“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 Well, enjoy it; for soon, they’ll both be outdated—your iPod and the playlist on it.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 only human to have a fair share of sunshine and rain in a lifetime. But more often than not, some people experience more of the rain, with almost zero roles of their own to play in it. Circumstances, maybe. And as Deepak points out, we all experience in life moments of weakness where we are shaken to the…
Once upon a time, our very own Deepak Ramola met a certain Sunita Garwale on a flight from Dehradun to New Delhi. Despite being in her 70s, she told him that her motto is to lead a life brimming with curiosity irrespective of how long she has left. She firmly believes that no life can ever be dull or mundane…
