50 most influential people in Goa 2020 : Goan Insider

Thank you for this Honour…

Highway

Highway For a man who left a legacy, photographs, and his motorcycle behind. We’ve all to take the highway to a hallowed heaven someday. Life’s luggage left at the bus stand. Mere cloth is all that covers this self. Bare feet follow the way of the highway in this lush desert of memory. The wind […]

5 things I learnt doing Zip Line

It’s an experience to try and the trill your experience can never be described in words. How similar is it to our daily life and what we can learn from this enthralling experience. 1. It’s faster than you expect: While on the wire, even before you realise you are on the other side. Believe it […]

‘Lazy’ ways to be successful.

Some people have been lazy for very a long time. Now when the reality has come knocking at their door, they realise that being successful requires hard work and certain amount of active lifestyle. This can be an arduous task of shifting the lifestyle from being perpetually lazy to active- hardworking person. Hold on! Changing […]

How to use February to Desire?

(Photo by Andrew Neel) We have many desires and this is the month we can achieve it. Why do I say this month? You may have had desires to do certain things in the month of January and have not finished doing it. Whatever the reason may be. February is a time when your moral […]

Sometimes ideas won’t come to you, you have to go to them….

(Photo by NeONBrand) Many times we wait for an inspiration to strike us- to write, learn an instrument or do whatever you deep down always wanted to do. Sometimes it is the action which comes before inspiration.. You just have to stick with that musical instrument or sit with those blank pages and start writing… […]

No more groggy mondays if you do this..

(Photo by Rawpixel) Ya, we think going back to work on Monday is difficult and after spending a relax sunday it’s natural to feel that way. Tell me one thing you like doing and you won’t mind doing it again and again… Why is that- because you enjoy doing it and secondly you look forward […]

Oh, you screwed-up, no problem… Here’s why…..

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. – J.K Rowling Photo by Thomas Stephan . . If you have never screwed-up at something at some point in life, then this […]

Doing things when you don’t feel like and doing it anyways is what counts.

I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count. –Muhammad Ali Photo by Jesper Aggergaard So many things we only do based on our mood- and we hear a lot of them say – I don’t want to do things because there is no […]

Dream like your life depends on it..

Photo by Bethany Legg Sometimes external situations in life may push you to pick up a job that you dont enjoy or it will push you to take risk, be creative, innovative and do the things you always wanted to do and earn your living from it. But, why wait for external situations in life […]

Bigger the crisis, bigger the opportunities…

The words of Napoleon Hill are ringing in my ears. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit”. If you are not experiencing crisis or have never experienced crisis in your life than this post is not meant for you. But for those who are or […]

What are you most grateful for today?

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around”. – Willie Nelson Gratitude has always been a bridge which has helped me to travel from where I was to where I wanted to be. I realized that the more I am grateful, more comes my way to be grateful for. Over 8 years […]

My walk from Garage to NASA, Md Adil Aman

We all are in pursue of one answer. What is life? For me life is Marvel movies, Dan Brown books and Ed Sheeran songs. You guessed it right. I’m a kid. I’m the person who dared to dream. So, here’s my story. I was born and brought up in a small town named Asansol in […]

From Mom’s Nose Pin to Brother’s Gym: How at the age of 9 I realised that gender is fluid, Aishwarya

“Rahul, Raj, Govindda, Ajay…..” the audience blabbers as they were asked to guess the host of OBR (One Billion Rising is a global movement, founded by Eve Ensler, to end rape and sexual violence against women (onebillionrising.org) “It is Aishwarya”, says the host finally. “My name is Aishwarya and I was born a girl.” I am a […]

Let’s play again – Reviving our forgotten childhood games! Dr. Sandeep Kate

MAGIC !!! The mere mention of word is sure to arouse some interest ! Well, let me tell you that this writeup is NOT about Magic, at least not of the kind we usually mean when we think of the word. I’m talking about the long lost and nearly “magical” period of our lives that […]

Democratised Disruptive Innovation- What could it mean for the individual? Hirander Misra

To learn lessons for the future we have to look at the past. A few thousand years ago, when money never existed, a transaction happened only by exchanging agreed commodities by barter. E.g. Panchgani in Maharashtra where I recently held a TEDx talk on the subject I am writing about now is famous for strawberries […]