One of the common phrases that we grew up listening to was this: Roti Kapda Aur Makaan. Yes, there is an old Indian movie with the same name but the gist is this: common man strives to achieve these three things in their life – Roti (bread/food), Kapda (c...

In my school days, I loved playing chess. It was my favorite board game for the longest time. The other game was Tic Tac Toe. During lectures in the college days, this game was the boredom killer. Or do you remember the line drawing games called Squares?...

My earliest memories of root cause analysis was when my parents were trying to figure out why I had done a mischief. Why did you do this? I answered. They asked again, why did you do that? I answered. Th­­ey asked again, why did you do that? And on and on...

I’m a proud 10 seconds swimmer. I take one deep breath, and strenuously take some strides in the water and then, when I’m at the end of my breath, I stop. This I repeat till I reach the end of the swimming pool. That is as much of swimming that I know. No...

During my first job, when I got my first credit card, I remember how I went on a shopping spree. Yes, I’m not proud of what I did back then. Back then, I was a sucker for red colored t shirts. So in one of those episodes, I had gone to a recently opened c...

Fitness Classes Can Improve Your Health

This is an excerpt from one of my projects during my early years as a project manager. After a go live for one of the products, we ran into several defects in the production environment, despite all the prior testing showing otherwise. At the time, this w...

If only time travel were truly a thing, I wouldn’t need to write this post.

If I tell you that we practice time travel every single day, you would say I’m making things up. But just come to reflect on our thought processes. Almost all the time, we are either thinking about what happened in the past or contemplating about what wil...

Do you know why they are called ‘Mind games’? Because they are just that, games that our mind plays. The human mind is a queer organ, born clean slate (tabula rasa), but once the ego develops, it starts its machinations. The human mind is said to be a goo...

I can very well visualize your journey so far. You’ve been dunked in hard work for years, raising your career graph. Along the way, what also increases is the figure on the weighing scale and the inches on the waist that just refuse to show signs of turni...

Confession time. I’m a foodie. I love food and can never get enough of it. There are times I’m super hungry around 1am when I’m working. Thanks to technology and several restaurants that offer food delivery services, it is now more easy than ever to just...

I’m a victim of kidney stones. I’ve had the unfortunate times of experiencing the excruciating pain that these cause. The common advice that the doctors have during each visit to the clinic was to stay adequately hydrated. I’ve recently come to know that...

If you’ve been leading a sedentary lifestyle, your mind is full of guilt for not having the time to exercise. You feel bad for all those times you knew you shouldn’t but dug into a sumptuous burger or that sumptuous cheese pizza and slurped all those fizz...

So it’s been like a couple of hours that you’ve hit the pillow and maybe counted over a million sheep! The mind and body are both dead tired but you’re unable to fall asleep. To add to your woes perhaps, everyone at home is fast asleep and you keep wonder...

We are now living in a world wherein we are fed with information, constantly, in various forms. There is just way too much of information that we are exposed to, often distracting us from our to-do, goals, objectives and the likes.