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  • My Baba..I love you….you live on

    #daughtertofather Today is father’s day. Its been more than eight years he left, but there is probably not a single day I don’t remember him. I had written this long back. … My father is my hero. I guess everyone’s is. But my hero changed so much over a span of just ten years that…

  • Performance, not hours matter

    A friend of mine often complained that her current maid did not work hard enough. I listened with a lot of empathy. I am sure all Indian women would be empathetic in such situations. The “maid” topic is a great topic of conversation and a catalyst to friendship. But as topics go, even the “maid”…

  • Chaos and creativity

    Chaos and creativity

    Years back I had written this article for our internal newsletter…….. Most of us have a fondness for an orderly life. For every situation in work & life, we seek to follow a method, conform to a system, derive an equation, apply a formula, cast into a mould. The complicated system of the universe has been…

  • The ethics of pressure tactics

    The boss came and shouted to the coop of hens “Tomorrow all of you need to lay four eggs. I’ll come in the morning and check. Whoever doesn’t is going to be sent to the farmers house and cooked for lunch”. The next day the boss came and checked. He saw that all had laid…

  • #Celebrating the #breadwinner and the #homemaker

    Sometime back some of my working women friends got together over a cup of tea. Out of the many things we discussed, there was one thing that got me thinking. We found that a lot of women decide not to work. The reasons could be marriage, bringing up children, taking care of parents, or looking…

  • The Act or Art of being busy

    What is this life if full of care? We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows! I wonder if William Henry Davis had visualized the always busy state of people today when he wrote this poem in 1911. Sometime back,…