I was sitting in my office sipping a cup of tea. A man with soiled clothes with grease on his hands came to my office and informed that there had been a leakage in a valve of Phenol tank. Since others were afraid of changing the valve due to the risk involved, he took this …
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Time Travel
Time travel is something which fascinates all of us. Although many people believe that time travel is strictly science fiction, it is not. Actually, as odd as this may sound, we are all time travelers. We are traveling from the present to the future. From the moment, you started reading this, we have already travelled …
Chakreshwar Temple Guwahati
There is a lesser known temple in Kalipur, Guwahati dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Its name is Chakreshwar temple. The name Chakreshwar has been derived from Sudarshan Chakra which was weapon of Lord Vishnu. This is a very beautiful temple on the bank of mighty Brahmaputra. It is an excellent place to visit with a very …
Fitness Club Guwahati
Obesity is the most prevalent disease in the world. 1/3rd of the world’s population suffers from this disease. India is the third most obese country in the world after USA and China. Obesity is mother of many other diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high cholesterol, cancer, asthma, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, etc. …
Past Life Regression Therapy
Do you believe that we are permanently souls and temporarily human beings? Do you believe that we are reborn based on our Karma? Or do you believe that there is only one life; this is it, so have a gala time? These are some of the questions which have haunted me since childhood. I always …
Role of Mentors in Life
In April 2016, Apple postponed a quarterly earnings meet so that its employees could attend the funeral of a football coach. The same funeral was also attended by CEO and founder of Google, widow of Steve Jobs and even Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Interestingly this one man who died had not just mentored them but …
Peeping Into Future
Somewhere around the year 1979, as a student of Engineering, I used slide rule for doing complex calculations in exams. It is a ruler with a sliding central strip, used for making rapid calculations, especially multiplication and division. Calculators were banned and it was only after a 5 days’ strike that we were allowed to …
Kindness Has A New Address
There is a popular Hindi phrase “Neki kar dariya mein daal” which means – do good and forget about it. But now a days, there is a twisted version of this phrase – “ Neki kar deewar pe taang” Neki ki Deewar or wall of kindness is a dedicated wall for the needy people where …
Secret of Success
In 2003, we took our children to a fare in Judges Field. There was a hanging bamboo bridge with ladders on both sides for ascending and descending. My son who was 5 years old then, climbed the wooden ladders but came down immediately as he was afraid. Then he asked me “Papa, do you think …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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