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Narayan Murthy's story
2007-06-15 07:33:00
Thanks to Srinivas Deo - my friend - i came to know about this lecture given by N R Nara yana Murthy, Chief Mentor and Chairman of the board, Infosys Technologies, at the New York University (Stern School of Business) on May 9. It is a scintillating speech, Murthy speaks about the lessons he learnt from his life and career. We present it for our readers:"Dean Cooley, faculty, staff, distinguished guests, and, most importantly, the graduating class of 2007, it is a great privilege to speak at your commencement ceremonies.I thank Dean Cooley and Prof Marti Subrahmanyam for their kind invitation. I am exhilarated to be part of such a joyous occasion.Congratulations to you, the class of 2007, on completing an important milestone in your life journey.After some thought, I have decided to share with you some of my life lessons. I learned these lessons in the context of my early career struggles, a life lived under the influence of sometimes unplanned events which were the crucibles that te...
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Cyclone Gonu's havoc in Oman
2007-06-12 15:07:00
Having stayed in Oman over many years, i can relate to most of these places , devastated by Cyclone Gonu that rocked the coast on Oman last week. Estimate of losses already run over a billion dollar.travelogue,descriptions,experience s,observations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly
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Raipur - A city that came on Medical Map of India
2007-06-11 19:46:00
In early 80?s I visited Raipur few times while being on business visit to Bhilai. I also did visit Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Medical college to make some sales calls. But seeing the condition of the hospital, I felt it was better to relax in a hotel and have dinner at Girnar restaurant that served fine India n food. After seeing the infrastructure conditions of this city, it was clear that Raipur got a raw deal compared to other cities in Madhya Pradesh such as Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior. During the course of time, I did know about a new state Chattisgarh that came into existence out of MP but forgot about Raipur that became capital of this new state.On May 29th 2007, NDTV covered the news of ?separation of surgery of 10 month old conjoined twins ? Ram and Laxman ?. What surprised and stunned me that this surgery was to be performed in Raipur at Ambedkar Government Hospital. Suddenly images of cream coloured barren walls , open wooden benches and laboratory with worn out yellow stained gl...
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Saudi Arabia ? relaxing the grip
2007-06-09 09:23:00
Kingdom Tower : RiyadhFour year ago : As soon as plane does a touchdown at Riyadh , ladies rush for their abaya (A loose, usually black robe worn, covering the body from head to toe and worn with a headscarf and veil )to cover themselves up.Two years ago: Ladies walk out of the aircraft clad in normal attire, but while standing in immigration queue, take out Abaya and start wearing it before they arrive at immigration desk.Now: They hardly bother about Abaya; go through immigration, baggage screening and customs. But as soon as they are out of the airport, they are in their ubiquitous black attire.My four day trip to Riyadh, gave me this changing impression of Saudi Arabia .Albeit at snail?s place, Saudi regime is slowly relaxing their formidable Islamic grip on the society. No more customs officials ransack bags; tear the parcels, insist on switching on laptops to look for symbols that would connote Islamic blasphemy. Immigration clerk too are relaxed. Bags go through X ray machine...
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Akshta in her 3rd month
2007-05-28 06:01:00
travelogue,descriptions,experiences,obser vations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly
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Roz Roz Ankhon Tale
2007-05-16 19:40:00
Being group member of ?Gulzar Fan Yahoo Group?, helps me understand the essence of poetry of Gulzar that is understood by all his admirers worldwide.I sometimes wonder if RD kept his best musical genius for Gulzar or Gulzar kept his best poetry for RD Burman . But this duo with the help of Asha have created some of the memorable poetic musical embellishments. One such song is Roz Roz Ankhon Tale ?. Hardly anyone would remember this movie Jeeva ? picturised on Sanjay Dutt and Mandakini. But this is one of my favourite songs on all three counts ? lyrics, music and rendition. RD has adroitly covered Amit Kumar?s limitation of clasical base while extracting the very best from Asha.Silbil has translated this song in Engligh. I admire his attempt. I too tried with my novice skills . Its not easy to translate a poetry in a foreign language. Appropriate words often fail to reflect and retain the theme and essence of poetry in original language. Moreoever each language has its own nuances tha...

Akshta in Abu Dhabi
2007-05-16 17:28:00
Akshta's 2nd month b'day in Abu Dhabi .travelogue,descriptions,experiences ,observations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly

Dad after 40
2007-05-11 07:46:00
Having a baby in Mid 40?s is not for faint hearted guys. Perhaps, that?s what my friend Subba Iyer may have meant when he said ?it?s bold and courageous decision ?. As I look back at my decision that took few years to crystallize and fructify, it now dawns upon me that I am not alone in this ?so called? bold move. There seem to be distinct trend toward older dads. For men 40 to 44 years old, the number of live baby births per 1,000 men increased from 17.1 to 23.4. For men 45 to 49, the number of births increased from 6.1 to 7.6. For men 50 to 54 years, the number increased from 2.2 to 2.5. The only category where there wasn't an increase was men 55 and older that have the same: 0.3 births per 1,000 men.Have the figures become skewed after celebrities set up this trend of becoming dad at older age? Tony Blair (at 45), Ken Livingstone (57), Mick Jagger (57), Phil Collins (51), Rupert Murdoch (72), Michael Douglas (58), Gordon Brown (54), Rod Stewart (60), Paul McCartney (61), Eric C...
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movie
2007-05-10 19:50:00
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Funny but Apt answers by Kids
2007-05-10 09:30:00
One of the old issue of Popular Science magazine. have listed some of the interesting test answers from students collected by science and health teachers at various grade levels.? When you breath, you inspire. When you don't breath, you expire.? The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects.? A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is.? When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide.? For head colds, use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops into your throat.? The moon is a planet just like Earth, only deader.? Artificial insemination is what the farmer does to the cow instead of the bull.? Dew is formed on leaves when sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.? To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.? Equator: A managerie lion running around Earth through Africa.? To remove dust from your eye, pull the eye down over the nose.? Momentum. What you give a person when they are going...
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Akshta is 50 day old !!
2007-05-06 18:58:00
To the world you may be one personBut to your mom you are the worldtravelogue,descriptions,experiences, observations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly

Career Killers
2007-05-05 07:51:00
Excerpt from article of Career Kill ers to Avoid By Robin Ryan, Career Coach.This book mentions some notable mistakes company people make in order to sabotage their own careers.Lack of results.Leading the list, and cited by every single executive in the survey, was the fact that not producing measurable results on the job is the sure-fire way of ending your career rise.Not working at a job you're passionate about."People float through life as if it were boring, drudgery or a nuisance - often complaining, yet never determining what would fulfill them," noted a nonprofit director. Several CEOs commented that you'll never be happy if you aren't excited, interested, and enjoying what you do. The true key to success is discovering your inner passion and then finding a way to work in that arena.Not having big enough goals."A key career stopper is setting your goals too low or not being willing to put in the time it takes to reach goals," noted CEO Randy Sheparo. "Believing 'I could ne...

"Googling" to reach my blog
2007-05-03 09:53:00
I am surprised, intrigued by knowing the ways people across the world reached my blog albeit unintentionally and accidently by seeking information on google. Blog Map Statistics lets me the know the terms that people have put in goggle search engine. A glance of these shows that most popular words were : Mangesh Padgaonkar followed by Veer Savarkar and Laghu Rudra.Now ?goggling? is official word English word in dictionary!!. The key words that were input :mangesh padgaonkar goggly "Margaret Wilde"+obesity gillette razor and islam funny poems of two lines marathi auschef sister birthday marathi jayostute meaning water vacuum cleaner banned in japan Air India seat width mao tse tung monument at the Badaling Great Wall +bhilai+durg+raipur good poems in marathi aamir khan reasons for divorce aamir khan divorce crows extinction edge level longan ostentious dictionary aaja saajna kidneyvakkam smash proof ...
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castle kyalami
2007-05-01 10:32:00
My eardrums have a dull ache with humming noise, my clean shaven head?s pores are topped with early morning dew droplets. In a crisp and cool breezy morning, I have just had a walk outside sprawling garden of Hotel Cast le Kyalami. By 8am, I was ready and was heading for breakfast. When asked for the direction, guy at the reception seemed a bit shell shocked but did point me towards an empty hall with a polite request ?we serve breakfast only from 630am?. I immediately realized my folly of not having set the clock behind 2 hours. My instant reaction was not to portray any surprise. ?No problem, I shall have a walk? I said. I walked out without any sweater or warm clothes, sky was still grey but horizon was enfolding a tinge of pink and birds were ready to leave their nest. White, Yellow roses were fully bloomed with other flowers in scarlet and orange laid a colourful spread over green top . From the top of Castle Kyalami, I could see suburbs of Midrand, Sandton twinkled lights.Castl...

Wicked Wicket Words
2007-04-29 14:04:00
I was in J?burg when Australia took on their arch rival Australia in semi final world cup. I had planned to be part of boisterous crowd in a sports pub but when I heard the scorecard 25 for 5, I decided against it. Had South Africa started well, I am sure I would have had enough dose of jabs, digs of verbal warfare from South African every time ball would hit by Protease batsman. In Sydney bars, it would have been far more caustic. After all Aussies are inventors of this art.In today?s The Star Newspaper ? an article ?Wicked Wicket Words ? list some of the famous ? chirping? or ?sledging? quotes ? An art of insulting your opponent to break down his concentration :Ian Botham arriving at crease and is greeted by aussie wicket keeper Rod Marsh : ? Hi, how is your wife and my kids ?Glen McGrath asked Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes ?why he had become fat? . Brandes reply ?McGrath?s wife gave him a biscuit each time he made love to her?!!When Daryll Cullinan arrived at the wicket, Shane War...
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Be Chief Happiness Officer in your company
2007-04-20 09:12:00
Some time ago, I wrote about 'happiness index' of different nationalities. This week, i saw a blog www.positivesharing.com - a blog dedicated to happiness in working life. Author, Alexander Kjerulf,writes and consults on happiness at work and has wonderfully scripted all the aspects about happiness in a workpalce. I agree when he says ' loving what you do is just that damn important! '. He mentions 10 most important reasons why happiness at work is the hallmark of the productivity at work place .1. Happy people work better with others. Happy people are a lot more fun to be around and consequently have better relations at work. This translates into:Better teamwork with your colleaguesBetter employee relations if you?re a managerMore satisfied customers if you?re in a service jobImproved sales if you?re a sales person 2. Happy people are more creative. If your productivity depends on being able to come up with new ideas, you need to be happy at work. 3. Happy people fix problems i...
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Addiction that?s difficult to shrug
2007-04-18 17:49:00
An old issue of Readers Digest defined Reading ?An activity that is undertaken when TV is not functional or one visits dentist or barber?. But I don?t fit into that definition. I read not just when TV is switched on but also concurrently. I read scrolling information of stocks or headlines or even ads that appear on the bottom screen while I am watching TV. I don?t get disappointed if I have to wait extra time at dentist or barber as long as they have stacks of magazines. Often, after getting my work done, I sit back to read an unfinished article. Old newspapers that wrap goodies in India don?t get thrown out unless I rummage through their headlines.In short, my eyeballs definitely need external stimulus to make them move like a pendulum. I doubt if they can ever be standstill even during sleep. A small siesta of 15 minutes can generate fabulous, exciting sequence of dreams full of persons from different corners of the world.Reading is one habit that I picked up at an early age and ...
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knowing versus understanding
2007-04-14 16:32:00
?I know you very well?? a very common statement uttered by most of us and this is often in relation to spouse, colleagues or superiors. But how often we say ? I understand you very well ?. The difference between ?knowing? and ? understanding? often decides the if the relationship turn smooth or turbulent. This thought emerged while watching Hindi soap serial ? where one of the protagonist marries her long time childhood friend hoping that he will be happy in life with the fact they know each other well, but in later he realizes that mutual knowing each other does not necessarily translate into mutual understanding.Prabha Maushi is totally blind for last 15 years and she is completely at peace with human relationships around her. Not seeing human emotions and gestures while conversing makes her develop tremendous goodwill of the person she is interacting with . How often we undergo similar feeling when conversing with a person on net without knowing any physical attributes of a perso...
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Happiness is a choice
2007-04-13 18:36:00
365 people who matteredHappiness is a choice!. What wonderful statement.This blog makes a list of 365 people who have in some way touched the blogger. Nice concept. I am sure everyone one fo us in large span of life easily must have had these number of people who made some difference in the way our life has shaped. One day, I would hopefully muster the courage to write about them. travelogue,descriptions,experiences,obser vations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly
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India Consulate in Dubai
2007-04-11 11:38:00
Wait and Queue are the two words that I have been fed and nurtured all my growing years. Those of us who have grown in a state controlled economy too must have been familiar with these words. Be it a milk booth, a rationed grain shop, a barber, a bank, a post office ? Q is every where. Wait - is the hallmark of expressing one?s domination. Be it as miniscule as a peon sitting on wooden stool or a clerk busy cleaning his beetle nut residue from his teeth or a manager dozing behind the closed door cabin. Wait is distinct pronouncement as soon as you utter to solicit something. In recent years, with the spread of privatisation and internet, Wait has lost its steam but Q would be hard to banish, as long as India ?s population is ballooning.After many years, I have had my dose of wait and Q at India consulate in Dubai .?For dead body, please go to counter number 8, If no body then go to counter number 7? This notice on the glass showcase on the right side of the foyer was a fair indicatio...
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It's Akshta
2007-04-10 12:15:00
Its AKSHTA over Advait She arrived at 1542 hrs on March 16th 2007. After 277 days OR 9 months, 4 days or 23,932,800 seconds or398,880 minutes or6648 hours or39 weeks of being in the world of her own.Here are her early images Akshta.travelogue,descriptions,experience s,observations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly

Punctuality and Nationality
2007-03-10 08:10:00
Its not easy to generalize about any behavioural habits pertaining to any specific nationality. One would have to have similar set of situation and circumstances and then measure the response of various individuals. Again sample size should be big enough to come to any meaningful conclusion.I had the opportunity to observe the punctuality pattern while I was in Oman for almost five years. I would pick up my visitors from Muscat Intercontinental. General response and action of various nationalities would be as follows :India : Let us meet around ?twelwish ? meaning around 12?. This is IST ? supposedly Indian standard time but I call it Indian Stretchable time.UK : Okay let us meet at 12 pm, give me a call when you are in the lobby. So he would be all ready in his room and as soon as I would give a call, he would reach within few minutes.German : He would wait in the lobby on a sofa facing the main door, as soon he would see me usher in, he would join me.Japan : He would stand outside...
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Mangesh Padgaonkar
2007-03-10 05:49:00
Being brought up quintessential marathi culture associated with marathi medium schooling,marathi poetry was introduced in early school life. Often study would become miserable with boring and complicated poetry till Mr. Mangesh Padgaonkar arrived with his poems. With his use of simple words and mischevious connotation, poetry no longer became avoidable exercise.Later years when I was captiavted by various songs (Bhavgeet ? songs with emotive contents) composed by Yashwant dev, Hridayanath Mangeshkar and Sriniwas Khale, I was surprised that bulk of those songs were based on the poetry were penned by Padgaonkar. Even after being away from Marathi culture over last few decades, Padgaonkar?s poetry alongwith ?. ??. ??????????, ??.??.?????, ?????? ??? keeps intact my umbilical mothertongue cord.His poems are amazingly simple, witty , touching, funny but immesely sensitive to touch very eseence of life?s basic premises ? emotions? . His poem ? ?? ???????? ?? ????????? ???? ?????? ????? ? ...

soweto : spiritual capital of south africa
2007-03-05 17:43:03
After getting a letter from Priest Msimangu, Stephen Kumalo starts his journey from his village town to Johannesburg in search for his missing son Absalom and during this mission, he discovers his sister Gertrude who has become prostitute, brother John ? a carpenter and learn about his son Absalom murdering white fighter of racial justice Arther Jarvis who happens to be son of his neighbour. Novelist Alan Paton created these characters from social milieu of pre Apartheid regime in his novel ?Cry the Beloved Country?. This book was prescribed as a syllabus for English subject for my intermediate science. It was beyond my reach to read this book in English ? so I managed to buy Marathi translation of this book and answered my examination paper in English.Little did I know then that after so many years, like Kumalo, I would also visit the very same place and rediscover the essence of South Africa and its struggle to come out of clutches of Afrikaans speaking white rulers. In the proces...
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Veer Savarkar - remembered
2007-02-27 05:39:03
Today is Veer Sava rkar?s 41st death anniversary.I was fortunate to witness funeral procession of Veer Savarkar from the balcony of one of our relatives( Bapat Maushi) in Lamington Road. I remember my father, after hearing the news of Savarkar?s demise had asked us to start from our home at Andheri to reach this place ( How he did during pre telehone days ? that I don?t recall). By evening, when Savarkar?s cortege arrived , the entire road from Apsara Talkies that led to chowpaty was swarmed with people. I had not known about him then but that image of funeral procession has remained in my memory. The other congregations that come parallal to this were that of witnessing Nehru?s urn in Nasik to be immersed in Godawari river, Lining up on western express highway in Bombay to watch heroic welcome of Neil Armstrong, Eldrich and Triumphant Indian cricket team after winning first test match in England. I wouldn?t have known about Savarkar?s death anniversary, had it not been for my attemp...

Virginity Lost : Great real life lessons
2007-02-23 17:36:01
Till I joined my MBA, academic studies were drudgery ? examinations were treacherous. I never understood the logic and the purpose of my academic study in real life. I could effortlessly, solve any problems in calculus or trigonometry without knowing any practical significance of it. Having mastered the weakness of Indian education system, getting good grades was never difficult. Education started making sense in the final year of engineering while designing a power supply or setting up electricity distribution for a village. But the question loomed over and over again. Why reinvent the wheel? Why do we judge someone who churn things that has been already been digested. Why test student on proving Newton or Pythagoras when it is already proven. I do hope, education system may have changed in past decade.Nikil Rao ? an avid sportsman and my ex-collegue once mentioned that everything in the life is monotonous with the exception of Sports. I tend to agree with him with a minor addition...
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Sidney Sheldon - a great storyteller.
2007-02-18 11:30:05
My first reaction was ?oh **** !!? after seeing newspaper headline on Bangkok- Mumbai flight. My fellow passenger was taken a back by my reaction and when explained about passing away of Sidney Sheldon , he was amused. I could make out that ? being a businessman he may not have had opportunity to know this novelist. But for me, this man, shaped my interest in English books by demonstrating the art of articulating emotions through words in racy, spellbound storytelling. If Harold Robbins helped me take first steps of English fiction, Sidney Sheldon was my companion during growing up years. Others like Irwin Wallace, Arther Hailey and Fredrick Forsyth followed but no one like Sidney Sheldon carved such a big influence on me with If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. And all this from an author who started writing novels from the age of 50. He may have been in the Guinness Book of World Records for th...
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seamless life goes on
2007-02-17 17:28:08
I'm old enough to be satisfied with what I have,and young enough to still want more;Lucky enough to have been really stupidand lived to tell about it ?cursed enough to have a good memory;Intelligent enough to understand thatI still have a lot to learn,and ignorant enough tocontinually prove to myselfthat I still haven't.travelogue,descriptions,experienc es,observations from curious and imbecile mind of goggly
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crow : undisputed king of mumbai sky
2007-02-17 17:28:08
After ages, I spotted one sparrow at my home in Bandra.My immediate fear was ?I hope she doesn?t get noticed by any crow?. Last month, with little sparrow in his beak, I saw him on the balcony grill, spreading his span, struggling to fit himself on the frill of the balcony, Seeing the feast in sight, few more of his buddies struggled to get their share. He somehow managed to fled and perch on the tree. With sheer struggle, exhaustion and fear I am sure sparrow must have been still by now. Another casualty to ever dwindling population of sparrows in Mumbai suburbs.When I grew up in Kala Nagar in mid 70?s, coconut trees were just planted and one could see sky horizon up to Kalina from the terrace. Artek Apartments was the tallest building in Bandra East and perhaps the only one with Elevator. At breakfast time, sight of flying green parrots was not unusual. Pigeons would produce babies between narrow spaces in earthen tree pots kept in the balcony. Now slowly all other bird species ar...
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Places I Visited so far in my life
2007-02-17 17:28:08
Austria ViennaBahrain BahrainBelgium BrusselsChina Hong Kong, Shanghai, BeijingCombodia Phenm- Penh, Siem PrepCyprus LimmasolFrance Paris, NiceEgypt Cairo, AlexandriaFrance Paris NiceGermany Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frieberg, LubeckGreece AthensIran TehranIndia Mumbai, Pune, Nasik, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Sangli, Miraj Kolhapur,Alibag, Khandala, Lonavala, Goa, Chennnai, Pondicherry, Cochin, Kolkatta, Rourkela, Puri, Bhuvaneshwar, Hyderabad, Tirupati, Bangalore, Mysore, Uti, Hubli, Belgaum, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Bhilai, Durg, Raipur, Jamshedpur, Mount Abu, Baroda, Surat, Ahmedabad, Nadiad, Gandhi Nagar, Jaipur, Agra, Lucknow, New Delhi, Udaipur, Shimla, Manali, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Gangtok, Darjeeling,Japan Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Odate, Nara, Yokohama,Jordan Amman, Dead SeaKuwait KuwaitLebanon Beirut, Saidah,Malaysia Kuala Lampur, PenangMonaco Monaco cityMyanmar YangoonKenya Nairobi, Mombasa, Masai MaraNetherlands AmsterdamOman Muscat, Sohar...
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