This New Year

Let time celebrate your presence. People usually make  a wish for the New Year, but this year, make no wish. Let the New Year celebrate you. If the New Year wants to bring you nicer things, just let it…
From Celebrating Silence

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Where is your relief material going?

This piece in Deccan Herald today morning, brought tears to my eyes.
“They bring old clothes in trucks and throw them on the streets,
thinking we’ll pick up everything. Otherwise, someone in the truck
hands out whatever clothes that come in his hand — be it a sari that
falls into men’s hands and a dhoti for children. [...]

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List Of Medicines Required.

A team of Doctors from Bangalore are on their way to Chennai.  They are leaving for Chennai tomorrow (thursday night) and again on 1st Jan. They are in need of the following medicines and equipments. If you can contribute, please call Dr. Jayashree at 26648774 or you can drop it at our collection center in [...]

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Next Steps.

We have a short memory.  It probably also has to do with the fact that natural and unnatural calamities strike so many times that we no longer feel about the loss of human lives and the tragedy behind the losses. Once the story becomes stale, the media drops it from the first page and we [...]

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Bangloreans, Step forward and be counted

If you are in Bangalore and want to donate towards the Relief, here are the contact details.
a) Location: Indiranagar and surrounding areas: Contact Sudhindran at 98801-85231
b) Location: Kammanahalli, Banaswadi and surrounding areas: Contact : Raj at 98861-53689
c) Location: Whitefield, Marthahalli and surrounding areas: Contact Jayan at 98801-67877
d) Location: Jayanagar and surrounding areas: Contact: Vyakti Vikas [...]

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Say NO to FB engagements

The first three projects that I worked on in my career were a failure. I remember that my organization actually paid money to cancel an engagement. This was way back in
the early nineties. I made the shift from being a purely hands on technical guy to Project Management and have had my share of successes [...]

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Nightmare in South India

The latest events once
again put the focus back on the safety regulations in India. We break every conceivable rule in
the book and expect to get away with it. The latest death toll at least in some
parts of the country would have been lesser had we had a strict enforcement of
the environmental
regulations which clearly say that [...]

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Import Workers or Export Jobs?

For the last 5 years, Shell and The Economist have been coming together for an essay writing competition. The topic this time was "Import Workers or Export Jobs?", nearly 2500 people responded and the winner was Claudia O’Keefe from Frankford, West Virginia, whose essay – The travelling bra salesman’s lesson, answers the question with a [...]

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Shaped by the vision of the sages

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait writes:
There are still thousands of villages in India that are as yet untouched by the complexities and comforts of modern civilization. Here people live simply, farming, raising cattle, and practicing the same trades their ancestors practiced—working as carpenters, blacksmiths, washermen, barbers, cobblers, tailors, ropemakers, potters, and fishermen. I was born in one [...]

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Sign of times

Rajesh writes that it is a sign of our times that Avinash Avnish Bajaj has landed in jail on the sale of an obscene video on Bazee (an ebay company). The rot in our country goes deeper. It is a sign of times that we are ruled by criminals, murderers and corrupt leaders. There are [...]

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