Here’s the farewell letter written by N.R. Narayana Murthy, Founder of Infosys to all the shareholders of the company. Here he says about Infy’s journey. It’s a must read for all followers of engineering & entrepreneurship: (Letter Credit – Infosys Annual Report 2010-2011) Family or Company – How Tough Really It Is? It was on…

Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous. He is Amitabh Bachchan. ------------------------------------------- A small boy-the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his…

It was in Pune that I met Narayan Murty through my friend Prasanna who is now the Wipro chief, who was also training in Telco (TataMotors). Most of the books that Prasanna lent me had Murty's name on them which meant that I had a preconceived image of the man. Contrary to expectation, Murty was…

Lot has happened since I last dropped here, got married, adopted 2 canine kids, saw my life turn topsy turvy and my house a wreak as they were teething, resigned from my Job to start a new dream... But I am back again... a new resolve, with a spring on my fingertips with old memories…

The January chill was stinging me, biting and clawing through my cloths but I was oblivious to it... as I was of the endless irritating cavalcade of Cars, Bus, Autos, and 2 Wheelers running outside on the ever congested Bangalore road. I was numb... I was in pain I did not knew existed for a long…

I got up with a jerk and looked out of the window of my three tier compartment and was greeted by that all too familiar cacophony of "Chai, garam chai', 'taaza kela', 'fresh bread-omlette', 'paper, le lo paper',... 'T.T. Saab just one berth, I'll give you extra', 'coolie, coolie, come this way quick..." The sights,…

I look through my Flight’s Window to the panorama below restless as I have nothing better to do, a rarity nowadays, before I land in Bangalore and resume my life as I am use to and prepare for my meeting. The Sky is clear from the top and I can see clouds which are not…

William Shakespeare quoted "What is there in the Name", I say a great deal here is a piece dedicated... To Choton, Bulbul, Khoka, laltu, gogol, babai, buro, tutu, bubu, ghoton, bhutan, chotka, shanto, bubai, tubul... et al. being half bengali myself and being called “Lintu” by most of my relatives I make here an attempt to…

This story began in a time of innocence, dreams and nothingness and span over sometime calm and sometime turbulent quarter century, culminating in me jotting down these lines in multitude of alphabets similarly scattered over the cyberspace. It was the fall of 1984-85 when I first entered the precinct of Bishop Westcott Boys School, one of…