Mindblog

Leaving India, the last thing on my mind was playing for the University Cricket team! It was just amazing to come back to playing professional cricket which I had completely abandoned about 10 years back in Mumbai. Our university cricket tour started as a disaster, which was well expected. Neither did we have any practice nor did we know our fellow mates! Despite the short-falls, we lost a nail biter against St. Andrews by 3 wickets. For the next match the team was in high spirits thinking that the last match was practice enough to beat the next competition-Napier University. Not very well known, Napier University is situated in Edinburgh and it was their home game this time round. Taking cue from our loss in the last match, we let the opposition bat first which turned out to be the worst decision of the day! In a 45 over match, they hammered us for 300! It was the first time many of our players even stood on the ground for one inning of 45 overs which meant that our legs were giving w...

I always wondered about the meaning of the proverb, never actually found the time to even try finding out. Well, not until now! Last week I decided to get rid of my boredom and get some cooking (actual cooking!) done. While opening a can of peas, I ended up slicing open the lower skin of my left thumb. Never in my life had I seen so much blood and that sight of torn skin, oh! it was almost too much to handle. Luckily, without loosing consciousness I was able to wrap a bandage and stem the blood flow and without any hesitation, called over Akhilesh and Farhan to take over the situation. I would really like to thank them again for their help in getting me out of the shit I got myself into! Anyway, thinking that that was the end of that episode, I went along the next day doing activities I may never have done even if I was in tip top shape! For some reason, Iwent lawn bowling with friends and later an exasperating session of Squash. The next morning I went just out of curiosity, to the...

Woke up to a shocking piece of news yesterday morning that the Sri-Lankan team was a target of terror attacks in Pakistan while on tour there. It is sad to see the pathetic condition these terror outfits have created leaving no one at peace. Although the matter was of utmost serious nature, especially to me being an avid cricket fan, I couldn't neglect the obvious lighter side of the news which was covered by the various media teams and the statements given by wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakaara. (Source-www.in.com) "Everyone is safe. There are a few injuries but all the players are out of danger. There is shock. Thilan (Samaraweera) has a bullet shot in his leg but he is fine. Paranavitana (Tharanga Paranavitana) was in the hospital and he had a shrapnel in his chest but thank god it didn't penetrate deep in the body. It was just on the surface. Everyone is OK. I had shrapnel inside my shoulder but they have all been taken out. I am OK. Ajantha (Ajantha Mendis) had a few in his...

Washing clothes, a part of routine, is considered here as a very important/special day, an event almost. Dates are cancelled, meetings re-scheduled and even travel plans have to adhere to the dreaded "Laundry schedule"! Laundry back home in India was never a major issue partly because the daily maid took care of it and we had a fresh set of clothes as and when needed. The case here is quite the opposite. With the residences I am living in- Kelvinhaugh Street, there are about 300 residents with only 8 washers and the same number of dryer's to take care of the laundry load. This means that the laundry, which is done only once a week (mostly due to time constraints through the week) takes the whole day from getting clothes to the place and bringing them back to the room! Let me describe to you a typical laundry day. You get up earlier than usual (never get up that early to study!!), pack the dirty laundry into whatever bag you can find and run down to the laundry room rea...

I couldn't help but follow the article I posted below this one with one which actually relates to who I am. Not the seroius analyst I may come across if you've read the one below, but quite the opposite! One who loves to see events in a lighter vein, because things really crack me up. I may end up laughing my head out without anyone noticing and no one would have a clue what I was actually on about inside, so if you ever notice me smirking.. Anyways, I wanted to put up a few things I feel I have come across living here in Scotland, just to give you guys a brief as to how things are on and about here. 1.Aye, aaaye, ay- all varients of the word yes, which you will undoubtedly hear every Scotsman/woman say a billion times during the day. 2.Very passionate people, may even mistake Scotlands victory over France in football as a victory against the French in the middle ages as part of the rebellion against the capture of Mary the Queen of Scotts. 3.There are more pubs here than there...

In today’s competitive global market environment, it has become essential for multinational companies to find means and methods to stay ahead of competition, not only for the purpose of profit, but recently, for the very purpose of sustenance as well. In this hunt for cheaper means of profiteering, the multinationals have to maintain a certain set of rules or protocol which would monitor their activities ensuring that the practices been followed during these profiteering methods, they do not stray from the righteous path of corporate social responsibility. “Corporate Social Responsibility can be defined to be the continuing commitment of by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large.” Lord Holme, Rio Tinto & Royal Dutch Shell. Corporate governance is the process to ensure to the stakeholders/ shareholders that the enterprise being r...

Enough of light I feel has been thrown on the fact that India and China are going to be the big gun superpowers in the coming future. We get it, the economies of these two nations have been above the 5% mark even through the ongoing recession plaguing the world. Even the U.S. has not been spared, recording a negative growth rate along with most of the developed economies including most of the EU member states. But the time has come as per my opinion for the Indian politicians, the government and authorities to leave behind the worthless squabbles and actually start focusing on making India a better place for the masses. You may think I am talking my head off in the air, but I really feel that the time is right for the change which is desperately waiting on the doors of India Inc., waiting, knocking, awaiting a welcome, which has been denied to it by the bureaucracy and its components, the lax and egoist attitudes of officials, outdated policies concerning legal systems, corruption ever...