5 most disgusting things Congress has done recently September 29, 2009
Posted by arunpurohit in India, Leadership, Nationalism.Tags: Congress, Disgrace, India, Politics, Shame
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Politics is venal. Reams of newsprints are wasted profiling the the dirty and not so dirty acts of politicians. Political parties are bigger repulsions . Often people turn zealots defending theri favorite party’s lines. I do not have any political affiliation but have a deep sense of love for my country. The biggest party in India too has been playing very dirty tricks to usurp/hold on to power and also at times bringing Shame to nation.
Here are the 5 most disgusting things ( In my opinion ) Congress has done :
5 Blocked the re election of President Kalaam : Put a nondescript person as President in name of gender. Inspite of exemplary tenure and unpartisan and visionary Presidentship of Kalaam he was denied a second tenure. Just look at what unworthy , undistinguished work his replacement has done in last 1 year besides taking his kins on official tour to further personal business interests and make protocol gaffes
4. Blocking the impeachment and promoting the informers: Justice Cho Ramaswamy In spite of proven charges of corruption and irregularities as solicitor general, his impeachment was blocked. Similarly , current CEC Naveen Chawla was promoted inspite of clear dispay of partisanship and leaking information of confidential info to poll managers og Congress
3. Recommending Creamy layer for reservation: This too when large population of upper caste languish Below Poverty lines. Sons of MPs /CMs with assets of 1000 crores are entitled to reservation. What a mockery of social equity
2. Sharm Al Sheikh : PM Manmohan Singh delinking terror with bilateral talks with Pakistan . Even,the ashes of dead from 26/11 had not cooled off; the PM wanted to talk of trade commerce and bilateral relations with them.
1. Nomination of President’s son from Amravati : For last 2 assembly polls Dr Deshmukh had been winning this seat for Congress . I am witness to tremendous improvement he has done in this city of Maharashtra. He inspite of his fervent appeals has been sidelined to make way for President’s son. Psycophancy rules in this party and Dynasties reign.
Please write in if you know more.
God’s variable pay September 22, 2009
Posted by arunpurohit in Humor, Literary, Satire, Spirituality.Tags: Devotion, God, Humor, pay, Philosophy
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God’s variable pay should be linked to monsoons in Q2s
There are 2 things which trigger this thought: 1) All across the world , no body can take a portion of their pay as granted and 2 ) God has been very inconsistent in delivering what its supposed to with consistency
Let me explain my seemingly indignant proposals.
The first Question is : Does God have a pay ? and if he does, then does he have a fixed and variable component ?
If we think deeper God gets a lot from her (Using ‘Her’ to be politically correct) devotees. Lets see the various forms it takes.
- There is cash and loads of it every moment coming to her. The cash register is not often accounted for .It pours in form of currency notes and predominantly coins.
- There is kind and its multiple forms. The manifestations are :
- Milk
- Sweets
- Flowers
- Clothes
- Fragrances
- Other food Stuff
- Precious metals ( Gold , silver etc)
- Credit : They rain in multiple forms :
- Cheques
- Donations
- Pledge against wishes/successes / wins
- Life : Sacrificing human /animal lives in return of wishes
- Bakras (Goats)
- Kids
- Buffalos etc
- Real estate : This is the biggest emolument and comprises :
- Huge Temple /Mosque / Churches/ City ( Vatican,Mecca)
- Roads, wells, Caves, etc Here , the different endless manifestations may crop up but to keep the long story short , I will come to a more significant one .
- Time : This can vary from :
- Prayer minutes every day
- Meditation hours everyday
- Fasting days/ week
- Devotion months/year
- Worshiping years/life and
- Lives/community or family dedicated to her
The above 7 ( not yet exhaustive ) establish beyond doubt that god does have a pay . Some part of it is fixed like daily prayers, Prasad etc. There is a very large Variable pay which is linked to meeting aspirations of devotees. Like If I pass , I put a Prasad of Rs 501. If the ailing son recovers , I build a temple etc. Having established both we must rationalize how the variable pay should be controlled.
Monsoons have lot of bearing on the happiness and prosperity of people in country like India. Ideally upto 80 % or less monsoon , the variable pay should be zero. Between 81% to 99 % she should get pay in proportion to percentage. Between 100 to 115 % he may like to get double the difference over 100% i.e for 110% monsoon he may get 120% variable pay. Beyond 115 % , i.e causing floods there should be penalty. These are my initial thoughts . What are your thoughts ?
Passing thoughts :
Dashboards and the helluva noise about them September 8, 2009
Posted by arunpurohit in Humor, India, Project Management, Satire.Tags: Accidents, Dashboards, PM tools, Project Management
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Imagine you are put into a car ,You have to drive it to a known destination. The car has a beautiful dashboard but none of them will work unless you manually update their values. How good will it be if you have to pop a dipstick inside the fuel tank to find how much fuel is there and then update the fuel meter. You go to the battery compartment, use a voltmeter to measure battery voltage, come back and update the dashboard. You go to engine compartment, measure the temperature of engine oil and update the temperature meter and so on .
This brings us to 2 major questions :
- How often should you get down from car to measure and update the dashboards ? 2 hrs? 60 minutes ? every 30 minutes ? every 10 minutes ?
- If you have to tell outsiders why your car is not driving correctly , will you have a feeling that if only I didn’t tell you every 15 minutes what my vehicle parameters are, I would have reached home by now?
Too much is being made out by various organizations on Project Dashboards. The Senior Management often believes that this is often the epicure of all project problems. Once they get dashboards, they can parade each project manager whose projects have parameters in red. This zeal of CEOs/ COO/ VPs results in passing a whip whereby once in a fortnight/ week a mail is sent to all. The Project manager stops all his activities, tells all team members to stop activites. They just do one thing, collect all metrics dump it on a spreadsheet. The sheet then is sent for consumption by the Sr Management. Once this exercise is complete, this gives a sense of superiority to management who believe that they have reins in their hands. All is good with this process only till you abstract yourself and look how in reality things work.
In ordinary/ extraordinary cases ,what is done is: A not so old vehicle of reliable make is bought, the dashboards are automated, most consumables( Fuel, radiator coolant, battery level, tyres etc) are adequately filled, the driver is suitably skilled and licensed to drive. While this is true for ensuring even VVIP motorcades; For Project management , the sponsors take an entirely tangent route. No body buys a reliable vehicle ( Project Mgt Processes viz PMBOK or PRINCE) ,) The approach followed is : They make their own vehicle ( PM proceses), Every one wants to get the metrics manually updated , the PM does all that the guys with passive car dashboard was doing . they do not ensure that the Project driver is licensed (PMP, PRINCE certified) or at times if s/he is licensed , tell them to run the project not in sync with licentiate rules but narrow current priority. The PM finally rams the project into the wall wondering what went wrong. He had learned driving projects on his own could crank the project to start and had some idea on steering and brakes too… An investigation is ordered, PM screams at management, management screams at PM, PM screams at team members ,every body thinks somebody else was to blame.
A driving parameter gone wrong has to be immediately addressed, whats needed is LIVE feed to PM on whats going wrong at that instant, not a court of inquiry once in 15 days to let a PM find out whats wrong and then non drivers telling her how she should drive.. Its time world bodies standardize the framework of PM dashboard , all project based companies embrace them and licensed PM drive all projects. Every thing good happening in the world is probably attributable to projects.
5 Indian movies one must see before declaring anything as outstanding September 2, 2009
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Indian publishing is infested by a large no. of venal movie critics. Each one revelling in his/her own idiosyncracies and often bribed or goaded to shower encomiums. While the likes of Amitabh Maitra are rare and too academic to appreciate any thing less than Kurosawa, I believe there are other 5 movies which are decimate the boundaries of Art/Entertainment/ Quality work. They are a good kaleidoscope to get delighted with Quality work in Film making.
5. Agnipath /Parinda: The vengeance, attitude, the look and dialogs are awesome . Amitabh ,by far looked most amazing as a Don in one Nana Patekar is awe inspiring. The action scenes and camera work are amazing in both.The Villainy of Danny is chillling in one while characterizationof Jackie in other is peerless. I will put this movie in league of Mississipi burning , Godfather. Bandit Queen too makes the mark in this categoryThe stories are original
4. Sholay : This classic is everfresh. The comedy of Dharam, Hema, Leela mishra, Jagdeep, Ashrani has never been matched in any other movie. The fear which Gabbar evoked in minds of audience is unparalleled. The subtle romance of Amitabh, Cabaret by Helen, Gun battles in various scenes, the dialogs, the hand crushing scene by Sanjeev Kumar , songs, camaraderie create benchmarks. I wonder, it this kind of magic will ever be recreated. Solay if seen with unprejudiced eyes can leave Good, the Bad and ugly miles behind.The story is original
3. Roja : The music transforms you to a different platform. The vulnerability of Madhu, natural expressions of Arvind Swamy, the photography, the poetry , ” Bharat humko Jaan se pyaara hai ” . The way movie moves from a village in Tamilnadu to Kashmir crafts a beautiful story .It captures the myriad hues of India. Pankaj Kapur looks menancing as Kashmiri militant. The ending scene is mind blowing. Shawshank Redemption( Rated to have best movie ending ever) will stir you to the hilt but Roja shakes you a little more The story and drama is fresh and original.
2. Munnabhai MBBS : Raj kumar herani scaled this peak and there after, the journey has been downhill. Sanju baba has been immortalized after doing this role. The sense of comedy, innocent questions, wit and humor are unprecedented. Bomman Irani displayed aura hitherto seen only in Amjad. His best role till date. There after he has probably never come this close to perfection. Great direction, screen play and probably the best ever performance by Arshad. Supposedly a rip off from Gangsta MD, the movie gets you on the floor laughing. John Travolta in Look who’s talking pales in comparison to this. I would put Rangeela as a close contender.The story appears original ( I am yet to see Gangsta MD)
1. Slumdog Millionaire & Gandhi : Both these movies made by Britishers to portray India/ Indians have been global success. The casting in both are as good as they can ever be. Ben Kingsley brought Gandhi alive on screen, no body else will ever be able to recreate this resemblance. Om puri as a rioteer, Roshan Seth as Nehru , Rohini as Kasturba shook the world . Slum dog exploited the terrific story from novel Q&As to extremes. The hope and survival thrown in with humor and wit are par excellence. This is what creates a masterpiece . Probably these 2 are landmarks in world cinema everone can be proud of. The stories are absolutely fantastic
The work, then left for producers and financers is to challenge all directors to ask if their proposed work match or exceed the standards set by movies mentioned above. The critics may do better to bench mark new movies aganist these. The audiences need to summarily reject mindless love triangles or remakes vomited by Johars, Chopras, Red Chilies etc . In a good movie and a commercial success, the biggest factor is story.
Lest we do this, these buggers will keep remaking stupid Dev Dasses, Dons , Kamineys, Anand ( Kal ho na ho) and keep insulting our intelligences while laughing their way to banks. They consider story as something which can be recycled, borrowed, stolen or fixed during movie making ( Chandni Chowk to China, Kaminey etc) . A clear rejection of their dirty motives will get Indian cinema the respect and money it deserves.
PS: Am gladly surprised to see that the following disgustingly sissy people are not even remotely related to these great works : Shahrukh, Govinda, Rishi Kapoor, Jeetendra, Karan Johar.
Contrarily, consider the kind of respect you have when you hear AR Rahman, ManiRatnam, Salim Javed, Amitabh ( Yesteryears- Not Stupid Sexy Sam or Jhoom Barabar), Nana Patekar ( Ankush, Prahaar not meterdown)or Aamir Khan
