how to be creative
Excerpt: So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years
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can art be learnt?
A discussion thread on art and learning… of course there’s also a certain amount of science of human nature involved – whether a person can learn to something (in this case, draw) very well irrespective of whether he has talent or not.
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A short story from the Mahabharata
The 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.
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Driving On The Road Not Taken
Story published in Sulekha
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German war time
Today Mathias my manager called me for a coffee… hmm quite surprising, because they hardly ever take a break over over here. But I guess nobody else was there in the office, everybody is on leave today so he was getting bored. It turned out to be quite a long coffee break
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its possible
I didnt want to say it earlier until it was reasonably consistent, but now I’m confident enough to say that its indeed possible… Practicing consistently every day is not mere idealism but is actually practical!
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why I write
[from an email sent to family] Ok I dont really like to philosophise like it said in the previous quote, but once in a way I cant resist… 😀 …you can view this if and when you have time, else just delete it, theres nothing very important here.
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experiments of a hungry man
The transition for my stomach from Indian food to German food has proved to be slightly more daunting than the earlier one from British to German food. But there are occasionally still some silver linings.
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attempted arranged marriage
Anyway an update from me… reached Germany safely – and safely in more ways than one – I’m still a bachelor 😉 But as some of you would know, I’ve been actually cooperating with Amma and actively going through the trauma of an arranged marriage looking for a girl. One might ask how I was…
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physicist's view of software
I met this gentleman quite randomly, we were sitting next to each other in a seminar in Germany and Carly (CEO HP, scheduled to give a speech to all employees) was held up somewhere, so we started talking to each other, trying to ignore the German host on the mike who didnt want to waste…