Think Tank

Within a month after weddings in India, some kind of feedback flows from sasural to mayake. These feedbacks can come as one-offs or can come regularly. Some in-laws follow this custom almost religiously with utmost sincerely. Not that the bride’s parents don’t know these facts about their own daughter, but the in-laws consider it their [...]

(Life V2)�जो आँखें नहीं देख पातीं�I think I grew up with a prejudice. Somewhere I picked up that handsome and beautiful people are nice and not so good looking people are inferior in some ways. As such if I look back, I remember finding so many good looking people who were not nice too. E.g. [...]

(Life V2) (Story) Sun and Sky Once upon a time, this world was different. Everything had a soul and no one could hide one�s feelings. One fine morning, the Wind came in a hurry and made a whistling sound. Sky was sleeping comfortably. It woke up and saw that it was already a day� Sun was shining [...]

Life V2After reading about the life of a lot of Indian leaders, if I am able to identify one �Indian Value� which is common in most of them � it is �humbleness�. Be it Ratan Tata or Nandan Nilekani, Gandhi ji or Atal Bihari Vajpayee, or any of the business leaders which come to our [...]

Life V2Better a loser than a runaway  I don�t like bad guys from the movies because of some obvious reasons. But there is one of them whom I can�t have enough. Vivek Oberoi as Maya � in Shootout at Lokhandwala! Is Vivek really a bad guy? I am not sure. But yes, negative characters with [...]

Life V2Kid Summer Knight�s Dreams� Summer of 2008 was so special. This summer, I saw the most beautiful dream and also got the worst heart aches. Met family, kids and so many nice people and suffered loneliness too. Enjoyed so many travels and visits, but was forced to remain confined too. Felt so strong, and [...]

Life V2Happy Puppies :) �The locality where I live in is a mini-Gujarat; it has a large population of Gujaratis and Jains. I love it :) OK, I love to see the men in dhotis going to the temples in the early mornings (and some times their young kids in cute little dhotis too), their [...]

Life V2Confident: and how? ��Is she really confident?� I wondered. “If she is, then why does she use swear-words?” I asked. “I don’t know, but she is damn self confident”, was the reply. �I remembered reading a book on Body Language, which revealed how superficial is the confidence of those who �look� like so. The [...]

Life V2The lady and her Dogs�On an after-dinner walk, I and my friend reached a road block. We watched a lady crossing the road. She seemed to be in her forties. She had a big polythene bag in one hand and a purse was hanging from her other shoulder. As she crossed the road, a [...]