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.

Blore Traffic

I hate going outside. The reason for this is Bangalore Traffic. When i go out i get angry, frustrated at

- Drivers of two wheelers and 4 wheelers having no driving sense. I start wondering whether they are driving to reach the destination or are in a race competition where they don't need to follow any rules.

- The Karnataka public buses will stop just in the middle of the road for boarding and un-boarding of passengers. Already Bangalore roads are having traffic more than they can sustain. Imagine a bus, which is already covering most of the road, having lots of 2,3 and 4 wheelers behind it which are being driven in a chaos and there is mad rush there...and that bus suddenly stops without giving any indicator or signal. The bus stops just in the middle of road which halts all traffic behind it. The driver does not seem to have any worry or hurry or thought about it. He will take his own time to restart the bus.
Do they have any accountability?

- The trucks carrying sand which is used in construction. These days all over Bangalore lots of construction is going on. These trucks are never covered. While truck is running on roads the sand will keep falling on people walking or driving around and behind it. Is there no penalty for this?

- The Govt. Do govt people..i.e. bureaucrats , politicians etc ever drive or pass thru Bangalore roads. If yes, then don't they think they should do something about this?

If they can not make better roads then they should stop inviting IT companies to open office in Bangalore.

- Pollution. I wonder does anyone honestly check the emissions of vehicles, especially of 3 wheels.