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  • Education, Career and Passion

    If you started your career in India as I did in the early nineties people had two choices Computer and Non Computer and as I moved on the years I found several people who in spite of taking non computer streams of education ended up in the computer field. Having done electrical engineering I myself found to be in the Information technology field. This was in India where education was at one time not based on what you liked but [...]

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  • Change Eats You

    Time flies, people change Thoughts, wants, relations, life Change eats every one From outside going deep inside Or from inside eating out of you Just hold on to love and let go of hate Be Liberal and never indifferent Embrace responsibility, it is yours Find happiness in giving over taking Don’t try to be in control, just let go Anything else that changes for you Just don’t bother, they matter no more Change eats into everyone Correction; Change eats most [...]

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  • What date is Valentine’s day

    I don’t care what date is Valentine’s Day I really don’t, honestly It can be today, it can be tomorrow I don’t care because I don’t decide The world calls it the day of love Nothing changed for me today When the needle in the clock made its turn Nothing will change tomorrow When the needle makes yet another turn What Matters the most to me is that You are my Valentine Did you hear that? :) What I CARE [...]

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  • Doing something as your Life depends on it

    This was what I learned when I started my professional career, told by someone as the definition for being a professional. Though over my career I have done several things both as if life depended on it and otherwise there was a stark different on the achievements and results. Obviously when my life depended on it the results were much better Why do you end up doing things partially or as if life does not depend on it? That is [...]

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  • If it happens

    If every beauty hidden behind a veil were to come in the open would our appreciation of beauty change? If every fact unknown to man becomes known Will we be truly informed? If every sorrow known to man becomes nonexistent will we know happiness? If every man how ever knowledgable accepts his ignorance Will mankind be enlightened? If every question asked in the future can get answered today Will we become extinct?

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  • Failures are louder than Successes

    I can remember much of my failures than my successes and if I take a tab the side of failures will far outweigh successes. Is that bad? I don’t think so. It is just that your failures are much more louder than your successes. Your failures will be more remembered and acknowledged by others than your successes, unless your successes are so magnificent that it washes away any traces of your failures. But this does not happen to everyone, people [...]

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  • Phalgunan and the 100 Rupee Note

    Phalgunan and the 100 Rupee Note

    “Parashuram express?” Phalgunan woke up from his dream when he heard it out of the blue. He had forgotten about the existence of such a day train that travels across Kerala from Mangalore to Trivandrum. The Train that changed his life for ever. It has been years and Phalgunan has become Phalgu to the truncated world but he still remembered the countless long journeys in the train traveling to trissur and kochi and then returning back to Calicut in the [...]

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  • Converting some stress into an element of joy

    One of the troubling tasks in life is to find ways to avoid stress and do something regularly that makes you happy. The catch is that some of these items in life that make you happy have an expiry date. One such item is the time you spend with kids because they grow up so fast and no more remain kids. When they grow you are faced with many new perspectives of growing up that don’t exist when they are [...]

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  • What is your Response Time?

    Response time make and break customer relationships. Not just customer relationships, but any relationships, be it professional or personal. But interestingly all non responses are not because of tight schedule or a because of being busy, sometimes they are intentional. Lack of knowledge on the responding side is a strong reason for non response to questions. A delay is chosen over an “I don’t know”. Many times the person does not want to respond, plain and simple or you are [...]

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  • You Better Admit

    “Are you great?” “No” He said “But we are” “You can be” “Admit your greatness” They shouted “Why?” “Only then can we claim our greatness” “No I cannot” He said “You are lying” they yelled “Send him to the Gallows, he is great and he does not admit,” “Kill him, Kill the liar” They screamed Written for the Bluebell Book  challenge to write a story in 55 words.

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Remembering Dad & Other Poems