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Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts for the Days of October 2020

01 Oct:      Setbacks are temporary halts which provide us an opportunity to critically examine our approach and efforts and make necessary corrections. 02 Oct:     We make our future, one day at a time. 03 Oct:      Amoral people are a sub-human species. 04 Oct: The phrase 'concerned authorities' is an oxymoron, because had the authorities been concerned since Independence on August 15, 1947, we would not be in the unenviable state today as we are in. 05 Oct: Being poor is not the real tragedy, becoming irrelevant is. 06 Oct: Forget about innovations, if our bureaucrats even master the routine, their productivity and effectiveness will go up manifold. 07 Oct: It is up to us to turn the unprecedented calamity COVID-19 into an opportunity to discover and put to good use our resourcefulness and creativity. 08 Oct: By justifying blocking of arterial roads and looting and destroying public and private property in the name of...

Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts for the Days of September 2020

01 Sep:      Regular course corrections are necessary to reach the destination. 02 Sep: The problem is not that the others do not know you, it is that you do not know yourself. 03 Sep: First, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, then the Big Ben, because we have to have inclination and time, in that order, to be able to anything well. 04 Sep: The world may not even acknowledge your achievements but they still enhance your self-worth. 05 Sep: The way we handle our ego and ambition will decide if we are going to end up as a success or as a failure. 06 Sep: We can't will or order ourselves to think new thoughts, but if we let go just for a while, we may find them emerging from the depths of our brain and presenting themselves to us. 07 Sep: Treat life as a beautiful dream, which you have the capacity to turn into reality. 08 Sep: Not paying taxes honestly is criminal. We all must pay the due taxes and thus earn a right to collectively compel the gove...