“Vasudhev Kutumbakam” is a concept in Indian (Hindu philosophy) culture. It means “one world family” that is – whole world irrespective of caste, color, creed or belief system is one family. I received this message recently on whatsapp – I crossed my street ?, they asked my caste Crossed my district/town???, they asked my city Crossed my state ???, they asked my native language And I became an Indian ?? only after I crossed my Read more
The air I breath you too breath the same so does the ex-CEO of VW Martin Winterkorn. Recently, there was a huge issue of VW vehicles cheating emission testing, it resulted in heads being rolled and stock price plummeting. What Volkswagen did was – it programmed its models starting 2009 till 2015 such that during US standards testing (NOx) were met only during laboratory testing. According to Wikipedia the NOx emissions during normal driving was ~35X higher. Similarly Toshiba had been involved with accounting Read more
This video I checked a couple of weeks back somewhere. If you do not understand Marathi, read the subtitles perhaps watch twice. Liked the video thought to share it here. Source – Pocket Films – Short Films Channel
I was speaking with Fateh uncleji for more than 1/2 an hour. We were talking about many things from Indian politics to my work. When we were to conclude the talk after these long discussions, I told him I called you because I connect with you on spiritual level, I didn’t want to talk about Indian politics, corruption and my work. The voice from the other side said – “Work and spirituality live in the Read more
There have been many Messiah, and many have learnt to have peaceful life because of them. There are many who have learnt violence, the lessons were given and listeners have learnt what “they wanted” to learn. It is up to you what you learn. The invention of this story is not to hurt any religious sentiments. Here goes the story. A wealthy farmer burst into his home one day and cried out in an anguished Read more
This is a wonderful video. I just got it on Whatsapp thought to share it without any opinion, just watch and ponder, writing anything regarding the thoughts of speaker would make me wander in very many directions. So better just watch it. “Oh my god!” Have you ever thought about those things, speaker is speaking? This video made me literally say – Oh My God! the topic for LBC (Friday Loose Bloggers Consortium) blog. But I Read more
Last month when I heard the word “mayhem” with respect to the share market, instead of checking the SENSEX I checked dictionary. Though I knew the meaning of Mayhem (thanks to my preparation for GRE, when I learnt a lot of English words). I am sure many would know the meaning of the word. I had always related the word Mayhem to violence. Is the share market drift up or down a mayhem? Is it Read more
I checked the Whatsapp message, it was Jay Jiju (Jay Phadke my brother in law), my cousin sister’s husband. He had just sent a message – “I was having lunch with Soham and we were discussing ‘what is home?’ ‘what is school?’ How do you define home/school etc” Soham is my nephew – 9 year old. Smart kid and at times grown-up to his age. Instantly I could relate his questions to the Book of Read more
I had just landed from a developed nation back to India. The first experience at Mumbai airport was as usual – Humidity! I came out from the airport and boarded taxi to home. The driver – though driving taxi in Mumbai for about 2 decades – took a longer route. Exposed me to very shabby roads and potholes etc. I reached home to find out that there is some issue in water distribution pipeline of Read more
Note – This blog was initially drafted on Oct 16th 2011 and was incomplete. The author thinks – however – that love is never incomplete. I have heard that “I” cease to exist in Meditation. I was thinking about it and heard a song on radio – Jane kyun log mohabbat kiya karte hai?… English translation of the title of the song is “I do not know why people fall in love?” ‘I don’t know’ is implied here. Read more