It’s harder to be kind than to be clever.

Through a simple childhood story, Jeff Bezos illustrates a very powerful lesson.

“It’s harder to be kind than to be clever. It’s the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice.”

For the last mile, be prepared to run a different race!

Even the most complex ideas can be made simple and relevant with the help of a story or an example. This is illustrated beautifully by Sendhil Mullainathan, a behavioral economist whose TED talk describes social problems that remain…

My Experiments with English Tutoring Models

An experiment is a set of steps or a procedure conducted to examine the validity of a hypothesis, or to determine the efficacy of something previously untried.

The Questions we often ask ourselves in India

Life is India is just remarkable! Every day we witness an unthinkable and diverse set of experiences that if we decided to pause our routine and think about them, we would never move beyond the first experience in the morning. That’s probably why…

Predicting Longevity in Relationships

I happen to be surrounded by many individuals who are looking for that perfect someone to complete them. They often wonder if they are applying the right filters in their selection process. What should they be looking for in that person?

In a philosophical mood today…creating my own quotes!

There are phases in life when your heart leads you and when your heart misleads you. The problem is telling the difference before the phase is over.

Allowing someone to get away with temper as an excuse makes…

When ‘Return (of) Investment’ matters more than ‘Return (on) Investment’

“The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And money to return before I sleep,
And money to return before I sleep.”

The 140 characters on my grave

Death can be a powerful tool to look within. It’s a miracle how we often live without respecting this unimaginable force of nature. It’s certainly not something that happens only to others. Often when something unthinkable happens, I step back and remember how death is also…

A Happy Marriage

If you share an emotion, it will be perceived.
If you share a dream, it will be conceived.
If you share friends, they will be welcomed.
If you share family, both will be pampered.

If you share joy, it will get doubled.
If you share pain, it will breed friendship.
And if…

The ‘Unremarkable’ Trap!

“Conclusion: This Abdominal ultrasound is unremarkable”.

At first, it seemed strange, and almost made me sad, to read the word “unremarkable” to describe something so important. Doctors always use strange words to precisely convey their readings. I learnt…