I have been thinking a lot lately about the difference between a mirror and a front-facing camera. In the usual rush to reach work, I end up using the commute time for completing the ‘last mile’ of the ‘getting ready’ process. I recently noticed how I have started using the front-facing camera instead of a [...]
Ode to Bards of Lavatory – Part I
Sometimes feels real and at times just a dream Two belligerent siblings fighting to reign supreme Clamour and void are their names, their mission to abort the same story whose very being lends them glory Both can’t look other into the eye and believe the identical effect they produce upon their subject is just [...]
‘Feel Good’ vs. ‘feel-good’
I find it interesting how logical ‘thinking’ and rationality is given precedence in every-day life but every time I have attended an ‘intervention’ (training/workshop) it is always the role of ‘feeling’ that is highlighted as a key area of work. We always find it safer to state our beliefs by saying – ‘I think’, I [...]
Musings from Day 1 at THINK, Goa
Becoming aware of one’s own ignorance is said to be the first step towards knowledge. The nuances and multiplicities of disciplines discussed on the Day 1 of the THINK festival was stimulating most on this particular count. I mean the last time I found myself amidst any pursuit of subjects as diverse as mathematics, ecology, [...]
Finding meaning beyond ‘Operational Efficiency’
I am currently on a sabbatical of sorts, the idea is to take out time for myself and family and possibly to undertake some self-introspection of life in the past couple of years and defining purpose for coming time. In terms of professional work, I have less than a decade’s experience and in full-time house [...]
Amita Malhotra
Professional trajectory - Literature. Public Relations. Social Media. Personal - learning to cook, hopefully drive, figure whether to renew HBR and discipline myself into focusing on important and not urgent. 
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