Second Thoughts, Pebbles and Ripples

A very vague seemingly incoherent title, I noticed a natural yet interesting correlation between one’s physical height and height of one’s achievements. Perhaps in their childhood, and adolescence their ability to take jokes on (at the expense of their relative height) by their immediate friends (Arey Chotte, Gidda! in urdu/Hindi…) makes their grit emotionally stronger than rest around. During their formation years the fact their peers take them in a lighter vein perhaps, moulds their personalities into bigger and stronger beings. Please notice I am trying to see the constructive side of the side effect on the psyche of the subject, the side effect could be constructive or destructive (depressing or in that lines) Hope I am not crossing the line and trying to sound professional psychiatrist presenting his paper in a convention… Also such persons take it in a lighter vein if someone in their immediate known circles call them ‘smally’…but if the same joke is cracked by a relatively unkn...

While the people in high places, other govt. offices have no choice but to congratulate and add some rosy words to the President and Supreme Commander of Armed forces of USA...the certified intellectuals of the world should get some fodder out of this Obama being conferred Peace Nobel....I was reminded of the Hindi adage (which translates to ...the one with stick drives home the buffaloe... jiski haathme lathi bhains vo le jayega .) It's like tabloids selling 'celeb' merchandise...for a sceintist it takes a life time to prove his invention and stand by the test of fire and Time...but for a powerful guy it's like a pizza, delivered even before it is ordered... It sounds like a cheap publicity stunt by the Nobel committee and invokes the need of reviewing their credentials to do that job. It’s like my promising kid hopes to become a cardiologist in future and save lives, give me a loan based on his future income…will banks ever do it? Or is it the influence or hangover of...

I missed an ‘opportunity’ to see Ramalingaraju in person, when I was in Cisco, last year where he received from John Chambers a ‘package of support worth $100 million’ for EMRI he initiated, I even bought a new blazer to attend the Cisco Campus inauguration, by revered former (my kind of president) Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. But small time employees of my stature were whisked away from attending in person due to ‘security reasons’ and invited to see the event only on homegrown Cisco IPTV. No use of the new blazer. Despite such parallel processing(scheming) in mind since ‘several years’ the good thing is that he kept (had to, kind of atonement?) the EMRI kept going, the first 911 equivalent. He should be acknowledged to have dared to dream such a project in India. I was driving past a remote village towards Jiddu Krishnamurthy school 150 miles away from Bangalore, in a rest area, I saw huge ambulance parked and bunch of lads hanging around, we stopped there for tea break. The peasants said th...