"If you're the parent of a gifted child, you already know the peculiar exhaustion of it. The kid solves a differential equation before breakfast & melts down over diagonally-cut toast. Turns out we've had a case study for this exact chaos for 5,000 years — his name is Krishna. He never micromanaged the Pandavas' talents. He watched, waited, & intervened exactly twice: when survival was at stake, and when someone's dignity was violated. Everything else? Even the dice games the

There are some speaking engagements that leave you with a sense of accomplishment. Then there are those rare occasions that leave you with a sense of hope. My recent interaction with the gifted young participants of Lodestone 2026, organized by the Pravaha Foundation at IIIT Hyderabad, belonged firmly in the latter category. I am deeply grateful to the Pravaha Foundation for inviting me to contribute to a program that seeks to shape young minds at such a formative stage of li

There is a tendency to associate wisdom with education, status, or institutional authority. But these encounters challenge that assumption. They suggest that clarity often emerges from necessity, that discipline is forged through constraint, and that values are best understood when they are tested daily. The rickshaw driver navigating Mumbai’s chaotic streets is not just transporting passengers—he is, in his own way, navigating life with a framework that many would benefit fr

Paying it forward as a gesture of being thankful to our teachers

Dharmic Literature is replete with stories of self discovery which can serve as a reference point for modern day humans. This blog brings out certain references which I have personally examined and gained from.