A renowned strategist spoke to the attention of an engrossed audience (yours truly IPMX2). He had them spellbound while he put to swords all established principles / jargons / processes of conventional management. And then the masterstroke - "whatever I speak is just the half-truth; the other half that I am so confidently bashing is also the truth".
Yeah I know - there are no untruths; whatever is untrue for one is true for other.
as they say "There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other."
Irrespective, I am here today to speak dil se...truth or the lack of it be damned.
My boss once explained to all what a blog means (blog was still in the process of taking birth) - "Bakwaas, that's what it is. Room pe baith ke karo tou bakar, internet pe karo tou Blog".
I am fascinated by the unconventional names I have recently come across. I'll pick up few - any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental.
PagalGuy was where I came across this possibly NRI / second generation Indian: Mukes Seth, a la Vikram Seth. Location set to USA, I had no doubt this dude was some Harvard / Wharton aspirant. Out here on IIM admission forums to advise the lesser privileged. I would picture this gal as some bomb (mukes - nukes) in absence of any profile photo. One fine day, however, his status changed to Mirzapur and his posts clearly conveyed that he was HE. That's when it stuck me that Ms Nukes may probably be Mr Mukes (w/o an "h").
Sample my friend's name: Kumar Achal Bharti. 'What's your first name?', asked our strict ManAcc Prof. 'All of them, Sir.', replied KAB.
Then I have a friend (family friend) whom Uncle-Auntie named Ashay भारतीय (indian), a la Chandrashekhar AZAD. I wonder how many of us realize we denigrate the whole of our motherland everytime we shout भारतीया or भारती; I'm sure he himself does not recall the patriotic fervor with which his parents named him.
Now if you have a perfectly harmless conventional name like मयंक Gaekwad with no strings attached, you'll still find a half-lost intellectual calling him "मैनक" {Mayank ==> Maynak} everytime he calls out for attendance. Finally, some of us with names that everyone loves (Koresh Chopra) insist that they be called "KC", or else...
So you now sure understand why I included my ex-Boss' definition of BLOG.
All righty, time to wrap up this internet bakwaas, have some tea and re-resolve to start preparing for the OM quiz later in the day.
...Marishka Hargitay...
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