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I have visited the famous Prado museum twice. The first time was in 2016 on my visit to Madrid - I wasn’t very impressed with it at that time. I visited again in 2020 when due to Covid, the accessible parts of the museum had been reduced and they had on a special exhibition with limited number of paintings. All the paintings available to view were in one huge hall and its connected rooms, with no photography allowed. I mostly covered the renaissance period and the one before it. I am sharing here some of the paintings that made my head turn. I liked the Cavarozzis, especially the “Holy family with Saint Catherine” . The light on the faces of the people in the painting is just so captivating, you can’t not look at them and be enthralled. And the second one I liked was ‘Sisyphus’ by Titian. The way his body has been shown, showcases his struggle with the unending physical work day after day, in a manner like no other. In the ’The Virgin and the Child’ by Trevisani, the sleeping ...

Here is a list of my life’s learnings, the thoughts I live by (or at least try to live by) daily. And I hope to keep adding more to the list as I grow older… On Learning We all spend our 20s thinking we know everything. In our 30s we realise we never knew anything, and then actually start growing. So the 40s are a lot easier with this knowledge that we don’t know much 😊. We learn forever. We need to. Never think you’ve learnt all there is to know, and stop working on yourself. That will be the end of you as a person. Always look to improve yourself, through small or big things. (This is not an original thought but I love it and it’s so true) We all never realise but as children, we saw our parents growing up. Our parents had us very young and were still finding themselves then. So we should be a bit kinder to them for their mistakes, they just had us too soon and didn’t get enough time to grow up, before having children. A lot of life’s learnings seem obvious once you dis...