Electric Vehicles -- Charging Problem

Population of Electric Vehicles is expected to explode. New kind of problems may start surfacing. Mainly related to charging. If many people start taking their car to office, they may like to put their car charging at home as soon as they reach home back. As per some study published in Washington post, this will result in increased peak hour demand  on the (electricity) supplier.  Armed with smart meter, electric companies would start...

Yoga Day CELEBRATIONS

Father's day, Mother's day, Valentine day, Friendship day,..To this list people of India seems to have added Yoga day.  A student wrote a report about the day as below... "International Yoga day was celebrated with full zeal and fanfare in our apartment complex. Once assembled in common area in the morning, every resident exchanged greetings -- "Happy Yoga Day".  After inauguration formalities, including a speech by a senior citizen,...

Project Delays......

"Metro project maynot be completed in this year". A big sigh, after reading this newspaper headline. "Project is getting delayed. Have to work hard to meet new deadline.." -- howmany times you have heard such comments from your friends. Donot know why, in India, none of the projects meet the schedule on time -- be it private or public ; software or infra projects. Always thought that money crunch, government clearance, lethargy of public servants,...

Do we need only leader ?

You may come across countless speeches/talks, workshops/training sessions, etc on leadership. May find innumerable book on "How to become a good leader". Communication seems to be the most important feature of a good leader. So everyone is lined up to improve communication skills to become leader of next gen. Does it mean that, all we need is a good leader -- not  followers or a team player.s Howmany leaders does a society need ? Do we need more leaders than team members ? What we are creating a reverse pyramid where most of the people are...

Bad Mouth -- food for thought

Many a times, we talk something which hurt other people. We may not feel that. It happens vice-a-versa as well. This bad talk is highly addictive and like smile, very contagious  !!  Bad talk creates lot of negative vibe around us.  We criticise many people, place, arrangement, etc. without thinking its impact on the listener. Always you may find a thin line between a criticism and a comment. Now, how do you define  a "bad talk"  ? This  question was posed to a learned person. The erudite replied with a smile --...

My Swimming lessons

I started learning swimming in my early 40s. Apart from swimming, the training process taught me quite a few lessons for life. Swimming is one physical activity which cannot be taught by a physical instructor. It requires actuating your mental faculty  as well-- body and mind together make you swim. In very convention sense,  teacher shows you how to acquire certain skills or knowledge. You follow him/her and  in a few efforts, you acquire what you had intended to. Teaching is over and improvement on newly acquired knowledge/skill...

BLIND WALK'15 – A LIFE TIME EXPERIENCE

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } When you see a blind person crossing a road what comes to your mind? Just a pity feeling ? At best you may stop your vehicle, so that the person can cross the road ! Rotary gave me an opportunity to enter into a blind person's mind and get a “glimpse” of daily routine and associated challenges. Rotary Bangaore North West participated in Rotary supported Blind walk’15 on Sunday 6th Sept afternoon,...