Happy friendship Day to all!!!

I am Bhagwati Prasad Maheshwari, quite a long name, but people call me Bhagwati or Bhags. People in US call me “Baugwhati” :). This is my first blog. I have read many blogs and wanted to write one day myself, but always came up with the excuse that I dont have enough time to do so. With Silent Ideas being born, I can give it a try and stop being lazy, hopefully .

I am a computer graduate from Nirma Institue of Technology, India. I am currently working as a Senior Project Engineer in a software company in Florida. I love challenges, love watching and playing Cricket, love travelling. Reading books is a favorite pastime too. I love to interact with different people and share ideas and thoughts - not on technical concepts, but things which are related to culture, society and traditions.

Enough of this introduction - I had an interesting conversation a week back and wanted to share with you guys. I am currently working in Philadelphia for a client of mine. One of my client colleagues came to know that I am getting married. She came up to me and asked would it be a big wedding? I said yes. She said, “How many elephants?” I did not know how to react and started laughing. I said there will be no elephants in the wedding. She said, “Oh, so it’s not a big wedding”. I said what you see in movies, is not true…I dont know which movie she saw, but I did explain, we do come on horses though for the wedding. It was interesting to see different perceptions about Indian culture. She had seen Bollywood movies and was telling me and the other American guy that there is only one theme - the guy chases the girl in a garden full of trees, they fall in love. The guy comes forward to kiss the girl, the girl runs for the other tree or the movies shows 2 birds kissing. It was funny to hear all this, but she was right. These were the bollywood movies, I guess some 7 or 10 years back. We have moved on and there are better movies being made. She though enjoyed “Monsoon Wedding” a lot.

Though I am into technical field, I am more intrigued by social, cultural things. Silent ideas would be silent debates about these topics in my blogs…will see you soon in my next post, till then your comments are always welcome…