Skip to main content

Posts

Life 7.0

 Yes, it happened, life moved to a new version. Did I get married? haha, no, it's something else. The Transition I was in Berlin, Oct 2018, dream of Europe realized. Though it was just 5-days, but I got a worthy glance of those beautiful cities. It was all a rush for the GotoBerlin conference where Jaideep was doing a stage talk. Paras pitched me in as a co-speaker (because I couldn't get visa for ITB Berlin in March, he wanted to clear-off that flag from my mind. Kind of employee motivation stuff you do). Though I got only 8-minutes of that 45min talk, it was nevertheless a big opportunity on a big big stage. Berlin stage talk, Oct'19 Next day we were in Amsterdam for another talk at Booking.com office. It was a crazy tour.  Well everything is rolling awesome, right. Sweet assumption, but truth was far. I was so much in trouble, I blurted out everything to Paras when I came back to India. My finances were stooping and I couldn't see any respite in sight. I remembered,
Recent posts

yet another..!!

Fortunately it was summer.. not the winters, like the one I came in March.. in comfortable temperatures but amid dust storms, we were driving through the rough roads to a remote village in Changthang, on a camper.. my job this season was to meet the villagers and setup up homestays in the offbeat places where we installed power.. and also this time find appropriate site for setting up telescopes and identify women to be trained as part of our astronomy for development project.. As we entered the gravel roads, the first stone avalanche board appeared.. we just drove, humming the songs on my playlist, when we heard some rumblings on the roof.. fortunately it was just the front glass that cracked little, nothing major happened.. drive continued, and the music, and also continued this fortunate adventure.. the brakes were behaving abrupt, so we stopped a while for the machine to cool down.. there I spotted some interesting bird species in the Indus that flowed beside that gravel we drov

Life 6.0 - After my long recovery from lung infection

I totally forgot this blog exists! Yes it has been more than a year since I wrote something and surprise, life already moved to another version. FYI, it's my bday (7 Feb 2018) and am sitting at some corner of Rajasthan in middle of Thar desert, a small town called Barmer. I feel less arrogant and yet more confident like never before, super conscious about my sleep and nutrition. With realizations that am not invincible and my body is just like a machine, if not fueled and oiled properly its bound to give me a hard time. Below is the story that will tell how everything changed. The Story At times life takes a turn which changes you forever. Tough times are essential for life as they leave back many learnings, and if a time comes when the life itself hangs on a brink due to your mistakes, your realizations are stronger and stays with you every moment. Something am writing down, not because I want to talk aloud of my so called survival story (actually it would be too much exagge

Life 5.0

Versions of my Life I kept a tale of my life to read to myself in future, some special days and the main versions. This was in a few notebooks hidden somewhere in my room in Hyderabad, unlike this one, my earlier versions I wrote with a pen, on a notebook. Am sitting in Noida, 21 Sept 2016. The circle of life brought me here again. I do not like this place at all due to many reasons. One is the filth that is here and the people are so much okay to live with it. The spitting and tobacco chewing locals also disturb my nerve. I can’t imagine how I stayed here for 2.5years. The high effluent crowd and the noise makes it worse, and what to say about the high population and the street dogs. Phew, am sure my stay will not be long here. So why am here? Before coming to that, let me put in few lines where my life was earlier, so that (if interested) you don’t have to find those notebooks. Life 1.0 (Feb 1986 – Aug 2004) Start of life in the safe arms of parents and teachers in Lu