Me Myself and the crazy world

While the country is still waking up to the fact of dwindling number of Tigers, it so happened that the Times of India published the news "Now, more tigers a problem?" featuring one of the most successful Tiger reserves in India, The Corbett National Park. Located in a realm that I would consider my own, the place is always in my mind. And now the news boasts of an immense population of Tigers in the Park, numbered at 162. There have been some recent and frequent conflicts between people and the Tigers of this Park. But considering that as a sign of overpopulation of Tigers is outright lunacy. The story, aptly, attributes the reason as rapid commercialization of the area. But as it usually happens in this land, the authorities are quick to reach conclusions. A land where the gullible masses limit themselves to headlines. In a country of politicians, who are just that and their problem solving abilities are limited to creating ruckus, it is always threatening to even think abo

This page pays tribute to those of us who were wannabe soldiers, few years back. Few of us really made it and many of us didn't. Fate has it that all of us, others, turned into Software engineers or management executives... And are the niche group; alive, kicking and performing to the best of a person's ability today. Thinking aloud it appears that it was the whole desire for the perfection required to be a "Man in the uniform" that turned us into what we are today. Sometimes when I am working with my team, I feel like an oddity. No one else, around, barks tasks in conference rooms, takes up responsibility of tasks which require sticking one's neck into the guillotine, plots elaborate plans and loves to draw the plan, architecture just like some map, on the white board (I have heard that it does happen in places like NASA, Google and few others, but thats a different world altogether. Its an oddity here). I don't know how many of my buddies, (Prithvi, if you r