I have a friend who literally pushes me to do more work particularly on writing. This is so if I have taken it easy and not got into writing in the last few days.

While I do feel it helps me as I get the pressure and as a result I do write more. However I am also brought to think about countless children whose parents act pushy to make them ‘The Wonder kids’. Does it help them or does it add to the pressure. It is not only students. I have found this tendency in some of my earlier bosses who thought being pushy helps.

Guess it is the choice of the individual whether he/she wants to be encouraged this way or does a person feel it is little too intrusive if someone keeps saying ‘You need to do better, you can do better, you are not doing much”.

All said and done, If I want to be pushed to do more work by a person like my friend then I think it helps. It really didn’t work with me when my ex-boss was trying the same trick.

So be careful if you want to be pushed around even if you or the other person thinks it is for betterment in work.

If spitting on roads would only be viewed as a serious crime in our cities, I am sure it would have made a difference in improving the image of the city. Yesterday after work at the radio station I was rushing back home beating the unexpected showers that hit Bangalore and guess what???? All throughout the way every two-wheeler, which was ahead of me, had a rider who was spitting on the wet roads. I wanted to stop each one of them and ask what would you do if one-day mother earth will spit back at you. Would you like it? But hey until a kind of enforcement is put and people are made aware that this is not good etiquette. Oh yes I know about etiquettes. Yesterday on my show I had Kauser Khan, grooming and etiquette expert in Bangalore and we had this amazing live chat on etiquettes on radio. May be on my way back home I was thinking about the right Indian etiquettes that we already have and those which we have lost. Probably this is an etiquette we need to learn afresh.

DON’T SPIT AT PUBLIC PLACES. It most definitely doesn’t speak good about you.