Thursday, February 15, 2007

A Special DOSA

i made an entry into kitchen as she was not keeping well..thoguht of trying some old, forgotten techniques. doas mavu was there in the pot..i lit the stove and put the frying pan,which was looking very new, on stove..and pour mavu on the pan..it didnt come out well.. the circle which i made with mavu was not in gud shape, so i tried again..and it came out well. thot when was the last time i made a dosa..could not recollect the exact year..may be this was the first time a decade :) milestone achivement..

Friday, May 26, 2006

Creating a Level Playing Field

Students who are protesting against reservations for back ward classes in premier institutions like IITs/IIMs/AIIMs are mainly from metros, where they had seen only 'empowered' backward people as their neighbors or colleagues. this intolerence or narrow vison is fuelling their angst, they are not in grips with the real picture of rural and semi rural India. the rage of students is hardly making any effect in south india, barring bangalore. Moreover, people who make it to theses institutions will be the best pick among their communities. So, there wont be any kind of dilution of educational standards, as many fear. I still wonder why there is not a single protest against NRI reservations, which is a clear case of money over merit..but government should also build a fool-proof mechanism to asess the progress made by the sections of society,availing reservation.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Pooram fiesta !!!


Like many, i also havent seen a Thrissur pooram live, though, been there for couple of years. those days, i was quite regular at paramekkavu temple for morning (priya) darshan, on my way to college...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Aam admi ka BUDGET..?

my interviewr asked, so how do you see the union budget? well..PC has done a great job.. the increased outlay for primary education is a welcome move...the dropout rates will decline..and the increased fund allocation for infrastructure development would boost employment generation and economy...service tax is a big worry...now most of the youngsters can buy a car for themselves.. increased tax on tobbaco products, cigarettes in particular,will be a big blow for many.....interview over..

but yesterday, i understood from pavitrettan's shop that my brand is unaffected, i still can buy a pack of gold filter for Rs.20..thank you Mr. chidambaram..for understanding my world

Aam admi ka BUDGET..?

my interviewr asked, so how do you see the union budget? well..PC has done a great job.. the increased outlay for primary education is a welcome move...the dropout rates will decline..and the increased fund allocation for infrastructure development would boost employment generation and economy...service tax is a big worry...now most of the youngsters can buy a car for themselves.. increased tax on tobbaco products, cigarettes in particular,will be a big blow for many.....interview over..

but yesterday, i understood from pavitrettan's shop that my brand is unaffected, i still can buy a pack of gold filter for Rs.20..thank you Mr. chidambaram..for understanding my world

Monday, March 13, 2006

Oracle of Omaha offers words of wisdom - News

Oracle of Omaha offers words of wisdom - News

Sunday, March 05, 2006

when will i get rid of this..

tried to take off today...sent a message... boss screamed..'be in office by 4'...wot to do i need to go.....

Monday, December 05, 2005

EXPORT OF SKILLED JOBS COULD IMPERIL U.S. TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ???

The US technology industry is witnessing a spurt in outsourcing of technology jobs and it is continuously on the rise. Industry experts opinionated that this trend is inevitable as the 1980s off shoring of rust belt manufacturing jobs to South East Asia and Latin America. The year 2000, saw around 27,000 jobs shifting to developing countries like India, China and Russia. No one is able to predict an end to this phenomenal trend in near future. A study by Forrester Research, says that around 472,000 technology jobs would be outsourced to developing countries like India, China and Russia, by 2015. They also predicts that companies in the US and Europe will spend 28 percent of their information technology budgets on outsourcing. The huge investment made by key market players like, Microsoft, Dell, Motorola, and Intel in this segment illustrates this upwardly spiralling trend. Most of these technology jobs vanishing from the US shore are high-end jobs, which require great skills and competence. This is in contrast to the outsourcing of low-level technology jobs like data entry and system support, which is in practice for more than a decade.


Developing countries like India, China and Russia have vast pool of cheap technology work force, this the prime attraction for major US companies. India alone produces 350,000 graduates engineers from it engineering colleges. More than that an average computer programmer in India costs $20 per hour in wages and other benefits compared to $60 per hour for an American with same qualification and experience.

Apart from the lure of highly productive technology work force, developing countries like India, China and Russia are also the fastest growing markets, so a footprint in theses countries will give US companies a strategic advantage in the long run.
But most of the American technology workers are skeptical about outsourcing business and they believe shifting of core technology jobs could pose a big threat to American technological dominance. This high-end technology outsourcing business will help the countries to build their own technology industries. This would be detrimental for Americans in the future. Even though many of the US technology workers welcome the free-trade and Globalization, they are more concerned about their minimal salary growth, which is not in pace with inflation rate and also about the looming unemployment in the offing. A recent study by an independent Economic Policy Institute has highlighted the disparity in salary growth rate and inflation rate for the technology workers. Critics of the technology out sourcing also feel that the technology conundrum along with layoffs from other sectors could further worsen the recession hit US economy. Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a union of technology workers is persuading US Congress to study and possibly regulate the technology outsourcing business to address the concerns of the US technology workers.


But the business fraternity is bullish over the prospects of technology out sourcing and they refute all the ant-outsourcing charges made by the workers. They believe that out sourcing would liberate valuable monetary and human resources, which could be better utilized for upscaling their performance, and move up in the value chain. American are making great strides in the realms of Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, the learnability and flexibility attributes of the US work force will provide them the needed job security and a sustainable future in theses technological arenas rather than simple software coding jobs.