Dr. Kamal Murdia (Plastic Surgeon- Speaker and Author)
“Dr. Kamal Murdia, MBBS,M.S;M.Ch.(Plastic Surgery) CS(UK), Director, Changing Faces: Changing lives; is a Plastic – Cosmetic Surgeon based in Mumbai, India and Abroad. He is also a celebrated speaker, writer, and author. He is the bestselling author of the book ‘The Million Dollar Powerful Personality’- and The Strange Case of the Billion Dollar Tortoise.”
www.drkamalmurdia.com
The Power of Public Speaking Dr. Kamal Murdia – Plastic Surgeon- Speaker and Author
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent” – Dionysius – Greek teacher of rhetoric
Until the lion tells his story, only the hunters’ brave tales will be told. You are a performer in life, speaking and oratory skills are a vital part of the theatre called life. Gone are the days, when it was an add-on asset. As I look back, I can say without an speck of doubt that public speaking as a number one soft skill has massively flipped my life. Here is a ruthless- brutal, surgical, straight forward – Million Dollar advise- ‘learn to stand and speak impressively’. This is a mind- blowing idea. 30 years ago, I did a course in public speaking, After this course my confidence became a Goliath, almost instantly.
Rupal Mohta is an author, blogger and content writer, company secretary, artist and mom. She makes her home in India with her husband, two inquisitive kids who love to read, and an undisciplined terrace garden. She can cook, dance, sing and sketch. She tries to devotedly write a few pages each week as the process of bringing a story to life fascinates her. She’s terrible with new age technical gadgets!
HOW SWEET DID YOUR ROSES SMELL TODAY?
There’s always that one little thing that brings immense joy to you. Isn’t it? It could be music, a good book, perhaps catching up with an old friend, or putting your green thumb to good use, even travelling, cooking, or may just be idling on a hammock doing absolutely nothing!
For me, an evening spent in my pint-size urban sanctuary is an evening well spent. My balcony garden, where I make every attempt to grow greens, reds, yellows, and blues successfully or otherwise is my ikigai. With every season that nature rings in ever-so-quietly, my flora and fauna bear an all new look. Sometimes the micro greens sprout out exceedingly well and on other times the Snake plant gives up on me because I overwatered it. A rare night blooming Cereus can make a year long wait worthwhile, just as the abundance of Sadabahar makes me wonder if I have too many of them! Here in my sanctuary, I pass on valuable life lessons to my children, just as I fill a silent morning with a cup of tea and my thoughts. This is where I slow down, pause and even stop to smell the roses.
As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round- BEN HOGAN
As you go about your busy day, knocking numbers off your monthly targets, meeting irrational deadlines or getting your kids into a sane routine, do take time to smell your roses. Life has this absurd quality of passing by even before you can flutter an eyelid.
Satadal Lahiri
Satadal Lahiri : “THE STRIFE THAT WAS…….IS!!!!”
Damn all absolutes. The moral, ethical, political and social ones usually not open to challenge as well as those based on evidence and hence open to examination.
The first group of absolutes has given us faith, support, succor and values on which to base and plan our lives, both for the here and the hereafter. It has defined the good and the bad, the virtuous and the evil. And by virtue of its absolutism, it has given us wars ranging from the crusades to the conflagration in Croatia as also an epidemic in the name of Jehad.
The other has given us the industrial revolution, longer life and increasing material comfort for many; the best of the rest are advised to seek solace with the first set — pollution, the nuclear bomb, fear and traffic jams on information highways.
Satadal Lahiri : A TRANSFORMED HISTORY FOR….A PAIR OF SHOES!!
by Vikram Khaitan in Vikram Khaitan on June 28, 2021
A TRANSFORMED HISTORY FOR….A PAIR OF SHOES!!
On the 6th of June, 2020, when the world was busy combating the deadly virus, a band of battle scarred veterans gathered on the coast of Northern France to pay their obeisance to their predecessors, for whom “the longest day” was the shortest. Today, the famous beaches have resumed their function as a holiday resort for the Parisians after months of abandonment due to the pandemic. However, without the piles of concrete rubble and rusting guns (remnants to Hitler’s “Atlantic Wall”), it would have been difficult to imagine that they were the sites of the greatest amphibious invasion in history, in 1944.