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Alaimentary
Muse & Musings
If our larger purpose, as a society, legatees have a peaceful enjoyment of his
is happiness and well-being in life, estate, if one may call it that. As a singleton,
it is all about collectively living he is conscious of his self-dependence and
by the principles of ikigai and tries to maintain his health on an even keel,
swadharma, regardless of the age especially after the scare of an uninvited
or stage of life, advises guest in cancer which fortunately did
Nagesh Alai not overstay, given his steely resolve and
pugnacity. An admirable focus and hard
The other day I had a luncheon tete-a- work indeed at an age when he does not
tete with a lovely old friend, after a long need to work for a living at all. Passion can
hiatus, given his busy schedules. He was do wonders.
a pioneering market researcher and fairly It’s then laughable and bemusing to
well known in elections analysis. On hear about the trenchant and excoriating
being asked about his typical day at this reactions, primarily from the younger
stage of his life, without much ado and generation in the workforce, to the
nonchalantly he said he keeps himself busy averments and exhortations of a 90
doing nothing. Now, that’s a beguiling hours or 70 hours work in a week by a
one. I know for a fact that he has led an successful chief executive of an engineering
extremely busy life and continues to do giant and a famed tech entrepreneur.
so even today. Besides his active election Quite obviously, to anyone aware of
engagements, he is busy putting his house their trajectories, these stalwarts’ storied
in order and paper work in place to let his successes are attributable to their real long
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