I have come across some wonderful people in my life, ordinary men and women who had made a mark by their gestures and deeds. This writeup will be an ongoing one with additions made periodically as required.
Rajesh Mansharamani
Dr. Rajesh Mansharamani is the pioneer of Performance Engineering at Tata Consultancy Services. He started and heads the group.
I am very fortunate to have got the opportunity to work with him. As a matter of fact, I owe my professional success to the inital investment of his time and effort on me during the early stages of my career at TCS.
Rajesh is very simple for the talent he possesses. Staying in India after his PhD abroad, Rajesh has made a great difference to TCS and a whole bunch of Indian software engineers. His presence and synergy are the major reasons of a great cohesive force amongst the members of the group for the last 4 years.
He ensures and absorbs all pressures from the top management allowing us to work freely on problems in Performance Engineering and at the same time ensuring that we give the best that we are capable of.
I wish to see him enlighten a lot of newcomers as I and some of my colleagues had enjoyed the same.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
My Writeup: Some great people - part 2
I have come across some wonderful people in my life, ordinary men and women who had made a mark by their gestures and deeds. This writeup will be an ongoing one with additions made periodically as required.
Sandeep Gandhi
I have had quite a lot of friends. But to me, Sandeep is very special.
I knew Sandeep during my Initial Training Programme at Trivandrum. He was from Mumbai and seemed quite matured and simple when compared to most of the students in our batch. His personality made him very popular in the class. He was always forthcoming to help and take responsibilities. As the days passed we became good friends. But an amazing incident changed my view about him.
We had hardly known Sandeep for 2 months at the ITP, but when myself and 3 of my friends got posted in Mumbai, Sandeep stepped forward and asked us to come to his place. All of us were just out of college and none had been to Mumbai or had lived on our own before. So the thought of living and working in Mumbai was a sort of trance for the 4 of us. But it was at this time, Sandeep came over to the station and not only accomodated me, but all my 3 friends for the next 2 weeks at his small apartment at Dombivili. I was moved by this gesture of Sandeep and his family especially his mom and sis for being so supportive for us and I am greatly indepted to him.
For Sandeep, I pray, may God bless you with the best in life.
Sandeep Gandhi
I have had quite a lot of friends. But to me, Sandeep is very special.
I knew Sandeep during my Initial Training Programme at Trivandrum. He was from Mumbai and seemed quite matured and simple when compared to most of the students in our batch. His personality made him very popular in the class. He was always forthcoming to help and take responsibilities. As the days passed we became good friends. But an amazing incident changed my view about him.
We had hardly known Sandeep for 2 months at the ITP, but when myself and 3 of my friends got posted in Mumbai, Sandeep stepped forward and asked us to come to his place. All of us were just out of college and none had been to Mumbai or had lived on our own before. So the thought of living and working in Mumbai was a sort of trance for the 4 of us. But it was at this time, Sandeep came over to the station and not only accomodated me, but all my 3 friends for the next 2 weeks at his small apartment at Dombivili. I was moved by this gesture of Sandeep and his family especially his mom and sis for being so supportive for us and I am greatly indepted to him.
For Sandeep, I pray, may God bless you with the best in life.
Monday, August 22, 2005
My Writeup: Some great people - part 1
I have come across some wonderful people in my life, ordinary men and women who had made a mark by their gestures and deeds. This writeup will be an ongoing one with additions made periodically as required.
My Periamma
Periamma is the tamil relation for mom's elder sister.
My mom had 4 elder sisters but to me she was just the one. I am really honored to have known her. But not many in my family realize what this woman has achieved for herself and her family.
She worked hard right from a very young age, an age at which girls and boys would be free of all responsibilities and submerge in a carefree world protected by their parents. She nurtured and brought up my mom, educated themselves, worked and invested all by themselves, settled in life and supporting her daughters and husband with all her heart and strength especially through tough times of health problems and financial issues. She came out of all of them successfully. She Got her daughter married to a wonderful son-in-law and retired peacefully after performing tasks that I could simply term as 'Herculean'.
In a time where most women in India required support of fathers, brothers and husband, she stood apart, she raised all bar and stood shoulder to shoulder taking all the family reponsibilites. To her I solute.
My Periamma
Periamma is the tamil relation for mom's elder sister.
My mom had 4 elder sisters but to me she was just the one. I am really honored to have known her. But not many in my family realize what this woman has achieved for herself and her family.
She worked hard right from a very young age, an age at which girls and boys would be free of all responsibilities and submerge in a carefree world protected by their parents. She nurtured and brought up my mom, educated themselves, worked and invested all by themselves, settled in life and supporting her daughters and husband with all her heart and strength especially through tough times of health problems and financial issues. She came out of all of them successfully. She Got her daughter married to a wonderful son-in-law and retired peacefully after performing tasks that I could simply term as 'Herculean'.
In a time where most women in India required support of fathers, brothers and husband, she stood apart, she raised all bar and stood shoulder to shoulder taking all the family reponsibilites. To her I solute.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
My Writeup: My niece
My niece is a year and 2 months now. She is cute and looks like an angel and smiles like a blossomed flower. I love her and consider her to be my favourite baby of all times.
While in Pittsburgh, I used to make frequent trips to Mclean to spend time with her and cuddle her. Brinda was a tall baby and she was quite funny. I saw her sit for the first time and I was excited seeing her stand for the first time. But soon time made a mark and I had to carry on with my life, I moved to a new job profile - Consulting and with it came travel. I missed my niece in action, since April 2005. She has learned to walk, run and talk small words, Today, when I heard her call me "Mama" over phone, my joy knew no bounds. I was thrilled and the rhythm in her voice as she continued saying mama almost brought tears of joy to my eyes.
I am hopeful to see her in a week.
While in Pittsburgh, I used to make frequent trips to Mclean to spend time with her and cuddle her. Brinda was a tall baby and she was quite funny. I saw her sit for the first time and I was excited seeing her stand for the first time. But soon time made a mark and I had to carry on with my life, I moved to a new job profile - Consulting and with it came travel. I missed my niece in action, since April 2005. She has learned to walk, run and talk small words, Today, when I heard her call me "Mama" over phone, my joy knew no bounds. I was thrilled and the rhythm in her voice as she continued saying mama almost brought tears of joy to my eyes.
I am hopeful to see her in a week.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
My Writeup: A memorable trip to Grand Canyon
I had been to Grand Canyon before and that was the very reason I wanted to visit the spot again.
One of my client in Phoenix called it - "A big hole in the ground" . In reality, Grand Canyon is a unique place to visit. There are quite a lot of things you can do there. Trek, drive, shoot photos and take a canyon trip on a chopper or a small airplane. The Grand Canyon looks just amazing through the day and the shadow cast on the canyon by passing clouds makes it look even attractive. But the best of the canyon would be seen with every sunrise and sunset.
I am yet to trek the canyon, mainly due to lack of time and good company, But managed to take a flight trip across the canyon with a friend this time, who happened to possess fear of heights. This friend of mine sings well and happened to know almost all hindi songs. On our way back to Phoenix, she displayed cool traits of a good DJ as she played some of the long forgotten songs that I used to sing and listen with my sis and mom in my childhood.
Here is a link to the photo gallery of this trip.
Grand Canyon - Trip 2
My previous trip photo gallery is
Grand Canyon - Trip 1
Here is the link to know about the place
http://www.nps.gov/grca/grandcanyon/
Here is the link for the chopper and aircraft rides
http://papillon.com/
http://www.grandcanyonairlines.com
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