Intelligentle

Obviously you know what it would be about, yes the big match today. Normally Wednesdays are like the half finished medicine bottles when you are ill; you know that you are getting well by the end of it but you still have to go through the torture and finish half of it. But this Wednesday, excitement is in the air, as India confronts our neighbour Pakistan in another head-on sporting battle. As we know, India-Pakistan matches are normally considered as the mother of all cricket matches and when it is the semi final match of World Cup, it acts as a natural pacemaker. Just like anyone else, I want Team India to win and it will be extremely delightful to watch Sachin and the boys (don't expect Dhoni and boys from me!) beating Pakistan in this spectacle. But let us keep it in a level where we can see it as a game, with pure sportsman spirit. Yes, I will be sad if anything goes against India in this game, but then we can try and avoid comparisons to terr...

Yesterday night, I was planning to write about my childhood as it was really memorable (in a way); at least for my parents. I kept it on hold as some other incident made me think about an entirely different issue. Last week, I went out looking for a mobile handsfree and stepped in to a shop. And there I met a boy who was trying to help me out with my shopping requirement. He was hardly 12 and looked skinny but energetic. As the salesman, he was working really hard, trying to help out one customer after another. When stepped out of the shop, I felt a little bad and thought about somehow informing this to some child welfare organization, as it is a clear case of child labour. Then again some other scenarios that I came across in the past, stopped me thinking any further. Read on; Scenario 1 Last year, for almost three months, I was staying at a guest house in Bangalore. There were 2-3 guys to take care of the occupants and among them there was a kid of 12-13 years age. He used...

Saturdays give me deeper shades of blues than Mondays. On Saturdays, my Sametime chat list is almost inactive as the corporate office has a 'proper' weekend off and a lot of guys in the Nasik office take an off too. But this Saturday is slightly different with a lot of personal and professional jobs to finish. However when you feel like writing something, you have to do it. There is no way out or in and obviously there is no two ways about it. Let me digress from Saturdays and writing, I want to tell you about something else. As I mentioned in some of my earlier posts, I did not write to influence, inspire or insult. But, if this inspires someone or at least encourage them to think a little more, I'm more than happy :) Ok, so I go to the office canteen for lunch during office days and I go alone as; I get hungry by 12.30 and the scheduled time is 1.00 I do not have a team here to go with I prefer to finish the lunch fast without much chattering in between I spend so...