Neruda and our six year old

Yesterday after the Halloween “trick or treats” and after my scheduled daily calls from work at night as I sit down to read a few lines… Our younger one who was still awake (courtesy to his afternoon Nap) asks me “can you read me a big book” Thinking he should be referring to the size of the book I tell him “yes go get the … Continue reading Neruda and our six year old

Learning Teaching Forgetting and Breathing

As human beings we have a consistently increasing ability to learn and teach… and of course an intelligently cultivated skill to forget…. This in one way also probably defined our transitions in the latter parts on the evolutionary road… Some even religiously forget the ape connection…. But what we have also acquired in this process is a strong inhibition to accept that we learned something … Continue reading Learning Teaching Forgetting and Breathing

Godmen, Godwomen and other Sidekicks to God

It is sad to note how much people get fooled by those who claim to change things around by moving a few stones or drawing a few columns and by claiming to read the movement of stars and planets that they say constitute your destiny. Yes I am talking of the con artists who come out and take advantage of vulnerable good individuals, trapping them … Continue reading Godmen, Godwomen and other Sidekicks to God

Jiddu, Gurdjeiff, Awareness, Waking Sleep and some thoughts

Once Jiddu Krishnamurti was traveling in a car and Pupul jayakar and another eminent personality (whose name fails my brain now) were sitting in the back seat discussing the true meaning of awareness and conscious…and the discussion got heated with both of them opening up their knowledge boxes in response to the other. Both of them were influenced a lot by Jiddu (Pupul even wrote … Continue reading Jiddu, Gurdjeiff, Awareness, Waking Sleep and some thoughts

Resume Building and Jumping Ships

Earlier there was nothing called a resume building process that is tightly coupled with a person’s career. You finish education, get on the first job that comes and then retire from that job. Working for the Government and the private company was nothing different when it comes to the tenure you spend in a place. But then it changed when people started changing the companies … Continue reading Resume Building and Jumping Ships

Education, Career and Passion

If you started your career in India as I did in the early nineties people had two choices Computer and Non Computer and as I moved on the years I found several people who in spite of taking non computer streams of education ended up in the computer field. Having done electrical engineering I myself found to be in the Information technology field. This was … Continue reading Education, Career and Passion