Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Wa ay it aw.*

    Maya Angelou said there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story. Playwright Girish Karnad dramatized this in play Nagamandala. Why do I write? Because I have a song to sing, a story to tell, Somewhere between being everyone’s scullery maid, doctor, nurse whatever, the soul cries FINIS and FINITO and in my case…

  • Little to celebrate about.

     January 26th 2013 is history, the annual republic day parade over. I don’t know if there was a presidential address, or a prime-minister’s talk, the ‘P’in both cases is deliberate, the offices have lost their sanctity. At our toastmasters meet the theme was Republic day what the Toastmaster of the day threw out introductions from…

  • Abundance.

    Abundance We need in our livs in many areas like Time Space Resource Money Energy Passion. High quality of life has a lot to do with what we discard from our lives than how we manipulate time. Time management is an oxymoron. When we say time management we mean self management. Tough choice is not…

  • walk down the street.

    I have just been going through the golden jubilee souvenir of Manipal mahila samaj. So many memories are refreshed, the people who were part of our life, and enriched it with their presence. I now acknowledge the relevance of a souvenir. The era before the television tigers, the community of campus children had not yet…

  • Comin’ up Hogmanay resolution.

    What is my resolution? 5000 rpms….360o i don’t the megpix and whatever kicks,  if you want the Merriam Webster kind of resolution then— Jingle jingle…. When it comes to my Plinky prompt, I have resolved to check the actual dictionary definition of the words in addition to adding two quotes on it to create my…

  • over communicate.

    Stay in communication … . You are not in communication…. Keep people in the loop …. I have heard a lot of this both in the Toastmasters and the Landmark forum. Call XYZ says the coach, if he does not call again keep doing so until he does well that sounds like a telemarketer and…