Thoughts

“Do you think the truck driver knows theory? You will learn by pure practice”  Probably these are the enlightening words that are responsible for me to be driving in Mumbai today. I would have probably not ventured to learn to drive if I was not going to Australia; people told me if I did not learn to drive, I would not be able to move around. Taking this as a cue, I started, probably like most of us in India, by going to a driving school to learn to drive a four wheeler. It was a 2 weeks, 5 days a week, 30 minutes a day crash course in one of those Maruti 800 (I am sure you guessed right; there were no Santro's, Indica's then) which was not easy to handle. I figured out that I need to call my driving teacher “Master” and butter him with the hope that he would teach me a trick or two or atleast not not say “you do not know how to drive”. It was time for getting the license. Come at 1000 and you need to give a test. I am not too confident, having always driven in the comfor...

TEDx Gateway Mumbai NCPA, Nariman Point Mumbai Attended by more than 800 people with 21 purposeful speakers the event gave the much needed impulse to “go do something useful”. While the event itself was poorly organized [;-(], the content in terms of what the speakers had to say made up for this deficiency. My first real TEDx talk, having only seen several interesting talks on youtube, this was kind of special, else I would not venture out a full Sunday leaving all the chores behind! Took a train to CST early and was in NCPA well before 8 am to find that the organizers were just walking in! So what happened next was expected, I did not find my name in their records because “I registered late” so a hurriedly badge with “Sunil Kumar” was penned and there I was ready to sit through the sessions. On purpose I will not dwell into the names of the speakers, because then I will be focusing on the speaker and not so much on what they had to say. I will only focus on what the...