Do you know your grand father? Yes you know. Who was your great grand father? Some of you may answer. Who was your grand father of your grand father? You don’t know.
Do you know who is Mahatma Gandhi? Great, you know. Who is George Washington? Wah, You have global knowledge. Who was JRD Tata? Who was Mr Ford? Who is Swami Vivekanand? Are they your grand fathers? Then why you know them?
They lived for a cause. They lived their life. So they did not die. Our great grand fathers died in their childhood itself.
Now decide, should we become like our ancestors whose name we don’t know or should we achieve something and should be an example for our next generation?
You know what to do!
(This was there in a speech of Mr Chakravarthy Soolibele, available at esnips)
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Saturday, 1 May 2010
ICICI and HDFC banks are not Indian Banks
According to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the two major banks in India ICICI Bank and HDFC Banks are not Indian owned but are Indian controlled. Their major part of the holding is of foreign origin rather than Indian. But the board is controlled by Indians. But when the ownership is concerned, they no more stand as Indian Banks! They are not more than any other foreign banks like RBS or HSBC when it comes to nationality of the ownership.
Both ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank have over 74 per cent foreign holding, including that of foreign banks and overseas institutional investors. The direct and indirect foreign holdings in ICICI Bank and HDFC are around 67% and 73% respectively. This makes their holding in other institution also of foreign investments. Hence they want to be recognized as Indian banks as the restriction for other investments in India. ICICI and HDFC both have other subsidiaries like life insurance and mutual fund wings where the foreign investments has some restriction and limitation. If they are recognized as foreign banks they can not hot majority stake in their subsidiaries.
If a company to be an Indian owned it has to be held more than 50% by the Indian residents or institutions. But these banks are not! Government may amend the rules to make them enjoy the foreign holdings and also to continue enjoying the benefits given to Indian Banks. But we Indians should understand that they are no more owned by us.
Data from BSE India Ltd, BSEIndia.com
Both ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank have over 74 per cent foreign holding, including that of foreign banks and overseas institutional investors. The direct and indirect foreign holdings in ICICI Bank and HDFC are around 67% and 73% respectively. This makes their holding in other institution also of foreign investments. Hence they want to be recognized as Indian banks as the restriction for other investments in India. ICICI and HDFC both have other subsidiaries like life insurance and mutual fund wings where the foreign investments has some restriction and limitation. If they are recognized as foreign banks they can not hot majority stake in their subsidiaries.
If a company to be an Indian owned it has to be held more than 50% by the Indian residents or institutions. But these banks are not! Government may amend the rules to make them enjoy the foreign holdings and also to continue enjoying the benefits given to Indian Banks. But we Indians should understand that they are no more owned by us.
| Ownership as on Mar 10 | HDFC Bank | ICICI Bank | |
| Promoter & Promoter Grp | 10,86,43,220 | - | |
| Indian | 10,86,43,220 | - | |
| Foreign | -- | -- | |
| Public | 26,79,97,650 | 79,95,50,106 | |
| Institution | 17,68,10,372 | 69,57,64,941 | |
| FII | 12,16,92,561 | 41,29,12,791 | |
| DII | 5,51,17,811 | 28,28,52,150 | |
| Non Institution | 9,11,87,278 | 10,37,85,165 | |
| Bodies Corporate | 4,15,03,470 | 2,91,01,511 |
Friday, 30 April 2010
Jonathan Livingston Seagull ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಪರದಾಟ!
ಜೊನಾಥನ್ ಲಿವಿಂಗ್ ಸ್ಟನ್ ಸೀಗಲ್ ಎನ್ನುವ ಒಂದು ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಇದೆ. ಇದರ English e-ಅವತರಣಿಕೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕು ಮೂರ್ನಾಲ್ಕು ವರ್ಷಗಳೇ ಆದವು. computer ಎದುರು ಕುಳಿತು ಓದಿದ್ದು ಓದಿದ್ದು. ಏನೊಂದು ಅರ್ಥ ಆಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. At least ಕಥೆಯಾದರೂ ಅರ್ಥ ಆಗುವುದು ಬೇಡವೇ? ಅದು ಆಗಲಿಲ್ಲ. ನನಗೆ English ಬರುವುದಿಲ್ಲವೋ ಅಥವಾ ಕಥೆ ಓದಲು ಬರುವುದಿಲ್ಲವೋ ತಿಳಿಯಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದನ್ನ English Literature ಓದಿದ ಗೆಳತಿಯೊಬ್ಬಳಿಗೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಸಹಾಯ ಬೇಡಿಯೂ ಆಯಿತು. ಮೊದಲೇ ಆ ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿನ motivation ಏನೆಂದೇ ತಿಳಿಯದವನಿಗೆ ಈ ಕಥೆ ಒಂದು ಅಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮಿಕ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಅಂದಾಗ ಮೈ ಪರಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಂತೆ ಆಗಿತ್ತು.
ಮೊನ್ನೆ ಗಾಂಧಿ ನಗರದ ಚೈತ್ರ book house ಗೆ ಹೋದಾಗ ಸೀಗಲ್ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅವತರಣಿಕೆ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು. Richard Bach ಬರೆದ ಪುಸ್ತಕವನ್ನು ಎಂ ಎಲ್ ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ರಾವ್ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪುಸ್ತಕ ನೋಡಲು ತುಂಬಾ ಮುದ್ದಾಗಿದೆ. ಒಂದೆರಡು ಪುಟ ತಿರುವಿದಾಕ್ಷಣ ತುಂಬಾ ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಅನಿಸಿತು. ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ ಓದಿ ನೋಡೋಣ ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡು ೩೦ ರೂಪಾಯಿಯ ೫೫ ಪುಟಗಳ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಕೊಂಡು ತಂದೆ. ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ತುಂಬಾ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು. ದೊಡ್ಡ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಅಕ್ಷರಗಳು. ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಕಥೆ ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ತರಹ ಇದೆ.
ನಾನು ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಓದುವ ತರಹವೇ ಓದಿದ್ದು. ಅವರಿಗೂ ಅಸ್ಟೇ ಕಥೆ ಅರ್ಥವಾದರೆ ಆಯಿತು. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿನ theme ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡು ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು? ಜೊನಾಥನ್ ಅನ್ನುವ ಸಮುದ್ರ ಕಾಗೆಯ ಕಥೆ. ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾರುತ್ತಾ ತೆಲಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಆಸೆ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ. ಆದರೆ ಅದರ ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಹೊಸದನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವ ಇಷ್ಟವಿಲ್ಲ. ಸಮುದ್ರದ ದಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಸ್ತರು ಹಿಡಿದು ತರುವ ಮೀನಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಣ್ಣು. ಅಸ್ಟೇ ಆದರೆ ಅದು ಒಂದು ಜೀವನವೇ ಎನ್ನುವ ಹುಡುಗ ಜೊನಾಥನ್. ನೂರಾರು ಮೀಟರ್ ಎತ್ತರಕ್ಕೆ ನೋವಾದ ರೆಕ್ಕೆಯನ್ನು ಲೆಕ್ಕಿಸದೆ ಹಾರಿ ಹಾರಿ ಯಾವ ಸೀ ಗಲ್ ಮಾಡದ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕ ಉಡುಗೊರೆ ಎಂದರೆ- ಅವರ ಜಾತಿಯಿಂದಲೇ ಬಹಿಷ್ಕಾರ. ಆದರು ಬೆನ್ನು ಬಿಡದೆ ಛಲ ಸದಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ ಜೊನಾಥನ್. ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಫ್ಲೆಚರ್ ಎನ್ನುವ ಶಿಷ್ಯ ದೊರೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅವನ ಹಿಂದೆ ನೂರಾರು ಹಿಂಬಾಲಕರು ಸಿಗುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ಕಥೆ ಮೇಲ್ನೋಟಕ್ಕೆ ಇಸ್ಟೇ. ಆದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಮಾತ್ರ ಹರ ಸಾಹಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಇನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಬರಿ ಓದಿದ ಮೇಲೇ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗಬಹುದು ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
ಹಾಗೆಯೇ Alchemist ಕೂಡ. ಕಥೆ ಒಂದೆ. ಆದರೆ ನಾವು ಓದುವ ಮನೋ ಮಟ್ಟದ ಆಧಾರದ ಮೇಲೆನಮಗೆ ಅದರ ತಿರುಳು ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿ ಓದಿದಾಗ Santiago ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಬಳಿ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ ಅನಿಸಿದರೆ ಎರಡನೇ ಬಾರಿ ಓದುವಾಗ ಇನ್ನೇನೋ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಮತ್ತೂ ಓದಿದರೆ ಶಂಕರರ ಅಹಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾಸ್ಮಿ ಅರ್ಥ ಕೊಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಪ್ರತೀ ಬಾರಿ ಓದುವಾಗಲೂ ಇವು ಹೊಸತಾಗಿಯೆ ಇರುತ್ತವೆ. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ಆರನೇ ಬಾರಿ ಓದುತ್ತಿರುವುದು.
ಮೊನ್ನೆ ಗಾಂಧಿ ನಗರದ ಚೈತ್ರ book house ಗೆ ಹೋದಾಗ ಸೀಗಲ್ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅವತರಣಿಕೆ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು. Richard Bach ಬರೆದ ಪುಸ್ತಕವನ್ನು ಎಂ ಎಲ್ ರಾಘವೇಂದ್ರ ರಾವ್ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಪುಸ್ತಕ ನೋಡಲು ತುಂಬಾ ಮುದ್ದಾಗಿದೆ. ಒಂದೆರಡು ಪುಟ ತಿರುವಿದಾಕ್ಷಣ ತುಂಬಾ ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಅನುವಾದಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಅನಿಸಿತು. ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲೇ ಓದಿ ನೋಡೋಣ ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡು ೩೦ ರೂಪಾಯಿಯ ೫೫ ಪುಟಗಳ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಕೊಂಡು ತಂದೆ. ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ತುಂಬಾ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು. ದೊಡ್ಡ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಅಕ್ಷರಗಳು. ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಕಥೆ ಪುಸ್ತಕದ ತರಹ ಇದೆ.
ನಾನು ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಓದುವ ತರಹವೇ ಓದಿದ್ದು. ಅವರಿಗೂ ಅಸ್ಟೇ ಕಥೆ ಅರ್ಥವಾದರೆ ಆಯಿತು. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿನ theme ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡು ಏನಾಗಬೇಕು? ಜೊನಾಥನ್ ಅನ್ನುವ ಸಮುದ್ರ ಕಾಗೆಯ ಕಥೆ. ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾರುತ್ತಾ ತೆಲಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಆಸೆ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ. ಆದರೆ ಅದರ ಗುಂಪಿಗೆ ಹೊಸದನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವ ಇಷ್ಟವಿಲ್ಲ. ಸಮುದ್ರದ ದಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಸ್ತರು ಹಿಡಿದು ತರುವ ಮೀನಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಣ್ಣು. ಅಸ್ಟೇ ಆದರೆ ಅದು ಒಂದು ಜೀವನವೇ ಎನ್ನುವ ಹುಡುಗ ಜೊನಾಥನ್. ನೂರಾರು ಮೀಟರ್ ಎತ್ತರಕ್ಕೆ ನೋವಾದ ರೆಕ್ಕೆಯನ್ನು ಲೆಕ್ಕಿಸದೆ ಹಾರಿ ಹಾರಿ ಯಾವ ಸೀ ಗಲ್ ಮಾಡದ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕ ಉಡುಗೊರೆ ಎಂದರೆ- ಅವರ ಜಾತಿಯಿಂದಲೇ ಬಹಿಷ್ಕಾರ. ಆದರು ಬೆನ್ನು ಬಿಡದೆ ಛಲ ಸದಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ ಜೊನಾಥನ್. ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಫ್ಲೆಚರ್ ಎನ್ನುವ ಶಿಷ್ಯ ದೊರೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಅವನ ಹಿಂದೆ ನೂರಾರು ಹಿಂಬಾಲಕರು ಸಿಗುತ್ತಾರೆ.
ಕಥೆ ಮೇಲ್ನೋಟಕ್ಕೆ ಇಸ್ಟೇ. ಆದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಅರ್ಥ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಮಾತ್ರ ಹರ ಸಾಹಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಇನ್ನು ನಾಲ್ಕು ಬರಿ ಓದಿದ ಮೇಲೇ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗಬಹುದು ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
ಹಾಗೆಯೇ Alchemist ಕೂಡ. ಕಥೆ ಒಂದೆ. ಆದರೆ ನಾವು ಓದುವ ಮನೋ ಮಟ್ಟದ ಆಧಾರದ ಮೇಲೆನಮಗೆ ಅದರ ತಿರುಳು ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿ ಓದಿದಾಗ Santiago ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಬಳಿ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ ಅನಿಸಿದರೆ ಎರಡನೇ ಬಾರಿ ಓದುವಾಗ ಇನ್ನೇನೋ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಮತ್ತೂ ಓದಿದರೆ ಶಂಕರರ ಅಹಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾಸ್ಮಿ ಅರ್ಥ ಕೊಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಪ್ರತೀ ಬಾರಿ ಓದುವಾಗಲೂ ಇವು ಹೊಸತಾಗಿಯೆ ಇರುತ್ತವೆ. ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಈಗ ಆರನೇ ಬಾರಿ ಓದುತ್ತಿರುವುದು.
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Are you a Public Personality? How Much?
I have seen many people twitter and buzz like social networking tool to project them as public personality. If you read those stuffs, first thing is you will never understand who is writing all these, second thing is you will never understand what they are scrapping, if you have got answers for these two you will never get an answer for why they are doing this?
A number of page three people, celebrities, public personalities use such networks to reach the people. It is a tool to reach their fans and also media. This has become an effective tool for them. Social networking sites are not meant for only for them. Anybody can use it; anybody can post his or her opinions. It’s really a powerful tool to be touch with the friends. Until unless it is for personal use I really like it. When it goes public I start to hate. That does not mean I don’t want to be a public personality!
What do you think if I start writing on my blog only about my opinion, my relationships or myself with some other famous personality like Amitabh Bhacchan, or some other celebrity writes in their public profiles? Are you bothered to read? Who am I for the world? Do the world care for my personal opinion, my personal relationships and personal travels? Though some write like they are little Paulo Choelo or Robin Sharma or Swami Sukhabodananda. It is nothing but he outcome of the desperate wish of those people to become like their role models. Those bloggers have many things to repair themselves, how can they correct their readers. Including Me, Friends!
There is a cricket player in our street. He saw a twitter account of a famous cricketer. He also started an account. Started writing- I scored 150 Runs today (After playing whole day- a 10 times 5 over match!) I have pain in my left knee; I may not able to play final (Final match against guests of nabour house as they are going back!) I proposed Usha today I got a positive replay. I learnt today that the cricket could be played in ping-pong ball also! That too his postings come once in a week whenever he gets access to the Internet connection!
No newspaper will follow it. Nobody else other than his own friends require this info. It is not useful info at all. Why he wants these stuffs to be told to world. Just because he wants to be like that cricketer! He wants to become a public personality, a celebrity. Twitter or google buzz will never make us a celebrity, a philosopher, a politician, or a cricketer. There are routs to make our dream come true. Once we are the achievers, then there is a meaning in guiding the world, telling what we are to the world!
A number of page three people, celebrities, public personalities use such networks to reach the people. It is a tool to reach their fans and also media. This has become an effective tool for them. Social networking sites are not meant for only for them. Anybody can use it; anybody can post his or her opinions. It’s really a powerful tool to be touch with the friends. Until unless it is for personal use I really like it. When it goes public I start to hate. That does not mean I don’t want to be a public personality!
What do you think if I start writing on my blog only about my opinion, my relationships or myself with some other famous personality like Amitabh Bhacchan, or some other celebrity writes in their public profiles? Are you bothered to read? Who am I for the world? Do the world care for my personal opinion, my personal relationships and personal travels? Though some write like they are little Paulo Choelo or Robin Sharma or Swami Sukhabodananda. It is nothing but he outcome of the desperate wish of those people to become like their role models. Those bloggers have many things to repair themselves, how can they correct their readers. Including Me, Friends!
There is a cricket player in our street. He saw a twitter account of a famous cricketer. He also started an account. Started writing- I scored 150 Runs today (After playing whole day- a 10 times 5 over match!) I have pain in my left knee; I may not able to play final (Final match against guests of nabour house as they are going back!) I proposed Usha today I got a positive replay. I learnt today that the cricket could be played in ping-pong ball also! That too his postings come once in a week whenever he gets access to the Internet connection!
No newspaper will follow it. Nobody else other than his own friends require this info. It is not useful info at all. Why he wants these stuffs to be told to world. Just because he wants to be like that cricketer! He wants to become a public personality, a celebrity. Twitter or google buzz will never make us a celebrity, a philosopher, a politician, or a cricketer. There are routs to make our dream come true. Once we are the achievers, then there is a meaning in guiding the world, telling what we are to the world!
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Buzz, Twitter Message Appears in Google search!!
It took little long time to understand Google Buzz. Though it asks while posting a comment to publish in web or not I never thought it could appear in Google Search. But after publishing a
post in Google Buzz I gave search for 'Weather Bangalore' surprisingly it was my comment was on the list. That too the latest result was mine!My friend Shivu was discussing an hour ago about these public posting of the buzz. He was worried that anybody can follow anybody. It is obvious that we feel whetever we scrap there at buzz is personal or it could be available for those whom we have permitted as the mail itself is very very personal. But some application that could be accessed through our e-mail log in becomes public is really horrible!
If you have not seen this just browse this search page. If the latest comments are not available, give some hot keyword at present and search. Or change the setting as latest as it appears left of the result page. Its really good application untill it disturbs the personal matters of a person.
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