Category: Travel

Classic Coimbatore


Today slept long and missed to see my friend tying mangal sutra that is the purpose of my visit to Erode… Then went to the marriage and had my breakfast wished my friend… He thanked me for making to reception and for the wedding thought I was late…

Then planned to proceed to Andhiyur which is famous for horse market… Again the person who promised me to take there didn’t turn up and I immediately proceeded to my Coimbatore…

Reached my uncles house in Coimbatore had lunch and proceeded to Ndot.in along with my cousin… Then met founder of Ndot.in Mr.Nanda Kumar a first generation and budding entrepreneur… Once I entered a place R.S.Puram where his office was located carried me away… It looks like old Brigade road, with lots of branded showrooms and food joints…

Then Nanda took me to his office… It is a small home come office with a typical setup of a startup… Then Nanda introduced me to his employees and we proceeded to a Juice Shop names Seasons in R.S.Puram, as we entered I was shocked to see such good looking girls all over the road and inside the juice shop… I carried away by a girl and she still lives in my eyes :)…

Then we went to book ticket for a movie Naan Kadavul and to my surprise we were able to get a ticket tomorrow evening… In Chennai & Bangalore tickets are full for atleast for next couple of days…

Then from there we dropped Nanda in his office and proceed to Mettupalayam Road to Marverick GYM… Again I was surprised to see the quality of people; it is on par or even better than Chennai or Bangalore… Again there were nice looking girls… Also GYM here is much better than the one in Madurai… Once consoling point is quality comes with a cost… When I enquired the tariff it is  50% more than what I pay in Madurai… I think better option is to enroll in Madurai and use Chennai or Coimbatore :)…

Then from GYM again proceeded to Nanda’s office & Nanda asked me to take a session to his employees… I started casually by telling how I started and my early days experience and mistakes I did and where I’m today… Ndot.in guys are very much enthusiastic and they flooded with questions… I answered them to the best, and I hope so it was informative and they liked it…

Then Nanda joined after a meeting with his clients & he said he wanted his folks to write blogs and he said he didn’t know how to motivate them… Then I immediately thought of conducting a contest where every folk starts writing blog and by the end of this month who ever writes lots of blog will get a Allan Solly shirt from me and there are some guidelines for it…

  1. Content must me unique and must not be copied…
  2. If a person writes less than 10 blog must pay a penalty….
  3. Each blog must have more than or equal to 400 words…
  4. Contest ends on Feb 28th 2009…

I need to think of more Guidelines for the contest, if you have any points to be added please post it in the comment, it will be of real help… Then I conducted a small interactive training on Business Communication GAP… With that I had to conclude as it took 2 hours and didn’t want to show negative vibes and throw me out…

Then we Myself, Arun(my Cousin) & Nanda proceeded to a movie called Dev D… I don’t think I can write a review for the movie because I didn’t understand anything, but I liked the movie because I didn’t understand anything :)…

Then dropped Nanda and reached home and writing this blog… Over all I started creating an admiration for Coimbatore and the place looks alike how I saw Bangalore before 2000… I might consider this place for future business developments…

From Chennai to Thamaraipakkam


Itz been 2 weeks since I’ve been to that place and I must have posted a blog immediately… But anyways let me compromise myself with famous sayings “Better late than never”…

I’ve a friend by name Vijay Krishna and he is my investment consultant… His hails from a village in Thiruvalluvar district which is 3 KM away from Thamaraipakkan (Famous for Lingam temple) and 45 KM from Chennai…

Vijay came to me asking for a help in taking Agriculture in a large scale & he wanted my help for raising capital and some business tips… I readily accepted the offer and excited with the project… Before getting into business I wanted to know some know-hows of agriculture and Vijay asked me to make a visit to his village to explain how things happen…

I’m surprised once we entered into his village… Firstly it didn’t look like a village, none of the house looked like a traditional village house… All were bungalows and looked as if we are entering an area like Boat Club in Chennai… Also I was carried away when Vijay told me all the people in the village have created their fortune thru agriculture…

Then we reached Vijay’s house, which was a 50 year old house and the hospitality was beyond excellent… Right behind Vijay’s house flows a river and I forgot the name of the river… Lust green paddy crops, they river and traditional house were all worth a visit…

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This is the entrance of Vijay’s house and this door is 55 years old…

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Myself and Vicky near the river which flows behind Vijay’s house…

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Paddy fields near river and Vijay’s house…

Then Vijay took us to the go down where all the paddy bags are stored and Vijay gave us some insights about how they trade the produce in the commodity market… Vijay introduced me to one of his relative who made a fortune just by trading…

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Paddy Bags & Anand Nataraj…

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Myself & Vicky inside the store room…

Then we headed to one of there farm land where they were harvesting Sugar Cane… They have cultivated Sugar cane in around 300 acres and Vijay’s father multiplied 20 acre of land which he inherited from Vijay’s grand father to 400 – 500 acre empire…

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Look how brave I’m… This is in the Sugar cane field…

My visit to Vijay’s village showed me the potency in agriculture… I agreed to consult Vijay because subject was different, but after seeing the potency I’m even more excited to see his dream come true and get my name behind his success story… I’ll keep you all posted about our experience and plans about the agriculture business…

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Tried my hand driving a tractor…

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Wanted to take a serious one, but ended up funny :)…

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Old ploughing instrument…

Weekend in Bangalore…


Wait don’t make assumptions… I’m in Bangalore this weekend still working, yes this is an official outing and so far satisfied with the progress… In spite of the entire business schedule I made sure my weekend doesn’t get screwed…

I fixed all my business meet at Ranga Shankara a nice auditorium and has a nice coffee shop which is best suited for business talks… Though I can wrap my business meetings soon and attend a theatre show from EVAM… But the hectic bus journey made me tired and I overslept and also I don’t know what happened to me, I washed my cloths and cleaned the house before starting the day… By the time it was afternoon…

Bala called me and asked if we can finish lunch and move for meetings, skipping breakfast already took a toll and I said that would be nice and we freezed on my favorite andra style restaurant Adithi Restaurent in Arekere… Bala’s friend friend offered me a pickup, but I didn’t accept the offer instead I walked all the way to bus stop and boarded a bus and reached the place ahead of bala and his friend…

I’m happy that I’m living the way I want to live this 2009, once I reached Bangalore at 5 o clock in the morning… I opted to travel by bus, infact i had to board two bus to reach my house in Guttegere and I just spent 10 bucks, normally I catch an auto which will cost me 150 bucks…

By the time we finished our lunch it was 3 o clock and we went to café coffee day to have a small business chat with bala’s friend and once the meeting was over bala’s friend dropped us in my house… From my house i took my bike and  proceeded to Ranga Shankara with bala and finished a couple of business meetings which was productive… One sad thing was we missed out the theatre show, but i was surprised to see a lots of youngsters and the show getting a full house…

From there Ranga Shankara I took bala to Forum… There we booked a ticket for “The Hunting Party”, there was no banner for the movie and we didn’t know it was English or hindi or any other south Indian movie… We thought we can take a change and we book the ticket in Kiosk and we moved to apple store and had a peep into the latest products and then moved to food court… There I had 5 scoops of ice cream and then myself and bala had a review of the bhouchere content… From there we went to movie and I was happy because it was Richard Gere’s movie and I’m a great fan of him, also the movie was nice…

Then I drove bala to his friend’s house and while returning i missed the way, but it ended up well it took straight to my house and that was a short cut… But at 11 in the night i was soo dark and the road was deserted, driving at that time was a adventorous experience… Finally i reach home by 11 PM and got connected and did a analysis of all the meetings and emailed bala about my thoughts… I didn’t have any creativity or energy left on me but still wanted to have a blog post on my blog… So, I shared a funny quote I got from my friend Indrani and posted it, read some magazines and slept… 

Today it is 1.30 PM and writing this blog and don’t know if it would be that happening like yesterday… But planning to goto Garuda mall… Will share if there is any interesting experience for the day…

Thank you for sparing time to read about my experience…

SriKalahastri Trip


It has been hectic schedule in business & also in personal commitments too. My present concerns are to make my new ventures a great success, to spend good time with my friends, be consistent in my blogging etc. But my mothers concerns are different, she is worried about my marriage and she wanted to do a Raghu Pooja in SriKalahastri. I didn’t want to disappoint my mother’s sentiments and I obliged to goto temple and perform the pooja…

We decided to goto SriKalahastri on Sunday(16th Nov 2008). Kalahastri is 120 KM from Chennai & is located in Chitoor district of Andra Pradesh. We planned to start from home by 1.30 PM so that we can reach temple by 4.30. Pooja must be performed between 4.30 PM – 6.00 PM because that is Ravugalam & pooja must be performed at that tim But we had an unexpected visit of a guest by 1.00 PM and we were able to start from home only by 3.30PM. We have two ways to route to reach Kalahastri from Chennai. We choose the shortest route redhills/tada route which is the shortest… Wonderful road and nice drive, but still we were late and reached temple by 6 o clock. So decided to have a normal prayer and again planned to make it on Tuesday(18th Nov 2008).

On return we took the renigunta road, which is little long in terms of KM & roads were also bad. We reached home little late by around 10 o clock in the night. Travel was of great experience, had nice discussion with my sister, it has been long since we had spent time for each other. Then saw a major accident near thiruvallur where a bus ran over a bike, road was flooded with blood, I wanted to take some snaps and wanted to share it in my blog but my mother did allow me to do it and she immediately wanted me to move from that place. I obliged to my mothers request and continued my drive. Then reached home slept & did normal work on Monday.

Again started on Tuesday to SriKalahastri, this time it Ravugalam was between 3.30PM – 5 PM. We started from home by 12 noon & this time decided to use redhills/tada route to & foe. This is a best route at present because of good roads, but we have a toll plaza near ponneri a kilometer before & after the toll gate roads are pathetic. Took some snaps to share it.

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A person collecting toll

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Toll tariff for different vehicles

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Condition of road immediately after toll

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Condition of roads immediately after toll, this road a junction which connects periyapalayam & tada road…

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En route to SriKalahastri near Varadapalayam & you can see me in the picture…

Then reached the temple by 3.15 PM and got a ticket and had pooja done by 4 o clock, had good darshan & returned back to Chennai on the same tada/redhills road. SriKalahastri – Varadapalayam – Tada road was little narrow and had lots of narrow curves & speed breakers. Caught hold of a car, think the driver is a frequent driver in the route and he maintained good speed. Driver understood that we are following him to have a smooth drive & in the mean time maintain his speed and he helped me by giving appropriate signals. Without him I couldn’t have driven in that speed as it was pitch dark.

Then had a normal drive back home & it was yet another 300 KM drive. It was interesting to have driven 600 KM within 50 hours… It was a nice experience & I’m happy because my parents are happy & I made them happy by somehow sparing time for pooja. It was an happy ending & I headed to Madurai immediately after reaching Chennai.