Domain of Hope

A tear...

2009-10-30T18:43:00.000-07:00

This post is on a different tangent from what I write on this blog, but I could not resist myself from sharing this. This is the story of Mughli whose son disappeared after being taken away by security forces in 1990. After 19 years of search, she breathed her last this Sunday. A mother...

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BJP does it again, but how ?

2009-10-25T07:02:00.000-07:00

I had little time to take a view of the election campaigning process that took place in the state elections, the results of which gave BJP another Jhatka. Looking and analyzing the results and results alone, it wouldn’t be hard for anyone to say that second innings for congress has just...

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Obama and Nobel peace prize

2009-10-10T14:13:00.000-07:00

Obama for peace! A hope for peace, a new dimension. There is a lot of debate going on whether he has done enough to deserve it or can he work for it. I won't be talking about whether he is the right one or not for the prize but lets look at it from how is it going to influence him. Maybe...

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Rural Markets- Understanding needs

2009-09-24T21:23:00.000-07:00

I was recently going through this article, which talked about lenovo's strategy in rural China. Lenovo, in the first half of 2009 had a market share of around 28% in China making it the leader. The article had an interesting statement regarding lenovo's rural strategy. It read "They...

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NIT Suicide: Preventive measures

2009-09-22T11:08:00.000-07:00

The NIT suicide case is an incident that reminds us of the dragon hidden in the invisible poison of stress. Stress due to any wanted or unwanted activity can result in consequences, either positive or negative. Ragging is an unwanted harmful activity that can be fatal to the mental makeup...

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Jet Airways Strike: Causes

2009-09-21T00:59:00.000-07:00

The 5 day strike of jet airways pilots that ended on 13th September 2009 is another example of the dangers of taking communication lightly. According to sources the simulated strike cost jet around $40 million. The damage done is although much deeper. Looking at the nature of strike,...

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Child Labor in India

2009-08-28T13:16:00.000-07:00

This was my team's entry in Prayaas 2009, a case study competition on child labor by Bhavishya. Bhavishya represents the united voice of the students of IIM Lucknow against the strains in our social fabric. Bhavishya is active in the domains of education, unemployment and health and women...

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Online shopping and offline surveys

2009-08-12T04:18:00.000-07:00

These days I've been spending some time doing a survey finding out the buying habits of females online.My objective was to find the buying online buying habits of females below 25 years of age. To my surprise, very few access access internet and those who do have a lot of apprehensions...

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Emotional Labor

2009-07-24T19:45:00.000-07:00

I'm not happy because I've had a fight and now I have to deliver a presentation to a valuable client who can give my organization some good business. What do I do ? Wipe of the anger on my face and give the presentation. Just Fake it! Now comes the dilemma. Do I fake the emotions...

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Who is the next richest person ?

2009-07-18T16:48:00.000-07:00

Who can be the next richest person ? a) An Engineer/Graduate (pref IIT) + MBA (Pref IIM) + Work Ex -> Looking for meaty job b) An actor/singer (celebrity) c) Scientist/researcher/Scholar d) Entrepreneur Ans - d) Entrepreneur He would make the rest 3 work for him. So if they become rich,...

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Is modesty, dishonesty ?

2009-07-18T16:06:00.000-07:00

Old people always advice you to be honest and modest. But are both possible ? OK lets start it this way. Modesty gives you options and honesty leaves you with none. The new set of high fliers, I've interacted with have loads of modesty. The kind of modesty that'll make you feel that Mount...

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Mediocrity to Greatness

2009-07-02T18:51:00.000-07:00

I always felt the difference while I sat in an interesting class that prompted me to do the assignments to a boring class, which was like taking sleeping pills and fighting the enemy on border. Anyways Peter principle elaborated it. Just going through the first chapter of "Why Things Go...

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Email Overload

2009-07-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

I attended a seminar by Ashish (of Minnesota State University) who showed his findings on Email overload and how we could curb it. The astonishing part was the figures that had come out of his research. $588 bn annually were being lost in the form of unproductive man hours because of...

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How to solve a problem

2009-06-25T12:14:00.000-07:00

When in doubt... Our mind usually works with intuition. It signals us to laugh when a joke (and yes not the sad type) is cracked, since it has been programmed that way. But sometimes a situation that comes up is new and we are out of our comfort territory. Now what ? This is what my...

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Anonymous online crimes

2009-06-23T12:02:00.000-07:00

The easiest (and the evilest) way to defame a guy who is your enemy or competitor is to have an anonymous id and start writing negative about him/her. A similar case happened with Ashish Mehta, a cardiologist in Mumbai who was the victim of defamatory posts on a blog hosted on...

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Perceptions

2009-06-22T13:07:00.001-07:00

I am curious about a particular event. I go and ask somebody who has already experienced it. The reply I get is positive. - First perception. Similarly somebody else gives me a not so positive feedback about the same event.- Second perception. The third thought about the same event by...

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Leaders and names

2009-06-20T03:20:00.000-07:00

Tech M will be re branding Satyam and the good company, tainted because its founder cooked books, will once again climb the heights under a new leadership. Wow! what a fairy tale beginning. So was dumping the name Satyam important. I'd say yes, to a certain extent. In this world...

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Seeds and Numbers

2009-06-17T13:49:00.000-07:00

We hardly think of quality these days. This fact is reiterated by the increasing of seats in educational institutes to accommodate the growing population. Quantity gives many hopes a chance to realize and quality (or the lack of it) extinguishes them. When we talk about admission and...

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Exams and time management

2009-06-15T07:23:00.000-07:00

Exams have had a long relationship with time and its management. My packed schedule is preventing me from writing long posts but as my exams are approaching, the phenomena often associated with Exams prompts me to write this entry. Two things that often make many nervous are Exams and...

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Rajeev Motwani

2009-06-05T20:59:00.000-07:00

Rajeev Motwani, the mentor of the students who founded Google passed away. The professor at Stanford completed his B-tech in computer science from IIT Kanpur in 1983 and went on to do his doctorate from U.C. Berkley. I first read about Rajeev in the Google Story by David A Wise. Today...

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Satyam Layoff - The big trade off for Satyam layoff - Part 2

2009-06-05T07:54:00.000-07:00

Satyam Layoff is round the corner as there are reports that it may layoff 5000 people anytime. The company and government both are in a catch22 situation. The revival of the company requires cutting the cost that would mean chopping off the bench strength or the unnecessary accumulated...

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Obama - The story teller of Change

2009-06-04T22:06:00.000-07:00

I saw the speech of Barack Obama in cairo last evening and looking at him closely you realize how he built up and narrated the normally boring political speeches. The art of narration gives him the unique capability to build a whirlpool that sucks you into what he is saying. The success...

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Nano car, Big presence - Nanomics

2009-06-04T09:42:00.001-07:00

Small Car, Big Idea: Tata Motors have announced that within two years Nano will travel to U.S. By 2011 it is all set to reach European market. The price of the car would be approximately $2,300, according to a reuters report. The Tata Nano got an overwhelming response despite all the...

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Obama Muslim Nation

2009-06-04T00:12:00.000-07:00

Barack Hussein Obama's hand of friendship to the Muslim world marks a beginning of a phase were talks holds priority and "bloody messages" take back seat. Recent articles on Obama's visit to Saudi Arabia and its reactions by al Qaida's leadership is an indicator of how the pill of peace...

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Delhi’s Auto driver

2009-06-01T00:35:00.000-07:00

The dark man riding the lime buggy, his life, his ambitions and the traveller. It does not take much for him to make people frown and it takes even less for him to give a reason for them to smile. His meter, which is much like an antiquity in the buggy, with the red lines make strange...

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