Reflections

Apoorva understood he had great intuition powers right in his childhood. Was it extra sensory perception or premonition or was he an old soothsayer reborn? He grew up as a precocious child, loved by all. His predictions would be more often than not accurate and slowly the neighbours also came to know of his prophesies hitting the target. The neighbours would ask him about their exam results and all sundry matters. He enjoyed all the attention that he got and sometimes he felt he had something extra in him. As he grew up, his miraculous powers were put to lesser use. Family members didn’t consult him anymore and he also forgot that he had any of those fabled capacities. Once it so happened in his late teens, Apoorva and his friends had an altercation with an autorickshaw for a paltry sum. But those were the days when even the small got magnified. In the anger of being cheated, he cursed that the driver would receive his due. Muttering choicest expletives he was walking down to road...

Apoorva, a man in his late thirties, got the key to his longstanding pain through the realisation made from a sitting with his physiotherapist, Dr. Kumar. Not long ago, when Apoorva landed up in the same city where his good friend practiced and taught yoga, he was elated with unbound happiness for two reasons. The first being reunion with the old friend and the second one being the thought of having a blessing that his friend could cure him of a very old pain. A pain that had become his shadow in the last two decades. Apoorva shared his experiences and the pain in his back that haunted him almost every day, a nagging reminder of the years when Apoorva wanted to be a cricketer. A faulty bowling action had left him with a pain for life. Cricket was left behind in search of a job and in the pursuit of excelling in the job. He had no alternative in life, no throwback option available but to succeed in his professional career. Cricket was long gone but the pain remained and reminded him ...

As a child grows up, there is a constant reminder fed ad nauseum – you’ve to be successful when you grow up. There was a change in script when arguably the most adored Indian post MK Gandhi took up the cause of transforming young minds. He was loved by all. I haven’t come across any person till date who had something to say against this great man. “Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success”, he said. Some recipes for failure is what can be expected from what is commencing here onwards that has been decocted from my life experiences. Hope it helps someone who is just about ready to receive! Be timid and you’re headed down under (not geographically!). Courage has to be up there as the most important ingredient to do anything worthwhile in life. Anyone aspiring a leadership role needs this in generous portions. More often than not courage is misunderstood as having the ability to shoot from the mou...

" Osmosis  is the spontaneous net movement of  solvent  molecules through a  semi-permeable membrane  into a region of higher  solute concentration, in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides”. A basic scientific phenomenon that we studied in high school science which exists and is at work, with or without our knowledge, for life and other natural occurrences to go on. Life just works, on its own. We don’t control it but there are many such scientific phenomena that have been working since times immemorial, continue to work right now as we are going about our lives at this very moment and will continue to work in times to come and without which life in this planet and other planets, if there is any, would cease. When we delve deep into the relation between this physical phenomenon and our mental make-up, it seems to govern even subtler aspects of our lives – our likes, dislikes, desires, cravings etc. Whom we...