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Thanks for looking in. There is more to being
modern than merely speeding up, said Mahatma Gandhi somewhere I had read. How
true! Take your time so to read and digest….
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That’s Me..the outer! Sport a beard since February1986, when I did a one week training in Jaipur. You’re right, by then I was completely bald. Had to distract attention!
I am a left-hander, I play carrom with right hand, but I do everything else, including write, with my left hand!
I play some chess and table-tennis too. I learnt swimming at 42!
In Info Tech, we look to capacity, procedure, & operating system.....& neglect content. Content is more important, there is no comparison. Peace and content (Pun intended) alone are meaningful in the long run.
Entering IAS in 1968, I've spent long years in Govt service in Maharashtra Cadre...till I got my Govt of India posting now!
Dad and Mom fell prey to cancer, Mom in 1981& Dad in 1995.
Wife Tilaka is really special and works in University Library.
Only child of ours is a daughter, (Joti…her name combining the first syllables of our names) and we are proud of her. She is married. We are equally proud & fond of our son-in-law......Sameer.
I love to read Gita, the Upanishads, the Dhammapada, and Osho’s books : attended in Jan 99 Vipassana Course of 10 days in VIA, Igatpuri (first time, I'd done that in March 1990). I have done the third time in July 1999.
I have completed 56 years of age, I work as Director-General of Shipping, Govt of India, since 6 December 1999.
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As a student, I studied English Literature in Madras University and still love it...but sadly the
"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"
- Shakespeare
Love to watch birds, gaze at the sky - stars, constellations, planets, clouds etc -butterflies, flowers, leaves, insects ...in short, all forms of life and existence...’He who sees everything in me, and me in everything, he is dear unto me.’ Not easy, I can assure you….not when you are distressed, threatened, belittled or angry.
Not forgetting the Bible...
Naked came I out of my mother's womb,
And naked shall I return thither;
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away,
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
- Book of Job, Ch 1 verse 21
... and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
And this delightful Herb whose tender green
Fledges the River’s Lip on which we lean -
Ah, lean upon it lightly! For who knows
From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!
Nor Janaka in Shanti Parva of Mahabharat
Infinite is indeed my wealth, of which nothing is mine:
If Mithila is burned, nothing of mine is burnt.
- Any Site should always be under construction—one can improve it-again, and again, and yet again!
- mail me, if you like. Otherwise, it does not matter….hear something of Hamlet to Horatio?
Not a whit, we defy augury…If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man hath aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes? Let be.
If you are in Merchant Navy or connected with it or with Indian shipping, and you have some suggestions for me, or problem with Maritime Administration of India, please e-mail me, and I shall try my best to do something about it! AND, if you want the complaint/problem to be kept confidential mail me at d.t.joseph@vsnl.com , you have my word for it, OK?
D.T.JOSEPH, DG Shipping
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