Thursday, February 27, 2020

HDFC Bank and HDFC Ltd – a football match

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This experience was so traumatic that you will soon understand why sturdy men jump off the cliff. This incident brought out the apathy...
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Friday, June 16, 2017

Synapse Pain and Spine Clinic, Chennai, India

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What do you call when a doctor's greed exceeds that of a real estate mafia don? Synapse Pain! This is an illustration of how t...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

130) The Eve-teasing Activist

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“One evening at 7:30 pm, I was walking back home on the footpath of busy Convent Road in Bangalore where I live. Two men on a two-wheeler wa...

129) The Cook

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After my wife’s death, I felt deserted given that my son had chosen in live in another part of the world. Here I am not yet sixty and still ...

128) The Chartered Accountant

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Petchi first heard this while in school, as her teacher addressed the class, “If you can stand next to a CA, consider it a blessing”. This g...

127) On Bridavan Express

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On Tuesday, the 18th December, I found myself on Brindavan express for a one day trip to Bangalore. I reached Central in a recently introduc...

126) A teacher's passion

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Meet Ms. Banu Reka, a school principal in Keezharippalayam in Erode district in Tamilnadu. One to those real backward areas, Banu heads a sc...

125) Rehabilitating Prisoners

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If Kiran Bedi brought Vipasana to Tihar inmates, then the 3 R’s were brought by Ms. Ramena to Kerala prisons. In a state with 100% literacy,...

124) The Cook

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Meera is an ordinary cook but an extraordinary character. I learnt it only yesterday. First things first, Meera has me in my employ for 6 mo...

123) The Dutiful daughter

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I get up later at 7:30 and routinely chastened by mother,” Sona, is it impossible to get up to watch at least one sunrise in your life? You ...

122) The Sound Engineer

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There was a film shooting going on Eliot Beach. The usual sun reflectors, an umbrella shade for the leading actors, and hangers on everywher...

121) Adoption Issues

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I recently found an old diary from my teenage years, where I blithely wrote about my future, figuring I would get married around 28 and have...
Friday, May 8, 2009

120) Living with Aids -5

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The HIV project made me interact with the USAIDS team and meeting them was invariably a pleasurable one. Learning too The other day, Govind ...

119) Living with Aids -4

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JWT got the USAIDS account and my presentation at the pitch was much appreciated. They had an Rs.4 crores annual advertising budget for the ...

118) Living with Aids -3

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Pradeep once said,” You must meet Chandra and she is really special”. I said,” Sure, why not?” Pradeep explained,” She is from the much mali...

117) Living with Aids -2

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After meeting the doctors at the institute, I asked to meet some volunteers; any first hand experience on the field is much more real than p...

116) Living with Aids -1

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I was working for JWT long time ago and was once involved in a pitch for the USAIDS account as an account planner. After exhausting all the ...

115) The Deepavali Spirit

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Sowmya’s husband works as a sales executive in a private company; the pay is poor and hours long. But you cannot crib as he was not even a g...

114) SEZ Imbroglio

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What sort of a father am I? I ask myself everyday when I see my wife and children suffer. My land has been taken away by the officials and t...

113) The fate of voiceless

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There can no sin greater than the one displacing people from their homes. When you take away a habitat of an animal or grab land from tribal...

112) Land grab

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“I have stopped believing in God. For the past 20 years, all I have been doing is going to the collector's office and waiting for someth...

111) A Farmer's plight

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At the time when there is debate of retail revolutions and malls springing up like nobody’s business, I thought of taking the “other India” ...

110) The Ungrateful son

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She is just another non descript person – pale skinned, dry eyes and a misty glance. Poornima was over 60 and limped as she walked. She was ...