This blog is another variation of one of the previous blogs(https://www.anumorris.com/2024/07/body-and-mind-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/)—I cannot get enough of this concept. It is really simple—the only place where change can happen is NOW. By NOW, I do not mean this day, this ...
I recently went to India for a four-week-long vacation. Some people might argue it is too long to take time off and not the norm. People's reaction to my holiday was more of a surprise - Oh! Wow, is that even possible. When we lived in London, it wasn't that big of a deal because...
I watched a Netflix Movie - Minnal Murali(https://www.netflix.com/title/81497215), recently. It has got excellent reviews and is a regional Indian film like non-Bollywood. This film is from Kerela - a state known for churning out good quality lifelike movies. However, this movi...
So, Fake News has been in the news for the last few years. What is fake news? The Wikipedia definition of fake news is - _Fake news is_ _false or misleading information presented as news__. It often aims to damage the reputation of a person or entity or make money through adv...
The last blog of the year is about nostalgia. It stems from my growing old blog, my trip to India and honestly, it is a culmination of the underlying theme in the COVID years.
The India I grew up in is no longer there. And I cannot alter the reality as it is how much I want it....
So, I recently came back from spending a month in India. It was my annual trip back home - spend some time with my parents, visit relatives, live in a place where people look like me, speak like me, advertisements are in a language I know, listen to the radio in my native languag...
I did my last Townhall meeting of the year with my department. And I decided a long time ago that I will not organise boring meetings, so I make sure that I enjoy the ones I set up. And in a moment of creative stillness, an idea came to me about doing a Quiz which one of my assoc...
I will continue from my last blog about the inspiring deaf-blind graduate from Harvard Law - Haben Girma(https://www.anumorris.com/2021/10/deaf-and-blind-but-harvard-law-graduate/). Another inspiring female at the conference was Timnit Gebru(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timn...
At work, I was selected to attend a conference called Grace Hopper(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper). It is named after a woman computer professional who went to write the initial code for COBOL.
The main theme that I took away from the conference was 'Diversity and...
I like doing icebreakers at work in all my core meetings. How it works is each meeting, one person gets to ask everybody else a question. And the idea behind it slowly but steadily you get to know the other team members. Also, I have found that the question that people ask says a...
'I am here to serve'. I remember saying that when I went for my first meditation course as a server in London, Hereford. I had been doing Vipassana for the last three years before the desire to serve arose in me. Since then, I have been doing a sit and serve every other year.
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My ancestral home is a tiny village in the south of India, Sevvur. Unless you are from there or know somebody from the village, there is no way you would have heard about it. It is a sleepy 2.5 street village with a population of less than 1000, and at a given time, there may be ...
Would you ever consume a year-old fruit? Or, a bread that somebody sold to you decades ago? No, right. And I am sure some of you are wondering why would anyone even ask these questions.
The reason is that - we are all consuming rotten stuff - not food but thoughts, behaviour pat...
I spent the weekend over in Maine - in the midst of nature. The more time I spend in nature, the more I begin to appreciate the wisdom nature has to impart. For example, every morning, we would go for a kayak ride in the lake. It is so beautiful in the morning, sounds of water la...
Let's look at a few examples from the past.
BP's historic oil spill in the Gulf Coast in 2010—the largest oil spill in U.S. history—could have been prevented, employees warned. An employee who worked on the well warned BP officials that their plan to expand the well increase...
When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.
Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on ea...
Temperatures in North America have smashed all previous records this year. Death Valley in California, described as the hottest place on earth, was touting 55 degrees Celsius (132 F). \I quote temperatures in C as I still cannot get F\. It was so hot that you could 'supposedly'...
I had just joined British Telecom after my London Business School MBA. MBA was a lesson in humility for me, but there are levels in that too - so, when the time came to lead my first ever workshop to identify root cause issues of incidents, I was super elated. It was a three-day ...
The last year taught us all that change is natural and inevitable. Who would have thought that the entire world would be working from home? I remember I was not very happy about working from home all the time - but some weeks in, I loved it and then earlier this year, I was ready...
Imagine a bucolic scene and lush green farms surrounding a tiny cluster of villages. This scene is set in a time when horse carriages were the primary mode of transport. And in the villages where most dwellings are made of mud and thatch, there is a concrete building. And the bui...
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I love Winnie The Pooh - there is something about this bear that appeals to the genuine and innocent self in me. I don't remember how I came about this quote from Pooh, but I have had it on my office cubicle wall forever. And like all profound things ...
My parents and I were reminiscing on the old days. We had just moved to Delhi when I was about four years old. And none of us except my dad knew the language Hindi. And my mom mentioned that she had done a correspondence course to learn Hindi. I expressed my shock that I had no i...
I am fascinated by my royal, regal, adorable, handsome five-year-old Shiba Inu pup - Aki(https://www.instagram.com/iamluckyaki/?hl=en). The long list of adjectives with the name of his royal highness only goes to prove how much we love him. There is no doubt that he is of a roy...
Continuing from my last blog(https://www.anumorris.com/2021/05/those-were-the-days/) - a student in the university describes how his lab partner and others got into the university. In India, if you have to get into one of the prestigious engineering schools, you have to 'crack'...
I just watched the Netflix Series - 'Alma Mater - Inside the IIT dream'. It was a trip down memory lane - nostalgic, and I did not want it to end in some ways. So much packed in those days, just like peeling the layers of the onion.
I did my engineering and then did my MBA. Both...
I am my Father's daughter. I have so many of his mannerisms that I can predict with almost 99% accuracy what he is thinking or saying. Growing up, I looked up to my dad, and he was/is my best friend. I would tell him everything and still, to this day, do so. And he never judged m...
Eckhart Tolle tells the story of his dad, who in his older years remarked that the quality of mirrors has deteriorated since his younger days. I am sure most of us have looked at the mirror and wondered what happened? Or, go for reunions and somebody remarks on how young we were?...
Have you ever been in a situation where you did something without remembering you just did that? Take a shower without realizing it or driving home from the office or travelling on a tube and may be missed your stop. Your mind was so engrossed in something that you forget what yo...
A few weeks ago, we saw Mr and Mrs Duck looking for suitable accommodation for producing ducklings. They looked far and wide, from our sidewalk to the pond few blocks away. And our dog Aki was always excited to play with the ducks.
And then we did not see them, so we assumed the...
March 18th, 1990 - St Patrick's day in Boston, 13 priceless art pieces go missing (Robbed) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner's Museum. Fast forward almost thirty-one years later - paintings are still missing. The empty frames are still hung in the museum expecting the art pieces ...
As some of you may know, I took a new role \Read a bit about it in this blog(https://www.anumorris.com/2021/01/trickster-mind/)\. I changed my profession. And being the kind of person I am, I read a book called 'The First 90 Days' as I transitioned into my job. One of the exe...
We might all think we run our lives - and we are all wrong. Time runs this entire world. The little watches we have on our wrists, calendars on the walls, or our electronic devices rule the world. From the time we wake up to the alarm to the time we go to bed - all we do is run a...
For the last eighteen months or so, I had been on the path to get a new role at work in a different profession. I had gotten a couple of interviews but never made it into the second round. Subconsciously, I lived in a world where I want the role but was never going to get it. Thi...
When you read a book, do you wonder about the blank spaces around the words? Do you wonder about the blank pages on which the letters appear?
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When you enter a room, do you think about the space in the room? When you use the furniture, do you think ...
Have you ever seen a new-born baby? For the first six months or so they have no idea of who they are, they are not aware of their legs and arms. One of my nieces used to pull her hair as a baby and start crying - unable to tear her hand and stop the pain.
Babies live in the NOW ...
I just watched the latest Pixar animation movie - 'Soul'. It is a must-see even though not at the same level as their other movie - 'Inside Out'. Before we get into the actual blog a word about the creation process for these movies. Pixar movies generally speaking come from a ver...
Imagine you are in a theatre watching a string of movies. The movies and the actors cater to all the emotions you can think of - fear, sex, violence, love, family, patriotism, terrorism, heist - the whole gamut of life as we know it.
Let's say that the movies are so fascinating ...
I had a dream that I was in a marketing office with my friend. My friend was having issues with her peer, and we were walking down the corridor to the boss's office. All of a sudden fire alarm start - annoying kind, Kiiiiii-Kiiiii Kiiiii. We look at each other and assume it is so...
One's progress in childhood is marked by how soon you can answer the question, 'What's your name?' And if you are also aware of your parent's names - you are going places.
As a newborn baby, you are utilizing your five senses to the fullest. Your understanding of your mom is thr...
I just finished watching, 'The Queen's Gambit' on Netflix, based on a novel by Walter Tevis. To summarize, it's about an orphan who is a chess prodigy and how she battles the demons of her mother's death and wins at chess - dealing with drugs, addiction, loneliness.
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Meditation, Spiritual, Journey, Self, Isha, Tolle, Yoga, Consciousness, Presence - these have become buzzwords today. Almost everybody I know is aware of these things even if they are not actively practising. There is an aura or mystery around the whole spiritual journey which fe...
We were lucky enough to meet a lovely couple friend of ours while at the wedding of a common friend in the charming city of Pas Robles. We literally ran into them and decided to have a very relaxing brunch. While the food did a great job of satisfying our appetite, it was the con...
_'I want to meditate and exercise but have no time to do it.'
'I have so much to do and no time to do them.'
'If only there were more hours in the day._
Do the above statements resonate with you? Now, have you heard of the quote that time is an illusion? See what Tolle has t...