Un Retiring Efforts

My father got selected as the "Professor of Emeritus" by Central Govt Ministry of Culture, India. The selection process had applicants across India who are tremendously knowledgeable in the field of cultural activities, drama and theatre arts. These are applicants who have spent decades in cultural field. From each state only 3 applicants are finally selected every year and my father is one among them. There were 63 applications from Andhra Pradesh. A thesis needs to be submitted along with application to apply for this position, my father chose "role of women in drama'. He received "Professor of Emeritus" position under theatre arts category. He would hold this position for 2 yrs, make contribution towards the field of culture by compiling various artifacts, touring across AP to understand more how the cultural field is working and submit a book. My father as you might remember got retired from services recently. He is an excellent drama artist and a wonderful orator, received plenty of awards from state and central government. He has completed PG Diploma in theatre arts around the age of 45 and appeared the day of exam with 103-104 degree fever. His determination helped him complete the course and clear the exam meritoriously against outweighing challenges which include physical/mental and domestic. He has done exceptionally well in living with his passion for Cultural arts. As a government servent he has received District Collector Award while working at Sangareedy, Kurnool and been nominated again when working at Khammam. Receiving recognition among such a big stream of competion from Government is an outstanding feat. His efforts are just "Un retiring". I congratulate my father on this achievement and wish him all the best.

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Excellence at its best

Dear Father,My heartiest congratulations on your retirement! Just like how there is a day after night, a rainy season followed by summer, there is a time for everything in life. You have been working so hard all these days and now it’s time to sit back, relax and have fun after your retirement. Your professional work was a marathon demo of unparalleled commitment and passion. You stood tough against the challenges of work and life with bull dog determination which is a natural quality of yours’ because of your patience and enthusiasm. Your ability to do high levels of hard work always helped me to think that I can also do a little more than what I am doing. I strongly believe wherever I am today and wherever I am going to be tomorrow it’s going to be because of that very hard work. Whenever I looked onto you for any advice you were there to show the way with confidence and strength irrespective of your problems. The best part I liked in you was, the way you greet people with smile whatever may be the situation you are in. I whole heartedly appreciate the milestones you have achieved in your professional and personal life gaining people’s confidence, love, recognition, awards, pride, and glory. You have set an example of what character and excellence means. I am sure you will be missed a lot in your professional circle, but that’s how life goes on and everything has a time. Perhaps now you have more time to spend on your hobbies, cultural activities and have fun.I am so glad being your son and could not have asked for a better father. You have been so helpful, motivational and inspired courage in me to do well in my life. And it’s not just me; you have guided so many people to make their lives better. You will be forever remembered for your enthusiasm and extraordinary levels of commitment and hard work. It’s a hard fact though, that you are going to retire today but the learning’s we have made from your life are never going to retire!!Dear Father I love you so much.. And wish you all the best. May God give you all that strength, energy and health to do what you want to do.


With Love,
Kishore & Family.

My Dream IPL 2010 Team

It has been a terrific victory for my home team Deccan Chargers in the second IPL edition. I wish we also continue the winning momentum in the upcoming 2010 season also.

With release of ICL players to be part of domestic teams / IPL, it can be used to further streghthen the sides which makes the contest even more tough. Surely, I'd like to see even a fifth foreign player to be able to play in the side. Ofcourse the positive side of not doing it can help the indian domestic players to showcase their talent at an international level.

IPL has already been a big stage game with players shooting to overnight fame attracting huge crowds to the grounds. Players like Yousuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Pragyan Ojha and many others have rocked to fame from the domestic scene and are making good at the international level also. The Champions league was another successful experiment from Lalit modi.

The big addition to international circuit was that of Keiron Pollard, the hard hitting right hander from the West Indies. He is definitely a player to watch out for, and turn the game on its head at any stage.

Here is my dream team for DC for the 2010 IPL Contest.

1. Gilchrist (Capt & WK)
2. AT Rayudu
3. Rohit Sharma
4. Andrew Symonds
5. VVS Laxman
6. Stuart Binny
7. Venugopal Rao
8. RP Singh
9. Fiedel Edwards
10. Kemar Roach
11. Pragyan Ojha

Wish the team best of luck

Culture and Skill

I went a generation back and peeped into the fulcrum of relationships to understand how they were more enduring and stronger than they are today.

I guess, they lived a life which was blend with a lot of cultural nourishment from the roots. It helped them to appreciate and respect the other persons views, look at them with sensitivity and to understand one's feelings well. As long as you can really understand the other persons position with all his/her positives and negatives you would be more empowered to sympathize. From this point on whatever you talk would definitely represent a true sense of welfare and not one which is biased with motto. Its so important here that, you dont use the knowledge to say something which will make efforts to secure your ego.

Pampering your ego is not the bone of contention when you want to really help someone or build a strong relationship.

Conclusion: Since we are missing the cultures from our education, system and nourishment today the basic courtersies like respecting others, being supportive, fostering strong relationships has become such high level of skilled task. What has been so naturally happening so far has become a big thing of wonder.

Let me know your views.

Understanding - Does it bring pain or relief

It's pretty tricky, right ???

Yeah, the general thought is thought when you understand something well, it provides you with more information so that you are clear why something is happening or not. But thats about the physics or mechanical outcome.

At the mental level.. how are you going to manage the result of not getting something ?

Its difficult / not difficult. Not difficult when you are not so much in need of the thing you are loosing but very difficult when its very critical that you have the positive outcome.

For example, you need a small help / info / advise which you know that some body can give you but if it does not come at the time you require or after reasonable amount patience you feel depressed. The sad part is you cannot even show your frustration on anyone since it will further hamper any chances of getting help. So what to do.... go on pleading !! If yes, how much and is it going to get you the result you want... what happens to your ego. It gets hurt and starts bleeding.

Despite all this, still you need the help / info in time else your work / progess is halted... and when you cannot afford to see it halted ???

I have no idea to answer this.. and living with it at this moment and struggling on my own.. to get going. The philosophy to keep up the will power / determination is all good .. but cant get you the help / info you are looking for. So whats the good thing about it... It keeps you in the direction to get the result ... a little late may be... There may be some loss because of the delay..

But thats how its at the moment.

Pray that the peace is restored

Its one of the busiest cities of India, which had to experience the worst in its history. Everyone was shell shocked to see whats happening in the city.

The life had stopped for the last more than 50 hours now. It pains so much to know that the bleeding is still continuing with the death toll going upwards 160. Whatever measures have been taken / would be taken can never return the lives of those who lost and scar would be left permanently. My heart cries for those who left this world in such a horrific incident. I only wish the peace is restored at the earliest with the least possible damage.

I watched on the TV that the Taj Hotel Staff did their best to protect the lives of the hostages in the face of heavily armed terror. It goes to show the how much the people here tried their best to safeguard its visitors.

I touch the feet of those brave men who staked their lives in the quest to save the innocent. Its the devotion, worship, commitment and all those adjectives to describe the best at work, were demonstrated by the Police, NSG Commando's, Marine Commando's in this operation. I extend my full sympathy and condolence's to the families who have lost their loved ones.

Tolerance: A characteristic to foster effective living

I just started to think the last few days with how my dad is managing things quite effectively. The take home point was, he has lots of tolerance. The gains I could see are he has more patience to sustain a hostile environment and can keep himself in pursuit of the objective he is on. When we all know that life is full of challenges, with a mix of pain and pleasure, happiness and sorrow “Tolerance” is one such positive mental attitude which can help you stay in balance.

Nevertheless there may be situations where we look ineffective at times but on a long run people do see you as a person with maturity and can always develop a soft corner for you. It’s not a technique however but a natural way of accommodating things in life and you don’t seem to be worried much about the painful things about life. As we all know we have things which can also cause pain in life and not just pleasure. The two brothers exist along side and we need to know how to strike a balance between them.

Now if someone is forcing on you to do something you don’t like you can always say it a bit polite but firmly. There is nothing harm in dealing like that. Once again it’s a sign of your tolerance limits and the situations in life always keep you checking on it. The more you can be tolerant the less will be your frustration. Whatever the amount of frustration you carry will again need that much of cooling time and all of this time adds no value to your life.

Let’s start making an attempt to improve on our tolerance. It not only helps you endure effective relationships but also can quickly rebuild a shattered one. If life is something about making good, making good from what is broken the lets cultivate our attitude to have this wonderful characteristic “Tolerance”.