1 January (Thursday)
Woke up by 3:20. Typed up
the content of 31, in December, from my diary of 2014, on my computer, by 5:15.
Edited it. Posted it on my blog site dcraju.blogspot.in by 5:30. Automated it
to be published by 8:00 this morning. It got published by this time. Lord
Krishna enabled me to write, type up and edit my personal diary of 2014
according to my self-imposed timelines and priorities. I am grateful to Him. By
9:30 went to the salon of Vadapilli Ramana in Payakaraopeta by Mangavaram Road
and got my haircut. Took an APSRTC bus at Y Junction by 11:20 and reached Peda
Gummuluru by 12:00. Spent talking with my parents in our house for some time.
They are doing well. Gave 1,000 rupees to my father. He gets the area under my
mango plants in my two-acre farm dug and loosened soon with this money. The
recent rain was good for their growth. Had my lunch in the house of my brother
Sambha by 1:00. Spent talking with them till 1:30. Walked to Adduroad by 2:00.
Kept waiting for an APSRTC bus. One arrived by 2:45. Meanwhile my body would
have made some amount of D vitamin utilizing the sunrays. Reached home by 3:20.
My in-laws came here just before this time. They brought milk, cheese, apples
and guavas from there for us. I brought fresh flattened rice from Peda
Gummuluru. Coloured my hair black with Super Vasmol 33 by 6:00. My in-laws left
for Marripalem by 6:15 on bike. Morning I withdrew 15,000 rupees from my Axis
Bank account. Paid house rent 4,000 rupees to our owner. Paid 10,000 rupees to
Srijana to clear a due. Slept by 9:30.
2 January (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today
they did not stop Hetero buses for some of us to get in at Y Junction.
Meanwhile one came driving a car to Hetero Complex. He told me to get in. I
wondered about it. He took me to Hetero by 9:30. Morning nominally coordinated
SET. Today I wrote two pieces of Telugu poetry to be used in two mementos. One
is for Srijana and the other is for the parents of Sushma, a cousin of Srijana.
There are 16 lines in the piece of writing meant for Srijana. There are 12 lines
in the piece meant for Sushma. I wrote this piece about six months ago. Today I
changed some lines in it. I typed up these Telugu words on telugu.changathi.com
online portal. If we type out in English, this system of software converts them
into Telugu. I found it very simple and useful. Many are uncomfortable to write
in Telugu now because there are no many Telugu typists now. English is being
used widely on computers across places. There are many websites and software
now which facilitate us to write in Telugu comfortably. We should explore
opportunities often to learn and benefit from them. Poetry in any language
tests the patience of the writer concerned. Our feelings and notions are so
wide and varied that we often fail to find the exact word to mean it. Synonyms
confuse us while choosing one of them. Others would have used those words in a
particular pattern. Our creative work looks substandard in those contexts.
Expressing the same feeling differently many times is also an ordeal. Writers
and lyricists face this problem. Slept by 10:00.
3 January (Saturday)
Woke up by 6:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I drew lines in a book meant for the
attendance of SET members to help my colleague Kusuma. I did it for about three
hours. Coordinated today’s SET for a few minutes. Spent rest of the day
casually. Now Sankeerthana is suffering from cough. She is unable to sleep well
at night. She is crying often uttering known words repeatedly. It must be
chronic pain within her. She is not consuming food well. She is averse to
tonics. She became weak and lean due to this sickness for one week. She is
recovering slowly. Her voice changed because of expressing her pain orally
several times. It has been cloudy and cool for the last one week. It is affecting
the health of kids much. Ninety percent of parents cannot do justice to their
children when the latter are below two years of age. Srijana and I should keep
awake when our baby is suffering at night. We must console and lull her to
sleep. We should take her to a children’s specialist every time when she
suffers. We should not subject her to bitter oral medicines and painful
injections. We should not speak harshly or react unkindly when she makes
mischief because it is natural to her age. I should not depend on my in-laws or
others to take care of her because it is my moral and spiritual duty as her
father. I should spend about 10 hours’ time with her every day. Our failure to
be possessive and kind parents often causes pain to our formative kids. Slept
by 10:30.
4 January (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 10:00
went out on my bike to get the two mementos prepared for Srijana and Sushma.
First I went to Teja Digitals unit in Payakaraopeta near the filling station.
After I stood there for one hour, I realized and they declared that they could
not do it. The Photoshop system on their computer got corrupt. Thence I moved
to SS Commercials unit in Tuni near Thalli Pillala Hospital. After typing up
the content into a PageMaker file, she said that they could not design it on
Photoshop. Gave her 40 rupees for courtesy sake. Thence moved to Surya Digital
Colour Lab in Tuni. They said their staff are few and busy today as it is a
Sunday today. Then I moved to another place close to this spot and enquired
about Vijaya Lakshmi. I remember her typing up Telugu content for me a few
years ago in Tuni. One told me that she is not working as a typist now. Perhaps
her financial condition improved over the years. Came to Sri Prakash Studio in
Payakaraopeta. Booked his services as a photographer and videographer for the
Upanayanam and marriage of my cousin Sagiraju Narendra Varma on the 11th
and 21st of next month. He said it all costs between 25,000 and
30,000 rupees. He said he would design the two mementos for me but not today
itself. I agreed. The task of these mementos thus tested my patience levels
today. From 6:00 to 7:00 spent at the abode of Mantrala Raju. The general body
meeting of Kshatriya Seva Samithi of Payakaraopeta took place over here. Slept
by 10:20 for my dreams.
5 January (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. Morning coordinated SET. From 3:00 to 4:00 took
an L&D class at HLL-III and talked on ‘Telephone Etiquette’. Today
Rajeshwara Reddy of gardening department told me to bring Yesubabu to HLL-III
tomorrow. Yesubabu is my familiar fellow. Recently he asked me to see if he has
an opportunity to work with Hetero as a daily wage worker. Returned home by
7:15 by bus. Went to Sri Prakash Studio on my bike by 7:25. He showed me the
design of memento of Srijana. He used red background and yellow text. Both
affect eyes. I asked him to reduce the density of redness of background and
change the colour of the content from yellow to white. He did it. I am not 100%
satisfied with this design but compromised about it. He can’t think like me. He
is still working with the memento meant for Sushma. Paid 500 rupees to him for
the designing work of these two mementos. Took the soft copy of memento of
Srijana to Surya Digital Lab. He charged 120 rupees for 12x18 print of it on a
photo paper. Took it to a photo frame maker by 8:20. He was closing his shop by
this time. Advised him to use a frame and cardboard suggested by me from those
available there. Told him that I would come tomorrow night. I think I should
learn Photoshop to design my mementos according to my taste and choices. We
should not do creative work hurriedly. Many designers can’t think like artists.
Slept by 10:15.
6 January (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:02 by bus. By 9:05 Yesubabu came to the gate at HLL-III on
the bike of my familiar Hetero employee. Took Rajeshwara Reddy of gardening
department to this spot by 9:30 to talk about the nature of contract work
available to Yesubabu here. He can earn 200 rupees every day doing garden work.
It’s light and pleasant work. They pay him wages once a week. He said he wants
to earn more than that. Rajeshwara Reddy advised him to join as a material
handling worker. He can earn about 10,000 rupees as a Hamali. He
expressed interest in this job. That contractor told him to bring a passport
size photo tomorrow morning by 5:30 and start working from the A shift schedule
tomorrow. I see how he utilizes this opportunity. From 11:00 to 12:10 Soma
Sundaram conducted SET review meeting in a training hall at HDL-IX. I too
coordinated it nominally. By 7:30 went to the photo frame maker in Tuni and
collected the memento meant for Srijana. Yesterday I noticed that a letter was
typed out wrongly in this memento. This framed memento has that error. Got it
corrected in the soft copy of this memento by Sri Prakash in his studio. I give
this memento to the parents of Srijana. I get another copy of it printed out
and framed for Srijana. Instead of ‘Hamsavu’, it is ‘Hamsapu’ in text. I did
not notice it in my hurry earlier. He charged 300 rupees to frame it. Slept by
10:15.
7 January (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I prepared a PPT on telephone etiquette to
use in our one-hour L&D classes this month. From 3:00 to 4:00 took this
class in the training hall at HLL-III. I knew that my familiar fellow Yesubabu
came for his A shift duty at Hetero this morning. He and his brother Kurandasu
Apparao have been close associates of my brother Sambha for the last 20 years.
Their father died about five years ago. Their roots are in the village
Nellipudi near Vempadu. The penetration of Christianity is very deep in many
cities, towns and villages of India now. Poor, ignorant and helpless Indians
are largely being attracted towards this religion in India. It was how Yesubabu
got this name years ago. He was strong and hard-working once. His wife is a
brainless sheep. She stays with her parents most of the days. He often turns
lovesick. He resorted to ways of consumption of alcohol, toddy and tobacco
products. He became thin and weak over the last few years. His body and mind
are not fit now to do hard jobs. He is looking for a regular source of income.
Hetero can offer him such work. He can work with other contract workers here. I
don’t know how long he can work here in shifts. Everybody needs passion for
money, physical energy and discipline to survive as a contract worker. Evening
my in-laws came from Marripalem. Anand got third place in the score of marks in
his half-yearly exams, which were conducted recently. Slept by 10:00.
8 January (Thursday)
Woke up by 4:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Today I added some more content to my L&D
PPT on ‘Telephone Etiquette’. Took this class from 3:00 to 4:00 in the training
hall at HLL-III. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Nujella Subba Raju and his
family members are in their rented abode now, which is very close to ours. I
did not meet him. He misappropriated funds of Hetero as an HR executive with
HLL-III at Nakkapalli. They fired him after investigation. He feels demotivated
and passive to meet any Hetero employee now because he acquired the image of a
fraudster recently. Often we fail to define our relationship with others after
some strong emotions and strange events. There are many fraudsters and
criminals around us. We have no records of their ulterior motives and concealed
activities. We treat them as ordinary human beings. Most of our MLAs, MPs and
ministers are fraudsters and criminals in India. We are bearing with them
because we have no might or intellect to kill them or call them rogues
publicly. Frauds have become inevitable parts of business concerns in India.
When majority of the rulers are fraudsters and when people are accepting and
appreciating such folks, how can we treat Indians as virtuous and admirable
creatures? Subba Raju is a product of such Indian culture. It is like a silly
game for him. He thought that Hetero has a lot of money. He felt that he can
take it like a good thief. He joined another company. How does he behave there
as a HR fellow? Slept by 10:00.
9 January (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. It is the
25th birthday of my wife Datla Naga Satya Srijana Devi today. She
wore a new sari. Gave my birthday memento to her. She felt happy. Her mother
prepared sweet milk porridge with vermicelli. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:10 by
bus. From 2:30 to 3:45 our manager Illuri Subba Rao conducted an L&D
meeting in his cabin. I was there till 2:55. Took an L&D class from 3:00 to
4:00 in the training hall at HLL-III and talked about ‘Telephone Etiquette’. I
did not buy anything for Srijana for the occasion of her birthday today. I have
no much money now to do it. I do such things as early as possible. She does not
feel disturbed even if I don’t follow such formalities. The other day I asked
her if she did anything using my money. She said she bought and got four
Punjabi dresses stitched. I saw them. I did not like the designs of two of
those dresses. I know in which dress a beauty looks more beautiful. I am not
getting much time to spend with Srijana and my two children. The parents,
friends and relatives of Srijana are close to her now. The role of a husband
should not be that of a dictator towards his wife but a facilitator. He should
allow her to enjoy her life judiciously. He should teach her how to live
happily without cheating and hurting others. Mutual trust and respect can be
established and sustained only if both the life partners have great characters.
May Lord Krishna bless and guide Srijana. Slept by 10:00.
10 January (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:08 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. They did not
stop Hetero bus for some of us to get in. It is the birthday of Goli Srinivasa
Reddy today. Many wished him on this occasion. Typed out eight lines in Telugu
appreciating him in a creative and poetic manner. Made them into white letters.
Changed the background of this Microsoft Word file into light blue. Added his
colour photo at the top of this text. Added mine at the bottom of it. Emailed
this special greeting to him by 10:30 from the computer system of D Srinivasa
Varma. Wished him personally by 11:00. He is a smart and dynamic person. He is
my platonic friend. From 3:00 to 5:45 song competitions were conducted in the
training hall above cafeteria at HLL-III under the coordination of Srinivasa
Varma. I was there as a listener from 3:30. They sang Telugu film songs.
Enjoyed it myself. About 150 listeners and 25 singers graced this occasion.
Returned home by 7:15 by bus. Srijana told me that my brother Srinivas was
coming to Tuni by a train. Rushed to Tuni railway station by 7:30 on my bike.
He took an Express train at Nidadhavolu Junction. He got off it here by 7:30.
Brought him to our rented abode at Devi Nagar by 7:50 on my bike. He bought
apples and oranges for us and our parents at a fruit stall in Payakaraopeta. He
came to see us casually. Today my father-in-law took a treadmill from the abode
of Papadasu Srinivasa Reddy. He bought it for 3,500 rupees to do physical
exercises on it and reduce his excess fat. Slept by 10:15.
11 January (Sunday)
Woke up by 4:30. My
brother Srinivas and I started to Peda Gummuluru by 6:15 on my bike. My brother
Sambha bought fish at Adduroad, spending 180 rupees, for our lunch. My father
and I started to our mango farm at hills by 8:15 on my bike. My father laid a
bed of palm nuts. He dug out about 40 Thegalu from it for me. We
returned home by 10:15. Srinivas and I had our lunch by 10:40 in our house. My
father packed festive dishes for both of us. My mother prepared them for us on
the occasion of Sankranthi. We two started to Tuni by 10:50 on my bike. We reached
railway station by 11:25. He bought a ticket for Nidadhavolu Junction. He
started waiting for Dhanbad-Alappuza Express at 12:15. I collected the soft
copy of memento of Sushma from Sri Prakash Studio by 11:45. Got a printout of
it, on a photo paper of 12x18 size, at Sai Surya Digital Lab, by 12:00, paying
120 rupees. Gave it to a frame maker to frame it. From 2:30 to 5:15 saw the
Telugu film “Gopaala Gopaala” in cinema Sri Rama at Tuni. Venkatesh and Pavan
Kalyan played the main roles in this film. It’s an interesting film. The
director tarnished the beauty of this film portraying the role of Mithun
Chakraborty in a derogatory manner. He appears and acts like a transvestite but
not the venerable head of a noted Hindu cult. In fact, his features and stature
as an actor suit the role of Lord Krishna. Collected the memento of Sushma by
6:30 paying him 300 rupees. Afternoon Srijana went to Viswanadhapuram along
with our children to celebrate Sankranthi there with her dear folks. Slept by
10:00.
12 January (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:07 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. They did not
stop bus to get in. Today I did nominal work related to SET. By 7:30 had a
chapati at a hotel in Y Junction for my supper. Govind is an AC technician in
Hetero Complex. He belongs to a village near Elamachili. Last summer we
suffered much as we did not have an AC machine in our rented abode. I decided
to buy an AC machine to withstand the high temperature in the coming summer
season. They cost much in the open market. I decided to utilize the skills and
intelligence of Govind in this regard. I collected the details of 10 folks, who
are interested to buy AC machines this time. Each of us contributes an amount
of 20,000 rupees for an AC machine. Govind buys high quality AC machine parts
and fits them in our respective abodes. Thus we get high quality AC machines in
our homes for 20,000 rupees only. Govind offered us warranty on them for one
year. He repairs them if there is any problem. He replaces if any spare part is
damaged. This is an economical and reliable way for us to get AC machines. He
fits 1.5 ton split AC machines at this cost. They cost between 30,000 and
50,000 rupees in the market. We cannot afford them. I collect the money from
these members in the first half of this February. AC machines should be fitted
in our abodes by the end of February. Sankeerthana can sleep well with this
facility. Babies cannot bear extreme weather conditions. Winter is intense now
in many parts of India. Slept by 10:00.
13 January (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Today I helped Soma Sundaram feed data into
Hetero network. Many employees went to their native places to celebrate
Sankranthi. Returned home by 7:15 by bus. From 9:30 to 11:30 saw the Telugu
film “Raghuvaran B.Tech.” in cinema Sai Mahal. Vel Raj directed it well. Danush
played the title role in this film. He played the life of a middle-class
unemployed graduate in India. He is a graduate in civil engineering. He waits only
for such job, doing which he can satisfy himself as a civil engineer. He falls
in love with a girl. He loses his mother in this troublesome journey as one
looking for a suitable job. He gets a good job and proves his worth as a
talented civil engineer. I saw the film of Danush for the first time today. He
is a thin guy. I believe Aishwarya married him falling in love with his skills
as an actor. His body is flexible like rubber. He is twisting his body like a
doll. I saw a lot of confidence, ease and naturalism in his look and acting. He
impressed me throughout the film with his appreciable acting skills. I fell in
love with his character in this film because he represented true graduate
engineers in India now. They may get inspired watching this film. The
dialogues, songs, music and narration are very good in this film. We feel the
pulse of middle-class lives watching this film. Reality looks more beautiful
and appealing when portrayed by an artist in an art form like this film. Slept
by 12:00.
14 January (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. It is
Bhogi today. I did not warm up my body at bonfire as Indian tradition demands. Got
ready by 9:50. Started to Peda Gummuluru by 10:00 on my bike. The folks of
Viswanadhapuram invited me to come there to celebrate Sankranthi. I decided to
spend with my parents. My father and I went to our mango garden at hills by
2:15 on my bike. The mango trees and plants are blossoming. Most of the trees
did not blossom. It may be the impact of Hudhud cyclone, which ravaged this
region recently. My father and I nipped the blossoming parts of the plants in
my two-acre farm from 2:45 to 3:45. If young plants bear many mangoes, that
weight pulls those tender branches down. It affects the growth and shape of these
plants. It is like family planning operation for married couples in India.
Since they cannot go for it on their own, we did that operation to all these
plants. God supervises creative process in this world. This is to ensure
participation of many players in His universal game. Life is decoration to this
universe. We killed such lives today nipping those buds. I enjoyed this
process. Young plants of horse gram are green in this farm now. Some of them
bore crop. I wonder to witness this struggle for existence in all creatures. We
spent at the abode of my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy for 10 minutes. I spent
my time in inspiring locales of nature today along with my father. We returned
home by 5:00. Sat at a familiar shop in Adduroad for 30 minutes observing the
variety of life. Many are busy celebrating the spirit of Sankranthi. Night
talked with my folks to feel the spirit of their presence. Slept by 10:00.
15 January (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 7:00
my father and my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy offered some amount of rice,
vegetables and 100 rupees each to our family priest Devulapalli Anantha
Padmanabha Sharma of village Koruprolu, at our house. This is to satisfy the
soul of Datla Thammi Raju, their father. By 9:00 Narayana Murthy and I went to
our mango garden at hills on my bike. My aunt Kumari is at Ramagundam now
assisting his pregnant daughter Ashwini. This uncle has been staying here alone
for the last 15 days. He fed his cocks and hens. I dug about 70 tender palm
shoots (Thegalu in Telugu) in our mango garden from 9:45 to 11:15. This uncle
and I came to Ramayyapatnam by 11:45 on my bike. We sat at a desk of dice and
bet money till 1:00. He lost 200 rupees. I lost 20 rupees. I bet 10 rupees each
time. Enjoyed this festive game of gambling on the occasion of Sankranthi. My
father and I toasted the tender palm shoots, setting fire on them, at our
house, by 2:45. My mother packed some festive dishes for me. Started to
Payakaraopeta by 3:45 on my bike and reached my abode by 4:15. From 6:05 to
9:30 saw the Telugu film “I” in cinema Sai Mahal. Vikram and Amy Louise Jackson played the lead roles.
The story of the film, narration, the stunts, the dialogues, the music of A R
Rahman, the photography of P C Sriram and every part of it mesmerized me
throughout. Shankar made an extraordinary film, struggling hard for months
together. Vikram rocked with his superb body and performance. I give 95 marks
for 100 for this classic film. Slept by 10:15.
16 January (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today contract workers did not come to Hetero
campus as it is Kanuma today. Many wash their vehicles and kill domestic birds
today for celebration of this festival. Many employees did not come to Hetero
today. I spent passively most of the day. Took L&D class in the training
hall at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and talked on ‘Telephone Etiquette’. About 20
employees only attended this class. Today they served chicken curry for lunch
to all the employees on the occasion of Kanuma. Returned home by 7:15 by bus.
Started to Peda Gummuluru by 7:30 on my bike. It is hard to ride a bike at
night when it is dark and misty. I gave a lift to two folks on the way. Had
supper in the house of my brother Sambha by 8:30. Reached Ramayyapatnam by 8:45
on my bike. The cold winter hugged me warmly, transmitting the love of nature
into my senses. Bet money at a desk of dice for 30 minutes along with my friend
Adi Narayana of China Gummuluru. He won about 400 rupees. I won 220 rupees.
Dubai Srinu presented the Telugu social drama “Amma Naanna O Ammaayi” on the
stage near the temple of Lord Rama from 11:00 to 1:00. He wrote and directed
it. He did it well, combining comedy and dance to the latest Telugu film songs.
He played a role in it. Enjoyed watching it. He thanked me specially on the
stage for my going to watch his play. I felt uneasy. He is a passionate artist.
He wants to go to film industry. He is financially down now. He is running a
small dairy unit in this village to make a living. I contributed 200 rupees to
this drama as a patron.
17 January (Saturday)
Woke up by 6:00 in the
house of my brother Sambha. Last night I watched the social drama till the end
of it and spent talking with a familiar fellow for half an hour. He told me
about career in merchant navy. Started to Payakaraopeta by 8:00 on my bike. Went
to the ICICI Bank at Tuni by 11:30 on my bike to know about the status of my
account with them. I could not operate it recently at an ATM Centre. My brother
Sambha asked me to check if Hudhud related crop damage relief amount of money is
credited to it by the folks of our state government. Nothing is credited to it
till now. There is zero balance. Deposited 1,000 rupees to enliven it. A
beautiful girl did this work. When she asked me about me casually, I said I am
a writer. Gave my visiting card to her. Took my computer CPU and keyboard to
the office of Hari Varma in Tuni to get it formatted and dusted here. By 4:30
he formatted the CPU and uploaded a few necessary software files. Hereafter I
use Microsoft Office 2013 version of it on my computer. Bought a blue mouse pad
for 20 rupees. Paid him 300 rupees for all this work. By 6:00 Srijana, Anand
and Sankeerthana came here from Viswanadhapuram. She brought many festive
dishes from there. By 6:30 Srijana, Anand and I went to Tuni railway station to
see off her maternal aunt Madhavi, uncle Subba Raju and cousins Sushma and
Sunil. They took Godavari Express by 7:20 for Hyderabad. Night my in-laws
stayed here. My father-in-law drank heavily. He looked shaky. Slept by 10:00
for my dreams.
18 January (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
in-laws left for the teak plantation at Marripalem by 8:00 on a bike. My
father-in-law bought a used treadmill recently for 3,500 rupees from my friend
P Srinivasa Reddy. He wants to do exercises on them to reduce his excess fat.
By 9:30 Srijana and I took Sankeerthana to the salon of Vadapilli Ramana at
Payakaraopeta to get her hair tonsured. On the way, we took the baby to the
Panchayat office and got two drops of oral polio vaccine administered to her.
She spat it out onto her lips, sensing its taste. We put it back. By 10:15
barber Ramana tonsured her head. She sat calmly for the first five minutes. She
started crying and moving head thereafter. Two very minor cuts occurred on her
scalp due to the sharp blade applied. Gave him 30 rupees for this haircut. Got
her bathed with lukewarm water. Applied my Old Spice after shave lotion on her
head. Srijana observed that the hair of the baby is getting matted and dandruff
is developing due to it. We got her hair tonsured for this reason. By 2:40 went
to Tuni railway station along with a bag of Sankranthi festive dishes and other
items packed by Srijana for her brother Vamsy, who is working with the unit of
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering at Hindupuram. By 2:46 Prashanthi Express
arrived. Gave this bag to a colleague of Vamsy, who is working there itself. He
is travelling from Visakhapatnam. He said he is not happy with the standards of
Wipro unit here. Sankeerthana and I spent at the abode of Mantrala Raju from
4:00 to 5:00. Slept by 10:00.
19 January (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Morning coordinated the plant visit schedule of
42 candidates of NHO batch 24 in HDL-VI. They had lunch by 1:00. Brought them
to Boys’ Hostel by 2:45. The folks of Axis Bank came here by 3:30. They gave
new account related material to all these candidates by 6:00. They have
introduced the policy of offering insurance coverage to all their account
holders, charging 1,000 rupees from each of them per year. They pay 10 lakh
rupees to them in case of unexpected tragedies. Many of these candidates said
that they don’t want it because they get low amount of salary the first month.
They feel that deduction of 1,000 rupees from their first salary is an issue
for them. Money is playing such vital role in the contemporary world. Today our
AC technician Govind told me that the prices of spare parts of AC machines
increased much and so he cannot fit 1.5 ton split AC pieces in our abodes for
20,000 rupees as we planned once. We have to spend 26,000 rupees. They can buy
some company AC machine based on their choices. I am withdrawing myself from
this idea. I inform my team members about it. I search online for an
energy-efficient and affordable piece for me. Today I talked with Dr. Achyutha
Rao about his availability to perform vasectomy on me as we planned earlier.
Slept by 10:30.
20 January (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 7:40
my teacher uncle K V Rama Raju called me up from New York. He went to the USA
recently to spend with his sons Raghupathi and Naren. They are working as
software engineers there. He called me up from the house of Velugula Hema
Kumar. He is the son of Bhaskara Rao. He was one of my teachers when I was
studying at the upper primary school in Gollalagunta. Hema Kumar went to the
USA about 10 years ago. He is doing a job there. He is a devotee of Lord
Krishna. He frequents to the abodes of ISKCON. We talked casually for five
minutes over phone. My uncle returns to India on the 27th of this
month. Enjoyed talking with them. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Today
I helped Kusuma doing some work related to her. This year they did not pay
performance bonus to Hetero employees till now. Many employees are eagerly
waiting for it. Some borrowed money from others and bought some things. They wanted
to clear those dues after getting this annual performance bonus. Many employees
are disappointed about it. I knew that only Hetero pays performance bonus.
Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Morning Srijana, Sankeerthana and Revathi went to
Viswanadhapuram on our bike to attend a function there. They came back by 4:00.
Srijana brought her mother from there. Her father is angry with her mother
because the latter is often blaming the prior about his habit of consumption of
alcohol. He thinks that she is defaming him telling about him to her familiar
folks. I appreciate her. Drunkards must be punished. Slept by 10:00.
21 January (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Today I did SET related data typing work for
about five hours on the computer system of Soma Sundaram. Today I wore my pair
of clothes with blue shirt. Many appreciated its beauty. Three persons
criticized saying that it is looking odd on me. They said that this colour is
too imposing to see. I don’t change this shirt immediately. Now I have about 16
pairs of clothes to wear. I put on each of it once a month or so. I should be
ready to bear the criticism of folks about this shirt once for 40 days. This is
how I should strengthen my spirit of balance as an individual. Others may not
like many things I do or own because they assess me from their standpoint. I
cannot live according to their wishes and expectations because I have many
limitations as a human being. Many like those with fair skin colour but those
with wheatish and black skin colours should also survive among them. Nature and
society test our goodness and patience regularly. We should regulate our
thoughts and emotions even in testing conditions. Many blame others quite
casually in India because Indians developed such culture during the last 50
years. They are utilizing their freedom to use abusive words addressing
anybody. Most of them are insensitive and stupid. They cannot offer
constructive criticism because they have no intelligence and empathy meant for
us. We should not take everything seriously in our lives. Slept by 10:00.
22 January (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I was busy doing L&D work. From 3:00
to 4:00 took an L&D class at HLL-III and talked about ‘Telephone Etiquette’.
Recently Sagi Venkata Anantha Varma told me that he is interested in joining
the EHS department at Hetero by Nakkapalli. He is the son-in-law of my maternal
aunt Surya Bhaskaramma of village Durgada. He has been working with a unit of
Biological E Limited at Patan Cheru in Hyderabad for the last 18 years. He is a
self-made man. He worked in the production department for long. Later he moved
to safety department acquiring those capabilities. He is senior executive in
the safety section there now. Morning I showed his résumé to Mr. S Kullayi
Reddy, the DGM of EHS department at Hetero Complex. He readily told me to ask
him to come here for an interview. He respects my requests with goodness. I
know him as a man of standards and values in Hetero Complex. I felt very happy
for his immediate acceptance to my proposal. Anantha Varma is a gem. I am not
introducing a wrong person to Hetero. I am happy to that extent. I talked with
Mr. Vivekanand J Makari about it. He is an AGM in EHS here. He is a gentleman.
He said that he would get Anantha Varma called for an interview through HR
department. Anantha is a native of village Ramayyapatnam. He can be close to
his familiar folks of this place if he gets this job. Returned home by 7:10 by
bus. Yesterday and today Srijana dusted and arranged many things in our rented abode.
We keep many at wrong places regularly. Slept by 10:00.
23 January (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Today I did nominal work related to SET. Morning
I saw a familiar female Hetero employee after much gap. I thought that she must
have left Hetero. Today my friend said that she resigned today. She came to the
administrative block for some formalities. She is one of the beauties of Hetero
here. I often felt like appreciating her beauty but could not do it. My friend
said that she married a Hetero employee here out of love. She is of Reddy
community. He is of Kaapu community. Her parents objected to their marriage
initially. They convinced them somehow and got married. She looked pale and
weak today. Love marriage between creatures of different communities,
religions, languages, races and regions is still an issue in India. Indians
have tradition and culture of centuries. Orthodox Indians cannot accept love
marriages of their children for this reason. Youth get attracted towards one
another being influenced by their physical forces and contemporary social trends.
I pitied this beauty from this perspective. Does this fellow treat her
affectionately rest of his life? Is their love mature and reliable? Why did she
resign? I think much about beauties in this world. We can be happy if they are
living happily somewhere. Their thoughts and presence delight us if we know
that they have good characters also. We should respect and care for them even
if they don’t belong to us directly. They are assets of this planet. Slept by
10:00.
24 January (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I did not do any work useful to Hetero.
Afternoon took two-hour permission. Came out by 4:02. A former Hetero employee
brought me to Payakaraopeta by 4:50 on his bike. Got ready by 5:30. Went to
Tuni railway station by 6:00 on my bike. Janmabhoomi Express arrived by 6:15.
My brother Srinivas took it at Tadepalli Gudem by 3:30 this afternoon. He got
off it here. Brought him to my rented abode by 6:30. We spent here for five
minutes. We walked to a hotel at Y Junction by 7:00. He ordered rotis and curry
for both of us. It was very tasty. He paid 130 rupees for it. We took a sharing
auto rickshaw and reached Peda Gummuluru by 7:50. My uncles Kolukuluri Satya
Narayana Raju and Narasimha Murthy Raju were here by this time. Satya Narayana
came here to invite all of us to the marriage of his younger son Bala. We two
spent talking with my parents and him for one hour in our house. Then we three
went to the house of my brother Sambha. Narasimha Murthy was here. We all spent
talking about our domestic affairs. Satya Narayana is working as an
agricultural farm supervisor at Raichur in Karnataka now. He is happy there.
Srinivas told us about the richness and culture of people in Bhima Varam.
Narasimha told us about the problems in his family. His wife Vimala is
torturing him daily. He is looking for a suitable bride for his elder son.
Vimala has got very bad reputation as a woman. It became an issue in finding a
girl for the marriage of their son. Slept by 12:00.
25 January (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
brothers Srinivas, Sambha and I took a private travel bus by 7:45 at Adduroad
for Gajuwaka. The fare is 300 rupees for us. We reached there by 9:30. Thence
we took a sharing auto rickshaw up to the defence canteen area. By 10:00 we
three entered the section of electrical and electronic appliances in this CSD
canteen. I bought a Bajaj Majesty GPU 25 water heater spending 5,614 rupees.
Its actual cost is 10,700 rupees. It’s white piece with five star rating
quality standards. The item code is 150715. It can heat 25 litres of cold water
at a time (in about 45 minutes’ time). It should be fitted vertically. This is
to use in our rented abode at Payakaraopeta. Srijana gave money to buy it for
us. Sambha bought a gas stove of superior quality for 3,000 rupees. We hired an
auto rickshaw for 300 rupees and reached police quarters at Kailasa Giri by
11:00. We put these pieces in the car of Ramesh. Tonight there is the marriage
of Swathi here. We came here to attend this occasion. We three went to the
layouts of Suvarna Bhoomi in Ananda Puram Mandal region along with their
executive Satish in their car to see them. We saw them from 12:00 to 1:30.
Srinivas gave a UCO Bank cheque, worth one lakh rupees, to them towards advance
for a plot in their Status Symbol-2 venture here. It is yet to be developed. We
returned to Visalakshi Nagar by 3:00 in this car. We spent at Geetanjali
Community Hall, the marriage venue, till 9:00. We had dinner here. Sambha and I
took an APSRTC bus at bus complex by 9:45 with our two items of luggage. We
reached Adduroad by 11:40. Slept by 12:00.
26 January (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Spent
talking with my brother Sambha and parents for some time. My father packed
three bunches of bananas for me. They were grown in the front yard of our
house. My luggage was two bags and Bajaj water heater. Sambha dropped me at
Adduroad by 6:30 on his bike. Took an APSRTC bus. The bus conductor is a boy,
who belongs to Ramayyapatnam. Felt very happy talking with him. He is an
honourable public servant. From 11:00 to 1:30 saw the Telugu film “Beeruvaa” in
cinema Surya Mahal. It is an interesting film but it seems that the director
developed this story based on the title. The hero often hides in wardrobes in
his house. We cannot find such an idiot in real world because we don’t keep
empty wardrobes in our houses for somebody to hide in. Surabhi is more
beautiful than the story of this film. Had a chapati in a hotel here by 1:50.
Saw the Telugu film “Pataas” in cinema Rama Krishna Chitra Mandir from 2:30 to
5:00. It is an interesting and exciting film. Kalyan Ram and Shruthi Sodhi
performed very well. The narration and action are fast and thrilling. Shruthi
is beautiful. I like Kalyan Ram a lot. I developed a very good impression about
him. I consider him a perfect gentleman. I love his simple and humble
lifestyle. He behaves and thinks like a saint rather than an egoistic
materialist. He entertained me throughout this film with his gripping acting
skills. It is Republic Day today in India. It is Radha Sapthami, a day to
worship sun god, also. My salutes to my beloved sun. He is delighting me every
day with his grand presence in the sky. Srijana, her mother and my babies
returned from Viswanadhapuram. Slept by 10:00.
27 January (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Took an L&D class in HLL-III from 3:00 to
4:00 and talked about ‘Telephone Etiquette’. Returned home by 7:15 by bus. By
8:30 Praveen Kumar fitted the Bajaj water heater in the bathroom adjoining main
bedroom in our rented abode. He is a technician familiar to Sekhar, the
maternal uncle of Srijana. He has a workshop near Raja Ground in Tuni. He charged
1,400 rupees for the tools used to fit it and work. It is looking beautiful in
our bathroom. Srijana said that she starts using it on an auspicious day soon.
We are happy to own and use it hereafter. We should bath with lukewarm water in
all seasons because it is good for our health. We want hot water in winter to
bath more than in other seasons. We should not apply anything on our body,
which it rejects naturally, except for medical needs. Bathing with cold water
in cold conditions is not good for our body. I bath for 10 or 15 minutes. We
should apply toilet soap or any other body cleaning agent on every part of our
body. We should bath with 10 litres of pure water at least. We must wipe each
part of our body with a dry and clean piece of cloth soon after bath. If we
leave it wet here and there, it may cause skin infections. Using solar water
heaters is good for environment but many Indians are not yet accustomed to use
of solar energy in India now. Majority Indians cannot afford to buy electrical
water heaters. They boil water using familiar wood. Slept by 10:00.
28 January (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:08 in the NANO car of B V Sharma along with our manager
Subba Rao. Dr. P S N Atchyutha Rao called me up by 12:00. He said that he would
be available today and tomorrow in Visakhapatnam to perform vasectomy on me. I
decided to get it done today itself. My friend P Srinivasa Reddy lent me 5,000
rupees within 10 minutes. Filled up a leave form, for half day, from 1:00 to
6:00 today and got it signed by Subba Rao. Had my lunch by 12:45. Reached
Nakkapalli by 1:25 on a bike. Took an APSRTC bus by 2:15 and reached bus
complex by 4:15. Reached the office of district collector by 5:00 in an auto
rickshaw. Dr. Atchyutha Rao came here by 6:00 on his bike. He took me to the
nearby Sagara Durga Hospital at Krishna Nagar. Wore a green apron by 6:30. This
doctor performed vasectomy on me in an operation theatre from 6:40 to 7:10
being assisted by K Mahesh and Nagamani. First he administered local anesthesia
on my scrotum. When it turned numb, he located the two parts of vase that carry
sperm. He made a pin sized hole and pulled them out. He severed them and tied
those two broken ends separately. Paid him 3,000 rupees for it. He prescribed
10 tablets of each of ULTRACET, SERAX FORTE and CEFTUM 250 to be taken by me in
the morning and at night for five days. He did it so simply and painlessly as
if I were eating a banana. There was no bleeding either. He did hundreds of
these surgeries as a government doctor. He dropped me at Dwaraka Bus Complex by
8:05. Took a Vijayawada bound bus by 8:15 and reached home by 11:20. Slept by
12:00.
29 January (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I felt dizzy from 10:30. Went to the OHC
in HLL-III and took two tablets to get rid of nausea. By 12:00 completed typing
out the blog titled “Incredible India”. I typed out the first part of it day before
yesterday. There are 108 single sentence statements in this blog about Indians.
Returned home by 7:15 by bus. My parents remained in my abode. They came here
yesterday afternoon. Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and my mother-in-law went to
the teak plantation at Marripalem by this evening on our bike. Posted the blog
titled “Incredible India” on my blog site by 8:45, scheduling it to be
published by 8:00 tomorrow morning. Most of Indian males expect their spouses
to undergo tubectomy instead of they going for vasectomy. They are cowardly
rogues in this regard. We don’t lose our sexual instincts even after this
operation. It just avoids the entry of sperm into semen in our scrotum. Thus we
disable our reproductive system intentionally. One drop of blood may be lost
during this surgery due to a little incision on it. Since our body does not
accept if anybody removes any internal part of it, we sense a little pain along
the vase that is cut and tied together. Tubectomy may cause some health
problems in women but vasectomy has comparatively very negligible side effects
and drawbacks. Most of Indians have many misconceptions and superstitions about
this operation and its effects. We should shun them. Slept by 10:00.
30 January (Friday)
Woke up by 4:00. It is Bheeshma
Ekaadhashi today. Bheeshma died on this day centuries ago during the times of
Maha Bharatha. It is an auspicious day for Hindus. My mother switched on our
water heater in the bathroom by 5:00 on this occasion. She applied holy
vermilion powder on this device and worshipped Lord Shiva before using it. My
parents left for Annavaram by 5:30. They went there to participate in the
collective vratham of Lord Satya Narayana, which is conducted by scheduled
temple priests there daily. My father said that we entered our house in Peda
Gummuluru on Bheeshma Ekaadhashi in 1999. Since then my mother and father have
been observing this vratham on this auspicious day. Reached Hetero Complex by
8:53 by bus. Today also acidity developed in my stomach after taking the three
tablets. I felt uncomfortable but bore with it. From 3:00 to 4:00 took an
L&D class in HLL-III and talked on ‘Telephone Etiquette’. Returned home by
7:30 by bus. Morning my in-laws participated in the formal worship of Lord
Anjaneya at Marripalem. Srijana was also there along with our children.
Afternoon Praveen Kumar gave wires into each of our switchboards for earthing
facility. He did it well in our abode. I have been planning to get it done for
the last two years. I could get it done today by him. The cost of wire and his
service charge amounted to 1,600 rupees. It is dangerous to live and work in
any house or facility where earthing is not done properly. This night there are
two marriages of my familiar folks at K O Mallavaram and Raja Venkata Nagaram.
Srijana attended the prior. I avoided both. Slept by 9:30 for my dreams.
31 January (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. By 11:30 my manager Subba Rao and I went to the
administrative block of HLL-IX in the SEZ of Hetero Complex. Soma Sundaram and
I have to sit here from this Monday and coordinate L&D activities in SEZ.
It is similar to internal transfer. Both of us came here to check and ensure
our seating arrangement. He talked with Kavuri Raghu, the head of this unit,
for 30 minutes. I found this place more beautiful and comfortable than the
administrative block at HLL-III. The folks of SEZ felt the need of L&D
staff members in their section also. So, we two are moving to this place. Today
I felt nausea a little due to the acidity caused by the three kinds of tablets I
am taking now. By 4:23, an amount of 23, 773 rupees was credited to my Axis
Bank account by the folks of Hetero towards my salary for this month. Returned
home by 7:20. My uncle Sagiraju Rama Raju came to my abode by this time from
Gollalagunta on his bike. He came here to get the wedding cards of his younger
son Narendra Varma designed and printed at Tuni through my cooperation and
distribute them to his familiar folks in this area. He brought bananas for us.
We went to the unit of Ganni Printers at Tuni by 7:40 on my bike. We showed him
the wedding card of Vasu and told him that we want the wedding card of Naren
also the same way. He told us to come tomorrow morning. Paid 4,000 rupees to
Kumari by 8:20 towards the rent for our portion in their house for this month.
Evening Srijana returned home. Slept by 10:00.
1 February (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My uncle
Sagiraju Rama Raju and I went to the unit of Ganni Printers in Tuni by 8:00 on
my bike. We called him up. He told us to come by 9:00. We went to the abodes of
two familiar folks in Tuni and invited them to the Upanayanam and marriage of
Narendra Varma and Sri Lakshmi on the 11th and 21st of
this month. Reached the unit of Ganni Printers by 9:00. There was power cut
till 10:05. He typed out content and designed the wedding card of Naren and
Suma by 10:30. We spent in the abode of Revathi for 50 minutes. We collected
150 wedding cards by 11:50. He charged 1,350 rupees for these cards of Telugu
version. We had lunch in our abode by 12:20 and started to Peda Gummuluru by
12:30 to distribute these wedding cards. We completed it here and at Adduroad
by 2:00. We distributed about 10 cards to our familiar folks at Raja Venkata
Nagaram. We wanted more cards to distribute at Gurrajupeta and Peda Theenaarla.
Srijana sent 30 cards by bus to Adduroad. We collected them by 3:50. We
distributed about 12 cards in these two villages by 5:00. We gave a card to Sri
Rama Raju in Vaibhav Township at Naamavaram by 5:45. P Ramana of Sivababa
Graphics and Printers unit typed out content and designed wedding card for
Naren in English by 6:45 in Tuni. Naren distributes them to his friends. He
charged 750 rupees for 50 cards. We invited some other folks in Tuni by 8:30.
We collected these English cards from them by 8:40 and returned home. My friend
Rajani Kumar Raju sent the photo of his prospective bride to my email ID by
9:00. I saw it and advised him to marry her. Slept by 10:30.
2 February (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Soma Sundaram and I went to HLL-IX in SEZ by
10:30. We checked our places and seats in the QA & QC building. They did
not take our details for swiping and other formalities today. We are yet to move
to HLL-IX formally. I am not buying AC machines through our Hetero technician
Govind. He said that it is amounting to 26,000 rupees to buy high quality spare
parts and assemble them into an AC machine. The members in my team, who wanted
to get these machines this way, are disappointed about it. We decided to go for
company made pieces. Polimeru Siva is a familiar fellow to us in this regard.
He said that he would get us reliable pieces at affordable prices. Now he is in
the process of collecting details and prices of some AC machines. I have no
even considerable amount of money now to buy an AC machine for us. I have to
borrow money from somebody for this purpose. When I came out of the gate in the
evening to take a Hetero bus, I found that the 6:20 bus got filled up
completely. Instead of taking the 6:30 bus, I took the bike of my familiar
fellow Sita Reddy and came to Nakkapalli to take an APSRTC bus and get home
early. Not a bus turned up from 6:15 to 6:45. Hetero buses were passing past me
one after one. By 6:50 a familiar Hetero employee came my way and took me onto
his bike. He dropped me at my place by 7:10. I wondered about it. I remembered
an ad in which a man saves a scared deer from a tiger chasing it. The deer runs
very fast to escape from that tiger. Since it was trying to escape (effort),
God saved it sending a man in its way. If we try, God helps us. Slept by 10:00.
3 February (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Morning Vamsi Krishna came to Hetero Complex. By
1:15 got a seat reserved for me in Ratnachal Express for the 6th of
this month from Tuni to Vijayawada. That night I have to attend the marriage of
my cousin Bala (Kolukuluri Krishnam Raju) at the temple of Kodhanda Rama Swamy
at village Buddhaam near Bapatla in Guntur district. I did this reservation
using the Internet on the computer system of our IT executive Rajesh. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and taught them on the topic
‘Emotional Intelligence’. Today I repaid the 5,000 rupees to Papadasu Srinivasa
Reddy, which I borrowed from him on the 28th of last month to
undergo vasectomy by Dr Atchyutha Rao. Today the employees of Hetero kept
everything orderly and neat to satisfy Vamsi Krishna. It was like an internal
audit for them. It seems majority of Indians live to satisfy the interests of
others rather than theirs. They beautify themselves and make many arrangements
to entice others. Girls and women wear beautiful dresses and ornaments while
going to attend different parties and occasions. They decorate hospitals,
schools, temples and offices if special guests or visitors come there. They are
not following cleanliness, discipline and honesty as part of their lifestyles.
They are acting smart roles now and then to impress others artificially. The folks
of Hetero are playing smart roles to impress their bosses like many Indians.
Morning my mother-in-law left for Marripalem by bus. Slept by 10:00 for my
dreams.
4 February (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Morning partially participated in the training
program on interpersonal skills by external trainer K Sridhar at Boys’ Hostel.
Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and talked about ‘Emotional
Intelligence’. Recently I visited a portal titled factslides.com. There is
insightful and surprising information about 60 topics on it. There are 10 to 50
descriptive statements about each of these topics. There is amazing data about
countries, celebrities, animals, planets, health, religions and space. I read
most of it during the last 10 days on the computer system of Srinivasa Varma
with Internet access. I improved my knowledge understanding these things about
phenomena in and out of me. Knowledge gives us awareness and intelligence. We
can take a great decision when there are multiple options for us. Knowing and
utilizing available information is very important to be safe, secure and happy
in our lives and professions. Internet is the largest source of knowledge now.
We should have passion about knowledge if we want to face challenges. God made
some things with extraordinary logic and some without logic. This arrangement
is just to surprise and entertain us. When we are ignorant and innocent, others
abuse us regularly. We can question and alert others when we have adequate
knowledge about everything we are doing. Online portals like these deeply
influence our thoughts and lifestyles. Self-reformation is not possible without
knowledge and effort. We should change ourselves often. Slept by 10:00.
5 February (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:52 by bus. Morning coordinated a training program at Boys’
Hostel for some time. From 3:00 to 4:00 took an L&D class at HLL-III and
talked about ‘Emotional Intelligence’. Shilpa is with the accounts department
at HLL-III now. She sits in our floor. We often talk casually. She is going to
Hyderabad in two days to work at the corporate office of Hetero there. She
wanted and materialized this internal transfer by choice. Morning I casually
told my friend P Srinivasa Reddy, when Shilpa was about him, that soon Soma
Sundaram and I sit a little away from the cabin of Kavuri Raghu, the plant head
of HLL-IX, when we two move there shortly. Shilpa casually remarked it is good
for Raghu because he can’t bear if I appear to him eating something always. I
regularly take something to eat in my office space at Hetero because I don’t
get time to eat at home. I am taking snacks and water to office. I offer
homemade snacks to my familiar folks in our floor. Shilpa saying that I eat a
lot hurt my sensitive psyche because I am not a glutton. I wondered to know
that she had such impression about me. She may have the feelings of affection
and respect also for me. I don’t perceive them as strongly as I do with what
they expressed to us. Our thoughts are invisible to others, but not our
expressions. Most of us respond or react to others based on what they expressed
to us rather than what they are thinking about us. Our casual remarks may hurt
others deeply now and then. We should talk very carefully with others. Many get
hurt with our thoughtless words and remarks. Slept by 10:00.
6 February (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Started
to Hetero Complex by 8:00 on my bike. Reached there by 9:00 along with another
familiar Hetero employee at my back. Today Soma Sundaram was on leave. I
applied for leave for one and a half day from this afternoon. Our manager
Illuri Subba Rao reluctantly granted it when I told him that I have to attend
an important marriage occasion tonight. K Sridhar started his class on
effective managerial skills by 10:15 in a training hall at Boys’ Hostel. I
coordinated it till 11:30 nominally. Had my lunch in this hostel by 12:50.
Rushed to the HR building in HLL-III and swiped my attendance with my right
index finger exactly by 1:00. Started on my bike by 1:02 and reached our abode
by 1:30. I rode it fast. Took a bath by 2:00. Srijana dropped me at Tuni
railway station by 2:05 on our bike. Ratnachal Express arrived by 2:51. Mine
was seat 26 in its reservation coach D-3. I spent talking with Babji, a young
fellow, who is working with HPCL at Visakhapatnam now. Got off this train at
Vijayawada Junction by 7:12. Walked a little out from the station and took an
APSRTC bus to bus complex. Reached there by 7:43. Took an Express bus by 7:55
for Guntur, buying a ticket for 33 rupees. Reached there by 8:48. Thence took
an ordinary bus by 8:50 to Bapatla, buying a ticket for 33 rupees. It was a
pleasant journey on fine roads in cold winter. Got off this bus at the new bus
stand in Bapatla by 10:28. My cousin Narendra Varma came on a bike to take me
to village Buddhaam. Had my dinner by 11:45 at the temple of Kodhanda Rama
Swamy, the venue of marriage here. Slept by 12:00.
7 February (Saturday)
Woke up by 2:00 in a room
near the temple of Lord Kodhanda Rama Swamy in village Buddhaam. The marriage
of Kolukuluri Krishnam Raju and Lakshmi Shiva Parvathi took place from 3:15 to
6:30 in this temple. We call this cousin Bala. He is a gentleman. The bride is
also thin and fair like him. Enjoyed watching it. Due fell heavily throughout
this night. I took my camera but could not use it much. There were about five
folks moving about this place with their cameras. They blocked the view of
bride and bridegroom to viewers. The folks of bridegroom hired an APSRTC bus
for their guests. We got into it by 7:00. We reached Vijayawada by 8:45 via
Guntur. I reached railway station by 9:20 along with two other folks by an
APSRTC bus. Bought an Express train ticket for 90 rupees. Got into Simhadri
Express by 9:30. Luckily I got a window seat in a general compartment. I
decided not to buy any snacks from the vendors in it but bought four samosas
for 10 rupees in this station. He stuffed some worthless material into them but
they were tasty. This train pulled off by 10:07. Bought four chilli snacks at
Nidadhavolu Junction around 2:15. He made these items with avoidable
ingredients, except green chillies. Since I value money, I could throw out one
and a half of them only here. Two crows picked them to suppress their hunger
somehow. I pitied them. Vendors and contractors in Indian Railways are cruel
and fraudulent. Reached Tuni by 4:18. Srijana came to the station to receive
me. Today I felt sleepy but enjoyed this train journey. Slept by 10:00.
8 February (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Went to
Geddala Beedu at Tuni by 10:30 to buy three kilos of cashew for my maternal
aunt Raja Kumari in Gollalagunta. She wants to use them in dishes to be cooked
on the occasion of the marriage of her son Narendra Varma soon. It’s costly at
shops out there. I bought each kilo of it for 490 rupees at this cashew nut
processing unit from its proprietor Srinu. It’s second grade cashew as far as
its size and colour are concerned. He is selling the first grade cashew for 650
rupees now. By 2:45 my paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy came to my abode. We two
spent talking till 4:00. His old mother is staying with them at Tetagunta now.
His wife Vimala and elder son Srinivas are averse to her staying there. She is
physically and psychologically down now. She is praying to God to bless her
with demise. She often bursts into tears, talking to me, about her present
condition. A soul cannot desert a body until the Karma of that lifetime is
fulfilled. It all happens according to the divine law, authorized and automated
by God. He runs this universe with the help of three crore angels or demigods.
They perfectly implement His orders every second. We cannot understand those
occurrences and phenomena without high spiritual growth. By 6:30 my in-laws
came to our abode along with their relatives. They are his cousins from village
Jaanampeta in Khammam district. One of them is staying at Rajavommangi in East
Godavari district now. Srijana prepared Chicken Biryani for them. I enjoyed
their presence. Morning my parents went to Gollalagunta by bus. Slept by 10:00.
9 February (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:54 by bus. Morning coordinated SET nominally. From 1:45 to
2:45 our manager Illuri Subba Rao conducted a class in a training hall at Boys’
Hostel. He explained the PPT to be used for the training of NHO candidates. He
told us how we should take this class to fresh joinees. The four staff members
of L&D department attended this class. From 3:00 to 4:00 took an L&D
class at HLL-III and discussed the concept of ‘Emotional Intelligence’.
Returned home by 7:10 by bus. My relatives left our abode this morning. I am
using Vasmol 33 hair blackening agent now. It’s an Ayurvedic product. I am
applying it to my hair once a month and once a week to my moustache. It smells
good. It blackens hair very well. I am looking handsome after blackening my
hair and moustache this way. The mother of Srijana introduced me this product.
I found it more comfortable and easier to use than herbal henna powders. Lord
Krishna looks beautiful in all photos. Artists paint and present deities
beautifully always. I am a devotee of Lord Krishna. He always expects me to be
attractive and healthy, physically and mentally. I am keeping my mind energetic
and active through my thoughts and dreams. I am making my body attractive by
similar ways. This body is a temple of my soul. Each soul is a creation of God.
Just like we clean and decorate a temple to express our reverence towards God
there, we should decorate this body also optimally. Slept by 10:00.
10 February (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 on my bike. Darapu Nagi Reddy started Lead India 2020
class in a training hall at Boys’ Hostel by 10:00. NHO class was started in
another room here. I coordinated them nominally till 1:00. Soma Sundaram
borrowed my bike by 11:30 to go to Tuni on a personal work. He did not return
till 3:00. Today I took my cellphone to Hetero without permission. Called up
Somu and asked him what had happened? He said that my bike broke down at
Nakkapalli as its transmission rubber belt broke off. He got it fixed with a
new belt. I wondered to know about the loyalty and reverence of my bike towards
me. It troubled Somu instead of me. Took an L&D class from 3:00 to 4:00 at
HLL-III and talked about ‘Emotional Intelligence’. I took my filled up leave
application form to Subba Rao by 2:45 for his signature. He said he could not
grant me leave for tomorrow. By 4:00 I left Hetero giving a permission letter
at the security gate by HLL-III, without the signature of Subba Rao on it.
Reached my abode by 4:45 on my bike. My brother Sambha already reached here
from Peda Gummuluru. Both of us started to Gollalagunta on my bike by 5:30. I
rode it throughout. We reached the house of my uncle Sagiraju Rama Raju and
Raja Kumari in Gollalagunta by 8:00. I came here to watch the Upanayanam of my
cousin Narendra Varma tomorrow morning. Can Subba Rao stop me from coming here
without signing on my leave letter? Can a mosquito bite sun in the sky and make
him sick? Subba Rao is just witnessing my goodness as a materialist. He can’t
bear my energy as a spiritualist. Slept by 10:30.
11 February (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. The
cameraman and videographer arranged by the proprietor of Sri Prakash Studio in
Payakaraopeta reached Gollalagunta by 8:30. The Upanayanam of my cousin
Narendra Varma took place from 8:00 to 11:00 at their house in Gollalagunta under
the supervision of a priest. I captured some of these moments with my Sony
digital camera. Served lunch items to guests from 11:45 to 1:30. About 300
guests attended this occasion. My maternal uncle Varma and his wife Anantha
Lakshmi did not attend it. There are disputes between Varma and Sagiraju Rama
Raju regarding the ownership of the sites in which their houses are now. They
are quarrelling over this issue frequently. My brother Sambha and I started
back by 2:30 on my bike from Gollalagunta. We reached Annavaram by 4:00. Sambha
bought five packs of Prasaadham from the counter here by road. We reached
Payakaraopeta by 4:30. Sambha took a vehicle at Y Junction by 4:35 for
Adduroad. Yesterday and today I rode my bike for considerably long distance on National
Highway 16 along with my brother Sambha. It was a good experience. My parents
and many of my familiar folks think that I am not capable of riding bikes
bravely and efficiently. I am a thinker. I do some things slowly and some fast
assessing the risk factors involved in them carefully. Many consider only those
which I do slowly. They think I am an inefficient and sensitive fellow. I don’t
get hurt based on superficial criticism by others. I balance myself optimally.
Slept by 10:00.
12 February (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. From 9:30 to 5:30 coordinated the plant visit of
52 NHO candidates of 25th batch in HLL-III, HDL-IV, HDL-IX and
HLL-IX. K Srinivasa Reddy showed different parts of these units and explained
them the functional aspects of various machines and material. We walked for
about 10 kilometres as part of this internal industrial tour. I got a low fever
by evening due to this excessive physical exercise today. By 5:45 asked our
manager Illuri Subba Rao to sign on my leave letter meant for yesterday. He
refused to do it. He said I took a leave without his consent for it. I said it
was inevitable. Rushed to HR DGM Gopala Krishna Reddy and explained him what had
happened in this regard. He told me to write a letter addressing my manager,
explaining him why I had to do so. If he does not sign on it, even then, he
would sign it. Subba Rao is acting more than necessary in this trivial scene.
He changes colours like a chameleon. I have to bear with him. I am changing him
often but his original character is surfacing often. I treat his psychological
disorders a little only. He can’t withstand if I apply my intelligence
completely against him. I allow God to treat him more because He is kinder than
me. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Today we got our bike washed, lubricated and
improved by our familiar bike mechanic Rajesh at LT Colony. Paid him 300 rupees
for it. By 8:00 Siva brought two parts of Panasonic air conditioner to our
abode. Its model is CU-PC18MKF. It’s 1.5 ton piece with 5 star rating. Slept by
10:00.
13 February (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:07 in an auto rickshaw. Today about 10 employees could not
get any Hetero bus from Y Junction point. We hired an auto rickshaw. By 9:45
our manager Subba Rao signed on my leave letter meant for the 11th
of this month. I typed out a letter explaining him why I took that leave. He
spoke strategically before signing it. I felt his ulterior motive backed by
ego. By 10:30 I moved to HLL-IX from HLL-III in the SET vehicle. I took my
teaching material in a cardboard box to the other side of Hetero Complex. From
today onwards I sit in a chair in the QA & QC building at HLL-IX in a place
close to its plant head Raghu. Soma Sundaram also comes here soon. We two work
from here. This measure by the management is to ensure that L&D activities
are conducted well in SEZ section also through our active participation. I have
been accustomed to the people and places of HLL-III and HDL-VI till now. I miss
them. I am disappointed about it. Change is an inevitable part of human life.
Hereafter I may have to work actively with the people and in the places of
HLL-IX and HDL-IX and Honour Labs in SEZ. My cost centre is HLL-III but I work
from HLL-IX. I report to Subba Rao. By 2:30 the HR folks in HDL-IX took my
fingerprints for my attendance swipe in SEZ hereafter. Took an L&D class in
HLL-IX from 5:00 to 5:45 and discussed ‘Emotional Intelligence’ with them. I
have got low fever. My body is a little weak and dim. Slept by 10:00.
14 February (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:47 by bus. I forgot taking my Hetero employee identity
card. Wrote a short explanatory letter addressing the security folks here and
gave it to them at the gate of SEZ. Swiped my attendance using my right index
finger in SEZ for the first time today. Thence walked to the Boys’ Hostel.
Today NHO and Lead India 2020 programs were conducted in the two training halls
at hostel. I coordinated them nominally for some time. From 5:30 to 5:45 we
conducted ‘Saturday Josh’ program at the temples of Lord Ganesh and Lord
Krishna in HLL-III for the first time. It is a road show format weekend
program, which we should conduct every Saturday evening in some part of Hetero
Complex for 15 or 20 minutes only. The scheduled employees sing, dance or
present any cultural event during this little time to educate or entertain
those few that gather around this spot of the weekend program. Today a boy and
a girl sang a song each on this occasion. We, the folks of L&D department,
could not make proper arrangements for it today. The purpose of this program is
to please Hetero folks a little when they are going out to enjoy the following
Sunday at home. We distribute snacks and offer gifts to participants in this
program. It is Valentine’s Day today. I love many. Many love me. We are not
experiencing our notions and feelings of love and admiration to one another due
to inhibitions, social taboos and cultural restrictions. Millions of people are
suffering silently out of lovesickness and psychological solitude. I am
witnessing such sad world around me every day. Slept by 10:00.
15 February (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today I
typed up the content of January from my diary of 2015 on my computer for about
six hours. I used the 2013 version of Microsoft Word. I owe a lot to Bill
Gates. I have been utilizing his wonderful software inventions for the last 20
years. I never bought original software from them. I am using pirated versions
of it. If everybody starts buying and using original software of Microsoft in
this world, Bill Gates continues to be the richest man for another 100 years.
His contribution to the comforts and happiness of humanity in this world is ph enomenal.
My salutes to him on behalf of millions of stupid, poor and ungrateful Indians,
who are using his software without a sense of gratitude and respect for this
wizard. Sagiraju Subba Raju came to my abode by 3:30. He recently got a job
with the Hetero unit at Nakkapalli in an engineering department. He knew about
me recently in a meeting of Kshatriya Seva Samithi of Payakaraopeta. I gave him
some English grammar files. He is interested in improving his English language
skills. By 6:45 my uncle Datla Rama Raju came to my abode. He gave a wedding
card and invited me to the marriage of his younger daughter on the 4th
of next month. From 8:15 to 11:45 AC technician Govind of Hetero fitted the
inner and outdoor units of our Panasonic AC machine in our main bedroom. He is
yet to work on it to complete the installation process. Went to sleep by
12:00.
16 February (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Yesterday
morning I got a bad cold. My nose was running throughout the day. Night I
bought tablets at a medical store and had two of them for avoiding these cold
and fever. Cold went off within minutes but fever stayed back. Today it
affected my physical and mental energies. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:47 and
swiped my attendance at SEZ. From 9:45 to 11:45 coordinated the plant visit of
candidates of NHO-25 in HLL-IX and HDL-IX. An EHS staff member took them to
some places and explained them how operations take place over there. From 2:45
to 5:00 they visited some blocks in HDL-IX and knew about firefighting system
also through a demonstration by an EHS staff member here. I would have walked
for about six kilometres today within Hetero Complex as part of this guided NHO
plant visit. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Called up Veeramalla Eswara Prasad
by 7:34 in response to his call this evening when I was not at home. He invited
me to his marriage with Dhana Lakshmi on the 21st of this month at
Chaagallu near Nidadhavolu. He also asked me to prepare a wedding card for him
and email it to him. He sends it to his familiar folks by email. I prepared one
and emailed him by 8:15. We got acquainted at Hetero Jadcherla unit when I was
there a month as an English instructor. From 8:00 to 10:30 AC technician Govind
fitted parts of our Panasonic air conditioner in and out of our master bedroom.
He switched it on by 10:35. His name is Maamidi Veera Venkata Govinda Satya Narayana.
He belongs to village Hari Palem near Atchyutha Puram. Slept by 11:00.
17 February (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. I am
suffering from low fever and cold. I am feeling physically and mentally down.
Reached Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Met HLL-IX plant head Kavuri Raghu by
9:15 in his room. Gave my CV and four of my visiting cards to him. He scanned
them for a while to understand me as a person and professional. He said that he
would be happy if I conduct communicative English classes to some employees of
HLL-IX soon. I readily agreed to it. By 10:30 went to a training hall at Boys’
Hostel. Subba Rao was teaching to NHO candidates of batch 25. Sat in this class
till 1:20 as a listener. Today is the last day to these creatures as NHO
trainees. They offered Vegetable Biryani and Chicken Curry to them for lunch. I
too had it though it is Maha Shiva Raathri today. Lord Shiva does not get angry
with me if I eat it today. He observes my attitude and behavior on other 364
days and nights also. Listened to the class of Kishore Reddy from 2:30 to 4:00.
He did it well. By 4:30 met B V Reddy of Liaison department in HLL-III. He
sought my help in preparing a PPT on the CSR activities around Hetero
Nakkapalli unit. We decided to do it this Thursday. Subba Rao told me that I
should not conduct English classes anywhere on my own because it should happen
through him only as our manager. I agreed to his instruction. From 9:30 to
11:50 saw the Telugu film “Temper” in cinema Gowtham at Payakaraopeta. It is
very interesting and exciting. Slept by 12:30.
18 February (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. It is a
holiday today for the general shift employees of Hetero. Today also I suffered
a little from low fever. By 9:30 our manager Illuri Subba Rao came to my abode
from his rented abode in Rajugari Beedu in Payakaraopeta on his scooter. He
wants to buy a plot of land in Devi Nagar for him at Annavaram through K S N
Raju. Left both of them to talk for a while. Anand and I went to vegetable
market in Market Yard at Tuni by 10:00. Gunturu Prasada Raju of Viswanadhapuram
has a grocery store here. Collected three watermelons from him. The maternal
grandmother of Srijana sent them for us. By 10:30 Subba Rao, D S N Raju, Anand
and I started to Annavaram in the Maruti Suzuki ALTO car of K S N Raju. The
latter drove it. He showed the residential plots of land in Devi Nagar layout
to Subba Rao. He is interested in buying a plot of 355 square yards, facing
east, over here. We bought some packs of Prasaadham of Lord Satya Narayana at
the counter by road here and returned home by 11:45. We all spent talking among
ourselves for some time. K S N Raju, Anand and I started to the seashore near
village Pentakota by 2:30 on his bike. We three had ablutions in the seawater
here from 3:15 to 3:40. Anand too enjoyed this experience. I shot the beauty of
sea and scenery over here with my digital camera for a few minutes. We returned
home by 4:15. From 7:00 to 7:15 typed out the names and phone numbers of some
Kshatriya folks on my computer for the sake of service to our local community
creatures. Today Anand did not go to his school in order to spend with me.
Slept by 9:45.
19 February (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Today I took three L&D classes at HDL-IX,
HLL-III and HLL-IX and talked about ‘Emotional Intelligence’. From 12:30 to
3:00 helped B V Reddy of Liaison department in HLL-III prepare a PPT on CSR
activities conducted by Hetero unit here during the last one month. Today I
felt the presence of fever in me. Today I knew that the management of Hetero
paid performance bonus to many eligible employees yesterday. Some are happy and
some are unhappy about it. We suffer more when our expectations exceed what we
deserve. My friend P Srinivasa Reddy is happy about what he got. Returned home
by 7:15 by bus. Sankeerthana walked a few steps last Shiva Raathri on her own.
She is passionate about it now. Today I observed that Srijana is applying
soapnut lotion around her nipples to wean Sankeerthana. Soapnut lotion is very
bitter. Many Indians use it to wash their body and clothes. Sankeerthana has
four formative teeth now. Two are up and two are down. She is biting things
with these teeth now. Out of this habit, she is biting the nipples of her
mother also, while drawing breastmilk, before sleeping at night. It is painful
to any mother. So, Srijana turned to this measure. This night initially the
baby avoided drawing breastmilk sensing that bitterness. Later she had
breastmilk undergoing that bitter experience. I pitied the innocence and
helplessness of our baby. I heard that once mothers used to feed their babies
until they were three years old. My salutes to them. Slept by 10:30.
20 February (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Today they scanned my iris for my automated
attendance recording purpose at the entrance of SEZ. They are strengthening the
system of entry and exit of human beings into Hetero campus because man is the
most dangerous species on earth now. Today NHO and IPS programs were conducted
in the two training halls at Boys’ Hostel. I spent there for some time. Today
also I felt sick and weak. Went to the OHC at HLL-III to get my temperature
checked. It was 97.1. It means I have no fever. For long I have been
experiencing this mild weakness once or twice a year. I have been treating it
as low fever. Now I realized that it is not low fever but physical weakness. It
may be caused for many reasons. We must go for a medical investigation to
ascertain what is wrong with our body. We don’t have money or time to get
medical tests done. This is why most of Indians silently bear with all sorts of
physical weakness. I am one of such typical Indians. I keep going as long as my
body allows me to walk. I don’t have time and money to take mild weaknesses
seriously, going to medical labs and doctors. In India, viruses and bacteria
are very diverse and pervasive. Some of them are good and some are bad. We
treat both of them alike. Pain and suffering are inevitable parts of the lives
of Indians. Everything occurs due to our individual and collective Karma. We
get what we deserve. Our vital force soul has no disease or death. Body is
subject to different experiences and experiments. We should equally accept
pleasure and pain. Slept by 10:15.
21 February (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 8:00
texted and emailed to our manager Subba Rao informing him that I cannot come to
office today as I am suffering from cold and fever. By 9:20 Srijana, Anand,
Sankeerthana and I took a Rajahmundry bound Express bus at Y Junction. My
brother Sambha, my paternal uncles Narayana Murthy and Srinivas, my
sister-in-law Kranti and boy Anjaneya Varma already got into this bus at
Adduroad. We reached Jaggampeta by 11:20. We hired an auto rickshaw and reached
Gollalagunta by 11:40. This night there is the marriage of my cousin Narendra
Varma and Suma. We came here to attend this function. We spent happily till the
evening. My uncle booked the school bus of a local private educational
institution in Jaggampeta to take guests to the venue of marriage in the
evening from Gollalagunta. He came here by 7:15. The bridegroom and the guests
reached village Raamula Deva Puram latter than expected by the folks of bride
party. An important traditional occasion did not take place because of this
delay. They offered dinner by 8:30. They prepared many kinds of dishes to treat
their guests specially. About 500 guests had their dinner here from 8:00 to
10:00. Srijana and my children stayed back in Gollalagunta without coming here.
I met my familiar folks. There are about eight Kshatriya families in this
village now. They are all engaged in agricultural activities. The road from
village Molleru to Raamula Deva Puram is bumpy. It was cold and pleasant here
at night. Slept by 12:00 in the house of Raja Kumari here, the bridegroom’s
room.
22 February (Sunday)
Woke up by 1:00. They
adorned my cousin Narendra Varma as bridegroom by 1:45. Vasu took his brother
Naren to the venue of marriage, the house of Kolukuluri Dharma Raju, in a car,
by 1:55. The marriage of Naren and Suma took place from 2:00 to 6:00. Prakash
of Sri Prakash Studio of Payakaraopeta took photos of this occasion. His friend
took the videos of it. I did not use my camera much. These two cameramen and
other folks with camera feature cellphones surrounded the venue of marriage. We
could not watch marriage well because of them. Children are also using
smartphones easily now. Bride Suma is beautiful. Naren is happy about it. We had
tea and breakfast by 7:00. Many guests left Raamula Deva Puram by 8:30 in a van
and auto rickshaws. I reached Molleru by 9:30 in an auto rickshaw. Thence I
took another auto rickshaw and reached Jaggampeta by 10:30. Took a sharing auto
rickshaw and reached Gollalagunta by 11:15. We had lunch by 12:00. Srijana,
Anand, Sankeerthana and I took an auto rickshaw by 12:10 in Gollalagunta and
reached Jaggampeta by 12:25. We took an
ordinary bus from the bus station here by 1:00. We reached Payakaraopeta by 3:00,
travelling via Kaththipudi, Annavaram and Tuni. We reached our rented abode at
Devi Nagar by 3:15. Marriages are occasions to meet our relatives now. We have
no time to interact with our dear creatures also now. We are busy doing many
things for our existence and development. We are more interested in and focused
on our earning sources and assets than on human beings around us. We are
machines now. Slept by 10:00.
23 February (Monday)
Woke up by 5:50. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. From 9:45 to 10:45 helped Kusuma Devi evaluating
the answer sheets of candidates of a training program we conducted recently. By
this time Ali Hassain of HLL-IX called me up and told me that I should conduct
my English class to the scheduled employees of HLL-IX from today itself as
decided earlier. I rushed to HLL-IX from HLL-III jumping off a wall here. There
is a secret path between SEZ and the other part of Hetero Complex. We should
jump off it. It is avoidable as per the existing security norms. I am doing it
during my emergencies. From 11:00 to 1:00 conducted my communicative English
class to 19 employees of HLL-IX. Today I discussed the basics of English
language. Also I asked them to write five sentences on any topic they know or
like. There were many grammatical errors in what they wrote. I explained them
the nature of mistakes they committed in syntax. Raghu, the plant head of
HLL-IX, got me start these classes today. He said that director C Mohan Reddy
and HR DGM Gopala Krishna Reddy approved this decision and wanted these classes
to be started immediately. Our manager Subba Rao understood this fact. He
signed my leave letter meant for 21.02.2015. From 3:00 to 4:00 took an L&D
class in HLL-III and talked on ‘Emotional Intelligence’. Took this class from 4:45
to 5:45 at HLL-IX also. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. I am suffering from
phlegm, related cough, cold and weakness now. The winds of winter are still
keeping us cool and pleasant. Slept by 10:00.
24 February (Tuesday)
Woke up by 6:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took my communicative English class in a
training hall at HLL-IX from 11:00 to 1:00. Today I presented my 50-slide PPT
on English to them. Today 18 candidates attended this class. From 3:00 to 4:00
took an L&D class at HLL-III and talked about ‘Emotional Intelligence’. I
sent my 120-page letter to Vamsi Krishna and Parthasaradhi Reddy on 28.12.2014
by 8:00 a.m. by email. I did not receive reply from them till now. I am not
hurt about it. I know that they received and read it. They felt so happy that
they did not know how to respond to it. I am happy about it. Lord Krishna
advised us to do our duty honestly and efficiently. He offers us results early
or late, minding our happiness. It is the moral responsibility of every worker
and employee to work for the prosperity and success of their employer. My
comfort and happiness as an employee largely depend on the success and
happiness of Vamsi and Parthasaradhi. They are offering reliable livelihood
opportunities to about 16,000 employees and contract workers now through their
pharmaceutical units in different places of India. They are busier and more
stressful than me. If I could contribute some good ideas meant for the
development of this organization and people dependent on it, I am lucky to that
extent. I should offer more to others than expecting more from them. We should
ask God to keep all happy because we cannot enjoy our life or profession when
many are suffering around us for many reasons. Slept by 10:00.
25 February (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. From 9:45 to 10:30 took an L&D class at
HDL-IX and discussed ‘Emotional Intelligence’. From 11:00 to 1:00 took my
communicative English class at HLL-IX and discussed some functional
expressions. Today 15 employees attended this class. By 4:30 prepared a
letterhead and a format of sterilization certificate for Dr. P S N Atchyutha
Rao, in his presence, on the computer system of Srinivasa Varma. He felt very
happy about it. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed
‘Emotional Intelligence’. Returned home by 7:15 by bus. My mother-in-law came
to our abode by 12:30 this afternoon. She brought vegetables and milk from
there for us. By 11:00, this morning, Srijana, Revathi and Sankeerthana reached
Kakinada by bus. They consulted Dr. Vikram Kumar about the health of baby
Sankeerthana. She has been suffering from phlegm and cough for the last 15
days. She became weak. This doctor said that the baby got an infection. He
prescribed seven kinds of medicines for Sankeerthana. They are 16 tablets of
Asthalin-2, Loftycort oral suspension, Votri syrup, Apodon-50 dry syrup, TY-250
paracetamol oral suspension, AMBRODEX for remedy of cold and cough and Domstal
baby oral drops for prevention of vomiting disorder in her. Srijana spent 2,800
rupees today. They returned home by 3:30. Sankeerthana is walking a few steps
now on her own. The maternal grandmother of Srijana sent five watermelons for
us today from Viswanadhapuram. Slept by 10:15.
26 February (Thursday)
Woke up by 6:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took my communicative English class at HLL-IX
from 11:00 to 1:00. Today I discussed Noun, Pronoun and Adjective. Also made
them read out a children’s short story to improve their pronunciation skills.
Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and discussed ‘Emotional
Intelligence’. Took this class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed this
topic. My soles are hurting every day. It may be because I am wearing safety
shoes for about 11 hours every day. The food I am consuming may not be balanced
one. The bones in my soles may be sensitive. The hard floor in our rented
abode, which is made of polished rock, must be affecting the bones in my soles
as I am daily walking on it while at home. It is bearable pain. So, I am
getting on with it. Experts say that we should get our ailments and health
disorders treated when they are at early stages of development. How can one get
it done when one has no time and money for it? This is why majority of Indians bear
with different health disorders. Their family responsibilities and pressures
are so high that they cannot focus on their health much. They go to a doctor or
a hospital when their health condition is critical or unbearable. I am one of
such Indians. Now I am walking considerably in Hetero Complex. I have to walk
from one place to another frequently to take L&D classes or coordinate
other training programs. This is a good physical exercise for me. The four
kilos of excessive fat in my body may be melted this way. Morning my
mother-in-law left for the agricultural farm of D S N Raju at Marripalem. Slept
by 10:00.
27 February (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Went to the security gate at HLL-III by 10:00.
My friend Sagi Venkata Anantha Varma came here by 10:00 from his village
Ramayyapatnam. I scheduled a job interview for him today. He showed his CV and
photocopies of certificates to HR Manager Rajnikanth. He remarked that Varma
did his graduate course also through distance education mode. Varma filled in
the prescribed application form and walked to the EHS department in HLL-III to
be interviewed by Vivekanand J Makari. From 11:00 to 1:00 took
my communicative English class at HLL-IX. Today I discussed Verb, Adverb and
Preposition. Nine employees attended this class today. Had my lunch in the
cafeteria at SEZ by 1:30. Jumped off the wall to go to HLL-III. Meanwhile
Anantha Varma was coming this way. He said that he faced the interview
satisfactorily. He left for home by 1:45. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from
3:00 to 4:00 and discussed ‘Emotional Intelligence’. From 4:45 to 5:30 sat in
the L&D class taken by Subba Rao at HLL-IX and listened to his talk on
‘Emotional Intelligence’. Anantha Varma wants to work with the Hetero unit at
Nakkapalli. His mother and relatives are in Ramayyapatnam. He started struggle
for existence early in his life. His parents have no assets. He built up his
career carefully. He is a very reliable person. He continued his education
doing a job with the Biological E Limited at Hyderabad. Slept by 10:00 for my
dreams.
28 February (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took communicative English class at HLL-IX from
11:00 to 1:00 and discussed Conjunction and Interjection. Today eight employees
attended this class. From 1:30 to 2:30 prepared a PPT on ‘Learning’ depending
on the information given on Wikipedia. This is meant to be used for the
instruction in our L&D classes next month. From 4:00 to 6:00 Subba Rao and
I conducted Vedika program at HLL-III. Two employees presented two PPTs on
‘Team Spirit’ and ‘Self-Discipline’. About 50 employees attended this program.
By 5:42 an amount of 23, 921 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account
towards salary of this month from the folks of Hetero. Today Hetero chairman
Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy spent in Hetero Complex at Nakkapalli discussing
important things with superiors over here. Returned home by 7:20 by bus. Today
the folks of Blu Wi-Fi fitted their equipment, related to wireless broadband
Internet, at our abode. They are charging about 2,000 rupees for installation
service. They provide 40 GB data usage facility in the first month. The speed
of Internet access on this plan is 4.1 Mb per second for the first month. From
the second month onwards, they offer 20 GB broadband access per month and the
speed is 3.1 Mbps. They charge about 500 rupees for it every month. I am happy
to switch to Blu Wi-Fi from Reliance NetConnect+. I have never been
happy with the service standards of Reliance. Slow broadband access disturbs
our mood while online. Morning paid 4,100 rupees to my house owner towards rent
for my portion for this month. Additional 100 rupees is water charge from this
month. Slept by 10:00.
1 March (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. From 5:30
to 8:30 prepared three PPTs on the topics ‘human body’, ‘earth’ and ‘life’, on
my computer, collecting information from the portal factslides.com. My manager
Illuri Subba Rao may use one of these PPTs for instruction in L&D classes
this month. I am using wireless broadband Internet of the Blu Wifi service
provider from today. It is better than Reliance. By 10:30, Srijana, Anand and
Sankeerthana got ready to go to Tuni. Firstly I took them to a wholesale
vegetable store in Market Yard. Srijana bought vegetables for us for the week
to come. By this time Sankeerthana napped. Took her onto my shoulder. Srijana
went to the shop of Gunturu Prasada Raju and cleared a due of 150 rupees to
him. Then we rode to the store of Dasari Babji and bought some items for
domestic consumption, spending 1,000 rupees. We ordered the print of membership
forms of KSS of Payakaraopeta at Siva Baba Graphics and Print unit by 12:30. We
had Vegetable Biryani in the rented abode of Revathi by 1:30. We collected the
prints and returned home by 2:00 on our bike. My paternal uncle Narayana Murthy
came to my abode by 4:00. He wants to buy a house in Payakaraopeta for his
son-in-law. The proprietor of Noor Tailors promised us to show two houses today
but he did not. My uncle Narasimha Murthy too spent at our abode from 3:00 to
4:30. Had my haircut by 4:20 by barber Vadapilli Ramana in his salon at
Payakaraopeta. He is doing it well for me and Anand. From 4:45 to 6:15 spent at
the KSS meeting held at the house of Mantrala Raju beside NH-16. Slept by
10:15.
2 March (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Took my communicative English class at HLL-IX
from 11:00 to 1:00. Today I discussed Present Tense. Today about 13 employees
attended this class. From 3:00 to 4:00 took an L&D class at HLL-III and
discussed ‘Learning’. Yesterday part of the black strap of my wristwatch looked
broken. This morning I forcefully removed the two parts of this strap from the
dial. Hereafter I carry this dial only to Hetero campus. I keep it in my
pocket. We generally buy and wear a wristwatch for two purposes. One is to
check time and the other is for decoration. I bought it exclusively to check
time. I can get this benefit from it keeping the dial also. Generally we don’t
wash or clean the straps of our wristwatches as much as we need it. Sweat and
dust attach to it every time we wear and remove it from our hand. Thus we are
inviting and sustaining millions of harmful bacteria and viruses on our bodies
every day. Many wear wristwatches on their right hands also. It means they are
expecting others to treat them as great creatures. There is this knowledge in
some. A really great person never tries to impress others through the gadgets
he possesses or wears. We become and remain great through our noble thoughts
and generous deeds. The need of buying and wearing wristwatches is diminishing rapidly
due to cellphones. One invention is killing and removing the existence of
another invention. I need to start and end my scheduled classes of instruction
in time at Hetero. Afternoon my mother-in-law came to our abode from the teak
plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem. Slept by 10:15.
3 March (Tuesday)
Woke up by 4:00. By 6:30
took our manager Subba Rao to the house of a son of K S N Raju at Rajugari
Beedu. It is vacant now. He checked it with the intention of renting it in
soon. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Borrowed the Pleasure bike of Ali
Hassain by 9:15. Filled 50 rupees worth petrol in it on my way to our house in
Peda Gummuluru. Gave 6,000 rupees to my father. The marriage of the younger
daughter of my paternal uncle Datla Rama Raju takes place tomorrow night. He is
poor. My father is contributing 1,000 rupees. We three brothers are
contributing 3,000 rupees each. My brother Srinivas credited 3,000 rupees to my
Axis Bank account for this purpose. I gave his and my amount of money to my
father. Talked with my brother Sambha in Adduroad for two minutes. Returned to
Hetero Complex by 10:00 on this bike. Took my communicative English class at
HLL-IX from 11:00 to 1:00. Today I discussed Past Tense. From 3:00 to 4:00 took
an L&D class at HLL-III and discussed ‘Learning’. By 4:30 attended the
Vedika program at HLL-IX. By 9:30, this morning, my cousin Narendra Varma and
his wife Suma came to our rented abode at Devi Nagar from Gollalagunta. Prakash
of Sri Prakash Studio and his videographer took photos and video shots of this
newly married couple in a decorated setting in our abode from 10:00 to 12:30.
They add this content to their wedding photo album and video files. This couple
left for Gollalagunta by 1:30 on their bike. This afternoon my father-in-law
came to my abode. My in-laws spent in our abode happily. Slept by 10:15.
4 March (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. From 9:30 to 10:30 they conducted a safety
awareness program at the entrance gate of SEZ on the occasion of 44th
national safety day. A few important staff members spoke on this occasion
stressing the need of safety in life and workplaces. They celebrate it for a
week. From 11:00 to 1:00 took my communicative English class at HLL-IX. Today I
discussed ‘Future Tense’. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00
and talked about ‘Learning’ through a PPT. Took this class at HLL-IX from 4:50
to 5:30 and discussed ‘Learning’. Evening Srijana, her mother, Sankeerthana,
Anand and some of their folks went to Jaggampeta to attend the marriage of
their familiar creature. They had dinner there by 8:00 and returned to Tuni by
10:30 by bus. This is how guests are behaving now. They are showing their faces
to the parents and relatives of the bride or bridegroom, giving them money or
gifts as a token of their affection, having the feast and leaving for their
places. People have no time or interest to spend anywhere for long. They are
expecting things to happen fast. Their patience levels are very low. Those who
think and do things fast in their lives die earlier than others. Tonight there
is the marriage of the younger daughter of my paternal uncle Datla Rama Raju in
a village near Kakinada. My father went there to attend it. Rama Raju is poor
in the families related to my paternal grandparents. We regret it. We can’t
make one rich or poor exclusively through our efforts. They should have those
qualities and fate. Slept by 10:15.
5 March (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. From 11:00 to 1:00 took my communicative English
class at HLL-IX. Today I discussed Direct and Indirect Speech. Took an L&D
class at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and discussed ‘Learning’. By 4:20 met Vivekanand
J Makari in his cabin at EHS department in HLL-III and asked him what he
decided about the recruitment of Anantha Varma, whom he interviewed recently.
He said they cannot offer him the salary, which he is getting now at Biological
E Limited in Hyderabad because the salary and designation structure is not so
at Hetero. He does not like to take him for less salary than that because he
has some moral standards. The qualifications and experience of Anantha Varma
are not in tune to what they are expecting from others over here. I could not
know if he said this with an ulterior motive. Returned home by 7:30 by bus. I
am having a chapati at a hotel at Y Junction for 20 rupees before coming home
after getting off the bus. Edited the content of January from my diary of 2015
on my computer from 8:30 to 9:30. Srijana, her mother, Anand and Sankeerthana
went to Viswanadhapuram by 10:30 this morning. Her maternal aunt Madhavi and
her cousin Sushma came to this place from Hyderabad. Sushma has to go to the
house of her in-laws at Rambilli soon formally. They should prepare dishes at
home and buy clothes on this occasion. Srijana went there to assist them in
these tasks. My happiness lies in her freedom. Slept by 10:30.
6 March (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I forgot to wear my Hetero identity card across
my neck. The security staff member did not notice it when I was going in along
with other employees. If he had noticed it, he would have asked me to write an
explanatory note. It is his formality to check me. It is my formality to wear
it. We follow many formalities to impress ourselves or others considerably.
From 11:00 to 1:00 took my communicative English class at HLL-IX and discussed Active
and Passive Voice. From 4:45 to 5:45 took an L&D class at HLL-IX and
discussed the concept of learning. We are living in an artificial society of
formalities now rather than that of realities. We are giving and attending many
parties now for formality sake but not because we enjoy spending with each of
them nor that we know the importance of that occasion. We are greeting others
formally without any sense of respect or affection for them. We are building or
breaking our relationships with others just like that. When people live formally,
without consideration and commitment towards changing the phenomena and
occurrences about them, pain and imbalances prevail. We should have genuine
feelings when doing things and interacting with creatures. We should focus more
on realities than observing unproductive and irrational formalities. We should
journey towards truth from hypocrisy and lies. Went to sleep by 10:20.
7 March (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. From 11:00 to 1:00 took my communicative English
class at HLL-IX and discussed Active and Passive Voice. From 2:30 to 5:30 the
L&D department conducted Women’s Day function in the training hall at
HLL-III. In fact, it is tomorrow. Since tomorrow is a general holiday, we
celebrated it today. We conducted painting, musical chair, mime and singing
competitions on this occasion. About 100 males and females participated in this
celebration. Most of the females are unmarried ones. We distributed gifts to
all females. Soma Sundaram bought some items from a gold store in Visakhapatnam
for this occasion. We offered them a samosa, a sweet and a fruit pack during
interval by 4:30. I enjoyed the cheerful presence of the girls in this
celebration. I took photos and videos of this occasion with a Canon digital
camera borrowed from HR executive Sirish Reddy at HLL-III. I believe that girls
and women should move towards acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary to
live confidently and proudly, facing the changes and challenges in the
contemporary society. They should give secondary importance only to personal
beautification and decoration. Bodily beauty impresses others instantly but it
cannot make a deep impression on the other. It’s our psychological growth that
can positively change our lives and those of others around us. Women should
grow as individuals rather than beautiful show pieces. They should be virtuous
and brave in their thoughts and acts. I love women because I am a man. Slept by
10:30.
8 March (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Started
to Peda Gummuluru by 9:00 on my bike. Reached there by 9:40. Gave some homemade
sweets to my father. My father and I started to our mango garden at hills by
10:00 on my bike. He dug out 100 tender palm shoots from 10:20 to 11:00.
Meanwhile I checked the status of mango plants in my two-acre farm. My father
got bunds established around each plant two days ago by four native workers. I
gave him 1,000 rupees to pay them. He also got some horse gram plants plucked
by two female workers. It cost me 260 rupees. He got weeds plucked out in my
farm. He plucked flowers from each of these plants again. He gets water poured
under each plant soon. Returned home by 12:30. Cleaned the tender palm shoots
for Srijana to boil them for us. They are about 60. By 2:00 gave about 40
Telugu film songs to Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio. He gets them added to the
video files of wedding of Naren and Suma soon. From 2:30 to 5:10 Anand and I
saw the Telugu film “Maga Maharaju” in cinema Gowtham. We enjoyed watching it.
By 5:30 went to Manikanta store in Tuni and asked them about the availability
and price of an LG washing machine. Srijana wants to buy one soon for us. By
5:40 gave my computer related UPS to a battery change store in Tuni. He removes
the exhausted one and fits a new Exide battery in it. By 6:00 we took
Sankeerthana to Dr. I N Murthy at Neo Care Clinic in Payakaraopeta. He
prescribed two tonics for prevention of cough in the baby. By 7:30 Srijana
brought her cousin Sushma to our abode from Tuni railway station. She stays
here till tomorrow evening. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
9 March (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. K S N
Raju and I went to the house of Sri Hari Varma at Rajugari Beedu by 7:00 on my bike.
Sri Hari is the second son of K S N Raju. I took photos and videos of this
house with my Sony digital camera. Recently K S N Raju got this house painted
and beautified spending about 70,000 rupees. He wants to send the photos of
this decorated house to his son in Hyderabad. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:45 by
bus. From 11:00 to 1:00 took my communicative English class at HLL-IX and
discussed Active and Passive Voice. From 4:45 to 5:45 took an L&D class at
HLL-IX and discussed ‘Learning’. Morning Srijana, her cousin Sushma and
Sankeerthana went to the store of Manikanta Enterprises in Tuni. They checked and
enquired about the features and qualities of some fully automatic front door LG
washing machines. Srijana wants to buy one soon for us. She must have an amount
of 30,000 rupees to buy a good piece. Her maternal aunt Madhavi advised her to
keep it in a part of our kitchen. By 8:00 Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio came to
my abode. He brought the photos of Upanayanam and marriage of Naren and Suma,
which he shot at Gollalagunta, Ramula Deva Puram and in our abode at
Payakaraopeta. He told me to choose some good and necessary photos to print for
their photo album. He took the photos very well. Naren said that he can spend
25,000 rupees only for these photos and videos. Slept by 10:30.
10 March (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took my communicative English class at HLL-IX
from 11:00 to 1:00 and discussed Articles. Our manage Subba Rao came to this
class towards the end of it. After this class, he pointed out some drawbacks of
my instruction material. He advised me how I should overcome them. His ulterior
motive is that his casual remarks should discourage and demotivate me as an
instructor. He talks and acts smartly to impress others. He is a hypocrite. I
don’t take many of his words to my heart but to my ears only to satisfy him. He
blocked my way of getting a computer. He would not be happy if I conduct
English classes to Hetero employees. He can’t bear if somebody appreciates his
subordinates. He has no special feelings or commitment towards the employees
and management of Hetero. He is doing this job just for the salary and benefits
it entails. He changes his opinions and options quite rapidly. Jaladurgam Ram
recruited such narrow-minded guy to head L&D department here. I don’t talk
angrily or behave indecently with him. I love him. I obey him. God created this
world with unbelievable variety of creatures and phenomena. Can I find my life
interesting if everybody thinks and behaves like me? Subba Rao is a piece of
entertainment for me. Took L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX, from 3:00 to
4:00 and 4:45 to 5:45 respectively and discussed ‘Learning’. Sankeerthana is
suffering from cold now. Night it was cool. Slept by 10:30.
11 March (Wednesday)
Woke up by 4:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. From 11:00 to 1:00 took my communicative English
class at HLL-IX and discussed ‘Articles’. From 3:00 to 4:00 took an L&D
class at HLL-III and talked on ‘Learning’. Afternoon typed out and gave a
one-page letter to S Kullayi Reddy, the GM of EHS department at Hetero Complex,
appealing him to take Anantha Varma into Hetero unit at Nakkapalli considering
his experience and character. Soma Sundaram was on leave for two days. He came
to Hetero today but did not appear me anywhere. I knew that he went out to take
his daughter to an examination centre of Intermediate. Subba Rao is on leave
today. He won’t come tomorrow also. He took leaves to attend the monthly
traditional ceremony, following the death of their father. These two idiots
take leaves at will because essentially they are rogues. They talk about
standards and values in our L&D classes, targeting the psychological growth
of the employees but they don’t follow them in their lives or professions. They
regularly suffer from jealousy and inferiority complex. They act smartly before
their bosses and look down upon their subordinates. These two scoundrels belong
to Brahmin community. In India, the creatures of this community are accorded
the highest value, according to the caste system. They are supposed to acquire
divine knowledge and lead the society, preaching and practicing those virtues. Now
eighty percent of them are not on this ideal path scheduled by God. They are
worshipping God for formality. They are acting smart roles to impress others.
Slept by 10:00.
12 March (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took my communicative English class at HLL-IX
from 11:00 to 1:00 and discussed ‘Modal Auxiliary Verbs’. Had my lunch at Boys’
Hostel by 1:30. Spent talking with personality development trainer Darapu Nagi
Reddy till 2:30. He often comes here to take those classes to our employees. He
gave me two small books to read. I should read them and return to him by
tomorrow evening. Took L&D classes today from 9:45 to 10:30 at HDL-IX, from
3:00 to 4:00 at HLL-III and from 4:45 to 5:45 at HLL-IX and talked on
‘Learning’. Today Soma Sundaram spent most of his time at the Honda showroom
near Adduroad. The management of Hetero sanctioned a Honda Activa bike to the
L&D department here recently. He went there to get it fitted there and
bring to us. This is to be used by the folks of our department for our internal
mobility. Kishore Reddy of our department has already a bike for him. Subba Rao
and Soma Sundaram use it more than others. I am walking much now from SEZ to
the other part of it to take classes and do other things of our department. I
have no time to do physical exercises at home. I am happy to do that desirable
exercise in the campus of Hetero Complex here, daily walking from one place to
another. I have about four kilos of excessive fat in my body. The other day I
knew that triglycerides were also high in my blood. I should subject my body to
adequate physical exercise. This morning my mother-in-law came to our abode.
She got cough to be cured. Slept by 11:00.
13 March (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took my communicative English class at HLL-IX
from 11:00 to 1:00 and discussed ‘Modal Auxiliary Verbs’. Took an L&D class
at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and talked about ‘Learning’. Returned home by 7:15
by bus. Went to the Exide battery service point in Tuni by 8:15 and collected
my Microstar computer purpose UPS. He charged 750 rupees for removing the old
battery and fitting a new Exide battery in it. He said that this battery has
warranty for one year and that it functions effectively for three years. It’s
remarkable service at that price. In many parts of India, generation and
distribution of electricity by government and private agencies is not effective
and reliable. Fluctuations in power supply and power cuts are quite common.
High and low voltage supply is also there. The staff of electricity department
are corrupt and undisciplined. They demand money for every little work they do.
They don’t check and repair supply lines or electricity poles regularly. In
this pathetic situation of standards and values of the electricity departments
in various regions, UPS is like a ray of hope. They continue power supply until
we switch them off comfortably. They are like intelligent security and safety
providers to our electrical appliances and abodes of residence and work.
Batteries store energy and provide it to our devices when needed. They are
playing a great role in beautifying our lives and strengthening our economy. My
salutes to those devices and that technology. Slept by 9:30.
14 March (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. I got a bad cold soon after I had some water
from a bottle brought from home. There must be many bacteria in this water,
which was stored in a bottle for a week. Took my communicative English class at
HLL-IX from 11:00 to 1:00 and discussed collocations. I went into the nearby
toilet five times to blow my nose during this time. My nose was running. Today
the folks of EHS department at HLL-III organized a ‘Burra Katha’ (a regional
folk art form narrating mythological or social anecdotes to educate and
entertain viewers) in their section from 4:30 to 5:30 to educate the employees
and contract workers on the aspects of safety and security in their personal
and professional lives. I could not attend it. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX
from 4:45 to 5:45 and talked about the concept of learning. By 4:00 took four
tablets in the OHC at HLL-III for alleviating the intensity of cold in my body.
Returned home by 7:15 by bus. By 10:30, this morning, Srijana, Sankeerthana and
my mother-in-law went to Viswanadhapuram on our bike. They attended a ceremony
related to the marriage of the son of Sai Rama Raju. I knew that the health
condition of Jagannadha Raju, the maternal grandfather of Srijana, has been
deteriorating steadily. He is remaining bedridden all the time. Her maternal
grandmother is nursing him attentively. Srijana took her mother and
Sankeerthana to the agricultural farm of D S N Raju at village Marripalem near
Thaandava Junction on our bike by 4:30. She left Sankeerthana there in the care
of her parents. She expects the baby to withdraw herself from breastfeeding.
She returned by 4:45. Slept by 9:45.
15 March (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Typed up
the content of February from my diary of 2015 on my computer from 7:00 to 1:00.
Srijana, Anand and I saw the Telugu film “Anekudu” in cinema Sai Mahal from
2:30 to 5:20. K V Anand directed it well. This story is developed portraying
the concept of reincarnation and the ability of human beings to remember the
experiences and memories of the past lives. The hero and heroine love each
other in their two past lives but get separated by the forces of destiny. In
their third forms of lives, they win their love relation, killing a villain, an
agent of destiny. The director portrayed their first lives in Burma of 1962.
The remaining two reincarnations of these two souls and events take place in
India. The role of my favourite actor Karthik speaks a lot of English in this
film. All his English dialogues, his accent and the tone he used in pronouncing
those words, is a fantastic English lesson to me. It’s an interesting and
exciting film. Dhanush lived his role. By 5:30 we checked an LG washing machine
in Manikanta store at Tuni. Srijana wants to buy it soon. By 6:30 Dr. D Rama
Krishnam Raju checked the ears of Anand in his clinic near Raja Ground in Tuni.
He is suffering from a little pain in an ear. He prescribed a lotion and
tablets for it. Last night Srijana could not sleep well. She missed the
presence of her baby daughter Sankeerthana as she is with her mother in the
agricultural farm of D S N Raju near village Marripalem. Slept by 9:45.
16 March (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. My
father-in-law called me up this early morning and said that our baby
Sankeerthana had cried remembering her mother. She was hinting in which
direction her mother went away leaving her there. By 6:00, this morning,
Srijana took a bus at Narsipatnam Road Junction in Payakaraopeta and went to
Thaandava Junction to bring Sankeerthana. Her parents brought the baby to this
spot on a bike by 7:00. Srijana started back by 7:15, with the baby, from this
point. She reached our abode by 8:20. Our little Goddess is back at our abode.
She missed us there. We missed her here. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:45 on the
bike of a familiar Hetero employee. Took an L&D class at HDL-IX from 9:30
to 10:30 and discussed ‘Learning’. Took my communicative English class at
HLL-IX and discussed the grammar topic ‘Subject-Verb Agreement’. Towards the
end of this class, Subba Rao came in. Later he remarked that there are some
errors in the content of this instruction material. Took an L&D class at
HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and talked about ‘Learning’. From 5:00 to 6:15 Subba
Rao and I discussed and finalized the contests to be conducted and cash prizes
to be given away to winners on the 20th of this month at HLL-IX as
part of the celebration of Telugu New Year Manmadha. Returned home by 7:15 by
bus. Today Srijana received a book parcel from postman during my absence at
home. The title of this book is The Golden Scroll. Dave Mahadevan is the author
of this book. My friend, writer and idealist Vaiyavan sent this great gift to
me by post. Slept by 10:00.
17 March (Tuesday)
Woke up by 6:15. Last
night C Mohan Reddy appeared in my dream for considerable amount of time. He
expressed his sense of affection for me. I felt very happy experiencing his
warmth for me. He is one of the directors associated with Hetero organization
now. He oversees the production processes and takes some high level decisions
at Hetero Complex, Nakkapalli. He spends here three days or so every week. He
frequently flies between Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. He holds meetings with
plant heads and other higher authorities here to ensure that everything is
going on normally over here. He finalized my recruitment into Hetero in 2013. I
see him now and then here in the campus of Hetero. He cannot talk with me being
busy with the tasks of this huge unit. Since he could not express his actual sense
of affection to me physically, in reality, due to his psychological blocks,
those notions of his innermost self got transmitted to me metaphysically
through telepathy. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:45 on the bike of a familiar
Hetero employee as there was no room to get into any Hetero bus. Took my
communicative English class at HLL-IX from 11:00 to 1:00 and discussed ‘Asking
Questions’. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed
‘Learning’. I felt a little better today. The weakness in my body is getting
alleviated slowly. My in-laws came to my abode this afternoon and left by 8:30
at night. My uncle of village Durgada came in the evening and left by 8:00 by a
passenger train from Tuni. Went to sleep by 9:30 for my dreams.
18 March (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Today I took English class to the trainees of
internal program titled Manthan in a training all at Boys’ Hostel from 9:30 to
5:30. They are all going to join the engineering department at Hetero here
after 45 days of intensive departmental training by internal subject experts.
Subba Rao instructed me to conduct English class to them today to make them
understand the importance of learning and using English effectively while
working with Hetero here or otherwise. Morning I presented my PPT on English.
Afternoon I discussed the basics of English like English alphabet, letters,
vowels, consonants, parts of speech and tenses for one hour. It’s like an
attempt to show the mountain of English grammar in a mirror to scared goats.
From 4:30 to 5:30 conducted a quiz to them on English words. I give them an
English word. They should tell me the spelling, meaning (in Telugu), part of
speech of that word, usage of it in a sentence and to which 12 categories of tenses
that sentence belongs, to get one mark. If they commit a mistake at any of
these five stages, they lose that mark. I answer it and get that mark. All
these male trainees are from places near Kakinada, Vijayawada and
Visakhapatnam. They have very poor English usage skills. They did diploma and
graduate courses in mechanical engineering. They expect attractive salaries,
perks and facilities from their employer but they seldom question whether they
deserve that status or not based on their knowledge and skills. Employers are
bearing with such millions of creatures in India now. Gave them some soft
copies of English files. Slept by 10:00.
19 March (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took my communicative English class at HLL-IX
from 11:00 to 1:00 and discussed the system of asking and answering questions.
Took L&D classes at HLL-III from 3:00 to 4:00 and at HLL-IX from 4:45 to
5:45 and talked about ‘Learning’. I felt rather better today though I am still
a little weak. Sankeerthana is thin now. The cough and phlegm in her body made
her so. Now she is walking slowly. She is crawling very rarely. She stopped
consuming her mother’s breastmilk almost a week ago. Srijana planned and
trained her so. I regret it. A baby stopped consuming breastmilk means that she
stopped depending on her mother to that extent. We enjoy the association of
those creatures, which are dependent on us, than those, which are not.
Sankeerthana is imitating now. Children learn much through imitation. They do many
things without logical thinking. They talk and act observing others. We enjoy
their expressions and acts motivated by their innocence. She is adamant in
doing something, which we tell her not to do. If I put a little piece of
jaggery in her mouth, she asks for it repeatedly. She is interested in seeing
animals and birds and spending outdoors. There are many mosquitoes around our
abode. They are biting her now and then. She enjoys spending with me. I miss
her every day I go to Hetero. I spend with her for half an hour at least every
night. I am like a guest to her. She is consuming buffalo and cow milk now. We
are not taking many photos of her. Srijana is doing it a little. Slept by
10:00.
20 March (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Soma Sundaram and others were decorating a
training hall at HLL-IX to celebrate the onset of Telugu New Year Manmadha. We
call it Ugaadhi. We are celebrating it one day before as it is a holiday
tomorrow at Hetero. From 10:30 to 11:00, we, the staff members of L&D
department, conducted quiz competition to enthusiastic employees on points
related to Telugu language, literature and culture. From 11:20 to 12:00 we
conducted painting competition. From 3:30 to 5:30 the classical dance
competition and prize distribution programs were conducted on a newly
constructed stage near the HR building at HLL-III. There are three kinds of
prizes to winners in these competitions. The first prize is 5,000 rupees;
second prize 3,000 rupees and the third prize is 2,000 rupees. I shot the
classical dances of performers perfectly in video format with the digital
camera of L&D department. My intention is to distribute each of these video
files to those individual performers. They feel very happy if we do so. Subba
Rao, Soma Sundaram and Kishore Reddy of our department don’t have such
possessive and sensitive feelings towards the employees here. They act smart
roles to impress others. I can’t bear their hypocrisy in whatever they talk or
do representing L&D department. They often talk about standards and values
in classes taken by them to educate others. They don’t have them. Bastards
should not discuss virtues. I cursed these three idiots today. Srijana, Anand,
Sankeerthana and I reached the agricultural farm of D S N Raju at Marripalem by
9:00, at night, on our bike. Slept by 10:00.
21 March (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Last
night I slept in the portion of house of owner of this agricultural farm in the
open place outside. I slept very well in the spell of nature. The trees around
and the hills beyond them give this area a spectacular view. By 6:30 had the
pickle of Manmadha Ugaadhi, prepared by my mother-in-law. I did not take a bath
or wear new pair of clothes to grace the spirit of New Telugu Year’s Day. My
father-in-law got the throat of a domestic cock cut on this occasion to treat
me specially with chicken curry. This is what two sinners have done today.
Srijana, Sankeerthana and I started back to our abode by 9:00 on our bike,
leaving Anand back. We reached our abode by 10:00. My cousin Narendra Varma came
by 10:10 from Gollalagunta. He sorted out 130 photos from about 900 photos to
be printed and set in his wedding album. We had lunch by 12:00. We two went to
Sri Prakash Studio in Payakaraopeta by 12:30 and gave the soft copies of these
selected photos to him. We also gave him 10,000 rupees. He said that he would
give us the photos and video files of this wedding occasion as early as
possible. Naren left for Gollalagunta by 1:00 by bus from Tuni. Saw the Telugu
film ‘Thungabhadhra’ in cinema Sai Mahal from 2:30 to 4:45. It’s a touching
film combining the beauty of a good love story against the backdrop of faction
violence. Today the annual fair took place in Payakaraopeta. Visitors walked on
roads like wild beasts. Slept by 10:00.
22 March (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Srijana,
Sankeerthana and I started to Peda Gummuluru by 8:00 on our bike. We reached
there by 8:45. Sankeerthana sleeps being lulled by the rhythmic sounds of our bike,
the sounds of vehicles passing by on road and the gentle waves of the air blowing
along our bike. My folks felt happy at our arrival. My father and I went to our
mango garden at hills by 9:30 on my bike. I checked the mango plants in my
two-acre farm for 20 minutes. My brother Sambha is planning to get them watered
soon. We got about 15 kilograms of horse gram from the crop we grew in my farm.
My father checked the status of our mango farm. We spent at the abode of my
paternal uncle Narayana Murthy for 15 minutes. We returned home by 11:00. We
had our lunch by 12:00 and took a siesta for two hours. We spent talking with
our folks till 4:00. My mother packed some items of consumption for us to take
home. We returned to our abode by 4:40. My mother-in-law and Anand got off a
bus at Narsipatnam Road Junction in Payakaraopeta by 5:10. Brought them home by
5:15. By 6:00 Dr Rama Krishnam Raju cleaned the thick layers of wax from the
two ears of Anand in his ENT clinic at Tuni. He also observed that Anand got
tonsils. He prescribed Duet 457 mg DDS oral suspension to alleviate them and advised
us not to offer him cold food and beverages much. He prescribed LEVACUE-M
tablets also for him. We went to the Thaandava sugar factory by 7:25. My uncle
Narayana Murthy kept some sugarcanes ready for me. Slept by 10:30.
23 March (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night I had a fantastic dream. I was walking on a high hilly area filled with
rocks and natural beauty. It must be at a very altitude from the sea level on
earth. A slip from that slope of terrain can be fatal. There was a hotel there.
A bus was moving there on slippery rocks, which were rolling down as the bus
passed. It was very exciting adventure for me. I experienced it with awe. It
was a gift of Lord Krishna to me. He is generous towards me. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I did not do anything useful to Hetero while in
that campus. I moved along with our manager Subba Rao, observing his classroom
instruction, as a listener. Returned home by 7:15 by bus. It is the seventh
wedding anniversary of Srijana and me today. Srijana invited her parents and
the family members of her maternal uncle Sekhar to dinner in our abode this
evening. They spent with us from 6:00 to 8:30. Srijana prepared prawn biryani,
fish fry and some general dishes for this occasion. She bought a family pack of
vanilla ice cream also for 120 rupees. We did not organize this event grandly
considering financial and time constraints. Srijana wore a new sari to feel the
grace of this occasion. Srijana is happy with me now because her expectations
from me are not beyond my abilities and possibilities. I am happy with her
because her beauty and goodness as a person are up to my expectations. Her
parents left by 9:10 for Marripalem. Slept by 11:00.
24 March (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night Lakshmi appeared in my dream. I somehow managed to bring her to my abode.
She was happy about it. Meanwhile her father knew about it. He came to my abode
to find her here. It is like a lovesick bird dreaming to fly to her favourite
nest and spending there for a few minutes to relive herself of the pain of
separation and imposed solitude. That nest is my presence. Her father is like a
cruel hunter in this scenario. Lakshmi wants to see and talk to me. She feels
it intensely when she sees the house near theirs in which we lived from 1992 to
1999 in village Ramayyapatnam. It was during this time that we developed
admiration for each other looking at each other from distance. Those memories
are haunting her more than me. I am waiting to create an opportunity to meet
her. This is platonic love. It feels, responds and suffers silently and
ideally. I was blissful while experiencing this dream. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:51 by bus. Our manager Illuri Subba Rao conducted L&D staff meeting in
his room at HLL-III from 11:15 to 1:00 to discuss the status of our department.
From 2:00 to 6:10 edited and prepared the annual report on CSR activities by
Hetero unit at Nakkapalli, using the data provided by B V Reddy at HLL-III. He
asked me to help me in this regard. Last night Srijana got a backache. Today it
got intensified. She suffered from it throughout the day. Her mother came to
help her in domestic chores. The Indian summer is intensifying slowly. Slept by
9:45 for my dreams.
25 March (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night Telugu film actor Akkineni Nagarjuna appeared in my dream. He kept all
the entries and exits of his house in Hyderabad open for me and my folks to
enter as guests. He beautified himself considerably to welcome us but remained
inside lethargically. He was appearing attractively and behaving happily but
deep down in him, he was depressed, lonely and lost. He must be suffering
intensely recollecting the loss of his parents from his life. He is not happy
about what is happening around him now. He must have remembered me deeply in
this painful state of his mind. God transmitted that feeling of solitude and loss
from his psyche into my subconscious state of mind through telepathy
materialized by His demigods. He should make a direct communication to me if he
ever feels the need of my presence in his life. Once I went to his house in
Hyderabad but his security guard prevented me from going in. The security guard
represents the ego, drawbacks and demerits in the character of Nagarjuna. He
cannot see the sources of enlightenment and salvation when his eyes are
blindfolded with this vice. He should proactively try to get the persons and
things he desires deeply. God keeps many of our essential needs about us
generously. We should recognize and try to go closer to them. Today I took two
L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and discussed the concept of learning with
them. Night it is getting cool and pleasant. Slept by 10:00.
26 March (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:20. By 6:10
took my mother-in-law to Narsipatnam Road Junction in Payakaraopeta on my bike.
She took an APSRTC bus for Thaandava Junction. She spent in our abode for two
days to help Srijana, who was suffering from backache. By today her backache
got completely alleviated. She consulted a doctor and took prescribed tablets
to get it cured. A boil on her back caused that pain. Reached Hetero Complex by
8:50 by bus. I am reading the English book The Golden Scroll of Dave
Mahadevan when I have time for it in my duty hours. Though there are some
grammatical errors throughout this novel, the author used very good English
words and sentences in it. My English grammar and vocabulary skills are not up
to my expectations. I feel it every time I open an English dictionary, a
grammar book, a video on usage of English and while reading great books written
by extraordinary users of English language. Reading standard English books
regularly helps us improve our vocabulary and grammar skills. From 3:00 to 4:00
took an L&D class at HLL-III and discussed ‘Learning’. Spent rest of the
day interacting with my familiar Hetero folks and doing some miscellaneous
L&D works. The HR department here has no time or interest to utilize my services
optimally. The manager in my L&D department blocks my path of service to
employees intentionally. He got wicked attitude of typical Indian managers. I
am like the sun. I shine. Others may or may not benefit from that light. Slept
by 11:00.
27 March (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:05 by bus. From today onwards, we have to record our entry
and exit times through the biometric swipe machines installed in the
administrative building at SEZ. Till now we swiped second time on the machines
after getting in through biometric gates. We don’t do it hereafter. It’s
utilization of modern technology to regulate errant and stupid employees. I sat
in a training hall at HLL-IX from 11:00 to 12:00 waiting for the employees to
come for my scheduled communicative English class. They did not come as they
were busy with month-end schedules of tasks. Took an L&D class from 3:00 to
4:00 at HLL-III and discussed ‘Learning’. Today my manager Subba Rao talked
with Soma Sundaram for about 40 minutes from 2:00 in his cabin. Outsiders may
think that there was a row between them. As an insider of L&D department, I
know what they were doing inside. They were talking about smart work inside. It
means not allowing others in their department to work well and get reputation.
They should highlight themselves everywhere as the stars of this department.
They are dangerous chameleons. They wish to exploit and benefit from every
opportunity that comes across them. They play impressive roles to attract
others smartly. They think that I don’t know about their ulterior motives and
hypocrisy. I allow them to be in that state of ignorance. A lizard may be
scared of chameleons but not a lion. I am a lion. I pity their psychological
growth. Slept by 10:00.
28 March (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 5:45
Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana left for Viswanadhapuram on our bike. Revathi
sat behind with the baby. Her maternal uncle Sekhar too went there along with
their children. They went there to attend the celebration of the religious ceremony
of marriage of Lord Rama and Goddess Sita on the occasion of the festival of
Sri Rama Navami today. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Today the monthly
program Vedika was conducted in a training hall at HLL-IX from 3:30 to 5:30.
Three employees presented their PPTs on three different topics. They tried to
educate the attendees discussing topics useful to them. Returned home by 7:30
after having a chapati at a hotel by Y Junction. Srijana and our children
returned home by 8:00. The health condition of Dantuluri Jagannadha Raju is not
well. He is bedridden. He is not consuming foods and beverages voluntarily. He
is unable to recognize his folks. I always enjoyed his presence and affection
for me when he was good at mind and body. Can I see him in that energetic and
lively state again? This is how we miss the people around us. We don’t feel the
wonderful features and qualities of the creatures when they are accessible to
us. This is the tragedy of human life. Lord Rama showed the humanity how an ideal
man should live on this earth. He did not live according to His preferences,
interests and fancies but the standards and values set by great saints and
idealists of those times. We should inculcate His habits and lifestyle to be
ideal human beings. My salutes to that great God. Slept by 10:00.
29 March (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
brother Sambha and his son Anjaneya Raju came to my abode by 8:00 on a bike
from Peda Gummuluru. The folks of Swathi came here by 9:00. Swathi is the
daughter of the younger paternal aunt of my eldest sister-in-law Sandhya Rani.
Swathi and her husband rented in the single bedroom portion in the upper story
of the building of K S N Raju, in which we are staying now as a tenant family
unit. Srijana and I helped them in this process from 9:30 to 11:00. Vatsavayi
Raghurama Raju fitted two ceiling fans in this portion on my request. Sambha,
his son and we had our lunch in our abode by 12:15. We all took a siesta till
3:00. Sambha, Anjaneya Raju and I went to a roadside cloth sale point in
Payakaraopeta by 4:00 on his bike. He bought five pairs of casual wear for his
son spending about 800 rupees. We bought a water gun for the boy. They fill
water in it and shoot at others. Sambha told me that he got my mango plants
watered recently. They left for Peda Gummuluru by 4:50. My son and his son
enjoyed playing. We enjoyed their presence. Anand and I saw the Telugu film
‘Jil’ of Gopi Chand and Rashi Khanna in cinema Sai Mahal from 6:30 to 9:00.
Director Radha Krishna Kumar made it into an interesting and exciting film.
Gopi Chand looks well, dances well and fights well. He can attract viewers fast
with the charm of his acting skills. We enjoyed watching every bit of this
film. I bought two water guns for Anand by 9:15. He felt happy. Slept by 10:00.
30 March (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Sat by the training hall at HLL-III from 10:00
to 11:30 and collected the names of eligible contract workers, who would be
presented with food carriers soon, appreciating their adherence to safety norms
at Hetero. Did this work at HDL-IX also from 1:00 to 2:00. Took L&D classes
at HLL-III and HLL-IX from 3:00 to 4:00 and 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed the
concept of learning with them. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Edited the content
of February from my diary of 2015 on my computer from 8:30 to 9:30. Night the
sky turned partly cloudy but it did not rain. Today Srijana went to Tuni and
Payakaraopeta along with the mother of Swathi to buy some household items for
the new family life of the latter. They bought an iron wardrobe and some
utensils. In this process, Srijana felt like buying one or two items for her
domestic use. It often happens when we go out to see different things and
persons. The suppressed or passive desires in us get activated when there is a
stimulus. The other day she said that she wants to buy an Apple i-phone because
she saw it in the hands of her familiar creature in Viswanadhapuram. She liked
the quality of images and videos this device is capturing. If I take her to a
villa in a picturesque place, she feels like buying one for us. If I take her
to Horsley Hills, Darjeeling, Nainital or Ooty, she wishes to be there forever.
Every healthy human being is a child as far as his or her desires are
concerned. I like the child in her psyche. Slept by 10:15 for my dreams.
31 March (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I collected the names of some contract
workers to distribute food carriers to them later. From 11:00 to 1:00, Bandi
Parthasaradhi Reddy, the chairman and managing director of Hetero organization
participated in a Homam conducted in the ground floor of administrative
building at HLL-III. A few religious scholars, invited from Kerala for this
purpose, have been performing it for the last three days here. This collective
religious ceremony is to satisfy the authoritative deities in the heaven and
seek their blessings for all those associated with Hetero organization. Gods
and goddesses live in the upper planes of this cosmos. We cannot understand and
feel those phenomena, utilizing our earthly sensibilities and calculations. The
highest degree of knowledge in this world is understanding how supreme God is
creating, running and ending everything visible and perceivable in this cosmos.
Returned home by 7:15 on the bike of L&D department, along with Soma
Sundaram. By 9:30 Sankeerthana fell down from the folding cot in our master
bedroom. She walked on it when I switched off the light to allow all to sleep.
It happened within seconds. She hit the floor with her head. It’s like a
somersault. She did not get affected. She cried for a few seconds. Lord Krishna
must have saved her keeping His palm between her head and the hard floor. By
9:42, an amount of 23, 744 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by the
HR folks of Hetero towards my salary for this month. Slept by 10:20.
1 April (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Went to
the ATM point of Axis Bank by NH-16 near P Lakshmi Puram by 7:03 on my bike and
withdrew an amount of 8,000 rupees. Paid 4,100 rupees to my house owner by 7:08
towards the rent for my portion and water consumption charges for the last
month. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I collected the names of
some contract workers for distribution of food carriers to them later. Today
Soma Sundaram showed his PPT on ‘Challenges’ to Subba Rao. He said that there
is no logical development of content in this PPT. He also said that a presenter
should know the meaning of every word used in a PPT. The English usage skills
of Somu are poor. Subba Rao allowed him to prepare PPTs to teach in L&D
classes. An idiot allowing a scoundrel to do an important work is quite common
in many parts of India. Subba Rao and I made many changes in this PPT. Subba
Rao corners others immorally to present himself greatly. Returned home by 7:15
by bus. Called up the folks of Blu Wifi branch in Tuni by 7:43 to inform them
that I want to recharge my broadband service for this month. He said that I
should have recharged it on the 28th of last month. If I recharge it
today or after some days this month, that tariff plan expires by the 27th
of this month. It means consumers have no freedom in recharging it. This is
immoral and illegal business. Complained about these idiots through Akosha,
using their online complaint format. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
2 April (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. From 11:00 to 1:30 Soma Sundaram and I issued
new safety instruction cards to about 100 contract workers at HLL-III
collecting the defaced ones from them. Our manager Subba Rao too assisted us in
this process. About 2,000 contract workers are working at Hetero Complex now.
They can earn from 6,000 to 10,000 rupees a month. Their contractors are not
helping them honestly. They are like leeches as far as their treatment and attitude
towards these workers is concerned. Contract workers have habits like smoking
and drinking. They have no regular and reliable sources of livelihood in their
native places. Most of these workers belong to the villages close to
Nakkapalli. They reach here in hired auto rickshaws, on bicycles, on bikes and
on foot. Their behavior changes to the negative if an accident or death occurs
to any one of them. All managements take precautionary measures for the safety
of contract workers. They don’t follow guidelines sincerely always. Employees
and contract workers treat the managements of companies like villains when they
are unhappy. Is there any place in this world where accidents and deaths never
take place? Media presents industrial units only as places of indiscipline and
injustice quite often. I believe that 90% of the heads of states and regulatory
bodies should be hanged publicly in this world. They are the creators of
disorders and distress in this world. When can we shoot them publicly to change
our lives? Slept by 10:00.
3 April (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Today safety training was conducted to two
batches of contract workers in the morning and afternoon in a training hall at
Boys’ Hostel. Mr. Dilip of EHS took these classes. Soma Sundaram and I
coordinated these classes. We issued new safety instruction cards to them. Took
an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and talked about ‘Challenges’.
During the last six months, two Hetero folks borrowed 200 rupees from me each.
One does not repay me at all. He is a contract worker. He belongs to
Ramayyapatnam. He is the eldest son of the paternal uncle of Lakshmi. He is a
drunkard. He did not appear to me after borrowing this money from me. Another
guy is a Hetero employee. He borrowed from me depending on his familiarity with
me. Some days he said that he would repay it to me. I did not ask him for
courtesy sake. Later he must have thought that I forgot that matter. It is true
that I don’t feel much hurt or impoverished if they don’t repay me this amount
of money but it shows their indiscipline and ingratitude. Borrowing money is
not an avoidable act but repaying it to the lender, early or late, is very
important. We should repay 500 rupees to a billionaire also. We should not
think that it is trivial amount of money for him. We are like shameless thieves
if we don’t repay anybody. They expect it back from us. We shall be treated
like detestable beggars by them if we keep their money. Slept by 10:00.
4 April (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Safety training was conducted to 38 contract
workers in a training hall at Boys’ Hostel from 10:00 to 1:00. D Srinivasa
Varma of EHS department took this class. I prepared safety instruction cards
for them and issued to them towards the end of this class. Had my lunch in the
hostel canteen by 2:00. Safety class was conducted to 53 contract workers in
this classroom from 3:30 to 4:30 by D S Varma. Most of them are from Odisha,
Bihar and Jharkhand. Srinivas taught them in Hindi and Telugu. We issued them
safety instruction cards by 5:30. Soma Sundaram conducted ‘Saturday Josh’
program on the newly constructed stage in HLL-III. This is to entertain the
employees going out to celebrate the following Sunday. We were there from 5:40
to 6:15 but nobody watched or participated in it interestingly. It was a
failure today. Few like to participate in these trivial programs at the
eleventh hour. I had to take the 6:45 bus of Hetero because of this delay.
Reached home by 7:25. My in-laws came to our abode by 5:30 from the
agricultural farm of D S N Raju at Marripalem. Srijana, Anand and I saw the
Telugu film ‘Rey’ in cinema Gowtham from 9:36 to 12:40. Y V S Choudhary
directed this film very well. Sai Daram Tej acted extraordinarily in this film.
His acting and dancing skills are appreciable. He rocked in this debut film.
Chakri created fantastic music for this film. They thrilled me deeply. Went to
sleep by 1:00.
5 April (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
in-laws, Srijana and Sankeerthana took a bus in Tuni by 10:00 for Pithapuram.
Thence they go to village Pedha Brahmadhevam. Tonight, the family members of
Venkateshwarlu, the youngest paternal aunt of Srijana, are entering their newly
constructed house in this village. These creatures are going to attend this
formal occasion. Anand and I had haircut at my favourite salon by 11:30. We had
lunch in our abode by 1:00. We took a siesta till 3:30. Attended the monthly
general body meeting of KSS of Payakaraopeta from 4:30 to 6:30 at the house of
Mantrala Raju beside NH-16, opposite Devi Nagar. About 25 members attended it.
They discussed the issues related to Kshatriyas in this region. We felt the
need of bringing all the Kshatriyas of this locality into the fold of this
community welfare unit and try for their development. By 6:45 went to the
rented abode of Lalitha at Tuni. She is the mother of Baggu Bhagyasri. She has
a younger sister. Bhagyasri is looking for a job with Hetero unit at
Nakkapalli. Talked with her for 20 minutes about the merits and demerits of
joining this job. I advised her to focus on getting through IBPS and getting a
job with any nationalized bank in India. Took her résumé to show it to the
folks of Hetero and look for a job for her. Their father died five years ago.
They are financially down now. Took a pack of Chicken Biryani from the food
point of Sekhar by 7:30 for our supper. Slept by 10:00.
6 April (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Issued safety instruction cards to about 20 contract
workers at HLL-III from 11:00 to 1:30. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from
4:45 to 5:45 and discussed ‘Challenges’. Today I gave a business card of my
brother Srinivas to K Raghu, the plant head of HLL-IX. He belongs to Bhima
Varam. My brother is an assistant manager with the branch of UCO Bank here.
Raghu felt happy about it. He said he would meet my brother on some occasion.
Morning I gave a copy of the résumé of Baggu Bhagyasri to M V Suresh Babu and
told him to find her job with the Hetero unit here. Afternoon met HR manager
Rajnikant Ganesha in his office room at HLL-III. He said that a recruitment
drive of Hetero is likely to be conducted at Maredumilli in East Godavari
District next Monday but female candidates need not attend this recruitment
process. He said that the management decided not to recruit females now. It is
an evident sign of gender bias. I wondered about it. I found a tone of
aversion, in the response of Rajnikant, towards females, while he was talking
about it with me. We should not discriminate on the basis of gender. It is an
act of sin. God punishes all those, who look down upon any creature in this
world. He should develop inclusive culture. Rajnikanth is also the son of a
mother. As a recruitment manager, he should advise the management to be
unbiased. Today Anand conducted himself at our abode during my absence at home.
Slept by 10:00.
7 April (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Took an L&D class at HDL-IX from 9:30 to
10:15 and discussed ‘Challenges’. Sat at HLL-III from 10:30 to 12:30 to issue
safety instruction cards to contract workers but nobody turned up. By 3:30 took
a new bus pass from Srinivas in the HR department at HLL-III. It is with RFID
feature. Some employees of Hetero are travelling without bus passes or with
fake bus passes. They introduced this system to avoid such cases. Returned home
by 7:15 by bus. My in-laws, Srijana and Sankeerthana returned from village
Pedha Brahmadhevam by 3:30 this afternoon, changing buses. Srijana and her
father started to Visakhapatnam by 5:00 by bus. Tomorrow my father-in-law
undergoes complete body checkup medical tests there. Srijana consults Dr. Bala
Raju to know about the status of asthma in her body. My father-in-law has about
20 kilos of excessive fat in his body. He is consuming fatty foods like chicken
and mutton, often, being unable to control the desires of his tongue. He smokes
cigarettes. He snores with high noise. He should not consume salty and spicy
foods because he has got high blood pressure but he cannot refrain himself from
those temptations. He wants to be healthy and live longer. He knows what he
should do to be healthy but he cannot regulate himself to this extent. Most of
Indians are stupid, this way, now. Slept by 10:00.
8 April (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:59 by bus. My father sent about 50 tender palm shoots for
me by Sharat. He and his wife are staying in a portion of our house at Peda
Gummuluru now as a tenant family unit. My father often sends me something
through him. He is with the electrical department at HLL-III now. From 11:00 to
12:00 issued safety instruction cards to about 15 contract workers at HLL-III.
Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Challenges’.
Took this class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed it. Returned home by
7:10 by bus. Srijana and her father returned from Visakhapatnam by 6:00 by bus.
Today they consulted Dr. K Santhosh Kumar at Dwaraka Medical Centre by
Seethammapeta main road. He checked the medical reports of my father-in-law. He
advised him to stop smoking immediately. His lungs are affected. He should
reduce 20 kilos of excessive fat in his body through physical exercise and diet
regimen. He is snoring a lot while asleep. He can avoid this fatal health
condition only if he quits smoking and reduces the weight of body. Srijana did
not consult Dr. Bala Raju as he was away from this city during daytime. Dr.
Santhosh prescribed two kinds of tablets for her. They are MONTAIR LC and
Foracort. He advised her to be away from dust. She has got asthma. Diseases and
disorders in our lives are because of our Karma. We should bear with them. God
enables us to withstand it. Slept by 10:00.
9 April (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Morning
my father-in-law left for the teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem.
Reached Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Morning and afternoon coordinated SET
nominally. From 4:10 to 5:45 improved the PPT on the theme ‘Multitasking’ on
the computer system of Soma Sundaram. We are likely to use it in the L&D
classes of next month. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Morning Anand got a fever.
He took his two scheduled exams at Canossa School today with fever. My
mother-in-law left for Marripalem by 10:00 this morning. A few days ago, the
Government of India, conferred the Bharat Ratna on Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This
man is almost unconscious now, bedridden and unable to recognize anybody.
Narendra Modi must have struggled hard to honour this man in this fashion. Thus
he proved that he is also a typical Indian politician. The highest civilian
award ‘Bharat Ratna’ is like a tissue paper in India now. Most of those, who
got it till now, don’t deserve it. Politically influential idiots confer it on
similar rogues. Conferring it on cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, one of the most
negligible entities of contemporary India, further degraded its value to a
tissue paper. Atal is not an extraordinary man. His poetry and lifestyle are
not great. There are many extraordinary Indians in many parts of India but they
don’t belong to these dirty political parties of India. So, they are not
getting these awards and honours from Indian governments. Slept by 9:45.
10 April (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Typed out and edited a blog titled ‘Atal-Bharat
Ratna’ from 9:30 to 10:00 on the computer system of Soma Sundaram. In this
blog, I discussed the futility of Bharat Ratna being conferred on Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, recently, when he was at the eleventh hour of his material life. I
stated that various governments in India brought its value to that of a tissue
paper. Took L&D classes at HLL-III from 2:30 to 3:30 and at HLL-IX from
4:45 to 5:45 and discussed ‘Challenges’. By 7:30 talked with the idiot of Blu
Wifi at their office in Rajahmundry over phone. He did not accept the drawbacks
and demerits in their wireless broadband service as an Internet service
provider. They don’t give a receipt for any payment they take from us. They
don’t offer the promised speed of broadband. They fine us if we recharge it
late. The folks of Akosha could not do anything in this regard against the
complaint I made to them about this ISP, online. The Internet Service Providers
Association is a worthless unit. They posted scrap on their portal supporting
their business partners. TRAI is a dirty entity. It formulates rules to satisfy
fools and encourages fraudulent businesses in India. Consumer courts want such
proofs from us, which are not given to us by those who cheat us. In India,
those fighting for justice democratically suffer endlessly. Here criminals and
sinners form rules and encourage rule breakers publicly. Slept by 10:00.
11 April (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I did not do much work beneficial to
Hetero. Vedika program was conducted at HLL-III from 3:30 to 5:30. Morning the
folks of Blue Wifi recharged my broadband Internet account on my request.
Srijana is also using it on her cellphone. She is active on WhatsApp. I don’t
like to waste my time fighting with these folks against immoral and illegal
standards of their service. When the governments and regulatory bodies are
corrupt and unreliable, fraudsters can do businesses and exploit the ignorant
and helpless people. I watched the Telugu feature film “Avunu-2” in cinema Sai
Mahal from 9:30 to 11:20. Ravi Babu directed it fascinatingly. A passionate
ghost of a murdered man haunts a married woman. It wants to satisfy its
unfulfilled carnal desires with this young woman. It enters the bodies of three
men to do this. It cannot succeed in this cruel effort because this woman wears
a small talisman sanctified and offered by a devotee of Lord Shiva in Varanasi.
Ravi Babu portrayed the elements of evil forces of ghost, soul, power of
saints, fear caused by strange occurrences and passionate married life of a
couple in this film. He scares us through this film. He is the ghost and makes
an appearance towards the end of it. He showed and educated me about a modern
apartment wherein technology is applied extensively to operate many devices for
luxury. My salutes to Ravi Babu for making this exciting film. Slept by 11:45
for my dreams.
12 April (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Posted my
blog titled ‘Atal-Bharat Ratna’ on my blog site by 8:00. Bought a copy of
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English on Amazon by 8:10. Its price is 650
rupees. Its postage charge to my abode is 90 rupees. Ram Mohan Reddy, a Hetero
employee at HLL-IX, recently asked me to buy a good English dictionary for him.
He pays me 740 rupees and takes it from me. My father came to my abode by 9:30
from Peda Gummuluru. He brought four guavas, grapes and a vegetable item for us
from there. He spent with us till 3:30. Today I downloaded the Telugu feature
films “Geetanjali”, “Sirivennela”, “Saagara Sangamam”, “Sithaara” and
“Seethakoka Chiluka” from YouTube to my computer. Recently I downloaded Telugu
film “Sankeerthana” also. I am not getting time to watch these films also. Saw
the Telugu film “S/o Satya Murthy” in cinema Gowtham from 2:30 to 5:15 along
with Anand. Trivikram Srinivas failed in upholding his good image as a director
taking this film. He tried to tell the viewers that in life or profession,
values are more important than money and profits. He did not portray the
character of Satya Murthy powerfully. He deployed three actresses but nobody
seems important in this film. He prepared a weak story and struggled to posit
it fascinatingly. The characters of Rajendra Prasad and Rao Ramesh appear
appealing. There are no power of intelligence and absorbing narration in this
film. His previously directed film “Julaayi” has all the qualities, which
viewers expect from him. Slept by 10:00.
13 April (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:47 by bus. Took an L&D class at HDL-IX from 9:30 to
10:30 and discussed “Challenges”. Took this class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00.
Returned home by 7:20 by bus. Afternoon Srijana took Anand and Sankeerthana to the
teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem on our bike with the help of
Revathi. She left our children there. The summer holidays of Anand start from
today. She wants our kids to enjoy freedom and fresh air over there for some
days. She went to Viswanadhapuram and brought her share of DWCRA loan amount of
money issued by bank (State Bank of India, Kodavatipudi). She is the member of
a women’s group there utilizing this facility provided by the state government.
She got about 30,000 rupees. By 9:00 copied the video files of my Upanayanam
and marriage with Srijana from those DVDs to my computer. I am not happy about
the Telugu film songs added to these video files through digital mixing
technology. For long, I wanted and tried to get these songs replaced with my
favourite ones. One said that there must be original files to add audio track.
If they do it with the mixed video files, the quality of these video files gets
affected. I am disappointed about it. I will get it done sometime in near
future if I find one to do it for me. I upload these video files into my
YouTube account soon. Let others watch us and feel those moments warmly. Slept
by 10:00 for my dreams.
14 April (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and
HLL-IX from 2:00 to 3:00 and from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed ‘Challenges’.
Today it was cloudy and pleasant. Morning Srijana went to Peda Gummuluru by
bus. Yesterday a function was held at the abode of my paternal uncle Srinivas on
the occasion of their daughter reaching puberty. They invited us. We could not
go there yesterday. Today Srijana bought a beautiful dress for this girl,
spending 600 rupees. She presented this dress to her and spent with them for
some time. She gave 5,500 rupees to my brother Sambha to enable him to pay the
annual interest on the amount of money I borrowed from the folks of the primary
agricultural cooperative society at village Koruprolu. She returned from there
in the evening. Night I downloaded two insightful videos from YouTube. They
show how the earth planet is revolving around itself in the space. High
resolution cameras, fitted in the space station above, shot this wonderful
occurrence related to earth. I uploaded the first copy of video of my Upanayanam
into my account on YouTube this night. There are five more video files showing
my Upanayanam and marriage with Srijana held on 23.03.2008 at Peda Gummuluru
and Viswanadhapuram. I upload them soon. I make them public for anybody to
watch online. It’s my birthday today according to the date printed on my
educational certificates. Slept by 10:45.
15 April (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. I could not
catch any scheduled Hetero bus today. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from
2:00 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Challenges’. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Sankeerthana
is doing well in the teak plantation at Marripalem. Her maternal grandmother is
a dedicated caretaker of babies and children. Anand is also happy there. We
miss our children a lot because they are innocent and sensitive. My in-laws are
enjoying their presence when we are missing them. Innocence attracts us faster
than other qualities in others. Sankeerthana comes out when I start from home
to take a Hetero bus at Y Junction. She moves my pair of safety shoes to
participate in my pursuit. Anand does not do it because his intelligence
advises him that I can do it on my own. Squirrels helped Lord Rama in laying a
bridge across the sea between India and Sri Lanka. They say that Lord Rama drew
three lines on the body of a squirrel during this time to express His sense of
gratitude and bliss towards them. God likes and guides innocent creatures more
than intelligent ones. He saves innocent and helpless kids, birds and animals
from diseases and dangers. Intelligent creatures are suffering more in this
world than innocent ones because God is allowing them to live applying their
skills. He likes those, who submit to Him devotedly. Slept by 10:50.
16 April (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:47 by bus. Took L&D classes at HDL-IX from 9:30 to
10:30 and at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed ‘Challenges’. Today Srijana
brought Sankeerthana to our abode from the teak plantation on our bike by 6:30
in the evening. She missed us. We sensed it in her expressions. Today Swathi
went there to help Srijana bring Sankeerthana. By today the three parts of my
Upanayanam video files got uploaded and published on my channel of YouTube. I
regret the original quality of these files. A videographer of Adduroad shot
these occasions of Upanayanam and marriage. My brother Sambha must have hired
him. He is not an expert. I became the victim. I did not collect the original
video files from him out of my ignorance then. This is how time teaches us
lessons. We should assess the value of many persons and things in our lives
when they are accessible and affordable to us. We live and die according to the
time schedules of our souls. God ensures it. We should not feel scared to share
the moments of our lives with others. All creatures and phenomena are the
creation of God. Everybody and everything has a purpose here. I should love
good people honestly. I should love bad people also but with caution and
vision. YouTube of Google is a marvelous online source of knowledge and
entertainment. We can learn and improve ourselves watching those superb videos.
Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
17 April (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today I
am on leave. Typed up the content of March, from my diary of 2015, on my
computer, for six hours. Today I uploaded the three parts of video files of my
marriage with Srijana to my account on YouTube. All the six video files,
related to my Upanayanam and marriage, are available now, to be watched by
anybody, on YouTube. I love all. My files should be accessible to them. Went
into Tuni town by 4:30 on my bike along with Anand to buy some things for me.
Bought a DVD container pouch for 200 rupees; two fabric perfume bottles for 100
rupees; a permanent marker to write on DVDs and a Cello Gripper black ballpoint.
The present pouch of DVDs is not a piece of quality. I make about 15 DVDs every
year with the photos and videos I shoot with my Sony digital camera and other
content. They are audible and visible records of people and things I like or
know. In summer, we sweat more and our fabrics too smell a little. Spraying a
little scent on our clothes would be favorable to others. I bought jasmine and
majmua flavor perfume bottles of aco brand. Each bottle contains 20 ml of perfume.
A A Attarwala and Company made them in Mumbai. I bought two Gokul pieces of
lower under wear for 150 rupees and three pairs of socks of NIKE for 300 rupees
in two stores at Payakaraopeta. My father-in-law and Anand came to our abode by
1:30 from Marripalem. Srijana is happy with our presence today. Slept by 10:00.
18 April (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. K Raghu, the
plant head of HLL-IX, took out the files and documents from the desks and
drawers of all staff members opposite his cabin and put them in one place. He
reprimanded them about their indiscipline in their documentation manners. Took
an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed “Challenges”. Spent
rest of the day casually. Evening Soma Sundaram conducted the ‘Saturday Josh’
program somewhere in SEZ. I did not attend it. Today my father-in-law got
medical tests done to his sample blood before and after his breakfast, at
Payakaraopeta, to know the glucose levels. He took these test reports to his
doctor in Visakhapatnam by 2:00 for his advice. The doctor felt happy about the
improvement in his health condition since he met him earlier. He quit smoking
cigarettes. He is walking for about six kilometres every morning before 5:00.
He must be regulating his food habits also. We are happy about it. He is also a
vulnerable creature in the creation of God. He must live ideally to satisfy
God. He expects all His creatures to be disciplined and happy always. Returned
home by 7:30 by bus. Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and I started to Viswanadhapuram
by 7:45 on our bike. It was a pleasant and cool journey through the spell of
nature in villages and beyond. I felt elevated. Slept by 10:00.
19 April (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Spent in
Viswanadhapuram till 3:30. Jagannadha Raju, the maternal grandfather of
Srijana, is in a pathetic condition now. He is bony and unconscious. Lakshmi
Bharathi, his wife, is taking care of him, day and night. Took Sankeerthana to the
agricultural farm of Satya Narayana Raju by 11:00. We spent there for one hour.
Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and I started to the agricultural farm of D S N
Raju at Marripalem by 3:35 on our bike. We travelled via Cherlo Palem and D
Erra Varam and reached there by 4:15. We left Sankeerthana and Anand here. They
spend with their maternal grandparents here feeling the spell of nature.
Srijana and I started to our abode at Payakaraopeta by 4:30 on our bike and
reached here by 5:20. We two watched the Telugu film “Vaaradhi” in cinema Surya
Mahal from 6:30 to 8:30. It is a confusing, irritating and boring film. The
director failed in attracting the attention of viewers, portraying plot and
characters powerfully. Some bits and dialogues are interesting but it cannot
impress us with a gripping story and narration. Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio
gave me the soft copies of photo album of the marriage of Naren and Suma and
the video files also for me to watch on my computer and finalize them. Scanned
them on my computer from 8:45 to 9:30. The album is fantastic. The video files
don’t have much quality. Slept by 10:30.
20 April (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:12 by bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HDL-IX and
HLL-III from 9:30 to 10:30 and from 2:00 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Challenges’.
Morning talked with our manager Subba Rao for some time. He said that I should
go to different blocks and departments in Hetero Complex and teach English to
employees. I said it is not right. Employees remain engaged in different tasks
and works all the time because they have timelines and production targets. The
staff members of departments like maintenance and civil works are scattered in
different workplaces. They go to their departments occasionally. The ambience
of venue and psychological state of learners should be suitable to instruction.
We should not discuss sweets at a garbage deposit spot. We should not teach
English to one when one is engrossed in something else. When we clearly know
that something is practically impossible, we should not practice it.
Experimentation without analytical and creative thinking leads to risks, waste
of time and resources and chaos. Fools and rogues indulge in such things often
and victimize others. Subba Rao is such an opportunist and rogue. He sits in
his comfort zone and exploits others applying his ignorance and stupidity. Many
such Indians are blocking the growth of India, taking decisions superficially.
Today a postman delivered the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English,
which I booked on Amazon recently. Ram Mohan Reddy collected it from me by
8:00. Slept by 10:00.
21 April (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. They did not
stop a bus to take. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and
discussed ‘Challenges’. Afternoon Hetero chairman Parthasaradhi Reddy came to
Hetero Complex. He came on some task. Got off at Y Junction by 6:50 from a
Hetero bus. Had a chapati for 20 rupees at Jagatha Hotel. This is where I have
breakfast when needed. Morning Srijana went to the teak plantation at
Marripalem on our bike. Thence she went to Viswanadhapuram with her mother and
our children. There she helped her mother take out a DWCRA loan from the State
Bank of India branch at Kodavatipudi. Her father took them back to Marripalem
on his bike in the evening. Srijana stayed back to attend the marriage of one
of her tenth standard classmates, this night, in village Karanam Kothuru, near
Viswanadhapuram. Many of her schoolmates and college associates keep in touch
with her. She talks with them and attends important occasions in their lives if
she has time. I feel happy when she is enjoying the freedom of her life.
Married life should not be like a cage for a woman. A husband should be like a
tourist guide towards his wife but not a jailor. He should allow her to see
many places and celebrate the beauty of diversity in this world. She is a
precious creation of God. We should not treat her like a servant. Slept by
10:00.
22 April (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and
HLL-IX from 2:00 to 3:00 and 4:45 to 5:45 and discussed ‘Challenges’. Morning
Srijana returned from Viswanadhapuram. By 5:00, in the evening, my nephew Suhas
came to our abode from Peda Gummuluru. He came there two days ago from Bhima
Varam. He is in his summer holidays now. He said that he wrote a Telugu film
story in 120 pages in the form of dialogues. He said he would give it to me for
editing. He watches many films like me. He is passionate about this art form. I
want to encourage him in this direction convincing his parents about it. He
told me a little about the culture of folks in Bhima Varam. The Kshatriya
community feeling is pervasive in this town. Rich students carry high amounts
of money casually like adults. One Kshatriya student, in his class, slapped his
lecturer, because he asked him an irritating question highlighting his
Kshatriya identity. They develop amity intensely with Kshatriya folks. Some
folks spend lakhs of rupees for banners and other promotional material when a feature
film of actor Prabhas is released to a cinema here. Suhas wondered about this
typical culture of Kshatriyas in this region. He is not happy about their
lifestyles and culture. Srijana and Suhas saw the Telugu film “Jil’ in cinema
Surya Mahal from 9:30 to 11:30. Suhas is using a smartphone like a modern
student now. Slept by 10:00.
23 April (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Today I did not do anything useful to Hetero.
Sat in the L&D class of our manager Subba Rao at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00.
He did not do it well. He did not feel the passion to teach them exceptionally.
Hetero employees don’t have passion to learn if the idiots of L&D
departments don’t have passion to give them the best. Subba Rao is acting a smart
role to impress his superiors here as the manager of this department but he has
no concern to inspire these employees doing his best. He has no learning
instinct. He is getting easy money from Hetero. Today my brother Sambha got the
mango plants in my two-acre farm watered. Morning Srijana and Suhas went to the
agricultural farm of D S N Raju at Marripalem on our bike. They took a Suvarna
Rekha mango fruit for Sankeerthana there. My mother sent it for her. It was
collected from a plant in my farm. Sankeerthana had much of this fruit
passionately. This is the first fruit she had from my mango farm. She is doing
well at the abode of her maternal grandparents. I am missing her. Srijana and
Suhas saw the Telugu film “OK Bangaaram” in Sri Kanya Complex at Narsipatnam
this morning. They returned to our abode in the evening. The results of annual
exams of first year Intermediate course got released today. Suhas did not get
them properly. Slept by 10:20.
24 April (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. It started raining since this morning. It was
cloudy and cool throughout the day. The helpless creatures, suffering from
summer, felt very relieved from this kind spell of nature. Took an L&D class
at HDL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30 and discussed ‘Challenges’. Spent rest of the
casually. Today our manager Subba Rao told me that I should go to the blocks
and departments in HLL-III from this Monday and interact with the employees
there to improve their English knowledge and skills. It is like going to the
bedroom of recently married young couple and teaching them about family
planning methods, at night. We should not teach anything important to others in
an unfavourable place. Subba Rao doesn’t have this common sense also. Employees
remain attentively engaged in their tasks in their departments and blocks. How
can they focus on the concept of learning English in their workplaces? I look
like an intruder into their place if I ask them to gather around me for my casual
discussion of English with them. Subba Rao decided to present me as a buffoon
to these employees. Gopala Krishna Reddy authorized Subba Rao to lead L&D
department like a sick and mad dog. Today Srijana collected the progress report
of Anand from Canossa School. They did not write his name correctly on it. They
gave a postcard size group photo of the class of Anand. I pity the
psychological growth of the ghosts running this school. Slept by 10:00.
25 April (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III from
2:00 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Challenges”. By 1:30 took a yellow safety helmet
from the engineering store at HLL-III. This is in view of my going to blocks at
HLL-III from this Monday for casual English interaction with employees. I have
to wear a white apron and a yellow helmet while going to production blocks for
the sake of my physical safety. Aprons and helmets are missing often from our
places of work. From 5:30 to 6:15 we, the folks of L&D department,
organized the ‘Saturday Josh’ program at the administrative building in HDL-IX.
By 6:25, it turned very cloudy and started raining. I took a Hetero bus in this
inspiring setting of nature in the sky. Reached home by 7:30. Morning my nephew
Suhas took Simhadri Express at Tuni railway station to go to Bhima Varam. By
8:00 went to Sri Prakash Studio in Payakaraopeta. I saw the beauty and quality
of creative photos he added to the wedding album of my cousin Naren and Suma.
He did the photo album very well. Told him to get it printed soon. Srijana and
I bought five pairs of clothes for Anand at Lavanya cloth store in
Payakaraopeta, spending 1,165 rupees. It’s casual wear. I am unable to spend
much money for his clothes. Shopkeepers are selling them at very high prices.
Slept by 10:00.
26 April (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Took a
sharing auto rickshaw at Y Junction by 9:30 and reached Peda Gummuluru. My
brother Sambha and I started to our mango garden at hills by 10:30 on his bike.
We checked our mango farms. The sizes of mangoes are less than we expected to
see during this time of the season. There should have been adequate rain in
March. My father and our associate Yesu Babu were collecting firewood from the hillock
along our mango farm. We spent talking with our paternal uncle Narayana Murthy
at his abode for one hour. He offered me two mango fruit. Had them. We had
lunch with fish soup in the house of Sambha by 1:00. We reached the
agricultural farm of Sambha near Tangedu by 2:30 on his bike via China Gummuluru,
Darlapudi and Kota Uratla. The state government is expanding this narrow road
to 30-feet road from Narsipatnam to Adduroad. Most of this work is over. Now
this road is looking fantastic to travel on. We halted at the temple near
Narsipatnam Road railway station by 5:10 on our way back to home. A saint named
Rama Krishna is staying here. Ramayanapu Ramana of village China Gummuluru is
offering him material assistance for his stay here. Sambha told me about this
sage. I talked with him for 30 minutes. I was amazed observing his spiritual
growth. He meditates. Returned home by 7:30 by an APSRTC bus. Morning Srijana
went to Viswanadhapuram on our bike. Went to sleep by 10:00.
27 April (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Put on my yellow helmet and white apron by 9:45.
Walked to HLL-III by 10:00. Met the heads of eight departments and blocks by
11:00 and told them that I want to discuss English casually with their staff
members from 30 minutes to one hour for some days to improve their English
usage skills. None of them agreed to it. Their staff members cannot devote
their precious time to learn English in their workplaces when they are engaged
in their primary pressing job responsibilities. I typed out a two-page report
on the feedback of these folks and showed it to our manager Subba Rao. He did
not like it. It happened against his wish. He criticized me saying that I
should have gone there with Soma Sundaram or Kishore Reddy. He wants to send an
idiot with me to promote my English classes. It is like sending two ghosts with
a soul to promote it. Afternoon took an L&D class at HLL-III and discussed
‘Challenges’. By 3:30 Soma Sundaram took me to blocks B and C in HDL-IX and
told me to take English classes there casually. They said they were busy doing
their production tasks. Subba Rao is getting crazy and egoistic day by day.
Returned home by 7:30 by bus. Edited the content of March, from my diary of
2015, on my computer, from 8:00 to 9:00. Slept by 11:00.
28 April (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45. Met K Raghu, the plant head of HLL-IX, by 9:00, in his
cabin. I informed him that Illuri Subba Rao, Gopala Krishna Reddy or Jaladurgam
Ram are not encouraging me towards teaching English well at Hetero Complex. I
would come up with a master plan to create a culture of wide usage of English
here. He should facilitate me to discuss this plan with director C Mohan Reddy
through his guidance. He encouraged me to do it. Today I took short English
discussion classes at the administrative block, block E and EHS departments in
HLL-III, for 20 to 30 minutes, from 10:00 to 2:30. Did it at B and C blocks
also at HDL-IX from 3:50 to 4:45. Subba Rao instructed me to do it. He is
expecting me to do something. What I do may or may not be beneficial to the employees
here. He is bothering me telling me to discuss English with employees when they
are not psychologically prepared for it. By 1:00 typed out four pages of master
plan for improving English usage culture in Hetero Complex on the computer
system of D Srinivasa Varma. Emailed it to K Raghu. Evening he and I wanted to
discuss this plan for a while but could not as he was very busy with his
pressing tasks. I am not interested in working under the guidance of Subba Rao,
Gopal or Ram because they are not interested in developing Hetero’s human
resources but growing at their level only. I don’t like hypocrites and
traitors. Slept by 10:00.
29 April (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Morning and afternoon conducted informal English
interactions in some blocks and departments at HLL-III and HDL-IX. Morning met
K Raghu in his cabin and discussed the master plan I prepared to show to the
director C Mohan Reddy. He advised me to remove the names of the three folks
because of whom I could not deliver well till now at Hetero Complex. They are
Subba Rao, Jaladurgam Ram and Gopala Krishna Reddy. Raghu told me that I can
discuss these things with the director when I meet him. I removed those names
and presented the content differently. Subba Rao and Ram never asked me to do
something great to improve the standards of English usage in Hetero Complex. It
shows their hypocrisy. Hetero employees lose a lot if I can’t help them learn
English. I should get the villains out of my path if I have to do wonders for
Hetero. I am trying to do this. Returned home by 7:30 after having a chapati at
Jagatha Hotel by Y Junction. I am unable to have nutritious food or other items
for my breakfast in the morning hours now as Srijana is not here. I am turning
weak by lunchtime. It is continuing till the evening. It is temporary and minor
issue. I am missing Sankeerthana more than others. Anand, Sankeerthana and Srijana
are in Viswanadhapuram now. Sankeerthana must be missing my affection for her.
Slept by 10:00.
30 April (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Conducted casual English interactions in HLL-III
from 9:45 to 2:00 at three blocks and departments. By 2:00 I went to a
conference hall in HLL-IX to talk with director C Mohan Reddy. K Raghu, the
plant head of HLL-IX, advised me to meet him. Mohan, after listening to my
formal introductory words for two seconds, remarked that he does not know who I
am. I was shocked. I realized that he was acting more than necessary before me
to make me believe that he is extraordinary and so busy with his tasks that he
cannot remember many employees in Hetero Complex here. I bore with his indecency.
I met him again by 2:45 in this hall to discuss my master plan on English. He
had his lunch by this time. Raghu introduced me to him in three seconds. This
time Mohan treated me normally. I explained my master plan to him within three
minutes. He accepted to do what I want in Hetero Complex to create a good
English usage culture in all the employees. He said that he would advise Raghu
to facilitate me in this regard. I felt happy about it. Subba Rao does not know
about this development. Got into the car of a Hetero employee by 6:05 and got
off it at Kurmanna Palem by 7:30. Thence took a bus and an auto rickshaw and
reached hotel Daspalla in Visakhapatnam by 8:45 to attend the marriage of my
familiar boy of Viswanadhapuram.
1 May (Friday)
Last night, by 7:14, an
amount of 27, 798 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by the folks of
Hetero towards my salary for April. Last night I watched the marriage of Shiva
Rama Krishnam Raju and Venkata Padmavathi in Dharshini Hall in the fourth floor
of Hotel Daspalla. The bridegroom belongs to Viswanadhapuram and the bride to
Visakhapatnam. The father and ancestors of bride once lived in village
Ramayyapatnam. Many of the guests that came here representing the bride belong
to this village. I felt happy enjoying the presence of folks of both the
parties. Srijana too attended it. The ordinary APSRTC bus of Tuni bus depot,
which the bridegroom party hired for guest travel, started from this hotel by
3:00. Got off it at Adduroad Junction by 5:00. Gave 9,000 rupees to Sambha. He
spends it to buy water and manure to irrigate and energize my two-acre mango
farm at hills. My brother Srinivas came here to go to Visakhapatnam. Spent
talking with him and my parents till 8:00. Returned to Payakaraopeta by 9:00 by
bus. Felt much sleepy. Saw the Telugu film “Ganga” of Raghava Lawrence in
cinema Gowtham from 2:30 to 5:00. It is an ordinary film with a typical story
and superficial dialogues. Raghava should not have tarnished his good image as
a choreographer, taking such these mediocre films. By 7:30, posted my letter to
the principal of Canossa School, which I wrote last year, on my blog site. It’s
holiday at Hetero today for me on account of May Day. Slept by 9:30 for my
dreams.
2 May (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night I slept on one cot but this morning I got up from another cot. I wondered
about it. There are three cots in our master bedroom. I sleep on a folding cot
mostly. It is the third one from the wall. Morning I got up from the cot, which
is by the wall. Mostly I don’t get up while sleeping at night for needs like
drinking water and going to a toilet. I instructed my mind that doing so at
night, while sleeping, is not a good habit. It stopped indulging in this
mischief years ago. If there are sounds around me or if there is unfavourable
environment for me to sleep, then I can’t enjoy uninterrupted sleep. How did I
move to another cot last night? Did I get up sometime in the middle of the
night and move there? Did I forget what I did last night consciously or subconsciously?
Did I roll from one end of the cots to another, when I knew that it was not
better in any way? Did something supernatural occur beyond my knowledge? Did
God do so for a reason to help me? Reached Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Today
I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX from 2:20 to 3:00 and from
5:00 to 5:45 and discussed “Multitasking”. Our manager Illuri Subba Rao was on
leave today. Morning Srijana came here from Viswanadhapuram on our bike. She
got Sankeerthana vaccinated at a public facility here. Srijana said that
Sankeerthana searched for me over here. She is missing me. Slept by 9:45.
3 May (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Today I
typed up the content of April from my diary of 2015 on my computer from 8:00 to
5:30 with breaks in between. Saw the Telugu film “Utthama Villain” in cinema
Surya Mahal from 11:00 to 1:45. Kamal Hasan acted in it. Ramesh Aravind
directed it. I know and saw Kamal Hasan as a good actor. I think Kamal is
losing his good image as an actor through his crazy ventures as a director and
producer. We cannot watch this film interestingly for 10 minutes also. The
story is unbelievably weak. The dialogues are superficial in many parts of it.
We feel emotionally elevated occasionally but many scenes are quite unwanted
ones. The main plot portrays elements of pain in the life of protagonist but in
the sub plot he plays the role of a comic hero. Kamal victimized K Bala
Chander, presenting him as the director of a worthless film, in this film. A
feature film should be like a garland of inspiring story, absorbing narration
and memorable scenes and dialogues. I give 35 marks to this film for 100. The
music director gets most of these marks. By 2:30 Srijana came here on an
assignment from Viswanadhapuram. She brought 20 mangoes for me. She started
back within seconds. Attended the monthly meeting of Kshatriya Seva Samithi of
Payakaraopeta from 5:45 to 6:30. Today it was hot and sultry. Summer is
increasing heat. Slept by 10:15.
4 May (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. The HR staff of Hetero paid 4,000 rupees more to
me with my salary towards LTA for the last month. Today I took two L&D
classes at HDL-IX and HLL-III from 9:30 to 10:30 and from 4:50 to 5:30 and
discussed “Multitasking”. Took three classes of casual English interaction at E
block of HLL-III, EHS department here and D block in HDL-IX. I told Subba Rao
that discussing English with staff members in production blocks in hazardous
workplaces is not right. He instructed me to do it. I regret to be associated
with such idiot. Typed out an action plan on English on the computer system of
Srinivasa Varma by 1:00 and emailed it to Raghu, the plant head of HLL-IX. He
is on leave today. I should come out of L&D department first. Subba Rao, Jaladurgam
Ram or Gopala Krishna Reddy have no genuine interest towards development of
Hetero. They don’t encourage and appreciate talented staff in Hetero towards achievements
because they have no such attitude. My nephew Suhas has to pursue his first
year Intermediate course again this academic year. He got zero marks in two
subjects this preceding academic year for some reason. His father is not
interested in opting for reevaluation and going through all that mess. My
cousin Krishna Kumari got 770 marks for 1,000 in her Intermediate course. I
advised my uncle to admit her into a government college to study B.Sc. Slept by
10:00.
5 May (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Morning I
am having Horlicks oats now with sweetened boiled milk. I am not getting time
to prepare any other breakfast item. I have no time to have it at a hotel also.
By 6:50 cancelled the train tickets of my folks scheduled for the 8th
of this month to Hyderabad and on the 25th of this month from there.
I booked them about a month ago for Janmabhoomi Express and Godavari Express
for Srijana, her mother, our children, Revathi and their two children. Morning
Srijana told me over phone to cancel these tickets. The marriage of Sivaji
Raju, the brother of Revathi, is finalized and is likely to take place towards
the end of this month. They get engaged in those preparations and arrangements.
Reached Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I took three casual English
interaction classes in HLL-III and HDL-IX in the morning and afternoon. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 2:10 to 3:00 and discussed “Multitasking”. Talked
with K Raghu, the plant head of HLL-IX, from 5:50 to 6:15 in his cabin. We
discussed my action plan on English to be implemented in Hetero Complex here.
Recently two twin babies were born to my cousin Ashwini, the daughter of my
paternal uncle Narayana Murthy Raju. They were premature babies. They survived
for three days only after birth. Ashwini and others are much disturbed about
it. Slept by 10:00.
6 May (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I conducted four informal English classes
at HLL-III and HDL-IX in the morning and afternoon. They are not speaking out
much in English as desired by our manager Subba Rao. They are unable to speak
confidently because they did not learn English well when they were students. We
should not expect them to speak in English without creating them an opportunity
to learn it well. Subba Rao often takes decisions quite irrationally. He does
what is possible to him but not what is beneficial to others. I have empathy
towards learners in Hetero because I know what conditions are blocking them
from learning English. Each of us has drawbacks and demerits. We should love
and treat others kindly to bring a positive change in them. This is how saints
and social reformers have been bringing change in India for long. This is how
God is changing His devotees and sinners in this world. We cannot change others
if we don’t have vision, patience and empathy. The number of professionals
increased in India. They are misleading people telling lies and presenting data
wrongly. They are acting smart roles to bewitch others. They have no humanity.
They are seeking pleasure from earning money and spending it carelessly. Took an
L&D class at HLL-IX from 5:00 to 5:30 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Evening
Srijana came from Viswanadhapuram. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
7 May (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I took three casual English discussion
classes at HLL-III and HDL-IX. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. By 7:30, at night, Srijana brought
Sankeerthana to our abode from Viswanadhapuram along with Revathi on our bike.
She looked weak. She must be walking in the sun. They are not taking care of
her much. I cleared all my important debts during the last 18 months. Srijana
helped me a lot in this process. I have to yet pay 8,000 rupees to Rajani Kumar
Raju for the ONIDA colour television and TV stand, which I took from him in
2008; 5,000 rupees to Veeranjaneyulu, which I borrowed from him in 2010 and
about 3,500 rupees to the folks of Leadstart Publishing in Mumbai for the 10
books I got from them about three years ago. Srijana bought some items to use
in our house. It is the moral responsibility of a husband to look after his
wife and children. He should keep them comfortable and happy as much as he can,
utilizing his physical and psychological abilities. He should always treat them
like his honourable guests. Srijana spent about one lakh rupees till now to buy
useful items for our domestic consumption. I should repay this amount of money
to her month after month, meeting financial needs at home concurrently. I am
remaining in a debt trap regularly. Slept by 10:00.
8 May (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I conducted three casual English
discussion classes at HLL-III. Took two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX
from 2:00 to 3:00 and from 4:50 to 5:30 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Morning
met K Raghu in his cabin. We talked about my master plan on English. Morning
Srijana and Revathi took Sankeerthana to Viswanadhapuram on our bike. Now they
are all engaged in making mango pickles using fresh mangoes of this season.
Srijana actually brought Sankeerthana to enable me to spend with her. Morning
she cried when I was going to Hetero. She wanted to spend with me but I did not
allow her to do so. I am missing her. Doing job prevents one from enjoying
one’s personal life. I am not getting time to play with Sankeerthana or Anand.
When our children are young, they don’t depend on us much because they get
attracted towards other persons and things around them. When they are babies,
they express pure love towards us. We should feel and celebrate the innocence
and beauty of our babies. God shows the beauty of human life in childhood more
than at other stages. Sankeerthana is at that stage now. I should spend a lot
of time with her because she shows exceptional beauty of sounds, signs and acts
devised by God. I am helpless as a jobholder. I am unable to witness the
blissful moments in her early childhood. I am living like a machine. Slept by
10:00.
9 May (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I took two casual English discussion
classes in HLL-III. Took two L&D classes at HDL-IX and HLL-IX and discussed
‘Multitasking’. Tonight there is the marriage of the younger daughter of
Viswanadha Raju, the paternal uncle of my sister-in-law Sandhya Rani, at Parimi
Tadika, a hamlet near Eleswaram. Once I went to this place on an occasion. My
brother Srinivas told me that basic amenities are also not there in this place
for attendees and guests of this occasion. I withdrew myself from the idea of
going there, based on his advice. His focus was on the amenities there but not
the importance of the occasion. If he had true love towards those folks, he
would not have minded other things. Often we develop an impression about
something or somebody based on our perception about them, without observing
reality. Many promote us as great ones based on their knowledge about or
experience with us. They may look or behave differently with us if we meet them
personally. The characters and attitudes of people are bound to change in
course of time. We should erase our impressions about others quite often. We
should not build or break our relationships with others based on our
imaginations. We should check it closely. We should have empathy towards others
to understand them better. Slept by 10:00.
10 May (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. M V S
Prakash and I started to Viswanadhapuram by 8:00 in his Hetero provided NANO
car to buy and bring mangoes from there. He is with the QC department at
HLL-III in Hetero Complex now. We collected 120 Banginapalli and 60 Kotthapalli
Kobbari mangoes from two trees here by 11:30. He paid 1,800 rupees for them. I
spent with Srijana, Sankeerthana and Anand during this time. Had my lunch by
12:20. We started back in the car by 12:30 and reached here by 1:00. Saw the
Telugu film “Dhongaata” in cinema Sai Mahal from 2:30 to 4:45. Manchu Lakshmi
Prasanna produced and acted in it. It is an interesting and exciting film
throughout. Enjoyed watching every bit of it. Lakshmi speaks English in good
accent and Telugu in a distinct accent. She appeared and acted well in this
film. Many dialogues in this film are touching and educative. By 4:50 bought
two bottles of Amla (Vusiri in Telugu) juice for 110 rupees at a MedPlus
medical store in Payakaraopeta. The name of this product is Nature’s Best. It
was made in Punjab by a cooperative society. This is good for health. I consume
it daily with lukewarm water in the morning with empty stomach. We should
consume bitter foods regularly to keep our health strong. Colored my hair and
moustache black with Super Vasmol 33 liquid by 7:00. Edited the content of
April from my diary of 2015 from 7:30 to 8:30 on my computer. Recharged my Blu
Wifi broadband account paying 448 rupees online. Slept by 10:15.
11 May (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:01 by bus. Today I conducted two casual English discussion
classes at HLL-III. By 1:00 had my lunch in the cafeteria at HLL-III. It is the
first death anniversary of Krishna Sindhuri, the daughter of Hetero CMD
Parthasaradhi Reddy, today. They kept the photos of Sindhuri at some places in
Hetero Complex for the employees to see and pay homage to her. They offered
Heritage ice cream, tamarind rice and a sweet to all those that had their lunch
at canteens today. If these living souls wish the departed soul the best, it
may reduce the burden of the soul in the other plane as far as its bad Karma is
concerned. This body is a physical medium for a soul to live its Karma. They
observed silence for two minutes at all the workplaces around 11:00. By 3:00
took a white apron from the engineering store at HLL-III. Somebody stole one of
my two aprons recently. As I am going to blocks now for casual English interactions
with the employees there, my white apron is turning worn-out fast. I took one
today to wear it, when the other is put for wash at laundry. Got off at Y
Junction by 6:50 from the 6:15 Hetero bus. Today they did not prepare breakfast
items as their cook was absent. Bought a pack of chicken biryani for 70 rupees
for my supper. It rained by 8:15 and cooled it. Slept by 10:15.
12 May (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:01 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. I could not
take any bus today. Conducted two informal English discussion classes at two
workplaces today. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:20 to 3:00 and
discussed ‘Multitasking’. Returned home by 7:00 by bus. Bought and brought a
pack of chicken biryani from Jagatha hotel. It cost me 70 rupees. My friend
Papadasu Srinivasa Reddy of Hetero came to my abode by 7:45 from his abode at
L&T Colony. We had chicken biryani by 8:10. We had pieces of papaya fruit
also. I showed him some video files on my computer, which I downloaded recently
from YouTube. Copied some Telugu films, Telugu video film songs, Yoga music
files, Telugu audio film songs and English learning video files into my 16 GB
Transcend pen drive and gave it to him. He copies those files to his computer.
He wants to change physically and psychologically. He is trying to consume good
foods and beverages to be healthy. He wants to practice Yoga for relaxation.
Told him to watch classic Telugu films and listen to those great songs
regularly. What we are seeing, listening to, thinking and doing deeply impacts
our body and mind. If we are not in a favorable environment, we should create
one to reform and inspire ourselves. God does not do everything favorable to us
but provides us with intelligence to do it on our own. We should plan and do
what is good for us. Slept by 10:30.
13 May (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:41 by bus. Today I conducted two casual English discussion
classes at HLL-III. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:00. By
9:00, this morning, gave samples of my blood and urine at the OHC in HDL-IX.
They test them and give me medical reports. They do it once a year for all the
employees. My height is 168 cm and weight is 72 kgs. My blood pressure is
117/80. Evening I checked my body mass index online, applying my height and
weight particulars. It is 25.1. I have to reduce four kilos of body weight to
be healthier than now. Excessive fat is stored around my stomach in my body. I
have to do physical exercises, exerting moderate pressure on my stomach to burn
the fat there. I am not getting time for it. Returned home by 7:30 after having
a chapati at Jagatha hotel for 20 rupees. By 9:30 Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio
brought the wedding album of my cousin Naren and Suma. It is fantastic. Gave
him 2,500 rupees. Naren spent 32,500 rupees for the photo album and video files
of his Upanayanam and marriage. I have to yet collect the wedding related DVDs
from them. Most of us see and watch our marriage albums and videos
interestingly during those few days after those occasions in our lives. We
should check them every year to keep them well. Slept by 10:00.
14 May (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. I felt
giddy soon after getting up from the cot. I could somehow manage to shave my
beard, take a bath and have oats with milk. Giddiness was not intense. Took a
Hetero bus at Y Junction by 8:15 and reached Hetero Complex by 9:00. Went to
the OHC at HLL-III by 9:25 and consulted Dr. Prem Kumar there. He prescribed
three MULTIRICH capsules of COSMO Life Sciences for meeting vitamin deficiency
requirements in my body and a pack of oral rehydration powder sachets of CIPLA.
He advised me to have coconut water in summer as often as possible. Today I had
two sachets of those oral rehydration salts in the morning and afternoon mixing
it in two glasses of water. I felt somewhat uneasy during the day but not
giddy. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:00 and talked about
‘Multitasking’. Today also I went to some production blocks in HLL-III for
conducting informal English interaction classes but those staff members had no
time to come to me. It’s ironical. I put my apron and helmet on a table in my
workplace at HLL-IX by 4:45 and went to sit in the L&D class of our manager
Subba Rao here. By 5:50, when I came to this place, my yellow helmet was not
there. Somebody picked it. I felt embarrassed about this employee culture.
Srijana came to our rented abode at Devi Nagar by 7:25 on our bike from
Viswanadhapuram along with Aditya, Anand and Sankeerthana. Slept by 10:00 for
my dreams.
15 May (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I conducted two casual English interaction
classes at two blocks in HLL-III. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to
3:00 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Recently the staff of APSRTC were on strike
to get their demands met by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. They did not run
the buses for about 10 days. They called off their strike only after the
government agreed to hike their pay scales and some perks. Strike is a common
phenomenon in many parts of India. Government bodies mostly indulge in these
public agitation programs to threaten the central and state governments. They
want more from the governments but they are not willing to deliver more service
to people. The remunerations being offered to many central and state government
employees are comparatively higher than the earnings of ordinary people. Costs
of living are increasing every year across places but common people are unable
to earn money in proportion to it. Governments are becoming victims to many
interest groups. Trade unions became dangerous entities in India. They
regularly go on strikes. Their salaries and perks must be increased regularly.
They don’t mind the plight of people around them nor the financial condition of
governments. I hate 90% of government employees in India. They are shameless
parasites. Slept by 10:00.
16 May (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Srijana,
Sankeerthana, Anand and Aditya Varma started to Peda Gummuluru by 7:30. They
took a sharing auto rickshaw from Y Junction. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:46 by
bus. Today I took casual English classes at production blocks E and L in HLL-III
from 11:00 to 12:00. Today they organized a vocal recital on the stage at the
HR building in HLL-III from 5:00 to 6:20 as part of the weekly evening
entertainment program ‘Saturday Josh’. Our L&D staff member Soma Sundaram
brought three artistes for this program. The main artiste is Kandikonda Anusha,
aged about 15. She is a vocal artiste. She is from Payakaraopeta. The
accompanying artistes are K Nageswara Rao on violin and Ch. Chakravarthi on
drums. The prior is from Dhavaleswaram and the latter is from Pithapuram.
Anusha sang Annamaachaarya keerthans melodiously. The performance of the
accompanying artistes was also splendid. Three of them mesmerized us with their
sublime voice and music. The cloudy sky and pleasant weather facilitated it.
Many Hetero employees enjoyed watching this weekend cultural program, funded by
the management of Hetero. They paid 3,500 rupees for this program. They actually
charge 10,000 rupees for this program from others. We hired sound system from a
vendor in Upamaka. Reached our house in Peda Gummuluru by 7:30 on my bike.
Morning my parents conducted a program of worship of Lord Hanuman at our house.
Slept by 10:30.
17 May (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30 in the
house of my brother Sambha. My father and I reached Narsipatnam Road railway
station by 8:10 in an auto rickshaw. Sambha came here soon. Simhadri Express
arrived by 9:16. We helped my father get into a general compartment towards the
rear end of it. He is taking 300 Suvarna Rekha mangoes to the abode of my
brother Srinivas at Bhima Varam packing them into four cardboard boxes. He is
taking fresh mango pickle also for them prepared at our house. Sambha and I
reached Tangedu by 10:00 on his bike. We went to his agricultural farm first.
Then we went to the house of Boddu Appala Naidu and collected three sacks of
pulses, which we bought from him. We returned to Peda Gummuluru by 12:10.
Aditya, Anand and I reached the mango farm of Sambha near hills by 12:45 on my bike.
Three Hetero employees came here with us. They bought 70 Cheraku Rasaalu
mangoes from snake charmer Chinna Rao for 500 rupees. He bought the crop of
this season from the 4.5 acres of mango farm of Sambha here for 40,000 rupees.
The Hetero folks returned by 1:00. I took the two boys to our mango farm. We
spent at the abode of my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy for 20 minutes. We all
started to Payakaraopeta by 3:20. I brought 100 Suvarna Rekha mangoes. By 6:00
Srijana took my cousin Ashwini to Dr. Naga Lakshmi in Tuni for consultation.
Aditya, Anand and I saw the Telugu film “Lion” in cinema Sai Mahal from 9:30 to
12:00. It’s very interesting and exciting. Slept by 12:30.
18 May (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I conducted three casual English
discussion classes in HLL-III. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Evening it rained for 20 minutes from 5:00
at Hetero Complex. The earth, plants and trees got refreshed. Today I took
about 10 Banginapalli mangoes to our section at HLL-IX. I collected them from
under our mango trees at hills yesterday. They are not ripe yet. I gave them to
Asha. She asked the office boy here to cut them into pieces and distribute them
to the QC and QA staff members working on this floor. A mango plant or tree
waits for about eight months for favourable weather to blossom. A mango grows
into that shape and taste through preparation for about 40 days. We cannot make
a mango or an apple in a laboratory. God created many varieties of fruits for
the creatures in this world. We should not disuse or misuse them. It’s like
insulting the patience of the earth and the goodness of those kind trees. I
like mangoes a lot because my father earned some mango farms struggling for
years. I got accustomed to these fruit more than others. By 3:30 Srijana,
Anand, Sankeerthana and my mother-in-law reached the agricultural farm of D S N
Raju at Marripalem on our bike. They stay there for some days breathing fresh
air. Slept by 10:00.
19 May (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:43 by bus. Morning conducted three informal English
discussion classes at HLL-III. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to
2:50 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Today I felt sleepy and weak. Had a chapati
in the canteen at HLL-III by 4:20. Took one hour’s permission from Subba Rao to
go out early. Swiped my attendance at the machine in HLL-III by 5:00. Took a
sharing auto rickshaw up to Nakkapalli. Thence took another sharing auto
rickshaw and reached my rented abode at Payakaraopeta by 6:00. This evening
there is the celebration of the birthday of master Anvith, a grandson of our HR
senior GM Gopala Krishna Reddy at Hotel Sriman in Tuni. He invited the staff of
L&D department also to this occasion. I came early to go there. Washed my
pair of clothes and took a bath by 6:45. When I looked at my face in a mirror,
it was weak. The eyes went deep. I looked like a patient. I decided not to go
to the birthday function of Anvith. I don’t like to make a poor appearance
there. Last night Gopala Krishna appeared in my dream. I experienced his sense
of love and respect for me. I regret that I could not go to this function. By
8:30 collected original and mixed video files of marriage of my cousin Naren
and Suma from Sri Prakash Studio. Slept by 9:45.
20 May (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. The staff members in the administrative block
are not getting time to attend my informal English discussion classes at
HLL-III. The staff at E block are not discussing anything on their own. They
are not asking me questions or doubts. I told their supervisor that I don’t
come to their block from tomorrow onwards. In L block, they are participating
somewhat reluctantly. The idea of our manager Subba Rao that I should go to
blocks and discuss English informally with those employees is failing regularly
at ground level. I realized it. He is not ready to accept it. He is a cunning
jackal. I am allowing time to treat his psychological disorders. Today I took
two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Today
Ram, the general manager of L&D departments at Hetero, came from Hyderabad.
He meets some folks here formally. Subba Rao spends with him smartly. I don’t
like Ram. During the last 18 months, he never talked with me about promoting
English usage culture in Hetero. It shows that he is a hypocrite. He does what
is favourable and comfortable to him but not what is beneficial to Hetero. I
developed aversion for him after scanning his character. It is the last working
day for HR senior GM Gopala Krishna Reddy today with the Hetero Complex here.
He emailed a farewell message to all. May God bless him. Slept by 10:00.
21 May (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Today I conducted two casual English discussion
classes at HLL-III. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:00 and
discussed ‘Multitasking’. Today it was very hot. Srijana, Anand and
Sankeerthana are spending their time at the abode of my in-laws in the
agricultural farm of D S N Raju near village Marripalem. I cleared all important
dues to others during the last 18 months. I have to yet clear about 20,000
rupees. These are all passive dues. I may clear them somewhat slowly. Srijana
helped me clear some of these dues, providing me some money, which she might
have got from her traditional sources of income. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu
cleared my agricultural loan of 25,000 rupees. I owe to him and the people of
this nation. It is public money. Axis Bank staff may lend me about 20 lakh
rupees now based on my monthly salary from Hetero. I never like borrowing money
from others. Spending money is easy but earning it is difficult if we are
honest and ideal. Money is playing a vital role in the lives of materialists
now. Future is uncertain. We should not celebrate today thinking that tomorrow would
be bright. Such superficial culture is prevalent now in many countries. Liberal
loan and finance schemes and credit cards are creating and sustaining this bad
culture across places. Slept by 10:30.
22 May (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Last
night Moka Srinivas and I slept in my master bedroom, switching on my AC
machine. I kept its temperature at 240 c throughout the night. It
turned the room very cool by 12:00. We had to use blankets. I slept well.
Reached Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. By 11:30 went to production block L for
casual English discussion with those staff members. Their supervisor is a
familiar fellow to me. I asked him if our idea of taking English discussion
classes at workplaces is good. He said no. He said that he cannot send some of
his employees to my place of discussion of English when all of them are engaged
in various tasks of production. I already stopped going to production block E
at HLL-III sensing their discomfort about my class there. Hereafter I go to EHS
department only because they are sitting in a comfortable place during my
discussion. Our manager has no sense of empathy. He takes decisions without
considering the viewpoints of others. He expects to be in a comfort zone but
wants others to be patient and hard-working always. Took an L&D class at
HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Today it was very hot
and sultry. Had a chapati at Jagatha hotel by 7:30. Spent talking with my
paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy till 8:00 at this hotel. He is in a set of problems.
We discussed them casually. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
23 May (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. From 9:30 to 1:30 prepared a PPT on the topic
‘Perspective’ on the computer system of D Srinivasa Varma. There are 15 slides
in it. I took 200 minutes to type and edit it. I prepared it to use in the
L&D classes of one hour duration next month. I did it after consulting my
manager Subba Rao. Emailed it to him. He did not comment on it. I did it
creatively without referring to external sources of content. It is an inspiring
and touching piece of thoughts and insights. First I explained the term
‘Perspective’ providing synonyms. Later I presented 10 scenarios with real life
incidents and contexts. In each scenario, I briefly define an event or
hypothesis. I present two perspectives of two persons about it. The first
perspective is that of a narrow-minded or wicked person. The second one is that
of a positive and ideal person. Thus I explain essence of perspective with
viewpoints of two persons about a scenario. Towards the end of it, I gave 16
statements explaining the beauty and uniqueness of human life, in one slide.
Subba Rao does not appreciate anybody much. He tries to demotivate others if
they are very talented. Returned home by 7:00 by bus. Srijana and Anand came
here by 6:00 in the evening from the teak plantation at Marripalem. It was very
hot today. Slept by 10:00.
24 May (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Peda Gummuluru by 7:30 on my bike. My father and I went to our mango garden at
hills by 8:00 on my bike. We collected about 40 Suvarna Rekha mangoes from my
two-acre farm. They yielded considerably though we plucked all those blossoms
once. Then we collected about 100 mangoes from other trees in our farm. We
returned home by 10:15. Left some mangoes there. Returned to my abode by 10:50
travelling through hot summer wind. Recently my father-in-law fell down
slipping off a wet surface in the teak plantation. His right ankle got twisted
and affected. He got that part scanned at a diagnostic centre in Tuni today. A
doctor applied a bandage on the swollen part of it. He advised him to walk with
the other leg only. He stays at our abode for some days. His daughter nurses
him. We enjoy his presence. From 2:30 to 5:00 Anand and I saw the Telugu film
“Enthavaadu Gaanee” in cinema Gowtham. It is an interesting film. Gowtham
Vasudev Menon infused suspense into this film but not excitement as much as
required. Except for the last 30 minutes part of it, the story progresses
rather slowly and passively. The characterization of main roles is also weak.
They don’t make a strong impression on our minds while we are watching the
film. There is no melodrama. However, we can enjoy the visual appeal of Ajit,
Anushka and Trisha. By 7:30 Srijana bought a 6 kg white SAMSUNG washing machine
at Manikanta store in Tuni spending 24, 600 rupees. Slept by 9:45.
25 May (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Took a casual English discussion class in the
EHS section at HLL-III from 1:05 to 1:45. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from
2:15 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. Spent rest of the day casually. It
was hot and sultry today. Yesterday my brother Sambha said that he wants to get
an AC machine set in his house to withstand the scorching heat of this summer.
I told my familiar fellow Shiva in Tuni about it. He said that he would buy a
Voltas piece in Visakhapatnam and bring. Today he bought an LG piece in this
city as there was no stock of Voltas pieces with his familiar distributor. He
could reach Adduroad by 8:45 this night. My brother Sambha said that he would
not accept this piece because Shiva failed to bring it during daytime. He did
not get ready to help Shiva take this piece to his house either. I delivered furious
words to him for a few seconds. I told him that everything does not happen as
we expect always. I don’t know what happened afterwards but I got a call from
Shiva by 10:17. He said that our Hetero technician Govind was fitting it there.
He went to Darlapudi this evening to fit an AC machine there. I already
informed him to go to Peda Gummuluru and fit the AC machine in the house of my
brother. They somehow coordinated it. Went to sleep by 10:50 for my dreams.
26 May (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Madhavi,
the maternal aunt of Srijana, came from Hyderabad, by bus, by this time. She
came here to see her sick and bedridden father in Viswanadhapuram. He is not
consuming food. My father-in-law, Anand and Sankeerthana left for
Viswanadhapuram by this evening, along with Madhavi. Srijana utilized this
opportunity to set things right in our abode. When there are relatives and
children in our abode, we cannot attend important works, pending for long.
Reached Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Conducted informal English class at EHS
in HLL-III from 1:15 to 1:45. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to
3:00 and discussed ‘Multitasking’. By 9:30, this morning, my brother Sambha
came to Hetero Complex. The management of Hetero wishes to sell a piece of cashew
farm near village T Jaggampeta in Kota Uratla Mandal. They got it from a former
Hetero employee, who bought it using the money, misappropriated from Hetero
funds. Srinivasa Reddy of HR department recently told me about it. He gave me
the details of this land. My brother Sambha has familiarity and knowledge about
the lands in this locality. Told him to come and collect the details of this
land from me. He wants to physically verify the features of this cashew farm
before deciding its monitory value. We should be very careful while buying
fixed assets at high rates. We should have a realistic and legally viable
approach. Slept by 10:00.
27 May (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 8:05
walked to the Y Junction to take a Hetero bus. Meanwhile I felt uneasy in my stomach. I asked the folks of the hotel here if there
is a toilet in their facility. They replied in the negative. Even if there is
one, they don’t allow us to use it. They are such selfish Indians. Rushed back
to my abode by 8:15, within three minutes. Relieved myself from this urgent
physical force. When I walked back, I found that all Hetero buses had already
left this point. A familiar Hetero employee took me into his car generously.
All Hetero employees behave lovingly towards me because of the good impression
I had in their hearts as an English instructor. I always enjoy their love and
respect for me. Many Indian males urinate in some place depending on the
urgency of that natural call. Dealing with the other natural call, in
emergencies in particular, is really a big issue. Sensitive females are the
primary victims of this pervasive problem in India. Today I took an informal
English class at EHS in HLL-III and an L&D class here. By 10:30 my manager
Subba Rao and I went to the house of my brother Sambha on our Hetero bike. He
asked my brother to buy a little piece of land for him in Peda Gummuluru area.
Morning Srijana left for Viswanadhapuram as the health of her maternal
grandfather is critical. Went to sleep by 10:30.
28 May (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. I am on a
sick leave today. My brother Sambha and Ramesh came here by 8:00 in the car of
the latter on their way to Annavaram. I too got into it by 8:05 on NH-16. We
reached Hari Hara Sadan building on Ratnagiri by 8:30. Many of our familiar
folks of Gollalagunta had just got off a bus here. We had breakfast here. We
went to the ground floor of Vishnu Sadan building by 9:00. The marriage of the
elder son of Datla Krishnam Raju took place in a room over here from 9:00 to
11:30. Gave the wedding album and video files of Naren and Suma to my uncle
Rama Raju here. We had lunch by 12:00. We reached the rented abode of my
paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy in Tetagunta by 12:20. My maternal uncle Varma
also came with us to go to Peda Gummuluru. We all spent here till 1:45 and
started off. I got down from the car on NH-16 near my abode by 2:00. Saw the
Telugu film “Mosagaallaku Mosagaadu” of Sudhir Babu in cinema Gowtham from 2:30
to 4:45. It is an interesting and exciting film. Today it was hot and sultry.
Now I have mango fruit in my abode. I put raw ones in the room of God. He
ripens them slowly. I am eating about eight mango fruit every day. I give some
of them to my familiar folks. Mangoes are the only fruit I have satisfactorily
because my father earned those mango farms for us. They are selling low quality
mangoes out there. Slept by 10:00.
29 May (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Yesterday, Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, the
chairman and managing director of Hetero organization, inaugurated the newly
laid road of Hetero, which runs between a spot of NH-16 near Nakkapalli and
Hetero Complex here. Today he participated in a collective worship, related to
this road, from 8:00 to 11:00. Many Hetero employees also attended it. Today I
took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:00 and discussed
‘Multitasking’. Spent rest of the day casually at HLL-III. Today Satti Babu, a
SAMSUNG executive, came from Visakhapatnam, to our rented abode, by 11:30, to
demonstrate how our newly bought SAMSUNG washing machine functions. He bought
and brought an iron stand also for it on the request of Srijana. She gave him
1,600 rupees for it. She came here from Viswanadhapuram on our bike, by this
time, to watch this demonstration. She washed some clothes in it as part of it.
She left for Viswanadhapuram by 12:30. The model number of this washing machine
is 600BOBHWQ. It consumes power between 220 and 240 volts. Its other feature is
50 Hz and 2,000-2,400 w. It’s made in India. Srijana would be happy washing
clothes in it hereafter. By 4:00, this evening, my uncle Varma left for
Gollalagunta from Peda Gummuluru. Slept by 10:00.
30 May (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Our manager Subba Rao conducted a meeting of
L&D staff members in his cabin from 10:30 to 11:15. We discussed what we
have done and what we should do. Spent rest of the day casually. Today I partly
saw the new road of Hetero, which they laid from this complex to NH-16 between
Adduroad and Nakkapalli. There is still much work to be done. The Hetero buses
and employees are presently moving through village Upamaka. The Hetero
organization developed this region spending a lot of money during the last few
years. The people of Upamaka benefitted substantially from Hetero here but they
think and behave like villains towards Hetero buses and other means of
transport. Running Hetero buses and vehicles became an ordeal for them because
of the people of this village. The management of Hetero struggled much to buy
lands to lay this road from NH-16 to Hetero Complex. The local political groups
hindered this process intentionally to bother the management of this
pharmaceutical unit. They beg money with one hand from Hetero and beat them
with another hand. There are such shameless bastards and rogues in Upamaka.
They are essentially beggars but act like royal figures. I hate these
insensitive and ungrateful scoundrels. The Indian entrepreneurs are scared of
ordinary Indians because they are worse than eagles and leeches. Slept by
10:00.
31 May (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Borrowed
the bike of M V S Prakash of Hetero by 8:00. Gave him 19 mango fruit. Filled
150 rupees worth petrol into the tank of it by 8:15 at a filling station by
NH-16. Reached Peda Gummuluru by 8:45. My father and I started to our mango
garden at hills by 9:00 on this bike. Ramayanapu Ramana of China Gummuluru, who
bought the crop of this mango season, plucked most of the mangoes from our
garden by now. I checked the mangoes, which were hanging from my plants. There
are about 80 Suvarna Rekha and 15 Banginapalli mangoes in my farm. We pluck
them soon when they ripen. We collected some mango fruit from under the trees
and checked the farm for a while. We spent at the abode of my paternal uncle
Narayana Murthy for some time. We returned to Peda Gummuluru by 11:30. Had my
lunch here by 12:00. Spent at the house of my brother Sambha for one hour.
Meanwhile my uncle Sagiraju Rama Raju came here from Gollalagunta to take
mangoes. By 2:00 returned to Payakaraopeta and gave about 30 mangoes to our
manager Subba Rao. Saw the Telugu film “Pandaga Chesko” in cinema Sai Mahal
from 2:30 to 5:00. The costumes and the look of actor Ram are superb in this
film. He acted and danced very well. Rakul Preet Singh is a magnet of beauty.
She did fascinatingly in this film. Gopichand Malineni made it into a very
interesting and exciting film. Slept by 9:30.
1 June (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Walked to the QC and QA building section of
Honour Labs Unit-III by 10:00. Our manager Subba Rao advised me to conduct
informal English discussions in this place for some days. The ambience in this part
of Honour Labs is very impressive. Talked with Shiva Prasad of the QC
department here about my intention to conduct English classes here to their
scheduled employees. He called some of their staff members from QC and QA
departments to listen to me for a while. I told them to be ready with questions
and doubts on English for the classes to be started from tomorrow in this
place. Shiva Prasad advised me to take these classes from 10:30 to 11:00 from
tomorrow in their training hall. Spent rest of the day casually doing
miscellaneous works useful to Hetero. Today it was cool inviting the rains of
monsoon. All Hetero employees enjoyed this pleasant change in weather. By 1:05
an amount of 23, 705 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by the folks
of Hetero towards my salary for May. Returned home by 7:15, after having a
chapati at Jagatha Hotel for 20 rupees. Srijana came here this afternoon from
Viswanadhapuram. Her maternal grandfather Jagannadha Raju is sick there. They
are nursing him. By 8:12, withdrew 13,000 rupees from an ATM point of Axis
Bank. Paid 4,100 rupees to Surya Kumari towards rent for our portion for the
last month. Slept by 10:00.
2 June (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Conducted informal English class for some staff
members of Honour Labs-III in the training hall of their QA department from
10:30 to 11:15. Today they did not speak at all. I spoke. Took an L&D class
at HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:00 and taught about ‘Perspective’. By 3:20 M V S
Prakash of QC department and I started in his NANO car to bring mangoes.
Chakradhar Reddy joined us at Nakkapalli. We reached Peda Gummuluru by 3:40. My
father got into this car. We reached our mango garden at hills by 4:00. Today
Chinna Rao plucked Banginapalli and Cheraku Rasaalu mangoes from
the farm of my brother Sambha. My father helped Prakash and Chakradhar choose
good mangoes from them. They bought about 100 mangoes from this gentleman for
650 rupees. I bought 100 mangoes for my familiar folks. We dropped my father at
our house on our way back to Hetero. My colleague Kusuma bought 15 mangoes and
Sita Reddy bought 10 mangoes. Reached my abode by 7:00 in the car of Prakash
along with remaining mangoes. Rajesh of IT department bought 20 mangoes for 200
rupees. Moka Srinivas bought 40 mangoes for 400 rupees to take to his house in
Kakinada. I have to pay 1,000 rupees to Chinna Rao for the 100 mangoes I took
from him. I want to help this gentleman this way. Mangoes are valuable fruit.
Went to sleep by 10:30.
3 June (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Today I did not do anything substantially useful
to Hetero. Had a chapati at Jagatha Hotel by 7:15 and walked to my abode along
NH-16. When I was copying some video files to a DVD from my computer, I saw a
video in which Sankeerthana and Anand were bathing in a plastic tube filled
with water. It was shot at our abode. Anand was pressing water onto the eyes of
Sankeerthana from a plastic doll filled with water. I was infuriated watching
this video. Called up Srijana and scolded her severely. Felt furious against
Anand also. I don’t pardon anybody, who fail to take care of their tender kids,
every second. We should not leave children anywhere without direct observation
of adults. Children are like innocent criminals and sinners. They play dirty
games without knowledge about consequences. They kill creatures for fun. Anand
does not know that focusing and pressing water on the eyes of any creature is
harmful because still he is a brute. I can’t beat him with a whip because I
should not behave like a brute as his father. I felt very disturbed and
agitated after watching this video. I understood Anand as a dirty idiot while
he was hurting Sankeerthana this way. I took Srijana as a careless mother. I detest
anybody if they don’t have standards. I hate rogues. Slept by 10:00.
4 June (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Yesterday and today I did not conduct informal
English classes at Honour Labs-III. Yesterday they had a cGMP class. Today they
had a customer audit. It means the buyer of one of our medicinal products
visits our manufacturing unit and checks whether our documents and processes
are in tune to their expectations or not. Morning spent about two hours in the
inaugural program of Manthan-E training at Boys’ Hostel. They are of second
batch of this training program, which runs for about 35 days. There are about
30 mechanical engineers in this batch. They undergo this comprehensive training
before getting absorbed into Hetero as engineers. Had special lunch with these
folks by 1:15 at hostel. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:20 to 3:00 and
taught on ‘Perspective’. Today it was cool and pleasant. My colleague Soma
Sundaram came to my rented abode by 7:30 on his bike. I sold 20 mangoes for 200
rupees to him. Gave him about 15 mangoes freely. I would give 1,000 rupees to
Chinna Rao soon. I bought 100 mangoes from him recently. He sold them to me for
650 rupees but I am making 1,000 rupees from them. They are of that quality. We
should not sell valuable products of nature to others at low prices. They
misuse them. It is the birthday of noted Indian singer S P Bala Subrahmanyam
today. He is a gift of God to India. I love him. Slept by 10:00.
5 June (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Typed and
edited a blog titled ‘Maggi Noodles’ from 6:45 to 7:20. Posted it on my blog
site by 7:28. Now the use of Maggi Noodles is banned in many parts of India as
some idiots of India found that excessive amounts of a harmful substance are
traced in them. I criticized this fuss about a minor issue in India now.
Indians and Indian governments forgot about quality standards long ago. Drug
and food inspectors check medical and food places once a year or so. We cannot
find hygienic conditions in hotels or hospitals here. Harmful products are
extensively available in all parts of India. Indian politicians are highly
corrupt. They allow anybody to do business in India if they get huge money
through bribes and other ways. Fruits, milk, pulses, beverages…we cannot expect
100% quality in any product sold in India. Entrepreneurs have no ethics. People
stopped asking questions. They are accepting irregularities and dangers as
inevitable parts of their lives. In this bleak scenario of India, expecting
100% quality in Maggi Noodles is a crime and sin on part of the Indian
governments and regulatory bodies. I argued this point on behalf of Nestle
India in this blog. Today it was pleasant. Took an L&D class at HLL-III
from 2:10 to 3:00 and taught on ‘Perspective’. Slept by 9:50.
6 June (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Today I
am on a casual leave. Srijana, Sushma and Sunil came here by 9:30 on our bike
from Viswanadhapuram. We all got ready by 10:00. We took a Rajahmundry bound
ordinary bus at Golla Appa Rao centre in Tuni by 11:00 and reached Jaggampeta
by 1:00. I spent 186 rupees to buy these bus tickets. We hired an auto rickshaw
for 100 rupees and reached Gollalagunta by 1:30. Tonight there is the marriage
of Sivaji Raju with Suma Latha at Mandapeta. We came here on this occasion. We
had lunch by 2:00. Spent talking with my familiar folks for some time. The
private bus, which was hired to take the folks of bridegroom party, started to
Mandapeta by 3:00, from Gollalagunta. We reached TTD Kalyana Mandapam in
Mandapeta by 6:30 travelling via Jaggampeta, Samarla Kota and Anaparthi. The
hosts and hostesses of bride party received and treated us grandly. They
offered good dinner. The marriage of Sivaji and Suma was started by 7:30. I was
there till 9:00, enjoying the ambience of this location and occasion. Mantena
Krishnam Raju and I moved out by 9:10. I bought a dinner set of plastic dishes
at a store for 800 rupees. We two took a bus and reached Kakinada by 11:00.
Krishna took me to the newly bought house of Moka Srinivas at Pratap Nagar. They
entered the house this night. Gave this gift to them and wished them. Slept by
12:00 in the rented abode of Krishna at Ramanayya Peta.
7 June (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Krishna
brought me to a bus stop at Madhavapatnam on his bike by 6:30. Took an ordinary
bus, bound to Eleswaram, and got off it at Jaggampeta by 7:20. Walked a little
towards Gollalagunta. Meanwhile my cousin Vasu came on his bike to receive me
as planned by us. He worshipped Lord Shiva at His temple in village
Gurrampalem. It is his birthday today. Spent at the house of my folks in
Gollalagunta till 9:45. My maternal uncle Appala Narasimha Raju, his daughter
Krishna Kumari and I reached Jaggampeta by 10:20. We took a taxi and reached
Payakaraopeta by 12:00. By 1:00 my uncle paid about 5,000 rupees to the folks
at SPACES Degree College of Sri Prakash and got the admission of his daughter
confirmed into this college for pursuing her B.Sc. course. She is not comfortable
to do this course living in Gollalagunta. So, I advised them to keep her at my
rented abode and admit her into this college. He bought cloth for two pairs of
college uniform for her at Sri Krishna Silk Palace cloth store in Tuni for
1,070 rupees. They took a bus for Jaggampeta by 2:00. Went to my mango farm at
hills by 3:00 on my bike. My father had already plucked about 75 Suvarna
Rekha mangoes from my plants here. Brought them to my rented abode at Devi
Nagar in Payakaraopeta by 4:45. Srijana, Sushma and the mother-in-law of Sushma
reached my abode by 5:30 from Gollalagunta. Slept by 10:00.
8 June (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. The aunt
of Srijana left for her village Rambilli by 6:00. Reached Hetero Complex by
8:46 by bus. Conducted informal English class in the training hall at Honour
Labs-III from 11:00 to 11:30. Three staff members attended this class. The staff
of QC and QA departments are so busy that they have no time to come for these
classes also. Took L&D classes at HLL-III from 2:10 to 3:10 and at HLL-IX
from 4:45 to 5:35 and taught them about ‘Perspective’. Today it was cloudy,
cool and pleasant. Had a chapati at Jagatha hotel for 20 rupees by 7:20.
Morning Srijana and Sushma left for Viswanadhapuram on our bike. Called up
Srijana by 7:26 in the evening casually. She said that her maternal grandfather
Dantuluri Jagannadha Raju passed away by 3:45 this evening. They cremated him
before 6:00 this evening in their lime farm near this village. He has been
bedridden for the last one year or so. He became sick and weak due to dementia.
He may be 65 or so. He was born and brought up in village Rambilli. He moved to
hamlet Viswanadhapuram forever some years after his marriage with Lakshmi
Bharathi. He sold his assets in Rambilli and bought about 16 acres of
agricultural farms in two locations near Viswanadhapuram. He built a house in
this village and settled. He has been an honest and hard-working peasant farmer
throughout his life. He is a gentleman. I deeply miss him. Slept by 10:00.
9 June (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Took informal English class at Honour Labs-III
from 10:30 to 11:00. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:30 and
taught about ‘Perspective’. Last Saturday our manager Subba Rao slipped when he
had stepped on a wet surface in his rented abode. His left ankle got a little
twisted. Pain developed around that part. Today he limped a little out of this
pain in his leg. Today it was cloudy and pleasant. Returned home by 7:30. M V S
Prakash gave me about 16 sapodillas. He expressed his affection for me this
way. Night Srijana told me, over phone, to come to Viswanadhapuram tomorrow, to
see her bereaved maternal grandmother, formally. According to Hindu tradition,
we should see the face of a widow, soon after the death of her husband, on an
auspicious day. I don’t believe in this practice. Once our ancestors would have
followed this custom to offer solace to the bereaved woman through the presence
of her familiar and dear ones. We don’t observe these many practices and taboos
when a husband loses his wife. I believe that all religions and cultures
cornered and victimized girls and women more than boys and men. We see the role
of a man like that of a free bird or dictator and a woman’s role like that of a
caged bird and prisoner. We can offer women freedom and happiness treating them
kindly and liberally. Slept by 10:00.
10 June (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 7:40
my father-in-law came to my abode on his bike. He took the items of my baby
Sankeerthana to Viswanadhapuram. Srijana may stay there for some more days with
Anand and Sankeerthana. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Took an informal
English class at Honour Labs from 10:30 to 11:00. Five staff members of QC and
QA departments attended this class. By 1:50 my colleague Soma Sundaram signed
on my two-hour permission request form as our manager Subba Rao was on a sick
leave today. Pressed my right thumb on the slot of attendance swipe machine by
4:00 and came out of the gate at HLL-III. Got onto the bike of a gentleman and
reached Nakkapalli by 4:15. Thence took a sharing auto rickshaw and reached Y
Junction by 4:55. Walked to the rented abode of M V S Prakash at Chakka Surya
Narayana Nagar and borrowed his Pleasure bike of TVS. Started to the Ratnagiri hills
at Annavaram by 5:09 on this bike. Got the tank of this bike filled with petrol
worth 100 rupees at a filling station on the way. Reached the venue of marriage
in the building named Vishnu Sadan by 6:00. The marriage of Karthik Kumar of
village Vedhuruvada and Ooshma of village Koruprolu was started by 7:20.
Karthik is the son of a sister of my house owner K S N Raju. Had dinner by 7:40.
Returned home by 10:00. Went to sleep by 11:15.
11 June (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night my brother Sambha came to my abode by 1:00 from Annavaram. Generally I
sleep soon after going to bed. Yesterday I could not sleep that well. He gave
me a missed call after coming here. I opened the door within seconds. Imagine
one going away or banging on our doors and windows to wake us up from our
slumber in the middle of a night. We should never create such situation to our
guests. Boiled 200 ml of milk on our gas stove. He had coffee and I had
Horlicks oats for our refreshment in the morning. He spent talking with my
house owner K S N Raju and another familiar Kshatriya fellow when I was getting
ready to go to Hetero. He played an active role during the marriage of Ooshma
yesterday night at Annavaram. Rama Raju, the father of this bride, is a bosom
friend of Sambha. He has agricultural farm by our mango garden at hills. I took
a Hetero bus by 8:10 at Y Junction. My brother too left for Peda Gummuluru soon
after me from this place. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:50 to 5:30 and
taught on ‘Perspective’. Today it was hot and sultry. Returned home by 7:30
after having a chapati at Jagatha Hotel. I am consuming mango fruit
considerably now. I think they increase triglycerides in my blood. I should
check it. Slept by 10:20.
12 June (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy called me up by 6:15. He asked me if I had
1,000 rupees to lend him. He forgot his wallet at his rented abode. He remembered
it after travelling a little away on NH-16 from Tetagunta. He was going to his
coconut farm at Gurrajupeta. Rushed to the ATM point of Axis Bank at P Lakshmi
Puram and withdrew 1,500 rupees. Lent him 1,000 rupees. We don’t have money on
us now and then. Even a billionaire may face such situation once in a while.
This principle is applicable to all assets and possessions we have in this
material world. These are all like property on a stage. We use them according
to what and how long our temporary roles demand them. This universe is the
property of God. We think that we are the owners of many places and people in
this world. We are living happily in this fantastic world because of these
imaginations and illusions only. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Took my
informal English class at Honour Labs-III from 10:30 to 11:00. Today six staff
members attended it. Spent rest of the day casually. Returned home by 7:30.
Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana came to my abode by 9:50 from Viswanadhapuram.
My father-in-law brought them on his bike. There is no power supply in this
hamlet now. Often these electricity supply lines get disturbed due to rains and
gales. They rested here. Slept by 10:30.
13 June (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Morning spent casually. Went to Honour Labs-III by
2:15 to conduct an informal English class. Today they were all busy. I did not
conduct it. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:30 and taught on
‘Perspective’. Soma Sundaram conducted ‘Saturday Josh’ program at HDL-IX from
5:40 to 6:10. I was there for 20 minutes. Morning Srijana went to Canossa
School. She filled up the application form for the admission of Anand into
first standard. She paid 2,000 rupees and collected books and cloth pieces for
his two pairs of uniforms. By 10:30, this morning, my house owner K S N Raju,
his wife Chandramati, Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana started to
Viswanadhapuram in the car of the prior. K S N Raju and Chandramati went there
to see the bereaved maternal grandmother of Srijana. Srijana stays there for a
week to help them. Saw the Telugu film “Jyothi Lakshmi” of Charmi in cinema Sai
Mahal from 9:30 to 11:40 at night. She played the role of a prostitute in this film.
Puri Jagannadh directed it interestingly. He discussed how prostitutes are made
and the woes in their lives. He asserts that mostly cruel men are making them
into victims. Men are not appearing when police raid brothels. If boys and men
are punished severely, we can save Indian girls and women from this social evil.
Slept by 12:00.
14 June (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night my brother Srinivas went to Peda Gummuluru from Bhima Varam. Morning it
rained. Power cut occurred. I did not feel like doing my scheduled work on my
computer. I cursed the blokes of electricity department of Andhra Pradesh. They
state that they are providing uninterrupted power supply in this state for 24
hours. Power cuts are rampant everywhere. They do it if it rains, if winds blow
and for many other reasons. Sundays are precious for me because I get this free
day once a week. If power cuts decide what I should do that day, how can I do
my vital works on my possible days? This is how the state and central
governments ruin the lives of Indians. They block growth and dampen our
enthusiasm to do something good. Took a sharing auto rickshaw at Y Junction by
9:30 and reached our house in Peda Gummuluru by 10:00. Srinivas had already
taken Simhadri Express at Narsipatnam Road railway station for Bhima Varam with
a luggage of 100 mangoes. Spent talking with my folks till 2:30. Took a bus at
Adduroad with 35 Nalla Mogga mangoes. Bought an academic file for 150
rupees for my cousin Krishna Kumari to keep her certificates. Also got some photocopies
taken for Anand and her. Got my hair trimmed by Ramana in his salon. Cleaned
the overhead water tank of K S N Raju by 6:30 being helped by him and his
grandchildren. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
15 June (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Typed and edited a blog titled ‘Making a choice’
from 9:15 to 1:30. First I did it on the computer system of Soma Sundaram.
Later did it on the computer system of Dantuluri Srinivasa Varma. I discussed,
in this blog, the concept of choices and the difficulties involved in making a
choice from many or a few. There are 2,840 words in it. Took an L&D class
at HLL-III from 2:15 to 3:10 and taught about ‘Perspective’. Took an informal
English class at Honour Labs-III from 3:45 to 4:30. Today about 15 employees
attended this class from production department. I discussed some points of
English grammar. Returned home by 7:30 after having a chapati at Jagatha hotel
by NH-16 for 20 rupees. Moka Srinivas offered me 250 grams of Chicken Biryani
by 8:15. He bought and brought it from Ganesh Hotel in Payakaraopeta. It was
tasty. Today my father went to Viswanadhapuram to formally see Lakshmi
Bharathi, the wife of Jagannadha Raju, who passed away recently. He often criticizes
Srijana, her father and maternal grandmother saying that they have some bad
qualities. He can’t see the good qualities in others also. He is not
appreciating anybody. He became a biased critic over the years. Criticizing
became a habit to him. He should change. Slept by 10:45.
16 June (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Took informal English class at Honour Labs-III
from 3:40 to 4:20 and taught important points of English to six employees.
Spent rest of the day casually. Applied for a casual leave for tomorrow. When
the maternal grandfather of Srijana was about to die in a few days in
Viswanadhapuram, many of his relatives and well-wishers went there to see him
formally. Srijana told me to come and see him sometime. I did not have time. I
did not feel it essential either. I saw his active life as a gentleman. He
showered affection on me whenever I was there. He used aggressive language also,
addressing me, when he was affected with loss of memory. I did not like to see
him when he was skinny and was suffering from pain. He was clearing part of his
bad Karma, suffering silently on bed. He is waiting for his departure. He
cannot enjoy my presence when he is unconscious. We should never follow a
formality unless it provides a benefit or happiness to others some way. God
equipped us with extraordinary physical and psychological capabilities to guide
and help others. We should help a plant
grow instead of suffering about a tree that is dying slowly due to an
inevitable disease. There is pain everywhere. We cannot prevent all pains. We
must alleviate such pains in others, which we can. Slept by 10:00.
17 June (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Took a
sharing auto rickshaw at Narsipatnam Road Junction in Payakaraopeta by 8:50. My
familiar folks of Viswanadhapuram hired it from Tuni. It’s the 10th
day ceremony at the house of the maternal grandparents of Srijana today. The
soul of Dantuluri Jagannadha Raju, the maternal grandfather of Srijana, left
this material world, nine days ago. They prepared and served formal lunch to
guests from 11:30 to 1:30. This is for getting the best wishes of these
familiar living souls for that departed soul. Also to let all know that he is
no more with us. All had a formal glance at bereaved Lakshmi Bharathi between
1:00 and 2:00. Others should look at her on an auspicious day only after the
death of her husband. I don’t like this cruel treatment towards women in their
testing times. Returned home by 2:45 on my bike. Saw the Telugu film ‘Asura’ in
cinema Gowtham from 2:30 to 5:00. Nara Rohit acted decently and appreciably in
this film. The heroine touched my heart with her appealing beauty and good
acting skills. The theme, the story, the narration, the songs and dialogues are
gripping and touching. Krishna Vijay carved it into a memorable piece of art.
Enjoyed watching it throughout. By 8:00, this morning, my blog titled ‘Making a
choice’ got posted on my blog site. Today I bought 28 mango fruit for 220
rupees casually. Slept by 10:15 for my dreams.
18 June (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Typed out a blog titled ‘Interview’ on the
computer system of Soma Sundaram from 9:15 to 10:30. Meanwhile he came. He does
not like if I use his computer when he is there. The Hetero folks have not
given me a computer till now. I asked them many times for it. I have to add
more content to this blog. From 12:30 to 1:00 typed out a report of two pages
on the computer system of Dantuluri Srinivasa Varma. I discussed ideas on how
we can reduce usage of paper to the least possible extent in Hetero
organization, in it, in response to a notice circulated by the HR staff here,
to come up with proposals on it. There is a cash prize of 2,000 rupees for
entries with excellent ideas. I am a participant in this race. Went to Honour
Labs by 3:15 to take my scheduled informal English class. They said they were
so busy today that they could not attend this class. Today it was cool, cloudy,
rainy and pleasant. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Srijana, Anand and
Sankeerthana returned from Viswanadhapuram by 5:00 this evening in an auto
rickshaw. She brought some mango fruit, a pineapple, sweets and some other
items from there. Sankeerthana felt happy seeing me again after spending away
for some days. Our rented abode got dusty and somewhat disorderly during these
few days. Srijana attends to it. Slept by 10:00.
19 June (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 7:00,
M V S Prakash of Hetero and I went to the fruit market at market yard in Tuni
on my bike to buy some mango fruit for him. This area turned muddy and slippery
due to rain. Many peasant farmers kept different varieties of mango fruit over
here to sell to customers. Enamala Rama Krishnudu and Raja Ashok Babu are
associated with Tuni assembly constituency as MLAs for long. They did not
develop Tuni town considerably. Tuni is a commercially key region in East
Godavari district, bordering with Payakaraopeta town of Visakhapatnam district
towards the east. Krishnudu, the brother of Rama Krishnudu, is a noted
political criminal in Tuni region. He cheats and tortures others. Chandra Babu
knows a lot about this world but not anything about the criminals and sinners
associated with his political party. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:10
to 3:10 and taught on ‘Perspective’. Today it was cloudy, cool and pleasant. I
enjoyed this spell of onset of rainy season in the Hetero Complex. Returned
home by 7:10 by bus when it was drizzling. I wondered knowing that Srijana and
Kumari prepared different dishes in our abode this evening. My father-in-law
sponsored it. He invited some familiar folks for this dinner party. Srijana and
I enjoyed their presence. They all slept here, including my brother-in-law Vamsy
(Mantena Sita Rama Raju). Slept by 10:45.
20 June (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:59 by bus. Today it was cool and pleasant. It drizzled or
rained continuously. We enjoyed this atmosphere. By 3:00 arrangements were made
in the training hall at HLL-III for Vedika program. I was there for one hour.
By 4:20 I moved to HLL-IX. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:35
and taught on ‘Perspective’. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Morning my parents
came to my abode by 10:30 from Peda Gummuluru. They brought mangoes and papayas
for us. By 3:00 my younger maternal uncle Kolukuluri Appala Narasimha Raju, my
cousin Anantha Lakshmi and their daughter Krishna Kumari came to our abode from
Gollalagunta. Krishna Kumari has to go to SPACES Degree College beside NH-16 to
attend her first year B.Sc. classes. I felt happy with their presence. My
rented abode is considerably spacious. About 10 guests can happily spend here.
Still few have time and interest to stay here for long. Many Indians don’t go
to the abodes of others without a considerable purpose. They start back from
there soon after that purpose is served. Even hosts and hostesses are not
spending much time at their abodes these days. Elders are going out to do jobs,
business or self-employment. Children go out for education. There is no scope
to feel beauty and happiness of togetherness in this scenario. Slept by 10:00.
21 June (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
brother-in-law Vamsy left for Vijayawada by 9:00 from the bus station at Tuni.
Thence he takes another bus for Hindupuram. By 10:00 my uncle Varma, his
daughter Krishna Kumari and I went to the office of SPACES Degree College by
NH-16. We submitted the original certificates, photocopies and photos of
Krishna Kumari to them. They said that the classes for B.Sc. course students
would start from the 26th of this month. By 11:30 took my father to
Lakshmi Ganesh spectacles store in Tuni to buy a pair of glasses for his
eyesight. He fitted fiber glasses in his old frame and charged 400 rupees for
it. By 12:00 bought a pair of thongs for Anand for 70 rupees. Also gave the
cloth pieces to the tailor at Noor Tailors for stitching two pairs of uniforms
for Anand. He charged 300 rupees for it. Anand is getting ready to go to
Canossa School. Srijana applied protective covers on his textbooks and
notebooks. I wrote his name and other details on them. By 4:15 my uncle Varma
and his wife Anantha Lakshmi took an Express bus at Y Junction for Jaggampeta.
By 5:30, my mother, Krishna Kumari, Sankeerthana, Anand and I went to our
nearby railway track, walking through Devi Nagar. We had fresh air for some
time and enjoyed watching the hills beyond this track. Today it was cool and
pleasant. Slept by 10:00.
22 June (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. From 9:30 to 11:30 added more content to my blog
titled ‘Interview’ and completed it. By 3:15 went to Honour Labs-III to take my
informal English class for them. They did not have time to attend this class
even for half an hour. I have been observing this situation since I started
classes for them this month. They have excessive work every day. I told them
today that I would not come to their place from tomorrow. Returned home by 7:10
by bus. My parents left for Peda Gummuluru by 2:00 this afternoon. As a
student, I spent away from them, most of that time, for my education. I have
been spending away from them doing jobs or otherwise even after my education. I
have been like a guest for them. Either they come to me or I go to them for a
short stay. This is how most of Indians are missing the beauty and strength of
their familial bonds now. I am one of those victims of contemporary Indian
society. I am missing my parents, brothers, relatives, friends and well-wishers
regularly being busily engaged in my pursuits of struggle for existence. Anand
started going to school from this morning. He is in his first standard now. He
does not like going to school but we are sending him. Once the English rulers enslaved
us. Now we are doing it towards our sensitive and helpless children. Slept by
10:00.
23 June (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today I
took a leave to type up my diary. Today I typed up the content of May from my
diary of 2015 on my computer for about six hours. Srijana and Krishna Kumari
saw the Telugu film “Kerintha” in cinema Rama Krishna Chitra Mandir from 2:30
to 5:00. I facilitated it. I spent some time with Sankeerthana. From 6:45 to
9:00 Anand and I saw the Telugu film “Vinavayyaa Raamayyaa” in cinema Gowtham.
It’s an interesting and exciting film. Kruthika is beautiful. The director
presented her attractively with impressive costumes and scenes. The role of
Brahmanandam delighted me substantially. I think the face of the debutant
actor, who played the hero in this film, cannot meet the expectations of
viewers. This is regrettable point for those who wish to promote him as an
actor. In fact, viewers are accepting many actors and actresses now even if
they don’t have impressive physical features. My paternal uncle Narasimha
Murthy came to my abode when we were watching this film in this cinema. He came
here to stay with us tonight. We spent talking for one hour. The psychological
distance is increasing day by day between his wife and him. He wants to come out
of their rented abode in Tetagunta. He wants to stay alone, away from his wife
and sons. I advised him to do it. Slept by 10:45.
24 June (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and
HLL-IX from 2:30 to 3:30 and 5:10 to 5:40. Taught them about ‘Perspective’.
Returned home by 7:10 by bus. By 8:20, at night, our manager Subba Rao and I
went to Suresh Kumar’s hospital in Tuni on my bike. Our colleague Jonnalagedda
Soma Sundaram slipped and fell on the hard floor in the bathroom in their
rented abode this morning when taking a bath. He supported himself on his right
hand when he had collapsed. He has about eight kilos of excessive weight. That physical
pressure broke the bones in his right forearm completely. He lives in an
apartment block at Bank Colony in Tuni with his family members. They admitted
him into this hospital for treatment. We bought half a kilo Horlicks bottle for
him for 209 rupees. He was on a cot in a room of this hospital when we went
there. He said that Dr. Suresh Kumar would perform a surgery on his injured
part of the right arm tonight here. He may not be able to come to Hetero for
some days. He is financially down. He cannot afford these medical expenses. He
wants to depend on his medical insurance, which he paid through Hetero, as an
employee. Incidents can bring dramatic changes in our lives or professions. We
should be very careful with our physical movements. Our Karma influences us
anyway. Slept by 10:15.
25 June (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:01 in the car of a familiar Hetero employee. I could not
get a Hetero bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX from
2:00 to 3:00 and 5:00 to 5:40. Taught them on ‘Perspective’. Returned home by
7:10 by bus. My father-in-law came to my abode. My father recently told me that
I should build a house for me. He bought 250 square yards of plot for me in
front of our house in Peda Gummuluru. I need about 15 lakh rupees to build a
two-bedroomed house now. I don’t have this money now. My father too cannot
afford it. My father-in-law once told my father that he would give half an acre
of lime farm to his daughter Srijana as a gift after marriage. Now my father
told him to sell that piece of agricultural farm and contribute that money to
the construction of my house. I don’t like it. I am not interested in building
a house in our village, town or city at all. I wish to stay in the present
rented abode for another 12 years. Our baby Sankeerthana should study in
Canossa School up to her standard 10. Once they grow to this extent, I build a
large house in a remote area with hills and natural beauty all around. I need
about five acres of land to build such house in the middle of such inspiring
natural beauty. I want to live away from materialists. Slept by 10:00.
26 June (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. My blog
titled ‘Interview’ got posted on my blog site by 8:00 automatically. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Walked to the training hall in the engineering
building at HLL-IX by 9:15. Now a 40-day long training program is going on for
the 32 candidates of Manthan-E-2 batch. They did diploma or B.Tech. courses in
mechanical engineering. They join this Hetero campus as junior engineers after
successful completion of this training. Today it was my schedule to teach them
English. I advised them to buy three English grammar books and a big standard
English dictionary. I gave them my copies of CV and visiting cards. I told them
that they grow intellectually if they read my blogs. I took their email IDs to
send them soft copies of some important English grammar files from my personal
email ID. Today I taught them the basics of English language like letters,
alphabet, vowels, consonants, word, sentence, person, number, parts of speech
and tenses. Showed them some English instruction videos, which I downloaded
from the YouTube earlier. Every time I teach or watch a video or read a grammar
book, I realize that I have to learn a lot. I know very little English. I spent
with them till 5:00. Returned home by 7:10. Brought my mother-in-law to my
abode from Tuni bus station by 7:20 on my bike. She came here to help Srijana.
My father-in-law sent 180 Neelam mangoes from there. Slept by 10:00.
27 June (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. By 10:45 my manager Subba Rao and I went to
Honour Labs-III to meet its General Manager Dora Reddy. Then he was talking
with his subordinates in the conference room of QA and QC building. We talked
with them for 15 minutes. He asked me to conduct English classes for some of
their staff members at Honour Labs. I start these classes soon. Took an L&D
class at HDL-IX from 12:30 to 1:15 and at HLL-III from 2:10 to 3:10. Taught
them on ‘Perspective’. Today I copied my English files from the computer system
of Srinivasa Varma. I put them in my Transcend pen drive. I am unable to access
them when going to English classes. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Today
Srijana, her mother, my cousin Krishna Kumari and two female associates dusted
and cleaned every part of our rented abode. They kept furniture and other items
in their proper places. They washed floors, mosquito nets and dishes with acids
and water. They removed unwanted and useless stuff to burn outside. I found our
abode clean and beautiful after their daylong hard work. By 8:45 Srijana and I
went to Tuni on our bike to buy some things. I gave my computer CPU to Hari
Varma in his office. It is functioning slowly. He said he would check it. Slept
by 10:00.
28 June (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 8:00
gave 25 Neelam mangoes to Subba Rao and M V S Prakash each at their
abodes. Helped Prakash buy about 50 mango fruit for 300 rupees. By 9:00 Srijana
and I went to Viswanadhapuram on our bike to bring mangoes from there. We two
walked from one tree to another in their lime farm from 10:00 to 12:00 and
collected about 60 mangoes from those few mango trees in it. A boy helped us
plucking mangoes from the upper ends of branches. We had lunch by 1:00. We left
about 30 mangoes for Sekhar to take from here later. We two returned home by
1:35 on our bike. Srijana, Krishna Kumari and Anand saw the Telugu film “Tiger”
in cinema Sai Mahal from 2:30 to 4:50. They said they did not enjoy watching
this film much. By 1:00, today, Shiva fitted a 32-inch SONY BRAVIA LED
television in our abode. Srijana bought it for 24,000 rupees. Her father funded
it. By 7:30 got two duplicate keys made to use with our Honda Activa bike. We
lost the original keys somewhere recently. I got these keys made from another set
of duplicate keys, which Srijana got prepared earlier. I spent 150 rupees for
them. Collected my CPU from the office of Hari Varma by 8:00. He deleted hidden
temporary files from it. Collected a pair of stitched uniform of Anand from
Noor Tailors by 8:15. By 9:30 emailed my CV and some English grammar files to
31 Manthan-E-2 candidates of Hetero. Slept by 10:15.
29 June (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HDL-IX and
HLL-III from 9:30 to 10:30 and 2:10 to 3:00. Taught them about ‘Perspective’.
Today I revised three CVs of three girls on the computer system of Srinivasa
Varma. Roopa Shruthi is a daughter of Gottumukkala Sri Rama Chandra Raju of
Gollalagunta, whom I know for the last 30 years. Recently he asked me if I
could find an opportunity for his daughter to do a project in Hetero as part of
her fourth semester course of M. Pharmacy. Our HR manager Rajnikanth said that
it may not be possible at Hetero but that he would try at other companies through
his familiar folks. He asked me for those CVs. Roopa Shruthi sent the CVs of
two of her present classmates also. The language and organization of the
content in these CVs is not good. I edited them. From 10:30 to 11:30 collected
some content from the office laptop of Subba Rao to prepare a PPT on
informative and exciting facts to use in our L&D classes next month. Power
cable was not fitted to it. I did not notice it until power supply had gone
off. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Collected content on sun, moon, earth, human
body, English, unbelievable things, the USA and life from 8:00 to 11:00 on
factslides.com from my computer for the PPT. Slept by 10:20.
30 June (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Prepared a PPT titled ‘Facts’ on the computer
system of Dantuluri Srinivasa Varma from 10:00 to 12:30. There are 37 slides in
it. Emailed it to my manager Subba Rao. Today I talked with our HR manager
Rajnikant Ganesha if he could find an opportunity for the three M. Pharmacy students
Roopa Shruthi and her classmates Prasanna and Anuradha. He said that he cannot
do it as he is very busy now. Edited the content of May from my diary of 2015
from 1:00 to 2:00 on the computer system of Varma. Took an L&D class at
HLL-IX from 5:00 to 5:30. Taught them on ‘Perspective’. Returned home by 7:10
by bus. Srijana said that they had seen a snake today in the space beside our
compound wall in our abode. Some gathered here to trace and kill it but it
disappeared. There is greenery around our abode. It is a favourable space for
snakes, scorpions and centipedes. We can delight in the green surroundings of
plants, trees and bushes but not life forms they support. K S N Raju removed
some items from this place after seeing a snake here. Krishna Kumari has been
going to SPACES Degree College by NH-16 since the 26th of this
month. Anand got an attractive uniform to wear for his first standard classes.
Srijana is preparing him for Canossa School every day. By 8:45, an amount of
23, 765 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by Hetero folks towards my
salary for this month. Slept by 10:00.
1 July (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. By 9:45 our manager Subba Rao and I went to the
QC and QA building at Honour Labs on our company bike. 39 employees of this
unit gathered in the training hall here for my communicative English classes.
Dora Reddy, the general manager of this unit, spoke to them for a few seconds,
informing them to learn English attentively. Later Subba Rao spoke to them in
English. He asked each of them to speak in English only while in this class.
Then I spoke to them for 20 minutes about the basics of English language. They
attend my English classes from 9:30 to 10:30 for a month over here. Revised the
PPT titled ‘Facts’ on the computer system of Soma Sundaram from 11:00 to 12:30.
We use this PPT in our Learning & Development classes from tomorrow. By
1:30 took our L&D Honda Activa two-wheeler to a filling station near
Vempadu and got five litres of petrol filled in it. Subba Rao sent me on this
assignment. Hetero pays for it. From 2:30 to 5:40 revised some English grammar
and other files on the computer system of Somu. I use these files in my English
classes at Honour Labs. Soma Sundaram cannot come to office for some days as
his fore arm is affected. I want to see how a lazy and undisciplined manager runs
our department this month. Evening Srijana paid 4,100 rupees to our house owner
Surya Kumari towards rent for our portion for last month. Slept by 10:00.
2 July (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Went to the training hall at Honour Labs by 9:10
to take my communicative English class. 38 employees of this unit attended this
class today. When I was explaining them Present Tense, my colleague Kishore
Reddy came to this class. He said that I should conduct a test to them. I
conducted a test on Tenses to them from 10:15 to 10:30. I did it against my
wish. What is use of conducting a test to them when I know that they cannot do
it well? I felt like shooting these idiots Kishore, Subba Rao and Ram publicly
and throw their dead bodies into a septic tank. They are instructing me how to
teach English. I am not happy with their attitudes. Took L&D classes at
HLL-III and HLL-IX from 2:00 to 3:00 and 4:45 to 5:45 and taught them about
‘Facts’. Today I caught a cold soon after drinking water at Honour Labs. It
bothered me considerably throughout the day. Returned home by 7:15 by bus.
Today Sankeerthana suffered due to diarrhoea. She turned a little weak. She did
not sleep till midnight. Evening my in-laws came to my abode. Recently four
mango plants fell off in my two-acre farm due to heavy winds. We have to plant
mango or cashew saplings there. My father got this farm ploughed and manure
spread across it. Rainy season facilitates growth of organisms more than other
seasons. Slept by 12:15.
3 July (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Today I did not take the English class at Honour
Labs as they were busy with an audit. Took an L&D class at HDL-IX from 9:30
to 10:30 and taught them about ‘Facts’. From 2:00 to 3:30 prepared an English
test to be used in Manthan, NHO and English classes hereafter. There are 50
questions in this test. I prepared questions on the following topics of English
grammar: Parts of Speech (word class), Articles, Tenses, Voice and Direct and
Indirect Speech. Each right answer carries one mark. I did this as Subba Rao
asked me to do it. Spent rest of the day casually. Morning Srijana and her
mother took our baby Sankeerthana to the clinic of Dr Ramesh Babu in Tuni. He
prescribed some medicines for her. He advised Srijana to feed coconut water and
other liquids to the baby frequently. Srijana observed that many children are
suffering from diarrhoea like Sankeerthana in and around our place now. Rainy
season is favourable to many parasites like bacteria and viruses. Babies touch
infested surfaces of objects and floors very often. They eat food particles
tasted by ants, mosquitoes, mites and flies. We cannot prevent them from such
behavior because they are innocent and adamant. Their immune system is weak.
Slept by 10:00.
4 July (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Took my communicative English class in the
training hall at Honour Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them Past
Tense. Conducted a test on English. Subba Rao told me to do it. They scored
very few marks in this test. When we know that somebody cannot walk, we should
not expect him to run. I don’t like to conduct tests much but to teach. Subba
Rao told me that there should be 20 learners only ideally in this class. I told
Dora Reddy, the GM of this unit, that I can teach 100 employees also in my
class. There are about 3,000 employees here. If I allow 20 creatures only into
my class, when do they learn English? Subba Rao is stopping me from teaching
English well to Hetero employees here. Ram would have advised him to be so.
Took L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX from 2:00 to 3:00 and 4:45 to 5:45
and taught them about ‘Facts’. Today Subba Rao organized an orchestra program
at HLL-III in the evening as part of Saturday Josh. T Joga Rao of Uma Orchestra
of village Eti Koppaka presented it with his band of musicians. Boys, below 20
years of age, played music very well. Joga Rao and a girl sang Telugu film
songs. Returned home by 7:45 by bus. Srijana, her mother, Sankeerthana, Anand
and Krishna Kumari went to the teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem by
5:30. Slept by 10:30.
5 July (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Started
to Peda Gummuluru by 8:15 on my scooter. Gave 2,000 rupees to my brother
Sambha. Tomorrow he goes to Kadiyam to buy and bring mango saplings for one of
our relatives. There is space to plant four plants in my two-acre farm. I told
him to bring two Pandooru Maamidi and one Imaam Pasandh to plant
in this space. My father and I went to my mango farm at hills by 9:20 on my scooter.
Today he deployed three men and three women to make bunds around my plants and
put manure there. I was there till 10:00. Spent at the abode of my paternal
uncle Narayana Murthy from 10:15 to 1:30. Had my lunch here. Gave 1,500 rupees
to my father for the expenses related to my mango farm. Returned to our house
in Peda Gummuluru by 2:15. Gave 200 rupees to my mother casually. Returned to
Payakaraopeta by 3:10. Went to the cashew processing unit at Geddala Beedu by
4:30. Took 14 kilos of our cashew nuts to get cashew pulled from them. He is
charging 15 rupees to process one kilo cashew nuts for us. Spent talking with
Revathi in their rented abode from 6:00 to 7:00. They are financially down now.
Listening to her relieved her and allowed me to understand their problems.
Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and Krishna Kumari returned home by 8:00. Slept by
10:00.
6 July (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them about Future Tense. Today I took
two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX from 2:00 3:00 and 4:50 to 5:40 and
taught them on ‘Facts’. Many may think that there is no use of learning facts.
I believe that 50% of our life depends on what we know and what we don’t know.
If we know that a person is bad, we stay away from him. We should know what is
possible and what is impossible also. We should struggle much to achieve that,
which is possible. We cannot reach the sun as materialists. We cannot make a
dead man alive. God empowers us to that extent only which is good for us. To
know about the great wonders and secrets of this world, we should read a lot
and listen to the words of highly elevated saints. Learning is growing.
Laziness and ignorance block our spiritual growth. God gave this life form to
all of us to allow us to know about Him and reach Him following different
spiritual paths suggested by Him. Today it was hot. Today my brother Sambha
brought three Imaam Pasandh and two Pandooru Maamidi mango saplings from
Kadiyam. They plant two Imaam Pasandh plants in our mango farm and the rest in
my two-acre farm. My maternal uncle Krishnam Raju came along with my brother
Sambha from Jaggampeta. Slept by 10:00.
7 July (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I conducted a quiz in this class on Tenses. They
participated in it actively. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00
and taught them about ‘Facts’. Today it was hot. Srijana is rearing a sparrow
now. They saw it in a part of our rented abode about 10 days ago. Its mother
died in our knowledge and left this little bird alone. It is a few days old. It
is a forsaken and solitary bird now. It is opening its beak for us to feed
grains and pour water often. We are keeping it in a cage with ventilation. It
is playing a little when kept outside. It is considering everybody around as
its relatives and well-wishers. Sankeerthana is also holding it lovingly. It is
unable to drink water or consume food on its own. Our house owner K S N Raju
said that it grows fast if it eats its natural food like worms. If we leave it
outside, birds like crows may kill it. We are enjoying its innocence and
cuteness. Is it its Karma that brought it to our abode? Where is the soul of
its mother now? How does God ensure that every creature lives and dies
according to its Karma? What we know about God is very little. He guides us
mysteriously. Slept by 10:00.
8 July (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:09 in the car of a familiar Hetero employee. I did not get
a Hetero bus today at this point to take. Took a communicative English class at
Honour Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them Noun, Pronoun and
Adjective. They have audits tomorrow and day after morrow. I don’t take my
classes these two days. Took L&D classes at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and
at HLL-IX from 4:45 to 5:45. Taught them about ‘Facts’. Today it was hot. Today
my father planted two Pandooru Maamidi, one Imaam Pasandh, one jackfruit and
one sapodilla plants in my two-acre farm near hills. He said that he and
another worker carried each plant to the farm from a place close to this. These
plants are that heavy. The roots are heavy and the plants are rather taller. He
said these plants are better than the ones we planted in this farm, earlier,
which Sambha bought and brought from Aswaraopeta. He said his shoulders got
affected while carrying these plants for about 300 metres. They dug pits for
them. He would plant one or two coconut saplings also in this farm soon. We are
planning to plant teak saplings also soon on the bunds of this farm. Night
Sankeerthana cried intensely for about three hours. Srijana struggled for long
to lull her to sleep. Slept by 11:30 for my dreams.
9 July (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HDL-IX from
9:30 to 10:30 and one at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00. Taught them about ‘Facts’.
From 10:45 to 12:00 typed a blog titled ‘Indian Manager’ on the computer system
of Soma Sundaram. I have to add more content to it. I believe that most of the
parents and their children are unable to live together most of their lives now
as they have no planning and conviction towards this ideal. I studied away from
my parents for long. Now I am away from them doing jobs. When we fail to savour
the beauty and power of familial bonds, we miss our lives. Man does not crave
money and comforts alone but a sense of affection and belongingness from his
closest kith and kin. Those that miss these relationships feel forsaken and
disappointed though they don’t express it much. This void of weak human
relations is the major cause of pain and stress in humanity now across the
world. People are moving to distant places for education, jobs and business
opportunities. We should earn a few people who love and care for us deeply.
Love is the most powerful binding force of humanity. I am missing my parents
and brothers every day. Separation pains us deeply. We miss many every day.
Slept by 10:00.
10 July (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Added more content to my blog titled ‘Indian
Manager’ from 9:00 to 11:30. Seven pages of content is there now. I type
content of three more pages and conclude it. Today I took two L&D classes
at HLL-III and HLL-IX from 2:00 to 3:00 and 4:50 to 5:40. Taught them about
‘Facts’. Returned to Payakaraopeta by 6:50 in the TATA NANO car of M V S
Prakash. Had a chapati at Jagatha Hotel for 20 rupees. By 5:30, this evening,
Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and Krishna Kumari went to Viswanadhapuram on our scooter.
They celebrate freedom and beauty of nature there. Today Telugu feature film
‘Baahu Bali’ was released to about 4,000 cinemas in India and abroad. Sobhu
Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni produced it spending about 220 crore rupees.
Director S S Rajamouli struggled like anything to make it for about three
years. Prabhas played the lead role. Many talented artistes and passionate
technicians contributed their worth and toil to make it into a piece of amazing
attractions and specialties. Today many fans of Prabhas and other film lovers
watched it. Some said most of the first part of it is not as interesting and
exciting as the second part of it. We take some time to establish characters
and narrate story softly. Idiots cannot understand this fact. Slept by 10:30.
11 July (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them Verb, Adverb and Preposition.
Typed and added more content to my blog titled ‘Indian Manager’ from 10:45 to
12:30. It amounted to 10 pages. Finished this writing work. Edited this content
on the computer system of Srinivasa Varma from 1:00 to 3:30. Took an L&D
class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them on ‘Facts’. Much hype is
created about the Telugu film ‘Baahubali’. They used international level
equipment and settings to shoot this film in Ramoji Film City at Hyderabad. By
7:30 my friend P Srinivasa Reddy called me up and said that he got a ticket to
allow me to see this film this night at cinema Surya Mahal. Reached there by
8:30. I wanted to see this film on a wide screen to feel its wonderful visual
and audio features but got ready for this venture casually. Saw it from 9:20 to
12:00 on an ordinary screen with a patch on it. The audio and visual elements
of this film thrilled me. One should watch this film on a big screen. The
facilities in Surya Mahal don’t match the requirements of this film. I would
watch it on a good screen soon. This is the first part of this film. Slept by
12:45.
12 July (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Posted my
blog titled ‘Indian Manager’ on my blog site by 8:00. It is a draft now. I
scheduled it to be published automatically by 8:00 am on the 16th of
this month. It is a work of fiction. I felt like writing this blog after
closely observing and experiencing some negative qualities in our manager Subba
Rao. I created the character of a typical Indian manager and interviewed him. I
made him express such notions and feelings also, which he does not express in
reality. The role of a good writer is to scan the psyches of different people
in an age applying his sublime mind and providing those critical and creative
reports to enthusiasts to read and understand the contemporary society. By 8:15
Chintalapati Venkata Rama Raju came to my abode from village Rambilli. His
roots are in Gollalagunta. He served in the Indian Army for about 20 years and
retired as a Naik. Earlier I wrote letters for him when he was not getting
pension properly. They started paying it properly afterwards. They deducted
some pension last month without written intimation to him. Typed a letter for
him to send to two places to solve this problem. We went to Tuni by 11:00. I
got them printed out on Royal Executive Bond papers, put them in envelopes and
pasted address slips on them. He left for Rambilli by 12:00. Slept by 10:00.
13 July (Monday)
Woke up by 4:30. By 8:00
Srijana, Sankeerthana, Anand and Krishna Kumari came from Viswanadhapuram on
our scooter. Last night Srijana, Anand and Krishna Kumari saw the Telugu film
‘Baahubali’ on a screen in Sri Kanya Cinema Complex at Narsipatnam. Srijana
took Krishna Kumari and Anand on our scooter along with her familiar folks of
Viswanadhapuram. They enjoyed tremendously watching this film on that big
screen with quality audio system. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:09 in the car of
a familiar Hetero employee. I did not get a Hetero bus. Took my communicative
English class at Honour Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them
Conjunction and Interjection. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and
HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Facts’. Returned home by 7:20 by bus. My house
owner Surya Kumari collected a few kilos of homemade mango jelly from her relative
in village Vempadu. Srijana bought 16 kilos of it for us and some of our Hetero
employees. By 8:00 gave three kilos of it to our manager Subba Rao and four
kilos to Prasad of accounts department of HLL-III. Commercial traders use low
quality mangoes and jaggery in preparation of mango jelly. This is better than
that. We bought each kilo of it for 100 rupees. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
14 July (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. Took a communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I conducted practice of parts of speech for my
learners. I asked them to tell a sentence in Telugu. I typed it in English on
screen. They have to identify word class in those sentences. Many took some
time to come up with a sentence in Telugu also. If they are not good at their
mother tongue, they cannot learn a foreign language well. Today I took two
L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Facts’. This early
morning my parents and the family members of my brother Sambha started to
Rajahmundry to take a holy dip in river Godavari there, on the occasion of
Pushkara, which occurs once for 12 years, for many rivers in India. They say
that these rivers turn very holy during these 12 days due to the arrangement of
the planets in the universe and also because deities and angels sanctify these
rivers during this time. Heavy rush of enthusiasts at Godavari in Rajahmundry
resulted in a stampede and about 30 creatures died this morning. My parents
reached my abode by 11:00 this night, undergoing a difficult bus journey all
the way from Rajahmundry. My brother Srinivas and his family members took this
traditional holy bath at Narasapuram this morning. Most of those going to
Godavari are criminals and sinners. Slept by 10:00.
15 July (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Took a communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them how and where we should use
articles A, An and The. Took an L&D class at HLL-III and taught them
‘Facts’ from 2:00 to 3:00. Today it was somewhat cloudy and pleasant. Returned
home by 7:15 by bus. My parents left for Peda Gummuluru by 3:00 this afternoon.
When I was three years old, my parents took us three brothers to river Godavari
for a holy dip in it. I went to Godavari twice afterwards but don’t remember if
I did it with my parents and brothers. As we grow, we are missing family bonds.
I like doing many things with my parents and brothers but unable to do it. We
are not living in one place. Our interests and priorities are not similar. This
diversity is keeping human beings apart. We belong to a family but we are not
thinking and acting like family members but opportunists. I am going and
settling somewhere if it is favourable for me. I am not sacrificing anything or
compromising in any manner to be closely associated with my parents and
siblings. We are not following Indian tradition now but individual choices.
This is the cause of our pains of separation and isolation. Slept by 10:00 for
my dreams.
16 July (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30 and taught them where articles A, An and The should not
be used. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them
‘Facts’. Morning Srijana and Swathi took Sankeerthana up to Kota Nanduru on our
scooter. My in-laws came here on their bike and took our baby to their abode in
the teak plantation of D S N Raju near village Marripalem. She is doing
mischief. She is adamant. Srijana did not take as many photos and videos of the
baby with our Sony digital camera as I asked her to do. The baby fell from the
cot in our master bedroom two days ago rolling from above the pillows put
around her. She sleeps in different postures. She was not hurt though she fell
down. That is the magic of God. He cares and guides all with pure love and
compassion. Sankeerthana enjoys her time with her maternal grandparents in the
farm there. It is a beautiful place. Babies too like different places to play
and enjoy their spirit of freedom. We need excessive patience to bring up
babies. Their mischief seems to be unbearable to their mothers. They don’t
consume foods and liquids easily. They are averse to medicines. We should allow
them to be free. Slept by 10:00.
17 July (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them workplace language related to
production department. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and
taught them about ‘Facts’. By 12:00 I got a wish that I should go to a cinema
in Narsipatnam today and see the Telugu film ‘Baahubali’ in matinee show.
Nobody got ready to come with me. Then I decided to go to the first show.
Nobody was there to accompany me. I had 70 rupees only on me. I did not have my
scooter also. Took two-hour permission from Subba Rao. Borrowed 150 rupees from
Bangarraju of EHS department at HLL-III. Swiped my attendance by 4:07 and
stepped out of the gate at HLL-III. A Hetero employee was going to Adduroad by
this time. He dropped me at Adduroad by 4:25 on his bike. Got into a sharing
auto rickshaw by 4:40 and started to Narsipatnam. Reached there by 5:30. Walked
to cinema Raju Movie Max. Bought a 50-rupee ticket for 70 rupees in the black.
My allotted seat number was V-9. It was just six rows closer to the screen. I
cursed the owner of this cinema. Watched this film from 6:10 to 9:05 sitting in
three different seats. Took a bus at depot by 9:40. Returned home by 11:40. Had
a bath by 11:55. Slept by 12:15.
18 July (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:09 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them workplace language. Had my lunch
at HLL-III cafeteria by 12:45. I already took a half day leave for this
afternoon. Swiped my attendance by 1:00. Took lift of a bike, a sharing auto
rickshaw and reached my abode by 2:00. My in-laws and my baby Sankeerthana had
already reached here from the teak plantation of D S N Raju. We decided to go
to Rajahmundry on bikes to take a holy dip in the River Godavari there on the
occasion of Pushkara, which occurs once for 12 years. I borrowed the newly
bought white Honda Activa scooter from Swathi. My in-laws borrowed the bike of
Sivaji, the brother of Revathi. Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana sat on my borrowed
scooter. We started from our abode by 3:30. We ran our bikes at an average
speed of 60 kilometres per hour. Traffic jammed around 5:30 when we were about
eight kilometres away from Rajahmundry. We rode along the extreme left edges of
NH-16 in a risky manner and reached the abode of Singampalli Satya Narayana by
8:30. His youngest son Ganesh is a familiar fellow to my father-in-law. His
wife belongs to K O Mallavaram. Ganesh guided us to Visweshwara Ghat by 9:30 on
our bikes. We all took a holy bath here from 9:50 to 10:30 at night. It was a
divine experience.
19 July (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00 in the
abode of Ganesh. Last night the family members of Sekhar too came here. This
house is in Annapoornammapeta. It’s in big street. This place is very close to
Swami Ashoka Centre. The number of this house is 44/13/107. Ganesh facilitated
us to have the holy bath comfortably. We started back by 7:10 on our bikes. The
NH-16 was rather free. I reached our abode by 9:50 along with Srijana, Anand
and Sankeerthana. Those sitting on a bike before and behind the one riding it
feel much uncomfortable during long journeys. My wife and children felt so
yesterday and today. Got the Honda Activa scooter of Swathi washed with water
in a water cleaning unit at Payakaraopeta by 11:30 paying them 50 rupees for
it. We travelled about 200 kilometers on this scooter and spent about 300
rupees for petrol. By 12:30 brought my father to my abode from a point beside
NH-16 in Payakaraopeta. Yesterday he went to Gollalagunta on an assignment. He
had his lunch and rested at our abode till 3:30. Accompanied my father up to Y
Junction. He took a sharing auto rickshaw for Peda Gummuluru. By 5:00 dropped
my in-laws, Anand and Sankeerthana at the bus depot in Tuni on my scooter.
There is a heavy rush of passengers here also. They somehow took a bus bound to
Narsipatnam for Thaandava Junction. Slept by 10:00.
20 July (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:41 by bus. Took a communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them workplace language. Today I took
two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Facts’. My
journey to Rajahmundry would not have been successful without the new Honda
Activa scooter of Swathi. Ganesh took us to Visweshwara Ghat to enable us to
bathe there peacefully. Anand and Sankeerthana enjoyed bathing here like
anything. Sankeerthana took it as a tub of water familiar to her at our abode.
She was overjoyed to play in this water of River Godavari. She refused to come
out of this water. She sat on a step here with Srijana for a while. Took videos
of this memorable occasion with my Sony digital camera. Ganesh took some photos
while I was bathing. They did not result well. He owns and runs Sri Jyothi
Photo Frame & Gallery shop by Town Hall Road in Rajahmundry. Its door
number is 33-1-70/7. It is opposite the State Bank of India by Old Vegetable
Market. He sells a variety of photos and photo frames. He presented three
photos to us, at this shop, out of affection for us. I took videos of this shop
with my camera when Srijana, Sankeerthana, Anand and my in-laws were in it
around 9:30 pm before going to Visweshwara Ghat on our bikes. These videos
resulted well. Slept by 10:00.
21 July (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I took a communicative English class at
Honour Labs from 9:30 to 10:30 and taught them about workplace language. Spent
rest of the day casually. The journey I had last Saturday and Sunday to and
from Rajahmundry is one of the major feats I have in my life. I am so
disciplined in some matters that I cannot eat food also faster. I instructed my
mind that I should eat my food slowly, chewing it comfortably. I walk along the
extreme left of a road. I walk slowly when there is no urgent work to do. I
stay away from big water bodies because I cannot swim. I don’t ride a scooter
fast on national highway because others are not running their vehicles properly
on it. I assess risk factors before involving myself in something but not
profit, comfort or happiness. I behaved against my self-imposed norms of
discipline during my trip to Rajahmundry to take a holy dip in the River
Godavari there. I rode the scooter on extreme edges of highway near
Rajahmundry. I ran it at a speed of 75 kilometres per hour at times when the
road ahead was free. None of us had a helmet on our heads while doing it. My
wife and children were there on the scooter. There was heavy traffic along the
road. Slept by 10:00.
22 July (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30 and taught them the basics of English. Today I took two
L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX from 2:15 to 3:15 and from 4:45 to 5:40
and taught them ‘Facts’. Today it rained. It was cool and pleasant today. There
is a reason in my taking our baby Sankeerthana to River Godavari for a holy
bath on the occasion of Pushkara. Now she is 18 months old. She will be 14
years old by the time the next Pushkara occurs after 12 years. Now she is a
baby. Then she will be a teen. Now her brother Anand is a boy. Then he will be
an adult. Time is making the stages of our lives strange and memorable. What we
do for our children today become good memories after some time. A baby
participating in an occasion with her young parents would generally be a sweet
memory in the latter part of her life. Many changes are bound to occur in
everybody’s life in a span of 12 years. We cannot influence the nature of time
but we can record and store the beauty and diversity of it for our future
generations. In the colossal creation and game of God, we are all creatures
like specks. We often struggle to decorate our vulnerable and shadowy life with
diverse dreams and imaginations. Memories are such bubbles and pebbles in our
flows of lives. Slept by 10:00.
23 July (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Took a communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them Modal Auxiliary Verbs. Walked to
Boys’ Hostel by 11:15. Today two classes were conducted in the two training
rooms here. K Sundar taught 74 Hetero employees about important aspects of life
and profession. He is a personality development and English trainer. During
lunchbreak, I talked with him casually. He is the managing director of Formula,
an English language training institute at Hyderabad. It is in Aditya Enclave
building at Ameerpet. They train on voice and accent, business English and spoken
Hindi, Telugu to English, English to English and Hindi to English. He has a
team of trainers. They go to different companies and institutions and teach
English according to their requirements. He belongs to Eluru. He said that
often some ask them if they can do English editing and writing works. They
don’t do it. I gave him 11 visiting cards of mine, keeping them in a plastic
container, and asked him to direct such folks to me. I can do these works now
and then. He heard my voice when I was addressing Hetero folks in this class
towards the end of it. He said that I have impressive base voice. Felt very
happy about it. Slept by 10:00.
24 July (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught them Modals. By 1:30 started to Leela Honda
service point at Adduroad on the Honda Activa scooter of L&D department to
get its second term service done. Travelled via the newly laid Hetero road
between Hetero Complex and NH-16. They are still working on it. I thought about
the difficulties, the management of Hetero faced, in collecting this land and
laying this road. Local political parties obstructed their legitimate process
of acquisition of land. The farmers demanded excessive rates to sell their
farms. Now they are using this road like a dustbin. They allow their cattle to
walk on it and disfigure it with dung and mud. They run their dirty vehicles on
it. Indians are not as good as outsiders think about them. They exploit
industries in their localities like anything. We can understand their cruelty
and narrow-mindedness talking to entrepreneurs and industrialists in India.
They completed the second level service of our Hetero scooter by 3:20. I spent
my time at our house in Peda Gummuluru during this time. Got five litres of
petrol filled in this bike at Gayathri Agencies filling station beside NH-16
near village Vempadu by 3:40. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 5:00 to
5:40. My mother-in-law and Sankeerthana came to our abode. Slept by 10:00.
25 July (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:43 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them how to ask and answer different
questions. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught
them ‘Facts’. By 3:30 had a cup of coffee in the administrative building at
HLL-III. Two days ago a Coffee Day vendor installed some vending machines in
parts of Hetero Complex on the advice of management. Employees can have coffee
or tea when they want. They deduct five rupees for tea and six rupees for
coffee from our salaries. They use fresh packaged milk in these machines. The
stimulating aroma of coffee powder used in this machine is spreading across the
corridors here. Many employees are having coffee enthusiastically. It was good.
Returned home by 7:15 by bus. It is the sixth birthday of our son Anand Sagar
Varma today. He enters his seventh year of age. Srijana prepared tamarind rice
and sweet milk porridge on this occasion. He wore a new pair of clothes. He
distributed dark chocolates and biscuits to his classmates at Canossa School.
His maternal and paternal grandparents came here for the occasion. Sambha,
Anjaneya Varma and Kranthi too came by 7:30 at night. He cut a cake by 9:00.
Slept by 10:00.
26 July (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. My
brother Sambha, Kranthi and their son Anjaneya Varma left for Peda Gummuluru by
8:30 on their bike. Sambha gave 1,000 rupees for Anand on the occasion of his
birthday. My father too gave 1,000 rupees. I feel uneasy to invite anybody to a
function like this. Giving money, they are making it into a commercial event. I
regret it. I did not spend money for the birthday of Anand this time. My
father-in-law must have sponsored it. They spent about 2,000 rupees on this
occasion. Today I typed up the content of June from my diary of 2015 on my
computer from 6:30 to 12:30. Edited it from 6:30 to 7:30 at night. Took Anand
to the salon of Ramana by 3:00 and got his hair cut. By 4:00 Srijana and I took
Sankeerthana to Fair & Lovely beauty parlour in Tuni to get her hair
trimmed. She took 50 rupees and did it within five minutes. This is the first
baby haircut for Sankeerthana. She did not resist it much. She felt uneasy and
uncomfortable as cut strands of hair fell on her. My parents left for Peda
Gummuluru by 3:15 by bus. I accompanied them up to Y Junction. My mother
suffered from high blood pressure yesterday and today. Night posted a comment
on YouTube appreciating Mia George. She appeared in an interview in this video
file. I admire her beauty and acting skills. Slept by 10:15.
27 July (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today also I taught them how to ask questions and
answer them. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them
about ‘Facts’. By 4:40 took our L&D Honda Activa scooter to Leela Honda
authorized service centre in Adduroad riding it on our newly laid Hetero road.
Got it washed with water as part of his due initial service agreement with us.
Went to our house in Peda Gummuluru by 5:25 to see my mother. She is recovering
slowly from her high blood pressure. I advised her to drink more water every
day and also to do walking. Rushed back to Hetero Complex by 5:45. Returned
home by 7:10 by bus. Talked with my brother Srinivas for five minutes over
phone. Advised him to refrain from the culture of borrowing money from others.
He buys something and asks my father to borrow money from his familiar folks to
pay for it. He bought a plot of residential land in Jaggampeta recently without
even one lakh rupees with him. He thought that he could pay for it selling his
plot at Devi Nagar here. They are not asking it at our expected rate now. My
father is borrowing money from others to pay for it. Slept by 10:30.
28 July (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:49 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them how to learn English, presenting
the initial 26 slides of my PPT on this topic. We observed silence for two
minutes from 10:30 expressing our homage to the departed soul of A P J Abdul
Kalam, who passed away by 7:45 pm yesterday night. He has been a devoted
scientist and admirable idealist of India. He practiced virtues as an
individual and dreamed of a vibrant India. He liked to spend with children and
educate them towards developing India substantially in the near future through
their constructive thoughts and collective efforts. He is a great Indian. He
has been a patriot and visionary of India. India needs such gentlemen for peace
and happiness throughout it. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and
HLL-IX and taught them on ‘Facts’. Yesterday I started typing a blog titled
‘Interpretation’ on the computer system of Soma Sundaram. I have to add more
content to it. Today there was no mouse at this computer. Somebody would have
stolen it yesterday night. It is the 45th birthday of my brother
Srinivas today. He was born in 1970. My brother Sambha was born in 1973. I was
born in 1976. We talk less but feel affection and attachment inwardly. Slept by
10:00.
29 July (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today also I presented my PPT on English. By 3:00 went
to Leela Honda unit at Adduroad to collect the bill from them for the 300
rupees, which I paid them on the 24th of this month for the second
term service of our L&D scooter of Hetero. They said their bill books had
not arrived yet. I got infuriated about it. Rushed back to Hetero. Typed a
two-page complaint letter addressing the management of Honda, on the computer
system of Sita Reddy of purchase department at HLL-III. By 8:30, at night,
emailed it to the folks of Honda at their office in Gurgaon from my personal
email ID. Also created my account on the portal of Ignite Intent, a crowd
funding platform. I filled all the required particulars to submit my
application but their automated system did not accept it. I want to collect
fund to publish my second work. I think they can help me in this direction. By
10:00, this morning, my brother Sambha took Srijana and Sankeerthana to the
MeeSeva centre in S Rayavaram. They followed the process there to get an
Aadhaar card for Sankeerthana. Srijana and Sankeerthana returned home by 11:30.
Slept by 10:30 for my dreams.
30 July (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. Took my communicative English class at Honour
Labs from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I presented them the last part of my PPT on
English. Took an L&D class at HLL-IX from 4:50 to 5:45 and taught them about
‘Facts’. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. There is a message to my cellphone from
the folks of Honda. They acknowledged the receipt of my complaint to them. They
sent an email also stating that they would resolve my issue as early as
possible. Felt happy and replied them with constructive advice on how to deal
with customers and promote Honda in India. Folks of Leela Honda also called me
up. Told them to read my two-page letter and do what I stated in it. By 9:00
submitted my particulars to the folks of Ignite Intent through their online
form. They go through these details to accept or reject my proposal. I wish to
collect 1, 25,000 rupees for the publication of my second work. Its title is A
Dreamer’s Love Story. I created this work of fiction in 1995. There are emails
with stories, which I sent to Deepthi. I cannot invest this much money now for
the publication of this second work. I want to see if others can contribute to
its publication through this crowd funding medium. Today my mother-in-law came
to our abode from the teak plantation. Slept by 10:00.
31 July (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Today I went to Honour Labs to conduct
communicative English class. They did not have time to attend this class.
Srikanth Reddy of Engineering department talked with the folks of Leela Honda
and told them that we are withdrawing our complaint made against them. He did
all this representing Hetero. He reprimanded me saying that we should not take
mistakes of others seriously. He said that my job might be lost if he talks
about it to the finance director Bhaskara Reddy over here. Our manager Subba
Rao also reprimanded me about it. These folks proved me that Indians commit
mistakes regularly. We should not criticize them. Night I emailed a two-page
letter to their corporate office explaining them what happened here and also
stating that I am withdrawing myself from this complaint. By 4:00 they offered
gifts to those, who taught in Manthan-E-2 classes recently, at HLL-IX. I too
received one. There are six sets of cups and saucers in it worth about 1,400
rupees. Morning Srijana took her mother and Sankeerthana to the teak plantation
of D S N Raju on our scooter. Our baby spends there for some days. By 9:14, at
night, an amount of 23, 720 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account from
the HR folks of Hetero towards my salary for this month. Today my brother Srinivas
got his plot of residential land at Jaggampeta registered in the name of his
son Suhas Varma. My father and my maternal uncle Varma assisted him in this
process. Slept by 10:00.
1 August (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:20. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Conducted an English test for the five employees
of Honour Labs by 10:15 in their training hall. I did it to satisfy our manager
Subba Rao. He follows some formalities to impress others. I explain and live in
realities, personally or professionally. I know that 90% of Hetero employees
are not good at English now. I should help them learn English. I should not
conduct tests for them when I know that they cannot do it well. It’s like
asking a pauper to invest in our risky venture. It is nothing but insulting
them intentionally. By 12:00 Subba Rao prepared a PPT on ‘Anger Management’. I
edited and revised it by 1:30. I did not find it interesting and inspiring. He
did it mechanically, collecting content from other PPTs. Took an L&D class
at HLL-IX from 5:00 to 5:40. I felt uneasy and uncomfortable to elaborate the
vague and repetitive content prepared by Subba Rao. Today our colleague Soma
Sundaram rejoined us one month after his injury and surgery on his right
forearm. Evening it rained. Today Srijana withdrew 13,000 rupees from my Axis
Bank account. She used it to clear dues and buy things. Srijana, Kavitha, Anand
and I saw the Telugu film ‘James Bond’ of Naresh in cinema Gowtham from 9:30 to
11:50. We enjoyed watching it. Slept by 12:20.
2 August (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. By 8:30
Anand and I went to Devi Nagar layout in Annavaram in the car of K S N Raju
casually. He and his folks came here to see their plots in this place. We
bought 15 packs of Prasaadham for 150 rupees for us and returned home by 9:30.
Srijana went to Tuni by 11:00 to participate in a small gathering of her
classmates. They pursued their Intermediate course at the government college
for girls in Tuni once. She and three of her classmates met today. She went
there wearing a white shade Punjabi dress. She looked fantastic in it. I spent
watching different video files on YouTube from 11:00 to 1:00. I saw aghoras,
space, film songs and an interview of S P Bala Subrahmanyam by Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna.
Krishna Kumari too watched them. It was a great experience. I created my
alumnus profile on the portal of University of Hyderabad recently. It’s
pleasure to be associated with them online. Today I complained to five
authorities against the management of Canossa School. They blocked a passage on
the divider between NH-16, which about 200 pedestrians and two-wheeler users
use daily. Had my haircut in the salon of my favourite barber Vadapilli Ramana
at Payakaraopeta. Today Krishna Kumari bought a used girls’ bicycle for 2,000
rupees from a familiar creature. Watched the 20-year celebration of Telugu ETV
channel for about one hour. Slept by 10:00.
3 August (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 by bus. From 10:00 to 2:00 prepared a PPT on ‘Anger
Management’ on the computer system of Srinivasa Varma in HLL-III. Yesterday I
collected this information from the website of American Psychological
Association. I did not find the PPT prepared by our manager Subba Rao good. I
should not teach worthless stuff in a formal class, for which Hetero management
is paying remuneration for me. If I think that my listeners are intelligent
folks, I prepare powerful and insightful presentations for them. My approach
towards my life and profession must be so. Then only I can love and respect the
creatures and phenomena in this world, which God created with amazing
intelligence and creativity. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00
and taught them about ‘Anger Management’ using this PPT. Helped my colleague
Kusuma from 2:30 to 5:50 fill data of a training class, reading out those
numbers. Today Srijana did two brave things. She taught a lesson to a tailor,
who retained our cloth pieces for a month without stitching. She talked
logically and confidently with a home guard about the blunder committed by the rogues
of Canossa School through blocking the passage on NH-16 near Devi Nagar. We
have been using it for long to go to the other part of this town and Tuni on
bikes. Slept by 10:00.
4 August (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. From 10:00 to 11:30 helped my colleague Kusuma
fill data into online space, reading out numbers of a training program. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Anger
Management’. Today my brother-in-law Vamsy came here by Yashwantpur Express
train by 11:30. He got off it at Tuni. He came here to get his left hand operated
in a hospital at Visakhapatnam. His left hand looks a little curvilinear than a
normal hand. He fractured it in his childhood out of his mischief. Now he wants
to get it operated again and straightened. His sister Srijana helps and guides
him in this process. My mother-in-law brought Sankeerthana to our rented abode
today. Yesterday Srijana scared a tailor with her ferocious behavior. She gave
a few cloth pieces to a tailor in Payakaraopeta for stitching about a month
ago. He did not stitch them till yesterday. When she went to collect those
pieces, he was not there. When she talked with him over phone, he responded
carelessly. She brought two other cloth pieces to our abode from his unit. She
ordered him to collect those pieces, giving our cloth pieces, coming to our
abode. He threatened her saying that he would complain to police. She
challenged him to do it. He came to our abode and did what she expected. I want
to see such girls and women in India. Slept by 10:00.
5 August (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. By 8:10
Srijana and her brother Vamsy took an APSRTC bus at Y Junction to go to
Visakhapatnam. Vamsy consults a doctor there to know if a surgery should be
conducted on his left hand to straighten it slightly. Srijana facilitates this
process. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:48 by bus. Typed more content and
completed my blog titled ‘Interpretation’. Did it from 9:30 to 1:30 on the
computer systems of Srinivasa Varma and Soma Sundaram. Today I took two L&D
classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Anger Management’.
Returned home by 7:15 by bus. Srijana informed me over phone that a doctor told
Vamsy that a surgery need not be performed on his left arm. He is able to lift
weights with it. One cannot notice the slight curve in it when one sees it
casually. If the doctor performs a surgery on the insistence of Vamsy, a
problem might arise in future in using a finger. A nerve located in the middle
of this arm might be affected in the surgery. Vamsy decided not to go for
surgery minding these complications in future. They stay in an abode of their
relative tonight in Visakhapatnam. She consulted a pulmonologist about her
asthma. By 9:30 posted my blog titled ‘Interpretation’ on my blog site. It gets
published by 8:00 am on the 8th of this month. Slept by 10:30 for my
dreams.
6 August (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:56 by bus. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and
HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Today I knew that Pakalapati
Geetha, a classmate of Srijana at girls’ junior college at Tuni, is working in
our floor at HLL-IX, where I am sitting now. She talked with me for a few
seconds remembering those days. She is a beautiful and disciplined girl. Today
they ran our Hetero buses on the newly laid road between NH-16 and Hetero
Complex. They laid this road through coconut and paddy farms. It is a pleasant
experience to travel on this road. The folks of village Upamaaka tortured the
management of Hetero like anything blocking their roads and stopping buses.
Most of them benefitted a lot from the Hetero here but they don’t have that
gratitude. Returned home by 7:15 by bus. Srijana and my brother-in-law Vamsy
returned from Visakhapatnam by 5:00 by bus. Srijana bought four nighties for
her and some dresses for Sankeerthana, spending about 1,000 rupees. She bought
medicines worth about 1,500 rupees to counter the mild asthma in her. Vamsy and
his mother went to the teak plantation of D S N Raju near Marripalem on our
scooter. He is still unable to plan and implement measures for balancing his
earnings and expenditure. Slept by 10:00.
7 August (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:46 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III and
taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Today Hetero CMD Bandi Parthasaradhi
Reddy came to Hetero Complex from Hyderabad. He talked with some important
staff members here and directed them on key areas of work and decisions. All
the employees felt his presence metaphysically. I wondered to observe the
madness of people, who rushed heavily to take a holy bath in River Godavari
recently. Buses, trains and private vehicles were packed with creatures heading
to Godavari. They believed that their sins would be washed away with the water
of Godavari, which was supposedly sanctified by saints and divine creatures. It
is not true. Others cannot wash the stains of our sins. We are responsible for
it. Saints and virtuous persons train and visualize us on the ways and means of
reaching God. They are just guides. We should struggle to attain salvation. It
is a slippery and risky path. We should think and act like a brave warrior on this
long journey. Dedication and perseverance are our weapons. Taking a holy bath
in rivers and such customary rituals were designed by our great saints once to
slowly attract us towards this noble path towards God. Slept by 10:00.
8 August (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Last
night Hetero Chairman Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy and director C Mohan Reddy
appeared in my dream. They expressed their affection for me. Enjoyed this
experience. Today I took two L&D classes at HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught
them about ‘Anger Management’. By 3:30 started to Sri Gayathri Agencies filling
station near Vempadu to get five litres of petrol filled in the tank of Honda
Activa of our L&D department. Our manager Subba Rao assigned me this work.
The petrol in it came to an end by the time I reached Upamaaka. There was a
retail store. They are selling small quantities of petrol also for a little
margin. I bought half a litre of petrol for 42 rupees here to run this scooter
up to the filling station. This is God’s grace. He does not interfere with our
Karma much because it is His self-imposed rule. He enables us to face a problem
effectively or helps us solving that problem more easily than we are destined
to. I felt happy remembering this boundless love of God towards all those, who trust
and depend on Him. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Srijana, Anand, Krishna
Kumari, Sankeerthana and I saw the Telugu film ‘Sreemanthudu’ of Mahesh Babu in
cinema Gowtham from 9:30 to 12:30. It is a very interesting film. Mahesh and
others impressed me deeply throughout. Slept by 1:15.
9 August (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Today I
typed up the content of July from my diary of 2015 on my computer for six
hours. Today I downloaded and installed Microsoft Windows 10 on my computer.
Bill Gates is generously offering this upgrade service to all those, who have original
Windows operating system on their computer systems. They spend huge money and a
lot of time to come up with a new operating system. Giving it freely to
millions of users reflects their ultimate standards and values as an
organization. I owe to Bill Gates and all his extraordinary staff members
across places. I cannot work on my computer without their magnanimous
contribution. By 2:00 my brother Sambha came to my rented abode from Peda
Gummuluru. He talked with our familiar Kshatriya fellow here about selling the
plot of my brother Srinivas, which is at Devi Nagar. My in-laws came from the
teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem by 3:00 on their bike. Sambha left
for Peda Gummuluru by 5:00. My father-in-law got an affected tooth pulled from
his mouth in Bharat Clinic at Tuni this evening. Srijana was with him. Today it
rained and made it cool. Vamsy is in Viswanadhapuram now. He took leaves
thinking that a surgery may be performed on his left forearm. It did not
happen. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
10 August (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. My
in-laws started to the teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem by 5:40 on
their bike along with Sankeerthana. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus.
Added six more slides to my PPT titled ‘Virtues’, which I started writing
recently. I want to propose it to be used in the L&D classes next month.
Subba Rao or Soma Sundaram prepare it at the eleventh hour carelessly. I find
their PPTs sub-standard. This is an attempt to save myself from this mess. They
do many things for formality sake. We should do some things at least with passion.
Then only we can learn and improve at our level. Our colleague Kusuma Devi
decided to join the HR department at Honour Labs. There is a vacancy now. I
encouraged and guided her in this process. Today she felt disturbed as Subba
Rao or Kishore Reddy did not sign her internal transfer application form. They
refused to sign it until another suitable candidate fills that vacancy to be
created by her. She said that she would leave L&D department only after
somebody joins. L&D department is losing credibility and respect among our
employees here as Subba Rao has neither discipline nor honest focus on what he
is doing here as its manager. Slept by 10:00.
11 August (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I added six more slides to my PPT titled
‘Virtues’. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them
on ‘Anger Management’. Spent rest of the day casually. Today the idiots of
Congress and CPI parties organized a strike in Andhra Pradesh demanding the
central government to accord special status to this newly formed state. They
are begging the central government more money than scheduled, to develop this
state uniquely after its birth as a separate entity. CPI and Congress parties
have many worthless beggars and loafers in them now. They must do something often
to make their presence felt. They got educational institutions closed, roads
blocked and such other types of antisocial activities publicly. Government
facilitated it. The democracy in India is a fool’s paradise. Here political
parasites often attack people in the name of agitation for a cause. They seek
devilish pleasure from torturing people publicly. They should conduct their
agitations in graveyards, garbage deposit points and other deserted places.
They have no moral authority to disturb the normal course of public life. I treat
them as avoidable and punishable terrorists of India. Why should they expect me
to participate in their social crime? Slept by 10:00.
12 August (Wednesday)
Woke up by 3:30. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:57 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Our manager Subba Rao conducted
an internal meeting in his cabin with the staff of L&D from 10:30 to 11:00.
He reviewed what we did till now recently and what we should do in the coming
few weeks. He assigns every possible work to his subordinates. He creates
suitable environment in which he can enjoy his time and relax mostly. He craves
respect and affection from others but he seldom feels or expresses them towards
others. We have to recruit a candidate into our L&D department now to do
the office work of Kusuma, who has decided to move to the HR department at
Honour Labs here. A male can do these works comfortably and efficiently but he
selects impressive beauty only for this position. He thinks that it is
admiration of beauty but others are taking it as ogling and qualities of a
womanizer. He does what he likes but not what is good for Hetero organization.
He expects others to be broadminded but he is essentially narrow-minded. He
does not check our files emailed to him when we tell him but asks us to send
them again when he needs them. He is a filthy pig. Hetero and I are kind and
generous towards him. Slept by 10:00.
13 August (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. By 10:30 completed my PPT titled ‘Virtues’
adding three slides to it. We would use it in our L&D classes soon. Today I
took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Anger
Management’. Spent rest of the day casually. Now all Hetero employees are
talking about increments for the last financial year. They are finalizing
figures to different employees based on their designations and productivity.
Two days ago our manager Subba Rao asked me how much I am expecting this time.
I said that a Kshatriya should not beg or ask anything from anybody without
self-respect. Also added that a Brahmin should know what is right or wrong
while doing something. Today my friend and well-wisher Bojja Shankara Rao
brought six litres of cow cheese milk and a lactometer from village Eti
Koppaka. He has a Heritage milk collection point in this village. Most of the
milk sellers are adding water to milk now. I want to see how much they are adulterating
milk this way. Srijana uses it for this purpose at home. Shankar is doing well
getting considerable profit from this business. He expresses illogical love and
respect for me. Slept by 10:00.
14 August (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:51 by bus. Typed and edited a blog titled ‘Standards and
Values’ from 9:00 to 1:55 on the computer systems of Soma Sundaram and
Srinivasa Varma. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught
them about ‘Anger Management’. Returned home by 7:15 by bus. My cousin Anantha
Lakshmi and her son Vinay came to our abode by 2:00 this afternoon. She brought
homemade sweets for us. She repaid 2,000 rupees, which we spent recently to buy
a used bicycle for her daughter Krishna Kumari. Her nickname is Kavitha. She
brought 5,000 rupees to pay to the folks of Sri Prakash College towards the
second term fee, which is due in October. If we have money, we spend it for
something. So, we should not keep others’ money with us. I am facing such
situation now. I deposit some money in my ICICI bank account to keep it
meaningful. We withdraw that money also on some occasion. My bank accounts are
in this status now. Needs and wants are growing like anything. I am unable to
meet their pace with fixed and limited sources of income. Anantha Lakshmi is
also in this condition now. She somehow managed to mobilize 7,000 rupees for
these needs. Night scheduled my blog on my blog site to be published by 8:00 am
this Sunday. Slept by 10:00.
15 August (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. It’s a
holiday at Hetero today for general shift employees on account of the Independence
Day of India. Reached Peda Gummuluru by 9:20 on my scooter with Anand, Kavitha
and Vinay. Srijana, Sankeerthana and my cousin Anantha Lakshmi came here in a
sharing auto rickshaw after me. My father and I went to our mango garden at
hills by 10:00 on my scooter. We checked the status of our mango plants and
trees. We spent at the abode of my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy for 15
minutes. Had my lunch in our house by 12:00. My father, my paternal uncle
Narasimha Murthy, my brother Sambha and I started to Sri Ram Puram by 1:00 on
our two bikes. We reached there by 2:30 travelling via Darlapudi, Kota Uratla,
K Venkata Puram and Thataparthi. My uncle showed us 10 acres of mango farm
here, which its owner wishes to sell. We walked through it and checked it. It’s
a fertile and beautiful piece of land. The hills and natural beauty about this
place is spectacular. I want to build my dream home in this place and live. May
Lord Krishna materialize it. We visited the agricultural farm of Sambha at
Tangedu by 5:00 on our way back and returned to Peda Gummuluru. Vinay and I
reached our abode by 6:45. Others had already arrived here. My paternal uncle Narasimha
Murthy stayed here at night. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
16 August (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Srijana
and I took Sankeerthana to the clinic of Dr. Ramesh in Tuni by 8:00 on our
scooter. Sankeerthana is feeling itchy over her skin often. Mosquitoes are
biting her. The soaps we are using, the Odomos cream we are applying on her
skin to avoid mosquito bites and the weather around us may be a cause of her
minor skin problem. She is spending most of her time on our floor and with many
objects, which are filled with millions of bacteria and viruses. The immunity
of babies is very low. They catch infections faster than adults. Bringing up
babies without allowing them to touch infested areas and harmful products is an
ordeal. This doctor did not open this clinic by this time as expected by
Srijana. We had boiled groundnuts for some time. Srijana, Anantha Lakshmi,
Kavitha, Vinay and I played cards from 12:30 to 2:30 for the fun of it. We bet
10 rupees for each game. Kavitha won about 200 rupees. We watched the telecasts
of the 20-year celebration of ETV Telugu television channel and the award
presentation of Maa Telugu television channel from 6:00 to 9:00 on our SAMSUNG
LED television. Today it rained considerably due to depression over Bay of
Bengal and made it cool. Today I spent at home with my folks enjoying this cool
time. Slept by 10:00.
17 August (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. By 6:00
dropped my cousin Anantha Lakshmi and her son Vinay at Golla Appa Rao Centre in
Tuni on my scooter. They took an ordinary APSRTC bus bound to Rajahmundry for
Jaggampeta. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:47 by bus. Sat in our section in SEZ
till 11:00 reading my blogs on the computer system of Soma Sundaram.
Occasionally I read my blogs to feel their worth as a reader. They impress and
inspire me towards noble thoughts and ideal orientation of life. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Anger
Management’. Today I gave an envelope to Sharat at HLL-III. He is a tenant now
in our house at Peda Gummuluru. I kept my passport size photo, a photo taken in
my two-acre mango farm standing beside a mango plant, the photocopies of my
Aadhaar card and Axis Bank account in it. Recently my brother Sambha told me
that the state government is offering some financial assistance to peasant
farmers to encourage them towards cultivation of fruit farms. I already spent
some money in buying and growing mango plants in this farm. Sambha applies to
the folks of this department of agriculture on my behalf to get this assistance
for me. Today it was cool and pleasant. Slept by 10:00.
18 August (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night I had a nightmare. I was conditioned in an environment of custody and
threat. I did not have freedom to move out of this area. It’s like a kidnap by
an extremist or enemy group. I was scared while sensing this atmosphere. God
visualized me an environment, which I am destined to experience. It’s my Karma.
He made me experience that trauma subconsciously. He avoided its occurrence in
my real life through His kind involvement. My brother Sambha too appeared in
this dream. He too is living in such circumstances in his real life. Our
respective favourite Gods saved us from these dangers. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:45 by bus. Typed a blog titled ‘Question’ on the computer system of Soma
Sundaram from 9:10 to 10:45. Today I wrote it on two pages. I have to write more
to conclude it. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught
them about ‘Anger Management’. Spent in a training classes at Boys’ Hostel from
3:30 to 5:45. Morning Srijana and Kavitha took Sankeerthana to the clinic of
Dr. Ramesh in Tuni by 8:15. He prescribed a cream and a tonic to cure her skin
problems. My eyes are watering. Dust must be the cause. I have to consider eye
drops. Slept by 10:00.
19 August (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Last
night I saw a nightmare. The father of Lakshmi presented me as a wrongdoer to
many in relation to what I had done about his daughter. I remained silent and
defenseless in this setting. Perhaps this might be a symbolic portrayal of consequences
I will have to face if I try to see Lakshmi proactively as I did last year. It
would be a scene of humiliation and regret for me. My father and brother Sambha
sat helplessly in this atmosphere. I don’t try to meet Lakshmi hereafter even
if her innermost pain appears to me in my dreams. If it is her Karma to suffer
silently, let her experience it. Lord Krishna warned me to avoid my intention to
meet her after careful planning. I should leave her to her destiny. I should
not try to pull her out from that hell. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:47 by bus.
Completed writing my blog titled ‘Question’, typing and editing it, from 9:00
to 11:00, on the computer system of Soma Sundaram. Took an L&D class at
HLL-IX from 5:00 to 5:40 and taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Returned
home by 7:10 by bus. Posted my blog titled ‘Question’ on my blog site so as
that it would be published automatically by 8:00 am IST on the 24th
of this month. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
20 August (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:48 by bus. Morning read some content on Wikipedia on the computer
system of Soma Sundaram. The contributors and editors associated with Wikipedia
are doing great work to educate the humanity. I admire their writing and
editing skills. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught
them about ‘Anger Management’. Recently I casually discussed the words like
‘bike’, ‘scooty’ and ‘scooter’ with one of my Hetero folks. I realized that I
used the word ‘scooty’ wrongly, associating it with my Honda Activa. It is
actually a scooter. Scooty is the name given to a very light two-wheeler of TVS
company by them. I used this word to mean a two-wheeler without the system of
gears. We can find out and edit a word or phrase in long documents also using
the F5 button on a computer keyboard. I think it is a marvelous tool and button
for writers and editors. I would have used the two-wheeler Scooty of TVS also.
So, I should not blindly edit this word, using F5 button, replacing the word
‘scooty’ with ‘scooter’. I have to do it manually. I have no time. All my
personal diaries are posted online. How do I edit them? Committing one language
error also affects the integrity of our writings and documents. We should not
use words casually without knowing their meanings, collocations and
connotations. Slept by 10:00.
21 August (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Yesterday
the maternal grandmother of Srijana spent in our abode. Today she went to the
rented abode of her son Sekhar in Tuni. Morning Srijana worshipped Goddess
Lakshmi formally in our abode as it is Shraavana Sukra Vaaram today, an
auspicious day according to Telugu calendar. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:58 by
bus. From 9:00 to 11:30 read part of the Telugu version of Autobiography of
a Yogi, written by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1946. It is a great book. I
complete reading it soon. A Hetero employee gave me this book, one with the
quotations of Swami Vivekananda and one written by Robin Sharma. I would scan
them. Material possessions and knowledge are like a bubble. Spiritual knowledge
and skills are like a canal. We cannot depend on a bubble to swim through it
and reach God. We need a canal to swim and reach the ocean of bliss of God.
Today, Ram, the GM of L&D division of Hetero, came to Hetero Complex. Subba
Rao spent with him. By this afternoon, the folks of US FDA completed their
scheduled audit in a plant of Honour Labs here. It was successful. Hetero
employees are happy about this achievement. Today I took two L&D classes at
HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Slept by 10:00.
22 August (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:15. When I
was walking to reach Y Junction to take a Hetero bus, Sankeerthana came towards
me walking fast, when Srijana was following her. It happened on the cement road
laid before our rented abode. I stopped, took her up, hugged and caressed her
to reciprocate her pure love for me. Tears rolled down my face while feeling
this pain. She is missing me every day as I am not spending much time with her.
This is the sin I am committing. Sankeerthana expresses a sense of
belongingness towards me quite often through her words and acts. I am unable to
spend much time with her being an employee. I am feeling disappointed about it.
She is not happy in our abode. By 10:30 Srijana and Swathi took her to the teak
plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem on our scooter. She spends there for
some days happily with her maternal grandparents. Srijana and Swathi returned
home by 5:00. Today I edited the content of July from my diary of 2015 on the
computer system of Srinivasa Varma from 1:00 to 2:00. Took an L&D class at
HLL-IX from 5:20 to 5:35 and taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Srijana,
Anand, Kavitha and I saw the Telugu film ‘Kick-2’ of Ravi Teja in cinema Sri
Rama Krishna from 9:30 to 12:15. It is an interesting and exciting film. Slept
by 12:30.
23 August (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Today I
wanted to go to my two-acre mango farm at hills on my scooter along with my
father and uproot the weeds there with a tool. By 6:47, my father called me up
and told me that my brother Sambha and he would come to my rented abode this
afternoon to talk with the owner of a coconut farm at Gurrajupeta. They want to
buy three acres of coconut farm for 45 lakh rupees, selling our paddy farm near
Peda Gummuluru. The prospective buyer of our paddy farm did not pay the advance
this morning as decided earlier. So, my folks did not come here. Today I copied
100 blogs from my blog site virahini.blogspot.in and created 100 word files,
specifying when it was written by me, towards the end of each blog. This is for
easy access and clarity about when and how I wrote these blogs. I selected them
based on their content and their suitability for others to read anytime. I have
to prepare more files this way. I did this copying and formatting work for
about six hours. By 4:00 Srijana, Anand and I went to the retail store of
Dasari Babji in Tuni and bought items worth about 1,100 rupees for our domestic
consumption. Night created my fundraiser profile on Indiegogo to mobilize
$2,000 for the publication of my second work A Dreamer’s Love Story. Slept by
10:00.
24 August (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Last
night a beauty married me in my dream. She was so sensitive that she did not
show her face also to me until the marriage was over. I enjoyed her passionate
admiration for me expressed this way. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:01 in the car
of a familiar Hetero employee. Today I spent in HLL-III. The management
introduced and imposed restrictions about the entry and exit of employees from HLL-III
to SEZ and vice versa. Now all the Hetero buses are moving on the new Hetero
Road. Many employees are disturbed and confused about these changes. Subba Rao
conducted an L&D meeting in his cabin from 10:30 to 11:00 to introduce P
Sirisha to us, the staff members of L&D department. She works in the place
of Kusuma after the due internal training. She is a beautiful girl. She has to
improve her English. I would help her. She is scared of responsibilities of
this job. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them
about ‘Anger Management’. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Copied and formatted 20
blogs from my blog site from 8:15 to 9:30. Sankeerthana is doing well in the
teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem. My cousin Kavitha is going to
SPACES Degree College beside NH-16 on her bicycle daily. Her college timings
are from 9:00 to 4:30. She is a disciplined girl. We enjoy her presence. Slept
by 10:00.
25 August (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Now they are running our Hetero buses, which
start from Payakaraopeta and Tuni, up to Adduroad, to take a right turn there
and reach Hetero Road, which is beside NH-16 near Nakkapalli. They allow
politicians, locally aggressive celebrities and common people to enter national
highways anywhere but not companies like Hetero. A circle must be made here to
allow Hetero employees to get onto this road easily. The folks of NHAI did not
grant permission for it. Companies pay crores of rupees every year to
governments towards different taxes. They provide employment opportunities to
thousands of folks. They are spending crores on CSR activities every financial
year. Governments and regulatory authorities squeeze companies like anything in
India. We get shocked if we know what is happening behind the screen. Starting
and running a company in India is hellish. What dirty governments state
publicly does not happen at ground level. National highways are also being
maintained by highly corrupt politicians and bureaucracy in India now. Today I
started typing a blog titled ‘Hype’. I have to add more content to it. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Anger
Management’. Night copied 31 blogs from my blog site. I collected and formatted
151 blogs till now. Slept by 10:30.
26 August (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:20. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Typed about four pages of content to expand and
conclude my blog titled ‘Hype’ from 9:00 to 12:00 on the computer system of
Soma Sundaram. Edited it. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00
and taught them about ‘Anger Management’. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Posted
my blog titled ‘Hype’ on my blog site. It would be published on it by 8:00 am
on the 4th of this September. Today Srijana went to Viswanadhapuram
and brought oranges, custard apples, papayas, lemons, coconuts and some other
items. The oranges are the products of a young tree in the front yard of the
house of her maternal grandparents. Srijana wanted to sell most of these
oranges to our familiar folks. We decided to sell 16 oranges for 100 rupees.
Took 32 oranges to the rented abode of Subba Rao on my scooter at night. He
paid 200 rupees. He remarked that eight of them are smaller than expected. This
is not for the first time. He often criticizes the products of nature and God.
He expects everything to meet his requirements. It is not practically possible.
We have to accept and appreciate ordinary ones also quite often. God makes such
arrangements to teach us lessons. Papadasu Srinivasa Reddy took 16 oranges
paying 100 rupees. Srikanth Reddy takes 16 oranges. This is a social service.
Srijana or I don’t get anything doing this. Slept by 10:00.
27 August (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:15. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. It was raining by this time. It is a little
inconvenient to walk to different blocks in SEZ from the new gate. Many get wet
in this process. I too experienced it this morning. Today I took two L&D
classes at HLL-III and HDL-IX in the morning and afternoon and taught them
about ‘Anger Management’. Night read two emails, which Vaiyavan sent me this
afternoon. He informed me that he is publishing a Tamil weekly now. He asked me
to write three sentences on the idea of present youth and their obsession for
cellphones. He would translate them into Tamil and publish it in this weekly
soon. I wrote the following lines for him. Youth had patriotism before 1947.
They had freedom before 1987. They have cellphones only after 1997. Emailed
this text and four of my photos to him. He watched my Upanayanam and marriage
videos on YouTube. He remarked that I appeared serious in these files. It is
true. I should have appeared pleasant throughout these occasions. I observed
many appearing solemn in their marriage functions. Perhaps the traditional
environment around and frequent instructions of the presiding priest make us
so. Today Kavitha went to Gollalagunta to see her folks. She got two holidays
ahead. Slept by 10:45.
28 August (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. It is
Shraavana Sukra Vaaram today. Hindu girls and women worship Goddess Lakshmi on
this occasion in Andhra Pradesh. Srijana prepared traditionally for this formal
worship. She cooked special dishes. She wore new clothes. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:58 by bus. They organized a function to felicitate our female employees at
the indoor playground in HLL-III. They distributed a silver gift and cloth
pieces to them. I witnessed it as a passive observer. Subba Rao was the anchor.
Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Anger
Management’. They declared a holiday tomorrow to all general shift employees in
view of the strike to be conducted by the folks of Y S Jagan’s political party.
I think the Supreme Court of India proclaimed that strikes should not be
organized in any part of India because it is an issue of public nuisance. Yet
strikes are taking place everywhere often. We should believe that a country is
in a state of anarchy if radical and other interest groups can harass people
and damage public property. Incidents of this order are occurring quite often
in India now. Our Hetero folks declared this Sunday as a working day to
compensate the working hours lost on Saturday. Morning my mother-in-law and
Sankeerthana came to our abode from Marripalem to celebrate the auspicious
occasion. Slept by 10:00.
29 August (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Peda Gummuluru by 8:30 on my scooter. By 9:00 a rickshaw puller brought 80
kilos of our paddy to Rayudu Rice Mill near Koruprolu. My father and I reached
here on my scooter. We got this paddy husked by 9:30. I got them polished to be
brown rice to use in our abode at Payakaraopeta. It yielded 43 kilos of rice.
My father and I went to our mango garden at hills by 10:00. I checked the
status of my mango plants. They are growing well. My father is growing them
carefully. We spent at the thatched hut of my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy
from 10:30 to 1:30. We discussed our domestic issues. Had my lunch in our house
at Peda Gummuluru by 2:00. Spent in the house of my brother Sambha till 3:00.
Returned to my abode by 4:00 with my sack of polished rice. My paternal uncle
Narasimha Murthy came to my rented abode by 5:30 from Tetagunta on my request.
My manager Subba Rao wants to talk with him. He wants to buy a piece of land
through my uncle. We three spent talking among ourselves till 9:30. It is the
birthday of Akkineni Nagarjuna today. I wished him posting his photo and text
(You are like a dream in my reality. I am like a reality in your dream. When no
initiative, it all looks illusive.) on the banner of my blog site. My uncle and
I spent talking till 10:30. Spent busily today. Slept by 12:00.
30 August (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Went to
the apartment of Radhika in Tuni by 7:00 and brought my cousin Kavitha from
there on my scooter. She came here yesterday night from Gollalagunta in their
car. By 11:30 Srijana and I went to the market yard in Tuni, with Sankeerthana,
to buy vegetables and onions. We spent at the rented abode of Revathi for 20
minutes. Sekhar, the maternal uncle of Srijana, bought a treadmill once for
doing physical exercises. He is not using it now. There is an unused wooden
cabinet in their closed hotel. Srijana hired a rickshaw and got them brought to
our abode. She wants to do exercise on it to reduce her excessive weight of
fat. She keeps our domestic items like toothbrushes, detergent cakes, toilet
soaps, cleaning acids in this cabinet, putting it outside. From 2:30 to 4:45
Anand and I saw Telugu film ‘Cinemaa Choopistha Maava’ in cinema Surya Mahal. N
Trinadha Rao directed it well. Raj Tarun and Avika Sameer Gor played the main roles. The
story, narration, dialogues and songs are interesting to feel. Enjoyed watching
it throughout. Avika is a beauty. Boys admire her. There are some touching
dialogues and scenes in this film. By 3:30 my in-laws and Sankeerthana started
to Marripalem on a bike, from our abode, while we were watching this film here.
Sankeerthana is happy there. She has beautiful surroundings there to play
enjoying. We are living like machines here. Slept by 10:00.
31 August (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. The folks of L&D department conducted Vedika
program at HLL-III from 3:30 to 5:00. I was there as a passive viewer. Took an
L&D class at HLL-IX from 5:10 to 5:40 and taught them about ‘Anger
Management’. Today Subba Rao read the PPT on the topic ‘Virtues’, which I
prepared earlier to use to teach in our L&D classes this September. He said
that he would make some edits in it. I agreed. Soma Sundaram and he cannot use
it as it is. Many times we edit our presentations because we cannot understand
it but not because others cannot comprehend it. We often blame others to hide
our drawbacks and demerits. Evening Srijana told me that Anand Sagar Varma is
not behaving well beyond my presence. There was a wooden stick in our hall.
Took it into my right hand and showed it in his direction. I advised him to be
disciplined. Otherwise he would be subjected to physical treatment by me. He
said that he would behave properly hereafter. He burst into tears within
seconds. I cannot see anybody crying out of genuine physical or psychological
pain because God did not create any creature to see them so. I decided not to
beat him long ago. I frighten him mildly when required for a positive and
constructive change in him. We are telling him repeatedly not to get into
mischief. He is not changing. By 8:49, an amount of 22, 256 rupees was credited
to my Axis Bank account by the folks of Hetero towards my salary for this
month. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
1 September (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:10. Went to
the ATM point of Axis Bank at P Lakshmi Puram, beside NH-16, by 7:10, and
withdrew an amount of 16,000 rupees to clear various dues. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:57 by Hetero bus. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Spent rest of the day casually. Today my
father planted a few coconut saplings in our mango farm near the hills.
Recently Srijana went to Kota Uratla from Viswanadhapuram on our Honda Activa
scooter. She took photocopies of some revenue documents to give to the folks of
revenue department. They correct the errors in the records of their lands. When
Srijana was coming back to Viswanadhapuram, a fellow followed her up to this
hamlet. If she speeded it up, he did it. If she slowed down, he too did it. How
should I take it? He is a superficial nut. He exhibited his stupidity and
eccentricity following her like an idiot. Srijana did not like to teach him a
lesson because millions of Indians are thinking and behaving so across places.
We have much beauty in this world but we cannot access and possess all of it.
This is a huge stage decorated by God. If we misbehave, God teaches us lessons.
By 9:30 Srijana, Kavitha and Anand went to the teak plantation of D S N Raju
near village Marripalem. Slept by 10:00.
2 September (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:20. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. Spent in a training hall at Boys’ Hostel from
9:30 to 1:00. My colleague Kishore Reddy asked me to explain some parts in the
video files he was watching. He wants to improve his presentation and
communication skills. He is reading books and watching videos for it. It is an
appreciable positive change in him. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00
to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Srijana,
Kavitha and Anand returned home by 7:50 from the teak plantation of D S N Raju
at Marripalem. Today Kavitha and Anand did not go to their respective educational
institutions as it is a holiday today. Some worker unions organized a strike
today in India to protest against some policies of the governments. They have
some demands. Srijana told me that Sankeerthana is doing well in the teak
plantation. Every day many workers work in this farm. There are plants and
trees offering clean air and greenery. She is enjoying her freedom there. She
walks to places and mingles with people. Her maternal grandmother treats her
very caringly and affectionately. She behaved very possessively with her
mother. She is missing us a lot. That place is like a natural habitat for her.
Slept by 10:00.
3 September (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:15. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Spent rest of the day casually. By today
I completed two years of service with the Hetero unit at Nakkapalli. I am happy
about it. Somehow I did not stay for long with any company after ICFAI
University Press. I am happy about the noble culture of Hetero. They have been
paying me considerable salary on or before the first of every month. I am
living happily spending this money. I have got a good image in my familiar
circle of folks being a Hetero employee. They are offering me subsidized food,
transport, bonuses and increments generously. They are not assigning me much
work. I can work considerably but my manager Subba Rao is not facilitating it.
Perhaps God is providing me with comfort and happiness this way. The folks of
Hetero always treat me with love and respect. I am living and working as a
dignified officer in that campus. I owe to all those, who thought creatively
and worked vigorously to bring Hetero to this level. We always live depending
on the goodness and sacrifices of others. Slept by 10:00.
4 September (Friday)
Woke up by 5:10. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Spent rest of the day casually. Today
Srijana and Kavitha made portable Ganesha idols with clay in view of Vinayaka
Chavithi ahead. They kept one for us and gave two to the two families in the
remaining two portions in our abode. I found them beautiful. Night they
prepared one more idol. Anand gives it to one of his teachers at Canossa School
tomorrow on the occasion of Teachers Day. Srijana performed well in making
these clay idols. We call it dexterity, the skill of one to do something well
using one’s hands. I like artefacts made by others using their body parts. I
believe that those made by God are far better than the ones made by man. On the
canvas of this earth planet, God painted seas, mountains, volcanoes, plains,
terrains, lakes, forests, birds, animals and a multitude of other creatures and
phenomena. Artists like singers, musicians, painters, dancers, sculptors and
writers praise that splendid beauty in their creative works. The rats made by
Srijana with clay to keep by Lord Vinayaka looked good. We are killing rats
outside but presenting their beauty in our art forms. Man acts a lot to impress
others regularly. Slept by 10:00.
5 September (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:10. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. I did not get
a Hetero bus today. Typed a blog titled ‘Intelligence’ on the computer system
of Soma Sundaram from 9:00 to 12:00. Edited it on the computer system of
Srinivasa Varma from 1:00 to 1:40. It is Teachers Day today in India. It is the
birth anniversary of Lord Krishna today. They conducted ‘Beat the Pot’ program
at Honour Labs from 3:45 to 4:10. They pulled a pot with a rope up and down.
Some Hetero employees tried to beat it jumping high. Some folks threw coloured
water upon them when they were jumping. They distributed cash prizes to
winners. They celebrated Krishnaasthami this way. The folks of L&D
department organized a concert of Anusha at the new HR building in SEZ from
5:30 to 6:45 as part of ‘Saturday Josh’ event. Anusha sang the keerthans of
Saint Annamaachaarya and some classic Telugu film songs. Two musicians accompanied
her on drums and violin. I sat here
throughout. Took a Hetero bus by 6:50 and reached home by 7:30. My uncle
Narasimha Murthy spent in our abode this night. Srijana, Anand and Kavitha went
to Marripalem this afternoon by bus. Slept by 11:15.
6 September (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:10. Gave my
Honda Activa scooter for water wash by 11:00 at a point beside cinema Rama
Krishna in Payakaraopeta. Saw the Telugu film ‘Dynamite’ in this cinema from
11:15 to 1:30. It is an interesting and exciting film. It started raining as
soon as I came out. I stayed under a shelter for one hour. By 2:45 gave a
shirting to Noor Tailors unit for stitching. I bought it by 10:40 for 290
rupees from Vijaya Cut Pieces store in Tuni. It’s a DONEAR COTONOVA cotton
piece. He took 150 rupees to stitch it. I would stop wearing my strikingly blue
shirt hereafter and use this one. Had my lunch by 3:15 in the abode of Surya
Kumari with chicken curry. Went to the rented abode of Pakalapati Radha
Krishnam Raju in Park Street at Tuni by 3:45 on my scooter. He is the father of
Geetha, who is working in HLL-IX, Hetero Complex, Nakkapalli, now, and a
classmate of Srijana at government girls’ junior college in Tuni. I want to
find a suitable bridegroom for her. Collected their details into a matrimonial
template I prepared. She is a disciplined and beautiful girl. She wants to
marry a rich boy and be happy. Talked with them till 5:00. By 7:30 Srijana,
Sankeerthana, Kavitha, Anand and the maternal grandmother of Srijana came to my
abode from the teak plantation at Marripalem. Slept by 10:00.
7 September (Monday)
Woke up by 5:15. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. By 10:30 typed a two-page letter addressing V V
V Seshagiri Rao, the DGM of HR department in Hetero Complex, Nakkapalli,
discussing the problems faced by Hetero bus commuters. By 11:30 emailed it to
this DGM and Goli Srinivasa Reddy, the AVP of production activities in Hetero
Complex. Rajnikanth and Seshagiri Rao replied to me. They appreciated my
effort. The DGM informed me to meet him when I am free. I felt happy about
their response. Development is possible when one offers constructive criticism
out of genuine interest. Others should take it positively. It is not happening
much in India now except in print and electronic media. Experts and idealists
are offering constructive criticism, free of cost, regularly, but those, who
are responsible for positive change, are not paying heed to it. They are paying
hugely to external consultants for formal advice. They are accustomed to
committees, deliberations and recommendations but not perfect implementation of
policies and schemes at ground level. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from
2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Today the maternal grandmother of
Srijana went to Viswanadhapuram. She is engaged in supervising the works
related to their farmland there. Slept by 10:00.
8 September (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:15. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took Allwin milk chocolates and homemade sweet
milk cakes to distribute to some familiar Hetero employees today on the
occasion of my birthday. Simhadri, an office boy in our floor at HLL-IX,
distributed 40 cakes and 40 chocolates to those sitting in this floor by 11:00.
Moved to HLL-III by 11:10, crossing the wall, jumping off it. Murthy, an office
boy in the first floor of the administrative building here, distributed 40
chocolates and 40 sweet cakes to the staff sitting in this floor on my behalf.
I distributed some of them on my own. I enter my physical age of 40 years
today. Number 8 influences me much. Extraordinary changes may take place before
8 September, 2016, if Lord Krishna approves, in my life. Took an L&D class
at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and discussed ‘Virtues’. Talked with our HR DGM V
V V Seshagiri Rao, in his cabin at HLL-III, from 4:00 to 5:00. I talked about
the Hetero buses, my position here as an English Instructor, and the positive
change he is supposed to bring here changing the culture of employees and
outlook of the management. I told him that I want to work under his guidance,
not Subba Rao of L&D department here. Emailed some files to him. My in-laws
came this evening. Many wished me today on Facebook and orally. Slept by 10:00.
9 September (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:20. My
in-laws took Sankeerthana to the teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem by
6:50 on their bike. She is happy there. We are missing her here but we are not
spending much time with her when she is here. We are wrongdoers this way.
Recently Srijana bought artificial ornaments and a dress for Sankeerthana,
spending 300 rupees, to decorate her like little Krishna. She took photos and
videos of her in this dress on the occasion of Sri Krishna Janmaasthami on 5
September in the estate of D S N Raju. They resulted well. She enjoyed wearing
that dress. She held a flute also. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:55 in the car of
our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. He generously took me into his car when Hetero buses
left me on the road. By 11:00 prepared a report for him on a contractor related
issue. I requested him to take me into the HR department from the L&D
department completely. Subba Rao had already accepted for it. Sent my CV, my
PPT on English and my master plan to create a culture of English usage in
Hetero Complex, by email, to Seshagiri Rao, by 2:00. Took an L&D class at
HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Today it rained in
parts of our region. It was cool and pleasant. Slept by 10:00.
10 September (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to
3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Morning edited a suspension notice
prepared by our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. I am doing Hetero related work for one or
two hours only these days. Rest of the time, I am reading or writing insightful
works. I am depressed realizing that I am not spending my time with our baby
Sankeerthana. She is possessive of my belongings. She comes to me with my
cellphone, socks and other items. She pulls me in if I stay outside doing
something. She hints me to take out for a stroll. She is a magnet of cuteness
and affection for me. I should spend about eight hours with her to be a good
father every day. I am not spending one hour also. She is learning to speak
some words now. The expressions and mannerisms of babies are angelic. She is
spending in the teak planation of D S N Raju happily with her maternal
grandparents. As a parent, I am supposed to do something to make a living. The
Hetero job is vital for me from this perspective. When I am good as an
employee, I am failing to play my other roles ideally. I am missing golden
moments with Sankeerthana. God gives many things generously to all of us but we
cannot enjoy each of them. Slept by 10:00.
11 September (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:02 in the car of a familiar Hetero employee. I did not get
a Hetero bus. Took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught
them about ‘Virtues’. This afternoon Srijana and Kavitha went to
Viswanadhapuram on our scooter. They brought oranges and other fruits from
there. By 4:50 my father-in-law started to the teak plantation along with Anand
from our abode. He came here to take Anand. The coming two days are holidays
for him. Anand and Sankeerthana enjoy their time there more than here because
they have unlimited freedom and much place to move about. I have no time to
observe the educational life of Anand. I am not teaching him any subject at
home nor preparing him for his exams. I am just paying the fees for his
institutional learning. I mostly get him bathed in my association while he is
getting ready to go to his school. I pour water on him and wash his body with a
toilet soap. I often take him to cinemas to watch films together. Every good
parent should spend much time with his or her children. We should kiss and hug
them every day. We must express our love to them regularly. They should enjoy
our company. Slept by 10:00.
12 September (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:10. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:02 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III from
2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Evening spent some time talking
with our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. We want to think and work together to bring a
positive change in the management of human resources at Hetero Complex. I came
in his car while returning in the evening. Srijana, Kavitha and I saw the
Telugu film ‘Bhale Bhale Magaadivoy’ in cinema Gowtham from 9:30 to 12:00. Nani
and Lavanya Tripathi played the main roles. Nani forgets anything fast. Many,
who come into contact with him, get disturbed a lot because of his
forgetfulness. Viewers feel confused and disappointed while watching most of
the second part of this film. It is not easy to live with those suffering from
critical physical and psychological disorders. We understand this observing and
feeling the role of Nani in this film. Director Maruthi portrayed a good
character through Nani but many don’t like such persons in their real lives.
Most of us desire the company of those, who are punctual, reliable, honest,
sensitive and ideal. Lavanya played such role. Virtues endear us to others.
Many have no patience now to be with testing persons with drawbacks and
demerits. Slept by 12:30.
13 September (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:50. Last
night my platonic friend Akkineni Nagarjuna appeared me in my dream. When I was
watching a feature film in a cinema, he came casually and sat beside me. He likes
me so much that he wants to behave with me like a bosom friend. I felt his pure
love for me in this dream. By 8:20 Srikanth Reddy came to my abode from
Nakkapalli on his bike. We spend closely in HLL-III. We spent talking for two
hours. He came to Tuni to buy some things. Today I uploaded some photos of
Sankeerthana into my blog site and some of her videos into my YouTube account
for all to see. Today I typed the content of August from my diary of 2015 on my
computer for about six hours. By 2:00 it started raining. Enjoyed the spell of
cool and pleasant weather. By 6:30 Srijana brought Anand from a point in
Payakaraopeta. He came here from the teak plantation at Marripalem in the auto
rickshaw of a familiar fellow. Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana enjoy their time
in this agricultural farm. They get relief and solace from this place and from
these people. We get exhausted when we have inevitable responsibilities. We
must inspire ourselves doing different things often. Slept by 10:00.
14 September (Monday)
Woke up by 5:20. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III and
taught them about ‘Virtues’ from 2:00 to 3:00. Evening did a little written
work to be used by our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. I cannot maintain consistency in
my personal diaries. Many things look and remain confusing forever. I may
partly mention and discuss something one day. I may not write what happened in
that direction later. Thus we cannot find logical and systematic creation and
development of content in many personal diaries. Diary represents a set of
truths perceived and experienced by its creator. Fictional works look very
logical and orderly. The concerning writer creates different characters, events
and developments to give his creative piece of work a holistic spirit. One
cannot write one’s diary in this order. Very few things can be planned and
controlled by him. He is a patient observer and commentator of things felt and
known by him. When we read a diary, we feel very excited because it takes us to
different domains of events, phenomena and experiences. Many questions and
doubts, which we get when reading a personal diary, remain without clues and
answers. We like this mystery often. Returned home by 7:15 in the car of HR DGM
Seshagiri Rao. Slept by 9:45.
15 September (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III and
taught them about ‘Virtues’. Spent some time doing a little written work
related to HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. From today onwards our colleague Kusuma works
in the HR department at Honour Labs. She decided to move out from the L&D
department due to the unfavourable attitudes of Subba Rao, Soma Sundaram and
Kishore Reddy. They expected punctuality and timely completion of work from her
but they did not follow these standards and values at their level. They wanted
to spend their time casually, assigning all boring and stressful data entry and
other miscellaneous works to her regularly. Work pressure and related tension
pushed her towards finding alternatives. We should not treat our subordinates
like our slaves and bonded labourers. We should be sensitive and empathetic
towards them. We should often ask them if they are overburdened with work.
Subba Rao turned lazy and complacent, in course of time, delegating most the
work, to his subordinates. He started
behaving with ego and false prestige. He does not bring an envelope also from
the reception desk. He wants a bike to go anywhere. Thus he became an avoidable
guy. Slept by 10:00.
16 September (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Yesterday
night an amount of 8,400 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by the
folks of Hetero. Today I knew that it is Dasara bonus. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:02 by bus. Edited the content of August from my diary of 2015 on the
computer of Srinivasa Varma from 9:10 to 10:10. Revised my PPT titled ‘How to
Improve Your English Language Skills? – A Systematic Approach’ from 10:15 to
12:20. I wrote it a few months ago minding the learning needs of Hetero
employees here. Most of them have no time or interest to read and benefit from
it. For them, learning English is a formality but not an inevitable necessity.
This is a very useful guide for anybody interested to learn English. So, I
edited it to post it on my blog site for all my blog readers to read and
benefit from it. Spent rest of the day casually. Returned home by 7:10 by
Hetero bus. Morning took photos of Anand with my Sony digital camera at our
rented abode in his Canossa School uniform from 7:15 to 7:30. By 10:30 my
mother-in-law and Sankeerthana came to our abode from Marripalem. They worship
Lord Vinayaka here tomorrow formally. By 9:30 posted my write-up on English on
my blog site. It is scheduled so as to be published on it by 8:00 am on the 28th
of this month. Slept by 10:00.
17 September (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Srijana,
her mother, Kavitha and Anand worshipped Lord Ganesh formally from 9:30 to 9:50
on the occasion of Vinayaka Chavithi. Sankeerthana and I spent outside during
this time. I am not much religious now but spiritual. I am avoiding religious
formalities and trying to reform my mind and acts. My father-in-law came here
by 9:00 from Marripalem. Started to Peda Gummuluru by 10:00 on my scooter. My
father and I went to my two-acre mango farm at hills by 11:15 on my scooter. We
checked the qualities of my mango plants. They are growing well due to rains
and manure applied to them. We spent talking with my paternal grandmother Lakshmi
Narasayyamma for 15 minutes in the thatched hut. Had my lunch in our house by
12:15. Talked with my parents and brother Sambha for some time. Returned home
by 3:30. Uploaded a video, which I shot today in my mango farm with my camera,
into my YouTube account. From 6:30 to 8:30 saw the Telugu film ‘Courier Boy
Kalyan’ in cinema Surya Mahal along with Srijana, Anand and Kavitha. Nitin
played the title role. It is an interesting film. The songs did not appear as
exciting as the story. We enjoyed watching it. Prem Sai made a good film with a
plain story. It is a holiday today at Hetero on account of Vinayaka Chavithi. Slept
by 10:00.
18 September (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:02 in the car of a Hetero employee. Took an L&D class
at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Spent rest of the
day casually. Returned home by 7:30 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Morning
Srijana and Sankeerthana started to Adduroad by 9:00 in an auto rickshaw.
Thence my brother Sambha took them to Mee Seva centre in S Rayavaram on his
bike. The organizer of this public service point collected the particulars of
Sankeerthana here for the issuance of an Aadhaar card. They collected her
details earlier also but we did not get this government identity card. State
and central governments are outsourcing these projects to private contractors.
They recruit illiterate and ignorant idiots to do these works. They type the
names and particulars of all wrongly. When we take these cards somewhere for
identity purpose, they refuse them saying that our details are not perfect in
them. We can find such errors in voter identity cards, revenue documents and so
on. In India, both governments and private agencies torture ordinary people
regularly, offering them low quality products and services. Srijana and
Sankeerthana spent at our house in Peda Gummuluru for some time and returned
home by 1:30. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
19 September (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:45 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. From 10:30 to 11:30
Srikanth Reddy and I walked along the compound wall in HLL-III to see if there
are any entry points in it, letting dogs in. We found two in this wall. Dogs
and such other creatures should not appear in a pharmaceutical unit. They
decided to block all entry points in this compound wall to avoid entry of dogs
in. We checked the compound wall in SEZ from 2:00 to 2:30. Today my colleague
Soma Sundaram tried to organize a religious speech on Lord Vinayaka by one in
Payakaraopeta. It started raining by 3:00. He cancelled this ‘Saturday Josh’
program for this reason. Returned home by 7:06 in a Hetero bus. Srijana told me
about a strange event that happened today at our rented abode. The husband of
Swathi kept his new Honda Activa scooter on the concrete road opposite our
house. When he came down to take it about 10:30, he partly observed that a
snake entered his scooter. He opened parts of it to check it. It did not
appear. Srijana called up our familiar bike mechanic from Lingala Colony. He
came and opened more parts of the scooter. He could trace it. It hid in it
wonderfully. They killed it somehow. It is an innocent creature. Slept by
10:00.
20 September (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 9:30 Srijana
and I took Sankeerthana to Fair & Lovely beauty parlour in Durgadas Street
at Tuni to get her hair trimmed, on our scooter. A woman trimmed the hair of
the baby by 10:00 for 50 rupees. She cried much while her hair was being
trimmed. They did not allow me inside as it is a parlour meant for females
only. Srijana handled Sankeerthana. From 11:00 to 1:35, my Hetero colleague
Srikanth Reddy and I saw the Telugu film ‘Mayoori’ in cinema Sri Rama Krishna.
Ashwin Saravanan directed it appreciably. The music of Ron Ethan Yohann is
marvellous. It is a suspense thriller, blending the elements of retaliation,
supernatural powers and the process of making a film. Many get killed in this
film mysteriously. As viewers, we fail to understand who is killing them and
why. Perhaps Saravanan makes another film to explain the causes and effects of
these mysterious deaths. The music of Ron elevated me like anything. I need
such music to write some works extraordinarily. Photography and locations are
superb. Some characters look unnecessary. I often could not understand why some
folks are there at all. I give 90 marks for 100 for this film. It scares us. My
paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy is planning to come to Devi Nagar soon as a
tenant. Slept by 10:15.
21 September (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:54 by bus. Sat in HLL-IX till 11:00. Then jumped off the wall between SEZ
and HLL-III and went to the other side. This is what I have been doing for the
last six months or so. I have to walk about one kilometre to go to HLL-III from
SEZ if I do it as per the norms. There should be complete division between SEZ
and other parts of this manufacturing facility. The staff of customs department
often impose rules on movements of employees and vehicles from and to SEZ
units. We cannot move freely everywhere. So, I started jumping this wall ever
since I started sitting in SEZ. We hear and see in feature films guys jumping
walls to meet their sweethearts. I regret recollecting that no girl ever loved
me so deeply that I had to jump a wall or indulge in such adventurous feats for
love. I belong to every unit in Hetero Complex as an English Instructor. So, I
have to move to any place over here when required. I enjoy this status. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’.
From 4:30 to 5:00 participated in a farewell meeting meant for wishing HR
manager Rajnikant Ganesha, in the conference hall at HR department in HLL-III.
Slept by 10:00.
22 September (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:59 by bus. Today I took an L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and
taught them about ‘Virtues’. Spent rest of the day casually. Returned home by
7:15 in the car of our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. By 9:30 emailed the photos and
matrimonial profile of Pakalapati Geetha to Kalyan Varma, my brother Srinivas
and my cousin Narendra Varma. Informed them to find a suitable bridegroom for
her to marry. Geetha got these photos taken in a photo studio at Tuni. They are
looking artificial. He decorated them more than necessary. She looks beautiful.
She is not looking that beautiful in these photos. She is expecting to marry a
handsome, rich and disciplined guy. Now there is severe scarcity of girls in
Kshatriya community. Many boys are remaining unmarried forever if they are poor
and helpless. Girls are interested in rich boys only. Finding a suitable girl
for marriage is very difficult now. The expectations of girls are too high to
reach. They may refuse us at any stage. Many boys and girls don’t know how to
promote themselves in the marriage market. We should consult different folks in
our circle with our photos and details. When we have many options to choose
from, we can select the best one. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
23 September (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:50 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. By 9:30 gave the CV of wife of
Mandapati Sivaji to him. She is looking for a job with a Hetero unit here. She
has qualification and work experience in HR discipline. Seshagiri Rao assured
me that he would consider her when a vacancy arises in the HR department here.
Today I did not do much useful to Hetero. Spent my time carefully enjoying with
others. Yesterday I wrote 10 short sentences in Telugu to use in a memento to
be prepared and presented to Sankeerthana on the occasion of her second
birthday this December. Also prepared a statement of guidelines in Telugu to be
followed by Srijana in our abode as a disciplined homemaker. Returned home by
7:10 by bus. Today Sankeerthana got a fever. Srijana took her to the clinic of
Dr. Ramesh in Tuni. He prescribed Coratus-P suspension, Kufril-LS expectorant,
FLEXON suspension, RECOFAST syrup, Vepod-100 DT tablets and Nasoclear saline
nasal spray for her. He said babies are getting affected due to cold weather
caused by rains. Today I decided to go to Bhima Varam on this 1st of
October, along with my folks, to see my brother Srinivas. Night did train
ticket reservation for this onward journey. Slept by 10:30.
24 September (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:50 by bus. My friend Gorla Srikanth Reddy and I moved to the newly
constructed cafeteria near DCB in SEZ by 9:10 on a bike. By 9:30 director Mohan
Reddy inaugurated this cafeteria, breaking a pumpkin at a main door and
coconuts at other entry points. They performed a formal worship to Hindu
deities for 30 minutes. Ramachandra Rao runs this cafeteria. About 600 SEZ
employees and contract workers are likely to have their breakfast, lunch and
supper over here. They start offering food soon after some pending works are completed.
I played a passive role in this ceremony. Today I took two L&D classes at
HLL-III and HLL-IX and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Returned home by 7:10 by
bus. Today Srijana got a fever. She took tablets. I stopped ironing my clothes
about two years ago. I am not getting time for it. I wash my clothes at night
after coming back from Hetero. I wear a pair of clothes two days. If I change
my clothes every day, I have to wash them every night. I don’t get time to
browse Internet and spend with Sankeerthana. Srijana puts them for ironing. He
is charging 10 rupees to iron a shirt, a cut white vest and a pair of trousers
of mine. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
25 September (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. By 7:15 Srijana, Anand,
Sankeerthana and Kavitha started to Viswanadhapuram on our scooter. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:05 by bus. A few Hetero employees talked to HR DGM
Seshagiri Rao about some Hetero bus related problems. He promised them that he
would resolve them as early as possible. He advised me to sit in a chair in the
HR department at HLL-III from today onwards. I felt happy about it. Subba Rao
of L&D department did not allow me to serve Hetero employees here. He did
everything possible to keep me away from Hetero employees. He does many things
with ulterior motives. He thinks that others don’t know about his ideas and
attitude. He earned a bad reputation here doing many things with a
narrow-minded perspective. He got accustomed to comfort zone. He is snobbish. I
am not interested in being associated with him in L&D department. Seshagiri
Rao is giving me an opportunity to come out from this den of Subba Rao. He
shamelessly asked Seshagiri Rao that I should take L&D classes. Took this
class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’. Returned
home by 7:45 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Srijana and others returned
from Viswanadhapuram by 8:30. It is Bakrid today for Muslim brethren. Slept by
10:00.
26 September (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:05 by bus. By 10:30 the IT folks of HLL-III gave me access to use a
computer system in the HR department on the advice of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. By
11:30 filled up an application form for an email ID for me with Hetero
identity. Got it signed by Seshagiri Rao. Gave it to Sekhar Reddy to get it
signed by AVP Goli Srinivasa Reddy of Hetero Complex. I waited for two years to
get a computer and a company email ID. Unscrupulous and undisciplined Indian
managers like Subba Rao are blocking the growth of Indian companies; misusing,
misguiding and suppressing hard-working and talented subordinates in their
control. The top level management cannot oversee what is happening at ground
level. It is the moral responsibility of every staff member in all departments
to carry out their job responsibilities judiciously and honestly. Took an
L&D class at HLL-III from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about ‘Virtues’.
Today they took the idols of Lord Ganesha, to the sea point at Rajayyapeta, for
holy immersion, from Hetero campus. Returned home by 7:15 in the car of
Seshagiri Rao. The fevers of Srijana and Sankeerthana went off. Morning our
house owner K S N Raju, his grandsons and I cleaned the sewage canal related to
our abode. Slept by 10:00.
27 September (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. My father-in-law came
here by 8:30 from the teak plantation at Marripalem on his bike. His familiar
folks are going to Thalupulamma Lova at Tuni this morning. He came here on this
occasion. He, Srijana and Kavitha too went there. Anand and I had our haircuts
by 10:30 in the hair salon of Vadapilli Ramana at Payakaraopeta. Anand too went
to Thalupulamma Lova along with my folks. Many go to this place to formally
kill birds and animals and consume their fresh meet after cooking. This is the
religious culture of millions of Hindus in India and abroad now. They seek the
blessings of deities through committing sins of violence and frauds. Saw the
Telugu film ‘Subramanyam for Sale’ in cinema Sri Rama Krishna from 11:00 to
1:45. Sai Daram Tej is looking and acting like his maternal uncle Chiranjeevi
mostly. Regina Cassandra impressed with her beauty and acting. This is an
interesting and exciting film. Harish Shankar directed it well. Today I helped
Srijana and Kavitha clean our windows, ceiling fans and such dusty items in our
abode. My paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy spent with me much time. He is
looking for a bride for his elder son Srinivas. Slept by 10:45.
28 September (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:45 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Today I did not do any work related
to L&D department. I slowly make them understand that I am an English
instructor. I should do English teaching, writing and editing works only. Subba
Rao and Soma Sundaram used me for other works mostly during the last two years.
They created a comfort zone for themselves. They have to come out of it now.
Returned home by 7:40 in the car of Seshagiri Rao. Now I am colouring my hair
and moustache with Super Vasmol 33 for blackening them. I am applying it on my
hair once a month but once a week on my moustache. I catch a cold very fast. I sneeze
frequently. They disturb my moustache. I often feel like keeping my head
tonsured and moustache shaved completely. Colouring hair and moustache is an
irritating work for me. God wanted to differentiate a man from a woman with
moustache and hair. Hair is there on the heads of women also but their
hairstyles and those of men are different. Thick moustache prevents the entry
of dust and foreign bodies into our nostrils. Hair protects head to some
extent. We should have them. I am beautifying them. I am bearing with white
strands of hair, colouring them black. Slept by 10:00.
29 September (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:51 by bus. Today I did not do much work. Recently a brother of Pakalapati
Geetha gave me her photos. Her father is a Kshatriya. Her mother belongs to
Kamma community. It must be a love marriage. I want to find a suitable bridegroom
for her. Recently my paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy and my house owner K S N
Raju argued with me that I cannot find a Kshatriya bridegroom for her, whose
father and mother are Kshatriyas. They said that inter-caste marriages are not
yet accepted much in India. I wondered about their perception. I think we have
to obey and follow majority opinion in many circumstances and contexts. There
is much difference between idealism and reality. I too have loyalty and respect
towards the folks of Kshatriya community. I was born into this community. I
stayed in a hostel meant for Kshatriya folks. The lifestyles and customs of a
community deeply impact our psyche. We often try to be ideal but we are all
selfish. We cannot remove ourselves completely from the notions and attachments
of race, community, religion, region, language and culture. We need much time
and struggle to think and act ideally. Slept by 10:15.
30 September (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:50 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Today I spent casually. I completed
reading the Telugu version of the book titled Autobiography of a Yogi,
written by Paramahansa Yogananda. It is a classic book on spiritual matters. We
can know about the other worlds in this cosmos wherein great souls live with
subtle forms, possessing divine mystical powers. We experience the journeys of
lives while reading this book. Deaths occur as we progress. It is leaving a
body to take another one based on our Karma. Understanding life from spiritual
perspective is easy but withstanding the oddities and ordeals of material life
is very difficult. We are very sensitive and vulnerable as human beings though
souls are vitalizing our bodies. Paramahansa Yogananda showed us the perfect
path to God, sharing invaluable information and insights with us throughout
this book. We have to meditate for years to personally experience many wonders
explained in this book. This saint extensively discussed mystical powers in
this book. Saints are strong and reliable bridges between earthly creatures and
God. We should lead our material lives according to their guidelines. An amount
of 22, 348 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by 10:57 by Hetero
folks. Slept by 10:00.
1 October (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Went to the ATM point
of Axis Bank at P Lakshmi Puram about NH-16 by 5:45 on my scooter and withdrew
13,500 rupees. Gave this money to Srijana to clear some dues. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:55 by bus. Today some folks of LIC of India came to Hetero Complex
to conduct medical tests to Hetero employees. The management is subjecting all
employees to a term policy. Certain amount of money would be deducted from the
salaries of employees every month based on their age. They get 25, 00,000
rupees in the event of death. Their dependants can claim it. Many employees are
disappointed about it. Many statutory deductions from their salaries is
affecting their standard of life. Personally I hate insurance companies and
their policies. They collect premiums from us regularly but don’t pay us well
after maturity of policies. They avoid it presenting different vague and
confusing causes at times. They do business with sick and dead bodies of
victims. Took permission and reached home by 4:50. Our house owner K S N Raju
dropped Srijana, Anand, Krishna Kumari, Sankeerthana and me at Tuni railway
station in his car by 5:45. We all got into Visakha Express by 6:30. Our berths
are 21, 58 and 63 in S-8. We reached Bhima Varam Town station by 10:08. We got
into an auto rickshaw hired by my nephew Suhas. He guided us to their rented
abode, moving on a bike ahead. Slept by 10:45.
2 October (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. We came to the rented
abode of my brother Srinivas and sister-in-law Sandhya Rani at Housing Board
Colony in Bhima Varam. His is apartment 303 in the apartment block titled
Ambika Homes here. There is an open place about this building. My brother and
his family members entered this abode about one year ago. Srinivas is working
as an assistant manager with the UCO Bank branch here. He is paying 6,000
rupees per month towards rent for this apartment. He daily goes to this bank on
his bike. Now his elder son Sujan is in his fifth semester course of EEE branch
at S R K R College here. His younger son Suhas is pursuing his first year Intermediate
course at Aditya Junior College here. His group is Bi.P.C. I could come here
because I got two public holidays at Hetero allowing me to take a leave in
between. Today we spent at home throughout the day. It was cloudy. It rained a
little. I wanted to go to the rented abode of my cousin Raghupathi. When I
called him up, taking his cell phone number from his father Venkata Rama Raju,
he said that he was going to Jaggampeta and that he would come back this Sunday
evening. We did not stir out of home to see anything. This apartment is looking
beautiful. The air flow is good in this fifth floor. Slept by 10:00 for my
dreams.
3 October (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. My brother Srinivas
left for the UCO Bank in Bhima Varam by 9:00 on his bike. Watched television
for some time. My sister-in-law Sandhya Rani, my nephew Suhas, cousin Krishna
Kumari, Anand, Sankeerthana and I hired an auto rickshaw by 1:15 and moved to
cinema Nataraj. Srinivas had already bought six tickets for us online. Each
sofa ticket cost him 100 rupees. We sat in three sofas numbered from B 1 to B 6
by 2:00. We saw the Telugu film ‘Puli’ in it from 2:15 to 5:00. Chimbu Devan
directed it. Vijay, Hansika Motwani, and Shruthi Hassan played the main roles.
Sridevi played a role. It is based on a fictional folk story. The director shot
this film in very beautiful, inspiring and classic locations. The creative
excellence of the director can be felt while watching these locations and
accompanying background score. The story and narration don’t have amazing
twists and turns. He developed and presented the story in a plain and logical
order. Enjoyed watching this film throughout. We returned home by 5:20 in an
auto rickshaw. Srinivas returned by 7:00. We spent talking and watching
television. Sujan was at home today. He did not mingle much with us. Slept by
10:00.
4 October (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Srijana, Krishna
Kumari, Anand, Sankeerthana and I got ready by 9:00. My sister-in-law Sandhya
Rani prepared vegetable biryani for us to have in the train journey. They
already bought a silver glass for Sankeerthana. My nephew Suhas dropped me at
Bhima Varam Junction station by 10:00 on bike. This station is very close to
the abode of my brother Srinivas in Housing Board Colony. Bought three full tickets
and one half ticket for 245 rupees. Meanwhile my folks arrived.
Narasapuram-Visakhapatnam train arrived by 11:00 with about six coaches. We got
into one of them. Suhas saw us off. This train reached Nidadhavolu Junction
station by 12:00 running fast on this single track. We all had our homemade
lunch by 12:30. They attached these coaches to Guntur-Visakhapatnam Express by
12:50. This is Simhadri Express. It pulled off from this station by 1:00. We
got off it at Tuni by 4:10. We hired an auto rickshaw for 60 rupees and reached
our rented abode by 4:30. We knew that the electric motor, which draws water
from the ground in this house, broke down. Water problem got created. Anand and
I saw the Telugu film ‘Shivam’ in cinema Sai Mahal from 6:00 to 9:10. It is an
interesting and exciting film. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
5 October (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Brought 10 buckets of
water from a nearby hand pump by 7:10. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:03 by bus.
Walked to the medical check-up room in the HLL-III cafeteria building by 10:30.
The folks of LIC of India deployed some medical staff here. Filled up my
personal details in their form. Gave them the photocopies of my identity proof
documents and two passport size photos. They checked my height, weight, pulse
rate, waist measurement, blood and urine samples. They did ECG also for me. The
management of Hetero informed all the employees to go for Amulya Jeevan term
plan policy of LIC. They deduct certain amount of money from our salary towards
monthly premium for this policy. They pay 25, 00, 000 rupees to the nominee if
the insured dies when the policy is active. This is a good risk coverage
policy. They deduct about 579 rupees from my salary for this policy. Typed and
edited a blog titled ‘Kiss’ on my Hetero computer from 9:30 to 1:30. Returned
home by 7:10 by bus. By this afternoon, our owner K S N Raju got the motor of
water pump repaired. Today Srijana got our scooter repaired spending 250
rupees. Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and I spent in the shop of Dasari Babji in
Tuni from 8:00 to 9:00 buying things for our domestic consumption. Slept by
10:45.
6 October (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. My in-laws came from
Marripalem by 7:00. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:03 by bus. Today I did not do
much work useful to Hetero. Now I am like an honourable guest at Hetero
Complex. They are not assigning me considerable work. By 2:00 advocate
Koraprolu Srinivasa Reddy and I started to Tuni on his bike to carry out a
financial transaction at the State Bank of Hyderabad. We returned to Hetero
Complex by 4:00. My familiar Hetero employee Srinivasa Varma dropped me in Peda
Gummuluru by 6:30 on his bike on his way to Darlapudi. Today it is the fifth
birthday of Anjaneya Raju, the son of my brother Sambha. Srijana, Anand,
Kavitha and Sankeerthana had already reached here by 6:00 on our Honda Activa
scooter from Payakaraopeta. The boy cut his birthday cake by 6:50. Sambha
invited about 15 school children to this occasion. Their presence made this
event special. They offered vegetable biryani and snacks to all guests. Srijana
gave 500 rupees to the boy. We had supper by 7:45. I videoed this birthday
party with my Sony digital camera. My brother Sambha told me to send 2,000
rupees to get weeds removed from my two-acre mango farm near hills. Srijana,
our children, Kavitha and I returned to our rented abode at Devi Nagar by 8:30
on our scooter. Slept by 10:00.
7 October (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:00 by bus. Today Muthyala Prabhakar, associate vice president, HR,
corporate Hetero, Hyderabad, came to Hetero Complex. He joined Hetero recently.
He came here to know about the status and problems of human resources here. Our
DGM conducted a meeting of HR staff with him for formal introduction. It was
held from 3:45 to 4:30 in the conference hall of HR department at HLL-III. He asked us to tell him if we have got any
problems. Nobody talked about them. Perhaps our HR DGM discusses them with him.
The attitudes of employees and contract workers are unreliable now. They are
acting smart roles to impress others but not working honestly at ground level.
It is not easy for the managements of companies to satisfy their human
resources continuously. Demand and supply determine the growth status of any
company any financial year. Employees and contract workers expect and demand
more wages and perks every year without minding the actual financial
constraints of their employer. We should get anything peacefully and decently
from our employer. We are at his mercy. We should not behave like
revolutionaries. Slept by 10:00.
8 October (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. My blog titled ‘Kiss’
got published on my blog site by 8:00 this morning. I scheduled it so earlier.
Reached Hetero Complex by 9:03 by bus. By 2:30 met Jaladurgam Ram, the GM of
L&D division of Hetero, in HLL-III, on the advice of Subba Rao. Ram told me
to train all the HODs at Honour Lab unit here on self-introduction in English.
They should be able to introduce themselves to others effectively in a formal
context. They should do it confidently and comfortably. Met Dora Reddy of
Honour Lab by 3:15 in his chamber and talked about it. I start these classes
soon. Mr. Ram should have assigned me this work through Seshagiri Rao, HR DGM
here, who is my reporting officer. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. By 4:00
Srijana, Sankeerthana and Anand left for Marripalem. They spend there for two
days. Morning she prepared Chimmili with washed and dried up sesame
seeds and jaggery. This is for our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Recently he said that
he likes this homemade food item. Chandramati, the wife of our house owner K S
N Raju, bought eight kilograms of raw sesame for him in their village Bheemavarapu
Kota. She got them washed there with water. I bought jaggery. Gave these sweet
items to Seshagiri Rao by 8:15 in his rented abode at Payakaraopeta. He spent
620 rupees for them. Part of his washed sesame are still in our abode. Slept by
9:45 for my dreams.
9 October (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:00 by bus. Afternoon Subba Rao tried to tell me how I should teach English
to employees in Hetero Complex. I was infuriated. I told him not to advise me
in this regard. He has no genuine interest to improve his English. This is the
case with the management of Hetero and employees in it. They want to learn English but they have no
time or interest to learn and use it. We cannot learn anything if we are not
willing to come out of our comfort zone. Learning does not happen without focus
and continuous struggle. I felt agitated with these ideas today. Typed a
three-page letter addressing Jaladurgam Ram, the general manager of L&D
division of Hetero. I wrote it with an aggressive tone explaining him the
problems I am facing here as an English instructor. I attached my master plan
discussing the idea of improving the culture of usage of English in Hetero
Complex. Attached two other kinds of files also, which I prepared for Hetero
employees earlier. Sent an email to him by 6:00 with these attachments from my
personal email ID. I would assess his character based on how he responds to it.
This night my father-in-law participated in a special collective worship of
Goddess Durga in the teak plantation at Marripalem. Slept by 10:00.
10 October (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:47 on the bike of my friend Papadasu Srinivasa Reddy. Today I spent busily
involving in the arrangements related to an internal prize distribution
program. The management of Hetero conducts sports and games competitions every
year among its employees to keep them motivated and active. Last year also they
conducted them for the employees of Hetero Nakkapalli unit. They bought three
kinds of gifts to present to the winners of these events. We scheduled this
program today. We put the gifts on the open dais near the HR department at
HLL-III by 12:15 bringing them from the engineering warehouse at HLL-III. The
prize distribution program went on from 4:50 to 6:00. Soma Sundaram of L&D
department was the anchor. Heads of some departments presented gifts to
winners. The items were induction stoves, trolley bags and bags meant for
females. I found them to be beautiful and of good quality. The winners felt
very happy about these prizes. I don’t like sports and games because they have
been blocking the intellectual growth of a section of humanity for ages. What we can learn and apply with a little
focus cannot help the humanity. We need thinkers and idealists for it. Srijana,
my children, Kavitha and my mother-in-law came from Marripalem by 12:00 this
afternoon. Slept by 10:00.
11 October (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Took Srijana, Anand and
Sankeerthana to Tuni railway station by 7:30 on my scooter. Her maternal
grandmother Lakshmi Bharathi, Revathi, Aditya and Ashish had already reached
here. Sekhar brought them. These are all going to Hyderabad to see their
relatives and spend the Dasara vacation of their children. Janmabhoomi Express
arrived by 8:00. We helped them get into D-1 reservation coach. They start back
on the 24th of this month by this train. Started to Narsipatnam by
12:40 on my scooter to see Telugu film ‘Rudhrama Dhevi’ in Sri Kanya Cine Max.
Yesterday night I booked three 60-rupee tickets for the 2:15 show on screen 4
in this complex, through justikets.com. I spent 216 rupees for it. The other
two are our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao and another Hetero HR staff member Nagababu.
We reached this spot by 1:40 on our respective bikes. Our seats are J6, J7 and
J8. We saw this film from 2:15 to 4:45. Director Guna Sekhar made it into a
classic. The beauty and royal appeal of every character, scene, dialogues,
songs, picturization and art are admirable and absorbing. This film worked like
a magic on me. Returned home by 6:45. My folks reached the abode of Madhavi at
Ashok Nagar in Hyderabad by 9:00. Slept by 10:00.
12 October (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:58 by bus. Typed a few words about the Telugu film ‘Rudhrama Dhevi’ from
9:30 to 11:00. I wrote how this film enthralled me. Today our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao
advised me to bring my cell phone to Hetero campus from tomorrow. He is unable
to contact me in this campus as I don’t have a phone now. By 3:15 went to
Honour Lab unit, borrowing the bike of Seshagiri Rao. Nobody turned up to the
proposed class of self-introduction. This is their sense of self-discipline. I
did not conduct a class. There is no oral or written response from Jaladurgam
Ram, the general manager of L&D division of Hetero, to my long email. I
discussed very useful points in this email, which contribute to the
intellectual growth of human resources of Hetero organization. When Ram has no
concern to acknowledge my email also, how can I believe that he deserves that
position and emoluments from Hetero? If one has no right answers to some questions
posed by one’s subordinates, one is not the right person to assume that
position. Ram became a hypocrite in my view, remaining silent in this regard.
Such inefficient and unscrupulous bosses cannot bring a positive change in any
organization. By 8:00 posted my blog ‘Rudhrama Dhevi’ on my blog site. Slept by
10:00.
13 October (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:07 by bus. Today I carried my cell phone with me into Hetero campus. Being
away from the use of a cell phone for eight hours a day is good for our body
and mind. We don’t be affected with radiation or stress to this extent. The
management of Hetero banning use of cell phones by most of their employees in
their units is a good measure from this perspective. I am taking my cell phone from
today to facilitate our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao to contact me easily in times of
need. A lot of written communication originates from our HR department
regularly. He has many critical HR responsibilities as a DGM of a big complex
of plants here. He cannot devote much time to written work in this workplace
scenario. One must be very careful when writing and sending out an email or
document in that position. I am helping him in these matters and works related
to written communication. Today I conducted a class in Honour Lab unit from
3:30 to 4:00 and advised them on how to do their formal self-introduction in
English. About 15 senior staff members attended it. Returned home by 7:10 in
the car of Seshagiri Rao. Winter is getting on duty. I am happy. Slept by 9:30.
14 October (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:50 in the car of our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Today I prepared some English
files with Telugu explanations to enable Hetero employees understand basic
English grammar easily. I use these files when they need them. The folks of
Amazon are placing two full-page ads about their fabulous sale offers on the
occasion of Dasara. This bonanza of offers run from 13 to 17 this month. I see
them in the first two pages of Telugu daily Eenadu. These low price offers are
enticing me like anything. I feel like buying most of them online. The balance
in my Axis Bank account now is 1423 rupees. I have to spend this money during
the remaining 15 days of this month. Online selling and buying culture is
increasing exponentially in India now. Many educated and rich folks are
interested in buying things online. The owners of traditional retail stores are
scared of this phenomenon. Employees, businessmen and entrepreneurs are pressed
for time. They are choosing online order platform to save time of physical
movement and money. We should have a lot of money and knowledge to compare and
benefit from the wide offers and options available now online and offline. Man
can be happy when he can regulate his desires. Modern sellers are pulling him
out from that self-imposed safe zone. Slept by 10:00.
15 October (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 6:00 had two glasses
of lukewarm water with Ashwa Gandha powder of Pathanjali. Yesterday I bought a
100-gram bottle of this powder for 40 rupees. These are the Ayurvedic products
of Baba Ramdev. I added considerable amount of honey of Pathanjali also in this
water. I took a Hetero bus by 8:15 at Y Junction. I sensed uneasy development
in my stomach after getting into this bus. Got off it at the Vempadu Toll
Plaza. Requested these folks and utilized their quite unhygienic toilet to
relieve my bowels. Ashwa Gandha is a highly powerful and beneficial herb to
humanity. I experienced it today. It purified my body like magic. It is bitter
powder. We should consume bitter foods and drinks also blessed by motherly
nature to keep our health good. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:07 on the scooter
of a familiar Hetero employee. Typed and edited a blog titled ‘Wikipedia Entry’
from 9:15 to 11:00. Attended HR meeting, headed by our DGM, from 11:00 to
11:25. Conducted self-introduction class at Honour Lab unit from 4:00 to 4:30.
Had a chapati for 20 rupees at Jagatha Hotel by Y Junction by 7:15. My cousin
Kavitha went to Gollalagunta by 1:00 this afternoon to enjoy her Dasara
vacation till 24 there. I am alone now in my rented abode. Slept by 10:00.
16 October (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. My blog titled
‘Wikipedia Entry’ got published on my blog site by 8:00. Took a Hetero bus at Y
Junction by 8:15 and reached HLL-III in Hetero Complex by 9:06. Today Internet
access was removed to my computer system. I could not do some work related to
teaching basics of English through Telugu. Now I am preparing some files
creatively for this purpose. This effort got hindered. Took self-introduction
class at Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to 4:00. There is no positive response to my
proposed crowd funding request posted on Indiegogo or Ignite Intent for the
publication of my second work A Dreamer’s Love Story. The reminders from
Indiegogo by email to promote my fundraising campaign frequently are good. They
are asking me to beg others money repeatedly in different ways for this task. I
cannot do it because I am not a beggar. If they want me to ask them often for
it, they are not suitable patrons for my project. The response of the folks of
Ignite Intent is almost nil. There is their portal only. All those associated
with it would have died or have turned comatose forever. One with self-esteem
should not beg others, for something, repeatedly, but request. If I ask once,
it is request. If I request repeatedly, it is begging. We can do it to save our
life only. Slept by 10:30.
17 October (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:06 by bus. Today I worked on preparing some English files useful to
learners of English. I am collecting English sentences from the soft copy of an
Oxford Guide to English Grammar, prepared by John Eastwood. We should have a command of vocabulary and
grammar to understand and use any language effectively. Learning grammar is
easier than improving vocabulary. Grammar is limited. It does not change much
in course of time. Having a command of words in a language is an ordeal. There
are thousands of words in many standard languages. Mastering the spelling,
meaning and usage of every word in different contexts is a Herculean task. I
believe that 90% of Indians have no command of English or their mother tongue
in India now. Many are using a limited number of words only in their personal
lives or professions. They have no passion or respect for any language. They
are interested in eating, drinking, sensual pleasures, gadgets, fashion,
gossip, superficial enjoyment, entertainment and assets. Saw the Telugu film “Bruce
Lee” of Ram Charan and Rakul Preet Singh in cinema Gowtham from 6:30 to 9:15
along with Hetero employee Gorla Srikanth Reddy. It is an interesting and
exciting film throughout. Slept by 10:30.
18 October (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Typed up the content of
September from my diary of 2015 from 8:00 onwards. I took six hours’ time to do
it. By 9:30 Chintalapati Venkata Rama Raju came to my abode from Rambilli. He
is an ex-serviceman of Indian Army with Army Supply Core. The increased pay
scale of sixth pay commission is not yet being paid to him due to an error
committed by the folks of Records at Bengaluru. He wants an annexure to fill
and send it again to them. I created an email account for him on MSN. Typed and
sent a letter through this email ID to them asking them to send a copy of
annexure from there. This is to save paper and avoid delay through utilization
of available technology. I advised him to use this medium of correspondence
hereafter for fast and reliable communication. He is not much educated. He is a
diabetic. He has an educated son. His
son can help him in this regard. He bought and brought half a kilo of sweets
for me. He left by 11:00. My paternal uncle Narasimha Murthy came here by 6:30.
He talked with me for 30 minutes. Gorla Srikanth Reddy came to Y Junction by
7:15 from Nakkapalli on his bike. We had supper at a hotel here by 8:10. He put
his bike at my abode. He took an Orange bus in Tuni by 8:50. He was going to
Hyderabad on official work. Slept by 10:15.
19 October (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:59 by bus. Today I collected some English sentences from the soft copy of
Oxford Guide to English Grammar by John Eastwood. Afternoon came to the Axis
Bank at P Lakshmi Puram along with Hetero lawyer Koraprolu Srinivasa Reddy on
an official work. The Hetero employees are talking about their increment
arrears now. The folks of Hetero may probably credit them to the bank accounts
of employees tomorrow to keep them happy on the occasion of Dasara ahead. Today
I knew from a reliable source that my increment this year was initially set at
2,000 rupees. Later it was increased to 3,500 rupees. I can know the fact when
increment arrears are credited to all. My uncle Narasimha Murthy rented in an
abode at Peda Gummuluru, very close to our house here. He wants to build a
house here for his family members. His wife and sons are thinking and behaving
like his enemies now. God knows how they treat him if they are provided with
more comfort through this house. Finding a suitable bride for his elder son has
become an ordeal. He does not know where his younger son is and what he is
doing now. He is a spoiled son. Slept by 10:00.
20 October (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:06 by bus. Today I collected about 400 English sentences from the Oxford
English grammar book. Took English class at Honour Lab unit from 3:40 to 4:00.
Six staff members attended for practising self-introduction in my presence. By
4:40 an amount of 18,696 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account. These are
increment arrears for me from April to September in 2015. This time my
increment for the financial year 2014-15 may be 3,500 rupees. For 2013-14 also
they offered me 3,500 rupees towards increment but I got 2,000 rupees only
every month due to pro-rata calculation. I deserve 5,000 rupees every year, in
any standard organization, towards increment. In India, there are many doctors,
engineers, lawyers, police, teachers, journalists, artists, professionals and politicians,
who are not at all good at English. Ninety percent of Indians cannot write or
speak five sentences also in English in a grammatically correct manner. Even
the President of India, Prime Minister and many other present rulers are below
my rank from this perspective. I should get 2, 00,000 rupees per month towards
salary itself. In India, I am not being respected. Slept by 10:00.
21 October (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:20. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:59 by bus. Today I collected some English sentences from the Oxford Guide
to English Grammar. This early morning, the heads of three sheep were formally
cut in Hetero Complex at different locations on the occasion of Dasara. The
custom of animal and bird killing is there in industrial units. Many vehicle
owners also kill creatures to offer to Goddess Durga on Dasara. Many believe
that dangers occur in industrial units and to their vehicles if the blood of
killed birds and animals is not offered there. Thus many unscrupulous Hindus
kill creatures on various occasions and consume their meet passionately. Today
they offered special lunch to Hetero employees on the occasion of Dasara.
Afternoon came to Tuni by 2:00 to help Hetero lawyer Srinivas in a financial
transaction. Today I talked with Rajesh Bhale of Leadstart Publishing in Mumbai
and asked him to email me the status of progress of my book Stories of Love
and Beauty. He did it. Night attached their bank account to my Axis Bank
account to pay my due to them. From 8:00 to 9:00 edited the content of
September from my diary of 2015 on my computer. My mother-in-law and I saw the
Telugu film ‘Rudhrama Dhevi’ in cinema Rama Krishna Chitra Mandir at
Payakaraopeta from 9:30 to 12:15. Slept by 12:45.
22 October (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. It is a holiday today
at Hetero on the account of Dasara. By 10:00 they inaugurated the newly laid
road from the northeast gate to H gate in SEZ. Hetero buses and other vehicles
run on it from today onwards. By 8:00 transferred 3,150 rupees into the bank
account of Leadstart Publishing at Mumbai from my Axis Bank account, online. I
ordered and got 10 copies of my book Stories of Love and Beauty from
them about three years ago. I cleared this due to them today. I asked them to
send me the status of progress of this book in a template format I prepared for
this purpose today. My mother-in-law is in my abode now. My father-in-law
started on a three-day religious tour this morning from Thaandava Junction. He
has been in a regimen of formal worship of Goddess Durga, wearing red clothes,
for some days. Went to Peda Gummuluru by 10:30 on my scooter. Took my mother to
our mango farm at hills by 11:20 on my scooter. She talked with her mother-in-law
for some time. We took some snacks for her. I observed the status of my
two-acre mango farm. We returned to our house by 2:00. Had my lunch in our
house by 2:15. My cousin Tankbead Hari is here now on a short visit. Returned
home by 4:30. Saw the Telugu film ‘Columbus’ in cinema Surya Mahal from 6:30 to
9:00. It is an interesting love story. Slept by 10:00.
23 October (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:00 by bus. By 12:04 a representative of Patridge Publishing called me up
from the number 131752211870. I don’t know from which country she called me up.
Yesterday I sent my basic details to them through the online form on their
website. Today she called me up to encourage me to publish my second work with
them. Rest of the day I was obsessed with the idea of getting this work
published by them soon. Their self-publishing packages range from Indian Rupees
30,000; 50,000; 1, 00,000; 2, 00,000
and 3, 00,000. Took a class at Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to 4:00. Only five
staff members attended this class. Today I did some HR related works. Returned
home by 7:10 by bus. Checked online about the track record of Patridge. I found
two negative comments about their service standards. I should not go with them
for the publication of my second work. I filled up the submission form of Jaico
Publishing, collecting it from their portal, and emailed this form and my
manuscript to them for consideration. I need about 1, 30, 000 rupees to publish
it through Leadstart. They have to get it edited, laid out, designed, printed,
marketed and promoted. They can’t risk investing their money for it. Slept by
10:00.
24 October (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Started to Hetero
Complex by 8:00 on my Honda Activa scooter. Moka Srinivas joined me at Y
Junction. We reached Hetero Complex by 8:35. Today I did some writing and
editing works for HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Today I revised the content of my second
work A Dreamer’s Love Story. I changed the font from Tahoma to Times New Roman
and font size from 10 to 12. This is to keep my manuscript ready to submit to
publishers. Today there was passive and dull environment in Hetero Complex.
Many went on leaves. The remaining folks played their roles nominally. Took a
two-hour permission from Seshagiri Rao by 4:00. Left the campus by 5:00. Soma
Sundaram was also ready by this time to go to Tuni on permission. He got onto
my scooter. Dropped him at his desired point by 5:45 in Tuni. Bought a platform
ticket for 10 rupees in Tuni railway station by 6:00 and moved to platform 2.
Janmabhoomi Express arrived by 6:15. Revathi, their sons Aditya and Ashish,
Sekhar, Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana got down from reservation coach D-7. I
held two items of luggage. Srijana and Sankeerthana got into an auto rickshaw I
hired for 60 rupees. I brought Anand on my scooter. Their Dasara vacation tour
to Hyderabad is over. She bought and brought a wristwatch for me. Slept by 10:00.
25 October (Sunday)
Woke up by 4:30. Got ready by 7:00.
Reached Tuni railway station by 7:30. Bought a super-fast express train ticket
to Eluru for 90 rupees. In India, for the rogues of Indian Railways, super-fast
speed means 110 kilometres per hour but many trains of this status can maintain
80 kilometres speed only per hour due to poor track quality and maintenance.
Got into reservation coach D-11 as there was no room in any general coach to
step in. Many are travelling to Hyderabad after Dasara vacation. Even TTEs did
not come into these coaches to check reservation tickets. There was no space to
move. Stood throughout at an exit. Got off at Eluru by 12:10. Hired an auto
rickshaw for 60 rupees and reached Raja Rajeshwari Kalyana Mandapam near C R Reddy
Law College by 12:30. Today there is ‘New Clothes Presentation’ program here to
Venkata Phanindra Reddy, son of my Hetero HR colleague Koraprolu Srinivasa
Reddy. Wished them. Had formal lunch by 1:50. Got into car of M V N S Reddy.
Kullayi Reddy was also in this car. M V N S Reddy took us to his house in
village Pragada Varam and their mango farm a little away from this village. We
did it all from 2:00 to 4:00. We started back to Visakhapatnam by 4:10 in
Pragada Varam. They dropped me near my abode on NH-16 by 7:30. This afternoon
my cousin Kavitha returned from Gollalagunta after her Dasara vacation. Slept
by 11:00.
26 October (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Took my mother-in-law
and Sankeerthana to Narsipatnam Road Junction at Payakaraopeta by 7:00 on my scooter.
They took a Tuni-Narsipatnam APSRTC bus for Thaandava Junction by 7:02.
Sankeerthana got ready to go with her maternal grandmother observing her
movements. We allowed her to move to her space of liberty. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:42 in the car of Seshagiri Rao. Last Saturday I started and typed
two pages of content for a blog titled ‘Employers Meet’. Today I added six
pages of content to it. I conclude it tomorrow, adding two more pages of
content. I present the views and concerns of Indian industrialists in this long
blog through my character Partha Saran. Roma Jatin interviews me. This is also
a fictitious character. This is my humble tribute to industrialists, who are
creating wealth and happiness in the lives of millions of employees and workers
across the world. It is a work of fiction. Took self-introduction class at
Honour Lab unit from 3:45 to 4:00. Three employees participated. Srijana bought
two nighties for 500 rupees; two pairs of female footwear and one pair for
Anand for 700 rupees; two watches for 1,000 rupees; an elegant Maple Dolphin
hand blender with chopper for 2,300 rupees; clothes for 1,500 rupees in
Hyderabad. Yesterday, Appapantula Visweswara Rao, one of my APRS classmates at
Bhoopathipalem, donated $150 through Generosity portal of Indiegogo crowd
funding platform for publication of my second work. Slept by 9:50 for my
dreams.
27 October (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 7:20 booked an Intex
PDA Star cell phone on Amazon paying 1799 rupees online through my Axis Bank
account. They have special Deepavali offers. I bought my present SAMSUNG DUOS
piece about two years ago. It got an outdated look now. I am getting a touch
screen piece with many features for this price only now. So, this move. I owe
to Amazon and Intex. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:59 by bus. By 11:00 Srikanth
Reddy and I went to Eti Koppaka on our company scooter to buy some wooden
handicrafts for official use. We returned by 12:45. Today I added two pages of
content to my blog titled ‘Employers Meet’ and concluded it. Today I did some
HR related writing work. Returned home by 7:05 by bus. Posted the blog on my
blog site by 8:30. It would be published by 8:00 am tomorrow morning. Today I
gave a printout to Srijana. There is content explaining how one can reduce
one’s weight considerably, following specific diet regimen daily. I found it
very useful information. Srijana has about 15 kilograms of excessive fat in her
body now. This guide advises consumption of vegetables and fruits mostly,
avoiding regular spicy and fatty foods and drinks. I have three kilos of
excessive fat in my abdomen and waist. We cannot regulate anything without
commitment. Slept by 10:00.
28 October (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:45 in the car of our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Today I did some HR related
written work. Today I typed the names and cell phone numbers of all those
recorded in the memory of my present SAMSUNG DUOS piece. There are 250 numbers
in total. I don’t keep in touch with most of them. We cannot predict whose
number we want when. I deleted very few numbers from this list. I don’t call
much. I don’t like using cell phones as mediums of time pass. Most of Indians
are wasting much time now indulging in quite unproductive acts through cell
phones. I typed up these details today to feed them into my new Intex cell
phone. They despatched it today. Conducted self-introduction class at Honour
Lab unit from 3:30 to 4:00. Srijana and Anand reached the abode of my in-laws
in the teak plantation by 6:15. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. I found that my
blog titled ‘Employers Meet’ was not published by 8:00 am this morning as I
scheduled it. I wondered. It never happened before. Published it by 8:45 pm.
Saw the Telugu film ‘Kanche’ of Varun Tej and Pragya Jaiswal in cinema Gowtham
from 9:30 to 11:45. It is a wonderful film. Krish portrayed the concept of
enmity between communities in India and races in the west in parallel format.
Pragya impressed me with her beauty and acting. Slept by 12:10 for my dreams.
29 October (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:55 by bus. Today I felt a little sleepy. Conducted self-introduction class
at Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to 4:00. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. My paternal
uncle Narasimha Murthy appeared to me at Jagatha Hotel by Y Junction. He said
that he would formally enter his rented abode in Peda Gummuluru tomorrow night
by 10:30. He told his wife Vimala to stay back in Tetagunta. She has to live on
her own or surrender to him completely. He does not tolerate her domestic
violence any more. It is an interesting twist in their married life of 30
years. By 7:45 I went to the Hanuman Automobiles store in Tuni, along with
Srijana, on my scooter. Bought a Vega helmet for 920 rupees. Its model is Corah
and colour is dull black. Its size is suitable to the heads of Srijana and me.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh made it mandatory for all two-wheeler users to
wear a helmet from 1 November, 2015. I found this piece beautiful. It is one of
the superior brands in India known for quality and durability. By 9:00 booked a
Philips Bahadur portable radio on Amazon, paying 729 rupees online through my
Axis Bank account. Its cost is 599 rupees. Delivery charge is 130 rupees. I
ordered it for my father. He asked for it once casually. Slept by 10:00.
30 October (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:02 by bus. Today I collected some English sentences from the Oxford Guide
to English Grammar. By 1:30 my cousin Ravindra Varma came to the northeast gate
of Hetero Complex. Got a visitor pass prepared for him. Srikanth Reddy
accompanied me. We took my cousin to the canteen at DCB in SEZ. Ramachandra
Rao, the contractor for food supply at this canteen, wants an active boy to
help him in this cafeteria. Ravindra has been jobless for quite some time. He
is the only son of my paternal aunt Subhadra in Peda Gummuluru. I connected
them to help each other. Ravindra comes to this cafeteria from tomorrow morning
to join his casual job. His status is not good at home. His parents are not
able to find a suitable girl to get him married. He studied up to standard 10
only. He has no reliable job. Modern Kshatriya girls don’t marry such boy
though he has got assets worth about one crore rupees from his mother and
father. He loves us. He behaves very affectionately with us. He became a
spoiled son due to disharmony and clashes in the married lives of his parents
for years. He must be 30 now but looks younger to his age. Afternoon Srijana
brought Sankeerthana from the teak plantation at Marripalem as the baby turned
lovesick of her mother. Today I got an email reply from an editor of Jaico
Publishing. They informed formally that they cannot publish my work A Dreamer’s
Love Story now. Slept by 10:00.
31 October (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:02 by bus. Today I collected some English sentences from the Oxford Guide
to English Grammar. Took self-introduction class at Honour Lab unit from 3:30
to 4:00. This morning my cousin Ravindra Varma came to the cafeteria at DCB in
SEZ. Ramachandra Rao told him to serve food items in the dining hall during
lunchtime. He got offended. He went home. He is not interested in working here.
I did not find fault with Ramachandra Rao or Ravindra. Let them choose their
options. We have to show way to anybody. We cannot accompany them or compel
them to tread that path only. Today the folks of Canossa School conducted a
program of charity for their students. They called sellers of some snacks to
their campus. Children have to buy something from them for their livelihood on
humanitarian grounds. I gave 20 rupees to Anand for this purpose. He said he
bought a chocolate and guavas with this money. Canossa creatures are expecting
charity from their students but not expressing it towards them when collecting
fees and providing education. The mission of missionaries now is to exploit the
innocence of Indians. By 8:00 Srijana and I took Sankeerthana to the clinic of
Dr Ramesh in Tuni on our scooty. She got a fever, cough and cold. He prescribed
Kufril-LS expectorant, Maxtra p DS syrup and Monocef-0 100 DT tablets for her.
He advised Srijana to apply nebulization for the baby five times a day. It was
drizzling when we were coming back. Paid 4,100 rupees to Surya Kumari by 9:00
towards rent for this month for our two-bedroomed portion in the ground floor
of their house. By 9:46 an amount of 25,479 rupees was credited to my Axis Bank
account by the folks of Hetero towards my salary for this month. Slept by
10:00.
1 November (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today I typed up the
content of October from my diary of 2015 on my computer for six hours. By 9:30
Srijana went to an eye clinic in Tuni to get her eyesight examined. She has
been sensing a little discomfort in her eyes for the last few months. She is
using her touch screen phone often. She is watching television considerably. Dr
A V Suresh Babu prescribed some tablets and use of spectacles for her. This
pair of glasses help her withstand headache and pain in her eyes. Anand and I
saw the Telugu film ‘Share’ of Kalyan Ram in cinema Surya Mahal from 2:30 to
5:00. Mallikarjun prepared a very weak story for Kalyan. We don’t feel strength
of characterization or logical presentation of scenes anywhere. It all looks
superficial throughout the film. We don’t feel emotional attachment with any
character or scene. Kalyan committed a mistake acting in such film. By 5:10
went to Lakshmi Ganapathi optical store in Tuni to get glasses prepared and
fitted in a frame for Srijana. Took an old frame. He charged 250 rupees for the
glasses. Today it rained considerably in our region. It turned cool and
pleasant. The folks of national highway removed the blocking boards on the way
in the divider near Canossa School a month ago. We are going happily to the
other side of the town. Slept by 10:00.
2 November (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:57 by bus. Took self-introduction class at Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to
4:00. Today about 30 employees attended this class. Today I saw my payslip
related to the month of October. My monthly gross salary got increased to
30,224 rupees from 26, 929 rupees due to an increment of 3,315 rupees for the
financial year 2014-15. About 5,000 rupees have been deducted for various statutory
and common needs. This year increments are not paid well to many experienced
and hard-working employees also at HLL-III unit here. I should not think much
and worry about my increment in this scenario. We should accept many things
readily to be happy in life. Our expectations and reality seldom match. This
resulting friction inspires us towards self-analysis and self-criticism. What
if there is nobody in Visakhapatnam district, who can pay me 30,000 rupees per
month? Parthasaradhi Reddy of Hetero organization is saving me from this
adverse condition every month. His financial contribution is vital for my
material existence now. I owe him for his goodness. By 8:00 took Sankeerthana
to the clinic of Dr. Ramesh in Tuni on my scooter, along with Srijana. Today
Sankeerthana coughed intensely. We did not perform nebulization for her much.
The doctor insisted us on doing it for five times a day. Slept by 10:00.
3 November (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Got into the car of our
HR DGM Seshagiri Rao by 8:10 at Y Junction to go to Hetero Complex. Got a call from a fellow of Gati Transport
Services by 8:19. He was at Y Junction. He informed me to come and collect my
INTEX PDA Star cell phone from them. Called up Srijana and informed her to
collect it from them. She brought it home by 8:30. Reached Hetero Complex by
8:54. Today I collected some English sentences from the Oxford Guide to English
Grammar. Took self-introduction class at Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to 4:00.
Returned home by 7:10 by bus. I saw the INTEX cell phone. It’s cute and
beautiful. SAMSUNG DUOS, which I am using now, has been a reliable piece for
me. It fell down many times. It started functioning wonderfully soon after
fitting the loosened parts of it. It’s a masterpiece from this perspective.
This INTEX piece is a touch screen device. I saw film actress Anushka Shetty
endorsing the cell phones of this brand on television. This has more features
and technology like Anushka. Maintaining a slim and sensitive beauty is a task
in itself. We should not handle them roughly. Srijana and I reached
Viswanadhapuram on our scooter by 8:30. Her mother and Sankeerthana had already
reached here. Slept by 10:30 for my dreams.
4 November (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00 in the house of the
maternal grandparents of Srijana in Viswanadhapuram. I will be on sick leave
from Hetero, today and tomorrow. The reasons I specified for these sick leaves
are cold and throat pain. These are understandable winter health problems in
India. I seldom become so sick that I cannot go to my workplace. I am telling
lies to utilize my sick leaves occasionally. Gunturu Prasada Raju and his wife
invited me to the naming ceremony of their 21-day-old grandson in
Viswanadhapuram today. It was held from 9:30 to 11:30 in the temple of Lord
Rama at this hamlet. This baby boy is the first child of Sraavya, the younger
daughter of Prasada Raju and Suguna. Took photos and videos of this occasion
with a good camera of the father of the baby. We all had formal lunch at the
house of Prasad from 12:00 to 2:30. It was fantastic. Today Srijana and I went
to their lime farm here. A local merchant pulled about 500 coconuts from their
trees and paid her 4,000 rupees. We returned home by 4:00. We bought clothes
for Sankeerthana in Payakaraopeta spending 600 rupees. We changed my Airtel SIM
into my INTEX piece today. I am buying an Airtel SIM for my cousin Kavitha. By
7:30 a DTDC delivery boy gave me a PHILIPS Bahadur portable radio, sent by the
folks of Amazon. Bought two NIPPO batteries and inserted in it. Slept by 10:30
for my dreams.
5 November (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Started to Peda
Gummuluru by 9:30 on my scooter wearing my black Vega helmet. From today I wear
helmet while travelling considerably long distances. I felt very comfortable
today with it. Kept the PHILIPS Bahadur radio in our house to be used by my
parents hereafter. Gave 1,000 rupees to my mother for her casual expenses. It
is a bundle of new 100 10-rupee notes. Sat at the rented abode of my paternal
uncle Narasimha Murthy for 30 minutes. His wife and two sons also came along
with him from Tetagunta. My cousins Ravindra, Shiva and I started to our mango
garden at hills by 12:00 on my scooter. My father and a worker were uprooting
the weeds on the bunds around my two-acre mango farm by this time. Spent there
from 12:45 to 2:00. Spent talking with my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy and
aunt Kumari at their thatched hut from 2:15 to 4:15. Also saw my paternal
grandmother. We three returned to Peda Gummuluru by 4:30. By 4:45 went to the
ration depot in Peda Gummuluru and bought 15 kilos of rice, two kilos of wheat
powder and 500 grams of sugar for 63 rupees using my card through biometric
swipe. My mother gave me about 40 bananas, which are grown in the yard at our
house. Returned home by 5:45. Sankeerthana has recovered from her illness.
Slept by 10:00.
6 November (Friday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:54 by bus. By 10:30 went to village Rajayyapeta along with some other
Hetero employees to participate in ‘Clean India’ campaign. It is one of the
initiatives of Narendra Modi, the present prime minister of India. He envisions
clean and green India through active participation of voluntary organizations
and local people. Today the CSR wing of Hetero engaged some employees in this
voluntary service. Rajayyapeta is very close to sea. Most of them are
fishermen. They catch fish in the sea and sell them to middlemen. We uprooted
weeds and cleaned some areas in this village till 12:30. I would have worked
for 30 minutes at the most. My body is not facilitating physical work. Bones
and nerves get affected through toil initially. We had tamarind rice by 1:30.
Some of them stayed in this village till 4:00. I returned to Hetero campus by
2:00 in a Hetero jeep along with some others. Took self-introduction class at
Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to 5:00. Today four girls asked me some questions on
English. I felt very happy about their enthusiasm and active participation. By
7:15 Chintalapati Lakshmipathi Raju and I reached my abode on his Honda Activa
scooter. He is an assistant manager in our HR department at HLL-III. We had
lunch by 8:00. He slept in our abode. Went to sleep by 10:00.
7 November (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:00 by bus. Typed and edited a blog titled ‘Empathy’ on my office computer
from 9:30 to 12:00. Went to Honour Lab unit by 3:15. Sat in the training hall
from 3:30 to 4:00. Nobody came for the scheduled self-introduction class. They
must have been busy carrying out important weekend works. By 5:45 our HR DGM
Seshagiri Rao came from Visakhapatnam. He came here from Hyderabad by air.
Srikanth Reddy and I stayed back till 7:15 to update him on the happenings here
during the last two days, when he was at Hyderabad for a two-day HR training
program. Returned home by 8:00 in a Hetero car travelling along with Seshagiri
Rao. By 8:45 scheduled my blog to be published on my blog site by 8:00 am
tomorrow. Krishna Kumari, Anand and I saw the Telugu film ‘Thripura’ in cinema
Sri Rama Krishna from 9:30 to 12:00. I spent 120 rupees for three tickets, 10
rupees for scooter parking and 60 rupees for three Slice soft drinks. It is a
routine horror thriller by director Raaja Kiran. A female victim retaliates
against three criminals, who exploited and killed her. She does it as a ghost. The
hero is a handsome guy. Swathi looks fantastic in beautiful dresses and scenes.
We enjoyed watching it. Slept by 12:30.
8 November (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:30. Typed the data of K S N
Raju on my computer from 9:30 to 10:30. He is the treasurer of the Alluri Sita
Rama Raju Kshatriya Seva Samithi at Payakaraopeta now. He wants to quit this
position soon. He has to submit an annual financial report with particulars of
income and expenditure for this year. We prepared it in one page. Srijana and I
went to the retail store of Dasari Babji in Tuni by 11:45 on our scooter and
bought items for 2,500 rupees. We went to the rented abode of Pakalapati
Radhakrishnam Raju in Tuni by 11:35 and told Geetha and her younger brother to
come to my abode this afternoon to talk about her marriage. They came here by
4:00. Took them on a walk up to the railway track near our abode. Told them
that many Kshatriya folks are not interested to marry Geetha as her parents are
a couple of love marriage. I proposed them that she would be happy marrying
Mantena Krishnam Raju, a cousin of my cousins Vasu and Narendra Varma. He is a
broadminded person, who believes that one’s value does not depend on one’s
community but character. I would try to bring Geetha and Krishna together. They
left by 5:00. I am not yet comfortable in using my INTEX PDA Star cell phone.
Srikanth Reddy tuned its features to my expectations. I have to buy a flip
cover for it. Soft pieces need them badly. Slept by 10:00.
9 November (Monday)
Woke up by 5:30. Lakshmipathi Raju and I
started to Hetero Complex by 8:30 from Payakaraopeta on his Honda Activa
scooter. Yesterday night he returned finishing his recruitment drive at
Vijayawada. I rode it fast to reach the Hetero campus in time. We got there by
9:07. For long I have been accustomed to punctuality. I should be in a cinema
before the start of a film with titles. I should start in time to go anywhere.
I reprimand anybody if they fail to meet my standards. It could be my parents,
brothers or wife. Standards and values should guide our life and profession.
Nobody likes delay in doing something. Quick responses and reactions are
necessary to keep our lives dynamic and progressive. We need not take hours and
days to take decisions in many things related to our life. We can solve most of
the problems in our life through common sense and logical thinking. God
equipped us with ultimate analytical skills. Nature does not delay in delivery
of services. Trees bloom in time. Babies are born in time. Creatures are dying
in time. Earth and sun are doing their duties punctually. We should follow
their standards. Today I took the English class at Honour Lab unit from 3:40 to
4:10. Night bought a cover for my INTEX cell phone from a store in Tuni for 150
rupees. Slept by 10:00.
10 November (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:07 by bus. Today I collected some English sentences from the Oxford Guide
to English Grammar. Took self-introduction practice class at Honour Lab unit
from 3:30 to 4:00. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. My in-laws came from the teak
plantation. By 8:30 sent my Axis Bank and ICICI Bank details to Rebecca of
Generosity portal of Indiegogo by email to enable them to transfer $150 to my
bank account. They deduct some amount of money from it. They use the SWIFT code
of a bank for wire transfer. Appapantula Visweswara Rao contributed $150 for
the publication of my second work through Generosity portal of Indiegogo. He
was one of my classmates in my 8th, 9th and 10th
standards at A P R School, Bhoopathipalem, East Godavari District. He belongs
to Kakinada. He must be working with a company in Doha now. When millions of
people are spending their money for smoking, drinking, luxuries and fantasies,
Visweswara Rao contributed about 9,000 rupees for the idea of publication of my
creative work. He is the best patron for me till now. He is not a millionaire.
Money is precious for him also like me. He expressed his generosity towards me
this way. Artists expect such patronage from contemporary social beings. I
emailed Vissu that I would transfer his money into his bank account once I get
it from the folks of Generosity of Indiegogo. Slept by 10:00.
11 November (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 9:30 sent an email
to the folks of Aadhaar at head office about the enrolment operator at S
Rayavaram. Srijana took Sankeerthana twice to this spot to get an Aadhaar card
for the baby. It was rejected both times. When I called him up to know about
it, he told me to bring them again. I was infuriated. Also complained to the
appellate tribunal of provident fund against the staff of PF office at
Visakhapatnam. They did not change the name of my father in my PF account. They
entered it wrongly at Hetero. We requested them many times to change it,
submitting the photocopy of my Aadhaar card. Spent in Peda Gummuluru from 10:30
to 3:30 talking with my parents, Sambha and Narasimha Murthy. By 4:10, the
father of Geetha called me up and told me that they are not interested in
Manthena Krishnam Raju as a suitable boy for his daughter to marry. I finalized
this boy after careful thoughts about her future. Evening sent an email to the
two brothers of Geetha reprimanding them about refusing this boy as a suitable
one for their sister. Night her father and brothers rebuked me like anything
for having sent such email. They said that I have no authority to feel so
possessive about her. I felt much offended about it. Sent an apology note by
email. Returned her photos. It’s Deepavali today. Slept by 10:30.
12 November (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:30. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:00 by bus. Today I spent passively throughout the day recollecting the
aggressive, offensive and ungrateful language used by the father and two
younger brothers of Geetha, yesterday, addressing me, over phone. I felt that
Geetha is my sister. I cautioned them about the consequences she is going to
face after her marriage, if they finalize some boy for her casually. Her mother
does not belong to Kshatriya community. They are planning to get her married to
a Kshatriya boy, whose parents are Kshatriyas. Even if somebody marries her,
the folks of her husband may insult her talking about her community of
deviation. Krishnam Raju is an idealist. His eldest brother married a girl from
Madhya Pradesh. His parents are also treating her well. They got accustomed to
such broad outlook in course of time. Geetha can be happy in such family. I
thought this far about her. I sent an emotionally charged email to them when
they rejected this proposal. I challenged them that they cannot find a better
boy than this one for Geetha. They interpreted my empathy like arrogance. They
could not understand me as a visionary. When I felt too much for them, they
said that I need not feel that much for them. Slept by 10:00.
13 November (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today I am on a casual
leave from Hetero. Srijana borrowed the new Honda Activa scooter of Swathi for
our journey today to and from Jaggampeta. We two started by 7:00 at home and
reached the house of my uncle K V Rama Raju in Teachers Colony at Jaggampeta by
8:15. We spent talking with him and his wife till 8:35. We had breakfast at the
school building of Datla Krishnam Raju here by 9:10. Today there is half saree ceremony
of his daughter here. We came here for this purpose. We went to village
Thaallooru near Jaggampeta by 9:25 to buy some cloth items at affordable prices
for us. Srijana bought some clothes for Sankeerthana, Anand, door curtain cloth
and bed sheet for domestic use. It is Markandeya cloth store. We spent 2,300
rupees here. We spent at the venue of function from 10:15 to 1:30. Srijana gave
300 rupees for the girl as a gift. We spent at the houses of my folks in
Gollalagunta from 2:00 to 2:45. We met my uncle Varma at the office of Sub
Registrar in Jaggampeta by 2:55. We started back by 3:00 and reached our abode
by 4:30. Yesterday my in-laws took Sankeerthana to the teak plantation at
Marripalem. From 6:30 to 9:00 Srijana, Anand, Kavitha and I saw the Telugu film
‘Akhil’ in cinema Sai Mahal. Akhil danced and did stunts terrifically. Slept by
10:15.
14 November (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 6:00 a lorry turned
upside down on NH-16 very close to our abode. The right tyres hit the wall of
the divider. Perhaps the driver lost control over the vehicle, running it at
high speed. He was going towards Annavaram. He escaped without injuries. I saw
this scene while going to bring drinking water in a tin from the other part of
the town. I don’t like to blame vehicle users alone for these minor or major
road accidents. The National Highways Authority of India failed in making and
maintaining the roads with international standards. Most of them are corrupt
rogues. The road between Jaggampeta and Adduroad is a testimony for their
inefficiency. There are bumps and dangerous edges in many places. The
arrangements along the road are pathetic. We cannot find even one toilet. The
emergency response systems and teams are unreliable. They are collecting toll
perfectly from road users. No standards or values in anything else. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Typed and edited a blog titled ‘Attention
Everybody’ from 9:30 to 3:00. Today Parthasaradhi Reddy, the CMD of Hetero,
spent in the campus for about eight hours. Morning I got my LIC term policy
number. It is 806764881. They texted it to my cell phone. Today Srijana brought
Sankeerthana back from the garden. Today Anand got a pencil box as a gift at
Canossa School for his second place in a running competition conducted recently.
Scheduled my blog to be published by 8:00 am this Monday. Slept by 10:00 for my
dreams.
15 November (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. It is Naagula Chavithi
today, a festival meant for the worship of serpents for orthodox Hindus.
Srijana, Kavitha, Anand, Sankeerthana and I took an ordinary APSRTC bus at Y
Junction by 8:10. We got off it at Adduroad by 8:45 and walked to our house in
Peda Gummuluru. My parents, Sambha, Anjaneya Raju and Kranthi were waiting for
us. Polisetti Srinivas, the eldest son of Veerabbaayi, of Ramayyapatnam,
brought his auto rickshaw to our house by 8:55. My cousin Ravindra and my
paternal aunt Subhadra also joined us. We reached our mango garden at hills by
9:20. We poured cow milk, eggs and some related items into the decorated holes
of anthills in the three sections of our mango garden here. It was a pleasant
experience. Shot it with my Sony digital camera. Srijana and Kavitha captured
it with an IPad. We had homemade lunch sitting at the shed in our garden by
11:00. We all spent at the thatched hut of my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy
till 2:00. We returned to Peda Gummuluru by 2:30. We took an APSRTC bus at
Adduroad by 3:45 and reached our abode in Devi Nagar by 4:20. Went to Bharat
dental clinic at Tuni by 7:30 along with Seshagiri Rao. He has got some
assignment here. I got my teeth also checked. He advised me to save my
sensitive teeth from further decay taking some precautionary measures. Slept by
10:00.
16 November (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. By 7:15 the upper end
of the index finger in my right palm got cut a little when lifting our SAMSUNG
washing machine to move it from one place to another, on the advice of Srijana.
Its steel stand rusted partly. Srijana removed it. There must be a sharp and
rusty edge at the bottom of this machine. My finger got pressed on it. A little
blood emerged from the cut. Reached HLL-III in Hetero Complex by 9:18 in the
car of familiar Hetero employees. Consulted the medical staff in the OHC here
and told them about this minor cut. One cleaned the cut part and wrapped a
medicated adhesive tape. Did Tetracycline injection. Dr Prem prescribed three
kinds of tablets. They are RENTAC-150, REACTIN-100 SR and CIPLOX-500. Took
these tablets and two Band-Aids from them. Today our HR staff member Sirish
Reddy scanned my eyes to record that data to be used through eye scan machines
in the time office of HLL-III, which is under construction now. Today it was
cool, cloudy and pleasant due to depression over Bay of Bengal. Returned home
by 7:35 by bus. By 8:30 booked a washing machine cover on Amazon on the advice
of Srijana for our machine. My blog titled ‘Attention Everybody’ was not
published on my blog site by 8:00 am this morning as I scheduled it yesterday.
It remained as a draft in the list of my posts. Published it. Reported to the
Blogger team about this issue on my blog site. Slept by 10:00.
17 November (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. It started raining
since morning due to depression over Bay of Bengal. Chennai and the surrounding
regions got inundated due to this cyclone. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:47 in
the car of Seshagiri Rao. Today I collected some English sentences from the
Oxford Guide to English Grammar. Today it was very cool and kept drizzling
throughout the day. The minor cut on my right index finger has considerable
impact on my daily activities. The swiping machine is not accepting my
attendance readily. It is the case with the one in the cafeteria at HLL-III
where I have my lunch and evening snacks. I cannot type comfortably. I cannot
mix rice with curry, soup and curd normally. I cannot write comfortably using a
pen or a pencil. Thumb, index finger and middle finger play a key role when we
are writing. Ring finger and little finger provide the required support to
these three fingers when we are writing manually. I cannot hold objects well if
one finger does not help. Each finger is vital for proper functioning of our
two hands. We understand this when one of them is affected or defective. God
designed each organ in our body with meticulous planning and vision. The cut on
my right finger got cured completely within hours but I am applying a tape for
care. Slept by 10:00.
18 November (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:53 in the car of Seshagiri Rao. By 11:00 Subba Rao of L&D department
came to the HR department at HLL-III. He asked the HR DGM to send me for the
supervision of plant visit schedule of NHO-36 candidates. There are 21 folks in
this batch. Subba Rao casually told me that I am looking like a personal
assistant to HR DGM Seshagiri Rao now. It is an insightful remark. Occasionally
I help him write or edit some files of written communication from the HR
department. I am not taking English classes. It is my primary responsibility
here as an English instructor. I don’t have a Hetero email ID or a good
computer now. I don’t have Internet connectivity to my computer. Director C
Mohan Reddy, Goli Srinivasa Reddy, Jaladurgam Ram, Subba Rao and Seshagiri Rao
are not interested in utilizing me properly for the benefit of the organization.
Parthasaradhi Reddy got such ungrateful and cunning idiots in key positions of
Hetero. I regret it. Spent in SEZ from 11:30 to 4:45 supervising NHO folks.
Today the folks of TTD adopted the temple of Lord Venkateshwara at village
Upamaaka. They develop and promote it hereafter. By 4:00 a courier fellow
delivered a cover to Srijana. I booked it to cover our washing machine. They
sent it with rocket speed. I am very happy with Amazon. My father-in-law came
here by 4:30 from the teak plantation at Marripalem. Slept by 10:00.
19 November (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. My father-in-law
performed a ritual from 6:30 to 7:30 under the guidance of a priest. He did it
to satisfy the soul of his mother, who died about 12 years ago. According to
the doctrines of Hindu religion, the souls of our dead parents stay in the
upper planes of this cosmos. Our one year’s time is equal to their one day’s
time. The food we offer them in our ritual on this earth, once a year, is daily
food for them there. Srijana cooked food items and made other arrangements for
this occasion. Reached Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Today it was cloudy and
cool. Spent all the day casually. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. By 10:30, this
morning, Srijana took Sankeerthana to the teak plantation of D S N Raju, at
Marripalem. She left the baby there and returned home by 4:00 by bus.
Sankeerthana is indulging in much mischief these days. Everything that she
wants should happen as per her wish. Otherwise she is crying immensely with
loud voice. We cannot withstand that pain observing our babies crying that
intensely in response to our behaviour towards them. We want her to spend there
for some time in that beautiful place under the possessive care of her maternal
grandparents. We miss her but she must be happy there. Today Srijana got rice
flakes made from the paddy D S N Raju gave us. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
20 November (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:56 by bus. Today I collected some English sentences from the Oxford Guide
to English Grammar. When I am doing this, I realize that there is so much for
me to learn in English. From 2:00 to 3:00 participated in the program of
plantation of saplings of flower plants along the Hetero road near Hetero
Complex. About 200 employees participated in this program. It is the aspiration
of Hetero CMD Parthasaradhi Reddy to see more plants and trees in all his
business units. Mr. Hema Sundara Raju coordinated this program with dedicated
involvement. I dug small pits in the wet soil along this road. My HR colleagues
too actively participated in this program. By 1:43 an amount of 7,728 rupees
was credited to my ICICI Bank account. It is equal to $120 where each US dollar
is valued at 64 Indian rupees. The folks of Generosity of Indiegogo
crowdfunding agency deducted $30 from $150, which was contributed earlier by my
A P R S friend Appapantula Visweswara Rao for the publication of my second work
A Dreamer’s Love Story. I am grateful to my friend for his goodness towards me
in this regard. His actual contribution equals to 9, 600 rupees. Enough money
could not be collected through Indiegogo for the publication of ADLS. I would
return this money to Visweswara Rao. Night talked with my house owner K S N
Raju for one hour. Slept by 10:00.
21 November (Saturday)
Woke up by 4:15. Went to Tuni railway
station by 6:30 on my scooter to receive Naresh Raju. He is the husband of
Ashwini, the daughter of my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy. He is working with
the NTPC at Ramagundam now. He wants to buy an independent house taking out a
bank loan. Today he came here to see a newly constructed house at Sheela Nagar
in Payakaraopeta. Brought him to my abode by 6:50. My brother Sambha and
paternal uncles Narasimha Murthy and Narayana Murthy came to my abode by 9:00
from Peda Gummuluru on bikes. We all went to see the independent house in
Sheela Nagar, which a real estate broker proposed for physical verification. It
is in 189 square yards. They put it at 42 lakh rupees. We asked it for 34 lakh
rupees. We all returned home by 12:00. Naresh, his brother-in-law and Narayana
Murthy had lunch in our abode by 1:00. We decided not to buy this house. They
left for their places by 4:00. Srijana and I saw the Telugu film ‘Cheekati
Raajyam’ of Kamal Hassan and Trisha Krishnan in cinema Surya Mahal from 6:30 to
8:40. Rajesh M Selva directed it well. We feel excited while watching it. It
exposes the pervasive corruption in the Indian police system. I fell in love
with the black uniform, cuteness and role of Trisha in this film. By 9:15
created my net banking account of ICICI. Today I am on a sick leave from
Hetero. Slept by 10:00.
22 November (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Srijana and I went to
the vegetable market in Market Yard at Tuni by 9:00 on our scooter. We bought
items worth about 400 rupees. Met Surya Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio in
Payakaraopeta by 10:00. We two went to the rented abode of our HR DGM Seshagiri
Rao by 10:20. He has got two old cameras. He wants to sell them. One uses film.
The other is an Olympus digital piece. The prior has no demand in general
market. By 11:30 gave the script and photos to Surya Prakash in his studio to
enable him to prepare and design a memento for me to offer to my baby
Sankeerthana on the 12th of next month on the occasion of her second
birthday. By 1:00 emailed my 120-page letter to Seshagiri Rao. This was the one
which I emailed to Hetero CMD and his son last year. Srijana and I reached the
teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem by 2:10 on our scooter to bring
Sankeerthana. She is lovesick of her mother. We started back by 3:00 and
reached home by 4:00. Went to a nearby flour mill by 4:30 and got four kilos of
rice made into flour by 5:30. Srijana has been on a weeklong diet regimen for
the last three days. She is consuming fruits and vegetables only. My cousin
Kavitha has her first semester B.Sc. exams from tomorrow. She is preparing for
them. Winter winds are soothing me. Slept by 10:00.
23 November (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Y Junction a
little late to take a Hetero bus. I did not get even one bus to get in.
Meanwhile a Hetero Verito car was coming this way. Two Hetero employees and I
got into it. We got off it at northeast gate of Hetero Complex by 9:00 and got
into a Hetero bus there moving to HLL-III. Reaching Hetero Complex would be
difficult if we miss a bus. Today I typed four pages of content for a blog
titled ‘Sinecure’. Took the self-introduction practice class at Honour Lab unit
from 3:30 to 4:00. Today the attendance was low. Now I am using Sensodent KF
toothpaste and a sensitive toothbrush on the advice of dentist Dr. Bharat in
Tuni. My teeth have become sensitive about four years ago. I sense pain over
there if I consume hot or cold foods or beverages. If I consume sour foods or
drinks, my teeth get affected. I cannot bite other foods for some hours.
Doctors advise us to brush twice a day in the morning and at night before
sleeping. I cannot focus on doing it at night also considering my other
pressing responsibilities. Gargling is very important after eating or drinking
something. Some do it occasionally. Some do it rarely. Oral care is vital for
all of us. Many are chewing tobacco products like beasts in India now. Slept by
10:00.
24 November (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:47 in the car of Seshagiri Rao. Added one more page of content to my blog
titled ‘Sinecure’ and concluded it. Today I collected some English sentences
from the Oxford Guide to English Grammar. Returned home by 7:10 by Hetero bus.
My mother-in-law came to our abode by 11:00 this morning. Srijana went to
village K O Mallavaram by 1:00 on our scooter. Today the village Goddess fair
was held there. She met her schoolmates on this occasion. By 6:00 Srijana and
her mother took Sankeerthana to the Neo Care Children’s Hospital in Tuni on our
scooter. Our baby has got a fever today. He prescribed medicines worth 400
rupees. Consultation fee is 100 rupees. Srijana took our baby to this hospital
as Dr. Ramesh is out of station. She developed a wrong impression about Dr. I N
Murthy of Neo Care. She told me that this doctor prescribed quite unrelated
medicines for our baby once. We develop impressions about others based on their
behaviour or thoughts expressed on some occasion. We don’t have time or
interest to assess one’s abilities or character after considerable observation
or rational analysis. We should not underestimate or overestimate anybody
depending on one or two incidents or experiences. By 8:30 posted my blog on my
blog site. Scheduled it for 8:00 am on 28.11.2015. Slept by 10:00.
25 November (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Took some rice flakes
to the rented abode of Seshagiri Rao by 7:25. These are processed from
naturally grown paddy in the farm of D S N Raju near village Marripalem. By
7:40 took two tablets for the control of diarrhoea in my body. Yesterday night
I consumed some snacks brought by Srijana from K O Mallavaram. My body refused
them this way. These are the tablets which I took from the OHC at HLL-III
recently. They gave me such moderate intensity tablets, which don’t affect my
health. I am thankful to the management of Hetero for offering me different
facilities apart from salary and perks. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:05 by bus.
Today J Ram came to Hetero Complex from Hyderabad. He conducted a meeting with
HODs to educate them on some aspects of professionalism. He did not discuss my
email to him in which I proposed a master plan to create a holistic culture for
use of English in Hetero Complex. Today I collected some English sentences from
the Oxford Guide to English Grammar. Conducted self-introduction class at
Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to 4:00. Subba Rao verified the progress of learners
in introducing themselves in English. It is Kaartheeka Pournami today. I
observed many being pious today for formality sake. Slept by 9:30.
26 November (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:05 by bus. Today I spent casually. I wonder to observe that 50% of the
employees in Hetero Complex are selfish and narrow-minded. They have no concern
for the growth of the organization. My role as an English instructor is the
best example for it. They took me for instructing English in 2013. Till now no
superior asked me what I want to instruct English well to Hetero employees.
They can use me as an editor also. They are using many HR documents with
English errors and blunders. Gopala Krishna Reddy never asked me to edit any HR
document. Now Seshagiri Rao is there. He is using me to write and edit some
English content to improve his image as an HR DGM. I told him many times that
my primary role here as an English instructor is to teach English to employees.
He is not interested in it. If I become busy as an English instructor, if
Hetero employees learn English, what is benefit to him? This is his
perspective. Even directors have no holistic approach and outlook for the
overall development of the organization. They are very selfish. They are
promoting their chosen ones in all departments. Parthasaradhi Reddy is paying
lakhs of rupees and offering royal treatment to all these traitors and
hypocrites also. When superiors are selfish, all employees suffer silently.
Slept by 10:00.
27 November (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:05 by bus. Morning spent casually. From 2:00 to 3:00 took an English class
to 39 candidates of Manthan-P-1 in a training hall at Boys’ Hostel. They get
trained in different aspects of production for about 35 days. Koti Reddy is
coordinating facilities and arrangements for this initial internal training
program. Today he informed me to teach communicative English to them for one
hour every day during this time. Today I taught and made them practise
self-introduction in English. They belong to lower middle class families. They
work in Hetero units here representing a mediocre outsourcing agency. They are
not employees of Hetero. They may become Hetero employees after service for
three years. They get 7,000 to 9,000 rupees per month. What could be their
status in the contemporary commercial societies? Does any parent choose these
boys as the suitable ones for their daughters to marry? Girls are resorting to
secret prostitution with their familiar ones to earn some more money. Boys or
girls can’t live nominally also with these salaries. Many companies are not in
a position to pay graduates and post graduates considerably. They have volatile
and unreliable market conditions. Youth are victims in this scenario. Slept by
10:00.
28 November (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:45 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. By this morning swelling developed
at the left corner of my cheek. I believe I have got mumps. The right one also
swelled a little. I think it is a common infection in winter. By 11:00
consulted our Hetero doctor Prem Kumar about it. He checked my mouth with a
torch and prescribed three kinds of tablets for me. Today I revised my PPT on
English for two hours. From 2:00 to 3:00 presented the first 24 slides of this
PPT to the 39 candidates of Manthan-P-1 in a training hall at Boys’ Hostel.
This is an insightful guide to learners of English. Spent in the parking lot
near the northeast gate of Hetero Complex from 3:30 to 5:30, passively watching
the inauguration of sports event for 2015. Many HODs played volleyball for the
formality of this occasion. By 5:45 mild fever attacked my body. I shivered a
little due to the cold winds of winter. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Had a glass
of warm milk and avoided hard food. Reprimanded Anand for 30 minutes. Srijana
told me that he is indulging in much mischief these days. Morning our house
owner K S N Raju got injured when waiting on the extreme left edge of the NH-16
to cross the road through the passage on divider towards Devi Nagar. A biker
hit his bike coming fast from behind. He was taken to a hospital in
Visakhapatnam. His right foot got fractured. Felt sad. Slept by 10:00.
29 November (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Edited the content of
October from my diary of 2015 on my computer from 6:30 to 7:30. By 9:00 Anand
and I went to the salon of Vadapilli Ramana in Payakaraopeta. Recently he
trimmed the hair of Sankeerthana also here. She scolded him for cutting her
hair. She warned him that she would tell me (her father) about it and get him
beaten for that mistake. She felt disturbed when her cut hair was falling down
from her head. Srijana told me about it. He trimmed the hair of Anand and me by
9:45. We bathed with lukewarm water by 10:15. Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana,
Kavitha, Bharat and I moved to cinema Sri Rama Krishna in Payakaraopeta by
10:40. We saw the Telugu film ‘Size Zero’ of Anushka Shetty and Arya in it from
11:00 to 1:30. The screenplay and story are not gripping. The role of Prakash
Raj attracted me more than those of other characters. Anushka impressed me with
her beauty more than her role. Many characters cannot touch us emotionally.
They are superficial. Our emotional attachment and excitement should increase
scene to scene when we are watching a feature film. Prakash could not do it in
this film as a director. It educates us formally about the issue of obesity. By
5:20 collected the soft copy of memento meant for Sankeerthana from Sri Prakash
Studio in Payakaraopeta. Its size is 18x12. Got a print of it in the Surya digital
lab at Tuni by 7:00. Gave it to a photo frame maker at Feeder Road in Tuni by
7:30 asking him to frame it. He charged 280 rupees for it. Spent in the rented
abode of Gunturu Prasada Raju at Bank Colony in Tuni for 30 minutes. Today I
had mild fever and swelling of my jaws. Slept by 10:00.
30 November (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:07 by bus. Went to Boys’ Hostel by 1:45 to take my English class to
Manthan-P-1 candidates. Earlier I kept my folder of English files on the desktop
of the computer system here. I kept day-wise teaching material in this folder.
It did not appear there. I asked the training coordinator here about the cause
of it. He said that this computer got corrupt and so much data got lost. I
should present the second part of my PPT on English today as per my self-imposed
schedule. I could not do it. I asked each candidate to tell a sentence in
English. I explained its tense and meaning in Telugu. It was to discuss the tenses
with them. If an employee commits a mistake, there is somebody in Hetero
Complex to punish. They failed to provide me with a facility to teach my
scheduled topic today. Thus they insulted and irritated me and these learners.
Whom should I punish for this mistake? If honest and intelligent staff question
their supervisors, they don’t have answers. Ninety percent of the business
units are not accountable to their staff at lower rungs these days. This is why
India has been so for ages. Most of the senior staff have ego and filth in
their minds. Today I felt the pain of swollen parotid glands in my throat. By
8:00 Srijana and I went to the photo frame maker at Feeder Road in Tuni and
collected the memento meant for Sankeerthana. By 9:43, an amount of 26, 801
rupees was credited to my Axis Bank account by the folks of Hetero towards my
salary for this month. Slept by 11:00.
1 December (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Went to the Axis Bank
at P L Puram by 5:15 and withdrew 8,000 rupees from the ATM here. Gave this money
to Srijana to clear our dues. Reached Hetero Complex by 9:02 by bus. Morning
did not do anything worthwhile. Took the English class to Manthan-P candidates
from 2:00 to 3:00 at Boys’ Hostel and presented them the second part of my PPT
on English. The swelling of parotid glands, caused by mumps, is not yet
cured in my throat. Consulted Dr Prem in the OHC at HLL-III by 5:00. He
prescribed six tablets of CADIXIM, six tablets of Acemiz S, three tablets of
Rantac 150 and four tablets of DISPRIN. He advised me to dissolve one DISPRIN
tablet in a glass of water and gargle with it for four days. Meanwhile Dr Atchyuta
Rao came across me. I showed these tablets to him. He advised me to avoid using
Rantac and Disprin tablets. He told me to buy and use 10 Cetzine-D tablets for
10 days instead of these two kinds of tablets. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. By
4:30 my cousin Kavitha reached Gollalagunta. Her first semester-end exams came
to an end by today at SPACES Degree College in Payakaraopeta. There are
holidays for six days. She enjoys them there. The parents of Srijana have
decided to quit the teak planation of D S N Raju at Marripalem. Went to sleep
by 9:30.
2 December (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:05 by bus. The formal inauguration of the newly constructed HR office at
HLL-III took place from 9:22 to 11:00. Three priests participated in this
occasion. Dr Seshagiri Rao inaugurated it worshipping the deities on behalf of
the management of Hetero. They distributed a sweet and snacks to all the
participants. Some works are still going on. The HR staff stationed at HLL-III
campus are likely to enter this office soon. Went to Boys’ Hostel by 1:50 to
take my scheduled English class. Today Kishore Reddy was conducting L&D
class. He said that these candidates miss the flow and impact of his scheduled
daylong class if I teach English to them in between for one hour. I allowed him
to go ahead. Took the self-introduction class at Honour Lab unit from 3:30 to
4:00. Today I saw my pay slip of November. The deductions are as follows:
Service Tax: Rs. 200; PF: 1,815; Cafeteria: 328; Hetero Bus Transport: 1,000;
BNV Fund: 100. Today the swelling of parotid glands in my throat was moderate.
It did not pain me much. I am taking tablets. My face got a chubby look due to
this swelling. Today it was cloudy and cool. By 7:05 my in-laws came from the
teak plantation at Marripalem. They brought some of their belongings and
household items from there in an auto rickshaw and put them in my rented abode.
Srijana felt happy about their presence over here. Slept by 10:00.
3 December (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:45 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Typed part of a blog titled ‘Data’
from 9:15 to 10:00. By 10:30 Gangadhar and I started to Visakhapatnam in the
jeep of Babu Rao to buy some sports items to use in the events of Hetero
competitions soon. We three had Hetero sponsored lunch in Hotel Vanitha’s
Paradise at Jagadamba Junction by 1:30. We moved to Andhra Sports unit at
Shankar Math by 2:00. We bought sports items related to volleyball, cricket,
tennis, tennicoit, chess, shuttle badminton and caroms worth about 58,000
rupees. Suresh Reddy of R&D department of HLL-III joined us in this store
by 4:00. He advised Gangadhar in choosing some of these items. We started back
by 5:30. I got off this jeep by 5:45 near Vagdhevi bookstore at Dondaparthi
area to buy a copy of 2016 diary of Eagle for me. It’s a Tourist Guide version
copy. Bought it for 142 rupees. A Ravi, a trainee traffic SI, rebuked our
driver with abusive words when the latter halted it on the road near KHAZANA
jewellery store. He is a lean bastard of India. He took the registration
certificate of this vehicle and tortured us for some time. We reached Hetero
Complex by 8:00. Returned home by 8:45 on the bike of Gangadhar. Slept by
10:00.
4 December (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 9:05 by bus. Went to a training hall in the QC department at HLL-IX by 9:45.
Training classes are being conducted for Manthan-Q candidates here. The staff
of Hetero train them on various aspects of Quality Control and Quality
Assurance for about 35 days. They asked me to teach them English from 9:30 to
10:30 every morning. Today I took my first class and taught them about
self-introduction in English. The distance between the HR department in HLL-III
and this place is about two and a half kilometres when we come in the right way.
I asked our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao to provide me with a medium of transport. He
said he cannot do anything. Today I added some more content to my blog titled
‘Data’ and concluded it. Took my English class to Manthan-P candidates at Boys’
Hostel from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught them about alphabet, person, number, do,
does, did and wishing others. I am feeling somewhat uneasy in my stomach.
Consumption of antibiotics might have affected it a little. My in-laws are
staying in my abode now. Yesterday they brought all their belongings from the
teak plantation of D S N Raju at Marripalem. By 7:00 Rama Raju came from
Rambilli. Wrote a letter for him to send to five places asking them to solve
his pension related problems. By 8:30 scheduled my blog on my blog site so as
to be published by 8:00 am on the 8th of this month. Slept by 10:00.
5 December (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:57 by bus. Walked to the training room in the QC department at HLL-IX from
the northeast gate. Took English class to the candidates of Manthan-Q from 9:20
to 10:35. Today I presented the first
part of my PPT on English to them. By 9:30 Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, the CMD
of Hetero, came to Hetero Complex, in a helicopter. He brought some foreigners
along with him. It is believed that they came to Hyderabad in a chartered
flight from the USA. There Parthasaradhi Reddy joined them to come to the
airport in Visakhapatnam. Thence they hired a private helicopter to come to
Hetero Complex near Nakkapalli. They had an aerial view of this facility for a
few minutes. They spent in the SEZ for a while. They moved in HLL-III for three
minutes. The helicopter took off by 11:30. Our folks constructed a helipad for
this visit of the chairman. This visit lasted for two hours. Took my English
class at Boys’ Hostel to the candidates of Manthan-P from 2:00 to 3:10 and
taught them about ‘Be’ forms. I felt a little giddy today. Consulted Dr. Prem
in OHC at HLL-III by 5:45. He prescribed B-Complex tablets for me. The swelling
of my parotid glands got alleviated completely. Talked with our house owner K S
N Raju for 30 minutes. Slept by 10:00.
6 December (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Typed up the content of
November from my diary of 2015 on my computer from 7:30 to 1:30. Srijana and Anand went to a mango garden near
Rekhavani Palem by 8:00 along with Sekhar and Revathi on a bike. Today some Kshatriya
folks organised a garden party here. Srijana and Anand spent here throughout
the day. Yesterday morning my in-laws and Sankeerthana went to Viswanadhapuram
on our scooter. My father-in-law is getting drip irrigation system installed in
his lime farm there. Started to Peda Gummuluru by 2:15 taking an ordinary
APSRTC bus at Y Junction. Spent talking with my brother Sambha and my parents
till 5:00. Collected rice, sugar and wheat from the ration depot in Peda
Gummuluru paying 31 rupees. The creatures of Grama Panchayat of this village
are laying a cement road before the house of Sambha. It is about 200 metres
long. They are laying concrete and powder today. The budget allotted for this
road is eight lakh rupees. Took an ordinary APSRTC bus at Adduroad by 5:40 and
reached my abode by 6:20. Today South Central shopping mall was inaugurated by
local folks in Payakaraopeta. It may attract consumers from the surrounding
villages and towns. Today also I felt a little dizzy. If I lower my head, I am
feeling much giddy. I am feeling somewhat weak. There is something wrong in my
body. Slept by 10:00.
7 December (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:59 on the bike of a familiar Hetero employee. I missed Hetero buses.
Presented the second part of my PPT on English to the candidates of Manthan-Q
in HLL-IX from 9:20 to 10:30. Reached HLL-III by 10:45. Nelluri Naga Ganesh was
waiting for me. He belongs to Yanam. Earlier he worked with two chemical units
in R&D departments. He is looking for a job with Hetero here. Recently he
met me. I talked with Suresh Reddy of R&D department here about it. He
advised me to bring the candidate for an interview. So, Naga Ganesh came today.
I helped him in this process today. He left for Yanam by 5:00. Took my English
class to Manthan-P candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 3:00 and taught question
words, where to use capital letters and how to talk about time. Subba Rao, the
manager of L&D department, advised me how to teach English to Manthan
candidates. He asked me to use the terminology of the departments, in which
they are going to work, soon after this initial internal training, while
explaining essential English grammar points to them in my classes. I agreed.
Returned home by 7:00 by bus. This afternoon my cousin Kavitha returned from
Gollalagunta by an APSRTC bus. Her second semester B.Sc. course starts from
tomorrow. Slept by 10:00.
8 December (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached Hetero Complex
by 8:51 by bus. Took my English class to the Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX
from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them alphabet, vowels, consonants, person,
number and how to use do, does and did for questioning others. Took my English
class to Manthan-P candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 2:05 to 3:15. Today I taught
them about functional expressions like making requests, giving suggestions,
agreeing, disagreeing and complaining. This afternoon, when I sat in the room
of our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao, two girls came from the QA department at HLL-III.
They complained to DGM that HR staff member Kiranmayi did not inform them about
the conduct of Kabaddi game today. They also alleged that she informed about it
to her favourite girls only. They said she played internal politics in this
regard. The DGM felt offended thinking about the attitude of Kiranmayi. She
need not be that filthy at her age in a matter like this. She is inculcating
the qualities of a rogue. What she has done must be announced publicly. She
should be banned from entering the playground hereafter. We cannot do it as
sensitive creatures. Returned home by 7:15 in the car of HR DGM Seshagiri Rao.
Today Srijana went to Viswanadhapuram by 10:00 and returned by 6:00. My in-laws
and Sankeerthana too returned. By 6:40, this evening, the wife of my cousin
Sagiraju Srinivasa Raju (Vasu), who is working with the Vedantha at Kakinada
now, gave birth to a male baby in Kakinada. Slept by 10:00.
9 December (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took my communicative English class to Manthan-Q
candidates from 9:35 to 10:30. Today they could not keep a computer or laptop
in this training room in time. I did not teach my scheduled topic for this
reason. I felt angry but did not express it. If they are undisciplined and
careless guys, how can they utilize me? They start and do many things hurriedly
but do not make proper arrangements in advance. Lack of planning and vision
seems to be the main drawback of most of the senior staff working over here. I
can only regret it. Explained them tenses asking each of them to tell a
sentence in English. They gave me a list of their email IDs, asking me to send
them English grammar files. Took my English class to Manthan-P candidates at
Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 3:00. Taught them about Noun, Pronoun and Adjective.
Today I prepared a small booklet with the basics of English grammar. I typed it
all recently minding the needs of Hetero employees. Returned home by 7:00 by
bus. Emailed 10 English grammar files to about 38 Manthan-Q candidates by 8:00
from my personal email ID. Recently police blocked the passage in the divider
on NH-16 near Canossa School. We have to go to Y Junction to cross the road on
a bike now. Slept by 10:00.
10 December (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Nobody put a laptop or a desktop in the training
hall at QC department in HLL-IX by 9:30. I asked Manthan-Q candidates to write
two or three sentences in English each. I corrected and explained the tense of
each sentence. I felt furious about the indiscipline of coordinators of this
training program. They started it about a week ago. They could not arrange a
computer for this training program till now. I pity their professional
standards. Today I started and wrote five pages of content for a blog titled
‘Love’ on my office computer. Today my eldest brother Srinivas deposited 500
rupees into my Axis Bank account through his UCO Bank account online. He texted
me informing me to buy something for our baby Sankeerthana with this money on
the occasion of her second birthday this Saturday. Felt happy about it.
Yesterday night I bought a cleaning acid from a familiar retail store in
Payakaraopeta. I asked her to give me one, which does not generate smoke, when
applied on a hard surface, for cleaning purpose. She gave me one. When Srijana
used it this morning to clean the floor in a toilet in our abode, heavy amount
of smoke emanated from it. By 8:15, at night, went to her store, along with
Srijana, and asked her about it. She argued with us for self-defense. I cursed
her internally. Lies in business harm customers ultimately. Slept by 10:00.
11 December (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took my English class to the candidates of
Manthan-Q at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30 and taught them about ‘Be’ forms. From
2:00 to 3:00 taught about Verb, Adverb, and Preposition to Manthan-P candidates
at Boys’ Hostel. Today I added three more pages of content to my blog titled
‘Love’ and concluded it. Returned home by 7:00 by bus. Posted this blog on my
blog site by 8:00. I scheduled it so as to be published by 8:00 am on the 16th
of this month. It’s in the form of an interview. An angel of beauty named
Alapana Divinol interviews me about the concept of love. It is a work of
fiction. My house owner K S N Raju is slowly recovering from the impact of
fracture of his right foot now. He is spending on a bed most of the time, not
to exert pressure on his affected foot, being mobile. They noted down the
registration number of the bike of the fellow, who hit him from behind the
other day on NH-16 near Canossa School. They did not try to catch him through
police. Many things occur in our life due to our Karma. If we threaten him, it
also attracts bad Karma. Forgiving the mistakes of others is a virtue. K S N
Raju did it ignoring that biker altogether. He never likes to go to a hospital
or take allopathic medicines. He is doing it now helplessly. We should be
patient while a patient. Slept by 10:00.
12 December (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. It is the
second birthday of Sankeerthana today. I am on a casual leave today from Hetero.
We decided not to celebrate her birthday specially. She wore a new dress.
Srijana and her mother prepared vegetable biryani, sweet milk rice and
distributed them to some familiar creatures near our abode. My parents came
here by 10:30 from Peda Gummuluru. They brought a small idol of Lord Ganesha,
made of silver. They spent about 1,400 rupees for it. By 10:00 Srijana and I
took Sankeerthana to a nearby temple beside NH-16 to seek the blessings of the
Goddess there. Srijana took the photos and videos of the baby with our Sony
digital camera. Opened the memento meant for Sankeerthana and hung it on a wall
in our hall. By 11:00 my father and I went to a rice mill beside NH-16 near
Seetharampuram. My father-in-law told me to bring 50 kilos of rice from the
paddy husked here. His familiar fellow Donga Babu sent his sacks of paddy to
this rice mill for husking from village K O Mallavaram. I collected rice from
the paddy husked here. My parents left for Peda Gummuluru by 4:30. I bought 20
oranges for them. By 5:30 bought three Discovery pieces and one Dolphin piece
for 400 rupees from a mobile vendor. The first emits ultrasonic sound to keep
mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches away from a room. The second is a body
massage device. Both use Japanese technology. Spent all the day happily. Slept
by 10:00.
13 December (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. My
in-laws, Kavitha, Srijana, Anand, Sankeerthana and I reached the mango farm of
Pakalapati Radha Krishnam Raju near village Rekhavani Palem by 8:30 on our
bikes. Today they are conducting the first anniversary and garden party of
Alluri Sita Rama Raju Kshatriya Seva Samithi of Payakaraopeta. They said that
Payakar was an honour conferred on a brave Kshatriya by the British those days.
This village got this name from the honour of this Kshatriya hero. Kakarlapudi
Sri Hari Raju of nearby village Rebaka, presided over the meetings here. He has
been an active adherent of BJP in this region for long. He has got vast
knowledge on mainstream Hindu culture. A Kshatriya sage and his daughter came
from Antharvedhi. They are running a spiritual and social service organization
there in the name of Saint Vashistha. This saint and his daughter addressed us
for some time. It was amazing. Formal lunch was offered from 12:30 to 2:30.
Srijana conducted games for girls, boys and women. They gave away prizes to
winners by 4:00. Kavitha got two prizes. Anand got one prize. They gave a
memento to Srijana as she conducted games actively. All started going back to
homes by 4:15. Sankeerthana too enjoyed this occasion observing around. We saw
the Telugu film ‘Bengal Tiger’ of Ravi Teja in cinema Surya Mahal from 6:30 to
9:00. It is an interesting and exciting film. Slept by 10:00.
14 December (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took my English class to the candidates of
Manthan-Q at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them how to use question
words and talk about days and time. Collected some sentences from the Oxford Guide
to English Grammar. By 4:00 wrote eight short phrases in Telugu for the
birthday memento meant for Srijana. Returned home by 7:00 by bus. By 8:30 typed
the eight Telugu phrases in telugu.changathi.com. The typed words are ready for
the memento. Collected five photos of Srijana from my records. In fact, these
are not recently taken photos. I would give this key material of the memento to
Surya Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio in Payakaraopeta soon. He designs the
memento with these inputs. Presenting a memento like this to a wife on the
occasion of her birthday every year is a difficult matter for the husband
concerned. Srijana is a beauty. How many times can I describe it differently
with my poor vocabulary in Telugu? Moon is beautiful but he has the same
features over the decades. If we use a variety of words to describe it
repeatedly, that text may look artificial and negligible after a stage. God is
a great artist. His canvas and the beauty of His paintings are divine. My
mementos for Srijana are just an attempt to do something special. Slept by
10:00.
15 December (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:55 by bus. Took my English class to the candidates of
Manthan-Q at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them about functional
expressions. Spent rest of the day casually. By 4:00 Kishore Reddy and I went
to the sea point at village Rajayyapeta on his bike. We enjoyed ourselves
watching the beauty and power of the sea. Recently somebody recharged my
cellphone balance spending 20 rupees. Today the folks of India 1 ATM recharged
my cellphone for 20 rupees. The first recharge would have happened by mistake.
The second recharge is a token of appreciation for me from the Government of
India. Recently I withdrew some money from the India 1 ATM in Payakaraopeta. I
fed my cellphone number into the online slot they provided there. They don’t
charge us if we use this ATM. It is a wonderful service. I felt happy about
their recharge. Today my father-in-law got my scooter washed with water. He got
the seat cover changed and front dome fitted strongly. It got a beautiful look.
It has been offering me extraordinary service since I bought it. Today my
father-in-law bought a used Hero Honda Passion Plus bike for 30, 000 rupees for
him from the Wheels Zone unit at Tuni. By 8:15 gave content to Sri Prakash of
Prakash Studio in Payakaraopeta to design a memento for the birthday of
Srijana. Slept by 10:00.
16 December (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:04 by bus. Took my English class to Manthan-Q candidates at
HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them about Noun, Pronoun and
Adjective. Took English class to Manthan-P-1 candidates at Boys’ Hostel from
12:30 to 1:00. Taught them about Conjunction. Had my lunch at Boys’ Hostel by
1:30. Took English class to Manthan-P-2 candidates at hostel from 2:00 to 2:30.
Explained them how to do self-introduction in English. They reduced my teaching
time to 30 minutes for Manthan-P candidates due to overlap of classes. It is
like showing a two-hour feature film four times with duration of 30 minutes
each. By 4:00 Krishna Rao of our HR department at HLL-III asked me to prepare
an English test. They use it to filter candidates in their recruitment process.
I prepared 20 short questions on Tenses, Word Class, Articles and Voice. Even
directors in Hetero cannot answer these questions, not because these are
difficult questions but because they are not good at basic English grammar
also. If they can run units without this much knowledge also, fresh candidates
can do their jobs without English. I don’t like these double standards in HR
policies and procedures. Today my in-laws went to village Kasireddi Palem on
bike. The eldest paternal aunt of Srijana is there. Edited the content of
November from my diary of 2015 on my computer from 7:30 to 8:30. Slept by
10:00.
17 December (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:52 by bus. Today I taught about Verb, Adverb and
Preposition to the candidates of Manthan-Q at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught
about Conjunction and Interjection to Manthan-P-1 candidates from 12:30 to 1:00
and the basics of English to the candidates of Manthan-P-2 at Boys’ Hostel from
2:00 to 2:30. Typed two pages of content for my blog titled ‘Clean India’. I
have to add more pages to it. Returned home by 7:00 by bus. My in-laws returned
from village Kasireddi Palem. My father-in-law’s eldest sister Lakshmi too came
from there. She has got a tooth problem. Today a free dental checkup camp was
conducted in Tuni by Dr. Bharat in his clinic. Lakshmi came to utilize this
opportunity. This camp would be conducted up to this Sunday. My mother has also
got tooth problems. She has got high blood pressure and diabetes. Dentists
don’t pull decayed teeth of one, who has got these problems at high risk level.
My mother wants to get her decayed teeth removed by the doctors at INS Kalyani
Hospital in Visakhapatnam. My parents don’t like to spend their money for
medicines or treatment at private hospitals. They are utilizing the privilege
of ex-serviceman status of their eldest son Srinivasa Raju, who served in the
Indian Army for about 18 years. Srijana is taking medicines to cure mumps in
her throat. Slept by 10:00.
18 December (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Taught about Conjunction and Interjection to
Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught the essence of my PPT
on English to Manthan-P-2 candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 2:30. I need
two hours’ time to present this PPT. They gave me half an hour’s time to teach
English to these Manthan-P candidates. We need enough time and adequate
resources to do certain things in our life or profession well. Today I added
two more pages of content to my blog titled ‘Clean India’. Returned home by
7:10 by bus. Recently Payakaraopeta police blocked the narrow passage on the
divider of NH-16 near Canossa School. They did it to avoid the occurrence of
accidents. About 100 folks use this passage to go to the main part of this
town, from Devi Nagar area, daily. Police did not consult any users of this passage
facility before blocking it. Now many are crossing it in a dangerous manner
because they cannot go up to Y Junction to cross this road on a two-wheeler
every time. Y Junction is more congested and dangerous than this passage to
cross. Indian police do many things without common sense or ethics. Now nobody
is interested to go to a police station because they are criminals and sinners
with uniforms. Narendra Modi and Chandrababu are torturing people daily through
these bastards of India. Slept by 10:00.
19 December (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today I conducted a quiz on word class to the
candidates of Manthan-Q-1 at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. I asked them to
identify the class of the words in the sentences I gave them randomly. They
participated in it exuberantly. Took my English class to Manthan-P-2 candidates
at Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 2:30. Taught them about Person, Number, wishing
others and using Do, Does and Did in questions. Today I added two more pages of
content to my blog titled ‘Clean India’. By 3:24, an amount of 7,457 rupees was
credited to my ICICI Bank account. The folks of Leadstart Publishing paid it to
me through online transfer towards second term royalty payment for my book Stories
of Love and Beauty. Returned home by 6:00 taking one hour’s permission.
Emailed 10 English grammar files to about 50 candidates of Manthan-P-2 by 6:45.
Today Lakshmi, the paternal aunt of Srijana, Srijana, Anand and my
father-in-law utilized the free dental checkup program conducted by dentist
Bharat in his clinic at Tuni. He pulled a decayed tooth of Lakshmi and cleaned
the teeth of Srijana and her father. He advised about the teeth of Anand.
Srijana’s maternal grandmother came here by 5:00 from Viswanadhapuram. Kavitha,
Anand and I saw the Telugu film ‘Loafer’ in cinema Gowtham from 9:30 to 11:45.
It’s very interesting and exciting. Slept by 12:15 for my dreams.
20 December (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Kavitha
and I reached Peda Gummuluru by 9:15 on our scooter. Chinna too came along with
us. He checked the measurements of the bedroom in which my parents are sleeping
now. He said that it costs 12,500 rupees to fit false ceiling and change the
thickness of the interior walls to make it suitable for installation of an AC
machine. My brother Srinivas wants to put an AC machine in this room for their
comfortable sleep in summers. My parents are not accepting it. My cousin
Ravindra and I went to our mango garden at hills by 12:00 on our scooter. I
checked the status of my two-acre mango farm. Two plants have already bloomed.
We spent talking with my aunt Kumari and paternal grandmother Lakshmi
Narasayyamma for two hours at their thatched hut. Had my lunch in our house by
2:30. Kavitha and I returned to my rented abode at Devi Nagar by 4:40. Lakshmi,
the paternal aunt of Srijana, left for Kasireddi Palem today. Her dental
problem got resolved with the involvement of her brother. By 7:30 bought four
shirt cloth pieces and four trouser cloth pieces from a roadside vendor in
Payakaraopeta, spending 2,400 rupees. Each shirting cost me 250 rupees and each
suiting 350 rupees. I bought them out of impulse. They said they came from
Delhi to sell these cloths. I bought them without bargaining as these prices
sounded me reasonable. Gave them to Noor Tailors unit in Payakaraopeta for
stitching. He said he would complete this work by 5.1.2016. He is charging 350
rupees for stitching each pair of them. Slept by 10:00.
21 December (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. Today I
am on a sick leave from Hetero. Typed up the content of December, from 1 to 20,
on my computer for four hours. Went to a store of Girijan Corporation in
Payakaraopeta by 4:30. Bought a Nannari energy juice bottle, 10 Hero detergent
cakes, 24 shikakai shampoo sachets, 10 coffee powder sachets and a pack of
incense sticks, spending 250 rupees. This is an attempt to go away from the use
of products made from chemicals. Absolute purity is in the products made and
services offered by God through nature. Stone Age man lived such life
benefitting from nature directly. We moved away from nature in course of time
being enticed by manipulative services and defective products made by some
selfish and unscrupulous folks. Now man is going back to nature, realizing his
blunders. By 5:00 collected the soft copy of the memento meant for Srijana from
Surya Prakash of Sri Prakash Studio. Paid him 250 rupees for designing it. Its
size is 18x12. Got it printed at Surya Digital Lab in Tuni by 5:30, paying them
125 rupees. Gave it for framing work at Lalitha Frames unit in Balaji Complex
at Tuni. He charged 375 rupees for it. Collected it from them by 8:00. It is Mukkoti
Ekadasi and Geetha Jayanthi today. Slept by 10:00.
22 December (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:48 in the car of our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Took my English
class to Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Today I taught them
about Simple Present Tense. By 10:50 reached the newly constructed HR office
building at HLL-III. I knew from the DGM that the staff of HR department
stationed at HLL-III unit moved to this new HR office yesterday as it was an
auspicious day. I brought my belongings to the new HR office by 11:15. The DGM
advised me to sit in a place, which is very close to his cabin. I found the new
HR office more spacious and beautiful than the old one. Today the staff of IT
department fitted some computers in this office. My computer is not yet fitted.
Today Hetero CMD Parthasaradhi Reddy spent in Hetero Complex, checking
facilities physically and conducting important meetings with key staff.
Conducted a quiz on Parts of Speech to Manthan-P-1 candidates at Boys’ Hostel
from 12:30 to 1:00. Had my lunch at this hostel by 1:25. Taught how to use ‘Be’
forms am, is, was, are and were to Manthan-P-2 candidates at hostel. Spent rest
of the day casually. Returned home by 7:00 travelling in the jeep of Babu Rao
of Hetero. They came here to buy some things. Spent talking with K S N Raju for
one hour. He is recovering slowly from his leg fracture. Slept by 10:00.
23 December (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:53 by bus. Taught about Present Continuous Tense to the
candidates of Manthan-Q at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught about been, being
and be to the candidates of Manthan-P-2 at Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 2:30. Half
of the candidates came to this class by 2:00. Told them not to enter the
classroom. They stood up in the corridor for these 30 minutes. We are doing
many things quite in time voluntarily. Smoking, drinking, playing video games
and cards are some pursuits many are accustomed to now. We should have passion
for learning also. I am not happy about the attitudes and culture of many folks
now. They are focusing on those pursuits, which do not help their psychological
and intellectual growth. My computer was not fitted in my HR office space even
today. By 4:30 went to a filling station near Vempadu and got four litres of
petrol filled in one of our HR Honda Activa scooters. This morning Hetero CMD
Parthasaradhi Reddy left the Hetero Complex for Hyderabad. It is his birthday
tomorrow. Returned home by 7:00 by Hetero bus. Edited the content of December,
from 1 to 20, from my diary of 2015, on my computer, from 8:00 to 8:40. Posted
the photo of Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, on the banner of my blog site, by 9:00,
wishing him on the occasion of his birthday. Slept by 10:30.
24 December (Thursday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 by bus. Taught about Present Perfect and Present Perfect
Continuous Tenses to Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught
about Simple Present Tense to Manthan-P-1 candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 12:30
to 1:00. Had my lunch here by 1:25. Taught question words, days and time and
capital letters to Manthan-P-2 candidates at this hostel from 2:00 to 2:30. The
celebration meant for wishing happy birthday to Hetero CMD Bandi Parthasaradhi
Reddy and distributing prizes to winners of annual sports and games
competitions was held at the sports ground near the northeast gate of Hetero
Complex from 6:00 to 8:15. Some danced. They distributed snack packs to all the
attendees. I stood up in one corner near the stage and watched this program.
About 300 folks sat on chairs. About 400 creatures stood up around them. When
one came to distribute snack packs to the mob near me, they made a mess of it,
grabbing packs like undisciplined rogues. I think Indians did not learn how to
utilize their freedom after the British rulers left India. Still they are
thinking and behaving like shameless beggars in public places also. If somebody
is offering something freely out of his goodness, we can take it decently. We
should not create stampedes, grabbing them like ghosts. Returned home by 9:00
by Hetero bus. Slept by 10:15.
25 December (Friday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 9:00 by bus. Today all Manthan candidates are on Christmas
holiday from Hetero. I did not have English classes. I spent casually most of
the day. By 11:45 the IT folks fitted my computer in my HR space. Afternoon
added two more pages of content to my blog titled ‘Clean India’ and concluded
it. Returned home by 7:10 by bus. Sankeerthana is uttering some words vaguely
now. She is consuming pickles, made from chilli powder partly, like an adult. I
am feeding her jaggery now and then. She is eating it interestingly considering
its flavour. She is beating her brother Anand if he takes any favourite item
from her. She spends very affectionately with Swathi and her husband. She is
adamant. She is enjoying the presence of her maternal grandparents in our abode
now. There should be more creatures around to keep children happy. They don’t
like staying indoors always. They wish to play with babies of their age but we
should not leave them unattended because they don’t know how to conduct
themselves. I think babies, patients and old people wish the company of others
and spending in beautiful places but they cannot do it on their own and others
don’t have time to spend with them considerably. This is the misery of
humanity. Those that spend much time with these are appreciable and admirable
ones than others. Slept by 10:00.
26 December (Saturday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:50 in the car of our HR DGM Seshagiri Rao. Taught about
Present Tense to the candidates of Manthan-P-1 at Boys’ Hostel from 12:30 to
1:00. Had my lunch here from 1:10 to 1:30. Taught about functional expressions
to Manthan-P-2 candidates here from 2:00 to 2:30. Today is the last day to use
the swipe machines through finger press at HLL-III for employee attendance
records. All employees of HLL-III have to use the newly installed eye scan
swipe machines from tomorrow morning onwards. They have to show their irises
and identity cards to record their attendance through these machines hereafter.
I wonder about the idea of attendance. What is the use of physical presence of
many employees in any workplace unless they are honest? Many do their jobs for
formality, salaries and perks but not out of love for the establishment or
their owners. On the other hand, many intelligent, honest and hard-working
employees feel demotivated when they have no recognition and appreciation from
their superiors or management. When a company is run based on moody persons but
not strategically planned and robustly established systems, many problems
arise. We can see hundreds of such mediocre enterprises in India. Kavitha,
Anand and I saw the Telugu film ‘Soukhyam’ in cinema Sai Mahal from 9:30 to
12:00. Regina Cassandra is a honeypot. Gopichand did well. It’s an interesting
and exciting film. Slept by 12:30.
27 December (Sunday)
Woke up by 5:00. Typed up
and edited the content of December, from 21 to 26, on my computer, from my
diary of 2015, from 9:00 to 10:15. Meanwhile my paternal uncle Narayana Murthy
came to my rented abode from the Thaandava Cooperative Sugar Factory in Payakaraopeta.
He is searching for a suitable plot of land to buy and build a house in it for
his son-in-law Naresh and daughter Ashwini. He talked with my house owner K S N
Raju for 15 minutes about a plot of land in Devi Nagar. He, Anand and I started
to Peda Gummuluru by 10:45 on my scooter. He got off it at Adduroad. Spent
talking with my parents, brother Sambha and others for some time. Had my lunch
with chicken soup in the house of Sambha by 12:30. Sambha, his son Anjaneya
Raju, my son Anand and I started to our mango garden at hills by 1:15 on his
bike. We four walked through our mango garden for half an hour. Some trees have
not yet turned green enough to bloom for this season. Our boys too enjoyed this
pleasant walk. We spent talking with Narayana Murthy and aunt Kumari at their
abode for one hour. We returned to Peda Gummuluru by 3:40. Anand and I started
back to Payakaraopeta by 4:00 and reached our abode by 4:40. My father-in-law
brought some sugarcanes for me from Viswanadhapuram. By 5:30 Srijana and I
prepared Chimmili for Seshagiri Rao with his sesame in our abode. Slept
by 10:00.
28 December (Monday)
Woke up by 5:00. My Honda
Activa scooter skidded when I was riding it down our steps. My mother-in-law
washed the floor this early morning with water. That wetness on these smooth
cement steps caused this. I was not hurt at all though the scooter partly fell
upon me. It hugged me like a passionate and possessive sweetheart. Gave the
sesame sweets to Seshagiri Rao in his rented abode by 7:20. Reached Hetero
Complex by 8:52 by bus. Taught about Past and Past Continuous Tenses to
Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught about functional
expressions to Manthan-P-2 candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 2:30. Spent
rest of the day casually. Returned home by 7:00 by bus. By 3:30, this
afternoon, my in-laws, Srijana, Anand and Sankeerthana took Prashanthi Express
(18463) at Tuni railway station for Hindupuram. Their berths are 50, 51, 53 and
54 in sleeper class coach S-11. Now my brother-in-law Vamsy is working with
Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Limited unit there. He has been on a 40-day
Ayyappa Swamy black dress religious observation. These folks are going there to
see him off for Sabarimala. I reserved
online for their journey about a month ago. Yesterday night they got confirmed
berths. They start back on 2.1.2016. Hindupuram is the assembly constituency of
Telugu film actor Bala Krishna now. I love his role as a politician. He must be
developing this region. Slept by 10:00.
29 December (Tuesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:57 by bus. Taught about Past Perfect and Past Perfect
Continuous Tenses to Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught
about Noun to Manthan-P-2 candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 2:00 to 2:30.
Collected some English sentences from the soft copy of Oxford Guide to English
Grammar from 3:00 to 4:30. Hetero has been treating me like a prince ever since
I joined it. They don’t assign me pressing works. Nobody asks me what I am
doing or what I can do for the organization. I need not take even one rupee
while going there. I eat subsidized lunch and evening snacks. I travel in
Hetero buses. No Hetero employee talked or behaved abusively or aggressively
towards me till now except Subba Rao of L&D department once or twice. I am
working in a workplace, which is very close to the houses of my parents and
folks in Peda Gummuluru. There are some things, which bother me but
indiscipline and disorders seem to be inevitable traits of humanity for ages.
We need to adjust and compromise in many aspects of life and profession because
all things are not in our control. God creates problems in our lives or
workplaces occasionally to alert and change us to the better. I must be
thankful to Hetero for their kind patronage to my earthly existence now. Slept
by 10:00.
30 December (Wednesday)
Woke up by 5:00. Reached
Hetero Complex by 8:56 by bus. Taught the four parts of Future Tense to
Manthan-Q candidates at HLL-IX from 9:30 to 10:30. Taught parts of Present
Tense to Manthan-P-1 candidates at Boys’ Hostel from 12:40 to 1:00. Had my
lunch here by 1:25. Taught about Noun, Pronoun and Adjective to Manthan-P-2
candidates at hostel from 2:00 to 2:30. Went to the filling station Gayathri
Agencies near Vempadu by 5:00 on a Honda Activa scooter of our HR department
and got four litres of petrol filled in it. Lakshmipathi Raju of our HR
department at HLL-III gave me 250 rupees and asked me to buy and bring
something for the HR staff in HLL-III. I got a samosa and two chilli snacks
packed into 15 covers each. Each employee gets three snacks. They cost 225
rupees. Distributed these packs to 15 creatures in our HR department at HLL-III
by 5:20. They felt happy about the courtesy of Lakshmipathi Raju. By 5:30 our
HR DGM V V V Seshagiri Rao handed my increment letter to me in his cabin. There
are two pages in it. It shows the comparative changes in my remunerations
before and after the latest increment to me. Felt happy about this letter.
Returned home by 7:10 by bus. My cousin Kavitha is preparing breakfast and
supper for us now. My folks are enjoying their time in Hindupuram. A fellow of
Viswanadhapuram is also doing a job in Hindupuram now. My folks are staying in
their rented abode. Slept by 10:00 for my dreams.
Woke up by 5:00. Today I
am on a casual leave from Hetero. This year I utilized 10 sick and 9.5 casual
leaves out of 10 in each category. Typed up and edited the content from 27 to
30, in December, from my diary of 2015, on my computer, from 8:30 to 9:00.
Posted this content on my blog site dcraju.blogspot.in by 10:00 and formatted
the space and font in it. By 11:00, my familiar fellow Krishna came and took my
11 pairs of washed clothes for ironing. He charged 110 rupees for it.
Downloaded some classic Telugu feature film video songs from YouTube. Music
soothes me. Kavitha and I saw the Telugu film “Maama Manchu-Alludu Kanchu” in
cinema Rama Krishna from 2:30 to 4:45. It’s interesting and exciting. Enjoyed watching
it. Srijana informed me, over phone, that yesterday they had visited the temple
at Lepakshi in Anantha Puram district. Its beauty and age mesmerized her. Her
brother Sita Rama Raju (Vamsy) took a train at Bengaluru this evening for
Sabarimala. By 7:15 bought a pack of chicken biryani from Jagatha Hotel at Y
Junction for 80 rupees for Kavitha and me, for supper. Surya Kumari and Kavitha
drew beautiful designs, on the cement road, opposite our abode, with different
colours, from 8:30 to 9:30, to welcome new English year 2016. I chose to bid
farewell to the year 2015 naturally, without doing anything crazy. Went to
sleep by 9:45. By 10:53, an amount of 26, 193 rupees was credited to my Axis
Bank account, from the folks of Hetero, towards my salary for this month. They
wished me warmly this way.
©
2016 Datla Chiranjeevi Raju
