Puraani Jeans aur Guitar
Puraani Jeans aur Guitar
Cautley ki woh chhath, Sarojini ka pyaar.
Woh Raaton ko jaagna
subah late uthna, uff department hai far.
Woh mere yaaron ka proxy lagaana
woh karna breakfast in the Alpahaar
Pahunchna class hamesha late
woh karna entry from the back gate
woh lecture mein tut topana
woh baithna back bench pe with my classmates.
Woh class bunk karke CC jaana
woh karna planning for the next date.
Bus yaadein, yaadein, yaadein reh jaati hain
kuch baatein, raatein, laatein yaad aati hain
bus yaaaadeinn.......
Woh proctor ka daantna
woh banna UOR ka IITR
woh khaali sadko pe toolna
woh jaana BusT roz baar baar
Woh dil mein sochna unko bata dein
apne iraade aur dil ka haal
Ladakpan ka woh pehla pyaar
woh likhna hathon per A + R
woh sapno mein unko dekhna
woh karna message unko baar baar
Woh dena birthday pe Jewels mein chapo
woh lena doston se paise udhaar.
Bus yaadein, yaadein, yaadein reh jaati hain
kuch baatein, raatein, laatein yaad aati hain
bus yaaaadeinn.......
Aisa yaadon ka mausam chala
bhoolta hi nahin dil mera
kahan meri jeans aur guitar
Cautley ki woh chhath, Sarojini ka pyaar
woh music sec, woh senate steps
woh auditorium, woh LBS.
Bus yaadein, yaadein, yaadein reh jaati hain
kuch baatein, raatein, laatein yaad aati hain
bus yaaaadeinn.......
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Monday, September 05, 2005
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Two steps forward, one sideways and one-and-a-half step backwards...
... Well that's how I can describe India's progress. It is partly because Indians never held politicians accountable and punish them. Every year Ministers would announce launching of new schemes to make them popular to the masses and then just forget about them. A classic case is Railway Budgets, where every Railways Minister would announce new schemes in the area they represent without any regards to the available funds and unfinished projects. (You will ask me then why is it that we are not in a living hell already. Well India's bureaucracy in spite of itself delivered, and so did some visionary political bosses, but they delivered a little though they delivered it late.)
Anyways coming back to the issue of Indians not holding the executive responsible. Some hope was restored when the Central and the States Governments passed legislation to give the right to Information to the citizens. Its a touchy issue. Why would a devil give you information when you could hold him responsible with the same information. So it was not really effective.
Kudos to the Manmohan Singh government who has shown some vision by publishing the Outcome Budget. The Indian Government will now annually publish an Outcome Budget to tell the citizens as to what it intends to do with the money allocated to various ministries and also tell you how effectively they spent the money allotted to them in the last budget.
Although Mr P Chidambaram, India's finance minister has given the disclaimer that the Outcome Budget is not as polished as it should be, and things would get better, I thought I would probably just for the recordings sake record the shortcomings of this years Outcome Budget:
Outcome Budget of alomost all the Ministries, (I would like to specifically point out Ministry of Steel) read as the plan for various state controlled Steel companies. India's steel sector is much much more than what just the state sector. Does the honorablester wants to say that the ministry exists only to serve the state sector?
I dont understand what purpose some Ministries like the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports serve? This one had been conceptualised with the noble objective of utilising the energy of India's Youth in Nation Building. but going by its Outcome Budget, it looks like that it just runs a few Institutes, some schemes. It would have been great if instead of saying that they will organise 10500 NSS camps, they would have said that x% of India's College going students will attend one or other NSS camp.
The NIC, which designs & hosts Governements websites should also include a form where people can come and discuss the issues. Why would I blog it here, without any chance of anyone else seeing it than posting it on the FinMin's website where they could have seen it and taken some action....
Anyways coming back to the issue of Indians not holding the executive responsible. Some hope was restored when the Central and the States Governments passed legislation to give the right to Information to the citizens. Its a touchy issue. Why would a devil give you information when you could hold him responsible with the same information. So it was not really effective.
Kudos to the Manmohan Singh government who has shown some vision by publishing the Outcome Budget. The Indian Government will now annually publish an Outcome Budget to tell the citizens as to what it intends to do with the money allocated to various ministries and also tell you how effectively they spent the money allotted to them in the last budget.
Although Mr P Chidambaram, India's finance minister has given the disclaimer that the Outcome Budget is not as polished as it should be, and things would get better, I thought I would probably just for the recordings sake record the shortcomings of this years Outcome Budget:
Outcome Budget of alomost all the Ministries, (I would like to specifically point out Ministry of Steel) read as the plan for various state controlled Steel companies. India's steel sector is much much more than what just the state sector. Does the honorablester wants to say that the ministry exists only to serve the state sector?
I dont understand what purpose some Ministries like the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports serve? This one had been conceptualised with the noble objective of utilising the energy of India's Youth in Nation Building. but going by its Outcome Budget, it looks like that it just runs a few Institutes, some schemes. It would have been great if instead of saying that they will organise 10500 NSS camps, they would have said that x% of India's College going students will attend one or other NSS camp.
The NIC, which designs & hosts Governements websites should also include a form where people can come and discuss the issues. Why would I blog it here, without any chance of anyone else seeing it than posting it on the FinMin's website where they could have seen it and taken some action....
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Learn to Live
"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends and spirit and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four Balls - family, health, friends and spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for Balance in your life."
So all u workaholics... Live life... u live it only once ;-)
This also goes for all those who refuse my invitation for going out citing work reasons…
Monday, August 08, 2005
Sod's Law and its Corollaries
Damn those English men. Why do they have to call Murphy's law as Sod's law? Good that I googled it to come up with this page. Check out The Twelve Laws of Inaccurate Perception
I am sure you guys will have your own corollaries. So why dont you leave them in comments? I will collate and post them separately.
I am sure you guys will have your own corollaries. So why dont you leave them in comments? I will collate and post them separately.
Friday, May 13, 2005
Purnendu Chatterjee: I Just love this guy
Some more research on Google and looks like Purnendu Chatterjee goes way way up...He has got connections right to White House.
Great career and now he uses connections formed in his stint in McKinsey and other companies for his venture fund.
Talking about connections, he even has charges of insider trading against him.
He goes deep yaar..TCG software, TCG-Ivega, Skytech, Haldia...Soros fund.
I am dazed!!!
Great career and now he uses connections formed in his stint in McKinsey and other companies for his venture fund.
Talking about connections, he even has charges of insider trading against him.
He goes deep yaar..TCG software, TCG-Ivega, Skytech, Haldia...Soros fund.
I am dazed!!!
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Making of that Indica ad in which a guy gets socked everytime he opens his mouth :)
This ad is really funny.
Read about the creative process
Read about the creative process
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
Chill, U still have me with you
Here is a post from Chutki. Nice poem. Was thinking of giving this to S, when he had a break up.
Friday, April 22, 2005
MyTinyHands.com
Check this one:A Random Walk Down Tech Street: MyTinyHands.com up and running
Basically this dude who is currently pursuing MBA from Sloan, had a premature kid, and he and his wife realised that a do-not-touch-befor-washing-hands sign they had put on their babies carrier is not only effective, but also inviting trade inquiries.
Lo and behold, they now have a business up and running selling these signs.
Love their creativity!
Basically this dude who is currently pursuing MBA from Sloan, had a premature kid, and he and his wife realised that a do-not-touch-befor-washing-hands sign they had put on their babies carrier is not only effective, but also inviting trade inquiries.
Lo and behold, they now have a business up and running selling these signs.
Love their creativity!
Friday, April 08, 2005
John Doerr's Startup Manual
John Doerr is called the gravity of Silicon Valley. This is an interesting interview about what he is looking for in startups.
Monday, February 21, 2005
Tax Reform
State of California is implementing a new system where the residents will get pre-filled tax returns. They just need to sign it and return it.
I guess India should replace the Saral form with something similar. This will benefit a large section of Indian taxpayers as most of the 25 Mn taxpayers are in service jobs. In their case it is the employers obligation to scrutinise various documents. Hence even with plethora of deductions available to an Indian Tax Payer, there are no road blocks.With TIN coming in place, already companies are filling their tax challans online. Not only that, but tax payers can also file their return online starting this year. This will be a logical extension to the existing system, and I bet is going to be a huge success.
Actually a better system will be to extend the Online Return Filing to Ordinary Tax Payers and to do away completely with the intermediary involved right now.
Believe me or not, an average Indian is intimidated by the complex thing called Personal Income Tax. More than that they are intimidated by the officials of IT Deptt. Filing a return in the queue and computation of taxes is a big drain on time and I am sure causes a lot of hardships. Computerisation offers salvation to the poor service being offered to the denizens of this country.
DO IT. DO IT. DO IT.
I guess India should replace the Saral form with something similar. This will benefit a large section of Indian taxpayers as most of the 25 Mn taxpayers are in service jobs. In their case it is the employers obligation to scrutinise various documents. Hence even with plethora of deductions available to an Indian Tax Payer, there are no road blocks.With TIN coming in place, already companies are filling their tax challans online. Not only that, but tax payers can also file their return online starting this year. This will be a logical extension to the existing system, and I bet is going to be a huge success.
Actually a better system will be to extend the Online Return Filing to Ordinary Tax Payers and to do away completely with the intermediary involved right now.
Believe me or not, an average Indian is intimidated by the complex thing called Personal Income Tax. More than that they are intimidated by the officials of IT Deptt. Filing a return in the queue and computation of taxes is a big drain on time and I am sure causes a lot of hardships. Computerisation offers salvation to the poor service being offered to the denizens of this country.
DO IT. DO IT. DO IT.
Monday, February 14, 2005
NASDAQ? What exactly is NASDAQ?
Ok, this did hit me like a ton. NASDAQ stands for National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System.
Explains what is NASDAQ, NASD, OTC stocks and likes....
Explains what is NASDAQ, NASD, OTC stocks and likes....
Why EPF, PPF are Ponzi schemes!
Why EPF, PPF are Ponzi schemes!
I think the Governement has averted the crisis by moving away from the Defined Benefits pension schemes to Defined Contributions scheme, effective (I think) 1st Jan 2004 for all Central Governement Employees. Nevertheless it would be interesting to do a trend analysis based on Demographic data (there has to be a corelation between Pouplation growth rate and the no. of PPF contributor growth rate), GDP growth rate to arrive at a time frame when EPF, PPF will go bust or may be they wont go bust, but then this has to be analysed.
This can also give important trend lines on liabilities of Central Govt Institutions.
I think the Governement has averted the crisis by moving away from the Defined Benefits pension schemes to Defined Contributions scheme, effective (I think) 1st Jan 2004 for all Central Governement Employees. Nevertheless it would be interesting to do a trend analysis based on Demographic data (there has to be a corelation between Pouplation growth rate and the no. of PPF contributor growth rate), GDP growth rate to arrive at a time frame when EPF, PPF will go bust or may be they wont go bust, but then this has to be analysed.
This can also give important trend lines on liabilities of Central Govt Institutions.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
This news made my day...
> One of the best kept secret of Campus 2003 is out...and its official.
> But going by the tradition of cluenatics and inspired by Da Vinci code, you will have to decipher the news by these clues:
> 1. Two of the (original) campus2003 are getting married to each other.
> 2. He carries a fire breathing animal on his shoulder.
>
> Congratulations and God bless the young couple.
> HimS
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> But going by the tradition of cluenatics and inspired by Da Vinci code, you will have to decipher the news by these clues:
> 1. Two of the (original) campus2003 are getting married to each other.
> 2. He carries a fire breathing animal on his shoulder.
>
> Congratulations and God bless the young couple.
> HimS
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Musings on a sunny morning
We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder
We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under
(- We Belong by Pat Benetar http://www.ckdhr.com/hrose/songs/we_belong.html)
What is it that makes a man give up everything to follow a thought? Its the word of his leader.
Leadership is not just about vision, it is also about the ability to articulate the vision into simple words. A person who has more command on the language is always a winner in an argument or a negotiation. Even if he is not a winner, then at least he will dominate.
It truly is a gift of God to weave magic into words. Its an art. Sandra Lewis Pringle is one such artist. She writes poems, prayers, notes of encouragement for the needy. and she is great in it.
Read (http://grtgsfmtheheartandsoul.net/) her writings and you suddenly start feeling religious from within.
I am really jealous of such people. Its a wepon which I want in my arsenal, but need a guide who can help in in find this art for me.
We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under
(- We Belong by Pat Benetar http://www.ckdhr.com/hrose/songs/we_belong.html)
What is it that makes a man give up everything to follow a thought? Its the word of his leader.
Leadership is not just about vision, it is also about the ability to articulate the vision into simple words. A person who has more command on the language is always a winner in an argument or a negotiation. Even if he is not a winner, then at least he will dominate.
It truly is a gift of God to weave magic into words. Its an art. Sandra Lewis Pringle is one such artist. She writes poems, prayers, notes of encouragement for the needy. and she is great in it.
Read (http://grtgsfmtheheartandsoul.net/) her writings and you suddenly start feeling religious from within.
I am really jealous of such people. Its a wepon which I want in my arsenal, but need a guide who can help in in find this art for me.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Cyrus Broachaskar ::: What Bradman Doesn't Know
I never knew Cyrus does anything other than MTV bakra, but yes he writes for Cricketnext.com. His writings are as hilarious as MTV bakra.
Tsunami - The word I never heard of two weeks ago...
and here is what it lies after the black Sunday.
Its probably the goriest of all images I have ever seen in my life.
Just a reminder that humans are just another species on this planet.
Its probably the goriest of all images I have ever seen in my life.
Just a reminder that humans are just another species on this planet.
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