Random Thoughts - Pattabhi Sitaraman

It was the year 2000-01. The bank in its own wisdom decided to send me for a training on higher HR concepts and christening it Executive Development Program.  There were about 30 people drawn from different states, regions,  geographies and  speaking different languages and assembled together for the training.  There was a training coordinator for the program who was also an officer of the bank.  One of the sessions started off with talking about one's worst moments in life and how the individual overcame that so that others can draw lessons from that. As the number of attendees were 30+, the session was made into a whole day program.  Each was given a fifteen minute time bracket to talk about the worst trials and tribulations in his/her personal life and how the person overcame that. There was an officer from Delhi itself, but was originally from Srinagar who recounted his worst moments as the head of a branch in the valley and how the entire scenario sp...

With the CAB getting passed with a comfortable majority in both houses of parliament, the bill became an act.  There are protests across the nation engineered by the political opponents to the ruling party, some anti-national elements and refugees and illegal immigrants from across the border.  However, these protests have been largely centered around the states where the party in power is the same as the party in power in the center or those that are in support of the central government.  So much has been written, discussed and debated in main stream media both print and visual and also in the social media, there is no point in recollecting the same here.  However, there is one aspect of the CAA that has been not thought about nor discussed in any platform which this blog is trying to bring to the fore. Recently it was in a face-book post about driving around Mumbai, there was a talk with the driver and he was mentioning about the loss of camaraderie amon...