What Do You Do After Eat, Pray and Love?

Eat, Pray, Love and Eat More!!! That’s precisely what we did on our weekend trip to Toronto, apart from hanging out with family. Food and family, what else do you need? Well, that’s not entirely true because a trip to Toronto leaves me feeling rejuvenated. It’s like I get a breath of fresh air or …

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Who do you listen to – others around you or a lone inner voice?

So, I recently took a new role at work. One of the reasons I took the position was because it had severe challenges. My predecessors had managed to stay in the role for only one year – so four people have come and gone in the last four years. It remains to be seen how …

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Does arranging things mean you never use them?

By nature – for the most part, I am a tidy person. And that means I like to keep things where they are. I arrange things so that they do not look disorderly. I don’t remember where it started. But, before studying for exams – everything had to be perfect, like my table, books on …

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How Far Will You Go For Inner Peace?

I saw the trailer for ‘Deepest Breath’ a few weeks ago and added it to my list on Netflix. However, it took me a few tries before I could get myself to watch it as it has a lot of peril involved, and I wasn’t sure if I could take the tension of watching the …

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How Often Should We Clean Our Mind?

Do you think it is easier to clean the house after a deep clean? Or is it easier to clean it every day? The answer to that can depend on many factors – what was the state of the house? Is it in a location which gets more dust? Do the people who live in …

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Is there another world on the other side of the laptop screen?

I just finished the enterprise-wide hackathon that I was leading at work. Hackathon is an event where participants get together with their teams over 24-48 hours and go from an idea to a finished product. Even though the event takes place over hours, the planning for it takes months or years. Yesterday was the finale, …

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Selling books or Vegetables – you are fending flies at a table

Growing up, I would follow my mom or my grandmom to the local vegetable markets in India. And in India, they are street markets where the vendors would sit on the ground or have a small table (with wheels) where they would sell vegetables or fruits. If they had watermelon or some other juice fruit …

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Can Deep Connections Arise From Silence? Vipassana Diaries

Imagine a situation where you are secluded in a remote location with twenty other women. The location is self-sustaining, as in you have your room, your bathroom – food is provided. All the basic amenities are provided. And for nineteen days, you do not speak to each other, keep your eyes downcast and spend time …

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Who Is To Blame For Missing Out On Things?

Bollywood Music was the only kind of music that existed in the world – for me. Or it had until recently. I grew up listening to Indian movie songs – either on the radio, cassette tapes, CDs, and now streaming. For reasons, I cannot explain, Hollywood or English songs never made it into my life. …

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Are We Any Better Than Our Ancestors?

I had added ‘Chimp Empire’ – a docuseries about chimps in Ngogo, Africa, to my Netflix list as something that called out to me. And I ended up watching it yesterday. It is a four-part series, each about forty-five minutes long. It is fascinating to watch – given my default inclination towards human predicament. When …

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