In spite of working in the IT industry for the last 35 years, I came to appreciate the social networking power of Internet thru' friend finding mechanisms of facebook and google only last year. No wonder the founder of Facebook became the Time magazine's man of the year in 2010. I found my long lost friends from School days (Anil Londhe, Avinash Kher), Uni days (Batchelor's : Bhalchandra Gokhale, Patwardhan), Master's days (Alok Bhargava), work days (Sunil Manaktala). This was the year, my astronomer daughter, Madhura, decided to go to Italy for her post doctoral...and we reinvented the Skype use to keep in touch. Despite never owning a piece of Apple technology - Iphone or Mac, winning & using iPAD in 2010 gave me insight into how mobiliy & ease of use brought on by such devices changes the way one iterfaces with Internet.
And yes, almost as if to prepare for life with all our children out of our home, my dear wife, Pranita, has started taking on many social responsibilities. What with taking on the responsibilty of secretary of Bharat Vikas Parishad Australia and President of Sydney Jain Manadal, I can imagine how busy she'll be next year. I guess I'll have to find something to do to keep myself busy too.
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