Deepak Mishra

Today I read a letter from Shenaz Treasurywala to some of the influential people, addressing the biggest problem in India that is women safety, believing they could make some difference. I could feel her pain in the letter. Next I read another letter from a girl, in reply to Shenaz's letter, equally painful that she even accused Shenaz trying to promote her upcoming film. That made me wonder why the men in cities like Mumbai or Delhi could want to do such a thing. It can't be that all are not well uneducated. I have even seen well educated men having no respect for women or even any individual. From where did they get courage, leave courage aside for now, we all know its because they know they will get easily through it. The question is what they actually want to achieve, by trying to do so. I don't want to say what, it includes all from groping to raping. Are they just trying to fulfil their lust? No it can't be that. Because many rich guys as well do so who can a...

        I have a friend Sanjay Rana, who had been a good friend of mine since I am in Gurgaon. It had been more than an year that we are friends. We hung out together several times. I attended his brother's wedding as well. There is guy Kaushik Sharma, who lives in his neighborhood. I met him twice. Once on drinks and once in the wedding.         Kaushik met with an accident 2 months ago. His left leg is cut off after that. I came to know this from many sources. But I could not even call and talk to him. What should I talk and how should I talk? His parents spent all the money in the hospital bills and are running short of money for further treatment.         I decided to contribute from my side as well. I could not call Kaushik so I called Sanjay to ask bank account number of  Kaushik's father so that I can transfer money online. Sanjay gave me  PNB account number of  Kaushik's father. I trans...

        We formed team of 5 young guys in Lean Startup Machine Workshop . Ayushman, Amber, Sunny, Vaibhav and I (Deepak). Ayushman and Amber are friends working on an idea. Sunny is in sales and is very good at it. Vaibhav is in college and I am a techie. We 5 formed a group to convert the idea into something worth presenting. This article is not about the idea or how we presented it. So coming directly to the story.         We were asked to go out of the building and interact with people about the idea. But this idea is B2B, so we just went to a cafe and sat there for an hour. Ayushman ordered a plate of garlic bread and rest of us ordered an ice tea each. By the time our order came, we were all badly hungry. Ayushman's dish had 5 garlic bread pieces. Amber and Sunny took 1 piece each from the plate. Vaibhav and I did not. We thought that we are having our ice teas and if we put our hands in his plate, he will get only 1 piece. So Vaibhav and I ...

        I was with an Investor in businesses - that's what he told us. We were smoking in the balcony. When we were about to finish my friend came in. He lit another cigarette and shared it with me. When that was about to finish, another person, who was into marketing came in. He and the investor lit another cigarette. When the marketing guy offered me to share, I took it.         My Friend got surprised and said,  Don't smoke too much? CIGARETTE KILLS         I replied showing my gratitude to the marketing guy,  LET'S DIE TOGETHER         Investor offered my friend his cigarette and said,  LE MAR         The lines  Le Mar  and  Let's die together  became the part of every smoking sessions throughout the weekend in  Lean Startup Machine Workshop .

        I am a software engineer by profession since 5 years. I had a story and plot ready for a novel when I was in pre-final year of college NIT Rourkela. I thought I would write it when I leave college. I will have sufficient time then.         4 years after leaving college or 5 years after writing plot, I got time to write the story in a furnished way. I was in Bangalore then. I made 2 of my close friends read it. They liked it but asked me to furnished it even more. Then I went in a company switch mode. I left Bangalore and came to Gurgaon.         It has been more than an year in Gurgaon. I did not get time or proper motivation to write in Gurgaon. I think daily I will write tonight, but this doesn't happen. Nothing is stopping me from writing. But I am not able to figure out why am I not writing even if I get some time. May be its the fear that if I have time today, may be I won't get it tomor...

        Guys I am back with an old real life problem, which is not yet solved. As the name of the blog says, its obviously about the 12 Balls Problem. But this blog is not just about the famous mathematical problem. This blog is about the problem this mathematical problem created in my life. The actual 12 balls problem obviously has solution. Click the link for  Solution .         I had a friend Murli  in Onmobile Bangalore  mentioned in another of my posts  Swimming and KLPD Switch . He was the most intelligent friend I had.  Everyone even believed in his intelligence. But h e had superiority complex with others. He wanted everyone to accept that he is better than them. Many did, so did I, to keep the environment of the group healthy.  Murli and I were sort of bully in the office group. I was sensitive to some extent. I made sure nobody was hurt in the process. But Murli wasn't.         ...

Sorry Americans in the very beginning, but I am having a very hard time working with you guys.         I joined this company (MNC) 3 months ago. The project I was assigned to, is the first project of the company, which was driven stand-alone from India. So it is a matter of prestige to finish the project on time. My team consisting of 6 developers, 4 quality analysts, one architect and one manager, who is scrum master as well, are working very hard to finish the project on time. The architect and 2 senior developers, including me, are new in this company. We have very limited knowledge of the legacy services, codes and database tables. Even after so many hurdles, we kept the sprints on timeline.         Then came another architect into picture, who from US, introduced a new technology (react js) in the UI part of project. It has been more than a month, the technology was introduced, yet no one is able to work on it properly. The deadline had to...

Bhaiyya, till what time do you run the auto-rickshaw? Till 4 AM in the morning. How much do you make out of it per day? 1500-2000 per day by this, but I also have my fruit store that I run in the morning. In total I make around 3000 per day. You must have guessed it by now. Its a friendly conversation with an auto-rickshaw driver. My friends were astonished to know he make more than us in a month but I pitied him for working so hard to compete with us in the race. Everyone works hard for a pinch of money and few people work even harder. How can he, being an auto-rickshaw driver and a fruit seller, earn more than a software engineer? Why does this question even arise? Doesn't he deserve to earn more money if he is scratching his ass much more than we do? Bhaiyya, how long have you been in military? It has been more than 15 years. You must be proud of being able to serve the country. How much do you make? Serving  the country is the only motivat...

Day before yesterday I was talking to love of my life Aiesha on phone. She is not my girlfriend, not even my ex. But I adore her. She is married now for more than 2 years and is supporting her parents financially. Since few weeks she is asking me to refer her somewhere for job. Her salary is pretty low to support her parents and do regular (weekly) shopping. Her husband supports his parents. Even if they hang out, they do Dutch. WTF. Even on Valentine’s day the (married) couple shared. She is the girl for who I wrote my previous posts I hate you   and   I am hurt . She asked me to find a job for her abroad, as she knows I want the same for myself.  The passive voice sucks. Though I don’t remember the exact words in the conversation but I will use the intent. And just for information, Aiesha is the same girl for who I wrote one of my previous posts "I am hurt". Aiesha, what you doing? I am getting bored at home. Nothing to do. Gaurav (her husband) had gone out ...

      Munsiyari trip started with my resignation in my company and in a vision of possibility of a supposedly very unfortunate breakup with my girlfriend Shruti. It was supposed to be a last trip with her. It wasn't my first trip to Uttarakhand. I have been to Jim Corbett national park, Nainital and Ranikhet with my friends and to Almora with Shruti.       In the last trip to Almora, Shruti and I wanted to go closer to the Himalayas. It couldn't happened that time. Whoever we asked suggested to go to Munsiyari. But due to time constraints we did not go there. Someone who had been in the mountains for a long time and had visited several places suggested Munsiyari in Uttarakhand and Manali in Himachal. As I had already relieved from the company, I also needed time to think about the career and I also had time for that. I just needed was a place. Munsiyari it is. Plus no time constraints, awesome.     ...