In the last episode of ‘Twice As Wise’ Season 2, our beloved founder Deepak turns a storyteller. He narrates one of his favourite fables from the past, the one about this monk in a village and the lesson he'd learnt from the same. He also recalls meeting a monk at the foothills of a monastery on his first solo trip…
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“At the stroke of the midnight hour, as the world sleeps...” a loudspeaker chirped somewhere outside. A nation was being born, the doctor informed us silently in stark darkness as it was probably an unwanted child. I was sitting right in the labour room listening to the suppressed moaning and despair of my motherland, somewhere on the newly drafted border…
From the iconic Scott Seems to Andrew Solomon to our very own Criss Jami, time after time, there's one thing all these people have agreed on and that is 'you ought to have that sense of humour!' And as Criss Jami puts it—"Everyone has a sense of humour. If you aren't laughing at your jokes, you are probably laughing at…
I remember 2009, when maasi used to drag me along to Karol Bagh, Delhi to buy me gifts without any reason. Because, aren't aunts the most adorable ever? And me being extremely fond of this particular aunt, I was plain biased about her. (For who wouldn't love her with all the pampering and gifts!) But then for almost the next…
In the sixth episode of Twice of Wise Season 2, Deepak narrates the story of two phenomenal women he'd met at different parts of the world. One, from the last village on a glacier in Uttarakhand and the other from the drylands of Arusha, Tanzania—and talks about one of the greatest lessons in life. He recollects meeting Haruli from Khati,…
Dear Junior, I see you’re playing your favourite song on loop in your iPod—4th generation. Well, enjoy it; for soon, they’ll both be outdated—your iPod and the playlist on it. Pst, you have a new message from a friend on your Nokia phone. But you have not realized it yet since it doesn’t ping as much. Enjoy your text-only days.…
His eyes shine brighter as he narrates this particular tale. Deepak, on the fifth episode of Twice as Wise Season-2 recollects his early days of collecting and forwarding life lessons through Project FUEL and how a very few people actually believed in what he did. Like, could a seventeen year old possibly collect and pass on life lessons? They’d doubt.…
I remember meeting Deepak the last time he was in Kolkata. It was a certain winter afternoon and we'd met at a quaint Flurys outlet in New Alipore, guzzling down hot chocolate and brainstorming crazy ideas for FUEL. I had turned up five minutes late, drained out of energy, still recovering from the greatest loss of my life and he,…
It is not infrequently that you would catch me indulging myself in yet another episode of my favorite TV show—one of my many guilty pleasures (second to only comfort food). You might be familiar with that feeling. But sometimes, you come across that one scene or listen to that one quote or encounter that one character that strikes a chord…
Twice as Wise has been in some ways, the core of what Project FUEL is all about. The first episode of season 2 encapsulates the expression of love in its most unnoticed and unappreciated forms. And we couldn't just stop at that, could we? So here we are with the next installment of our brand new season. And this time,…