Raju Hiremath

Last weekend I was watching a hindi movie late night. It was a story picturised in Mumbai and as usual it was shot all around Mumbai. There happens to be a scene at Vile Parle station, for a moment my experiences in Mumbai came across my thoughts. Mumabi is one city which every Indian talks about. Simple reason, “ it’s in news”… That’s Mumbai!! Mumbai has the wealthiest industrialist residing, the most happening  Bombay stock market exchange, Master Blaster Sachin resides here, it’s the place of world  renowned Dabbavalas who follow six-sigma, how can I not mention shiv sena and marathi manoos , Mumbai is well known for its superb night life – in fact the real Mumbai awakens only by night and above all the most happening glamorous world BOLLYWOOD is in Mumbai!! In other words it is the commercial capital of India. Each and every citizen on this country wishes to visit Mumbai atleast once in lifetime.....sounds like a pilgrimage desire!!!!. That's Mumbai!! ...

Deep waters scare me. Have seen the bottom when thrown in waters once. My life ran infron of my eyes like a short film. Could'nt even shout, - I was busy drinking water. This silence sacres me. Feels like being thrown into waters again. Dont know where lies the bottom. My life is running infront of my eyes like a lengthy movie. Cant even shout, - I am busy living.

i see leaves falling off nowadays. neither a plant nor a tree is spared, its time to shed the old leaves to make place for a new beginning. the spring is here!!            wish i was tree with others too.            we could unburden ourselves            to make place for a new beginning            the spring is here!!!

Our meida in past couple of years always tells us the bright soties of Inida, which most of us know. A glance in the past stuns us on how we have been hiding the corruption in our mats. Its not good to blame the governments and bureaucrats, becaues we are to be blamed too - which I am sure none of us will accept. But I am sure you all will agree for this. A BLAST FROM THE PAST Rs. 73000000000000 Cr.   (73 Lakh Crore ) Hard to digest ? Just check the below given details 1992 - Harshad Mehta securities scam Rs 5,000 cr 1994 - Sugar import scam Rs 650 cr 1995 - Preferential allotment scam Rs 5,000 cr Yugoslav Dinar scam Rs 400 cr Meghalaya Forest scam Rs 300 cr 1996: - Fertiliser import scam Rs 1,300 cr Urea scam Rs 133 cr Bihar fodder scam Rs 950 cr 1997 - Sukh Ram telecom scam Rs 1,500 cr SNC Lavalin power project scam Rs 374 cr Bihar land scandal Rs 400 cr C.R. Bhansali stock scam Rs 1,200 cr 1998 - Teak plantation swindle Rs 8,000 cr ...

Few days before Christmas I read an article about the stories of Santa Claus told to children and how he surprises them with his gifts. I too had heard these stories many times, have seen couple of movies on the same themes. After reading that article I was wondering does Santa give gifts to some grown ups who are 30 + like me!! A day before Christmas i.e. Friday 24th Dec. I took an off as I was fed up of the hectic office work which was giving lesser time to me for myself. This is an year end, plus in financial services that too in Life Insurance you are always dealing with loads of parameters to be achieved. Meet your targets, work on you Annual Operating Plan, Morning Meetings, Con-calls. After some time this all SUCKS and end up in migrane!! I happened to call Vikram on Friday. He said he is going 2 days out of Bangalore on 25th early morning on his bike, alone. I asked his trip schedule. I was pretty much impressed and asked how come he is going alone. Couple of his ...

Indian women relay team has won Gold in 400 M relay - comprising a team of (L to R)  Ashwini Shetty, Mandip Kaur, Manjit Kaur & Sini Jose. Ashwini ran the cruicial 3rd leg in the finals.   Ashwini hails from Karantaka's coastal area. Coming from financially poor farmer's family in rural village of- Jansal, near Siddapura, Kundapur Taluk – Udupi district. Her father owns few acres of paddy growing farms which is again completely dependent on rains. In her childhood she used run around the cattle at home – taking them out for graging, to her father's fields. Running behind them she realised her speed and increased it herself running in school competions. She later started participating in inter-school, district level and many other local competitions; couple of which she won running on barefoot. On barefoot she went on to pursue her dreams of running in state level and national level games. Today India won GOLD after 50 yrears in a track event. Ashwini recalls “...

When Shashi had come to Blore months 6 back from Mudalagi, he told me abt a new song which has become a big hit in our belgaum district. I told him it may be some shabber dange song or may be another double meaning drama by raju talikoti. He said "no, this is a descent one. You will like it". To keep his mood I said "ok, let me listen". Then he played it on his mobile. In the first two lines I could not resist laughing loudly "what a devdas song?" For which he said " ಮುತ್ತ್ಯಾ ಪೂರ್ತಿ ಕೇಳು ಆಮೇಲೆ ನಗು". {He calls me Muttya, i will tell this story sometime later}. And believe me as he said when I went on listening I started liking it. The lyrics was something which was sung in our north kannada style. Later I asked him to send that song to me. now it is in my mobile too. After few months, one day I felt like sharing it on net with my friends from UK (Uttar Karnataka). So I just typed "Preetiya pariwala", to my surprise I found a video of ...