LeftBrain RightBrain November 24, 2020 In search of a mentor Sitting in my lazy boy chair late one night in August of 2019, I reached out to a few well-wishers, with a simple ask for…
LeftBrain RightBrain November 17, 2020 Running on Empty I found my fuel tank had gone into the reserve zone. You know the place you reach when a little light starts flashing on the…
LeftBrain RightBrain November 10, 2020 Stand tall, while others laugh A farmer in Wayanad, let’s call him Aakash, went against all the conventional ways of growing coffee. He did not follow any of the so…
LeftBrain RightBrain November 3, 2020 A cupboard full of clothes and nowhere to go? Oh the places you’ll go! The day draws closer when the Dey household is going to be an empty nest. We took one step closer to saying goodbye to our…
LeftBrain RightBrain October 27, 2020 Finger painting my way into the future Finger painting is fun. Finger painting is messy. It has a sense of playfulness about it. It’s colourful. Sometimes the end result is awesome, other…
LeftBrain RightBrain October 20, 2020 Why does my tongue wag when I paint? A long time ago when working on a presentation about Public Relations, I remember creating a few slides that went a bit like this… “In…
LeftBrain RightBrain October 6, 2020 Healing a scared and angry world As a universe of people, I feel we are collectively more scared and angry than we have been for a long time. I don’t have empirical…
LeftBrain RightBrain September 29, 2020 A day away from my devices I needed to disconnect. Recharge my batteries. Get a whole host of ‘home-work’ done. So as a family we took a few days off. On…
LeftBrain RightBrain September 22, 2020 Make some free time for free learning Last week we had a ‘self-time for self-improvement day’ at work, dedicated to ‘sharpening the saw’ and learning something new. I was spoilt for choice…
LeftBrain RightBrain September 15, 2020 Get in sync with storytelling Late one evening, I chanced upon a WhatsApp invite from the ‘spiritual teacher’ (let’s call her Sunshine) of a close friend. I had got Sunshine’s…