Musings in Swarga : A trip to Sakleshpur

When I make short holiday trips with family, the mind is relaxed. Many thoughts cross my mind when I’m surrounded by trees ahead, and clouds above. For me, writing a travel blog is an effective way of capturing a fleeting moment in time. Photographs and…

Remember these 3 Ps at an early stage Product Startup

Turning the page…

End of a vacation is a swell time to get reflective. In the last week, I made a short trip to Calcutta to meet an old friend, and then got to spend a lot of time just existing, around the wife and the dog. In these days gone by, a lot of “best of decade” content came at me from all sides — Google…

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau

Memories of Maggi

Most days, I walk back from work. It’s pretty much the only exercise I get, not proud of it but that’s the way it goes when you’re hustling at a startup. My walks are important to me: it’s my 30 minutes of solitude, music and thinking.

The concept of vertical ascension and my problems with it

I am currently in the process of developing my personal philosophy of life. Right now, I do not have many conclusions. However, there are some things I have come to believe in the last few years -

Was thinking today about all the ups and downs life makes you experience in a day. I guess the trick is to maintain some degree of equanimity through it all – adversity should not derail you, neither should success elevate you to cloud nine.

Brought back to memory lines from my favourite poet Gulzar :

The media is always selling the flavour of the season. Of late, it’s been startups.

Advertisements consistently feature young people working in startups. Successful. Enjoying their work. Living it up with trek colleagues. Making more money than they can spend, hence always living the good life.

*Written completely with dictation – had to make less than 10 edits in the whole blog after talking!*

I am going to try and write this blog just with my voice. Sound recognition has been getting very strong of late. I was using voice today to ask maps for directions and was pretty surprised, pleasantly so, with a smooth…

Rishtedaar-inspired rap

Note: Maama Maami mentioned here are fictional. Real maama maami are very sweet people. “Maama Maami” here epitomize a certain category of folks, who we all encounter in our lives.

Ghar baithe shaanti se gatak raha tha chai,