The Beginning

It is with many insights gained over the past few months that I write once again. With some personal and few worldly insights of what has happened in the past from time to time and what is happening now,

I was born in Dholkawala Hospital, Mohamed Ali Road, Mumbai on 7th October 1962. I was born with weak eyes / imperfect eyesight. No one knew why. At that time medical practices were not so advanced to diagnose my eyesight problems. So I spent the first formative years of my childhood looking at the world in hazy, undefined images, as in a dream sequence in a Bollywood film.

So it was natural for me to rely, use my my ears / hearing sense more, which is probably why I came to be fond of music and honed my listening skills acutely, right since an early age. Good listening skills eventually led to greater and accurate skills of speech and learning languages. I came to learn English, Hindi and Marathi with a fair degree of fluency. Later when I travelled in my first work assignment, this skill helped me to pick up the local lingo quite fast. But more about that later.

When I had learned how to count and the alphabet, my number could be ascertained by an optometrist. I do not remember my numbers but they were minus - high myopia. Later I do remember them being -13 at one point. Despite this I was an average, then a good student.