Do affirmations work?
Affirmations are thoughts you consciously repeat to your self desiring a specific outcome. These are curious. Do they work? Sometimes...
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Sarita Talwai
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Comparisons Kill
Odious. Parents wield many weapons against their children. Sharp laced comments, insidious barbs, emotional blackmail or the deadly...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Sep 15
- 1 min
What am I lacking in life?
A Self-awareness Question You have it, but not enough. That is what a lack would mean. You have money, education, security, relationship...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 30
- 2 min
Learning to stay with an emotion
If you don’t like particular weather (cold, hot, rainy, humid etc.,) you have two choices: move to a place where the weather is different...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Calming the storm in the head
You want to stop the loop thinking. You want to end the tape that is running in your head. You want to switch off the film running inside...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 13
- 1 min
Isn’t it a defeatist attitude when people say possessions are not important?
People have to find someone more ambitious than them, more interested in the worldly things than them, more ‘greedy’ than them and...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 6
- 2 min
Financial freedom is the gateway to many other freedoms.
All Indians are philosophers! It is there in our blood. Any situation, any place, any time, we can easily summon some aspect of...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 5
- 2 min
The Mother tongue fluster
This is another idea like your ‘hometown’ that is beginning to get diffused and turning slowly into shapelessness. Many of us struggle to...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 30
- 2 min
Dependent, Independent or Interdependent?
As children, we are dependent on the adults around us for almost everything. Slowly as the child grows up, the sense of wanting to be...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 29
- 2 min
Adopting a compound interest mindset.
As a former banker, I have always been aware of the power of compound interest. As applied to finance, it means that you earn a small sum...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 28
- 2 min
Not complaining about work, but being grateful for it.
We all differ on the amount of money we have, but the one resource all of us have in equal measure is time. Eventually, while money gets...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 26
- 2 min
Hometown-less people
One of the common questions asked when people are meeting for the first time or in a formal interview is, “Which is your hometown?” In a...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 24
- 2 min
Should decisions in the family be democratic or should everyone get their chance?
Eight of the members of my family had gathered together. People across three generations. We needed to decide where to go for dinner and...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 21
- 2 min
The might to remain silent
Recently when one of my friends was being exhorted by his wife about what not to tell some visitors expected home, remarked, “Saraswati...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 20
- 2 min
Do you become anxious when returning something to the shop?
My friend had recently bought a small pressure cooker and he did not notice a small, insignificant (insignificant is my judgement not...
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Sarita Talwai
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Passionate Detachment
Every morning at about 9.30, two toddlers march briskly towards the sand pit in the play area opposite my flat. Armed with spade and...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Mar 12
- 3 min
“I don’t know” is not a set of dirty words
I was travelling on the train to Bangalore and a young girl on her way to her first job was sitting opposite me. A middle-aged man...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Feb 20
- 2 min
You are normal if you have many half-read books!
As book lovers, we pick up a lot of books offline and online. We start reading a book with a lot of enthusiasm, both fiction and...
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Sarita Talwai
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Psychology Lessons from playing Scrabble, anyone?
Scrabble Babble. We play Scrabble like we play life. Some of us are hoarders. We hold on to our Qs and Zs hoping to use them at the right...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Feb 10
- 3 min
MAID IN INDIA
Day 1 “She has quit the job”, the wife started, bitterness and anger rising in her. “Why are you saying that?”, her husband asked...
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