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The nearest place from Delhi where there is a stream of holy Ganga is Gadhmukteshwara.This place is about 50 kms from Delhi.I initially planned to visit this place but this place people generally visit to perform last rites so I dropped the idea. The choice then  was Haridwar . We started  in the early morning of first week of October ,to be precise on 2nd October which was a national holiday.After a wonderful Breakfast on our way at Khatauli on high way we continued our journey and after  two  hours we saw the great river for the first time.There were very old bridges and Ganga hardly looked impressive . I was rather worried about the conditions of those bridges and road and since no one was seen near the river bank we continued to proceed.  We Did not know  the exact  place where we have to go so after some time I stopped  and asked the  stranger where is the nearest Ganga river ? He was annoyed as I Did not say Gangaji . The stranger told ...

EXPERIENCE OF WATCHING MOVIE WITH CALCUTTA CROWD  While watching a movie or any sport event or while in musical concert , ambience  and the type of company matters a lot.I experienced this in Calcutta while watching  Anupam Kher's  'SARANSH' way back in 1984 .  I observed a very disciplined and responsive crowd around me watching the movie in a pin drop silence.The feeling then was no different than watching some MARATHI drama of Ms.Vijaya Mehata or Dr Lagoo  in Mumbai. Later I came to know that Anupam Kher who played the main role was only 28 years old. He played the main role of Retired school teacher of Maharashtrian man and his wife's role was played by Rohini Hattangadi who too was much younger compared to the age of  woman she played . Hats off to Director Mahesh Bhatt who dared to select such young persons for the main roles .The theme was about the couple whose young son dies abroad .It was a serious movie and great thing to note for me...

Generally it is believed that if there is scarcity of the items belonging to "daily needs" category, there will be  dissatisfaction in the society. On the contrary if the things or facilities are available readily in abundance  there are different types of problems which also lead us to unhappiness ! When I was child and later till I was 30  I indeed experienced and  still remember  scarcity of items like  milk ,suger,wheat,rice etc. For hours we used to wait for the  Government  milk van  and the restricted quantity of milk was distributed to people standing in the long queue. Some persons in the queue used to wait for their turn even  without taking their morning tea. ....Suger was available only in the  ration shops and at other places it was illegally available on premium price.  In 1964 red wheat  distributed on ration shop was of horrible quality ....Later I came to know that in USA this  red wheat was fed to pi...

HURRICANE  FROM  HARYANA.   In those glorious cricketiñgs days of fast   bowlers  including Malcom Marshal ,Michel Holding,Andy Roberts,Garner  from West Indies , Dennis Lillie  Jeff Thomson of Australia ,Ian Bothom of England , Sarfaraz Nawaz , Imran Khan of Pakistan and Richard Hedaly of New Zealand, KAPIL DEV was the only answer from Indian side. Till  1978  India used to mainly depend on spinners from the days of Subhash Gupte,Vinoo Mankad,to famous  quartet Bedi,Chandrashekhar,Prasanna and Venkat Raghavan. For our generation Kapil was the first fast bowler who made his presence felt and perhaps only after that , young cricketers were inspired to opt the career in fast bowling. Kapil was perhaps the slowest among all the bowlers named  above but was the dark horse, as in wicket taking numbers he surpassed all of them. Many of today's generation may not be knowing that at one time Kapil was holding record of taking...

S S  BARARA...THE STALWART There is a place called Suratgarah in Rajasthan  which is almost in the desert and quite  close to Pakistan border. When I started my career I  never imagined that I will have to ever  go to such a remote place for some official work. Our tractor testing site was just 13  km away from no man land between India and Pakistan  and all over the places there was hectares and heaters of irregularly cultivated  Government land  for the  want of labor and water . The land was  fertile but water was the constraint. It was this place where our SWARAN SINGH BARARA  was in action  .He was heading the tractor testing team at that remote place. BARARA was always his own boss though KR used to think that SSB reports to him (KR means K Rajeshwar)Our GM ...RJ  was scared of SSB and will talk to KR or others about tractor testing.  To describe Mr Barara the only word I can imagine is the STALWART. He ...

Someone defined that  "Consultant  is a person who at your cost  understands the problem from you and tell the solution to you which you already know ." Many people think engineering and management are entirely different things .It is really not so.The two things  do have relation.Managing engineering solutions is extremely tough task .Most engineers can solve management related issues simply by using common sense but if  managers give engineering solutions they more often backfire. Broadly there are consultants in two categories. Technical consultants who are expected to  give solutions to engineering problems.The other category of Consultants work in areas  like finance, personnel,legal matters, ,administration, logistic and other  such fields.They engineer the solutions! Most companies employ consultants and seek their advice for the various problems / issues they face because the expertise may not be available within the company. Legal co...

We often come across people in the industries who stretch themselves too much to achieve their target dates. It is good habit indeed if adequate caution is exercised.   .Everyday we have to commit some date to someone for some activity .....be it office or home. The target dates are important but one must understand that there is no point in spoiling the fun part of the work or quality of the work just to meet these committed target dates. In one of the best sellers  "SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE" , STEFEN COVEY , an author said that "BEGIN WITH AN END IN THE MIND.He strongly recommends that one must estimate when the activity will be completed. The date on which the end of the activity can happen without compromising on quality of work  should be ideally the TARGET DATE  of  that activity or assignment or Project. Unfortunately real world is not ideal  therefore  Target Dates are decided in most unscientific manner. Many commit the  da...