A whooping 765 crore worth expressway is now operational between Silk Board Junction and Electronic city in Bangalore. Few years back this 10km stretch took motorists an hour and even more. Simply speaking, it was a nightmare.

This is for those who spend sleepless times wondering why things dont change for our Nation.

I met someone today. The person is someone who is in a very competent position. Someone who I believe has the right position, level of influence and ability to be able to play a decisive role in several things relating to blood donation and the problems surrounding the same. The discussion with the person was cordial and warm. The person is genuine and service minded. However I found some strange resistance which led to this blog!
It is interesting why some problems don't get resolved. The main contributing factors as per my little understanding are:

• Corruption and Unwillingness to work: The interest of people in not solving the problem. This may be because of the additional effort which they may not be willing to invest or simply - gross corruption.
• Lack of Acknowledgement of Problem: Many time people are unwilling to...

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

A casual dictionary look-up can sometimes lead to a blog post. Here it is sympathy vs empathy. Here is a distinct culture that we try to nurture in our organization, a place where individuals work with people suffering from pain and facing problem sin life. This has been there always, right from the beginning of the organization. Today I got two beautiful words to explicitly explain an essential part of the behavioral skill we want our volunteers to be synonymous with.

Very recently a few issues have raged major debates in my mind. I was growing more and more indecisive and that's when I sat down to explore the deeper intricacies of my behaviour. The findings were insightful and interesting and here I share the same with you.

Roughly around 7 years back, at this time of the day - Sankalp India Foundation came into existence.

Happy BirthDay Sankalp!

Happy Sankalp Anniversary everyone who has faith in this organisation. May we never cease to persue our goal.

There are 2 types of people. The first kind of people take things as they come without much if's and but's. Whether they are okay with it or not, they do what life demands from them. They are the people who may want to do so many things but who may not be able to do much about what they want. And ten there are the other kind. The people who constantly try and find ways to do the things they want to do. These are the people who wont accept what life gives to them unless the giving in line with what they want from life. Our volunteers are the second kind of people.

Today is the day when I share with you yet another of the vibrant collection of peculiarities (which you may simply call defects) that I carry in my packaging. This one I choose to call Compulsive Work Disorder.

Happy New Year Rajat! I told myself.. A moment later - New year? What's that? I know we are going to change the last two digits of the date after a long time. But what more? 2010 Goals? Resolutions? Umm - nothing :) Or I can be a little better to myself by saying - nothing on this day :)

It is 5 years since the giant sea waves hit the Indian coasts. A few minutes back I realized that it is also five years since the time a few engineering students gathered in front of the hostel mess at this hour of night. It was just around this time that on a cold winter night they decided that they will not wait with folded hands to see what will be announced next.