If I Have To………

As you know my brother has fathered a girl child a month ago,since then I have been waiting to pen down few words about her, her arrival into the family and what it means to many of us. It took a poetic turn instead of routine prose. Here is my little poetry for the first time on my blog.

Here it is for you Ladies and gentlemen.

If I Have To………

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If I have to describe in one word
She is "angelic"
If I have to do the same in two
She is "just superb"
If I have to say it in three
She is “lovable by all"
If I have to put it in four
She is "the most much awaited" angel
If I have to borrow my mother words
She is "THE thing happened to her" and “Worth Gold”
If I have to repeat my brother words
She is "Goddess Lakshmi just arrived"
If I have to echo the feelings of my dear workers at home - Fatima and Kalavathi
She is "first generation Chinna Patelemma waiting to be kissed and pampered”

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Recents Books I Have Read

As you know I love "Thomas Friedman" books. I happened to read one of his greatest books "Lexus and Olive Tree". This was his first book on globalization (before "World is flat"-you can refer one of earlier posts to see my review). This is one of the best books I have ever read. Though "world is flat" is much more popular. I rate “Lexus and olive tree” right on the top of his 3books I have read. After reading this I found (WIF) that to be "abridged version" of this.

This is 490 pages book. It really tests your patience. But at the same time it engages you all the way with Thomas Friedman small little stories with his characteristic style of beautiful explantion.He put across his points nicelyl in the minds of readers with these stories.

I also attempted to read his latest books “Hot Flat and Crowded”. I really did not like this book much reason being this book is primarily aimed at the American audience, in particular American policy makers. I strongly believe that America is great country but at same time I hate to hear/read in every other sentence that “American is great country”. I strongly feel that he should have avoided that. It really does not engage non-American readers. Good thing about Thomas Friedman is that he accepted that he had written that book for American audience in his latest interview with Barkha Dutt on “Imaging India in Hot Flat Crowded”. This is one of the best programs on NDTV in the recent past.

But for all my friends who are thinking that "What is in It" for me in this blog,continue reading the blog.one key take away from this book(HFAC) as I understand is that you have excess money do invest in companies that are in Green technologies. In Indian context few thing that come to mind are

“Praj Industries”,
“Punj Lloyd” ,
“Suzlon”.
In US you can try “Suntech “ and other some semiconductor companies that have invested heavily on “Photo Volatic Cell” area like “Cypress semicponductor”.

I recommond all to read "Post American World" By Fareed Zakaria.You can expect a post from me on this after some time. keep waiting ..........