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The World Today In a highly competitive business world and being part of it myself for over a decade, wherever I see, the current model is too focused on making money. Man is this greedy little specie inhabiting the planet doing whatever he can to outdo other to constantly become richer. The last few hundred years has built on an idea of a business whose main purpose is to maximize profits at all costs. Everything else is secondary. At all costs I say because these establishments grew in strength across the world along with its flawed support systems giving rise to extreme major problems that we are now trying to find solutions for. Don’t you find this insane? We are creating problems through our business ventures and then we are trying to find a solution for it simultaneously only to create more problems. If you glance at social media today we are constantly being faced with various threats of losing the planet, for e.g. the forest fires happening in the Amazon are all...

The Story of Stuff One of the world’s leading voices on the issue of climate change and protecting the environment at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference was Dr. Jane Goodall, a renowned primatologist. In one of her interviews, she explains that she came to Paris for the UN climate summit “to save the rain forests” from corruption and intensive farming. “Well, the thing is, it’s not about one person, and can they make a difference? Everybody everyday does make a difference. And if we think about the consequences of the choices we make — what we buy, what we eat and consume, what we wear—and we start making the right ethical choices, then when that’s multiplied a thousand, a million, a billion, several billion times, we see the world moving towards change. So the most important thing is to give people hope. I have seen areas that have been destroyed that have come back to be beautiful again and support life. Nature is resilient. Animal species on the brink of extinction can be given a...

Diversity Leads to Unity Over the years through my understanding of Nature, Business, Philosophy and my own life's circumstances, I came to an interesting conclusion that Diversity in all areas is the essence of a harmonious living. A living being that not only sustains, but thrives. The term diversity means a varied surrounding with differences in each and every component that ultimately forms the unified model or picture. Let us visualize a grand orchestral recitation; a melodious composition can only be produced by the synchronization of diverse instruments very often originating from different countries coming together. Similarly when we pay close attention to the various life forms and how they all play a pivotal role in the functioning of the universe we will see how diversity ultimately leads to Unity. From the study of the Macro cosmos to the Micro cosmos, diversity can be observed at all levels. When we take the human body as a single functioning Unit, we can...

The Choice Of Education Let us for a moment imagine your child seeking your help to “Make A Rainbow”. And let me try to guess the outcomes. 60% of you'll may guide him to do a drawing or a craft depicting a rainbow 30% of you'll may guide him to use light prism with the hero of a water bat mirror etc. But what I do hope is there will be some exceptions who may help the child to make a real rainbow, outdoors, with the help of a water jet sprayed towards the sun over a still water body. As a parent myself, the above percentage is a matter of concern about the future of our children. We make thousands of decisions in the hope that it will result in a future for children that is full of truth, beauty, justice and goodness. But one such important choice we have to make is about their education and developing their grey cells through it. The choice of schooling for my son made me reflect on the education I received as a child and observed that not much has chang...

WIRES!! The world today as we see it has become a web of wires and signals. We live in a globe that is constantly connected, but stopped truly communicating. We have been exposed to terms like detox of the body through various diets, detox of the mind through meditations but there seems to be a more urgent detoxification, cleansing, needed in the world today and that is a digital detox from time to time. Last year we spotted an interesting workshop on Digital Detoxification which was attended by over 70 people (including 40 children). We are headed into a future where people  live more in what they believe is an  exciting virtual world trying their hardest each day to escape a mundane reality. No doubt the world doesn't seem too big and too far fetched to conquer anymore. Digitization has tremendous benefits but what we need to answer is at what cost.  Addiction Over millions of years, humans have grown amidst nature, playing, working, fighting, inte...