Kill or be killed!

During one of my sessions on ‘Understanding MBA’ at CH last month, I came across an old question once again. If there were a universal list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), this one would manage a position at least among the top 3.  When looked at from two different points of view, the question could…

Corporate Training

One of my most cherished experiences of training would remain the Languages Skills sessions that we conducted in two batches of Ranbaxy, Dewas. There were numerous lighter moments a few of which I can still recall:   Who is suffering? During one of our discussions in the Managers Batch, a few participants lamented how they…

Same old love

My dad often tells me that marriage is about falling in love with the same person all over again. Well I am not married yet so dont know. But yes, I keep falling in love with the same fragrance of my perfume I had dumped a few months ago…… Every time I switch to a new…

My Dillemmas

As the work piles up every day and every night even as I struggle to say NO to assignments, I find it a constant scare to match up with people’s expectations in relationships. I find it hard to just drop an email to a friend, yet manage to please a few of them. Two, putting…

Meet Me

I wrote this last year in a real hot afternoon of April. Just couldn’t think of a better way to introduce myself. Hence this:   I asked God one day: What’s so special about your world? He replied: It has YOU. I grumbled to Him one day: Why can’t I have my own Television Program?…

What if my hair didn’t grow?

Have you ever felt after a hair-cut that your hair would never grow again? Well I did. And believe me, it is no joke to grow your hair. Here goes my story.   On May 5 2007, I was going to have my first hair-cut in 13 years. Posing a confident look, I checked in…

A man and a Sarangi

It has the ability to take out the emptiness from one’s heart. The clear and deep sound that emanates from the instrument touches the most intimate chords and almost brings one to tears. Unlike the cacophony that passes for music these days, this soulful instrument infuses in one almost a feeling of piety. This instrument…

Best of my headlines

My favourite headlines: These are some of the wittiest headlines I have ever given on news pieces and articles during my four-year long writing career.     I Know what you will do next summer- I had given this headline to a news piece about a seminar that claimed that the police would be able…

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