• Parthasarathy NS, CEO, Testing Business MindTree 
• Bal Krishan Birla, CTO, AskLaila.com
• Subramanyam Kasibhat, Founder, Get2Galaxy.com
• Narayan Raman, CEO, Tyto Software

Moderator: Kalyan Kumar Banerjee, SVP – MindTree

Take time and watch all the 4 parts of the video…

An article on the same was posted on Wall Street Journal. Read it at http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/04/06/chief-mentor-who-shouldn’t-be-an-entrepreneur/

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A NEW YEAR
A New Challenge
A New Goal
A New Optimism
A New Approach
A New Mission
A New Resolution

May this year of 2013 be a year of Health & Happiness, Wealth & Wisdom, Peace & Prosperity, Love & Laughter..

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“Its fun to capture the light ”

From Ganpati Photo Shoot, posted by Sandeep Hegde on 9/29/2012 (25 items)

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“14 Kms trek along train track, 9 tunnels, breath taking views !”

From Castlerock to Dudhsagar, posted by Sandeep Hegde on 7/16/2012 (71 items)

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Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders

Googling around, I found that the reason behind this censorship is a John Doe order obtained by film distributor Relance Entertainment. Citing piracy concerns ahead of blockbuster releases, Reliance Entertainment has been using John Doe orders to get websites blocked. It is completely insane to block a whole site just because of few pirate files are on the site, selective blocking of offending URLs would have been a better option.

I midst of all this issues, we the people are facing difficulties. Every problem has a solution, even here you can bypass the restrictions of the ISPs easily. My old post(2009) on using Ultrasurf Proxy Software to Bypass Internet Filters works well to bypass this blocks. Originally created to help internet users in China find security and freedom online, Ultrasurf has now become one of the world’s most popular anti-censorship, pro-privacy software, with millions of people using it to bypass internet censorship and protect their online privacy.

All that you need is this small software(yeah really small) and install it on your computer(Currently Mac & Linux are not supported.)

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Considering my travel, business presentations, work from office as well as home I needed a wireless/portable internet connection. My usage goes to minimum of 4-5Gb per day, so limited plans are out of the question. Tried my luck with Docomo 3g, MTS Blaze, Vodafone 3G (connecting to airtel 3g network) but nothing was satisfactory. No one really had a truly unlimited 3g without any fair usage policy. Also they would take years to match up the 3g coverage what BSNL has currently (I did face difficulties with coverage within the city limits itself).

Finally, deciding to go back to BSNL 3g after 2 months of struggling, I visited BSNL website to check their tariff plans. I almost finalized to go with their Rs.3000 3g data plan with 10gb data per month. But all of a sudden the iPad Data plan option on their home page caught my attention. Once I went into that page was amazed to see a unlimited data plans for Apple iPad. My engineering brain started thinking if the sim can connect to 3g network on iPad, why can’t  it connect to 3g network on regular data card. I googled around for information to use the BSNL micro sim with regular data card, and discovered that many other users were able to use it with regular 3G usb dongles. Considering the factor that the iPad micro sim is going to cost only Rs.100, I decided to give it a try.

I went to the BSNL customer service center and asked for iPad sim. They asked me to fill up the sim card registration form and provide xerox copies of the documents. Although the actual price of sim was Rs.100, I was demanded to make an additional recharge of Rs.599 or Rs.999 , which I could not avoid. This is not mandatory actually, but it is a way for BSNL to make money by forcing the customers to recharge. If I had a iPad with me I would have argued with them, but considering the fact that I needed the Sim  to use on regular data card, I just listened to them. They did ask about my iPad, but I just managed by saying I have not brought it to the service center.

Tip:
Other users who are trying to get 3g micro sim, you need to be smart enough to manage the Customer Service Center staff without an iPad. I would not recommend to tell you don’t have an iPad, you can just tell that you have ordered it and its in transition, iPad is with your brother sister at some other location etc. Just make up a genuine sounding reason.

After getting the micro sim, I was eager to test it out on my Huwei UMG1831 USB Dongle. To my great relief, the sim was detected automatically. I configured the mobile partner software with the BSNL 3G settings with plan bsnlnet and clicked connect. It connected without any problem. I checked the speed with speedtest.net and found that the speed was quite similar to the speeds I used to get on regular BSNL 3G.

Tip for using micro sim:
Micro sim is just like any regular sim in functionality, but the only difference is the size. It will work on any USB dongle or mobile(I tried it on my xperia mini pro). You should just take some extra care when inserting it into the device which is has a sim card slot which is bigger than the size of the micro sim. The core part of the sim (the golden color part) has to be in proper contact  the sim card reader of the device.

Additional Tip: The micro sim card by default will be attached to a plastic card which usually comes with all sim cards. You can let the micro sim card be attached to it, and cut the plastic material to a shape of a regular sim card, so that you can fit it as if it is a regular sim.

BSNL iPad 3G Data Plans
Prepaid Plan :

Postpaid Plan :

*Service Tax as applicable extra.

I’m sharing this information based on my experience. Let me know if this worked for you too, so that your comment will help other users like my article helped you to make a choice. I have got a good speed with BSNL iPad 3g sim card, you can comment and let me know the speed you got.

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The trip moves through all the places for which Spain is famous for, Pamplona, Costa Brava and Seville. And in course of their journey, the trio take a trip into their innermost fears. I know how “modern hollywood” that sounds, yet the surprise lies in the acting. Hrithik, Farhan and Abhay bring alive the characters they portray.
Kabir (Abhay Deol) is getting married. Imraan (Farhan Aktar) and Arjun (Hrithik Roshan) his two buddies since childhood are joining him on a trip to Spain. Arjun is a money minded broker, Imraan, a copywriter and aspiring poet and Kabir, the rich son of a construction company owner. Supposed to be a 3 week fun trip, it turns into something completely different. Many times the movie borders on the cliche. But the bold, different style of direction, frank emotions and the characters that we can relate to, pull the movie together making it one of the most decent movies made in Bollywood.
Two women play important parts in the plot. Katrina Kaif (Laila) is a dive instructor and Kalki Koechlin (Natasha) the fiance of Kabir. They both play their supporting roles well.
There is plenty of fun and spice, after all the movie is set in London, Spain and Mumabi.
All-in-all, Zoya Aktar has done a good job and if she  makes another movie i’m sure ill watch it.

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Last month I was looking to buy Ipod Shuffle. As usual I started my online shop hunting with official apple website. But unfortunately Apple India does not provide an online shopping facility. Then I started exploring sites like Ebay, FlipKart etc., which had a pricing around Rs.3200. I also came through LetsBuy which was offering the same at Rs.2999 upon which i was getting Rs.450 off through a discount voucher, which made the cheapest price available on the internet i.e @ Rs.2549

It was my first buy from this site ( But i will never buy from this site again. It has the worst service i have seen so far). I had seen a lots of ads online, saw their facebook community and they seemed to be a reputed brand(It has become difficult to trust the advertisements these days !). I was convinced at that point of time and placed the order on 25th May 2011. it took a day or two to confirm the of the payment which is common in most of the sites. Finally I lost my patience and tried contacting them through email on 30th May 2011, no response ! Again I tried reaching them on 1st June, no response! I prefer email as communication mode since its convenient & saves my time. When I’m making an online purchase, I expect people to respond to emails, which is an online communication media!. Finally realizing I may not get any response to my email, I gave them a ring. Their telephonic support also sucks, after waiting for hours the calls get suddenly disconnected! After spending a lot of time and efforts I  reached one of their operator. They informed that they will be shipping the item shortly and I will receive a email on the same (which was received after 20+days). However they also told me that they did not received any email! (I’m putting up the screens of the email I sent)

LetsBuy Support Sucks !

I would like to point of couple of things as I said in previous paragraph.

• They do not have a ticket system
• They do not have live chat
• Their support system is not synced with previous support requests
  • Every time I gave a call it was like a new call, explaining the operator the whole story from the start
• Emails are never responded
• You are not communicated on shipment details
• They will never contact you back, instead you will have to try to reach them a 100 times
• They do not have 24 by 7 Support ( would not be of use anyways with respect to above points)

Coming back to my order status – Finally on the 22nd of June I receive a email providing the shipping details.  It gives me tracking details and everything. But its one month later!

I could deal with that until after tracking the item I receive this report…

Apparently Bluedart showed my item was sent a fortnight ago. Curious to see what was the matter I went to the company site. According to the pic (below), its still in process. Its now the end of June. And I ordered this a month ago. How can this still be “in process”? As usual customer support is non-existent in the real sense.

Should I believe Bluedart or LetsBuy? Can anyone from LetsBuy give a explanation to this, not just saying it was a mistake? How can you commit such mistakes?

A small Piece of advice to LetsBuy – Put a small amount of marketing budget you are spending (I know its too big) to build a support team too !

I would advice the people reading this to stay away from LetsBuy at this point of of time. If you had a similar experiences, or any other things to share kindly comment below.

Update:

Its not even a day after I posted this and shared on sites like facebook, linkedin, moutshut etc, something happened which I never expected(atleast so fast). Today noon (Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:39 PM) I recieved a mail from Hitesh Dhingra, CEO of LetsBuy, which again I’m putting up here.

I really appreciate the time & efforts taken by the CEO to look into a issue 1 customer amongst lakhs. In fact I did not get to know from where did he get my new company DigitalAvatar’ email address instead of the email address associated with the letsbuy account !

Followed by this I got a call on 7.32pm from one of their executive. He was patient enough to listen to all the things stated above and good enough to convince me that things won’t happen the same again. I just wished this would have happened a bit earlier, but its never too late. I’m here to review them again may be after giving them some time

I also thanks my readers & friends (like Shashidhar Bhat) who offered help to resolve the issues. Thanks Again & Cheers to Social Media.

Just to clarify all the users, the item was gifted to my sister and she did receive it on 8th June 2011 as per to Bluedart Data. My whole point was all around the mess in the letsbuy system. I will anyway give them a try again!

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