As mentioned last week, I attended 10 days' Vipassana (Vipashyana) and would like to share my experience with readers. The following striking features of Vipasana are worth mentioning.
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4th Dec 2025 | Updated at 11:58pm 4th Dec 2025
INTROSPECTION: DON’T LET SOMEONE ELSE’S MISTAKE DEFINE YOU
- 15 Oct 2025
Every time you see someone with a coffee stain on their shirt, remember: it may not be their fault. Perhaps the coffee was spilt not by them, but by someone else. It could have been an accident or mere carelessness — caused by a friend, a colleague, or even a complete stranger. Yet, when it happens, the person with the stain is the one who looks bad. They are the one who suffers embarrassment, perhaps even forced to leave the party.
If time didn’t matter, what would you pursue?
- 18 Sep 2025
Time is the most powerful boundary in our lives. Every goal, personal or professional, comes with a timeline. We may wish to give our best, but the ticking clock often forces us to deliver within a frame that may not allow our true potential to come out.
When you read this article, most probably I would be in Vipassana for ten days. It's a different kind of experience where I won't have any means of communication, and the condition is not only silence of speech but complete silence, noble silence...
Clean houses in dirty streets. Suppose you have come from a middle or lower middle class family, and your house is in such an area.
Dependance on non-punctual people can actually ruin your reputation in a big way. Many times, either in social or in professional circumstances, we are depending on people who is arranging some programme or meetings for us. And if that person...
There are chances that you might have come across a situation where nobody is at fault but still you need to identify someone who can be held responsible for certain incident.
If you have changed the phone recently, you would remember that in smartphones it's easy to transfer data from an old phone to the new one. Depending on the phone, you can transfer the data either with or without a wire. How easy it becomes...
We say goodbye on many occasions, either while moving from one place to another, or while changing a school or college, or leaving a city or a company or a country. It's always mixed feelings, and happy-sad moments, to bid farewell to near and...
- 10 May 2022
Last-minute rush! Happens in everyone's life, and many times. The chance of missing a train, reaching late for a movie or not being able to reach on time to office creates a rush. We try to get ready, to maintain the time, but in that process...
Don't pretend to be someone else.Everyone has a role model to follow. But it has to be for inspiration, not imitation. A colleague in office getting fast promotion due to superb selling skills should not lead you to believe that you will be...
Every one of us comes across a situation, in the profession, society or family, when one member is completely non-cooperative, or non-performing. It affects the performance of the whole team, as the strength of the chain is not more than its...
