Five years ago, I wrote a post called The Beginning. It was quiet, but clear: I was returning to an old dream. One I had set aside for career goals, financial security, and the subtle ease of a comfortable life. I had taken six months off—to pause, to think, to write. To see what…
Miracle of Mind by Sadhguru is an app for meditation. The app launches today (Mahashivratri day, 26th February 2025). I had the privilege of an early access to the app and this post is about my thoughts on the app and the initiative. We know that in this era of Attention Economy, getting and…
After a very long time, I read a book which was able to reset my thinking. This is important stuff. Similar to most of us, I struggle to optimize the utilization of my time. Time management, Productivity hacks, Mastering time – all these phrases resonate with me. And in the quest of becoming better…
It has been more than five months since I posted anything here. As it usually happens, when a gap opens up on this blog I start questioning my commitment to the blog. And as it also usually happens, I get the inspiration to continue from somewhere. Today the inspiration came from one of my…
The biography Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance is a wonderful look into the life of one of the most interesting industrialists of our time. I read the biography to prepare for a presentation where our study group at IIM Ahmedabad needed to do an investor presentation on Tesla for our strategy class. I thought…
This post is about a book that is based on a very popular elective for the MBA programs at IIM Ahmedabad. The book is “Elephants and Cheetahs – the beauty of operations”, the same name as the elective and is written by Prof Saral Mukherjee who also teaches the course. One day not too…
Sometimes, listening is enough. At those times, listening is the only sensible thing to do. Cori Doerrfeld has brought this very important message to life in her book – “The Rabbit Listened”. It’s a simple story of a boy called Taylor. One day he decides to build something, he then goes on to build…
After reading Yuganta: The end of an epoch, there were two things that kept bothering me. The first one was Karve’s view of Bhishma, specifically around the incident during the Rajasuya Yagna by Yudhishthir. Bhishma asked for Krishna to be the first one to be respected and in both Shishupala and Karve’s view that…
“You think you know Mahabharata, you should read Yuganta by Irawati Karve”. This was one of the ways the book was recommended to me. I do not claim to know all of Mahabharata, but having read the epic in multiple forms, I thought I knew it somewhat. So I read Yuganta: The end of…
I have been thinking about Snow Crash, a science fiction novel, by Neal Stephenson for a few days now. The thoughts were triggered after reading The McDonaldization of Society article by George Ritzer as part of a coursework for Elephants and Cheetahs by Prof Saral Mukherjee in IIM Ahmedabad. In the article, author talks…