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HAPPY ENDING OR SAD ENDING?
Authors and Movie Directors are in a great position of power over their readers and movie viewers. While we turn the pages with burning...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 8, 20223 min read


The Apostrophe Connections in Our Life (In India)
Recently I ran into my friend who had come down from the USA where he stayed with his wife and two kids. Catching up with him over a cup...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 7, 20222 min read


The Art of Gifting
Recently an athlete from the Rio Olympics was gifted a BMW car by some sports association. The athlete wanted to return the car as the...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 6, 20223 min read


Compassion Fatigue is real and it is here.
It is almost more than one and a half years of the pandemic. We heard it initially in January last year, we experienced the severity in...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 29, 20222 min read


Covert Patriarchy
. I am guilty of endorsing it. I promote it when I go shopping with my daughter and coax her to buy 'suitable clothes'. I foster it when...

Sarita Talwai
Jan 22, 20222 min read


Giving 'silent company' to people
"Give me some silent company" Recently someone came home and asked, “Are you busy?”. I replied, “Just answering some emails”. “Can I just...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 22, 20222 min read


Changing behaviour without our ‘mental’ involvement
Changing behaviour without your ‘mental’ involvement The term choice architecture was made popular by the Nobel Prize-winning economist...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 18, 20222 min read


Why are you like you, be like me.
A conversation between father and son: “You are eating sweets in the end. You should eat it before you eat the curd rice” “No, I don’t...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 14, 20222 min read


As an adult child, how to handle your parents' arguments and fights?
In our culture, adult children keep in constant touch with their ageing parents, many living in the same house or at least on two...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 11, 20223 min read


Don't Mistake the part for the whole
Lesson on the Riveredge I must have been around nine-ten years when we were travelling from Bangalore to Mysore. My grandfather was with...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 9, 20223 min read


Things that don't matter with people who matter
Harmony in relationships is priceless. Especially in relationships that matter to us – our close family, friends, colleagues. Many...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 5, 20223 min read


Great Way to Handle Temptations – Physical Barriers
T Temptations need not always be resisted. There is a great pleasure in yielding to temptations and we don't always have to feel guilty...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 3, 20223 min read
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