A big doubt crept in

(wrote it some 3 weeks ago, when I was in Mumbai)


Well! It has been almost 8 months since I realized (for the first time) that I am made for a career in General Management. I seriously thought that ‘Operations’ is a field with which I’ll start and will gradually move up to a proper General Management profile. So the picture was quite clear. I could never be an I-Banker, don’t have the grades or the profile to make the cut for top3-4 consultancy jobs, and compared to whatever else was on offer I somehow convinced myself that this GM stuff is suitable for me.

But it was a new field, so that’s where I chose an internship in this GM company.
I believed (and still believe) that the main purpose(from the interne’s perspective) of this kind of internship is to Provide the Experience. An intern must feel how his life is going to be after one year if he joins the same company. First hand experience is great but at least if he can work with people who are in that position (seniors who were offered the similar post), that will be just fine. I am saying this because an internship is not like a sales pitch for a small FMCG product, we are talking about careers. If someone likes the culture and joins in, the company is getting a great employee for the future; otherwise it is just wasting its money and someone’s time.

Needless to say that I am finding myself on the wrong side of this philosophy (Otherwise who thinks about such things.. even Newton thought about gravity only when he was hit by an Apple J).

In fact now I am more than apprehensive about a career in General Management. The fear is that it’s not that professional a field as IT(that I’ve experienced). As the field requires you to deal with real issues/numbers.. Most of the people who are there for 5- 10 years, feel that all these MBA types are those hi-fy PPT types. Most of such companies are bureaucratic or even worse they are dynastic, family run types. And anyway a bad experience fills your mind with lots of doubts.

Leaving that field currently I find myself more suitable for the IT/domain consultancy types of jobs. And then yeah I may also go for marketing.

So overall I am a lot more confused than I ever was, Thanks to my internship experience 🙂
And the love with GM career is not completely over yet, anyway it is hard to believe that all GM jobs can be as worthless as I have seen them to be. Sometimes I make myself believe that it’s not the time to run away, but to fight. Migrating to a system that is easier to work in is no big deal, probably showing these Lo-tech baniyaa types the reality behind this hard earned MBA is a challenge in itself.

It’s odd, but the only incident that inspired me for a GM career did not involve any of my mentors or anyone from the company, rather ironically it came from a taxi driver. Here it goes..
I was coming to the outskirt of this village type thing (unfortunately where my Guest House is located) from the air-port. He asked me if I work for XYZ? As this part of the city is kinda owned by this company. I said yes. He asked me a few more questions and I told him that I am a manager there (no need to confuse him with the internship story).
He turned back and very sincerely he requested “ Sahab, Jab se aapka store khula hai tab se hamein bhi local kiraane waale saste mein saamaan dete hain.. waise sahab mehangaai bahut hai aap thoda aur sasta kar deejiye plz”

It was a big thing for me.. when I worked in my IT job, I could never expect a common man to have any connection with me.. I could never touch lives of those around whom I live, who indirectly shapes my life. My job was meaningless for a commoner, (in fact to an extent it was meaningless for me as well). And now you see! It amazes me how many lives you touch when you work in such mammoth GM companies. This thought pushes me back to feel that a career in GM is still not out of sight. Given the scope of this area, Perhaps I still want to come here and make a difference.

The Summer Ordeal


Ok so who ever is going through or has ever gone through a nightmarish internship (please include your engineering ones as well) should have a look at this experience

– Your internship is supposed to be taking place in a metro city, but you are miles away from any signs of civilization, OK there is a good guest house, but just outside it, is a place where people don’t understand that a toilet and a road are two different things altogether. You feel crappy to walk 3 kms to ur office at 11 am in the sweltering heat (btw that’s the office timing), when you wear your formals, hold ur heavy lappy-bag and walk through those dusty-shi**y lanes.. and yeah you walk because the company owes no responsibility for ur conveyance..and the location ensures that you won’t get an auto either, if sometimes you get a bus then you must be thankful to the great admin dept.

– You get no projects in the first 2 weeks, in those 12 days you go to ur mentor’s desk at least 30 times and each time he makes a typical face..takes 5 long mins to look up from his monitor.. and says “yeah we will meet this evening/morning/afternoon/ everything is fixed we are waiting for BOSS’s approval” and yeah he always says “I’ll call you” before diving back in to his monitor.

– OK 2 weeks over, you are frustrated with ur mentor so you contact those senior people whom you have seen in ur college, in those nice PPTs and selection interviews, distributing lots of goodies, giving gyaan about the company culture and the internship, looking ever so helpful. But what they do is that they call ur mentor, bash him up, reply to ur mail having all the top brass and ur mentor in the list and say “Don’t panic, we are shifting you to a new dept”.. Hurray! Tactically so awesome! N btw the new mentor and HODs are also in the reply list J

– Your new mentor doesn’t even look at you while you are being introduced to him by the HR, he says. “OK, he will work with XYZ” .. that’s it .. this XYZ himself is not a very nice person to start with

– As there is no place to sit in this new dept, you are sharing the seat with Mr. XYZ. Next morning he comes and the first thing he does is to unplug ur lappy power and put his mobile on charging, and points to a temporarily vacant cubic and tells you to shift there.

– Ohh! I haven’t talked about the work in the new dept. They hand you 2 crappy but ‘secret’ docs, you are not allowed to take them to your Guest House, each day you must submit them back to ur mentor. One day you do the same and then the mentor is off to a 2 day training, leaving you behind with nothing to work with

– Now you know that there is nothing much in the manuals, you take ur own initiatives to learn something.. you request to go to the store and see the things by yourself.. you do the same and meet the store manager on one evening. You go to the store (of course you go by local trains/auto) some days later early in the morning to see the store-opening processes. The guard questions you when you say that you are an intern (wtf is an intern? there are BOSSES, employees, temporary emloyees, contract workers.. but an intern ..aayla tum yahan training karne aaye ho), ur id-card doesn’t carry the company name and nyway its so pathetic that it is an insult even to the batches that school going kids wear these days. The manager is not there, and his deputy refuses you to observe the ‘secret processes’. You argue that you work with this n that team, but then you don’t have their phone nos, in fact they never gave you any. You try whatever other nos you had.. but yeah the company opens at 11:00 am and people are as helpful to their colleagues as Mr Mallya has been to Dravid n company throughout IPL. Absolutely frustrated, you walk out of the store, but yeah not before the guard frisks (yeah “FRISKS”) you and u could notice a hint of smile on his face( as if he is saying “looser..ho gayee teri training”)

OMG.. the list is never gonna end, But to complete the story, more or less all of this is repeated everyday in a never ending loop… but you see a ray of hope.. ohh its just a summer internship. Remember when sometimes you see those bad dreams..you missing an important exam, falling from a hight n all..and then you suddenly wake up to realize that it was just a bad dream. Sometimes you get a similar feeling with your internship.. you thank God that it is just an internship. I am so Lucky!! 🙂

Happy Republic Day!!


Wishing all the Indians a very Happy Republic day, lets pray that our country, the biggest democracy in the world may go stronger with the grit and determination of over one billion Indians. We truly deserve to savor the moment when the tri-color is unfurled at the Red Fort..that moment is meant to feel proud of what we have achieved, and the very next moment we have to start again, get back to our work..as we still have a lot more to do.

m already waiting for the morning, when the Adelaide test will take a back seat and the national will be at a stand still for those 52 seconds.
(best of luck to the Indian team as well, Aussie ki Taissi kar do 🙂 )

Vande Mataram!


Nikku and his bottle of happiness

8Rs 50 paisa, Nikku counted the money and quickly slipped it in the pocket of his pants. He was completely exhausted and his body was reeling under the pain, but still he was more than willing to work for that extra hour today as well. He was doing the same for last few days. Compared to the other labours, he was new to the job and thus the least productive as well. As a 9 years old he could hardly sew 10 bags a day, earning a paltry sum of 20 Rs for his family, Family…for him this meant his mother and his younger brother Raju. His mother, who usually worked as a labour in adjacent construction sites, once in a while she could find the job of house maid but then her love for the kids will overwhelm her honesty and despite knowing the consequences she would steal some food items for the kids and will eventually be thrown out of the ‘houses of those honest persons’.

And then Raju, his beloved younger brother who still goes to the municipal school, who still plays with his friends in the evening… For Nikku, he was living a whole new life in Raju. Late night he used to ask Raju about his day in detail, what was taught? how was the teacher? about his friends.. what did he play? How many runs he made? Whats happening in the neighborhood? and all sorts of things that he missed. Perhaps he was missing too many things, He was missing his Childhood!

India-pakistan series was going on these days, he remember that ‘Gupta Sahab’ allowed the workers(most of them were minors) to see the match for about an hour and after India’s win he even distributed sweets. Nikku brought that laddu back to his place, only to share it with Raju. He could not make much sense out of what happened except that India won and the enemy Pakistan lost, he also jumped and clapped like others did..but all that was empty and hollow.. much like his own existence.

What probably impressed him most was the Pepsi advertisement. The theme of “Yeh Pyaas hai badi” was still afresh in his mind. He was used to work in that 10 by 10 feet room with atleast 15 others in the extreme hot conditions of north Indian summer, and the water tap outside the room was the only source of respite. But now he had seen that image of so many happy persons having that chilled bottle in their hands… probably that’s the reason of their happiness, at least he will be extremely happy to have something like that. He still remembers how cold an ice-cream was when he and Raju shared one last year. Probably this Pepsi is even colder and even sweeter than that. Suddenly all the Pepsi billboards started to make a lot of sense, crates stacked outside local shops were teasing him and looked like they were waiting for the fortunate ones to come and taste them.

He mustered all his courage, waited outside one such shop till the owner got a bit free and then asked “ Paepsi kitneki hai?” (how much will a pepsi cost?)

He looked at him, his eyes were like questioning his shabby clothes, disorganized appearance and to some extent his whole identity as a human being and then with complete rudeness he answered “aath rupe” (8 Rupees) and immediately looked otherway with utter contempt.

8 Rupees, that was the difference between him and a moment that he will really cherish for a long long time.. purchasing something and then enjoying it..like all others, and that too with his own money.

His daily earnings were known to his mother and then they have to arrange for the meals, Raju’s fees, his books, the rent of the kholi ..nothing left on that side.

He then thought of an idea, he will work an hour extra and then while returning he will run hard towards the Kholi so that mother doesn’t suspect much.

Now he was doing this for last one week or so and finally today was the day when he will go to the same shop and the same shopkeeper will have to walk to the fridge and get him ‘his bottle’, after all today he had the money..and was paying the same 8 Rupees as any one of those more or even extremely fortunate ones pay.

It was late in the night, today he was not working overtime so he was walking at his own pace, completely immersed in the thoughts of his bottle of pepsi, How all the heat accumulated in these last few months will get released with those few sips, how and where he will hide the bottle, and then will take Raju out with some excuse to his favorite place..the basement of an under construction ‘Paradise apartment’ (the dimly lit place where no one see him..where he is away from his day to day troubles and can be the old Nikku as he was a few months back), and then how will he surprise Raju with that bottle of Pepsi, They will take their own time in finishing it, He could already see the smile on Raju’s face. He could not wait any longer now!

Everything went as he thought earlier, untill the shopkeeper asked him “Abhi khol doon?”(Shall I open it now?”

Nahi, mujhe de do, ghar par kholoonga (Give tht to me, I’ll open tht at home)

Abe nahi, phir tu 5 Rs bottle ke aur jama kar, kal bottle deke 5 Rs waapas le lena(then gimme 5 Rs extra for the bottle, when you return it, take them bck from me)

He requested a lot and even swore that he will return the bottle ..but all in vain!

He felt extremely stupid, useless and betrayed ..came out of the shop..it seemed that all those hundreds of bottles along with that shopkeeper are laughing at him, a thin layer of tears helped him by obscuring the huge and well-lit billboard of Pepsi, he started to run again, harder than he had ever run.. probably away from this ruthless world ..so that he can weep loudly at the basement of his favorite ‘Paradise apartment’ before returning back to his kholi.

TATA nano, ready for the Giga impact?

Westerners may have never thought of anything except millions and billions and may have found any other term (like lakhs crores) a source of unwanted confusion. But on 11 th Jan 2008 this other part of the world was seeing the videos of an Indian car launch across all major US/UK news channels, After all the world’s cheapest car was launched, priced at 1 lakh Indian Rupees. Many minds were stressed to figure out what exactly that means, probably near about 5000$( Current cheapest car model the Chinese Chery QQ3),

Calculations started trickling in, and astonished many,1 lakh Indian Rupees equals only $2500. WOW!

All Auto journals around the world were awe struck by this car, for $2500 an Indian company is offering a real car. A French reporter exclaimed “It seems like a real car. The windows actually wind down”

The nation watched the event closely; our news hungry news channels had a hot property at hand, something in which everyone was interested (unlike Jurm/Sansanee – wo maut ki saudagar, Vish-kanya etc). The common man wanted to see if the promise made by TATA was actually fulfilled, can he afford the “four wheeler” so that he need not do daily acrobatics to load 2 adults and three kids on his poor scooter, is he really getting a car within his limited budget and if it is anything more than a glorified AutoRickshaw?

The other opposite segment was curious to see if it is actually possible to have a car at 1 lakh Rupees.. and then in the modern world you always have a third category..some people who drive in their own patrol guzzlers to these sites to lead a protest on the name of Green-peace and environment protection.

The event got an unprecedented coverage, news channels were gearing up for the event for the last 3-4 days, and the live streaming started on some channels as much as 1 hour before the actual magic started to roll.

Hundreds of photographers were elbowing each other to get the best shot of the People’s car, while hundreds of teenagers also flocked to the Pragati maidaan to witness the history in making.

I am not interested in covering the event, that has already been covered all over media and anyway I am writing what I saw or read in the media so no point in doing that..

What I want to portray is the tremendous interest the event generated,

How years of hard work from a team of 500 engineers and anticipation from millions condensed into one moment of sensation.

Curiously I looked at interesting discussions going on various forums of some US and UK news site..you can also view them, after all TATA-nano is all over J .. at least here here and here

One thing that was evident was that its something that catches everyone’s imagination, its not an incremental product, actually it’s a potential revolution, something that can create a storm at the world level. The US car companies rose to the hard reality called Japanese manufacturing in the 80s and 90s..many terms like JIT, SMED were floated and they were not only appreciated but also adopted by the world. Are we going to see something similar soon? Am I hearing TATA?

I am not pegging all my hopes on this tiny car, probably that will be a bit too much for a 624 cc car, but if you see the larger picture its a lot more than a car. Its a strong statement about the India’s capability to challenge convention, to innovate, to force the world to stop and take a note and in this case “Applaud!”.

Before the Software/Services saga, we were known as a nation of snake charmers, then it was changed but it was really not enough, all of our success was attributed to our cheap labour force. A colonial view will say that the Indian software industry had to succeed despite their questionable quality .. after all Indian engineers come at one fifth the price.

..who cares and who will believe that you are as capable as we are!

Probably for the first time we are getting out of that cheap labour mould, the nano is not only about cheap labour, its about a vision, a promise, about aspirations of millions, top design work and courage. Had the cheap labour been the driving force, the Suzuki’s and Hyndai’s of the world who operate and manufacture in India would not have termed the project as impossibility and insanity.[ Statements made by Osamu Suzuki — “Tata will not be able to make a one lakh car” — flashed on large screens during Ratan TATA’s presentation. Cudos!!]

It’s the first time when the world is looking at India in a new light , this small car has changed a lot at a bigger scale. Above all it has given Indian middle class a new Hero.

We as a nation lack such real Heroes, Probably the last time we saw them were in the form of Dheeru Bhai Ambani and JRD. But now we have another in the form of Ratanji TATA who believes in his, his team’s and his nation’s capability. A person who took over the major responsibility in 1993 after the demise of JRD, has made many bold statements. Probably the most significant of them were entering into car market (Indiaca’s success story), Tetley and then Corus(mother of all Indian acqs) acquisition.

Even five years back a 1 lakh Rupees Car was not a joke(or should i say that it sounded like one?), Car prices were still very much the same as they are now…Steel and Oil prices have soared considerably from then but still TATAs have managed to fulfill what they promised. “A promise is a promise,” Ratan Tata said during the presentation.

The kind of coverage that TATA got could make some so called richest persons of the world/India feel a bit uneasy. But it shows a big reality ..”You think about the common man and the world will think about you if you are honest about it”. The common man is once again in focus..at least for some days..Bajaj is planning something similar in collaboration with Renault. Probably this common man will come into focus in other industries as well.

The true success of TATA nano will be decided in another one year or so, but the kind of inquiries that TATA showrooms are catering to in the smallest and farthest towns/small cities in India, the kind of Thumbs-up it got from international/national auto media and Indian Auto industry is enough to conclude that if the whole journey matches the debut than this car will redefine the Auto industry of this country and who knows, it may redefine the whole country as well. As it inspires millions of youngsters like me to be proud of what we are..INDIANS!!

I Salute you Mr. TATA, Jai Hind!!

I don’t know if its good or bad, but its different!

Well after all I got some time to write an entry. I never knew before I joined the college what exactly this hectic study schedule would mean, given my track record I never accepted that I will follow all the rules, for me I considered myself fundu enough to live here on my own terms, but alas! I was nothing but overconfident.
The system is too rigorous for anyone to come and challenge it, I don’t know what will happen if you do, because I could never do that.
There is a difference between busy and hectic, i had my fair share of busy days during my career, but hardly experienced this hectic sort of happenings. Busy is something when you are not getting spare time, but still hopefully you are working on a single problem at hand, But here in this land of sacrosanct time limits, its hectic. what this means is that on a given day there are 5 resume submissions to be made, 2 online forms to be filled(some times they run into 10-15 pages, asking nonsensical and non relevant questions like my marks in all the subjects throughout my education, relative position/grade etc, all of my family background, even my birth place..all this given that they will definetly reject my resume after reading the first 3 lines it self, a poor MNNIT grad with a 75% marks) , add to that the ppts of companies that you have to attend and suffer, project group meetings, gyan sessions, tutorials, surprise quiz fear, and you know that you are in a virtual hell 🙂

OK this was a particularly depressing picture maybe because i had to attend two painful ppts today. there is a brighter side as well, you get great subjects and profs, huge learning opportunities and if looking from a different perspective a challenging schedule as well.
Like sometimes when i have to run hard to reach the lecture room in time, I love it, it reminds me of my school/college days 🙂

Ohh… AaaaI’ ll be joining AAIAAIMB

Attitude! that’s the thing that I have noticed in past few days. Simply because I am also joining IIMB..I have seen/interacted with lots of my future class mates recently.

I have seen some very weird reactions of these future IIM students and that have forced me to write this particular entry.
I understand that there is very fine line between being proud of your achievements and being arrogant, but still i am very interested in defining this line more clearly, When exactly a highly successful person starts to look cheap thanks to his constant bragging.

This also reminds me of my earlier days of college life. How we used to mock all the private colleges in our MNNIT days, How it gave us extreme pleasure to tell someone that we study in MNNIT.. and how we thought that the other guy must not be knowing our real value if he failed to respond accordingly.

Coming back to the topic..no need to say that most of these guys must be having a great profile, then they have cracked CAT and must have had a great day on their GD/PI day.

But still, what does this say about them?

1.they are very good at cracking a CAT like paper(OK I extend it and say that they have good aptitude)

2.They have an impressive profile/personality.

But I can still not allow someone with these limited (proven) credentials to be an egotist.

Tomorrow if they become successful businessmen and create some value for this society (that has otherwise given so much to them) I will have absolutely no problem if they ridicule every second person and open every gate with a kick. 😀

But not now, I feel extremely uncomfortable with persons who don’t show minimal respect that must be granted to every human being.(and not boasting about your IIT/IIM tag when you are talking to any other guy or at least concealing that condescending attitude should be a part of that)

I thought a lot about this and then I thought about some really inspiring personalities..(In Indian context, for me it will be Mahatma Gandhi, JRD Tata, Ambani, some gallantry award winner soldiers like Capt Batra, Lt. Pandey, stars like AB Bachchan(you may hate him, but you can’t ignore him), A.R.Rehman, great doctors, architects) ..very few of them have these IIT/IIM tags.

Now coming to my list, what sets these greats apart is not the degrees that they hold but its their focus, passion and talent/intelligence.

In fact most of them were not that promising in their early 20s(now most iitians are on seventh heaven at an age of say 17-19 ), they had moderate talent ..which they were able to grow just because of their passion and focus.

I would like to talk about intelligence as this is one of the most difficult word to define.

To me it has many parameters. You need not be too good on all the parameters to be called as intelligent, if have an spectacular command on some parameters, its enough to show that given the time and desire you can master any other parameter as well.

Here are the parameters –

-Logical ability

-Quantitative analysis(may in turn have many parameters like number crunching, problem solving, correlating powers etc etc)

-business sense- ability to think about how to do your work by hook or by crook.

-memory power

-consulting power(how you can reach a good solution and how well can you put it across)

-Creativity(if you can create an awesome piece of art, which can be anything ..music/painting/movie whatever, you can never be dumb)

etc etc.

The only point that I want to make is that getting into an IIT or IIM is surely a great thing to do ..but its not the ultimate thing. And though a person insures that he will be earning a lot in future ..nothing else is insured(compared to the kind of dream that we usually have.. like being the Jack Welch, Gates or Branson of tomorrow).

So why get so obsessed with this IIT/IIM tag, its not the only thing to define a person..he himself will have to define him in future.

I could never join an IIT because of my low rank..but had I got 15-20 more marks I would have got an under 1500 rank for sure. Similarly had I got one more question wrong in Language section of CAT this year ..i would have probably got 0 calls. What I mean is that we all are different in so many aspects. Very few lucky ones get the chance to get into IITs and IIMs ..but they have to understand that there are thousands of others who would have replaced them for sure had they got a bit better opportunities, guidance and maybe luck.

Ps. I can blabber on this issue for hours. So I might be posting again on the same topic once I get an insider’s view :).
And one more thing is that the issue here is a lot broader, I have seen such a weird behaviour of so many govt employees towards common junta, Comp Sc students having such behaviour towards Civil Engg guys. Indians having such behaviour towards Africans(though they receive the same in much more quantity frm Europeans n Americans) n all that.

We all are guilty of evaluating others based on face values specially when it is none of our business to do so, we forget that the God has used the greatest of algorithms to diversify talent and skills across all possible parameters like demographic groups, classes, gender etc.

Current Affairs

there are so many new things that I want to share over here..the most important one is that I am getting married very soon(19th june).
another is an update that i got final calls from all the IIMs except IIMA, so I’ll be joining IIMB 🙂

I am already out of my job, so these days I am absolutely free and thus I am into too many things.
listing them in order of priority –

Trading – these days the rate at which I am looking at or hearing of or maybe thinking of Sensex and Nifty is definitely more than my heart beat itself. I just entered it on this Monday and look the market is already down by around 400 points from then. I have currently invested in Unitech, ZEE, CINEMAX and Power India Finance(probably the weakest link) and making losses in tune of 5- 10% in each of these stocks. Don’t worry I have invested hardly 5-6k till now, so the losses are not more than 300-400Rs. Hoping to come in green very soon. 🙂

Web Site:- It was on highest priority before this trading bug got me. I am planning to roll out some lessons on quants. i mean an online resource of not only questions but also for theory in very lucid form supported with great and hand picked examples. I know its tough and I hardly have any time left to do so in near future..but I am still trying , still figuring out the right pattern and flow.

Body Building:- It has been more than 3 months since I joined the Gym, its another thing that my attendance over there is not that great(maybe 50-60%). but still I have gained a lot of muscles.. the only sad factor is that my stomach muscles have also joined the party, so the tummy has slowly but surely started to bulge out of T-shirts.
my advice to everyone is to focus on cardio, I almost stopped any cardio to save some time after initial 10-15 days, it may be boring when compared to weight training but its very useful..it will help in melting some fat so that all the form is visible in those newly building muscles(and obviously it will keep the tummy in check)

Serials – I am guilty of watching a lot of tv programs these days..during day time its business channels, late night its news channel and in between I don’t mind watching a “Saathi Re”(9:00 pm, Star One) or even “Teen Bahuraanian”(10:30 Zee Tv) and I am feeling a bit too embarrassed but I don’t mind watching even “Jab Love Hua”(11:00 Zee TV), apart from this some weekend shows like SaReGaMa or Antakshari(Star One – m not sure about the kids series .. but this one was very good) or Indian Idol and Laughter Challenge -3.
So you know what I am doing most of the time these days..m glued to the idiot box.

Coaching – I am also working in PT as a guest faculty .. have only taken 3 classes till now .. but whenever i have a class I do enjoy the experience.

Sketching – its a long time dream to be able to make sketches. I have got hold on some good books and now i am trying hard to get some time for that.

Shaadi Prep – its again a huge task. apart frm all shoppings of Sangeeta in which I have to give her company like a dummy of her future husband(I don’t like this kinda expensive shopping..kinda miser you know :), n then I really don’t like the idea of wasting 3 hours of time..unwinding! and I mean unwinding so many shops, walking from on end of a street to another just to get something 200 Rs cheaper or maybe coz the blue pearls used in a saree were not that much in sync..uff) I have to buy something for myself as well.
tried hard but could not buy a Sherwaani, could not convince myself for spending 8-10k for those embroided kurtaas. I will try to buy smthing cheaper from Agra itself.

there are other things as well..like currently I am in between of at least 4 books(Freakonomics, It happened in India, Loosing my Virginity(Richard branson) and The Clocks.

I hope you can imagine the whole picture, I am having absolute free time since this monday..but still I can always complicate things and have a habit of taking more on my plate then what I can eat(though literally in this case I end up eating whatever I took ..hence the tummy 🙂 )
and I am thoroughly enjoying all this confusion, panic and uncertainty.