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During my training with the Indian Police Service, we were taught how to hit with a club/lathi during lathicharge, in a step by step, almost comical manner. Interestingly, this training answered a question I always had: Why do humans keep doing stupid and outdated...

When we do something, do properly

Bollywood produces mediocre movies not because we don’t have the cameras, or the technology. We just don’t care – period. In an upcoming movie, Anil Kapoor dons the uniform of an Air Force officer (Air Commodore) but wears it with the finesse of a...

Importance of living the life

One evening in 2008, in our small two-bedroom house in New Jersey, standing on the staircase with a colorful plastic ball, my daughter asked me, ‘Papa, let us play.’ I brusquely told her, ‘No, I am very tired.’ She accepted it and did not...

Speed is useless, direction is important

Some of us are checking Slack/Microsoft Teams every 5 minutes to ‘stay on top of things’. How about an occasional break to get to the ‘bottom of things’? Remember: Being busy did not save Yahoo or Blackberry. Nor will it save you or me. So,...