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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
This book is a recollection of the events that happened in the author’s life and the lessons he learned. This memoir is an attempt to describe how his life began and nurtured. Apart from his personal life, it also covers significant instances from the upstream oil and gas industry.
His father taught him ‘honesty’ in an era where the author realized with dismay that he can be honest, but he can’t make the world honest. He is unable to erase this sickening feeling even today. One day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our ‘conversations of everything and nothing’ and the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this ‘contact becomes rare’ or when life comes to an end. This is certain unlike birth, which is an accident. We are born without bringing anything, and our first incident is tears. We die without taking anything. Absolutely nothing! And the sad fact is that in the interval between birth and death, we fight for what we did not bring and what we will not take. What we are looking for in this interval is recognition, popularity, and self-worth.
The book covers the three worlds of the author’s life:
World 1 - Borne with shackles and the struggles his family went through.
World 2 - Sojourn with the offshore oil and gas industry.
World 3 – ‘Post-turtle’ world and renaissance of his journey through the upstream Indian oil and gas industry.
Hopefully, this memoir will remind readers that a good reputation is the ‘most valuable asset’ to a family; for this, one has to toil hard with least expectations from the outside world.
Natesan Ramalingam Iyer
Natesan Ramalingam Iyer, also known as Ram, hails from an orthodox Hindu Brahmin lower-middle-class family. His father’s roots are from a remote village called Palnat Agaram off Vellore in Tamil Nadu, while his mother hails from Ponur, a village near Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu. Ram was the first in his clan to move out of Tamil Nadu and travel to north India and abroad. This book recounts the events that happened in his life which centered around the ocean, specific to the upstream oil and gas industry.
The author’s liberal use of “quotes” stimulates readers to understand and utilize the power of love in life as it applies to parents, spouses, children, business associates, clients, and others that impact their lives.
