Mandar + Dakshayani

Author: Mandar Karanjkar

  • When You Become a ‘Senior’

    Being a senior puts a lot of responsibilities and opportunities on your shoulders. Most of the times, we en-cash the opportunities and forget the responsibilities. I experienced similar behavior from some seniors, few weeks ago and thought of sharing something on being a matured senior. One day or the other, all of us will pass…

  • Five Actionable Insights for a Meaningful Life

    As we often go and perform in public, through our musical discourses or through formal talks, a common reaction that we get from people is- you have such a meaningful life; I feel as if I wasted my complete life. Initially, I thought people are just saying it, out of some momentary feeling of meaninglessness.…

  • Are Our Religious Rituals Just Placebos?

    The way science is evolving, is quite interesting to have a look at. Many things, which we were told were useless, are again being proven to be correct. I am afraid to say, religious rituals are probably one of them. Before we actually dig into this stuff, we should first take out a minute to…

  • The idea of Impact

    To define it is actually difficult to experience it is very easy and I say this from an experience. While speaking about social organizations we come across the tough question of measuring their impact. When faced by this question we discuss quantitative and qualitative parameters which can evaluate the work of the organization.  We also…

  • Maintaining the Balance Between Preparation and Performance

    What prevents us from starting? Our everyday life can be broken down in two sets of activities. These two sets are preparing and executing. Just for the sake of an example, let us assume that I am a painter. In this case, the first part, preparing, consists of all the hard work, practice, experiments that…

  • Musical Musings on Sant Tikaram @ Pagdandi Book, Chai, Cafe, Baner

  • Saint Kabir and His Wisdom for Corporates : About My Upcoming Book

    Dear Readers, I am pleased to tell you all, that my next book, which applies the wisdom of Kabir to the toughest corporate challenges and redefines the way how companies work today, will be in the stores within couple of months. We are still working on the title of the book, though some options have…

  • My speech at CoEP: Three Pieces of Advise for the Youth

    A couple of days ago, I was invited to the college from where I passed out,  to be a jury for a debate competition. The competition went on for the entire day and finally got over. It was quite interesting to listen to the various view points.  The topics of debate ranged from Grindr,  a…

  • The Fight Over The Temples

    This is 21st century, best to my knowledge. A tons of issues are already there surrounding us, right from climate change to poverty to increasing violence. For past few days, one particular issue has bypassed all these ‘mundane’ issues and is on the top of the priority list. ‘Should women be allowed to enter that…

  • Are You Sensitive, In-sensitive or Partially Sensitive? Answering This Question Might Solve All the Problems That the Human Society Faces!

    What it means to be ‘Partially Sensitive?’ As we are human beings, we are all supposed to be sensitive. May be to different extents, but without any doubt, we are all sensitive. There is a gross mistake in the way we look at sensitivity. Conventionally, a person is either considered to be sensitive or insensitive.…