The one speech I personally loved, albeit not attended live, was made by Mr. CV Narasimhan as part of introducing MS Subbulakshmi to the United Nations audience. It epitomized brevity, but stayed with me for a long time. . Read more »

Risk and Reward are two words that have always gone well together – like peanut butter and jelly in some ways because one is sweet and the other salty! The culinary experts advocate a pinch of salt in the most sweetest of desserts to give it a nice twinge – maybe they need to be told the reference to risk and reward!! Read more »

It is amazing to note that without any data or useful inputs, there is nothing to debate upon. Where there is a plethora of data, the analysis surrounding the combinations of the very same data isn’t too far behind. This is applicable to every single aspect of our lives Read more »

Considering Barry Schwartz’s rare expertise in analyzing the economics side of human psychology, he couldn’t help bringing up the fact that the incentives (bonuses) augmenting the rules being part of the economic problems we are dealing with. Read more »

Where there is a will, there is a lawyer,
There is a way, they will always say;
You win or you lose, it doesn’t matter,
End of the day, they are the ones richer! Read more »

Make no mistake – playing by the team and working as part of a larger ecosystem is more important today than ever before, but let us consciously make an attempt to encourage and reward individual brilliance as well. Read more »

Calls over the wired phone began with the trunk kind,
Slowly and surely happened the liberation of the bind;
Trying to come up with an all-in-one solution,
Began the era of the mobile revolution! Read more »

It was really hard at the beginning as I found my thoughts wandering all the time but I found that once I was able to exert control onto myself consciously in the form of being in the moment, I started looking at possible approaches to daily situations that I am not sure I would have thought of, earlier. Read more »

Democracy is probably going to be seen as outward exhibition of being tolerant as a nation; not pertinent to specific decision-making. As long as we are being clear in our distinction of what democracy stands for in today’s age, we would be doing future generations and ourselves a great service. Read more »

If it isn’t clear already, I am heading towards the intangible aspects of the day light savings change – the improvement in the quality of life is what dictated this effort in adjusting clocks. Read more »

Stick to your word said my father,
It has stayed with me forever;
It ensures there is no room for deceit,
Truthfulness is the name of this habit! Read more »

Finally we ended up in grade eleven,
We all felt like in heaven;
It was soon time to get out of school,
Wasn’t that like being cool? Read more »

First it was the 09/11, then the London bombings, the Mumbai blasts in between – all gave widespread publicity. Interspersed between these incidents, I am sure there are other cases in lesser known places around the world which did not get the same publicity Read more »

As the markets were looking for ways to expand,
The housing sector seemed primed for demand;
Construction industry soon became hot,
And they took over every vacant lot! Read more »

The scooter of choice was a Bajaj,
Now everyone’s thinking of a two-car garage;
The whole household had one telephone,
Cell phones are now being handed down. Read more »