A fortiori

My GOD He is just too much! What doesn't He do to trouble me! He has such high expectations of me! I too have very high expectations of my daughter but His expectations are much more! Despite this what makes my God adorable is His love for me! It is so unsullied, unconditional and pure that it just knocks off my breath! Amidst all the troubles He makes me face, I know for sure there is just Him standing by me and holding my hand. The feeling is almost akin to standing on the sea shore being held by elders as one wave after the other comes and hits us! As time passes by the waves hit  harder and harder and sometimes the speed at which the sand moves from underneath our feet is so quick that we tend to lose our balance and fall down! When we are almost sure that we are going to get lapped away by the tide, He picks us up readying us to face yet another one! Yet in all this He ensures I don't go insane with all the life lessons that He teaches me! He troubles me professionally,...

Just 24 hours since the immersion of the Ganesh idols in the Hussainsagar lake and my thoughts and opinions seem to be directly proportional to the number of huge idols of Ganesh that have gone into the water body! At the out set let me be very clear in my views about my religion! Any religion has to be based on the principle of Love in action! I am a Hindu and I am proud of being one! I love Ganesh too! He has the most lovable form! Wisdom and innocence vying with one another to be the most dominant trait in Him! But what escapes my logic is the irrational madness associated with the Ganesh festival and the ten days following the festival till the immersion! The activities associated with the festival right opposite to my house  -they are just the tip of the ice berg when compared to the incidents in the entire city! The events began two weeks before the festival! One morning as I was in the midst of my cooking, I happen to walk into the balcony of my kitchen. I saw children d...

It is holiday time for the students of engineering colleges at Hyderabad! Come holidays, many plans unfold! waking up whenever one feels like, having bath at a time one deems it fit, watching movies back to back, night outs with friends, hanging out with friends at CCD's, shopping in big malls to make their fashion statements for the next semester and a countless other meaningless things! On the 19th of June, I happened to meet a big group of students from some of the best Engineering colleges in the city bound together by many commonalities like same schools, same colleges... They had all come to attend the Inauguration of free computer training and house keeping training planned by the Sri Sathya Sai Organizations! Wondering what drew their interest to the inauguration! Well I am happy to share with you all something really amazing! These young, vivacious, beautiful and intelligent girls were there to demonstrate to all those present that day and not present that day too tha...

I have been a teacher all my life! Almost 18 years now! My greatest inspiration has been my dad! I would like to have qualities like him at least even if I can't match his intellect! To me he is a symbol of "What to be" as a teacher!! There is no second opinion about his being a great intellect! But the other qualities that he possessed made him a very special teacher! I remember this one day so well! He came back home from his morning session ( he never took the afternoon sessions due to health reasons ) for lunch and he seemed pretty excited and he told me that there was this one very intelligent boy in his class from engineering background who had shown him a short cut method for some problem in International Finance being handled by him! Much later when he passed away, in one of the tributes to him, the students said that many a time he could be seen learning even from students from the Math’s department if he had some doubt in complex Math’s concepts! He was proud of...

What is the probability of a low probability incident occurring? Sounds crazy!! Hmm! Not to me at least!! I keep teaching my students to rehearse every situation!! To be prepared- yup! That is what I keep telling them!! Is it really possible to be prepared!! The probability is very low!! At any given point of time, we seem to get more than what we are prepared for in life!! The most unforeseen unscripted moments that come our way are from our near and dear!! Untold is the state of a mother who is ordered by her daughter/son not to interfere in his/her personal life!! A mother might have just figured out that her son is into a living in relationship, is her script ready to respond in that scenario? You realize that one fine day your child has stopped listening to you, are you ready to deal with it? It is just not in personal life alone that we see this unpredictability, it happens professionally too!! Nastiness of our bosses, our colleagues, our subordinates and scores of others!! This...

The recent days have been turbulent in terms of people relations!!! People say they love truth, and they vehemently vouch that their life is a unity of thought word and deed!! Speak with such conviction about lofty ways of their life!! I am always stunned into silence listening to all this nonsense which comes with a facade of holiness!! The ubiquitousness of this tendency among people is what everyone needs to be scared of!! The society at present is at the heights of turmoil!! On one side it has people as the one's mentioned above who as they are speaking to us in all earnestness and smiling at us are busy digging huge trenches right under our feet!! Ensuring a 100% live burrial!! Their goal being that their target is left totally incapacitated that the target cant even think of crawling out and manage a decent living!! On the other hand we have a generation of youth who vouch for the pureness of their heart but lead a life bordering on insanity!! But mind you if you are planning...

The drug called emotional attachment that destroys the world every second hasn't spared me either!! The earliest signs of emotional attachment recorded in my history dates back to a time when I was just four years old!! My father had to go out of station for a week and I was so disconsolate by the separation that I suffered from fever till he returned!! Since then my life has been marked by several such incidents of addiction to extreme attachment!! As children my paternal cousins, my immediate elder brother and I always lived in the beautiful and adventurous world created by Enid Blyton in her Famous Five series!! The two long summer months would go in adventurous activities - like reliving the characters in the Famous Five series!! We would make tent houses, exotic fruit drinks,(Ask my eldest brother, who has actually tasted them!!!:P!!), dramatize mythological stories , make crowns, bows, arrows, create settings - In other words it was a period of endless creativity!! It wa...

We have add on credit cards , add on Mobile connections, ....... The list of add on's is endless!! But I am talking about the add on's in life!! I have met thousands of people in life!! I probably haven't spoken to everyone that I have met!! Simply I am not such a people person

I have been meaning to share this memorably haunting day in my life for a long time but never managed to do it!! It is all about one luxurious day in my life!! The day I felt like a Princess !! Luxury sure isn't a common occurrence in any lady's life!! So it is almost unrealistic when we chance rendezvous such luxury in life!! We have been busy with the arrangements for an Inter College Management Fest for over a month now! So after the first week of December I stayed overnight on our campus and it was an absolute pleasure working with my students driven by 100% commitment!! My students were very excited about having me on campus with them!! Probably the novelty of having a faculty staying along with them!! Not totally sure what was exciting to them!! I am certain of one thing though, the affection with which they took care of me!! Right from the excited calls to my mobile asking me how long it would take me to reach hostel, making arrangements for my sleeping - a very nea...