Visa

Went to SBM teasury branch near Bowrie hospital. It is reached from the road which is parallel to MG road. After paying the visa fee and getting bank's stamp on the challan we went to FRO. Submitted the application with Challan there. They gave us a receipt indicating that they forwarded our request for Visa to the govt. Told us to contact them after 2 months as after that only Visa will arrive.

Now we came to know why the person at FRO was helping us a lot ? Leave it to ur guess ... :-)

OCI (overseas citizen of India)

It can be applied for someone who is not an Indian citizan but his/her roots are Indian. Eligibilty critetria for this
- If both or either parent in non-Indian citizen then the child and spouse can get it.
- If both parents are Indian citizens and child is non-Indian citizen then
==> If child is major i.e. greater than 16 yrs old then child is entitiled for it.
==> If child is minor i.e. less than 16 years old s/he is not entitled for it and has to wait till s/he is 16 years old.

Visa and Foreigner's registration at Bangalore

- It is done at Police Commissioner's office, which is FRO (Foreign Registration Office)too, at infantry road.
- If only registration needs to be done then alien should have had the visa already.
- Since in our case the Visa also needed to be applied, we had to go there and collect the check list for the documents to be submitted.
- The check list includes
- Application form. Normal information needs to be provided there e.g. name, DOB, Father's name etc of the alien.
- Financial guarantee form. It needs to be on a stamp paper of 20 rupees. The format will be given by the person at FRO. Any lawyer at Mayo court at M.G. Road , near utility building, can get it done for some money.
- Photocopies of Parents passports.
- Photocopies of alien's passport and RP(registration stamp) paper of the passport of previous registration .
- By giving above documents at FRO, the person there will give a Challan which needs to be taken to State Bank of Maysore at Bowrie for submitting the Visa fees.
- The Visa fee is140 USD for 5 yrs and late fee is 30 USD .

Tomorrow we are heading to SBM for submitting the Visa fee and then had to go back to FRO .

Advts.

The ad of Maruti Estalino is strange. The gal comes of her house window to escape with her fiance. Then it shows car moving on zig-zag roads with ease and with good speed. It says the car is very fast. Then they see her father waiting at a checkpost n checking each vehicle for his daughter. It means there is a car which runs faster than the advt.sed car else how her father could have reached there before them.

A better thing would have been to let her father agree to marry his daughter to the man after seeing his car :-)

In another ad, a guy is riding his bike to post job acceptance letter to his US boss. But he thinks its better to be in India rather than going abroad. He tears the letter and throw the torn pieces on the road. Then he shouts 'Mein aa raha hun India (India, i am coming)'. First, he is already in India then why he needs to declare to India the he is coming. Second, why did they show him throwing the torn pieces of the letter on the road itself. Is this the way he will keep behaving in India ?

Indian English Media

I always get amazed at the non-maturity and one-sidedness of Indian Media. Everyone knows NDTV has communist bent. NDTV has RSS-phobia, BJP-phobia. It is a perverted news channel which sees the world from the glasses of communism and Hindu bashing. IBN-Live, well, the anchors of this channel have arrogance on their faces all the time. Looks like they feel that they are doing a favour to Indian people by showing them news. Since one of the main editor of this channel comes from NDTV, anti-Hinduism is clearly reflected there too. Like today , they gave more time to Left leader (i always think and left proves me right everytime that left is a bunch of mentally bankrupt people who are traitors) than BJP person. FYI and for IBN info, BJP is second biggest party in Loksabha.

Regarding one of their anchor Karan Thapar, i think he needs some etiquette training. In the interviews he takes he speaks more than the person being interviewed and will cut short each reply after 1 or 2 sentences. Some people never get matured.

Less i say about Hindi news channel better it is. Aajtak has become entertainment channel. When people in South India were dying of chicken-gunia etc, they were showing documentaries on King (?) Khan (Shahrukh Khan ). BTW SK acting is so artificial that i cant withstand him for more than 5 mins. Never ever Aajtak gave time for people suffering from Chicke gunia etc. A more detailed report on interviews with families of farmers committing suicide would have been a good thing..but alas..their reach can not go beyond Delhi or Mumbai.

Some hope i see in Star news. Though not best but they sort of take personal interest in exposing corrupt govt officials..

Maybe some day..we will have Media we deserve..

A Selfless Fearless Soul

With many people and companies doing charity work and blowing their trumpet for same at highest volume, it is not possible to find someone who does charity selflessly. I happen to meet a man last month at my native place who is doing it because he wants to do it and likes it. Such person don't find mention is the big ads of NGOs we see on media and neither such people are interested in it.
He is a Vaid(doctor in Indian medical science). I have got my two health problems cured from him. I had tried all expensive pathological hospitals for the cure but in vain. This person treated these with jadi-butis. The best part is he will not accept money from me.

When i visited him, i could see lots of poor people coming to him and he would happily treat them for no money. Then how does he feed himself ? For one, if anyone wants to pay him s/he can put the money in front of Lakshmi statue which is in another room. So, how much money anyone gave no one would know. Plus, he has some farms in village which are contracted to someone and gets some money from there. From the same money (plus some donation) he keeps arranging eye camps, blood donation camps.

I see the way he lives, such a simple living. In his house i could not find anything which i can say is bought for comfort. No TV, no vehicle and not even radio. Just a newspaper. He sleeps on floor. Gets up before sunrise and does Yoga for 2 hours.

Such a person will surely be fearless. He goes and fights corrupt officials face to face. The city DC and SP are scared of this fearless soul and listen to him with respect and fear both.

The person carrying the oldest Indian medicine knowledge and serving humanity with this knowledge for no greed, has my all respect. I respect him for his nature and the knowledge which cured my diseases which no pathological doctor in big and small hospitals could cure even after paying so much for their fees and medicines.

In this fast age when society is becoming more westernized, frustrated, loosing inner peace for the want of materialistic gains, we need such great people who keep on doing their good work away from all limelights.


PS - I committed to myself, next time i go to my native i would put money in front of the Lakshmi statue and hope he would not know about it.

Indian Software Profesional.

Working in software industry has its own challenges or lack of challenges, achievements, frustrations. If you are in in India and in software industry then there is possibility that either you are working on a maintenance project or a development project.
In my view, if you don't like software technology then either you should not be in software industry or you should become some sort of BA(Business Analyst), QA (Quality analyst) etc which does not involve direct involvement with coding.Otherwise you will not be doing justice to yourself and to your work. You will face the consequences for it sooner or later.

Those who like it, there is no work and no place to be in like it. The biggest challenge which software professional face to save themselves from being a dinosaurs. They have to keep themselves up-to-date with new technologies. It needs consistent effort, focus and continuous love for technology. I think everyday spending 20-30 mins reading, doing some coding go a long way. On Sundays more time can be spent on these.

Another dilemma which nerds face is to choose the type of projects. In most non-Indian MNCs the type of work which you got to do is something which is good for initial 3-4 years of the career. As you add experiences to you career, you need to do more than that. The problem with US or European MNCs in software industry is that they generally have a team at their homeland which takes and does the core work (e.g. architecture and design) and peripheral (some non-core coding and testing)work is sent to India. It might be good for the company's business but for an software professional its not something to which s/he should get involved with. Of course there will be many people which will be more than happy to do such work too. No matter what such company says but in my view if you have to keep urself competitive , avoid working in such companies.

On the other hand Indian companies or product companies provide much better exposure to nerds. You have more responsibilities and no one is forcing something on you as onsite team does in case of MNCs. So, if you really want to make some mistakes and learn from them and experience why certain things should be done in certain ways avoid working in MNCs. They pay you decent salary but its a short term benefit and you will be sacrificing long term gain for it.