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Reviving the blog –

I started this blog  on 29-Sept-2008, but it  is  dormant since my last post on 9-Sept-2013.I was in Tokyo in 2008, and was considering career switch from Oracle Database Administrator to “something else”. That...

How people set their Salary Expectations ?

(Image Source: Wikimedia)How do people set their Salary expectations? Particularly the one who are returning to job-market after a break, returning from other country or switching careers. For instance when I returned from Japan, and was looking forward to my career...

Sleepy students and early morning class !

Today morning when I met first year student in lift, she was not active as one should be. I casually asked, so do you have class now? And she cribbed – yes, this morning 0900 class is bad. And it was not good, even when it was at 0930 last term. We normally jump...

On being a teacher …

I attended  Gurucharan Das’s  “India grows at night” book release function by BDB Book club. I liked his style and picked up his “Difficulty of being good” for reading. It is lucid and brilliantly written book. It uses...