An Update

Its been quiet some time I have written anything.  This write up is just an update to what has happened over the last few weeks before I get back to regular writing.

Health has been not good. I am under regular physiotherapy. There is a general weekness and pain in the left leg and knee. The body is stiff overall. Its difficult to run and bend while playing Tennis but I am regular though I am loosing most of the time. I am proud of my partner Manish who though we loose keeps motivating me and is never upset. By the way we won last Sunday a triangular tournament, so not bad.  I am also doing a weight loss program and hope to loose the extra five kgs that I have. 

Sameep has moved on in his life. He is now at Pune for his higher studies. He got admission in Symboisis college.  Living away from the comforts and security of home should make him more responsible. He is intelligent enough to undersatnd whats good and bad in life and I am sure would make good use of the exposure he is going to get over over the next 5-7 years in higher studies.  At this time he is home for Diwali break.

Priya, my secretary has left job as she is getting married and moving to a different city. She was a great help in managing my job. I still recollect when I had to go to the Licensing Authority to sign for my arms license renewal - the clerk there told her that "Madam,  Look,I have done your job without any hassle, she replied back," Its good for you, you did it otherwise you would have invited trouble for yourself". I wish her all the best in her married life.

I had an opportunity to go and visit the Taj mahal couple of weeks back when a good friend of mine was here from Finland. The last I visited Taj was in 1994 and it really a beauty. Check out some of the pics at my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandeep40/ . But the most unfortunate thing there is the Touts and all the small time sellers who just bother you so much specially when they see a foreigner , you feel embarassed and bad. Taj is the biggest tourist attraction in this country and if we can not have good management there, its a shame. 

The world is going through one of its worst financial phase. The whole system is on a weak platform. God knows, who is accountable for this but its gonna bring lot of suffering to the masses.  If I look at this as a layman I have seen in my life time a socialist country like USSR collapse and complete failure of capitalistic free market economy like USA. I think India on the middle path is strong fundamentally - we neither grow vertically nor crash. If only we had no corruption.......I recollect our late Prime MinisterRajiv Gandhi once acknowledging that only 10% reaches the benificiary from what the Government spends rest is eaten away by sharks. I hate this - at least we the so called civilised educated people of this country should do what ever to stop something like this taking place if we come to know.

I think I would be regular now back to my own self. Diwali is round the corner. Its a great celebration time and on all such occassions I miss Babuji.