Mysorean

A great speech at the NTU annual convocation that I found here. Adrian Tan gave this speech to the graduating class of 2008.
[via my colleague Deepak]
I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a [...]

There have been times when I have criticised the media for wasting too much ink on N. R. Narayana Murthy (NRN). But this time, rediff.com comes up with a great one. The kind you always want to read but don’t find anywhere. Click here to access the article.

[Via email from Hemanth]
Vivek Pradhan wasn’t a happy man. Even the plush comfort of the First Class air-conditioned compartment of the Shatabdi Express couldn’t cool his frayed nerves. He was the Project Manager and still not entitled to air travel. It was not the prestige he sought, he had tried to reason with the [...]

The Rediff Special/Shobha Warrier in Chennai

I first met Kousalya in 1999. She was just back from a hospital and looked extremely thin, tired and weak. But her strength shone through in a joke she cracked.
Visits to hospitals had become a part of her life, she quipped, like visits to cinema halls and supermarkets are to [...]

When desires try to understand each other through the eyes,
And souls communicating with each other,
Dreams reach out
to the ecstasy that our imagination cannot.
With emotions settling down for a deep conversation,
And thoughts revolving around the other,
Feelings touch each other
for a joy that superficial physical touch cannot.
When minds talk to each other,
Spoken words seem so emotionless,
The enveloping [...]

[via Gayathri]
A father, Micheal Quinn received a cassette with his daughter’s first step as his 44th birthday gift. His eyes were filled with tears to see his 20 year old daughter walking. It was his daughter’s first step since a decade, since an accident had paralysed her.
Gemma Quinn, a Briton born, led a normal life [...]

This incident happened in the summer of 1997.
I was doing my Senior Intermediate in Hyderabad. My closest friend Vamshee and I were as usual roaming the streets and generally doing whatever helped us away from the study table! We were coming out of a shop called “Lorven” on Shivam Road near Osmania University campus. We [...]

After lunch together I went back to office. Preethi and Goddi decided to watch a movie. So, I suggested Sathyam complex and helped them into an auto to that place. Without knowledge of tamil, it’s really tough to aviod getting fleeced by these [...]

Sometimes you are having a very busy day. Work is keeping you busy from morning to late nights. You are jetting around the city at a mad pace to get things done. Just then, there’s a call from a friend (Gowtham, and since we are friends since school, we call him Goddi) whose marriage you [...]

Got this extremely good forward on email.
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off [...]