2019 was alright not my best but not the worst 🙂I have come face to face with the fact that I have acquired only virtual skills but very few physical skills /skills that actually matter. I still can’t swim although I did manage to do sea-diving in Bali(It was a very enriching experience that taught …
Author Archives: Sonam Powar
The -ve of ROMANTICIZING ones Dreams
What it means is to fall in love with your dreams and day-dream about your dreams. We grow up Romanising our heroes – Steve jobs, mark Zuckerberg, bill gates, warren buffet etc and one often day dream about being like them, glorified like them, worshipped like them!! I know some folks from Silicon Valley who …
Feeling vs Discipline
Mind is a complex organ, it debates itself, it believes itself, it adores itself, it belittles itself!! It’s always a love-hate relationship the brain has itself. Its an age old debate, whether you need discipline to succeed , nah nah you need motivation to achieve greatness otherwise you simply follow orders. Both – discipline & …
When K. Sivan & Narendra Modi broke the glass ceiling
Often I wonder how does one measure the virtue in one’s character? It has been an emotional turmoil since 1:48 a.m. today. Vikram lander lost communication with 2.1 km before the final descent. A silence that resounded across the country. An understandably upset ISRO chief making the announcement that they are analyzing the data. A …
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When we gave our beloved Chaand a “Jaadu Ki Jhappi”
Everyone (by that I mean the news anchors) are screaming that history has been made,rightly so ofcourse but we must realise that not just history but future has also been forged today; With millions watching,praying and finding a national emotional connection with Chandrayaan & its vikram lander These are moments when dreams get etched in …
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My Food, My Life
Once upon a time there existed only 2 kind of food – one that you loooove and the one that you didn’t love but simply had to eat because choice had not seeped into our plates back then. The food that we loved comprised of sweets, my favorite sabzi, my favorite fish curry, my favorite …
Small Achievements, Big Glory
I have been thinking about the small things in life, the small pains, the small pleasures, the small achievements, the small failures. I’m trying to understand the relation between the small and big Big failures, Big achievements, big joys, big pains. I’m reminded of my travels to Florence,Italy, where I was dumbstruck by the creation …
DANCE OF SECULAR MONARCHY
The last couple of days have presented themselves with a gamut of emotions. A question repeatedly surfacing “Is this a SECULAR India” “Is this the India that Gandhiji envisioned” It took me quite a while to understand the English word SECULAR and why everyone makes such a big deal of it? Its like a new …
V.G. Siddhartha Hegde – VICTOR to VICTIM
Christopher Nolan proposed in The Dark Knight, “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain” I don’t think that this is a natural progression – hero to villain and it becomes more and more clearer with the suicide of the billionaire Siddhatha hedge. I didn’t think I would be …
THINGS WOMEN WORRY ABOUT WHEN THEY ARE GETTING READY FOR OFFICE
I read somewhere “There is nothing rarer, nor more beautiful, than a woman being apologetically herself, comfortable in her perfect imperfection” To me, that is the true essence of beauty. No matter how you perceive yourself, being a woman guarantees stares, uncalled judgement & a feeling that feels like ‘You are on display’. Often, I’m …
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