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The Journey from Adulting to Marriage I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind lately: the journey from adulting to marriage. This is a transition I’ve personally gone through over the last 10 years—five years as a bachelor and now almost four and a half years of married life. Looking back, it’s […]
Growing Up as a People Pleaser For my whole life, I kind of focused on making other people happy while I was growing up. What meant a lot to me was if any of my actions would make my mother, my father, my grandparents happy. That became a norm because that’s what shaped my childhood, […]
So today I want to share some of my thoughts on expectations. This word has been used and abused a lot by this generation, but also by the way I was raised over the last 20 years as the only son in a very traditional family. I grew up in a household where expectations were […]
I just crossed onto the other side this year into the thirty's, which is a big deal in our society today. So, I thought of writing about it. From being the eldest son in a middle-class North Indian family to a few failed attempts at entrepreneurship to running a successful self-sustained start-up, I've been through a lot of ups and a whole more downs.
How much should you sleep? This question has been long debated, and people have a different view of when and how much to sleep to have a productive day. Sleep is the single activity taking most of the time in one's day after work.
fair idea of the expenses one has to take care of during thier first time stay in Bangalore.
In the last few days, I have heard this term so many times. But, I feel it is just being used so loosely that it actually loses its meaning. People think that talking about it or just saying it makes them modern, fashionable, or even cool.
Free time gets you thinking and sitting at Udaipur airport got me thinking of how these apps/ tools have made my life so easier. Since time immemorial tools have played an important role in one’s growth and the growth of the civilization. Some of the first tools used by men were made of stones and […]
In Indian culture, as soon as the child is born, the planning for one’s wedding starts. The family start’s gathering gold/ possessions right from the day you are born. They do this killing a lot of their own ambitions and aspirations. Now, this is also one of the costs which a family pays in an […]
My dad has been a banker for last 30 years now. Since I started understanding, it has at least been 15 years. During initial days’ things were different as it was a semi-government bank. But, soon things changed and my dad was a part of one of the largest private banks in India. The life […]
There is always so much do and achieve in one’s life. We always keep running around with the feeling of getting things done from the endless list of to do’s. There is this culture of making one feel all productive and even a second wasted is looked at terribly. But what we don’t realize is, […]
A simple thank you by your boss, or a small token of remembrance do wonders to the moral of employees and helps create a cohesive team. This helps a team go that extra mile and deliver great results. Everyone like being appreciated and we have enough good reasons for it, like: People think that they […]