Blasts From the Past

I get recognised fairly often- not because I am a celebrity, but because I have taught at different places in India-perks of teaching, if you will. Usually, this happens in malls, or on the street where I am spotted by an ex-student. Today, it happened at IIM Indore itself, where I met Venkat who used to work at KOEL (not the bird, but Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. at Pune). When I worked at Kirloskar Institute, we had done a BPR consulting project for the group company, and Venkat had coordinated it from KOEL.

He is now a freelancer based out of Bangalore, and consults and teaches. So it was that he came to IIM Indore- to teach Retailing. And that's how we met. Reminded me of that meeting on Bangalore streets with Soumyashree, and in a pub with Mrunal, and in a mall in Bhubaneswar with an IIM Indore student, Rohit Kumar. Bhawana Sahay (IMT alum) in a Hyderabad theatre too, where we saw Newton. I am now getting used to these pleasant surprisesthey are all pleasant, without exception.

Planned meets have their own charm (have had lots of these recently), but these are also great!

Past Life Predictions

People predict the future, but that is so not cool. I am attempting to predict people''s past- no, not that kind of past. But what people were in their past life- you didn't think this was the only life you had, did you? My predictions (or post-dictions, maybe)-

1. O.P. Nayyar was a tangewala in his past life. That's how he was able to generate those awesome tunes in this one..

2. Himesh Reshammiya was the fairy tale character with a long nose..Pinocchio? He poked his nose in everything, and was thus blessed with a nosey voice in his next.

3. Arijit Singh was a sad singer (Mukesh?) in his past life, and continues singing in a melancholy tone in this one..

4. RaGa was a schoolboy who skipped lot of classes, and his punishment in this life is to attend boring Parliament sessions- but he copes by sleeping through them!

5. Modi was Japanese. He continues to be a workaholic even today.

6. Donald Trump was a witch who cursed a lot of people. Now he is cursed to be the butt of all jokes, or worse..be the first certified joker to rule over a big country.

7. Rajnikant did not HAVE a last birth. He gave birth to reincarnation.