Many movies and TV shows like to narrate the journey of a small-town girl entering a metro city for realizing her dreams, adjusting to the hustle-bustle, braving several cultural and economic shocks, and finally becoming one with the city. At least that's the conclusion people expect. Tell a producer that you would like the story … Continue reading A Mumbaikar on the outskirts of Pune
About: DIEM, my first Android app, has been optimized for productivity. I’ve designed this app with the objective of minimizing the time to enter a new transaction (since that’s what I’ll be using this app for, 90% of the time). The lesser the time a user has to spend on this app, the better it … Continue reading Introducing DIEM – A minimalistic expense manager Android app
Continued from Looking back: Connecting the dots (Part 1) August 2014 A meeting of the Educational Outreach department of NSS was scheduled. For some reason, I (Activity Associate or AA back then) reached late for that meeting. In that meeting, NGOs were to be assigned to AAs. I wanted to be the AA for Asha … Continue reading Looking back: Connecting the dots (Part 2)
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference … Continue reading Looking back: Connecting the dots (Part 1)
One thing for which I'll forever be grateful to IIT Bombay is the opportunity it provided me to work with some excellent leaders. During my stay at IITB, I worked in NSS and the Student Satellite Team. Both have grown exponentially in the last 4-5 years, and helped me grow along. A big chunk of … Continue reading IITB Learnings: Purpose vs Incentives
If you have ever written something just to appease your creative side, there is a high probability you'd have used abstract nouns in some way or the other. And with good reason. The most important, interesting and intriguing characteristic of abstract nouns is their nature: abstract. This nature gives them a poetic tinge. It gives … Continue reading IITB Learnings: Time, Productivity and Newton’s First Law
"We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined." - Warren Buffett One of the greatest lessons I learnt at IIT Bombay is that success, or to be more precise, lasting, satisfying and admirable success comes not through moments of display of sheer brilliance where you overwhelm yourself, or … Continue reading IITB Learnings: The slow waltz of success
Here's the speech I delivered during the Institute Valedictory Function as a representative of the Undergraduate (UG) students: Tumul (the M.Tech representative), found it difficult to speak about his two years in just 6 minutes. I've been asked to speak about 5 years in the same time. So, without wasting any time, let me get … Continue reading Institute Valedictory Function Speech
"Observe a child who wants a chocolate kept on a table too high for him. He'll try to reach it, then jump, then bring a small chair from somewhere, and with great difficulty, reach the top to grab that chocolate. Worth noticing is what happens after that. That child will celebrate, dance with joy, enjoy … Continue reading IITB Diaries: 20 seconds of insane courage
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul - Dieter F. Uchtdorf A sand castle on a beach, a paper boat in a puddle, a doodle in a notebook, a random tune on a guitar, all have one thing in common. They represent a desire inherent to all humans: … Continue reading The Making of OLI – NSS, IITB
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