Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20193 min‘Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep on moving.’ Albert EinsteinWith each day, the world around me takes on new dimensions. I pedal through life, absorbing the ever-changing scenery whilst striving for...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20198 min“We build too many walls but not enough bridges” – Isaac NewtonIn this age of technological advancement and hyper connectivity, it seems as though the world is at our fingertips. A baby is born to a...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20194 min‘That which doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger’- Friedrich NietzscheEvery once a week, I head to my son’s International school in Singapore to teach yoga to the parent community. Last week, I was welcomed...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20194 minWater seeks it’s own levelLook around you. Have you ever wondered about the impact that people you surround yourself with, have on your life? Do they energise you,...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20196 min‘When they go low, we go high’ – Michelle ObamaA couple of years ago, I had a tyrant boss at my workplace who treated the office like her domain and all her subordinates as serfs. She...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20196 minWhat goes around, Comes around“It’s a Jaali note” he announced, as he handed the 500 Rupee note back to me. ‘Sorry Madam, but I can’t accept this’ A minute ago, the...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20198 min‘Things do not change, we change.’ Henry David ThoreauI had felt a looming sense of dread as the last of our suitcases was loaded into the taxi heading towards Manchester airport. At the...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20198 min‘Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile’‘We change the way you smile’ enticed the Bollywood beauty flashing a dazzling smile from a giant hoarding in the mall. In the print...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20195 min‘The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it’s limits’ Albert EinsteinIt was stifling to be trapped indoors, unable to even venture into my balcony or my terrace garden because of the monkey threat. I had to...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20195 min‘Common sense is not so common’ Voltaire‘How to get rid of Monkeys’ I furiously typed into my search engine. The web spat out a list of news articles about the agonising monkey...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20193 min‘A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving’ Lao TzuMovement and human migration is one of the key stories of human survival, existence and evolution. Thousands of years ago, Homo Sapiens...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20195 min‘A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for’ William G T Shedd ‘Not a chance!’ we cried unanimously. ‘Impossible’. The fact that my husband had even made such a crazy suggestion seemed incredulous to...
Seema BanerjeeSep 12, 20194 min‘We sometimes underestimate the influence of small things’ Charles W ChesttnuttI felt a pair of eyes piercing into me, as I caught sight of a giant fuzzy apparition in the periphery of my vision. My brain took a few...