Friday 8 March 2013


                             RED LIGHT MENTALITY
 Don’t take me wrong, here I mean traffic red light

I don’t know what to say, whether we are fortunate enough or unfortunate to be a part of a society where everyone is in a hurry, each one of us running after something or someone, no one has time to look around and enjoy the precious present.
“River know this: there is no hurry, we shall get there someday”
                                                                                              A.A Milne

What a great statement it is but tell me how many of us really wait and carefully watch what happens around us. I can tell you 99% of us are living in a red light mentality. Let me explain little deeply we are a generation in hurry. We live as if we have to reach somewhere & we don't have enough time. The problem is not that we don't have time but that we don't know where we are heading to. We start our journey in a calm manner but as we grow up, we build a red-light mentality. Red light is a great idea to control traffic in our busy and crowded roads but how many of us really enjoyed the red light, I guess no one. All of us become impatient when we appeared in front of a red light traffic area instead of stop there, relax a bit, enjoying the beauty around us and many more things to do. I am sorry to say we all are running towards an unknown future instead of enjoying the present.

I’ve read somewhere written by an anonymous “All his life a man struggles to reach the top of the ladder, and finally he does –only to discover, it’s against the wrong wall”
According to me speeding in life is like hurrying an orgasm, so wake up give little time to yourself and enjoy the eternal beauty of such a wonderful world. Don't hurry thinking that you have only one life. Enjoy because you have only one life.

At the end same million dollar question what is life?

And the best answer I could find is “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generation”
                                                                         
                                                                        -/  George Bernard Shaw



Thursday 17 January 2013


      How Famous Companies Got Their Names?

Nike: Named for the greek goddess of victory. The swoosh symbolises her flight.

Skype: The original concept was ‘Sky-Peer-to-Peer’, which morphed into Skyper, then Skype. 

Mercedes: This was actually financier's daughter's name.

Adidas: The company name was taken from its founder Adolf (ADI) Dassler whose first name was shortened to the nickname Adi. Together with first three letters of his surname it formed ADIDAS. 

Apple Computers: It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

Google: The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'. So, instead of returning the cheque for correction, they decided to change the name to Google.

Hotmail: Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Microsoft: Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Sony: It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound and 'sonny' as lang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
LG: Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

SAP: "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

Xerox: The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.

Yahoo: The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.


Wednesday 2 January 2013


Being an Indian
I write, because it’s my right to write.
It’s a sunny and lonely afternoon while sitting in the upstairs of the library I was introspecting the world around me. Looking through the tinted glass I saw my friends were enjoying the after lunch sleep on lawn, then I took my eyes towards the newspaper lying in front of me  .While  flipping the pages of newspaper I found some horrifying news that shaken me a bit .

 It’s feel me aback at times when people says “I’m proud to be an Indian”, sometimes I also used this line but today I  feel ashamed of myself while saying this line .

Today we are taking pride of growing economy, biggest democracy, demographic dividend, improved lifestyle, the list goes on and on, we think it as a Laurens on our head  but on the other hand when we here about woman harassment, girl child feticide, molestation, rape and these kind of brutality also shook our conscience. We are living in a country where we worship Devi mata who is a woman, we also call our nation as bharat mata that means Mother India, and again we are portraying our nation as a woman. Then why we forget our consciousness while it comes to our women in the country. Every day, women are getting raped by their fathers, their brothers, their uncles and the society and it's a shame. What a paradox in one hand we are talking about the equality in everything and article 21 of our constitution also tells that everyone has equal opportunity to live life with full integrity on the other hand these kind of brutality.

Some where I read that “ most of the rape does not happen because of lust, but mostly it happens because of jealousness” , yes it’s true in a male dominating country male doesn’t like a woman go ahead of him but we talking about equality . I think it’s only in paper and pen. World’s largest democracy can never reach its full potential if half its population lives in fear of unspeakable violence.
Wake up man………..behave like a man.

Saturday 24 November 2012

TIHAR Jail as a brand

      "Try to attain perfection ,what ever you may be doing . It may be cutting grass or riding a horse try to be the best in your business" . I don't like straight thinking ,that's why I keep telling "perfection is better than affection, just reverse.
    Here I'm talking about the brand called Tihar jail, India's oldest and biggest jail.You must be thinking what suddenly happened to me that I'm talking about a jail as a brand while India is full of brands like IIM's, IIT's, IPL , AMUL , ITC etc the list goes on. Is n't it crazy, yes it is. Look at the brand association of Tihar jail , who ever does the greatest crime in India sends to Tihar.
    In business management term , any product which is having a great brand awareness and some big brand association is called as a BRAND.In that sense Tihar is the top uttered brand in India.

Touche!

Saturday 3 November 2012


PM addresses the nation on recent reforms: Full text of the speech

Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh addressed the nation on Friday to explain the need of the recently announced economic reforms. Soon after announcing a bold 12 per cent hike in diesel prices, the government introduced new FDI guidelines in sectors like aviation, retail and broadcasting, a move that is expected to attract fresh investment into these sectors.
"My dear brothers and sisters,
I am speaking to you tonight to explain the reasons for some important economic policy decisions the government has recently taken. Some political parties have opposed them. You have a right to know the truth about why we have taken these decisions.
No government likes to impose burdens on the common man. Our Government has been voted to office twice to protect the interests of the aam aadmi.
At the same time, it is the responsibility of the government to defend the national interest, and protect the long term future of our people. This means that we must ensure that the economy grows rapidly, and that this generates enough productive jobs for the youth of our country. Rapid growth is also necessary to raise the revenues we need to finance our programmes in education, health care, housing and rural employment.
The challenge is that we have to do this at a time when the world economy is experiencing great difficulty. The United States and Europe are struggling to deal with an economic slowdown and financial crisis. Even China is slowing down.
We too have been affected, though I believe we have been able to limit the effect of the global crisis.
We are at a point where we can reverse the slowdown in our growth. We need a revival in investor confidence domestically and globally. The decisions we have taken recently are necessary for this purpose.
Let me begin with the rise in diesel prices and the cap on LPG cylinders.
We import almost 80% of our oil, and oil prices in the world market have increased sharply in the past four years. We did not pass on most of this price rise to you, so that we could protect you from hardship to the maximum extent possible.
As a result, the subsidy on petroleum products has grown enormously. It was Rs. 1 lakh 40 thousand crore last year. If we had not acted, it would have been over Rs. 200,000 crore this year.
Where would the money for this have come from? Money does not grow on trees. If we had not acted, it would have meant a higher fiscal deficit, that is, an unsustainable increase in government expenditure vis-a-vis government income. If unchecked, this would lead to a further steep rise in prices and a loss of confidence in our economy. The prices of essential commodities would rise faster. Both domestic as well as foreign investors would be reluctant to invest in our economy. Interest rates would rise. Our companies would not be able to borrow abroad. Unemployment would increase.
The last time we faced this problem was in 1991. Nobody was willing to lend us even small amounts of money then. We came out of that crisis by taking strong, resolute steps. You can see the positive results of those steps. We are not in that situation today, but we must act before people lose confidence in our economy.
I know what happened in 1991 and I would be failing in my duty as Prime Minister of this great country if I did not take strong preventive action.
The world is not kind to those who do not tackle their own problems. Many European countries are in this position today. They cannot pay their bills and are looking to others for help. They have to cut wages or pensions to satisfy potential lenders.
I am determined to see that India will not be pushed into that situation. But I can succeed only if I can persuade you to understand why we had to act.
We raised the price of diesel by just Rs. 5 per litre instead of the Rs 17 that was needed to cut all losses on diesel. Much of diesel is used by big cars and SUVs owned by the rich and by factories and businesses. Should government run large fiscal deficits to subsidise them?
We reduced taxes on petrol by Rs. 5 per litre to prevent a rise in petrol prices. We did this so that the crore of middle class people who drive scooters and motorcycles are not hit further.
On LPG, we put a cap of 6 subsidised cylinders per year. Almost half of our people, who need our help the most, actually use only 6 cylinders or less. We have ensured they are not affected. Others will still get 6 subsidised cylinders, but they must pay a higher price for more.
We did not touch the price of kerosene which is consumed by the poor.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
You should know that even after the price increase, the prices of diesel and LPG in India are lower than those in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
The total subsidy on petroleum products will still be Rs. 160 thousand crore. This is more than what we spend on Health and Education together. We held back from raising prices further because I hoped that oil prices would decline.
Let me now turn to the decision to allow foreign investment in retail trade. Some think it will hurt small traders. This is not true.
Organised, modern retailing is already present in our country and is growing. All our major cities have large retail chains. Our national capital, Delhi, has many new shopping centres. But it has also seen a three-fold increase in small shops in recent years.
In a growing economy, there is enough space for big and small to grow. The fear that small retailers will be wiped out is completely baseless.
We should also remember that the opening of organised retail to foreign investment will benefit our farmers. According to the regulations we have introduced, those who bring FDI have to invest 50% of their money in building new warehouses, cold-storages, and modern transport systems. This will help to ensure that a third of our fruits and vegetables, which at present are wasted because of storage and transit losses, actually reach the consumer. Wastage will go down; prices paid to farmers will go up; and prices paid by consumers will go down.
The growth of organised retail will also create millions of good quality new jobs.
We recognise that some political parties are opposed to this step. That is why State governments have been allowed to decide whether foreign investment in retail can come into their state. But one state should not stop another state from seeking a better life for its farmers, for its youth and for its consumers.
In 1991, when we opened India to foreign investment in manufacturing, many were worried. But today, Indian companies are competing effectively both at home and abroad, and they are investing around the world. More importantly, foreign companies are creating jobs for our youth -- in Information Technology, in steel, and in the auto industry. I am sure this will happen in retail trade as well.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The UPA Government is the government of the aam aadmi.
In the past 8 years our economy has grown at a record annual rate of 8.2 per cent. We have ensured that poverty has declined much faster, agriculture has grown faster, and rural consumption per person has also grown faster.
We need to do more, and we will do more. But to achieve inclusiveness we need more growth. And we must avoid high fiscal deficits which cause a loss of confidence in our economy.
I promise you that I will do everything necessary to put our country back on the path of high and inclusive growth. But I need your support. Please do not be misled by those who want to confuse you by spreading fear and false information. The same tactics were adopted in 1991. They did not succeed then. They will not succeed now. I have full faith in the wisdom of the people of India.
We have much to do to protect the interests of our nation, and we must do it now. At times, we need to say "No" to the easy option and say "Yes" to the more difficult one. This happens to be one such occasion. The time has come for hard decisions. For this I need your trust, your understanding, and your cooperation.
As Prime Minister of this great country, I ask each one of you to strengthen my hands so that we can take our country forward and build a better and more prosperous future for ourselves and for the generations to come.
Jai Hind."

Saturday 8 September 2012

Android market analysis


Ice Cream Sandwich now on 21 percent Android devices, Gingerbread still running strong

Google has released the latest distribution numbers of Android versions across the active smartphones and tablet and Ice Cream Sandwich is finally on a significant number of Android devices.
According to platform distribution data, 20.9percent of Android devices are currently running on Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich was originally announced back in October and manufacturers were initially slow in upgrades but off late, we have seen lot of devices getting the ICS update, leading to the five percent jump in Android 4.0's share.
Similarly, Jelly Bean is still in a very nascent stage even after three months of the launch.
Unsurprisingly, Gingerbread is still at the top spot with 57.5percent devices running it, but the number is going down, which is good news. It was on 60.6percent devices in the previously released data.
The versions older than Gingerbread are still holding their ground; mainly because of initial Android buyers, who haven't switched their devices till now and manufacturers have no plans to push any updates for them.

Saturday 26 May 2012


Youtube released some amazing statistics recently and I think you will be shocked.  Whats even more amazing is that each week these numbers are going up!  For starters, it's estimated that by the end of 2013, 90% of Internet traffic will be video media related.  WOW, what does that tell us?  People love video, we love video!

As a business owner, video is no longer a "nice to have", it's a neccesity!  Read these stats and let them sink in, I will be in touch soon!

  • One hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second
  • Over 4 billion videos are viewed per DAY
  • Over 3 billion hours of video watched on Youtube each month
  • 500 years of Youtube video watch every day on Facebook
  • 700 videos shared on Twitter every minute
  • 98 out of 100 of the Top Advertisers ranked by AdAge use video