Tenure : 4 years. Address: P-28, Manicktala Main Road, Kolkata—700054. I thought of continuing the CMC Ltd. job and do late evening classes at Arena Multimedia , Salt lake: When I told Mr. Randhir Ghosal about my decision to leave CMC, he suggested me to join the Salt Lake one and continue working as well as studying! He even added that thrice a week he would leave me early. Well- not a bad idea I thought ! Rs. 2500/- as a pocket money is alright – at least…
Read MoreFrom Motherhood to MotherWood
NOT a story folks – an incident …read on. I happened to meet and converse with an ex-nurse cum assistant of a local Nursing home. Her revelations were rather shocking! Girls and women between the age group of 14 to 40 – abort their 3 to 7 months old embryos like as if it was a part of some daily mundane routine! She: You know it’s so risky to abort the baby that is 7 months old. Me: Risky? It’s illegal! – no nursing home or hospital is…
Read MoreReiki – Dr. K. Muralidharan
REIKI – The USUI system of Natural Healing is the right form and traditional REIKI. This is taught in two days for Basic Course and another two days for Advanced Course, generally known as REIKI I and REIKI II. REIKI II can be done only after one month’s practicing on self and others. During the two days’ course in REIKI I and II, lectures on mental upliftment , spiritualism, psychology, controlling body through the Power of Thoughts and mind, emotional let-out exercise, Practice of Touch Healing and Absentee Healing/Distant…
Read MoreArt of Living – H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
“We identify ourselves as somebody – I belong to this religion, this culture, his tradition, but we forget the basic identity that we are human beings. When that stands first and foremost, all other identities follow behind that. Then, I think that we can achive what we are really looking for.” The Breath is the link between the Body, Mind and Spirit. When the mind is free of fear, guilt and anger, and is more centred, then it can heal the system of any ailment. The consciousness that creates the…
Read MoreOn Wife Beating – A Satyamev Jayate Episode
I was watching this episode…could not watch the entire show but here are my 2 cents on this topic. The show was implying that it is the inherent quality of a male to beat his wife – because since eons the male- as husband – is referred to as ‘Swami’ so the wife automatically becomes the servant and it is but natural to beat up the servant if he/she is not doing the chores allotted to him/her on time or properly. Also the fact that the ‘lower’ servant/ labor class…
Read MoreTobin Crook – A Short Story
Suresh was born in a slum area. His mother was a maid servant and father, a junior carpenter in a local furniture shop. One day during a political campaign, the slum area children were shown a film for free. Suresh had never seen a film on such a big screen and he considered that incident to be the happiest moment of his life. The hero of the film was basically playing the role of Robinhood – the fairy tale character who used to rob the rich and distribute the…
Read MoreCMC Ltd.
Tenure : 7 months. Salt Lake Branch. My salary was Rs.2500/- (Two thousand five hundred only. 3 lates = one absent – so my average take home was – around Rs.2000/- to 1800/- per month ! So—here I was – kind of back to square one !! Look at my salary life cycle >> 1500/- (Trend India)> 1000/- (Inspiration Advt. Agency) > 1600/- (Salora) > 800/-(School) > 3000/- (The Park) > 3500/- (HCL Infosystems) > 2500/- (CMC Ltd.). Another girl who was a counselor as well was around…
Read MoreHCL – Frontline – continued
continued from previous page…….. It happened suddenly – I got over Him – absolutely, completely! Suddenly !….he had mentioned that if we do not tie the knot by April 2000, we will never get married– NEVER—coz’ Mother will not allow our marriage anymore if it delays any further than Poila Baishak (14th April) of 2000 ! Well – I do not want to get married – I thought! Not required. 12th June,1999 it was – I got down from the Charted Bus – gave him one last look –…
Read MoreHCL Infosystems
Tenure : 8 months. After sitting at home for about 4 – 5 months I got a call from NIIT by some Raja who asked me to come down to Royd Street regarding placement. He told me of the 2 available options : HCL and Daewoo (car). I opted for HCL since it was an IT Industry….and moreover I had dreamt some 4-5 months ago that I am entering a big offce with HCL written in steel at the entrance. I went for the interview – got selected –…
Read MoreCFAC – Corporate Communications
Tenure : 4 months I went to the dingy building (a bit further from Dharmatala’s KC Das) – match box sized offices (imagine from The Park deluxe – spacious office premises – I suddenly came back to where I had started from : Trend India Mktg. kind of Office !There was another guy standing in front of the closed room – the room number I was to report to ! His name was Partha Majumdar. We started to chat and found out that both of us belonged to the…
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