Sujith Balakrishnan

My Vision: challenges in the race for excellence By HHS Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum             Book review – SUJITH BALAKRISHNAN A leader with profound vision and mind full of creativity, that’s how Sheikh Mohammed transformed himself to be the leader of Dubai over the decades. Possessing a poet’s creative psyche, he paved the path and nurtured the lives of multilingual, multicultural citizens from around the globe. Sheikh Mohammed has created an aura, such that anyone close to him becomes similarly inspired. Sheikh Mohammed is Dubai and Dubai is Sheikh Mohammed; that’s the extent his visionary roots had seeped into every nook and corner of Dubai.             “My Vision – challenges in the race for excellence” was first published in 2012 and has been continually reprinted ever since. The book parallels the Lion and Gazelle proverb:   The Gazelle wakes u...

The Smaller things in Life Subtle shifts in our perception of life can make a drastic transformation to the morale of each individual. Often we get dejected going around bigger things and complicated kinds of stuff, which has a chance of achievement as if winning a lottery. The depressed mind tides until we get drained off and have lost all the charms of life with a constant fear of death coming nearby. It is what we have lived? Such a question can come up only at the horizon of old age when we have little time to recuperate the things past and lost.      I reached my forties, and the one thing that still bothers me while in conversation with an opposite-gender is eye-to-eye contacting. Thinking of it is a minute element in life and why I need to worry at this moment of life. As I recently developed the habit of observing smaller things in life, such things count very much. So I started making myself conscious at every moment I have to intermingle with the opp...