MY POSTS

MY FIRST CAR ACCIDENT Way  back in 1989 when I was going from Faridabad to Delhi in my first ever Ambassador car we had an accident.  By the Grace of Almighty we all three ,myself my wife and my 5 years old son, were safe and scratch free. I clearly remember that Sunday,an accident day .While cleaning  the car in the morning I observed that rear left tyre was flat. The head of the cruel nail which had  happily pierced the tyre ,was visible clearly.I had planned to go to Delhi ....It was obvious that to drive the car,the  replacement of flat tyre with the spare wheel was essential. Flat tyre was an opportunity for me to demonstrate my skill of how I myself can take care of small problems related to car. Till then I had never changed the wheel....but sometime will be the first time so I decided to do the job . I confidently opened the dickey and picked the Jack and spanner.At that time my weight was hardly 52 kg so it was quite tough to unscrew the nuts but by al...

The Chief It was third week of september 1978 when I started my career in Hindustan Brown Boveri(HBB)in Vadodara. I entered Dr. Ramamoorty''s cabin who was our R&D Head and immediately after welcoming me he  started expressing angrily about  my friend who was supposed to join there but  did not even bothered to inform him that he was not joining HBB. The next moment Dr Ramamoorty shrugged his anger and in a very quiet tone he enquired about me and had a brief chat with me hu about professors in IIT  powai.Then he called  one of his  subordinates Mr Shripad Tambe who was assigned a job of introducing me to everyone in the department.As we mooved out and I was introduced to many intelligent persons all from different IITs ,I came to know that Dr Ramamoorthy was called " Chief " Almost all of them enquired about Chief's mood. I was ammused with the word  " Chief ". Prior to that, I only knew that 'Della Street'and 'Paul Drake' used to c...