did that impact your life? Hehehe! I can get my tongue around a few: Mother tongue Hindi Mother’s native tongue: Bhojpuri Father’s native tongue: Magadhi Husbands tongue: Malayalam National Second language: English Can Follow: Bangla, Maithili, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Dogri, Urdu Tried learning: French( stopped at je […]

To see an undivided Bhaarat( India)

What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness? Being a veteran, I have the boundaries of my nation ingrained in my blood and I know what I have been trained for. Still, I would love to witness something like this in future… For the millions of […]

My life from birth to death !

What is the meaning of life? Is it that difficult to answer this question? It is we humans who add unnecessary layers to it… Purpose, Aim, Goal… when destination is already known. My dear father always finds it an interesting topic to start a conversation… and then you will find very few takers who carry […]

Narrative!!

What’s a word or phrase that annoys you? These days it is on every media person’s lips, every socialite, every upcoming wannabe and in the vocabulary of every “pretend intelligentsia”! God save the word 🙏 The word occasionally featured in my life in the earlier days, but it keeps bombing me nineteen to a dozen […]

His square mouth 😅

What’s a moment you wish you could freeze and live in forever? The Nursing Assistant lifted him up from my body and brought him closer to my face so that I could look at my just born infant… There he was… bawling with a square open mouth, red and apparently angry at being dislodged from […]