Saturday, 22 January 2011
Introduction Matters...
One of my friend told that her father always introduced her as ‘she is my daughter, studying in USA’. These words are most important for him. She also tells he always introduced her mother in a single sentence ‘she is my wife, a government teacher’. He has a government teacher as a wife!
I visited some local banks with one of my colleague. He always introduced me as ‘he is our new officer’. I had to loose other identity to make other person comfortable. They are not interested in knowing my name or my hobby or my graduation. They need the information that I am an officer, so I need to loose other identities.
My uncle is a contractor. An engineer matters more for him. So he always introduced me to his friends as an engineer. He never bothered to tell my name too. I also experienced good times when I was introduced by my friends to their friends as ‘this is my friend, Akshay’. They created closeness and other information flew easily and I got few friends.
I was meeting my colleague’s husband first time. She introduced me to her husband just by pointing me ‘Akshay...’. That means he knows me. What he knows! What he does not know!? It created a tension during the first meet. Finally he told they both read my blogs! Then we talked for hours.
I was talking to a lady who got changed her name after marriage. I asked her how you felt when you got changed your name not for your wish! She told she felt like she lost her identity. We are always identified by our name. We feel special when some one calls us by name. Similarly give them their own identity.
Introduction takes different formats according to the situations and people who is getting introduced, to whom and who is the middle person.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
No more numbers please!!
Somebody comes and asks me what my contact number is. I do not want everybody to have my mobile number. So have to search for what my office land line number is? Out of many landlines, through which I can be reached? Till today I do not know! I could be the same case for many of you!
Chat from the HR department asks me to give my PAN card number. Permanent Account Number is just number you must remember as soon as you start earning!
And my mother calls me to recharge her Dish TV viewing card. Dish TV toll free is saved in my mobile and I call them. IVR asks me to enter lengthy VC number. You can not remember such an idiotic number. If I do not remember it is also OK with the mobile number I have registered. But I do not remember which mobile number I have given for them out of my three mobile phone numbers.
Then I prefer recharging online. It asks some log in ID, it is there in
I often forget to recharge my prepaid mobile until it gets completely used. If it is online recharge, again you should remember your debit card or credit card number or for internet banking you should remember your log in number different for different banks. And they also ask you to not to write it down!!
The SMS from BSNL reminds- your bPhone is due for payment for bill number so and so. I need to remember another user number or customer number and some passwords that must be changed in every 90 days. When the online transactions are not successful, you need to call the customer care of the bank or the mobile service provider! You have to tell him at least 10 digit account number, transaction number, mobile number, SIM number, mobile handset number, EMI number…… whatever the number he might ask for! You might be having account with five banks, then you brain will be full of useless numbers
To see the present portfolio of my very small investments in shares I have to again remember two different numbers. Log in ID and log in pin. It’s good now, only two number. Otherwise, remembering DPN id, client ID and the phone number of the stock broker was more troublesome.
When the result of my exam declared, I need to enter my enrollment number. I don’t remember my IGNOU MBA roll number. Whenever the result comes, I need to find my hall ticket of ID card.
Voting is your right and duty. For this simple reason you should get your some random numbered voting card and also serial number in that voting booth.
Breaking traffic signal is my bad habit. Police asks for vehicle number along with the driving license.
Another thing is these numbers might be of no important for you. You might have used your vehicle number once in six months. But second person, who is asking for such numbers expect you to compulsorily remember these numbers. Otherwise all these people will suspect you. Policeman may start interrogating you whose vehicle is it? Bank people may start thinking you might not be the true owner of the card.
Is it possible to have minimal number of numbers for all these?
How can you expect a person to remember such a huge number of numbers
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Uttar Kannada- Height of Exploitation
When Uttara Kannada, a highly neglected district talks:Hi, I am Uttara Kannada, one of the biggest districts of Karnataka, situated at the west of the state towards Arabian Sea. Karwar is the district head quarters which is south to Goa. I am essentially made up of the coastal belt at west, western forests in the middle inner lees rainy regions at east. I was one among a few districts of the country which has contributed to the Indian Freedom Movement. Ankola is well known for its contribution in non-cooperative movements. My beauty was once praised by Rabindranath Tagore when he visited Karwar.
I am very rich in natural resources. A umber of water falls, valleys, rivers, beaches are my assets. My people were spending happy life along with nature. Representatives of people and the governments of the state and the country felt jealous by looking at happiness that I was providing to my people. The State asked me to sacrifice something for the state. I scarified the beautiful forests of Supa for hydraulic power generation units. But the state was not satisfied it asked for some more nature of mine to be destroyed. Now this was the term of riverside of Gangavali. I thought it was my pleasure to help the state.
The government of India was observing me. It understood it can take anything from me in the name of development. It kept a nuclear bomb in my heart- in the middle of western forests- Kaiga. It made me to live with fear of death forever. Then it was the issue of national security. I never thought they could destroy the beauty of the coastal line. But they did it in the name of Sea Bird, a Naval Base. The people of the coastal regions lost their business- fishery. The people who gave space for refugees from Tibet became refugees in their own land.
My desires were very small. A train service from Hubli to Ankola. They told they can’t destroy more forests for this reason. Soon they cut down thousands of evergreen trees for electric line from Jogfalls to Hubli. They did it again in the name of betterment of state. But a railway was in the list of useful projects for the state.
Most of the power demand is answered by the power stations here along the rivers of Kali, Bedti, Sharavati and Kaiga atomic power stations. I didn’t ask for free electric power to all the houses here. I asked uninterrupted power supply to all the villages. Even today there is more load-shedding than any other place of Karnataka. There are villages without electric lines. State government owned electric board workers takes a week to repair the lines whenever there is a fault. But the state is busy in discussing establishing a thermal power plant at Tadri.
I’m proud of my children that are so intelligent. My name comes within top 5 in the list of examination results- 10th, 12th or CET. They asked for a medical college- there is no medical college here. They asked for a good engineering college. They are still made to go to Bangalore for higher studies. They asked for a university. Government did not hear in the noise of power generation stations. They requested for timely bus service to go to college from remote villages. The second hand buses which are abandoned in Bangalore were sent here.
There is a limit to my patience. State has to understand there is a limit to my tolerance. It is better if I’m answered before it goes to its extreme.
Friday, 13 March 2009
Pakistan- a nuclear threat to the world!
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, who confessed to having been involved in creating international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea is now free. Political drama of Pakistan made him free citizen recently who is one of the most wanted by the world. It also shows what is Pakistan's response to the world's demand.
Taliban in Pakistan have strengthened their hold over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the North-West Frontier Province since Zardari became president. If you observe recent developments, it seems Pakistan is going to be another Afghanistan. Hence Pakistan soon could put the nuclear weapons in the hands of a government tied to terrorist networks. If al-Qaida allies were to come to power in Pakistan, you can not just imagine the threat that the world pose. The threat is not only for India or USA, but the whole world will suffer.
Even though a huge fund is flowing to Pakistan from US, US have no control over Pakistan. The western world with the leadership of USA went to war to remove the threat of special weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein. Now time has come to do the same with Pakistan before the terrorists gets control of nuclear weapons in Pakistan. I could be only option lies with the world to remove threat of nuclear terrorism of Pakistan.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Family politics: now it is BJP term
Now? BJP lost a campaign tool. B Y Raghavendra, son of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa; Shivakumar Udasi, son of C M Udasi; Shantamma, sister of state minister Sriramulu; Ramesh Katti, Brother of Umesh Katti are given ticket to contest in lokasabha polls. Let me ask a question, will you recognise any of them if I remove 'son of' kind of addresses? Nobody knows who are they by their names, even the party workers. Yeddyurappa promised in front of the media that his son should not contest at any cost. I did not see his reaction after the ticket given to his son. Any way, he first is a politician, later a BJP leader, then a CM. Criticisers tell- being a young party BJP had no room to play family politics. Now time has come for leaders to introduce their family to politics. Family politics comes into picture only whena party is in power. BJP is in power now in Karnataka. So leaders wants their family to share that power.
Even today I admire BJP for its national level leaders not to play family politics. L K Adwani could have made their children head of the party somewhere. Sushma swaraj could have easily braught her whole family to politics. Late Pramod Mahajan could make his brother a leader, but nobody from their family in politics. They never encouraged family politics. BJP had, has batchular leaders. Narendra Modi can never bring his family to politics. There are many leaders who came from RSS back ground dedicated their life and family to the party and to the country. They had strong motive lead the country. People like me want to see this original BJP again.
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
VTU, SBI and My result
It was not tough, I could easily clear both SBI prelims and main exams held in Oct and Nov 2008. I got result of main exam in January. The world already started experiencing a hard time. Thousands of job cuts are being reported from all over the world. It was my second anniversary of Campus placement, joining date was not intimated by the company. So I was happy that I could go to SBI and beat the effect of economic recession or also you can term it as depression on me. But the fate was different.
I went to SBI headquarters in Bangalore on 9 Feb 2008. As it had been mentioned in the advertisement of SBI recruitment cell, a person who has finished his graduation on or before 1 July 2008 was only eligible to apply. I had finished my graduation in the month June 2008. Though VTU had provided me the marks sheet tells I passed the exam in July 2008. There started a conflict. On which date I became a graduate? But the officers were not ready to accept my application is valid because there is no proof to confirm I became graduate on or before 1 July 2008. I had completed my last exam in June 2008, if my university VTU had printed the fact that "he has passed the examination held in June 2008" I had no problem. But they did not.
Later a question aroused. From when should a student considered as a graduate? Is it on the day when he gets result? or from the day when he writes the last exam? or the day when the university delivers convocation certificate? When it was discussed with the educationalists and some high court attorneys they made clear that a student becomes a graduate from the day when he writes the last exam. Result tells whether he became a graduate or not from that day. But now, whom should I blame for this? University- VTU- which did not provide the fact that I passed the exam in June 2008, or SBI- not willing to accept my application because I don't have a proof that I had not been a graduate on 1 July or my result itself?
Saturday, 24 January 2009
ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ.: ಅಧಿಕಾರದ ವಿಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕರಣವೋ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರದ ಸರಳೀಕರಣವೋ?
ಅಧಿಕಾರದ ರುಚಿ ತೋರಿಸಲು ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ. ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ನಂತರ ಸದಸ್ಯರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರದ ಪಾಠ ಮಾಡಲು ಸೆಕ್ರೆಟರಿ ನೇಮಕ ಮಾಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಜನ ಪ್ರತಿನಿಧಿಗಳ ಖರೀದಿ ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳನ್ನು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಪಕ್ಷಗಳು ಆರಂಭಿಸಿರಬಹುದು, ಆದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಯಥಾವತ್ತಾಗಿ ಮುಂದುವರೆಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋಗುತ್ತಿರುವವರು ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ. ಜನಗಳು. ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಚುನಾವಣೆಗೆ ಎರಡು ಬಾರಿ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರಾಗುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಒಮ್ಮೆ ಎರಡೂವರೆ ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಅವಧಿಗೆ. ಒಬ್ಬೊಬ್ಬ ಸದಸ್ಯನಿಗೆ ಹತ್ತುಸಾವಿರವೆಂದರೆ ಕಡಿಮೆಯೇ. ಐವತ್ತಾದರೂ ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ. ಉದ್ಘಾರ ಬೇಡ. ಲಾಭ ಇಲ್ಲದೇ ಇಷ್ಟೆಲ್ಲಾ ನಡೆಯದು. ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಪುಟ್ಟ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಹರಿದು ಬರುವ ಮೊತ್ತವೇನು ಕಡಿಮೆಯೇ? ಕುಮಟಾದ ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ. ಒಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಲೀ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷನನ್ನು ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿಸಲು ಮಾಡಿದ ಸರ್ಕಸ್ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲ ವರದಿಯಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಅಪಹರಣದ ತನಕ ನಾಟಕ ನಡೆದಿತ್ತು.
ಮೊದಲೇ ಹೇಳಿದೆನಲ್ಲ. ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ. ಒಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಅನುಭವಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಎಂದರೆ ಸೆಕ್ರೆಟರಿ. ಅವನೇ ರೂಲ್ ಮೇಕರ್. ಸಿದ್ದಾಪೂರದ ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ. ಒಂದರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬ ಸೆಕ್ರೆಟರಿ ಇದ್ದಾನೆ. ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ ಮೀಸಲು ಸದಸ್ಯ. ಆತ ಸಹಿ ಹಾಕಲು ಮೀಸಲು. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಎಂಥ ಅಭಿವೃಧ್ಧಿ ಎಂದರೆ: ಅತೀ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದವರ ಮನೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಶೌಚಾಲಯ ನಿರ್ಮಣ ಎನ್ನುವ ಒಂದು ಯೋಜನೆ ಬಂದಿತ್ತು. ಒಂದು ಹೊಂಡ ತೋಡಿ ಅದರ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಮೋಡ್ ಇರಿಸಿ ಬಿಲ್ ಕೂಡ ಪಾಸ್ ಆಯಿತು. ಈಗ ಫಲಾನುಭವಿಗಳು ಅದರ ಅಕ್ಕ ಪಕ್ಕಾ ಗೋಡೆ ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.
ಇನ್ನೊಬ್ಬ ಪನಿಷ್ಮೆಂಟ್ ಟ್ರಾನ್ಸ್ಫರ್ ಮೇಲೆ ಊರೂರು ಸುತ್ತುತ್ತಿರುವವ ಸೆಕ್ರೆಟರಿ, ಊರ ಹಿರಿಯರೊಬ್ಬರು ಪರವಾನಿಗೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೇ ತೋಟದ ಮನೆ ಕಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಫೈನ ಹಾಕುತ್ತೇನೆಂದು ಹೆದರಿಸಿ ಜೇಬು ತುಂಬಿದರೆ ಹಿಂದಿನ ದಿನಾಂಕಕ್ಕೆ ಪರವಾನಿಗೆ ನೀಡುತ್ತೇನೆಂದಿದ್ದ. ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಖಾತರಿ ಯೋಜನೆಗೆ ಬರುವ ಅಕ್ಕಿ ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾರಾಟವಾಗುವುದೋ ದೇವರೇ ಬಲ್ಲ. ಪಡಿತರ ಸೀಮೆ ಎಣ್ಣೇಗೆ ನೀಲಿ ಬಣ್ಣ ಬಳಿದಂತೆ ಅಕ್ಕಿಗೆ ಯಾವ ಬಣ್ಣ ಬಳಿಯುವುದೋ? ಹೀಗಿದೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯತ್ ಆಡಳಿತ. ಎಲ್ಲ ಹೀಗೆ ಎಂದೇನಿಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೂ ಗ್ರಾ. ಪಂ. ಈಗ ಅಧಿಕಾರದ ವಿಕೇಂದ್ರೀಕರಣವೋ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರದ ಸರಳೀಕರಣವೋ ನೀವೇ ಹೇಳಿ.
Keywords: Gram Panchayat, Bribery, Government, Job guaranty, Kumta, Siddapur, UttaraKannada, Politics, Google
Slumdog millionaire and true India
The i wrote some articles on Slumdog, my friend, a software professional Shivaprasad had told me that it is like any other bollywood film, directed by someone who had never seen India positively. We had better film than this. It won't get even a state award. I did not believe him, because I heard Rehaman's Vande mataram, Jana gana mana and many other songs.
India is never treated better in any International awards including Nobel. Can you show me anybody who can compete with Mahatma Gandhi when he got nominated for Nobel peace award? But he did not get it. What is good in India is never recognised. This does not matter. But when Indians could not recognise what we have, it costs more.
Slumdog starts convincing you Mumbai as a biggest slum in the world. Then it comes to communal disputes- mother of two Muslim boys murdered ( by another community. No need to tell more) Then the story goes towards world of beggars, prostitutes, bar girls, criminals. Should I write more?
Also read Shocked by Slumdog's poverty porn
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Happy New Year 2009: 365 days in 40 Seconds
Hi Friends,
I wanted to wish you Happy New Year with a new message. I got this video in YouTube. This video shows whole year in 40 seconds. 365 days runs like seconds. It happened to me all these years. Could not even recall how I had spent 366 days in 2008. Hardly I could counted some hundred hours that I have done some useful jobs.
The same summer, same winter, same or more or less rain again repeats this year. But let our life may not be a repetition of previous year. Let it be more successful we have ever seen. Let it be more joyful than we have ever enjoyed. Let the tough time both we have faced individually and with the common minded people around the world not be repeated. Year 2008 has given many challenges to us, let us conquer these challenges in 2009. Let the world be peace, let the nature be calm, let us be cool.
Happy New Year 2009
Friday, 26 December 2008
Focus on Focus to be successful
Focus is the essential requirement for success. Every success comes from focusing on your goal. The goal may be silly, very small comparative to others but when you focus on it you will be the ruler. So marketing guru Al Ries tells Focusing is key for success.Not necessarily only in marketing, but for every moment of our life- focus leads to success. I can tell you why. You may be a software engineering student. Instead of trying to become master in every thing that comes in syllabus, just you could focus on "c", a very first language you learnt in your studies could make you master in "c" and you can rule it. If you are a MBA student you can just focus your ideas on McKinsey's 7s model and you can become master and it gives value to your life.
Most of the successful stories follows the same pattern. Google concentrated on search, it is ruling the world of search engines (now they are diverging, that is different kind of story).Coca-cola focused on coke, Mc Donald focused on Hamburger, Pizza Hut concentrated on Pizza, Coffee day on Coffee, Microsoft on Windows..... all are now unquestionable in their field. Today you decide what to focus on. Focus on what you want to focus. You will rule it.
Wednesday, 24 December 2008
Internet providing new platform in freelance journalists
Advantage of being a freelance journalist is that he can write whatever he wishes, whenever he finds himself free to write, he can publish whichever magazine or media and also can earn money from it. If you have a passion for hunting new information and analysing them to make a paragraph or two you too become a free lane journalist.
When it comes to Internet era, free lance journalists have a good opportunity and exposure never seen earlier. You can get information on your own or get from the net, add your own views and publish your own. Blogger are the best example for freelance journalists. A blogger is a writer, editor and a publisher of his own. He can be a designer if he has a little knowledge of html and some other web languages. He can also earn money by publishing ads which google or yahoo like sites provides or can get paid from some websites directly if he is a serious writer. If you are new to the field you can get noticed by others by writing to those who are already noticed by others. Internet just works by links.
For this what one has to do is write more original contents, get linked by some high page ranked sites, write something interesting and be active. I started my career as freelance journalist 8 years ago, entered blogging 3 years ago and changed some blogging sites until I find myself satisfied with the services provided, started earning(though not a significant amount) through blogging 4 months back. Why late, you too be a freelance journalist.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Everything that is constructed is to be destructed
I don't tell things to be completely collapsed to be destructed, but at least the form in which it is present shall be destructed to construct itself in another form. This seems to be law of nature. The theory of formation of this world itself tells that it is constructed by destruction. So sooner or longer it has to be destructed to construct another.

There were kings, kingdom, policies, laws, belief... they are no more now. They all are destructed to construct where we are now. A business, that is formed by years of hard work will be reformed to transform into another form in a minuets of time or it may be completely collapsed to make way to another business. But sure, it shall be destructed.
A record, may be a sports world record, or simply a Guinness record made by months of preparation will be reconstructed by another. A relation started by 1st meet goes to an end, that could be a full stop or transformation of type of relation. Open to close, close to open; social relationship to personal or a collapse of the relationship.
So, think of the way how it could be destructed before constructing. This will help you to reform it and save it from collapsing. Go for reconstruction before it collapse. So when you construct think of destruction.
Friday, 28 November 2008
They are Islamic extremist! Do you Indian have guts to say it is "islamic extremism"?
O Hindus! O disbelieving faithless Indians! Haven’t you still realized that the falsehood of your 33 crore dirty mud idols and the blasphemy of your deaf, dumb, mute and naked idols of ram, krishna and hanuman are not at all going to save your necks, Insha-Allah, from being slaughtered by our hands? Nor is your fictitious faith in monkeys, pigs and nude statues going to save you from the Wrath of Allah and His Humiliating Punishment.
Are you a Hindu? What do you feel? How dare they are to tell so in our land. India, the Bharatha Khand, mother land of great civilisation, mother land of Vedic society was meant for Hindus, it will never change. How dare they are to send a mail from Indian soil?
Here we are back - the Mujahideen of India - the terrorists on the disbelievers - the radicals of Islam - after our triumphant and successful assault at Jaipur, once again calling you all, who disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) to accept Islam and bear witness that there is none to be worshipped except Allah, and that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah. Accept Islam and save yourselves. "Fight them (the disbelievers), Allah will punish them by yourhands and bring them to disgrace, and give you victory overthem and He will heal the hearts of those who believe.” (Qur’an9:14).
Yes, basters, you are! But you don't know we Indians are not still entered the field. We believe in Krishna's words. Same bhagadgeeta, which upholds Shanti can also creat Mahabharath war to bring peace. Yes we can!
Get ready with all the weapons you have. Plan and organize your moves. Select your targets. Target these evil politicians and leaders of BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal, who provoke the masses against you.
I'm proud of you BJP, RSS, VHP and Bhajarang Dal. If you are enemies of terrorists you should be friends of Mother India. One should remember Enemies of enemies are our Friends!
Parliament and we hereby declare an ultimatum to all the stategovernments of India, especially to those of Rajasthan, UttarPradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra to stop harassing the Muslims and keep a check on their killing, expulsion, and encounters
So? Terrorists are fighting for muslims. Why the hell our political readers are still in love of muslims? So what next?
Oh dear Indian decide what to do!
Or just cry for India what her sons are doing to her!