LOOKING BACK ... A. MEMOIR!

Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco     My first experience in Pharma started with Baxter in the year 2004.It was at their Beltsville Maryland Plant that manufactured  Meningitis vaccines.       We were staying in Virginia at that time.  As the Beltsville plant had been acquired by Baxter, it had older systems and technology difficult to maintain. That is where we engineers come in to keep the plant running with obsolescence, a challenging environment.  The plant had been struggling to meet the increasing demand for these vaccines at Europe.      It looked like our family was well set in Virginia, when the unexpected happened.  Due to recurring maintenance issues Baxter Management finally decided to shift the entire vaccine manufacturing to Vienna Austria.  It also made business sense because the bulk vaccines produced at this plant was used for final vial filling in the state-of--art Vienna facility. Manufacturing the entir...

Lata Melody Down Memory Lane (1950-1995): A musical tribute!  Music Directors Shankar Jaikishan said about this first Bollywood Dream Song.  “How long does it takes to compose the song for Awaara (1951)? Nobody had thought of dream sequence for this film. The situation required two songs Tere bina aag ye chadni and Ghar aaya mera pardesi each of which was composed independently. When sitting on Raj Kapoor’s office we began making “ghost sounds” for sheer fun. Why not make it part of the music Raj Kapoor exclaimed! We decided to have the dream sequence and link the two songs by a third one. What eventually turned out to be the longest musical sequence in Indian films. The recording began at 9am and day turned into night, singers, musicians were there .Midnight struck-we were still at it”. Lata was there  all day and night for this song recording. These songs were created with passion and team work and lot of sweat and rehearsals to achieve perfection and that is why it ...