SRI'S Blog

Over the last weekend , I was trying to book airline tickets over the net using a well-known internet travel site that I had been using for the last four years or more. After several deliberations , I was ready to complete the booking. I finished the details of the travelling passengers,  punched in my credit card details and was ready to press the button to" Pay” when my mobile rang. The voice on the line told me to hold the booking and not complete the transaction. He gave all details of my booking and the passengers as well.  I was stunned . !! The caller knew exactly on which screen I was on . The caller continued and said he was from the same company that I was trying to book the ticket and said if I booked over the phone , it was cheaper. I was surprised that I was being monitored and was also suspicious of the caller and his credentials . The caller did give his particulars and offered that I can call the Company and check out his particulars and that he would call aga

I attended a very pleasant inauguration of the” Community Learning Center” at a place called Kattur near Thiruporur on the OMR very close to Mahabalipuram ( on 10th Feb 2013 ) arranged by the Rotary Club of Madras South ( the club that I am very proud to be a member of ). Sunday morning inauguration? That requires lot of energy to make this distance but Rotarians are Rotarians. There was fantastic attendance from the club side ( Close to 30 from the club ) and with the entire village turning up , it was a grand gala affair. The buiding that houses the  Centre was built in a record time of three months starting with the foundation stone being laid in September and the construction progressing despite natural interferences during the monsoons. While there is nothing new in these sort of things getting built up in rural communities for their benefit, it is the long term sustainability that we are all worried about. In this case , there was a clear plan to sustain in the long term. Let