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Day with gratitude

June 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Reflections

One of my colleagues asked me to pop up money towards his maid’s kids education. I’d idea of contributing certain sum every month for educating needy kids. But to my bad, I never acted towards it. This opportunity came by itself, and I grabbed it. We pooled in 8k rupees. Around Rs. 750 each. It’ [...]

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Why ‘cash on delivery’ works in India?

May 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Reflections

Once this question hits us, we try to find answers on complex hurdles we are facing. Like internet penetration across country, online payment gateways, fund transfer charges and so on. But if we keep it simple, I think there are couple of reasons we can attribute to this pattern. One is  psychological reason and other [...]

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Greedy to foolhardiness

October 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Reflections

I was talking to one of my relatives. He’s an LIC agent. He was very active in stock market in last bull run and also in real estate market at that time. He’s knowledgeable and picked up very cheap lands around Chennai, that zoomed nearly 30 – 40 times, notionally, by the end of 2007. [...]

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We ‘Move on’

October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Reflections

How easy to lose money than earn it? Best example would be Government kajana in the recent past. Government recently offloaded a highly precious resource – Telecom spectrum to raise just about 65k crore rupees and divest some of the Navaratna PSU companies to raise about 45k crores this financial year (+ 25k crores last [...]

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Price rises blues

September 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Reflections

Anyone living in India would agree that the prices of common commodities are zooming up for past few weeks. Everyday, my cost conscious and married friend dominate our chatting with the issues related to price rises. Since, I kinda leading bachelor life now-a-days, I was not aware of cost of vegetables or provision items. Recently [...]

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worst performance

September 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Reflections

Back after two months. I am writing this post in one of my lowest points in life. So please bare with me. I have been preparing for a competitive exam. That’s why I was out of action for a while. Today, I wrote the test and I screwed up everything. My worst nightmares came true. [...]

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Empty Silence

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Reflections

Today, I was consumed in a thought deeply. Not once, but multiple times. The reason is, I will be home alone for the next seven months! When I thought about it, all others thoughts simply disappeared and a dreaded silence of my place descended on me. It was scary! Next moment, I try to divert [...]

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Thursday banter

June 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Reflections

When you live on ideas & thoughts. It inspires. It makes you believe you are special. It makes you think nothing impossible. It also generates impressive sounding solutions to the problems. It boils enthusiasm. It makes you restless. It makes you buy in exhaustion-not-for-me syndrome. It creates haze cloud on your mind. Entire world will [...]

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Humbling call

May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Reflections

“Can I speak to Saithilak, please?”, sounding professional, I listened on my phone. I said yes and asked who is on the other end expecting some marketing person. “Hey, I am Vijay Ganesh, remember? studied with you in college. How are you?” was the reply. Sweet surprise. Hearing him after a long time. After well-being [...]

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Confessions of an irregular blogger

March 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Reflections

For a while, questions are running in my mind, like am I doing what I am supposed to do in this blog. Am I doing justice to it? Or I am just typing the impressions I’ve through the windows of books & movies. Every time, I want to pen down here, thoughts just escape my [...]

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