Yogi's Corner

I just desperately wanted to leave home. I was so tired of the constant bickering of my parents  (which continue to this day .. ) that I would have willingly gone to Shirngnapur if Singapore would not have happened. Infact one of my mom friends called her and congratulated her that she would be doing the Ashtavinayak often from now on. It was a chance coincidence. I was at one of the numerous interviews that used to happen those days. Dr. Manmohan Singh (the then FM) had opened the Indian economy a few years ago in 1991 and all the Sonys & the Panasonics of the world were making an entry into India. In the process of doing so, they were also looking for ready-made people like me (I was working for Onida  - Consumer Electronics - for about 2 years in sales & knew a lot of distributors and retailers). As expected, the call from Sony came and I dutifully attended as I attended quite a few earlier. Those days there were only 3 frontline consumer electron...

This post is written by one of my dear friends - Sandeep Ashtekar. It is a complete 180 degree view from what I had shared earlier. It also helps that he is studying psychology. He continues to educate us on the little nuances of life and how each one of us can deal with the same. Thanks my friend. Hello Zindagi.....Movie is not about a girl getting into relationship with multiple guys and not wanting long term relationship.  It tries to beautifully  address the WHY part of such a problem, why are people afraid of commitment, why people jump from one short to another short term relationship, how does early childhood environment impact the children. This impact remains in their subconscious and impacts future life as adults. It's about how important it is to cleanse up the garage collected in mind so that new finds space in life. It's about forgiveness towards parents, accepting that all humans make mistakes including parents, they too are human. Finally as we take help fo...

Dear Zindagi movie review If the theatre accepts the old notes of 500 or 1000 go for it.. even then ask yourself if you can wisely spend it at the petrol station. I mean I would rather watch the blue screen in my TV than go and decipher what this movie is all about. I would recommend you to go for this movie only if your AC at home is not working. All along you are left wondering what this woman's problem in life is. She casually dumps a guy who adores her on a dinner table but few scenes later gets extremely hassled when another of her bf is honest and asking for her commitment but has to leave town. So what does she do ? Goes and starts dancing with another cute guy in a disco. What a sham of a story. All along we are plagued wondering where the story is heading and why I have spent my 300 Rs, not including the popcorn mind you. A chance encounter with therapist SRK and you still won't know why she picked him. SRK tries his best to ham as he usually does but he is simply n...

31st Dec & 1st Jan I could never understand the relevance of this cusp. I mean given the fact that it would get me to rewrite or re sign a few cheques, how does it really matter ? Is it an excuse to get oneself drunk silly or finding a reason to celebrate for no reason at all ? Long ago on 31st Dec 1999, I found myself stranded in Dubai all alone by myself. Visa issues meant that though I could leave the country, I wouldn't be able to come back any time soon. Obviously, this was not acceptable to my employers. Having moved here only in November meant that I did not have any friends to party with. By GMT timeline, I was 4 hours behind the best of my friends that I had left behind in Singapore and 1.5 hours behind my lovely parents back home in India. For once, I was happy that I was behind times as I was sure that the world would explode at 11:59:59 1999 at the turn of the century. So many of my useless and hardly educated friends had found employment in the almighty US ...