Wandering Thoughts

Gone are the days when Indian Arranged marriages used to happen easily with the interaction and help from the family relatives and friends. Now, with the change in the people’s lifestyle and way of thinking, things have become so complicated that it seems next to impossible to get their son or daughter married. We got many new things in place like the mediators or marriage brokers (never call them a broker, it hurts), Professional wedding planners, Match Making Consultancies, BharatMatrimony.com, JeevanSaathi.com, Shaadi.com and what not.   In the middle of nowhere, comes Giridhar, that is me, who is ready for the marriage. This article is a complete cooked up story out of my imagination. After dealing with so many match profiles and breakups, my family lost hope about my marriage. Exactly at that moment, came our mediator (that is, the broker) with some match profiles. During the talk, we noticed that there was one profile that he was trying to hide.   My f...

“ Kehte hain agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho … to poori kainath use tumse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai ”, one of the famous dialogues from the Bollywood Movie Om Shanti Om. It means that if you wish something from your heart, then the entire universe will try to fulfill it. I believe the same thing happened in the case of my High-Performance Leadership project wherein my universe comprised of my project team, project guidance committee and the guests' team.  This article is all about my most ambitious project, HPL in the journey of Toastmasters. I would like to divide my experience into 3 segments, before HPL, during HPL and after HPL.   1 year before when I completed the level 4 in my path, I got stuck with this High-performance leadership project due to lack of ideas. I spoke with some experienced Toastmasters in and around the club, pathway focal, posted in TM FB groups, but nothing worked for me because in some of them, I couldn’t get the cl...

Mom, how am I looking today?   Son, you are always handsome no matter how you are   Mom, this is the problem   Son, don’t worry, I have a solution for this   Mom, just because I like this, you are serving me completely   Son, I am not hungry today    At some point or the other, we would have come across such conversations and experienced it in our lives. Isn’t it? We socialize with so many people in our entire life, but we can’t get the same affection, love, care and warmth from anyone that we get from our MOM.    Mothers play an important role in our lives. Needless to say, we are here only because of our mothers, maybe that’s the reason the Earth is also compared to a mother, we call the Mother Earth. Even mother is compared to a God because only a mother can do anything for her child without any conditions. She brings us to this earth, teaches us so many things, nurtures us, takes a stand for us, fights for us, cooks for us and ...