Pratibha Deshpande, congrats on your 13th book is on "Psychological First Aid." "World Mental Health Day: All about mental health and wellbeing" x.com/i/events/15779…

What does your father do? He is into films. Wow! What does he do? He creates special effects with water. I am hooked and want to know more. Shalini Uppoor and I continue talking. She shows me the Airtel and Dove ads. Mr Shivanan…lnkd.in/dmP4NbGq lnkd.in/d8chbUWZ

Earth Day Greetings 🌎 also Akshaya Tritiya and Eid Mubarak.. A superb piece on the Antarctica #experience by #foundingfuel to read, savour, reflect and celebrate with! Lumiere Business Solutions #earthday2023 #earthdayeveryday lnkd.in/dB9rxJ3G

#YouAreRemarkable Melanie Lobo During our Learning Monday session, Melanie conducted the #IAmRemarkable workshop for our Lumiere team. We were 24 engaged attendees who willingly participated in the exercises. The presentation and reflection exercises s…lnkd.in/dGZR95md

Passion Project Milind Soman and I produced a 31- minute documentary film on the Soman ancestral home. This lived-in house turned 150 years in 2022. With each intervening years we have found something disintegrate. The film is a family memoir. It is…lnkd.in/depV-DYX

Doordarshan Generation Dr. Rommani Sen Shitak was my Lumiѐre guest speaker. Her book "Public Service Broadcasting in India" is a well researched and presented story of Doordarshan. Rommani came to work with us in 2012. She had…lnkd.in/d7P_k-8i lnkd.in/dwzf6rhH

Happy Mother's Day They light up our lamp Lumière because of Ma Lumière because I became Mamma Lumière is for Moms today and to-be Lumière for Mom cheerleaders Floral rangoli by Advocate Aniruddh Joshi, Pune lnkd.in/dkDR4Hvu

Unlock Potential I facilitated my first Innovation workshop with @ideasrs. We worked together on several projects and importantly we have stayed good friends since. Sridhar sent my copy of his book with a handwritten note. Meticulous perfectionist his…lnkd.in/dcqftZEb

Srishti Sehgal the concept of a Learning Charter is a tangible way to make a "wish" into reality. Thank you for a very engaging class💡 An in person Learning Monday is simply the best. Learning about Learning and our smart teacher, Srishti Sehgal 💥 who is one…lnkd.in/dkGTpPt6

Vijaya Chakravarty is our favorite naturalist and grandmother. I met Vijaya over 25 years ago when she ran her nursery, "Roots." Conservationist, educator, author, landscaper, Vijaya is the only person who has come as our Lumière Learning Monday and Wi…lnkd.in/d2KfEGVY

RRR and R World Environment Day 2023 at Lumiѐre. 1. We share our Environment stories including a show and tell including my letters published in the Gleaner, Jamaica from 1993! 2. A visit to Agro Garden, CBD Belapur, a community garden of the resident…lnkd.in/dBVAYC42

Kutchi "Taka" or Kutchi Stitch My mother learned the "Kutchi taaka" from a fellow passenger in her Mumbai central railway train commute.m from Koliwada (GST) to Victoria Terminus (now CST). She embroidered this golden georgette saree when taking up my s…lnkd.in/dnm3WNNu

Atomic Habit My husband and I weigh ourselves each Monday morning since 2014. We added BP tracking to this routine. Six months ago, our househelp opted to get onto the weighing and BP monitoring routine. Some lifestyle changes made (didi abhi shaam ka…lnkd.in/daQVQ6KY

Father's Day Gift My mother Geeta Samant told great stories, bringing her characters alive. She liked her new young lady boss, and soon they were a team. Won over by her intelligence and her incorruptible manner, she celebrated the fact she chose to ret…lnkd.in/dRd-ngYb

#internationalyogaday International Yoga Day Stepping into the Kaivalya Dham building at Marine Lines in 1983 was the first step into an adventure. My parents and grandmother trained here. Till I was 40, yoga meant asana and pranayama practice. Inters…lnkd.in/dvUZkp7p

Social media day As a little girl I started a handwritten "magazine" called "Oyster." I didn't persevere with it though I'd write essays and poems. In class 7, Grace Philip and I collaborated on a novel. "You have many books in you," says an author fr…lnkd.in/dArXVPP7

Weird Species We moved to Nerul, Navi Mumbai in March 1996. The years that followed involved raising two children and starting and running a small research firm. In 2002 I took my children on a nature trail advertised in the Navi Mumbai times. This tra…lnkd.in/dFymvUBw

A Strengths Team On 5th July 2017 Milind Soman and I conducted our first one - day interactive Strengths appreciation workshop. This was for 12 members of the Lumiѐre core team at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club (Mumbai). Our first workshop holds a spe…lnkd.in/dDJTYS7g

Agro Garden Remembrance We remember our friend Anupama Sameer with a tree planting at the community project, Agro Garden in Belapur. A fine way to honor departed family and friends, they helped us arrange a tree planting. We spe…lnkd.in/dgpen34y lnkd.in/dkQmX538

The Wise One says it best. Happy New Year!