I had read this poem after watching Hey Ram and forgot to capture the beauty of the lyrics written by Jibonanda Das, probably mesmerised by the piano recital composed by Illayaraja (I am not sure whether it was stephen devasi who played the piece for IRaja - Nee partha paravaikku or Nandri...)
The original lines of the bengali poem is described here (which was recited by Rani Mukherjee in the film)...
Akashe jyotsna
Phuler pathe chita baagher gayer karam
Hridoy amar horin jano
Ratrer ei niraboder bhetor, kondike cholechi?
Rupali paatar chaya amar shorire
Kothao kono horin neyi
Aar joto door jaayee, kaashter moton banka chaand
Shesh shonale horin, shorsho khete niyeche jano
Taar par dhire dhire dube jaache
Shata shata mrigedaar choker ghumer andhokaarer bhetor
The translation goes here....
Moonlight in the sky
On the Forest Trail the Scent of the Leopard
My Heart is like Deer
In the Silence of this night, which way am I going?
The silvery shadow of leaves on my body
No more deer anywhere
As far as I go I see the moon bent like a sickle
Cutting the last golden deer-grain
Then sinking slowly
Into the darkness of all the sleep
In the eyes of a 100 does.
I was floored by a particular line which had the lyrical beauty - "Ratrer ei niraboder bhetor, kondike cholechi?" - In the Silence of this night, which way am I going?
~Lakshman
Monday, May 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Great Indian Tamasha - Elections 2009..
Voter's Paradox - I always have this guilt feeling of choosing the best of the worst leaders as my candidate representing my constituency (which means i haven't chosen the right one anyway). If i fail to choose the one among the worst, I have another feeling of guilt, which reminds that i haven't even chosen the candidate (whether the right one / wrong) to do good.
I am not sure how to answer this paradox. If some intelligent person convinces me and tells me that "Arey ! you have to vote for the right candidate, say XYZ, what is the chance of my vote contributing to his win, when somebody offers free television sets, other ones offers 2Rs / kilo Rice, another idiot offers 25 kg of wheat..burning the exchequerer.
My next question would be - Is there any way to canvass / convince all my voters in My constituency to vote for the right candidate, so that my vote/right to franchise picks the right candidate - to do good for the people. I neither have the money / muscle power to withstand the goons/politicians of the modern day (Yaaruppa !! adi vangarathu...)
Then I thought whether i can sought the help of media to find out and project any good leaders, I never found even one single channel which is bother to showcase any real potential and take them to people. They are very much eager to fight to claim who is secular, who is pro-poor, who offers bribes etc, if not bothered about Size Zero of a bollywood actress / a gay actors - walk on the ramp.
When i analyse further, I understood that I had no clue of the candidate's assets / their background (even background checks happen for a fresher in a job market not for politicians), their nexus, their revelations etc. If i had lost my faith in political parties, is there somebody to stop them / arrest all those violations ? - I doubt there is someone.
If an institution takes a firm stand and advises the party not to field a candidate who spoke irresponsibly, why they failed to act against a former CM's threat againt a District Magistrate who is a lady (come on !! where the Mahila Sanghs and NCW now who protested for beating the girls in Mangalore).
If ruling party accuses the opposition for a irresponsible candidate's emotional address in a rally, i never understood why congress never apologised for his father (Sanjay Gandhi's deeds when it was in power)? or why there is a clean chit to 1984 Sikh riot instigators (I might sound like a BJP supporter, but i would like to clarify that I am neither member/attached to eny party)...
To me the question is why is there double standards when an opposition party does, an ally which fails to join a coalition is treated differently on similar issues by the institution which conducts elections, media and the highest legal body.
I never understand Secularism - To me its the most abused word..(Secularism is nothing but differntiating / demarcating the Religion with State - according to wikipedia) which literally means, there shouldn't be any religion during ruling the state / contesting the elections. If building the Ram temple - which is an action item in a party's manifesto is communal and not secular - which i accept, how come parties like Muslim league / any other religion can contest/have a name which directly signifies any religion.
The so called pesudo secularists (ably supported by all leading news channels in TV) never question anybody who represents a minority. India is one country, which stoops down for all the minorities irrespective of the religion. I have lived in UK, where I being a Hindu which is a minority / my uncle who is naturalised citizen there never enjoys anything as Minority...Infact you can't claim anything in the name of religion.
To me voting in Indian system seems to be futile exercise and (sorry to quote) but i believe it has the same result as a tissue paper after the flush. I was shocked to understand a foreign diplomat and writer who is going to contest from kerala has 21 crores (as a part of the "disclosed assets - mind you it is disclosed)...
Tell me frankly till few years ago, the candidature's allocated expenditure was a lakh...now increased upto 25L...I hardly understand how come EC came to conclusion that 25L is sufficient when i can't build a house in 25L. Elections are polluting, see the noise, songs and dances at the time of exams with MGR's " Nalai Namathey" songs when students are rigorously working hard...see the amount of paper used....
with everybody colorfully smiling as "varum kala mudhalvar (future CM)".
On one end, you speak about caring for the environment by not printing an e-mail, here its the other way. Nobody talks about, what they can do....(or) what they will do, how to create jobs, how to afford education, how to increase the standard of living of any BPL family - Blank NO....
They speak about Eelam, Price Rise, Job Losses (Even they are global repercussions and not state govt's faults - as they are not that knowledgeable to screw the system).
To clean up the system, which is really difficult, I would strongly recommend the progress card / report system of how much you have accomplished of what you said. To me India doesn't need a dictator, doesn't need an economist who can think and runs behind a lady for advises, doesn't need a scientist who can't do beyond the presidential powers of forwarding to the cabinet.
To me I would like to be led by a man like gandhi, a guy who can guide without any great aspirations(mind you guide and no remote controls like any firangi ...) millions to vote / not to vote, to make people accountable for being the servants of this country and not ministers/MPs who go around in cars, get gas connections in the capital.
If by civil disobedience, you can boycott the british army and generals, i sincerely believe we can boycott these men too who beg for votes from us.
Swadeshamitran.
I am not sure how to answer this paradox. If some intelligent person convinces me and tells me that "Arey ! you have to vote for the right candidate, say XYZ, what is the chance of my vote contributing to his win, when somebody offers free television sets, other ones offers 2Rs / kilo Rice, another idiot offers 25 kg of wheat..burning the exchequerer.
My next question would be - Is there any way to canvass / convince all my voters in My constituency to vote for the right candidate, so that my vote/right to franchise picks the right candidate - to do good for the people. I neither have the money / muscle power to withstand the goons/politicians of the modern day (Yaaruppa !! adi vangarathu...)
Then I thought whether i can sought the help of media to find out and project any good leaders, I never found even one single channel which is bother to showcase any real potential and take them to people. They are very much eager to fight to claim who is secular, who is pro-poor, who offers bribes etc, if not bothered about Size Zero of a bollywood actress / a gay actors - walk on the ramp.
When i analyse further, I understood that I had no clue of the candidate's assets / their background (even background checks happen for a fresher in a job market not for politicians), their nexus, their revelations etc. If i had lost my faith in political parties, is there somebody to stop them / arrest all those violations ? - I doubt there is someone.
If an institution takes a firm stand and advises the party not to field a candidate who spoke irresponsibly, why they failed to act against a former CM's threat againt a District Magistrate who is a lady (come on !! where the Mahila Sanghs and NCW now who protested for beating the girls in Mangalore).
If ruling party accuses the opposition for a irresponsible candidate's emotional address in a rally, i never understood why congress never apologised for his father (Sanjay Gandhi's deeds when it was in power)? or why there is a clean chit to 1984 Sikh riot instigators (I might sound like a BJP supporter, but i would like to clarify that I am neither member/attached to eny party)...
To me the question is why is there double standards when an opposition party does, an ally which fails to join a coalition is treated differently on similar issues by the institution which conducts elections, media and the highest legal body.
I never understand Secularism - To me its the most abused word..(Secularism is nothing but differntiating / demarcating the Religion with State - according to wikipedia) which literally means, there shouldn't be any religion during ruling the state / contesting the elections. If building the Ram temple - which is an action item in a party's manifesto is communal and not secular - which i accept, how come parties like Muslim league / any other religion can contest/have a name which directly signifies any religion.
The so called pesudo secularists (ably supported by all leading news channels in TV) never question anybody who represents a minority. India is one country, which stoops down for all the minorities irrespective of the religion. I have lived in UK, where I being a Hindu which is a minority / my uncle who is naturalised citizen there never enjoys anything as Minority...Infact you can't claim anything in the name of religion.
To me voting in Indian system seems to be futile exercise and (sorry to quote) but i believe it has the same result as a tissue paper after the flush. I was shocked to understand a foreign diplomat and writer who is going to contest from kerala has 21 crores (as a part of the "disclosed assets - mind you it is disclosed)...
Tell me frankly till few years ago, the candidature's allocated expenditure was a lakh...now increased upto 25L...I hardly understand how come EC came to conclusion that 25L is sufficient when i can't build a house in 25L. Elections are polluting, see the noise, songs and dances at the time of exams with MGR's " Nalai Namathey" songs when students are rigorously working hard...see the amount of paper used....
with everybody colorfully smiling as "varum kala mudhalvar (future CM)".
On one end, you speak about caring for the environment by not printing an e-mail, here its the other way. Nobody talks about, what they can do....(or) what they will do, how to create jobs, how to afford education, how to increase the standard of living of any BPL family - Blank NO....
They speak about Eelam, Price Rise, Job Losses (Even they are global repercussions and not state govt's faults - as they are not that knowledgeable to screw the system).
To clean up the system, which is really difficult, I would strongly recommend the progress card / report system of how much you have accomplished of what you said. To me India doesn't need a dictator, doesn't need an economist who can think and runs behind a lady for advises, doesn't need a scientist who can't do beyond the presidential powers of forwarding to the cabinet.
To me I would like to be led by a man like gandhi, a guy who can guide without any great aspirations(mind you guide and no remote controls like any firangi ...) millions to vote / not to vote, to make people accountable for being the servants of this country and not ministers/MPs who go around in cars, get gas connections in the capital.
If by civil disobedience, you can boycott the british army and generals, i sincerely believe we can boycott these men too who beg for votes from us.
Swadeshamitran.
Classic Nuances of Test Cricket...
I always have a fascination for Test cricket compared to ODIs / T20s as they are not for the mass (or) a mundane crowd. To watch test cricket, to understand the nuances of Test Cricket, you need to fair amount of cricketing knowledge to understand the Climatic conditions, New ball funda, Grass on the wicket, Seam positions, Shuffling Batting Orders, Pace of the Cricket etc.
Most of my words in the previous paragraphs may not mean much to Modern ODI watchers particularly in television sets. VVS Laxman's innings / just a leaning drive on the backfoot on Napier Test is more on the lines of a camera angles of a Kurosawa movie, a neraval in a song by MS in a Kutcheri.
I am pretty amazed by anybody who talks to me/anybody on Cricket, that a particular XYZ should have played this way (or) the other. To me playing, Observing Cricket in itself is an art. I would love to follow VVS/Azhar's Ondrive/flick with their wrists as much as a piece in synchronised swimming / dancing on the skates.
I am one of the few who feel helpless that Test Cricket and Spin Bowling are arts which are dying and which needs help like our heritage monuments. To understand and comment the game, I would strongly suggest people to play the game before they comment on. There is a widespread criticisms about Cricket, particularly test cricket that its boring, waste of time and not entertaining.
I have witnessed 2 tied tests, India's loss to Pakistan in Chennai (I still rate this as Sachin's best innings - considering the attack), Laxman's 281, Bradman's century on every session at Oval, GRV's 97, Gavaskar's 220 (Sir Len Hutton rates this as the best he has ever seen), Kapils' 4 consecutive sixes - I can go on...
Probably commercialisation, money inflow, BCCI's might has literally killed the nuances of Test Cricket. The way Gambhir played at Napier, reminded me Test cricket is as good as the old wine (infact it reminded me of Mike Atherton's Match Saving innings in Jo'berg against Springboks of 90's). Test cricket, teaches you to be disciplined, be patient, wait for the right opportunity, take small steps to reach towards milestones, conserve energy for the last mile and atleast also teaches that things will turn around as any other event in life.
T20 - probably taught how to earn money...nothing else except to infuse hard hitting cricket (totally a batsmen's game with bowler more like an side artiste in an Indian Movie !!).
Let the fans understand and patronise test cricket better and world of test cricket coming back to its past glory and entertain me and many more fans of cricket.
Regards,
Lakshman
Most of my words in the previous paragraphs may not mean much to Modern ODI watchers particularly in television sets. VVS Laxman's innings / just a leaning drive on the backfoot on Napier Test is more on the lines of a camera angles of a Kurosawa movie, a neraval in a song by MS in a Kutcheri.
I am pretty amazed by anybody who talks to me/anybody on Cricket, that a particular XYZ should have played this way (or) the other. To me playing, Observing Cricket in itself is an art. I would love to follow VVS/Azhar's Ondrive/flick with their wrists as much as a piece in synchronised swimming / dancing on the skates.
I am one of the few who feel helpless that Test Cricket and Spin Bowling are arts which are dying and which needs help like our heritage monuments. To understand and comment the game, I would strongly suggest people to play the game before they comment on. There is a widespread criticisms about Cricket, particularly test cricket that its boring, waste of time and not entertaining.
I have witnessed 2 tied tests, India's loss to Pakistan in Chennai (I still rate this as Sachin's best innings - considering the attack), Laxman's 281, Bradman's century on every session at Oval, GRV's 97, Gavaskar's 220 (Sir Len Hutton rates this as the best he has ever seen), Kapils' 4 consecutive sixes - I can go on...
Probably commercialisation, money inflow, BCCI's might has literally killed the nuances of Test Cricket. The way Gambhir played at Napier, reminded me Test cricket is as good as the old wine (infact it reminded me of Mike Atherton's Match Saving innings in Jo'berg against Springboks of 90's). Test cricket, teaches you to be disciplined, be patient, wait for the right opportunity, take small steps to reach towards milestones, conserve energy for the last mile and atleast also teaches that things will turn around as any other event in life.
T20 - probably taught how to earn money...nothing else except to infuse hard hitting cricket (totally a batsmen's game with bowler more like an side artiste in an Indian Movie !!).
Let the fans understand and patronise test cricket better and world of test cricket coming back to its past glory and entertain me and many more fans of cricket.
Regards,
Lakshman
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Confessions - Professions - Recessions
To say this in an optimistic way, its close to 2 months, I have been at home relaxing at home. To really paint the gloomy picture, I am without a job for the first time in my life for more than couple of months. Its quite frustrating and enjoyable in parts.
Whenever you work/slog, you expect a break, you want a longer weekend, a late start for a monday, early friday party. But when you're without a job, the initial period is relaxing for a week or two, but beyond that you start to feel the realities of life.
Recession / loss/want of a job teaches great lessons in your life. It teaches the importance of money, the value of whatever you wish to spend, the time you need to spend which matters most to you, the people who you will be in touch (who helps in crisis hour) in all walks for the rest of your life, the liabilities and assets you need to dispose off to save your face.
Life is a neither bed of roses nor cot of thorns. How many times in your life you get rejected for a job being overpaid / over qualified?. But frankly, I would tell you that if you have a supporting family, it acts as a Pain Reliever, but you still carry the wounds with you. Sometimes, life poses an ugly picture in front of you, but i can honestly, adversity creates the best out of man.
I am still reminded of Walter Hunt, the inventor of Safety Pin. There was an absolute necessity for Hunt to invent safety pin to pay a miniscule debt of 15$. Finally he sold the patented rights for 400$. The famous oil crisis of 1973, revolutionised the thinking to go for small cars. Life teaches you great lessons during moments of crisis.
I hope this crisis teaches me many more things to be a successful human being for the rest of my life.
~Lakshman
Whenever you work/slog, you expect a break, you want a longer weekend, a late start for a monday, early friday party. But when you're without a job, the initial period is relaxing for a week or two, but beyond that you start to feel the realities of life.
Recession / loss/want of a job teaches great lessons in your life. It teaches the importance of money, the value of whatever you wish to spend, the time you need to spend which matters most to you, the people who you will be in touch (who helps in crisis hour) in all walks for the rest of your life, the liabilities and assets you need to dispose off to save your face.
Life is a neither bed of roses nor cot of thorns. How many times in your life you get rejected for a job being overpaid / over qualified?. But frankly, I would tell you that if you have a supporting family, it acts as a Pain Reliever, but you still carry the wounds with you. Sometimes, life poses an ugly picture in front of you, but i can honestly, adversity creates the best out of man.
I am still reminded of Walter Hunt, the inventor of Safety Pin. There was an absolute necessity for Hunt to invent safety pin to pay a miniscule debt of 15$. Finally he sold the patented rights for 400$. The famous oil crisis of 1973, revolutionised the thinking to go for small cars. Life teaches you great lessons during moments of crisis.
I hope this crisis teaches me many more things to be a successful human being for the rest of my life.
~Lakshman
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wake Up !!! Indians Wake Up !!!
Enough is enough !!! After watching 3 days of news, live action on Terror, Counter Insurgent Operations, Commando Operations, Combing Operations and Sanitisation. The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, still lingers in my memort as the second most prolific monument and stamp of Mumbai, next to Gateway of India was literally raped.
Thousands of people who were pushed to states of horror and grief. Hundreds of people who suffered for couple of days in locked rooms and toilets in luxury hotels. Lakhs of People are watching them helplessly with fingers crossed expecting a superhero (as in hollywood movies to save them !!!). And here, we have Spineless Prime Minister, Incapable Home Minister who attends press conferences after each and every blasts and waiting for the next one.
Thanks to Politicians for literally looting this country like the erstwhile mughal rulers of ghazni and khilji dynasties. And here on the D-day, there wasn't even one single politician to take charge of the whole situation and provide the confidence to the common man that things will be in control. This is another atrocious act which opened the cans and let us know that the functionaries in the state governments are incapable and we still require the Army and Central Para Military forces to step in and control the situation. Thank god !!...Mr Karunanidhi, we never had a separate tamil state...or else life would have been miserable with Tamil Security Guards (TSG).
This is another example which clearly illustrates that there is no point in sticking to democracy and its bull-shit policies. For a country as big as my pot belly, You cannot control them unless you have a man with strong will and iron hands. We are "Sh*tting" democracy which believes that more people are about to come and make the place much more stinkier (I am not sure about the usage of words here !!!).
There are so many blasts in the last 6 months, that i cannot keep account of each and everyone. It resembles like a Indian Cricket Team's itinerary, where every month you have one series (or) the other. I/We the people of India, require people holding high offices to come with actions and plans to execute those actions with strong wills and to crush whichever neighbour country if required to raise from ashes.
There are 60-70 ministers in the modern day cabinet and we still don't have one minister dedicated to handle crisis situations in a country like India. I may not sound like Humanitarian, but I solidly believe that people who act so acrimonously needs to be taught a lesson in Public by closing their chapters.
If terrorists never act in a humane way, why should human rights needs to be applied for their sentences? Hang them. Show them on TV and instill the fear on people who are willing to join them in future.
I solemnly believe in God and Justice. But tell me, if people don't believe in god (as most of them in TN) (or) have fear in god, in judiciary, how can they be disciplined.?
The Moral of the story is quite simple. Instill the fear for anybody who is committing a crime. Thats a Pre-emptive step to stop all future crimes. Protect your territory and fence your borders. As long as, we have strained relationships with Neighbours, I don't want India to establish any bilateral ties (from Cricket to Trade) with them. If your neighbours are bad, what you do ?. I shut my doors...I am not sure about Congress, but i expect one strong willed prime minister to weaken our neighbours economically and bring them to our knees.
Last but not least, I would request the Home Minister to put his papers as I did and accept his responsibilities, or else it is going to be too difficult for congress to think about Victory.
Hoping for a Better India,
_Indian.
Thousands of people who were pushed to states of horror and grief. Hundreds of people who suffered for couple of days in locked rooms and toilets in luxury hotels. Lakhs of People are watching them helplessly with fingers crossed expecting a superhero (as in hollywood movies to save them !!!). And here, we have Spineless Prime Minister, Incapable Home Minister who attends press conferences after each and every blasts and waiting for the next one.
Thanks to Politicians for literally looting this country like the erstwhile mughal rulers of ghazni and khilji dynasties. And here on the D-day, there wasn't even one single politician to take charge of the whole situation and provide the confidence to the common man that things will be in control. This is another atrocious act which opened the cans and let us know that the functionaries in the state governments are incapable and we still require the Army and Central Para Military forces to step in and control the situation. Thank god !!...Mr Karunanidhi, we never had a separate tamil state...or else life would have been miserable with Tamil Security Guards (TSG).
This is another example which clearly illustrates that there is no point in sticking to democracy and its bull-shit policies. For a country as big as my pot belly, You cannot control them unless you have a man with strong will and iron hands. We are "Sh*tting" democracy which believes that more people are about to come and make the place much more stinkier (I am not sure about the usage of words here !!!).
There are so many blasts in the last 6 months, that i cannot keep account of each and everyone. It resembles like a Indian Cricket Team's itinerary, where every month you have one series (or) the other. I/We the people of India, require people holding high offices to come with actions and plans to execute those actions with strong wills and to crush whichever neighbour country if required to raise from ashes.
There are 60-70 ministers in the modern day cabinet and we still don't have one minister dedicated to handle crisis situations in a country like India. I may not sound like Humanitarian, but I solidly believe that people who act so acrimonously needs to be taught a lesson in Public by closing their chapters.
If terrorists never act in a humane way, why should human rights needs to be applied for their sentences? Hang them. Show them on TV and instill the fear on people who are willing to join them in future.
I solemnly believe in God and Justice. But tell me, if people don't believe in god (as most of them in TN) (or) have fear in god, in judiciary, how can they be disciplined.?
The Moral of the story is quite simple. Instill the fear for anybody who is committing a crime. Thats a Pre-emptive step to stop all future crimes. Protect your territory and fence your borders. As long as, we have strained relationships with Neighbours, I don't want India to establish any bilateral ties (from Cricket to Trade) with them. If your neighbours are bad, what you do ?. I shut my doors...I am not sure about Congress, but i expect one strong willed prime minister to weaken our neighbours economically and bring them to our knees.
Last but not least, I would request the Home Minister to put his papers as I did and accept his responsibilities, or else it is going to be too difficult for congress to think about Victory.
Hoping for a Better India,
_Indian.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Financial Tsunami - Hurricane Lehmann
Following the reports of last few weeks regarding the financial Tsunami which is sweeping America and also the other parts of the Interdependent world, I was wondering how "coupled" we are with other parts of world. Probably this tsunami/pralayam might be good example of Chaos Theory which Kamalhassan tried to explain in Dasavatharam.
There was a good article on ET by Mr S Iyer terming them whether this is the end of the beginning / most likely beginning of the end of US economical supremacy. Even though India has not fully opened up its markets (thanks to Left Front and few other political Geniuses), I fully understand the implications of this crisis which might have an impact on India as everybody understands except India's FM (with continuous rebuttals and playing safe with Media on the crisis).
Even though i observe markets from the India's point of view, the first major symptom which shook me of was the sale of Bears and Sterns. 6 months later, we saw the fall of Lehmann bros (perhaps Laidman bros)...sale of Merill Lynch and Nationalisation of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Still I hear Wachovia struggling...Citi writting of billions....GE persuading Mr Buffet to step in and what not.
As a Layman, I never understood the hype associated with the Gloabl MBAs and Day Zero Placements, 7 digit salary, high flyer jobs all these companies were boasting of. If the investment banks, NBFCs and other banks are not able to manage their losses and balance sheets, how were they judged to be the capable guys to handle OPM (other people's money) ?
whether the concept of Investment banks were myth ? Whether these guys were really worthy for their tags? Do they have any tighter regulations ? When a country like India which i believe as a Robust bank system with RBI playing a key role in controlling inflations, deficits, how come when US and Fed boasts of so many stalwarts never had a visibility of the bubble in the making.? When QoQ (quarter on quarter) RBI keeps raising the interest rates, why Fed never hiked it for 15 years - which amounted to this bubble ? - I keep questions one after the other...
Any export driven industry in India would have a great impact. Particularly IT companies servicing BFSI guys worldwide, textile exports to US and developed markets / slowdown is anticipated in Realty / any industry related to higher FDIs.. - Enough Pointers to move ahead...
Jobs would be less if not nil. Lay-offs bound to happen....stick on move head carefully...
Men at Work - Will the Bailout save US (united states) and us ?
God Only Knows..(Probably Bush comes out as Kalki avathar...to finish the world.)
¬Lakshman
There was a good article on ET by Mr S Iyer terming them whether this is the end of the beginning / most likely beginning of the end of US economical supremacy. Even though India has not fully opened up its markets (thanks to Left Front and few other political Geniuses), I fully understand the implications of this crisis which might have an impact on India as everybody understands except India's FM (with continuous rebuttals and playing safe with Media on the crisis).
Even though i observe markets from the India's point of view, the first major symptom which shook me of was the sale of Bears and Sterns. 6 months later, we saw the fall of Lehmann bros (perhaps Laidman bros)...sale of Merill Lynch and Nationalisation of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Still I hear Wachovia struggling...Citi writting of billions....GE persuading Mr Buffet to step in and what not.
As a Layman, I never understood the hype associated with the Gloabl MBAs and Day Zero Placements, 7 digit salary, high flyer jobs all these companies were boasting of. If the investment banks, NBFCs and other banks are not able to manage their losses and balance sheets, how were they judged to be the capable guys to handle OPM (other people's money) ?
whether the concept of Investment banks were myth ? Whether these guys were really worthy for their tags? Do they have any tighter regulations ? When a country like India which i believe as a Robust bank system with RBI playing a key role in controlling inflations, deficits, how come when US and Fed boasts of so many stalwarts never had a visibility of the bubble in the making.? When QoQ (quarter on quarter) RBI keeps raising the interest rates, why Fed never hiked it for 15 years - which amounted to this bubble ? - I keep questions one after the other...
Any export driven industry in India would have a great impact. Particularly IT companies servicing BFSI guys worldwide, textile exports to US and developed markets / slowdown is anticipated in Realty / any industry related to higher FDIs.. - Enough Pointers to move ahead...
Jobs would be less if not nil. Lay-offs bound to happen....stick on move head carefully...
Men at Work - Will the Bailout save US (united states) and us ?
God Only Knows..(Probably Bush comes out as Kalki avathar...to finish the world.)
¬Lakshman
Matrimonial Hunt...
Are you a Vadama ? atleast a Tam Brahm ? Do you have H1, if yes can you please move closer to bay area ? I am 5ft 2 inches, I need a boy who is atleast 5'10" if not shorter than kobe bryant ? We prefer iyers from Palakad, if not preferably from pittsburgh. Give me a break.
Broadminded / like minded / Innocent Divorcee / Chennai Only / H1B holder / East (or) West Coast - The List is endless.If you look into / get a chance to browse any of the matrimonial sites / the sunday edition of Hindu / vernaculars / matrimonial communities which are located in different pockets of Chennai / South India, you would have definitely come across these above stated preferences.
What does H1B / anywhere in bay area going to do with your partner ? If i have preferences of settling in US, I would have accpeted to live as an american and marry an american. What do they mean broadminded ? - I might be broadminded but not to the extent of Shoba de. I have seen profiles of Innocent Divorcees on paper, with the alarming rates of divorces in india, how come all the divorcees are innocent and ignorant. G.O.K
I had chat with my friend sowmi recently and she confided that it is too difficult to identify, choose according to one's preferences. I hear similar stories from few other friends as well. Marriages of late for the last decade (or) even before has become more a matter of convenience, than anything beyond that. If you go to the "Tathpariyams" of marriages, to understand why we need to go for them, understanding the importance / sanctity of the age old institution, we can understand that the modern day marriages have digressed far from the real truth.
I had even heard debates about love marriages vs arranged marriages and I solemnly believe that there is nothing called love-marriages. According to me, there are only two kinds of marriages either you arrange yourself (which others deemed to believe that love exists in them) and the ones which all the mamas and mamis arrange. If at all there exists love, I solemnly believe most of the couples experience that feeling when they cross 50. To me modern day marriages are happening like yet another One day match series which our BCCI keeps arranging with Pakistan/Australia without any reason.
If this is the case with Indian Marriages, Western marriages are much more worse. I had a discussion with my english friend O'shaughnessy and he told me that marriages are more likely to be prelude to go for progeny. Ironically, what i never understand even after my conversation with him, how come people go for livein relationships and stay for so many years with a person and finally decided to marry the same guy and ending up with divorce immediately.
Preferences of modern day youth (both Men and Women) have changed over the period. Its no more about complexion,vital statistics etc which matters the most, but everybody has their own preferences which ranges from the place of origin to your career ambitions. Probably the truth with modern day are people are tired of relationships, they are struggling to find a new partner, new person in their lives. Forget partners, it is very difficult in the modern day to identify few good friends in your life.
Probably this is not an outlet to express my frustration on the hunt rather its the attitude of people (particularly Brahm Community) and so called modern day mindset which is nothing but b****it.
Happy searching if you're in the hunt and if you're already married - all the best for your remaining part of your life.
¬Lakshman
Broadminded / like minded / Innocent Divorcee / Chennai Only / H1B holder / East (or) West Coast - The List is endless.If you look into / get a chance to browse any of the matrimonial sites / the sunday edition of Hindu / vernaculars / matrimonial communities which are located in different pockets of Chennai / South India, you would have definitely come across these above stated preferences.
What does H1B / anywhere in bay area going to do with your partner ? If i have preferences of settling in US, I would have accpeted to live as an american and marry an american. What do they mean broadminded ? - I might be broadminded but not to the extent of Shoba de. I have seen profiles of Innocent Divorcees on paper, with the alarming rates of divorces in india, how come all the divorcees are innocent and ignorant. G.O.K
I had chat with my friend sowmi recently and she confided that it is too difficult to identify, choose according to one's preferences. I hear similar stories from few other friends as well. Marriages of late for the last decade (or) even before has become more a matter of convenience, than anything beyond that. If you go to the "Tathpariyams" of marriages, to understand why we need to go for them, understanding the importance / sanctity of the age old institution, we can understand that the modern day marriages have digressed far from the real truth.
I had even heard debates about love marriages vs arranged marriages and I solemnly believe that there is nothing called love-marriages. According to me, there are only two kinds of marriages either you arrange yourself (which others deemed to believe that love exists in them) and the ones which all the mamas and mamis arrange. If at all there exists love, I solemnly believe most of the couples experience that feeling when they cross 50. To me modern day marriages are happening like yet another One day match series which our BCCI keeps arranging with Pakistan/Australia without any reason.
If this is the case with Indian Marriages, Western marriages are much more worse. I had a discussion with my english friend O'shaughnessy and he told me that marriages are more likely to be prelude to go for progeny. Ironically, what i never understand even after my conversation with him, how come people go for livein relationships and stay for so many years with a person and finally decided to marry the same guy and ending up with divorce immediately.
Preferences of modern day youth (both Men and Women) have changed over the period. Its no more about complexion,vital statistics etc which matters the most, but everybody has their own preferences which ranges from the place of origin to your career ambitions. Probably the truth with modern day are people are tired of relationships, they are struggling to find a new partner, new person in their lives. Forget partners, it is very difficult in the modern day to identify few good friends in your life.
Probably this is not an outlet to express my frustration on the hunt rather its the attitude of people (particularly Brahm Community) and so called modern day mindset which is nothing but b****it.
Happy searching if you're in the hunt and if you're already married - all the best for your remaining part of your life.
¬Lakshman
Monday, August 11, 2008
Coming out of Hibernation
After a long hibernation, i am back into blogging. I am not sure whether i can blog that frequently as i used to do it before. Life has been on a fast lane after i had moved back to india. Everyday something or the other i learn in my life / job and it has been a steep learning curve. Initially, it was more like a cultural shock when you visit india after a long time (even though i had my visits every year, it is too small to notice a change). I went to a extent where i never used to honk when i drive for the first 15 days, and even it is more a nuisance to me if somebody honks just for the sake of fun/thrill.
I had so many thoughts to pen down which ranges from Driving sense to the way the no-confidence motion was conducted. But I have decided to keep my mouth shut in my personal's interests and decided to observe more of late rather than reacting to all the things which happen (bound to happen) around you.
The two things which i seriously enjoyed in India are my mom's food and driving from my office to home in the night.
Whenever you don't take you get more chance to think and when you think the more, you're better in your life. In short, talk less so that it gives better meaning to your life. I have come around a big circle in the last decade, where the beginning of the decade, nothing less than a crisis equivalent of "subprime crisis" and to bounce back from the shallows to where i stand today, I should be a happy man, if not the happiest man.
It all started exactly like Marvan Attapattu's career (which started with 5 ducks and who went to make most number of double centuries next to bradman).
I would definitely like to thank god for whatever he has showered on me till date. I used to considerate myself as fortunate to survive against these odds.
I had great friends over the last decade and a half, with few of them i still cherish a great friendships, but with most of them i have stuck with my usual HIs and BYEs. But I need to thank few of my friends in particular, who have helped me to come out of these odd times. I always use hibernation to analyse people, myself, my relationships, my failures, my personal life etc, so that i can take stock of the situation, if its warranted.
After taking up my new role, knowingly or unknowingly most of my day goes more into technical matters and from now on you can expect few technical articles on this if not a separate blog might be started to discuss my technical stuff. Suddenly, i have got a fascination for architectures, designs and technology apart from gadgets. My target would be Xbox / Playstation PSP3..
Signing off,
~Lakshman
I had so many thoughts to pen down which ranges from Driving sense to the way the no-confidence motion was conducted. But I have decided to keep my mouth shut in my personal's interests and decided to observe more of late rather than reacting to all the things which happen (bound to happen) around you.
The two things which i seriously enjoyed in India are my mom's food and driving from my office to home in the night.
Whenever you don't take you get more chance to think and when you think the more, you're better in your life. In short, talk less so that it gives better meaning to your life. I have come around a big circle in the last decade, where the beginning of the decade, nothing less than a crisis equivalent of "subprime crisis" and to bounce back from the shallows to where i stand today, I should be a happy man, if not the happiest man.
It all started exactly like Marvan Attapattu's career (which started with 5 ducks and who went to make most number of double centuries next to bradman).
I would definitely like to thank god for whatever he has showered on me till date. I used to considerate myself as fortunate to survive against these odds.
I had great friends over the last decade and a half, with few of them i still cherish a great friendships, but with most of them i have stuck with my usual HIs and BYEs. But I need to thank few of my friends in particular, who have helped me to come out of these odd times. I always use hibernation to analyse people, myself, my relationships, my failures, my personal life etc, so that i can take stock of the situation, if its warranted.
After taking up my new role, knowingly or unknowingly most of my day goes more into technical matters and from now on you can expect few technical articles on this if not a separate blog might be started to discuss my technical stuff. Suddenly, i have got a fascination for architectures, designs and technology apart from gadgets. My target would be Xbox / Playstation PSP3..
Signing off,
~Lakshman
Friday, February 29, 2008
Goodbye, UK
It has been a fantastic two and half years of my life in UK mostly in Maidenhead and Reading with the fitting finale in central london. It resembled as if it was yesterday, but it has been tremendous couple of years, in which i had beautiful experiences of life, great friends, enjoyable vacations, tantalising tours to neighbouring countries, critical projects and what not.
I had struggled my first month in this country, not knowing anyone (i was new to TCS as well), but i had great roomies in Veeru and Anand, with whom i shared one of the best parts of my life. There was so much of camaraderie among the three, but the relationships grew from good to great as each day passed by.
Apart from the two, I shared a great relationships with Sreedhar Bhumaraju a.k.a Chirugaru, with whom, we had a gala time including vijayadasami celebrations.
It would be unfair on my part if don't thank my friends viz., Jegan, Sandy mone, Dharam, sudip, Dinesh, Krishnan (affectionately mama) with family, Ganesh and Natarajan for their outstanding support and cooperation which was extended during my stay and the relationships which i would like to extend for the rest of my life. Coming back to my UK experiences, the following would be list of things which would be in my memory forever.
1. Lonely nights in Kingswood.
2. Watching telugu movies with Anand and Veerubhai.
3. Fights between Ketan and Prabhakar during the cricket matches.
4. Won the runner-up in the badminton tournament conducted by Keyur.
5. Mimicry and Chantal roberts' walk by Sreedhar B
6. Cricket matches with Hitachi and ESL in Braywick Park
7. Visits to Birmingham Balaji temple, thanks to Sreedhar G for those visits.
8. Purchases of Yoghurt in Tesco (we were literally made fun by the whole gang).
9. Sutta sessions with Dharmendra and Bitching Fridays.
10. Humming and Jamming sessions with Sudip on ARR's tunes.
11. Watching Twenty 20 finals in Office (with whole office supporting for india) - courtesy - Kiran Alluri
12. First day first show for Sivaji along with TCS gang whistling for thalaivar...
13. Watching the Indian team in Lords for a test match.
14. Bought my PSR E403 yamaha keyboard and played vaseegara (zara zara) was scintillating.
15. Attended the MBA tour and fumbled in my GMAT examinations.
16. Had my first drink in Isle of Skye.
17. Superb italian tour with filmi finish of catching flights in the eleventh hour (thanks to Sandy and Anandbhai)
18. Had a great time with Krishnan Family in bristol (me best weekend in UK - undoubtedly...chumma it was like staying in FIL house...)
19. playing Table football both in London as well as in Reading.
20. Had a good pool sessions with Karthik "numeriq" ramaswamy and others.
21. Early morning deployments for provident with Flo and Paul.
22. Memorable Last day farewell at Reading with Anilbhai presiding the event. (Mams !! orey feeling irukku....one more JD Double with Coke...)
23. Great south indian lunches at Mani mama's place.
24. Badminton sessions with KK, Taha and VMS.
25. Implementation of TOD project.
26. Morning coffees with Selva (mostly with vadivelu jokes!!!) and Jegan.
27. Haircuts @ mohan ka melaram and Hyderabadi briyani @ southall.
28. Initial sightseeing tours with Ravikumar (HP)
29. Had a lifetime opportunity to meet Dickie Bird @ lords.
30. buying camera for Anand (ha ha what a comedy !!)...
31. Talking about kollywood gossips with chimbu and krishnan...(anney !!...vandiya naama vachu irukkom...sopanna sundariya ippo....??)
32. Had a beautiful afternoon walking in the woods with Manju...and discussing about ecology to ethiopian music.
The list would be endless and even though there might be few things which might miss in this lists, but would remain in my cherished memories.
This would be my last blog in UK and I may not quite often write my blogs in india, but still would write when i find time.
Wishing you all good luck in all walks of life,
~Lakshman~ (a.k.a white rajini)...
I had struggled my first month in this country, not knowing anyone (i was new to TCS as well), but i had great roomies in Veeru and Anand, with whom i shared one of the best parts of my life. There was so much of camaraderie among the three, but the relationships grew from good to great as each day passed by.
Apart from the two, I shared a great relationships with Sreedhar Bhumaraju a.k.a Chirugaru, with whom, we had a gala time including vijayadasami celebrations.
It would be unfair on my part if don't thank my friends viz., Jegan, Sandy mone, Dharam, sudip, Dinesh, Krishnan (affectionately mama) with family, Ganesh and Natarajan for their outstanding support and cooperation which was extended during my stay and the relationships which i would like to extend for the rest of my life. Coming back to my UK experiences, the following would be list of things which would be in my memory forever.
1. Lonely nights in Kingswood.
2. Watching telugu movies with Anand and Veerubhai.
3. Fights between Ketan and Prabhakar during the cricket matches.
4. Won the runner-up in the badminton tournament conducted by Keyur.
5. Mimicry and Chantal roberts' walk by Sreedhar B
6. Cricket matches with Hitachi and ESL in Braywick Park
7. Visits to Birmingham Balaji temple, thanks to Sreedhar G for those visits.
8. Purchases of Yoghurt in Tesco (we were literally made fun by the whole gang).
9. Sutta sessions with Dharmendra and Bitching Fridays.
10. Humming and Jamming sessions with Sudip on ARR's tunes.
11. Watching Twenty 20 finals in Office (with whole office supporting for india) - courtesy - Kiran Alluri
12. First day first show for Sivaji along with TCS gang whistling for thalaivar...
13. Watching the Indian team in Lords for a test match.
14. Bought my PSR E403 yamaha keyboard and played vaseegara (zara zara) was scintillating.
15. Attended the MBA tour and fumbled in my GMAT examinations.
16. Had my first drink in Isle of Skye.
17. Superb italian tour with filmi finish of catching flights in the eleventh hour (thanks to Sandy and Anandbhai)
18. Had a great time with Krishnan Family in bristol (me best weekend in UK - undoubtedly...chumma it was like staying in FIL house...)
19. playing Table football both in London as well as in Reading.
20. Had a good pool sessions with Karthik "numeriq" ramaswamy and others.
21. Early morning deployments for provident with Flo and Paul.
22. Memorable Last day farewell at Reading with Anilbhai presiding the event. (Mams !! orey feeling irukku....one more JD Double with Coke...)
23. Great south indian lunches at Mani mama's place.
24. Badminton sessions with KK, Taha and VMS.
25. Implementation of TOD project.
26. Morning coffees with Selva (mostly with vadivelu jokes!!!) and Jegan.
27. Haircuts @ mohan ka melaram and Hyderabadi briyani @ southall.
28. Initial sightseeing tours with Ravikumar (HP)
29. Had a lifetime opportunity to meet Dickie Bird @ lords.
30. buying camera for Anand (ha ha what a comedy !!)...
31. Talking about kollywood gossips with chimbu and krishnan...(anney !!...vandiya naama vachu irukkom...sopanna sundariya ippo....??)
32. Had a beautiful afternoon walking in the woods with Manju...and discussing about ecology to ethiopian music.
The list would be endless and even though there might be few things which might miss in this lists, but would remain in my cherished memories.
This would be my last blog in UK and I may not quite often write my blogs in india, but still would write when i find time.
Wishing you all good luck in all walks of life,
~Lakshman~ (a.k.a white rajini)...
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