Wandering Thoughts

How many of you heard the role, IDM in our IT Industry? Do you know its full form? Infrastructure Development Manager. To brief about the role, it includes handling the entire infrastructure setup starting from basic desktops, laptops to servers located in Data Center, patch management, antivirus, etc. Before you assume that I am going little technical, let me confess that I am the solo IDM for my account. This article is about how my insider reacts to certain situations in my role. Early in the morning with sleepy eyes I pick up my phone without even looking properly who calls me. To my surprise, I hear “Giridhar, Internet is not working in office”. I would respond saying, “Please check with network team”. But there’s another version to this response. The insider says, “How can you call me early in the morning? It’s not even 9 AM”. I get ready and reach to office. I start searching for a place to park my vehicle. Ms. A comes to me and says, “Giridhar, I have a serious issu...

Do you think that there’s a way to win? Are you aware that the formula for winning remains the same whether you are a sportsman, a musician, a financial planner, a pharmaceutical salesman or a housewife? Well, this article is all about the book, “The Winning Way” written by Anita Bhogle and Harsha Bhogle which says how to win in the dynamic corporate environment. It correlates sports and business considering the common factors like Competitiveness, uncertainty, strategy, execution, leadership and team work. It draws business lessons from sports. The book has expressively and compellingly laid out the 'ground rules' of winning.    Many teams around the world create a winning cycle for them and keep going along with it. So, how to create a winning cycle? The authors explain that initially we need to create a winning team in which we select the best talent and form a team. Once the team starts winning, it will attract other talented members who are...

Writing has always been an integral part of my life. It can be the time when I started writing my own diary during the school days or filling as many additional as I can during the exams, I always loved it. Well, in this article, I am going to write about my blogging experience. It was June 2016 when I experienced the rain never like before on the roads of Hyderabad. I wasn’t sure if it was good or bad. But I could say that it inspired me to write an article titled “Rain in the City”. For some reason, I marked it as Article#1 because I know that I would write some more in the future. That’s how the journey of my blogging started. To talk about the impact, I received appreciation as well as criticism for my first article equally. But those things didn’t bother me much because I felt I am here to express, not to impress. However, I felt that I should evaluate myself going forward irrespective of people’s opinion. I started writing more, slowly I could say people loved them based o...

Out of many professions in the world, Anchoring is the one I love most because it gives me a chance to be on stage for maximum time. This article is all about my dream to host a show if I become an anchor. Mostly, it is inspired by a famous Indian talk show. Do you watch Koffee with Karan? I want to host a similar show called ‘Giridhar’s Garady’. I will be the host and weekly or bi-weekly I would have one guest. I will take the interview of the person and make a video of that for circulation in the social media platforms. Each video would be unique and I want to shoot at different locations based on the feasibility of the guest like in any of our homes or a park or a shopping mall, etc. Unlike the TV shows, I don’t want it to be a scripted one. I want to think of as many new questions as I can. I want to be creative enough to pull guests as well as viewers for my show. Now you would ask me why I was so inspired by this show. This is because Koffee with Karan  is noted for it...

The distribution of a collaborative information refers to Journalism. It’s an occupation in which the journalists gather information and spread across various media like Newspaper, TV, Radio, Internet, etc. There’s an older form of journalism called “Newsreels”, a form of short documentary film containing news stories that was prevalent between 1910 and 1960. Journalism has a long history. In India, it started with a newspaper. The first newspaper of India was published on January 29, 1780 known as  ‘Hicky's Gazette’  or formally registered as  ‘The Bengal Gazette’ . However, it stopped after one and half years of circulation. In the 1800s, English newspapers were started by Indian publishers with English-speaking Indians as the target audience. Later, In 1920s, Radio broadcasting came into existence becoming widespread in the 1930s. Then in 1940s, TV News broadcast started. Live TV started in 1960s. From 2000, the digital age arrived. Journalism has many forms lik...

It was 10 th  January 2019, as part of my New Year resolution, experimenting with life, I started on a solo trip to Kolkata, the city of joy and also the cultural capital of India. Having experienced the flavor of going solo I was Excited, Joyful, Cheerful and what not as if jaggery and sugar are on the same plate. But can you imagine the taste of sugar going bitter or jaggery turning into green chilly? Well, this article is about my experiments and experiences during my trip to Kolkata.   As soon as I got out of airport, my mobile signal went off. It was 2:30 AM, I got into a bus and asked about Saltlake. The conductor said I can get down at Utadaga and take a cab from there. Great, I was going, not sure where. I reminded the conductor to inform me once the stop arrives. He did so and I got down to see it was actually ‘Ulta Danga’. Why did they swallow the l and n? Anyhow, now, I had to take a cab. It was almost 3:00 AM. The road was so silent as if no one is living ther...

“A goal properly set is halfway reached”, a wonderful quote that I read somewhere. Every one of us have goals about something or the other at some point of our lives. While the moment we achieve our goals becomes important, I believe the journey to reach that moment also equally matters. This article is about how I reached my own goals at various phases of my life. It was January 2010, almost 9 years ago, the time I was in the final year of my college. We got to know that in another one month, we are going to have our on-campus placements by one of the top MNC, none other than TCS. We would have an aptitude test followed by three rounds of interviews, technical, MR and HR. All the 4 years we used to have aptitude classes once in a week. But I never took them seriously and was in my own world with my friends. However, that moment I strongly decided to get selected in the campus. I got so obsessed with it that I ignored almost everything and everyone around. I borrowed the very famo...

Hungry in the morning? Let’s try Onion Paneer Butter Masala Dosa, How about healthy afternoons? Why not Hyderabadi Biryani? Want to have a fulfilled snack for the evening? Samosa or Kachori is the best option. What’s going to be a lite meal for the night? Aloo or Gobi Paratha would be perfect. It sounds good when we try all these items in different places or order from our famous food apps. But what if we try to cook these items at home that too by ourselves? There lies the pain or gain. Pain, when we are not sure of anything about cooking or when we are too lazy enough to cook and gain, when we know the secrets on how to make the items delicious. Well, in this article I am going to talk about the gain, the art of cooking, how it began, what are the methods and ingredients to cook. Cooking is nothing but the art of preparing food. The preparation techniques vary round the globe based on people’s culture and tradition. But, one common thing that happens worldwide is the preparation...

Dream of a politician, “I want to be the PM of this country”. Dream of a struggler, “I want to be the superstar of this industry”. Dream of a software engineer, “I want to be the CEO of this company” Dream of an RJ, “I want to be the National head of this broadcasting channel” Dream of an intern, “I want to be the executive editor of this magazine” Then we have another type of dreams, an engineer who dream of becoming a doctor, a lecturer who dream of becoming a lawyer, a model who dream of becoming an actor, and a salesman who dream of becoming a chef and so on. What about the dreams that arrive when we are in sleep? As if you are on a different planet or all together on a world trip or caught in a tsunami or overnight sensation trending in the internet. Whatever the case it is, do you think there’s anything wrong with these dreams? Well, it is not. In all the above cases, there’s nothing wrong if you want to grow in your profession or choose something else or dream somet...

A leader is not someone who just assigns the work, but is someone who is capable of making you work neither with a request nor with an order. He is someone who helps you in the task, someone who drives you all the way along, motivates you with his words, encourages you with your strengths, appreciates you when you achieve, and corrects you when you go wrong. Leadership is not something just related to a job or a project, but is something that plays a major role in meeting a goal. Well, in this article, I am going to share my experience as a leader not professionally, but personally. It’s been 7 long years since we people left the college. We were in touch only with the ones whom we knew very well. Everyone was in touch with someone or the other, but it’s not that all of us were in touch with every one of us. It was the New Year 2017. We boys had a small get together wherein we thought of taking the advantage of this technology advent and wanted to form a fresh Whatsapp group with ...