Suffering: A Sacred Lens to your Inner Self.
20th June 2024Adversities and hardships shape character and motivate you to help others facing similar difficulties. This motivation leads to a willingness to contribute positively to society….
Category: Life Lessons
Always take the long term view.
12th April 2024ALWAYS TAKE THE LONG TERM VIEW At the age of 22, I faced my first episode of anxiety and panic disorder after returning from a…
Embrace a growth mindset. Edit your life.
10th February 2024In my 66 years on this planet, I’ve realized that a unique blessing from the Universe is the constant opportunity to edit and rewrite my…
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…
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…
Hindu Festivals and what they mean to me
24th October 2022New clothes, plenty of goodies to eat, and most importantly, no school. As a boy growing up in a traditional Hindu Family, the very mention…
The day I became a father
18th June 2022“Amma, Anna,” Mamatha’s screams continued, now occurring every other minute, and the decibel of her screams increased as well. Finally, unable to bear it, my…
A friend in need even when he was dead in deed.
7th June 2022My father-in-law died exactly a month ago. He was eighty-five when he died. My earliest memory of my father-in-law is the first dinner I had…