It is finally available in the bookstores…
Inducted into Atlanta Business Chronicle Leadership Trust
From the bartender’s corner – Sambuca Summer
We may not like running on wet days…
Was it something I said?
Friday evening relaxation
“Kafan mein khud ko chhupa liya hai
Ke tujh ko parde ki ho na zehmat
Naqaab apne liye banakar
Hijaab tera utha raha hoon”
Sung by Nusrat. Incredible words from the pen of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
Roughly translated…
“I have hidden myself in my shroud
So you don’t have to take the trouble of putting on your veil
By making a veil for my own self,
I am lifting your veil”

From the bartender’s corner – Polar Bear
Going with the “flow”
Three years back Sharmila and I looked at the option of moving to the NorthWest. Portland and Seattle areas are what we evaluated. We concluded that it was too cloudy, foggy and rainy for us.
Boy, did we dodge a bullet!
If we had moved, we would have missed these three years of cloudier, foggier and rainier weather in Atlanta!
(BTW, as a matter of fact, Atlanta gets nearly twice the amount of rain as Seattle)
Stranger than fiction!
Last morning, I swung by my friend Jacob’s desk when I was visiting their offices in San Francisco for some work. Less than half my age, he has twice my wisdom. Little wonder, I enjoy being around him and learning new stuff from him. (He is a trivia wizard too).
He was standing near his desk – talking to his neighbor – when I approached him. Who he introduced to me as “Raj Das”.
Jacob: “Believe it or not, Raj and I are born on the exact same day. And we went to the same college together. Now we work together.”
Me: “That is a coincidence!”
Jacob: “Do you remember Seena?”.
I immediately recollected Seena from about six months back. Jacob, Seena and I had worked on a project for some time then.
Me: “Of course!”
Jacob: “Here is the crazy part! All three of us share the same birthday!! And all three of us went to the same college”
Now, that was SOME coincidence!!
Me: “And what is that birthday?”
Raj: “March 5th”
Me (after gaining some composure): “Yeah! Here is something you will not believe either. That is my birthday too!”
I don’t think Jacob still believes me!!
We all believe I was not good enough to go to U. Va. though 🙂
That was one heck of a coincidence!!






