30th December, 2006: The Day Saddam was officially HANGED.

Last night was no different than any other Friday evening.I came from office at 8 p.m, couple of same faces poured in, we boozed and shamelessly chocked ourseleves with chicken, danced and then surrendered to sleep.

Everything was running smooth till I was woken up to the merciless sunlight splashing across my eyes. It was sharp 8:30 A.M, quite early for me to wake up but it was not an ordinary day, so perhaps guided by some mystic power, I very sheepishly tuned the TV to reach for CNN than VH1 and found jostling news “Saddam Hussein Hanged to Death”.

I had fully woken up by now, finding it hard to stomach the fact that the dictator is finally dead. But what followed across different set of news channels was myriad of reports, feelings and sentiments across the world. While CNN was very prompt to highlight the “celebration” among “shias” in Michigan, the Indian channels called up “Imams” and “Moslems across Hyderabad and Lucknow” they even called up “Mahesh Bhatt” and asked for his feelings on same.
And quite puzzling was they called up to know views from the Marxists- why didn't they first call up the president or the prime minister or cabinet ministers rather than feeding the people with news from only one section of society?
Let's forget this , lets not waste time and thoughts on Marxists- who have been the biggest villian for India and Indians( I am exempting Bangladeshis here ,LOL ).
It is exciting to watch that public have access to views crossing borders and beliefs,which was missing at times when I was growing up. We were all hooked to DD-1 and the AIR for news.

Saddam was officially Dead today, His hanging was just a ritual, the despot had lost all his masculinity the day he was pulled up from his hole.At this point of time when Pakistan is expressing solidarity with the Baathist voices “warning of more terror attacks against US and non-Muslim interests”, it is terrible to keep oneself mute and watch silently more painful terror strikes and counter-strikes. 3 aspects are crucial for understanding the situation now and action there after.

1. First and foremost,Saddam no doubt had been wronged, he could have been tried by international court rather than that set by puppet regime, and should have been hanged openly rather than in darkness. The entire fashion of trial, sentence and execution carried away at a pace and stealthily had added suspicion to people’s mind. This is one of the mistakes which would not only jeopardise the achievements of peace keeping force at Iraq but also pose danger for secular(sorry Moolahyam singh yadav would say "un-Islamic " )interests. Any legal system of world ( except India, here we think hundred times before allowing Afzal to be hanged, who is the mastermind of Terror Attacks in Parliament or allow Abu Salem, the dreaded gangster who robbed many lives by executing Bomb blasts, to contend for election), would have found him guilty and have him awarded harsher punishment.


2. Secondly and the only brighter side of story is that,the world has one less “Dictator”. Saddam, a despotic leader who was hated more by his own people than others,got the perfect justice for his tyrannical "mis rule " that existed on the Arab land for two decades. Did IBN7 or Sahara channel forgot to highlight the modern Hitler’s atrocities against the “Kurds”, His war against Iran and incursion in Kuwait? Why does he still deserve sympathy from Imams or Moslem world? That’s an interesting question, which leads us to the final aspect.


3. Pakistan and “imams” across South Asia, see Saddam’s Execution as a platform to add momentum to terror campaign. They are labeling the execution as “Anti Islamic “just to ignite more young minds against anything which doesn't follow the protocols laid out by the "Taliban". The startegy is to pull the gullible youth to their dreaded madrasas or terror camps, feed them with more manipulated facts, brainwash them to make them another Afzal or Dhiren Barot.

The last point is the most crucial after effects of the execution.I would suggest Sahara and NDTV to consider this before thrusting the microphone to the “maulvis” who see nothing beyond religion for it is their bread and butter, the hatred which incites more hatred and thus the vicious cycle gives them the opportunity to be in focus and enjoy the importance.Lets not fall victim to the wanderers,lets be more vigilant in coming days to thrash the people bent on following their crazy,unbent,blind and merciless campaigns against humanity. Osama and millions like him out in pakistan and hidden in our countries survive on terror , lets snatch this very life system away from them.

It’s a New Year and New start.

Let’s not make a fuss about things that have been incorrigibly wrong this year and before. Lying before us is the New Year; take it whatever way one wishes to. One could cry over spilt-drunk milk or “still chant that magical mantra – which is essentially the life of many people like me in a country – stated to be superpower – but which breeds corruption, polluted thoughts oozing from the grayed yet myopic power mongers of the Indian state.

Let’s also not complain about millions of “ Priyanka Matoo” who cling to the chastity of judicial equality, who still believe and breathe that “Justice will be delivered without taking in consideration of rank” and yes cases like “ Sanjay Dutt “ are an exception because there were hundred who failed to realize the enormity of problems he caused and prayed for him.
Let’s also forget that it is scary to think, plan and act for the nation for you might cross your ways with the road mafia, a naxalite or a local goon having the blessing of some politician.

So we look towards a new Beginning, getting inspired by Lakshmi Mitaal, the TATA’s ,Sunita Williams, Sania mirza (who said women can’t be the face of nation ?) and Baba Ramdev.

• Let’s resolve to do our part for India – doesn’t matter who you are. Make India an emblem, a model for the rest of countries to follow. I am sure being the youngest and most talented nation we already have an advantage. Nation Building is now or never.Pip in with your contibution a little as making yourself better without the cost of other is just an example.
  
• Have that Brotherhood and don’t let thoughts across the border Rule you. Identify who you really are “Are you an Indian or an Arab or an American or no one? “. Be patriotic.Can you promise to wear the tricolor badge on December 12 or August 15 ?

• “Does Jihad mean more to you than helping a blind cross the street, or robbing the smiles and parents of an innocent kid whose father commutes to office in a train just to save money to go home with a candy for him?

• Does terror mean chaining your mental capacity to introspect about the lives of people whom you grew up with or shared the seat next to him in a crowded bus or shared the tea while watching cricket on TV?.
• I tell this to myself more than to any1 else. Can India strive this year to become not only the youngest nation but also a cheerful and healthy nation. Invest your time and spirit for your mental and physical health. Cultivate good thoughts. Laugh a lot, make others laugh even if that means playing a prank on yourself.
• Wake up Indians; don’t forget that your ancestors contributed to make the nation which you are living in. Let’s not fall apart to invasion as we did in 1000 AD which teared apart the nation into pieces,becoming the slaves to foreign powers allowing us to not only to be transported to Afghanistan or Africa but infusing their idelogies as well. The greatest mistake is not immigrating my friends, the sin lies in immigrating belief and injecting anti national thoughts.

When the foreign powers razed the grounds last time, some were unprepared, some invited the problem and some fought it bravely till the last breathe. We can’t reverse the social and political changes brought about by the previous onslaughts but surely can defend ourselves this time.I would love to bring smile to one kid evryday be it handing him a choclate or sharing a joke with him.

I would love to get on to broader side of my role by not being mumb to injustice even If I realise I am not the victim or that the WAR would be long before results start coming in.

It is not prophet or Ram that will help India, it is YOU who will. I have resolved myself to be good to all Indians, make India livable and make every one of us proud.What about you ?

The Brahmi Script

This is the Brahmi vowel and the below 1 is brahmi consonants.













Wanted to preserve this script till I find a language processing software for same .
Said to be the origin of major languages in the world .. could not help stroing it.

Raising the Dead

Steven Spielberg stupendous direction and Michael Crichton’s touch of reality to his fiction has to make a movie mesmerizing. But “The Lost world – Jurassic park “not only did catch attention of movie goers and movie haters (like me), it also invaded the labs of scientific community creating a ruckus. Jurassic park has lived beyond the theatres and shows. The life of the script is based on how Dinosaurs- the extinct huge animals - are conceived in some lab back yard and peeps into consequences that lay in store of that action. The movie echoed “Extinction is not permanent”.

Recently there was news about re-living yet another extinct species .Yeah you are right it’s the mammoth. As in the movie –Jurassic Park- the strategy seemed to be identical.

• Collect the DNA material of mammoth.
• Sequencing the DNA to get the genomic code.
• Using the genome code to create chromosomes.
• Finding the closest relative to the extinct creature.
• Getting the Egg from the female relative.
• Ir-radiating the DNA in the female relative egg.
• Injecting the DNA of extinct species into the female egg.
• Surrogating the egg in the female relative body.
  
  The Paleontologist sadly, failed at the very first step. The hope of getting fresh and undamaged soft tissues of mammoth, which was caved in by the ice, was shattered when they extracted nothing better than decayed bones. The possibility of recovering DNA strands from the chunk of the icy soil containing the mammoth carcass is remotely possible. Another possibility highlighted by the movie itself was to search for the DNA strand in some insect. But unlike the movie, till date there has been no technological advance to extract the mammoth or dinosaur’s DNA from the insect’s DNA. So, the chances of seeing mammoth or a Dino will be a dream for some time.
  
  Moving to the next step “DNA sequencing “. Though research is zooming in these fields in “Applied Bio systems” and “Sorenson Development” lab’s, pin pointing the genome from strands of DNA, given the permutation and combination of these strands is painful both in terms of money, resources and time. And if we are lucky it might give birth to some other organism rather than what we are setting out for, which is irony. Only a chance in billion will stand out representing the correct genome from the assembling of DNA strands.
  
  Once this vague, illusionary step is done, we move on to mapping the extinct species to some close relative which still breathes. In case of mammoth it “should be “elephant.
  Scientists suggest an Asian would be a better one. But are elephants the closest relative to Mammoth? Probably yes, probably no. There has been uncountable number of times when reports of huge animal’s like elephants being seen were voiced from jungles of Africa some half century back. With time they too might have gone. What could be interesting is to discover and find these creatures being labeled the closest relative to mammoth?
  Even if we are right in stating that Mammoth and elephants are next to one another in the species list, the real hurdle begins after ir-radiating the female elephant egg and then injecting the strand of chromosome in the egg , but what about surrogating ? Neither the structure nor the gestation characteristics of elephants could accommodate with that of the mammoth.
  
  Dark as it might seem, I am still hopeful that with more involvement of IT in biotechnology could solve most of the problems. The strength of IT in storing, modifying and collecting biological data like DNA sequence and protein structures could enhance the computational analysis and ease the genome comparisons. Advancement in in-vitro fertilization is already taking place and creation of climate suiting the extinct animals or even using sophisticated tissue culture could help the mammoth adapt to changed habitats (This was done for American chestnut blight). All these hypothetical steps
  “Could“ realize the possibility of seeing mammoth roaming back again in the vast lands of Siberia. What really matters is –Should we?
  
  
  

The Light of other Days

Nothing but memory remains.My life at NIT trichy .

Reminiscence - NIT Trichy

Is the Sword of Damocles hanging over Mumbaikars’ heads?

If statistics reflect truth ,then do we still need to be in doubt that mumbai is not in Danger ?
Ghatkopar Blast,December 6,2002 :Two persons were killed and 28 injured in a blast in a BEST bus parked outside Ghatkopar railway station (on the west side), the reverberations of which were felt on platform no 1 and shattered the window panes of a train.
Vile parle Blast ,Jan 28,2003: One woman was killed and 25 persons injured on Monday evening in a blast near Vile Parle station in suburban Mumbai.
Mulund Blast ,March 14,2003:At least ten commuters, including four women, were killed and 70 injured in an explosion near the first class ladies compartment of a local train in Mumbai.
Gateway of india Blast ,Aug 25,2003 :At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai -- one near the Gateway of India and the other at Zaveri Bazaar in busy Kalbadevi area -- on Monday afternoon.

These are just the data for a 9 month record in mumbai much before the ,seemingly ,waiting to happen catastrophe of 7/11.

In todays world ,where unhappy people have a media to communicate among themselves and collaborate and where each part of world is acessible ,both to people or their ideology ,the potent of resentment often in violent form has become universal .So be it an apartment complex in Buenos Aires housed mostly by a particular community or a london sub urb or for that matter pentagon complex or a peaceful locality at Malad. Nothing seems to evade the eye of destruction .And quite often when the motive of such human tragedy is brought about need not necessarily stop to kill people but do a greater degree of damage , by terrorising giovernment ,people or community ,Its next to impossible to make not a country but even a city safe .

Mumbai has special charm for trouble makers now .Its symbolic .It's the nerve centre and sentiment of people might dictate the sentiment of nation . The threat to mumbai ,the financial capital of india is more so now because any instititute ,organisation ,government ,country or individual who want to cripple or stunt econoimic growth of india need not search for any other city .

The major threat number 1 is from Home grown Terrorist as was evident by recent series of bomb blast. We had been having the home grown terrorist for almost 2 decades .The term however was coined by American security agents very lately .So even when USA was unknown to terms like jihad and massaccre ,we had JKLF ,khalistan liberation force,ULFA and so on .We failed to contain the same in Kashmir. We suceeded in Punjab though not completely.We are keeping fingers crossed on ULFA and NE terror organisations.The Kashmir problem now has become so cancerous spreading to such an extent that these so called revolutianries strike the cities of India at their own free will and choice. To add to this are organisations like SIMI ,which are fed by some crooked ,myopic politicians who see nothing beyond votes.Organisations like SIMI ,feeding on ideologies of religion and harboured by religious institutes , have blind followers who could do anything under command .The politicians share a symbioticrelationship with these organisations .And any threat to theor existence is quickly seen by these heavily selfish individuals as threatto their existence.A record on number of times official threat and shutdown of SIMI offices being turned down by some government is just an indication of the degree of collaboration they share.Not to forget here is the role of cosmetic media who look upon any injustice to these utterly inhumane organisation as an enchroachment on HUMAN RIGHTS .

The second nature of Home grown Terrorist is unfitting to their term but still the potential Threat .Its from the million bangladeshis and hundreds of pakistanis getting invisible after they reach india .Statistics show that more than half the terrorist killed are foreigners .some are even afghans fresh from fields of Taliban . India has been home to people across border since ages .We had the nepalese and tibeteans and the burmese and lankans but the degree of trouble caused by the bangladeshis and pakistanis are unmatachable .Areas like Mahim ,in mumbai is home to these bangladeshis and they too have been active participants and often the agents of terror.Pruning them from our soil and sealing the borders should be enforced immediately.Shutdown the jihad facotry aka the vote bank at borders of Tripura ,West Brngal and Assam.

The other danger lurking mumbai is from the Naxals .Already a menance in neighbouring states and loaded with sophisticated weapons with official recognisation in 2 states.They have their own set of communication and media which camoflouges in the urban areas now .The freshly minted youth from colleges are hypnotised by the distorted facts and shown the path to violence ,as a means to achieve so called equality and justice.This would be the hardest to control .

To contain their damage in mumbai is not possible unless the governing authority in mumbai is more vigilant and separated from the rest of state .monitor the entry to city .Mumbai gives 1/6th of revenue to country .Its time it gets the due.Mumbai should screen people coming and settling here .Having visas for this city should be given a second thought .The earlier chain of bomb blast in mumbai was carried out by underworld ,product of unemployed youth ,who just happened to be in city to catch their dream .The important thing however ,is thatthe bomb blast then was orcharested by secret agents of our neighbouring country.Visa form of entry to city will block both these chances .

Mumbai is infact the favourite spot to create terror .To subdues the buoyancy in the city however hard ,god forbid ,will come to halt if these kind of events recur.Its not at all possible to screen each and every bag of commuters here or install monitoring devices at some of the spots or increasing police force.What needs to be done is to adress the root cause of it .
The Intellignece failure ,quite often ,the excuse by government after such an horrible episode needs to become the strength.the various ,decentralised intelligence agencies should start wroking together .RAW and IB have a long way to go now .Mumbai police should synch iteself with latest gizmos and resources to seal this city from further July 11 . Set up moles in the enemy's hole."Smoke out " the agencies motivated to cause trouble for India.Dismantle by diplomacy or by force or by our own secret agents ,the terrorist infrastrucutre across the border.Because we should remember there is nothing beyond the country.And however media may turn blind to on purpose or is cosmetic the war is already on.And drastic steps now only can see mumbai as a safe zone in coming years.

This time

Found the words of John Mellencamp ,so touching ..
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I've had a lot of girls in my life
They never meant that much to me
A good time was always had by all
But those good times, they were fleeting memories
I used to lie to them and then I'd kiss 'em
But I kept them an arm's length away
Well, hey man, now you know me
And look how silly I been acting today
CHORUS
This time I really think I'm in love, I'm in love
This time I think I'm reall in love
This time I really think I'm in love, I'm in love
This time I think I'm really in love
I used to roll down the window
And let the tape deck blow
And look at the honey that I was holding that night
I'd say, "Hey girl, you're the one,"
And then I'd laugh when I'd take her home
You got your arms around my shoulders
You got my soul confused with my heart
You were too smart to believe all those tired lines
And I was too dumb to know what had started
I hope you don't lose that innocent laughter
I hope time doesn't take that away
CHORUS

The only difference is John put things so easier ..Euphemisms in his lyrics ..Missed that in my case...
___________________ represents things never happened to me

____________________ synchs with me

Welcome Rain !!

I believed GOD had turned DEAF to me for a long time ..but when the first rain drops hit Dallas , there was no one more happier than me

• The temperatures had been soaring
• I being too hot
• The AC under total anarchy and
• my being banned from being nude

I had no choice but to kneel down and spread my arms to GOD and ask for DIVINE INTERVENTION .

By sheer coincidence ,it rained at 3 in night.. the time when I am awake , I tried hard to control myself ,but the heart overtook my wits , and I parked my CAR and came out to greet the RAIN.

I danced to the music rocking in my soul and the sweet smell of earth just added to the ambience I needed .No one was there except my FRIEND ---the DARKNESS. And while me and DARKNESS were rejoincing in the rain doing SAMBA ,the sweet ,timid showers gently rubbed across my face and as I was playing with this ...they became stronger and stronger and then completely drenched me.

Ohhh ,I should have once again realised the boundaries !!
The clothes were dripping with water and I had to take some of them off to not to degrade and spoil my car more . I was already shivering and had to close the windows and put on the AC but i was still flying high with the fresh encounter with rain .
I got drenched with purpose after quite a long time ..the last i remember I met Mrs RAIN was in Mumbai was when it was at its best .All life had come to stop and quite a major headline puller during that time . Quite unlike of this one .

Death Sentence or Lifer

The media these days are all brimmed with the news and views on "Should death by lethal injection be continued " .The real question ,I feel ,should have been "Death sentence or not ?"
Death sentence is sad to say still practised in the free country like USA .
The issue is controversial ,emotional , humane but mostly unescapable .however If i be allowed to make my stand ,I would rather,abolish death sentence and substitute the same with LIFER .

Sure,that the subject in many cases had done henious crimes of robbing life ,values ,honour and priceless or unrevertable changes in victims or it close family members life .But snatching a precious gift like LIFE just for the reason that the subject has done so makes no sense .Two wrongs dont make a right .The constitution becomes equal dirty as the man/woman in the dock .

Another reason for my support for LIFER is that ,it is no way less punishment than electrocution , standing on line of fire ,gallows or lethal injection .One who has been awarded LIFER goes through the pain ,self guilt ,isolation ,monotony of prison life ,the sense of being watched all the time ,sense of not having freedom all the moments for the rest of his life .
The "satisfaction " of kins of victims is "respected" . Imagine a life in 7X10X12 dungeon all the life with limited means of choice on food ,clothing ,way of life and being dictated all the time .If death sentence ,terrorises any 1 from commiting crime ,LIFER should do most of it .

But the most important reason ,why I believe LIFER should make way for death sentence in Constitution books is that ,it can be reverted .There had many instances where judgements have been biased ,manipulated or wronged because of lack of evidence or improper evidence .Death sentence in these cases leaves the theory of justice paralysed .

Scattered nascent thoughts

As I lay in my bed ,tossing and turning around , laden with sparks of unchained thoughts (not ideas)and incoherent ,like me (Thoughts maketh a man ) .I started focussing on only one ,in this darkness .
COLOUR
It has made life "colorful" .It has divided people.It has been the sole reason for world not being bipolar .I mean world divided into 2 parts .Black and White .
I can't bear the life of being color blind now ,as i had tasted (sorry for the correct incorrect english usage ) one with color.
Its a scientifically proven fact that some animal ,like Bull ,are color blind .So the very notion that they get attracted or rather irritated by RED color is baseless.They understand and are disturbed by the movement and other stimulli though .
Color ,has partioned the world .I am brown .The country to our north (like China ,korea) have yellow colored people .The irish are also called red heads ,not only because they have bundles of anger contained within them ,but because their hairs are so .Blondes ,naturall or artificial ,would have never been in news if there would have been no color .
Apart from skin and hair ,eyes also are colored .
Anna Kournikva ,my ex ,had blue eyes .Blue eyes are common to Aryans ,so found mostly in Persians ,Europeans .Infact many Europeans are born with blue eyes but they change the color with time (I was always born with brown eye and still retain it ) .
Majority of people in world are born with brown eyes . I remember ,I did change my eye color once .When i was thrashed by my papa once ,I got a black eye .Black eye are common among indian subcontinent and africa ,though am not sure ,if they are regularily thrashed by their papa.
Elizabeth Taylor has violet eyes ,another rare variety of eye color .
Am planning to get rid of specs and adopt a tricolor contact lens(saffron ,white ,green variety..for those who cant see the middle color here ,its white .. ).
Men for generations have been falsely accused of being color blind.
You would find ,the greatest painters,had been all men.I know
what is RED ,what is GREEN ,what is BLUE ,what is YELLOW ,what is BROWN and what is CRIMSON .Its only that I mismatch names with them .But that doesn't mean am color blind .Its just like I know what is house ,I just go to different house every night .
But I dont always juxtapose colors with subject .I know SUN is RED when near horizon .It is like that because it is farthest to earth at that time ,RED scatters least and hence it is that light which reaches our eye .This is also called Rayleigh Scattering .
Violet ,Blue are acattered most by Nitrogen and Oxygen ,the principal constituents of our atmosphere ,hence this is the color that appears on our sky during day time .
The fact that RED scaterrs least ,is the reson ,why it is employed in traffic signalling .Danger is forcasted by this color .Blood in humans are RED ,one color ,doesnt matter what race/country/religion/status/sex/how many times sex/sanity/time zone/political party to which we belong .Even the Indian politicians have blood and its red in color .I would just love to see it outside their veins .
I dont like RED as much as BLUE .It has been a natural choice to me .Most of my shirts and pants are BLUE ,light BLUE ,lighter BLUE or lightest BLUE .I guess most smart people love BLUE color .The primary colors(you cant make these colors out of the rest ) are BLUE ,RED and YELLOW. Yellow is sign of melanchony ,RED is too violent ,What remains is the Koolest one .
I share my favorite color with color of Sikh religion .Most of the widely followed religions of world are divided in colors .Hindus is to saffron as Islam is to Green or Red is to Tibbetean Buddhism as White is to Christanity or Black is to Pagan .
Blue is also the national color of Israel .The only time ,when i wont be in blue is when am in Russia.
By the way ,Indian Cricket team has borrowed this thought from me and they are sucessful ,off the field though.The invaluable lapis lazuli is blue ,IBM is blue ,oceans are blue ,parrots are blue ,lions are blue ,elephants are blue ,you are blue ,i am blue ....ohhh !!! sorry i think monday blue is catching me ,so signing off this post with smiles and wishes to all ....

The Hair Cut

And as I lay ,amidst the rubble ,my shoulder length long dark silky hair,strewn on floor ,with celebrations around ,I could not stop the strong sense of deja-vu.Lately I had begun to get this feeling that the event is going to generate lot many cheers across friendly faces. This was my second hair cut in around 365 days and the very first since I came to USA (which is around 6 months ).Not that I had cultivated growing hair as my hobby or I was being TALIBANised ,but this hidden quality in me was nurtured and discovered by my laziness in year 2004 ,when everything other than my hair was un-progressive.And thus the growing hair supported the theory "Laziness is mother of all Invention ". Sorry I am wandering from point .
So ,growing hair covered my excuse for being lazy and being stingy,to being trendy.Lately the art of keeping or rather unkept long hairs have bounced back as fashion(Bollywood Actors ,Tom Cruise ..),as has Tatoo-ing.To be honest long flowing hair among men ,have always been "In". Modern people who mattered most and changed or impacted the world,by sheer co-incidence or whatever kept long hair .Be it Rock/Pop stars like Deff Leppard or Beatles or social activist like John Lenon or the reverred Albert einstien or the charismatic "Che-Guevra" all have one thing in common ....Wild unkept long hair .Sorry I am wandering from point .
So,I was at Saloon in McCallum Blvd ,and having my first hair cut after 7 months .I grew to phillosophical thought "the grief of separation is inseparable".I vividly remember ,7 months back ,how i was forced to get my mane trimmed on instance of my father ,the only guy ,who sends a shiver down my spine .Ouch !! the barber had miscaluculated her moves,but I am safe .The reflection on her face is obvious .I had hanuted the saloon 3 or 4 times but just to escort some of my friends and turned her request to get a hair cut many a times.Today was her day.Actually I was not always alone in my struggle to keep long hair.Some of my comrades gave up their battle either to their girl friends or to this barber .But I had walked alone. The hair cover didnt make me better looking rather more monstorous ,but i was stoic.Teenaged boys across the world ,grew upto ,growing long hair to declare their first step in making themselves heard that they are grown.This is their first step to declare themselves as independent,rebel ,breaking the prevalent trends and customs.Sorry I am wandering from point.
And as I was part and witness to reaping of those preserved and maintained fibres ,I felt that all the shampooing ,oiling (no gels),combing and tieing the hair was so futile .My Ruin did bring cheer in familar faces .There was applause all around .This had but just triggered the very fire in me .I will "Come Back ".

A rainy Week end among sunny weekdays in Dallas

It was another much awaited week end which came after so sunny week days .Was looking forward to some fun on Saturday when Rain gods smiled ,and said " Next time ..baby " .But spirits are hard to be imprisoned .Strolled out in the unfair weather with my camera ..and took snaps while driving .managed to pick some of these scenes

The Indian Politicians

Indian Economy -- Like a phoneix from ashes

The world stares at economy of India now .Itz on the news of every country and industry and on which it has not been ,make haste . Be it IT or Automobiles or Pharmacy ..India is making its road .Touch wood !!!
Lets discuss something on it ...
The Road to Glory

India was land in peace ,wealth and contended till the western nations discovered it.The Britishers with the grace of Industrial Revolution came ,saw and conquered it .After 200 long years of exploitation ,loot ,mayheam ,blood shed left the nation shattered ,in pieces ,in riots and as grossly underdevloped .The britishers had tried to loot away anything they could take to england and if not they destroyed it .The growth rate rose from -16 % to 3% to now 7%


Shape of Things to come
India's battle with China

Global IT outsourcing was estimated to be around $39.6 billion in 2004 India’s share amounting to nearly $17.2 billion while China garnered nearly $1.9 billion of the outsourcing revenues.

The Chinese Government and the IT service providers are working at various levels to compete with the dominant Indian participants in the global IT outsourcing market. India with its 44.0 percent share of IT outsourcing projects is considerably ahead of China in the global outsourcing market but this gap in revenues is estimated to reduce soon as China leverages on its advantages. Towards this end, the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, visited several Indian IT outsourcing hubs such as Bangalore and also visited the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in 2004. The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Wu Dawei, was quoted as saying "The Premier Wen would like to know more about the experience of India in developing science and technology." Some of the key success factors of an IT outsourcing destination have been: Abundance of technically skillful labor force Low cost workforce Quality of service Regulatory environment Robustness of infrastructure Knowledge of English Time zone attractiveness India has had tremendous advantage in most of these factors with around 813,000 knowledge professionals being employed in the IT software and ITES BPO sectors during the years 2003 and 2004. More than 65 IT companies achieved SEI CMM Level 5 assessment at the end of 2003 and many more companies are expected to follow. China shares many of India's advantages in the outsourcing market such as cheap labor costs and favorable government policies. However, the Chinese lack English language skills and the expertise in western business practices. The Indian Government has gained from years of investment in IT education and from lenient policies toward the IT industry. While the Chinese IT companies are increasingly bidding for international outsourcing projects, they are also leveraging on their proximity to markets such as Japan and South Korea, where they have an advantage both due to the geography and language. Nevertheless, China has to still gain expertise in project management as well as achieve economies of scale before it can compete with countries such as India in the global outsourcing market. Indian firms are increasingly setting up operations in China in order to capitalize on the future prospects that the country might offer in IT outsourcing. As of June 2005, nearly 18 Indian companies had operations in China and had a workforce of nearly 2000, with investments estimated to be nearly $ 50 million. By the end of 2005, Indian companies are expected to expand their Chinese operations as well as double their employee base in China. Frost & Sullivan’s recent report on the ‘Chinese Information Technology Industry’ analyzes the trends affecting the industry in view of the political policy and cultural environment as prevalent in China. Some of the trends in favor of Chinese expansion in the outsourcing market are the liberalization of government regulations, the growing middle class, large-scale investments in technical education, a vibrant economy, and the availability of cheap labor force. However, China needs to build its workforce capabilities in terms of English language proficiency and project management skills in order to emerge as a viable alternative to India in the global outsourcing market. Moreover, both China and India will also have to deal with the mounting competition from other low cost countries such as Russia, Philippines, Ireland, and Israel. >>

Indias pros :
*Respect for capital
China has very active central and local governments directing economic activity. It has taken the legacy of its planned economic system and modified it to suit the new environment, which it claims is "market driven."
*Respect for intellectual property

*Sound banking and monetary system
One out of two loans in China is probably bad. India, on the other hand, has net NPLs [non-performing loans] in its banking system of 3.5%. China's bad loan problem is a legacy of its state-directed lending practices. Interest rates are completely controlled by the PboC, and the big four banks that control over 95% of banking assets have no credit scoring or credit risk based pricing mechanisms in place. It's unbelievable. India on the other hand has a vibrant domestic credit market with an active corporate and government bond market and interest rate and credit derivative markets. Indian interest rates are market determined, and the banking system definitely knows how to price credit. China's asset markets are very similar to the Japanese. They are very heavily leveraged and are primarily fueled by property speculation. The Chinese property market coupled with its leveraged and insolvent banking system is a very big accident waiting to happen. India has no such issues.

*Entrepreneurship and profit motivation


*Goverment and its role

The goverment in india sadly hasnt done much for finance .Politicians are one big suckers in the system
and we cant do without them .The Laloos ,mulayams ,paswans are there in every city interfering in every one's
life and business .Corruption is rampant .Extract hard earned money from common folks and make inferior bridges
,roads .We cant change this politicians overnight ,what we can do is that youth should join it and clean it .
They should take up politics ,which now is in chaos ,and help in nation building .

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Second roomie in usa

 
 

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Hmmm itz raining HEAVILY outside and i have to rush to DFW airport to pick some one up . 

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