DK Kapila The Oracle

 Walking the Kapila- Chi Way  Dinesh K Kapila  We have yoga, then we have the gyms and then Tai Chi. You keep flowing through  various movements while controlling your breathing and your weight reduces, life span improves, balance gets better, the tummy goes in and presumably your spouse looks at you with more affection !! Tai Chi is life in slow motion, connecting as they  say the body with the mind ! And you move like a white crane spreading its wings ! All while standing in one area. You can do it sitting too. Your waist does the moves.  Mind and body and what not, it’s all so exotic.  Gymnasiums keep you inside climate controlled rooms. There it is just the body and the connection with the mind is rather overlooked. Just sweating it out. Maybe networking, many follow leading figures to their gyms.  Hence and here I propose, why not try walking the Kapila-Chi way. You are simply not walking but absorbing. Thinking. Connecting. There is just do ...

  We have an Aspirational Society – Are we prepared for it.   Dinesh K Kapila, CGM (Retd) NABARD (Published in The Business Sandesh dated 03/02/2026)   Around Republic Day is an appropriate time to reflect if we are building a nation in consonance with the aspirations of our youth. The personal experience I have, across India is that our youth seek more prosperous, fruitful and meaningful lives. The desire for economic progress and better governance runs deep. As a developmental banker, this was observed closely, including the demand for credit as a tool to further economic progress as also for consumption. Our developmental initiatives and paradigm must reflect this. More important, the political leadership must understand the evolving change.   Do our governance structures and models reflect the due incremental calibration which is required.   Are we administratively equipped for the changeover or ready to adapt our governance structures and mode of functi...