Update: Empowering a girl child
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated – Khaled HosseiniMore
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
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
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
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