Pink Slips Fear

This is being talked propagated more in recent times due to the current economic crisis across the globe. This is more affecting India because Indian Companies are more dependent on US/European economies for their growth. As all we know the more time we are Idle (Un billed/productive) we will be fearing the chances of firing.

Consulting/billing mode of business is not new to India but in recent times the volume has increased. Since a major portions of the Engineering students opt for IT companies which expects each of them to earn revenues for every day they are in the company puts us into lots of questions
So far every thing was good and no one thought about the flip side and were happy with heavy salaries/Onsite trips/heavy week end spendings.
But when we are into crisis many who have not had a proper plan will be running into issues. Though the impact for India can be seen only on Metros and not much on rural/Semi urban areas ,the repurcussion could be more.
I'm typing this on the election counting day in US and as every one expected Obama may win and based on his first few months of economic reforms they situation may improve.His first aim would be to bring up the economy and his Outsourcing thougts may be put back on the priority list which could help our Indian companies to breath better.

Lets hope the nexy Fisical Year helps to bring the economy back ,else our Indian economy/Itcompanies will have to show a poor 4th quarter results.
For the public/in group gatherings the finance min/Prime min can say we are fine and the same can be propagated by the CEO's/CFO's that there won't be pink slips but in reality this may not be possible and this outcome is going to be a key parameter in our 2009 General Elections

Vote Bank Politics

One of the ugly political scenes we are seeing these days in the name of Religion/Linguistics
Ugly faces were shown thirough Raj Thackery & co and the Sangh Parivar is behaving in an erratic way on the Melagoan case

When Police is investigating the Melagoan case and charge sheeting some one ,any individual has the right to defend himself but the way by which Thackery & folks are defending Sadhive seems no difference than Cong/the rest did for Afzal Guru.
Why don't none of the political party come out of the vote bank politics.


The cong is a opportunists ,BJP's colours came out on their useless stand on Nuke Deal and Left is asusual only to criticize. All regional who have a presence in the parliment are predimonently mean minded.
We do not have a Gandhi now or a perosn who can control this country ,it is the country men who need to understand this and act responsibily so that these anti social elements do not take the control

Being Orthodox

Cricket is a Orthodox game. Every one accepts. But I guess this is the only game in the modern era where the game is controlled by umpires than the rules and Technology.
Tennis(Wimbledon) allows the player to question the decisions,NBA does it and so are the other games. But Cricket still follows the same old tradition,obeys Umpires decisions and blames the technology that it is not fool proof.

No matter how India played in this Sydney cricket Match,had the decisions have been proper and as per rules it would have been a different story. In Star cricket it is atleast a consolation to see the Australian commentators expressing their displeasure.

When you see NFL/NBA there will be a team of referee teams with a good amount of technology helping them. The dubious decisions are debated and resolved upon. Though we may not see 100% correct decisions there,possibility of reducing the errors is high

I've already told on the act of umpiers in a most foolish way during the world cup finals,the same is repeating here. If cricket is going like this,I'm pretty sure that it will loose its passion and cannot proliferate into many countries..

ICC need to look into this and see how it can address the gap.

Gujarat - Back Again

Almost all political analysts would have written their views on the recent mandate in Gujarat.
This poll reflected the Exit poll results. BJP is enjoying Modi's Victory and Congress is finding it difficult to face the media to explain the loss

One should think that Congress loss is not a big factor but on the other side if Modi had lost ,we could say that would have been the down fall of BJP . If BJP could not win in Gujarat then It cannot win any where. Gujarat is the only state where there is not much scope for regional parties and the fight is between Congress Vs BJP.

Modi has silenced all his critics . With very little support from Media and other forms he was able to register the victory.

With the 2009 National Elections coming in it will be interesting to see how Congress plays its cards now . Any how all congress leaders will have a big break and will have to think on the strategy

We were able to see the benefits of two party system in this election. Whether it is BJP or Congress we would have seen a absolute majority for one of these which is good for the development of the state..

I guess this victory would take Modi as a role model Chief minister and the way by which he has lead Gujarat should be studied and followed by the rest

Few are criticising that Modi was autocratic and National leaders could not control him. But to me BJP top leadership did a good job here by not interfering much. Good leaders will create more to follow them and that is what BJP has done..

New York Deserted

I was first frustrated to see my most favourite City Haunted and Empty. But thanks to the graphics /camera I could see all the important locations of NY in short time.

The movie started with the medicine cure for Virus and set some expectations that it is of a Science fiction and Medical Outbreak movie.

The story predimonently revolves around Will Smith and he has made sure that people don't get bored seeing at him. The story is based Richard Matheson's novel so not much to deviate from the base story.Cinematography is good and so are the dialogues. The scene where Smith spells out "Shrek" dialogues was nice to see and the effort to record every single action he does is really creative

The film carries a sick screen play and easily predictable story line. Though this is a Science Fiction where we cannot question on the logics the twists/turns in the story could have been better. The film seems to be of Horror category than thriller.

Will Smith has some good fan base in chennai and this movie should have some good viewership in chennai because majority of the viewer ship still loves action movies and movies of this genere. The climax many audience could not understand since most would have expected a action packed end to the story rather it ended as it was in the book with the fix for the virus found.

In short this movie can satisfy only those who wish to see this kinds of Genere's and for the rest it is a boring 100 mins

Living in Water - Alapuzha

I had been to Alapuzha(Kerala) for 3 days and it has been one of the memorable experiences I have had so far. More than spending time on touring a place I got a different experience on seeing a very different lifestyle of people.

I visited Alapuzha and stayed in a village called Pulimkunnu about 18 kms from Alapuzha town. The resort I stayed was very nice. It is called a village resort,so it had basic features of our Indian villages like Power cuts,lack of telephones. But other than this this is a very good village atmosphere set in. You do not have much options to eat but what ever served was very nice.

The Kerala style of cooking though not much different other than using coconut products was nice to have.

The best part of the trip is the one day stay at the house boat. I have heard of couples staying at house botats in Kumarakom and bachelors partying at house boats at Alapuzha before but what I experienced was a entirely different one. The house boat started from Pulimkunnu and went for about 40 kms on the backwaters full into the villages. I was thrilled to see kilometer boards kept on the water for the destinations .

The life style of people in the villages I could see was entirely different from what I have seen before. Many tourist places these days are crowded and people also change their life style accordingly. There is not much nativity seen in many places . But these villages I saw live in water and spend their life in boat travel.

There are no big trucks,traffic roads and pollution.Most of the villagers user boats for commutation and for crossing the banks cars/two wheelers use the boat . Fish is the staple food here and god has given it in plenty to the people here.

School children commute by boats to schools,Government runs boats like they run metro buses. Though the life of people living close to the banks is a concern during heavy rains ,people does not seem to bother about it.

One of the different way of Irrigation I saw (Though I'm not a strong agriculturist),on either sides of the backwater the paddy fields are flooded with water during rainy days and once the monsoon season is over(June-Sep) the water from these paddy fields are pumped into the backwaters,paddy is cultivated and then harvested by February and then again by June they start filling water. The rain water harvesting is done traditionally here but they do not call it by that technical name

I would say this is one of the must see places . If you are a nature lover and love to read/experience different life styles of people Alapuzha is a nice place to go. If Anthony Bourdain has not visited here before,I would recommend him to do so.

The Boss - Review

By this time most of the Tamil youths would have seen Sivaji and many websites would have given their review. So lets not discuss about the story now. We will see the positives and Negatives of this movie.

Full credits to shankar for making a movie specifically for Rajinikanth. The whole of the movie is nothing but Rajinikanth. We have not seen this Rajini Style in long time. In the previous hits Rajini either came in Young/Old roles(Padiyappa) or he was doing Urban/Rural hero based stories (Muthu/Arunachalam).

Art director Thotta Dharini has done a amazing job and Shankar has picturised the songs so beautifully. If Sivaji songs are alone sold as Music Videos it would generate good business. May be AVM can think of doing this

Though the story line is very thin and screen play not too effective ,it is Rajini who keeps the momentum going on and keeps the audience happy. Vivek has supported well.

Shankar in all his movies has taken some social cause and this time it is black money. We believe that AVM and the production team has paid to all the people who worked for Sivaji in White money. One thing to accept is all developed nations have a better way to track the business and money transactions and India has failed to do so far.

From the revenue point of view AVM has done a good job in releasing the film in maximum locations to make profits in the first few weeks. This movie may not run weeks like Chandramukhi but it should get the profits well ahead

Shankar has come down in his ideas for screen play .Anniyan itself reflected it and this further proves it. He has to seriously put his efforts here else he can be over run easily

Some times stories make a film successful,some times Music makes a film success full,but for Sivaji 'Rajini' has made the film successful. Hats of to Rajini for giving such a entertainer.