Connecting with thoughts - My thoughts and Me

A few questions left unanswered, A few dreams left unfulfilled, A few hopes dashed, But life's unpredictable And strange are it's ways. That's what they always say When life's journey ends abruptly. For those are the ones To be pursued in world beyond All we can do then is to pray, that Peaceful be the journey into the world beyond

You know it's love For sure, When it hurts bad And cuts deep through And how! For who has escaped unscathed The pain and agony Or the trials and tribulations, Love puts you through, On its path That people tread through With bloodied footprints Looking for a bed of roses, When there never is one

The skeletons keep tumbling Out of the closets At an alarming pace Assumed to be buried deep Under the guise of times bygone Suppressed to the confines of the wall Unknown to the world With wounds still bleeding That cut through deep, and how Putting death to shame To die a thousand deaths, every day On the pretext of living How unfortunate then, The ignominy to see them as ghosts of the past hat never was (My attempt to capture the plight of women who have experienced a #metoo )

Crude as the title may read or sound, I could not think of anything more apt to convey what I intend to. The other day while surfing on YouTube I happened to catch glimpse of a scene from the movie "Rush" where Nicky Lauda meets his wife Marlene. That "Rush" happens to be one of my favourite movie was all the more reason to play it. Wanting to escape from a party Nicky (N) is offered lift by Marlene (M) to the nearest station. The following is the conversation that ensues along the way. What are you doing? You hear that noise when you accelerate? - No. - Your fan belt is loose. My What? your foot goes all the way down, And when you brake, which means there's air in the system. the rear brakes are worn out, - Anything else? - No. Apart from the front right tyre's a bit soft, - Sorry? which explains why you're weaving so much. Hmm. How can you tell? - My ass. which can feel everything in a car. God gave me an okay m

The ability to enchant the audience with your presentation skills still remains a big challenge. Even after numerous books and countless courses speakers still fail to engage their audience. It is not that they lack knowledge or understanding of the subject. In fact, the knowledge they posses is unparalleled. Throw them a question and they will answer. Put them in a situation where a solution is nowhere in sight and they will solve it with ease. Don't know what's the future is going to be like, ask them and they will predict trends that not only will enhance your understanding of the subject in question but also prepare you for the same. But...when it comes to communicating and disseminating the same through presentation or a public speaking engagement they struggle. They may not be prepared one might say but they are. Thoroughly, in fact. Then what ails a presentation? Why is it that death by presentation is still so common? As I said before there have been a thous

Two incidents. Two students. Two different batches. Different organizations. One quest - search for a job. One common result - denied. Reasons for denial - Gender - Female. Problem - Marriage. Bitter as it may sound, but its harsh truth. If you are a woman about to get married or a married woman searching for her first job, then you are in for trouble. For jobs don't come easy. In the first case, the student had in fact joined an organization and it was her first day at work. During the course of her interaction with her new colleagues, she casually happened to state that her family may now possibly start thinking of getting her married within next six months. The heavens fell. Disaster struck. That was her first and last day with that organization. She was asked to quit. Would this have been the same reaction if she was a boy? Would he have been asked to quit his job too? The second case is of a student who has been a consistent performe