Archive for November, 2006

A flight from perfection

By Surya ⋅ November 29, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

An ode to the smudges in our pristine lives
I glance pensively at my long lived life
I see a pure white sheet with a lone dark stain;
And I can’t help but reminisce on that sordid spot.
Many a years have passed since that eventful day
Yet how could I ever forget the guilt of a misdeed done?
An escape [...]

A walk to remember

By Surya ⋅ November 26, 2006 ⋅ 4 comments

A miscommunication in my taxi reservation. Twenty minutes of delay for them to get me a new cab to the airport, while I am all packed up and waiting at the lobby of my hotel, just off St. James’s park. Laptop is shut down, with a run-down battery and a charger packed away in the [...]

A step-by-step introduction to Indian Institute of Politics (IIP)

By Surya ⋅ November 22, 2006 ⋅ 6 comments

Isn’t it about time we established an Indian Institute of politics?
Any executive running a publicly traded business would have either formal training that equips him for the job or years of apprenticeship working at various levels in the company or long experience in the industry or in many cases, all the three above. But what [...]

Don’t hold your breath for women to bake the cakes

By Surya ⋅ November 21, 2006 ⋅ 7 comments

Lucy Kellaway, columnist at Financial times and author of “Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry“, bids farewell to the flexibility fad, while predicting doom for working women, over at Economist’s The World in 2007 special:
The image of the juggling part-time mother will belong to the past. Instead, the school gates in prosperous neighbourhoods of London [...]

Home, Sweet home

By Surya ⋅ November 19, 2006 ⋅ 12 comments

A place to paint our little dreams,
A shoulder to cry when none comes true,
A rooftop to shout out the simple joys,
A street to rebel, even if it may be vain;
It’s just bits and bytes afloat in ether
Yet home, when it all comes together.
Returning home is a bitter sweet idea - the happy memories of childhood [...]

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