The 18 year old Vikrant Khanvilkar , the youngest of the 7/11 mishap died succumbed to death today. He had suffered head injuries. Now the death toll has risen to 201. 201 innocent people lost their lives because some of the follies made by our freedom fighters 58 years ago and some which are still continuing in the face of Ayodhya and Gujrat.
Meanwhile we are at the economy spot, there is a new boost to the health care industry in India. With the rising healthcare costs in the US a growing number is US employers are sending their ailing employees offshore for healthcare treatment. This actually is cutting down costs on the same. Way to go for the hospital-ity industry. :-)
Guys! I have been searching for film " Omkara" 's lyrics all ovre the place. May be my serach-criteria's are not right. :(. Just help me out of you, I really need those lyrics.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Let go for once, Please!
Emotions play a vital role in anybody's life. Every minute we are experiencing a turmoil of emotions which churn us in. They say to find the ultimate truth, we should get rid of these emotions. But is it possible. I mean, yes it is possible, but is it do-able.
Get rid of love, get rid of desire, get rid of ambition. Yes you have to get rid of certain emotions like hatred, jealousy, lust because what they create is only negative energy around you. But you know what, a hundred times more a crime has been committed in name of love than in the name of hate. There is a thin line between love and hate. And believe me you, its like walking a razor's edge. Introspect and you will get the answer. We tend to hate them the most whom we love the most. Why such things happen?
How can one suddenly stop loving someone? Its just a pure emotion that just cant be vandalised. The biggest weakness of an human being is letting go. But what we tend to forget is that we all have to let go one day. Of this world, of your loved ones, of your levi's, of your car, of your swatch. Then what is the point is gaining all this. Beacuse the vedas say, that your soul is what you are. It is the not that thing that comes along with you after you die, it is you. In the niceities of the world, we forget where we have come from. But if you have come down, living life is a challenge. To every problem there is simple soultion, but more often than not its not easy.Hence we tend to live in that rut all the time.
You want to leave you job, right? You are not able to work and the environment is suffocating, right? Then why dont you just leave it? Is it right to stay in a place where people dont believe you are capable of doing something? Is it right to stay in the place where people forget what you have done over a period of time and then in-turn ask what is your value-addition to the organisation.? Is it right to be emotionally attached to some one who in turns defies your logical thinking process and then slef becomes detached?
I feel like shouting on top of the board, for god's sake, let go for once. Please!
Get rid of love, get rid of desire, get rid of ambition. Yes you have to get rid of certain emotions like hatred, jealousy, lust because what they create is only negative energy around you. But you know what, a hundred times more a crime has been committed in name of love than in the name of hate. There is a thin line between love and hate. And believe me you, its like walking a razor's edge. Introspect and you will get the answer. We tend to hate them the most whom we love the most. Why such things happen?
How can one suddenly stop loving someone? Its just a pure emotion that just cant be vandalised. The biggest weakness of an human being is letting go. But what we tend to forget is that we all have to let go one day. Of this world, of your loved ones, of your levi's, of your car, of your swatch. Then what is the point is gaining all this. Beacuse the vedas say, that your soul is what you are. It is the not that thing that comes along with you after you die, it is you. In the niceities of the world, we forget where we have come from. But if you have come down, living life is a challenge. To every problem there is simple soultion, but more often than not its not easy.Hence we tend to live in that rut all the time.
You want to leave you job, right? You are not able to work and the environment is suffocating, right? Then why dont you just leave it? Is it right to stay in a place where people dont believe you are capable of doing something? Is it right to stay in the place where people forget what you have done over a period of time and then in-turn ask what is your value-addition to the organisation.? Is it right to be emotionally attached to some one who in turns defies your logical thinking process and then slef becomes detached?
I feel like shouting on top of the board, for god's sake, let go for once. Please!
Thursday, July 27, 2006
The First Four World Flattener's
I did mention in one of my last posts that I am currently reading Thomas Friedman's " The World is Flat." Well, today lets take a bird-eye's view on the first forces that have helped flatenning the world. Shall we ?
1) When the Berlin Wall went down and the Windows, up: - The Berlin wall went down in 1989 and than started a chain of events. The utter act of defiance from the people of Germany was not that of impulse. Freedom was what they wanted. But not only from the chains of discrimination, but of thought also. The downfall fall of Berlin wall took down the iron curtain with it. This opened the people's mind to imagine that a world in itself can become a single market place. Free trade started setting in. In admisdt of this, precisely a week later after wall's event, Microsoft shipped it's first operating system:Windows 3.0. This helped any tom-dick-harry harness the power of computers and gradually helped penetration of the computers in household's. People started realising the power of computing and the tasks that it made easier. They were on a run and they were loving it!
2) When Netscape came up with the first browser: - As thew power of computing became publicised, there was still a discrepancy. Those people complained that they cant share the resources on anyone else'e computer. What was needed was a common framework to help everyone acesss the a pool of resources. The when the internet came in to picture, there was no surefire way to access that data. A start-up company in silicon valley came up with the solution. Netscape. They built the first browser which again helped people access data and information thorugh the websites at the click of the button. Tim Berner-Lee , the father of World Wide Web, then brought another revolution that overnight shrinked the world.
3) When Workflow software started talking to each other:- After the internet boom, what was needed was the applications that can seamlessly integrate the business process. So that the Manufacturing, Finance, Sales and Inventory departements would be connected as they should be. This in turn give rise to data pipelines which helped transfer crucial data over long distances. I am not talking about cities but about countries. As the application began to come closer, connected by the web of pipelines, it didnt matter whether you were sitting in Boston or Bangalore. The work was done at the blink of an eye.
4) When Apache created the first open-source software: - Apache was the first open-source software that was created by a group of programmers. Open-Sourcing bought a new wave of revolution with itself. Here was bunch of geeks sitting, geographically diverese seeding the code to develop the software which can be freely downloaded and used. This actually was the people who had been shrking the world this time. The same is the case with LInux. The onlibe communities and blogs whic act as whistleblowers have transformed this daily people in the citizen-journalists. This in turn has given a new dimenesion to information mining.
We have more to come, so do visit back!
1) When the Berlin Wall went down and the Windows, up: - The Berlin wall went down in 1989 and than started a chain of events. The utter act of defiance from the people of Germany was not that of impulse. Freedom was what they wanted. But not only from the chains of discrimination, but of thought also. The downfall fall of Berlin wall took down the iron curtain with it. This opened the people's mind to imagine that a world in itself can become a single market place. Free trade started setting in. In admisdt of this, precisely a week later after wall's event, Microsoft shipped it's first operating system:Windows 3.0. This helped any tom-dick-harry harness the power of computers and gradually helped penetration of the computers in household's. People started realising the power of computing and the tasks that it made easier. They were on a run and they were loving it!
2) When Netscape came up with the first browser: - As thew power of computing became publicised, there was still a discrepancy. Those people complained that they cant share the resources on anyone else'e computer. What was needed was a common framework to help everyone acesss the a pool of resources. The when the internet came in to picture, there was no surefire way to access that data. A start-up company in silicon valley came up with the solution. Netscape. They built the first browser which again helped people access data and information thorugh the websites at the click of the button. Tim Berner-Lee , the father of World Wide Web, then brought another revolution that overnight shrinked the world.
3) When Workflow software started talking to each other:- After the internet boom, what was needed was the applications that can seamlessly integrate the business process. So that the Manufacturing, Finance, Sales and Inventory departements would be connected as they should be. This in turn give rise to data pipelines which helped transfer crucial data over long distances. I am not talking about cities but about countries. As the application began to come closer, connected by the web of pipelines, it didnt matter whether you were sitting in Boston or Bangalore. The work was done at the blink of an eye.
4) When Apache created the first open-source software: - Apache was the first open-source software that was created by a group of programmers. Open-Sourcing bought a new wave of revolution with itself. Here was bunch of geeks sitting, geographically diverese seeding the code to develop the software which can be freely downloaded and used. This actually was the people who had been shrking the world this time. The same is the case with LInux. The onlibe communities and blogs whic act as whistleblowers have transformed this daily people in the citizen-journalists. This in turn has given a new dimenesion to information mining.
We have more to come, so do visit back!
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Life in a nutshell.
Every writer at some time ceases to write. Not because he is at loss of thoughts, but he is at loss of words. Every emotion can't be scripted. Though the Vedas have tried a lot to script some out-of-the=body experiences, it requires a great deal of spirituality. That day I was reading Upanishads (concise version), and I was "literally" at loss of words. The way the ancient hrushis have enumerated the very sense of life is just amazing.
Soham-Asmi; I am that fire, I am that soul. They tell you that the soul is eternal while the body is temporal. Moksh is achieved when we learn what we have come to learn on this earth. It just warms your heart.
I remember reading Brian Weiss's " Many Lives. Many Masters." His book revovles around his psychiatric patient. He cubs here fear by regression therapy, where-in she recalls her past lives. The book tells us about 7 masters who possess the knowledge of the ultimate truth. The patient (sorry I dont remeber her name) actually speaks to them, or rather they speak to her while she goes in to the trance. The very realities and absurdities of life are beautifully unfolded in that book. It takes you to a thought level that you are eternal. No matter what grab you wear, you always have the strength to know what you were in your past life. You also know the purpose of your life in this birth.
I guess I know what I am doing over here. I have had that luxury. But do you know what you are doing here? Why of all you were born with that special trait, in that body, with that face?
Its time you started finding the answers.
Soham-Asmi; I am that fire, I am that soul. They tell you that the soul is eternal while the body is temporal. Moksh is achieved when we learn what we have come to learn on this earth. It just warms your heart.
I remember reading Brian Weiss's " Many Lives. Many Masters." His book revovles around his psychiatric patient. He cubs here fear by regression therapy, where-in she recalls her past lives. The book tells us about 7 masters who possess the knowledge of the ultimate truth. The patient (sorry I dont remeber her name) actually speaks to them, or rather they speak to her while she goes in to the trance. The very realities and absurdities of life are beautifully unfolded in that book. It takes you to a thought level that you are eternal. No matter what grab you wear, you always have the strength to know what you were in your past life. You also know the purpose of your life in this birth.
I guess I know what I am doing over here. I have had that luxury. But do you know what you are doing here? Why of all you were born with that special trait, in that body, with that face?
Its time you started finding the answers.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Recruitment
Lets write today of something I am professionally involved in. Recruitment. I love this field. Though this isnt orginally that I started my career with, but its seamlessly connected with Sales & Marketing ( Prima Facie of my career). Recruitment industry in India is on a boom. You people must have heard of the term " Demand-Supply gap" of talent pool in India. Lets discuss this for a while. Shall we?
There is a law of economics that coins the demand-supply aspect as follows, " When the demand equals the supply its commodity, when the demand surpasses the supply its speciality and when the demand is less than the supply, its liablity."
Our recruitment scene follows this law, but there is a slight modification over here. In India, talen is realtivelygreat. Giving the statistics, Indian universities are expected to produce 400,000 engineers, about 100,000 managers and about 2.5 million graduates. Wow! And given the current scene, just 4 sectors-IT/ITES, Telecom, Retail and Financial Services are expected to add about 500,000 jobs this fiscal year.
Then why-o-why are the companies still facing a dearth of talent? If we zero-in on the aspect of quality, some fault rests on the education system. Then the IT boom is stripping talen of other sectors as the MNC's go on to increase the breadth of their operations. To give a rough idea: Infosys selects about 3-4 people fo the 700 intervieews. A conversion rate of less than 2.2 %.
Now the question rests, is the demand really more than the supply? In numbersm yes. But in quality, no. Then what can be done for these people to bring them upto the level so that they can be converted from liablity into specialty?
I will think about the same and write......
There is a law of economics that coins the demand-supply aspect as follows, " When the demand equals the supply its commodity, when the demand surpasses the supply its speciality and when the demand is less than the supply, its liablity."
Our recruitment scene follows this law, but there is a slight modification over here. In India, talen is realtivelygreat. Giving the statistics, Indian universities are expected to produce 400,000 engineers, about 100,000 managers and about 2.5 million graduates. Wow! And given the current scene, just 4 sectors-IT/ITES, Telecom, Retail and Financial Services are expected to add about 500,000 jobs this fiscal year.
Then why-o-why are the companies still facing a dearth of talent? If we zero-in on the aspect of quality, some fault rests on the education system. Then the IT boom is stripping talen of other sectors as the MNC's go on to increase the breadth of their operations. To give a rough idea: Infosys selects about 3-4 people fo the 700 intervieews. A conversion rate of less than 2.2 %.
Now the question rests, is the demand really more than the supply? In numbersm yes. But in quality, no. Then what can be done for these people to bring them upto the level so that they can be converted from liablity into specialty?
I will think about the same and write......
Monday, July 24, 2006
Prince-ly India
Media sometimes hypes things up unnecessarily.
In the city of Kurukshetra (Haryana, India), a 5 year old kid called Prince turned 6 in a trench 60-feet deep. Am I kidding? Well apparently not. This Prince wandered of somewhere from his house and fell in the nearby dug well of 60 feet depth with the breadth of only 16 Inch. Futile measures were being carried out to release him. In the end the army was called. They planted another trench 10 feet apart, dug through it and released him. Kudos to the army and the kid who survived the fight for his life for about 50 hours. But now the media has created a super-hero out of him. They say they are going to sponsor his whole education. And believe it or not this news was running as " breaking-news" non-stop on 3 premier media channels of the country.
Agreed, the attention was needed. But I think there was no need to cover it continously and keep other news on a back-burner. Whatever prayers you want to say, say it in your heart with purity. Why you need to harp about it and create a display of emotions which will invariably, sell? I simply dont understand. Was the fate of a 12 year old Tsunami survivor changed? Our war-heros didnt get this kind of media-pubilicity. Who are those families who were killed in the Mumbai blasts? Who were the heroes of the day who made it possible for Mumbai to return back to normal?
The media will probably not answer these questions because no-one likes to know the reality. They just want to percieve what it might be ,and then speculate about it. In that way journalism is alive, so are the news. News that wont matter in the first place.
In the city of Kurukshetra (Haryana, India), a 5 year old kid called Prince turned 6 in a trench 60-feet deep. Am I kidding? Well apparently not. This Prince wandered of somewhere from his house and fell in the nearby dug well of 60 feet depth with the breadth of only 16 Inch. Futile measures were being carried out to release him. In the end the army was called. They planted another trench 10 feet apart, dug through it and released him. Kudos to the army and the kid who survived the fight for his life for about 50 hours. But now the media has created a super-hero out of him. They say they are going to sponsor his whole education. And believe it or not this news was running as " breaking-news" non-stop on 3 premier media channels of the country.
Agreed, the attention was needed. But I think there was no need to cover it continously and keep other news on a back-burner. Whatever prayers you want to say, say it in your heart with purity. Why you need to harp about it and create a display of emotions which will invariably, sell? I simply dont understand. Was the fate of a 12 year old Tsunami survivor changed? Our war-heros didnt get this kind of media-pubilicity. Who are those families who were killed in the Mumbai blasts? Who were the heroes of the day who made it possible for Mumbai to return back to normal?
The media will probably not answer these questions because no-one likes to know the reality. They just want to percieve what it might be ,and then speculate about it. In that way journalism is alive, so are the news. News that wont matter in the first place.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Its Only Words
Words are a trap. I seriously beleive in this. How many times you have experienced a diffuclty in expressing yourself to help someone understand what you are feeling? Most of the times , right? Yesterday, I was referring to two types of anythings in this world-Functional & Technical. Technical aspect of anything is realtively easy to understand. Just cross-reference anything that is accepted as a standard in that particular situation. Functional thing is relative. Everyone understands the same in their own context and then deems it right. More often than not, quality is often refferd to understanding exactly what the other person needs and doing it likewise. Some have this as an inherent gift, some dont. Hence some people are liked most and some are not. But how many peolple know the hidden aspect of it?
In his sequel to "Kane and Abel", " The Prodigal Daughter", Jeffery Archer gives a classic example of this. Apparently it's discovered in the end that Florentyna's (Abel's daughter) doppelganger, an anynomous backer to their crumbling bank was William Kane-her father's arch rival. Now who would remember him and appreciate him? Probably Abel will be able to. :-)
The point here is everyone is an unsung hero in somebody else's lufe. May be n his/her father's, mother's, brother's, sister's, dughter's, son's,friend's,bank cashier's, maid's;virtually anyone's. We touch lives of them whoose exsistence we are not even aware of.
In this scene, no words are requried. A different level of connection is established. A functional connection where no technicalities are involved. Everywhere there is love, even in hate. Paradoxical it is, but we tend to hate people we love the most. So lets promise ourselves that I will go beyond the words sometimes and do things in a shadow that will affect someone in a good manner.
And at the end of the day ask ourselves: Whose life did I touch today?
In his sequel to "Kane and Abel", " The Prodigal Daughter", Jeffery Archer gives a classic example of this. Apparently it's discovered in the end that Florentyna's (Abel's daughter) doppelganger, an anynomous backer to their crumbling bank was William Kane-her father's arch rival. Now who would remember him and appreciate him? Probably Abel will be able to. :-)
The point here is everyone is an unsung hero in somebody else's lufe. May be n his/her father's, mother's, brother's, sister's, dughter's, son's,friend's,bank cashier's, maid's;virtually anyone's. We touch lives of them whoose exsistence we are not even aware of.
In this scene, no words are requried. A different level of connection is established. A functional connection where no technicalities are involved. Everywhere there is love, even in hate. Paradoxical it is, but we tend to hate people we love the most. So lets promise ourselves that I will go beyond the words sometimes and do things in a shadow that will affect someone in a good manner.
And at the end of the day ask ourselves: Whose life did I touch today?
Friday, July 21, 2006
Two Types
Yesterday I heard a heart -warming news. A friend of my brother's lost her elder brother in a heart attack. He was barely 32 years old! Life sometimes compels us to sit back and analyse what is death. What is death?Do you know it? Well form me death is just the absence of real-life and not end of it. Time and time again we have been able to contact those para-natrual beings who have left the womb of earth long-ago-physically. Some people say they talk to souls. Possible, given the scenario that telepathy exists between persons with deep mental connection. Yesterday I saw in the program" Mano ya na Mano" the concept of Automatic Writing. They say that the writer in the state of trance writes what what the soul around him/her tells. This actually helps in solving some grave problems faced by the human beings. If you want to know more visit--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing.
Speaking about the same, death has become a way to live in Lebanon. With the Israelies captivating their hamas ministers and bombing the cities have already triggeres a chain of disrest in India. Indian doesnt want to tweak ties with Israel, but also due to pressures of the Left parties, it has to take a strong ground stance on the thier acts of bombings and kidnaps. About 100 Indians have said to be rescued with the joint operations of the Navy forces. The INS Shivaji will be docking in the Larnaca port in Cyprus, from where these people will be flown back to India. So it still persists in India that the left is always right.
There are two types of errors in this world. One is Functional and the other is Technical. More often that not, the functional error is very hard to catch because that reflects the quality of the human thinking. Technical error more or less means a non-compliance to the pre-defined set of procedures or rules. We will tocuh the same in details afterwards, but life let me tell you is always in shades of gray. There is no definitive black and white. So the errors also are a combination of functional and technical aspects. The gravity depends on the percentage dispersion. Invariably, technical errors are easier to rectify than functional errors.
Speaking about the same, death has become a way to live in Lebanon. With the Israelies captivating their hamas ministers and bombing the cities have already triggeres a chain of disrest in India. Indian doesnt want to tweak ties with Israel, but also due to pressures of the Left parties, it has to take a strong ground stance on the thier acts of bombings and kidnaps. About 100 Indians have said to be rescued with the joint operations of the Navy forces. The INS Shivaji will be docking in the Larnaca port in Cyprus, from where these people will be flown back to India. So it still persists in India that the left is always right.
There are two types of errors in this world. One is Functional and the other is Technical. More often that not, the functional error is very hard to catch because that reflects the quality of the human thinking. Technical error more or less means a non-compliance to the pre-defined set of procedures or rules. We will tocuh the same in details afterwards, but life let me tell you is always in shades of gray. There is no definitive black and white. So the errors also are a combination of functional and technical aspects. The gravity depends on the percentage dispersion. Invariably, technical errors are easier to rectify than functional errors.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Flat World and the Tax-net
Currently I am reading "The World is flat" by Thomas Friedman. I actually happened to see the documentary on the same on the discovery channel way before the book was published last year. He typically touches the aspect of the free market and how the technology has sort of " levelled the playground." He gives an analogy of how Columbus moved to west to find India and inadvertently landed discovering America. He then came to a conclusion that the world, really is round. Thomas says he moved east, to India, China, Japan et al and has come to a conclusion that World, invariably is flat. The idea was jump-sparked when he was having a discussion with Nandan Nilekani, the CEO of Infosys.
I am through the first chapter where he says that the changes tooke place while "he was sleeping." Apparently we all were, until the book was published. In the 2nd chapter he enlists 10 forces that have helped flattening the world. Its going to be an interesting journey.
The Tax-net is closing in. If you are a credit card holder, with annual expenses accounting to more than 2 Lacs, and you have not submitted your PAN (Permanent Account Number), you are in for a surprise. The IRD is going to scrutinize all those applicants and take an action against them. Be sure to pay your taxes, especially those in the bracket of 8 Lacs-10 Lacs. Wow!.Sure big money involved here. But let me remind you, dont expect this to reflect on the country's infrasrtucture immediately.
Oh! By the way, we are on and running again as the Blogspot as a whole domain is not going to be blocked by the ISP. It is that blogs which contain objectional anti-national content that will face the music.
I am through the first chapter where he says that the changes tooke place while "he was sleeping." Apparently we all were, until the book was published. In the 2nd chapter he enlists 10 forces that have helped flattening the world. Its going to be an interesting journey.
The Tax-net is closing in. If you are a credit card holder, with annual expenses accounting to more than 2 Lacs, and you have not submitted your PAN (Permanent Account Number), you are in for a surprise. The IRD is going to scrutinize all those applicants and take an action against them. Be sure to pay your taxes, especially those in the bracket of 8 Lacs-10 Lacs. Wow!.Sure big money involved here. But let me remind you, dont expect this to reflect on the country's infrasrtucture immediately.
Oh! By the way, we are on and running again as the Blogspot as a whole domain is not going to be blocked by the ISP. It is that blogs which contain objectional anti-national content that will face the music.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
The Conversation
Today I decicided to supersede all my e-mail signatures with the line "Life's simple, not easy." All the trials and tribulations we face in life have got one simple soultion, but more often than not, its not easy.
Like today I heard a conversation between two people:
1st Person: "Hey, wake up, look at the sun outside, its looking brighter than ever before."
2nd Person: "Really? Let me just take a look." When he goes out and has a look.
2nd Person: "Yes, but why it is looking so beautiful today? I have seen it many times before. "
1st Person: "Is that so? Then if the sun has not changed, what has?"
2nd Person: "May be the way I am looking at is changed."
1st Person: "Exactly!. All we need to do is master the art of looking at things in a different manner."
2nd Person: "Its easier said than done, dude. When we are haggled by the mundane things, we are bound to think negatively. Things always dont work the way we want to."
1st Person: " You are right, but every situation or a problem teaches you a new lesson. A lesson you should never forget."
2nd Person: "But are we competent enough to learn from the same? I mean, the thinking process stops when we are low on spirits. It just feels like either yelling aloud or to cry silently."
1st Person: "This situation comes in everyone's life, but great people are often separated from good people by this tendency only."
2nd Person: "But its so easy to say this when you have no thinking to do. Every burden is shouldered by me."
1st Person: "Who say's I have nothing to do? Did you ever come across a situaton when you do something against your wishes just for someone you love?
2nd Person: "Yes sure I have, everyone does."
1st Person: "Then inevitably you have in all totatlity surrenderd to me. I am the one that shows light and differentiates the right from the correct"
2nd Person: "But with your principles, the world doesnt run."
1st Person: "I know dear, but I just make the world a better place to live. If I was not there, how would you know what love is? What it feels to thrive for someone. Achieve what you dreamt of just because you didnt think it was pragmmatic in the first place."
2nd Person: "So are you saying that I have no importance whatsoever."
1st Person: " No, you have it in your own territory. Look buddy, the difference between you and me is the one between efficency and effectiveness, between Management and Leadership, lets just say you are the Manager and I am the Leader."
2nd Person: "But then who is superior?"
1st Person: " No one, it's the situation that demands performance from both of us. Sometimes you have to analytical, calculating, other times you have to be soulful, emotional."
2nd Person: " You have all the answers dude."
1st Person: "And you have all the questions."
2nd Person: "But what's the use if the answers are not there."
1st Person: " But unless questioned, the answers dont come, thats why you are responsible for all the advancement in the world."
2nd Person: "And you are responsible for letting us know who we are. Thanks!"
1st Person: "Thanks to you too!"
You might be wondering who are these people. One is the Heart and other is the Brain. Could you make out who is which one?
Like today I heard a conversation between two people:
1st Person: "Hey, wake up, look at the sun outside, its looking brighter than ever before."
2nd Person: "Really? Let me just take a look." When he goes out and has a look.
2nd Person: "Yes, but why it is looking so beautiful today? I have seen it many times before. "
1st Person: "Is that so? Then if the sun has not changed, what has?"
2nd Person: "May be the way I am looking at is changed."
1st Person: "Exactly!. All we need to do is master the art of looking at things in a different manner."
2nd Person: "Its easier said than done, dude. When we are haggled by the mundane things, we are bound to think negatively. Things always dont work the way we want to."
1st Person: " You are right, but every situation or a problem teaches you a new lesson. A lesson you should never forget."
2nd Person: "But are we competent enough to learn from the same? I mean, the thinking process stops when we are low on spirits. It just feels like either yelling aloud or to cry silently."
1st Person: "This situation comes in everyone's life, but great people are often separated from good people by this tendency only."
2nd Person: "But its so easy to say this when you have no thinking to do. Every burden is shouldered by me."
1st Person: "Who say's I have nothing to do? Did you ever come across a situaton when you do something against your wishes just for someone you love?
2nd Person: "Yes sure I have, everyone does."
1st Person: "Then inevitably you have in all totatlity surrenderd to me. I am the one that shows light and differentiates the right from the correct"
2nd Person: "But with your principles, the world doesnt run."
1st Person: "I know dear, but I just make the world a better place to live. If I was not there, how would you know what love is? What it feels to thrive for someone. Achieve what you dreamt of just because you didnt think it was pragmmatic in the first place."
2nd Person: "So are you saying that I have no importance whatsoever."
1st Person: " No, you have it in your own territory. Look buddy, the difference between you and me is the one between efficency and effectiveness, between Management and Leadership, lets just say you are the Manager and I am the Leader."
2nd Person: "But then who is superior?"
1st Person: " No one, it's the situation that demands performance from both of us. Sometimes you have to analytical, calculating, other times you have to be soulful, emotional."
2nd Person: " You have all the answers dude."
1st Person: "And you have all the questions."
2nd Person: "But what's the use if the answers are not there."
1st Person: " But unless questioned, the answers dont come, thats why you are responsible for all the advancement in the world."
2nd Person: "And you are responsible for letting us know who we are. Thanks!"
1st Person: "Thanks to you too!"
You might be wondering who are these people. One is the Heart and other is the Brain. Could you make out who is which one?
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Magny-Cours
Actually I forgot to give a review of the Weekend GP. Here it goes:
The Venue- Magny Cours, France (About 160 Miles from Paris)
Laps:- 70 Laps.
Positions: 1) Micheal Shcumacher
2) Fernando Alonso
3) Phillpe Massa
Review: It was an astounding speed surgence that helped Ferrari and Micheal to extend the lead over Fernando over the first few laps of the race. Though the strategy of Massa holding back Alonso on the intial laps also helped. It was potentially a 3 pit-stop for Michael. But the Renault changed its strategy from 3 pit-stop to 2 with Alonso's second pitstop counting 11.7 seconds. Though this didnt rule in the favor of Renault, it gave Michael that advantage that was needed. But still Michael needs to close 17 championship points before he catches Alonso as a potential world-champion. I reckon (like Steve Slater :-), the Ferrari should take a concerted effort to push back Alonso. The reason is even if Michael wins all the upcoming 7 races and Alonso gets 2nd in all, he will still be ahead of Michael in the championship run. Thence forth it is the team effort that is going to matter now.
They are saying that they are going to block Blogspot along with 17 other websites for carrying anti-national content in the kitty. Please forgive if I am not able to post for few more days, its not my fault.
The Venue- Magny Cours, France (About 160 Miles from Paris)
Laps:- 70 Laps.
Positions: 1) Micheal Shcumacher
2) Fernando Alonso
3) Phillpe Massa
Review: It was an astounding speed surgence that helped Ferrari and Micheal to extend the lead over Fernando over the first few laps of the race. Though the strategy of Massa holding back Alonso on the intial laps also helped. It was potentially a 3 pit-stop for Michael. But the Renault changed its strategy from 3 pit-stop to 2 with Alonso's second pitstop counting 11.7 seconds. Though this didnt rule in the favor of Renault, it gave Michael that advantage that was needed. But still Michael needs to close 17 championship points before he catches Alonso as a potential world-champion. I reckon (like Steve Slater :-), the Ferrari should take a concerted effort to push back Alonso. The reason is even if Michael wins all the upcoming 7 races and Alonso gets 2nd in all, he will still be ahead of Michael in the championship run. Thence forth it is the team effort that is going to matter now.
They are saying that they are going to block Blogspot along with 17 other websites for carrying anti-national content in the kitty. Please forgive if I am not able to post for few more days, its not my fault.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Mahtma Gandhi and POTA
In greek literarture, Hubris- is the sin of arrogantly overstepping natural boundries. Nice word! Now the opposite of Hubris is know as Nemesis- the counterbalance force that restored order and balance. Helen Mathur in her article "Word Smitten" gives an example of Nemesis as: "Mahatma Gandhi was a nemesis to British imperialism in India." True. But what about India? Was it a nemesis or hubris? Taking the current scene in to stride, the things are profusely overstepping natural boundries. Islamic terrorism is at the acme. In spite of this, our honorable PM is saying that he is not going to revive the POTA.
Then what is the solution to save innocent lives? Well he says, the intelligence agency should gear-up and prevent the calamities from happening. How can we expect a IB officer on a shoe-string budget to prevent from something of a bigger magnintude from happening? Today the Mumbai police doesnt have funds to buy the uniforms. There are 2 ways of looking at it. Either the government is back-logging on the issue or the mandatory funds are siphoned off. Look at the scene where you can get a gelatin-based bomb stick for meagre Rs. 50 near Mumbai.
The security is so lethargic, that I think we should go the Swiss way.
Talking about lethargy, have you guys travelled to Sinhgad lately? Well I did yesterday and I am glad to be alive with my bike, as I survived the roads. Though they weren't potentially "roads".
Then what is the solution to save innocent lives? Well he says, the intelligence agency should gear-up and prevent the calamities from happening. How can we expect a IB officer on a shoe-string budget to prevent from something of a bigger magnintude from happening? Today the Mumbai police doesnt have funds to buy the uniforms. There are 2 ways of looking at it. Either the government is back-logging on the issue or the mandatory funds are siphoned off. Look at the scene where you can get a gelatin-based bomb stick for meagre Rs. 50 near Mumbai.
The security is so lethargic, that I think we should go the Swiss way.
Talking about lethargy, have you guys travelled to Sinhgad lately? Well I did yesterday and I am glad to be alive with my bike, as I survived the roads. Though they weren't potentially "roads".
Friday, July 14, 2006
Nirvana
Didnt come to office yesterday. Dont want to tell why, cos I dont want to lie. But the reason was genunine. Sometimes I think why people lie? They say truth is stranger than fiction. Very true. Every person on this earth has a lie to tell, and a truth to hide. Most of these people cant handle the very fact that its truism that prevails.
What is moksh? Its going towards the ultimate truth. What is the ultimate truth? Its listeneing to your heart. I feel you are ugly. I tell her that she is ugly. But will I? No, becasue I dont want to hurt her. Or Do I? It might be that I am not capable of handling the reaction of a that person.
Look closely in your hearts, how many times we lie to ourselves. Sometimes unknowingly, cos we more often than not, dont know ourselves.
What is moksh? Its going towards the ultimate truth. What is the ultimate truth? Its listeneing to your heart. I feel you are ugly. I tell her that she is ugly. But will I? No, becasue I dont want to hurt her. Or Do I? It might be that I am not capable of handling the reaction of a that person.
Look closely in your hearts, how many times we lie to ourselves. Sometimes unknowingly, cos we more often than not, dont know ourselves.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The Blasts and the Superman
I stepped home yesterday and bang! the news of the serial bomb blasts in local trains hit Mumbai. Would the people travelling in those first class compartements have anticipated that they might face a violent death? No. What was their fault? Is this the price they have pay for being born in a communal ridden country? No matter whatever you do, death finds you in the way as it is written to find you-Maktub!
But the way Mumbaikers have reacted to the same, hats-off. These are the real heroes. Not Krish and Superman. Unlike them ,they are un-glamorous. Their bodies stink of sweat ant guts of other people who have just died, while taking them out of the debris. Who is going to write about them? No one. One day they will aslo fade aways like unsung hero does.
But I, on my behalf will take this opportunity to salute those people, who time and time again always put Mumbai back on tracks after the any calamity hits the city. Then may be its the 1993 Bomb Blasts or the Communal Riots or 26/7 Rains or 11/7 Serial Blasts. The intellegience today accpeted the fault of not knowing the place and time of the blasts. Though their speculations is that next target might be Solapur. Looking at all this i remember 4 lines from a Marthi Poet called Mardhekar:
" Aaj pahile maran, gele bhambavun pran, majhya gynanache kumpan, smashcanat." It transaltes as follows:
" I saw death today, and was confused and scared, I know where my knowledge ends, its at the funeral."
Please tell your loved one today that you love them, dont know tomorrow, where you will be.
But the way Mumbaikers have reacted to the same, hats-off. These are the real heroes. Not Krish and Superman. Unlike them ,they are un-glamorous. Their bodies stink of sweat ant guts of other people who have just died, while taking them out of the debris. Who is going to write about them? No one. One day they will aslo fade aways like unsung hero does.
But I, on my behalf will take this opportunity to salute those people, who time and time again always put Mumbai back on tracks after the any calamity hits the city. Then may be its the 1993 Bomb Blasts or the Communal Riots or 26/7 Rains or 11/7 Serial Blasts. The intellegience today accpeted the fault of not knowing the place and time of the blasts. Though their speculations is that next target might be Solapur. Looking at all this i remember 4 lines from a Marthi Poet called Mardhekar:
" Aaj pahile maran, gele bhambavun pran, majhya gynanache kumpan, smashcanat." It transaltes as follows:
" I saw death today, and was confused and scared, I know where my knowledge ends, its at the funeral."
Please tell your loved one today that you love them, dont know tomorrow, where you will be.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
The Stockholm Syndrome
Life at times is very funny. You tend to think that everything is normal. I mean what possibly be wrong with a healthy indivdual, with a good income and aspirations? But normality is relative. What seems normal to me, may not be to you. I have reached to one conclusion: The root casue of all our misries is our inability to let-go ossomething/somebody. Thousand times more a crime has been committed in the name of love than hate. See the assaults, the rapes, the extra marital affairs, what can we conclude from this?
That day I read an amazing quote. It goes " An optimist thinks we live in the best of two worlds, A pessimist believes its true."
But life in totality is beautiful. Look at the water-droplets in the slashing rains on your helmet, think the last time you drank cofffe by the balcony when with pitch cold outside, remember that warm hug a loved one gave your when you needed only that.
Why human beings behave in a certain way, no one will ever know. But one thing is for sure, living life is very very simple.
Simple but diffcult.
That day I read an amazing quote. It goes " An optimist thinks we live in the best of two worlds, A pessimist believes its true."
But life in totality is beautiful. Look at the water-droplets in the slashing rains on your helmet, think the last time you drank cofffe by the balcony when with pitch cold outside, remember that warm hug a loved one gave your when you needed only that.
Why human beings behave in a certain way, no one will ever know. But one thing is for sure, living life is very very simple.
Simple but diffcult.
Monday, July 10, 2006
Discipline and the World-Cup
Hey! Italy won the World-Cup finals. While I was seeing the match, I realised that's its not the talent or the aggression, but the temprament and the focus that matters. "Winners do what losers dont: focus." Every hero has a silver lining, but can be dark as a monsoon cloud. Zinedine Zidane aka Zizou was not an exception. That brutal header by him in Materise's chest not only got him a red card, but also cost France their match. As the game went into the penalty shoot-outs after the levelling of 1-1; France didnt have strikers who could score! Ribery, Henry were replaced, Vierra was potentially retired hurt. Italy deserved the win, but france didnt deserve to loose.
Disclipine of thoughts is the most important discipline in this world. What do we get by riots? Burned buses, feary streets and violent, frenzied mobs killing human beings like animals. If the social sentiment his hurt, will it be pacified by burning tyres and ransacking shops? What harm has the mall owner done when he gets broken windows and empty lobbies? You might be passionate about something or have an undying faith in somebody, but the thing important is to keep your head above your shoulders. " Nazdiki phayda dekhne se pehele, dur ka nuksan sochna."
I remember reading the following lines, but dont know whose's they are:
" Ah Fate! Lets you and I conspire.
To end this sorry scheme of things entire."
Pick the pieces of that broken heart and
remould them nearer to an heart's desire."
Disclipine of thoughts is the most important discipline in this world. What do we get by riots? Burned buses, feary streets and violent, frenzied mobs killing human beings like animals. If the social sentiment his hurt, will it be pacified by burning tyres and ransacking shops? What harm has the mall owner done when he gets broken windows and empty lobbies? You might be passionate about something or have an undying faith in somebody, but the thing important is to keep your head above your shoulders. " Nazdiki phayda dekhne se pehele, dur ka nuksan sochna."
I remember reading the following lines, but dont know whose's they are:
" Ah Fate! Lets you and I conspire.
To end this sorry scheme of things entire."
Pick the pieces of that broken heart and
remould them nearer to an heart's desire."
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Googled!
Today I just realised , What I am? I am a "mouse potatao". You didnt understand? Well then just "google" it. Ok, now I will stop talking in riddles. Apparenlty, Merriam-Webster's have come up with a new set of words that have made to the international dictionary this time around. Subsequently, Mouse Potato is a person who excessively spends his time on the computer. Well not literally "on the computer", but accessing the same. Apparently, Google has turned into a verb. It means-find the information you need by searching the same in the google search engine. That's simply cool. Hope I will not be bangalored for this. :-)
Today I read a t-shirt quote: " Marraige needs committment, so does insanity." That's hillarious and true to the very root.
Today I read a t-shirt quote: " Marraige needs committment, so does insanity." That's hillarious and true to the very root.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Steel and Outsourcing
The steel industry is fortyfying themselves from the spree of hostile/congenial take-overs that are happeneing. Even sabbotaging the moves for a possible Merger and Accquisition. The Arcleor take-over has kickstarted this and Tata Steel is looking at increasing it's current share in the company. Mittal lands in Orissa today to check the possibilities. I guess now everyone including, Nippon, Servestal et al should sit back and think. Instead of fortyfying themselves and going in shell, they might join hands with the fraternity. If you look at Mittal, he is strong in Southern America and far-west part of Europe. Arcelor in the same manner, has stong foothold in Europe. The geographical overlap being minimum, comptetion may not be that cut-throat. The consolidation will result in something more beneficial.
Kudos to HCL for inking the biggest out-sourcing deal to date with some insurance company ( i dont remember the name!). The deal is pegged at approx $700 Million. Huge money!
I fininshed "Veronika decides to die." One of the greatest books I have read. It teaches you how to live life to the fullest. Imagine if someone told you that you are going to die in 4 days. How would you live? Will you care what the society thinks or does of your actions? I wouldnt certainly. You will go where your heart takes you.
I want to contradict what I have written in my last post. It's the other way round, the brain tell you what is correct, but the heart tell you what is right. More often than not, if the correct feels right, the right can never be wrong. So do what your heart says, but not at the cost of your principles.
Kudos to HCL for inking the biggest out-sourcing deal to date with some insurance company ( i dont remember the name!). The deal is pegged at approx $700 Million. Huge money!
I fininshed "Veronika decides to die." One of the greatest books I have read. It teaches you how to live life to the fullest. Imagine if someone told you that you are going to die in 4 days. How would you live? Will you care what the society thinks or does of your actions? I wouldnt certainly. You will go where your heart takes you.
I want to contradict what I have written in my last post. It's the other way round, the brain tell you what is correct, but the heart tell you what is right. More often than not, if the correct feels right, the right can never be wrong. So do what your heart says, but not at the cost of your principles.
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Somebody Scarp Me!
There are somethings in life that I will never understand. Why there is a traffic jam? Why we cant say what we want to say? Why on Orkut do people add friends and never post a scrap for them? Why cant we reply to e-mail or chats then and there it self?
Do you understand it? Please do let me know.
As I write this, I remember seeing one of my favorite movies "Crash". It beautifully depicts the situations in which no individual is good or bad. There are the circumstances that make him behave the way he behaves. So now can you blame your ex for ditching you when all you wanted to do was "ghane ghane laton mein zindagi bitana?"
By the way, Veronika is still exploring her last 24 hrs of her life. I dont know why, but that book uptil now has taught me some ground relalities about life and helped answer some of the questions that always baffled me. Though not the above one's, I always used to think what is madness? Its the way people perceive it. But as Paulo puts it " Its the inability of the individual to communicate what he feels." So true. You spoke to god that day, right? Did someone call you mad when you told them? They ought to. In the same way as Newton was called, so was Leornado Da Vinci, Monet, Fauja Usman (A 90 year old guy who won a marathon) and lately, Laxmi Niwas Mittal.
Do you understand it? Please do let me know.
As I write this, I remember seeing one of my favorite movies "Crash". It beautifully depicts the situations in which no individual is good or bad. There are the circumstances that make him behave the way he behaves. So now can you blame your ex for ditching you when all you wanted to do was "ghane ghane laton mein zindagi bitana?"
By the way, Veronika is still exploring her last 24 hrs of her life. I dont know why, but that book uptil now has taught me some ground relalities about life and helped answer some of the questions that always baffled me. Though not the above one's, I always used to think what is madness? Its the way people perceive it. But as Paulo puts it " Its the inability of the individual to communicate what he feels." So true. You spoke to god that day, right? Did someone call you mad when you told them? They ought to. In the same way as Newton was called, so was Leornado Da Vinci, Monet, Fauja Usman (A 90 year old guy who won a marathon) and lately, Laxmi Niwas Mittal.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
The Mumbai Rains
Its deja-Vu of 26/7/2005 in Mumbai. The rivers are clogged and so are the drainages. Though the goverment is a little organised and prepared this time around, still the fear rests. Holidays are also raining as people are adviced to stay in doors.Though the banks are open and so are the ATM's (phew!). They are claiming to have about 85 water pumps as opposed to 25 last year. Seriously in these day's I think I am fortunate enough to live where the life rarely gets "interesting".
Today, or rather early tomorrow IST. France takes on Portugal head-on for the place in the semi-finals of the world-cup. The Italy-Germany match was awesome. Though I watched it till half-time only, heard the Del-Piero's goal in the last 1 minute of the match. Just thinking on the same lines what goes in to make a hero?
Heros are not momentary. They have the ability to push even when they hate what they are doing. I contend with the conventional line " Do what your heart says." We should listen to our hearts. But more often than not, heart is what is correct but not necessarily right. Its the brain that tells us to move on and do something when we dont want to. Remeber the times when you didnt want to study. Your heart says "sing with the rains." but your brain says "study, because thats what will help you to climb up the chains."
Today, or rather early tomorrow IST. France takes on Portugal head-on for the place in the semi-finals of the world-cup. The Italy-Germany match was awesome. Though I watched it till half-time only, heard the Del-Piero's goal in the last 1 minute of the match. Just thinking on the same lines what goes in to make a hero?
Heros are not momentary. They have the ability to push even when they hate what they are doing. I contend with the conventional line " Do what your heart says." We should listen to our hearts. But more often than not, heart is what is correct but not necessarily right. Its the brain that tells us to move on and do something when we dont want to. Remeber the times when you didnt want to study. Your heart says "sing with the rains." but your brain says "study, because thats what will help you to climb up the chains."
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Veronika Decides to Die
The Private Equity and VC investements touched a whooping 3.4 bn $.That too in the first 2 quarters of the year. I think India is really on the global road-map. But the flip of side is, is it really? You look at the drainage systems in Mumbai, the infrastructure in Bangalore and Pune. Do you feel India is internationalizing? I dont, seriously. The petrol have touched sky-high.
Manmohan singh says that route to prosperity is through the rural areas. But here the farmers are committing suicides! Now they want to come up with something called "Corporate Farming." I think these guys should just leave the jargons aside and start something at the ground level. Agriculture revolution is what is needed.
Talking about revolution I came up with an interesting concept. I guess all revolutions are started by Parties. Parties as in gala affairs or get-togethers. Ironically, what is you think that is best might soon become what is worst. Then shall we term as anything that is best in our lives?
"A 24 year old girl. Beautiful, intelligent and normal. Veronika. One fine day she decided to commit suicide and lands in a mental asylum. There the doctors tell her she has only 4 days to live. "
This is the brief synopsis of the Paulo Cohelo's book "Veronika decides to die." I am currently reading it. Sounds boring doesnt it? I thought likewise at first. But I am 80 pages through and loving it. It has all the ingredients to come into one of my favorites. Think about this sentence from his book and let me know if you can decipher it: "It doesnt matter who is correct, it only matters who is right."
Manmohan singh says that route to prosperity is through the rural areas. But here the farmers are committing suicides! Now they want to come up with something called "Corporate Farming." I think these guys should just leave the jargons aside and start something at the ground level. Agriculture revolution is what is needed.
Talking about revolution I came up with an interesting concept. I guess all revolutions are started by Parties. Parties as in gala affairs or get-togethers. Ironically, what is you think that is best might soon become what is worst. Then shall we term as anything that is best in our lives?
"A 24 year old girl. Beautiful, intelligent and normal. Veronika. One fine day she decided to commit suicide and lands in a mental asylum. There the doctors tell her she has only 4 days to live. "
This is the brief synopsis of the Paulo Cohelo's book "Veronika decides to die." I am currently reading it. Sounds boring doesnt it? I thought likewise at first. But I am 80 pages through and loving it. It has all the ingredients to come into one of my favorites. Think about this sentence from his book and let me know if you can decipher it: "It doesnt matter who is correct, it only matters who is right."
Monday, July 03, 2006
Interesting Times
Today the quota discussion took a new turn as the goverment is saying to exercise it as soon as possible. So the innuendo starts this year itslef. 54% increase in the total seats has been affirmed. I dont know what good is going to come-up. The average quality of the education is definately going to go down.
Its started raining cats and dogs in Pune. In Mumbai they are fearing 26th July redux. I hope nothing of that sort happens...god forbid! Though one person has already lost his life after he got washed away at the Worli sea-face.
As I write this remember an ancient chinese curse "May you live in interesting times." Do you think we are?
An after thought on the theory of motivation. It says needs are the greatest factors in motivating an individual. I disagree. I think that the wants are the greatest factors. We dont live for the needs. Our needs can be counted on the finger-tips. After the stereotyped "Roti, Kapda, Makan" comes the need for socialising and self-actualisation. But do these factors motivate us to become what we are?
We thrive for what we want and not what we need. I want to wear a Levis. Hence I must work hard and earn money so that I can go and buy it.
There's my motivation.
Its started raining cats and dogs in Pune. In Mumbai they are fearing 26th July redux. I hope nothing of that sort happens...god forbid! Though one person has already lost his life after he got washed away at the Worli sea-face.
As I write this remember an ancient chinese curse "May you live in interesting times." Do you think we are?
An after thought on the theory of motivation. It says needs are the greatest factors in motivating an individual. I disagree. I think that the wants are the greatest factors. We dont live for the needs. Our needs can be counted on the finger-tips. After the stereotyped "Roti, Kapda, Makan" comes the need for socialising and self-actualisation. But do these factors motivate us to become what we are?
We thrive for what we want and not what we need. I want to wear a Levis. Hence I must work hard and earn money so that I can go and buy it.
There's my motivation.
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