5.10.2007

Rambo Rama


I call him ANNA(thats what Bollyhood calls Sunil Shetty). Ramachandra Vutty is one of my closest buddies since college days. We worked out together in college gym and ofcourse we have been classmates. He introduced me to a senior in college called Nanda Kumar from whom I learnt martial arts and ofcourse got introduced to wondeful world of Soka Gakkai--Global lay Buddhist organisation based on Lotus Sutra and lead by Dr.Daisaku Ikeda.


After BE Anna went to Mumbai to do his MBA and now is a Senior Business Analyst in Cognizant. Enjoying longterm onsite in Switzerland..


Although he talks English with perfect Brit accent , you will find he is very spiritual. Reads a lot about it and discusses depending on your interest. You can talk about anything to him..and he will add two or three points. He had his own share of downs. But through it all, I have never seen him losing composure or disturbing his daily activities. Let world turn upside down he will get up early in the morning... jog for few kms... ride bike to office...work hard, come back and smell the iron in the gym in the evening...if a friend calls for company in a pub... he will be there even if it is other corner of the city, never touching alcohol, cigar,and hits bed by 12 in the night...if a friend does not call after gym, Anna will read some book and doze off:)


He has great stamina. He can jog like mad for kms together. Still keeps on. Before he went off to Switzerland we(Anna, me and Eiji-friend from Japan) used to go for morning jogs near to Girinagar. After that we used to have a kadak chai or hot coffee(i mean coffee only)... I miss those days.

I always wonder how he has resisted alcohol,chicken and cigar all these years. May be he is already enlightened and I think he will walk out of secular life one day like Shakyamuni Buddha did. Hope that will not happen in Switzerland. Anna are you hearing?...:)


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