Active listening. Empathizing. These are words that we hear and regularly use each day. But, do we just listen and yet not hear what is being said? Our older grand daughter loves playing “teacher.” She stands in the middle of the room and makes us all sit around her in a circle. We are reminded …
Annapurna… Ambri … Mother
Annapurna (derived from Sanskrit and split into its composite words, literally translates as “food / grains” and “perfect / complete.” Annapurna is frequently used as an illustration for a mother-figure, who is considered to be an abounding nourisher and provenance of life and sustenance. This Mother’s Day I would like to share a poem by …
Those were the days, my friend
I was at a Conference in Ottawa this past weekend when a dear friend R called from Abu Dhabi to tell me that our good friend J was no more. It was only later, alone in a hotel room that I could reflect in solitude on this loss. We had gone back to Bahrain in …
Security blanket
Airlines have featured a lot in the news recently, and not necessarily for the right reasons. I was reminded of a minister of parliament in India, who had called the economy section of all airlines “cattle class” in a famous tweet several months ago. He took a lot of flak from trolls, who objected to …
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