School of Meaningful Experiences completed one full year of operations on November 20th 2019. It feels like only yesterday when I posted the first blog about my venture, SoME, to all of you. This has been the most eventful year of my life. Each day was like a roller-coaster and…

School of Meaningful Experiences took its first baby steps and is now 6 months old. We successfully wrapped-up our 9-day summer camp last week. 21 awesome teens from all over Bangalore, some as far as Nagarbhavi, Malleshwaram, Hebbal, JP Nagar besides Koramangala, HSR Layout and Indiranagar joined the camp. I…

On Feb 20th 2019, I touched the milestone of “First Quarter” of the School of Meaningful Experiences (SoME). I feel a tremendous sense of gratitude towards God and all of you. Thank you for your wonderful support and look forward to more of it as I move forward in this…

On Saturday mornings, I drop my daughter to her dance class and then walk in a park nearby. I love that place. It has a jogging track, nice benches to sit around, a mini playground for kids and even an outdoor gym. On one such Saturday, after dropping my daughter…

Every summer, I conduct boot camps on oratory for teenagers. Most of my work is with MBA students, entrepreneurs and senior business executives. So working with a younger group is a refreshing experience. But, making them sit in one place to think and reflect is impossible since they get bored…

In the last few weeks, two events caught my attention. One event was that Mr Rahul Dravid, The Wall and the coach of the under 19 cricket team, turned down the reward money given to him by the government after the team won the world cup. Instead, he asked that…

The best movie I watched this year was “Dangal” — a story of a father obsessed with a dream of making his daughters into award-winning professional wrestlers. But this blog is not about the main hero Amir Khan or the girls and the difficulties they had to face. This blog…

I am a big fan of Farhan Akhtar. In 2001, he came out with a movie called “Dil Chahta Hai” and redefined Indian cinema. He is extremely talented and proved that he can script and direct movies. In 2007, with “Rock On”, he proved that he could act as well…

The last few weeks have been very strange for me personally. I was dealing with a major setback in my life and was wallowing in my “trough of sorrow” — a term made famous by Paul Graham of Y-Combinator and explained beautifully by Joe Gebbia of AirBnB in a must-listen…