Speaking Me

Here I am today, doing an entire marketing campaign for an Organisation, just sitting at home and spending a few hours on the internet. By internet I mean mostly social media and bulk mailing websites. More importantly just today I realised that my average strike rate is about 23.4%, which is astoundingly high for a marketer. Only 4% of my target audience unsubscribe. Who needs them anyways .... Lol.  But the point here I am trying to make is, we all knew that ways of doing business have evolved but I guarantee that most of us would have never experienced the real power of this change. Just a few months back, I would not rely on an online trader or an e-shop to buy items. Not because he would run away with my money but because what if the product is not the one with the right specification as mentioned online. Most importantly am I aware of what specification I want unless I see it physically. And if all these possibilities go wrong, will the seller ever return my money back a...

I always knew that Lord of the Rings was shot in the picturesque back drops of New Zealand. I very much liked the concept behind the film series. Always wondered whether these places are for real or just a conceptualization of the Director's brain. But how difficult it is to imagine an entire set of back-drops without an inspiration. Now I know that Peter Jackson had never conceptualised the back-drops or the scenes, on the contrary he had quite uniquely conceptualised the entire story according to what nature had to offer.I often feel how beautiful is this place on earth and how unique that it can give birth to such wonderful and mystical tales. Few days back, we had a chance to visit the Pinnacles, near Wairarapa. This place is about 1 hour 30 minutes drive from Lower Hutt (a suburban area near Wellington, NZ).  The Pinnacles are 100% naturally formed structures. Upon first look in the film, I had readily assumed that this was an artificial set created by spending...

Breathing a brand new air, in a country which I call "The End of the World" - New Zealand. Last year along with my wife, I arrived in this piece of land with plenty of anxiety and fear in mind. This was my big ticket to start up from scratch and make it large (I know , I sound Filmy now !! but can't help it). At that time my fear was greater than my excitement.  Many people say, when in fear of the unknown, do not worry ... everything will fall into place. I just hope that, the same happens in my case as well.  I have been in relation with my wife from past 8 years and when we started living together, both of us had our own set of inhibitions. First biggest ice-breaker was that we thought we knew everything about each other, each other's likes and dislikes but sadly we were mistaken. In these 8 months, we have learnt a lot about living together. Major realisations about each other came our way. It seemed like we had missed the target by miles apart. So...

A Ray of New Hope : This is a pic of the rainbow which is often seen outside our window. Hey I am back to my mind again. Let me first apologize for not writing in for so many days. It was like, i had so many thoughts in mind, couldn't focus on one topic.  Yesterday, it felt like we have actually made  a new beginning. After a very long time we spoke to each other with open hearts. It took me time to digest this new life. I think i was just waiting for this. We went to the park for a long walk, which turned out to be a long talk and we could actually discuss and understand each other. I told her what i have been thinking for so long and she opened what was on her mind. To top it all up the weather was nice and pleasant, the location was amazing without any distractions and we had nothing else to do. We could hear more than each other.  Many a times it has happened that we used speak to each other, somehow with some distractions / distortions we couldn't understan...

For many people, I am a successful regional in-charge of a leading company. People think “Wow, this guy is always on the move, one day he is in Indore, the other in Goa and next time somewhere in a remote village of Maharashtra”. Doesn’t that sound exciting? For many of those, office bound friends of mine, this may seem a dream profile, wherein you travel so frequently, see so many new places and what not…. It was exciting for me, when I joined too. I thought wow (again), now I will have so much to write about. In my first trip, I did so very religiously and also published it. Yes I had frequent updates on my google status and people use to wonder, what a guy, he has a job which is so dynamic. They were right, there was some dynamism in my life but slowly it become monotonous. I never wrote anything after my first trip. I didn’t even bother to update my google status. Frankly speaking, I never felt the shortage of time; in fact I had ample time to write but never had the motivatio...

Yes! I am back to my original self. I have again started talking to myself. This is my third trip to Nagpur (the orange city). This time my mother has asked me to get Nagpur’s famous Orange Barfi (sweetmeat)and like always I was too busy with my work and after work I wanted sometime to relax back in my hotel room. The hotel I usually stay is Dwarka at Sitabuldi, Nagpur. Looks absolutely shady! But what to do, I am here only for a day. (Thankfully not night). But I remember, Last month  I had to spend a night at Nagpur, coz. I didn’t have train reservation for Raipur nor could find any buses to Raipur, thanks to the threat from Naxal’s, many buses from Nagpur to Raipur have been terminated. The night experience was not so bad, had a pleasant sleep but next day I had to travel from Nagpur to Jabalpur via Bus. They said it takes 4 hrs in a Volvo Bus service, but mind it, it took the entire day. At the end of the journey, I was dizzy enough to puke. But yeah that was last mont...

We have often heard that marriages are made in heaven and they are the union of two souls etc. etc. But my question to myself is “Is it really so?”.... I disbelieve or rather contradict the statement of Marriages made in heaven or they being the union of two souls. Marriage in my understanding is a union of two different worlds. Let me explain.... The groom’s side and the bride’s side even if they belong to same caste, community , religion, region etc. no matter how many similarities they possess, there always exists a difference in attitudes, behavior, motives, etc. among the two uniting families. So I simply put it as a union of two different worlds. There is always a belief that the bride has to adjust with the groom’s family, but along with it, also is seen the reverse. In order to make the bride comfortable, the groom is usually seen adapting with the in-laws. So the bride as well as the groom; both with equal amount of efforts, try to adapt to each other’s world. Even the ...