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...

Yesterday I had a great time starting very early morning, with the Ishquia show at 0850 AM at INOX, after a bike ride of a whole 16 KMs. Then we went to Pantaloons where the gals wanted to have some shopping. It turned out to be a shopping spree for the guys. But that is all normal stuff. So where is the cranky, nerdy, thinking kind of Gautam... Well ladies and gentlemen, here I come... At Pantaloons, as it happens with me mostly I was checking out things in the fragrances section, though highly reluctant to buy any as I have enough right now to burn a corn field in it. Still, others had paid the bills and we were about to leave when one of the gals (no names... Rule no 1 lolzzz... don't get the joke, watch Transporter) went over to try out the Polaroid sunglasses. We all flocked over and the salesperson told her that "These are Polaroids" "So what about it?" "Well these are not tinted or colored and can be used for night driving. And I tell you what? Look ...

The war between question and acceptance has been perpetual. This is just a new chapter where another "asker" tries to hold ground till he can and then go down into history... Surrounded all around by "believers" trying hard to make me believe too, it becomes a necessity to voice out my logic somewhere. And it is always futile to talk logic to those who believe. These days I am sharing my small accommodation with a believer who has "experienced God". And I still ask, has he? He believes so, yes. The argument usually springs from a pamphlet to join so and so course on such and such dates for spiritual healing. Healing!!! But am I ill. "You are". "How?" "You must believe you are ill and you will be healed. Join the course and you will know it, just like when you go to the doctor and he tells you." "But the doctor gives me reasons, conducts tests and shows me results" "Here you will experience, they will show you ho...

This weekend seems too very long and its forcing me back to the old thinking mood. But what I think today is quite different. I think about "where do all these ideas to think about, come from". And lo! I again have an idea to dwell upon...Had been watching nat geo for many hours now, and all those shows about the universe push me to think "once again" about what all is there to fathom. I am not awed by the immensity of universe and not the kinds who go spiritual about the insignificance of man. I just think one thought, its so large and its so vast. And from a man's stature, it applies to not just to the whole Universe but even to this earth. And the thought comes to me, "Another trip to another place?"Now the mind has acted, I just need to muster enthusiastic men who are ready to accompany me to these new places... Future weekends should not be boring again. P.S: Watched a show where our ancestors traveled through rivers, oceans and through uncharted ...

The wind was calm and the snow fell like cotton wool and he stood looking apprehensively, far into the depths of the valley below and beyond. Only one thought loomed large in his mind, as he sipped from the steaming mug in his hands, and the very thought of it shuddered his body and his soul to their core. "Should I do this? To what end had all my pursuits till date led, that have now brought me here wishing for this. Is this the end? And do I have the courage to do this." The coffee went cold as he reminisced his life so far and all that he had wished and worked for. Sipping on the dark sour and cold liquid became hard, and he got up from the edge of the cliff and moved towards the "Tourist cafe" to replenish his supplies, with a new steaming mug. "Yes" he thought, "this is exactly the time to change, to bolster up the courage and take life head on. "Yes, after successful completion of 15 years being a techie, pitting wits against men and materi...

This one comes from another blog page of mine that no longer exists: The ideas expressed in the blog are completely my own and the events are "unfortunately" real. I have, infact, recently proposed a further revolutionary idea which is under development under my "supervision" (How I wish I was developing instead of supervising?) which is all set to take toll on me... Well thats life and thats the way I am... So here it goes... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quite recently I was entrusted with the task of "improving testing performance and automating it to suit the needs of our application". The task was accomplished even before the assignees could blink their eyes... Job done? Alas no!!! There came an "ever expected" suggestion... "A job well done. It can decrease our task of testing and will not require manual testing intervention and i...