pieces of me...

So, its been 10 long years since we passed out from engineering. A lot of amazing, regular and not so great stuff happened in those 10 years.  But milestones, being milestones-  it is good time to review things and see what lies ahead. Essentially, where you were, what you learnt and how you could tried to be a better person. Like Stage 1 of a game being done and now its the more difficult Stage 2 coming up. Before we get there, I will just focus on sharing those moments and events which made it all worth the while. So, the 1st step after DCE was my joining at Infosys in Mysore. It was 4 months in one of the best corporate campuses in the world - The Infosys Mysore Development Center. So, it was like an extended college with classroom programs and projects which taught you the essentials of Software Development and also made you focus on a particular stream which was  in my case was .Net. Apart from the friends I made, what made the time memorable were two project

How do you explain about life to a little one? To someone who just knows all that is good, all like it was meant to be? Let us see in the below poem! What do I tell you my love, How do I explain,  When your innocent eyes, Have not seen any pain. As you look around and see, A surprise comes in your eyes,  The world as it was meant to be, Pure, innocent and free.  You smile and explore,  Making friends with new faces, Like friendship was meant to be, With open arms and hearts, you see.  Each face is someone gained, A new friend or someone close,  No one told you, you lose some day, What you gain, one day. That's the state to be, Embracing life as it was meant to be, What will be, will be, A baby's got other things to think you see! ‎

Salman Rushie's famous novel, Midnight Children , talks about Saleem, who is born  on 15th Aug, 1947, at the exact moment on which India got its independence. Cricket's moment of truth came much later on 25th June, 1983 , when India led by Kapil Dev lifted the Prudential World Cup by defeating the two times defending champion, West Indies at the home of Cricket- Lords. That win sparked hope and ambition in a million hearts, in the cricket maidans and colony lanes across India. Kids wanted to be the next Kapil Dev, Amarnath or Gavaskar. One such kid was Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar who made his debut, six years later vs Pakistan in 1989. This started a new era in Indian Cricket- the next level above the foundations of the '83 win. For those born in the early 80's- their cricket watching started with this start of India's next level. It started around 1990, when SRT made his debut. For me especially, cricket watching started with the '92 World Cup in Austral

The Comeback Post: "Months of Life" The Delhi Metro finally gave me some respite. It opened in South Delhi and instead of me driving around the Ring Road- DND Route everyday, I was now a true "Metro Man". I had been envious all this while, of people living in East Delhi and West Delhi and North Delhi, as they had something which we, in the south did not have- The Metro! The relief from the driving meant though long hours still in metro. Now the challenge came, to a restless soul like me, on how to pass that 1 hour, sitting alone in the metro. In the underground stretch, the GPRS did not work, so the good old Facebook or Twitter were out. I tried to be constructive initially, taking with me, like a seasoned businessman, a copy of the morning business newspaper. Opening that, always inspired envious glances in the Metro. I got bored of that pretty fast, I realized, I had already gone through the grind of daily Economic Times reading during my MBA placement days, 1.

Lonely Bird...who wants to Fly This poem is the Story of a girl who after years of darkness, ultimately finds light and the road to fulfill her destiny. The poem has been written in alternate stanzas of English and Hindi. A caged bird looks to the sky, Across horizons she wants to fly.                                                    Caged and bound she has always been, Now her only desire is to be free. एक  बात  वोह  समझ  नहीं  पा रही  थी, जाने  क्यूँ  मंजिल से  घबरा  रही  थी. उसकी आँखों मैं  एक  सपना था, फिर उसको पाने मैं  क्यूँ  कतरा रही थी. The caged bird even when set free, Hesitates to fly in the sky. For years caged thus, it takes time to, Believe she can also touch the sky. वोह  झिझक  एक  पल  की  थी, वोह  डर  एक  पल  का  था. वोह  अब  अपने  आप को पहचान चुकी थी, अपनी मंजिल  को  वोह  जान  चुकी  थी. The bird yearns to fly, the cage now broken. Who can stop the one who has woken? In cages of mind, her dream was asleep, Breaking those, the bird is no

When Time Stands Still.....The Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gaye Moment! There are levels in a relationship from the time when you meet someone to the time when you start liking that person and to the point when you can not live without that person. Liking can be based on physical attraction or it can be gradual based on liking of nature, personality or inner beauty. The more you spend time with a person, the more you start appreciating the qualities of that person. Compatibility leads to friendship and friendship leads to love. Or it can happen the other way round, love at first sight is what you call it, the initial attraction itself results in love. You just want to be with that person. But is love just a realization of the other person's physical or even inner beauty? Do they lead to love or does love make one beautiful, both from outside and inside? Further, is love a desire? Is love an attraction? Is love a compatibility? Is love wanting to spend your life with the person? Love is all