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After two weeks in Mumbai, I'm beginning to think if communism too would be this bad? Confused...

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Sincere apologies to the handful of you who have been here once in a while, only to discover that this blog has not been updated in ages. It is not because the intervening period was uneventful, rather it was the bloggers block that held me back. Apologies also to the friends who have tried to contact me over the past couple of weeks and have not been able to reach me. Unfortunately, the net

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[Wrote this a week back when I was in Chennai, Have moved to Hyd now and Bangalore in between...] At Chennai, I'm put up at a place called Hotel Mount Plaza just five minutes from my office in Teynampet. And one interesting place it is. After a hectic day, the menu card is a huge comic relief, they have 'Milk Shake with Milk' and 'Milk Shake without Milk' on the card. By the way, the 'Milk Shake

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I generally take my time to form opinions about anything and probably this was the reason that I didn't blog about Mumbai, although, I've been here for more than eight days now. I've travelled far and wide, from Vasai Rd on WR to Thane on CR. And I've seen most of the places in between. And probably never more than today, I understand why many people think of India as a land of contradictions. In

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I was walking to Nariman point last night with Deepak Goyal. On the way, Deepak Goyal asked for directions from a young lad: Deepak: Nariman Point ka raasta kidhar se hai? YL: Aage se... Deepak: Aage road khatam hai, aage se left jaane ka ya right.... YL: Aage se... Deepak: Bada haramkhor hai, aage kahan? YL: (smiling) sahi pehchaana, mujhe nahin pata... I'm jawabless, again....

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I wind up the Delhi leg of my All-India trip today, I now move on to Mumbai. Delhi was a useful stay of around ten days. But as always, in the end, it was the same old story of too many commitments and too little time. Here are a few thoughts/events that occured to me during the period: 1. Visited a few areas of Delhi which I had always sort of bypassed. Dariyaganj, Paharganj, Okhla, NOIDA Ph II,

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Aphter libhing in Kolkata phor around one bheek, I habe had a taste of Bengali kulhture. I am Konbhinsed dhat only those Kolkatans who hab a lot of time on their hands use the public transphort, those in a hurry bhalk. All Kolkatans eat Paan, ebhen the elite managers, that is bhy there is a new paan shop aphter ebhery 10 feet. All shops ebhen those selling kirana items sell Paan. I did not goo to

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Thursday was election day in Kolkata, which meant I had a day off from work. Only had to meet one gentleman who was some big industrialist of Kolkata, having his own tea plantations and paper mills. The way he was dropping names of the top brass of papers division, looked like he was some real big shot. Otherwise, he was really unassuming and helpful. I had a real free wheeling conversation with

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At the outset, let me clarify that I'm not put up at Sonar Bangla. And even if there is a company that would put its summer interns at Sonar Bangla, I'm sure it won't take me :) In fact, I'm put up at a guest house on Middleton street (just next to park street) and I'm living reasonably comfortably. First day at work was quite cool. The branch office at Kolkata was quite upmarket and highly

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My old TG friend, Nitin, who has been a part of previous couple of posts is also an alumnus of ISB. So Nitin took me to ISB last night where another very good friend, Gurdish, joined last week. Got to ISB at around nine last night. Nitin showed me around and I must say, that facilities are really top class, probably worth the huge fee that they charge. And as Gurdish termed it, there is plenty of

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Plenty of firsts in this week for me, got an opportunity to travel by train after some 8-9 years as I was sent to the paper mill at Bhadrachalam. My first ever plant visit, and a awesome one at that. A huge 100 meter long, 2000 crore machine. Amazing. You'd never imagine that paper making would entail such technology and investment. Visited the Eucalyptus plantations on the banks of Godavari,

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Shifted to my third accomodation in as many days yesterday. This time with my IIMK mates who are interning with DRL. This place is in the Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad. Banjara Hlls, an apt name considering my situation. Anyway, my office is near the Secunderabad Railway Station and it took me one and a half hour to get to this place in Banjara Hills from office last evening. And sixty five

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Its been a fairly eventful couple of days for me at Hyderabad. I got here late Sunday (or early Monday if you please). Had a terribly difficult time in locating the place where a good old NSIT mate had booked me, and as things planned by my NSIT mates generally go, it never hapened the way it was planned. First, the address was a 'bit' wrong. Then when I called the number that I was given a lady

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Summer is an oppressive time in Delhi. You can cook your lunch on your terrace without gas and half-boil eggs on car bonnets. Surely you don't want to be living on a top floor. Heat is unrelenting and its difficult without an AC or a cooler. But fortunately or unfortunately, AC runs on electricity, something which the capital is always short of. Therefore, Dilli has always had a huge demand for

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Often, Good Commentary can enhance the experience of watching a cricket match. Having grown up on a diet of cricket across the world (and especially down under) and listening to stalwarts like Benaud (amazing 'economy of expression') and Boycott, I'm really disappointed with what our Indian Channels are dishing up. Not sure if this adhoc-ism of commentary teams is due to frequent switching of

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Mostly, I consider myself as a person of above average (if not exceptional :D) intelligence. I don’t say ‘always’ because every now and then, I keep repeating a few mistakes. One was when I decided to watch a disaster called Aks. I should have learned my lesson but I gave Rakesh Mehra another chance. And that is not always a good idea. Or maybe there is a certain kind of cinema which I can never

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Third term has been unusually slow to take off. But for the 26 classes in the heavily loaded first week, there hasn't been much activity. So when a three day break came along owing to rescheduling of classes in wake of the IIMK-IIMB sports meet, it naturally lent itself to grandiose plans of exploring Kerala. After a lot of planning and discussions, eight of us decided to drive to Ooty in TN

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I wish you have a wonderful Diwali and a prosperous new year :)

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A close friend back in Delhi is applying to ISB, looking at his application, there is one annexure "3. EVALUATION FORM" which is supposed to have professional recommendations. It has some 9 global questions but the one that takes the cake is: [I'm not joking, it is seriously there...] 6. How would you describe the applicant’s sense of humuor ? Now, what has ISB got to do with an applicants

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How would an FMCG company react when it is confronted with an application of an IT veteran of three years? Simple, Reject it... But one well known company headquartered in East-India didn't worry about the past, gave me a fair chance and here I am, I'll spend the next summer selling cigarettes in some nondescript town in the hinterlands... Actually, I'm quite happy about it. For it gives me a

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1. Reading the kind of books I like to read. 2. Plenty of time to think about everything. 3. Many ppl are convinced with my business idea. Had a meeting with the marketing prof., he agreed that it may be big three years down the line. 4. Started running again today. 5. Personal life is a lot more settled!

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Note: Read only if you are killing time Mid terms are over, campus is overflowing with booze, network games and loud music. Don't know why some people are so happy about completing one-half of one trimester out of six ... Probably I can never appreciate how much effort some others put during exams. Went to Calicut today to book my ticket for tomorrows journey to Bangalore, I'm flying to Delhi

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