First leg of the journey to India, between Columbus and Atlanta, has been accomplished. This flight of 82 air miles, is probably the shortest distance I have ever flown. Once the flight takes off, no sooner you finish chanting Laxman Sivaramakrishnan or Chatur Mahadevan Ramalingam 108 times, than you will be landing at the Atlanta Airport. The tiny flight, about a dozen feet wide, packed couple of dozens like sardine. No surprise here, this being the holiday season.
Reminded me of our ex-President Giani Zail Singh, once travelling on a plane above equator. His secretary flattered him - Sir, can you see the equator below ? Zail Singh responded "Yes. I can see it and a car is slowly going on it". What he actually saw, was a lice walking on his long string of hair, which just happened to be right in front of his eyes. This flight flying so low, Giani Jail Singh would have seen numerous lice, in form of cars crawling on the interspersed Interstate highways.
It's interesting to watch flights taking off and landing in quick succession at Hatfield International, Atlanta, known as the busiest Airport in the world. This being the peak hours, every couple of minutes a flight lands or takes off. It's interesting to see flights line up one after another, their lights forming a string of pearls extending into the dark horizon, as they wait for their turns to land. The Air Traffic control must be doing an amazing job, as error is not an option.
I was reminded of travelling in our D M School bus, as it stops at Railway level crossings (those days the roads of Bhubaneswar were not clogged, no bypass for flyover was necessary). When the bus stops and as a Goods train passes. Now time to spend time counting flights landing and taking off every other minutes.
The icing on the cake and fitting finale to my trip is going to be the much awaited Silver Jubilee of our batch later this month, in REC (now NIT), Rourkela. I have been bestowed with the honor of editing the articles submitted by my batch mates for our Souvenir. Now going through those penned by my friends, some of whom in these 25 years have managed to do well post Managements from IIMs to reach their Zenith, some became Techie honchos in Silicon Valley carving out their niche, some went into Civil Services and so on.
But one thing they all have in common, they can write damn well. I was expecting some boring, bombastic articles. I was so wrong. After all these years, they're still down to earth, witty and Engineered towards fun. Feel proud and honored editing their work. Can't wait to meet them later this month in Rourkela. More later..
Reminded me of our ex-President Giani Zail Singh, once travelling on a plane above equator. His secretary flattered him - Sir, can you see the equator below ? Zail Singh responded "Yes. I can see it and a car is slowly going on it". What he actually saw, was a lice walking on his long string of hair, which just happened to be right in front of his eyes. This flight flying so low, Giani Jail Singh would have seen numerous lice, in form of cars crawling on the interspersed Interstate highways.
It's interesting to watch flights taking off and landing in quick succession at Hatfield International, Atlanta, known as the busiest Airport in the world. This being the peak hours, every couple of minutes a flight lands or takes off. It's interesting to see flights line up one after another, their lights forming a string of pearls extending into the dark horizon, as they wait for their turns to land. The Air Traffic control must be doing an amazing job, as error is not an option.
I was reminded of travelling in our D M School bus, as it stops at Railway level crossings (those days the roads of Bhubaneswar were not clogged, no bypass for flyover was necessary). When the bus stops and as a Goods train passes. Now time to spend time counting flights landing and taking off every other minutes.
The icing on the cake and fitting finale to my trip is going to be the much awaited Silver Jubilee of our batch later this month, in REC (now NIT), Rourkela. I have been bestowed with the honor of editing the articles submitted by my batch mates for our Souvenir. Now going through those penned by my friends, some of whom in these 25 years have managed to do well post Managements from IIMs to reach their Zenith, some became Techie honchos in Silicon Valley carving out their niche, some went into Civil Services and so on.
But one thing they all have in common, they can write damn well. I was expecting some boring, bombastic articles. I was so wrong. After all these years, they're still down to earth, witty and Engineered towards fun. Feel proud and honored editing their work. Can't wait to meet them later this month in Rourkela. More later..
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