SRI'S Blog

  A small break from my Gratitude series— This post is also in a way Gratitude to several heroes.   The Alert Award 2025 stayed true to its character of bringing out great acts of selflessness that reflect acts of kindness performed without any personal gain or benefit. From a total of 349 application that were received, to prune to less than 15 or so must have been a tough act for the Jury that did that job for the Alert Awards   Some of the acts and the awardees are listed below: The first of the awardees were the Conductor and Driver of  Kerala Road Transport who showed extraordinary presence of mind to rush a pregnant lady who nearly delivered the child in the bus to a hospital that they had just passed by. The lady did deliver the child in the bus but was taken care by the hospital staff. It was a  sight to see a Government bus in the lobby of the hospital and medical help rushing in to the bus (CCTV had captured this).   The next one is abou...

 I will be failing if I cannot thank V Kumar (another Kumar indeed). Kumar was our senior at our audit firm. When I joined the audit firm, Kumar was in charge of all the article Interns. We were about seven of us who more or less joined in at the same time and Kumar was senior to us by at least three years in the firm.  Kumar had completed his intermediate exams and as he was preparing for his final exams, he continued with our Principal who was also happy to have him transition his experience to the new joiners.  One would remember as I joined the firm,  ( Part 1 of this series ) I was surprised when my Principal immediately asked for the Registration forms to be signed. I was told to get the Forms  from the CA Institute which was around 4 KMS away. I was waiting in the reception area not knowing how to get there. I simply did not have any money to take a bus. Walking was not an option. Kumar saw me at the reception and knew my concern right away without tal...