Son, on your 18th Birthday I gift to you a world that we made a mess of. It is upto you to design the world of tomorrow. go ahead put a dot where you want this world to be. and then join hands with your friends across the world to take it there. Each step […]
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I studied the concept of freedom for 12 years at school, followed by another 4 years at college. Then I met a street urchin who was handling freedom on the street, learning something new each day, and trying it out. He knew visually what and how freedom was available. My all education told me that
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The last few weeks i was in deep trouble and in doubt about what is right. Struck by losses in France, and earlier the Syrian issue and even some personal losses that occurred to friends i was trying to feel and visualize the loss of all the engaged parties at a very personal level before
The Other Cheek? Some Cheek this! Read More »
“Rarely I failed because I did not get the right skills. Often I failed because I did not acquire the right attitude” – Vineet Raj Kapoor We think that people notice our lack of skills, but people are quicker at noticing the lack of attitude. Did we care what skills our parents had? We let them handle us even
Attitude can never be acquired without the right purpose in life. Read More »
The Power of a Sabbatical (pic: Steve Jobs on a Sabbatical in India) Sabbatical is an often misunderstood word. Let us first understand it’s meaning and then rediscover what understanding this word can give to us. this is what the various dictionaries give us sabbatical sab·bat·i·cal (sə-băt′ĭ-kəl) also sab·bat·ic (-ĭk) adj. 1. Relating to a
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Go haath ko jumbish nahin, aankhon mein toh dum hai Rahne do abhi saaghar-o-meena meray aage – Mirza Ghalib My Translation Though my hands can no longer feel, my sight is still alive Let this sea of lights (entrapments of life) remain before me – Vineet Raj Kapoor (this post prompted me to a full translation of the
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How to push the envelope and succeed at everything you do! Well Charles Darwin, Albert Einstien, CV Raman, Walt Disney all were labeled as failures while at school. These people took time to absorb everything which seemed too slow for school. They chose what they wanted to learn, again, unacceptable to any school. But, when
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Why Technology chases Art? It’s quite simple. Artists tell technology where to go! This represents to extent of realism the painters had to get to, when photography was introduced, and then the abstraction started when they could not (or did not prefer to) handle it any more. So then the photographers could not chase them.
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Well the previous article delved on the aspects of those careers which border on creating and supporting manmade products and services. However, it kind of ignores the contribution of those working on products which are not their ideas or creation – for e.g. humans, vegetables, animals! So let me call these as Organic Careers and
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3D Printing is the biggest wave that is going to hit us. Sure that’s worrisome. But the more worrying part is, that most people you talk to are not even aware about this subject. Especially in India almost no one seems to aware about what has been achieved in this field. So I thought that
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