Go on a cruise. Looking forward. Anyone?

What could you try for the first time?

“I don’t give way to fools”, said Gilbert Keith Chesterton. “But I do”, responded George Bernard Shaw.

What principles define how you live?

I live by patience and wisdom. That best defines my strength. Thanks for the question.

I’ve learnt only recently that young sunflowers track the Sun’s movement across the sky.

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

They go from East to West during the day and go back to where they started in the night. So that they catch the first rays of Sunlight the next day. Wow! And I’m fifty years old.

Discovering my lost childhood. Can I?

What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.

A one hour exercise a day. Honestly speaking.

What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?

The work life balance isn’t all about providing. It’s about killing the graveyard shift at office and choosing to spend some quality time with family.

What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?

Give a hand. You, be the first.

What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

An affair with one’s own wife in Indian marriages!

What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?

Amidst a bonhomie, invitation sent to hundreds and thousands and a week long festivity culminating in a marriage of two distant souls. All arranged strictly by the elders in families. The couple have never met before. Not a word spoken. Pushed into a bed overnight with a whole lot of family guarding the door near the bed. One should live in a joint family from the day next. All their life. You’re allowed only to enjoy a limited private time with your partner. I shall call it an ‘affair’ with one’s own wife. And it’s traditional here in India.