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7 questions for your mom, before it's too late

I came across a beautiful Instagram post and I had to share it with all of you.
These 7 questions have to be asked:

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​1. What is the happiest memory you have about me, from the past?

2. What, according to you, is the best thing I have done for you?

3. What are the most beautiful and the most painful things about growing old?

4. How was the first year of your life after you became a mother?

5. Is there something you have kept a secret from me all these years?

6. What do you want the most from your children?

7. When you are gone, what is the one thing you want me to always remember?

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As I reflected on these 7 questions, two things dawned upon me:

• How little do we actually know of our parents, as a human.
• How rarely do we have true and meaningful conversations about them.

I am guilty of the above too and I want to spend the rest of my time with my parents changing this.
I hope you do too, before it's too late.

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ANNOUNCING HelpClub
​For the past 4 months, my team and I have been working on an app that has been a dream of mine for 5+ years - an anonymous app centred around help.
Why help? Because I genuinely believe that we all stand on the shoulders of others and to seek/give help is the best form of growth.
Why anonymous? Because most of us hesitate to seek help. We worry about perception. Remove our identity and it becomes easier.

We are now building the waitlist for the app - if you want to test out the app, then fill out the form here.
(We have 800+ people interested already)

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📕 Book I'm reading this week

Finished reading God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn. LOVED the book - it is a very heavy read but such a fascinating one. One of my best books this year.

Started reading Several short sentences about writing, by Verlyn Klinkenborg. This is an awesome book for anyone who wishes to write better or have a clearer understanding of what it is to be a writer. Loving the book!
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​Here is a list of all the books I have shared in this email, so far (alphabetically sorted)

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Results of last week's survey

Where do you get most of your news from?

1. TV
2. Newspaper
3. Social Media (X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Insta etc)
4. WhatsApp
5. Friends and family
6. Online news websites/apps

Here are the results:

1. Social media dominates the below-30 group; online news beyond that age.
2. Notice how friends/family reduces with age.
3. Notice how WhatsApp has become a source of news with increasing age.
4. Am surprised with the low penetration of TV - but I think that can be attributed to the type of audience that consumes this newsletter.

My response:​
For me, it is 50:50 between the newspaper and Twitter (X).

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Quotes to share

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The worst enemy in your life is the person who convinces you that you do not have any other choice. That you do not have options.
That you are stuck.

Often that person is you yourself.

Share on X

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We don't fall in love with a person.
We fall in love with the image we have of the person.

Share on X

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Your title makes you a manager.
Your people make you a leader.

Share on X

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📸 My week, in pictures

In this section, I share my week in pictures, for those who do not like to read as much as I write :))
I do so not to show how cool a life I live, but instead to show you what are the highlights of every day. As you will see over time, my days are mostly in repeat mode - the same things, but different experiences from them.

Last Thursday, I was in Bangalore and met my colleagues for breakfast. In the pic are Surabhi, who handles all operations for the courses business, and Rishwajeet, who handles all operations for the content business.

Thursday and Friday, the India Internet Day 2023 was held in Bangalore and Gurgaon respectively. I was the co-chair this year and it was an awesome experience. My first startup event post COVID - so it was lovely to meet a lot of smart founders and friendly faces after a long time.

Completely agree with this point of view! I am long on this country - I think the next 3 decades belong to India!

On Sunday, I completed 1,500 days of meditation without missing a single day. That's 4 years of meditation every single day! :))

On Tuesday, I met up with Deepinder Goyal, Founder of Zomato, to discuss his first book - Culture. Great chat!

Ruchi and I went for Onam Sadhya on Tuesday - we have been doing so for the past 4-5 years. Both of us love South Indian cuisine - so any excuse :)

And today is Rakhi - in the pic is my sister, Radhika, who is a professor at Delhi University and a dancer as a hobbyist. She creates dance content on Instagram - check her out.

That's it for the week in pictures. Have a lovely weekend and week ahead, all of you lovelies :)))

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Question of the week​
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Would you like to, or have you ever gone on a solo trip?
Completely alone - no one else.

1. I have
2. I haven't + I want to
3. I haven't + I don't want to
4. I am not sure

Answer here

(and see the results of others, too)

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🎙️ Podcast I shared last week

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🚀 Content I shared this week

📹 YouTube:​

​My weekly routine​

📱 Instagram:​

​Lord Vishnu's lesson to Narad Muni​

🐥 X:

Nothing was posted last week

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You can, of course, always write to me by simply replying to this newsletter.

I love reading all your emails, even though I may not be able to reply to them all.
Yes! I READ ALL MY EMAILS. ALL OF THEM.​
​(Weight loss actually achieve kar paane ki khushi ki kasam)

You can view all previous newsletters here.

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