This happened during my 5th std. School inspection is going to happen.

My science teacher who is also my class teacher entered our class in a rush. We can clearly see a sense of urgency in her face.

She informed the entire class that School inspection is coming up in next 1 week. I don't know what a S...

Do you know my real name? It is

Kartheeba Kandeeba Kathirava Prasanna Deepan Chakravarthy

Yes, it is 6 words and 52 characters long. There is an interesting back story to this name. Our diety God name is ‘Kamatchi Amman’ and our family wants to name me with names starting with ‘Ka’.

Thus ‘Kartheeba’, ‘...

I worked in Cognizant for 8 years. I’m passionate about Volunteering and my vision is to inspire every Indian to volunteer.

So, I quit my job 5 years back on Dec 31, 2014 and decided to do full time volunteering.

Today, Team Everest NGO works with 40,000+ children with the help of 15,000 volunteers. D...

Yes, It’s officially 5 years since I have quit my job in Cognizant and decided to do full time Social Work with the non profit organization I founded - Team Everest. Dec 31, 2014 is my last working day in a corporate. I wrote a Facebook post 5 years ago announcing my decision to quit ...

Even the subject line of this blog post would trigger a huge laughter from my wife. After all, she is the one who needs to listen to my boring poems (That's how I call them) :). That's a different story altogether.

Here, I want to write about my first experience on the poems I wrote.

During my School ...

On the way to my meeting venue, I saw a Banyan tree with a message board in front of it.

I’m sharing the message written in front of this tree below: 

“This 70 year old banyan tree was transplanted from Padiri Village, located 60Km from here. The branches were chopped and the tree was uprooted to...

Leaving a well-paid corporate job is not an easy thing to do. But, when you are passionate to do something big and good for the society, quitting the job seems one of the easiest steps to take in life!

That’s how and why I quit my job on Dec-31, 2014 to do full time social work with the NGO...

I called it as my darling. My wife hates me when I  do so! It is one of the best friends I ever had in my life.  Yes, it is Samsung Galaxy Note 2. 

I bought it in 2012. It stayed with me for close to 3 years – Both during the good and bad times. 

It helped me reach out to thousands...

It’s been 6 months since I have quit my full time corporate job. My last working day as a full time corporate employee was on Dec-31, 2014.

After which, I was working 5 days a month for part time in the same corporate. I quit that as well by May-2015.

So, I have spent the past 6 months in the are...

Dear friends,

Today (Dec-21, 2014) is a very special day for me and my family. Yes, we dedicated our home in Arni, Tiruvannamalai Dt, Tamilnadu to serve the community. It is the home where I was born and bought up. Our family lived there for more than 30+ years.

Dear friends,

It might be a surprise for many of you after reading the ‘Blog Post Title’. I have one Sad and Good news for you.

The Sad News is that, my last working day in Cognizant is Dec-31, 2014. For a change, just thought, I can inform this a month before rather than telling it on the last day!

Th...

Do you get angry with your spouse often? Does anger become one of your habit? How to overcome such habits which we want to avoid?

Habits – Something which everyone possesses and all of us uses it daily, right from morning to night. Everyone has both good and bad habits (Which is good and bad is up to...

Dear friends,