BOBKANNAN BLOGS

My friend Piyush Kagalwala was a bit upset that I did not congratulate him on his promotion as Chief Manager that day. My office was surprised that an otherwise disciplined Kannan has not reported back from leave. Why? As usual I boarded my favorite flight IC 440 at 7 am from Chennai for Hyderabad. The pilot used to take off from only the airport at Chennai and also used to land only at airport in Hyderabad. But that day he chose to land rather crash land in a rice field. I was fortunate to have 31F as my seat that was at the rear almost near the door and was also asleep to be blissfully ignorant of the turmoil, the pilot and consequently the passengers in the front had. The wings of the aircraft refused to co operate as the pilot tried to land at Hyderabad and the aircraft consequently flew at lower height   consuming more fuel forcing the aircraft to land at any place airport or otherwise. Captain Balla did a great job of landing in a carefully chosen strip of...

There is a huge bungalow visible prominently in a locality. The bungalow has more than one gate, one for the car, and one for visitors, a wicket gate for the servants and support staff to use and may be one more for the family. The huge gate opens many times to intake people who choose to travel in cars covered with sun film and even the security may not get to have a glimpse of the visitor. The bungalow also has many plants some of which grow to trees and have seen generations, while some plants grow, flourish briefly bearing fruits/flowers and vanish thereafter. Leaders are comparable to such bungalows. Just like the trees leaders have people around them who are loyal to them thro the generation. They also get loyal people who come and go like the smaller plants that come and vanish. People visiting a leader also come thro a variety of gates. Some walk in, others prefer visit in cognito, while others like the support staff manage to sneak thro a gate not visible to ...