Innovation: An Article That Inspired Me

The following was blogged on ZDNet.

Don’t Look Back by ZDNet's Andrew Keen -- How to innovate? That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone's minds at the Wall Street Journal's memorable D Conference this week in Carlsbad. How can we radically improve the experience and value of interacting with one's digital device? What is the next chapter in the evolution of information and entertainment technology?

News! news!! news!!!

There are changes happening about Travelers since January 07.

Maharani of Jaipur has moved on to greater career vistas. Also did she change her home. Maddy has a new bike she loves to sport. Sim just quit her job...due to, I think, matters of the heart.

I just moved to a different division. Bins has changed his project.

All's news!

Another Traveler Has Moved Out

It's unofficial now. One of us just chose to move out. It was a career breakthrough for him, and moments of disbelief for us. The group, developed from the roots with a set of values of which he played an active role, is gradually losing its charisma. Apart from being an active Traveler, he was a good sportsman, the opening batsman for the department cricket team, a belt holder in Taekwondo and above all, a person whom newbies lookup for inspiration.

The best face of his that I could never forget was the moments of panic while we were returning from Pushkar to Jaipur, Rajasthan. A couple of our senior friends were over drunk and it was unmanageable to continue the journey with a drug-inflicted driver. With 3 women onboard, it was risky to drop ourselves midway in the highway and riskier still to continue all the way to Jaipur. All the way they kept abusing Naresh, and he maintained his calm. We couldn’t actively support Naresh than provide our moral support, just to keep things under control.

After we just missed an accident (I still feel the shock), we chose to step out of the vehicle there and then. The journey back home was the most memorable one I ever had. We’ll miss you Naresh! Bye for a while.

Some of us share our evenings together

The Travellers sharing a moment at the Jaipur Palace

Khalbali@Murli's home

At our old palace

One with the rocks and sand
One with the green grassland
Onw with the clouds and hills
And lo! the passing mills
Behold the Western Ghat smiles
All through the passing miles.

It was an uneasy homecoming.

Traveling happens from anywhere to everywhere....The journey just goes on, it never concludes. I've changes lanes a few times, knowlingly or not. And now I've carved a vehicle for myself.

I'm in the process of metamorphising a brief experience into a readable travel-writing stuff. Watchout!