IAF grounded 60 MiG-21 Bison for checks after May 8. Thus went a news headline of May 21, 2023. According to a veteran fighter pilot quoted in the news item, “…the MiG-21s with their design limitations can be highly unforgiving when coupled with inadequate flying skills, lack of situational awareness and errors of judgement byContinue reading “Don’t be a MiG-21”
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The Stalker
In the mornings, the earlier I enter the colony park, the better it is – not many joggers, walkers or lazy strollers are around to occupy the walking trail and affect my flow. On some days, however, the later I enter the park it feels better because I can see life happening and many familiarContinue reading “The Stalker”
Emptying Your Way To Freedom
What do we mean when we say that s/he’s a mess. More often than not, this is intended to announce a person’s appearance, the way a person maintains and manages one’s material possessions, surroundings and also oneself and one’s relationships. Can a seemingly systematic person be a mess? Like a near swan-like serenity, masking aContinue reading “Emptying Your Way To Freedom”
Snuff the Energy out of your Indisposition
I always wondered how non-terminal illness can drive people to depression and sometimes, to even taking their own lives, till I was gifted a flavour of that experience myself. This is what I have learnt over the last one year of tackling a nagging and resilient medical issue and its myriad manifestations. Unforeseen illness throwsContinue reading “Snuff the Energy out of your Indisposition”
Why me?
In the past few months, as Corona pandemic engulfed our worlds, some of us may be left asking this very question. Looking at them and their lives and based on our relationship with them (and this ‘them’ can be ‘us’), we can respond in different ways, and we may also find ourselves struggling to keepContinue reading “Why me?”
The Gift of Competitive Release
I must have read about it during my college years, but it took an article on cancer cells by Dilip D’Souza for me to stumble (again) upon the concept of Competitive Release. Competitive release is said to occur when one of two species competing for the same resource, disappears. This allows the remaining competitor toContinue reading “The Gift of Competitive Release”
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