During our trip to Andaman in September, we did a couple of scuba dives. While I did not know what do in front of the video camera, Neha came up with an impromptu idea of attempting Kuchipudi dance. Here is the final video we could come up with! It ain’t perfect, but it is indeed …
Is Globalization a good thing or a bad thing? I wondered about this over the last 10 years and I am yet to arrive at an answer. All the previous generations in India lived as a single large family (extended family). Everyone got a chance to spend time with their grandparents and other family members. …
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I grew up playing and watching sport. If there was one thing that always engaged me, got me fully drowned into, that is sport. The cricket world cup 2019 is an outstanding example of what sport can be. How amazingly it can engage its fans, how cruel the game is and how fulfilling the journey …
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Turns out that this important question has been in my head for many many years but I have no answers even today. Sometimes I used to wonder – “Should you even have a purpose?” May be because I did not have one and was still doing fine. I do my work diligently, I get paid …
Context – This is the foreword I wrote to the latest bi-annual report of We, The People. You can find the complete report here! FYI: I represent the organization here and not as an individual. We are in the 70th year of our constitution. And a huge chunk of the last one year went into …
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I woke up this morning to a flurry of forwards, status messages, videos, memes of Valentine’s day. Some talking about being single forever, some about their partners, some about tips on how to not be single and many more about what to do if you are single! And I decided to add my recipe to …
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Since the last few years, in the month of January, I look back at the previous year and say to myself -“Wow, that was an incredible year!” 2018 also stands in that list. So many things happened in one year that I keep thinking “How can so many things happen in a year?” I picked …
Sruthi, Shruthi, Shruti, Sruti? Not just my friend Sruthi, but even I face this everyday. While at work, many customers – on phone or email – call me by different names – Manoj, Manoy, Manjo, Mano and so on… also “Hey Cisco! Can you look into this for me?”. Sometimes I correct them, sometimes I …
I am very very fond of teaching. And given this opportunity of training a freshman batch at Cisco about CCNA, I started planning the entire thing. What would I teach them first? What examples would I show them? How will I make sure they understand the concepts? With so many questions, loads of excitement and …
What happens when you walk into a room of people who understand only English and start speaking in Telugu? Answer: They give you the worst looks possible and probably will kick you out. Today, I started training a cohort of new hires at Cisco on CCNA Routing & Switching. The benefit of being the trainer …