Auto drivers union !

Its a common knowledge that in Bangalore, Auto rickshaws drivers are the bizarrely behaved set of people. They do not mind saying a NO to any requestor for their services. If they prefer not to go, they just flatly ignore you asking and drive away. Also, when it comes to fare collection most often than not, Meters present in their auto’s are a non entity … they just ask what comes to their mind rather than going by the meter. Next in line is the way they drive, any side on the road is their side… haphazard driving, careless attitude… all in all its a tuk tuk to mayhem

These people take our city to ransom and always their is that Union… the Auto Drivers union. This unionism i would like it to Organised Crimesters. For all the unjust ways they also strike and want no decision that causes them a discomfort to go through. The recent decision of the Govt to get 4 stroke vehicles painted in Green color and modern meters to be installed was clearly objected to by them and the Govt as usual has bend its knees and got the decision extended.

Why is that these unionists are not doing anything to improve the services they offer… never is that talked about

Skip the Level

Yet another inventions of the MNC era.

It's ultimately supposed to provide solace to the grieved team member incase the skip happens within team or to the greived employee incase the skip is chaired by Human resources. Seldom does solace come from the same... its more often a guarantee to be bulldozed by your immediate sup. You can't work with me, then you may Go !

Who is there to help you anyways.. then why do you Skip the level ?

Bangalore needs planning

Its the Silicon valley of India – Bangalore. Silicon valley, generally is flush with planning of major things, but our poor Bangalore is flush with NO planning

Before my city was christened Silicon valley, it was adoringly called the Pensioners paradise. The ever cool weather, lethargic atmosphere, always adjust maadi culture perfectly matched the needs of a person who wanted to relax after having toiled all their life. However, the IT and the following ITES boom or bubble, has taken the wind out of this paradise and now the winds of change has left Bangalore gasping for breath. The gasp is seriously getting too strained and its sure to cause a burst of the wind pipe

Our city fathers who are entrusted with the task of planning for this city has actually been busy with what i am not sure. The Corporator’s are still to be elected by the city dwellers and the Govt of Karnataka is yet to get this election happen. An order by the High Court is also not enough as is evident

Lakes

Bangalore once was a land mass which had huge number of lakes, these lakes i am sure helped in containing the temperature rise, collected all rain water, helped to ensure that the water table beneath is not depleted above all i guess the most important aspect is that flooding was kept in control because all water flowed into these natural reservoirs. Man however, realised the importance of what is land and land could only come up by filling these water bodies so the greedy men filled the lakes up to build mighty buildings that are now causing all natures fury of Heat & Flood !!! The city’s polity has only become richer by these builders and they are crying hoarse when small kids are getting washed away in these snap floods.

I stay near Mahadevpura and i have been witnessing the death of  Narayanpura kere [ kere – lake in Kannada ], Mahadevpura Kere…. these both huge lakes have gone beneath the mud filling to make Ring Roads and now buildings'. The Mahadevpura lake still has some part of it left but hardly water fills in there and soon another building of a huge construction is to form up there

Roads

We all know that Roads are a most important aspect to connect areas and people who stay there. Roads are also a cause for Growth… be it traffic or Inhabitations. When roads are built they need to consider this growth, however if you ride, drive or walk across Bangalore roads, you will see that these roads are all choked because the people who planned it never thought that these black surfaces would bring with them such massive burst

The Outer Ring Road was planned in early 80’s and was to have been completed by late 80’s. However it saw completion only a decade later than what was planned. This road is supposed to be a continuous connector, but at most places it breaks continuity and becomes narrow stretches. This is because the makers didn't bother to acquire the required space. The City has now concentrated around the stretches of this ORR and interestingly most commercial places in Bangalore are turning out to be the Ring Rd surroundings.  With this spurt of commercialisation and Residential activity the traffic that the RR carries is high.  That the RR would have helped with faster movement of traffic has been dealt a blow with numerous traffic signal stops necessitated by the ever growing intersections. Had the planners thought about these and had constructed some interchanges then, all this could have been avoided. Interchanges is something that ceases on all our roads

Other than the RR, most of the other roads are built as narrow stretches with hardly a concern for drivers, these are not even lit properly, No medians, Side drains not covered. No road is complete without Asphalting. Roads in Bangalore get the most shabby quality of Asphalt again thanks to the no care attitude of the rulers who are tied in with the Contractors.

BCC to BMP to BBMP

The City Corporation was once called Bangalore City Corporation. Due to the language sensitivity it was christened as Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. After a long haul, more areas were added to this corporation to make it Bruhat [ Greater ]… so now we have BBMP. By becoming bruhat, the problems have also become bruhat. The erstwhile Municipal Corporations [CMC] were en-masse added in without any proper planning or even proper thought. BBMP still runs in the old BMP areas and the newly added areas are now left with not knowing who to go for what. However, one thing that ensured swiftly was the BBMP started collecting taxes as per the BMP norms from the newly added areas. Of-course rulers need money and that should be collected or snatched from people BUT as always services for the citizens can wait

When we were with CMC, there used to be some drain cleaning, water used to be supplied from the Bore wells, street lights were regularly repaired or replace and above all taxation was at the lesser rate. None of these now happen which would make the citizen think they are now in  a Corporation area – which for most of them was a dream come true.

All in all there seems to be no time spend for planning… its all farce tip of the finger stupid solutions which does not even last the initial few months ! As a citizen of this dying metropolis, i just wonder when will the government agencies do some planning

Railkerala meet

Parallel run into SRR [ Shornur ]

 

Shornur ! yes thats where we met. The event, a get together of Rail kerala fans. Eventually only 4 turned up but it was fun Prof Venu was the early bird - Can you imagine a railfan being at the venue at 0500. Well Yes, he was there. Binai & Sandcho joined in from ERS on the now extended JS. I took my Bro in Law for company and we were in at the station at 0805 and that was after an eventful draggy bus ride from PGTN.

I am guessing that Shornur is the only true Junction.As i walked into the station building which was just a 10 to 20 metres from the main road, i was quite amused to see the ticket counter right at the steps of this Jn station. Thankfully it wasnt crowded, so i hurried myself to collect the platform ticket. There was no change and i decided to make it 3 tickets.. ofcourse the clerk returned 1 re with glee..
Its almost 2 yrs later that i would see Prof Venu, Sandcho for the first time and Binai may be 4- 5 months later. So i was quite excited and the station's PF 1 looked like a washing pit to me, i did get confused and called Venu sir and yes there he was patiently waiting on the FOB. The PF had the rake of NIL - SRR rake lying idle and the loco was a WDM2 of ED. As we walked by, the loco staff were shutting it down. On route 6 there were three WAP4's sleeping whose numbers i dont have.
After a quick greets... we rushed to the IRCTC food center on the pft 2 / 3. Masala dosa tasted raw, Tea was ok and the ambience was worse than a Pantry car i should think. It was quite a cold morning to start with the Sun still taking time to rise up after the super fantastic rain.... The three of us walked slowly across to the mini CDO across the pf's, the Running room is also beside it. There was a green bodied coach and we took it to be that of a GR, this coach had a sticker "Fit for Passenger Service ONLY". ... this however wasnt that of a GR on closer look, instead it was some mechanical store that was to travel between MAQ & ED only.

Away in the not so far distance, i could hear some drakes kooing. Yes, that was the first sighting - live ones - for our day. We rushed out of the CDO area onto the tracks and the first kanikanal was offered by GOC WDM2 # 17674. It was hauling the Executive and certainly the Orange was dead behind it... this i am guessing was mostly a failure. While almost half of this rake passed by, we could hear another sound. It took my anxiety to higher levels thinking that it would be a loco pushing this rake. . Sadly no, but interestingly it was a parallel run into Pf 2 and that was lead by ED WDM2 of the NIL passenger. That was a parallel run unfortunately none of us could properly enjoy ! We set of to receive the arrival of our Ikka's Janashatabdi and the train was scheduled to arrive on PF 4. Oranges never fail to disappoint in color and appeal and for sure this boy wasnt going to either... ERS WDM3A # 14054 was the Managing Director on show. A beauty of a color thats man... he sure needs to be adored. Sadly the paint on the baldie side has started to peel off , should we blamed GOC or ERS !!! i dont know.  The throbbing sound of the loco was fantastic. We were there and Binai & Sandcho joine us. We set of to have a Ghee Roast and Idli.... while we were at it, Alleppey - Dhanbad and Nizamuddin - Ernakulam Mangala were also at the station and they were sure in demand.
Destination decided.. breakfast aychu... PTO for part 2

 

LS to PTB

The subject expanded to be read as ' Limited Stop ' to Pattambi Buses running in front of the station are numerous; however we wanted to take only the LS to PTB. This was to avoid kissing a stop at all places where there was a hand visible by the roadside. 35 mins is what it took us on the bus, that had seats designed to seat only 1.5 of two Butts. First stop en-route was proper Shornur, second was Kolapully. This name was something that i had heard in movies, something of a naughty name - sounded like 'Murderer'. The stand was reminiscent of an indoor stadium. After this we cross 'Vadanamkurussi' the station on the SRR - NIL route. The teak trees by the trackside looked all numbered and there was a timber yard just beside it... where monstrous looking logs were lying - must be teak. In some more time, we reached Pattambi, hold on that was Melepattambi !!!! Whats the difference? i still dont know and we rolled under a overbridge suddenly and that was the first glimpse of the Line that we came looking for.

The Curvaceous Pattambi outer. On our left side, the mighty puzha was flowing in all its glory and that was a muddy brown sight to cherish. Can the Bharathapuzha swell also? Yes it could, we later realise through photos kept as posterity in most shops the June / July scene were this puzha breached the Pattambi paalam. Presently i saw the puzha flowing at least 5 ft below this same bridge, which is just behind the Municipal private bus stand. PTB our site for the day was also beside the road and that was almost lost on us, until Binai spotted the top portion of a rake. The railway line is almost 30 - 40 ft above road level. The spot where we saw it was just behind the KSRTC bus stand. Any rail fan would find his blood running faster on this sight and we lost no seconds, rushed across the road and climbed those so called steps rushed into the station [ this would happen again later in the day to us] and saw the first train of the day, helmed by an EDdy. Parasu is the fav name, Parusuram Exp the official on PF 2. The last time I saw this train was almost a decade back I guess and then it had all Paragon ad's on the body sides... they no longer existed and was looking quite a normal rake. As we sink the Parasu into our eyes that behold... the hooter blew and the train was off. Well, we missed it by a whisker must say. Never mind, Rail fans always get surprises.

Soon to speed shock us was the Green’s from GOC, they came tumbling into the PF 1, with a huge freight. Speeds were amazing and it appeared to me as a risky one – if only someone would trip on the PF, its Amen for he / she -, again it came with no prior notice to us.  Walking on the PF towards SRR side... Platform One which was not used [did it exist?] before doubling, had a silent generator on it, couple of stalls. There was no coach indicator on the roof in-stead; they were all marked on the walkway. The PF apparently can hold a 24 coacher with ease and is on the curve towards the rear side. PF2 is slightly shorter I guess and has a, much lesser area of it under covers although it exists from the old time. The trains hurtle into the platform with speeds, that generally go missing usual stops, here the case wasn’t so – I did hear atleast couple of people murmuring at the speed of entry.
Curvaceous PTB - ... coming in Part 3

 

Curvaceous PTB

SRR was a definite yes for us to start with, while discussions began for the meeting. However, given that our discussions on Biriyani went on too long, the actual place for the rail-fanning was never decided. So over the last two weeks, Binai and I were discussing the proper place and Pattambi came up as a choice then. He sent me a Google Map link and as I went over it, amusingly the River and the Railway line had a curve at Pattambi. The PW curve is something that would attract any railfan – either he can see the tail & the loco or it’s the photographically optimum point. So I call this place the Curvaceous PTB
This curve on Google maps appear far from the station, it wasn’t so when we walked out of PF 1. The sun was shining bright and as Sandeep said, it drizzled to cool things down and when it was time to swish our click ‘o’ mera …the Suryan came out gracefully. As we were walking along, a KZJ Twin hurtled down road 3 towards SRR, KZJ WDG3A # 14941 in lead and 14620 trailed. These twins were spotted by me later on my return to PGT near OTP, they were fast again, this time 14620 zooming out towards SRR. The breeze from the mighty puzha not very far off cooled temperature. While at the curve, in the distant far appeared some wooded area, but that was too far and hence we decided to stay in wait on road 1 for the JS to come by.

Our wait was soon to be answered by the CBE – MAQ Passenger led by ED WDM2 # 16672. The Mickey waved a yellow and we were expecting the train to be slow as it ran in, but quite surprisingly he zoomed past us, letting out a chug not far before where we stood. A little across, we spotted a separation mark for the PW workers and stood at the R – Rescue bund. A little later, ikka’s JS was to make a grand entry and he sure didn’t disappoint. ERS WDM3A # 18755 was leading the train. He was offcourse fast, didn’t need to stop at PTB. The loco was disgusting, looked like it hadn’t seen even the incessant monsoon in Kerala. There were two coaches at the end which were of Central Railway [ CR ] and they looked totally different, although it had white the combination looked like a reversal of the normal JS. Is it possible that of the 4 additional coaches that were added, these were two of it?!

139 – phew it was working there too at 589/25 – this is the mile marker on the route to MAQ, where we fanned. Back to 139, they said Nethravati is late and that by a good half hour plus. We decided to call it lunch and walked back to the PF. On the way, Biriyani was on my mind :), so Prof Vaisakhan had said Rajaprastham, the hotel to be looked out for. However, Uvs didn’t tell us that this is at Melepattambi and not in the place we were, there was a Rajathani which had been peeled out only the boards were there on the exit road of the station. It’s Ramzan and we were no doubt left to fend for ourselves, no hotels were open. I soon decided to give-up the biriyani and we were looking atleast for some grub…. Little while and I didn’t have to be disappointed, we found a MGS Family restaurant and that had the style of a plush hotel, but sadly there was no power and we were to sweat it out while in wait for the Biriyani & Parotta. Waiting time was getting exhausting but some hot discussion on movies actively participated by Prof & Sandeep was keeping the tempo. The order arrived and soon a short monsoon shower was blasting out too. Biriyani was a delicious package, I loved it. Huge chicken pieces lay buried in the rice and it was sumptuous.

Post lunch, we headed back to the station, the top portion of the coach was visible from the road level again. Like before, we rushed upstairs and there it was the most innovative long distance daily train of all. 6108 Mangalore – Chennai Exp. Can you believe, this train is a daily, takes 24hrs 5mins to reach and also has a 1A coach and has a stop in Karur[KRR] for ONE hour.!!!, this is why I say innovative. Our Sandcho has travelled on this and he says that it’s quite occupied and in demand by Tamizhans. We couldn’t catch the loco, it was an Eddy 3D.

Time to head back home… it drizzled and then Dr Sandeep Sreedharan decided that he will take Mangala back to CLT / BDJ. So he went to take the tickets along with Binai and Prof Venugopal. In the distance I could hear the 3D honking and it was the late Netravati hauled by ED WDM3D # 11152. Quite fast and raced out of the station

Sandcho came back with his ticket and soon Mangala came in rushing with an ERS loco, this guy was very fast onto the platform and the people there were quite un-happy about it. The rake ran almost through and had a host of people including Sandcho running behind it!
Sandeep went away hoping that his medical camp would go well the next day and we climbed down the short exit to find a bus to Shornur rather than waiting for the MAQ – CBE passenger, which the station folks told us would always definitely be late and thus not allowing Prof & Binai and a guaranteed return on GR

 

16054R at SRR and WAG at PGT

At the municipal bus stand, we were finding it hard to get an LS to SRR !!! so we waited and then as we were deciding to take one of the kutti  buses, a Malabar rushed in to save our day. We boarded it to reach SRR in time and from the bus, Binai spotted the MEMU – this meant that I could return to base earlier than planned on the CBE Passenger. At the station entry, I was very amused and disappointed seeing the humungous crowd at the 4 counters. People were jostling across to walk in / out of the station cutting through the queues and also people were cooly asking favours of people standing near the counter. This obviously was extending the waiting time – with one eye on the MEMU and other at the clerk, I waded through and finally managed to buy tickets for CNGR, ERN & PGT all in one go, the clerk did suspect me though.

The MEMU – aren’t we all waiting for it to visit Kerala often? …. Well all are I know. I am told by Binai that from RailK I am the first one to ride it, so be it. PF 1 that’s where the green & cream rake was. Walked all the way upto coach 2 and waited there for it to start, while Binai & Prof waited trackside talking about how ALLP is perishing whereas Chertalai has already been crowned the subset of Ernakulam. Few mins into the conversation, Sabari pulled out of SRR and a little later JS pulled in, the MEMU which I was on also started at 1455, 10 mins late I rushed to my right side to see why the ERS loco which went to CLT on JS became so dark and was quite amused to see the loco had indeed changed and it was a VSKP WDM 16054R.  The hindi wording on the driver side looked to me like Bhagat ki Kothi and on closer look it read VSKP. Coaches on the JS at the loco end were all quite empty and soon I called Binai to let him know of this. He offcourse visited these and they were all booked from TCR onwards !!! I would later learn that Binai took the Dhanbad and Prof waited for the later GR [ by now you would’ve already read the accounts of Prof]. There was a dead WAG5 and ERS WDM2 18558 at the TCR end of the station. My MEMU was a quickie and raced through the SRR bypass and the Dhanbad Express was waiting on the mainline to crossover with an AJJ Loco.  Just after Lakkiti I met GOC WDM2 # 16675 racing towards SRR with an Express. The MEMU reached PGT in 55 mins and as I wandered back to the FOB, I just turned back to see some different colouring on catenary masts. In the distant freight yard I could spot a green hood. Fully conscious that its very far, I trundled the platform and yes it was a WAG9 lying there dead. Since it was too far, decided to drop the exploration and get back home.

It was a great outing for me, the first time I did a rail fanning at Kerala. The last time few of us met, we travelled the complete QLN – PUU – SCT section. The climate helped us and all along my travel back to PGT from SRR, the Puzha Bharathapuzha was in spate and that was quite reflective on how happy I was.

How I wish that we could do this more often as suggested by Dr Sandeep !

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Quality lost – Made in PRC

Haven't you at least once turned your eyes of a product, while purchasing because the damn thing was printed Made in PRC or China, i am sure you have

China now is the hub of all manufacturing, rather its the world’s factory. That should have made this place more quality conscious, its not i have often felt it to be

Shell petrol is running a campaign which is selling Ferrari model cars – 6 variety – at its Petrol pumps here in India. Last Saturday i drove into one of Shell’s station to fill up my car with some Petrol, as usual they started marketing their wares and seeing my baby boy in the  vehicle the lady started pitching the Ferraris to us. Well, that was quite an attraction to hear 100 Rs for a look alike Ferrari. We went into their store and i decided to buy my son all 6 of the models on sale.

Back home, the cars were already causing my son restlessness and we tore it all out of the neat packing, eager to play with them. They were single motor fixed cars and were sure to be a good thing. We started playing with the cars and realised the tension built up on its coils when we pull it backward wasn’t enough to haul these small toys even a distance of 5 ft. So low quality they were made… even the tyre coating were coming of the wheels.

Shell’s brand and Mattel’s co branded toys are of such poor quality – the question to be asked is that Is it because its made in china ? Well i am sure it is.

Its not these cars alone instead almost anything that you get made from PRC quite distinctly reflects bad workmanship. I only wonder, how in the world do people still buy these things !

new age Doctors !

During the last two weeks i was down with some sort of a fever. Headache, Body pain, tiredness and top it off with fever running into 100+. After having endured the trouble for four days with Homeopathic treatment, i couldn’t but get myself see a Allopath / Physician

While at the consultation, i was asked a whole host of things which the Dr would consider to be symptoms of a type of fever which he could then diagnose. Well, my fortune or his headache i was not having any of them… I was feeling relieved that these didn't find a place in me and therefore my own short diagnosis, ‘That i am not in for a long haul’ !

But the learned Physician wouldn’t let it off – he came back saying ‘ I am finding it difficult to diagnose a particular fever, and given that there are lot of Fever types running these days it could be anything Brain, Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria, Typhoid or anything like that. Hence, get yourself admitted and some blood tests [ a huge list at that ] to be done. We will start with Anti-biotic and then lets see what it is !!!! ‘’

That night was the most restless that i have ever got of-late. Came back home and then my folks and couple of friends were at home, who very diligently prayed and i could sense that body was feeling much better.

Nevertheless, with full trust in God i went to another hospital and got a check-up done and after a three blood tests, the Dr there told me it was nothing to worry, its just another bout of Viral fever which went awry and some tablets written, i was back home advised to take solid rest

New age has come with it loads of technology, that has actually got the Dr’s leaving nothing to chance and also proper usage of technology …… only meant to eat into the peace of the patient and also his pocket !

eeeks… we missed him

RTO’s across the country should get the aspiring drivers to pass the driving test on the roads of Secunderabad. Either he will clear it and be an excellent driver or that would be the end of his aspiration

Its heart to mouth situation, while you are in an auto, taxi or any vehicle which is moving on these roads. Maddening to the core, people just turn left or right without bothering if there is a vehicle at their backs. Traffic signals for such a huge city is literally non existent unless otherwise its some important junction. For those that are there, people hardly care to stand till the laal bathi becomes hara bathi… thats Red to Green !

On our journey back to Kacheguda railway station from the Secunderabad clock tower area, our auto driver literally was scraping everyone on the road, apparently the people there seems to have got used to this and they don't care much

While on our way back from RR Dist into Secunderabad on the highway a carrier Auto rickshaw went zooop from the left of our Yellow taxi to the right side and at a fast pace… it knocked our car to the right, which hit the median and came to the left side, while we screamed inside the driver realised that a bolt struck him and little did he realise that it wasn't the Truck at our back instead the drunk fella who was driving the carrier. Our car was halted and found to our dismay that the front bumpers had fallen off !!!! Something that i was left wondering here is that there was no immediate fisticuffs … instead it went to talking and shouting a quick comparison to Bangalore, well the Auto fellow would've been bleeding by then !

All in all… while you are in Rome be a Roman and when you are in Secunderabad or Hyderabad be someone like them !

Biriyani paradise..

What a rush ! never could believe that Biriyani would attract so many people to a place rightfully named Paradise !

I am talking about Paradise the hotel, which is a eatery in Secunderabad. it stands right at the Paradise junction on MG Road & Sardar Patel road. Apparently they started there in the early 60’s and now is literally a huge complex, that has multiple eating spaces divided to take care of all classes in society – if i were to be specific.

The oldest of the complex is at the rear side of this facade, its a bakery, chai and biriyani ka dhookan. Most of the people who throng here and either in a hurry or just want to have some food and go… they wouldn't be bothered about the climes.

Takeaway centre… as you can see here. I was amazed to see 5 counters all filled with long queues, mouth watering kebabs and other stuffs are on sale here too

The main hotel apparently was divided into 3 floors / areas as they are called. Silver, Gold & Platinum.

Men with Black T Shirt ‘’Security’ printed on the backs, guarded every entry of the hotel with metal detectors and we were made to pass through Metal detector arches, after which there is a body frisk too… it made me think for a second that i am entering a high security Airport.

At the table, the Suit wearing bearer approached us for the orders and … technology was in full show. He flipped out his IPAQ and started clicking on it with his stylus, on enquiry i was told that the order straight electronically pins itself onto the Kitchen boards with the table number. Sure enough the orders were very promptly delivered to us and with good quantity too. A family biriyani was 610 Rs and easily served about 7 of us.

Truly Paradise it is for Biriyani & Kebabs !

Kamat needs a kick !

What do you call a hotel that has bureaucracy in its floor service … KAMAT !

Here i refer to the Kamat hotel at Secunderabad Clock tower. We were out there as three families, a size of 8 members for a breakfast on a Friday morning. The shabby treatment the hotel staff gave us, forced us out of the place

The Hotel has an AC & non AC eatery on the first floor, right opposite the clock tower bus stop. The heat at the place was yet to sink in and given that we had walked with kids in our hands, we took the AC hall for want of some cool climes. While inside the hall, there was a small coupe at the end of the hall and that was perfectly fit to seat 8 of us. Eagerly we rushed there, seated ourselves there with our babies. After a few minutes passed no one from the hotel staff bothering to look at us, we called for a person. It was the cashier cum Sr staff and he gave a cheesing smile and told us that ‘ This area is closed for service ‘ !!! Oh what was that meant to be ? He had no convincing answers, all he could tell was that of the 30 odd seats there in the AC hall, these 8 were not being serviced by his staff and we were asked to mingle with the crowd on the other side where-in we had to split ourselves to have a bite of the stuff that this hotel would offer…

We decide and then move around

My Son of 2.5 yrs needed some milk and i asked Mr Smile for a glass of milk for the baby. Well, he was smiling again and the reply was curt ‘ Sorry sir, we wont be able to give milk ‘. What ???? you cant give a glass of milk and that too for a baby. Wouldn't this jango sell milk if a customer wants a glass of it instead of his kick taste-buds tea… i couldn’t for a moment reason and it was outright curt and embarrassing

That was enough of Kamat, which surely must be having some mouth watering dishes on offer and a regular clientele, but has no courtesy i must argue. These fools of old yore, need to learn some mannerisms and make reasoning in their behaviour

People & Personality management

Often people in the governing positions think that being close to a person is too hazardous for getting the required work done out of him / her. This is considered Personality management.

Accordingly what is the connotation meant to be... Its means that you are working to 'Keep a good feel about you alive' instead of being demanding. The big boss feels the Manager is not doing his work of squeezing the employee to extract work and by being adjusting and understanding the Manager is actually spoiling the employee ! Hence instead of managing your personality, you are expected to do People management. Reading the above, I now take it that you have understood what personality management ought to be in the hallowed corporate world of shrewd thinkers

My take is that by actually doing Personality management, you can turn people, your way. Give him / her that satisfactory environment to work, they will enjoy working. Express the need, to take the bend on road to improvement , quickly. It will give you a willing person to stretch and grow on you.

Aren't people your most important investment..., they why don't we consider and groom them that way !