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Q1.

My Life2022

Year is 2022. I am still bad at storytelling, just like in 2012 when I was at SOM but I hope you will

listen rather read this time. Place is cool and calm Bangalore.

Today I have a family of five my parents, my wife and a cute little 5 year old daughter. First I will tell

you about my daughter, a sweet little angel. No matter where you have been, what pressures you

are in, a smile from here calms you down. She plays around all day and reminds me of my child hood

days. Although I was a dumb fellow in my childhood but thats a different story. Lets concentrate

here. So I have my parents with me. My father has just retired from his teaching career. He spends

all his time reading. I love talking to him. He still has that authoritarian tone of a master. I was scaredof it in my school days. But now I can relate better to his thoughts, maybe I have matured. My

mother is lovely at communications. You can talk to her for hours and hours and she wont tire even

at this age. Coming to my wife, fortunately or unfortunately she is a banker. She talks in numbers,

walks in numbers and even at times cooks in numbers. We love each other a lot. Yes now you would

be interested in my career, correct? May be no. But still I will tell you. I am techno-management

guru. Technology makes life easier and I tell or consult as the modern term goes big firms how

technology will make their productivity grow easily. I love my job.

So that was a gist of a short story about my life2022. I hope to be the natural lovable person I have

been all my life and I pray every morning that things do not change a lot.

Nature2022

It is June 2022; the monsoons have not set in. People say climate changes have delayed the

monsoons. We have packed our luggage and are ready for the journey. We are going to Mussoorie

by car. A tiring journey but the beauty of the Himalyas will soak all your tiredness and reenergize you

to explore. On reaching Mussoorie we put up in a hotel.

Mussoorie was named the queen of hill stations by Jawaharlal Nehru. And yes it is, with so many

beauty spots. Climate in the hills is still very healthy. Thank god pollution leaves us with the plains of

the Ganges. You feel so close to Mother Nature here. In my school days I was a part of the nature

club at school. I tell my little daughter about our activities like planting trees, which we did at school

and tell her the importance of nature.

I have been to Mussoorie before in this season but this time round I find it much more crowded. I

visited Kulri, Library and Landour markets. The mountain slopes covered with tall green trees which

present the charming view at sunset look grand. The clouds sailing across the sky and the snow

covered peaks of the distant high mountains warms your heart with ecstasy.

We reluctantly returned after a fortnight. Last time in 2009 when I visited Mussoorie we were in a

group of ten young men. This time I was with my family. I could feel the difference, not that I did not

enjoy this time but the nostalgia remains. And then you realize, There comes a time when the world

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gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise

you'll never understand what it is saying.

Systems Continuum2022

Year is 2022. Month is September. I am addressing an audience of some 400 students at SJMSOM in

Systems Continuum2022. The school has grown. When I was here for my masters we were 117 odd

guys and gals. The school national ranking has also improved. We are at five. That sounds great.

No matter how many times you come back here it smells the same. Its nostalgic. Ashis sir looks

older. Yes but he still gives the students that all needed short nap before his sessions.

It is lovely to come back and be on the other side talking to these fresh brains out there to explore.

Motivating them with my short speech is in a way, I feel paying back for whatever I learned here.The development that I went through at SOM was tremendous. My perspectives had change by the

time I came out.

The gathering looks all dull and I am the last speaker today. It again reminded me of my tired

helpless being waiting for the last speaker to last. But then many a times the most interesting

speaker was kept for the last slot. May be these organizing committee guys were expecting

something enthralling from me.

And yes I was prepared for a non-orthodox continuum session. The audience burst into laughter at

each and every comment of mine. I was used to this reception at other schools but this was the first

time I am addressing people at SJMSOM, my alma mater. It is ecstasy for me too. I feel that I haveachieved something which I was yearning for a long time.

Q2.

My Love2022

Year is 2022. And I am in love again after 16 long years. But this time it is my guitar. I am learning to

play a guitar at 36. I spend hours at it. I go to the banks of the river Ganges early morning and

practice. I have to leave for office at 8 am. I generally come back by eight o clock in the evening. So

early morning is the only time I can give my new sweet heart.

Over weekends I travel to the sea shore with my band. The breeze hitting you on the face gives

energy. The law of conservation of energy that energy may neither be created nor

destroyed, it just transforms from one form to the other. And it holds true here too. Wind

energy converts into sound and we compose music sitting by the sea. We are five of us, all in our

thirties. Similar thoughts converge to similar actions.

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We have no leader, its all team work. Music is one thing which can always be used to teach team

spirit. You know just one person going wrong can spoil the whole song. And you have to support

others at times if they go wrong for the team to perform well.

And the best part comes now. I am going to perform with my band at the Mood Indigo this year. I

always had a wish in my college days to be there up on stage but did not know how. Ten years later,I have this chance as an alumnus. I will give my best and Mood Indigo still rocks.