Sarsij speaks.....

hi all......I am finding it difficult to continue writing on this page, reason being simple, Blogspirit is not providing much flexibility and space.....also not the much wanted speed and bandwidth. So I have decided to move to a new page......and now onwards I shall write here only. Please visit http://sarsij.wordpress.com for my future Blogs.

Thanking you all!

Id-Mubarak!

Hi all......Happy Diwali!

Well is it Deepawali or Diwali? Ever since childhood I have been taught that it's Deepawali but when I grew up I started getting the greeting messages which used to say 'Happy Diwali'......can anyone explain the difference between these two (if at all there is any difference0.

Well, Diwali is a symbol of truth winning over the evil........but present crisis in India questions this festival......Firstly, the series of blasts in Delhi.......taking hundreds of lives and Secondly, just 46% turn-out in Bihar elections send some serious signals to us......that we are still surrounded by evil ...... and it would again need someone like Lord Ram to fight these evils. Just to remind you, We all have a Ram within us.....what is required is just the awakening of that Ram within us.

While the scene in the Hospitals of Delhi is getting worse not only because of the Bomb-blast vistims but also because the Hospitals are working inadequately........they don't have sufficient facilities to treat the patients. And the relatives who are visting the hospitals in serach of their missing relatives makes the scene look as if there is again a India-Pakistan partition time. I have heard so many stories of Partition, and I am just reminded of those stories. Officials don't have proper communication system.....they don't have proper data.......everything looks like a mess!!!

Well, I have always emphasised on the need of some Crisis-Management system......and now I feel that it's not only required instead it has become a necessity in present times.....Policy makers will have to consider this sooner or later. My suggestion is that why not include  'Crisis Management' in the curriculum......this may take some time to get fully functional, but the investment made in this would reward us with rich returns. Policy makers may take IT industry as an example.......IT industries have taken up Crisis Mangament as an essential part of their working philosophy......so why can't other sectors too learn this lesson.

Well, thats all from me today.......From Diwali to Crisis-Management.......thats how my thoughts keep meandering.

Any, Take care and enjoy Diwali (or Deepawali).......be smiling and safe.

bye!

Since I am a person from Electronics, so whenever I think of technology the first thing which comes to my mind is Moore's Law.......which said that Every 10 years the indutry will see the doubling of the speed of its components and almost double the number of electronics components in the same area. And now the world has even defied Moore's Law, and its pace is so fast that not even 6 months are enough to double up the speed and decrease the size of the components.

But at the same time I am reminded of a great saying, 'Fast.....Cheap....Robust.....choose any two', I am not sure whether this statement was given in context of Technology or something else. But whatever field we wish to choose we shall never find an anamoly to this law......and to me it feels that it has become an universal fact, as of now.

Lets take an example.....the present industry, say software........have we ever come across a software application which claims to be robust......and still cheap.......here cheap may be taken as cheap in terms of memory requirements. In electronics, have you come across any gadget which claims to be cheap....fast and reliable at the same point of time?

Hey reader's I would love to hear from you, if you have any contradiction to this law.

Plz do write.

bye!

Hi all.....Remember, what I wrote a few weeks back.....that how India could become a threat to other economies provided some innovative enterprenuership gets involved in it.

Here is what I would like to call as the 'Herlading the New Economy for BRIC nations'. As indicatd by Mr Nandan Nilekani of Infosys in one of his latest interviews. (For your information,BRIC nations....include Brazil, Russia, India and China.)

Here is what he has to say about his Business Model and threats:

Read it here http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/15infy.htm

I am sure you would love to read what this proactive manager has to say with respect to the Future of World Economy, and his confidence when he talks about the Future of our economy. In a way he also has shown a lot of confidence and a promsing future for us. Hats off to you and your vision Mr. Nilekani.  

Hi all......this blog will be quick and short.....

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2. Username: books.free

3. Password: everyone

4. Select the books, find it as the Subject lines of the mails

5. Send it your account, or directly download it.

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Thats all! 

Hi all...I am attaching an article from TIME asia magazine, this is an interview of Nathuram Godse's Brother, who was also a partner in his endevour to kill Gandhi (whether wrong or right). He is not at all regretful of what they had planned and delivered.

I just want that you should read it, and think it before passing on the judgement.

May be, you too will feel that 'Gandhi' was just a hype created by the Congress Party....and they buried the facts and real-issues of the Nation. They had certain motives to achieve and thus they tried to achieve all those motives using his name, and also they didn't leave even a single stone unturned in publicizing his name like heroes.......like Gandhi going for a fast....Gandhi going for a 'maun-vrata' ..... all this was just to gain sympathy from the masses. Why didn't they publicize the hanging of Bhagat Singh in the same way? Probably thats what Indian Politics is all about. Make someone the hero of the nation, and then use his name to meet your personal motives. This has been done in the past, and by now it has become a ritual of all the parties.

Eversince it's inception, the Indian Democracy has been defunct and corrupt, and what gives these politicians even more courage is the sympathatic approach of the masses, and the literacy levels. Kudos to politicians.....you people really know how to Fool, but just one suggestion......better, get down to business or least start writing books on strategy making etc etc.....you will gain even more. May be, even you too will achieve the status of Gandhi someday....or at least after you die.

Well, I am waiting for the feedback from you all, after you read this article.

Whats the worst thing you can expect if you are standing in a queue.....in a bank, or at ticket counter....or somewhere else. The tickets get sold-out, or the office timings get over before your turn comes. Today it happened with me, yet again. I was standing in a bank queue and the working hours of the person sitting at the counter got over, and there was no one to take charge after this person....my bad luck. But at that point of time just one thing came to my mind, and that was Murphy's Law. Only god knows why it happens with me again and again. But then no one is to be blamed....I should have been prepared for this. Next time I will be on time.

In the mean time I would like to bring to your notice that one of my old blogs (regarding Nathuram Godse's defence speech in the court) has been read by hundreds of people by now, and as I wanted a debate on this fact which has been mutilated by the historians...has achieved it's purpose. Thank you people.

But what is more important here is that you guys should accept this as just a fact, instead of getting emotional about the issue that whether Gandhi should be called Father of the Nationa or not, or whether he should be Mahatma or not. What Nathuram Godse did was his way of fighting against the injustice. For that matter, why Forget Bhagat Singh, Ramprasad Bismil etc etc. Britishers called them terrorists (including the majority of Indians). But now the times have changed, and we Indians have so many things to fight against, population, poverty .....the list is endless, so we may drop this discussion and concentrate on how to fight these current issues. Gandhi or Subhash Chandra Bose or Bhagat Singh could become big because they fighted the current problems of their times, and gave a new direction to the society.....we again need some leaders like them......do we have the same will to fight the current issues, and give a new direction to the society.

Hope to hear from you soon.

(When I am writing all this I am on a leave from my work, getting treated in a reputed hospital of India....and whenever I visit the doctor I can see India in it's true colours.....people lying everywhere on the floor not even being attended....all those people could be potential contributors to this society, and they all have so much with-in, to contribute in their own capacities and in their specific domains.......but for them life right now has condensed to just hope that they will be here in this world even tomorrow, living......are we so incapable that we can't even turn their most basic hope (or I would like to call it a basic right of everyone) into a reality. )

Think over it.....Most of us are fighting over issues that are somehow or the other not so relevent today. Come, lets unite and make things better, and only we can do it for ourselves.

Hope to hear from you all!

Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also Japan exports far more than it imports. Has an annual trade surplus of over $100 billions. Yet Japanese economy is considered weak, even collapsing.
Americans spend, save little. Also US import more than it exports. Has an annual trade deficit of over $400 billion. Yet, the American economy is considered strong and trusted to get stronger. But where from do Americans get money to spend? They borrow from Japan, China and even India. Virtually others save for the US to spend. Global savings are mostly invested in US; in dollars. India itself keeps its foreign currency assets of over $50 billions in US securities. China has sunk over $160 billion in US securities. Japan's stakes in US securities is in trillions.

Result:
The US has taken over $5 trillion from the world. So, as the world saves for the US, Americans spend freely. Today, to keep the US consumption going, that is for the US economy to work, other countries have to remit $180 billion every quarter, which is $2 billion a day, to the US! Otherwise the US economy would go for a six. So will the global
economy. The result will be no different if US consumers begin consuming less.

A Chinese economist asked a neat question. Who has invested more, US in China, or China in US? The US has invested in China less than half of what China has invested in US. The same is the case with India. We have invested in US over $50 billion. But the US has invested less than $20 billion in India. Why the world is after US? The secret lies in the American spending, that they hardly save. In fact they use their credit cards to spend their future income.
That the US spends is what makes it attractive to export to the US. So US imports more than what it exports year after year.

The result:
The world is dependent on US consumption for its growth. By its deepening culture of consumption, the US has habituated the world to feed on US consumption. But as the US needs money to finance its consumption, the world provides the money. It's like a shopkeeper providing the money to a customer so that the customer keeps buying from the shop. If the customer will not buy, the shop won't have business, unless the shopkeeper funds him. The US is like the lucky customer. And the world is like the helpless shopkeeper financier. Who is America's biggest shopkeeper financier? Japan of course. Yet it's Japan which is regarded as weak. Modern economists complain that Japanese do not spend, so they do not grow. To force the Japanese to spend, the Japanese government exerted it self, reduced the savings rates, even charged the savers. Even then the Japanese did not spend (habits don't change, even with taxes, do they?). Their traditional postal savings alone is over$1.2 trillions, about three times the Indian GDP. Thus, savings, far from being the strength of Japan, has become its pain.

Hence, what is the lesson?
That is, a nation cannot grow unless the people spend, not save. Not just spend, but borrow and spend. Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati, the famous Indian-born economist in the US, told Manmohan Singh that Indians wastefully save. Ask them to spend, on imported cars and, seriously, even on cosmetics! This will put India on a growth curve. "Saving is sin, and spending is virtue." Before you follow this neo economics, get some fools to save so that you can borrow from them and spend.

This is really irritating to know that petrol prices have been hiked by Rs 3/- once again........I really can't understand the philosophy behind this, but I have to accept it like any other  Indian.

Just feel like knowing more about the petrol pricing philoophy.

will be back soon, with my own petrol pricing ecominics and its effects.

till then take care and good night!

hi friends, yesterday I wanted you all to read about the IT guys and their present state through an article which appeared in rediff.com recently. Well, today's topic is just an extension to yesterday's thoughts.

Recently I got in touch with one of my school friends who has recently launched his own organization (Known as Techkriti Software ). I put the same question before him, and he had several things to say, as was expected from him. He was optimistic about India's growth and independence in terms of innovation and quality work being done here. I just would like to wish him luck, may his organization become a forerunner in this cherished endevour.

you can read my firends reply  here. (I would suggest you to go through my earlier blog before reading his reply.)

I really admire the thoughts of my friend and all those young entrepreneurs who are all set to change the future of Indian Economy. But my bigger concern is related to an issue which is really fundamental in nature and it has nothing to with a particular industry.

So before I can begin with my concerns, I would also like to bring upon some economics in this discussion. I have tried to analyse China economy a lot and I really admire their way of managing their economy. If I have to explain their economy then I can sum-up saying that : China Believes in this Philosophy.... "any economy can achieve a balanced growth through this path.......first Agriculture......then Manufacturing.......and lastly Services". Which is the case with China........as it has revealed its entire strategy showcase to the world.......it was definitely a closed economy till recently..........when it was at the peak of manufacturing.......and now when Services have come into the picture,it opened up.

well my point is just that in India there has been little done for Manufacturing........and it has straight-away jumped from Agriculture to Services........I really can't anticipate its future consequences, but definitely its having some ill-effect.......like why are we still dependent on other countries for most of our needs.

Now I would like to leave this question to young entrepreneurs - how to nullify the effects which could effect our economy b'coz of our large dependence on other nations for even the basic needs.

What we say in support of the services companies is very true, that we have to first concentrate on the mundane job (in order to employ the large population and several other reasons), and then concentrate on the Quality of Work........in lay man's language......first I have to fulfill my day-to-day needs and then only I can concentrate on the Long term goals of self-dependency (or in other words relying on my innovation).......but how long will it take for companies like Techkriti.....or TCS.....or Infosys......to get going with their own products and refining their technology base in order to produce something which becomes an Intellectual Property or their sole proprietary.

There is no doubt that Services are rocking right now and it has been a boon to India (because of so many reasons), but what might happen if something like 9/11 happens again? So, wont it be a great idea to act in a proactive manner.......by having something like a subsidiary in each organization (which is around 5-10% of the total organization, in terms of size as well as the financial share)........I am definately not trying to say that a company should blindly get into this field but is it not worth a thought in order to become self dependent?

give it a thought. and if possible do write back.

hi all......recently I read an article on the web, it just made me think about the future of we IT guys......where are we standing today.....and where are we heading to. I differed from the views presented by the author in some ways....but also, there were several points where I absolutely agreed with his interpretations.......with these mixed feelings I just wanted that there should be a healthy debate on this matter. And thats why I have attached the original article here in this blog. Please read this article and send your comments.

Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley?

March 01, 2004

Politicians, bureaucrats and residents of Bangalore take pride in the fact that they live in what they call the Silicon Valley of the East. The city is considered high tech because of the number of software and software services companies located here.

But is Bangalore really Silicon Valley?

California's Silicon Valley

In 1933 Frederick Terman, a professor of engineering at Stanford University, mentored two undergraduates named Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, and was instrumental in getting them to start a company.

They went on to form the company Hewlett-Packard. This was the first seed from which Silicon Valley grew.

Today around 2,000 electronics and information technology companies, along with numerous services and supplier firms, are clustered in the area.

Silicon Valley contains the densest concentration of innovative industry that exists anywhere in the world, including companies that are leaders in fields like computers, semiconductors, lasers, fiber optics, robotics, medical instrumentation, and consumer electronics.

Some products that went from dream to reality in Silicon Valley are the first video game, the ink-jet printer, the video recorder, the mouse, the personal computer, and much else that we take for granted in the information age.

Here's a sample of some Silicon Valley firms, familiar to most of us because of their products: Adobe Systems (Acrobat Reader), Apple Computer (computer), Hewlett-Packard (printer), Intel (the CPU in your PC), Netscape (Internet browser), Seagate Technology (the hard disk in your PC), Yahoo (Internet portal), VeriFone (credit card terminals in shops), Symantec (Norton anti-virus software), etc.

Such firms are called technology companies, because their chief resource is the technologies that they develop and own, not the real estate that they are sitting on or the equipment that they possess. Stocks in a technology company are called 'tech stocks.' Scientists and engineers working in these companies are called 'techies.'

Indicative of the inventive spirit is the fact that residents of Santa Clara County, which includes San Jose and other Silicon Valley computer hotbeds, were granted 27,617 patents during the 1990s.

Silicon Valley thrives on risk. Business in the Valley is about placing bets on people, ideas and inventions.

If the Silicon Valley were an independent country, its economy would be about the tenth largest in the world.

Bangalore or 'Coolie Valley'

If you ask the president of any of Bangalore's software development companies what his company does, he'll say "We provide end-to-end solutions for Xxxx." Xxxx could be any or all of these -- e-commerce, banking, telecom. . .

What he means to say is this: 'We'll do the software coding in any of these areas for you. Just tell us what you need. We have a huge mass of engineers who know various programming languages.'

These companies do not develop any technologies or products. They provide development services. They have engineers who specialize in programming languages rather than in technologies.

Their chief resource is the huge mass of low-cost labour that they have taken the trouble to recruit.

Ask them about patents, and you get the reply "Huh, what's that?"

These companies start with zero risk. They do not bet on their ideas or inventions. A company is started after getting some contracts in hand.

A typical engineer in these companies has no specialization in any technology. He does not use his engineering knowledge. You could say his body is employed, but his brain is severely under-employed.

Here is a sample of some prominent Bangalore software companies with what they specialize in: Tata Consultancy Services (end-to-end solutions), Wipro (end-to-end solutions), Infosys (end-to-end solutions)

DSQ Software (end-to-end solutions), Kshema Technologies (end-to-end solutions), Ivega Technologies (end-to-end solutions), MindTree Consulting (end-to-end solutions).

The comparison

Silicon Valley companies are based on 'know what.' They know the market, they know the technology and they know what products to make to earn money.

Coolie valley companies are based on 'know how.' They do the software coding for other companies that have the 'know what.' If you tell them what to do, they know how and will do it for you.

Silicon Valley companies invest huge sums of money on R&D. They generate new ideas and are constantly developing new ways of doing things.

Coolie Valley companies have nothing called R&D. They do not generate any new ideas.

A typical Silicon Valley engineer is a specialist in a particular technology, like inkjet printing or virus detection. He spends all his life working in this technology area.

A typical Coolie Valley engineer is a specialist in a few languages. He is not concerned about the technology that he is working on and is willing to develop any software with the languages that he knows.

A typical Silicon Valley engineer's education and work experience all relate to a technology. When he changes jobs, he changes to another company working on the same technology.

A typical Coolie Valley engineer's work experience does not teach him any technology. He may be a mechanical engineer currently working for three months on banking software, and then the next three months on shoe retailing software.

Silicon Valley is all about the excitement of creating things out of nothing. Companies like HP actually started in the garages of their founders.

Coolie Valley does not know the meaning of creativity. Some companies are started by people who quit other companies and take some of the parent firm's software development contracts with them.

Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs bet on people, ideas and inventions.

Coolie Valley's entrepreneurs bet on certainties. They start a firm after getting software development contracts.

Silicon Valley's firms are about technology management.

Coolie valley's firms are about man management.

It is extremely presumptuous to compare Bangalore with Silicon Valley, so all you Bangaloreans, please do me a favour and

• Don't call your city Silicon Valley ('pub city' or 'garden city', I have no problem with -- lots of pubs and lots of trees, but very little silicon).
• Don't call one of your new software companies a 'high technology start-up.'
• Don't call your engineers 'techies.' They've forgotten their engineering long ago.
• Don't say you've invested in 'tech stocks' ('body stocks' maybe ?).

If you are from Delhi or Mumbai and encounter a Bangalorean 'techie' spouting off about his work or about his Silicon Valley, you no longer need to develop an inferiority complex.

G V Dasarathi is director of a software products development company

wow......thats the only way I can express my immediate response to the news I got just now.......and thats really an amazing step taken by govt.........Bangalore Police Goes Online......great!!!! I tried to visit the page and you can also visit the page here

The only thing which will make it effective in actuality will be response time of Police.

Lets see if it actually works or just becomes one of the defunct portions of this system.

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take care!

Google Talk........thats the latest thing happening on the internet these days........after using the Google products you are forced to say that - 'How can they make such simple and yet so effective things'.......probably thats their strength, to power the simplicity.

Well just try it out whether you like it or not.......you can download the Google Talk here

I am sure that you enjoy!

Before you go any further please visit this page and try out all the options  you can use.......I am sure that you too will be impressed in the first sight...........So please visit this page

I am sure that you have already visited the page and you also tried out all the options.......so wanna know the trick now........here I go........at first sight anyone might get amazed to see the accuracy ot prediction........infact I went on to the think about things like.....is predictive computing possible........or are we getting so technologically adanced that we are ruling the probability theory........but friends just get back to the basics of numbers and this will just appear to fool you.........suppose you have a number 'xy'......now the process asks you to get the value of (x+y) and then find the value of (10x + y - (x+y)) and then look at the symbol and concentrate there........here is the trick.......the value obatined from the step 10x + y - (x + y) will a give a number which will a multiple of 9, and all these multiples of 9 will be holding the same symbol.......and you are shown the same symbol and it leaves you amazed. Smart thing they have done is that they have each time you refresh the page you will get different set of symbols........thats why you are left confused.

anyways, thats a great creativity........I really appreciate this piece of work......keep it up people!

Can anyone let me please know the purpose of the recent manned space mission by NASA? I traied to find out, but failed to get any suitable answer. I really want that you people try to find out the answer. I went through a web-page which tried to find out the same,Read it here .

For those Space mission aficianados I am also attaching a small movie showing the water bubble motion in space, get it here

take care.

bye!

hello friends.......having gone through some tough times at my office in recent past I just wish to pose a question to all of you.........What do you think can make you work at your office?

I will give your several options in order to answer this question, do send me  your reasoning for your choice of answer in the feedback.

My options are:

1. Financial Gains.

2. Satisfaction from the work you are doing.

3. The Response and appreciation you get from your seniors, (also includes the positive criticism).

4.  Possible Future gains (like increment, switch to better organization etc )

If your reason for the above question is different from these four options then do send that to me.

Now you would ask me that why am I in a different mood today.......but the fact is that I really wish to know this from all of you ...... b'coz at this point of time I am really not happy with myself and my working conditions........so I just want to know whether I am at fault or my employers.

Something which has been irritating me since long is that people in the corporate world do not know 'how to smile'.....each time you look at them and smile, and expect that to reciprocate......you are mistaken.......why so......Was college the end of life? or, are we on some wrong path by choosing this career path? I am sure that there is something wrong......either in me or with this life, Else how can people forget the simplest lesson of life. After all an employee just wants to see an environment which is amiable and energetic......is it too much to ask for? I need an answer for this from you all.

At this point of time I must tell you something about my future goals and aspirations.......in future I wish to be a decision maker, and not a part of some decision. I wish to makes rules which provides the work which is customised for the person and not like a mechanical assignment of work, as if the managers are programmed to distribute tasks in a random fashion.......something which is happening to me.....this really leads to a dis-satisfied employee who starts hating the system......and works only for the sake of completing the task, and never puts his 100% effort. It's really difficult for me to understand that why do we always have to be a 'Square Peg for some Round Hole, when there are already some Round Pegs being  tried to fit into Square holes'........why this mismanagement?

well, before I end......I want to remind you all of something which  I saw in the movie 'The Matrix'......are we really into some kind of Matrix? If NO,Then why can't we do something we desire .......is there actually some programme which is running in the back-end which forces us to do things which we don't wish to do.....but still have no option because our thoughts have been impaired by the malicious code running? Why Does life appear to be stuck-up but we still pretend to be moving!

hope to hear from you all.....take care.

Good Night 

hello friends.......really sorry for having not written since long, but the problem was with my computer and not in me.....I wanted to write to you all, but actually there was some fault in the my LAN card of my system......and to you all looked as if I am in no mood to write to you all........but, not any more.

Will be back in my original flow once again.......so just gear up to send the comments once again.

take care and keep smiling.

bye!!!