WiCamp Gurgaon: The theme revolved around inovation, with what the big guys have done to become big, and what they do to remain big. The buzz words were: innovation, creativity, efficiency…

A great start, with me being slightly late thanks to the ‘awesome’ number allocation of plots at Udyog Vihar.

The start was from Shailesh Mehta, he being the one who has hit the road, with the aim of becoming the next door Google by deeper penetration into our local ecosystem. A Search engine for providing the local search, this would be a content distributor along with being a content creator. The concept of providing a space for users to write their reviews, might actually help in making the search better, and more intuitive. Although there are several other players in the market, the claim stood that it is the user community will make the venture perform better in the market in due course of time.check this link out at: http://www.onyomo.com/ they call it ‘on your move‘ <- personal note: I have used Sulekha for long, thinking of trying my luck on each of them(got something to work on over the week-end ;)- >

This whole thing seemed just like another lecture untill David from The Innovation WorkGroup came up and organized the group into a single discussion. Now is what we call ‘the shape for discussion’. It was only then that the minds began to think and mouths began to pour.

Next on the list: Two individuals have finally removed the N from non reliable indians NRI and have come back to their nation, to fill colours of prosperity with their venture called RangDe.org, these were Smita Ram and Ram NK. A cool name inspired by the bollywood block buster hit Rang De Basanti - RDB. A peer2peer non-profit micro-finance company with the aim of providing small amounts in the multiples of 1000 to the needy. The deviation from the normal track has been to promote women of the villages as money lenders. The philosophy driving them is: ‘women are more proactive in returning the investment’, I would add ‘more often’ and make is more subtle for the men. So they often lend money to the women which in turn shall distribute it further. A great awakener for us as youngsters who have put their benchmarks for life as packages, in Rs. a.k.a $ ,  and not as ‘change’ in the society a.k.a innovation. My fi’e for the couple for this social innovation

The brain storming session comprised of loads of statements of what innovation is and what is means to companies big and small. I for innovation and innovation for I, a quote by Pavan from Wipro provoked each one of us. The adrenaline for innovation comes from the need for it. The need in the individual to get recognition. The need for the company to earn more. The need creates and the need drives. The thought was opened by Anand from Wipro and towards the end it was unanimously agreed upon. I would like to add, that for eras man has innovated to improve his way of living, and is constantly doing just that. <–(boring though, try something new. something which is just the opposite. like much more of bioweapons, missiles….)–>. Dissatisfaction for the current situation,mentions a need for change and a change is innovation. And as a lady mentioned it can either sustaining or a breakthrough innovation.

The debate between creativity and efficiency was the one I loved more. We believe that both efficiency and creativity need to go hand in hand for a organization to survive. I concluded with the mention that: creativity is a galloping horse, with the reigns of efficiency controlling it. The rider falls off due to  bad ROI (Return on Investment) if the efficiency levels are not reached.

Big-brotherly treatment of the bosses are great killers of innovation, cited with an example of the man who proposed first aid kits for Maruti cars back in 1980’s was suppressed for the idea.Today he has a venture which supplies these kits to several auto mobile manufacturers, mentioned Pavan from Wipro. Illiteracy was cited as another good cause. But it was the society which was killing it much before it ould mushroom out. and was killing it for good, said a gentleman. Since birth we are asked to act Good, a Good son, a Good brother, a good husband (daughter, sister, wife). And we are asked to be on the track, and if we just walk on the track, we folllow. By following there is no new track, no innovation. A great conclusion indeed.

I just forgot to mention the new media devices from Vmedia which might as be a great way to watch movies. These are blue-ray optical disks smaller than a credit card, perhaps the smallest optical drive. And this drive fits nicely into an mobile phone. Plug in and Plug out into a HD experience with the latest blockbusters on the move. This was Anuraj from Vmedia.

Innovation was becoming such a cliche in these 4 hours. with all these high end statements. I found this last real life narration quite joyous. A node-netwrok was setup in a matter of 5 months at this engineering Institute, by few IIIrd year students with old computers (PI, PII and 386’s) along with old hubs and switches. Linux was the savior of these garbage boxes, who saw the light of the day in a ’server’ room. The room soon became a high profile dare-not-enter area, mentioned Sanat from IIT Delhi

It was filled with old junk and great minds, ‘beware we bite’

Lalu Prasad Yadav has been known for his prowness at work. He seems like a wicked mind under a thick skinned dumb exterior. From kullhars for drinking chai inside the trains to maximizing space utilization at railway stations, he has shown his unpredictable behaviour. The idea of setting up 24 hour restraunts at railway stations of major cities of India seems like a novel thought. With the aim of space utilization, money generation and facilitation of good food at cheap prices, comesum s have hit the market serving food at night real hard. Whether it is kadai paneer to pizza, and gulab jamun to milk shakes all is available under one roof. What else do you wish for at 3 am !

I have been visiting comesum for couple of years now, it seems like a great outing, when you have spent the night wacking your brains on some project. With each visit I have witnessed a change in the crowd. From a destination for night train travellers to a good-snack-cafe for call center employees and now as an after disc hang out for youngsters, the transition seems little too drastic.

Earlier, I seldom used to find any one properly dressed. With people in their night chaddies with a T-shirt on top or with a pair of shabby jeans it seems like a cool-cool place. But now its seems, Sun never sets at ‘comesum’, its hot in here. Wearing shades at 3 AM seems a possibility here. Its now filled with yankies with minnies and halters and yunkies as Men in BLACK. Its a hot place to be. Surely ,being a witness to this drama at 3 AM is worth the travel.

After all its only the pizza that drove me to nizzamudin tonight, with a smile on my face, and pity for Lalu I return to my cozy home.

Little did Lalu know that his ‘milking’ restraunt shall serve as a hang out for hang overs.

The morning of 28th started with a bang, the tussle of making the right kinda document with Acrobat Pro. Its a really tough job getting it in the way you want it to be, in just the first shot. After the task was some what handled, it was time to leave for gurgaon- the IT mainland of North India.

After some six hours of traveling from one corner of Gurgaon to the other to wind off the work, it was time to wait at the City Centre. The Wait was an experience of not being part of the war.

At 5:30 pm, a war was on, a tussle is on, in each one of the souls who have left their office to go back to their home. A tussle to fight for their own existence, to gather space, that they could call their own. It was the time when they had to forget about the worries of their office, as it was the dawn of a new set of problems. The problems of their own homes.

It seemed all these beings were lost in their own thoughts. For them smiling at a passerby seemed merely a waste of time.

The swarms of cabs had arrived, people rushing to settle in their own. The irony was that all of them were in a hurry to get relaxed. They wanted to get into their cars and sit, waiting for the others to come. Please some one tell me is waiting what you do to relax(I am very Impatient). Meanwhile, each  one spent their time looking out of the window, mesmerized in own thoughts. The idea of talking to their fellow passenger seemed another job to them. ‘Talking’ surely is an effort, especially when you have to get a false smile on one’s face, when you are yourself low.

I could visualize my self on top of a building, when all these cars would seem like ants and these humans like food. The ants would come, swallow these beings, and set off for their way.

At the Toll Gate, I was a witness to the perspective of these ants going through a narrow channel out into an urban jungle.

Even tragedy at road, would have moved a few, while others would mostly pouring out their emotions blaming the situation as a mere time waste. (Read more…)

my dada (grand dad)  sent his views about pranayam, and here is a part of the reply i sent back

hi daddam,

It is actually amazing to see the results… it is the hard work of the ppl. In the Himalayas who had devised these simple exercises a thousand years ago…. those were the days when there were no BP machines … and the cause of the illness were seldom known and a few symptoms like ‘stress or pain’ the only ways to diagnose the illness of problems inside inside the body.

I wonder pulse rate or BP might have still been able to judge but how the hell can you know sugar levels..?????…

Thus were established the techniques of yoga

1. Which maintain your general health

2. Prevent stress

3 Give work to essential muscles, because many of the sadhus were believed to meditate for long—- so to prevent muscle Sagging…

And now remarkably WE the modern ppl sitting in front of the PC whole day long don’t give exercise our essential muscles… (lungs heart etc…)

Therefore, when after a long time when we do these excercises, we get remarkable results….

(Read more…)

We hold these truths to be self evident: That all words are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among which is the right to life — to simply exist free of harassment; liberty — the right to be seen and spoken freely and used whenever deemed desirable. And happiness — the special joy that comes when they happen to say best what is in one’s heart.
- The Bawdy Manifesto

Why do people swear? Most people start because it makes them feel cool and grown up to use ‘forbidden’ language. But in time, these words become a sort of short-code to express certain emotions - anger, frustration, (Read more…)

This contains views of various Amitians— about a murder case of a Jessica Lal.

In which the accused were an number of big guns of India

And after 7 years of trial were let free….

An abstract of the mail—A lady was brutally murdered 7 years ago.

And now the accused have been set free.

Although now high court of India has ordered a detailed inquiry as to why witnesses turned hostile.

Lets congregated various views on this saddening incident.

And also list down various steps that might be taken to prevent witnesses from turning hostile or to prevent these public murders all together!!!

We the youth stay at home in front of our beautiful pc’s n crib on the system , on the govt…… and often speak up————there is nothing that can change here……

This mail is not an urge to do something but rather just to assemble a few wise lines as to what could be done

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Views are posted as comments!!!

In our country we have ONLY 515 medicines, which are sold by 3000 different names. These medicines are banned in all of the countries of the world and the production and selling of those is considered as a crime. Doctors and Scientists have said that these medicines are dangerous and can produce paralysis, cancer, blindness, and produce many other dangerous sickness. This medicine makes the immune system of the man weak and the man can die.Here are names of some of the medicines which are banned all over the world but are sold here without any restriction.

When the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir acceded to India in 1947, the then Governor-General Lord Mountbatten suggested that in view of India and Pakistan’s competing claims for the state, the accession should be confirmed by a “referendum, plebiscite, election”.

plebiscite: Literary this means a vote given by a whole country on a specific issue. in countries like switzerland, most of the government policies have to be passed by a plebicite–so its government by the people. Here it means a right given to thge people of kashmir to decide over as to which sided they wish to align to.

Then there were wars— some named it ‘war for independence of the people of kashmir’ and ‘protection of state territory’ by others.. but outcome was–
in the war of 1949—- 2/3rd of the disputed area came under indian control.

Then governments of both sides agreed on a plebiscite. This was on the condition that the pakistani nationals and tribesmen who had come to fight in kashmir, be withdrawn. But thats pakistan after all , you cant expect that to happen and that DID NOT ..

A year after india also withdrew from the agreement on plebiscite on two accounts.

1 pakis did not remove the people

2. elections affirmed indian rule over the territory

After the outbreak of insurgency in the Valley of Kashmir in the late 1980s, militants and political activists claimed that they had never been able to exercise their right of self-determination and the issue of the plebiscite was again raised.

And now they wished to add a third option i.e ‘INDEPENDENCE’. which means demand for a separate country altogether
In a recent survey only 2% people wanted kashmir to get aligned to paki. and a similiar % voted for india .. and most of the people voted for the THIRD option…

It seems as if—-the  ‘heaven’(kashmir) is going out of the hands of !ncredible India.

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