My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

i am reproducing the invite for the members for our AGM ITSME/3rdAGM /2010 September 1st, 2010. NOTICE FOR THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Notice is hereby given that the Third Annual General Meeting of the members of the ITSME Association will be held on wednesday, the 22nd September, 2010 at 1900 hrs at Hotel Savera, 146, Dr.Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai – 4 to transact the following business :- ORDINARY BUSINESS a) To receive and pass the Annual Report and Audited Accounts of the Council for the financial year 2009-10. b) To appoint the Auditors to audit the Accounts of the Council for the financial year 2010-11 and to fix their remuneration. Members are requested to kindly make it convenient to attend the Annual General Body Meeting and also join us for the Dinner thereafter, at the same venue. Mythili Parthasarathy Secretary Chennai

On Sunday, I was called for the Prize distribution function arranged by Columbia Kannan Trust and Jayadhaarini Trust for the youngsters who had participated in Classical music/semi classical music light music  under vocal and instruments  category in the competition held on 5th and 12th of September Here again, I went with the question - what a IT company head has to do with Music competition.  Everyone in my family was looking at me with  wide eyes when I told them where I am going.  I told them, to enjoy a movie, you dont need to be a movie maker so to enjoy music you dont need to be necessarily a singer and also they are calling me to a function where I dont need to sing, but to distribute the prizes to the winners. I came to know of these trusts only recently. Columbia Kannan Trust is a very young trust just one year old instituted in memory of Late S Kannan ,  who is famously known as columbia kannan who has served his life with music and musicians while working as recording

On Saturday, I had gone over to Captain TV, one of the private channels started quite recently by Actor turned Politician Vijayakanth in Tamil Nadu.  I had been invited to their studios to do be in their Success Stories called Sigaram Tottavar - meaning those who have reached the Summit.  ( while I feel that I am yet to reach Mt Everest in terms of my professional career, I do admit that in my own rights there is something I have achieved in this second innings of mine.  Having a started a Software Training industry at a mature age of 36ys and also after years of being just a homemaker - with no financial, technical and entrepreneurial background and out of which have spawned this living entity called Computers International and sustaining it against all odds is quite an achievement) Oh No, I am drifting from what I was trying to write, this post is not about me - but about what I observed in Captain TV was astonishing.  It is just a 6 months old entity and the work force is mostly le

This part is about the State Government of Tamil Nadu.  In India, when a patient gets admitted to the hospital, more than the worry about the state of health of the patient, the relatives worry about the amount that will be needed for the treatment ( Of course, we dont have the worry about how much will my insurance cover, and beyond which how do I treat - here it is about how we manage to get the money for the treatment from our various sources, as most often the medical insurance may or may not be there) The next biggest worry  is about how to get the food that needs to be given to the patient and also how the people who are staying along with the patient get their food.  Many hospital nowadays provide in-patient food, but to make horlicks or hot water - the helpers have to run to tea shops nearby or make sure that it is brought from home. Now I am proud that the Government has seen this need to be an area to be addressed and opened up the community kitchen in couple of hospitals. 

Here I am once again. There were a lot of things that I wanted to write about everyday, but couldn't find time to blog. So once again, I am starting again. This time, there are couple of news items about which I wanted to write about. First is about The Federal Government revoking its permission given to Vedanta Mining company that was mining bauxite from the tribal areas of Orissa. This issue was highlighted as something akin to Indian Avatar happening where the Hill which is very sacred to the people is going to be mined for commercial exploitation. See my earlier post on this story. Now I giving the extract from Hindu about the press conference statement made by the company where it claims that the State Government has promised the company to provide alternate site and that Supreme court has not found anything wrong with the mined area. Lets see what happens next as the Orissa Chief Minister has said the same day that he hopes there was no political decision that was made by

Quite recently I was on travel along with my husband. Since I travel more than my husband, I have a Gold membership card with few airlines and hotel chains, while in most cases, my husband either had a silver card or no membership at all, as we travel to different destinations most of the time. Everywhere I went,  whether it was US or India or any country for that matter, the person in the front office will always assume that he is the person who is the Gold card status holder and I am his companion.  I had an hearty laugh in Vancouver, on the day we were flying to Washington through Seattle from that airport.  From Vancouver to Seattle it is a small aircraft and so both our class of travel was same.  But from Seattle to Washington, mine was first class and his was economy class.  The airline representative was telling me that I don't know how a silver card holder has got an first class upgrade while a gold card holder is travelling in economy at the same time.  I had to tell her

Last month was a pretty bad month for me - both in official and personal terms. While I was on my business travel triggered by an emergency situation of my business being at risk, I had to return back urgently to India as my mother in law was battling for her life. With Gods grace, both my self and my husband could travel from different parts of US to be with her for at least one and half days before she breathed her last. This is a tribute to her - Not because she is my mother in law - but being a Very Great Woman she was. It is a tribute to all those women who silently struggle to bring up their kids and retain a family value in all that they done. She was a treasure trove of information. She was 84 when she died, but what an intelligent brain she had. It became frustrating for us to answer her intelligent questions. She was an avid reader of books, magazines and news paper. She could tell what was happening in US markets to my husband just by reading the Tamil newspa