Life Transitions! Even more memories.

 

Sunday 17^th Aug 2025          Day 23255   (Today is Shyamala Gopal's 95th Birthday!!) 

1995-2004: Parenting, Career Transitions.

-          Managing an Infant!

-          Maalish waali, diapers, baby talk, late nights, first walk

-          Vaccinations, paediatricians, Tirupati mundan

-          Severe fever and ice-cold baths

-          VS enters his schooling phase in Mumbai

-          VS and NS relocate to New Delhi

-          Getting comfortable with the Delhi winters, razaais and room heaters

-          Vasant Kunj rented homes

-          Eicher International and international business trips

-          Buying our first home at DLF Ridgewood

-          Gruha pravesh and transfer to Mumbai Ramon & Demm!

-          Pradeep Kapse and the Thane team

-          Life in Hiranandani Thane

-          School admission JK School Thane

-          Theory of Constraints, Gear manufacturing, Aftermarket strategies and OEM business

-          Month end billing scenarios, closure of sales, synergy between marketing and plant operations

-          Turn-around strategies for the gear business

-          Buying our second property at Hiranandani Estate, Ghodbunder Road

-          Promotion as GM at Eicher

-          Meeting Aftermarket distributors and retailers all over India

-          Girish bhai at Ahmedabad

-          10 day Vipassana shivir in my 40^th year December 2001

-          Village Bada Bhuj Gujarat

-          Goenka ji, Dhyaan, Meditation, Anicca

-          Bhavathu sabba Mangalam

-          Return back from Bhuj, giving up alcohol and non veg at the 2001 New Year party at Thane.

-          Career opportunities outside of Eicher

-          Preparing for a role at an American company Eaton

-          Joined Eaton Feb 2004, Heading Marketing, Uday Yadav as Country Manager

-          Moving up as Eaton India Country Manager

-          Rented home at Mantri Lawns, Gaikwad Nagar Aundh Pune

-          Vipassana Shivir at Pune

-          Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda!

-          Different possibilities: Time travel, Out of body experiences, past life regressions

-          Dr Brian Weiss books on past life regressions

-          Readings, readings, readings on spirituality

-          Deeper yearning and seeking

-          What really is Life?

-          Making a Living v/s Living Life. 

-          2001 – 2004 a major shift in perspectives