by Malati | Jul 21, 2019 | Articles-Ramblings
Conversations with young parents It is a deliciously cold rainy morning in Coonoor as the parents of the St. Joseph’s fourth standard troop into the auditorium, looking just a little anxious. There is a slight trepidation often brought on by a visit to your child’s...
by Malati | Jun 12, 2018 | Articles-Ramblings
A friend who has let you down, a relationship where you have let down the other, a son who will not speak with his father, a mother who cannot forgive her daughter… All of us have ‘incompletions’. An incompletion in a relationship is one where something critical is...
by Malati | Nov 9, 2017 | Articles-Ramblings
It was sometime in 2001, in dry and dusty Dallas where I was recently posted, to handle HR for the US arm of my Indian Software Organization. The hysteria of y2k was settling down and 9/11 had not yet happened. Feeling lonely, unhappy and missing home, I had not quite...
by Malati | Oct 18, 2017 | Articles-Ramblings
The deity in the temple has left. The last and the most beloved of our founding Fathers has moved on. XLRI is orphaned. Yet we cannot complain. He has left the institution stronger than ever. The values etched deeply into its psyche, his life a lesson till he...
