Wanderlust Sajid

I am a Financial Consultant by profession and my work primarily is to advise my clients on how to manage their money to achieve their financial and personal goals in life. Its a mundane work if one sees from outside. But I revel on this work and have a great sense of gratification and fulfillment of what I do. I take immense pride that my clients has chosen me as a trail by which they wish to reach their cherished dreams in life. But, even though my advisory is related to money and the growth of it, I always believe the outcome of that monetary growth is invariably intangible. That the culmination of attaining those prospective goals must always be happiness of inner soul and mind. A recent report on World Happiness Update 2016 published by Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations, ranks 157 countries by happiness levels using factors such as per capita GDP, healthy years of life expectancy, social support, freedom to make life choices, generos...

    As the euphoria of a cricket match win against arch-rival Pakistan in a high-voltage World Cup contest subsides, I was just pondering over the fact of imminent danger of the probability that this match was at one time going to be cancelled, and that Pakistan was about to give it a walk-over to India. Thanks to Mr. Vir Bhadra Singh, the Chief Minister of Congress led Uttarakhand government, the match which was scheduled to be held at the picturesque Dharamshala, was going for a complete toss, as he expressed his inability to provide security to this event, . The ICC, BCCI, NDA Government and PCA all went at a shell-shock, as no amount of cajoling and comforting to the CM yielded any result. they pondered over the alternative venues. Mumbai, or for that matter entire Maharashtra was certainly out of the radar, thanks to the obvious terror of Shiv Sena. Same with Bangalore. Chennai could not host a match due to legal issues regarding construction of three ...

One of the biggest lust of owning a car I believe, is to drive a car. Take the pleasure of driving out of the car and I guess, many might not be inclined to own it actually. But Google driverless car has already arrived. The proponents of driverless car argues that it will drastically reduce accidents. Studies have shown that by taking out human errors and emotions out of the equation, deaths on the road reduces by 90%. In India 16 deaths happen every hour due to road accidents. So by the equation it translated to 1,26,000 less deaths if cars would be driverless. Software on self driven cars ensures same mistakes aren't repeated. That's a huge boon.  Commercial airplanes are nowadays flown on autopilot technically. The opponents argues, driverless cars navigates on radar inputs, data of road conditions and traffic streamed by sensors and video cameras, which can go haywire in case of tough weather conditions distorting signals. Further, computer systems can be hack...

Julia Roberts just taught me more in 2 minutes, than anyone else done in a lifetime. This video is from the series of few videos released by Conservation International (CI), an American non-profit environmental organisation founded in 1987. Its goal is to protect nature as a source of food, fresh water, livelihoods and a stable climate. CI has helped establish 1000 protected areas across 77 countries and protected more than 612 million hectares of land, marine and coastal areas. Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Robert Redford, Edward Norton, Reese Witherspoon, Kevis Spacey, Penelope Cruz and Liam Neeson, all join forces with CI to give nature a voice in a series of short videos titled "Nature is Speaking". Watch it and take action.

Amir Hussain Lone is a 26-years old young man from Jammu and Kashmir. He plays cricket and is an all-rounder who is an avid fan of Sachin Tendulkar and wants to play for the national team. So what's the difference from any aspiring young cricketer? Amir is a double-arm-amputee. Amir holds the bat between his left shoulder and head. His favourite shot is a flick off his legs towards square leg. While bowling he uses his right foot to grip the ball and delivers leg-break deliveries. He captains Jammu and Kashmir para-cricket team.   Amir hails from Wagam village, 42 km from Srinagar, is son of Bashir Ahmad Lone, who runs a bat-manufacturing unit in Bijbehara town of South Kashmir's Anantnag district.  In 1997, when he was just a 7 years old kid, studying in Class II, one day went to his father's sawmill to deliver lunch to his brother. While his brother was having lunch, Amir started fiddling with the switches of sawmill, which were used for making bat cle...

There was an interesting article on Academic writers in Sunday Times, which dwelt with the state of affairs of Academic Writers vis-a-vis Fiction and Non-Fiction Writer. The piece once again established an oft-quoted phrase, "Fact is better than Fiction". The article says, that according to Nielsen India Book market report 2015 : Academic books still dominate publishing, with 93% of Rs.260 bn market in India. Academic books growing at a pace of 20% every year, which is twice the rate of growth of Fiction and Non-Fiction books.  The bestsellers of Academic books are 100,000. Ten times as big as 10,000 bestsellers of Fiction and Non-Fiction books So now the obvious question that comes to my mind, why are we so obscurely unaware of the writers of Academic books! Take a test. How many of us can you name any five Academic writers? I bet, very few, even though we can easily count half a dozen Fiction writers at a single breath.  An academic book comes to our hand wi...

India is poised to become one of the biggest economies of the world. The Indian Elephant is moving at a faster pace, albeit steady. On the highway of the journey of advancement came many paradigm changes, majorly executive and monumentally legislative. One such monumental legislative change had been Right to Education.  But did Right to Education brought the change, it was desired to bring. Two facts might make us ponder on it : Half of the fifth grade students in rural India can not solve two-digit by two-digit subtraction problems with carryover. 40% of third grade students of rural India can not read four out of five words in their language of choice.