Be a good human being

There is no such thing as ‘karma’ – good deeds don’t always generate tangible rewards. What goes around, need not come around. One might then ask: If good deeds don’t create good karma, why should we do good things? Because they are...

Experience is overrated

When I first met my Inspector General of Police (IGP) after taking charge as Trivandrum Police Commissioner, he went on a rant. He said, “I don’t know how the government posted you here and how you will handle such a tough assignment. This is really...

Changing perspectives

A few years ago, I was on a flight from Jaipur to Bangalore. As soon as the flight took off, the plane ran into the kind of turbulence I had never encountered before — it was getting violently tossed up and down. Sometimes, it felt like the plane was in free...

Overcome FOMO

In the early 2000s, I got into the habit of regularly watching TV. Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong per se with that, but at some point, I started feeling anxious that I would miss out on some new episode or some upcoming movie. In those days, I had not heard...