JOHN CHAMBERS(CEO OF CISCO SYSTEMS) SHOOK HANDS WITH SARAT CHANDRA ...

WoW... it was a great feeling when John Chambers the CEO of my first company(CISCO SYSTEMS) shook hands to the people today while he came to address a meeting at Bangalore. He announced his plans of making INDIA a Globalization Centre Of EAST... I happened to be one of the many guys , who took Corner seats at the Venue... i am thankful to my state of mind at the point of choosing a seat to occoupy, as it made it possible for him to shook hands with me... The meeting started with a warm welcome to JOHN from all the BIG GUNS of INDIA branch... a traditional band followed right from the time he got down his car, till he reached the venue on a Horse cart... Many good things that i am impressed with him are.. his Body Language, his sense of humor during the entire talk , his eye contact with the audience. I started to believe that most of the leaders are natural born speakers... During the talk, he revealed that a few of his top Executives will come and stay in India for the next 3 years and see that INDIA will not only do the projects but also build a complete Product on its own and play a major role in the Market. His idea is to start a manufacturing company at Chennai to start with.. which does manufacturing of small low end phones and once the time, which he believes, comes he want to open all the windows Once... One of the interesting questions that JOHN answered today was ... " What do you think it takes to become a LEADER"... I dont know whether John had already prepared for taking such questions or not... but it looked to me that he had strong opinions on most of the things he does in his day2day life... the next moment the answer came out to be like this... " Primarily To be a successful leader one needs to be EDUCATED.. Both my parents were Doctors and they give it to me... Secondly one should have the ability to listen to OTHERS carefully and understand what it needs to be done...third is to follow the MARKET TRANSITIONS carefully....". He recalled some of his school days where he made 14 football teams comprising of 500 students.... it seems to be very hard .. is'nt it..? he said that he always does what he likes... One such example he gave was.. Once one of my friends asked me to come for an interview with IBM and I (John) said that he is not interested and then the same guy told about the 2 tickets which he had for a football match and no need to imagine where john was that evening..." Though it takes hell lot of things to become a successful leader in the world but for john all those mentioned things worked out and i dont have any doubts that he had many untold characteristics in his life that made him what he is today... The takeaway for me is to listen carefully to others at whatever they say.. anyways... getting back to the meeting thing... Through out the meeting, he addressed the employee's as a family... he insisted to even shut down the lights by which he was not able to see the people on a particular direction ,so that he can clearly see his family and enjoy that feeling...
While answering to one of the questions... John said that, he decided to choose India for further development is by looking at its CULTURE... I didnt understand which culture he was talking about... i see all sorts of people around here in INDIA and i strongly believe that we will follow all the rules and traditions... as long as they dont affect us in any manner...

Whatever might be tomarrow but at the End of the today.. myself feeling good that i met the person for whom i am working and most importantly, got a feeling that i met a person who seems to have a high morale.... For John Chambers, today might be one of the many days that he spent happily... but for me... he made it much more memorable one by "shaking my hands"......

Good Luck John... I promise that I give my best to make your dream.. your vision as mine and try to give a shape in reality...

One Night at Ejipura


Yesterday seems to be the unfortunate event for many people here at bangalore....

At 6:00 PM , 3 guys from sify comes to my house to give a broadband connection.

At 6:30 PM , our owner(i stay at Ejipura, near koramangala, bangalore), steps into the picture and doubts the people.

At 6:35 PM, they show some proof that they are from Sify service and gets into the 4th floor to give the connection.

At 7:30 PM, they complains to me that owner is behaving rudely to them and suggests to better change the house.

I requested them that i would pay the bill at 9PM as i have to bring it from ATM and they accept to collect it.,

At 9:05 PM, they contact me in phone and tells that we were outside our home and our owner is scolding everybody and he is drunk.

At 9:10 PM, i arrive from outside and tells to them not to worry and i will get you the money and he behaves like this only when he is drunk.

At 9:15 PM, Owner stops me from entering the 4th floor and threatens me to stab with a iron rod. I ignored his words and i move to the 4th floor.

At 9:20 PM, i come down with the money and along with my room partner.

At 9:21 PM, the owner once agains stops.. this time my poor friend... and holds his neck and threatens to stab him too.. my friend, as most common people try to do.. wants to know the reason why wants to stab us...

At 9:24 PM, we saw the sify guys running away to the end of the road seeing this situation and owner starts giving all kinds of "gaali" in indian history....

At 9:26 PM, we both reach the end of the road and pays the sify guys and once again they advice us to leave the place...

At 9:45 PM, after a hot chai at the panwala shop near by... my friend gets a doubt whether the owner really meant what he said....

At 9:50 PM, we call the broker who showed us the house and informed regarding the issue and the broker tells back he will come tomarrow and see to it...

At 9:55 PM, we both decide not to go to house and rather to the friends house near-by.

At 3:45 AM, both of us reach our house quietly and decided to think of this matter next morning and took a nap.

At 6:30 AM, i woke up and decided to go to the brokers place and force him to settle the issue.

At 8:00 AM, broker comes and decides to talk to the owner and after a small discussion with the owner he concludes that the fault is that we didnt inform the owner regarding the connection.

At 8:45 AM, we ask the broker to think once whether was it the way to convey his intentions by threataning to stab both of us.

At 9:00 AM, negotiations fail and owner wants us to decide whether to stay or leave... if you leave you need to pay 4100 for painting a single room.

At 9:05 AM, we insist that we want to leave the house but we dont want pay that 4100 for painting a single room because it is because of owner we are planning to leave and also its been 3 months since we rented the house.

At 9:15 AM, the broker says i dont know what to do.. you both decide and i advice to pay the 4100 and leave the room.
As usual we dont wanted to settle over this.. we dont want the person who behaved so badly for no reason should continue his behaviour over others who will join after we leave...

At 9:45 AM, we both reach the Ejipura police-station, and request them whether they could do any help to us... we also requested to imagine what might have happened to us if he really stabbed us last night.. even our parents doesnt know where exactly we stay at banaglore and bodies would have spent some days alone for someone to discover...

At 10:00 AM, one constable comes with us to the residence and asks the owner to come down to police station.

At 10:10 AM, owner dails some numbers on his phone and decides to come to the police station.

At 10:20 AM, owner complains to the police officials that we might be terriorists and its his duty to safeguard the house. He also complains that we havent informed him before taking the dish connection.( mind you all.. its not a PG accomadation nor a hostel... its a rented house) he adds to this that sometimes his parents come and his wife comes to house without informing him a day before...)

At 10:30 AM, the secret guy behind those dailed numbers appears in the policestation and rightaway says that we are not kannadigas and shouts that you stupid people come from different places to here and try to complian about us....

At 10:32 AM, one of the policeman gets angry and shouts that they too are people just like us and they are not from pakistan or afghanistan to fear.. they are from our neighbour state. Police stations are meant for all.. they too have a right to lodge a complaint just like you do and dont expect to get informed for everything they do. You rent them the house and if they are doing something suspecious, inform us. They cant wait and search for you to inform that they want to fix a bulb in the house....

At 10:35 AM, this secret guy threatens the policemen that he is local and noone can do anything to him. (i dont understand why this guy came into picture and what he has in mind...) he wants us to leave the house by evening otherwise ???

From 10:36 to 10:50AM, big quarrel between the policemen and the secret guy(think he is brother to my owner)... the police says... dont forget that you are in the police station and any one can imagine how rudely you can talk to other people outside by the way you behaved here...

In between... i wondered to see , my owner..( to hell with him ..not any more...), sits quietly and looks around the police station as if he is innocent and the entire world is against him.... i am surprised to see that what a changed man he was when things arent his way...

At 11 AM, SP i guess or someone.. but for sure a higher official as he got a sepearate room and rest of the people are saluting to him... calls both the parties and after mutual explanations he aggrees to return the initial advance and accepts to take half the amount he charged for painting....

At 11:10 AM, all the police officials around the incident came to us and adviced us to be brave and call back to them if anything happens and gave the phone numbers...

At 11:30 AM, we both are at our house and to our surprise.. no current supply to only our room.. ( revenge it seems).. we thought of taking a nap after calling to some friends to look for a house...

At 11:35 AM, my friend suspects that what if they kill us to night or before night... what if someother guys sent by them kill us... i thought i was strong enough to take care of the situation upto that point and now i too dont have any idea of whats gonna happen.. though it seems to be a typical filmi story but it can prove to be real by tomarrow...

At 11:50 AM, i pack my bag to run towards the office as i have somethings to wrap up.

At 12:30 PM, we both exchange our safe arrivals at offices....( by the way my friend works for LG office near Dell at inner ring road..)

For now we decided to go to the house in the evening along with few other friends and pack our computer and fridge[the costliest of all things we have] and place them in friends house and go for searching the house and shift the house if possible by to night or so...... only thing that worries me is that... they can do anything... they can survive after doing a crime or get punished by the law.. but noone can return if a life is lost or some ungettable damage happens...

The reason why i am posting it here is... Safety: that many people know what happened to me so that info is not lost if something happens ... and people who are planning to take a rented house will also investigate on the nature of owner and surroundings apart form concentrating soley on the house...



Its already 4:59 PM and i guess its time for me to leave for the rest of things which today demands from me...

Do the house owner has any plans for these two guys to night... Will both these guys survive the night... Will they be able to see the sunrise tomarrow...

The King Meets "The Queen"

Atlast the quest for the Queen came to an end on 18th July 2006, when i was able to convince myself that the girl i was looking for, was just standing beside me for the last 7-years or so. For the first time, i experienced the joy of making a decision that would change lives(my family)... i was looking for a girl which suits my personality all through my graduation and post-grad and not a single soul entered my mind. I thought no one was good enough to me but later when i analysed the situation, i found that i was comparing all the girls around, with a hidden personality, which my mind only knows and left me to break the code to get details of that angel.... it cliked few years ago, that i was liking her as the way she was. My feelings towards her went deep down to such an extent that nothing or no-one else was looking good to me.. she seemed to me as a person with whom i can dare to share my life... so on this day i expressed my feeling of sharing my life with her infront of my parents and her brother... since i know that this girl likes me for the last 7 years, i found no reason to ask her for the reason of not expressing her feelings for me all these years... the reason she gave to me was heart touching atleast to me.. she thought that, my growth in the areas of finance and academics will hamper if she enters my life and thats the reason why she didnt approached me regarding her love... i was moved... i can see the innocence in her eyes, i was able to notice for the first time how much she developed affection towards me. i thought that there will be no such idiot in this world, who dont want to welcome such a girl, who cares for you so much that she could even get ready to sacrifice her "LOVE", the greatest of all feelings on this planet...

So finally i got married on August 17th, 2006 at DR UTTAMA, Nellore to this very girl. I am happy for everything that happened in my life so far and i heard the same feeling from her. She is doing her MBA back at my hometown and myself doing a Software Engineer job at Bangalore.... though we are staying apart for this coming 2 years, we are happy to see the bright future waiting for us ahead at the end of it.......

Human Nature....

It always hurts deep down... that being a human, i fail to understand its very nature most of times... the behaviour which i sometimes predict resonably well and fail to guess even close in rest of the times. Recently, i am witnessing or thinking that i am witnessing, a new behaviour, which i started to believe that most adults experience at their mid-40's and rest of us experience it in a different flavour all through our lives. Though the feeling seems so trivial for many reasons but its consequences are not that trivial when compared to what we rest(leaving adults) of us experience in our day to day lives... anyways the point which i am beating around the bush so far is.. the change in behaviour of an adult when his/her child gets older enough and then starts their so-called Own Living. The reason i feel, behind the male for a change in his behaviour might be the fear to loose The Power of Ownership and for the female counterpart may be its the New Person entering into the Family tree. The feeling to me looks so natural since losing a familer thing or fear of losing something which one enjoys for a decent amount of time is unbearable. Infact, its the same feeling that most of us experience whenever we leave any of our best friends, Lover and everytime when we use the word Good bye. But this very feeling when experienced in adulthood in a different flavour can result in some sort of disaster in entire family.. starting with the "subject".. the counterpart including the adults. After spending a couple of nights thinking about this feeling, i came up with a possible state of mind to ensure that such a feeling does not enter into oneself is " only when you experience it for such an extent that giving it away or living without it, doesnt make you feel that you are missing something in your life any longer". The next moment, to my surprise, a counter example that popped into my mind left me puzzled. I started to look back into my own life searching for instances that giving away something that relates to me either directly or indirectly and leaving me unfelt... As the answer became a STRICTLY NO SUCH INSTANCE ... i was a bit disappointed.. even after living for 24 years on this earth.. i was not able to find a single instance which can leave me as i am even after losing it. Why am i so POSSESSIVE and why i cant say the word TAKE THIS without expecting anything in return. I will become a self contented MAN if at all i could feel the feeling of not being affected by any such "HUMANITARIAN REFLEX FEELINGS" atleast for once in my entire life time.

Ant-Icide: Can this Happen!!

These days i started to work late nights from my hostel.. previously i used to do that from my Department. As usual, before sitting infront of the computer, i brought a bottle full of "chilled water"... and kept it besides the CPU. After few minutes, i saw an group of Ants coming towards the bottle just like soldiers marching for a War. Being a kind-hearted person, i started to watch whats gonna happen. I was convinced that they are after that cold-water since its already mid-April and an evening walk in such a season is not a bad-idea. Few-minutes passed, meanwhile i was drowned into the magic of "e"nternet and forgot how's & what's happening around me. When i decided to sleep, i saw that so called Ant gang is no-more. Their dead bodies are lying near the bottle. I was pretty sure that this happened by mistake until the same thing repeated the other night. Then i decided to do an experiment on them. This time, no water bottle.. its just chilled water droplets on the surface. The result- surprisingly was same.. another Ant battalian comes and commits suicide. I doubt my room might be having a repository of Suicidal Ants. Whatever might be the reason... for now i believe that Ants commit Suicide atleast in my room...

Sunday nuggets

Yet another day to remember in my stay at KReSIT. It all started at 9 pm when myself, and 2 of my juniors Karthik and Abhishek decided to skip dinner at hostel. We came to a mutual conscience that, whatever be the bill, I will pay 50% of it and the rest by them. After a little thought, we excluded Laxmi Hotel and went to Laxmi Dairy.. a small but well renowed hotel near the Y-Point at IIT. We ordered for dinner and special Yummy Mango Juice best drink of the season. After few minutes, we found that one of my classmates.. Anshuman just entered the same hotel. So 4 of us together had the delicious dinner after quite a long time. Yeah its true that hotel food will be delicious than this daily routined hostel food. That idiots made me to pay the entire bill.. anyways it doest matter as they are some of my good friends in the dept. Later, on our way back to dept we met Rajat and Laxmikant(alias kantu) near girls hostel-10. Hostel-10 is celebrating its valfi day and sadly there were less than 25 junta at the function. I personally believe that this number equals the boyfriends count for all the girls in the hostel(hoping one-many & one-one combinations. Given a chance we might have helped them in increasing numbers but We had another plans to night. We decided to play Hide and Seek as if its a better option than this valfi sort of thing. It started as soon as we gathered at 3rd floor and called out for enthu junta to join. In a couple of minutes we had Anirudha (alias:Roopa, ashish(alias Chotu), Sharvan Kumar( the only junior who played the game), shruti (the research scholar), Anshu Veda, Deepti (alias deeps), Kishore (alias kishoreiey) in our team. Rules were formed instantly and the result of that is.. no toilets should be used to hide, no ground floor and 4th floor. After the toss, it was kishoreiey who started the game.. followed by myself, anshu and finally shravan. Those are the places we chose to hide today....
myself hiding under a blanket... anshuman under the desktop, chotu (the one who dont want to show his face) and deeps... once again under the desktop...
. Finally, it all ended for me with a cup of Nescafe (Courtesy:: Roshan). These days, i am sure, are not going to come again... these memories are precious... may be thats the reason why parents and elders quite often say.. childhood is the most happiest part of life... i wish that i could stay as a child for an eternity.

Short-cut to premier institutions in INDIA

What the heck... was my immediate reaction when i read the article about "Reservations in IIT's, IIM's and Medical colleges". Seems that politicians dont want to leave the Educational community to prosper and compete with the world anymore. Now a days, the entire world recognizes "India" for its brains. Students all-over india strive days and nights to get admitted into these famous and dream institutions and now this -so called "upliftment of the backward"... is going to destroy their dreams forever. Let us think this way.. due to reservations people join in renowed institutions like IIT's and IIM's.. i dont think they will pass all those quality tests these institutions keep as per the academic curriculam. Its my personal experience.. i am doing my masters degree in IIT Bombay.. i am an average student.. its hard for me to even get an average grade here. Suppose, we reduce the cut-off and somehow and let them complete their education.. but i dont think the companies will recruit such people as their employees. I asked this one question to myself.. if I or any of my parents or friends, fall ill for some reason.. will I perfer to go to a doctor who got admitted into a medical college through reservation and passed out because of lowered cut-offs and let him/her to operate on them. Will i want a civil engineer to build my house who survived the tests because of lowered cut-offs. I personally believe.. if govt wants to help the people, dont look at castes.. look at people who need help... provide them with quality school education, provide them with quality food, clothes and shelter. As far as undergraduate and higher educations.. plz leave it for brains.... admissions into premier instituions based on reservations is just like "cutting the branch of the tree in which you are sitting".. which i believe is not a good idea for any reason...

I sincerely pray to god that such thing's shouldnt happen at any point of time in the history of mankind...
Sarat "no reservations" chandra

LIFE SUCKS

Life... not all that easy game to play when it seems that god play favourites. Life's rules change without any intimation.. what seems to be okay today is not at all acceptable tomarrow.... today it seems that the entire world is along with you, the next moment you realize you are left alone... Life SUCKS when you realize the one you know.. the one who cared for you or the one whom you care, the one you love or the one who loved you, left this so called Sacred Earth. Does Mother Earth is trying to say that she is no longer able to look after her children, or does that mean Mother Earth started to feel her children as burden... if that is so.. what we say great about our religious literature seems to be just a screen-saver used to hide the reality... i dont know whether thinking to live forever or wanting to have entire control of so called "my life" is toomuch to ask for.. but isnt hard to believe that some unknown has control on our life... Seems that kabir das thought about this issue for too long and came up this so called feasible solution that one can afford to do for his/her/guided-by-unknown life....

Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So Ub
Pal Mein Pralaya Hoyegi, Bahuri Karoge Kub

In memory of karunakaran : i pray to god if exists that his soul rests in peace......

The Saviour

Oscar Schindler, dont know much about this guy in reality but from the movie, it is shown that Schindler did save many jews from being dead. Though Schindler is shown as a womanizer for most of the time.. i dont understand why he somehow didnt made the women(jew), working as a maid under a military officer who is potrayed as the most deadly and kills-for-happiness guy, from poisoning. Since it is shown that, officer used to drink too much and beat her like anything, she might have done it so easily and most lifes might have been saved. i accept that there is a bit of risk involved within it but somehow/someway things might have been chaged to better. The action of Schindler(Liam Neeson in the movie was terrific... Similar type of holocost's did happen even in India.. may be even worse things did.. somehow movies should comeout of those real stories so that the younger generations like us... will know more about our past. Times changed, but situations are similar.. still people are living in danger in kashmir and many parts of india. How many days this underneath war continoues and how many lives are going to be penelised...!!

Given a chance for me to be "God" for 5 min, i am going to erase this entire world and will make a new begining. I am sure that things repeat themselves.. so best would be erase the entire world and place an ordinance that no "God" should create earth ever.. and do meditation for the rest of my life.....

----- JAIHIND---------

Sarat Reloaded
This is my 2nd attempt to blogging arena. The first one, i was forced to quit as i forgot the important COUPLE (username, passwd). The reason behind my presence here 1-> my friend/junior Ramanand always does this blogging stuff 2-> to capture feelings and emotions of my day2day life and showcase it for my future references. Couple of things that my mind is dealing currently with are, how to finish my Master's project and how to settle in life. The first one will get answered on or before july 17th, 2006 as that day is the official last date for my batch to complete their mtp defence. Regarding the later, to the records , settling in life, is not that easy one to find a solution. But everyone are finding their own way. Music, Movies, Book reading, Friends, Chilling-out are my day2day activities so far.. does this life needs more.. do i need to bring some new ingradients and throw-out some from my previous list. I am leaving this to the ultimate master, Who can answer better to such fuzzy questions: TIME.