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mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Every day I walk down the street, busy people gliding on their feet.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Hundreds of faces passing by, heading to destinations, you would wonder were?</span></p> <p 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</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >At the corner of the street poor Chotu is craving for just a roti,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >With hunger in his eyes, he afraid he may never see the dawn again.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Don’t you see what I see, people are open books I can read. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi- line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";font-size:100%;" > </span></p>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-64927650127056968752011-02-04T05:45:00.000-08:002011-02-04T06:10:34.373-08:00What's stopping me ?A few years back I was contemplating to take up a course I was long resisting. I got a distinction between a conversation; 'Why are you not doing the course?' and 'What's stopping you from taking up the course?'<div><br /></div><div>The latter is actually a very powerful way of inquiry. It does not put a person in a spot.When you ask someone 'what is stopping you?' the context of the conversation changes altogether. It's an empowering inquiry that the person does not resit.</div><div><br /></div><div>What's stopping me ?</div>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-2654989447360297122011-02-04T03:18:00.001-08:002011-02-04T04:09:15.133-08:00Fish Tank<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGO0jx-cuJA_zqj8BY8s9bpqr8QfySsjb1GBoAYIW38kIIGejaA0ySqAIQbAyy0_-_eSRXO1xZHk0uhkJXM87-hHPWbiX0vYfGxrcpamq7EhY2jHL4VKwY4aCnTChiA-h-Oxe5b3j0l8A/s1600/14400-Fish_Aquar.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGO0jx-cuJA_zqj8BY8s9bpqr8QfySsjb1GBoAYIW38kIIGejaA0ySqAIQbAyy0_-_eSRXO1xZHk0uhkJXM87-hHPWbiX0vYfGxrcpamq7EhY2jHL4VKwY4aCnTChiA-h-Oxe5b3j0l8A/s320/14400-Fish_Aquar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569805271349869154" /></a><br /><div><br /></div>Imagine a water tank with only pure water flowing into it. It has beautiful fishes, all swimming in their own rhythm. And then one day the tank starts getting filled with dirty water. The fishes in the tank grow sluggish. Hovering at the top of the tank to gasp some oxygen. The dirty water is filling the tank faster than the pristine water. <div><br /></div><div>The dirty water also brings with it some fishes. Fishes, those are used to the dirty water. Slowly the fresh water fishes are all dead.Will the dirty water fish still survive? Why not, they are so used to the dirty water; right? But the dirty water also brings with it lots of sludge. Slowly the sludge fills up the tank bottom up. The dirty water fishes also now start moving to the top of the tank,gasping for oxygen. And then one day, all that is left in the tank is nothing but the sludge.<br /><br />Now the tank itself is not capable of holding any more water, pure or dirty. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our life is also very much the same. In real life, there are a number of instances when good and bad collide. Just like the tank example, we let the bad thoughts,emotions,experiences or actions </div><div>flow <b>faster</b> than the good. If the pristine water were to flow faster than the impure water, the pure water would have displaced the impurity like a waterfall juts with pure water.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-14300477385420642012010-08-07T03:09:00.000-07:002011-05-28T00:12:46.762-07:00The Death Of Family Physician<p class="MsoNormal">Achuu!! <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This was my 16<sup>th</sup> sneeze in the past ten minutes. I was drained as usual with this periodic bout of sneeze attacks. In the interim break from the sneezes, I glanced through the swine flu advisory i had cut from one of the daily bulletins. It’s just one of the symptoms I said to myself. ‘Nothing to panic’, I made an instant autosuggestion to my already sluggish brain. Another rapid fire round of ear numbing sneezes and I packed my bag to leave for home. Between a doctor’s visit and self medication, I have been choosing the latter.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Well, that wasn’t me, at least till the time I moved in my new neighbourhood few years ago. While in my old dwelling place, I was fortunate to have an intelligent and caring family physician, who had his own practice in the neighbourhood. A doctor, who knew as much about his patients, as much as the knowledge he had about medical practice. What I appreciated about him was the absence of ‘I know all’ haughty attitude which a number of medical practitioners displayed. Though his diagnosis was usually correct, on specific occasions he would refer to other MD doctors for quicker diagnosis or prescribe a battery of test well in time. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I have been noticing an influx of specialty and super speciality hospitals in the metros, however, I have not seen as many as new generations of general physicians doing an independent practice. Blame it on the mall culture, or whatever, just like the friendly neighbourhood grocery store, general family physicians could be finding it difficult to survive. Unless a doctor has an established practice, affordability of rents and expenses like staff and electricity is not for every general practitioner. And seldom if one were to come across a general physician, the clinic would be bursting with patients, actively acquiring more viral infections and disseminating it to the unaffected lot. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Won’t a timely and accurate check up by a family physician, cut down on the bout of viral and malarial cases we are witnessing? Well that may not be the only answer, but one thing for sure, the breed of family physicians is getting rare by the day. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Well for me, my reckless self medication has spared me a visit to the hospital this time and I am back in action. </p>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-38513647412331188592009-11-29T12:15:00.000-08:002009-11-30T03:37:00.418-08:00Honey I cloned the kids!<span style="font-family:arial;">Do we regard our children as an extension of ourselves? Just the way our clothes, homes, cars and gadgets have become an extension of ourselves. Just mere an expression of our status to the world. </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">Do we fail to recognize or appreciate the unique individuality of our children? An insane way of self absorption, wherein we are oblivious to their identify and blossom into what they dream to be. And yet expect then to succeed in their lives, well as per our expectations, our unfulfilled and dreams, fantasies; that were clipped in the bud in our childhood.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">To love our children is to know the pain of separateness. But we don’t dare to endure the pain. Not because we as parents cannot bear it now, but we rarely were conditioned to bear it in our young days. Separateness is physical as well as in thoughts. Sameness brings forth comfort, mitigates fear of isolation. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">And while we are relentless in taming our children to adopt our traits, likes, aspirations, fears, they may or may adopt our thoughts and ways; sure enough they will learn how to make replicas of their own self.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">Mandar Karnik<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">_______________________________________________________________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-family: arial;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">(Excerpt : The road less traveled)<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Your children are not your children.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">They are the sons and daughters of the Life’s longing for itself.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">They come through you but not from you,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">You may give them your love but not your thoughts,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">For they have their own thoughts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">You may house their bodies but not their souls,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">You my strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">For life goes not backward not tarries with yesterday.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Let your bending in the archers’s hand be for gladness;</p> <div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;">For even He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the blow that is stable.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; line-height: normal;"><br /></p> </div>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-6656715607039914492009-11-01T02:00:00.000-08:002009-11-01T02:00:32.544-08:00pensilly: Silent Cry-Darkness of the Womb<a href="http://pensilly.blogspot.com/2009/06/silent-cry-darkness-of-womb.html">pensilly: Silent Cry-Darkness of the Womb</a><br /><br />A lovely poem on Female infanticide.cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-19576071526016632272009-06-19T11:26:00.000-07:002009-06-19T11:36:09.875-07:00Silent Cry-Darkness of the WombDeep in the darkness of the womb,<br />A baby is sleeping, in it's cosy room.<br /><br />Mother will keep baby warm,<br />And take care it, to keep it away from all the harms<br /><br />The baby's arrival will bring everyone joy,<br />With mixed curiousity, whether it's a girl or a boy.<br /><br />Cos, if it's a boy, it's a matter of pride,<br />And if it's a girl, then she will be a liable bride.<br /><br />So they try to detect the sex of the child,<br />And to know that she is a girl, drives them wild.<br /><br />As Prevention is better than cure,<br />They say abortion is the only cure.<br /><br />The baby's cries echoes in the womb,<br />Mother would you let me die in your womb.<br /><br />But, there is no one to hear the Silent cry,<br />It is there all alone; and it is just a futile try.cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-61696267990982067532009-04-26T11:34:00.000-07:002009-04-26T11:51:41.493-07:00Choices, not Accidents!Today I was listening to one of a celebrity interview, and the celebrity claimed that he did not expect to be in the profession that he was. <span style="font-weight: bold;">'It was an Accident'.<br /></span><br />I am pondering over the statement; 'It was an Accident'. Well I strongly think; there are no accidents but only choices. Looking back at my own career spread over fmcg, real estate and retailing in short span of 5 years, I feel, that my career moves were pure choices. They were at times well thought or at times by the gut. But they were part of the bigger picture that I want to paint for my future.At times I think, they were part of a sub conscious conspiracy to be where I have proclaimed my future to lead me.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /></span>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-46781030035999968432009-04-12T12:36:00.000-07:002009-04-12T12:38:34.312-07:00Burried Egos<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><em><br />Those Fire balls around,<br />Make me deaf, with those big sounds.<br /><br />Everything is down in ruins.<br />Except the smoky clouds in the sky, in fumes.<br /><br />Limbs lie in the graves,<br />While those not, with hungry stomachs do crave.<br /><br />Cries all around bleeds the souls,<br />Tears from the eyes flood and add to the foul.<br /><br />Dream turn into nightmares.<br />And brave hearts go out to fight with a dare.<br /><br />Crying mothers go insane,<br />And search for lost babies in every lane.<br /><br />Soldiers with lost limbs and bloodys wounds,<br />Lie helpless with no aids on the grounds.<br /><br />To add to the war, the nature takes its own revenge,<br />And it rains with floods to crowd the graves.<br /><br />Enemies come together to give a fight,<br />Seeing the consequences of their worthless egoistic fights.<br /><br />But it gets too late to make up for any loses around,<br />Since the world is deep asleep, in the graves, never to be awaken by the slightest sound.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />I had written this poem during the Kargil war.<br /><br />The terror attacks that struck Mumbai have left a deep scar on our hearts. Its nightmare we will never forget. For that matter never want to forget. And all of us want action Now. For past few days media has been beaming messages calling out for a war on terror. I have come across loads of SMS’s and mail asking fellow citizens to take pledges and mobilizing opinions to declare war on terror.<br /><br />WAR !! I wonder how many of the proponents of waging a War have ever consequences of War. It’s definitely not the kind of ones which you saw in Mahabharatha where two armies fight on a no mans land. Moderns wars unfortunately are fought right in the hearts of civilization. Where innocent lives are lost. </span>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-30770597398758309292009-04-12T12:18:00.000-07:002009-04-26T12:56:04.055-07:00Blackbox<p>Uncertain times call for certain actions. Actions that shall prepare you to handle any adversity come what may. Most of us are busy with our daily lives; ensuring the present and future well being of our families. </p><p><br />We all are consciously or unconsciously; investing or saving our hard earned money. It could be a bank fixed deposit, NSC, PPF or Mutual Funds, shares or even insurance policies. But what happens if you were to live no more or even face some permanent disability or worse still there is war or a natural calamity. Does your spouse, or nominees even know about your life insurance policy details or a medical policy, WILL and the location of the same; whether home locker, bank or worse still mortgaged. </p><p><br />How will you or your immediate family ever know about the basis details like PAN no, Bank account details, Passport etc, just in case it is misplaced.<br /></p><p>I have made a brief summary sheet with updated records, it helps<br /></p>cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758489893798244407.post-80776716239677975532009-04-11T13:59:00.000-07:002009-04-12T13:25:02.203-07:00A Blogger is born !Well it's no different than trying to write my first poem back in school. I was scribbling with my pen and I just had no words to pen.<br /><br />However, creating and writing my first blog seems more of a science. So to say I am a test tube baby. Everything is so neatly crafted...Tailor made out of a lab. Easy templates to choose, feels as if I can choose my body.cleanslatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933629040130856813noreply@blogger.com0