Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Saturday, 28 November 2015

RE: CASH TO DIGITAL SUMMIT


GIVE   AND    TAKE

Dear Shri Modiji :


It was statesman like for you to reach out to Congress leaders last evening , in order to reach an agreement on GST

All negotiations have two , initially opposing , parties

No agreement can be arrived at , on the " Terms " of only one of the parties

A customer sold against his will , ceases to be a customer  !

Agreements imposed through numerical strength of membership , are bound to get sabotaged

To arrive at a " Lasting Solution " , there must be give and take


Here is my suggestion :


NDA  GIVE  :


*    Accept a cap of 18 % for GST in the Constitutional Amendment Bill


NDA  TAKE :

*    A provision in Bill to enable the Government of the day , to raise the GST % in
     subsequent years , through an enabling provision

     
     This provision ( not mandatory ) , will allow the Government to raise the GST %
    through the Annual Central Budget each year

      ( anyway , Union Budget has to be passed in Lok Sabha , each year )


*   The amount by which GST " may " get raised , to be calculated as follows :

     #    Starting GST %   =    18 %

    #     Assume that , in 2016-17 , CPI rises by 10 %

    #     Take  5 %  of that 10 % rise in CPI .   That works out to 0.5 %

    #     So , in 2017-18 , GST may be raised by 0.5 % , to become 18.5 %

    #     This is the UPPER LIMIT . Government may choose to revise GST to any
           figure less than 18.5 %


This is a perfect  FACE SAVING  FORMULA


Carpe  Diem !  Cease this moment to strike a deal by today evening  !

Good Luck  !

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hemen  parekh
28  Nov  2015
B2BmessageBlaster






Dear Sirs / Madams ,


I would have loved to listen to your views at the conference on

CASH  TO   DIGITAL   SUMMIT ,

being organized by MINT on 06 Nov 2015

Being unable to attend due to health issues , I request you to take up for discussion , my following suggestion

I would be happy to receive your views on its feasibility - or otherwise

with regards,

hemen  parekh

Mumbai / (M) 0 - 98,67,55,08,08



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NETWORK   OF   CURRENCY    NOTES ?


While inaugurating the International Conference on " Networking the Networks " on Nov 2 , our FM Shri Jaitleyji said :

" Tax evasion and money laundering will become extremely difficult in the next 1-2 years, with the global automatic exchange of information system coming into effect on a real time basis "

To speed up this process and make it truly automatic / real time , I suggest resorting to the following technologies :


#   Internet of Things ( IoT )

     As each currency note of Rs 500 / 1000 , is getting printed , embed it with microscopic
     RFID chips

     Besides communicating with each other , these chips will also transmit their existence
     location , through internet , to cloud-based servers of Income Tax Department

     This will form a " NETWORK  OF  CURRENCY  NOTES ( NoC ) "

     You may like to call this Internet of Currency ( IoC ) , a sub-set of IoT  !



#   Internet Protocol Address System ( IP V 6.0 )


     Each Rs 500 / 1000 currency note must be assigned ( at the time of printing ) , its own
     unique Internet Address , using IP V 6.0

     This IP address should be linked with the unique Serial Number printed on each note.

     Since IP V 6.0 , will be capable of assigning   " 2 * 10 to the power of 128 ", no of  IP
     addresses , there is no danger of running out of addresses , even if we decide to extend
     this idea to Rs 100 currency notes !

    
    
This reform will enable the Central Government / Income Tax Department , to :

*    Continuously trace the movement of each of these higher denomination currency notes

*    Instantly locate any place ( using Google Map based GPS ) , where there is an
     accumulation of more than Rs 1 Crore worth of currency notes

     Such accumulation will be made to appear as a TAG CLOUD on the web site of IT Dept,
     like thousands of balloons floating on a map of India , capable of being drilled down to
     within 1 Sq Meter  !

     On each balloon , will appear a number announcing , " Amount of Cash here - Rs " !

     This will vastly simplify the task of Anti Corruption Dept / Enforcement Dept etc


Of course , my suggestions may become outdated with the arrival of mobile wallets based CASHLESS SOCIETY , by 2030

In the meantime , experts may want to opine whether my suggestions make sense , theoretically and practically ( if so , by when ? ) to tackle the menace of black money generation

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hemen  parekh

04  Nov  2015

    

    



Friday, 27 November 2015

START UP POLICY DOCUMENT


Dear Amitabh :


I believe , you are putting together , draft of " START UP POLICY "

In which case , my following blog might interest you

regards,

hemen  /  0 - 98,67,55,08,08

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SURROGATE    COW    FARMS   ?


Speaking at a Start-Up event at San Jose ( California ) on 27th Sept, PM Shri Modi said :


"  When each of the 500 odd towns produce 10 Start-Ups and each of our 600,000 villages produce six small businesses , on a regular basis , we will create an enormous economic momentum and generate a large number of jobs in our country

I want to see the idea and spirit of Start Ups light up the economies and the fortunes of people in rural India  "



Entirely doable . Consider the following suggestion :


*  Chinese biotechnology firm BoyaLife and South Korea's Sooam Biotech , are constructing in China, World's largest animal cloning factory

*  Production will start next year , with an initial capacity for one lakh cattle embryos a year , growing to one million per year

*  Dog , racehorse and COW embryos  will be produced


Obviously , BoyaLife will need to " rent out " cow-wombs , to grow / nurture these embryos

And that is THE OPPORTUNITY , to be seized by our rural Start-Ups  !

By setting up , " Surrogate Cow Farms " of 10 cows each

Then renting out these cow-wombs to BoyaLife , for $ 1,000 per surrogacy ( In city of Anand - Gujarat , human wombs can be rented out for $ 15,000 )

One million cow-wombs will earn these rural Start Ups , $ 1,000 million / year  !

At 10 cows per Start Ups , 100,000 Start Ups will be born  !

Raising our EXPORT earnings by $ 1,000 million  !

And nothing should stop these rural Start Ups from importing embryos of Dogs and Racehorses , and then re-exporting fully grown pets to Europe / America  !

I only hope , some MORAL POLICEMEN do not start a controversy by shouting :

"  How can we allow our holy Indian cows , to bear the unholy Chinese cattle embryos in their wombs , when we just banned our surrogate human mothers to carry the embryos of Foreign citizens  ? "


Of course , it is another story that these very same " moralists " have no love lost for the prostitutes who are forced to " rent out " their very human bodies , in order to survive  !

One last request to the concerned Ministers / Secretaries in NDA government :

Please , include these " Surrogate Cow Farms " in your definition of Start Ups in your proposed " Start Up Policy Document "


It is another matter that ,

each and every jobless individual ( not earning a salary from some other individual or organization ) , and struggling to become self-employed , must qualify as a Start Up

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hemen  parekh

27  Nov  2015

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SURROGATE COW FARMS ?


SURROGATE    COW    FARMS   ?

Speaking at a Start-Up event at San Jose ( California ) on 27th Sept, PM Shri Modi said :

"  When each of the 500 odd towns produce 10 Start-Ups and each of our 600,000 villages produce six small businesses , on a regular basis , we will create an enormous economic momentum and generate a large number of jobs in our country
I want to see the idea and spirit of Start Ups light up the economies and the fortunes of people in rural India  "

Entirely doable . Consider the following suggestion :

*  Chinese biotechnology firm BoyaLife and South Korea's Sooam Biotech , are constructing in China, World's largest animal cloning factory
*  Production will start next year , with an initial capacity for one lakh cattle embryos a year , growing to one million per year
*  Dog , racehorse and COW embryos  will be produced

Obviously , BoyaLife will need to " rent out " cow-wombs , to grow / nurture these embryos
And that is THE OPPORTUNITY , to be seized by our rural Start-Ups  !
By setting up , " Surrogate Cow Farms " of 10 cows each
Then renting out these cow-wombs to BoyaLife , for $ 1,000 per surrogacy ( In city of Anand - Gujarat , human wombs can be rented out for $ 15,000 )
One million cow-wombs will earn these rural Start Ups , $ 1,000 million / year  !
At 10 cows per Start Ups , 100,000 Start Ups will be born  !
Raising our EXPORT earnings by $ 1,000 million  !
And nothing should stop these rural Start Ups from importing embryos of Dogs and Racehorses , and then re-exporting fully grown pets to Europe / America  !
I only hope , some MORAL POLICEMEN do not start a controversy by shouting :
"  How can we allow our holy Indian cows , to bear the unholy Chinese cattle embryos in their wombs , when we just banned our surrogate human mothers to carry the embryos of Foreign citizens  ? "

Of course , it is another story that these very same " moralists " have no love lost for the prostitutes who are forced to " rent out " their very human bodies , in order to survive  !
One last request to the concerned Ministers / Secretaries in NDA government :
Please , include these " Surrogate Cow Farms " in your definition of Start Ups in your proposed " Start Up Policy Document "

It is another matter that , each and every jobless individual ( not earning a salary from some other individual or organization ) , and struggling to become self-employed , must qualify as a Start Up
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hemen  parekh
27  Nov  2015





Wednesday, 25 November 2015

EDIT feature for " Policy Makers "


Nitin,


Thanks for uploading this last evening

I suppose , first thing today , you will create those 4 new " Categories " which Sanjivani sent to you

Once , you have done this , pl inform Sanjivani , so that she may upload the records under each

Now , I find that none of these 4 new " Categories " fit under , either :

>  Central Govt ,   or

>   State  Govt

Which means , in the drop-list on page " Influence Policy Makers " , we need to add one more selection as :

Civil Society Policy Makers

These 4 new categories will appear under this new  " selection "

And these will appear at " Policy Makers Count " table in EDIT page

Please make this change and let me know

hcp


RE: Thank You , Policy Makers !


Dear Ganesh ,


Many thanks for your kind words

What " model " one adopts is not so important but persevering is

you may want to look up page , " Influence  Policy  Makers "  on www.B2BmessageBlaster.com

Hopefully today , on this page , we will add a new " Selection " called , " Civil Society Policy Makers "

This new selection will carry databases of the following :

>    Editors - Journalists - Correspondents

>   Economists

>   TV News Anchors

>   Business  Leaders

This addition will enable our Subscribers to " Influence " such persons , as well

I invite any / all of you to REGISTER ( in your personal capacity , if you so desire ) , - and compose your own suggestions to send out ( first 1,000 emails are FREE  ! )

Regards,

hemen  parekh

PS :

You can see many of my own past suggestions ( being regularly sent to Ministers / Secretaries / MPs / MLAs ) at ,


  

From: Ganesh Apte [mailto:ganesh.apte@leftrightmind.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 8:00 AM
To: Hemen C Parekh HC
Cc: abhinandan.pm75@gmail.com; ankit.kumar@wk.com; Deshmukh AM M Deshmukh 9821014352; Abrahamj; Akash Kamath; aryakumar@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in; aditee@kamikaze.co.in; bindu.ananth@ifmr.co.in; contact@coworkcafe.in; contact@sicomventure.com; connect@mygov.nic.in; contact@liasesforas.com; contact@shiromaniakalidal.org.in; contact@aamaadmiparty.org; charu sharma; ChandraMohan srivastava 9867455350; cynthia rodriqes 9004870476; deanpgmcons@gmail.com; devesh@icreate.org.in; goudasirish@gmail.com; gc.manna1@gmail.com; gaurav.gupta@cii.in; GLADYS VAZ; icci@ficci.com; info@cii.in; info@hiranandani.com; info@parivartansandeshfoundation.com; info@jumstartup.net; info@ilfsindia.com; info@dawnconsulting.com; ks.uma@gov.in; kuldeep_sangeeta@yahoo.co.in; Kshitij.awasthi@iimb.ernet.in; krsanghavi@vsnl.net; mumbaioffice@mantrirealty.com; memberbanking&hrd@indiapost.gov.in; manoj@5hourenergy.com; mvnaidu@sansad.nic.in; nandan@nandannilekani.in; nitin.gupta@payumoney.com; niranjan@hiranandani.net; naveenjindal@hotmail.com; naveen@tminetwork.com; neha.advani09@iimb.ernet.in; Saktibrata Dasgupta; pramod.saxena@myoxigen.com; padmanabhan.a@livemint.com; pmi.india@pmi.org; pmo@pmis.in; pratik_goel@isb.edu; padmaja@boaindia.com; pooja.s1@livemint.com; poorvi@rajaniassociates.net; Apte Ravi; rkathuria@icrier.res.in; Mvn Rao; tsreedhar@tminetwork.com; vishesh@incomegroup.in; vmehta@outlookindia.com; VK Mahajan ex L&T HR Kumar Mahajan 9821031812; Vivek Mehta; Waman JN Danait 9820658115
Subject: Re: Thank You , Policy Makers !

Dear HCP,

Wow ! You strategy of providing continuous feed of suggestions & solutions at Secretary & Ministry levels seems to be yielding results !  … 

All policy makers used to ignore letters from public; since most writers either complaint, just make an appeal or worst make wild accusations. … Very few citizens are sending cogent suggestions and/or provide practical solutions … I think your style of writing (active tense, crisp & action oriented) along with suggestions / specific solution relevant to each case, seems to draw their attention .. 

Also, "lead time of 12-18 months" from your 1st communication to a visible concrete action is a great achievement for our complex administrative government machinery straddled with lot of inter-dependancies ! 

More people need to adopt this model  and keep the momentum on !


On 23-Nov-2015, at 1:31 pm, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:

Thank   You  ,  Policy   Makers  !


Dear  Policy  Makers :


I just came across following news report:

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Financial Intelligence Unit to generate reports on black money suspects in 72 hours 

( Source : Economic Times / 22 Nov 2015 )




NEW DELHI: 

Government has bolstered the capabilities of the elite Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which can now dish out volumes of data on suspicious transactions in 72-hours flat and gain access to 

   " secret database of offenders maintained by various law
    enforcement agencies in the country. "

Earlier, when an agency wanted to get any information on financial transactions and other similar details on entities on its scanner the time taken used to be between a fortnight to 20 days.

The elite financial snoop wing under the Union Finance Ministry has switched to

 full electronic mode for exchange of data,

 from the earlier existing paper-based pattern, with all probe and enforcement agencies of the country like the Income Tax department, CBI, ED, DRI and Intelligence Bureau among others, beginning November 1. 

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Thank you for listening - and acting on my following suggestion , sent to you sometime back

(  Source : www.hemenparekh.in > Blogs  /   E - Governance   /   03 April 2014  )







E - Governance ?



Can e-Governance help eliminate corruption  ?


Most certainly


Look at the following , partial list of Central and State Agencies set up to fight fraud , money-laundering , corruption , tax-evasion , economic crimes etc :



*    Public Accounts Committee           (  PAC  )


*    Central Vigilance Commission        (  CVC  )


*    Central Information Commission     (  CIC  )


*    Research and Analysis Wing           (  RAW  )


*    Serious Fraud Investigation Office   (  SFIO  )


*    Information Bureau                        (  IB   )


*    Economic Offence Wing                   (  EOW  )


*    Central Bureau of Investigation        (  CBI  )


*    Department of Revenue Intelligence (  DIR  )


*    Comptroller and Auditor General       (  CAG  )


*    Anti Corruption Bureaus ( States )     (  ACB  )


*    Enforcement Directorate                    (  ED   )


*    Lok  Ayukts                                      (  States   )


*    Lok Pal                                             ( Central  )




Despite such an army of Agencies , how do corrupt manage to get away  ?


Or , in case caught , manage to delay delivery of punishment for years  ?


No doubt , there must be several reasons , including , inter - agency rivalry to get credit - something difficult to eliminate altogether


But , I believe , the most important reason is :



Lack of a  COMMON  / COMPUTERIZED  database of all offences / cases / persons being investigated,

- which is readily " Accessible " to all of these Agencies , all over the country ( 24 * 365 )



Already , every Agency compiles huge dossiers on " Suspects " in its own 
" Departmental Database " , which is never shared with other Agencies ,
leading to ,


*   Huge amount of duplication of efforts / information


*   Fractured / scattered profiles of " Suspects "


*   Enormous waste of time / resources



What will help  ?



*     Dismantling of individual departmental databases


*     Merging of all Agency-wise databases into a SINGLE / UNIQUE database


*     All Agencies to enter their findings / data / info into this COMMON
       database , with nothing preserved on local computers


*     All data-entry  FORMS   to be   ONLINE  .  No paper forms at all


*     All local computers connected to ultra-secure Network ( Encrypted )


*    " Access Rights " to individuals , based on Biometric Identification




Will BJP want to make this , a prominent promise in their Poll-Manifesto , likely to be released on 7th April  ?  ( Congress /  AAP missed this boat  ! )


It is high time political parties stop talking of motherhood in vague terms and start telling the voters ,


" If you vote us to power , this is precisely what we will do , to bring about E-GOVERNANCE  -  and do it within 6 months of assuming power  "



*  hemen  parekh  (  04  April  2014  /  Mumbai  ) ..www.hemenparekh.in > Blogs

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hemen  parekh
23  Nov  2015


RE: Minutes of the Meeting held on 24th November 2015 at Tejora Technologies Conference


Dear Shenoy :


Simply thrilled to get your mail , although I do not recollect some of the friends ( - we were , always , more than mere colleagues  ! ) listed above

Mr Danait started a similar ( but a smaller group of about 15 ex-L&T friends ) , some 4 years back - of which , I am a member

We meet every alternate month for Sunday lunch (  but no minutes  .  We are lazy  )

Many of you might know that , after retiring from L&T , I started 3pConsultants

For the past 10 + years , my son Nirmit manages 3P

I am keeping myself busy with :

>   Promoting my latest web site..........www.B2BmessageBlaster.com (  Do read page " Influence  Policy  Makers  " )

>   Posting my blogs  on www.hemenparekh.in ( then sending to Ministers / Secretaries / MPs / MLAs etc )

>   Once in a while attending to    www.CustomizeResume.com

>   Trying to motivate , old friend , Ganesh Apte ( and his USA based son , Ravi -  www.leftrightmind.com ) , to revive my following de-hosted - sites :






I spent some time visiting  www.tejora.com

Congrats to Nitin / Surabhi for this great achievement .  Someday , I would  like to visit them and exchange thoughts

You may ask Nitin to download  RESUME   RATER  - a tool that we developed . By now 15,000 + copies have been downloaded by Recruiters from around the World

Feel free to phone me any time on 98,67,55,08,08

regards,

hcp

PS :

Incidentally , you may like to go through section " Letters to L&T Employees " at,





From: K. R. Iyer [mailto:kriyer1949@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 10:23 AM
To: Venkataraman TR
Cc: Haridas Shenoy; Hemen Parekh; A R Rajurkar; AG Kale; AG Patkar; AK Ganguly; Amita Dixit; Anand Pasarkar; Aravind V; Arun Khandekar; Arun Kumta; Arvind Rao; Asgar Saikh; Ashok Sanil; Atul Shah; AV Shenoy; AY Divekar; B Ramachandran; BB Singh; Bipin Shah; BJ Desai; BVRM Murty; CG Karamchandani; CR Mistry; Dinesh Shah; GR; Guha Thakurta; Gurudaat Kundapurkar; Hariharan S; HK Varma; HR Khona; HS Naik; HT Mehta; Jairam Menon; John Monteiro; K M Raja Sundaram; K Narsaiah; KA Shaikh; KP Kotwal; KR Patel; KS Ranganathan; Luis Vas; Madan Mandlekar; Mani Subramaniam; MB Meher; MD Palekar; MD Phatak; MJ Paleja; MR Madnani; MVL Narasimhan; N Ramachandran; Natarajan Krishnan; NM Kudalkar; NV Srinivasan; PCS Ratnam; PD Joshi; PG Pande; PG Utagikar; PJ Pathak; PL Negandhi; Prakash Shrungarkar; PS Moharir; R Shivaji; R Sivaraman; RA Panchal; Rajat Desai; Ramesh Aggarwal; RD Kulkarni; RI Mehta; Rishikesh Joshi; Rita Rahimtoola; RM Yajurvedi; S Ravikumar; SA Bhoir; Sambhaji Shendkar; Sanjay Galwankar; Sanjeev Gholap; SD Mande; Simple Agarwal; SK Shukla; SK Todkar; SM Warde; SS Ahluwalia; SS Manjeshwar; SW Patwardhan; Swapna Chaudary; V B Ulman; Vasudev S; Venu Account; Venugopal Menon; VH Iyer; Vijay Lal; Vivek Shiroor; VM Patel; VR Swamy; VS Iyer
Subject: Re: Minutes of the Meeting held on 24th November 2015 at Tejora Technologies Conference Room

Dear Shenoy,

The hare in me could not catch up with the tortoise in you.  I wanted to write in this column about the get together before any one else.  But where could I beat you?

The programme was neatly arranged - no excesses, no shortcoming.  It was nice to listen to the bunch of L&T-ites speaking so dearly about their organisation with nostalgia and commitment.  It was also nice to know that many of the retirees are only namesake retirees for; they are busier after bidding adieu to L&T.  At the end I felt that the time spent was so sweet that made it feel too short.

The event manager in you was very par excellence.  You have provided for all requirements with out exhibiting any tension or thrill!  Despite paying continuous attention to all minute details, you could always sport your typical smile throughout.  Hats off!

Please convey our sincere gratitude to Surabhi, your DIL and Ms. Ahlam and party of Tejora Technologies for bearing our mischievousness and us for 5-6 hours.  Of course, you may like to add that they should be prepared for a bigger crowd when you reach 80! 

Regards to all,

K. R. Iyer    

Regards


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Venkataraman TR <trvram42@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Shenoy,
It is not "Minutes of Meeting" but "Hours of Meeting "indeed,
Well said and well written.
I wish i had attended ur Birthday Bash, Never mind,Belated happy birth day to you, 
TRV

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Haridas Shenoy <hrshenoy1941@gmail.com> wrote:

First of all many thanks for those could make it on 24th to Tejora Technologies Conference Room on 24th.  That it happened to be my birthday was incidental; I was just looking for an excuse to organize a get together which others had failed to do, after AG Kale’s great effort in taking 14 of us in a vehicle to Pune to meet at PDJ’s bungalow some 4 years ago.

Last time I myself organized a get together was over 5 years ago when I had completed 10 years of glorious retired life.  Ten people had attended, though 17 had confirmed that they will attend.

This time the number was double and I am so glad.  Few like Mani and Swamy were repeaters, I am glad.  May be it is a school time habit, like mine.

The purpose of the get together was just that – get together of grey hairs and almost no hairs like me. However, I wanted it to be held in our office because many of you have been a part of my children’s life particularly during their engineering college days in 1990s and tyour support has been immense in making what they are today about two decades later. Tejora is the result of my younger son Nitin’s entrepreneurial drive, ably supported by his wife Surabhi who is more than a DIL to me.  My wife and me have been living with them for the last 11 years at Lokhandwala, Andheri.  People who can find time to visit us are welcome.

I did not realize the enormity of the work involved in organizing this get together when I shot out the invitation some 3 weeks in advance.  There were so many to and fro exchanges, that I almost lost control of the whole proceeding.

After Surabhi told me to have it on a working day, when she saw the long list of invitees she developed cold feet.  “I thought there would be ten of them or so.”  She wanted it to be organised in a banquet hall but I firmly said no.  I reassured her that they are all my friends and they would not mind inadequacy of the AC or any other service.  Added to that, on 24th one of the 3 canteen staff was on leave; so was one of the two Administration staff.  So, all the burden fell on Ahlam, the lady who managed the whole back office show single handedly with one canteen boy.  Lemon juice and banana were my choice; rest all was all hers.  Hats off to her.

All is well that ends well.  In a way it has just begun.  Our get togethers, with more to follow hopefully.

I am touched by the so many memories the participants raked up of their interaction with me during our working life together.  It will be too much to reproduce whatever has been said.  But two points I would love to highlight, even at the cost of doing injustice to others.

I am fond of calling my ex-colleagues by their first name and pet names, irrespective of the position they held in L&T – like Hirubhai, Harshadbhai, Maheshbhai, etc.  That is a sign of camaraderie.

The first point refers to Harshadbhai.  He was one of those who firmly believed that the quality of the computer output depended on the accuracy of the master data and he always interacted with me to achieve that, month after month, year after year, about which I had written earlier.  What made me happy now is that he is helping those organizations who have gone the SAP way to reap the benefit of their investment in time and money into the implementation – a noble cause, if there is one.  Giving birth is one things; nurturing is always a difficult task, needing a lot of commitment.

Second point came from Maheshbhai about a totally forgotten part of my working life.  My only memories of process layouts belonged to AV Vachani writing meticulously these and giving me for typing on tracings.  That later on, I also was the custodian of organizing the tracings, giving out for corrections/changes and for ordering blueprints for attachment to manual job orders had been totally forgotten.  Thank you Maheshbhai for bringing this out.

May be this function was taken over by Work Scheduling Cell headed by SV Dighe – I do not remember.

Those of us who are old timers love to meet each other, I am sure.

This love made me gate crash into a marriage of the daughter of a colleague who had not invited me.  The number of attendees was so large that if my name was missed, it was understandable.  The marriage hall was just two kilometers from my residence and it was a ‘no presents please’ reception with full scale five star dinner, which is an added incentive for ‘untouchable’ Brahmins like me.  

That was the last time I met Gurumoorthy before we lost him for ever a few months thereafter.

I missed him yesterday.

Look forward to meeting you all soon again.


HR Shenoy, 7666128505
Co-Founder, Tejora Technologies Limited, tejora.com