This Christmas season, explore a personalized trick to sniff and trash the rotting bad apples. With the humble crib, starry trees and twining red and green, it’s time to gift a soprano to your soul. Benjamin Franklin coined it, the Sunday sermons bridged its length and breadth with more meaning, and finally it became a textbook advice — “One bad apple spoils the barrel.” Technically and literally — it does. You know. We know.

It’s a happy birthday always ! No one wishes anything different. And so was it, a happy birthday thing that I enjoyed in the recent past. I rarely choose my own birthday cake. It’s always a surprise presentation by my children or my better half. They never suffer giving me a surprise with their breathtaking cake choices. As for my hosting…

If I could write this story with a feather…… I have written before about my strange liking for train journeys. You can read it here >Look out for a GPTT. A train bogie for me is not just a throne to forget my past or beget my future but it…

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful — Anthony Powell in ‘The Acceptance World’ To live a fuller life, you must love yourself — it’s a trigger to improve self-confidence, self-worth and to be positive every…

Let me start from the end Jan 25,1991 — Gillette team receives an advance copy of the cover of Forbes magazine, which featured an artist’s rendition of Colman Mockler, CEO of Gillette, standing atop a mountain holding a giant razor above his head in a triumphal pose, while the vanquished…

The world has stressed you, and it will continue to stress you. You need an insulation or a remedy. This Christmas, give yourself a befitting Christmas gift. Find 10000 reasons to say thank you to the universe. While doing so, find your peace. …

I am the self-consumer of my woes (so I treat it in the DIY style) The setting was beautiful. Inside a grand high ceiling hall of a 5-star hotel on Bangalore’s Residency Road. I did my part on stage, of cheese smiles and family indulgence photoshoots, thereafter the bride’s mum…

It had to be a show of our expertise during a client visit that was scheduled to happen on the third Monday in June 2008. Our client was bringing a heavy-laden team of power to check on the progress of the program. In the last few months prior to this…

“From the movies we learn precisely how to hold a champagne flute, kiss a mistress, pull a trigger, turn a phrase ….[but] the movies spoil us for life; nothing ever lives up to them — Edmund White Amal is my cousin’s ten-year-old son. A little cherubin of indomitable energy. I…