The balcony

Last year, I finally found the perfect place for me. It’s bathed in bright sunlight each morning as the sun rises on its face. Over the months, I’ve observed the neighborhood to be peaceful, with little traffic noise and hustle and bustle. On one side, a stunning lake, and on the other, the back of…More

Meditation | Travels

I have recently come to appreciate the profound impact and importance of meditation in my life. During my travels last week, I had the opportunity to experience a moment of serenity in a remote area on the West coast of India. While the picture I took manages to capture some of the beauty, the experience…More

Who am I?

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. This is where I share my thoughts, including quotes that I find interesting. Some of these thoughts may be personal and not ready for public consumption. As for my professional life, I currently work as a Principal Engineer at GoJek in Bangalore, India, after having…More

Humility

In real humility, there is a deeper principle than our sad need to feel superior to others. That higher principle prevents us from being arrogant and condescending toward those we feel are inferior. It protects us from being envious towards those who are more accomplished. When one is humble, one feels grateful and gives credit…More

Solitude and meditation

Solitude is the discovery and acceptance of your uniqueness. It’s not just having knowledge about yourself, it’s actual experience of being, which is what we taste in meditation. This need not be rooted in religion – the meditation techniques are taught and practised in schools and prisons up and down the country. Solitude in this…More

Do you want peace?

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation…More

It’s a wrap

P.S Reflecting back, this was an anxious self writing on the night when the calendar changed.😛 Today is the last day of 2020. What a crazy year it has been for everyone. Looking back feels like it’s been ages when we were in a good mental state. I guess, the space and time continuium was…More

Empowering a girl child

In, one of “those” family meetings at home brought up this idea to help a girl child from my alma mater to achieve her dreams. It was my mom who initiated the talk on this cause in the memory of our “DaddyMa” who passed away on July 21st 2020. For me, she has been an…More

Writing about a disorder

Opening up about deeply private struggles is never easy, but seeking support is a vital step toward healing. I am choosing to share my journey with bulimia nervosa in the hope that it sheds light on this often-hidden battle. An Unexpected Discovery Realizing I was suffering from an eating disorder came in the most unexpected…More

Sharing a meal

On my 25th birthday (December 2019), I took a pledge to share meals with people living in difficult conditions around the world — where the availability of daily food is uncertain for families. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s leading humanitarian agency dedicated to solving global hunger. The UN agency has been working…More

Signs of burnout and how to avoid it

Afghanistan & the element of compassion

Last week, I finished reading “And the Mountains echoed” written by Khaled HosseiniMore

Suffering is like gas

A casual chat with a friend led to a discussion on sufferings and we ended up with a conversation around the book — Man’s search for meaning One of the quotes that left an impact on my friend was the analogy of “Suffering” with the spread of a “gas”. He shared an example from the book…More

Learning is part of your job description

Everyone makes mistakes, but the real question is how we come out of them — how we take the constructive criticism given to us, and how we solve them for ourselves and the team.More

OOAD: The most important *underdog*

My recent encounter with Objects and its principles. During my time at an engineering college, I had a lot of subjects to read and study. Not being a fan of my college’s syllabus structure, I can safely say, I survived… well pretty gracefully the 3 years of intense Computer science; considering the very first year as an attempt by the existing education system to help the student ease into the college level from a school level studies! Required!.More

Gmail – You need to secure your account against attacks before it’s late.

A new Gmail phishing technique is around the town, probably first found early this month. What is Phishing? An old school yet highly successful way of giving away your password ()to someone who is pretending to be, for example, a secure Google System () How does it work? Well, it works pretty simply. You *voluntarily*…More

OpenCalc Project: Idea and Motivation

September 15th, 2016. Packed IISc’s J.N Tata Auditorium. MODS’s keynote speaker for the day, Scott Davis gave a motivational speech on how to learn different languages. He has been writing computer software for more than two decades now. From C to Java, Android to Swift, Scott has seen it all. One of the key things,…More

Missing Microsoft Office while on Linux? Here is something you can do!

One of the things, I used to miss about Windows while using a Linux distribution was, the power of its Office Suites. Okay, Let’s say we have OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, which in fact is getting better day by day, but Microsoft’s Office suite is by far the best at least for next few years. With…More

Which Programming language should I choose?

When you’re first getting started learning to code, one of the hardest choices can be picking which programming language to start with. This graphic can help you choose by comparing options based on application, potential salary, geography, and more. (Click on the image to enlarge) Credits – UdacityMore

The Dance of Democracy

India. The land of diversity. The land of 1.2 billion people. Linguistically diverse, divided into 29 states. India is known to the world as the largest democracy on earth. With an official count of 600 registered parties, the country is run by these elected people….More

Indian? Let that be your Religion.

2015 Last few days, activities in some areas of the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh have been so communal. Sad, devastated, terrified with the tale of events going on, I thought it was the right time to start building from an idea, that I have been thinking over a long time. A nation that doesn’t…More

Beginning: It was then. and It is now

Hi, folks. It was 7th of August 2011 when I created this WordPress site. And it 30th September 2015 when I come back to put some life into it. In a gap of 3 years and few months, things have dramatically changed.2011 was the year when I would be somewhere with things that would be…More

The Point of Singularity

7th August, 2011 Room 102, Ch.Zandu Singh A1, Mohammedpur, Bikaji Cama Place, New DelhiMore