Deepak Mishra

This post is about a trip many years ago. My memories about the trip started fainting, so I decided to put it in my blog. I was sitting in a small hotel room watching a 14 inches TV. I started feeling sleepy. But when I switched off the TV and laid on the bed, I couldn't sleep. Probably the bed of the 275 rupees per night room of the hotel was not so comfortable. At 2AM, I started recollecting my last 2 days. It was an extended weekend (Friday off) probably in October 2011. I planned a trip with my flatmates Raj, Purab and Simi. But till Thursday night, the trip was not planned. Purab said we will leave in the morning, but nobody woke up. At lunch, Raj said we will leave in some time. But where? I got the gist that nobody is going anywhere. Angrily I told Raj at 2PM, I will leave by myself if noone leaves. He replied that its hot outside, we will leave by 5PM. By 3:30PM, I felt that Raj is not willing to go anywhere. I decided to go on a solo trip. So I took my bike keys and lap...

After returning to Bangalore after more than 2 years, first day I with my 2 co-founders Rohit and Sumit spent in searching for PG and we got one in JP Nagar Phase 6. At night, Sumit slept early, but I and Rohit did not. At night 2AM, I and Rohit were in a mood to have tea. So we left the PG in search of tea. We asked a auto driver where can we get tea, he pointed in a direction towards Jayanagar. We started walking towards Jayanagar. After a kilometer, a drunk guy stopped us and started asking questions. Hi, I am Madhusudan. Do you watch movies? What kind of movies you like? Blah Blah. I am writing a story and wanted to know how people (like we 2) behave at night. My story is a action thriller about a shootout in 24A Main Hotel. Madhusudan was too drunk to stand or keep his hands still. Rohit was not comfortable at all and was not entertaining him but I was. I welcomed his questions completely for fun. After he told his story, I told him that I wrote a story in college and maile...

        When you live in Delhi-NCR, you will frequently travel in Metro. Whenever I travel, I don't prefer to sit unless many seats are empty. I don't prefer to sit because there is always a person in the Metro who needs the seat more than me.         3 days ago, I was travelling in Metro from Noida to Gurgaon in morning peak time. This is the longest possible route in Delhi Metro which involves switching Metro at Rajiv Chowk. I had no dinner previous night, no breakfast that morning and no sleep the whole night. I went standing from Noida City Center to Rajiv Chowk. By then I was very much exhausted by standing for an hour. I got into the Metro which goes to Huda City Center. Again I got no seat. I started getting drained of energy. I was about to faint. But luckily 2 Metro Stations later somebody got up from a seat to get down at Central Secretariat. I sat down on the seat and started feeling relaxed.         I would have b...

First Draft         I used to wonder how can millions of people be so dumb that they are followers of Taki Sawant Part 2. From the time I found out the reason why they follow Aradhe Maa, even I am a hardcore follower of the godwoman. Aradhe Maa indulges in sexually provocative activities with her male followers and even grabs their private parts. Wow. It's a heavenly experience to have a quality time, even for few seconds, with a god-woman.         Last week I went to Kandivali for some work. I could see huge posters of her satsang. As she was in news for various reasons, I was curious to see her in person, though I considered her followers idiots. I took VIP ticket to her satsang and reached to the 3rd floor of high class people. After some time Aradhe Maa came dancing and ran to the stage hugging-kissing her known ones. I was stunned to see this that all I heard in news was true. She found a new face in the VIPs i.e. me. She came to...

        My friend Rohit booked a cab from Gurgaon to Noida at night 1AM. The cab driver was a big fat Haryanwi and had no expression on his face. Rohit was scared of him in the beginning but he made him comfortable by adjusting his seat and pulling the seat belt. Most of the roads were empty and desolated. Rohit fell asleep after 5-10 minutes.         Driver took a sharp left turn and bumped the car on the speed breaker. Rohit jumped from his seat and landed on the driver's lap. Rohit got angry on his rash driving in the beginning, but then he saw he was in an isolated road, people find unsafe at night. He also realised he is on the driver's lap and something was pricking his butt from below. The driver had unzipped his pants and must be preparing for something.         Rohit tried to standup and run from the driver's lap but driver held him and pulled him on his lap. Rohit's pant ...

Thanks  yourstory ‘Three idiots’ are building Awesummly product to digest news Nitin, Ankit, and Deepak were wandering from one company to another without direction or guidance in search of the first step. It was sheer fate that brought the three entrepreneurs together. Before meeting each other, each of them had unsuccessfully tried their hand at several startup ideas with different teams but had always failed due to unfavorable circumstances and lack of motivation in teams. It is always difficult to pursue entrepreneurship after a stage of life when you can’t risk losing a regular source of income and have family pressure and responsibilities.. Inception of the Idea A night in U-block Gurgaon, when the power had gone off for hours, saw the beginning of new ideas. Deepak came out of the building to get some fresh air and found his neighbour, Nitin, sitting outside the building. That night they talked for four hours and found they shared a similar bent of mind. N...

A friend of mine dropped out of school at sixteen. His mother, herself a school teacher, almost killed the chap. She wanted him to follow in the footsteps of her eldest son, who had finished top of his class in high school, aced all four years at a fancy university to secure a prestigious degree, and landed a damn spiffy desk job before his grad hat hit the ground. Fast forward a decade, and the eldest had abandoned the corporate life. The big p aycheck didn’t compensate for all the uninspiring work and mountains of stress. He found himself much happier helping out his uncle laying hardwood floors, prestigious degree be damned. And by that time, his younger brother (the dropout) had become highly-successful running his own garage, showing remarkable business smarts while turning his passion for everything on four wheels into an auto repair shop. He’s more artist than mechanic. So one son did everything momma wanted, while the other listened to his gut and went his own way. They...

When I left my college in 2009, like all other engineers even I had several things in mind to do. 1. Pursue further studies MBA or MS 2. Prepare for interviews to crack Google interviews and work with Google 3. Buy house (although against my wish) 4. Starting up my own company 5. Learn technology as past time and take technology courses 6. Take extra curricular courses like dancing, playing guitar and travelling. 7. Write novel After leaving college since today (2015), I worked with many companies and I am currently with Housing.com, which is my 6th company in 6 years. 1. While I was in my first company Onmobile, I gave GRE and got a shit score in English, though I got full in Maths. I declared GRE is not my cup of tea, so will be GMAT and CAT. Point 1 ruled out. 2. All along I have been preparing for interview, my target was to prepare to crack Google interviews. I never got calls from Google, though I applied in their career site. Anyway I was never prepare...

        The Sunday I am writing about happened around 5 years ago.         One Friday evening, Aarti asked me whether I was free on Sunday. Her grandmother’s brother or Nana was coming to Bangalore and she had to meet him. She did not want to get bored, so she wanted me to come with her. I was shocked like why me. She was in relationship with my college friend and roommate Raj that time. She must ask him to meet her relatives, not me. Whoever she takes with her, her relatives will consider that guy as her boyfriend. It better be him. Or she would have thought her boyfriend can behave like one, but not me. I might keep distance, act decent and won’t impose rights on her. For me, it was an honour that she considered me so trustworthy for asking me to meet her relative. We generally consider it a risk to let an opposite sex friend meet a relative and specially a guy with long hair.         Sunday morning Aarti picked me fro...

        Leh is a great place, in fact an awesome place. If you are reading this to know how good Leh is or how to reach there, jump to the last paragraph of the post or go to wikipedia or google images. If you are reading this to know how good or bad my unplanned trip to Leh was or how not to reach there, please go ahead. I would be really glad.          First I will tell you, why I planned this trip. I was switching companies from Cvent Gurgaon to Housing Mumbai. My time in Cvent was too hectic. I desperately needed a break. My last day in Cvent was 10th April. I requested Housing to give me joining date as 20th April, so that I can relocate easily. Also as I was moving to Mumbai, I would not be able to travel to Himalayas so easily. So I wanted to travel in probably last time and that too to Leh. Also as I had sufficient time of 8-9 days, I wanted to go by road, and not fly there. As my going to Leh pre decided, I did not research anything...

        I had discussions with many Kashmiri people regarding India Pakistan armies, in my unplanned trip to Leh. May be talking to me was painful for most of them but they did out of hope. They might be talking to tourists in same way to keep them happy or for hope. After 1947 independence, there were no army in Gulmarg or Kashmir inside LOC. Everything seemed happy to them, after all it was independence. Then came Afghanistan troops with swords. Indian army entered Kashmir in name of protection and they never left.         Countries occupying Kashmir get lot of resources, so they never want to leave Kashmir. India and Pakistan all fight for Kashmir. The civilians get affected very badly. The armies get affected as well. The lands in Kashmir got occupied by army for their infrastructure. Kashmiri get just 100 rupees per something yearly for that lands. Government gave these Kashmiris no facilities and these people suffer even more.   ...