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Yoga Camp in Chennai


Most of the time I am in front of my Laptop with little physical exercise or relaxation, so I decided to try Yoga. That was 4 years back, when I first met Mr.Shyam. Since then I am learning/practising Yoga under the guidance of Shyam Master, who also trains many of my colleagues at Vishwak in the weekly twice programs we have in the office.


Yoga (if you do it regularly) certainly helps you to feel more enegetic and healthy.


This month Mr.Shyam’s NewYogaLife had organized a 10-day ‘Introduction course on Ayurveda and Yoga’ for a batch of students from Singapore. Last Friday (26th) I was invited as one of Chief Guests for the Awards function where certificates where distributed to all the students who completed the course. I was joined on stage by well-known businessman Mr.Aboo Bucker A., Managing Director of Hotel President-Chennai and President Group.


That’s where I received this beautiful metal horse as a gift from Mr.Shyam. I am happy to receive it for two reasons, one it was an honour to be getting a gift from my ‘Master’, second the “white horse” symbolises my family deity Lord Sri Lakshmi Hayagreeva.



The function also had other notable things. It was scheduled at 5PM and started exactly at 5PM (unlike many such programs in India). The guests on stage (Mr. Bucker, Mr.Raman, Mr.Shyam and myself) spoke briefly and to the point; The whole event got over at 5:25PM – short and sweet.

Minix – The Inspiration to Linux

Last week, while searching on the Internet, I came across the site for “Minix”. Minix is a free Unix Clone, that Mr.Andrew S. Tanenbaum wrote in 1987, as an example to his accompanying Operating System book. Since then his book has become the “Bible” for anyone working OS/Kernel design and Minix has hence inspired several Unix clones to emerge, including now popular “Linux”.