Vivek MehraJun 2310 minDepression, loneliness and suicideWe are social animals. So how can we sit back and accept that someone took their life, ‘because they were depressed.'
Vivek MehraJun 52 minDr Pritam Singh - the star foreverIn each of our lives, irrespective of nation, creed, or religious belief there is at least one person who shows us the meaning of life. In t
Vivek MehraJun 23 minThose were the days my friend...The mood was positive, the conversation reminiscent of a world that we once shared and had somehow frozen in time for ourselves.
Vivek MehraMay 264 minThe Lemon Tea Seller of Varanasi – Part 1 Lessons in Entrepreneurship A few weeks before the Coronavirus forced a lockdown, I traveled to Varanasi. While visiting the ghats, I chanced upon a traveling tea se...
Vivek MehraMar 317 minUnderstanding Untouchability In India there is a section of society that have historically termed ‘untouchable’. I never understood why some humans were treated as pu...
Vivek MehraJan 16 minConfessions of a Meat Eater Lately meat has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Some insist that meat has now been shrouded in saffron ideology. No, not saff...
Vivek MehraJan 16 minThe Truth About EgoMankarnika Ghat: Death the only truth without an ego (C) Vivek Mehra Indian philosophy has long held: where ego reigns supreme, truth is...
Vivek MehraDec 31, 20192 minThe Dual CitizenshipThis article first appeared in LiveEncounters (https://liveencounters.net/2018-le-mag/08-august-2018/vivek-mehra-on-dual-citizenship/) Qu...
Vivek MehraDec 21, 20162 minThis is what love looks like…Friday 16th December 2016, my birthday. What is it like to receive about 500 wishes on the day you were born? I can answer that question ...
Vivek MehraNov 12, 20169 minDemonetising, India, Indians, the pain and my thoughtsAs I pen this, we are in the 4th night of the great demonetising crisis in India. Social media is polarized, the media is polarized and t...
Vivek MehraDec 6, 20158 minThe Pushy IndianA great place to find pushers You have seen them everywhere but I don’t think you are conscious of them. Some would say the Nadellas, the...
Vivek MehraAug 5, 20158 minI forgot to buy him yogurt (concluding part)(Continued from Part 1) As the jet touched down at Boston’s Logan airport my heart thumped in my chest. I had spent over 3 months trying ...
Vivek MehraJul 30, 20155 minIt’s time we all did too.Speaking about him… In the early ‘80s I was aboard an Air India flight headed towards New York City. I was an excited teenager about to j...
Vivek MehraMay 9, 20153 min“Snubbed by cops…” a familiar Indian tale Friday’s paper had an article talking about a father who lost his savings to a fraud. The article describes how he didn’t let go of the f...
Vivek MehraJun 3, 20144 minJumping red lights, have we degenerated beyond hope?I am in the Swiss Alps enjoying what should be a cool and relaxing holiday. I woke up to the news that Gopinath Munde, a cabinet minister...
Vivek MehraJun 14, 201312 minThe cynical Indian ex-pat (or why I hate the superiority complex stricken…)I am not sure if the title of this blog actually conveys this but I am angry! On my way to Atlanta from Frankfurt, I chanced upon a Perso...
Vivek MehraApr 29, 20138 minLosing the fear of fear (the third incident)This happened soon after I found the US$10 bill. (See the blog: Losing the fear of fear (the second incident) I remember waking up cheerf...
Vivek MehraApr 14, 20136 minLosing the fear of fear (the second incident)This happened later in 1985; in late September/early October. By then my family business had gone bust in the US. The office had been shu...
Vivek MehraApr 9, 20136 minLosing the fear of fear (1 out of 3 life changing incidents)It was April 1985. I had wrapped up my graduate degree in NYC. Reagan’s policies had dealt a severe blow to garment exporters. There was ...
