A product of choices or the victim of circumstances?

AsideMay 1, 2017May 1, 2017 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Ever analysed the scripts of most of the really inspiring movies made? If you notice, they have some fairly similar elements with regards to the circumstances & the situations that the main character goes through:

Metamorphosis

AsideMarch 23, 2017 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

I wrote this sometime back, so this one’s from the archives but still stirs the same amount of emotions and connect with the present. I started framing this in mind since weeks, writing it in the app since yesterday night, and kind of finished it now. And while I really didn’t have anything much to […]

100 Days to the New Year

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Countdowns seem to be getting the better of me. They somehow happen to be the energy boosters & this one would be my favourite one till date. 100 days to the new year! And if you take it in another sense – the 100 day challenge to make the best of the days remaining in this year! :D

Teachers’ Day Fortnight Countdown Lessons. D Day: Embrace All Experiences

September 6, 2016September 13, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Teachers’ Day finally & the countdown has ended. After wishing everyone whose contribution I remembered through these posts (and also a few more, while definitely missing many) on this day, (well, after a tiring long Monday) I now sit down to write what my favourite teacher for life taught – Maa.

Embrace All Experiences – They All Teach You Something

Teachers’ Day Fortnight Countdown Lessons. Day 6: You Understand Situations Only After Experiencing Them

September 1, 2016September 13, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Continuing the blog series on Teachers’ Day, acknowledging not only the teachers who taught us in school or college, but also the people – our mentors, contacts or friends who taught us so much despite not being our formal teachers. As they say, everyone is a teacher if you’re ready to be the pupil. Here’s the 9th one in the series.

You don’t realise how someone is feeling in a situation until you go through the same thing.

Teachers’ Day Fortnight Countdown Lessons. Day 9: A Passionate Team – Everything Possible!

August 29, 2016September 13, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Reached the single digits on the countdown! Yayy!

A really passionate team would put up a great show immaterial of the resources or the support available. They make it happen!

Teachers’ Day Fortnight Countdown Lessons. Day 11: You can’t be too naive

August 26, 2016September 13, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

4th post in the series to acknowledge the teachers in our lives, the ones who educated us in schools & colleges and also the ones who did in life beyond these places.

You cannot be too naive, in business & in life both.

Teachers’ Day Fortnight Countdown Lessons. Day 13: Participate in problem solving

August 24, 2016September 13, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Carrying on the gratitude for the amazing people who’ve invested in me, despite of not being my formal teachers, here goes the second lesson in the Teachers’ Day fortnight countdown series.

Always try to include solutions from your side whenever presenting someone with a problem/issue. This way you are equally invested in the problem-solving process.

Who put the clock there?

August 23, 2016September 13, 2016 Jyotsna DedhaLeave a comment

Life has funny ways was of making you introspective. Making you think deep into normal stuff and striking you with a realisation you never had before than that moment.

I, in the past week, went to visit one of my Uncles. He had just come home a few days back from the hospital. Post a brain surgery.

A Take On The World Around

A keen observer – and my observation did need a word list.

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