What Am I

25 years of my life have passed by...But 25 is just another birthday like the earlier 24 years...but somehow Iam fascinated by numbers and 25 does occupy some special position;) and hence a special occasion!! As per the movie padosan, until 25 years a guy has to be a brahmachari and then he is ready for marriage at 25...ha ha.. But I have decided to extend that limit to atleast 50 more years, and if I manage to live that long the postponement would continue...Bad luck girls :-p!! I want to write something on this special occastion though. But, what to write...Hmm.. About Schooling, college, and then office.. thodi masti, thodi sharaarat, thoda gum, thodi khushi aur thode dost . I owe these 25 years to so many people...Ofcourse Iam not goint to say it the Oscar way of thanks to a, b, c etc...But things have happened the way they have because they are supposed to have happened that way.. and hence I met all these people because they are supposed to be present there to show me thi...

Iam writing this article before Iam going to take my exam.. Our term examinations are beginning today...Big deal!! Feels different taking the exams after 4 years...I cant express how am I going through right now, but then the exhaustive studies that happened yesterday and the day before reminded me of the days that we used to write the B.Tech exams... Its that "LOST" expression that most of us have had just two days ago... and here is everyone trying to gear upto to take the exam. Atleast for me, Iam not that well prepared, but somehow B.Tech and my career have ruined my drive to excel in examinations like these...Iam taking the exams as they come to me without a great passion. THe reason may be because everyone expects you to write down something from the text book...I know that there is hardly a method where the student can't be grilled based on his exams... But wouldn't it have been fine to examine the student based on what he is and what he is capable of, atleast ...

Why aren't emotions considered important for managers. We keep complaining about our bosses that they somehow can't understand the problems of his sub-ordinates. Boss is always wrong and we feel that we would have done this and that if we were to be in that position. But will we ever be able to do things properly when we are in that position. Forget about being in that position, even wold-be managers i.e. students pursuing MBA, can they behave the way which is humane. Though being humane is a strong adjective to be used for so called petty things like hurting some one, playing with some one's emotions, I'd still consider that inhumane. I would not want to compare it with the inhuman conditions prevailing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia which cannot be expressed in words. Iam speaking about a very simple matter of fact "hurting emotions". Iam writing this because of sequence of events that happened in the last couple of weeks, not with me as the subject though. ...

Was just reading this article on Khan abdur gaffar khan and his struggle...For that matter every freedom fighter struggle to achieve the success. But ironically, many of the freedom fighters didn't intend to go for the freedom struggle in the first place. Everyone was busy or engaged in their own front. Few incidents brought them into the foray of the big league - Indian National Congress. Even if one considers jhansi lakshmi Bai, she wasn't fighting for the independence of the country. All that she was fighting for, was the accession of crown to her son but not to the British. Agreed that she is the one who has fought bravely against the British, and in fact I am one of the most inspired by her stints with the war, but the motive was altogther different. Mahatma Gandhi whom I consider as my role model in many aspects wasn't thinking about the freedom struggle. All that brought him into lime light were his demonstrations of courage and his willingness to help people in Sout...

If one was following my blog, for a long time I just kept the topic "Energy crisis" as one of the upcoming articles. May be this is the time I start doing some preparation regarding the same. Today I attended this session by an international journalist on the topic "Will Ganga Die". He has written a book on the same and has done exhaustive analysis on the origin, flow and different aspects of Ganga. Ganga is a part of the energy supply of India. Infact it forms one of the major sources of energy in terms of water and electricity. (There is another form of intangible energy also that it supplies i.e. faith :) ). Ganga has been one of the major sources or to say reasons for the near about self sufficiency that we have acheived in terms of good grain production. Most of the Northern part of India which forms the largest chunk of population and population growth in India survives on Ganga. No wonder Ganga is treated as a goddess!!for without Ganga India would be reeling...

What a weird topic, it feel at the first glance. But these are the captions of the biggies in India. Both the companies have given the best value to the stake holders. They have brought millions of middle class people to a place where their dreams can be fulfilled. The first one is the motto of Reliance Industries Limited and the second one of Infosys. Let me first speak about 'Growth is Life". I am able to associate this with Reliance for sure in the aggressive mood in which they are expandint themselves into the horizons. Their growth is both vertical and horizontal. Every step that they take seem to go inline with the caption. They are providing stupendous growth to the stake holders. They are providing great growth oppurtunities for the employees. Their vision to grow in every sector is also quite evident. But, for the split that the Ambani brothers had, everything was inline with their strategy to grow, grow and grow further... Now, if I think of "Think Flat" Ia...

The eqn for the cost of oil is: Cost per barrel x no. of barrels consumed per day x 365 India's oil consumption: 4 million barrels per day Cost per barrel: $60 Total oil cost per day: $240 million = $0.24 billion per day Total cost per year: $87.6 billion If we assume the no. of barrels to be constant then, cost per barrel is the only variant in the above equation and that would decide the total cost. So a $1 increase in the barrel price would mean an additional 4 million x 365 = $1460 million = $1.46 billion dollars Similary a $10 increase would mean an additional $14.6 billion dollars of burden on our GDP. India's GDP = ~30,00,000 crores of rupees = ~30,000 billion rupees = ~$700 billion Percentage share of oil consumption in GDP = 87.6/700 = ~12.5% That means if we were to import all the oil that we are consuming, we'd be spending around 12.5% of our income on oil expenses alone. But, since we are importing "only" 70% of our oil requirements we are spending...