My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Jeffrey Archer - one of my favorite Authors. More than Kane and Abel, I like his "Not a penny more, Not a penny Less". I would love to read his novels again and again and every time you read, it is a fresh experience, even though you know what the end is. Couple of weeks back, I took up the latest book - " A prisoner of Birth ". What a book it was. As usual it was so gripping that I could put the book down only after I finished it around 3.15 am in the morning. When I started, it looked ordinary, but as the pace picked up, the interest never waned ever for a second. It was gripping - You can never forget Danny Cartwright - the young fellow who is wrongly framed for the murder of his Best Friend and who is able to prove his innocence not just because of the best lawyer (the father and son duo court scene is excellent) , but because of the fact that one of the 4, who were the culprits and who undertake to make Danny the Murderer in order to save their Fri...

Thanks to Aravind who wanted me to write about the Temple at thiruvotriyur in chennai. that was one of those days when you get up early in morning and the whole world looks very frustrating and you dont know what to do. it became a God send message to me. So started my preparation to go the temple. I reside in the south chennai and the the Temple is at Thiruvotriyur in North Chennai. and the travel time will be more than 1.30 hours. So we started at 10.30 and reached around 11.45. The temple closes at 12 noon after the mid day pooja. What a divine visit it was. I came back so calm and filled with energy. This is a Shiva temple and the God is known as Tyagarajar, Adipureeswarar and Padampakka Nathar. The main deity is said be in the form of Lingam formed of Mud which is covered with Golden cover sheet. Once a year during Karthik Poornima, the Gold cover is removed and the necessary abishekam is performed and the once again the Lingam is covered with all the medicinal materials. His conc...

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and....... Prof: So you believe in God? Student: Absolutely, sir. Prof : Is God good? Student: Sure. Prof: Is God all-powerful? Student : Yes. Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent..) Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good? Student: Yes. Prof: Is Satan good? Student : No. Prof: Where does Satan come from? Student: From...God.. . Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? Student: Yes. Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct? Student: Yes. Prof: So who created evil? (Student does not answer.) Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist ...

You don't need to be beware of this tale spinner - I am talking about Sheila Gandhi . she doesn't spin tales to make fools of people, but spins tales to enthral her young readers. Would you believe that the erstwhile Regional Director of NASSCOM Chennai, is a prolific writer and is a Winner of Children’s Book Trust award – Read Aloud Series. Pretty Amassing is int . Who would have believed it. From being an entrepreneur (having established a bookshop Nalanda in Sheraton) to becoming the Vice consul/Consular Officer with Australian Consulate and then to be the Senior Trade & Investment Adviser in British Dy High Commission and then subsequently establishing the Regional Directorate of Nasscom in Chennai to her current freelancing for "born to Win" Sheila has donned various hats and that too with distinction. The best thing that has I can say is that As a company head you come up some many questions and need answers quick, all you needed to do wa...

Yes, I am going to write about a couple this time - the Seshans (it means snakes) Sumitra & Ananth Seshan . What a great people to get to know both personally and professionally. More so when they are both entrepreneurs and are running a successful software company " Fifth Generation Technologies". Dr Ananth Seshan , is the Chairman and Managing Director, and Sumitra Seshan is the COO of Fifth Generation Technologies India Ltd.– an engineering software product company that has a client base of Fortune 100 manufacturing clients worldwide (automotive, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries). What a combination - Doctorate in Robotics & MBA in marketing - no wonder 5G is a great company in the Engineering Software product space. Their software, Enterprise Gateway is manufacturing business intelligence software product mainly targeted at the automotive market, that provides real time collaboration between the manufacturing shop floor and the enterprise in ...

sorry have not been able to write any blogs for the last 10 days though I have enough things to write about - 2 books review, a movie, exciting people to write about, so many things are there. But some how there has been a lethargy to write the blog In fact, I had even saved the post on Loyalty - but didnt publish it. any way here I come to make it up.

India is a country which is based on high and ethical value systems. We are always conscious of the good and bad deeds and know that we have to undergo the consequences for all our deeds. One of the best virtues we follow is "loyalty". This may be our loyalty to our parents, friends, our school, our teachers and our work place. We are not only loyal to the workplace, we even worship the place or tools or even the animals which help us to earn our livelihood. That is why we celebrate the Sankaranti - which is the thanksgiving for the Sun god, the bullocks and cows which help us to raise our food. Not only that, we worship the workplace on Ayudhapooja (literally means doing worship to the tools) once a year. This is so deeply ingrained that you can see the drivers doing a small pooja before they take the vehicle out everyday. We always consider that the loyalty to the company is an absolute necessity because this is what feeds our families. But very slowly the people are loo...