Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

When I worked in US , one of the main painful thought s at the back of my mind is to stop being a negative influence around . I might have worked from home, worked out in the evenings, religiously written tw o blogs every week, worked more harder aftermath and continued the cycle for one, two, three and four looong years . Amid all of these, one might have noticed I am serving the public and very fast with my acts of one after the other, leading to greater public good. But behind these is a much bigger cause to evade – stop being a much more greater negative influe nce. This cause has driven me work like mad and nothing else, if I may tell the truth. In effect, I work ed faster, I work ed with urgency and I work ed with apparent service motto to evade the umpteen negative results coming out of my same work. Immediately after returning to India three months back , I heaved a sigh of relief because I left America in much better place without causing much further h...

It has been three months since I moved back to India from the US. What am I mostly doing in this important settling-in period? I had no plan , but it turns out I am spending most of my time in office — and what an office it is. Huge, green, and one of the best workspaces in India, maybe even the world. I had no detailed plan about what I would work on in India, but I had a job waiting after my return from onsite. After a week's break, I have been going to office almost daily . This is partly because I am on the bench, and bench employees don't really get work-from-home options. So I keep myself busy with certifications, trainings and hackathons during work hours. But here is the thing I want to talk about. I am sitting in one of the finest physical spaces a worker can ask for, and I owe it to my company. Infosys has been named a Great Place to Work® in India six years in a row, and India's Best Employer Among Nation-Builders 2026 for consecutive years. Many companies ...