Author Archive for Pawan Sarda

Amongst the many experiences we have in life, our interpersonal relationships are the most involved and intricate interactions we ever have to endure. Relationships invoke and involve all the five senses along with the mind and heart.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato. And, this will remain true as long as human beings exist. Let’s ponder on why we need to play sports. Humans are nothing but an assembly of different kinds of energies. This includes positive and negative [...]

And so the cycle of life continues continues along for another generation. Sons are born, fathers brim with pride and expectations abound. But with the years they grow apart and there are bruising conflicts along the way. But usually the relationship survives in one form or another.

Trustworking! “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” -Friedrich Nietzsche It was that time of my life when i was still struggling to show that i am no more a teenager, by the virtue of my micro mustache. I had the “first best friend” [...]

It’s about time you stop comparing yourself to and liberating yourself from men. Enjoy your power as a woman and your role as a nurturer as you complement and balance the human equation to make it whole.

A fool is known by six things: anger without cause; speech without profit; change without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends. Arabian Proverb I think a foolish person (fool) is the one who knows, does and views things differently from wise men, as well as other fools. [...]

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Anonymous The concept of a book starts within someone who is restless with a concept. So restless that he cannot keep it to himself. He feels like sharing it with anyone who’s interested. He becomes like a live volcano wanting to [...]

Chaos is a name for any order that creates confusion in our minds – George Santayana. Man has a basic resistance to chaos. He likes life predictable and systematic. Want evidence? Look around you. See how good a man is at creating systems that are simple, identical and replicable. The quality, dimensions and features of [...]

Unhappiness is the difference between what you have and what you want. Frustration is the prime symptom of unhappiness. With our hectic and money-focused modern lifestyle, frustration has become as common as breathing. It leads us to feeling helpless, angry and insecure

I like walking in the rain, because nobody can see me crying. Charlie Chaplin. I recently participated in a ‘heated’ dinner debate about which is the best season of them all. One person said “winter” for all the cosy comforts it provides. Another said “summer”, firstly because of school holidays and secondly for its importance [...]

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and to be understood.The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Listening is by far the simplest process a human body undergoes. But most of us have yet to learn the art of listening. Good listeners are becoming extinct among [...]