Chalo AMRIKKA chalen...

It had been a dream to large part of Indians especially Sardarji and Gujju bhais to go to America and make a forture. They made a name for themselves and propered their families. However many of first generation Indian - Americans are now old. And they feel lonely and sad.

Check out what New York Times has to say about this

Government baling out companies is not that bad :)

Apparently, govt can actually make money by bailing out companies in difficult conditions. An interest rate higher than 23%...aur kya chahie economy bhi bach gayi, junta ka bhi bhala sarkar bhi mast :)

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My IIMB Project Group

It is as diverse as it can get...From each part of the country

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Anyone interested in the pic of the group..??

Class XII marks may play key role in IIT entry

Now, take this. I mean what's wron g with JEE authorities, don't they understand the widespread inequality that exist in Indian Educational System. They want to undermint the effect of coaching tutored i.e. Kota and Hyderabad and focus on RAW Intelligence, how does getting higher marks in 12th show raw intelligence.

I am sure this step will tilt towards students of metropolitan cities. Already most of IIT and IIM students come from urban area. Students of state board will be affected the most.

On a good note, schools will gain a higher importance but school system is not uniform across the coountry. Having a cutoff of 60% is fine, anyway hardly any student of any board getting less than 60% clears JEE.

I strongly oppose this proposed move. Read the full article here

Amazing stuff going on in BJP

Everyone wants to leave a sinking ship..seems this is what is happening to BJP...A party with principles seems to have lost all its principles. A single issue of Jinnah is going to blow to the party with disproportionate damage...It can be felt that underlying problem is something else...the Top leadership is just not ready to get open with the idea of discussing the defeat through proper channel and more of a power struggle than something else...

After all that bayanbazi from Jaswant Singh after his expulsion..he got something to cheer...Not only BJP Arun Shouri is supporting him but in an interesting angel it is former RSS chief Mr. Sudarshan who said Jinnah was a nationalist..Cool stuff going on...

Read Sudarshan's view here

'Kaminey' takes Indian cinema beyond Tarantino

Shekhar Kapoor compares Vishal Bharadwaj with Tarantine...What could be a better compliment for Vishal...


'Kaminey' takes Indian cinema beyond Tarantino: Shekhar Kapur @
The Hindu


As far as I am concerned, watched it today and loved it..Almost spent 2 hours trying to book the tickets online..Damn online movie ticket booking sucks..and INOX people don't event care to pick up the phone..

Wanted to go for 10 AM show..for a ticket of 80 bucks yeah yeah paise nahi hai yaar but anyway I saw 3 tickets available tried to book..shit I need to create a login..by the time I got my id...tickets sold out..kisi tarah 12:35 ka ticket liya...was taken aback that FAME charges 20 bucks per ticket if you book onlline..isn't that outrageous...so 160 + 20 = 180...
And since everything in Bangalore is no near spent 200 bucks going and coming to campus..and ate some tiny burger and water worth 90 bucks...per head 325 ..Damn it...325 for a movie..I could have bought DVD...

Thankfully, movie was great...paise wasool ho gaye....

Rating 4.5/5

Your caste decides your health...It's not just income...nobody gets it...

Caste and inequalities in health @
The Hindu

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Interest rate derivatives soon: SEBI chief @ The Hindu

Interest rate derivatives soon: SEBI chief @
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Online social networking may decide your employment prospects! @ The Hindu

Online social networking may decide your employment prospects! @
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Poverty up in India

Contrary to all that feel good factor...Economy is grwoing at such a high pace...number of poors much be reducing day by day...We must be building a prosperous India...

Guess what it's not true...Number of poors in this country is actually going up...some new 110 million people have come below poverty like...

Sad..very sad...

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Facebook is amazing :)

I have just started using facebook..and got really hooked to it..Orkut really is nowhere compared to it...

What's more you can share article/news so easily..New websites like BBC, NYTIMES have just options like this..it works like twitter too..its very cool...

I am wondering if I can share articles from websites to blogger as easy as facebook...couldn't find..any idea?

Teach for India

How many of you have thought of doing something for Indian education system which sucks big time. Such a huge inequality exist between rural and urban India...male and female. Just to quote the number literacy rate in India is 66% (in China it is 91%), male literacy is some 76% and female literacy is 54%. Can you imagine what it would be at the rural level? In my district East Champaran, arguably one of most backward district of one of the most backward state Bihar it come to 38% in all (50% for male and 25% for female). Sure India is making huge progress, but 3 out of 4 women in my district is not educated. Situation is really alarming. Thanks to all these private schools, had we been dependent on govt schools we could have been still illiterates.

Anyway the point is, I came across a concept of Teach of India which has been designed after Teach for America (yeah! yeah! it's not original but it is I guess a subsidiary). It takes top institute students (IITs, IIMs, BITs and others) to volunteer students for 2 years, 2 YEARS. It's huge. It has been a success in US, I wonder how many in India would have courage to do that. Peer pressure, parental pressure and what about acceptance in industry after that.

I am skeptical but nevertheless I have applied for its Campus Ambassador Programme where my job would be convince 2nd Year seniors to opt for this :)

All that gyan about education in India is coming because I am doing a project in one of the courses on Universal Literacy and Primary Education where we need to come up with 10 points which will be sent to Prime Minister of India (BIG).

Women's Crusade

The Women’s Crusade - NYTimes.com

Source: www.nytimes.com

The liberation of women could help solve many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to terrorism.

Drought and Swine Flu

Indian farmers were severely hit by the deficiency in monsoon this year. More than 170 districts in the country have been declared drought-hit by the government so far. Photo: PTI

In this image, women worship the plough to appease the rain God, in Patna, Bihar. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar

I am really amazed by the coverage of drought by Media..I take Mint and it covered it one day but none is giving it the kind of importance it has...170 districts in all over India are affected by this. Only The Hindu is covering this properly..

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3961.ece?homepage=true

Forget rediff..which I am not sure has mentioned this even...It's really serious 28 out of 38 districts in Bihar are declared drought affected..

Contrary to that Swine Flu which has so far killed 28 in the whole of country is given so much media coverage. I am not saying that's wrong but there is a larger issue which is completely ignored by the mass media...

I recall Reinforcement Theory of Media..i.e. Media publishes what readers want...Damn it...

Fun at IIMB

Amazing fun at the collective effort of Matki Phod at IIMB. 2.5 hours of fun. And guess what we won as the section finishing in just 18 seconds...our first effort has taken 1min 29 seconds...

Participating in a trading game which works like this...you are given prices of several companies for today...you take a bet and next day your performance will be evaluated. Money given is huge Rs. 1 Crore...to kya hua agar virtual hai to :)

Guess what I did..checked US market...It was down..safely took bet on Indian market to be down...and Market was up day...how bad that it...

In another development, marks for our Managerial Economic were declared...can anyone guess the average 84 out 100...that's the average...Never seen so high average since my school days wait even there it wasn't so high...I slept the whole afternoon so couldn't see the marks...but just checked on out internal website (moodle). It is not so bad...87.5 well above average... :)...Another section of people taught by same instructor is 74...amazing...what could be the reason?

NYTIMES says just 2 wars between India & Pakistan

London and IIMB

I didn't post for a long time..not that I care..as I don't think anybody is reading my blog but several of my juniors have requested me to write about CAT experience..and how to prepare especially for those who were not fortunate to have studied in English medium schools. Yes, I say fortunate because today's high education system at least entrance examinations like CAT are so heavily skewed towards English..yeah yeah..they say it's verbal ability but believe me it takes longer for a vernacular medium educated student..

I will write about it soon...For the long gap in my blogging activities, I was in London from April 19 to May 19...and it was very cool...Amazing experience both in terms of personal and professional career..Talked to so many senior people...I was working in quant group of a hedge fund...and boy it was truly global...There were six guys...One from Sweden, one from Zimbabwe (they study too :), one from Taiwan, one from France, just one from England who quit once I reached there..and last yours truly me the great Indian...

Roamed around so many places, Scotland truly amazing landscape and famous lock ness (Lake Ness)...Cambridge and London which itself is quite great...anyone interested in having a look at pics can add me on orkut..all of them are updated (somehow I haven't dealt with Picassa that much)...

Once back from London..I left my job..can't better time it.. :)...Have joined IIM Bangalore now...from 22nd June...and it is so different from corporate life..getting to know so many things...never knew resume have to be given so much attention... :)

Won Hostile Takeover

Participated in first competition at IIMB and won :)

It was a trading game and in a team of 3 we bought more companies than our competitors.