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Handcrafted

When dint of effort supercedes current reality, the picture is not often that of suffering but of progress. ..
Life, when seen through this prism has lesser suffering and revesls the tremendous capacities in man to survive, and overcome. ..

Handcrafted is a label to suit the sophisticated. But thats everyday life as well.

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Coffee and Conversations: Wisdom in Every Sip

My dad always said, “Coffee drinkers are better thinkers.” He was a wise man. I’ve never had a reason to doubt him.

These days, “Coffee?” is the answer to everything.

Questions, answers, problems—it doesn’t matter. Coffee solves it all. Especially in Mumbai. The city hums with its energy, fuelled by endless cups.

Maybe it’s the caffeine. Or maybe coffee is just a great excuse to pause, talk, and think.

Either way, I’m not arguing. Coffee?

An open window behind. An inviting bench. A plant by the side. Grass beneath. A shade if you so choose to use. And an open sky.

You throw in a book and a bottle of water. You throw away the watch. Add in some hot coffee.

And you are set.

(at Hebbal, India)

Sunday mornings are indulgent mornings. When an indulgent pink dominates the lens with a rush of green as cover.
It soothes the soul and readies me for the week ahead. What’s your Sunday been like?
(at Mumbai, India)

We sit by the sea and survey the sea. She asks questions. One after the other. “Where does the sea begin and where does it end?” ‘Can we build a new sea?“ "If we can’t build a new sea, then we must take care of this sea, right? ”

I nod in agreement. Hoping that the right men and women listen. I came here to shoot the breeze with her. She is kicking up a storm.

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#coaching #startup (at Marine Drive Mumbai)

A bird in hand is worth two in a bush they say. But what happens to a kid’s heart when a picture of one emerges in her hand?

The flutter in her eyes and the urgent joy that the twitch in the corner of her mouth gives away are flights of joy that no bird can match!

It’s not the big toys that cause the greatest joys. Sure they bring in their own levels of happiness. But the moments spent laughing and waiting for something to emerge are the ones that are green in the mind.

Swabs of cotton, clothesline clips and a palette of colours. In the hands of kids, that’s all it took for magic to happen!

Engrossed kids. Sans TV. Sans tablets. Sans all digital devices. Such creative play with imagination.

All it takes is the belief in kids and some energetic play in their world. It is incredible what happens when we believe in the magic that lies within our kids.

Yes. Magic. That’s THE word!

(at Bangkok, Thailand)

The lion will lend a ride to the monkey. The same monkey who jumps three trees at one go. He needs a ride from the lion because the big buffallo is troubling him with his horns.

If you don’t make stories on the go to enthrall your kids, you are missing something. Go on, tell them a story and watch them react. Their imagination will jump all over the place and in its jumping it will teach you a thing or two.

The little miss’s imagination teaches me every day that reality can be as good or bad as we imagine it to be. When we string a different reality in our minds and tell ourselves a different story, there is a new tune to our old songs.

Go tell a good story and watch a kid tell one. The world is a new place when you give yourself into it.