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...
During the first year of my MBA, as I sat down for the end-semester exam of the Operations Management course, a classmate next to me noisily opened a packet of potato chips. As he started munching, its crackling and rustling sound irritated the hell out of me. How...
In any weapon training, when you learn to shoot, you need to align three points – the back of the rifle barrel (‘backsight’), the front tip of the rifle (‘foresight’), and the target’s center. Seems pretty straightforward. But next comes...
Is a 20 kg rucksack too heavy? Probably yes, but only if you carry it on your back. If you put it down, it has no weight at all. The same goes for our worries. We often carry way too much burden in our heads. Why not put them down? But this sounds too simplistic...
Recently, on CNN, I saw this heart-rending, yet inspiring story of 20-year-old Joe Dimeo receiving the world’s first face and hand transplant. Badly burnt in a car crash, Joe’s face and arms were practically destroyed. Yet, despite the overwhelming tragedy, he...
