Feedback

It is so easy to give and so difficult to receive . I am amazed at difficulty that I have receiving it and the ease with which I give it . It hurts and pains . All the positive feedback that you receive gets eclipsed by few negative comments that come your way ... Dealing is one thing ...I think the whole thing becomes more difficult when deep down you believe it is true 

Writing a book while waiting at airport chapter 1

Well who knew that one can write a book waiting at the airport of all places. What happened o writers seclusion , quiet and tranquility of the place . I have just decided I will write a book on ...art of waiting at the airport. Among children screaming and running heater skelter ..among mothers chasing them , among not so old people going in a wheel chair and me always wondering about why they are there. Among announcements saying 'any jet airways guests for Hyderabad ' ...among diffent coloured bags and suits of the elite. Among air hotness and front desk people trying to have the smile even when they have to repeat the same thing over and over again . Among forgotten calls and ' time pass' calls as some of us have nothing better to do. Some bright faces in anticipation of the moment that awaits them when they land . Airports are no longer elite territory which they were earlier. Airports have become more middle class than before which is good in most ways. But this has led to middle class becoming more elite , it emas they are more conscious of what they wear and what lugged they carry . Some of them still manage to carry the heavy bags which they don't want to or cannot check in . Emotions floating around the airport that I have been able to catch range from boredom, anxiety , envy to thoughtfulness .

Languages and art of learning them

I have always wondered and envied people who pick up another language in a jiffy. It takes me a lifetime to do that. I stayed in bangalore for now thirteen years ..my knowledge of Kannada is dismal . I enter to kerela for six years but I never picked up Malayalam , I wanted to but I wa s told it is tough that really got me psyched and I left it at that... What is that , that makes people learn languages  so well 

Morning rush

This is a morning rush blog . I am waiting not because I have time but I want to experience and pen down experience of morning rush .. No matter how much you plan ..somedays it invariably happens ...what we can do ..I get up earlier, I plan to last degree and one unexpected phone call ...one thing out of sync and you get that hurried feeling 

Wnters or summers ...it is so relative

Wen I was living in north part of India , I thought we could identify clearly difference between winter or summer. You wore different clothing all together. You could have cooling or heating depending on what weather it was .  They were chalk and cheese so you could distinguish them so easily. I remember days when my mother used to tuck all winter clothing in a big steel box and then officially winters would go. Then anyway I moved south. There was a very mild summer and milder winter. So the season change lost some its meaning. After than I moved to mumbai , I use dot feel like smirk when anyone said it is winters in December or anyone commented on "nip in the air" ..at 20 degree centigrade ...I guess now more or less we live in one season 

Reading what is good versus what you love to read

This particular dilemma hounds me by leaps and bounds ...I don't know where her I should read what is good for me or what I enjoy reading. There are times when I want to read fiction and I just assume that fiction teaches me something. The whole world of jargon s and management books wears me off sometimes. It is not hat I don't do hat , it is a professional hazard and I need to do that ..but had I had a choice I would rather not do it. Learning is something that I don't want to let go but I wish it comes o me more naturally than it does some days