The Values Workshop

There are conversations which have a clear drift, and then there are those which keep on moving without an 'exact direction'. This is one such, which draws you into its mystery, its unsure parts, its incomplete answers...

The question is simple enough: How do we get happiness to stay longer or even permanently? The answer opens to one point of query and then another till we keep going to the core of what our question is, along with other...

Youth means parties, shopping, the traditional version of the 'good life', as we see it today. And yet, here is a young girl, walking a different path altogether...early nights, early mornings, Yoga, working with...

Once more Hemant Gupta joins me in a deep introspection on one of humankind's most incisive challenges: Our relationship with Grief. And once more, he brings in a perspective which challenges our 'definitions' as also...

The discussion starts on a fun term 'Insidely-Outsidely' and immediately, my guest, John Britton provokes another look at the binary version of how we see life. He explains why assumptions are necessary and how we need...

It is a conversation with Hemant Gupta again, and like always, we manage to skim beneath the many layers of meaning/s and are able to discuss the contemporary usage and understanding of sincerity, presence and the...

Throughout my career, I have been lucky to work with a few professionals who have been absolutely no-nonsense and straightforward. It has always been a pleasure to interact with them for their earthy outlook and their...

Ummeimman is a revelation. A #teacher a #mother and a re-invention of her own self from a difficult time only a little while earlier. She sticks to basic ground level understanding, a reminder of how the deepest wisdom...

When alone, or lonely, or with people, or in darkness, or at times, when something seems 'off' we are often left to deal with the silence that comes from either outside or inside. There are so many aspects of...

We tend to crystallize #success . As if it is some kind of unmoving, unchanging, ultimate truth. As a first of sorts for me, I get a successful friend, Niren Bhatt, screenwriter of some of the biggest recent hits in...

Roohi is a bright school going kid with a wise head on her shoulders. Endearingly honest about her love of knowledge, since she is a voracious reader, she specifies though, it is the perspective of others that one...

One thing leads to another and it keeps moving on - as if it has a life of its own. Yet, as human beings, all of us like to know the start, the middle and the end of things. Or so we claim. The pace of our modern lives...

It is a classic day for many of us: We start scrolling on our #cellphones and time passes us by...minutes turn into hours and we seem to be needlessly losing track of time and none the richer for it in experience, in...

Hemant Gupta is fearlessly willing to go down any rabbit hole that many of us would fear. It is this quality of his which drove me to ask the important questions, 'What if we are less than perfect? How does one make...

Mustafa is a remarkable person. When quite a few would shirk away from exposing their vulnerability in the face of a close relative's death, he actually proposed we speak about things he is experiencing internally and...