on the road...

abc...

2011-05-05T23:00:00.000-07:00

We had come up with a whacky idea of celebrating New Year's eve in Dharamshala/McLoed Gunj. I was personally looking forward to experience some snow fall after 2 years.

Equally crazy was our itinerary - start from Delhi at 1 am and drive throughout till afternoon next day. To add to our woes we had our friends cousin who was still learning how to drive, planning to drive for few hours.After driving for a couple of hours, my friend decided to give the car to his cousin, since we felt the road was a little empty.

Here comes the scary part - this guy sits on the wheel and says ABC - A for accelerator, B for brakes, C for clutch. The expressions on our faces would have been worth watching...

The Indian state of affairs...

2011-04-14T11:32:00.000-07:00

This post is meant to vent out my frustration regarding the state of affairs of our healthcare system. As has happened in the past few years, although we have managed to give rise to an industry called health tourism and made a few bucks too. However, the system and people really need an upheaval if we are to progress and see ourselves as a developed nation.

My grandfather is about 85-86 years old. Both him and my grandmother had a paralysis attack about 6-7 years ago. Since then, my grandmother cannot walk and has to be helped with her day-to-day activities. Mentally and physically strong as my grandfather is, he managed to walk with the help of support (walker as they call it) and has needed little help from the family. However, his health has deteriorated compared to what is was 2-3 years ago. 2 days ago he fell down while trying to help my grandmother sit up. However, he could not hold his balance and fell down and his already paralyzed left leg got a hit. The doctor asked to take an x-ray despite the lack of any swelling but due to the sustained pain in the hip area.

Here's where me and my father went to the nearest x-ray center - only to find that the x-ray room in on the first floor in a building that does not have a lift. Nobody has given a damn thought about how could a person who has pain in his legs walk up to the x-ray center. Even if one could be taken on a stretcher, that still would have to be taken up the stairs which is not the best case scenario for a person in pain. No wheelchair access in a hospital? The other one nearby did not have a digital x-ray machine - who goes analog these days?

We decided to take him to another center, one which was on the ground floor and had a digital x-ray machine. Now, if you have seen an x-ray machine, it has a decent height - about 3 feet I'd say. But the place did not have a mechanism to lift a person from the wheel chair and rest him on the x-ray bed nor trained people to do the job. Me and my father had to help lift him from the wheelchair and put him up on the x-ray bed. And then from some reason, the radiologist was not able to take x-rays in the normal position (he could not adjust the position of the x-ray beam to the appropriate hip position). He asked us to move my grandpa a little above the normal resting posture on the x-ray table in which one of us had to hold my grandpa's head much like Arjun's arrows that held Bhishma's head high above the ground. So much for a professional setup. And to top it all, he said that the report would be ready by late evening, knowing that the case has a bit of an emergency element to it.

I am confident on the quality of doctors in our nation, having experienced a few in the US, but we really need to improve our infrastructure, processes and personnel skills and not just in the healthcare industry but across all service sectors if we want to see ourselves as one of the frontrunners in the service industry for the next few decades.

adios.

Predicting crop yields

2010-07-04T01:13:00.000-07:00

A few kilometers from Nasik is Pimpalgaon, India's largest onion market which also trades in other commodities such as tomatoes and table grapes. One can see huge farms of onions and tomatoes in the adjacent areas apart from increasing table and wine grape plantations. With onions and tomatoes being the mainstay, fluctuating prices in these crops have a huge impact on the local farmers.

Recently, I had been to Nasik(guess it was march). And I could see truckloads of tomatoes lying on the roadside that were dumped by the farmers. Surplus cultivation of tomatoes in the last Rabi season had brought down the prices to as low as Rs. 1 /- per kilo. And they found it cheaper to dump them on the road than to transport to the local market.

Such fluctuations in prices has increased the suicide rate amongst the farmers. A few farmers have moved towards non-conventional crops such as strawberries and wine grapes which do not see such huge fluctuations in prices. However, onions and tomatoes being the mainstay of the local markets, I think it is important and necessary for the farmer & trader community to be able to predict the crop yield and near-future demand which determine the prices. Past developments such as the ITC e-choupal & other initiatives now protect the farmers against swindling traders. But, I think these initiatives have to be taken to the next level in which the farmers would be able to predict approximate crop yields so that they can take apt decisions regarding which crops should be sown.

Crop yields are a function of (i) weather constraints, mainly the monsoon (ii) pests (iii) land area under cultivation of the crop (iv) crop rotation (v) intensive farming techniques. Lets assume that the current and upcoming weather forecast companies do a good job at forecasting the weather conditions and that pest control is easily achievable. That leaves us with decision regarding crop cultivation and farming techniques. A mechanism for the farmers to get knowledge about crops being sown at the start of the season might help them plan the crops they sow so that they can maximize revenues. Such a mechanism entails a huge real time information repository and reporting system.

Information about the crops sown in terms of acreage, along with an approximate idea on the crop yields per acre would help to arrive at an overall yield. Futures markets might help forecast demands at the time of harvest. A combination of these parameters can help the farmers make appropriate decisions at the time of sowing so that they can try & maximize revenues.

Such a forecast apparatus does seem impossible to build, and prices are also a function of international demand & supply which adds complexity to the design of such a mechanism. Achieving such a utopian dream seems out of bounds, but the benefits surely seem large enough to at least try a statistical approach to solve the problem. With budding entrepreneurs establishing private weather companies to help the farmers forecast weather, it might not be such a far-fetched idea.

Sentinels of nobel profession

2009-11-21T06:13:00.000-08:00

Recent articles of the true contributors towards a better India -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125875892887958111.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/july-3-2009/aravind-eye-hospital/3449/

Hum Na Samajhe The

2009-04-18T14:35:00.000-07:00

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

khaab sheeshe ke

duniya paththar ki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

Aarzoo humne ki to hum paae

roshni saath laai thi saaye

saaye gehre the

roshni halki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

khaab sheeshe ke

duniya paththar ki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

Sirf veeranee sirf tanhayee

sirf veeranee sirf tanhayee

zindahi humko ye kahan laayee?

kho gayi humse raah manzil ki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

khaab sheeshe ke

duniya paththar ki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

kya koi beche kya koi baante

apne daaman mein sirf hain kaante

aur dukanein hain sirf phoolon ki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si

khaab sheeshe ke

duniya paththar ki

Hum na samjhe the

baat itni si...

Sources would follow...

2009-04-04T14:02:00.000-07:00

"1975: Judging the path the institute had taken after its genesis in 1949 and the vision for the institute in mind Father McGrath took the decision of making this institute as the foremost management institute in India. In his words he described 'As soon as this decision was made, the greatest hurdle was crossed and that sources to make this happen followed'. " - These words were quoted by Father Director on the 53rd annual convocation.

The institute has since then lived up to its expectations and produced industry leaders of the future. Even in today's gloomy situation the institute has been able to place all its 2 year students with success.

But is everything alright with the way this institute runs all its courses. The question raises serious doubts if we consider the situation of the GMP batch. The institute has invested quite a bit in developing and expanding this course albeit with a skepticism that it may hamper their already established brands.

The administration just has to make the decision of bringing GMP to the forefront and the sources for success would follow without denting any of the established courses.

Has XL lived up to its promise in the media? - http://www.financialexpress.com/news/XLRI-to-make-GMP-second-flagship-course/196835/

West Ham Anthem

2009-03-23T13:04:00.000-07:00

I'm dreaming dreams,

I'm scheming schemes,

I'm building castles high.

They're born anew,

Their days are few,

Just like a sweet butterfly.

And as the daylight is dawning,

They come again in the morning.

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

Pretty bubbles in the air.

They fly so high,

Nearly reach the sky,

Then like my dreams,

They fade and die.

Fortune's always hiding,

I've looked everywhere,

I'm forever blowing bubbles,

Pretty bubbles in the air.

If - Rudyard Kipling

2009-03-17T07:48:00.000-07:00

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

The Road to Serfdom

2009-03-11T12:18:00.000-07:00

Just read ' The Road to Serfdom' by the Nobel prize winning Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (LSE and Univ of Chicago). He is known for his defense of classical liberalism and free market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought.

Biography: http://mises.org/about/3234

Wrote in response to the rising government controls in post World War 2 Britain and other democratic countries, it very well compares the conditions prevalent in Germany in the early 20th century and post war Britain. Nazism had socialist roots. The war had forced central planning on the allies to counter Germany.

Hayek argued that war time planning should be dismantled during peace, as it is certainly inefficient and also breeds socialist policies. More importantly the individual loses his freedom and liberty.

He argued that the condition in post war Britain and pre-war Germany was similar and that although Germany had lost the war in military terms it had won it on the ideological front as the allies were steadily increasing government controls.

Video summary of the book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12oFhO3UZdU

The inefficiencies of central planning have certainly been proved over the years but not after a long stretched battle over the last century. Although the allies had adopted free economies, they were restricted by government control after the war. Hayek's arguments were ignored until about 1980s as Keynesian economics took centre stage. It was not until Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power that the market economy became popular as they abolished government controls. It was only towards the end of the century that the free market economy of the early years of the century was restored.

An excellent documentary on the 20th century economic ideologies can be seen on pbs-http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/story/index.html

As the current recession grips the world, countries have increased restrictions on trade. Keynesian mixed economy finds its application in such a scenario. However, the world should not fall prey to the thought that government control is good for them as it is certainly inefficient. It would not be easy to set the thought process of people back to free markets as they are experiencing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression caused probably due to the free market structures.

Countries have started adopting protectionist & restrictive policies as they strive to get out of the mess hampering international trade. The protectionist policies might give rise to socialist tendencies over a long time. This might cause a shift back to the post war era and a major hindrance on the progressive path of humanity towards freedom.

“The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because of passion for equality made vain the hope for freedom” – Lord Acton

Why do I drink..

2009-03-04T02:11:00.000-08:00

In these times of financial crisis where people and enterprises are struggling to make ends meet, with all the looming uncertainty about our future I believe that there should be some people who maintain sanity and go about doing what they do best. It's only when people resume behaving, working, spending & lending normally that certainty would start winning over uncertainty.

So, I thought in what way could I help the situation sitting in this small town of Jamshedpur. Well I'm not working anymore and hence not warning anymore to lend people. The only way I could help churn the economy is spending a bit in this town. If a few like me keep on spending as usual, the town would surely be able to sustain the slowdown. And so I thought about what I do best or what I enjoy the most. Drink

The macroeconomics work somewhat this way -

I spend on liquor at the bar. The bartender and the waiters do get some amount of tip in addition to their salaries from their secured jobs due to some of us drunkards. 'The Sonnet' is hence able to keep its debt obligations and makes profits in addition. The banks and the hotels creditors are paid back in time, which in turn are able to have more amount of liquid money at their disposal either to be lent or invested in other projects, say the celebrations on the 'City Founder's day'. Due to the money borrowed by JUSCO for the celebrations it is able to organize a grand ceremonious day, spending lakhs on the decorations and management.

Now, these celebrations employ a few event management companies, local government bodies for the occasion. These in turn give work to numerous small time electricians, sound, laser & pyro technicians, movers & packers, etc to make the event successful ensuring a grand turn out. The large mass people attract other dependent folks such as hawkers - panipuri wala, gubbare wala and other such as autowalas. All these people are able to earn a living because of this gala event. On the bazar day then these autowalas and hawkers go to the local bazar to buy clothes, food grains, and other home utility products.

After days of hard work one of them food grain merchants takes his family out for dinner and for simplicity's sake lets consider this to be the coffee house at 'The Sonnet'. This way the hotel is able to generate surplus profits and hence pay more taxes. Now, if a few of such hotels start paying larger taxes, the local government would have more funds for development & infratructure activities of the region while employing local private enterprises. This may help to some extent in alleviating the poverty of the region by engaging more people in the development activities dispersing more money in the local economy.

Now think about the larger picture. If people do keep spending normally or even more in these difficult times, that would mean more tax revenues for the state and national governments in addition to the frequent movement of money within the economy. The state and national governments would then be able to sustain larger infrastructure projects proliferating employment opportunities and projects for private firms. This could even turn into tax breaks for ailing industries. These industries would then be better able to compete in the global scenario and grow in size. This could mean a larger good for the entire nation. Atleast some of these companies could then visit our campus for recruitment and offer us or atleast our juniors a few commensurate jobs.

Hence, I think it is important to spend and more so in gloomy scenarios.

The questions that remains is not 'why am I drinking so much?' but rather 'am I drinking enough?'

Quoting Brearley & Myers: ' Money is what you can buy beer with'.

Note: Liquor has some of the highest excise duties in India with around 550% on liquor imported from the US.

hectic days

2008-10-31T10:14:00.000-07:00

Just finished OMMD(Mathematics) exam today. Had MIS presentations yesterday. POM awaits day after. Have to write IR case by 3rd. And then IInd term examinations start on 4th.

And all this in the midst of our placement related activities.

Hope organizing the xldreamrun and then the australia trip would add some other flavour in life.

Soccer!!

2008-10-27T07:12:00.000-07:00

Played against the BM guys who had a few goras in their side and we were missing a few of our key players. Energized encounter which we lost 3-1 in the end.

A lot to learn for us in terms of organization and ideas. Hope to catch them soon.

Sports crazy

2008-10-27T01:54:00.000-07:00

Last 2-3 days have been filled with project work, placement related tasks, meetings, and good amount of soccer and tennis.

Having played tennis 2-3 times, I was able to deliver my first 'ace' yesterday alongwith some decent tennis. I have started loving this game, given that I am much of a team game person and love soccer. Talking about soccer, yesterday was an action packed game, although it didn't fetch us too many goals yet all that sweat was fun.

Hope all these activities help me in the XLDreamrun.

Another one to add to the list below...

2008-10-22T14:50:00.000-07:00

Well, just as I thought that I might not get any chance of watching any movie for the next few days, I couldn't resist the temptation today of watching another brilliant movie. American Gangster.

If you ask me to suggest any movie to watch, I would definitely suggest you to pick up any of Denzel Washington's movies. Take any of his movies and I'm sure that it would be worth watching. Fallen. Training Day. Remember the Titans. Crimson Tide. The bone collector. They are all just worth watching.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gangster_(film)

Busy days..

2008-10-21T23:46:00.000-07:00

Last few weeks have been extremely busy with the workload of assignments and tests. Nevertheless, I did manage to scrape time for a few movies and books that I would like to share. With exams around the corner, it could be some time before I read any more.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harpar Lee

Set in the depression era in Alabama the book deals with heavy issues--racism, oppression, injustice. The incidents in Maycomb

have a definite impact on the innocence of Scout.

The Tom Robinson incident does depict a stark picture of racism in

the Southern US during the 1930s. It also depicts the slow life in the small towns, when people didn't have much to do, neither the money to do things. Boo Radley certainly sends chills down the spine of Scout and Jem, but their curiosity does not deter them from their efforts of trying to get a glimpse of Boo.

The book is an american classic and narrates the racism and inequality that were rampant in the depression era.

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Slow Man - J.M Coetzee

Although bizarre, it is a tale of an ordinary single-Paul Rayment of around 60 who loses his league in a bicycle incident and is crippled for life. Almost all alone, he falls for his nurse- Marijana, a happily marred croat. Paul manages to complicate matters by offering help to her family: he offers to pay for the son's schooling, helps the older daughter out of a jam, even lets the son live with him for a while.

That brings in the character of Elizabeth Costello, whom Paul finds irritating. She persists trying to make him adapt to the new world. Yet the Paul man contradicts her values, suggesting

that heroics aren't necessary and that he is too slow and ordinary to change.

It is the story of a man who has lost his leg, and turns out to be the 'Slow Man' in adapting to his new life and senses loosing everything.

Movies

Das Boot(1981) - German movie set on a Uboat. An sensational rush of adrenaline! It revived the popularity of the famous Irish World War I song - 'It's a long way to Tipperary'

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=CQs97_jVufk

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - A David Lean classic. The film is an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's

1952 novel, a classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence

officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson (a fabulous Alec Guinness), the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans

not realising the intention of the British. Although credited to

screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Guinness).

The film has an excellent theme song in the Colonel Bogey March

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=WcIehms6u5M&feature=related

Hotel Rwanda(2004) - Set in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which more than 800000 people were executed, it is a true story of a Hutu who sheltered around 1000 Tutsis in the hotel he managed. Paul Rusesebagina (played by Don Cheadle) tries to shelter as many people as he can accommodate in the midst of a civil war. The Rwandan scenario in 1994 is very well brought out in the movie.

An IMDB rating of 9/10!

The Last King of Scotland(2006) -

Powerful performance by Forest Whitaker as the Ugandan Idi Amin. A masterpiece about the dictator from the eyes of his doctor. The doc rises to the

level of being Amin's personal advisers. Things change for worse when the doctor gets on with one of Amin's wives. Idi Amin's savagery is scary and Whitaker has donned the role to the core.

A must see!

Mumbai Matinee - Good one.

A Wednesday - Very Well Made.

American Desi - Nice One. 'Farah' looks awesome!

New Term starts with a bang!

2008-09-05T11:48:00.000-07:00

Having had very little sleep in the last two weeks, my plans of taking it a bit easy for the next week or so have been lashed aside.
We finished our exams yesterday and our 2nd term has started today without any break. To add to our grievance the new profs have given us assignments and presentations on day 1 itself. Here I am on day 1 of the new term, sitting up at 2.30 am creating a ppt for tomorrow's class.
However, the subjects this term seem interesting. Financial Mathematics, Strategy Management, etc.
But I hope that the next 2 months do not pass like today.

Soccer!!!

2008-08-30T14:42:00.000-07:00

Today 11 of us played against a few young & fit 17-19 year olds and managed to defeat them 3-1!! Actually we repeated the feat achieved yesterday, but that was on a half pitch. This time we defeated them on full pitch.

We are no match to them in terms of stamina, speed, acceleration, agility, awareness. But I guess we were a tad better than them in organization and stuck our ground.

Nevertheless was Fun and enjoyed the day out on the ground. Kudos to Dejo, Gejo, Subroto, Swapnil, Gaurav, Puneet, Tarun, Bharat, Girish, Shailesh, Tapas and myself!!

QT garboil

2008-08-28T12:21:00.000-07:00

As expected the dreadful paper did send chills down the spine as I read the questions. To add to the incapacitated feeling, Gango's style of coordinating the exam does not make it any easier. The commotion outside the hall caused due to following an airline style of filling in seats was a sight to watch.
And his 3 questions lived upto our expectations. I would daresay that the cumulative number of innovative solutions amongst 100 people for the 3 problems would surely be more than 200 as we found out after the exam. His regular announcements of time passed and micro-surveillance during the exam brings in nervousness. In addition to all that he is at his sadistic best during the exams asking people, "How is the paper? easy, right?".

One of his dialogues: A guy was looking to his left while thinking about the problem at hand. Gango walks up to him and asks him to write -2 on his paper. Upon arguing that he was just thinking by looking to the left. Gango retorts - "Well, don't think laterally. Write -2".

I will sum it up with Gango's dialogue today towards the end of the scheduled time. One of us is frantically calculating and writing. Out comes a gem, "Do not try to change your destiny in the dying minutes".

Days of the end term begin

2008-08-26T11:35:00.000-07:00

We have reached towards the culmination of our first term here @ XLRI. The Macroeconomics paper has fortunately gone quite well.

But the classes haven't stopped yet. We had 4 of them today and 3 yesterday. And neither have our parties. Despite knowing that we had submissions due today, we went out for a quick booze yesterday night.
But all's well that ends well. We did submit our case writeup and are on track to study for the dreaded QT paper with complex statistics such as the ANOVA on 28th August.
ANOVA - http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/stat/12/anova-1w.htm

This one would be followed by another stats paper, albeit a relatively simpler one on 1st. And that would be followed by 5 papers in the next 3 days!! And that's not all, we have to keep working on 2 projects during this period.

Whoever said MBA is not that difficult...

Experience of a kind

2008-07-05T12:16:00.000-07:00

While some of my GMP friends have gone for a 3 day adventure outbound programme, a bunch of us got to visit the uranium mine at Narwapahar. We boarded a chartered bus at around 2.30pm and thoroughly enjoyed the 25 km journey singing some old and new songs.
We were given a short lecture on the Narwapahar and Jaduguda mines alongwith a small documentary on the uranium mining industry in India.
Thereafter each one of the 32 of us was uncomfortably hatted with a helmet and a torch as we entered the mine shaft through which the 'cage' would take us down to 185 ML where the mining was in proceeds. Since the Uranium percentage is very low, about 0.04% the workers do not wear any kind of protection suit and likewise we too did not wear any. Surprisingly, it was not very unpleasant down under as the mines were well ventilated with help of blowers. High technology trucks and breakers were employed to dig and transport the ore from the mines to a dumping place from where the ore fell down by gravity to 295 ML onto a crusher. We then went further down at 295ML to see the crusher which crushed the huge boulders into small pieces and dumped them further down at around 315ML. From here ore is then transported to ground level using cage and pulley mechanism up a vertical shaft. On the ground the ore is then taken to another facility which separates the waste from the useful Magnesium DiUranate being sent to the NFC facility in Hyderabad.
We were really impressed by the enthusiasm of the engineers and workers who showed us the mine as if it were their own. They did portray their their responsibility towards of the productivity of the mine and we couldn't overlook the immense pride they felt in working for UCIL. We thanked them and applauded their efforts towards providing Nuclear fuel for India's Nuclear reactors.
Overall an awe-inspiring experience!
http://www.ucil.gov.in/

Awful Day

2008-06-30T12:59:00.000-07:00

Although today started on a brighter note with the weather being pleasant and requisite comprehension of the topics discussed in the Accounting and Economics classes, it did not end so.
Gut feeling, though mostly correct, is not always so. I had a feeling that my chances of being called on stage to deliver a prepared speech are minimal and hence did not put in a good amount of effort. Unfortunately, I was called in on stage and I faltered. It was an awful experience and has taught me a lesson of being prepared for the most trifle sessions.
I only hope that I am given a chance again and I prove myself.

First Day

2008-06-28T14:44:00.000-07:00

This is the first blog that I have ever written in my life. And after going through all the pain of completing all the settings my patience is running out. So, will try to keep it short.

Well, since it's my first blog, I will write about my first love. Soccer!
I just love watching and playing soccer. After a break of almost about 10 months I have started playing football here at the XLRI 'maidan'. Accompanying me are a few GMP'ites and a few local boys. Let's call this local boys as chotus as most of them have the name 'chotu'. It was a fun game and to add flavour I did score two goals today. Besides that, I just feel so fresh after running around for about an hour on the ground. This game is truly amazing. We just need a ball and a couple of athletes to have a gala time.
Well with the euro season culminating, I hope our season flourishes and I enjoy a few more days like today. I hope Spain wins tomorrow!