My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

While everybody in India is talking about the corruption in high places, the amount of money (how many zeros will be there to denote the huge amount that is being touted), I found it very refreshing to have met  this young boy last month. A tiny one room on the top of a old building - climbing up the stairs strained with pan spittings on both sides, somebody taking a nap on the landing - Not a definite winner of a Great Place to work.  But this guy  Tanvir was enjoying his work and was so proud of what he and his other coworkers were doing..   "Polishing Silver and Gold articles" Yes this was the profession he was undertaking as a family business and which has been traditionally done by his ancestors - What was refreshing was the pride he had and the happiness he found in this calling.  He was proud of the fact that they were dealing with almost all the major jewellers in TNagar.  So like Robin Sharma talks about  Being the Best in what you do in his Leading without a

A good and educative article, which I have taken from the connectitnews website and sharing 10 common body language traps for women in the workplace 31 May, 2011 By Mark Cox A female executive was having problems dealing with her male colleagues. "They like me, but they never take me seriously," she complained. "It's as if they think I'm flirting with them. Which I definitely am not!" After watching her interact with various men on the senior management team, I saw the problem. She was trying to discuss work-related issues while using a "social gaze." Here's what I mean . . .. It all depends on where you look If you create an imaginary triangle on someone's face, with their eyes as the base and mid-forehead as the apex, you will have mapped out the "look of business." When you keep your gaze in that area, you non-verbally signal a no-nonsense, business-like approach. But when you invert the triangle and move y

These two pieces are one again lifted from something which came into my mailbox.  The first one is from the Changegear's weekly newsletter (written by men at the editorial board) and the second one was forwarded by good friend viji from eWIT  and is based on the current political situation in India.  Enjoy my friends!!!! Life is Like That The Etiquette of Barbecue Season After the long months of cold and winter weather, we will soon be coming up to summer and BBQ season. Therefore it is important to refresh your memory on the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking as it's the only type of cooking a real man will do, probably because there is an element of danger involved. When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion: Routine... 1) The woman buys the food. 2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert. 3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking uten

Padma Bhusan Anna Hazare - My salutations to you Great Sir.  What most of Indians  wanted to do, but didnt have the will power or courage to do, YOU HAVE DONE IT Showing us all the way.   It takes a great soul to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.  As people say, I am sure Gandhi would be happy that you are also being called Gandhi of 21st century. For the viewers : I am giving below a small write up about Shri Anna Hazare.  Anna Hazare is a 72 year  ex-Indian army man , who had Fought in the  1965 Indo-Pak War.  A Army veteran, he made sure that he is contributing to the society through his guidance and hardwork.  He was solely behind the building up of a Self Sustained Model  village  -   Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra.   Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills.  Prior to having Anna Hazare working along with the villagers, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest villages in India. It has become a mod

There is this Tamil movie  in which Vadivel the comedian plays a local dhada  role and Madhavan is a youth residing in that locality.  The scene goes on like this, after a few encounters between them :  Madhavan comes out of Vadivel's house and tells a lie that Vadivel is being corrupt or something to that effect.  The whole crowd believes whatever he say despite Vadivel protesting his innocence, where one of the person in the crowd saying aloud that " a white skinned person will not lie".  I was reminded of that scene, when one of our friends was recounting a true happening in US. Of course, this happened a few years earlier in one of the suburbs of Washington where my friend and his friend were working for a US company providing late night support to the organization to run through the various batch jobs.  These two people were living close by the office as their work hours were out of ordinary.  When my friend left for home late in the night around 103.0 pm, he saw hi

In  my last post on the same subject, I had written about how court would decide the case and here is the newspaper report on it.   Aruna get to live because the hospital staff who have been caring for her for so long wish her to live and hence the Supreme court has rejected the case filed by her friend Pinky, Here is the full news items from Hindu New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed passive mercy killing of a patient in a permanent vegetative state (PVS) by withdrawing the life support system with the approval of a medical board and on the directions of the High Court concerned. A Bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra, however, did not accept the plea of Pinky Viranai seeking permission to withdraw life support to her friend, Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug, who has been lying in a PVS in the KEM hospital Mumbai for 37 years. Though it dismissed the petition filed by Ms. Pinky Virani of Bombay on the ground that she did not have the locus standi and that only

When I saw this news item, I was really overwhelmed by the great Heart of  Kochousheph, who is the Managing director of the well known consumer product group V Guard.  Like his company's ads, he has done something, which will make a fellow human who  has been very near the Eternal gates of Death has been given a new life. My Salutations to you Noble Sir, You are a true great Human being, who has shown the world the joy of gifting life, even when living.   You are truly a Godly person and may all the happiness, health, wealth and peace be with you all the time. For my readers, the below news item will only make them wish with me Mr Kochousheph the above along with me KOCHI: VGuard Industries managing director Kochouseph Chittilappilly's deed of donating his kidney has given a new lease of life to Joy Ulahannan, who had been suffering from endlife renal failure . The surgery was done by a team of doctors led by urologist Dr George Abraham and nephrologist Dr Aby Abraham on W