Through my interactions with many people over the past few years, I’ve come to see how brilliantly equitable we are at work but blatantly discriminatory at home. Up until the office became an escape, everything was fine. Even if not all homes or workplaces are discriminatory and not all offices or workspaces are equally fair,Continue reading “Remote working exposes societal faultlines”
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Parting Song : Goodbye my Friend
No Music, No Orchestra, No singer around but I can hear the music, orchestra and a beautiful song. Song so loud that, it woke me up at 4:00 AM despite body yet to recover from a long tiring previous day. I woke up to listen to the song carefully and feel the music. Upon attention,Continue reading “Parting Song : Goodbye my Friend”
Vande Mataram (Salute to the Mother)
“Thank you for understanding the pain of a working mother”, One woman employee told to her manager when her manager carefully listened the struggle that she goes through everyday managing her two kids and then cutting across the traffic of the city and showing the professional world a face that she is fine. She couldn’t get aContinue reading “Vande Mataram (Salute to the Mother)”
School Hunt and Stray Dog
You don’t know….? Don’t tell me….? Yes… (sigh) Stray Dog decided to leave Baroda and come back to Bangalore. Stray Dog’s (Let’s call him S-D) core nature is to remain stray. Yes, Baroda was his favorite lane. He has expressed his feeling time to time about Baroda, why he loves Baroda etc but as muchContinue reading “School Hunt and Stray Dog”
A new Car in the Society
Amrut-Ganga Society is a residents society of an apartment which has 16 flats. Although the apartment was in a livable condition since past 3 years but did not have all the amenities till recently. In these 3 years the occupancy has increased from 2 to 11. New families came in and new friends were made.Continue reading “A new Car in the Society”
Varna management
At midnight, when usually you would see some programmers or testers burning their midnight oil, to the surprise of everybody, managers were around. It looks like all were working hard but nobody has a clue what they want to achieve. “I hate when senior leadership changes. The entire way of working changes and creates soContinue reading “Varna management”
Maha Shashti – Welcoming the Daughter
All excitement to welcome a confident, successful and influential daughter to her home. She has been busy throughout the year doing her duties as a powerful daughter on this earth. This daughter is different. Long ago when respect for women, freedom of less powerful and concentration of intellectuals were disturbed by some negative elements, influentialContinue reading “Maha Shashti – Welcoming the Daughter”
Sunday Morning Thought – Abstract
Every moment in my life I thought I am right till that moment was old enough to be called as past and I am out of that mental set up. I don’t regret being wrong then and I don’t think if I were to live that moment again I would have thought differently. I thinkContinue reading “Sunday Morning Thought – Abstract”
Looking Through the window
It’s very rare when we look at the world the way it is. The world is just a reflection of our current state of mind plus some interpretation of our senses. If I am feeling cold in a hot summer because I am sitting is a cold cabin of an air-conditioned office, I feel asContinue reading “Looking Through the window”
Life as Sakti 