It has been a long time since I have wanted to write about the books that I have read. Finally today I am sitting down to type it out.
I started reading novels early in school. But unlike most people, I did not go by the unsaid ritual of reading Mills and boons. Instead I started [...]
Aathira kaaranukku budhi mattu.
Literal translation: an angered man has a closed brain.
Explanation: When one is angry, he cannot think straight. Mind is closed. He is not open to discussion. He cannot look at anything positively. This leads to a lot of mistakes if any action is taken at that time.
This is not something new. All [...]
I had lots of complaint. I used to feel my parents were not letting me as free as my friend’s parents let her. My mom had a lot of rules which ranged from cleanliness to going out with people. Not that I was jailed. To think of it today, my parents were some of the [...]
Aathu manusha azha azha solluva porathiyar manusha sirikka sirikka solluva.
The literal translation of this is “people of our family will tell you things with tears in their eyes(feeling bad for you), the world will tell you the same while they laugh at you”.
This is to say that, if you have some fault in you, your [...]
Innar seydharai uruthal, avar naana nannayam seydhuvidal.
It literally means the person who harms you, make them feel ashamed by being very good to them.
This is a thirukural. A 2 liner written by the great saint thiruvalluvar. A very profound line. But before I actually knew what all this meant I was saying these verses very [...]
Amma was an ustaad at giving those short bits of advices which always had a shout as the reaction from me (I was just too irritated with them).
One of them was this;
If she used to ask something that was a very silly or irritating question then she got a shout as a reply like [...]
Rayan thatha was a legend for us. I have not seen him for a long time. He passed away in 1990. That was when I was about 8 years old. This was the time I had begun to actually understand the world around me. So I dint get to learn too much from him. We [...]
There was this instance when Ramamoorthy thatha had come home. He was my grandfather’s brother.
Whenever thatha was in Bangalore amma made chakara pongal for him. He loved it. And not to mention that amma was an expert at it. This time he was there and amma was going to make it for him. But [...]
There are a lot of experiences that I have had in my life. There are a lot of things that I have seen in other peoples lives. Very close friends, relatives, parents etc.
Everyone cannot go through every experience to learn. If that has to happen, no one will learn even 10% of what needs to [...]
I attended this training from my company on Emotional Intelligence. It was about how to use your emotions intelligently when you take decisions. The course was good. What I have observed in all the soft skills trainings is that, the content is very much overlapping. It is not something that we don’t know (atleast for [...]