Welcome to Vrikshamandir. A small garden of memories, essays, poems and stories, tended by a novice blogger and shared by friends.
वृक्षमंदिर में आपका स्वागत है। यादों, लेखों, कविताओं और कहानियों की एक छोटी-सी बगिया, एक नौसिखिए ब्लॉगर और उसके साथियों की।
– Shubhra Roy Dr. Kurien the man that he was … My second “Mulaquat” with Dr.Kurien changed my life A few months had passed by after I first saw Dr Kurien when he gave us a lift to the movie hall. I developed severe headache and had to seek advice from our “famous” Dr.Ashabhai. Those…
– Shubhra Roy The world knows Dr. V Kurien as a very intelligent and dynamic person with a great presence of mind. But not many people know how loving and caring he was. This quality of his keeps him alive for ever in the memories of ordinary people like me. The way he dealt with…
Dr. Mukund Naware In August 1977 Dr Naware returned from Guntur after working there as Spear Head Team Leader for 7 months. Back to Anand, he was waiting for further orders and spending time in giving lectures in on-going training programs and escorting important visitors under Guest Programs in the evenings……he writes.. Like every story…
Dr. Kurien was a true Indian. Born in a Christian family from Kerala he would say “I am a Gujarati and an atheist !” I was posted at NDDB, Anand during 1997 to 2000. At Anand, I was working under Dr. N. V. Belawadi in the Cooperative Services Group. This group was successor to…
“China is the only country in the world who consider Dalai Lama as a terrorist and Masood Azhar as a spiritual leader” – Raison d’être of Pakistan seem to be to oppose India and be a leading Islamic country both a pipe dream ! But as a country to exist Pakistan has to keep dreaming….
RK Nagar Staying in NDDB hostel was an extremely pleasing experience from the days of Manibhuvan, where we had to observe some discipline-at least in terms of the time for waking up and store water in drums and buckets as municipal water supply timings were very odd. In the hostel, we had the luxury of…
Dr. Mukund Naware Move to “Sangam” at Vadlamudi in Guntur Towards the end of December 1976 NDDB decided to send a Spear Head Team (SHT) to Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. The Feeder Balancing Dairy under Operation Flood – I was under construction at Vadlamudi ( popularly called Sangam ) and Dr. Chothani, Director (FO&AH)…
Dr. HB Joshi Early morning telephone call In the foggy weather of Delhi that day , sun was yet to come out and the severe cold was preventing me from coming out of my cosy bed. Suddenly the telephone bell rang. Very unusual and surprising to get a call at that hour to so early…
From the pen of a “pun-ster friend” of Dr. Surendra Ranade The Amul group’s turnover crossing ₹50,000 Cr, is a clear case of the ‘Lactic’ going ga’Lactic’ and creating its own ‘Milk’y Way! Reposting this blog contributed by Dr Surendra Ranade for Vrikshamandir on 10 August 2020. Six years later in 2026 turnover…
RK Nagar Don’t believe it? Ask anyone who worked with me. They would confirm that I was a stickler to 5 day week rule and office timings. Ask Shailendra and he would confirm how an HRD consultant from Canada-Rob Nelson had to reschedule his visit to Bangalore when I was the regional head. Friday as…
RK Nagar We moved to the NDDB campus in 1970. NDDB. Total manpower strength of NDDB at that time was perhaps around 30 -35 or so, including the support staff . We all had our work places in the Chairman’s office building. Only eight B type and two A type houses for officers who had…
श्री अनुपम मिश्रा मेरे पिता के प्रशंसकों में से एक थे । बाबूजी के साथ गांधी पीस फ़ाउंडेशन में उनसे कई बार मिला भी था । अंतिम बार उनसे मुलाक़ात तब हुई जब वह बाबूजी की तेरहवीं पर २००८ सितंबर में गुड़गाँव में आयोजित प्रार्थना सभा में आये थे। अनुपम जी सभा के…
