Anthems And Songs | Bong Connection
Vande Mataram was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Jana Gana Mana was a creation of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
Since my childhood I felt proud of this fact. When you are a child, you family and community is your first identity. When you are grown up you are proud of your nationality. However, to a few people like Raj Thackeray their community is the only identity. Now as a grown up, I feel the responsibility of being a Bong. Vande Mataram united this country and Jana Gana Mana brings all to fore. I believe whatever I do in my life should do some good to the mass of this country.
Last word... some people feel Vande Mataram is unislamic. I really don't know. Rather I cannot understand how it could be. Loving and respecting a country is an emotional thing. Lets not put it in brackets with religion.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Since my childhood I felt proud of this fact. When you are a child, you family and community is your first identity. When you are grown up you are proud of your nationality. However, to a few people like Raj Thackeray their community is the only identity. Now as a grown up, I feel the responsibility of being a Bong. Vande Mataram united this country and Jana Gana Mana brings all to fore. I believe whatever I do in my life should do some good to the mass of this country. Last word... some people feel Vande Mataram is unislamic. I really don't know. Rather I cannot understand how it could be. Loving and respecting a country is an emotional thing. Lets not put it in brackets with religion.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Why Mayawati is correct | Nawab's view
She has got Crores of Public money down the drain to realize her dream project- Ambedkar Udyaan (Ambedkar Park). Well, i personally think that she didn't do much wrong.
Before you think of questioning my intellect, lets just go a little back in history. Throughout time personalities have been wiped out of history. History mostly shows just the winners viewe and many a times forgwts all about the defeated.
Lets just assume Mayawati didn't get this Park constructed, and became just another CM in UP's long history (and let's say she does lots of Social Work too) . 30 years down the line, do you think the teenagers would have even hear her name? Answer me honestly. No, a few primary schools wouldn't leave even a speck on public Psyche as much as this Huge 2000 Crore mammoth project will have...
Now lets consider, what position she is in now, at this point. It can be two ways
1) Her project is left standing. (made purposely of stone to withstand tides of time).
2) Her project is demolished, that in turn would create such a huge protest and agitation of huge proportions.
In both of the above cases one thing happens for sure. She will remain in public psyche long after she is gone, either through Huge buildings and statues or through excessive unrest that results after the razing of the monument.
Either ways, she wins. From her point of view it is all good, serves her well.
Writen by Ali Naqvi.
Before you think of questioning my intellect, lets just go a little back in history. Throughout time personalities have been wiped out of history. History mostly shows just the winners viewe and many a times forgwts all about the defeated.
Lets just assume Mayawati didn't get this Park constructed, and became just another CM in UP's long history (and let's say she does lots of Social Work too) . 30 years down the line, do you think the teenagers would have even hear her name? Answer me honestly. No, a few primary schools wouldn't leave even a speck on public Psyche as much as this Huge 2000 Crore mammoth project will have...
Now lets consider, what position she is in now, at this point. It can be two ways
1) Her project is left standing. (made purposely of stone to withstand tides of time).
2) Her project is demolished, that in turn would create such a huge protest and agitation of huge proportions.
In both of the above cases one thing happens for sure. She will remain in public psyche long after she is gone, either through Huge buildings and statues or through excessive unrest that results after the razing of the monument.
Either ways, she wins. From her point of view it is all good, serves her well.
Writen by Ali Naqvi.
Bunch Of Infoscions | Promise
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MyDC is like heaven. Awesome buildings and brilliant management. Clean roads. Lights to enlighten the roads in dark. Maintained housekeeping. Learning made fun with a sense of responsibility. People at MyDC believe in conserving environment and have given a serious thought to the belief.
Electricity is well conserved. Once you are out, lights get switch off by themselves. Warm water is available in morning only. Water is conserved. Drained water is treated and used for landscaping. And in residential areas, bikes are banned. Pick up a cycle. Its good for health!
Some people follow what they preach. Infy being one of them...
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
India to famish in famine by 1952: WHO report
1947, New Independent India
WHO report: India, that has just attained independence might not be able to feed it self for more than 5 years.
Pandit Nehru: contrary to claims of WHO he said, "We will be in position to export wheat by 1970".
Reactions of Nehru's Critics around the world ranged from suspect to plain rejecttion of his claims. The wheat America sent our way to help us feed India was so poor in quality that it had black color rahter than the natural golden color of wheat.
Pandit Nehru plans two major Dams in Punjab, Works extensively with man behind Green Revolution, Norman Borloug trying out new variants of seeds of Wheat and Rice.
1952,India, that has just attained independence might not be able to feed it self for more than 5 years. India is in better position already.
1970, India is Completely self reliant for grains. Indira Gandhi announces India's success and also conducts a symbolic export of wheat, fulfilling her fathers works.
Written by, Ali Naqvi
WHO report: India, that has just attained independence might not be able to feed it self for more than 5 years.
Pandit Nehru: contrary to claims of WHO he said, "We will be in position to export wheat by 1970".
Reactions of Nehru's Critics around the world ranged from suspect to plain rejecttion of his claims. The wheat America sent our way to help us feed India was so poor in quality that it had black color rahter than the natural golden color of wheat.
Pandit Nehru plans two major Dams in Punjab, Works extensively with man behind Green Revolution, Norman Borloug trying out new variants of seeds of Wheat and Rice.
1952,
1970, India is Completely self reliant for grains. Indira Gandhi announces India's success and also conducts a symbolic export of wheat, fulfilling her fathers works.
Written by, Ali Naqvi
Total Access | Read Weed | Book Review
McKenna stresses on the different factors that are influencing the prevalent marketing concepts. How the organizations are reaching into the minds of the consumers and how at the same time are becoming vulnerable to consumer acknowledgment of the same. The role of data and its mining is the indercurrent of the without without the jargon.
It stresses that the need of industry is to approach the consumer as the office is round the corner only. If you are interested in reading books on marketing; pick this one up. You won't swear on me.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
IT HAPPENED IN INDIA |Book Review
Read this book to know how Future Group arrived and carved a niche for them. Read how the journey of Maharajah of Retail actually began. The journey from being an organizer of Dandiya to the biggest festival of country- 26 Jan Sabse Bada Din. Read to know what policies govern the Bazaar and Pantaloons and what is in the roots of the policies that baffle even the most experienced managers. The journey of Biyani on professional front.
When you pick this book from a stall, don’t expect to read saucy tales of biz whizs. It is all about business in a light conversationalist tone, explained and exemplarified. It is not an autobiography, it’s a business manual.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
The business of getting wrong | Sumit Speaks
Crisis seems to have undone the science that economics is. Economists now are bitching about the failure of the theories they gladly embraced and endorsed to. They also have drawn a conclusion that since they have failed to foresee the crisis,all the models,with lot of maths thrown in,are wrong and futile. What they seem to have forgotten is the fact that the job of an economist is not clairvoyance but making abstraction of what is real. More often than not economists have to play with data and model it and these models may or may not be the truth. Given the fact that economics is a social science,the probability of a model correctly predicting the future is low because the agents are no machines. The impulsiveness,eccentricity drive the human decisions and these quirks limit the power of an economic model.
Last month the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wrote a piece for NYT 'How Did Economist Get It So Wrong’ in which he decided to throw the baby away with water. He writes the predictability of models isn’t a problem. The problem lay with the attitude of the economists,who constituted the majority,that market might never go wrong. This attitude has its root in belief in models which assume rational individuals and perfect markets. He wrote,” As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth”. All right,Paul,but you seem to have forgotten that these very models have been successful for past fifty years or so barring the recent crisis. These models went wrong because people decided to go crazy and models don’t have any panacea for extraordinary circumstances which the crisis was. Casino capitalism replaced the free market and this is what caused the crisis.
It is not true that economists didn’ t give a thought to a possible financial crisis. Raghuram Rajan,in 2005,wrote a paper ‘Has Financial Development Made The World Riskier’ arguing that development in financial sector could possibly lead to a crunch.
Returning to the Krugman’s piece,it’s interesting to note that the central theme of the article was to lampoon the efficient market theory which says,in a nutshhell, that no one can outguess the market by tweaking with something which it already knows.According to Krugman,the whole idea of efficient market is a cloud-cuckoo one and must be shunned.
In response to Krugman’s tirade, John Cochrane, a Chicago school economist retorted,”the central empirical prediction of the efficient markets hypothesis is precisely that nobody can tell where markets are going – neither benevolent government bureaucrats, nor crafty hedge-fund managers, nor ivory-tower academics” . Cochrane defends the use of mathematics in economics by arguing that “maths serves to keeps the logic straight”.Cochrane gets it wrong when he blames regulation of banks for the financial crunch. The truth is the stock markets initiated the crunch and commercial banks,inevitably,got into the vortex of the bubble.Cochrane’s response can be found here.
Where does the profession stand now? I guess the free-marketers and the regulation-lovers will diverge further creating a chasm between the two schools of thought.Whether government intervention is good or bad is the bone of contention. The bottom-line is that economic models have to move ahead of the rational agent-perfect market theme. The behavioral foundations of the subject are going to play a pivotal role in post-crisis macro-economics.
Justin Fox,writer of “The Myth of Rational Market" has summed up the debate between Cochrane and Krugman on his blog, here.
By: Sumit Mishra; Student IGIDR, Mumbai
Last month the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wrote a piece for NYT 'How Did Economist Get It So Wrong’ in which he decided to throw the baby away with water. He writes the predictability of models isn’t a problem. The problem lay with the attitude of the economists,who constituted the majority,that market might never go wrong. This attitude has its root in belief in models which assume rational individuals and perfect markets. He wrote,” As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth”. All right,Paul,but you seem to have forgotten that these very models have been successful for past fifty years or so barring the recent crisis. These models went wrong because people decided to go crazy and models don’t have any panacea for extraordinary circumstances which the crisis was. Casino capitalism replaced the free market and this is what caused the crisis.
It is not true that economists didn’ t give a thought to a possible financial crisis. Raghuram Rajan,in 2005,wrote a paper ‘Has Financial Development Made The World Riskier’ arguing that development in financial sector could possibly lead to a crunch.
Returning to the Krugman’s piece,it’s interesting to note that the central theme of the article was to lampoon the efficient market theory which says,in a nutshhell, that no one can outguess the market by tweaking with something which it already knows.According to Krugman,the whole idea of efficient market is a cloud-cuckoo one and must be shunned.
In response to Krugman’s tirade, John Cochrane, a Chicago school economist retorted,”the central empirical prediction of the efficient markets hypothesis is precisely that nobody can tell where markets are going – neither benevolent government bureaucrats, nor crafty hedge-fund managers, nor ivory-tower academics” . Cochrane defends the use of mathematics in economics by arguing that “maths serves to keeps the logic straight”.Cochrane gets it wrong when he blames regulation of banks for the financial crunch. The truth is the stock markets initiated the crunch and commercial banks,inevitably,got into the vortex of the bubble.Cochrane’s response can be found here.
Where does the profession stand now? I guess the free-marketers and the regulation-lovers will diverge further creating a chasm between the two schools of thought.Whether government intervention is good or bad is the bone of contention. The bottom-line is that economic models have to move ahead of the rational agent-perfect market theme. The behavioral foundations of the subject are going to play a pivotal role in post-crisis macro-economics.
Justin Fox,writer of “The Myth of Rational Market" has summed up the debate between Cochrane and Krugman on his blog, here.
By: Sumit Mishra; Student IGIDR, Mumbai
Google Wave Features List
Email since its inception from the early days of internet has more or less remained the same, so we decided to make email more apt to today’s technology –Google Wave Team at Wave Preview.
By 2010, Google Wave will hit the web and email, with host of new features that are intuitive but were unthinkable a little time back. Check out the List of Features of Google Wave:
1. Reply to emails- to reply to a part of mail one can simply click under the paragraph and type in the reply, in effect making emails more like conversations.
2. Attachments- older email is based on MIME used to take ages to transfer files but now it is all just drag and drop.
3. Collaborate- many users can join in the conversation called a “Wave” and can participate in working together.
4. Social email- well as images and blog posts are being posted friends via Wave will receive it in their Inbox as alerts and commenting can be done from inbox itself without visiting the webpage.
5. Protocol- “Wave” has its own protocols that’s what makes it so fast over email
6. Apps- like Facebook applications can be made by any developer using Wave’s framework..
7. Contextual Language check- (Killer Feature) consider the sentence “I big you” is correct spelling wise but we obviously mean to write, “I beg you”, well Wave knows and will suggest ‘beg’ instead of ‘big’. For this feature google has used its massive internet data to determine correct context.
Written By Ali Naqvi.
By 2010, Google Wave will hit the web and email, with host of new features that are intuitive but were unthinkable a little time back. Check out the List of Features of Google Wave:
1. Reply to emails- to reply to a part of mail one can simply click under the paragraph and type in the reply, in effect making emails more like conversations.
2. Attachments- older email is based on MIME used to take ages to transfer files but now it is all just drag and drop.
3. Collaborate- many users can join in the conversation called a “Wave” and can participate in working together.
4. Social email- well as images and blog posts are being posted friends via Wave will receive it in their Inbox as alerts and commenting can be done from inbox itself without visiting the webpage.
6. Apps- like Facebook applications can be made by any developer using Wave’s framework..
7. Contextual Language check- (Killer Feature) consider the sentence “I big you” is correct spelling wise but we obviously mean to write, “I beg you”, well Wave knows and will suggest ‘beg’ instead of ‘big’. For this feature google has used its massive internet data to determine correct context.
Written By Ali Naqvi.
Meaning of Citizenship | Axioms of Land
In every country, people can be categorized as- citizens or foreigners. The issue of citizenship is so important because citizens enjoy certain privileges and rights which are denied t foreigners or aliens.
In this country under Citizenship Act 1955, there are five modes of acquisition of citizenship:
1. Person born in India is a citizen by birth.
2. Person bon outside India but if parents are Indian, is a citizen by descent.
3. Residents of five years can apply citizenship by registration.
4. Foreigners can apply for naturalization o the Government.
5. If a new territory becomes a part of India, the residents will acquire the citizenship.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
In this country under Citizenship Act 1955, there are five modes of acquisition of citizenship:
1. Person born in India is a citizen by birth.
2. Person bon outside India but if parents are Indian, is a citizen by descent.
3. Residents of five years can apply citizenship by registration.
4. Foreigners can apply for naturalization o the Government.
5. If a new territory becomes a part of India, the residents will acquire the citizenship.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Mamta Di And The Silly Thing| Bong Connection
Every politician tries to highlight people of his/her constituency or zone of influence because his is elected representative. But what about the sanctity of the constitutional position he/she holds. As a Railways Minister, Mamta Banerjee should have considered artists and writers from each and every part of the country considering them equal. Ignorance can be a valid reason but still she cannot use it as an excuse because she is a cabinet minister and not some CM. She is expected to be aware of everything under her sphere of concern. Lingual diversity cannot be termed as a handicap. She should have given appropriate representation in a more distributed way.
Today Mamta Banerjee is a regional icon and it will take some good time to achieve a national level influence. Sonia Gandhi and Vajpayee have been so successful because of their universal acceptance. By fiery fists and inappropriate actions, Mamta Banerjee won’t achieve anything in the long run.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Rural MBBS | Promise
A news item in papers read that health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has Okayed the proposal of Rural MBBS. Congratulations Mr. Azad for the step.
Accordng to the proposal, about 50 students will be selected from each state for MBBS (Rural) and taught under suitable environment that ill generate sympathy for villagers. The education will be imparted on the condition that the doctors will have to teach in rural areas for first ten years. After that span only, one can pursue a PG or private practice.
A hope has finally seen the dawn. Finally, the villages will get better facilities and there will be a generation that will diminish the lines between the rural and urban areas. Lets hope that rules are not tweaked and everything goes the fair way.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Accordng to the proposal, about 50 students will be selected from each state for MBBS (Rural) and taught under suitable environment that ill generate sympathy for villagers. The education will be imparted on the condition that the doctors will have to teach in rural areas for first ten years. After that span only, one can pursue a PG or private practice.
A hope has finally seen the dawn. Finally, the villages will get better facilities and there will be a generation that will diminish the lines between the rural and urban areas. Lets hope that rules are not tweaked and everything goes the fair way.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Kane and Abel by Jeffery Archer | Book review
Jeffery Archer’s Kane and Abel grabs the reader right from the first wail in the first passage. Two births take place on the same day, one in American family of Wealthy Bankers and the other in far away Russia, in the dusk of World War-I.
It traces of these two lives of Kane and Abel, and how destiny makes their paths cross.
The novel takes us with the boys through their childhood to schooling to loss of virginity to their matrimony to their parenthood to being old men. All through the story, Kane and Abel cross each others path and end up being at loggerheads.
As the backdrop, Archer chooses the most fascinating decades in world history that is World-War I to Titanic to Great Depression to World War II to time after the War. This period has been such a rich backdrop to so many of great works of our time. Thus we are sucked into these two stories while also feel, these great events in History through Kane and Abel.
It has been #1 New York Best Seller for a long time referenced in innumerous moments in cinema, like Deepika Padukone as she learns about stocks from the people she carries in her cab in Hindi movie "Bachna Ae Hasseno"and more recently in Slumdog Millionaire, when the the brothers survive a few years on trains selling items and stealing, which is a direct lift from childhood days of Abel
Verdict- a must read, because of its un-putdown-able quality. An absolute classic.
Written by Ali Naqvi.
It traces of these two lives of Kane and Abel, and how destiny makes their paths cross.
The novel takes us with the boys through their childhood to schooling to loss of virginity to their matrimony to their parenthood to being old men. All through the story, Kane and Abel cross each others path and end up being at loggerheads.As the backdrop, Archer chooses the most fascinating decades in world history that is World-War I to Titanic to Great Depression to World War II to time after the War. This period has been such a rich backdrop to so many of great works of our time. Thus we are sucked into these two stories while also feel, these great events in History through Kane and Abel.
It has been #1 New York Best Seller for a long time referenced in innumerous moments in cinema, like Deepika Padukone as she learns about stocks from the people she carries in her cab in Hindi movie "Bachna Ae Hasseno"and more recently in Slumdog Millionaire, when the the brothers survive a few years on trains selling items and stealing, which is a direct lift from childhood days of Abel
Verdict- a must read, because of its un-putdown-able quality. An absolute classic.
Written by Ali Naqvi.
Bong Konnexion
In today’s politics, Left has apparently become irrelevant but what about communism and socialism? No, with a large population under declared BPL and larger population under real BPL, communism has become more relevant.
Infosys and Wipro has been denied land for IT hub in WB but the core reason is not capitalism. Globalization and Capitalism are truth of the age but that is not the core reason of public outrage is State Government’s land acquisition policies. When in ’70s they begun, people were with them and today after four decades they are standing on the other side of hedge.
Unfortunately, the torch bearers of communism in this country read too much into line not into minds.
Regards
Sujoy Ghosh
Promise: Nikesh Arora
He gives KVS for his upbringing. He did his schooling in Air Force School in Delhi. He got engineering degree from IT-BHU. He studied management at Boston’s North Eastern University. Today, he is in the elite league of Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. He is Nikesh Arora.
As, President, Global Sales Operations and Business Operation, Nikesh is the fourth head of the most revered IT Giant of our age. Focus, passion and commitment were the three qualities that complemented his intelligence. Unlike the famed trio, Nikesh is a management guy to the core. When he arrived at the Google, it was doing great and Nikesh was looking forward to a new beginning of his career. With Nikesh, company grew and he himself arrived with a great style. He amplified the revenues in Europe and US sectors and created great openings in India and China.
His case explains how with hard work and commitment one can achieve millions dream of.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Smart Calculation |Masterstroke
US cannot risk conflict with China as a face to face can prove to be a strategic and economic blunder. Dragon is a danger and too dangerous to be considered so. A too dangerous foe should be a friend.
Not only in outsourcing segment has China overtaken India, it has also ensured a pseudo-cover from the archrival US. China and Taiwan are separated by Taiwan Strait and the states just facing Taiwan across the water are Guangdong and Fujian. Two strategic points are now home to US majors like IBM, Microsoft and Dell.
If today or tomorrow things go wrong between China and Taiwan/US, US won’t intervene. A strategic miscalculation will mean loss of hundreds of billions of dollars. So, checkmate in favor of China.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
Article 370 |Axioms Of Land
Due to political complexities, Jammu and Kashmir has been given a special status by the constitution of India. This provision has been made under Article 370.
J&K has a special constitutional status under the law of land. All the provisions of the constitution relating to states are not applicable to J&K, however, it is specified as a state under the same schedule. This situation is due to the fact that J&K acceded to the Union of India under extremely complicated situations. In lieu of Constitution of India, where state specific laws are required, state constitution is used.
Article 370 has been centre of a major political issue- Kashmir’s autonomy. A major political party BJP has been advocating scrapping of the law for two reasons: one: it was initially included as a temporary provision and two: State government may misuse the act if a pro-Pakistan government. However, in its regime, BJP hardly did anything in this regard.
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
ARTICLE 356
There are three kinds of Emergencies: Due to War (Art. 352), State Machinery Failure (Art. 356) and Financial Emergency (Art. 360).
Article 356 has gathered a lot of attention in past and has raised lots of eyebrows whenever implemented. When the President is satisfied that the State Government cannot be carried out in accordance with the provisions of constitution, the Emergency is declared. Such decision is usually made on the report of the Governor of the state. The duration of such proclamation is generally two months and can be extended under certain constraints.
It is a very important tool in governance , though disputed. In the history of Indis, it has been used over hundred times…
By: Sujoy Ghosh
CORPORATES IN EDUCATION
Images of Infosys mentor Narayan Murthy at IIT brings in a thought that can change a lot in this country if realized.
Census 2001 reveals population of India to be 1.02 billion. If we estimate today’s youth under 15 to be around 150 million and consider that at least a fifth will go for graduation then about 30 million is the head count of Indian Education System.
In three four years of graduation and skill learning, every student spend about 1 lac on an average. Simple maths. In near future the total value of Indian Education System is about 3000 billion rupees. Wonderful, isn’t it?
Before all the potent talent and economics is dumped into pockets of barely legal (at times illegal) institutions or foreign universities may mushroom around; its high time for firms like Infosys, Wipro, Reliance, Tata to enter the education system and make this country human-resource rich.
By: Sujoy Ghosh
THE NAME IS KHAN
Current Affairs: Shahrukh Khan Humiliated!!
Indians love their demigods and stars. A common man humiliated and Bollywood star being held for security reasons are as different as earth and sky that always stand parallel.
US has gone paranoid since 9/11 and till they gain control over terrorism, they should be. Even after the attack on the Parliament, the control over terrorism in this country is less than meager… and see, we talk about courage.
Lets accept. US have not faced terror attacks after 9/11. Yes, they are paranoid but at least their citizens are safe. And Bollywood… people are always more than emotional.
By: Sujoy Ghosh
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