This is that time of the year when we get a chance to reflect back on the year and be grateful for things in our lives.
When I started my Diversity and Advancement Of Women journey in 2007, I was clueless of how things will shape out. I knew I loved this work and this [...]

Opting out ,” “off-ramping” and “following the mommy track” are all popular terms to describe professional women opting out leave their jobs to be stay-at-home moms. But do they describe the truth of the matter? Stone, an associate professor of sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, set out to answer this question [...]

According to a recent social media survey by BlogHer, the women’s blog network, along with iVillage and Compass Partners. 42 million women in the United States (roughly 53% of the 79 million adult women in the United States who use the Internet) participate in social media at least weekly.
Not surprisingly, the findings of this survey [...]

There is always something special about your first book. I shared the book with a friend of mine and she said, ” I know it’s like letting somebody hold your first born!”.
Why I wrote this book?
By 2010, Twitter will have roughly 18 million registered users. What does this have to do with diversity and [...]

Make Your Ending A Good One
Senator Edward Kennedy knew he was dying of cancer. Though he was the only of the four Kennedy brothers to live into old age, he was clear his end was near. So, according to a piece in the New York Times, he spent his final days enjoying long dinners with [...]

Yesterday, I spent part of my day cleaning my garage. This has been an impending task for a long time and I was excited I was able to accomplish more than what I set out to do.
At the end, I wondered why I was able to do more than what I had planned. What if [...]

Here is a great talk by, psychologist Philip Zimbardo. He says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tzu
Travel is a way a man set out to explore the world he has no seen or experienced. A recent article posted on CNN.com reports that experiences, in the long run, “make people happier than possessions.” But why? In part, [...]

“Stretch a boat to very full and you would wish you had stopped in time.” Lao Tsu.
Life is about finding balance in life. We should never take an extreme position on any thing. Life is in finding harmony in all aspects of your life.
If you are professionally driven – Don’t try to succeed [...]

I love being in New York city. If someone asked me at any instance of time, where would you like to be – the answer is clear. What New York represents to me is the how I see the world. It is the city that is diverse, global, multicultural, multiracial and beyond. Yeah! it is [...]