Vaizag Landing - 1

On my way to Vaizag this time, I begged the air hostess and got Seat 2 B, a window seat and managed some good aerial shotswhile landing at Vaizag.

Anna Salai by Night

A Night shot of the Y Bend in Mount Road (Anna Salai) taken from the Terrace of Hotel Mathura.

Habits of Highly effective Managers

I delivered a lecture on Habits of Highly effective Managers art St. Jodsephs College of Engineering on OMR, Chennai. The campus, adjacent to the Sathyabama Deemed University is masssive. It looks more like a theme park with beautifully maintained lawns colorful statuary and aeshtetic buildsings everywhere.

My lecture was well received by the students.

Dark Tree

I photographed this tree from the Window of the ICAI Branch. I am experimenting with the Picture Manager. By reducing the saturation and increasing the contrast I have made this image look like it was shotlate in the evening on a stormy day. It wasactually shot in full sunlight at 16:00 Hrs.

Teachers Day 2010

05.09.2010

I am at GITAM Vizag for my third and final visit. It is coincidental that I am here on Teachers' Day. The Students were quite profuse in thieir greetings on Teachers' Day.

I am also getting a lot of mail and SMS greeting me on this day. The following mail touched me:

From: satabdee borah

Sent: 05 September 2010 19:34
To: Srikanth S
Subject: Happy teachers day!

Sir wish you a very Happy Teacher's Day! It was an honour as well as a pleasure attending your Corporate & Allied Law classes for the Final batch which started in november 2009. We really need such motivating & engaging teacher such as yourself in Assam! With regards.

Satabdee Borah.

Thank you Satabdee.

I take this opportunity to thank all students who sent in greetings. I wish all my students who ever learnt any subject from me all the very best. I bow down in gratitude to all my teachers, especially my illustrious Guru and greatest teacher Prof. K S Anantharaman. I rededicate myself to the spirit of Teaching, Training and Counselling and make a promise to myself to be honest as a teacher and seek the unblemished welfare of the student in all my endeavors.

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Bangalore

I am now in Bangalore. The weather's definitely chilly and the wind's a bit nippy. I took this photo near Ambedkar Bhavan in Basant Nagar.

A twine that connects

28.08.2010

I had the opportunitty to address the Finance Executives of Ma Foi-Randstaad. Their CFO Mr. Sai Prasanna made this beautiful comment about Finance.

"Finance is the twine that connects the various functional departments of a company together like a garland or necklace."

The metaphor is quite interesting and takes me to the VII Chapter of the Bh. Gita where Brahman interweaving all-pervasive force that ties up all creation is compared to the sootra or string that keeps the beads of a necklace together.

The earlier speaker was a Chartered Accountant and Director Deloitte who spoke about Security and Governance. He was accompanied by Mr. Matti B Rao who is known to me as BK Rao or simply BK. BK and I go a long way back to 1989-91 when we were both Junior

Officers or JOs in Price Waterhouse (There was no Coopers then!). We have spent many happy times on audit at Coonoor, N. Delhi and elsewhhere. There was even one occasion when we came back late from an audit in coonoor to the mess. The mess was almost closed and they had very little food and only one banana leaf on which they could serve! BK and I were famished and decided to use a single leaf! Both of us are Brahmins and our early conditioning had made it very difficult to share the same leaf; so we got into a tacit understanding that at no cost will we allow our respective food to spill over to the other's side! This is the bonding we have. As can be seen both of us have grown in stature from those early days in PWH! :-)