“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell As the car moved out of Nagpur Airport for the second time that night, I anxiously glanced at my watch. […]
“Don’t confuse confidence with arrogance. Arrogance is being full of yourself, feeling you’re always right, and believing your accomplishments or abilities make you better than other people. People often believe arrogance is excessive confidence, but it is really a lack of confidence. Arrogant people are insecure, and often repel others. Truly confident people feel good […]
“Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to […]
Dear Reader, Wisdomspot has completed one hundred days of its existence. Ten articles have been published during this period. And I write this today to thank you all for the support and encouragement I have been receiving from you. Wisdom, as all of us understand, is essentially the ability to apply knowledge, experience and insight […]
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” – Napoleon Hill It was a sultry, rainy Thursday afternoon. After lunching with his colleagues in the faculty of Science, the professor stepped out into the downpour to cross the road. Vehicles flitted in every direction. The road was […]
“Woe to you…you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are”. (The Holy Bible – Mathew 23:15) These are troubled times. The world is sitting on the tinderbox of religious extremism. […]
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein Kernel Panic is the death cry of a computer system (running on UNIX). And this is the story of a computer system that lay on its […]
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” […]
“Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You are defined by what you stand for.” – Oprah Winfrey It has been over forty years since the incidents I narrate here occurred. But the learning from it remains as significant today as it was then. It was a New Year Eve night. I was at Kochi. At […]
“In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the colour Of the crystal through which one sees it” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca It was a Saturday afternoon. I was home. The calling bell rang and I opened the door. It was the ‘police uncle’, […]
