The US being downgraded from AAA to AA+ is being touted as a huge and big event impacting the world economy. It is exactly like a cancer patient in ICU dying. Yes if he is a relative, the eyes do get moist. If he is very close, you might even feel devastated. However the day […]
A few days ago I did a post sayings ‘Indians are under-insured’. It was so good that Dr. Khan came and commented (!).. However some of the comments were really saddening! When a person died (and his son died with him) – his wife got more money on the child’s policy than what she got […]
Just stepped down in our building to stand near a dead body being removed. Had no intention of going to the cemetary…suddenly there were not enough people willing to touch a dead body. Whatever be the reason this was the first funeral of a person whose name I do not know. This was the mother […]
One kid in our office was expressing some negative thoughts, or so I thought. Went to my archives and sent him a note on positive thoughts, and positive behavior. In fact wanted to send him the example from ‘The Secret’ but did not have a soft copy. The gist was if you keep saying something, […]
This story was told to me in the Indigo flight from Delhi to Mumbai by one of India’s good trainers – and a super story teller. Surprising that he has not thought of ‘Story telling as a therapy’ as a career. His name is Samir Parekh. If you are wondering what is the connection, here […]