A Pear-fect Crime, almost Shakes-Pearean
13th November 2023“You must take this, I insist,” said our kind hosts and handed a bag to Mamatha, my wife, as we were leaving their home in…
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A Cosmic wedding.
26th October 2023In my lifetime, I have borne witness to over a hundred weddings, yet the one I had the privilege of attending last week in the heart of Chicago stirred my soul like no other wedding.
Our ancient scientists.
11th August 2023Last week I saw the movie, #Oppenheimer. Though the movie is intense and illustrious, Gita’s inappropriate placement in the movie notwithstanding(I keep #BhagavatGita always in…
Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 HEARTEN Awards
3rd August 2023The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book Awards…
My affair with America
2nd August 2023As a youth, I was fascinated with anything American, from Hollywood to Mad Magazines, McDonald’s to Walmart, and Time Square to Las Vegas. I was…
You are a writer too.
17th July 2023Mr. Rao, what made you write your first book?” the young man asked me at a gathering where I was the chief guest giving…
Maid in the lower world.
31st December 2022The grilled shrimps were exquisite, and I got up to get another serving at a 5 Star hotel in Bangalore last month. In walked four…
Spiti, Himalayas
30th December 2022See God in Her Wonders One thing that melts your physical self-image and ego to a tiny nothingness at once is the sight of natural…
Women were the unsung entrepreneurs behind successful businesspeople
2nd December 2022In the patriarchal era of the 20th century, business historians ignored women and their contributions to the commercial successes of their entrepreneur husbands or fathers,…
Three timeless lessons for start-ups
16th November 2022Intellectual capital No books or information were available on the Agarbathy industry that required perfumery knowledge. Most Agarbathies manufacturers counted only on forest produce and…