Category: Hard Talk

This Fruit is Not Sour

I know I don’t have to repeat the Wolf and grape’s story, just recall it. Recent times I am facing a sort of identity crisis.  I know and believe I am doing  well to substantiate my place in the workplace.  To emphasise my contribution I have started delivering even more and in the process, fully

Patenting Banana Juice

Banana is a very rich source of energy and widely available food. How some people consume and expect it to be served, is a discussion we got to have here. It's about these 'Banana people'. Some like it peeled, some mashed and some would like to be served Banana Juice.

I am no Super Man

A famous hindu God, or call him reincarnation of God, is known for his success with his girlfriends, who were known for un-conditional love and loyalty to him. He is considered the most naughtiest and claimed ecstatic devotion. As traditional hindus we can never dislike him but will revere him as God. Now imagine, instead

Hold the Leash Close

“OMG, Why me !”. You may hold a hundred people’s list who may be better ‘deserving’ when hell broke loose on you. But think it over, it wouldn’t have been a surprise to you, but definitely the momentum had been building over time, which you should have deliberately ignored, while things were running against your

Convenience or Commitment

Convenience implies being non-committal, freelance, not holding responsibility to the outcome, easier choices. Babies are the best example for Convenience. They do what they like and cry when they dont get it. Least bothered about the pains taken by the parent to provide them with what they like, leave alone their wants. Throwing away tantrums

Beware of 2 Values

You may think there is a mistake in this title. Be assured, you will find it apt when you finish reading this. In any person or entity, whatever they may boast of, when it comes to value systems, there are two main values which cannot be avoided and must be taken care of. Simple, Face

Respect is Reciprocal

A daily scene on the road :  Biker gets embarrassed at slow moving cars, which do not allow him to move forward.  Blames easy availability of car loans that makes anybody buy cars and get on the roads and drive with ‘L’ boards.  The person driving Car curses the biker for the latter’s sharp cuts

Mind your business !

‘Actually you can help me excel in my business, by minding yours.’  I had paraphrased these lines and have used as a tag line after my email-signatures for some time.  Maybe I lack the courage to call a spade, a spade.  But I had a number of colleagues who had read, understood, and appreciated the

Dont try contraceptives on Donkeys

I am trying to be very polite and have avoided the use of the actual words that is used in this simile, but that was only for the caption.  “Don’t try condoms on donkeys, especially when they’re hard on.”  Visualize such a scene and though it may sound so funny a simile, the underlying difficulty

Be Loud enough to be Heard !

Dialogue should be a two-way communication.  But many a times, the initiator has a predetermined thought and to communicate it and only to make his point to the other, calls for a dialogue.  The intensity of the communication depends on his stature and standing.  Monotony has become a rule than exception.  Ironically the initiator would