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Hello Hello everyone, I have made a lot of changes in the presentation thanks to a detailed feedback by Prasad (Bless him).I have also provided a Javascript gimmick in the Editor's and Relatives' Sections which enables you to change the background colour. I do not know how many of you visited Prasad's site Most Enjoyed List If you have not, please do so. As Prasad had written in one of his articles, our memory is poor (even at an young age) and hence we must record things. My own, Amritha's and Aarthi's lists for 1999 were a revelation to me when I read them last month. I am sure you can find the 15 minutes that it takes to record your 'most enjoyed' things of 2001. I found the time. I am happy that Prasad, Raghu, Radha and Jagan responded to the January Newsletter. Prasad has contributed an article this month also. I have also reproduced a story written by Aarthi in 1999. Nobody replied to my probability problem. So I presume everyone else has also forgotten probability theory. As it was possible to score more than 100%, the format of the quiz has again been changed. It is still in Javascript, but in a totally new format. Please attempt it. From next month, the Newsletter will be uploaded by the Second Friday of every month, giving enough time to anybody who wants to contribute. Parthasarathy GREETINGS BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY BIRTHDAY and MANY HAPPY RETURNS TO Vijaya, my sister-in-law on 2nd Raghu, my brother on 14th February and Kannan (Adyar) on 26th February I am also repeating the important dates of our family members, as desired by Santhanam Click here NOSTALGIA When my parents, sister, Urmila and Radha came to Sholapur, Radha was only about 13 years old and did not know much of Hindi. So when I asked the driver of the car "20 litre 'kaafi hai kya'", she responded with "Mama, why do we need 20 litres of coffee?" |
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January Diary The highlight of January for me was that I shook the hands of Alvin Toffler and his wife, Heidi. Most of you would have heard of him. He is famous for his books 'Future shock', 'The third wave', 'Powershift' and many others. His wife is co-author of many of his books. They came to Mumbai to address a seminar organised by Xerox. I managed to get invited to a dinner meeting of them with industrialists, CEOs and civil servants. The dinner was good, but his speech and question-answer session was better. The seminar next day, which was attended by over 2000 delegates was more or less a repetition. He expanded on his concept that the third wave is powered by knowledge-workers ( First wave is agrarian and the second wave is industrial). The very next day I saw on TV one of the best speeches I have ever heard. This was by Bill Ckinton in UK, which was telecast by the BBC. I saw it in preferance to the Australia-SA match. I welcomed 2002 as I did the earlier year- in bed. Aarthi, Vidya, Nitya, Hema, Raghu and Amritha were awake till midnight, playing cards. On 1st evening, all of us (except Hema) had a nice get-together in Marina beach with my sister, Urmila, Radha and their families. Aarthi and Vidya laughed so much as to get us worried. Of course, even we laughed a lot at all the anecdotes that all of us could recall about various family members. It was also a full moon night with the excellent dinner prepared by Radha and Urmila adding to the enjoyment. We were in Chennai till 5th and then returned to Mumbai via Bangalore (sixth visit since May 2001) to leave Aarthi there. We saw KKKG in Chennai. It was OK and not worth all the hype. Chennai was very pleasant this time, as Mukund and Prema would have told some of you (Whatever has happened to them?) Mumbai is also very nice and colder than normal. (minimum temperature this year was 13 deg.C, which for Mumbai is very cold). India is back to cricket mania. It is always a wonderful sight to see Eden Gardens with a lakh of specators. We were lucky to see two close matches within three days - Australia-New Zealand on 29th, which Bevan won for Australia and India-England on 31st, which Agarkar almost won for India. What will happen on 3rd Feb. in India and Australia? ( This is written on 1st. See PS). Muralitharan has taken 400 wickets and may beat Walsh's record. What has happened to Mahesh-Leander. They started well in Australia, but went out. In Bangalore they lost to an unknown pair in the World Doubles tournament. The best match in Australian Open was the women's singles final between Capriati and Hingis. Aarthi is going on an educational tour to Pattamadai,famous for its mats. I hope she writes about her visit next month. Since I spent a lot of time on computer, Newspaper and magazines and watching cricket and tennis, I read only one novel- 'Cassandra Prospect' by Ludlum and Shelby. It was good and frightening as bio-warfare is very realistically described. PS: On 3rd, India lost and Australia won the battle, but lost the war. Tailpiece Who will be caught first, Veerappan or Osama Bin Laden? Are both dead? Parthasarathy |
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