In Bombay

I am currently in Bombay. Last week, my grandfather here (who lives by himself), took quite sick. turns out he had contracted malaria, and at his age (80), i guess its worrisome. He has recovered from malaria, but the ordeal has left him quite weak (turns out his haemoglobin levels also dropped).

 

Anyways, my uncle and aunt here have been taking care of him for a week, but now its time we head back headed back. He needs at least another two weeks of someone making sure he's eating properly and taking his meds. right now i'm considering staying here for that period. kinda ambivalent about it - but it makes sense. the other options aren't necessarily any better (my mother having to come to India, or having my grandfather stay somewhere else - which he won't agree to anyways).

 

 

Bagar is now on Wikipedia (अब बगड़ विकिपीडिया पर है)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagar%2C_India
Bagar is now on Wikipedia. As it becomes a growing standard of finding information the Internet, this seems as good place to publish information about Bagar. Please feel free to add information as you see fit

http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/बगड़
बगड़ अब विकिपी़डिया पर है । क्योंकि विकिपी़डिया इन्टरनेट पर जानकारी ढूंढने का एक स्टैन्डर्ड बना जा रहा है, यह बगड़ के बारे में जानकारी प्रकाशित करने का एक अच्छा स्थान है। कृपया इस वेबसाइट पर और उचित जानकारी जोड़ें।

Share Market news in Hindi

One thing I'm going to strive to do on this blog is promote Hindi language websites. One that I saw today while searching for top entry-level jobs was about Share Market news in Hindi, potentially catering to a brand new population of investors. What was noteworthy was that there were 4 entries for today, and 3 from yesterday i.e. this content's fresh! Here's the URL

 

http://smcindiaonline.com/hindinews/

 

An excerpt:

 

Friday, July 6, 2007

बिहार तुबेस - पसिंदिद अधार पर वारंट्स की बटाई

बिहार त्युबेस लिमिटेड ने सूचित किया है की महत्वपूर्ण प्रावधान के अनुसार कंपनी के सदस्यों के द्वारा कंपनी के बोर्ड ऑफ़ दिरेक्टेर्स ने 31,75000 वारंट्स पसिंदिद अधार पर एन्तितिएस जो प्रोमोटर ग्रुप को दर्शाती है और दूसरी नियमित निवेशक वारंट धारक के अधिकार के लीये पुरी पेड अप पूंजी एकुइटी श्येर किसी भी समय इशू कि तीथी से 18 महीने के दौरान कर सकती है।

Chanakya's Policy & A Blue Moon

More from Ojha Ji, the school principal, who I guess has started to taken even more of a liking to me (or has openly started to express it at least). He mentioned something that Chanakya said about dealing with the enemy (the great policy-maker, the chief advisor and man-behind-the-scenes in the making of Emperor Ashoka).

To deal with the enemy, first you neglect him. If that doesn't work, then you criticize him. If that doesn't work, then you try and murder him. And if somehow your murder attempt fails, then you honour and praise him. Because that plants the seed of pride (अहंकार-ahankaar).

And pride will destroy your enemy from within.


That Chanakya was a wily fox. The question that begs to be asked, however, is why the heck does Ojha Ji then praise me so? I mean, as far as I know, he hasn't even tried to kill me yet :-)

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New Intern started today - Anjuli, an undergrad from Harvard. She'll be helping me prepare curriculum for my industry-based computer training course.  Her father came to drop her off today. While we were outside, we both started commenting about the full moon today (which signifies the start of the Hindu month of आषाढ- aashaadh). He mentioned that it was a blue moon yesterday.

Apparently, a blue moon is a full moon the day before the full moon. So today is poornima, the actual full moon. But yesterday the moon was full and yellow and everything, which means yesterday was a blue moon .

Somehow, I just feel cheated for not having known yesterday. Its like sitting next to a celebrity on a plane, and not even knowing that they were famous.
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Dushyant, my cousin from Bombay, came on the 27th, and left yesterday. While I didn't get much time to do much with the poor guy, I did take the time out to talk with him at nights. And it was full-time masti. Its great to see the kid having grown up, being so smart, still shareef, and with still that hidden passion for life.
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MBA ahoy. Right now, trying my best to carve out time to prepare for the GMAT. AND also figure out why I want to do an MBA, an is it really worth the time and cost?  Wish me luck, this is going to require some serious discipline for the next few months.
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This blog is going to move slowly into these rants about my personal insights and experiences. Project-related blogs will be posted every week (by law) on the Piramal Foundation site: http://www.piramal.org.in/gdl/category/technology