Wellington, Tamil Nadu, the Nilgiris and the Pine trees... Some peaceful Bisons, Wellington Lake, Cherrie Berry Restaurant too!

Life offers us many delectable aspects to a blessed existence. Heavenly places on earth are not many but when they invite you, you can't afford to not get mesmerized. God paints its own masterpieces. 

 

Five elements of life create their enigma and with changing hours of the day, it throws open a new landscape of thoughts to get drenched into. 

Wellington, near Ooty, Coonoor district of Tamil Nadu is one such place.  

Google describes this place like this: 

Coonoor is a hill station in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It’s known for its tea estates in the surrounding Nigiri hills. Sim’s Park is a sprawling public garden with plants like rhododendrons, roses and eucalyptus trees. The steam Nilgiri Mountain Railway travels between the towns of Mettupalayam and Ooty via Coonoor. Dolphin’s Nose is a vantage point with views of the cascading Catherine Falls. ― Google

Captivating view from the Gorkha Hills, Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India..

This is beautiful church next to the equestrian club in Wellington, TN..Sky looks serene..

I came across a small shop selling products from the Gratitude farms in Wellington, near Gorkha Hills. 

Below is the menu card from my favorite vegetarian restaurant called Cherrie Berry, in Wellington, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.

Must visit place for both organic vegetables, exotic and local products shopping. They serve delectable soups, salads, Indian and continental food, with never miss array of deserts. They bake high quality products...Best place to spend family time at Cherry Berry...

Now they have Barbecue in the evening and that is a treat. They keep Bonfire and the best patio seating.

 

If you are a runner or walk long, Wellington Lake and walking till this lake can give you some good view. Looks little worn-out, but maybe for a small picnic, you can give it a try..

This lake looks sedated and a bit boring and sometimes dead. There are many mortuaries around it and when you walk past them, you can feel the silence, though nothing scary :)

This is the pink TN 43 bus...Coonoor-Ooty pride and sails though the arduous curves and hills with ease.  

What a beautiful quote below. When the defence forces are on ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance). this quote becomes so important. 

Restraint as well as the charge is the character of a well calibrated force strategy. 

Overlooking stadium and the cart pulled me to it ...has some nostalgia and very vintage charm around it. I had to walk down to take a closer look at this cart. 

Don't know why but thought of taking this selfie with this tank. My idea was that this tank has something that was attracting me to it..

This picture below was taken inside the Wellington Gymkhana Club, which has civilian members too. It's a beautiful place and overlooking sprawling golf course is a mystical experience. They serve all kinds of drinks and all the food and snacks that you would love. 

I enjoyed 2 buffet meals on two different days; 1. Daawate Eid that was awesome mutton biryani and next day was the 2. Bengali lunch buffet with Katla fish curry, mutton Kosa and Luchi and Cholar daal, sweet chutney, mix veg and a few other accompaniments. Ican still smell the aroma...

This is a journey...it never ends, and each end is a new beginning..

Freelancer stigma and hypocrite corporate shenanigans

Blue Zone your Life: Live the way, you programmed your life and can choose when to say goodbye !

Dan Buettner and his magnificent 2 decade of research on the Blue Zones is something to consider seriously. 

It's not only Ikigai, but various blue zones have also discovered their recipes for living a long, meaningful, full of zest, socially and religiously bound, independent and paying back, lovey life. 

Check the 9 core principles, aka Power9, of the Blue Zones. (Loma Linda, US, Nicoya, Costa Rica, Sardinia, Italy, Icaria, Greece, and Okinawa, Japan)

Dan has written several NYT bestsellers, worth reading. 

Blue Zones have a cross-sectional similarity in how they live a healthy life beyond the higher averages of the world population!  You see below the Power9 factors that contribute to their well-being in common! 

There are some 5 Blue Zones and adding slowly, that are spread across the globe where people have decoded the art of living 100 years. 



Netflix and Discovery Channel have Dan's documentaries on the Blue Zones, and they have created huge discussions on choices of food, lifestyles and belongingness, beliefs that are quite diverse and divergent, yet they achieve the same centenarian goals. 

Dan has several NYT blockbusters on the Blue Zone and the latest below intrigues me. 

I may not want to live that long but, yes, would like to tap into those food choices that the blue zones swear by. Being a foodie and a conscious eater, this book is on my next buy list! 

Book cover is fascinating, isn't it? David McLain has done great job!  You can buy this book on Amazon!

I would love to know if you have any idea about India having a Blue Zone of its own. 

I believe we have certain tribes in the Northeast India that may have similar lifestyle of the blue zoners, especially quite a semblance to the P9? 

Take good care and look forward to your comments and views. 

Holistic health: Door to your new YOU-Simple tips to a vibrant life!

Life and our quest for a meaningful life starts with YOU! You are a body and mind before anyone you identify with! 

Ex-PepsiCo CEO, Nooyi wakes up as early as 4 a.m., telling Fortune that "they say sleep is a gift that God gives you ... that's one gift I was never given."

She was so busy and demands from all corners poured in...she navigated life of million tasks with ease but most of us are not like her. 

We have breakdown moments, we give up, we surrender to fate, etc. 

Emotional well-being and body health are related and one in shape leads to the other and the opposite is equally true. 

Your life is not something that you can triage; keep, let go and repurpose! But health priorities can certainly be triaged.

Some 2000 years ago, stoic Seneca told something that is more relevant today than any time in the past! Life in not just happening, it is descending on us, heavier by the day and anxious by the night! 

Before you jump into your Stoic journey, let me remind you that piece of wisdom that a wise man gave me! It was not Seneca!

He told; ज़िन्दगी की जद्दोज़हद हमें जीने नहीं देंगी, और दवाइयाँ हमें मरने भी नहीं देंगी ! Use Google Translator to understand meaning if you don't read Hindi! 

Back to the topic: I am talking about your health priorities now. You are not dying anytime sooner or yet! Life is to live! Life a magnificent life! 

One step at a time: Holistic health is not just about changes made to, lifestyle or food or supplements or setting ambitious goals for you, you wanted to achieve through your shiny health condition. 

I often encourage my male friends telling them that you need just one thing in common against someone you idolize for anything and mine is that 170 cm height that Salman Rushdie has. This one common thing shall lead you to several girlfriends and a life that everyman deserves! Protect your eyes! 

If you think, I missed women friends; I tell them about Elizabeth Taylor! 

Jokes apart; Goals like running a marathon, crossing that English Channel, snorkeling, paragliding, that chiseled looks, that super performance in bed, getting attention from the butterflies, etc. You need goals and a plan. You deserve what you deserve! 

Want to know about Holistic health and your better tomorrow on personal health and mojo, reach out to me ((1) M R I N A L K R A N T | LinkedIn)..I don't sell supplements or Gym memberships! 

According to the fifth round of the NFHS conducted between 2019 and 2021, about 6.4 per cent of women and 4.0 per cent of men aged 15-49 are obese. Around 17.6 per cent women and 18.9 per cent men in the same age group are overweight, but not obese.

Picture Courtesy: The Print!

In a few seconds, find your BMI. Check the chart below-It's that easy! 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 

Punjab, where the obesity prevalence was the highest, 25 per cent of women and 28.8 per cent of men reported eating fried food at least once a week. But in Mizoram, where the obesity rate is low, people seemed to have a huge penchant for fried treats. As many as 93 per cent women and men each reported consuming fried food at least once a week. So, it's not the food, it's what your lifestyle is and what DNA you carry!

Poor dietary habits and lack of physical activity can cause type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, fatty liver, even heart attacks.

Interested in starting a new life? Let's connect! 

Age reversing facts: How Amway's Nutrilite helped us revive our organs! Weight loss and looking attractive are incidental to this process!

Hypertense (High BP), belly fat, depleted liver, pale looking face, bad sleep, poor body symmetry and obviously lost touch in bed! Sounds familiar? Read on....

That's the premise to my 71 kg on the weighing machine on 15 June to 66 kg in 30 days and now on 20th Sep, clocking 63.3 kg. I am 53 and 170 CM. Have started walking 15 k steps with ease in one go of ~2 hours. Pumping some iron with ease and run some 700 meters in rhythm... 

Target 🎯 to run 5 km marathon in Pune on 10 Dec 2023..looks like some work and continued commitment but am determined! 

Started with 15 kinds of Nutrilite supplements that worked quick, started loosing weight in 7 days.. Only healthy meal at home, no snacking, no bazaar wali biryanis, nothing in between meals.. 

Appetite reduced to half and cravings one-fourth. No to Sugar and other whites.. 

Started with early dinner and 30 min of relaxed walk post all meals.. 

My dietician Swapna (https://www.linkedin.com/in/swapna-k-4352111a) helped and my blood reports started looking great in 2 months.. 

Looks like I am younger, full of energy and started liking my body.. 

Follow same regimen, my wife lost 14 kg in 3 months and it has been an all new person who has emerged.. 

How these nutraceuticals working for us? 

1. It is replenishing our vitamins, minerals and other vital nutrients. 

2. It has made liver, which does 500 functions including keeping heart healthy (yes, so the research I encourage) and other organs leasing to perfect digestion and 

If you want to follow this easy solution, any age, gender or condition shall not come in the way. 

Go for it...you will thank me later..

Who lets these recruiters out? TA is no more talent acquisition. It's now called "Total Apathy!". Challenge it!

 Title sounds unreal, right? They are not from the future but are edicts from the past. Those edits, which were purposefully buried down! 

Check this: Alphabet lays off hundreds from global recruitment team - The Hindu

Did you hear this?
Google parent Alphabet lays off hundreds from global recruitment team!
or,
Google parent Alphabet is laying off employees from its global recruiting team as the tech giant continues to slow hiring!
Google it! How ironic?
Use of AI Chatbot in hiring is going to lift the talent agenda from the dungeons of being relegated to rot at the ATS and then the Incompetent Recruiter's mercy!
Recruiters have done more injustice to the talent than the ATS, right?.
Poor ATS gets the blame, while the perpetrators of this injustice are lack of governance, apathy of senior leadership and the hordes of ill informed, incompetent recruiters!
Sounds brutal? Audit your ATS and trail of applications that never saw the sunlight! Your ATS maybe the biggest 'graveyard' of talent!
Start being respectful to the talent and your only rescue is the AI Chatbot!
As we don't want AI Chatbots to be sentient, you will have to raise your bar for your leadership team who would own the talent march; inwards or outwards!
McKinsey & Company coined the word "War for Talent" but your talent agenda at best remained a purchase department's chore!