The Book Talk #4 – Atomic Habits

10 min read… If you are new here, this is the 4th episode of our book series – The Book Talk. Check our other blogs here. In this episode, we’ll discuss Atomic Habits by James Clear. We tend to believe huge results come from huge actions. To lose weight, build a business or winning a…

The Book Talk #3 – Men are from Mars Women are from Venus

15 min read… If you are new here, this is the third episode of our book series – The Book Talk. We have already discussed The 5 am Club and Ikigai. Give them a read! We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us, they will react and behave in certain ways – the ways…

The Book Talk #2 – Ikigai

10 min read… If you are new here, Ikigai is the second episode of our book series – The Book Talk. In the first episode, we shared our learnings from The 5 am Club. Give it a read! Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years. What is the purpose of…

“The Book Talk” – Prologue

Beginning of this year, Kavi (my wife) and I made a resolution to read four quality books that would improve our lives. Now, I must thank Kavi for giving my reading habits a new life. Back in my school and college years, I developed the habit of reading the daily newspaper for hours together. I…

London baby, again

We did it. We kept our promise and visited London again. We had earlier come to London to celebrate the New Year. Read about the trip here. We meant to come back and so we did. This time though, we arrived on a Saturday evening and spent two days catching up with some places we…

Our Anniversary in Northern Ireland

We made it. One year of our marriage. It was a breeze. New interests, funny arguments, umpteen road trips, lots of cooking, a few compromises, and abundant joy – this new partnership has been awesome. Kavi and I chose Northern Ireland to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. This is our 2nd travel blog after our…

A week in London – A tourist heaven

I arrived in Ireland on September 5, 2016. I am from India and Ireland is my first foreign destination. Last 3 years, I was unable to tour other countries for various reasons. I had to repay my educational loans (around €25,000), save up for my wedding and when Kavi (my beloved partner in crime, my…

My little brother Bablu

My brother and I have been together for 22 years now, and the fact is, excepting minor misunderstandings or disagreements, we have hardly fought. Now why I had to state this fact, I do not know. Does this have any semblance to my story below? Not necessarily. My younger brother, Maheshwaran aka Bablu as we…

If old habits die hard, let’s cultivate good ones.

2017 has definitely been a productive cricket season both individually and for the Adamstown Cricket Club (ACC) Team-2. The start was not smooth, the team had lost all 3 of its opening matches. To recover from the setback, finish second in the table and being promoted is quite an achievement. I faltered in the first…

My 100th blog of this month!

Warning! You are driven by the sumptuousness of the title This is how I will use clickbait and give an irrelevant title to my article and entice you into reading an absolutely useless piece of crap that has nothing useful to offer, like this very sentence. Click-baiting tricks were learned at school, when I was…

Would you please delete my Facebook account after I die?

The first link on my Google search for the term “Digital death” was to a website digital death. The tagline reads “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU. Are you allowing others to claim your DIGITAL assets after you die?” I couldn’t believe my eyes for a split second. Are you even serious? Who would accept…