Rock Stars in Everyday Life!!

Putting up a post after a really looong time….the break was more to do with my laziness !!
So I was thinking the other day of the people that I have encountered in my life so far….and what were their qualities that I admired the most  – and to see what were the commonalities. I was [...]

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Arts Become Therapy

I came to know about this from a close friend of mine runs an NGO. One of his activities is teaching children from the neighbourhood chawls, and he was facilitating sessions for some of these kids on Arts Become Therapy(ABT). So what is ABT? Here is the definition from the website of the WCCL Foundation [...]

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Lost…

Today I realized that I had lost an entire folder containing my writings. What happened was that my laptop had crashed and the IT folks at my workplace had taken my data backup. And when they fixed the thingie, they put the data back in. Now this was a couple of days ago, and today [...]

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Decisions..

Over the past few days, this is something that has come up in most of my conversations of the third kind…hence the blog post

You see, there comes a time in every person’s life when he or she must make some key calls. You can clearly see the fork in the road ahead, and you [...]

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Protected: Sensible vs. Sensitive..

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Tuesdays with Morrie

I was reading a book called Tuesdays with Morrie. The book is narrated by Mitch, a very succesful sports writer who one fine day discovers through a TV program that his professor, a guy called Morrie, is dying. He remembers the time he had spent several years ago with his prof, when he was in [...]

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Change

A colleague and friend of mine is leaving for Delhi and we had a sendoff party for him.  It got me thinking that I have been a part of so many sendoff/farewell parties. So whats happening? Is the world moving too fast? Am I moving too slow? Things have been reasonably fine at the job [...]

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Good Will Hunting

This is one of my all time favourite movies.
 
The background of the story is that there is this brilliant guy called Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) who can master any topic in a matter of minutes. The bloke never went to college and earns his money doing odd jobs or working as a [...]

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From HappyNess to Happy…Yess!!!!

I recently read a book called ‘Happier’ by Tal Ben-Shahar
 
Very interesting concepts of Happiness were mentioned in that book. One of the interesting parts of that book is the classification of individuals in 4 categories. The author says happiness is a combination of 2 things – pleasure (more like a present benefit) and meaning (more [...]

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Life….Live it!

Sometimes the death of someone you barely knew can affect you. One of my best friends is driving a program for terminally ill children under palliative care. I happened to attend the first session that he had conducted a couple of months back, where such children from different hospitals came along with their parents to [...]

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