Life is Like a Flowing River

I read this somewhere long time back. I think I read this in Siddharth by Hermen Hess. He is a great writer and philosopher and I dont think anybody has understood the true meaning of hindu philosophy. Before I write the context on which I have decided to write this blog, Ler me write my impression and feeling about IIMIndore.
Many people have sent me mails mentioning about my impression about the institute. So I am giving my honest impression. IIMIndore is a great place to work, a great institution. The landscape and the ambience adds a new meaning to the workplace. If you are ever in IIMIndore campus, please visit a place called 'Sunset Point'. Please spend sometime there and take few photographs. Its the best place on campus where you can see the setting Sun and experience how the color of the sky changes over that one hour of twilight period. Its a great place to work as there are many bright faculties here who inspire and challenge your thought process. There are many dynamic people whom you will find in the institute, who have voluntarily contributed in building the institute. I think one of the more memorable impressions and stay in life is IIMIndore. Its not because I got a chance to work here but also could contribute a little in taking the name of the institute further. I love this institute like anything.
I also got a chance to teach some of the brilliant students of my life. They were so brilliant and bright that many times I wished that one day I would like to see them as CEO of a company. There are many good things to write about IIMIndore. May be once I am out of the institute and when plan to write my autobiography, will write in detail about the positive experience that I have with the institute. May be One of the good times I had in life while working at IIMIndore.
I was having a conversation with Prof Pawan Singh and I know he is a philospoher professor but his metaphors are so powerful that sometimes I dont find words to express my feelings.
He told me that life has to go on and its like a flowing river. there may be good looing banks a river can see, but the river should not stop. If it stops there, then it loses its property of being a river. I strongly agree with him. Life is like a flowing river and you cover more destinations, goals, and get more achievements if you believe that life is like a river. If you stay back and confine yourself to a place or a thought, then life will loses its meaning.

I am a strong believer that life is like a flowing river and its the pleasure of meeting new people and new challenges that makes life meaningful. On the last day of the institute, I have no regrets as I did well here and wish the institute best of luck. IIMIndore is like a mother who mentored me to take newer challenges in life.

Everybody Meets the Soulmate in Lifetime

This is something that compelled me to write back again. It says that every human being gets a chance to meet his/her soulmate during the lifetime. It is not difficult to find out whether one will get a chance to meet the soulmate, but it is to do more with whether one can recognize the soulmate or not. Soulmate does not necessarily be someone who lives with you or talks with you. He or she may be mailes apart from you but can take up the conscience call and get connected. Its a person whom you always linger to meet/ wish to talk your heart out. When you dont get your soulmate, you may have some impatience in my mind, but latter it brings a pause, calmness withing the person.
Life is a journey between death and birth. When Muna (my causin brother) died in September 2004, we were disturbed quite a lot. My son was smaller than what he is today. Somebody asked him the meaning of death. He had a strong and sweet answer. Death is something by which you are not going to meet the same person throughout your life. I read somewhere also the meaning of risk in life. The author says ( I quote) By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but one should never cease for love. As long as you keep looking , YOU WILL TRIUMPH IN THE END.

One should not Look Back in Life

Ha ! Thats the apt title that I thought I should give to my posting. You know when I was passing through the difficult times and was fighting against all odds here, I was so disturbed and unmindful about the things happening around my life, but the day I resigned, I had a great night to celebrate and get a good sleep after a long time. You must be wondering what difficulty that I faced that made me to put my papers, Just hold on. I have whole of September left with me to sleep, enjoy music, particularly Neil Diamond, read novels and write poetry and also write the blog; And this time, I promise I will write the truth and the whole story of my experience of last few months.
Some of my corporate friends are also reading my blog and they would also like to know what dirty polictics is being played here. It may look like something interesting for the reader but would be a commentary on my own sufferring here. Come September is a popular song and I plan to relax, read and write in September and then start my re-working at a new place (wherever now, hardly matters). Life has to go on and one should NOT LOOK BACK

Nothing Goes Wrong in Life

I was reading a novel called Brida sent to me by a very close soulmate of mine from a far off place. The soulmate knows what kind of books I read and whenevr Paulo Colheo comes to the shelf with a new collection, I receive a copy of the book on the very first week of the launch of the book. This time Brida is special and everytime I read a book of Paulo, its special for me as it opens of my mind and gives a new lesson to me. I have found his books to be interesting and inspiring as they have come to my life at difficult times of life. I am not saying that everybody should read but I like this book. It takes me far away from the reality and guides me through the difficult terrain of life.

I dont wish to write down my pain and suffering now but everyday looks a shocking day as people are showing their true colors and coming out in open to make me realize how the reality of life works and for minor gains how people can go so far in their lives and compromise so much for minor games. Some other time, some other mood and not now at least not at the current mood.

I Know You Guys Will Write Back

I was expecting this after posting my previous post on the blog. My students are reading my blog, this fact is known to me, particularly after received a mail from SWAC last time. This time I was expecting a mail/few mail responses from students and ex-students but never expected that within two days I will receive so many mails from you guys. I sincerely thank you all for the love and affection that you have shown to me through your mails. I think as a teacher thats what you get in your life. Love, care and affection of your students. A large part of the main gets wiped out by these email responses.

And I am sure world has many good people. Its only we make mistake in choosing good and bad people around us and these mistakes make you to lose confidence from everybody. Being a trainer I teach these lessons to my students, trainess but when it comes to your own life, the realization is through a painful process. If you ask me a question about whether I have any regrets in life or at workplace. My answer is a concrete "No'. The reason being whatever i had planned to do for the school, I have done it and may be by staying put I could have done something more, but even moving out will make to use these experiences and built greater and better things in life.
I am eternally optimistic person and believer in the good cause. Our sufferrings and pain has a reason, rather two reasons; a good one and a bad one. The good one is that it gives us new challenges and guides us to achieve greater things in life; the bad ones that your confidence on people goes down. But this is life. There is a great saying, "tere mehkhane ki yeh ajeb hai daastan saaki, jaam unhe pes kiya jaata hai, jineh pinaa hi nahin aata'.
let us hope that in few weeks time, I will come back with a different mood and write again about positive aspect of life and also about new challenges. I thought I will take a nostalgic stand on the blog when I started but got entangled with writing about the problems, turmoils and sufferrings of life! But I am sure God will give a chance to comeback to the original mood and again search my tiny memories to build a garland of happiness for my readers. For the time being, I am on tenterhooks!!

Its Time to Say Good Bye

I had two options. Either I have to stay back and fight or to choose my own course of action. I hev never beleived in politicking and fighting rather I have always worked for positive results. But being positive in a weeked environment has no use. many of my friends and relatives suggested me that I should fight back. But I asked a question: for whom should I fight? Nobody came to my rescue at this point of time. The world is divided into different set of people viz. those who are against me; those who always depended on me and took all the benefits and then never looked back and those who are good friends and never cared for me saying that this is my problem. Those who are against me are happy because I am not there to fight with them or complain against their misdeeds; those who took benefit from me and were like rats in the ship, ran away by seeing how others are fighting with me and those who are silent, I have no comments on them.

One thing I am sure that IIMIndore is a nasty place to work. The polictics is so high that you feel like vomiting sometime. I should have left immediately after Prof Parashar and joined elsewhere but stayed back thinking that I have brought a change to the work culture of IIMIndore. It seems I am the first casualty of my assumption. Anyway I worked in IIM system for so many years and contrbuted so much but at the end of the day, the experience has been really bad. Instead of looking back and mourning, the life is meaningful when it moves forward and thats what has occupied my mind at this point of time. Life should go one, come whatsoever may in life.
I think I can resurrect and do well in the next job and my resignation from IIMIndore would have something interesting on store for me in life. It may give new things and bring new success for me. Let my detractors be happy and enjoy. Its time to say good bye and good luck to IIMIndore

For the Sake of My Students

Yah, you will find me removing two posts from my blog. These two blogs were my expression of my own sufferings and pain that I am passing through while working at IIMIndore. These were personal expressions of my problems, pain and sufferring in last few months. I never intended to hurt anyone's sentiment or image. I understand my blog is a personal platform and is confined to my close people only. I didnt realize that my students are also reading the blog. I need to be careful as it should not reflect my emotions and sentimenta to my students.

So you find them missing now onwards. They are personal expressions, particualarly at a time when I was too much stressed and was under severe attack from my colleagues. But workplace problems are workplace problems and by writing them they should not affect the larger interest of the institute and my students.
May be I will write the experience somepoint of time in a book before I die because 'kal ho na ho'.

In Search of Happiness

Yah, I am always thinking about happiness these days and meaning of life and the job that i am doing. Whenever I go home, everybody adores my work and loves my development but I am farther from them. This is a place where I work and so much of enimity that I see with my colleagues.
I saw a movie called 'Dus Kahanaiyan' and I was impressed with a small story titled 'Gubbare' which starts Nana Patekar and some new actors may be Rohit Roy. The story line was so nice that it touched my heart and I again ended up asking the question of meaning of life and the work that I am doing.

Its all confusion only these days. I have started getting offers for new jobs with very fat salaries and here I am facing problems with my collegues. I dont know whether I will be ever able to solve this riddle of life.
I am told that Nalini is still behind me and her husband is trying to spoil my career by arranging some nonsense. I asked a question to people that 'if I lose what will she gain?" If One's loss is not the gain of another, then why are we hooked up in the prisoner's dillema.