DK Kapila The Oracle

 Guru Mantras - Tips - Suggestions - For Young Managers / Officers - Setting Out   Guru Mantras - Tips – Suggestions – For Young Managers / Officers – Setting Out .                                                                                           By Dinesh K Kapila I have generally had a smooth relationship with the young officers and managers, those who have put in some years of service and are at the initial period of their long professional journey. Across many organisations. Many of them have stayed in touch over the ye...

  Recollecting with Col Raman Kapila   - The Insurgency in J&K - 1990s - by Dinesh K Kapila Raman is my first cousin, we are close. He joined the Army in the Infantry (Rajput Regiment) and when the terrorism cum insurgency arose in the early 1990s, he was in the thick of it with multiple stints in the Mountainous regions of the Jammu Region and in Kashmir.   He   had his fair share of successes and at times failures or rather what military men style as setbacks. This does happen, more so, in a fluid and ever changing scenario as it was then, it was chaos and confusion as the units adjusted themselves. Then it was Pakistani Army regulars often being inducted to train and motivate and to set up the camps and units. They were committed and gave no quarter and firmly believed a change was on the cards. Raman, now retired, and greying, has often over a glass or two at times exchanged his views and his recollections with me. He has experienced what every Army offic...

  Women’s Day – A Personal View Point. From Last Year. And Added. And Added slightly Again. Dinesh K Kapila I am going absolutely as it comes on this. What do we mean by Women’s Day. That is stated in the end of this post and was so stated last year. I did post that this year too but it left me unsettled. Honestly. Tell me, when we look at women giving interviews to the audio visual media, we are judging their confidence too. That makes us realise their self confidence and assess the faith and passion they have in what they espouse. While I do not seek to uphold all that is sourced from the Western World as correct and worth emulating, after all there is something called cultural heritage too, but I draw the line at personifying confidence. What do you perceive when a woman or lady speaks from the typical western mindset. She stands up straight and looks at the camera directly or at the interviewer. The voice comes clear and so does the eye contact. I have spent time on this ov...

  The Bees - Why be so Angry- Dinesh K Kapila Today I decided to skip going to our park. I love the long walks at the park and the natural beauty as also the smart set exercising away but one day away would not do any harm. Plus it would reduce the fear of another episode. Yesterday I had to undertake an urgent domestic chore around nine am and so took our my car. The task over rather early, I decided to take a walk in the park. It was a lovely sunny day, pleasant and other walkers were around. The park is designed well and enables long walks. Or a jog if so inclined. I decided to walk at a fast pace and maybe exercise a little. On my rounds I noticed a tallish young elegant lady jogging away ever so slowly. That inspired me and so I started a slow jog too. I passed by a middle aged couple walking while holding hands, thought how romantic but yet so impractical. Then I passed by a young couple with the lady having coloured her hair a vivid blond sort of hue. That colour nearly sto...

  Home                                                      Dinesh K Kapila What is Home, People often say I am going home. It resonates within all of us. Is it the property you own, which you can sell if required. Is it the place you reside with your family. Where you centre all your activities, be it cultural, educational, domestic etc. Or is the meaning much deeper, somewhere where you find security. Your zone of comfort so to say or security, where you find comfort in just being you. Or is it the place where you build memories to last and provide solace and a degree oh happiness in the tough days or in the times when you cross over to maybe seventy – eighty years or fall ill. Home is actually within. I could say that. M...