Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
bangalore traffic jams
Donno who wrote this…but this is amazing!! People living out of Bangalore…welcome to this world!! Over these last few years of living in Bangalore, I have slowly grown to like the jams, which this city provides in abundance.
These jams do build your patience and character. Is it a coincidence that India's most patient cricketers, Dravid and Kumble, hail from this city of jams? (Dravid is even nicknamed "Jammy"). Does it tell you something?
Sri Sri Ravishankar...does he get his daily dose of spiritual inspiration while in a jam?? And will I also get a halo after a few more years of this "character building"?? There are, I am sure, thousands of future Anands stuck in the Adugodis and Anand Rao circles, who are plotting their moves against future Kramniks... those poor little Kramniks stand no chance. And if you see a professor-like guy prancing around the Palace road jam, you can deduce that a postulate in Physics has just been proved.
A few days back, I had a thought - If we can have reviews of movies, which occupy only a few hours of our life in a month, why not reviews of traffic jams, which takes up significant hours of our day?? So here is my review of some of Bangalore's famous and not-so-famous jams(in no particular order).
But before that, a general comment - As they say, the taste of food in a restaurant is dependent on the ambience ; similarly, the way I see jams, cozy inside the office shuttle or public transport, is different from the way the owner of the swank new SUV sees it. (btw, if you are the owner of the swank new SUV, don't run me down).
1. The Hosur Road Jam - Unarguably, the mother of all jams. We (ex-) Infoscions are proud of being (once) associated with a great company. We are equally proud of contributing in no small extent to this jam. This jam gives a great glimpse of the Other India - colorful music-blaring interstate buses, garment factory workers, highway trucks, smoke spewing lorries and such. Provides ample food for thought for socialist minds. (Rating: ***1/2)
2. The jams around K'mangala/Forum mall - Definitely the best jams in town. PYTs (Pretty young things), fancy cars, and fancy restaurants; this has it all. But you can't afford any of those. Never mind!! Your sadistic brain can take pleasure in the fact that the guy in the fancy car next to you is cruising around for a parking space, feasting his eyes on the PYTs , while his family is having dinner in one of the fancy restaurants. (Rating: ****1/2)
3. The KG Road jam - To be experienced in the evenings before a long weekend. Every auto/taxi in town seems to be stuck while going towards the City railway station - your hair stands on end, you start sweating, the heart beats faster, and you get the rush that a Michael Schumachaer gets on his last lap. And just as the auto moves, a movie show ends and a few hundred more vehicles pour out... Which was the train that hooted just now?? (Rating: ***1/2)
4. The Jayanagar jam - The puzzle-lovers jam; Jayanagar is maze of bylanes, one-way streets, no right-turns, no left-turns, traffic signals and whatnot. It is an establised fact that Point A to point B, in Jayanagar, can be reached in 6436 distinct ways. But whichever way you take, you are left with a hollow feeling that another route had a better and bigger jam? (Rating: **1/2)
5. The jams around Marathahalli/Whitefield - The IT professional's dream jam; As she sits in the office shuttle looking at other office buses, she can make her career plans. A typical evening in this jam goes thus: Voice from Company A bus : "Any J2EE developers in your bus?". Three guys from Company B bus respond "Yeah" and get down. By the time, the bus crosses the Marathahalli bridge, the first guy is hired as a J2EE developer. The second guy, who didn't know what J2EE meant, is hired as a project manager and the third guy is rejected as he realised late that he has already worked for Company A last year. (Rating: ****)
6. The Airport Road jam - Similar in taste and character like the Koramangala jam but has socialist twist. This jam treats the rich businessman, who will later travel business class on Jet, the same as a poor programmer, who had unusually come to office early in the morning, 3 months back, to buy one of those cheap airline tickets. (Rating ****)
7. The BTM 7th Main x 7 Cross jam - Close to my home, so close to my heart. But alas, the spoilsports at BDA finished the flyover at the Jayadeva circle and brought an end to this jam. But for a couple of years, this jam used to give me pure joy as vehicles of all types created a tangle in the small bylanes of BTM layout. The BDA is now planning a new flyover at the Udupi Garden junction; so there is still hope (Rating ***1/2).
We jam lovers - currently this club consists of only me - have petitioned the government to protect and preserve traffic jams as a cultural asset of Bangalore. Just so that traffic jams are not endangered in the future, we have these suggestions:
1. Build more flyovers - Flyovers do not reduce jams. They just transfer it to the next junction. And in the 2 years that it takes to build them, you are assured of some joyous jams. I am drooling...
2. No public buses - If everybody goes by buses, where will our culture go?
3. Make Tata's 1-Lakh car cheaper by making it tax free - Imagine every two wheeler replaced by a car...The prospects are mouth- watering.
please fell free to send more suggestions :--
The High Performance Entrepreneur
my close friend deepak birthday i brought one book for him because he is crazy about reading
books, but i don't know that my choice is as much good. deepak read that book with in two days
really amazing book, after few month i read that book and i highly admire by this book , then me and my friend thought write review of this book and deepak done almost everything and also publish this article to his company paper and response was amazing
and try to summarize book in below section :--
George Bernard Shaw once said, "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules". But “The High Performance Entrepreneur: golden rules for success in today’s world” has really given some golden rules for all the new entrepreneurs. Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and CEO of MindTree Consulting, draws upon his own highly successful experience to offer guidance from conceiving the “Idea to the IPO level” in the book.
This includes how to decide when one is ready to launch an enterprise, selecting and keeping a team. It also define the values and objectives of the company and writing the business plan to choose the right investors, managing adversity and building the brand.
Starting an enterprise is like having a baby. It is very difficult task, full of discomforts and sacrifices. The very first chapter is all about to access yourself whether you are ready to launch a brand new organization or not, and provides a checklist for the same. The first step needed is to be an entrepreneur is the ability to make personal needs and comforts subservient to the larger organizational goals. The chapter also includes a lot of wrong reasons to start a company people think about. There must be a family of great ideas or product not a single product or idea is sufficient reason to start a new venture.
He writes in his book characteristics of people who become entrepreneurs and first and most important thing is Self-confidence. His own words “'You cannot show me a person who does not believe in herself and yet is a successful entrepreneur” another good thing that he said “If you don't love to make money, do not start a business.”
The examples of Siddartha of Cafe Coffee Day, Gopinath of Air Deccan and Kiran Majumdar of Biocon tell how they look at into the future and started great ventures. The third chapter named "Sensing the right Opportunity" is all about the examples of some success stories like above.The chapter on selecting right team for a start up says that the team-members must be able to pull themselves and others, have multitasking capability, shared vision, personal integrity with transparency, resilience and also sense of humor.There is an excellent chapter on the subject of “DNA, Mission, Vision, and Values,” From deciding DNA of the organization to writing mission statement and from vision to values, every thing is explained greatly in this chapter of the book.
After thinking through the DNA, mission, vision and values, the organization needs to think about its differentiation strategy, which is addressed in chapter number six. In today's world, capital or technology does not deliver the differentiation, it comes from the sustained management thought and practice. This is explained by the writer in very simple words with some very good examples. It is not an option, it is survival issue, the writer believes.The chapter “Getting Good People and Keeping them” describes almost all things about working for a startup company and given nine nice points. In a startup organization employees have to deal with various risks until the company stabilizes and sharing rewards after that, they need to contribute towards the energy (resources of organization), not depend on it while working unsupervised and with teamwork in a low resource work environment.
The chapter “Building Process Focused Organization” gives insight for the need and importance of the process and its relation with the quality. There is very good example of a Japanese monk about the quality.“To be successful in business you should love two things: selling and money.” This, I feel, is the most powerful - yet simple - statement made in the book.
All the chapters are very balanced and have less words then some one can expects from a book on entrepreneurship. I was amazed by the simple and interesting language used in all the eighteen chapters of the book. There is no need to refer dictionary for finding the meanings of difficult words while you are reading this book. Some of the topics that were published in the book are known to the people, but this book made them understand by the impressive style of writing the things. Good read for all of us!!
books, but i don't know that my choice is as much good. deepak read that book with in two days
really amazing book, after few month i read that book and i highly admire by this book , then me and my friend thought write review of this book and deepak done almost everything and also publish this article to his company paper and response was amazing
and try to summarize book in below section :--
George Bernard Shaw once said, "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules". But “The High Performance Entrepreneur: golden rules for success in today’s world” has really given some golden rules for all the new entrepreneurs. Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and CEO of MindTree Consulting, draws upon his own highly successful experience to offer guidance from conceiving the “Idea to the IPO level” in the book.
This includes how to decide when one is ready to launch an enterprise, selecting and keeping a team. It also define the values and objectives of the company and writing the business plan to choose the right investors, managing adversity and building the brand.
Starting an enterprise is like having a baby. It is very difficult task, full of discomforts and sacrifices. The very first chapter is all about to access yourself whether you are ready to launch a brand new organization or not, and provides a checklist for the same. The first step needed is to be an entrepreneur is the ability to make personal needs and comforts subservient to the larger organizational goals. The chapter also includes a lot of wrong reasons to start a company people think about. There must be a family of great ideas or product not a single product or idea is sufficient reason to start a new venture.
He writes in his book characteristics of people who become entrepreneurs and first and most important thing is Self-confidence. His own words “'You cannot show me a person who does not believe in herself and yet is a successful entrepreneur” another good thing that he said “If you don't love to make money, do not start a business.”
The examples of Siddartha of Cafe Coffee Day, Gopinath of Air Deccan and Kiran Majumdar of Biocon tell how they look at into the future and started great ventures. The third chapter named "Sensing the right Opportunity" is all about the examples of some success stories like above.The chapter on selecting right team for a start up says that the team-members must be able to pull themselves and others, have multitasking capability, shared vision, personal integrity with transparency, resilience and also sense of humor.There is an excellent chapter on the subject of “DNA, Mission, Vision, and Values,” From deciding DNA of the organization to writing mission statement and from vision to values, every thing is explained greatly in this chapter of the book.
After thinking through the DNA, mission, vision and values, the organization needs to think about its differentiation strategy, which is addressed in chapter number six. In today's world, capital or technology does not deliver the differentiation, it comes from the sustained management thought and practice. This is explained by the writer in very simple words with some very good examples. It is not an option, it is survival issue, the writer believes.The chapter “Getting Good People and Keeping them” describes almost all things about working for a startup company and given nine nice points. In a startup organization employees have to deal with various risks until the company stabilizes and sharing rewards after that, they need to contribute towards the energy (resources of organization), not depend on it while working unsupervised and with teamwork in a low resource work environment.
The chapter “Building Process Focused Organization” gives insight for the need and importance of the process and its relation with the quality. There is very good example of a Japanese monk about the quality.“To be successful in business you should love two things: selling and money.” This, I feel, is the most powerful - yet simple - statement made in the book.
All the chapters are very balanced and have less words then some one can expects from a book on entrepreneurship. I was amazed by the simple and interesting language used in all the eighteen chapters of the book. There is no need to refer dictionary for finding the meanings of difficult words while you are reading this book. Some of the topics that were published in the book are known to the people, but this book made them understand by the impressive style of writing the things. Good read for all of us!!
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Painfor IT stocks
News :: Pain not yet over for IT stocks 
sensex is falling like a waterfall what u think it's come back ?
how much time it will take ?
what about IT sector reupees vs doller and subprime,
alsoIndia-US nuclear deal.
The Sensex has lost 13 per cent since touching to a record 15,794.92 points on July 24, sliding amid a global equities sell-off. Shares slid on concerns that economic growth might slow as losses on US subprime, or higher-risk loans, might prompt banks to rein in lending.
sensex is falling like a waterfall what u think it's come back ?
how much time it will take ?
what about IT sector reupees vs doller and subprime,
alsoIndia-US nuclear deal.
The Sensex has lost 13 per cent since touching to a record 15,794.92 points on July 24, sliding amid a global equities sell-off. Shares slid on concerns that economic growth might slow as losses on US subprime, or higher-risk loans, might prompt banks to rein in lending.
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