Nice one read somewhere:
Unhe ye shikaayat hai hamse...
ki hum har kisi ko dekh kar mushkurate hain...
nasamajh hain wo kya jaane...
hame to har chehre me wahi nazar aate hain…
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Friday, December 23, 2011
23rd DEC, 2011... Farewell day @ TCS
After a restless night, finally the day had arrived -
Farewell day @ TCS
Many things going in my mind at the same time... and a memory from my degree college days flashed in my mind, b'coz of which i couldn't control my emotions... One of my commitments for my self, could accomplish it so well... Tata Consultancy Services was always a dream company for me and will always remain in future ahead...
It's been an honor, to be a part of TCS!!!
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Engineering Taught Me A Lot !!!
I Never Believed In Luck
But Engineering Taught Me to..
I Never Believed In Shocking Miracles
But Engineering Taught Me to..
I Never Believed Results Could Be So Freaky...
But Engineering Taught Me to..
I Never Believed ,
I Could Smile at Professor Who Screwed My life
But Engineering Taught Me to..
I Never Believed,
I Could Study 1000 pages In 1 Night
But Engineering Taught Me to..
I Never Believed,
I Could Write 36 Pages In 3 Hrs
But Engineering Taught Me to..
I never Believed,
friends could be so handy to help out writing exam
But Engineering taught me to..
I Never Believed,
"I Could Cry Without Tears"
But Engineering Taught Me that to..
Enjoy one of the most interesting courses offered in the world
Enjoy the thrill
Enjoy the impossibilities.. !!
Dedicated to All The Engineers.. !! :))
If you're an Engineer then Proud to be one..!! :))
Friday, December 2, 2011
Nostalgic....
Today for a moment... all the memories, since 4th Aug, 2010, flashed up in front of my eyes... don't know if my decision is a wise one... but m happy tht i ws given an opportunity by fate, to live up one of my dreams...
Monday, August 29, 2011
Pahila urla nahis tu......
Pahila urla nahis tu
Asa kasa badalas tu?
Vegalach manus zalas tu
Dur kuthe gelas tu?
Pahila urla nahis tu
Kon jaane me hoto kay?
Kon jaane me ahe kay?
He sodhat sodhat jaane mhanjech jagane nahi kay?
Saare jug zaalay undara majaracha khel
Manache gaane ekayala ahe konala vel?
Udhat mathyacha ek tarun
Aata kuthe jaage houn
Mhanatoy aapan manus sodhu
Tutlya manachya bhinthi sandhu
Arre tu, tu tari mhanu nakos dost,
Asa kasa badalas tu.
Ka nahi jayeche me durr deshath?
Sthan milavache navya samajaat
Kartutva dakhavache mazya vishayat
Ka kudhat raheche nirash manaat?
Samjun kase ghet nahis tu?
Asa kasa badalas tu?
Pahila urla nahis tu.
Maze bhaadan nahiye tuzyashi
Maza savvad ahe keval mazyashi
Olandache sudha ahet mala samudra saare
Bhatkanti karyachi ahe hya ayushaat.
Nave nave prayog pahin jugacha pathivar
Mazi matra kavita ghirvin mazach, mazach maativar
Me aani mazi he pora
Soduya mhantoy he koda saara
Pan, pan dostit nasatat padat prashna asale
Kahi shan correct jamale…kahi thodkyat fasale
Tuzya manachi ubhari…mazhi mazhich tar ahe saari
Ek vatene jau kay ani nahi kay…..
Asa kasa badalas tu?
Vegalach manus zalas tu
Dur kuthe gelas tu?
Pahila urla nahis tu
Kon jaane me hoto kay?
Kon jaane me ahe kay?
He sodhat sodhat jaane mhanjech jagane nahi kay?
Saare jug zaalay undara majaracha khel
Manache gaane ekayala ahe konala vel?
Udhat mathyacha ek tarun
Aata kuthe jaage houn
Mhanatoy aapan manus sodhu
Tutlya manachya bhinthi sandhu
Arre tu, tu tari mhanu nakos dost,
Asa kasa badalas tu.
Ka nahi jayeche me durr deshath?
Sthan milavache navya samajaat
Kartutva dakhavache mazya vishayat
Ka kudhat raheche nirash manaat?
Samjun kase ghet nahis tu?
Asa kasa badalas tu?
Pahila urla nahis tu.
Maze bhaadan nahiye tuzyashi
Maza savvad ahe keval mazyashi
Olandache sudha ahet mala samudra saare
Bhatkanti karyachi ahe hya ayushaat.
Nave nave prayog pahin jugacha pathivar
Mazi matra kavita ghirvin mazach, mazach maativar
Me aani mazi he pora
Soduya mhantoy he koda saara
Pan, pan dostit nasatat padat prashna asale
Kahi shan correct jamale…kahi thodkyat fasale
Tuzya manachi ubhari…mazhi mazhich tar ahe saari
Ek vatene jau kay ani nahi kay…..
Sunday, July 10, 2011
have breakfast or be breakfast
Lenghty article but please find time to go through
Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ]
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling standalone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India ? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India . That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget
So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. ( India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton 's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India . PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years.When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.
Success is not something to wait for; it's something to work for…
Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ]
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India ?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling standalone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India ? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India . That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India ? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget
So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. ( India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton 's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India . PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years.When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.
Success is not something to wait for; it's something to work for…
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Money has no memory. Experience has.
Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother's life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won't remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.
Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn't know from where the tomorrow will come& life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full& sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn't enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.
The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support& The first time she said 'yes' and it was two years since you proposed& The first cry& the first steps& the first word& the first kiss& all of your child& The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you& The first award& the first public appreciation& the first stage performance& And the list is endless& Experiences, with timeless memory& No denying that anything that's material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.
So, what if it's economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn't cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive. Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.
Time will pass& economy will revive& currency will soon be in current& and in all this; I don't want you to look back and realize you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences& If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.
Make a statement with the way you live your life: How I feel has nothing to do with how much I have....
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