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Gopalan Srinivasan
Gopalan Srinivasan was born in Mannarkoil village in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India. After having his early education in Tirunelveli, he did his doctoral programme at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). He worked at IIMA for a few years before moving to Canada. He joined the University of New Brunswick (UNB)Fredericton Business Faculty , where he taught over three decades. Currently he is leading a retired life in Missisauga Ontario with his wife and life partner Kalyani.
My Bad (Mea Culpa)
It is customary for authors, after acknowledging the support team, to own any omissions and errors. But I failed to do so. It is not because of my commerce curriculum that brought me up in a caveat emptor ( buyer beware) environment. In fact had I followed what is taught in the commercial English I would have written E.O.E(Errors and Omission Exempt) at the end of every page thus giving me a right to come back at my customers anytime without guilt.
Quite a few of astute readers have pointed out a few lapses/omissions and my profound thanks to them. It is time for me to say in simple words My Bad or if you want in a bit sophisticated language Mea Culpa.
I am Attempting to rectify in the online version
In this segment I am trying to address some of the lapses providing some additional titbits.
Cursive and cursory
In chapter six while writing about ball point pen I had mentioned it was not allowed to be used in cursory handwriting. An astute ( as against cursory) reader VR brought to my attention that the word I should have used was cursive and not cursory. Absolutely sir. Thank you.
Upon reflection I was wondering whether it was a Freudian slip as I had a cursory interest for my handwriting class or it was the curse of karma that I did not have good handwriting.
Either way this helped me understand why I could not become another Steve Jobs who had a passion for calligraphy and cursive writing. I also conjecture the astute reader must be artistic with a good handwriting.
First day Cover
Please see Mother daughter reunion in this site.
Tea Cosy or Coaster
Please see Tea- cosy or coaster-A Tete-A-Tete in the blog