Bindu Krishnan

Karma and Sanatana Dharma

Krishnan and I have been attending the webinar series on “Foundations of Sanatana Dharma” being offered through Vyoma Labs. I am not sure if the live sessions have any open slots but the repeat telecast that happens on Sunday mornings allows 5000 people to join. Here is the link to the website – https://www.sanskritfromhome.in/course/foundation-sanatana-dharma.

We missed the saturday live session…

Cat on the fence and a kitten in the tree !

A few days back during our morning walk I caught a cat walking over the fence of our apartment complex and then jumping over the wall.

Cats move so gracefully !! Just watch the 3 second video –

The fence has bars without pointed ends but this cat walks so gracefully over these bars. It’s like a lady walking in stilettos 😊. I stumble even while wearing flats and I have huge admiration for women…

In the last few days I have been reading thousands of tweets about a politician and his party stealing the credit for work done by someone else. The news is the establishment of a 10,000 bed exclusive Covid19 treatment facility in Delhi, the World’s largest facility. The Delhi CM and his party are known credit stealers! Taking credit for what they have not done. In general, many politicians do…

Why Good Employees Don’t Stay

This is a problem faced by nearly every organization that exists, why good employees don’t stay!!

I read this article in 2017 and some of the points spoken about here made/still make a lot of sense. Here is a summary of the article – https://www.inc.com/diane-gottsman/how-to-lose-your-best-employees-in-10-simple-steps.html 

Reasons why your best employees leave –

They’re burned out.Often we…

Why setup PM CARES ?

PM Modi setup the “Prime Minister Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations” (PM CARES) Fund, a public charitable trust on 28th March 2020. On expected lines and from the expected quarters (HMVs, Lootyens etc etc etc) there was a hue and cry. The big question was about why we needed another fund when we had the PM National Disaster Relief fund already. 🙂

Everyone knows that it was…

Breaking News – Rs. 10,000 Crore Industry is born

Breaking news –

Like me, did you know that in the last two months, during the lockdown period a Rs. 10,000 Crore industry was born ?

I received the following video on WhatsApp and what it says is true ! Bad news is all that the media houses focus on because thats what attracts attention. Good news is just “meh”. Also political leanings of different media houses makes it difficult for them…

We went for our morning walk a little late today, around 7 a.m. Just as we rounded block D, we saw there were visitors to our condominium complex !! A Monkey Family had come visiting :). 

Mom and Baby playing

  Baby monkey getting a verbal lashing :):)

  Baby says “ok, I won’t listen, karlo jo karna hai” 🙂

  Right after the baby Monkey tried to stand its ground against Mommy, strongman dad…

Who is Your Champion?

Call them by any name, godfather, mentor, coach, champion…you need someone to stand by you. Supporting you socially, emotionally, financially…helping you to navigate the troughs and peaks of your life. Think deeply and identify who has been your champion in life ? I was reminded of this by an inspiring thread posted on Twitter today. I have shared it as part of this post.

Who could be your…

An Appeal – Koorainadu Sarees

A couple of weeks back, Mr. Venkatesh Narasimhan, MD of Cooptex had posted about the Koorainadu Sarees. Due to the pandemic, the weavers have been unable to sell their stock. He had appealed to all the members in the FB group to share the message with many others. As handloom lovers who are part of the group, he also encouraged us to buy some of the Koorainadu sarees so that the weave can be kept…

AICC – All India Chinese CONgress ?

Mr. GVL Narasimha Rao during one of the TV debates named AICC as All India Chinese CONgress. It was truly a stroke of genius, whether his own or someone else’s, because thats exactly how CONgress party has been behaving. Its not just now, they have always been a China supporter !

The first PM of India, Mr. Nehru nearly accepted defeat in 1962 and as if giving up the region (Arunachal Pradesh and…

Book Review – Tathastu

Disclaimer – this book is written by a very very dear friend. Not just her, but her entire family is very dear to us.

Here is the review that I posted on Amazon –

“This is a just-in-time book.  What I mean by that is, when you are struggling for a different  perspective and can’t lay your hands on a self help book or can’t reach out to anyone, this book will be a huge help.   Each story offers…

Alcohol is medicinal in small doses, many drugs are medicinal in tiny doses, Pizza can be health food if eaten sparingly and made with loads of vegetables instead of mounds of cheese…. but the minute you go overboard, they all turn deadly. We have done the same thing with plastic, making it ubiquitous. We use it so much that our oceans are filled with it besides Mother Earth. The fish have it in…

You are more original than you think!

We all get ideas. Everyday. Most of the time we do nothing about these ideas and infact we ignore them. At the back of our mind, we tend to think that “this is nothing great, it’s just an ok idea. Nothing original about it.” But, you are more original than you think ! Research says, all of us tend to underestimate the originality of our ideas.

We all spend time generating ideas in response to…

Indian Armed Forces – Unparalleled, Unbeatable

As I have expressed many times before, the only regret I have in life is the fact that I could not be part of the Indian armed forces. Army or the Airforce, I don’t like being on water, so the Navy wouldn’t work. I wanted to be part of the combat forces but when I was young enough to enter the armed forces, the rules were not favourable.  So I do the next best thing – keep track of what our armed…

Why Amex will Never be Ex

Bindu and I have been using AMEX Cards for more than 18 years now.

While we have pondered over giving up other credit cards, the thought of giving up AMEX never occurs to us. This is despite the fact that not many merchant establishments in India accept the AMEX Card. But this is not a post about the reach and acceptance of AMEX in comparison to Visa and Master. It’s about the consistent,…

Where is the Bishop?

Does anyone remember Bishop Franco Mulakkal? Vaguely ? This is the man who was accused by a Nun of repeatedly raping her and one of the key witnesses in the case, Father Kuriakose died mysteriously…Now do you remember?

Its easy to forget, because its some unknown Nun somewhere in Kerala and it doesn’t affect our daily life. For the Nun in question, its her whole life ! This alleged rapist is…