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digitally tagging height
BymsanjayWhen I was a kid and used to grow vertically I used to stand straight against a wall where my Dad had drawn a vertical line. He’d hold a ruler above my head to mark it with a dash and write the date inspite of my mom’s complaints about not dirtying the wall. So later…
priceless
BymsanjaySimply no other way to describe the smile I saw on his face. It was the last day, the silence was broken, some students had animated conversations, while others still stayed more or less silent. And this particular gentleman was among the more silent ones, quietly having his lunch. I was sitting opposite to him,…
The People Manager Workshop
Bymsanjayicope had sent me to something like this long ago by the same gentleman Kichu – then it was organised by MAYA. I’d found it pretty extraordinary – to put it in a nutshell – really started getting me thinking out of the box. “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”…
A short story from the Mahabharata
BymsanjayThe innocent recluse had not heard about the great battle that had been fought. Krishna was astounded at the question of his brahmana friend. For a while, he stood silent not knowing what to say in reply. Then he softly
disclosed what had happened.“Sir, a terrible battle had been fought by the Pandavas and the Kauravas, I tried hard and applied every means to prevent the fight and make peace between them. But they would not listen. Almost all of them have perished on the field of battle. Who can stop the hand of fate?” Then he related all that had happened.
forgiveness in a Jain prayer
BymsanjayAfter an attempt at being a Jain for a day Jigar had sent me this beautiful piece of poetry: —— Jai Jinendra: Mitchami Dukkadam The following is the prayer we say while doing Pratikraman: “KHAMEMI SAVVE JIVE, SAVVE JIVA KHAMANTU ME METTI ME SAVVE BHUYESU, VERAM MAJAHAM N KENAI” It means: “I forgive (from the…
beyond anger management & stress management: ignorance management!
BymsanjayWe have so many programmes and workshops in the corporate world all over the place for anger management or stress management. People feel angry about so many issues and their work issues affect their home life or sometimes its the other way round! 😉 (“work is a place to get away from stressful home life”…