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How to Deal With Rejection

March 25, 2013 @ 3:27 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

In the cold, analytical light of day, rejection is a simple matter of a decision taken, but as the rejected, our reaction to it is very much an emotional one. If it weren’t, we’d scarcely need to think of how to deal with it, for there’d be a logical answer to it. In fact, there [...]


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Death is Not Welcome

July 10, 2012 @ 1:44 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

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Be Flexible Enough To Be Inflexible

March 14, 2012 @ 9:51 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

Some of us pride ourselves on our flexibility; Not of the yogic contortionist variety, but of the human kind. Flexibility of beliefs, habits and character is in some ways the filtered evolution of what most human beings are: set in their ways, narrow-minded, and completely self-centred. Flexibility makes for people who are more open to [...]


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Life Isn’t Obliged To Be Easy

January 7, 2011 @ 7:30 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

How do you see life? Is it easy or difficult? That is the all-encompassing question I was posed by my friend Sinduja during a recent chat. The question wasn’t completely out of the blue, because I had just posted this little nugget on Twitter: One basic choice from which all differences in opinion branch out [...]


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Living Frugal and the Basil Plant

October 18, 2010 @ 9:01 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

The air in our apartment was still, when we walked in after our month long trip to India. The luggage was dropped on the floor, the footwear was discarded in neat bachelor stacks, and I walked up to the window to pull apart the white curtains. There on the narrow window sill, a mostly leafless [...]


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The Impatient Cart Pusher

October 10, 2010 @ 2:59 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

Impatience is a bad thing. When it’s a general impatience, directed at the nebulous World, it appears to be a more socially acceptable frustration, but a true, deep impatience with yourself is a sure sign that you’re slipping. Impatience with yourself makes you do all sorts of stupid things to break the dead-lock. You take [...]


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Understanding the Hindu Afterlife

July 2, 2010 @ 3:34 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

After my write-up on the philosophy of Hinduism, I got a fair bit of interest from people wanting to know more on the issue. Wendi was preparing to do an ethics presentation on Hinduism and stumbled across my article during her research. She sent me a few questions she had on Hindu beliefs, one of [...]


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