The television news media circus has started again. Just when i thought the media was jolted out and became a little more responsible after the Mumbai 26/11 terrorist attack, they are on to it again with the Mangalore pub outrage. I really thought they were true when some channels carried lines like “lest we forget” [...]
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Oh No! Television news did not grow up!
Posted in India & Other Thoughts, tagged mangalore, moral, moral police, news, politics, pub, television on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ellora : Greatest Management Exercise?
Posted in India & Other Thoughts on December 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Just got back from Aurangabad after a long work related travel. I managed to squeeze in a visit to Ellora during a previous visit which is just about 30 Kms from the city. Ellora is known for its man made carved caves and monolithic structures inside them. Ellora is a word heritage site and its [...]
Power of the Indian rupee…
Posted in India & Other Thoughts on November 29, 2006 | 19 Comments »
I would like to know which is more powerful – The Indian rupee or the American dollar. The obvious answer seems to be the US dollar. But just consider the following proposition: Consider a couple living in an Indian metro. For the sake of argument, consider that the man earns rupees 12,00,000 annually (USD 27000) [...]
Unbalanced Pay scales
Posted in India & Other Thoughts on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Is India heading for a new social crisis? The pay scales in our country seems to be so much out of balance that I fear the caste system giving away to a new problem! Just compare the IT graduate’s pay to the pay of a mechanical or civil engineering graduate. If the reader of this post [...]
IT Expressway or Service Corridor?
Posted in India & Other Thoughts on November 22, 2006 | 4 Comments »
The government of Tamil Nadu is building a six lane road called the IT Expressway in Chennai. It is a world class construction and when completed it will form the arterial road connecting a lot of IT tech parks (read Call centers, BPOs and Software development centers). No doubt that the road is going to [...]
Hello world!
Posted in India & Other Thoughts on November 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I am Arun from Chennai, India. I am an application engineer with background in software engineering. I am the technical director of a custom engineering company. As my tag line suggests, I made a conscious decision to stay back in my country at a time when any engineering graduate (especially with software background) was ‘expected’ [...]
