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She Inspires Me

We meet many people, live with them every day, share meals with them, have conversations with them. Sometimes they touch our heart, they touch our lives and we try to learn from them. But often we miss telling them that we adore them. I want to say something about five women who I admire, with…
Are pet owners animal lovers?

Recently, the Bangalore Bruhat Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) has proposed a new set of guidelines putting restrictions on the number and type of dogs that people can keep in their homes. As expected, this met with a lot of anger from the dog lovers of the city. People felt that the BBMP had no business telling…
#greendeepawali- why? how?

In the last few years, I have been hearing a lot of talk on boycott of crackers during Diwali or Deepawali. There have been a lot of Whats App forwards, videos endorsing “green Diwali” on the social media. Schools have been doing their bit in promoting the cause of an “environment friendly” Diwali to their…
#Celebrating#mediocrity

The other day I played audience to the speech of the COO of a well-known organization, as he went on and on about how his organization is the best because it hires the best. He said that his organization worked with only the best of skills and talents and if a certain someone fell short…
#Odetopoetry

I am monarch of all I survey….My right there is none to dispute From the center all round to the sea….I am lord of the fowl and the brute These lines, from the poem “The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk” by Cowper, take me back three decades. To a time when I was in school, to…
#May#our#girls#dream#big!

#May#our#girls#dream#big! Very recently a friend told me that she had been to an induction program for the new batch of trainees recruited in her company, which is a famous manufacturing concern. She chatted up with the new joinees, all of them electrical or mechanical engineers, asking them about their education, their career plans, what they…