Muralidharan Saravanamuthu

"I will not read another management book because  they  keep saying the same thing with different examples." During my Chola days, I was inducted into the inhouse magazine committee.  We had different sections: lead articles, interviews with senior management, review of management books, crosswords, puzzles, quizzes, word jumbles, jokes, celebration of festivals, birthdays and other important life-events.  We took turns to contribute to different sections.  When it was my turn to write a book review, I refused.  In one of our committee meetings, other members confronted me on why I refuse to write a book review and that's when I made the above statement.  I had this attitude that there is no need to keep reading more and more management books as, essentially, they are all saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that I was totally against reading books.  In fact, I used to be a voracious reader from a very young age. My first love It st...

I remember watching this Tamil movie when I was, maybe, in my 3rd or 4th standard. At that impressionable age, I was very disturbed by the depiction of Kalki avatar.  I used to have nightmares about the world coming to an end. Later, I read the Amar Chitra Katha version of Dashavatara.  Some of the stories were very different from that of the movie.  If you choose to read the  Dashavatara - Wikipedia , you will discover multiple versions of the stories. Many years ago, I discovered that the Dashavatara follows a pattern of evolution.  This was much before I read about similar conclusions arrived at by others. My version is: Living being which can survive only in water - Matsya Living being which can survive both in water and on land - Kurma Living being which can survive only on land - Varaha Living being which is half-animal and half-human - Narasimha Human being not fully evolved physically - Vamana Human being not fully evolved emotionally - Parashurama Human...