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…
Category: Life Lessons
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…
Mental Myopia
28th April 2022Mental myopia. Once upon a time, there was an eagle in one of the grand old villages of India. It was the only eagle in…
Three wise men
5th April 2022The universe has a way of staging events in your life, often composed and timed within a short period to teach you meanings. Call the…
For my man cave, I crave
4th January 2022“Uncle, I know that you have been meditating for more than two decades and often speak about non-duality. But you have a private bar at…
What adventure means to me.
10th August 2021Nowadays, I ask myself time and again what new Adventure I can take on, which new hobby or vocation I can try. But, of course, I always get positive replies from within, and over and over again, the standard answer is that I am capable of more than I realize that adventure means to me
Advice to my younger self
6th August 2021I open the car door and see handsome, thirty-year-old me sobbing on the driver’s seat with his hands on the steering wheel. My Younger self…
The fabric of birth and death.
3rd August 2021I was contemplating the birth of my first child just as I was made to reflect the death of a person who gave me his last gift.
33 shades of green: Journey of my marriage
8th July 2021Lessons from my 33 years of married life.
A tribute to women
7th February 2021“You don’t respect Amma as much as you ought to, Appa” my 20-year-old daughter told me several years ago. Thinking about how I treated my…