"Scarcity of Choice's"

I wish I had a choice; there must be another way…

There isn’t, life is like the bits of shaving cream that’s still there after you are done, equal parts of white lather and tiny pieces of hair. It all gets flushed at the end.
What does it matter? Life? Live it or lump it.

"Different place in my life right now....Dont know wre"

Loose words, almost an alibi and monumental to explain if heart-felt. Yet, there come moments in one's journey when one is forced to change track, alter his routine, beliefs, preferences and often, his ideals to accomodate new avenues and experiences, lessons learnt and make fresh beginnings.
There is no harm. Growth and change are natural. Clinging on can often become a handicap. If one day we are prompted and tempted to differ from or even contradict entirely all that we stood by and preached, should we hold on for a matter of pride or dignity?
We should release ourselves to our destiny. We must kneel before forces that are stronger. We must heed the old wise man.
In life, there is a New Beginning.... and then some more.

"Finding Solace in time i Guess"

Hey..........just a thought..........
Truth is, sometimes one is travelling in a car or having lunch or something of the sort and all these thoughts come into one's head, with some direction or intention and one starts pondering over them and wording them laced with wit and humour. One really enjoys how it well it seems to be turning out in one's head and laughs at the merrier aspects and sobs (silently) through the melancholic ones.
So the family may think you're nuts to be laughing and sobbing at absolutely nothing, but oh well!

When you finally sit yourself down before a sheet of paper or before a laptop computer or before one's personal-blogging-secretary/sexretary, those thoughts vanish so perfectly that one feels inclined to believe they were never there at all, quite like the story-line of a Karan Johar flick or Ekta Kapoor's story-writing skills. Truth is, if we hadn't reflected over something to such an extent, we wouldn't have bored ourselves of them.

And thus I endeavour to write this entry without any preconceived ideas or intentions. So it may be pathetic. Then again, it may not. Then again-again, it may fall somewhere in between. Who knows!

But approaching more sober and serious matters, there are times when life plays a cruel joke upon you that you are left wordless and numb. That home isn't quite home any more, and something feels very empty, both inside and out. You wish to get away to a foreign land where all is fresh and new and you can shut out thoughts of the bitter reality that exists, seeking solace in oblivion, hoping that maybe when you return, time will have healed and the ordeal will seem so far in the past that it is reduced to a distant memory. Distant memory, the kind that you want to shut out, to subjugate and you succeed to the extent that it feels old and forgotten. You feel that you have succeeded till those around you bring it up time and again. And you want to get away, even if it means getting away from those who love you and those you love. But it's just too painful and distressing to be around.
Time is a healer.
But time passes slowly, when you really need it to fly.

"The Evolution of Man"

We created agriculture. Then we created settlements. We built roads, we built houses. Then we built markets, and hence, society.
We formed relationships. As friends, then as spouses. We created offsprings and they took it forward. Then there came hatred, then envy, rivalry. Then superiority, inferiority. Then came celebrity and then, the common man.
Common Man was stratified into White, coloured and black. Master and servant. Caste and creed.
We grew food, then we wanted commodities. We made plates, glasses, jars. Someone decided to make it a profession. Thus came textile, cutlery, handicrafts, footwear. First came Cottage and then, Industry.
We realised Purchasing Power, we devised barter, and then currency. Then came moneylending and then, credit. We set up banks. We conceptualised finance.
We developed communication. We created languages. We discovered knowledge of things that wouldn't have mattered if we hadn't come this far already.
Thus came into picture, education. We created schools, then colleges. These taught us language, then math. We decided the importance of learning history and geography. We discovered physics and chemistry. We created art and learned to appreciate it. Music, literature, dance. And to remind ourselves of all that we had created, there was Theatre.
Thus, there arose the literate and the illiterate. The teacher and the student. Then the headmaster, supervisor, teacher, lecturer, professor, reader.
We discovered technology, we created travel and then a need to travel. There came carts, cycles, rickshaws, cars, buses, trams, trains, boats and ships. And then, aviation. We made roads and decided on traffic rules. There came a correct side of the road and a wrong one.
Society created norms and standards. It decided on ethics and conduct. It dictated morals and convention. It composed rules and regulations. Good and Bad. God and Devil. Karma.
Those who abided were sustained. For others, it made coventry and prison. In prison and outside, we saw cruelty and neglect. We saw atrocity and criminalisation. We saw discrimination. And penance.
From gathering and hunting food, we went to finding employment, garnering income and paying taxes. Banking and investments. Stocks and shares. We defined "Survival".
From the need of a cave to spend the night, we went to Real Estate. A hut, a cottage, an apartment, a house with a yard, a mansion. And in between, forts and palaces.
From gathering fruit and hunting meat, we went to cuisines in restaurants.
Friendship and fidelity.

Is man really an animal?

....""Tow God Went Oop's.......""

I believe the reason we don't see god ever could be because god has banished himself for many many thousands of years as punishment. If he really exists, that is.
And assuming, even if hypothetically, that he exists, the reason that he would have to punish himself would be something like this..

I watched Die Hard 4.0 (Don't quite know yet why they put the .0 after the 4) yesterday and I can find myself drawing an analogy. I can't credit the film for stirring this thought in me, that I am about to share, because though it was a brilliant flick et all, I can't acknowledge it for accomplishing feats that it didn't really accomplish. It only happened that I drew that analogy 38 seconds ago with what I saw in the film yesterday.
Well, the analogy is such..

[analogy begins..]There was this person who a brilliant programmer. For people who're checking in from the Stone age and don't really know what a programmer is, don't bother wondering. Basically, there was this person who was really good at something.
[assumption]So he had this wonderful gift that empowered him to do great things. And he did some wonderful things for our benefit.[/assumption]
(Again, I use assumption tags here because I missed the first fifteen minutes of the film and can only assume he did those wonderful things in the first fifteen minutes of the film, especially because it would fit quite well with the storyline, and if that is in fact not how the film began, then the film isn't quite as good as I thought it was.)
Then one day, he did something that he thought was even more brilliant and noble and a favour to those who were watching him perform the brilliant task. Only, others who observed him thought it wasn't all that noble[/analogy] so they put a gun to his head and told him to stop performing this controversial "noble" task. If that wasn't enough, they disgraced him afterwards. That made this guy really mad. So he became evil and started trying to kill everyone and make lots of money for himself.


I ended the analogy in between the paragraph, as evident from the tags, because though god was gifted with powers to create a beautiful planet and wonderful plants, animals and fish (I don't like reptiles and I despise insects. A tortoise isn't a reptile, is it?) and then he did this horrid thing by creating Human Beings.... and the analogy ended there because no body put a gun to god's head (if he has one, if he exists) to tell him to stop and he didn't, afterwards, become evil and start killing everyone.... unless of course, he's causing Global Warming and fooling us into believing it's our fault, which I'm pretty sure isn't true. I doubt God is obsessed with making lots of money for himself because money is something we created just to point fingers and laugh at the poor people.

So after creating Human Beings and looking at what they turned out to be, he went "Oh golly!" and banished himself into a forest or an ocean (with Scuba Diving gear). Or he's probably hiding in the Himalayas, disguised as the Abominable Snowman. Or maybe he hasn't really disguised himself, and that's what he looked like all along and we just don't know.
Infinite possibilities really. But what is most likely a confirmed piece of news is that (if he exists,) he created humans, went "Oh Golly" and ran into hiding and abandonment as penance.

Why do I feel a sudden surge of hatred towards my own kind? It is probably because they're a selfish lot with inflated egos and go to any lengths to get what they want. When they see someone with something they desire, they start hurling insults and abuses at that person, thinking that they're quite quite smart when in fact, they're quite quite feather-brained.
[This post may or may not be "inspired" by anyone or anytwo or anymany in particular.... I'll leave that a mystery.] What I do maintain is that I think humans are an awful lot, only slightly better than crocodiles and more attractive than insects, though not as nice, and this is evident from how decent and kind and caring animals such as dogs are who love us unconditionally, until we pelt them with stones after which they're simply afraid of us. There are a few people who're actually very nice but they're very few and the number may be too large for me to count on my fingers because I only have ten but possibly can be counted by god on his fingers. If he has fingers. If he exists.

What is the Meaning of Life ?

When the weather is cold and it gets dark by 4:30 PM at the end of the year, thoughts turn to the meaning of life.

Does the universe have a purpose or is it a random collection of sentient organisms with no higher purpose than being born, living, reproducing and dying ?

From an engineering point of view this seems to be a very inelegant solution and a colossal waste of resources for no perceivable returns. And in financial terms, what is the return on investment for the Creator ? Why are we here and what is our objective ?

Saying that we are here to "realize God" seems a very facetious answer which raises more questions than it answers. Why did "God" send us here ?

Over the years, I've seen many explanations.

The answer is 42 says the computer Deep Thought in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."

While the Hitchhiker's Guide is good for few chuckles, this is a question that's been addressed by many of the greatest minds in India.

Swami Sivananda says:

"This is an Ati-prasna or transcendental question. You will find this question coming up to your mind in
various forms: When did Karma begin? When and why was the world created? Why is there evil in the world? Why
did the Unmanifest manifest itself? And so on. The same question is asked by Rama in Yoga Vasishtha and
Vasishtha says: "You are putting the cart before the horse. You will not be benefited by an enquiry into
this question at all. Meditate and realize Brahman. You Will then know the answer to this question. The
problem itself will have dissolved by then". No one can answer this question. When Knowledge dawns, the
question itself vanishes. Therefore there is no answer to the question at all.

The Brahma Sutra says: Lokavat Tu Lila Kaivalyam. It is only to pacify your doubt. It is really not an
answer; for, there can be no answer. Yet, the question will arise in the case of every seeker after Truth.
You cannot help it. You will have to use your discrimination, pacify the doubt, and then through
intense Sadhana and meditation, realize God. Then the doubt will vanish. A great Yogi was worried with this
doubt for twelve years. Then he told me: "The worry is over now. It troubled me for twelve years. I could not
find an answer. So I have given up that pursuit and have taken to meditation, Japa and Kirtan. Now I find
peace and progress". Faith in the Guru, in the Grant Sahib, Kirtan, Japa, meditation and practice of
righteousness— these will enable you to progress in the spiritual path and will take you to That where
there is no questioning possible."

According to Swami Ashokananda

If you ask, 'But how did this illusion come about originally? If there is only one reality, how could there be an illusion of manifoldness?' then they answer, 'In ignorance there is no consistency'. How do we mistake one thing for another ? Do we do it rationally ? If it were rational, then we would not have made any mistake. That we have made a mistake means that it is an irrational, an inexplicable something. If you then say, as some have, 'The illusion always exists as opposed to pure divinity,' then you are forced to accept the position of a dualist, although of a different kind, it is true. The answer is simply this – when you find the truth, ignorance vanishes. Then you do not say ignorance is one reality and truth is another reality; you never think that. Ignorance is ignorance, and you never put it under the same category as truth or the real.

Swami Vivekananda's Paper on Hinduism at the Parliament of Religions in September 1893:

Why should the free, perfect, and pure be thus under the thraldom of matter, is the next question.

How can the perfect soul be deluded into the belief that it is imperfect? We have been told that the Hindus shirk the question and say that no such question can be there- Some thinkers want to answer it by positing one or more quasi-perfect beings, and use big scientific names to fill up the gap. But naming is not explaining.

The question remains the same. How can the perfect become the quasi-perfect; how can the pure, the absolute change even a microscopic particle of its nature? But the Hindu is sincere. He does not want to take shelter under sophistry. He is brave enough to face the question in a manly fashion; and his answer is: 'I do not know.' I do not know how the perfect being, the soul, came to think of itself as imperfect, as Joined to and conditioned by matter.' But the fact is a fact for all that.

It is a fact in everybody's consciousness that one thinks of oneself as the body. The Hindu does not attempt to explain why one thinks one is the body. The answer that it is the will of God is no explanation. This is nothing more than what the Hindu says, 'I do not know.'

Of blogs and the like

Every time I have a crazy weird thought, I want to write it down somewhere -- anywhere even. However, the brain that works faster than the hand doesn't permit me to do so. Well, not with the conventional forms of logging. The primitive means that they provide are just too slow aka tape drives. I had thought of recording my own voice, and then playing it back when I wanted to write it down on paper or say type it out, but I don't see that happening. Well, I lack the drive and monetary means to be able to afford such a hideous device, and then to put it to effective use.
So, getting back to what I can do.... ummm.... not much given the fact that I am a lazy howrat fucker trying to eat anything that comes within an arm's reach of me. Well, that and the fact that I haven't eaten for well.... the last 3 hours ;-)
Every time I have an idea, or a thought that I wish to blog, it just remains a wish, and just a very small percentage of those thoughts are actually materialized into something that has mass. Well, at least in the virtual world. :-)
This gives rise to a very interesting line of thought. If you say that something has mass in the real world, it means that it has the properties of existing in a way that you can see, touch, and feel. The properties of mass are so very visibly exhibited by that thing(whatever it may be). However, in the virtual world, if something exists, it just exists in the bits and bytes that are stored on the storage medium which houses that thing. Can we say that it really exists? Well, it does, but does it in the same non-destructible way that real things(objects) do?
We can always draw parallels and say that all energy can be converted from one form to the other and the apply the mass-energy equivalence that Mr Einstein so simply put forth and then wet away for us to ponder on. Thus, all matter can be converted from one form to the other. Similarly, all bits can be transformed from set to reset and vice-versa by the application of an external force. According to Mayank s 1st law of computing, all bits that are either set or reset remain in the existing state unless an external magnetic force is applied to them.
So, there isn't much to choose from between real things and things that exist in the virtual world. Notwithstanding, we shall never be able to replace the daily news-paper with it's counterpart in the virtual world without thinking about dropping some tea on it ;-)

Are you a geek?

“if you were independently wealthy and didn’t need a job at all, would you still be writing software for fun?”

If the answer to this Question is yes then you are a geek Congratulations!

Grr........""The one that got left behind.......grr"""

The one that got left behind

What comes to your mind when you read the title above? Make a quick list of a few things that do. It could be:
1. The ugly duckling
2. Some taste left behind in your mouth after having something utterly distasteful/pleasing
3. Some food speck left behind between your teeth
4. A good/bad memory, though more often than not, it's the latter that stays
5. The tune of some song that you just can't get out of your head
6. Some task on your list that you forgot to do

i had lazy mornin start even today but a really frustrated,start ......................Grrr.................hehehehcheck this out u will understand

But, I ain't gonna to be talking about any of the above. What I'm going to focus my attention on today is on that last bit of poop left behind after you flush. No matter how hard your try, how many tumblers of water you put in, however fast, it just won't go down! It's like one of those resilient warriors; kind of reminds me of cockroaches. Every time you try a different angle to put the water in, and look in to see if you've managed to get rid of it, it just bobs up right back in your face. It's like as if it's there to stay. So, you try again, and again, and again, and before you know it, your bucket of water is over, and there's none left for you to wash your hiney!!!! You think "Now is a really bad time for me to run out of water". Reminds me of a few problems I've faced in my little life so far. They've mostly been self-created like this one, but more often than not, they just go away with time, or I find a solution if I think about it with a clear head; but not this one. No matter how much time you give it, it just stays there - probably soaking up more water, or doing whatever it does best. You know that the only way you are going to get rid of it is to flush again, or heave another full bucket of water in it, but you don't have the patience to wait till the flush tank is full again, and at the same time, don't want to waste another bucket of water, now that you've already used up one already. You start thinking and staring at that mass of excreta in a very contemplative way; but to no avail. Exasperated, you move on to let the next person clean up your shit.... Well, that's life....

.....is ......."""Marketing; the 8th sin?""

Did you ever notice how people when they see advertisements tend to either:
1. Believe everything that's shown or
2. Believe only part of what is shown.

Well, I think this has to do with the fact that advertisers tend to (un)intentionally blur the facts to promote their products. I say that because it is not always don't intentionally, but sometimes, it is because of difference of opinion between individuals. Besides the utility of a certain product/feature, is entirely subjective and depends on the individual under question.

I think we sometimes wrongly blame marketing people for their (mis)doings, but I do believe that they need to get their act together and try and stay as close to reality as possible.

The thing with ads is that you can't have an enticing ad that is just factual. It needs to have some sort of feeling or direction to it and that isn't achievable by just spitting out the facts. People sometimes need to be told what use a toothbrush would be to them. You can't just highlight the features of a toothbrush without moping around the teeth, gums and bacteria aspect.

I think advertising will really come of age when advertisers learn to maintain the right balance

To BE A Slave For Life......

JUst remebered this whole attrition rate ka funda when 2 strangers wre dicussing about this and I always wanted to write something on this topic of the whole attrition rate buzz in the company,never been a part of any company tho,but may be this content would sound interesting.......

Why do we need to pledge loyalty to some company? Yeah.... the usual answer is cause you want them to be faithful to you in return. But these days, the concept of staying with one company is alien to most. In fact, this attitude has percolated down to objects of daily use such as refrigerators, computers, telephones, and even relationships. People only so much of something. They feel overwhelmed if they get too much of anything. Speaking about jobs though, if you ask someone firms he/she has been in in the last 5 years, and if the answer is anything less than 2, then more often than not, the other person is saying to [him/her]self "what a loser"....

What is happening here people? There used to be a time in yesteryear India when people were happy to get just about any job as long as they took some money home at the end of the month. But things have changed a lot in the last few years. Jobs are much easier to come by because of the free economy, and spread of education. People are more educated; or lets just say they know more these days than they did a few years ago at their age. This argument is true of pretty much every successive generation though. Lets not confuse education with knowledge for some time now. There is a greater demand for knowledgeable people, and jobs for such kind of people in India at least, which is now driving the job market. You see industrial expansion all around these days. IPOs coming out pretty much every month these days is indicative of the industrial revolution happening here.

But the big questions I have is "Why should I be loyal to a company for a very long time, and thus enslave myself?" The answer may not be very simple; in fact, I don't know it myself, but at this point in time, I know that I don't need to be loyal to any company. If you look at people who are loyal, and are looking to grow in the company in which they are are doing it either because of the money, or the work, or the reputation of the company or the position they will attain in the next few years, or for come amount of satisfaction and job security, or because of peer pressure, or a certain combination of all of the above. Of course, there are many more reasons that I haven't mentioned or even thought of. However, may a times, these people are kind of under productive in nature. They seem to have settled into thinking that they can not be displaced from where they are now. If there's anywhere they are going, it's up the promotion ladder. In return, the company does them favours by giving them incentives, promoting them, and sending them on foreign trips, etc.... But, is the company acting in it's own benefit? I mean consider there is this under productive person (A), and a significantly more productive person (B). A is loyal to the company, and everyone knows it, but B is a carefree kind of person who doesn't care too much for anything/anyone. The company decides to send A to the client as their front, knowing well that they could have done better by sending B, but they don't cause they know that there is a greater chance of A staying with the company for longer than B. So, if they send B now, then they might temporarily get a good response from the client, but B will leave in a while, and A will be disgruntled because he/she wasn't sent, and will become even more under productive than before, and might even leave. However, if they send A, then A will probably grow up to the responsibility, and even though he/she might not create a great first impression, he/she will possibly stay back with the company, and will grow with the company providing it with a stable and possibly reliable front. I don't know if I agree with the philosophy. I don't even know if I disagree with it. In an age where employee retainment has become a buzz word, and companies pride themselves on their employee retention rate(which is inversely proportional to their attritionrate) this makes perfect sense. But is that a measure worth looking at with great amount of seriousness? Thinking about it from a rational perspective, it makes sense, since the attrition rates speaks a lot about the company. If people are leaving, it is generally true that their expectations haven't been met one way or the other. But is compromising company reputation for employee retainment justified at any cost?

“Don’t Try, Can’t Fail”…But Nor Will You Succeed

I was just orkuting and met an old frnd ONLINE spoke to him,and had a dicussion of not reaching my goal,HE just said me some few words and made me realize may be i was not workin for THE thing i wanted the most,and AFTER ALL THE CONVERSATION,WHILE READIN A NOVEL, just by turnin SOME pages of a novel got this beauitiful line,a common one but never realized the importance and the need of Alacrity,""Don't Try,Can't Fail.....But NoR will You Succeed"".

But From this Simple Quote we Can see THE two sides of a coin,"one is the optimistic and one is the Pessimist""(IN GENERAL HOW PEOPLE WOULD GENREALise it)"" It’s an interesting philosophy how a pessimist see's just the first part of the quote "Don'T TRy cant Fail"" and decides not to work to reach the goal, may be because he wants to be saved from the occasional embarrassment of failure, you often have to tussle with setbacks to reach the prize of success. but a person who is an optimist decides to work for the Goal and strives for it even by knowing about the faliure he may come across

so its all about a choice to ........."To BE OR NOT TO BE"""

................................."""""TO DO OR NOT TO""................DECIDE FOR URSELF..........

ITS ALL ABOUT GRABING THE OPPORTUNITY AND PROVING URSELF or MAy be it would be SAyin ourselves....

A Beautiful Love Lovestory:-):-)

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it, God had put all the human "qualities" in a separate room. Since all the qualities were bored they decided to play hide & seek. "Madness" was one of the qualities and he shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!" And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek "Madness", all the other qualities agreed. So "Madness" leaned against a tree and started to count: One, two, three..." As "Madness" counted, the qualities went hiding. "Treason" hid in a pile of garbage... "Lie " said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake. And Madness continued to count "... seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..." By this time, all the qualities were already hidden-except "Love ". For stupid as "Love " is, he could not decide where to hide. And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide "Love". "Madness": "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..." Just when "Madness" got to one hundred..... ...."Love" jumped into a rose bush where he hid. And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!" As Madness turned around, "Laziness" was the first to be found, because "Laziness" was too lazy to hide. "Madness" searched madly and found "Lie" at the bottom of the lake. One by one, Madness found them all - except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love. Envious of Love, "Envy" whispered to "Madness ": "You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush." "Madness" Jumped on the rose bush and he heard loud cry. The thorns in the bush had pierced "Loves" eyes. Hearing the commotion God came into the room and saw what had happened. He got very angry and cursed "Madness" and said since "Love" has become blind because of u... ..u shall always be with him" And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness.!

The myth of obama-phobia in India

The moment the name "Barrack Obama" is uttered and people around the world visualize the African-American who infused huge confidence into the sagging spirits of many Americans. His campaign trail had a lot of fresh air both during the primaries and also in the Presidential campaign. He made it a point to touch the issues pertaining to people and lent in his plans and ideas for the future of America. The pure way in which he connected with his own fellow Americans coupled with growing anger against the Presidency of George Bush transformed into crushing win for the democrats. He was the right man, at the right time and someone many Americans looked up to for a change. His slogan of "Yes, we can!!!" worked wonders and was the right tonic for the people who were hit by the worst recession in six decades.

President Bush's era was painted with lots of hatred and a growing sense of "American Bullyism" was felt by countries across the world. The events like 9/11 and the wars that followed in Afghanisthan and the unnecessary war in Iraq alienated America from the rest of the world. America under Bush regime was spending billions of dollars in the so called "War on terror". This only made America and its people more insecure and is still is. Many terrorist attacks in American-friendly nations followed like the one in London and Madrid.

Back home in America, economy was weaking every quarter and more people lost jobs every month. The bad management practices which crept into the American MNC's laid seeds for a painful economic chaos. Bush's ratings was spiralling down very quickly and was regarded as the worst President in many decades. It all culminated towards the "Lehmann Brothers bankruptcy" last September and American economy had a free fall from then on. This was when a man with broad smile and detailed plans for his country entered the scene- Barack Husssain Obama. The rest is history with him becoming the first ever African-American to chair American Presidency.

All said and done, George Bush could be regarded as a villain in the rest of the world, but somehow he was very close to India. For the first time in decades, America laid out red carpet state salute welcome to an Indian Prime Minister when Dr. Manmohan Singh visited America in July 2005. Bush and Manmohan Singh had a great working relationship and signed an historic Indo-US Nuke deal. India was always quiet close to Bush and he went out of his way to convince American congress on the Nuke deal proposal. Bush's love for India was also seen as a tactical move to counter the growing Chinese economy. Bush was one of the few American Presidents who gave a strong support to India which led Dr.Manmohan Singh to say that Bush was ver much loved by Indian people during his last meeting with the American President. Dr.Singh received lot of flak for that particular remark back home.

Many in India are quiet apprehensive even from the Presidential campaign about Barrack Obama and his policies. His policies of greater check on non-prolifreation and curbing of offshoring jobs to other countries particularly IT jobs to India created lot of panic in India. He was one among the few who raised amnedments to Indo-US nuclear deal in the congress which he later didnot press upon. He was opposed to tranferring sensitive nuclear technology to India. With his election to Presidency in January, India was quiet nervous about the approach he would take towards India. His famous quote of "Say no to Bangalore and yes to Buffalo" was like hearing death knell to many entrepreneurs in India. A myth was being created that Obama would stop India's ascendancy in global stage.

The IT sector was quiet dissatisfied by the protectionist policies charted out by Obama administration which could hit this sector in particular very badly. This was just an illusion. Obama proposed the abolition of tax breaks to those AMERICAN MNC's who shipped jobs to other countries like India. Earlier, American business houses which made profits from their overseas subsidiaries(easily put as "branches") were liable to pay only 2% of their profits as taxes to American government. At a time of huge economic crisis and raising fiscal deficit in America, this kind of low taxes was seen to be quiet biased. So, they have proposed to increase the taxes to those MNC'c to upto 35%. This in no way is applicable or will affect Indian IT companies or any other sector companies for that matter. The proposal itself had a lot of opposition from companies like Micrsoft, IBM and HP who will be affected by this proposal and to top it all these proposal if accepted in American congress will come into effect only from 2011.

The main worry is the cut in H1B1 visas which are necessary for foreign nationals to work in America. With more offshoring mix than onsite in many Indian IT companies now, this could also be weathered.

Other issue which makes Indian diplomats fret is the American U-turn in a sense towards opposition to sharing sensitive nuclear technology to India. This proposal was made by America to other G8 countries but with a lukewarm response. Russia and France have already shot down the proposal and has given full support to India in tranferrring all latest Nuke technology to Indian nuke reactors. Many American nuclear companies have raised voices against this because they could loose lots of nuclear business to their French and Russian counterparts due to this proposal. These are the main fears(mainly myths) that Indians are suffering from the so called Obamaphobia.

One thing that Indians should be clear is "Obama is elected President of America". It would be very short- sighted to discuss whether he would be any good or bad to India. His role as President of America is to work for American people and their improvement. It would be better if we have an eye on what our elected politcians and what they will do for our country's improvement rather than worry about policies and work of Presidents and PM's of other countries towards our country.

Journalism Fail's

When a person dies in a publicly broadcasted news item relayed on national television it is seldom that after his demise his soul is laid to rest in peace. In todays day and age of aggressive mass media, cut-throat fight to deliver the best, hot selling (dont care about true) news, new ways of getting your content delivered to the public helps a lot. The best example is Blogs. Technology may have changed but ethics have gone down-hill. Its just become as easy as type and push and you have your piece of written bit available to the public eye in a matter of microseconds. Talking about ethics, a recent shocking and ethically appalling news came into light recently.
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and 4 other crew members including a Pilot and Co-pilot were killed when the helicopter carrying them from Hyderabad to Chittoor crashed in bad weather in Nallamalla forests in Kurnool district on Wednesday (2nd September) morning. The charred bodies and the wreckage of the chopper were found the next morning after a massive search operation. There were several questions raised after this tragedy. Like,

Why did the Chopper take off in bad weather?
Was the Helicopter airworthy?
Why did the Emergency Locator Transmitter(ELT) not get activated upon crash?
Why is the communication framework in India still so poor that many parts of our country are inaccessible and have no means of communication
But probably the most bizarre and shocking question raised by a journalist put serious question on the credibility of Journalism and Journalism ethics. Vikram Sharma of expressbuzz.com (Part of Indian Express group) has written a blog entry asking if the Pilot was in a peaceful mental condition. Baseless and written in poor taste this article raises a finger on a highly qualified Pilot who has served in the Indian Air Force for 25years. He has commanded a squadron under high pressure situations and has over 7000hours of flying experience under his belt. The 2nd of September was just an unlucky day for him and others on board. Its a risky job and daredevils like Gp Capt. SK Bhatia face this challenge everyday as a routine. Writing such thoughtless and surreal articles without having concrete proof and accusing such a great personality is something the Journalist and his organization should be ashamed of. Have some compassion for what the families of the departed are going through. I do not say, burry the matter. Enquire, ask questions , demand to know the truth - but do all this before pointing fingers and accusing a professional of amateurism. Forcing his Son to come and defend his father is not something the Indian Express should be responsible for. Have some sanctity for the departed and not cloud his character by cheap publicity.

This recent article,puts on laots of questions on Indian jounalisim,may be the jounalist have to go back to college's get a brain wash and ask question's which have some base,rather being catastrophic and ruing the situation

How do Indian Banks earn profit

There is a news that Indian banks has created an example by posting a profit of Rs.42700 crore in the year 2008-09 inspite of global financial meltdown in the year 2008-09.

Government of India and various state governments through its various departments have parked lacs of crores of rupees in current accounts or savings account of various banks. Annual interest saved by all banks added together on such deposit will amount to more than Rs.42700/ crores of rupees.

Besides there is overall substantial decrease in number of employees working in the ban during last one decade. Every year thousands of bank employees get retirement or resign from the bank or dismissed from the bank due to some reason or the other, banks have not recruited fresh employees to that extent despite quantum jump in overall business of the bank. This savings on staff expenses is contributing to a great extent in keeping bank alive and earning profit to the extent of Rs.42700 crores in the year 2008-09.

Obviously labour exploitation or increase in per employee business has helped banks to remain in profit. It may be noted here that per employee business used to be one to two crores in bank and now the same is more than eight crores.

So far as foreign banks are concerned they cannot exploit labour/employees as their Indian counterpart can do. Standard of living of bank employee in India is pitiable and that in USA is royal. There is heaven and hell difference between the wage standard of bank employees of foreign banks and that in Indian banks. Rate of interest on deposit and interest on advances is so low in foreign banks that net interest margin is very thin and there does not exists the opportunity of getting government fund in CASA to the extent as is available in India.

It is however necessary to ascertain how much total business Indian banks had two decade ago and what used to be profit percentage on the business at that time and then the same ratio should be compared with total business of the year just ended. This can only reveal whether there has been increase or improvement in the profitability of banks in India. It is to be seen whether job creation in banks is the same as it used to be before the introduction of so called reformation measures in the year 1991.
Are Indian banks really helping poor and middle class as they used to be before 1991?
Are they creating job opportunities as they used to create before 1991?
Are banks paying same high standard of wage as they used to pay before 1991.
Are customers in Indian banks getting same free service as they used to get a few years ago? Now a days banks charge fee on cash deposit, cash withdrawal, issue of cheque books and what not.

In seventies and eighties bank employees used to be called as “High Wage Islanders” whereas present position is so much pathetic that even a peon in central government service gets more than a clerk and an officer in banks.

Department of Labour & social welfare and department of Human Resource Development were established to maintain healthy environment in all establishments and to prevent exploitation of employees by employers. It is now pity that even government departments do not hesitate to take more 12 hours work from their employees. There is large scale anomalies in wages paid to employees. It is fortunate or unfortunate that there is violent movement by employees because of acute crisis of job opportunities.

Origin of the guitar

The guitar actually has a mixed heritage, but the origins of the modern instrument can be traced back to Spain. In fact, the word "guitar" is derived from the Spanish word "guitarra." Of course, for many beginning players, the last thing they really want to know

is the history of theguitar. In reality, however, knowing the origins of the guitar, as well as its extensive history, can help players develop a deeper respect for the instrument. In addition, knowing how the guitar has evolved helps players understand the construction of the modern guitar. Sometime around 40 AD, the Romans made their entrance into Spain, or Hispania as it was called. With the Romans came a musical instrument known as a cithara. The cithara was a type of lyre, but it was typically played by professional musicians. It had a wooden sounding box made of two tables connected by ribs. Above the box was a tuning bar, and the strings were stretched from the tuning bar to a tail piece on the box. Notes were played by strumming strings with one hand, while using the other hand to deaden the unwanted strings. In the 8th century AD, the Moors entered Hispania from the south. The Moors brought an instrument called an oud. The pear-shaped body of the oud was flat on the front, and bowl-shaped on the back, and it usually had more than one sounding hole. At that time, the most common oud had only four strings, and the neck was not fretted. Tuning was accomplished by turning the keys on the pegboard. Both the oud and the cithara were played with a pick, although the oud could also be played by slide and vibrato.

The earliest six-string guitar is dated 1779, and was made by a member of the family of Italian luthiers, or stringed instrument builders, who developed the mandolin. By the mid-1800s, the guitar had taken on its familiar shape, and bracing inside the guitar had been changed to the modern
fan style. The guitar's evolution continued nearly one hundred years later with the invention of the electric guitar. Knowing the history of the guitar increases a player's ability to appreciate the details of the instrument. Players have little difficulty identifying the features handed down from both the oud and the cithara, or in appreciating why that particular combination of features was used. A deeper appreciation of the guitar leads to a deeper respect, which shines through when the instrument is played.

There is lot to talk about the guitar and the evolution made in the field of music,by such a simple instrument made of wood,the thrust rod and some the 6 strings,one of the beautiful instruments in the field of provoking and makin of music

Thanks to the inventor and one of the father's of mordern guitars Mr.Gibson

Theory of Everything

Author: MAYANK

Another slow day!
I woke up at 8:30hrs by a phone call from one of the class mate,with some issue of his computer having some problem with an audio file played .
Well the problem was resolved and he kept down the phone after 25 min’s of introspection .
Just wondering about VijayDasami (Dussera)! A festival specially celebrated in great joy of dismissal of daemon King Ravana.
Mythology says Ravana has 10 heads. Today’s human will laugh on this idea.
I believe today we have so many head and so many faces, even Ravana would have felt shy.
We have new face for friends, another one for family, next for near and another one for dear and so on.
So many faces, we get lost and are unable to find our true identity. Our life is complex; in fact life is system of complex systems. We make it more complicated by adding more faces to it.
Some time I think, all theories and idea are linked. I believe in something called as Theory of Provisioning. When we provision, we get security and stability but we loose freedom and peace. This theory as a whole applies to development of human society, as well as to your car, and as well as to your life.
When you start making provision (faces) your life become complicated and you loose peace of mind
Have you heard the story?
A king who couldnt sleep all night due to tension, asked the finest of doctors to find him a solution for his ailment. Wear the shoe of happiest person in the world and you would be happy, told the doctor. The king sent all his man to find the happiest person, but when even happiest looking person was enquired, they answered that how they are burdened with troubles of life. At last they find a person, who claimed to be the happiest person in the world! The person, who looked no more than a bagger was brought to kings court, and king finding his ultimate cure, asked the bagger, Dear Citizen; I your king, is troubled by a illness which cannot be cured by any medicine. Would you be kind enough to give your shoe, because as told by the doctors, they are the sure cure for my ailment. I shall, said the kingwould make you the richest person in the world.
My lord, I am a happy person and I do not need money. I see you are in trouble but I cannot help you. said the happiest person in the world.
Why not, exclaimed the king. Because my lord, I own nothing, I have no shoes, replied the happiest person.

From Maya to Nirvana

From Maya to Nirvana

Author: Mayank

“summer days are gone to soon,
you shot the moon and missed completely.
and you are left to face the gloom,
Empty room, once smell sweetly…”

–Norah Jones, shoot the moon.

I thought the world which revolve around me is only created by me. We keep on wanting and at the end of day, what we have is lots of things which we wanted and whose outcomes we face.

Is it always too difficult to live in the maya we accumulate for ourselves?
I think nirvana is not getting all we wanted, but it is learning how to not want.

StaY Hungry Stay Foolish

ChAoS

From so many Day's been thinkin when will a person like me be satisfied with himself,waiting for the day to come,being this cyincal about things is may be in my star sign a cusp(virgo/libra)......never satisfied with wat we get need always that somethin more all the time even if its sufficent to survive

But May be this is the way to live life because if we are satisfied by ourselfs there is no scope for improvement tat's y the whole title is about "staying hungry for knowledge and stayin foolish always to ask question's to ur self about y cant or y not can i do ............things which may be look impossible.........

This particular Blog is for the people who think they could make some difference to the world and make them selfes satisfied in a way,that they always think sky is the limit

so ppl i would like u to share ur opinion's on how ppl could stay foolish and still reach there goals and ppl who have an urge to do somethin...............

but i actually dont know wat i am writin,just scramble words of unplanned sequence of scentences...........this is life for me .....................Tryin to find myself in the whole lot of chaos...........

The Warmth...

After all that happened IN and AROUND me, I just sometimes wanna sit back all alone by the window... fix my gaze and think of the times... think of what could have happened and did not.

There is something inside me that forces me to think and say aloud... "Why Me?" Then Perplexity takes over and its like who cares of the pain... My man u've done a brave thing and taken a brave decision of letting go... letting go of memories, letting go of a loved one, a beloved.

This latter version of me is now stronger, its zestful and with a new defined attitude which pushes me to the limit and with never say die attitude leading to one simple learning... "Learn from your mistakes man" and so i did...

Its been good about 4 months and the memories already seem distant... you wud say that if it was so easy to forget that means it wasnt what it was meant to be... Crushes come and go... espiaclly if you are on a rebound... but its in a way good that we dont grap these new found happiness' cuz it usually isn't always true... its the search within you that pushes you to fill the crater created by the one that left...

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle now... there is good education, sound working capability, decent understanding of things, great BUNCH of Buddies... Looking up to a great Future ahead... then "why me?" part takes over here and says, "the only thing missing is S-U-N-S-H-I-N-E"... the latter part of me takes over and says "dont worry, u deserve someone who is true, when the SUN comes so would the SUNSHINE and along with it the Warmth"

Engineering Day's

Engineering DaYs..............(Moments To cherish)

An Epoch of Life

Calling this a memoir would merely amount to employing a euphemism to ease the pain. Heading into the fag end of college days, we have had to endure phrases like ‘last few days’ and ‘final semester’ blatantly thrown around by juniors with an ease and fancy that’s excruciating.

How do you learn to move on from somewhere you’ve spent four amazing years of your life? I’m certain many of us wouldn’t have stayed put in a single place for this long, ever. It grows on you, – the environs, the people and most importantly all the special memories you’ve shared with the friends who turn out to be such an integral part of your life.

I want to share these thoughts with you – the memories, the days in college. It’s difficult, like straining to hold running water in your hands. And it’s all steadily trickling by...

The first few days in college and it all began with us in awe of the B.tech’s, then we quickly learnt to steer clear of SE’s and TE’s, and gradually developed a certain level of nonchalance towards academics in general. Friendships were forged – some of them, we were told, were going to hold good for life.

But I was not really involeved in college activites but the euphoria of my first ever, organizing or rather being a part of the orgainizing team consisting of (ashish,suvarsha,haritha,neeraj,medha, and so many other's with the juniors .......) I found an avenue for myself in all the board’s activities, fun and frolic.

And how can i forget the dance practices,with my partner neha and ashish,sabhiya and forgot the juniors name but a lot of fun time helped us in bunkin classess.........

A memory etched in my mind is about the first crush first love with some one special I hope every one know’s about tat not a gud ending but a real gud days to cherish………….for ……………will miss those days of celebration and her…………..:-)

Memorable trips to North(khullu MAnali,delhi,agra,Mathura,shimla followed (tip: do not forget a change of clothes. Believe me, it’s no fun trekking with your jeans glued tight to your legs!),and thanks to cyril,ravi,pavan and group we had lots of fun, and will never forget the Christmas party in the running train wre i and my crime partner Cyril had lots of fun pissing of people mind hahahah/.........real fun man & something’s are really gud to cherish about……

The dosa point became a regular hangout zone for the group and there were actually days when we’d been there 9 to 5. Before we knew it, exams were upon us. I can never be thankful enough to ‘JNtu ALL in one’s’, the wonder collection of sample papers which saw me through all the four years.

Nostalgia finally began to dig deep in fourth year as we posed for photographs to have a collection of memoirs and all of us hurried to get our pictures taken. Many ppl from college I must be thankfull to in bearing me,............one of the guy who comes first on the list is Mr.ravi who managed my late coming’s in the morning standing for me down stairs for the four years to pick me up in the morinin,and then ramya who’ did understand wat ever I said and gave all her attention to solve my eagerness of wantin something,real gud dependable frnd(MISS U ),and the high litE is MR.Matheen gave me a lot of life lesson’s how to be with gals which I did not take any,so sorry man and some more reliable frnds Sandeep (WOULD LIKE TO KNOW UR PLANS MAN THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT U ROCK...SANDEEP),ruksana,savitha sharma,s.k,kalyan,adithya,pavan........(Neeraj) not from my branch a nice guy always with the positive vibes and the list goes on etc…….(each person i met in these four years had thought me somethin about life...so thank u guys

The only whole lot of memories would gather me with some real interesting facts of life which will help me through out my life some Gud and Bad experiences makes a happy life at the end

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.