Love and Lust: 10 Ways to make anyone fall in love with you

1.FIRST IMPRESSION ,  LAST IMPRESSION
2. START WORKING THE EYES
3. BE OPEN TO MAKING FIRST MOVE
4. LET YOUR BODY DO THE TALKING
5.USE THE WORD 'WE' PREMATURELY
6.CONFESS A LITTLE SECRET
7.DON'T PLAY HARD TO GET
8.NO FIRST DATE DINNERS
9.ESTABLISH SIMILARITY
10. TRY AN  EGO MESSAGE

The 6 Worst Health Mistakes Women Make

1.Underestimating Heart Disease
2.Putting off Pap Smears
3.Neglecting Breast Exams
4. Not knowing family history
5.Ignoring Calcium
6.Skipping Excercise

Next Big Things...Digital Cooking

Three-dimensional computer printers" may one day cook our meals.The innovation comes from MIT design students Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran ,who are creating a personal "food factory"using the tools of industrial design .By layering ingredients in the same way that a printhead layers drops of ink ,the Cornucopia"offers  a new way to think about cooking"says Coelho.

Read AND Digest

End of evil is evil as end of good is good.
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Senses are great cheats.All that comes from them is cheating.
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Those who have seen true light do not wonder at the prosperity of ungodly.
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Real continues to exist .Unreal is subject to destruction.
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Self-realisation means understanding God.
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Never crave for fruit of action .Crave for salvation.
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Nothing remains in the heart of a pure devotee except God.
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Love and hatred,greed and jealousy,lust and anger are all gates to hell.
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Disciplined mind and senses help the intellect to reach God .
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Unless mind is calm , knowledge cannot illuminate it.
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A perfect soul is egoless.
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Desire is root of all evils.
Action without motive is the way to attain supreme height.
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One who worships God invites His grace to protect him.
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Wow! "Facebook" beats "Orkut"in India

FACEBOOK is now 2crore 9lakh  users strong and ......still counting........new features......on the site attracts people like me..

Mother Teresa's Work of Grace

Poverty: The Absence of Love
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This Order is more focused on prayer and on service than most others.They practise poverty totally to free themselves fully for prayer and service .It is an ascetic life.About 200 would-be sisters live in three connected houses in a compound in a compound sold for a pittance in the 1950s by  a Muslim who appreciated their work.

appeal for fin. help to save a promising career

her career at a glance....
class     rank in the class       per centage  of marks
ukg       1st                         93.3
1st.       1st.                       92
2nd.     A                          93.5
3RD.   A                          87.5
4TH   IV                         93.2
V       A                          83
VI      IST                      94.33
VII     1ST                    92.3
VIII    A                       89.8(100 PER CENT IN MATHS)
IX                                95
X                                 87.8(100 PER CENT IN MATHS)
XI                               79.35
XII                              83.1
1ST. SEM  BE           73.1
2ND.  SEM               76.1
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Pallavi Kushwah,student of SATI Vidisha wants to prepare for CAT .fOR THE PURPOSE SHE NEEDS LOT OF FUNDS .bUT UNFORTUNATELY HER FATHER IS A  Teacher in a private school and earns a paltry sum of Rs.3500 per month. The requirement is Rs.60000.
     Kindly donate in the account of my father....
the particulars........
name    Surendra SINGH KUSHWAH
CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA  VIDISHA (tilak chowk)
ACCOUNT NO. 1375043133

Being God for a while

God says to me with a kind of smile,
"Hey , how would you like to be God awhile
nd steer the world?"
Okay,says I,I'll give it a try.
Where do I sit?
How much do I get?
What time is lunch?
When can I quit?"
" Gimme back that wheel ,says God.
" I don't think you're quite ready yet."

Physics Timeline

This blog dedicated toall my dear participants (students) of Inspire Vaigyanik (Vigyan Pradashni being held at Govt.Excellence School Vidisha. ).The world-renowned scientist and IIT -Delhi Professor and Sadbhav Mission founder Shri (Dr. )Vipin Tripathi inaugurated the event today on 2.8.2010.
                 This blog may aument your knowledge about Physics...
                               PHYSICS TIMELINE
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300BC--640 AD   Astronomers,philosophers, mathematicians and other scientists come to the library of Alexandria in Egypt.
1543 AD         Copernicus proposes the heliocentric theory---that the sun is at the centre of the solar system.
1609 AD         Galileo conducts his famous experiments on the velocities of falling objects.He also confirms the heliocentric theory.
1687 AD         The apple falls on Newton's head.He publishes Principia ,which describes gravitation and the laws of motion.
1738  AD        Bernaulli studies the behaviour of gases .Puts forward his famous Bernaulli's theorem
1752   AD       Benjamin Franklin files a kite and shows the world that lightning is a form of elecricity.
1800  AD        Alessandro Volta invents the electric battery.
1851  AD        Lord Kelvin puts forward the first two laws of thermodynamics.
1869  AD        Mendelyev draws out the the periodic table of elements to come --not present in that day.And later when these elements are discovered theyt fit perfectly into the table.
1873   AD       Maxwell discovers that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation.
1885   AD       Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler begin the age of automobiles.They discover the internal combustion engine.
1895 AD         Roentgen discovers X-rays and wins the Nobel Prize for doing so in1901!
1897AD          Sub-atomic particles begin to be discovered.
1900  AD        Max Planck puts forward the quantum theory of matter.
1901  AD        Radio waves are sent across the ocean by Marconi.
1905  AD        The most revolutionary theory so far is put forward by a 26-year-old Albert Einstein--the theory of relativity.
1916  AD        Neil Bohr proposes a model of the atom based on Max Planck's quantum theory.
1929  AD        The Universe is expanding!   So says Edward Hubble and he proved it too!
1938  AD         The nuclear age begins --Enrico Fermi builds the first nuclear reactor.
1945  AD         The first atom bomb is dropped.
1951 AD          The age of computing begins with the first commercial computer being introduced.
1960  AD         LASER is invented.
1969 AD          Man takes his big  step in space exploration.Lands on the moon!
1971 AD          Sand in computers !  The silicon chip is invented.
1977  AD         The first personal computer is introduced by Apple.
1986   AD        GPS or the Global Positioning System is introduced for commercial use.
1989   AD        Enter www !  The world Wide Web is launched .It spreads slowly and then goes boom.
1900   AD       Space opens up.The Hubble Space Telescope becomes operational!

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       This blog appreciated in an article by Balendu Dadhich( Microsoft Most Valuable Professional 2007)on an Australian website (www.acu.edu.au/106241) 
                                                          

Overdoing the guilt

The BJP's handling of the Amit Shah case isn't helpful for the party.Far from it.
It's not our case to suggest that the BJP should have turned and rolled over to the changes made against one of its men.Whether Mr. Shah's supporters ---or detractors ---believe this to be "politically motivated"by the Congress-led government at the Centre is a matter of politics that hardly required the flurry and the fury,not to mention the drama,that's been generated.
Let the CBI bring its end end of the' presentation 'to the table.If Mr.Shah and his party has nothing to be afraid of,THEY SHOULD STOP BEHAVING LIKE GUILTY PARTIES.

A disaster still in progress

If the State had helped the Bhopal victims ,they may have had a fighting chance.It didnot
Two years in jail&bail of Rs.25000 for the 8 accused in the Bhopal gas case will do nothing to lessen the poisonous atmosphere that has clouded the controversial tragedy for25 long years.

The Ramayan

Shri Ramayan brings to every home the unbounded galactic play of Ram Lila ,purifying human sentiments and rendering life on earth in the waves of bliss.
Ramayan illumines the Purushottam Ram in the consciousness of everyone;Ramayan illumines Maryada Purushottam Ram in the behaviour of everyone.
Ramayan the sing-song of eternal life ,is a direct means to the unfoldment of Brahman,the total reality in every Jiv;it inspires the rise of every boundary to eternal freedom.
Ramayan is for full enlightenment;Ramayan is for perfection in every profession.
Ramayan is to create a perfect man,a perfect society,and a perfect world.
Ram is the invincible administrator of the universe.

Manmohanji,sir

From tackling price rise to crumbling corruption , the list of (unfinished tasks) is quite long for the P.M. to retire any time soon.
   The biggest concern of aam aadmi with UPA-2 : rising prices.
The rise of Naxalism
Universal concern of corruption :
         May I ask that if the CBI had been investigating a Congress minister and not an ally like A. Raja of the DMK , would you have shown the same leniency?

usee charkhat se

may I request u all my dear readers to plz devote some time to attend this exhibition at seculat house Delhi.this uniue work by Mr,Anil Goel Vidisha

Naxals dominate again

Their place ,their time:  The State's dithering has emboldened the Maoists to mount a series of deadly attacks

 If any proof was required that India's anti-Maoist strategy is floundering ,it came on Monday when a civilian bus was blown up killing at least 40 people.

The Master&the Mecca

Mrinal Sen's Khandahar rises from the ruins as a Cannes Classic
  When Cannes Film Festival's General Delegate Thierry Fremaux announced 'Mrinal Sen,the Master , 'an animated audience at the Salle Bunnel theatre on Saturday night responded with a standing ovation .The film-maker ,who had turned 87 the previos day ,walked up to the stage to show his 1983 film Khandahar (Ruins),for the first time after it was restored from certain death.I never expected such a large crowd,"he began before adding humbly,"I had forgotten about my film until this evening,"

Heroes..Leap of Faith

Lykesia had never been a daredevil.But when it came to saving her nephew,she was braver than she knew...

The new science of happiness..thank you is the operative phrase

The study showed that the people who were consciously grateful :felt better about their lives..were more optimistic..were more energetic..were more enthusiastic,,were more determined ..were more interested..etc.

When the Media Plays Judge

For modern pundits,"presumed guilty"has more entertainment value than "presumed innocent"
Talk about the Aarushi Case...

Tagore: 'Nothing but a poet'

Rabindranath Tagore was born 150years ago today.The question isn't whether we should discover him,but whether we're at all ready for him.
    
 It's from his intimacy with solitariness and secrecy that his extraordinary language and his transformative vision of the world emerge.He often seems to make this solitary self an interlocutor,in a tone at once self-flagellating and accusatory:"You were hidden at my heart's core /And I did not notice you".
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Among the many striking things about Tagore's life is his consistent struggle to be primarily ,a mere creative artist" even as he mutated into a worldwide figure;a struggle most artists find difficult,but which Tagore had the better of,and even benefited from.

Ready to EMBRACE

Brazil has immense potential to be a key trade  partner in the coming years.
HAND-ON HAND The Tata Motors-Marcopolo JV has already got an order for 625 buses for the Delhi Transport Corportation.

IIT-B graduate is 1st. Indian to become Harvard dean

Prof Nitin Noharia,48,Richard P.Chapman Professor of Business Administration at the century -old Harvard Business School.Many Congratulations...

The dying heart of India

VULNERABLE..With more hungry kids than anywhere else in India,MP shows how the social security system can collapse if the delivery mechanism is rotten .
    MP has a bleak child-care record.India's worst ,comparable to Ethiopia&Chad.Within the country ,it's ranked below Jharkhand &Bihar. More than half a million children below five died in MP between 2005 &today.
    At 60 per cent ,the state has India's highest proportion of malnourished children (India has the highest no. of malnourished children in the world).
  TACKING HUNGER is an HT initiative to investigate &report the struggle to rid India of hunger.

Reinventing education

India's size and variety are an ideal platform to try new models of education that would help us to mtake the lead in the 21st. century.Let's dare to move ahead as the future of our children and country is at stake.
    It is ,in fact ,nothing short of a miracle that
     the modern methods of instruction have not
      entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
                        Albert Einstein

Crosslinks' Daewoo Buy

The Daewooo plant has been on the radar of several companies since it shut down in 2001,after the collapse of its Korean parent.While General Motors had managed to take over Daewoo car operations globally,Tata Motors had pickeed up its commercial vehicle businessin Korea.

bigshoebazar.com to expand

internet   footwear retail portal will expand its integrated shopping service by adding about10 brands.

web ratna awards:a welcome move

these awards by india.gov.in
award categories
citizen centric service and seven other categories.
MP Govt. winner in 3 categories....congrats Shivraj govt.

facebook to turn sites into satellite -hubs

facebook's plan involves a variation of the 'Share'button already prevalent in many sites.
With about half Facebook's 400 million users checking company has itself as  one of the Web's most popular destinations.

Full -body search on at IPL&CO

Raids at offices of MSM,WSG

A Plateful of Problems(bookmark)

Stuffed and Starved--what lies behind the world food crisis---by raj patel
This is a tastefully written book on the distasteful aspects of  food.Patel has artfully and convincingly dissected and laid apart the contradictions of the world food system  for all to see.

Ramayana--a lexicon of Indian spiritualism

benefits of its reading
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Ramayana ensures piety and virtue.It demolishes all vice and stimulates the sense of absolute devotion.It is full to the brim with the nectar of Rama's love when all worldly attachment is repelled. One who has entered into this ocean of Sri  Rama's devotion can never get charred by the inferno of the physical existence.
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This concluding Sloka odf the Ramacaritamanasa by the renowned and revered poet Tulasidasaji.This blogger appeals the mankind to kindly read it.

eulogy to management guru CKP

CK's large ideas ,the core competency model --strategic thinking should start with looking at the core strengths of an organisation ---and the bottom -of-the-pyramid model--large companies can also sell to mthe lowest rungs of socity--were path-breaking.But so were his knowledge-building methods .He was an innovator in using MBA teams to follow individual companies ,and then collate the learning from the combined effort of all these teams into a cohesive ,systematic whole--this is what led to his best-selling and farbook,The Bottom of the Pyramid.In fact ,this is not just a book any more but a managemnent approach,adopted by many firms.At Ross,we have multiple courses with this approach as a cornerstone.Additionally ,his method of using MBA teams to create knowledge is now being used by business schools worldwide******Prof.Aradhna Prakash, Ross School of Business,Michigan University

TECHNOVISION's presentations

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 Green Building
Disaster  Management
CSE***
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Cyborg
DNA Computing
Sixth Sense Technology
Electronics and Comm.
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E-Bomb
Nano Technology
Electrical/Bio-medical/E&I
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silicon Eye----Tanu Jain(daughter of Shri Neeraj Jain a generous donor of Rs.2000 to a poor girl)
Fuzzy logic in control design
MechanicalOX2 Advanced IC eNGINE tECHNOLOGY

Tribute:Prof.CK Prahalad

CKP passed away on 16th April 2010.The great management guru was awarded Padma Bhushan by INDIAN  GOVERNMENT.

Chart a new course

The Maoist attack in Dantewada has brought out two opposing arguments.One argument focuses on a savagely unequal socio-economic reality where State neglect and exploitation have spawned a fearsome response.The other view argues that unless the State forcefully stamps out the Maoists ,all attempts at addressing development are futile .Yet there is a third view distinct from the noblesse oblige of a welfarist  argument that places charity at its centre and theBismarckian blood-and -iron argument of those who believe in matching militancy with militancy .And  that  is the argument of reform.The revolution of the poor is calling for reform  from the rich .The Naxal challenge ,however criminalised and politically motivated it may be ,is calling to us create a new social  contract based on a  partnership of the rich and the poor.
     The word "reform" so far is sadly identified with finance markets and the industrial sector.Instead,if we are to reinvigorate the idea of India ,we will have to widen the definition of liberalisation to mean a liberalisation of government,police,and a liberalisation of the way we think and live.Without reforming  the mind ,genuine liberlisation cannot succeed.How should an elite visualise itself in a country of the poor?As cornering the benefits of real growth for themselves and throwing sacks of grain or a few threadware alphabet books at the servants"?That's the attitude of zamindars,not democrats.

SATI organizng TECHNOVISION

 A national-level seminar on medern technological advances in almost all the spheres of Engineering is being organized by SATI(local engineering college famous for its faculy and students).
    It is heatening to note that Pallavi Kushwah and Ravi Goel are up to their presentation on E-Bombs(electromagnetic bombs known for their lethality in modern warfare).Both are the students of SATI(BE 4th Sem.IT BRANCH)
         wishing them best of luck for their future endevours...

War and civil rights

I believe that the death of 75 jawans inDantewara is an unfortunate fallout  of the government's wilful policy of pursuing Operation Green Hunt ,We consider the war against the so-called left wing extremists a wrong policy at a time when the country has been reeling under unprecedented  drought, crop failure and price rise.
     We can only lament the folly of the Indian GOVERNMENT WHICH LACKS THE COURAGE AND IMAGINATION TO PERSUE A NON-MILITARISTIC PATH.

German Doctor practising unique Homa therapy

Dr. Ulrich Berk from Germany is busy performing Homa therapy on the bank of river Narmada at Bandra Bhan in Hoshangabad district.

Honda spreads its Wings

After scooters , the Japanese four-stroke maestro is readying motor bikes
This year (2004) will see the entry of yet another player into the Indian motor cycle market.
But this will be a player unlike any other . This will be the entry of the world's largest two-wheeler
manufacturer, Honda.
               With three products available on the market,Activa,Dio and Eterno,HMSI has done the impossible ; it has halted the slide in the segment.

Power firms lose Rs. 30000 crore every year

Plan Panel Puts Blame on Theft ,Poor Billing

Case Files

David Headley's confessions make India's case stronger
    David's guilty plea before a UScourt confirms the case India has been making against the Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT).It should not only tighten the noose on T H Rana ,Headley's co-defendant and co-conspirator for 26/11,but also help New  Delhi mount diplomatic pressure on Islamabad to move against the LeT as well as bring to book all the perpetrators of26/11 on its territory.

Congratulations

To Mr.V K Murthy (Indian Cinematographer) for winning the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for2008

Portal(Under)Play

Sulekha thought of social networking before it became a fad..
    This site is counted among the top six potals in the country today.

GROWING UP ON PORN

FULL MONTY:Accessing p[orn has become simple for teenagers and tweens.What will happen to them whey grow up?
Men who consumed large amounts of pornography were less likely to want daughters ,less likely to support women's equality.
must read: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives ...by Pamela Paul

THE HINDU FUEHRER ,A PRISONER OF HIS IMAGE

SIT summons to Modi,the mass murder of 2002 Godhra riots.
 So, here is my question why did Modi's career never take off in the eight years that followed the riots/Why is he still no more than what he was in 2002--to quote India Today--a hero of hatred?
     Modi's supporters say that this is fine .In2014,India will have have tired of 10 years of Congress and will look to a strong, assertively Hindu leader.They could be right.But I very much doubt it.Not only do Indians instinctively prefer a centrist leader,who promises peace and stability.
      Modi's failure to hit the national bigtime reminds us that even if a politician has tge support of the people of his own state of a vocal hardcore  of devotees across India and the INTERNET  that counts for little in national politics.

baby

spring beauty

butterfly

friendship wallpaper

rose

plumeria flower

swty

cutie

Cutie Pie

India's Next-Gen Pharma Firms

1. NOVALEAD
2. SPHAERA PHARMA
3.INCOZEN
4.INDUS BIOTECH
               Going by drug research statistics-one in 20 molecules in the pre clinical stage makes it to the market-and considering the four companies have 16 molecules in pre clinical or more advanced stages of development , there is a fair chance that atleast one may make it.

THE GREAT INDIAN MUTUAL FUND STORY

 The recent regulatory pronouncement scrapping distribution fee from equity schemes has added to the woes of smaller fund houses to ensure investment stability investors should not consider both the brand name and long term performance of the fund house before investing .
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    EQUITY LINKES SAVINGS SCHEME
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                                                                  Canara Rodeco Eqity Tax Saver

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  The ET quarterly MF Tracker lists MF Schemes on the basis of their risk-adjusted performance based on a detailed number crunching excercise carried out by the ET Intelligence group reserch has been done in-house while data was sourced from Icra Online .THE Sortino ratio a superior risk-adjusted measure was used to assess the fund performane we take three years as the yardstick for the five board categories  of funds equity diversified ,equity-linked savings scheme(ELSS ),mip and debt scheme with similar risk -returned profiles are clubbed .The return score is arrived at by alloting 60%weight to past three years absolute return and 40% weight to the past one year return these weighted returs are then comparted to the weighted benchmark return for the period and the resultant figure denotes the return score for the scheme.We have assumed BSE 500 AS THE  benchmark for the equity and schemes and risk-free interest rate by SBI,corresponding to the period under consideration as the benchmark for non-equity categories.

THE GREAT

पंडित गोविन्द प्रसाद अमृत महोत्सव

मध्यप्रदेश के वित्त मंत्री श्री राघव जी भाई द्वारा " राष्ट्र के गौरव " उपाधि से ज्योतिष सम्मलेन विदिशा में सम्मानित तथा पंडित ब्रजबल्लभ आचार्य स्मृति न्यास भोपाल द्वारा "शिरोमणि पंडित " की उपाधि से सम्मानित अखिल भारतवर्षीय धर्मं संघ के महामंत्री पंडित गोविन्द प्रसाद शास्त्री वरिष्ट धर्माधिकारी विदिशा के प्रति इस ब्लॉगर की यह भेंट समर्पित है। शुभम करोतु....

पंडितजी अमृत MAHOTSAV

Driving Deluxe

the bad news for all potential car buyers is that the price of crude oil has now topped $147 a barrel,which means hikes in fuel prices is only a matter of time.The good news is that India leads the world in the growth of rate of dollar millionaires.At last count ,these exceeded 100000 and were growing at 21per cent per year.These are buyers who took for Rs. 50-lakh car,and don't lose sleep over fuel prices.

If India is a poor nation ,can there be a market for so many sinfully expensive cars?

It is hard to believe the transition taking place in the land of Gandhian thrift and socialistic simplicity.But , as the marketers are themselves discovering to their surprise,the business of luxe is more than a reality than a dream now.

Hottest in Luxury

Jet Aiorways First Class:Rs.190000

Breguet watch:Rs.1-2crore

iPhone 3G:rS.8557

mACbOOK aIR: Rs .97000

BMW 1 Series 40 lakh rupees

surinder

Our right to defend

One of the prime functions of artistic expression is to offend standard sensibilities.In India ,Art remains a limp ptotective device.
Exactly 21 years ago today,on Feb.19,1989,Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to killl Salman Rushdie ,the author of what he proclaimed to be a blasphemous novel,"The Satanic Verses "While this act instantly galvanised--and radicalised --the protests from Muslim communities in various quarters against Rushdie,it was in India that "The Satanic Verses "was first banned end-Oct.1988 by the Rajiv Gandhi -led Congress government,months after the novel was first published .

The dangerous Web

virtual threats: Hacking was the most common form of cyber intrusion in India in February2009
70% website compromise &malware propagation
21% malicious code
4% phishing
1%spam

Dubai World to seek 6-month reprieve to repay $22b

Al Ittihad" report: Dubai World will request a debt freeze from the end of Feb.

A failure of Indian Diplomacy

The missing attributes of the Indian civil services viz. application ,initiative snd intelligence resulted in not being able to take the endless diplomatic initiatives to pressure Australia

E&Y Entrepreneur of the 2009

ANAND G MAHINDRA of Mahindra Group bagged the the top award for the year when his Twch Mahindra move to acquire &digest fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services &putting it back to on its feet.
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PANKAJ r. pATEL CMD Zydus Cadila

Vanishing Tigers

This blog is devoted to "Save our Tigers"compaign
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Counting of tigers ,which ranks first in the wildlife census going on these days,presents a sorry picture.The tigers have not only reduced in numbers but in certain sanctuaries they have totally vanished.The first news came from Sariska wildlife sanctuary in Rajasthan ,with no trace of the tiger.All the tigers were killed by the infamous hunter Sansar Chand and other greedy villge folks.This led to the PM Dr.Singh to undertake a high level probe and tigers are being rehabilitated here once again.

Anybody whom takes the compilation subtitled "The strange case of the attack on the Indian Parliament"seriosly ,can only shake his head in sympathy or disbelief at the collective derangement of 1050 million Indians .
Could it be just that Afzal's case was legally indefensible and it was decided to let him get sentenced so that a tear-jerker amnesty plea could be subsequently?

The Search Within(a poetic take on the nation)

Who
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Which dream is this, that is unfolding

Whose blood is that boiling
Whose breath is that full of fire
Whose steps are faltering but holding
Words that are smouldering
Heartbeat that is emboldening
Whose steps sound like an army marching
Who is this awakening
Whose thirst is to drink a river
To tell the truth yet deliver
Whose wounds strike a melody
Intensity that melts an eternity
Whose shade is as magnificent as sunshine
Whose blood thick ,soup-like
Who is this with bones in his lips
With words fixed and crisp
Who is this moving on even in his sleep
Let me look within
Is this impudent one me?
The turmoil and rousing is in me perhaps
Self belief is what I am discovering

Over the Hump:Insurance

Insurance in India has crossed an inflection point and is well on its way to becoming the next hot thing in financial services.The earth moved with the revolution in telecom and retail banking.Well ,it is moving again with insurance.

Penetration and density are on the rise

country insurance penetration insurance density

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USA 9.61 3755.1

INDIA 2.88 22.7

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Across the industry,trained manpower ,consumer education and awareness,good quality data and use of technology at the customer interaction level are already getting in the way of growth.

Insurance industry is currently poaching from other aligned industries such as telecom and retail,but then it is equally at risk of attrition due to people leaving for other indudstries .However ,the biggest hurdle in the way of the industry's growth is a lack of capital.The section that follows tellls you what innovative methods insurers are using to overcome the constraint.

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1956.............Govt.sets up LIC OF iNDIA

2000............ Irda 's licences to private insurers.......ICICI Prudential and HDFC Standard Life ...first to sell.

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web addressses of private insurers

avivaindia.com

bajajallianz.com

bharti-axalife.com

birlasunlife.com

hdfcinsurance.com

iciciprulife.com

ingvysyalife.com

kotaklifeinsurance.com

maxnewyorklife.com

metlifeindia.com

reliancelife.co.in

saharalife.com

shriramlife.com

tata-aig.com

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Booknmark:Two Lives by Vikram Seth

Seth maintains his clear-cut ,unpretentious,though elegant and mesmerizing style from the first page to the last .
Yes. Two Lives is truly spectacular in the manner in which it interweaves wisps of India ,the Thirs Reich, Auschwitz, and the holocaust,Israel and Palestine,post-war Germany and Britain of the 1970s .

SOUTH KOREA:The Trillion Dollar Economy

Area:98859 sq.km.
Pop. 46.1 million
Literacy 98% Religion Buddhism,Christianity,Confucianism
Korean construction businesses are the most prolific in the world ,and the nation ranks second in ship building,making over 27% of ships built in 1994.Exports have crossed $1000 billion mark ,exhibiting a 1000-fold increase from the level of $1000 million in 1964.
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A highly modern ,advanced country with state of the art infrastructure and excellent telecommunications support ,South Korea has stunnned the world with its entry in FIFA World Cup 2002.Today ,it has brands such as Samsung,Hyndai and LG that have entered millions of households.There is much more in this Republic for businesses to profit ,as the economic growth seems unstoppable...
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INDO-KOREA BUSINESS RELATIONS
wITH kOREAN STEEL MAKER POSCO establishing a subsidiary in Orissa,it has become one of the largest potential foreign investors in India($12 billion)

Big , black& booming :black money

The growth of the parallel economy is distorting the legal economy.But the authorities are unable and unwilling to intervene.

Pricey politics: Political parties routinely fund their election expenses with crores in illicit money.

India's inaction on money laundering does not surprise Indians.But the US' track record is much better.

9/11 EFFECT:The atttack on the twin towers was funded by $300000 in hot money coming through varios conduits from Osama .

Hamara Bajaj hamara rahega:Bajaj Auto

Demerging Bajaj Auto ...Bajaj says the split will help unlock the value of different businesses ,but the Street feels otherwise

"Satyagrah:The Matchless Weapon"

Now there is a book that takes you on a step -by-step journey to how Gandhi went about making Satyagrah the ultimate weapon to achieve societal,environmental and political victories.In today's context,Satyagrah can be a perfect protest tool for consumers--much like the concept of 'boycott'that has often brought errant manufacturers and service providers to their knees

author:Savita Singh PUB: gOVT. OF iNDIAsATYAGRAH EMERGED AS A WELL-TESTED AND EXHAUSTIVELY EXPERIMENTED STRATEGY for bringing about a non-violent revolution --be it Nelson Mandela struggling to end apartheid in South Africa,or Martin Luther King fighting racism in America--all subsequently experimented with Satyagrah " at different parts of the world and got the desired results.

chip design:Intel inside IIT-Bombay

Why has Intel ,the$7-billion chip maker ,opened a VLSI lab at IIT-Bombay?Because it belives its $1000000 investment will boost the supply of engineeing talent for the chip design industry.

Smoke and mirrors

We need to know what happened in the 26/11 attack.the UPA must set up a panel to uncover the truth
Will we ever know the truth about 26/11 ?Were ther e only 120 terrorists who laid siege to the self-respect of a nation ?When Israel opened a line of negotiation with the terrorists at Nariman House ,how did the Centre respond ?During the strikes ,the Maharashtra DGP AN R oy publicly rubbished speculation that a line of commmunication could be opened with the attackers.But the intercepted tapes indicate that there were several openings to use negotiating skills to buy time--if not wear down the gunmen .Add on these tapes you can hear the Israeli negotiator from his Embassy inWashington imploring the terrorists to "GIVE US 2 HOURS"in order for the Indian ambassador to ghet in touch with "the government in Delhi".
After all,if the lessons of 26/11 are to be learnt and taught ,one must first know what the unvarnished facts were.Surely ,ther truth doesn't have to terrorise us?

climate shock

DOCTOR,DOCTOR ,SOMETHING'S WRONG
A host of climate -related diseases threaten to swamp already strained public health systems
Possible problems Adverse effects
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Temperature extremes More daily deaths and disease events
Fooods More injuries,deaths and rise in infectious diseases
Aero-allergen production Increased allergic disorders(hay fever asthma etc.)
Food-poisoning
Water-borne infection
Vector -borne infection
Fisheries
Sea-level rise

IS THE INTERNET TAKING OVER OUR LIVES?

WE'RE on the Net 24+7 ,whether it's our PCs,laptops or mobiles .Have we started relating more to the virtual world than the real world?
What people do online...........
Email
Chat
Google Search
Social Networking
Reading blogs
YouTube videos
Downloading
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Thus begins The Machine Stops,EM Forster's science fiction tales,published in1909.The novella describes a world in which almost all humans lead isolated lives in underground cells .etc...............

IT:WHEN THE ELEPHANT JUMPED{IBM}

IBM'S strides have been invisible but could affect the fortunes of the Indian IT leaders
IBM is leveraging its global workforce to compete with younger and more agile rivals *******************
Legacy lives on :IBM founder Thomas J Watson Sr. 's slogan 'Think' became its brand ThinkPad ,now used by Lenovo
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IBM in Bric countries : India :73000 employees,$750 million,Largest IT company ,bigger than TCS,Wipro,Infotech
China:10000employees in2007,$1.5 billion

Infosys:Markets &Margins

After its core market hit self-destruct ,Infosys began looking at high-margin areas &new products.
rANK NO.3 AVERAGE MARKET CAPITALISATION Rs.105306 cRORE
tHE COMPANY HAS BEEN ....
Pruning costs
building capacities

bookmark:well-written snapshots

The Next Asia:Stephen Roach
Legendary economist STEPHEN ROACH's book on Asia is wide-ranging ,but offers few new insights on India.
Stephen Roach has been with the Broookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Board,but he identified more with Morgan Stanley ,where he has been Chief Economist for years,and is currently Morgan Stanley's Asia operations.
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publisher:wiley
price Rs.2450

India's web story:still not fast enough

No.7: India's global rank for average connection speed ,at895 kbps. Haryana tops the list of Indian states ,with an average speed of1271 kbps.
No.4 India's position in terms of Internet traffic.It had 3.9per cent of observed traffic.China &US accounted for 45%.

Song sangh true

Mumbai is for all Indians .Coming from the RSS chief ,this won't be music to the ears of the Senas.

            So for the RSS to give a stern finger wag at the goons protesting against non-Marathis is helpful not only to firm up the notion of Indians being free to work,live, drive and travel in taxis,wherever they want  ,but also to help Mumbai not to return being the fishing town it once was.

hANGING BY A COAT

RK Pachauri shouldn't perpetuate the dogma that being well-off comes in the way of being honest .

     Rajendra Kumar Pachauri has thawed that old debate that ,we had been frozen with time:is it sinful to be rich?To quote an Irish dandy who preferred wearing an expensive jacket to a shabby coat,"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating ."

      Don't worry that yours isn't a biodegradable rags-to-climate crusading tale.In fact ,don't worry at all.

Basic nations drift away from Copenhgagen

RETHINK? The mitigation action given to the UN by 4 Nations does not keep accord in mind 

                     Less than 2 months after agreeing to the Copenhagen accord ,India ,China,Brazil,&South Africa,or Basic countries ,have moved away from the accord in their communication on domestic mitigation action submitted to the UN.

                        

something spiritual

"where there is Krishna,Dharma or righteousness is there;and where there is righteousness ,victory is assured"

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bible:  "Arise ,shine ,for your light has come ,

                and the glory of the LORD rises upon you

                   see,darkness covers the earth

                      and thick darkness is over the peoples,

                         but the LORD rises upon you

                             and his glory appears over you.

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An economicCRISIS primer

Econmists define a recession as "two negative quarters"the economy produces less output--fewr goods and services --for two consecutive three-month periods.
India's slowdown
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Since the world economic crisis started ,India has fared better than the United States did .We didn't have the real-estate bubble that the Americans did ,even if our house prices have come down recently .And our banks have held up better.
Many experts believe that China and India will be the countries that will lead the rest of the world pit of the present crisis---hopefully by the start of 2010.

movers and shakers:2008

CERN:for creating a global black hole scare on a particle collider27km.long
BARACK OBAMA
B.RAMALINGA RAJU
AMIR AJMAL KASAB
MICHAEL PHELPS FOR A DAILY CALORIE CONSUMPTION OF OF120000
USAIN BOLT FOR BREAKING 9.5 SECOND MARK (WORLD RECORD FOR 100&200m)
JERRY YANG TO TAKE ON THE RUTHLESS MONEY POWER OF Google............yahoo!
ISRAEL AND HAMAS
RATAN TATA
CORUS,JAGUAR AND LAND ROVER Deals
robert mugabe and ln mittal
slumdog millionaire ar rehman ...jai ho..
benazir bhutto

APJ Abdul Kalam:indomitable spirit

Digital Library Initiatives
There is a mission to create a portal for a Digital Library of India piloted by the Ministry of of IT with the IISc and Carnegie MELLON University as partners for fostering creativity and free access to all human knowledge.
Books by Kalam:India2020:A Vision for the New Millennium
Wings of Fire
Ignited Minds
Envisioning An Empowering Nation

MP:SHIVRAJ MALADMINISTRATION

sENSITIVE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OR MERE ADULATION
60 per cent of MP's children are malnourished

iPad kindles a new war in Digital Age

iPad :key features
multi-touch screen
works in any orientation
LED backlit glossy widescreen
Display resolution
1024-by -768-pixel at 132 pixels per inch
Gizmo vs gizmo
Display 9.7 inches
Weight:680g
eBook format:open ePub format
upfront cost:$499

Swamy and friends:cypress

A former clerk leads a global team of engineers in a state crippled by bad goverance.How passion and innovation keep Bangalore going

He doesn't hide his 13-year careeer as government clerk and cashier ,the spartan 2-room flat he shares with a friend ,the Idon't-really-care attitide to travels that trake him to Ukraine,Japan,and Taiwan,and an ambition that involves quitting his job leading a team of8 engineers on the cutting edge and technology.
At his company ,Narayana Swamy MK(35 year-old)---Cypress Semiconductor India Pvt.Ltd.,he rubs shoulders with IIT&IIM graduates,his intuitive ability and passion valued over his lack of educational pedigree(his only qualification is a one -year course in data and software).
Over2003&2004,they combined talents to win competitions building coputer systems (a traffic light controller&a digital front-panel for motorcycles)around a bunch of microscopic silicon circuits carved onto a Cypress chip called a P-SOC,or programmable system-on-chip.
His aMBITION REVOLVE AROUND THEIR CHIP ."I want to give employment to at least 500 people,based on P-SOC," says Swamy.

Essay

What Unites India: Freedom abhors perfection.In the history of nations,it isa narrative in which idealism is in combat with ideology ,and the romance of struggle gives in to the reality of compatibility.Old demons in tattered but still colurful clothes of ethnicity and tribalism that have the habit of gate-crashing the freedom party .Hate Rearmed patrols the liberated streets.In the evening of the last century ,when the idyll of communism was shattered ,when the Lie was finally laid to rest ,we saw how the poignancy of freedom was accomplished by the agony of separation .Those were the days when the punsters of journalism could stretch their creativity ,ranging from Mikhailangelo(Gorbachev)to check -oSlovakia.The story of 1989,Europe's annus mirabilis,would outgrow the beauty of the magic lanternand the second Prague Spring .In Central Europe ,the phraseology of liberation would be expanded to include the Second Holocaust "and ethnic cleansing".Today ,as Mesopotamia stages the new century's passion play of freedom,we know the world hasn't gone too far.Freedom divides the mind,and it kills.

Conratulatioins

To...Priya Budholia,engg grad.from SATI,selected by Tata Consultancy Services(TCS)as IT Consultant .

She is an elder daughter of my dear friend Uday Bhanu Budholia,sub engineer Water Resources Deptt,Halali Project Vidisha. Wow ! you achieved!

LASER TURNS 50

ray of light:what was put down as a'parlour trick'is today set to ignite nuclear fusion.And of course it writes your CDs too
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the most portentous events in the history of science:the creation of laser.Like many a transformative development ,it was met initially with thunderous public indifference,although there were a few mutteringsabout'death rays'.Anumber oif techno-pundits regarded the upstart gizmo as basically a parlour trick ,a solution l0ooking for a problem",as Charles Townes ,who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the idea ,later wrote.
Half a century later ,lasers m,check out our groceries,read and write CDs&DVDs,guide commmercial aircraft ,enable eye surgergy &dental repairs,target weapons,provide worldwide communications,survey the planet,print documents,cut fabric for clothing &metal for toolsmake powerful pointers for PowerPoint slides&are now poised to ignite nuclear fusion,among scores of uses.
Finally ,the beam's coherence makes it stunningly powerful.Alaser drawing a couple of kilowatts(slightly more than your home hair dryer)can cut through an inch of carbon steel .Out in California,researchers at the Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility are about to concentrate192 laser beams totalling 500 trillion watts on a capsule of hydrogen ,the size of a p[encil eraser.If it works ,the power of the lasers wilol shove the hydrogen atoms together hard enough to ignite nuclear fusion,creating a microscopic star and with it ,some people believe ,the prospect of limitless energy for society using the same source that fires up the sun.
On eof these days ,Perhaps.

Oh!The Koreans

Korean companies in India....
Hyndai Motor India
LG Elecronics India
Samsung India...
Having seen the success of three chaebols ,Korea is looking at India differently.
At a glance :Two nations
In2002 India Korea
Pop[ulatio0n 1 billion 47.6million
GDP $1.25 bILLION $1.38 BILLION
fdi $ 2.6 b $5 million
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They always think big and take risks .Compred to the Japanese ,they are very fast in decision making---SG Awasthi ,ex -chairman Daewoo Motor India

Bookmark:Return to Almora

An environmentalist takes a detour via his novel to bring us close to nature

Much like climate change ,spritualism is much in demand these days .It turns out that both these subjects are close to RK Pachauri's heart .So ,here's a book from the chairman of the Nobel prize -winning IPCC in his avatar as awriter of fiction.
Return to Almora succeeds in establishing a certain creative faith in matters spiritual .You could say that Pachauri has brought us closer to nature once again,but this time through a different route.

Pole Star

South explored ,Reena fixes gaze on North Pole
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Grit and a bit of fortune is how Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu describes her maiden expedition to the Southn Pole.The first Indian woman to ski to the pole ,Reena however emphasise on the larger issue that the entire expedition sought to raise---that of global warming.
THE 38-year-old mountaineer spent 38 days skiing on the polar ice cap to raise awareness of environmental issues.

US climate change bill in trouble

An ambitious climate change bil has been sliding down President B.Obama's to-do list even before the Republican upset in Massachusetts that saw Scott Brown take Ted Kennnedy's Senate seat.

Netaji,not netas

Subhash Chandra Bose was the practitioner of the antithesis of today's identity -based politics.More than ever before ,on his 113th birthday,we need Bose's pan-Indian vision.

serching u desperately...KR Basson

My old friend Basson .....Wher are you ?
KULDEEP RAI BASSON :Diploma in mECHANICAL engineering
BE{Mech } Jabalpur Engg. Coll\ege
Asstt.EXECUTIVE eNGG
HAL RIG MANUFACTURING DIVISION
lucknow

The polluters say they will not pay

The top-billed Copenhagen climate conference ended with nothing more than a disgraced accord,now rejected.We know what the conference was supposed to agree upon:drastic emission reduction targets by industrialized countries and actions supported by finance and technology by emerging countries such as India.After 2 years of intense negotiations and heightened concerns related to the growing impacts of climate change,the world was supposed to be ready to sign a deal to save the planet.That didn't happen.Worse ,the world showed it was ready for a slugfest,with top leaders participating in dirty ,deceitful and underhand moves to get an accord which was neither effective nor fair.They supprted law ,bur didn't conquer,because the rest of the world showed them might was not right.
As the conference opened in Copenhagen ,a different game emerged .A group of countries -led by the US and Australia assisted by the host government of Denmark -had every intention to subvert the ongoing proces and replace the agreements with a framework of their own.In the very first week ,even as negotiators stuggled to find consensus on issues in the meeting rooms,the UK daily Guardian leaked that the Danish government had a 'paper' ready to spring on the process.This paper contained the elements of the new coalition of the willing.It proposed weak targets for the rich countries ,changed the global, legally -binding nature of the pact to a voluntary stategy based on domestic actions and rejected all principles of equity.As news broke of this 'Dansh proposal' the hosts played dumb.The proposal went underground.
After a long wait,the meeting was reconvened .The UN secretary general was called in for help.But to no avail,as countries refused to allow the accord to be passed with consensus.It was agreed that it would be 'noted and that countries which wanted to associate with itwould write to the secretariat and get themselves listed on friends,supporters and ,Iguess,recipients of the money promised .
The story isn't over.Let us be cler.Copenhagen is the point at which the world has shown its true colurs--the polluters will not reduce and will not pay.
We are all poorer for it.The question now is --what can and must we do?

Destination Jaipur:biggest lit fest

Come ye all to Asia's biggest lit fest
co-directors: William Dalrample and Namita Gokhale
Tina Brown of the New Yorker who visited for the first time ,dubbed us"the greatest literary show on earth."

congratulations

To....Shri Shailendra Chauhan,kavi-aalochak,for his promotion as Deputy General Manager ,Power Grid Corporation ,Baran{Rajasthan}
his profle at:www.siliconindia.com/blogs/shailendrachauhan

Ruchika's toons............

Ruchika's toons robbed Rathore's smile
Top Cop said she had drawn his caricature instead of apologizing

Wage a Kurushetra

Ruchika Girhotra did not die in vain.She has energised the moral imagination of a new and assertive India,disposing the lazy ,unthinking belief that our middle-class is purely self-absorbed ,consumerist and callous.It says something about our changing society that an event that took place 19 years ago has become the source of outrage today and catharsis.Oddly enough ,dharma may be rising rather falling in our country.
It began on Dec.22 when I read about a police official sentenced to six months in jail for molesting a 14 year old girl.That evening I remarked cynically to a friend that this was just one of those stories that would soon die .He shook his head sadly and asked ,"What will it take to improve government?A Kurushetra-like war?"
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may I suggest a must read by Gurcharn Das:The Difficulty of Being Goood :On the subtle Art of Dharma"
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MS Pandher :A Monster

Alllegations
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child sexual abuse
serial killing
cannibalism
flesh trade
organ trade
paedophilia
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add.D-5,sector Nithari ,Noida ,near Delhi
alumni: Bishop Cotton School
St.STEPHEN'S cOLLEGE dELHI
DEALER : JCB equipment
The mind of a serial killer:Sexual sadism is a type of sexual perversion and is also called paraphilias.
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JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED

Pollution :stench of failure

rivers of poison
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with more than 45%of the total of the total sewage released in the country emanating from Maharashtra alome,its rivers are now among the most polluted.

E-music to the ears

According to a soundbuzz PricewaterhouseCoopers report on entertain ,the mobile music industry in India will be the largest at Rs. 3600 croreby 2009-10.

Bookmark:The Ascent of Money

A Controversial Account
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this book authored by:Niall Ferguson,one of the world's hundred most influential people by Time" magazine.He teaches history at Harvard University.
The Ascent of Money is Ferguson's attempt to mistify the world of finance.And he does so well by showing how finance has evolved from basic recordsof the annual harvest on clay tablets in Mesopotamia to modern day hedge funds that operate everywhere,yet exist nowhere.
Along the way ,he makes important periods to explain how the idea of wealth has evolved over time from the possession of solid pieces of silver under the Spanish empire to the ownership of relatively complex financial instruments such as equity shares,bonds and insurance.
Ferguson's this book too is likely to be controversial .In one chapter .He describes the 17th century Scottish economist John Law as little more than a genius-rogue,responsible for creating one of the earliest stockmarket bubbles,while he served the emperor of France.
There are also moments when Ferguson leaves the lay reader confused :he introduces the concept of hedge funds early in the book but does not fully explain them for another 200 pages.
A writer ,researcher,political activist,or teacher does not always have to be right to be judged important.To be sure ,Chomsky has beeen right about issues just as often as he has been wrong .
However,Chomsky can sometimes be very callous with his facts .While writing about the 9ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL) invasion of East Timor by Indonesia ,he claims the US supplied 90 per cent of arms used .However ,he does not provide any reference for this assertion .For those who wish to think critically about America and the world ,this collection of Chomsky's writrings is truly essential.

Actions tweet louder

If the twitterati were India's voting class,then Shashi Tharoorwould be the Supreme Leader.A few weeks ago ,when Tharoor's tweet on the government's visa policies generated much fuss among his ministerial colleagues,I had jocularly tweeted,"Maybe ,Tharoor should quit politics to and join journalism.He would have greater freedom as an edit page writer than as a neta!Within minutes I was hit by an avalanche of angry Tharoor followers on Twitter,suggesting that I had committed the ultimate "sin" by questioning their Twitter icon's credentials to hold public office.
Unfortunately for Tharoor ,his parliamentary contituency of Thiruanathapuram isn't quite the Twitter universe while his Congress party workers reserve their adoration for only one Family which is why Tharoor the politician is at odds with Tharoor the Twitterer.The success of Twitter is built on the idea of having an open and constant conversation among a mix of anonymous and influential peole and is designed to bridge social divides .Indian politics ,by contrast thrives on being an exclusive club of the power elite,with minimal contact with the masses.
Tharoor ,of course ,faces another peculiar problem.As a first-time MP who has catapulted into a ministership,he arouses envy and insecurity among his conteporaries.For the many netas waiting in the queue ,the fact that a 53 year-old electoral debutante has taken the elevator to political success is enough for them to look for ways to cut him down to size.An angelicised ,accented ,foreign returnedTharoor is almost a caricature for a vast majority of netas who derive their legitinacy by claiming to be genunine desi 'sons of the soil '.
Just as a candle has become the preferred symbol of middle class activism ,the 140-character limit of Twitter is perfect to express a strong opinion without having to actually get involved into the fuss of public life.
Post script: Tharoor and I come from the same school .He has over six lakh followers,I have a little over 30000 .Since Twitter can be one giant ego massage,must confess to being a little envious!

On Top of the World

Women are moving into positions of power at some of the world's biggest corporations.But for many it's still a long way to the top.

Ten years ago,when we first ranked the world's50 Most Powerful Women ,finding female leaders at Fortune Global 500 companies based outside the USwas an impossible task .There weren't any.And of the 82 women we recognized prior to to this year ,only one --Xie Qihua ,chairman of China's Shanghai Baosteel ---occupied the corner office of a non-US Global chain Daiei and Sanyo.

Biotech Queen

K
ir
an Mazumdar Shaw started a biotech revolution in a Bangalore garage.

Remodeling Martha

MLSO :CEO Susan Lyne says ,she is No.21 in our2005 on our Most Powerful Women List.
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Martha Speaks :
On her legal ordel..."I felt like Alice in Wonderland.I fell into a nightmare."
On agreeing to go to prison...
"When the water is in front of me and the fire is behinf me,I'll jump."
On prison consultants...
"They charge $25,000 to tell you everything .They don't tell you anything."

Show them the money

Indian hockey cannot be run in this ad hoc manner . A professional set-up is a must .

Torrential Reign{bramcohen)

Bram Cohen's BitTorrent software nmade it a cinch to pirate films on the Internet.So why is Hollywood on his side?
Here's how BitTorrent enables Internet users to distribute even humongous files--legally or,in this case,not.
1. A movie fan runs
2. Dowloaders get the BitTorent software ,then find the dot-torrents online.
3.As the swarm grows ,the distrribution burden is spread among users...
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Thanks to real businesses (nd,of course,pirates)BitTorrent has45 million users.
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cohen solved the puzzle of why he acts as he does when he realized he had Asperger's
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Cohen and COO Ashwin Navin ,however ,have a plan they think will build on the founder's brainstorm.

Small cars ,big deal

India is well on its way to becoming a global hub for making compact automibles...

Two tears after Ratan Tata unveiled the Nano at the Delhi auto show ,the city is getting a glimpse of how carmakers across continents reacted to the world's cheapest car .This year's exposition has on display small cars fromToyota,Genral Motors,Volkswagenand Honda,the heavyweights of the automobile industry.
Most of the models will ,over the next two years ,principally small ones ,are growing at 16per cent a year.There is 4 of the the 1.4 million cars that sold in India in2008-09 will be compact .China and India are the the only two sizable growth markets in the world ,significant for any global manrufacturer in the long term.India offers the added advantage of being a testing ground for a global shift towardssmaller ,fuel-efficient and low-emission cars.
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Car penetration per 1000 people
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UK 511
US 458
Germany 499
Brazil 102
Russia 212
Japan 490
India 11
China 22
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@movies

Toy Story was the first full-length film to be completely computer-generated.It required 87 2-CPU SparcStation 20's ,30 4-CPU SparcStation 20's and a SparcServer 1000.ABOUT 800000 MANHOURS WENT INTO PRODUCING THE MOVIE FOR pIXAR ,OWNED BY sTEVE jOBS OF Apple.

Micro-credit Messiahs

Anew breed of microfinance entrepreneurs has emerged on the scene ,armed with magt. techniques and technology,and a burning desire to get big quickly.

Harsha Moily uses microfinance to create a rural market place .Son of former K'taka CM Veerappa Moily,an MBA from Thundeerbird.
Mnab Chakraborty's Mimo Finance lends to the poor of Uttarakhand.
Subhankar Sengupta has a customer base of 23000 with a cumulative loan disbursement of rs.16 crore
Rakesh Dubey and ANUP kR. sINGH OF sonata finance disbursed 25 Crore Rupees.
Kishore Kr.Puli disbursed 3.5crore
Praseeda Kunam serves pne of India's poorest districts,Rewa.
PN Vsudevan :4500customers within a month of launch..Vasu...quit a Rs.55-lakh per annum job with Dev.Credit Bank to launch UPDB.

With eyes wide shut

Most people would opt for a nice long snooze over other things . So we'll take a nap while you read this

Now , for those of you turned in dateless and earlier than fellow party-goers this New Year's Eve ,take heart.It seems that those 40winks are much more precious to the masses than finmding a long-forgotten tenner in the old jeans pocket or even cuddling up in bed.In fact ,if a survey by Britain's Batchelors Cup-a-Soup makers is to be belived ,most people would prefer to doze off on their own rather than waste time getting cosy with their parterners.What's more ,a good night's sleep guarantees greater bliss than the odd lie-in,sleeping on freshly laundered bed linen ,uncontrollable laughter;reminiscing with friends and even a grand bargain at your favourite store.
Now only if our judges back home had known this earlier --and duly followed that age-old 'early to bed and early to rise'adage --they'd have promptly tucked in at seven and woken up fresh enough to plough through those mounting case files.And have been spared the wrath of litigators and legislators alike,given their prosperity to teeter at the edge of wakefulness while graver matters hang in the balance.
So ,with the proposed new judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2009, our men in black won't be hitting the snooze button on their alarm clocks anymore.Under the new rules,the gravel's set to come down hard on the sloppy and the drowsy.
It's hard to blame our lawgivers,given that long-winding arguments can easily put even hardcore energy-drink junkies to sleep.But the fact that the nxt time they can be hauled up before an Oversight Committeee should serve as a wake-up call for those looking for a quick catnap in the courthouse .Our advice: it's best to get that night's sleep,mate.

Down from Earth

There's a buzz about extra-terrestrial life being discovered soon. But do aliens want to be found?

We are not alone .That much we know by looking beyond our elbow and finally the guy in the next seat blissfully munching on his samosas.But are we humans the only sentient beings in the universe?Before youn can quote that line from the Bhagvat Gita ,Nobel-prize-winning Nasa astrophysicist John C.Mather tells us that wee are "very close to finding other Earth-like planets in the universe ."Which makes it more likely for life like ours to exist outside this climate -changing planet of ours.
So what has made Mather revive that old chestnut of alien life?After all ,finding extra-terrestrial life was the talk of the galaxy when the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan put that bee firmly in our bonnet some 30 years ago through his award-winning TV documentary series Cosmos and novel Contact.Well ,apart from the instrument on Chandrayaan1st. finding traces of water on the moon last year and aliens returning in the post-Spielberg era w2ith James Cameron's Avatar raking up piles of earthly currencies , a series of telescopes schuduled for launch this year will be carrying new radiation-sensing technology that can detect planets revolving around alien suns.So ?Well ,bright boys like Mather presume that if planets spin around a star and have days and nights,they will have temperatures that support life-forms.Frankly ,we're not holding our breath.
But before we get excited about the prospects odf coming into contact with little green men or sqidgy brown women,we should ask two questions.Do they want to be found ?And is ther really intelligent life on Earth ? Going by what we see these days,the truth is still out there.

tH E WONDER DECADE:INFOTECH

1999: MILLENNUUM BUG:TCS , Wipro, become trusted parterners for Y2K compliance.
Infosys achieves $100 million in revenues.
2000-2001:Indian IT industry moves from Y2K to complex e-business projects.
2002-2003: NR Narayan Murthy steps down from Infosys and Nandan Nilekani takes over.
2004-2005:TCS lists on BSE.
IBM,Accenture andHPSTART DEVELOPING THEIR Indian offshore presence to make them their largest operations outside the US.
2006-2007: Indian IT becomes $31-bollion industry.
TCS ' annual revenues cross $6billion.
Satyam fdounder B.Ramalinga Raju admits to over $1 billion fraud.

Billy's pugmarks:a tribute

The indomitable Billy Arjan Singh taught that the tiger is an animal worth fightimg for.
In the forests of India there is mourning Billy Arjan Singh ,an old tiger ,is dead .
I give quiet thanks for Billy .AND FOR PEOPLE LIKE uLHAS , fATEH sIGH rATHORE, vALMIK tHAPAR ,bITTU sEHGAL ETC.

From the blog cabinet

In the month of August 1999,the San Fransisco company Pyra Labs ,made an international service avaible to the public.The format was basically an online diary that was named after a contractionof the term "weblog" first coined by the term hirsute anti-capitalist John Barger in 1997(The contracted name "blog"was coined by Peter Merholz after he broke up the word "weblog"to "we blog" and give birth to a full-blown verb.)

Blog in!

The Internet has become a dominant means of communication across the globe.It has enabled highly successful services such as e-mail and chat for direct conversation,and newsgroups mand forums for publishing ideas and thoughts.People share not only opinions over ther Internet,but also photographs,video,music and money .The Internet has evolved into a huge graffiti boardm where anyone can stick up their creations,for feedback and comments from people from all walks of life.
Some popular sites for blogging
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www.livejournal.com
www.blogger.com
www.blogroots.com

Blogging Etiquette
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Don't use abusive languageon public blogs
Be discrete with the pictures.
Respect all bloggers.
Healthy blogging is for the open-minded .Don't ban a user because he or she has differing opinion.
Don't hesitate to ban mischief-makers from the blog.
If you are referencing items from other Web sites ,provide a link to them.

Let the rivers flow

Indian policy makers scoff at traditional water harvesting .For them infrastructure stops at big projects ,possibly because of big money.
Some solutions for water management:Big dams are not equitable
*Empower communities
*Create awareness
*Maintain water bodies
*River basin organisations