SRI'S Blog

 Last week , the Friday  was one of those days – I had an external meeting that ended slightly early and I reached home much ahead of my regular irregular time— The timing was like the Madura Coats advertisements of the late 80’s for their Business Clothing – the  9 to 5 Man  Advertisement ( how many of you remember this advertisement ? ) Having reached early , we decided to go for a stroll on the beach – just a stroll , walk on the sand and get back – As we entered the beach , the flower vendor ( lady ) was instantly selling Jasmine flowers to my wife. My wife ignored the call and walked past the vendor. After the stroll , as we made our way back to the parking lot , we had to pass the Flower vendor again. She was at it again.  Calling out my wife..” It would look great on you “( flowers )—that was the sales pitch. Again , my wife hesitated – the flower vendor then made the offer – I will give the Hair Pin for you to lock the flowers on your hair—that  clinched it . My wife go

T his is my first  blog post of 2016. I did not realise that I had missed writing blogs for the past three or more  months . ( last post was Oct 2015 ) One of my very good mentors at the Rotary noticed  that there was no posts from me  and prodded me –“ Do not stop the writing habit  in you” . The question was very timely from him.  And that prompted me to introspect – Was there any reason to stop writing ? I realised that there was a big diversion .. The rains of November and December and its  aftermath that had an impact on my daily schedule . That could have been the only reason for me to miss out writing .  Either way , I am back to writing and the post is about “ Open Defecation “ and how we ( Ford ) are trying to help avoid open defecation. Earlier towards the end of 3 rd quarter 2015, Ford had taken the initiative to build  Toilets and we looked around to see how we can do this effectively. There was a team that went around several places to see how we get this pr