tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203457912024-03-06T23:04:43.881-08:00Indrakanti karthikeya"karmany evadhikaras te ma Phaleshu kadachena" Can anyone dare to deny this as the essence of life?karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-54778421818999763522022-01-04T02:26:00.002-08:002022-01-04T02:26:49.868-08:00My Favourite song - Continued<p style="text-align: justify;"> Jai Guru Deva,</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Its a long time since I severed my connection with movies. As of now, I watch/care about those movies which are referred by some of my trusted friends. what to say about songs? most of the telugu songs these days are sung by some Sid Sriram whose pronunciation is horrible. He literally killed some of the telugu songs he had sung. Under this circumstances I had tumbled on this song from Aravinda Sametha movie. I think the movie is from 2018 but I never watched it. This song was sung by Kalabhairava, son of Keeravani. Same Kalabhairava had sung dandalayya song in Bahubali-2. Just to mention Kalabhairava's calibre, the hindi version of dandalayya song was sung by Kailash Kher. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Coming to the lyrics of this song, its written by Rama Jogayya Sastry garu.. every sentence is like bolt piercing your heart. The background of this movie is the factionism in Rayalaseema region and this song is something by the wife of the factionist who went out. The song depicts how uncertain her life is till the husband comes home safe. Hailing from Kadapa I had seen quite a few families who were the victims of faction violence. Perhaps thats the reason I could immediately connect with this song. Telugu film industry have the honour of great poets like Devulapalli Krishna Sastry garu, Veturi garu, Narayana Reddy garu. After this song, I'm sure they would be blessing Ramajogayya Sastry garu from the aisles of heaven. He made them proud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below are the lyrics and video:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsRSTPYxqvo" width="320" youtube-src-id="rsRSTPYxqvo"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Oxygen-Sans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 31px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">నిద్దర్ని ఇరిసేసి రెప్పల్ని తెరిసాను<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />నువ్వొచ్చే దారుల్లో సూపుల్ని పరిసాను<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ఒంటెద్దు బండెక్కి రారా..<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />సగిలేటి డొంకల్లో పదిలంగా రారా<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />నలిగేటి నా మనసు గురుతొచ్చి రారా<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />గలబోటి కూరొండి పిలిసీనా రారా<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />పెనిమీటీ ఎన్నినాళ్ళైనాదో నినుజూసి కళ్ళారా<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ఎన్నెన్ని నాళ్ళైనాదో నినుజూసి కళ్ళారా</p><p style="background-color: white; 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I have stopped writing my yearly review for the last few years mostly because there was nothing special or worth writing. But 2019 is different. We are blessed with Samhith, i have a spiritual voyage and several other special events. On the down side, my grand mother passed away this year, Om Shanti. </div>
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The month of January was the most challenging time for me and Sowmya as would be parents to a new member of our family. The doctor in Bangalore have scared us so much that we went to Hyderabad in the next available train. Till March first week which was the 9th month of pregnancy we were too scared to express. I was doing my sadhana only for a smooth delivery. </div>
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Come march, with the grace of Veerabhadra Swamy we are blessed with Samhith. He was fine and healthy relieving me from anxiety. I have stayed in Hyderabad for several weeks to manage this whole thing. Sathvik went to school in Hyderabad for two months☺. For certain reasons i don't have much respect for Hyderabad. Its a great tragedy that both my kids are born in that city. That's life!!</div>
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After a few days of birth, Samhith got jaundice and got admitted to hospital and was kept in ICU for few hours. During that time there was some emergency in office and i was working. During that day only my mother had slipped and fallen coming out of railway station. It was several days before i could attend her. Such is life, deal with it.</div>
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In the month of May i went to Tiruvannamalai along with my friends in office. Never imagined the trip would be so great. First time me and my sister planned to go there was in 2001-02 but couldn't go due to financial constraints. Second time i wanted to visit Tiruvannamalai was in 2008 as I made a mess out of my life. I take complete ownership of whatever pain I went through. Till today I have not blamed or bad mouthed any other individual about my trauma of those dark days. Sometimes I feel proud of myself about this :P <br />
Anyway, visiting Tiruvannamalai was a divine order for me. I thoroughly enjoyed th Giri Pradakshinam, chanted panchakshari mantram 108 times in each of the temples on the way, went to darshan two times in 12 hours. What else can i ask for? </div>
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On May 19th Sowmya and kids came back to Bangalore and life took a major turn since then.. Mr. samhith Indrakanti(un named then) became the previleged person of the house and is enjoying himself with all possible tantrums. Poor Sathvik is forced to play second fiddle to more naughty younger brother. </div>
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All along things in office were going perfectly smooth and i was at my best as an individual/team. On September 30th, news of a reorganization came out and last three months had been one bumpy ride with uncertainty and chaos. One day i really felt let down by HP. This is not the HP culture I feel proud about. But such is the speed of life that it doesn't wait for anyone's sorrow. I'm really praying tbat all this reorg will end in a positive note fkr us.</div>
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My grandmother passed away on 19th October. She was 93 and lived a complete life Om Shanti. Because of this we haven't done naming ceremony for Samhith, not sure how he will react once he grows up.</div>
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Come November, one of the work that i have done was presented to HPs top management and its a huge success. I rate 2003-05 as my best years of life (2008 and 2012 as worst). In 2019, i had once again reached my efficiency levels of 2003-05. <br />
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1. Completed roughly 2M steps<br />
2. Met financial targets<br />
3. Visited Tiruvannamalai and Amaravati temples. Om Namah Shivaya<br />
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Can't ask for a better year and thank the Almighty for the same.</div>
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Sarvejana Sukhinobhavantu,.<br />
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Sydney 1992: It took 16 long years since the inception of the tournament to witness a face off between the arch rivals from sub continent. India registered a comfortable victory driven by Sachin's all round performance. At that stage of career Sachin was bowling medium fast. (That made him as the only bowler who bowled medium fast, off spin, leg spin all the while getting selected into the team as a specialist batsman <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="smile ఎమోటికాన్"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta5/1.5/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="true" class="_7oe" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; width: 0px;">:)</span></span> )</div>
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However, that match is much remembered for Miandad and Javagal Srinath. The memory of the former sledging and associated antics stood as a cult image while the latter is remembered for the searing yorker to get rid of the same Miandad. I have never seen Srinath bowling the same ball again in the next 11 years of his career. Miandad of course, could not digest the defeat even though his team ended up as tournament winners.</div>
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By the end of India's innings if at all anything is lost its the ego of Pakistan team. However, Saeed Anwar and Amir Sohail started the pakistani innings as if they are playing the match of their lives. Somehow India managed to get key wickets, amidst those wickets Amir Sohail threw his wicket handing eternal glory to Venkatesh Prasad. For generations to come, Venkatesh Prasad will be remembered for that wicket. Everyone said, we dont care even if we lose world cup as long as we win against Pakistan. This eventually came true and India suffered a monumental humiliation from Sri Lanka in the semi finals at Eden Gardens. That is one of those bad dreams that Indian fans doesnt want to wake up to.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">one of the sweetest memories of my childhood is sachin's batting. I was punished for this multiple times by multiple people. Yet, if I were to live that day again, I will still watch Sachin bat and would not mind the punishments. That was Sachin and that was me. Of all the knocks of Sachin, desert storm stands as a citadel of his domination over the Aussies. An exhibition of pure class, temperament and commitment to the cause of the team. Such was his batting that none less than the legendary Shane Warne started getting Sachin in his dreams. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That day when Sachin proved to the world that he is not just a great batsman but an all time great.. A moment of nirvana for an Indian cricket fan. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Going into that series a lot was at stake for Sachin, he had recently resigned from captaincy after a couple of disastrous tours. Though he had nothing left to prove to anyone still crazy fans like me were expecting he should do something special. This "do something special" maniacs followed him all through the 23years of career. A lot of people question that Sachin cant handle pressure but this series proves them wrong. Although I can show atleast six more instances of Sachin handling the pressure well, this one is surely phenomenal innings in every sense.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lot of people talk about the twin sixes of Kasparowich but for me Sachins best shot is the cover drive at 11.4 overs. Ian Chappell was on air and he told "That's one of the best shot you will see for a long time to come" Its definitely a luxury to watch that live. </span></span><br />
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the comparison of aimless journey to teenage was too good and questioning what is the meaning of the word victory is again thought provoking. Several times this is what I wondered, why does it matter what you achieved if you are anyway turning into pot of ash after sometime. (on the other side of the coin Swami Vivekananda asks "If death is so certain, why not die for a good cause") For me, life is all about being in the present. Whatever I am doing I want to do 100%. I may be doing office work or I may be playing with Sathvik I want to do it 100%. If I'm crying I want to cry 100%, no half measures.</div>
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Work, Office, Team, Sathvik, Sowmya, Amma... I am tired. </div>
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Anaytics, Market Share, Pricing, Strategy, Partners... I am tired.</div>
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Movies, Malls, Pizza, Outings, Shopping... I am tired.</div>
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No Ashram, No Books, No Stories, No blogging.. I am tired.</div>
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Yes, Seriously, I am tired.</div>
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It is almost two months since 2016 ended but I could not write my yearly review. This doesnt mean I'm neglecting my blog. This blog still remains my favourite place to write. However, in the last two months I'm writing a lot in FB page called "ఫేకుడు". This page is maintained by me and my friends.</div>
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Back to 2016, another eventful year of my life. The year started with complete failure of my relocating to abroad plans. I failed royally! During the same time, I had decided to move out of the forecasting role and transitioned to my colleague. This is a big change as I was managing forecasting for the last three years. Actually, this decision meant a lot because of the quantum of work I let go from my plate and more importantly due to the quantum of escalation meetings that I had to attend. The job of the forecaster is always thankless. Nobody in the organization remembers a forecaster until and unless there is a problem. Once there is a problem to handle, whole earth will search for the forecaster and blame him for the problem that arose. This is typical forecaster's life.</div>
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In the latter part of the year, I had started working completely on Amazon data, scoping new projects and trying to finish the existing ones. This is a very new learning for me as I never had an opportunity to learn these things before. Because of all these developments I feel that I'm probably at the best position in my career with total command on what I'm working. However, HP is not a pay master and year end appraisal was not good. So a trade off between work and money. Right now, I'm valuing work but may decide to change my decision :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The song is "ఒకే ఒక జీవితం" from the movie Mr. Nookayya. I am not a fan of anyone who came to industry with their father/grand father/brother as a foundation (power star is the only exception to this rule :)). The hero of this movie is Manchu Manoj from Mohan Babu family. As per the rule mentioned above I didnt bother to check the songs or movie. However, after a long time one of my friend suggested this song to me and the lyrics are just mind blowing. The lyrics writer is Ramajogayya Sastri garu.. Actually, the song was written to a tune made for the tamil film. Just cant believe such a thoughtful message oriented song was written for a tune. The situation is to console the actress (didnt bother to know her name) who is mentally down after she is cheated by someone. The beauty of this song is the subtle way it talks importance of smile and being happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">By virtue of possessing a logical brain capable of thinking, we judge people, objects, incidents and what not, practically everything. sometimes voluntarily and sometimes involuntarily we keep judging all through our lives. But what we mostly miss is the fact that we are nothing more than a bag full of meat and blood. Great warriors, great poets, great kings, ordinary households, the ultimate fate of all of them is becoming manure to mother earth. I remember when Guruji's father passed away in 2011, Guruji said something very profound: "My Father used to walk like a lion; Today he is just a pot of ash. This is the ultimate reality of our life". I always recall this statement whenever I listen to this song. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">When I heard this part of the song, I recalled the conversation between Dronacharya and his son Ashwathama. Once Ashwathama tells his father Dronacharya that he could not bare the insults of Duryodhana towards Acharya and Grandsire Bhishma, so wanted to fight the Kuruksehtra war from Pandavas side. He also wants Dronacharya to come along with him into the pandavas side. Then Guru Dronacharya tells him that he can go to pandavas side alone because its an illusion that we think one human being is dependent on other and in reality starting from the birth every human being is on his own and his karma is his own liability. In Kurukshetra, every one can chose their side as well as their destiny. However, Ashwathama says it is unthinkable for him to be on the side opposite to his father. Again, the thing that impressed me so much is the profound philosophy of life imbibed in the song so effortlessly and nicely. just loved it!</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-59899859656549340262016-11-23T11:32:00.002-08:002016-11-23T11:37:04.749-08:00Favorite Songs -1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This song contains several analogies for self motivation from the nature, from society, from puranas and what not. Such a great alignment of words for instantly giving a positive view of things immaterial of the situation. In the middle of the song, a Divyang sings a line along with Bhoomika which takes it to a different level. When we had organized Hrudayaspandana program in Jeevani last year, I had an opportunity to closely work with Divyangs and believe me, every move of their is a source of inspiration. They are mostly independent of others only to show the world that miracles can happen every day. Bhoomika ofcourse a nice actress and this song manifests that one more time. She didnt over act and ensured that the sanctity of lyrics is maintained in er facial expressions.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-16054746905884244722016-10-21T10:27:00.001-07:002016-10-21T10:33:05.650-07:00Rendezvous with Rahasyam!!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A group called teluguflame had come up with a concept of Telugu subtitles to the popular serial "Rahasyam" which is in Tamil. For me, this is like an old friend visiting my house after few decades. Just cant help but watch the serial again and again. I am already downloading all the episodes with telugu subtitles into my personal hard drive. This will be another of my collection along with B.R.Chopra's Mahabharat, Byomkesh Bakshi and Jaspal Bhatti's Flopshow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The story of Rahasyam is a suspense thriller where weird incidents happens in a small village called "Siddara Patti". They called it "Yateendrapuram" in telugu. Whole story is about several mysterious deaths happening in the village mostly by dog bites and attempts by few people from village to understand the reason behind the murders. After half of the serial, the story moves to Madras currently Chennai and a mysterious truck keep killing people for unknown, unexplained reasons. For a mystery lover like me, this is a nothing short of treat. Its like a vegetarian visiting only veg restaurant. I applied all the logic that I know and tried to find who is the villain. Though I couldnt find the villain exactly it so turned out that I doubted the guy to be a potential villain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Even in school there used to be a lot of discussion about this serial. It will not be over statement to say that people who belonged to me (atleast I believed so) came into my life through this serial. I had spent several lunch hours debating and discussing who is the villain and what is the reason behind several murders. I have very few sweet memories of my school life and this is definitely one of that. Though same people later on called me "junk" after several years of friendship (thats the best word I can find) I cant ignore their role in building up my character. I am, of course grateful for every second they spent with me and every phone call/sms they made to me. My respect to them remains the same though there cant be any friendship left. </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-5216151858105576592016-09-25T10:25:00.001-07:002016-09-27T01:25:23.239-07:00Learnings from Mahabharth - 8: Virat Yudh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Virat Yudh is the fight between Kaurav forces and Arjun who comes out of his secret life. As I had mentioned before Arjun and Grandsire Bhishma are my favourite characters of this great epic. Virat Yudh features these two mighty characters pitted against each other in a ferocious battle. However, what i particularly liked is the display of emotions during that battle. Arjun greets the Grandsire and Dronacharya with his arrows while Grandsire laments a lot as he has to face Arjun in the battlefield after 13 long years of exile and secret life.</div>
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Profound knowledge is shared in the conversation during the battle. My learning is that, if you are on the side of dharma nobody can stop you. Grandsire was worried to fight Arjun not because he is inferior to Arjun in warfare but Arjun is standing on the side of dharma. Howmuch ever Karna badmouths Arjun Grandsire would not relent to fight because he knew ethically Arjun have the upperhand and not Duryodhan. For this reason, when Kripacharya asks Duryodhan to apologize for his rude remarks, Grandsire says for how many mistakes shall he apologize?</div>
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Personally, I always believed that ethics are way superior to emotions because emotions change with time but not ethics. In my childhood, smoking and drinking are vices and taboo while today they are part of cultured and civilized life. Barring my Art of Living friends, the list of non drinkers and non smokers I met in Bangalore is very less. This doesn't take away the damage done by alcohol to our society nor it reduces the pain of people who are suffering. So the ethics that I was taught still remains the same while popular perception changed in a couple of decades. </div>
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On the other end, Arjun in his conversation with Uttara Kumar gives some marvelous insights about human conduct. I feel what he said is applicable even today. One thing that majorly caught my attention was his advice about servants. He requests Uttara Kumar never to insult servants and be decent to them. Also, Arjun asks Uttara Kumar to salute his own wounds and blood flowing. Sich a noble thought!!! Afterall, its our blood that keeps us alive. </div>
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This book was originally written by S.L. Bhairappa in Kannada and later translated to English by Sandeep balakrishna. I dont know why the book was named as Avarana and the author didn't bother to explain either. Its a historical novel covering a history of 2000 years. The main protagonist of the book is a woman named Lakshmi alias Razia who had converted to islam after falling in love with Amir. The whole book is how her life changed after she finds her father's notes about religion, civilization etc.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-43060164821207021362016-04-20T10:06:00.005-07:002016-04-20T10:08:08.958-07:00AM I FAILING??<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the last several weeks now, I am feeling a lot of void in my professional life. Not sure of the reason exactly but things are not going well for sure. Never went through so many escalations.. Just getting tired of explaining things to people, to management, to the rest of the world actually. Time to take some break and start working but break is something I dont have the luxury of taking a leave anytime in the near future. In 2013, I had worked all through the year without any personal leave. I think things are looking the same way this year also. I had changed my role little bit and landed up in some unknown zone. Its like going to a gun fight with a knife in hand. </div>
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There are several technicalities related to backend servers its easy to decode some zen puzzle than predicting this. Everytime I am managing an escalation there will be a new reason for the issue. No reason comes twice :( I understand that management is all about handling difficult situations and difficult people but the rate of escalations is giving me a feel that I belong to customer care team of some gas agency than anything else. Given this scenario, the obvious questions is why not change the job..Unfortunately, there are not much of roles out there in the market which matches my pay expectations. Frankly, I am looking out for a job change and I am not able to find a suitable job.. may be another of my failure.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-76179301694920473342016-01-15T12:50:00.002-08:002016-01-15T12:51:08.284-08:00Sathvik's 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last couple of weeks had been so crazy that I couldnt finish my yearly review. I think with this one I will be completing yearly review for ten consecutive years. Thats something.. Sabash :))</div>
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The most happening thing in my life is Sathvik. He smiles for no reason screams for everything and anything. Runs around without any breaks and keep falling down time and again. To him, it doesnt matter whether something infront of him is a human or an object, he will just climb. Thats Sathvik Indrakanti!!</div>
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Early 2015, I had thought a lot for selecting the name for Sathvik. Apart from Sathvik, I was thinking of Saketh, Kaustubh and even Shashank. But when I was listening to the sacred chantings of Lord Shiva, one of them is Sathvik and I had immediately finalized this. I really wanted to name him as Shankar after my Guruji Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji but either the letter was not matching, or name was not suiting or some other thing was happening. On a professional side, first half of 2015 was crazy because of several escalations regarding the forecasting process that I own. Actually these started in second half of 2014 and continued till April 2015. I was working even in the week when Sathvik was born. No respite what so ever!!</div>
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Once Sathvik and Sowmya came to Bangalore, its case of pan to fire :)) had to manage a lot of more things now than before. But one resolution that I took is to spend atleast two hours of quality time with Sathvik and I think I had stick to that for about 80% of the year, which is a decent start. I had started declining meeting invites if its not suiting me. Not sure I ever did this before in my career. However, the other side of the coin is that I am doing a lot projects/activities that are directly impacting the business. Something that I work on is shared in the all employee meeting on a quarterly basis.</div>
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On the spiritual dimension I had done my blessing course for which I was waiting for a long time. For several years, the thought of me blessing someone sounded ridiculous and silly to me. Part of the reason is that I am the youngest in my family and I always got blessing but never gave :)) However, I understood that its not me who is blessing but the holy Guru parampara. I'm just a medium nothing more than that. When you take medicine in a spoon to cure your ailment, you praise the medicine not the spoon. Same way, when I bless some one its actually the divine grace, its actually Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji not me.</div>
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In the second half of the year most of my time has gone in my preparations for going abroad. Till now they had not given any positive result which is very frustrating. The reason I'm so keen now is because once Sathvik grows up we will have to think of his education and there will be several dependencies. So its a case of now or never. However, like several things in my life I leave this one also to the almighty. If I'm not able to go abroad despite my efforts may be there is some divine motive for me to stay back. I respect that!!!</div>
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On the professional side, I had become a far better project manager than before. Particularly while dealing with people. I never had issues when I am working on something all by myself. But often I faced issues when driving others to work. I think I had improved significantly in this area in the second half of this year. Still a long way to go!</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-25215734815392786472016-01-10T10:14:00.001-08:002016-01-10T10:14:59.888-08:00Why Am I suffering?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the last week, things are crazy at my place.. Sathvik is completely down with fever, my mom is diagnosed with typhoid and as usual my office work is taking toll on me. All in all, a very challenging week. (Its like doing a DSN course on a daily basis.) The deadly combination of all these things could not take away my smile from me. I am still able to leave my home at home and office at office. That is the way I want to live and I will live!</div>
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However, since yesterday Sathvik's fever had rejuvenated and recurring every 6-7hours. Doctor told us that its the second phase of viral fever and might last for a couple of days. This was something I had found very tough to handle. He had become very passive and not even playing his favorite hide and seek. Adding to this, all thoughts some xyz kids suffering from some unknown diseases are crossing my mind. As I mentioned several times before, my mind is something that scares me more than the rest of the world. :( Time and again, I am meditating to overcome these negative thoughts. And believe me its very easy said than done! Looking him like this is perhaps the worst punishment I can imagine. On the other side, rest of my family is very worried about my mother as she is also not able to gain any strength and continuously down with fever. My office work permit, tomorrow I will go to kadapa and bring my parents to Bangalore. </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-52271630363394644222015-12-27T02:57:00.001-08:002016-04-20T10:11:35.293-07:00@Prasads Imax<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the last 15mins I'm sitting in prasad imax lobby waiting for someone who is more than a brother to me. Sitting alone is always associated with the risk of making me nostalgic. First time I came to this place was a dream. it was almost ten years ago. people were yet to realize im junk(may be they did but didn't tell me). I was very happy to be in hyderabad amd also to be in imax. Prasads is one place where I wanted to watch a movie for a long time. During that trip I didn't get to watch the movie but still it ws very pleasant and dream trip mainly because of people around me. I came to hyderabad to meet my sister and other friends. Life moved a long way after that and now none of those friends are in touch with me. Some of them realized I am too much of nonsense and some were too busy with their professional and personal work. God bless them all!! I feel happy that I shared with them the good days of my life and not the traumatic days of my life.</div>
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Another time when I came to Imax was with my wife and her cousins. It was also ver pleasant experience. We thoroughly enjoyed the time there. we went to all tge different houses present there. kids were playing crazily during that time. I never knew there were so many things in Prasads till that date. However, my craving to watch a good movie in Prasad remain unsatisfied. Sometimes I could not find a good movie which can be watched in Imax. The first movie that comes to my mind is Lord of the Rings. As an ardent fan of LOTR nothing is better suited to watch in Imax. Recently I wanted to watch Bahubali in Imax but again there are no one to accompany me :( For long I had waited for someone to sponsor a movie in Imax but found nobody :)) Now I wanted to go with my money but still nobody is accompanying me :)) After we are blessed with Sathvik me and my wife didnt go to any movie till now. Part of the reason is the notorious viral spread of Bangalore. I for one will never watch a movie alone. Even when I was in hostel I hardly watched any movie sitting alone. May be I watched Mahabharath and Flopshow alone but not any movie.</div>
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మా లక్ష్యం, మా కష్టం.. అమరావతి!<br />
మా గమనం, మా గమ్యం.. అమరావతి!<br />
మా రుధిరం, మా రౌద్రం.. అమరావతి!<br />
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మా సంకల్పం దుర్భేధ్యం.. మా దూకుడు అనితరసాధ్యం.</div>
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దేవనగరం అమరావతి!<br />
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ఘన చరిత్ర అమరావతి!<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-90793580302317303272015-09-09T11:25:00.001-07:002015-09-09T11:33:11.741-07:00The Power of Silence!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Couple of weeks back I did my advance course in the Ashram. The major attraction of the advance course is the opportunity to stay in silence for few days. This concept of silence sounds very weird to people who are not associated with Art of Living and generally a source of jokes and satire on the spiritual path. For me, silence is perhaps the greatest bliss I ever enjoyed. There is no greater joy, there is no deeper ecstasy and definitely no bigger comfort. My job is project management and I end up participating in a lot of stressful conversations whether I like it or not. Not always these conversations leave me in high spirits. On a personal side also, my life is very very eventful and ensure that I get the true gist of my presence on this planet. So silence helps a lot to cleanse the negative impressions that I get and the negative emotions that I may end up carrying. It has been almost 20 days since I did my course and I didnt get angry even once. (I didnt get angry atleast once between Ugadi of 2010 and Ugadi of 2011 and I really aspire to beat that record.) </div>
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More importantly, silence helps to understand your own thought process. Te hell with the world, atleast YOU should understand yourself. Staying in silence helps to identify the blind spots in our personality. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened to me if I have not habituated sadhana. Yes, I am not doing seva any more and attend satsangs occasionally still my sadhana is more than 95%. I have no regrets for whatever happened in the past and I am not afraid of anything that is going to happen in the future. Staying in silence makes you understand that you dont need anything from the past or future to be happy. You can be happy irrespective any other happening on this planet because that is what you chose to be. Period! </div>
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When I was doing the course during some of the process and some yoga sessions I had tears in my eyes for taking so much of gap for the course. May be now I have earned to come back to the ashram and stay in silence. After the course is over and I am back to my normal people atleast four people told me that my face as got some glow. That is the glow of being with myself. That is the glow of coming to terms with the hard realities of life. That is the glow of smiling without reason. That is the glow of celebrating life. All of this happen without any effort from me, I just participate in the meditations giving my 100% and Guruji will ensure that I get what I need. There is absolutely no effort from my side. All the bliss flows very naturally and beautifully. Thats why I really wanted to do an advance course atleast once in an year.</div>
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I would like to inform everybody that I am a blesser now and I can bless people who are suffering. Anybody who is going through any physical/mental/emotional pain can contact me for blessing and I will bless that person. Any one can ask me to bless through comment section of this post. I need not know any kind of identity regarding the person who is asking the blessing. You can ask blessing for any person in your circle. I will bless that person. I need absolutely no details of that person.</div>
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Blessing a beautiful gift Guruji Sri Sri Ravishankar ji had given to the mankind. In reality this was an ancient tradition in Hindu religion which was conveniently forgotten in the course of time. Art of Living have a course called Blessing course where one will undergo certain processes and meditations so as to become a blesser. This does not mean others are not eligible to bless people but this is a way to have some satisfaction as you are contributing something towards the society you live in. Blessing course is an amazing experience where you will win over a lot of negative emotions and cross the barriers like "mine", "yours" "theirs".</div>
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Often we experience certain situations where our mundane intelligence is not enough to solve the problem at hand. At such scenarios none other than divine intervenes to ensure we deal with the situation properly. Blessing is the way one gets the divine support they are looking for. In my life, I had seen people suffer and my mortal capabilities are not enough to support certain people. I feel helpless and guilty in such situations. Now that I am blesser, I bless people whom I cannot support in any other way.</div>
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It was in the first week of May 2010, my niece Rishitha had just crossed one month. My sister, my parents and my grand mother had come to Bangalore because of too much heat in Kadapa.(There are two seasons in Kadapa, Summer and Extreme Summer). On the evening of the day they reached Bangalore my sister started screaming with pain at the place of her surgery. Neither my mother, nor my grand mother knew why she is getting the pain.We dont even have the chance to run to any doctor because I dont know of any doctor around. I also moved less than six months ago into that area and have absolutely no circle to talk with. Just before this, I had finished my DSN with Ram Prasad ji and I realized that something called "blessing" is some miraculous problem solving method. Frankly, I didnt give much importance in the first instance because it sounded too impractical. The logical side of my mind didnt agree. Afterall, I am an IITian and that proves that I have a sound logical side :))</div>
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However, at that moment my helplessness made me to ask blessing from somebody. I thought of calling Shushmakka to bless my sister but Shushmakka was in TTC and not reachable through mobile. Shushmakka had already become my punching bag with whom I crib, cry and complain about a million things on this planet earth and about my ownself. Then I went through some of the contacts I had collected in DSN and found that one girl could be a blesser and called her. Luckily she is a blesser and she had talked with my sister for two minutes.. yes only two minutes.. and my sister's pain is GONE. That moment I had understood what Bawa meant when he said "We people in AOL doesnt believe in miracles; we rely on them". Later my sister was fine for two more days until we got an appointment with a proper doctor. Thats the power of blessing!! Till then I had a doubt whether Guruji is God or not.. and should I chose him as my Guru :P but that day I realized that he is God and he had chosen me to be his disciple. Thank you Guruji!!! I know this is very difficult to believe for anyone who is not in the spiritual path. People try to fit everything within the small window of their intellect. Unfortunately, you cannot capture whole of a sea in a small bowl and you cannot convince somebody's intellect in these things which are experiences not maths or physics.</div>
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Personally, I take blessing from any blesser(mostly Shushmakka) when I have any critical deliverable at hand or I am going through any rough patch in life.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-7909537134506149942015-08-16T13:38:00.001-07:002015-08-16T13:38:07.154-07:00Learnings from Mahabharath -7: Sri Krishna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Any learning from Mahabharath is not complete without understanding what Sri Krishna said and what he did because when the divine himself gives a message do we have a choice to miss it? Absolutely NO!</div>
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In each and every step of Mahabharath we will understand that Sri Krishna indeed is the Paramatma. When I hear some of the things of Bhagavadgita I cant help but get tears. I understood and appreciated the profoundness of Bhagavadgita after I started doing my Sadhana. After 2008, for a long time in my life I had this question "Why ME??" There were days when I cried alone as could not know the answer for that question. Only I know how much I suffered. I got my answer in the Holy Bhagavadgita "It was ME because the Almighty bestowed me with the courage and caliber to deal with it". </div>
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Of all the personality development books that I had studied, the message from Bhagavan remains the most influential. Even today as I write this, my quotation at the top of my blog is from Bhagavadgita. As Krishna says, you are not the owner of the result but just a doer and so do your Karma. Expectation of the result puts unwanted and unnecessary pressure. Arjuna was at the giving up his dharma in the disillusion that he is owning the result but Krishna convinced him that the result is not in his hands and all he can do is to perform his duty. This is sheer wisdom! </div>
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Apart from Bhagavadgita, other important message that Krishna gave was to stand for righteous cause. He made Pandavas to kill their own kith and kin because dharma towards society is far superior to the personal bonds. Personal conflicts are always emotional but a kshatriya's commitment to the society cannot be compromised. After all, ethics are always greater than emotions. This is something which I believed since my childhood. I pray the God to give me enough strength to stick to my ethics which sometimes can be very demanding. People hated me for sticking to ethics as it didnt match their expectations but alas, its not in my hands. The day I compromise on ethics I am more dead than alive. After all, a human's integrity is the corner stone of his character; nothing less nothing more.</div>
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Guruji asked all of us to read some verses(atleast one) of Bhagavadgita everyday before sleeping. I have not started it because of the office work and sometimes Sathvik ensures that I play with him just before sleeping. But I have to find a work around and start reading the Gita. </div>
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The actor who played the role of Sri Krishna in Mahabharath is Nitish Bharadwaj. I like his acting a lot particularly when he makes sarcastic comments. One of the conversation which I liked the most was during Saindhav vadha. Nitish's body language and diction were very good all through the serial. </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-76337664823876167802015-08-06T09:32:00.002-07:002015-08-16T12:55:10.439-07:00Sathvik's Struggles!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jai Guru Deva,</div>
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Sathvik is fast growing up and its fun to be with him. just wonder how its already 10months since he is born. He is already crawling at full pace standing with support and falling without support :) Very recently started blabbering two letter sounds. However, in his eventful day here are some of the things he struggles the most:</div>
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1. To take the whole of football into his mouth. unfortunately the football with which he plays is bigger than his head but he gives his 100% to take that into his mouth. Alas, he never succeeded :)</div>
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2. To open the door of Puja room by banging on the door. This is his favourite activity to open the door of Puja room without touching the latch. He struggles miserably in his failed attempts :))</div>
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3. Another thing which he tries a lot is to lift the chair with his head :) unfortunately enough, neither his head is so strong nor the chair is so weak</div>
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4. To open the shelf with his hand. Surprisingly, he understands that the handle is to pulled to open the book shelf, neither me nor Sowmya taught him that. However, the shelf is too strong rather Sathvik is too weak to open :P</div>
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5. To hold and pluck the flowers from the balcony. There is a creeper in our balcony and the flowers hang on there touching our faces. Somehow Sathvik is too interested in those flowers may be because of green/white combination. Neither his height supports him nor the strength in his legs permits him to reach out to the flowers. Poor Sathvik! :D</div>
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6. To communicate with the etv news reader from home. For some reason I dont know Sathvik likes the starting music of etv news. If he is not sleeping, he gets very excited and jumps forward with that sound. Once the news starts, he feels that the news reader is talking to him and tries to communicate with him through his blabbering sounds.</div>
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7. To out shout the neighboring kid. There is a kid who is 3yrs old right opposite to our house. He will be calling Sathvik from his house. To our shock Sathvik responds to that fellow in his own language. Apart from Sathvik nobody on the earth can make out what they talk.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-88100430527273772722015-07-27T09:29:00.001-07:002015-07-29T08:32:53.977-07:00RIP Dr. Kalam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Never thought I will get back to blogging for this reason. Dr. Kalam who is one of the biggest motivators of my life had passed away. It is said that a man's death tells the life he has lived. He didnt undergo any pain, he didnt needed anybody to support him, he didnt needed anybody to give medication, he just passed away in a blink of the eye. Lived like a legend passed away so smoothly. God bless him!</div>
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If I were to recall my association with Dr. Kalam, I had to go back to my engineering days when one of my senior informed me about him. Then I started reading about him and was very impressed. Then came the book "Wings of Fire", which made an ever lasting impression on my thought process. Frankly, till that point I believed earning money is called success. But after reading this book and understanding his thought process, I realized success actually mean hell of things ;-)</div>
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As a matter of fact, after knowing about him, after reading "Wings of Fire", I had set the Bharatha Ratna as my goal of life. Even today, my google profile pic is the photo of Bharatha Ratna medal(it was sent to me by a friend, God Bless her). However, now I realize that making a positive contribution to the society should be the ultimate purpose of our life. Any expectation of return is nothing but a disservice to the cause itself. Now, if I think of goals for my life the only thing that comes to my mind is to make a lasting positive contribution to the society that I am part of.</div>
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As he passed away, Dr. Kalam leaves a legacy of patriotism, commitment and devotion to the principles. He was always an Indian first and a muslim next, a very rare species found in India. He was committed to his duty like which inspired the whole nation. He was so principled that when the Americans shamelessly strip searched him, he didnt complain about it. That tells a lot about his principles. I was dumbfounded by that gesture. Take a bow Dr. Kalam! When a self proclaimed bollywood badshah faced similar situation he cried foul and created a big scene, probably to earn some sympathy from people.</div>
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As Gandalf says in LOTR, "Death is just another passage that everyone had to take". So be it! After all no bond is permanent, no living creature is eternal. Men live, men die but their legacy stands for generations.. Men like Dr. Kalam continue to inspire people for several generations to come. Feel proud that I lived in the age of Dr. Kalam!</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">feebles r recognized for their victories where as gr8 ones are remembered for their failures</div>karthikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09104002613076256110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20345791.post-54870703018788748032015-05-18T10:44:00.001-07:002015-05-18T10:44:31.483-07:00Condolences!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I came to know that Gayathri's father passed away a couple of weeks back. May God keep his soul in his lap.<br />
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