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Onomatopoeia is a word that suggest sound. It used to be funny game during my school days when my friends used to challenge me to write what they say.While dictating the sentence to write , they will make noise by twisting their tongue and say write this!!! . That used to be the challenge and I had to accept my failure. Later when I learnt through an English teacher ( Any Indian man/woman who teaches that language will get a dual citizenship in England and will become "English" teacher) about this Onomatopoeia and he has given examples like Neigh referring the sound made by Horse.I heard the noise made by a horse several time and wondered how could some one say this as "Neigh.."May be it does not have any better way of expressing in words. Today in the online world,I see people using the same tactics to express their emotions - no matter whether it really sounds the same way or not. In response to a joke told online we see "ha ha ha"- we should understan

Address by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting to the Class of 2006 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on defining success. I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. It was and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine. There was no electricity; no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of eight; I was home-schooled. My father used to get transferred every year. The family belongings fit into the back of a jeep – so the family moved from place to place and, without any trouble, my Mother would set up an establishment and get us going. Raised by a widow who had come as a refugee from the then East Bengal , she was a matriculate when she married my Father. My parents set the foundation of my life and the value system which makes me wh