League of Extra Ordinary Gentlemen: Season 3
Its been eons since I contributed anything to my
blog. Not that I was devoid of ideas, its just I was too drenched in my travels
and work. And it’s against my company’s
policy that I blog anything referring to it.
Now sitting in my cozy room, listening to filmy
music of 90s ,I just wanna continue on amazing people I met during my voyage of
life.
Its often said that you are product of Five
people you spend most of time with. I cant
write 5..but here are THREE who made difference in my recent past.
KATARNAK KILL-DEEP (KD):
KD sirji is highly
motivated NCC instructor and honorary Major whom I happen to meet over banking
issue. He is man with electrifying personality. Extensively read and travelled.
He is walking encyclopedic wisdom on military history and strategies.
Its highly impossible not to being impacted by
his persona. Despite myself not having any armed forces background, I happen to
imbibe many of his positive disciplined habits and reintroducing the same in my
profession.
Being bibliophile myself i regale complete access
to his library and reserves of wisdom shared liberally over tons of pegs of
chai.
Once with a lazy junior I exclaimed: “You have
to justify your salary, you have to give back to country every rupee it has
given to you.” Later in some context I had to explain that these are work
ethics I imbibed from KD sir apart from Discipline, Responsibility, Leadership,
and other work ethics. Sooner or later we might be posted in diametrically
opposites of the country but his lessons would last forever.
Arjun M :
When I first saw
this person he was quite introvert, quiet and vegan. Dead opposite to me. Wild, loud and omnivorous!
Ten years down the line (more or less), He is my confidante, family friend and partners
in exploration, adventures and travels. Thanks to him, my lappy is filled with
tons of E-books and music.
More about him would be written next blog. Our travels
are quite often unplanned .Only start and end days are fixed and in between are
wild map less unplanned journeys. They are never regular tourist beaten paths, we
(Me, Him and his 3kg photography kit) just travel where our minds and legs
decide in last moment. From Mountain tops to untouched Beaches, forgotten Temples
and british era Churches. Forests to Spiritual ashrams. Always game for new
adventure and journeys to places unknown!
