8th January 2012

Sitting in the open terrace in afra, on a breezy evening towards the wee hours in the night...

"...I hv seen a certain goodness in you..the rest knowing u can always follow.

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I m a man of plain words. I know u here & there, but trust me, well enough for me to like you. And well, liking is always unconditional. Fondness is not decided, it just happens when your heart smiles to you..."

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Keep walking

Just to find her!

When I was a young boy, my momma said to me

There's only one girl in this world for you

And she probably lives in Tahiti

I'd go the whole wide world

(I'd go the whole wide world)

Just to find her

I'd go the whole wide world

(I'd go the whole wide world)

To find out where they hide her

Well maybe she's in the Bahamas

Where the Caribbean Sea is blue

Weepin' in a tropical moonlit night

Because nobody's talked about you

Instead of hangin' around in the rain out here

Just tryin' to pick up a girl

Oh how my eyes are fillin' up with this lonely tale

But there's girls all over the world

Go!

She lying on a tropical beach somewhere

Underneath the tropical sun

Hiding away in the heat wave there

Hopin' that I won't be long

I should be lying on that sun soaked beach with her

Caressing her warm brown skin

Then in a year or may be not quite

We'll be sharing the same next of kin

I'd go the whole wide world

Go the whole wide world

Just to find her

I'd go the whole wide world

To find out where they hide her

Go the whole wide world

I'd go the whole wide world

(Just to find her)

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Keep walking

My Yatra Story

The train journey with 350 aspiring people from across the country and the globe, transformed the way I looked at things. I saw the trust, the fire and the dreams in the eyes of these people, which inspired me to step ahead and break barriers. Have made some of the best friends that life can give, on this yatra.

18 days, a few role models, and you get a snapshot of an India, you never knew existed! That entrepreneur working selflessly with villagers in a corner of the country, a spiritual leader spreading the message of peace and harmony, a business leader who gives you that one extra tip, inspiring women standing on their own, and many more, the most diverse spectrum of people and interests one can come across. Couple this with passionate discussions and arguments, grueling case sessions, tiring days, friends and fun, laughter and joy, and you get what is aptly coined by a lot of my co-yatri's and me as 'a journey of a lifetime'.

This is my Yatra Story.

- Proud Yatri of the Tata Jagriti Yatra '08

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Keep walking

IIT Kharagpur, BC Roy & Kgpians

To be true, no comments.

My views in this segment are so different that half the KGPians will give the worst of comments on this post (the taste of which I have already got from my close friends to whom I communicated my views :P )
Hopefully, I will be able to garner enough courage to post them soon.

Till then..

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Keep walking

Some liked quotations

"A smart business man is open to opportunities in the future as and when they do come. At the same time, he knows how to walk away from a deal when its no more lucrative."

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future"
(Victor Hugo)

"Experience is what you get when you didnt get what you wanted"

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know"
(Shakespeare)

"Work to learn, not for money"
(Rich Dad in Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki)

"Stay hungry, stay foolish"
(Steve Jobs)

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"
(Paul Coelho in The Alchemist)

"Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies."
(Gore Vidal)

"Purpose is Important... Purpose is All"
(Zed, The Swat Kats - in Unlikelly Alloys)

"It is not who I am, but what I do, that defines me."
(Batman, Batman Begins)

"Why do we fall Master Bruce?...
So that we may learn to pick ourselves up"
(Alfred, Batman Begins)

"... but then a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."

"That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind"
(Neil Armstrong)


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Keep walking

Why blog?

I'm sure you've heard the old riddle - If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Some folks wonder if they do write a blog and no one reads it, is it a blog? Should they waste their time and energy to put their ideas out there is there is no recipient for those ideas. With the rapid proliferation of blogs, this is a legitimate question.

In my opinion the primary beneficiary of a blog is the author. Putting your thoughts down to its simplest form brings great clarity. Plus there is a snowball effect, once you put ideas your ideas down, you inevitably think of new ones. Which brings me to another cliché - When a Butterfly flaps its wings it will create a disturbance that can cause huge turbulence. Sometimes simply writing your thoughts in the form of a blog can be the stimulus for disruptive breakthroughs.

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Keep walking

Grains of sand

You take a handful of sand in your hands. Your palm is open, and it sits there very calmly. However, now if you form a fist and try to grasp the grains, they will fall off the palm. A simple phenomenon, isn't it?

I was just sitting and wondering how nature answers our most difficult questions. Ain't our friends like these grains? Don't they too slip off your palm when you clinch your fist? I often wonder.

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Keep walking