The Synthesist

  My Y2K memories It was the summer of 2000. I was ten years old and believed the world had somehow "reset" with the arrival of the Y2K year. Everyone was talking about computers crashing and satellites falling. But my thatha, Shri Srinivasan Iyengar, Cheenu Thatha as I fondly called him said something quite different: “Y2K year? Let me make it memorable for you.” Now, mind you, Thatha was a retired government servant, living a quiet life on a modest pension, with no family properties to boast of only rich values and rock-solid character inherited from generations before him. He had also fought and survived multiple myeloma since 1975. But what he lacked in material wealth, he more than made up for abundant love in heart and courage to travel. That year, he planned a trip for me, my dear Pattu Paatti and my Periamma to Pandharpur and Mantralaya. It was my first time going anywhere beyond South India. It felt like boarding a rocket ship. The train journey itself felt l...

    Cracking the Competence... Originally written on 15 th June 2017 and migrated from my blog on wordpress.com   I am back to fill my blanks on my blog page after quite some years Being a toastmaster, I had been pondering about making a diference. I revamped my writing obession by sharing my views on what makes a competent toasmaster beyond the manuals. A compentent toastmaster is quintessential in the arena of communication and leadership with intelligent direction and skillful execution.As trending toastmasters we dont know enough to be incompetent. Indentifying strategies to persistently improve our competancies as toastmasters creates a stable structure of our life long learning.Accomplishment of  such strategies invloves the  CCB   model  which is Classify , Categorize and Build. Firstly, Understand and Classify what kind of the public speaker is within ourselves.Everyone has innate qualities which should be nurtured. ...

  Raja…Ragam…Rahman.. Originally written on 18 th June 2010 and migrated from my blog on wordpress.com   The music legends Ilayaraja(IR) and A.R.Rahaman(ARR) have given a prodigious contribution to music.  They create magic with their beats and capture attention of audience, however no can justify true music still they manage to grab. They donate life on screen to the characters and songs which touch hearts. Both the legends had/still has a sync. They used the nuance of the carnatic raaga’s in their songs. To a person who knows classical music the raaga’s are explicit and for the others they are just great tunes.Whatever the case may be all those songs were sooper hits. So here comes a manifestation of their songs (upto my knowledge) and their respective raaga from which it had originated. ABHERI : This raagam is fairly popular. Its instantly “ATTRACTIVE” and melodic in nature. * “Chinnanchiru vayathil enakor chithiram thonruthadi “(Meendum kokila) was   ...

  FRIENDSHIP Originally written on 17 th  June 2010 and migrated from my blog on wordpress.com Well.. Many a times i tried to write a blog out here. but never had patience   😀 😀 :P… And here comes my first blog. I was just thinking of a topic to ramble here as my first blog and friendship was the word that popped up on my head instantly. So here it goes… Who is a friend? Friendship means different things to different people.  It isn’t always easily described.  Instead of different words we’re stuck with simple adjectives like close friend,best friend,trusted friend,beloved friend,childhood friend  and the list goes endless.. What ever way you name them. Friends are special people. They are an indispensable part of one’s life. Friendship is not about spending a major part of your day,just by sitting next to each other within the four walls of the class room.;its about the quality time that you share.Its not about asking “May i help you”. Its about sa...