In my past, I’ve had experiences that have had me thinking. My experiences have been mostly in the South Asian Indian Sub-Continent, so may not be fair to generalize it.
Help with finding a job: I’ve learnt many times, that when people reach out asking for help, say, for helping them with finding a job; it isn’t about you making a recommendation/referral for them. It, instead, implies that you are indirectly being asked to find and arrange them a job.
[Read More]The following document was taken from Machtelt Garrel’s Site.
The information below was gladly sponsored by European tax payers. The money went to a Dutch company for doing social research among developers. People doing this kind of research deserve a financial compensation, of course.
The start point of the research was a questionnaire for developers, asking about demographical information, orientation, motivation, earning and employment.
The survey started with a description of the typical geek or nerd that can be expected in a developer environment:
[Read More]The following Cover Story was taken as it is from Businnes World Magazine dated 5th January, 2004.
Why the Americans need Indians so desperately ?
By Prosenjit Datta
Last evening, I received a singular lesson in Indo-American relations. And why the two countries are coming closer despite minor irritants like Pakistan and Iraq. The lesson was delivered by a young American who wished to remain unnamed. The setting was one of those boring parties that features businessmen, journalists and members of the diplomatic corps of various countries. The immediate provocation that sparked off this most interesting conversation was my stray remark – naive as I see it now – that America, being the most owerful country in the world today, did not need anyone’s help to do whatever it wished. Or, at least, that Americans needed help from other countries far less than the latter did from them.
[Read More]What is a Good Citizen?
These are my observations in an urban city of a developing country. One unanimous comment that I often hear is Traffic. That that how bad it is, no rules, pathetic roads and so on…… The government is to blame for this unplanned growth that has been causing chaos. And then there ’s no effective system to raise, track and execute Tickets.
All these might be very facts based arguments if thrown out in the wild. What I haven’t found is what people think of good citizenship. This is a regular nightmare. The citizens have vehicles but have no etiquette on how to make use of it.
[Read More]The blog entry is about the F word.
What the fuck? You don’t know what the F word is. Sigh!!!
Mea Culpa! Not your fault. It is quite offensive, no? More offensive than BC, MC, BsdK, LkB ?These are some of the usual terms used in our local derived languages in all its locally derived richness.
The word Fuck, many times, either from people with authority (HR) or the receiver, is termed and reacted to as a very offensive term. Usage of the word fuck is kind of blasphemy. In organizations, its usage can lead to harassments (to all those ultra fuckin’ dumbs) and terminations. Sigh!!
[Read More]It is a Gem in the Horror genre.
If you are not much used to horror movies, don’t watch it. It will scare the shit out of you.
OTOH, if you enjoy horror and would like to see it, please not alone. I did that mistake.
" Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee." -- Margaret Courtney
I miss you Dad.
It was about 2 AM , some day in June 2008 , when I caught the taxi from Chinatown, Boston, MA to head to my hotel room in Waltham, MA.
It was the same day Celtics went victorious over Lakers in the Basketball match. I was lucky to see the people cheering and celebrating the victory. Everyone was shaking hands with others. I didn’t feel that I was a visitor there.
[Read More]I’ve always been very skeptical about Doctors. Given the kind of news we’ve heard about Doctor’s (one who used to take kidneys out of healthy people in the name of treatment), it was tough believing in this profession.
But I think I’ve been very wrong. One example cannot represent a community. My father has been going through serious medical treatments and I admitted him to the Manipal Hospital at Bangalore, India. Different people have had varying opinions about Manipal Hospital. I though it is important for me to opine what I went through with his treatment.
[Read More]Sometimes things can be so interesting.
Yesterday midnight, after my colleague finished dinner from my place, immediately called me back that he was:
So trying to sort out matters we moved to the near by police station and let
the police-Gentle-man know that he was hit by a drunk auto-wallah.
The actions of the police-Gentle-man are what were more interesting than
anything else. It really shows how much of faith one can have in our legal
system.
And how much of value do people like us have, here, when our law makers and
law-care-takers act such..