Good people pay a huge price

It was my first job. I joined the R&D team for a corporate training company.I was earning 15K/month – more money than I ever thought I would make. Life was good for the first 2-3 months.And then came the turning point. One of the biggest FMCG companies...

3 signs of a true friend

1. No one is truly your friend until they have seen the worst of you and still choose to stay. 2. No one is truly your friend until they say “I believe in you” when you struggle to believe in yourself. 3. No one is truly your friend until they choose to...

Stories drive our understanding of the world

As kids, all we heard were stories.  True stories.Fiction.Mythology. And these stories shaped up our worldview. Our fears, hopes, desires and imagination stems from these stories. But as we grow up, logic takes over. 1+1 becomes 2 and nothing else.History becomes...

I almost gave up hope

Class 6 Dad had just lost his job. We were under severe debt. Desperate for money, he started working at a corporate gifts biz.  That night, we had to fill ball pens with refills, to be paid per 100 pens. The room was full of pens. And I asked “how will we...

Money is NOT the root cause of all evil

??From an early age, thinking about money was not encouraged. It was the unsaid rule that money is important, but thinking about it is evil.After all, money was the reason behind the fights, the wars, the disagreements. Now I know, it is not money that is the cause.It...