Random Thoughts

God Created Us To Be Just As We Are! Each and every human being is a singular work of existence, shaped not only by their triumphs but also by their imperfections, scars, and unfinished edges. We spend much of our lives wearing masks, believing that they protect us from judgment, when in truth they often shield us from those who were never meant to understand us. Authenticity begins the moment we dare to set those masks aside. The right people never ask us to become smoother, quieter, or more convenient. They recognize that our cracks are not flaws to be repaired, but are fascinating stories to be read, they are unique lives that needs to celebrated. Hence what once felt like jagged edges become the very contours that fit perfectly with another soul, transforming old wounds into quiet bridges of trust, belonging, and love. Such connections are rare and therefore precious. In a world eager to polish away individuality, treasure those who celebrate your unvarnished self and i...

How Many Have You Lived Through? This morning I found this little collage sent by a friend along with his customary good morning greetings. It immediately sent me on a nostalgic trip. For me this graphic was more than just a checklist. It was a trip down a glorious memory lane, that spanned my childhood, adolescence, youth and glory days all rolled into one.  That picture actually showcases a museum of moments. Every square represents a technological marvel that once made people stop in amazement and whisper, "The future has arrived." Today, they sit quietly in memory, replaced by inventions that were once equally unimaginable.  As a gesture of gratitude and a personal tribute to how they enriched our lives, let me briefly go over each one of them one more time: 1. Rotary Phone: The satisfying click of every dial felt like connecting across the world through pure mechanical magic. It taught patience and made every call deliberate. Today, it looks like a relic fro...

  The Audacity Of Youth Script A Fairytale Month For Indian Cricket! By - Lt Col D Purushothaman Pillay (Retd)   Self-belief and the fearless spirit of a lionhearted young brigade who were unafraid to go after the impossible, scripts one of India’s proudest overseas series wins ever. This is as inspiring a blood, sweat and tears story, as one can get. A heartwarming story of the confluence of many young aspirations, that is fuelled by passion, sacrifices, toil, determination, perseverance all of which ultimately creating an epic of unprecedented success. It underscores the timeless wisdom of that old saying - "Where there is a will, there is a way." It is the heroics involved in carving out impossible victories such as this one, that stuff legends are made of. Who would have ever thought in their wildest dreams after being down in the dumps on 19 December 2020, when India lost it’s first day-night Test at Adelaide on being bundled out for a humiliating 36 runs in the se...

Words... I am sharing a poem that I had written a few days back, about the significance of 'words' in all our lives. They are all we have to tell our stories, To say what we want to say... And our words are what will remain one day. Read on....

  Indian Premier League – IPL Some Trivia From The 13 IPL Finals So Far By – Lt Col D Purushothaman Pillay(Retd) The Indian Premier League (IPL) founded and conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from 2008, is the richest, and most popular  annual professional Twenty20 cricket league in the world. The global audience,  as reported by Reuters was a record 269 million viewers for the opening week of the latest edition of the Indian Premier League 2020, that was recently hosted in the UAE . This league played by city-based franchises is usually held in the months of  March and May every year between eight teams representing eight different cities in India. This year however on account of the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament had to be deferred until an appropriate window in October-November and had to be hosted without in-stadium spectators. It also had to be shifted to the UAE for the ease of managing the logistics. At the end of this 1...

American Presidential Elections - The Race To 270! By - Lt Col D Purushothaman Pillay (Retd)   The time to elect the ‘Most Powerful Person On Earth” that is the American President, has dawned upon us once again. This is an event that happens in the month of November of every leap year of the 21 st Century. The final verdict gets decided by an intriguing game of numbers, that is popularly known as ”The Race To 270”. In my effort to explain the American elections to my children in simple terms, I have compiled this note that I will blog, in order to demystify this complex exercise and give a basic overview that will summarize the major terminologies and numerical aspects that are involved in this fascinating election process. It should help the layman to understand the meaning of this famous epithet of the American electoral lexicon - “Race to 270” which is what the election is ultimately all about. WHO IS THE POTUS? Let us start by understanding the acronym POTUS which st...