How much apprehension and hesitation can one experience? Or is it possible that at each new situation one would experience these feelings? I tend to have more than my fair share of these emotions each time I am faced with a ‘different’ situation. Be it an invite to a reunion of old fellas from the school or having a friend come over and stay with ( Read more... )

Time to celebrate!  The department that's commonly known among all my colleagues as mean and nasty has been kind.  It's given me my choice posting - to Bangalore, my 'almost' hometown (almost, since I belong to Kolar).  The best part is I yet again find myself posted to an independent office (an office where I'm the boss).  I'm yet to see a boss ( Read more... )

(Possible readers beware, a long post ahead! Brevity surely isn’t my forte)!

Friday began with the persistent ring of the cell phone. “Sir, Rinpoche has planned a trek-cum-puja. It’s the Holy Smoke Day tomorrow. He wants you too to join in. Would you? I know your parents are around…” Sunil trailed off over phone. “Where would we be heading to?” “It ( Read more... )

“Which batch are you from?” CG asked me. “1998 Sir”. “Who else is from your batch?” “Sir, there’s Manish Tripathi, Rajalakshmi, Pushkal…” “Oh! You are from Rajalakshmi and Manish’s batch? Young man you are being promoted! I could’ve issued orders before I came here. Now they would be issued either on Monday or Tuesday.”

The CGDA, Mr. Jnan Prakash ( Read more... )

Amidst all the slayers, corrupt, necrophiles, vultures and the opportunists Ram Lal surely is different. It’s easier to meet someone who’s taken life. How often does one meet someone who has saved another person’s life in reality? Here I was face-to-face with Ram Lal at tea. Tea specially organised to recognise his achievement.

Ram Lal won the ( Read more... )

The King went naked today. He discarded his robes for the unadorned, nude look. After weeks and weeks of silks, feathers and plumes, this was a shocking change. Every day we subjects would wait for the King to prance around in his multi-hued feathers - sometimes white, sometimes dark grey, sometimes black and sometimes golden - and expectantly ( Read more... )

Bringing back the Chief to issues that matter isn't easy.  He loves going off-tangent and veer towards the exotic - sailing championships, Dantak golf tournament or even Archery!

“Sir, do you mind if I go beyond these contracts for a minute?”
“Go ahead Sudhir”.
“This might sound like a critique of your style of functioning. However I’m not trying to ( Read more... )

My cellphone rang during our flash session - a rare thing in the afternoon (the call, not flash). It was the PS to the Chief Engineer. “Sir I’ve been trying to reach you for over 2 hours”. “What’s the matter Mr. Kutty?” “Chief wants to meet you sir tomorrow. He’ll be coming to the office at 10 in the morning”. “But tomorrow’s a holiday; it’s His ( Read more... )

The phone rang just when I was about to enter the bath for a quick evening shower. It was KM. “Hi! How was golf today?” I asked. “Oh! Today I played 9-holes for the first time”. A few minutes of golf talk and the conversation came to its purpose. “Not having any sessions today? SY had a holiday today and she’d thought that there’d be one”. I could ( Read more... )

It finally happened.  The entire world with that one moment turned beautiful, heavenly.  I felt one with the universe.  The ecstasy I felt was more powerful than a steamy session of passionate sex ( Read more... )