Two Thousand Eight

Indians Are Privately Smart and Publicly Dumb

An interview with V. Raghunathan, former professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, on his book "Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are"

Walking A Mile in Someone Else's Shoes

Good News !

I got my money back ... Thank God, the world still has a few good people left.

Victim of debit card fraud

3 weeks back I received a call from my credit union's fraud alert department asking me to check on a four transactions - ATM withdrawals from Spain amounting to ~$1200. Obvisouly, I did not make these transactions, neither did I give out my debit card number and/or PIN voluntarily to anyone. So, this rep on the phone asked me to file a dispute to get back my money. I did so.

What happened ? I received a mail from their Operations Analysis dept. saying investigation is complete and that the transactions in questions were NOT UNAUTHORIZED. Incredibly dumb and shocking !!!

So, I called the CSR to find out what happened...I had to talk to 2 of these CSR's before they told me to wait for a call from their fraud alert dept. I received the call from them today - guess what - I get a hostile voice on the other end of the line - saying I gave out the debit card number and PIN...again the same story...so this time they said they have a recorded conversation on me giving out these details to their repr. --- !??!

(How to) Find a Mentor to Enhance Your Career

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain,
If you want ten years of prosperity,grow trees,
If you want one hundred years of prosperity,grow people.

Lunch with the world's Climate Chief and Nobel Laureate: Rajendra Pachauri

Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann on Theory of Everything

Cisco's new CTO

Deadwood from Motorola - Padmasree Warrior, fills vacant CTO role at Cisco last held by Charlie Giancarlo.

In India, a terrible place to be born a girl

In November, India was ranked 114th out of 128 nations in a gender-gap survey conducted by the World Economic Forum, scoring poorly on equality in education, health and the economy. Unicef used three statistical parameters - the age at which girls are married off, the level of female literacy and the imbalance between the number of boys and girls - when it judged that there is no unluckier spot than Shravasti for a girl.

Bottom of the Pyramid - Top of the Thinkers 50

Coimbatore Krishnao Prahalad
Harvey C Fruehauf chair of Business Administration
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Cisco's display of strength

"The other day I started the morning with my top staff in India. Then I went to Japan and a meeting with Fujitsu, then on to Cleveland, then London and a meeting with BT. The whole trip took only 3 1/2 hours, and I was far more effective in the calls." - John Chambers

Clear Admit

Clear Admit: "Campus Chronicles: Columbia, Fuqua, Ross"

Gear up to clean up

International Cleanup Weekend
Oct 13th and 14th

Change the world one loan at a time

II - Information Intelligence at its best

"Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful."

Struggle for the soul of Pakistan

...at a limestone cliff in the middle of Pakistan, the mountainous west meets the Indus River Valley, and two ancient, and very different, civilizations collide... where two conflicting forms of Islam meet: the relatively relaxed and tolerant Islam of India, versus the rigid fundamentalism of the Afghan frontier...

A new look at history as India turns 60

Happy Independence Day !!!



Dr. Singh's speech
"You do question what India's strategy should be,"...

India's infrastructure will equal the best in the world by 2017

India's infrastructure will equal the best in the world by 2017, predicts the country's Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.

Face of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg , 23-year-old Silicon Valley CEO

The We over Me Phenomenon

Start realizing the fact that We are smarter than Me and to be successfull you need to put your Me behind and join the We breed asap !

Meet the We breed

We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business

Loosing english vocabulary working for IT for long ?

I feel like I am not building my vocabulary having worked for IT Organizations as an IT person for the past 4~years. And I feel its the general trend no matter what your native language is - being in IT your propensity to speak IT language is more and there is no incentive improve your vocab unless you are interacting with senior executives in the org.

Planet Earth

"The definitive look at the diversity of our planet"

Earth Day

No more access OK stickers ?

Why are green stickers limited? Shouldn't this be the other way round...shound't we be giving out stickers for non-green vehicles and limiting them?

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/decal.htm

Join UNICEF - Help Children

http://friends.unicefusa.org/r/2665f084291f102a8325

New Year Resolution

A millionaire in next 5 yrs,
a billionaire in the next 10 from there,...
a philanthropist in the next 10 from there...
that should do for now ...

We should do everything and anything possible to let the kids all around the world live a kids life ...

I watched the documentary film - "Born Into Brothels"...

We as human beings still can't say we are 'CIVILIZED'...

Hope 2007 brings lots of hope