In search of my younger self
Are you the one we’ve been searching for, or will our search continue after this conversation? In 2007, my mission was clear. To learn all the things I could. To serve all the people and businesses…
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2016
Rejected
I heard about the IDP Education Fair happening in Bangalore. So, I and our business development intern decided to attend the fair. Our aim was to network with the officials of the foreign Universit…
How I won the battle over sleep
Growing up, I was a hardcore sleeper. I was the type that sleep-talk ;-). Wake me in the middle of the night to go and pee, and I’ll head straight to the kitchen or somewhere odd and start do…
Embarrased
Earlier today, I did a Google search about something I did in 2011 as I needed to make an important reference to it. What happened next embarrassed me. I saw articles I wrote in 2011. Oh my! What p…
Peace
I think too many of us underrate the importance of inner peace. Or what it truly means. Money. Friends. Family. Everything else. We tend to place all these above the most important thing our soul c…
Losing 10k
I just lost about the same amount I intended to save at the end of the month by cycling to work daily. So, my Day 1 ride back home wasn’t fun. I had withdrawn 15k rupees this afternoon to settle an…
Cycling to work: Day 1
Oh boy! I began my challenge this morning and it wasn’t easy. It is my longest one-way commute on a bicycle so far. It took about 40 minutes. I feel it could have been shorter if I took anoth…
Less is more
Last year, I starting getting obsessed with minimal living. I read a lot of articles about minimalism and it looked like something I wanted to try out despite growing up with the mentality that the…
It’s cycling time
From the 4th of January 2016, I will be experimenting cycling to work and other medium distance commute within Bangalore. No, it’s not a New Year resolution. I have been nursing the idea of b…
2015
Adieu Grandpa
At 83 years, grandpa took in his last breathe, yesterday. I am grateful to you for being a good father to my mum. There is no way she would have been a virtuous woman without a dad like you. She told us several stories about all the trainings you gave her and her siblings while growing up. The daughter you raised passed on those values to us.
