Away

Traveling outstation today for a course and then at Ashram till 2nd Sep for Teachers Refresher Meet. Consequently there will be no posts till first week of Sep.

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Away

At Ashram for the next three days for a Apex course. Posts will be slow to come by.

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View life in the context of death

When someone young, someone close to you passes away, the reality of what life is dawns. As we get engrossed in the daily humdrum of life, fighting petty battles, chasing the next hike, promotion, car, house…, death puts everything in perspective. Life is too short, too fragile, too precious to be wasted in irrelevant, meaningless [...]

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Art of Waking People Up!

“Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to be open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let [...]

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End of an era?

Is this the end of the Tendulkar era? My heart says no, the head doesn’t agree though! For years I have dropped everything to see him bat. Of late, I wince when I see him bat. Well, all good things come to an end, don’t they? I do hope he doesn’t go the Ganguly route [...]

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Hello WordPress!

I am playing around with wordpress and want to see if I can move my blog to this platform. Two reasons: a) I like the look and feel of WordPress b) Saves me money that I was spending with Typepad. Let me know what you think!

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Sat, Mar 04, 2006

Went to this amusement park called Wonderla off Mysore Road today. Loved it. Clean water, hygenic food and great rides!

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Leading with Questions

I wrote about questions earlier [here] and [here]. Yesterday I picked up a wonderful book on Leading with Questions waiting to read it on my flight back home. Meanwhile, if you dear readers have any other references to good articles and books on questioning, inquiry, critical thinking resources etc. please drop in a note or [...]

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Turning Dreams to reality against all odds

There are the dreamers and then there are the doers. This post is about one such person – Dr. Prakash Vinjamuri. An incident in his life early on changed his entire perspective towards life. The result was the birth a dream, a vision that believes in developing informed citizens, so that we have a just [...]

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Be prepared to wait longer at the ATMs

There is no escape… Earlier this month, the BMP (Bangalore Mahanagar Palike – the corporation) decided to impose what it called a ‘basic infrastructure (where is it?) cess’ and a monthly cess on ‘solid waste management’. This is apart from what the BMP collects from its citizen called the Property Tax. Lest we forget, Petrol [...]

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