Buddha
Education, religion and spirituality
When Adviti started school, I learnt an analogy between education vs learning to religion and spirituality. Spirituality is like learning.
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Competing with ourselves
Life is good when we try to be a better version of ourselves, competing with ourselves rather than trying to compete with everyone out there.
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I want to be the winner
Competition is good however, how good it is? Being a winner or part of winning team is fine, but when someone asks you about being “The Winner”, should you consider being like that?
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Education
I and my wife were rushing to our offices on our two wheeler. This a routine happens daily (include Saturday for her). Actually, this race to office is common place in Mumbai. Many go without interest and many others like us go not only with choice but also to make Read more…
Misc
Blindness
My mother teaches in a school where there are few blind students also. She talks about them passionately and praises their intelligence beyond the other students. By chance I have not been closely associated with the blind people, however I have filled my eye donation form when I was 18 years. Yes, I would Read more…
Misc
Why not define smaller things?
Last month I met Prof Mankad. I always think whenever I meet him I should record our conversation. He is indeed a library of knowledge in himself. We discussed about our education system besides many other things (blogs written last weeks) Purpose of education and Showjumping. Dr Mankad told me Read more…
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Why do we educate our kids?
When I visited my sister last time, I asked her this question – What is the purpose of education? She is a teacher, she was the best person to ask this question. I felt pity on my nieces, so I asked this question. My nieces (one just 4.5 years other Read more…
Uncategorized
Showjumping
It was a Monday morning I woke up at 6:00 AM, got ready for office. Call it Monday blues for others but for me Monday’s are s different type of race. Race to get to the main road, catch a cab (cabbies dont want to go short distance ~6 KM Read more…
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Leadership and education
Election results of couple of Indian states are out and largely there are clear mandates in all states. So, there are not many permutations and combinations happening for forming governments. I was wondering about the elections, results and post results – five years. The long term thoughts (five years after Read more…
Business to Buddha
Next is what?
I was reading a newspaper, the question came in mind – next is what? For a moment Samsung mobile advertisement came in my mind. So keep guessing, next is what for Samsung (off late for Nokia too)? Jokes apart, the question is serious, forward looking and for soul searching. The Read more…