Some good news for the educated who want to respectfully participate in politics here is your chance. If politics is one profession that doesn’t require any preparation, then Tanmay Rajpurohit, Ajit Ashwalyan Shukla, Amit Beesen, Chandrashekhar and Bharat Sundaram are certainly overqualified for the job. Although these five IITians perhaps hold as many degrees as [...]
Archive for January, 2006
IITians launch Political party
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2006 | 57 Comments »
Bunty aur Babli in IT
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2006 | 4 Comments »
(via TOI) and Subroto Bagchi’s column Times of Mind which is not available on the web. He talks about the impact of IT on rural India. For the first time in India, their socio econmic background will not come in their way as they to enter the most exciting part of their lives. Information technology [...]
India Disgusts
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Proud to be an Indian ? read this. (via IHT) Up to 10 million female fetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades following prenatal gender checks, according to a study published in Britain’s leading medical journal, the Lancet. So what do we do ? I am waiting to hear from [...]
Enjoy The Coffee !!!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2006 | 7 Comments »
(via Jamshed Wadia) good friend and former colleague at Intel. Don’t know the source of this short Story but i really liked the simplicity of the message Group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work life Offering his [...]
2006 : Cautious Optimism
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Nature demonstrated its anger in 2005. The next year could be one where there could some interesting outcomes. Some I fear are – Reservations expanding from private education institutions (political parties ganged up against a supreme court ruling) to private enterprise. This will severely impact the meritrocracy hiring policies of all companies including IT. – [...]
“Chalta Hai” Mindset
Posted in india frustrates on January 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
(via Indian Express) There is no magic like customer pull. If voters—in the group where the voting volumes lie—demanded better public amenities and services, then the supply side would change. And when there is no hope, then sab chalta hai, as in chalana he padega. When we see better, and there is hope, then patience [...]
Entrepeneur’s Leap of Faith
Posted in wisdom on January 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
(via Atanu) Brilliant article so much so, in the fear of losing the link pasted it in whole. The Faith of Entrepreneurs …by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Ludwig von Mises didn’t like references to the “miracle” of the marketplace or the “magic” of production or other terms that suggest that economic systems depend on some [...]
