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We three were placed in different parts of Kolkata –With forthcoming
exams, responsibilities in office and home, prior engagements during weekends -
our meeting seemed impossible. Finally we decided to meet on a week day
promising each other we will wind up in one hour. One had to pick up her
daughter, I had to return home and pick up my new lap top that day and the
third one had a son preparing for his Higher Secondary exams.
It all started with wow how we looked, what we were doing to
stay fit, what the rest of our school friends were doing, and gradually the
discussion went on to something else – There were so many ideas popping up as
we spoke that I had to use the tissue paper to scribble and work on those
actionable thoughts and suggestions that my friend who is the director of an NGO
kept pouring incessantly.
Even after two rounds of order – Masala Dosa, Vada, sizzlers
and two rounds of coffee, our discussion continued and it lasted for close to
three hours. The daughter got picked up by the husband. The poor son had to
study on his own. The laptop really had to wait till 8 PM. What did we talk
about after all?
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Workshops for Caregivers to Dementia patients
including training from Psychologists
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Newspaper Campaign to support Dementia patients
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How to handle learning disability in children
and parents?
We had fun meeting our old school friends and some great
exchange of ideas. The point is – let us have fun, an active social life, party
hard, dance like crazy, have fun all the way!
Are we having fun with a sense of responsibility?
In your next party at home or family picnic outside, before
you give that one big Biryani order for forty people, ask yourself if you would
like to increase the revenue of an established outlet or the widow who runs a
food joint around the corner whose son is in class V. You heard that her food
is great, from many who have tried. What is stopping you to order - Is it your fetish
for brand, your image in the online universe or hygiene or quality?
Bill Gates rightly said - there are three kinds of wealthy
people – one who owns everything - yacht, island and half the world, one who
invests in business to make more for the world, one who donates to charity
organizations to make a difference to the world. (May be not those exact words, that is the
essence though)
Have Fun! Do we need to be brand conscious morons when we
have a choice and the power to lift someone else?
You are wealthy, now get rich! No, they are not the same
thing.
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