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A riveting article about the world's top nomad consultant - Ram Charan by David Whitford.

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Only recently Ram purchased his first appartment in Texas, Dallas. He has been travelling, consulting, sleeping in hotels, flights and client residences. He gets his clothes couriered from his Dallas office to wherever he is. Talk about workaholics!

"Babes.." they said. "That's the first thing you'll notice in Gurgaon dude" they said.

I have been used to 1-2 month stints in new cities. And I have always loved it. It started with Trivandrum during TCS training, Sydney - onsite, Dehra Dun - Summer Project or DOCC in SPJIMR and now Gurgaon for autumn internship. This timeframe works best for me as it's good enough to see the places around and get used to the city but not long enough to the extent I get bored.

It all started when a bunch of ten arrived at the Delhi airport after watching Vijay Mallya deliver a personal welcome address in the flight and Yana Gupta explaining flight safety instructions. When I first set foot in DLF phase 3 near Infinity Towers Gurgaon, it was not the Babes that I saw first. It was the scorching hot sun and swanky DLF built monster buildings occupied by RBS,IBM,Microsoft and PWC. I was standing in the midst of a concrete jungle all around and somehow my mind evoked images of Ayn Rand, Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. God knows why. But as evening started creeping up, I saw them. Many of them. Many of them with dum.

Over the weekend, we went on a road trip to Mathura, Agra and Jaipur. It was fun albeit hot. All the Mahals we visited (Hawa, Jal, Taj) were all captivating while the forts (Amber, Agra) were majestic though it was tiring to look around completely. We had Agra special Petas flavoured with Kesar, Coconut and honey. Lusciously juicy, they were. We had taken an AC Tavera for the entire trip thankfully which saved us from the heat. The journey comprised of Truth or Dares, Ping Pong, interrogations of Jaipur Police and Beer. In Jaipur we were actually forced to have lunch at Rajdhani which I personally didn't like - Not because of the food but because I had visited their Mumbai branch multiple times. Here are a few pics







I also happened to catch up with A Wednesday and Rock On - in PVR Sahara Mall. Both were refreshingly good in their own ways. One was slick, pacy and no-nonsense, the other was a major musical types. Anyway both were worth the money shelled out for. We, the Tam people try to hunt for the eternal unlimited tamil meals anywhere we go. This quest had led us to Matunga in Mumbai and in Gurgaon the saviour was a certain Sanskriti in Food Court. Authentic, Amazing and importantly unlimited tamil soru for 100 bucks. Pretty Neat. Last weekend saw us traveling to Delhi and haggling in the stores of Palika Bazaar where you get stuff at almost 1/10 th of the quoted price. And yeah, we also went to Karol Bagh and had filter coffee at Rama's Cafe.

Thus goes the life, a week at the office and weekend exploring places and I expect this routine to continue for the next two months.
Over and out.

The other day when I was in Chennai, my sister and I were discussing about music in general and Desh raga in particular. That was because I had listened to her doing a good alapana of the raga sometime before. Instantly I loved it - who wouldn't fall for Desh?
That discussion led to a gem of a song "Thunbam Nergayil" set in the raga and composed by Bharathidasan. This is one song that grows on me whenever I listen to it and it's love at first sound. I was hunting for the song online when I stumbled upon two versions of it:

1) Nityashree Mahadevan's - Brims with emotions and gloriously rendered. Absolute stunner.
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2) The original from the movie Or Iravu(1951). Singers are : MS Rajeshwari and Verma.
This version is all the more beautiful as the hero seems to teach the heroine sing - he comes up with romantic interjections time and again.
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Enjoy.

Peace.