Appreciating 'Sorry'!

Remember the last time you said "Sorry"? Maybe for not keeping up a promise you made to your spouse or to a friend. To a shopkeeper with whom you argued for not giving you the exact change as balance for the item's price you misread. To a colleague for accidentally (or deliberately) trampling on his/her foot. In all these above instances, you must have found, Sorry, as the-one-word-quick-fix that would do the face-saving or sometimes even life-saving act for all those deliberate or inadvertent wrongs/misdoings/mistakes et al of yours.

But how often have we understood the real worth or value of that word? Have not we consciously or unconsciuously taken that word for granted and used it copiously, not even considering whether use of that word was needed or not?

I think, we would really be appreciating the worth of 'Sorry' only when we expect it from somebody else, for a wrongdoing of theirs. We would be expecting 'Sorry' to with utmost earnestness and bit forgiving mindset, especially if the wrongdoer happens to be someone close to your heart.

Only when a 'Sorry" is due to you, we try to appreciate the value and worth of it. That singly makes 'Sorry' a valuable word. Not to be used regardless of whether the situation warrants it or not.

So next time you use the word 'Sorry' think twice and more importantly let it come from, from the bottom of your heart! And see what magic this five-letter word creates in the mind of the listener!

Cost to Company?

HR Manager. 3 years of dedicated service. Instrumental in bringing about enhanced productivity, low-attrition and allegiance among employees to the company. Winner of several do-more-so-that-company-will-benefit awards.


An interesting entry in the relieving letter:
Cost to Company: Rs.14,65,005

By the way, can you just let me know whether you have come across any doc that mentions the 'costs suffered' by an employee by way of working for long, extended hours, putting up with office politics, staying away from his/her dear or near ones etc... etc...

An Utopian dream?

No hackers, No anti-social websites, No unwanted mails, No junk mails; In short, absence of everything that nullifies the advantages and benefits that the cyber world offers us...

How fast, easy, time-saving and productive our cyber journeys be then?

Freedom and Space to Express yourself...

If you have ideas and you want people to know about that, what would you do? Grab a microphone, jump onto a pulpit and start speaking at the top of your voice. Well, this idea of speaking your mind out is not bad, but the problem is that, there would be few listeners for you and fewer who understands you. If they don't like what you like to say, then a physically vigorous crowd (three is a crowd, please remember, ha! ha!) would not think a wink's time to throw their footwear at you.

So what's the safe alternative?

Blog, man, blog. This is a much safer and effective way of communicating your ideas without being putting your self to physical and verbal on-the-spot feedbacks. Blogging has its advantages. Perhaps, there are more chances for you being read and understood in a more effective and proper way that it would've been otherwise, IF, what you blog about is for the good of the society.

Heartfelt thank yous to the people at Google, for providing such a great platform!

Amrita TV - Amritam for your eyes and ears!

They haven't been onto the competitive turf of channel-supremacy for long. But given the style and strategy, it won't be too long before they take the top-slots of the viewers' minds and TRP listings. The programming content catering to a wide spectrum of viewers has indeed been different and interesting one. To a great extent, I must say, their programming strategy is in line with the concept their tagline publicises - Endearing, Enriching and Entertaining.

Another peculiar feature I find with Amrita TV, is the quality of their thoroughly different visual graphics. The visual treat these graphic imageries invoke in any viewer's mind would indeed be a gladdening and refreshing one. And indelible too! Watch the graphics for programmes like Pradakshinam, Parasparam, Vanitharatnam, Chitranjali et al. I am sure, you won't miss the impressive strand of a colorful, exciting and attractive theme specific to each programme and in line with the channel's visual scheme; omnipresent in almost every graphic imagery you would come across. I guess, there is a wholly independent and exclusive visual designing team working in Amrita for this goal. Anyway, keep up the good work!

More publicity please...

A woman who is into her late thirties and desirous of attracting attention whichever way possible. Sensing that her Bollywood stint is almost over, so she must look for greener pastures abroad. Would Hollywood be okay? Oh, yeah! But the sad thing is, in Hollywood real acting talent matters. Not "just acting" won't do. But why get disheartened? Channel 4's Big Brother has brought plenty of pounds to her kitty. Whether Indians or Britishers were hurt by the kind of 'competitition' she faced inside the celebrated confines of Big Brother does not bother her. What matters to this lady is nothing but the highly-held values of Mother India; fortitude and forgiving mentality.


So, what she did? She ingeniously attributed all the Big Brother hullaballoo to a "communication gap". Dear friend, think again, if people throws tantrums on you (*ed words, including) never mind; when enlightenment dawns on you in the form of realising what you stand to gain (or lose), you can excuse your opponents by invoking the much-cliched "communication gap". That will create a win-win situation for all those concerned. Here, Channel 4, Shilpa, Jade and all those associated with the Big Brother won in one way or another.

Now, Richard Gere's kissing. Dont think of it as vulgar. He was brought up in a different culture and what wrong he did:he just kissed and that's it. Just kissed! Why make a furore over that. Gere, the celebrity Buddhist, has been grossly misunderstood. Grow up, Indian media, to the ways and customs of western world! It's a shame that every time a well-meaning lady has been put to such troubles so as to come up with a well-drafted excuse for the sake of hers and others!

Did I hear...

God's own country... (Not every part of Kerala is beautiful...)
Devil's own people... (Not all Keralites are bad people...)