You stand at the threshold of life's journey , I want to share with you some lessons life has taught me. Decades ago, as a little boy, growing up in Bangalore I started my tryst with Badminton. In those days there were no stadiums or courts sport people could train in. Our badminton court was the wedding hall of the Canara Bank near our house, and it was there that I learnt everything about the game. Every day we would wait to see if there was a function in the hall, and if there was none, we would rush there after school to play our hearts content. Looking back I realize that the most important thing about my childhood and adolescent years was my refusal to complain about a lot in life. I was thankful for the few hours of the week we had the opportunity to hit the shuttle back and forth....

Two dogs were put into two different mazes, one maze had an exit point, and the other maze did not . The dog in the maze with no exit point, after trying for a while gave up and sat in a corner....

I recently read the book Transcendence authored by Late Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. The book chronicles the spiritual journey he experienced with Late Pramukh Swamiji of the Akshardham, Swaminarayan movement. Following are a few passages from the book that I found to be both inspirational and instructional....

Recently I was chit chatting with my Aunt who shared an experience she had with my father about 30 years ago. She had gone to my father for some advice. My father asked her a question, “do you believe in destiny?” to which my aunt replied “Yes.”...

The epic cricket match played between Australia and South Africa on March 12th, 2006 will go down in history of cricket as to how united a team can do wonders. In the match Australia batted first in...

“The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’.” Taiichi Ono...

An interesting finding about many Olympic athletes, an athlete winning a silver in many cases is less happy than an athlete who has won a bronze. Why? because an athlete who won the silver...

In our day to day lives, we come across challenges, where despite repeated pleas; the group of wrong doers don’t reform their behavior and continue doing what is inappropriate. Even if a few think of doing what is right, when they see the majority doing the wrong, the inertia of the group continues....

Attitudes manifest themselves through our behavior. In other words, attitudes drive behavior. Our body language and reaction in a particular situation is a result of our mental attitude....

There is a beautiful anecdote which illustrates very well, how as a teacher or a parent one needs to go about correcting the behavior of a student or one’s child. The anecdote goes something like this:...