KISHAN KUMAR GUPTA

 During an interview two candidates were individually asked that what was the biggest failure in their life so far. While one of them told about what acts of commission or omission were his failures, the other simply refused to consider anything as a failure and said that he prefers to call them experiences.  If one tries to judge both, three different kinds of observations can be drawn about the two candidates. Firstly, one may find the former candidate as a bit negative while the later one as having more positive mindset. Secondly, one may say that the first candidate is more practical to accept his failures while the second one reflects a sense of infallibility. Lastly, a more nuanced approach would be to say that the very idea of failure is different for different people and hence no universal idea should be drawn. But all in all, it do raises the pertinent question of what failure actually is, so let us try to answer that. If we want to reflect on the meta narrative of fa...

 In 2015, after my 12th was over, I was all set to leave for Kota for IIT JEE preparations, something which was a fait accompli in a typical middle class family. Yet, there was a certain degree of apprehension about me going out of home that far and for that long. There was no such doubt when my elder brother went just two years back, then why in my case. And I found the answer when my grandfather asked me that how will I manage on my own away from home when I don't even make friends.  Though it was a fact that I was not really good at being someone's friend and never really tried to be one. Such was my condition that not even one friend visited my home till the second half of class 12th and I certainly didn't go to anyone's home either. Even my younger siblings used to have their friends regularly visiting them but that wasn't the case with me. But I never realised that having friends is so important that my prospects of going out for studies also was contingent up...

I am surprised and laughing as well while writing this blog because I couldn't think of a good beginning on a term so common in our life called family. I mean my own existence is owed to it, yet I couldn't and it's laughable. Then I remember the words of noted Hindi writer Shailesh Lodha, better identified as Tarak Mehta. He once said that there are few words in this world which are overused and highly undervalued, he called friendship as that word and I would add the word family also to it. Most widely used, more common than any other word in any language, yet I wonder how many of us actually understands its value and true meaning including me. If we go into the etymology of the word family, it comes from Latin word 'familia', which translates to servants or even worse, slaves. Oh God !, which poor English scholar thought that, it's better we don't know. I doubt even one of you would agree to it, considering what importance it has in our life.  The day we o...

 There are two sayings. First, every expert was once a beginner and second is that you don't need to be an expert to begin, you begin to become an expert. So, today marks the beginning of an enthusiastic learner who believes to be an expert some day. So why all of a sudden do I feel a need to write blogs and especially someone like me whom hardly even 50 people knows and I mean it. Recently I registered my first activity on LinkedIn and it barely managed to get two likes that too from two most unexpected people. So, why this urge. And I would say there are many reasons to it. First, writing blogs makes you appear an intellectual. Though today it has become quite common. Yet it presents you as someone who got something new to say, maybe an idea or some vision. And trust me those are very lofty words for me. Another reason for writing maybe that you love writing and good thoughts and ideas can come to your mind anytime. But since you can't carry pen paper everywhere, so you do, w...