This January was my birthday. And Birthday is that one day when you receive lots of phone calls, especially from people you speak just once a year – on birthdays. For a strange reason, people kept asking me one question over and over again ...
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A TMOD script on the theme of Airports
Airports – that place where you are as terrified of flight cancellations as you are of Uber cancellations and one of them almost always cancels. Airports are also the one place where you begin questioning a lot of things about yourselves – you see pretty airhostess and handsome pilots and question your looks, you see ...
TMOD theme titled “Productivity on steroids”
Today’s theme is about an app that hogs a large part of my day. I am addicted and cannot help myself get rid of it. Frankly, I don’t even want to get rid of it. That’s because the app I am talking about is not Facebook or Instagram, but an app that has really put my productivity on steroids – the ...
TMOD theme titled “Raising a child”
Should you let your child watch cartoons or is that a toxic pastime that slowly bakes their brain dead? Should you spank them sometimes or is any hitting a hindrance to their balanced growth? Should you let them eat chocolates or are green vegetables the only diet that will make them Einstein? If I am not wrong ...
A TMOD theme titled “Bad Dress Days”
I am dressed well today. And that’s because “Bad Dress Day” is just my TMOD theme for the day, not my attire theme. And on most days, you will find me dressed reasonably well. Obviously, that gives you no reason to think that I dress shabbily or have horrible fashion taste. However, just sometimes things happen to go horribly wrong ...
TMOD theme titled “Math Matters”
My 15 year old daughter hates math. The fact that she is not good at it obviously has a lot to do with the hating. She frequently raises some tough to answer questions about the subject - “Where am I going to use it? Why is it important? ” If these questions sound familiar to you, it’s not at all surprising. As kids, most of us used to wonder the same about Math as well. Here’s the truth - you may not have used everything you learnt in your math class but ...
A TMOD theme titled “Boons of Public Speaking”
About a year back, I was in a dealer’s meet hosted by a large corporate. At the meet, apart from food, awards and photo sessions, there was a section where some of the dealers made small presentations about the industry. One such presentation was by a young 22 year boy who was studying and simultaneously helping his father run the business. He gave an impressive ...
A TMOD theme titled “Lies we tell”
If you asked me what my favorite book is, I would tell you that it’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini. And if you were a high achieving individual, someone extremely successful, I might tell you it’s “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. But here’s the truth - both of them are lies. My favorite book is obviously Harry Potter. Now that might seem like a stupid pointless lie. But ...
A TMOD theme titled “the art of gifting”
It was my wife’s 30th birthday, obviously a special one. And I had to gift her something equally special. There was just one problem though– I didn’t know what. It seemed she had everything that she could want and more. Now I agree some of you would object that no ...
A TMOD theme on crypto craze
If you walked into this session hoping to get investment ideas on Bitcoins or forecasts about the future of crypto currencies, let me disappoint you right away, I have none. I am no wiser than your friend who talks obsessively about Bitcoins, that cousin who vouches to be “all in” on cryptos or ...
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