Recently, when I put the phone down after congratulating someone on the other side of the phone, the person who was in my presence asked,...

While the philosophical idea of truth can be debated endlessly without coming to any conclusions, in our real life we need to distinguish...

We can look at our strengths as our personality strengths (I am…), our external resources like our relationships, our possessions, our...

Most of us cannot go to sleep because we cannot stop thinking. The body is tired but the brain is active. Being primarily visual...

Enhancing personal efficiency Two similar incidents happened recently showing me how to avoid forgetting some jobs. On day 1, my nephew...

Recently, I was telling someone in their twenties how to handle a particular problem in their life and I had a sudden sense of deja vu....

Affirmations are thoughts you consciously repeat to your self desiring a specific outcome. These are curious. Do they work? Sometimes...

Odious. Parents wield many weapons against their children. Sharp laced comments, insidious barbs, emotional blackmail or the deadly...

A Self-awareness Question You have it, but not enough. That is what a lack would mean. You have money, education, security, relationship...

If you don’t like particular weather (cold, hot, rainy, humid etc.,) you have two choices: move to a place where the weather is different...

You want to stop the loop thinking. You want to end the tape that is running in your head. You want to switch off the film running inside...

People have to find someone more ambitious than them, more interested in the worldly things than them, more ‘greedy’ than them and...

All Indians are philosophers! It is there in our blood. Any situation, any place, any time, we can easily summon some aspect of...

This is another idea like your ‘hometown’ that is beginning to get diffused and turning slowly into shapelessness. Many of us struggle to...

As children, we are dependent on the adults around us for almost everything. Slowly as the child grows up, the sense of wanting to be...

As a former banker, I have always been aware of the power of compound interest. As applied to finance, it means that you earn a small sum...

We all differ on the amount of money we have, but the one resource all of us have in equal measure is time. Eventually, while money gets...

One of the common questions asked when people are meeting for the first time or in a formal interview is, “Which is your hometown?” In a...

Eight of the members of my family had gathered together. People across three generations. We needed to decide where to go for dinner and...

Recently when one of my friends was being exhorted by his wife about what not to tell some visitors expected home, remarked, “Saraswati...