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Monday, February 27, 2006

Term 8 begins

Term 8 started today. I have to take 3 subjects this term. Have got 3 and am waitlisted in 1. So would have to choose 3 out of those 4 after sampling the classes today and tomorrow.

I had just one class to attend today - "Leadership Lessons from World Literature" by Prof. Rajeshwar Upadhyaya. As written by the professor in the introductory part of the course material, "To use some of the best-written books to cull out the meaning of leadership and our roles as professionals, is an overarching objective of this course". I had chosen this course because I had been influenced quite a bit by Prof. Upadhyaya when he took the Leadership Development Program for us earlier in the core terms. He is a really good speaker. There were moments in today's class when there was a pause for a few seconds between two lines that he spoke and I could actually hear the wall-clock ticking (I think it was the wall clock :-) ) as there was pin-drop silence then. People were listening intently to whatever he was saying. He is one professor to watch out for when you come to ISB. There is a very high chance that you will like him.

I have three classes to sample tomorrow which means that its going to be a really long day.

Just a little more than a month to go before my ISB stint comes to an end :-(

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Bush to visit ISB?

US President George W. Bush is expected to visit ISB when he comes to Hyderabad during his visit to India. More details are available at http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/23bush5.htm

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

The Trip to Ahobilam - Part 3

Its been really long since I wrote Part 2 of this thread. One of my friends is planning to visit temples in South India and might most probably visit Ahobilam. He wanted me to complete this thread ..... so here goes .....

(Please click here to access Part 1 and here to access Part 2 of this thread)
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After reaching Prahalada Padi, we visited the Yoga Narasimhar shrine.
Way from Prahalada Padi to the shrine
From top to bottom: The priest, Rajani, Murali and Ramki

The priest (archakar) performed 'puja' (archanai) and explained us the significance of the place. From here, we started the most difficult part of our climb - the trek to the top to reach the "Ugra Sthambam" which is believed to be the place with the iron pillar from where Lord Narasimha emerged. The trek upwards was really tough. As I was not aware of the trekking part, I was wearing slippers which made it all the more difficult for me. After climbing for a long time, we finally managed to reach the top.
This is Ramki sitting on one of the rocks at the top

To go to "Ugra Sthambam", we had to pass through a narrow stretch of rocks which were slippery and had around 2 km drop on both sides. I decided to stay at the top and not proceed to "Ugra Sthambam".

At the top ... the ones from our group in this picture are Rajani (green shirt), Murali (blue shirt), and Karthik (white T-shirt). The one behind in the white full sleeve shirt is the driver for our trip and the one to his left (behind Karthik) is our guide for the climb. The couple behind Rajani came along with us for most part of the climb.

Karthik, Murali and Ramki (L to R) returning from "Ugra Sthambam" while a monkey keeps vigil
Thats me ... the one to your right when you face the picture :-) .... at the top of the climb

The climb down was really difficult. The rocks were very slippery and it was proving really difficult to get a firm foothold with slippers on. We reached Jwala Narasimhar shrine after spending a lot of time climbing down carefully. On the way, we saw a spot called "Rakta Kundam" which is where Lord Narasimha is believed to have killed the demon. Near this spot is a huge waterfall. Here are some more snaps taken on the way down ....

Rajani & Venu (the driver) catching some fresh water from the waterfall
More monkeys ... a group of monkeys actually trekked along with us for almost the whole of the trip as though guiding us on our way
A bridge on the way

We finally reached the spot where we originally started from and went inside the main temple there to have darshan. We were feeling very hungry by that time after having spent all our energies trekking up and down. Murali happened to strike a conversation with a senior priest there. Don't know if we told the priest that we were very hungry or he figured it out himself. I think it was the former. When he heard we had trekked up till the very top he was very happy and was kind enough to arrange some "prasadam" for us.

It was almost dark by the time we reached lower ahobilam. We just killed time for 3-4 hours while our driver slept in order to get ready to drive in the night. I think we left Ahobilam at around 10:30PM and reached ISB in the morning at about 6:30 or 7AM.

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Finally, I leave it to you to interpret the following two snaps and to appreciate the similarity in them (I think I am in for some real good bashing from KR tomorrow) ......
Snap 1
Snap 2, taken at the same place immediately after taking Snap 1, although from a different angle

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