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20 years ago today the financial markets saw the largest one-day percentage decline in Dow Jones history, aka Black Monday. I can still remember where I was when I heard the news. I was sitting in the gym of Washington Catholic High School in Washington, Indiana watching the basketball team practice and [...]

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For the past 10 days I’ve been on American soil and hence the chirping crickets on this blog. I’m back for several reasons: business, personal and what I like to call “damn it feels good to be here.” List of things I’ve done so far:
- Visited the Apple Store on 5th Ave in NYC [...]

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Yup, it’s been 3 years since I first started blogging at celestri.org. This will be post number 181, which works out to 1.15 posts per week. It’s been pretty interesting to be able to write down my thoughts and then get questions and comments from all over the world.  In the process it’s also [...]

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Link to Guardian story
I rarely trust the Indian media as they typically report rumors as factual. Indian newspapers have been talking about Mukesh Ambani’s new residence and the story is being picked up by the international media. Mukesh is indeed building a monster mansion on Altamount Road, I just can’t imagine it’s going [...]

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Yeah, those are crickets chirping in the background, not because there is nothing happening but because it seems everything is happening.  We just moved into our new flat and have been busy with all the fun stuff associated with that.  Such as calling the internet guy 5 times, getting the appliances installed, going to a [...]

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One of the guys in my office talked about this plane he saw over the weekend in Bombay, I assumed it had reached it’s destination.
“Some residents said they had not complained simply because they assumed that the authorities would be making it a priority to get the plane out of the city. Five [...]

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Happy New Year to everyone. 2006 was definitely a big year for me and expecting 2007 to be bigger.
Woke up this morning and saw the logo to the left plastered all over the Times of India. It’s a new marketing campaign launched by the Times Group to get everyone jazzed about India Inc. [...]

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Thanks again to everyone for a memorable time. Neesha and I had a great time meeting everyone and partying like there was no tomorrow.
I’m still waiting for all the pictures from the wedding and most importantly the ones from the photographer. If you have pictures please send them to me, then I’ll post [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. Thanks to everyone that attended the wedding and checking to see if the pictures were online.
Yesterday, when I checked my blog I realized my database had crashed and I didn’t have a current backup. As you know, when you don’t have a backup your heart sinks. Luckily [...]

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A couple people have sent this to me and it’s awesome! Happy Holidays.

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