` “Tasmania??? I wonder…”, said I. We were exploring possible destinations for a winter vacation and Tasmania had just popped up as a serious option, checking off all criteria – not too cold at that time of the year, not visited so far, and one with a lot of natural beauty. I was surprised at…
दिवाळी – अंधारावर प्रकाशाने मिळवलेल्या विजयाचा उत्सव – किती साधी, सोपी, सुंदर संकल्पना! आपण त्याला नरकासुराच्या वधाचे रूप देऊया, रावणवधानंतर परतणाऱ्या रामाच्या अयोध्येमधील स्वागताचं रूप देऊया किंवा आणखी काही म्हणून उद्बोधूया, शेवटी ह्या सणाचे महत्त्व मूलभूत रूपाने फार साधं आहे – प्रकाशाने अंधारावर, म्हणजेच चांगल्याने वाईटावर, सत्कृत्याने दुष्कृत्यावर, ज्ञानाने अज्ञानावर, शांतीने अशांतातेवर, आशेने निराशेवर केलेली…
“Diversity & inclusion” (D&I), a hot topic of our times, is often one that most people don’t fully understand or don’t know how to deal with. They often wonder whether it is relevant to them. As an avid student and passionate believer of D&I, I am attempting to demystify this concept in a series of…
It was a beautiful night. A clear, dark, full sky, dotted with innumerable little stars twinkling away to make their presence felt. The moon shone bright, its full outline clearly and sharply visible around the concave crescent, as if emphasizing to us that it had a full circular shape, just that today it was choosing…
The English language has no dearth of beautiful adjectives that describe everything one would possibly ever want to describe. There are some adjectives however, that must go with certain nouns. It is as if they were made as pairs – blue sky, crispy fries, cosy couch, hot cuppa. These pairs have been coined as…
If the human race were to be divided into two groups – the pluckier and more spirited ones on one side and the meeker and more timid ones on the other, then I daresay I would fall into the first group. There are a few situations however, in which I get hopelessly and haplessly out…
Death – the state of being dead … when it comes, it stuns the life out of everyone around. The blow of death hits the dead person silent, reducing him from an animate, warm, bubbling, noisy living somebody to a still, cold, rigid, silent “body”. But it’s not just the dead person that this…
“Diversity & inclusion” is a hot topic of our times. Yet it is one which most of us are not sure how to deal with. Reactions sound like these – “It’s not relevant to me, so why should I bother?”, or “OF course I know what diversity is, but I don’t see the big deal,…
Chaos and frenzy …. so many here at the same time, crammed into this tight space. Moving criss-cross, fast, very fast, as if getting somewhere but not sure where; bumping into each other and most times moving on without even looking up to see who they bumped into; sometimes a rare nod of recognition…
It was heart-rending to see Steve Smith’s press conference video yesterday. A success story, a role-model, a hero reduced to zero. It was difficult to associate this diffident-looking, devastated and broken man with the swashbuckling batsman we loved. One could not help feeling very sorry. Such a sad self-inflicted turn of events for one of…