Learn-Develop-Grow

  Take a Good Long Look and Read On This picture popped up on someone's Linked In feed today and my initial reaction was to respond with a thumbs up.  It's like, literally the first thing that one does when seeing an attractive post. And then you do the next thing, which is share it.  Copy-share, copy-share .. and eventually you sit down and think. Subjects That Should Be Mandatory in Schools - really?  And the occasion trumpeted was "World Teacher's Day" apparently.  So, suddenly, as a former teacher and self-proclaimed educationist, I am now on the defensive backfoot position.  And I am not talking about the picture in the 2nd position, 2nd Row.  Or even the 3rd position, same row. My take on this is, just like the swimming and tennis coaching classes, perhaps most of these so-called subjects can be taught quite effectively at home, where the child spends the maximum time.  You do the math with 6 hours at school, 6 days a week with luck, 6 mont...

Photo by Yanalya - Freepik.com [Tonight's blog post is not about money, honey.  It's about systematic investment planning in Online Etiquette - something where I can't predict growth and sustainability, but I can pretend that it's a value proposition especially in these days of WFH and online conferencing.] Wake up call Imagine my surprise when I glanced through half-open eyelids at my list of e-mails early in the morning.  Guilty as hell about checking my phone before I get out of bed, I give it a quick glance before locating my spectacles.  And so, the surprise when I saw a mail from the Bank that apparently read "Start an SIP in Etiquette".  It didn't.  On closer look, through refracted rays, I read it again.  It was boringly predictable - Start an SIP in Equities, it said.  I clicked Delete and it sailed into the virtual bin. But then this got me thinking.  With the enforced use of technology and everything going either "online" or "e-...