Different, is it?
Why do we – and frequently at that – feel that the circumstances that govern us are unique? Is this our need to feel special? One of the earlier conversations I recall – from school days - is our ( 9 of us ) believing in and taking pride in our batch being the naughtiest / silliest batch ( as if we had knowledge of what earlier batches had been upto! ) and being told by the teacher - with a particularly dead pan face - that all batches are the same! As I write I recall Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay telling Dharmendra ‘ Muje to sare policewale ek jaise lagte hain ’. This continued – during later years - as we talked of how we were in more remotely located places or without phone / net connectivity or how traffic was bad, especially the particular stretch we had to cover daily! Two conversations, during the past fortnight, brought up the question again. A remark, by a co-participant, during a workshop on leadership and its overlaps with personal and work spaces – orga...