Dilip Sankarreddy

Bay area visit

2008-11-28T14:16:45Z

I will be in Bay area from Dec 14th for about 8 days (Palo Alto and Menlo Park for 4 days and the rest in other areas). If any of you I know want to catch up, do let me know. I will be happy to do that.

Moved to Chicago

2008-08-20T11:48:53Z

Setting up a home in Chicago at present. As I live in downtown Chicago at this place, those of you who happen to come to this city will not have trouble in catching up with me!

back to the old number!

2008-05-21T04:25:24Z

About an year ago, I had posted that my waist has increased from 32 to 34 and that soon I will try to get it back to the old number.

Well, as expected, I didn't do anything physical to get it back down. But then, it's now back to 32 all by itself!!!

Chicago GSB

2008-05-09T18:15:44Z

Will be heading to Chicago GSB for full-time MBA this fall!

Quit Huawei sometime back. Will be in Bangalore and Rayalaseema for next 3 months.

Book review

2007-12-25T16:56:38Z

Review of Wanderings with Poetry in The Tribune.

dilip @ 2007-11-15T17:08:00

2007-11-15T12:08:58Z

I have 3 rolemodels -> Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jaisingh Chohan and Benjamin Franklin.

And Jaisingh is getting married and very sadly I will not be able to make it because of certain reasons... Sometime I will make up for this.

Wanderings with Poetry - Preface

2007-11-11T14:54:50Z

All of us discover time and again that we do breath an occasional faint thought that somehow has crossed our minds, captivating us. And when we decipher that experience into words, we realise we have written poetry.

Many a time I chance upon little events, trivial realisations and vague imaginations that I feel to give a form by enunciating them. All the while, I end up roaming where I never been. I have learnt to respect whatever that can be thought, never to reject the basis for any viewpoint and never to denounce what cannot be personally embraced. Meanwhile, as I still continue to hear what can be written, here is some verse for you...

Wanderings with poetry is my second book and I see myself evolving with it. I have tried that the ideas that are splashed around here have a collective vibrant charm. Individually each of these verses may sometimes appear inane and simple but they together can turn out to be carelessly beautiful like a long refreshing saunter across the familiar and the unknown. Few are pure play with words, few others are mere experimentations and the rest are those hard truths that happen to hit anyone in the face who ventures out to seek his meaning. Hope you enjoy this collection, set in vast colourful Indian playfield.

Wanderings with Poetry - Now for sale!

2007-11-10T12:15:09Z

You can buy now in your regular bookstore. Mention the ISBN so that they can get it for you.

ISBN-13: 9788124801550

You can also order online. This is one of the first websites stocking the book.

Save Nanda Road - Lakshman Rau Boulevard

2007-10-21T06:36:42Z

The most beautiful boulevard of Bangalore. This road is right next to my Bangalore house in Jayanagar. The road is few kilometers long and there are wide parks (more than 20 I think) on either side of the road and residential layouts next to the long parks. The most beautiful place to live in South Bangalore (excluding certain scenic places in outer fringes of South Bangalore and suburbs).

The aesthetic value is immense. Many Bangaloreans drive down here during the weekends just to walk in the greenery here.

And there is now a danger threatening this place. A overhead metro rail is planned to come up here. There sure are other alternative routes over lesser beautiful areas. But these routes are not being pursued because it is cheaper to cut down trees across a vast stretch of greenery than to plan the route through roads where commercial shops are on either side.

Please voice your concern. And hope that it will be heard. This road was the vision of Lakshman Rau and this place is rightly called Lakshman Rau Boulevard. This stretch Bangalore is a social heritage site.

Please visit savenandaroad.com

Martial art!

2007-10-10T14:51:19Z

Charging and striking the enemy with sword in the right hand and finishing him off with the sword in the left hand, after landing from air. If there are 2 enemies, kick one with the right leg and strike the other with sword in right hand!

(No photoediting!)

Wanderings with Poetry - Cover Art

2007-10-06T10:50:50Z

Wanderings with Poetry

2007-09-07T19:22:27Z

Coming soon!

Flashback Series - 6

2007-08-31T16:23:00Z

Just out of college, during the first year in Huawei in 2003. Pic taken in Bangalore R&D Division.

Huawei India to Huawei Global Sales

2007-08-31T15:23:59Z

It has been 4 years now being associated with Huawei India. And now time has come to resign and move on.

Will head for China to join Huawei Global Sales. Will be based in Shenzhen, HQ of Huawei.

In Bangalore for around 10 days and anyone who intends to, can call on me before I am off. Ofcourse, I will be monitoring and directing all my non-Huawei activities happening here in India from there!

Economics

2007-08-06T06:59:29Z

I always wanted to learn Economics in detail. So took up this examination conducted by Actuarial Society of India and passed the subject. Results!

Indian Thriller - Golimar

2007-07-13T15:35:40Z

dilip @ 2007-07-07T17:52:00

2007-07-07T12:59:02Z

more Press

2007-06-26T04:45:43Z

Our lighting innovation is covered in yesterday's (25th June) Indian Express newspaper. You can find the article in frontpage of Pune Newsline. Here is the screenshot of the e-paper.

Update: Herez the link to the article in Indian Express National Edition.

New logo for our NGO

2007-06-21T05:29:19Z

World Bank Development Marketplace Award 2007

2007-06-19T06:28:21Z

Elaborating on previous post, we (Harshad Kamdar, Yogesh Kulkarni and myself) won $20,000 for our innovation to provide lighting solution to those who do not benefit from grid power and for whom solar and wind power is not feasible.

One of the highlights was the visit of President of India, Abdul Kalam. In the few minutes he spent checking different innovations personally, one can easily figure out the immense knowledge he has. Also heartening is the growing involvement of likes of FICCI in India which organized the Knowledge Forum where the quality of discussions were considerably practical and good.

You can check our initial proposal here which survived to end up in the final 20 out of more than 2500 others. But now there are many modifications are making to it as we are learning on the go. Currently we are doing more research in finetuning our product and have implemented it on trail basis in couple of places. Later, we will start fabricating. Already we are getting few enquiries and even calls from one TV channel to take footage of the unit. But we need to further work more on it before our NGO can start to sell the units.

We will put all the design details in public domain, as we do not want to derive any monetary profit. I will be more than happy if anyone can use the design to serve better than us.

Few links:
here
here
here
here
here
here
and here

Details later!

2007-06-05T16:51:28Z

26

2007-05-24T06:19:29Z

It is 26 now instead of 25. Every year after 25 makes you feel more anxious of fast depleting time in hand and what you can do with it. It is said that if you target 80, after a point of time, you do not look at 26, 27, so on... but at (80-26), (80-27), so on.

Looking back, this year was not as good as the earlier one which was one of the best. But it sure was filled up with many events. But most of them were "somewhat expected" eluding me that excitement one enjoys sometimes. And there were many events that were supposed to happen but did not materialize. And I had to sit through days waiting for them to occur...

I am somewhat satisfied how things have turned out. I would have loved to play with fire more but I still do not know what to find dry wood to light up fire.

And I have reached a mental stage where I only have myself to reason with and only myself answerable to for all my actions, pursuits and interests and not furnish excuses for myself.

Nothing is more exciting than flirting with your own destiny.

32 to 34 after 6 yrs

2007-04-30T06:37:03Z

Waist size of my Levi's jeans has been the indicator of how fat I am... For about 6 years, it always has been 32inches. Now its 34 inches :-(

This is despite my being very conscious of what I eat... I just hope that I will get back that 32 inches soon!

Proposal shortlisted for World Bank programme

2007-04-10T02:15:18Z

Proposal prepared by Shri.Harshad Kamdar and myself for concerning "Human-power based lighting solution for nomadic and tribal people" has been shortlisted for the final round of World Bank funding programme India Development Marketplace (IDM2007). Ours is one of the 50 proposals that have been selected as finalists out of more than 2500 proposals submitted. Out of these 50 shortlisted proposals, only 20 will be further selected for funding.

Expected to be go to New Delhi next month to discuss with World Bank officials and policy-drafters in this regard. Now that the brief proposal has been given a green signal, we intend to finetune the final project. Will put things up later.

Even if we do not make it at the final step, I intend to sensitise the decision-makers and play my part in serving to provide an impetus for nation building.

Ebook: Song of a Bard and Other Poems

2007-04-05T05:16:04Z

Ebook version of my first poetry book. You can download the DEMO file for a preview.