When my father died
I thought the world would stop
or at least, pause
to reflect on a life
of achievements and success,
of what he meant to us all
family and friends, students and teachers.
Ayi is, and has been, THE ROCK of Kaybee Shanghai for over 20 years. She embodies consistency, quality, grace, and dignity – every single day. She is the first one at work, always arriving before 8am to have the office spotlessly clean and ready before everyone streams in from 9am.
Jagdish has been with Kaybee India from day ONE. He is the oldest and, in so many ways, indispensable to the India team. Jagdish cycles 25 kilometers every day to work and again when he returns home each evening.
Alan makes me start each day with humility and a smile. Alan’s is not an easy life. He is responsible, single-handedly, for maintaining the grounds of the condominium at which I live.
In the last 24 years she has worked tirelessly on any task given to her, working in the sample room, keeping the pantries spotless, giving us endless cups of tea and coffee – while somehow managing to be largely invisible.
Remembrance – Dr K.P.Karunakaran by Col. Gopal Karunakaran My father Dr KP Karunakaran, Professor Of Political Science, died on the 8th of Feb 2005. After the cremation at Bangalore, we were advised by many of our well meaning friends on the critical need for many copies of his death certificate. My mother, brother sister and I …
I was often told by well-meaning family and friends – steeped in a culture that propagated and encouraged obeisance to God – that I would be subjected to divine retribution for my heretical views. It was lost on them that the beauty of being an atheist is that things you don’t believe in cannot be …
Bertrand Russell’s Why I am not a Christian led me on a voyage of discovery, not only into the writings of this extraordinary man, but also to think very deeply about our blind faith in God and religion. The line “If I were granted omnipotence and millions of years to experiment in, I should not …
That picture of the Milky Way is from the internet, but the scene in the sky on that night I walked up the hill with my grandmother was uncannily close. The night sky gives us perspective, and perhaps the reason why “uneducated” village folk like Panikkar, who taught me what the word equanimity truly means, was …
Now that I have TIME… to reminisce and to take pause, to reflect on what I have learnt from each of you at our weekend tennis mornings, here are my musings…… PRATAP Pratap is the quintessential big point player. Every good tennis player knows that all points in tennis are not the same- but only …