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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:15:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Business</category><category>Olympics</category><category>Life</category><category>Economy</category><category>Leadership</category><category>World</category><category>Software Services</category><category>Software</category><category>Software Product</category><category>Spiritual</category><category>Uncategorized</category><category>Inspiration</category><category>India</category><category>Education</category><category>Interview</category><category>Indian Films</category><title>An Odyssey Of Life</title><description>[A Collection of Thoughts Mostly in Solitude and During Lonely Nights...]</description><link>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>81</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnOdysseyOfLife" /><feedburner:info uri="anodysseyoflife" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>AnOdysseyOfLife</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-1199877549552439019</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T21:45:15.651+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>Umeed wali dhoop... Sunshine wali aasha ...</title><atom:summary>

Rarely I promote an advertisement on my blog (none so far). The most famous and most lovable for me was by some penned by Gulzar and I still remember them.

Here is one from Coca Cola by Prasoon Joshi for 2012, and it is truly refreshing and very lovable as has been sung by kids.




Lyrics:


Umeed wali dhoop, Sunshine wali aasha...
Rone ki wajah kamm hai, Hasne ke bahane jyada...
Zidd hai </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/nav2Pg9FJhU/truly-refreshing-and-hummable-ad-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/q2qzF1DRIK4/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/nav2Pg9FJhU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2012/01/truly-refreshing-and-hummable-ad-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-5437474770969305049</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T21:18:07.609+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><title>A Day in Work Life - Who Beats What - Part - 2</title><atom:summary>

12) Flexible milestones (I might get killed in my circle by saying this) beats rigid timeline. I learned it the hard way. (Hint: as much as possible till last moment keep the milestone as deadline!)

13) In a senior role, just a "Hi and How are you" to people who are not your "so called league" than just getting into the office (it includes the Security Personnel, the Bank ATM keeper, the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/AYMI04j5nvk/day-in-work-life-who-beats-what-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/AYMI04j5nvk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-work-life-who-beats-what-part-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-1890385808288739782</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T21:19:30.816+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><title>A Day in Work Life - Who Beats What - Part - 1</title><atom:summary>

In work, we spend a lot of time. In fact, in a working day, we spend upto 70% of our time in long and exciting day.

Here is what I have seen on who beats what in daily grind of work. I work as a management professional and have learnt few practical lessons.  I do not believe in tongue-twisters or master lines written by someone else, but as I see them day to day in my daily life.

1) Phone </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/21t3-14bQp8/day-in-work-life-who-beats-what-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/21t3-14bQp8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2012/01/day-in-work-life-who-beats-what-part-1.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-4116019373975623132</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T21:02:05.938+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Education</category><title>Interesting Japanese Terms – Applicable in Work as Well as in Life</title><atom:summary>


Though all the terms
are Japanese, the beauty of it is this – they are applicable to all industries
and also in life and are timeless.  I was
fortunate enough to work with some Japanese colleagues early in my careers and
have learnt some interesting terms which they believe are applied not only in
life, but also in management. 

And my experience with Japanese terms – they are broad, not </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/SmnIwKianBk/interesting-japanese-terms-applicable.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/SmnIwKianBk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2012/01/interesting-japanese-terms-applicable.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-6267497450455338455</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-02T21:01:49.619+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Spiritual</category><title>God is like a Movie Director -  He does not hate His villains!</title><atom:summary>

I have spent a lot of time thinking these:

- How come God allows some evil people to keep on doing their nasty things? 
- How come God allows good people to go through deep pain and serious difficulties? 
- Is He not seeing at all? 
- Why is He silent? Why is He not acting? 
- Where is His omnipresence?

It might be naive to many people in the modern world. But, for me though, it was always a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/xuURjUfYBWk/god-is-like-movie-director-he-does-not.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/xuURjUfYBWk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/12/god-is-like-movie-director-he-does-not.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-8743083748569455080</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-06T11:25:59.982+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><title>It Now Happens in Every Big City of India, Not in Mumbai Alone !</title><atom:summary>
Here is one spine chilling incident that recently happened in Mumbai. 

First they harass some people and then they start harassing the girls and when resisted back, they come back with goons and swords, knives and kill someone. 

More details at - http://mumbai.ihollaback.org/

AND PEOPLE WATCH IT SILENTLY. 

Instead of sounding like an arm chair intellectual, let me narrate some of my own </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/xZwpwOJBdAw/it-now-happens-in-every-big-city-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/xZwpwOJBdAw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/11/it-now-happens-in-every-big-city-of.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-2306868430869478928</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-07T00:41:45.889+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>Steve Jobs, The Software Picasso - Rest in Peace</title><atom:summary>







It is a very sad day and at the same time to look back on what a man can create and how he can touch so many lives with his creations.




The man never wrote much and wanted to keep it simple and beautiful in whatever he created. So when he passes away, will keep it that way.



"With your loss Steve, we lost The Modern Age Software Picasso." 




Photo credit Apple Inc.



</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/1qGA0u1cVZ4/steve-jobs-software-picasso-rest-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-97VE5dxL8R0/To34cuFcK8I/AAAAAAAAAX0/P5__BVTQP3g/s72-c/t_hero.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/1qGA0u1cVZ4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-software-picasso-rest-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-8746565613014311661</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-21T20:49:47.963+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><title>A Good Tool</title><atom:summary>
In my professional work, I have to interact with people from different time-zones. Being Indian, I tend to think too much about other person's convenience, mostly on time. So when I call up someone, I frequently check if the time is correct or is the person asleep or is the person having his/her lunch et al.

I need to know which timezone they in and what is the time in his locality. I recently </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/ZKTm9Uh9EOg/good-tool.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3v5oRmXXIwM/Tni40-R5x8I/AAAAAAAAAXs/dj2QeCKgZic/s72-c/Qlock.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/ZKTm9Uh9EOg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-tool.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-5323166870780507306</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-11T20:10:17.691+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><title>What is Most Important Trait You Look for In a Human Being?</title><atom:summary>
In last six/seven months, I was forced to think on a number of things. Primarily when faced with darker challenges, you question everything about yourself and your surroundings. And above all, you feel as if you do not know a single thing about anything! 


It constantly hit me that how come I am so naïve when I write a blog titled as an “An Odyssey of Life”! Do I really know anything about life</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/tqic0tbzZXU/what-is-most-important-trait-in-human.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/tqic0tbzZXU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-most-important-trait-in-human.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-1864978756264000879</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-05T19:15:40.986+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><title>Corruption in India - Everyone is Crying, but no Tear is Coming up - Why?</title><atom:summary>Answer is simple.People of India (the common men) do not trust any political leadership at all. All parties are corrupt and not a single leader in India has national appeal. People know that there is absolutely no hope with a Baba Ramdev here or an Anna Hazare there. No pan Indian leader from any spectrum - political, corporate or cultural - appeals to their hearts. And this fight again </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/ZPov588DFzk/corruption-everyone-is-crying-but-no.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/ZPov588DFzk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/06/corruption-everyone-is-crying-but-no.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-2963845194044929792</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-20T13:56:42.978+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Leadership</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>N.R. Murthy's Final Farewell Letter - Part - 2</title><atom:summary>The Essence of Leadership :Leadership is about taking bold and firm decisions with incomplete information in an environment of uncertainty: Leaders who waffle do not inspire confidence in their people. It is important to use as much data and modeling as possible to eliminate clearly bad decisions. My decision to walk away from a Fortune 10 company when they contributed 25 % of our revenue was one</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/WBR58i1b7qY/nr-murthys-final-farewell-letter-part-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/WBR58i1b7qY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/05/nr-murthys-final-farewell-letter-part-2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-119546607100292987</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-19T04:11:07.674+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Leadership</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Software</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>N.R. Murthy's Final Farewell Letter - Part - 1</title><atom:summary>I may not be always in line with Mr. N.R. Murthy. But then, the man, even his worst enemy will admit, has built a world-class enterprise from a typically poor, highly corrupt and politically, regionally, religion wise and linguistically divided India. And of course, it makes us proud. And as he has noted, he recognizes this as Infosys's biggest contribution - businesses can be run legally and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/p02hiuBxEAM/nr-murthys-final-farewell-letter-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wG_UqEM46_M/TdRI507xNII/AAAAAAAAAWM/bkEX75nEbmU/s72-c/Image.bmp" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/p02hiuBxEAM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/05/nr-murthys-final-farewell-letter-part-1.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-9040506544916337674</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-03T23:27:27.475+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Leadership</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><title>Leadership Lessons from MS Dhoni - II</title><atom:summary>5) When Needed, Get Tough ... Even With the Best PerformerFor the second time when Yuvraj did the same thing to throw away Dhoni's wicket, it was 1 minute of mad Dhoni on the field. He shouted violently at Yuvraj (arguably the luckiest and best performer with both bat &amp; ball).Yuvraj has all always been an ego player and it shows when he is at the crease. He does not run properly and in typical </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/aGfgwuJgpYE/lessons-of-leadership-from-ms-dhoni-ii.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/aGfgwuJgpYE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/04/lessons-of-leadership-from-ms-dhoni-ii.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-7211194974387916381</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-03T23:27:48.377+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Leadership</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>Leadership Lessons from MS Dhoni - I</title><atom:summary>Yesterday, I was thinking how come MS Dhoni, the captain of Indian Cricket Team, is still the head, after having a disastrous performance with the bat throughout the tournament. What I saw yesterday in the WorldCup Final was an eye opener. In India, Cricket is religion and we fans are ruthless (sometimes extreme as aptly put by Sanath Jayasuriya in a post match review). It is very easy to </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/0wFemG5cQ2Q/lessons-of-leadership-from-ms-dhoni-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/0wFemG5cQ2Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/04/lessons-of-leadership-from-ms-dhoni-i.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-8404567136554521080</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-06T20:07:31.193+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Economy</category><title>Voice Communication Should be (and Can be) Free of Cost!</title><atom:summary>The best things in life are free - affection from your near and dear  ones, the air we breathe, the sunlight that we get or the intrinsic  faith that we have on the Almighty (for theists of course!)Similarly,  human beings are differentiated from other mammals on the planet by  their intelligent form of communication. This is one thing which should  also be made free and the good news is - it can</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/3y-8F2AqfxU/voice-communication-should-be-and-can.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/3y-8F2AqfxU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2011/01/voice-communication-should-be-and-can.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-1881108592075029959</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-22T00:16:06.223+05:30</atom:updated><title>A Father Who Failed and Fathers Who are Going to Fail !</title><atom:summary>CWH game scam came and went. And Kalmadi is still moving free without any charge-sheet on his name.2G scam is hot now. And Mr. A Raja is still having a ball and smarting all of us on our face through TV.Now Onion price is reaching 80 Rupees per Kilo and I am sure there is another deep hiding scam waiting to be unearthed.And as we all know being Indians, it will fade after sometimes. We being good</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/z0DsYg2UNtE/father-who-failed-and-fathers-who-are.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/z0DsYg2UNtE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/12/father-who-failed-and-fathers-who-are.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-4406578604167867978</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-21T23:58:56.704+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>Julian Assange is a Public Hero</title><atom:summary>A couple of quotes from the movie SpiderMan, before I start.Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/N9Ys7n-9gu4/julian-assange-is-public-hero.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/N9Ys7n-9gu4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/12/julian-assange-is-public-hero.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-8602136770437549546</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-05T01:48:57.469+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>Life - Footprints on the Sand of Time</title><atom:summary>Came across a lovely and inspiring point of time. Worth reading and re-reading.Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.Life is real, life is earnest,And the grave is not its goal,Dust you are, to dust returnest,Was not said about the soul.Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/6lpKtdJPg5Q/life-footprints-on-sand-of-time.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/6lpKtdJPg5Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-footprints-on-sand-of-time.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-3883902363544834519</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-05T02:48:15.522+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><title>Vande Mataram was composed by A R Rahman, Sardar Patel was a Punjabi and What is Gandhi's Full Name?</title><atom:summary>Just out of curiosity, I was interacting with some young folks at a get together in Bangalore, the so called "Sillicon Valley" of India. The youngsters (in their twenties) of today carry a lot of enthusiasm, are optimistic a lot and think a lot of leading a good life. Also, they are truly smart and understand what they want from their life.However, when coming to the nation, i.e., India, and its </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/pbq4RBT8SIk/vande-mataram-was-composed-by-r-rahman.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/pbq4RBT8SIk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/08/vande-mataram-was-composed-by-r-rahman.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-4458317766163828866</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-24T00:35:55.437+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Inspiration</category><title>The Dalai Lama on Leading a Life</title><atom:summary>There is something about the Dalai Lama,which attracts you instantly...may be his child like smile or the highly positive body language or the softness in his voice.I came across some instructions on life which is given by the Lama on the web. Worth reading and pondering over.1. Take into account that great love and achievements involve great risk.2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.3. Follow</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/WNrnBZXeIaA/dalai-lama-on-leading-life.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BEqv0kIyfz4/TEM3-g2hBVI/AAAAAAAAAVs/Ly4EhDe2S_I/s72-c/Lama.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/WNrnBZXeIaA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/07/dalai-lama-on-leading-life.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-2778619861188085031</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-02T20:11:41.916+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Education</category><title>Answer to India's Pathetic Educational Standard in Schools and Colleges ... Go Online</title><atom:summary>I am learning some tips and tricks on MS Excel (please do not laugh;-), there many things I am still learning) via YouTube and other online video materials. And I am hooked. The training is quick in visual form, the delivery of the content is crisp and clear; in some cases you can even ask questions and get responses via mail or chat. I could not have asked for a better form of education. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/xNeEqvWyuQ8/answer-to-indias-pathetic-educational.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/xNeEqvWyuQ8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/06/answer-to-indias-pathetic-educational.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-8834284589730243418</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-06-02T11:41:42.127+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><title>When Dreams Do not Come True</title><atom:summary>We all have our dreams when we were children. We have dreams when we age and whatever your age maybe, you will have dreams. All of us have it. When I was little, I wanted to be a scientist. I was naive and pretty innocent and I was thinking that these people change the world for better. Over years, the dream changes, but, therewas always a dream.Why it is so hard when dreams fail? Why it hurts so</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/ENeqJpiXBGo/when-dreams-do-not-come-true.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/ENeqJpiXBGo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-dreams-do-not-come-true.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-3983334312569706117</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-20T10:38:40.397+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><title>Cricket, Affairs, and Dhoka!</title><atom:summary>"Dhoka" - Betrayal in EnglishAfter the improper act of Sania Mirza at Hyderabad in southern India  (Sohaib Malik denied any marriage first, then said it is telephonic marriage, then said it is not valid and hence no need to divorce and finally divorced through telephone - or may be SMS !), we have another high profile minister Shashi Tharoor from Thiruvananthapuram in southern India, who seems to</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/FXzvEavpLsw/cricket-affairs-and-dhoka.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/FXzvEavpLsw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/04/cricket-affairs-and-dhoka.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-6631314750215676939</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-05T09:23:48.143+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><title>Unfortunately for Sania Mirza, Her Marriage Can NOT be Entirely Personal!</title><atom:summary>In a country like India, it takes a minute to assassinate someone's character via media, with public hue and cry and of course, the outbursts of new age rogues and nut-cases like MNS, Sriram Sene etc. And in case of Sania Mirza’s case, it is no different. However, in a civilized society it should not be that way. Rather, we need to know the underlying issue on it. First of all, I believe, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/j6lJPAK2xGE/unfortunately-for-sania-mirza-her.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/j6lJPAK2xGE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/04/unfortunately-for-sania-mirza-her.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406661263606128385.post-2842125825607207488</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-29T14:52:39.889+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">World</category><title>Exit of GoDaddy, Google ...Does China Really Give a Damn?</title><atom:summary>It was first Google which decided to pull out of China and to redirect it search hits to the server in HongKong. In a related note, I believe, the searches that will be displayed in China, can be very much filtered out by Chinese Govt., as the replacement is just a simple DNS redirect principle.GoDaddy followed suit (of course, it is not linked to Google's decision) as domain name buying become </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~3/K4otjoeBaes/exit-of-godaddy-google-does-china.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Satya Narayan Dash)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AnOdysseyOfLife/~4/K4otjoeBaes" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://satya-dash.blogspot.com/2010/03/exit-of-godaddy-google-does-china.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

