This past one week has been quite a hectic one and that is the reason why I delayed this post. I hope you will bear with me…Last Saturday saw the launch of BHARATWALLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION {Kenyans who went to India for Higher Education} at the Nairobi Club amidst festivities that lasted the whole night…What a night that was! The people who turned up included Ministers, Members of Parliament , Judges, Cabinet Secretaries, Permanent Secretaries, Ambassadors and very many prominent people of the Kenyan society. India has certainly done them well and it is good to see them acknowledging this fact.…

American novelist Gail Tsukiyama once said: “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” Her profound gem of wisdom entirely captures the complex relationship shared by mothers and their off springs. It further underscores the immense challenge of figuring out the mystery of the bond of love that has its roots from the second a human is conceived, develops inside the mother, is born under conditions that can only be defined as laborious, and is taken care of until a time when…

When are we ever honest with ourselves? To avoid asking this question, we tend to cultivate a culture of placating our jaded lives into our everyday monotonous roles; living an existence we think we deserve. But what happens when the overwhelming power of serendipity occasioned by either the inner stirrings prodding for change or inexplicable forces come into play? The fear of the unknown should never be the sole cause that compels most of us stick to our lanes and play it safe. We should strive to be the exceptional few that invest our energies and resources into something that…

The insatiability of human wants is a basic, fact-based sociological concept. No sooner do we have what we want or undergo an experience we’ve always yearned for than we want something else, often after labouring for that first desire under the delusional belief that it would be the limit of our greed. So then, this begs the questions: What is it that we want out of life? Does greed have a limit? I recall that at the tail end of 2015 and the beginning of this year, the days were usually as cerulean as never before; no cloud in the…

What is the most valuable thing in our lives? This is a question I’m sure most, if not all of us, ask ourselves. To some of you, what you value most, maybe a mundane object like a pair of shoes, a wrist watch, a diamond ring, an expensive dress you bought at a fancy mall, a pet, a car or some other commodity that often define our day-to-day existence. In my autobiography, Rainbows in my Clouds, I talk about what matters to me the most…My Moments that are irreplaceable, Moments that are invaluable, Moments that are precious … Moments with…

This past week, a tragedy of immense proportions took place in Kerala, where I hail from and the state I have proudly mentioned over and over in my autobiography Rainbows in My Clouds. What am I talking about? I’m talking about an incident that took over 120 lives when an explosion – sparked by fireworks – gutted down Puttingal Temple in Kollam district during the annual festivities. Temple festivals, as long as I can remember, were incomplete without these firework displays. It is an age old tradition at the temples, meant more for entertainment than appeasing the Gods. I stayed…

How do you identify someone you talked to and liked, a book you read, a movie or play you watched, a place you visited? How, indeed, do you identify a lot of things that pass you by in life’s proverbial journey? Is it by their names, attributes, features, characteristics or qualities? Is a name or a title an identity then? I don’t think so! We did not choose where or when to be born and in most cases, what name to give ourselves. My parents, for instance, were always judged for bringing an ‘unlucky child’ to this earth… It was…