VijVen

Exploring the Wonderful Journey of LIFE

  • Wishes on a Birthday

    Dear Son, You are turning 5 today. You are growing up fast. It seems like it was only yesterday that we celebrated your 4th birthday, which was of course, a very silent affair. Just the 5 of us at home. You cut a cake for your satisfaction and then we all went back to our Continue reading

  • Sachin and his ‘Bidai’

    If you are an Indian, irrespective of whether you follow cricket or not (non-followers would anyway be in a miniscule minority), you know Sachin Tendulkar.  And like all other Indians, and cricket followers all over the world, you would have, for most part of his glorious cricketing career, been in awe of this amazing gentleman. Continue reading

  • Life Journal: Korattur Days – 4

    Continued from Part 4 Childhood is generally associated with innocence. Some fond memories when you look back. Here are a few funny incidents while I was at Korattur: 13. Like everywhere else in India, Cricket was the most popular sport in our locality too. However, there were not many kids of my age group [and Continue reading

  • 2012: Let The Play Begin!

    Beginning of the New Year, and I am as nervous as a novice opening batsman, taking guard on the first session of an important series, against a pair of fast bowling legends, under perfect bowling conditions. And no, it has got nothing to do with whether or not the world will come to an end Continue reading

  • 2011: A Year in Review

    2011 has come to an end. So, how good was it? The year was filled with many memorable moments. Lot of marriages and happy family gatherings. Got more closer to the few who mattered, and more distanced from the rest. Plans and experiments falling in place. And giving rise to newer ideas and focus items. Continue reading

  • The Wait

    The book was very happy. It now had a reader. It was now going home. Lying on the cash counter, waiting to be packed and delivered to the purchaser, it bid goodbye to its friends on the various shelves of the bookstore. Some of them had been lying there for days, few even for months. Continue reading

  • Hyderabad Diaries: Ganesh Festival 2011

    Continued from Part 5 Like most parts of India, the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Hyderabad too, are very grand each year. Attractive idols of Lord Ganesha are installed, and pujas are performed, in elaborately decorated ‘Ganesh Pandals’ all over the city. And, as per tradition, the idols are taken out in a procession and immersed Continue reading

  • Homage

    Steve Jobs is no more. It is natural for the World to pay homage whenever a prominent personality dies. In the case of many leaders, the tributes are mainly customary. Speech writers often scramble to identify characteristics that could be attributed to the departed soul, to make the homage appear realistic. At times they succeed, Continue reading

  • Virtues for a Successful Life

    Dear Son, Here is a list of 10 virtues that I wish you would cultivate. Leave alone mastering them, I cannot even claim to possess them. Yet, I wish you would strive to make them a part of you. It is my belief, based on my experience in life, that these things will help you Continue reading

  • Saving ODIs

    Sachin Tendulkar’s recommendations to the ICC on ODIs, have yet again raised the debate on whether ODIs have become irrelevant, and if yes, what should be done to keep them alive and kicking? I come from the ODI generation. I remember waking up at 4.30 in the mornings to watch Srikanth, Gavaskar, Shastri, Kapil Dev Continue reading