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News Magazine of Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. CYBAGETIMESJanuary 2011 Chase the sun – Paul Conover The Big Bash! Rendezvous with Rajesh Kurup Multi-talented Cybagians Adventure Unlimited My Family The Desk Interviews Editors’ 6 Rendezvous with Rajesh Kurup note 9 Me & Harley 11 Paul Conover on’t bury your talent 30 My Family Din the ground; in fact, nurture and develop it. This Talent & will only help you both Creativity professionally and personally. In this age, monotony sets 10 Multi-talented in and becomes very much a Cybagians part of day-to-day living. Don’t 16 My work of Art let it control you. Energize yourself by indulging in various activities – extra- Events & circular activities – or for Tech Talk Activities that matter, even a simple Cloud routine at the gym would 12 The Big Bash! 22 Computing work wonders. These perfect 18 Happenings 24X7 stress busters come as rescue 27 Tech Quiz CybageAsha in your regimental lives. 21 Here’s another stress buster 28 Adventure Unlimited – CybageTimes – dressed in a different avatar each time. We Comments & Contents try to compile an interesting Opinion collection of articles featuring 3 Readers’ Feedback your colleagues and share My Cybage with you inspirational insights 14 on the families of Cybagians. 25 Just Chill! In every issue, we try and 31 Success & You incorporate your suggestions to make the magazine more 4 Executive Speak interesting. So, help us help News you and let your creative 8 thoughts flow. 20 Leadership summit 2010 -The CybageTimes Editorial team 24 Gizmos 26 Resolutions Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. An SEI-CMMI Level 5 assessed & ISO 27001 company HQ: Cybage Towers, Wadgoan Sheri (Kalyani Nagar), Pune 411014, India. 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CybageTimes provides an Arun’s message. insight into the value system I suggest that we also dedicate and leadership that has J. Ramkrishna Murty | a section in CybageTimes to nurtured Cybage, especially Sr. Project Manager people who complete five Arun’s ‘Executive Speak’ proves years in Cybage. to be an instant connect. Bhavik Panchmatia | Kannan Vanni | Delivery Manager Process Head Please send your feedback to: [email protected] Creativity, Impression of Include sports fever, Feature family inspirational stories, CybageTimes cultural curry interview achievements I was fascinated reading I appreciate the efforts put in The July 2010 issue of Splendid presentation, ‘Journey of Cybage’, which by the CybageTimes team for CybageTimes was quite marvelous creativity, beautifully depicted the featuring the organizational attractive. It was also an inspirational stories, and journey of our company. initiatives and activities opportunity for me, as a new presented in an engaging joinee, to know more about achievements aptly describe ‘Executive Speak’, where our prose and appealing design. my fellow Cybagians and the the issue of CybageTimes. CEO spoke about the initial happenings from yesteryear. The issue finely brought out years at Cybage and the You can also include a It would be nice if we include the remarkable journey of warm spirit of Cybagians, was sports and a cultural section. a section where along with Cybage that made me feel truly inspiring. I also enjoyed The sections should list our CEO, COO, CTO, and proud to be a Cybagian. It the amazing photography in the name of winners (with VPs, their families are also is also interesting to know ‘My Work of Art’. photographs) in various interviewed. about the happenings across events at Cybage. Mayuri Karanjkar | Cybage. Prathyusha Karnati | Sr. Technical Writer Ajay Dewani | QA Engineer Isha Joshi | QA Engineer QA Analyst CybageTimes | Jan 2011 | 3 Executive Speak Healthy body. Healthy mind! Arun Nathani | CEO & MD eing health conscious has an success that is not accompanied by a Boptional flavor in our country. healthy mind and body? In western countries, staying healthy I decided to hit the gym again with is an integral part of daily living. a high degree of cardio workout My first stint in becoming health including treadmill and squash conscious started during my MS days coupled with a stringent diet. Within in USA. Motivation? Everyone around months, I had shed those extra me looked fit, so I decided to get pounds, but I had also lost a lot of in shape, look and feel good about muscle weight in the process. So, I myself, and merge with the crowd. started a weight-training regime and But I let go of the regime when I took high-protein diet to build back settled down with a job. Years later, the lost muscles. Now, exercising and a balanced diet have become an What good is any form integral part of my lifestyle—just like of success that is not brushing teeth and bathing. I work out before my breakfast and follow it accompanied by a religiously irrespective of the time I healthy mind and body? go to bed. They say “happy” chemicals released I again became health conscious during exercise are known to when I got engaged. This time, the have strong effects on a person’s driving force was the urge to look good for my fiancée. Then temperament, such as reducing anxiety and depression. once I got married and relocated to India, I let it go again! Experts also concur that exercise disciplines the mind and the Soon the sedentary life style kicked in, and before I realized, body and helps let go of the casual “chalta hai” attitude in life I had put on 20 pounds! A few years back, I fell very ill and in when you are up against tough situations. I agree. I know I am the tests that followed, I was diagnosed with high cholesterol. never going to let go of this third spell. Reason? This time I did That was a wake-up call for me! What good is any form of it for myself and not for others! CybageTimes | Jan 2011 | 4 Deepak Nathani | COO have been a sports enthusiast since cardio on alternate days. Saturdays I childhood and love playing almost are usually reserved for my new found every game. Sports kept me in good passion—golf at the Poona Club or shape until my college days. When I the Oxford Golf Course. On Sundays, I try to catch a game of badminton or For overall fitness, it is squash with my wife or son. This is followed by a relaxing massage! also important to lead a For overall fitness, it is also important stress-free life. to lead a stress-free life. I don’t take work home or home to office because I believe in not mixing work with got married and moved to the US in personal life. This helps me to remain the late 80s, I put on over 40 pounds relaxed and enjoy with my family. I even before I had realized. This was love watching sports on TV or catching essentially because of me being a a comedy serial or a movie on the major foodie with a taste for global weekends. Occasionally, I also take a cuisine. Since then, my struggle to shed ride on my bicycle. This helps me to those extra pounds started. I exercise de-stress. regularly and try to follow a diet plan (in vain). Well, this year, I hope to lose at least 10 kg. I plan to achieve this by My weekday begins with a one-hour watching my diet more carefully, gym session under a personal trainer’s specially my dinners. guidance, doing heavy weights and Jagat Pal Singh | CTO osing weight demands preparation, chocolates, pastry, or junk food. But Leffort, and commitment. I am yet the weekdays pull me back into order. to lose some more weight. I once It’s important to feel full, otherwise weighed 96 kg; now I am at 75 kg you are not taking the right steps. and had gone down to 69 kg during the weight loss regime. Only with diet control, I lost up to 10 kg in 5 months I am a foodie to the and then I started working out and core, but eating right is lost the remaining weight. most important. I follow three days of cardio and three days of weight training in a week. I am regular at gym except on What many people don’t understand days when I am travelling or I am too is that they are constantly either busy, which is about a period of 8–9 gaining, or losing fat. There is no weeks in a year. in-between. The key to losing weight long term is to make gradual lifestyle I am a foodie to the core, but eating changes you can stick to forever. right is most important. On weekdays, I eat light and have an early carb-free You have to work at being fit and dinner.