Phew.. one more gone!!!

Happy New Year!!

Phew.... a good year went by... is it time for postmortem.. hmm.. let me do some

i think this is one of those years where i did not screw up much .... had a great year.. met the girl of my life.. enjoyed my last few months of student life to max .. and started blogging..

next year..i would be getting into the corporate world again.. and i am just waiting to get back to the rat race.

Ko Yo(u) To(o)

lets put this in the form of a family feud:
Europe is like the grand pa trying to be unbiased but can't override his son the USA and India and China the grand children are adamant and they want pocket money from dad -USA. you wont find a more headstrong dad in this world that USA..

over years the entire world has been haggling on this climate change and emission control issue and just looks like no one is ready to take responsibility. As everyone knows it is always the job of the other to take care of the environment.

This whole issue has got me thinking (thank god.. i did not give much work to the Grey matter for sometime after coming back to coll).... whats keeping us sensible people with the 6th sense, who knows that the earth we live in has limited resources and cant be exploited much more than what had been done till now.. otherwise it will jeopardize the very existence of humans in this planet... are we behaving like rational animals... i think we are.. but there is a small issue..

our rationality is towards the growth and well being of every nation separately and we have decided as rational people that robust economic growth would remove poverty from this planet and enhance the standard of living of all...

the rationality of economics have played havoc in our lives... economic growth in terms of the Gross Domestic Product does not take in to account the environmental degradation that we bring in with every proposal of development. Will small changes to the way we measure economic development of a country bring about a change in the mindset of all capitalists and governments. While calculating the GDP of an economy, we take all investments, savings, government expenditures, taxes, imports and exports in to consideration.
A dumb idea struck me.. what say if we also add one more factor with a negative effect on GDP.. monetize the total environmental destruction done by the country to achieve such growths... may be we can take a factor of the total environmental degradation done.. i do not have the competence to find out ways and means to monetize the degradation (mind u i am a marketing major student... who tried his level best to pass finance subjects including economics :P)... we will leave it to the experts to do that..
I can hear the FIN guys cursing me... more so we marketers...they are saying - we were the one who advocated consumerism (though it all started in the USA).. we wanted everyone to consume more and more so that our organizations could sustain for ever...

see the blame game continues... and still we have no answers... !!!

ULCRA...

how come amit is yet to blog this latest development on land ceiling act.. being a proponent of free markets, he had criticized the act a number of times before under other topics..

waiting to get his view.. :)

looser....

i never got what i deserved. one can get frustrated with this.. every time you think you are good enough and u think people will notice your work and will appreciate it.. someone is there in this world who does better than you... this keeps happening with me ..

B school has changed me a lot.. i now think more about my internal growth as a person and everytime i try hard.. i fail.. and that leads to more frustration...

i was much better off when i was working.. or when i was in under grad school.... i was one of those ever positive chill maar type.. not caring about the world.. not caring about what others think about me.. but B school has totally played havoc with my mental state.... i dont know whether its for the good or bad.... only time will tell..

i was desperate to get my internship with one of the leading organization in india.. was thrilled when i got it.. but two months of torture are forgettable.. i hated every minute over there.. and just think.. when ur GF is having the ball of her time in her organization and u are hating every second of it.. u get even more frustrated.... just wanna yell at her and say stop it.. just stop talking about the fucking thing.. thank god i have a very beautiful and caring GF.. she understood my situation.. and never spoke of it..

back in coll.. where i wanted to be the most after the horrendous two months.. thinks did not get better.. everyone comes to you and asks you the same question.. "how was it".. man.. i have had it.. i could not take it anymore..

i felt like a looser.. i am still low.. i dont know what to do.. how to come of it.. do i have answers.... i think i have.. its well within me... i cant take it on anyone.. i feel sad for her.. hope she understands... but how much to expect from everyone... what is her threshold ?.. hope i have answers for that too..

averages!!!

this is a nice article by vani, an economist at the university of ultser...
may be will help us identify the best batsman in the world as of now.. :)

truth burried

When do relationships work and move on?..

what do i do?

its good to be back in coll.... my mentor at my organization told me that these are the last few months that you will remember for the rest of your life.. so go back to college and do something useful..

i have been thinking from the day i got back to college.. what is the most useful thing for me that i can do now.. for the next five months.. i had three options..

one to take part in a number of these B School games and try winning some event or the other.. may be write a B Plan... this would help me build a strong resume when i sit for the final placements.. also give an exposure to the competitions.. it should help me hone my presentation skills, may go around to a couple of colleges and get a chance to see a lot of hot chicks.. :P.. i really don't think i am really interested in strengthening my resume at this point of time.. i am targeting a set of companies for my placement and i think for these companies, my current resume is strong enough and with respect to the hot chicks.. sorry!!!

the next best option is something i am passionate about.. GASP.. i think its time for us to revive it and give it some life.. but there is a hitch.. i need to garner support from the ex- GASPians.. though most of them would be free at this point of time.. i hope i can convince them to do it once more.. we also have a beautiful amphitheater near the lake.. that should entice my friends..

The last option is go inwards.. about myself.. try to become a better person in this world.. off late i have developed keen interest in reading the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. i have no idea what triggered the interest but its there..

1st option - Nay. not interested
2nd - good one .. but lot of effort required.. will try convincing my fellow GASPIANS about this
3rd - started reading the Upanishads as of now.. lets see where it goes...

The future of market research

Read this article by Tim Harford on lets go personal .. this is the dream of every marketer..

looks to be a good B plan for me.. i could use it in the coming competitions. ...

Happy Diwali

A prosperous and happy deepavali .... wished my chittappa when he came home around 4 PM with chitti and my sweet cousin..
we were totally engrossed in the 2nd ODI between india and pakistan..and my other chitappa also came home to celebrate deepavali with us. generally deepavali is celebrated in south with all the family members getting together for the entire day and bursting crackers...and as usual, the day long television shows play spoil sport and on top of it we have the ODI happening in Mohali, do you expect us to move away from the television screeens!!!

All we needed was a brilliant spark.. from someone.. an iota of motivation to move away from the screens and go out and explore the evening.. and it came from my chitti.. she casually mentioned about fireworks show at the triplicane parthsarathy temple and we all were game to go there and watch the spectacle, though we were a little doubtful about the show happening would be continuing till 8 in the night....we all took a chance..

when we reached the temple premises, the utsavar was already at the merku veedi and a huge crowd was already there to watch the fireworks show..
" brilliant, awesome, mind blowing"... no words to explain what we saw..... it was sheer brilliance .. a confluence of religion and modern logistics management.. they made sure than at no point of time during the 6 hours walk of the utsavar around the temple, the sky was without a display of the most expensive fireworks.

we were very close to the firing zone, and we saw the efficiency with which they kept firing the crackers in all directions.. we came to know from one of the vadhyars that the community there spend around 1 Crore of rupees every year just for that one night... my god!!!.. we did not believe it at the beginning.. but u have to see the show to actually believe it ...

it was raining ashes and all of us were covered with potassium, magnesium and what ever that goes in to the making of a cracker..... we stayed there for around two hours and we never had the heart to come out of that place.. though it was expected to continue for two more hours...

a great deepvali.. a great way to end the day.. though it was a great compensation to the grand celebration we had last year when all the five brothers and their family went to srirangam to celebrate the deepavali with my grand ma...

one wishes to do such things every year... but doing it different every times.. makes u want more of deepavali ...

shabaa ippove kanna kattudhe.. mudiyala.. too good.. and i am feeling sooo sleepy as if i was a part of the firing squad.. :)

15 more days to go...

hey.. i am going back to college soon.. :)..

i am almost finishing my project with citibank and the next two weeks would be just completing my project report and preparing the ppt.. make a good one.. jazz it up and present to the entire e - biz team at citi.. :).. man.. thats all i have to do and then i get back to my abode.. the secluded life in my b school campus..

last two months were pretty interesting.. to begin with.. i was really frustrated as i did not start working from day 1..and slowly work picked up and i am right now having a decent time working the whole day.. :).. but nothings like going back to coll and sit with friends all night and chat with them on IP.. :).

the expose......

its been more than a week when the first videos of the tehelka's sting operation came on television. i have been following the events closely and the varied opinions, protest that came from all quarters of the country..

while reading about the entire operation, what struck me was the vengeance and hatred that the hindu's had towards the muslims... i feel humiliated to be a hindu !

i was thinking of how such hatred came into existence.... what created this tension that made post godhra riots a reality....i assume the answers to such questions go a long way back in time and politics...
how do we make sure an other godhra and post godhra does not happen in this country....is it in the hands of the government or in our hands.. in the hands of the moderates and liberals.. across community.. across religion and across castes..

i think the time is fast approaching for bloggers... professionals to dirty their hands and get into the act of cleaning the political landscape of the country.. :).... mark my words here.. :)

What's crazy about this Iyengar...

I am not a religious person.. i would be worst role model for any iyengars... in this world.. but then why this name for my spot.. u may ask..

simple answer...
thats what came in my mind at that point of time!!!!

people say i am crazy.. quick witted.. funny and full of energy..
also, i am careless, talk nonsense... but they also know the other side of me..

when i hate someone.. i never hide my hatred for that person.. i am frank and outspoken..
i moved to mumbai.. the financial capital of this country.. known for the fast pace life.. (have no idea how they call it fast when it takes an hour and a half to travel 3 - 4 Kms.. )one good thing when u study in a B school is the variety of characters you meet.. actually if u are real good observant person.. (with a penchant to make movies).. u can actually make a movie with the characters u get in a B school..

these characters here .. never understood me.. basically.. coming from the south.. its difficult for the hindi speaking population to get a hang of a dravidian.. (don't take it to heart... was just making a political statement with a lot of sarcasm... )
they always made fun of my abrasive character.. and it was funny most of the time for me also.. the way i did things..and for guy like me.. the more u make fun of me.. the more i behave like that.. and thats how i am.. i never take it to heart..

But i had one question.. why they make so much fun of me? (and i am talking about my best friends here... and i think they would be reading this blog sooner than later.. :))

answer is quite simple: they have never come across a dravidian like me.. in their life and they just cant be as open like me.. what ever they do.. and they are not me.. :P... and i don't give a damn about anyone .. don't care a hoots.. dude..i am egoistic.. i am abrasive.. and i am funny.. :).. looks like i have confused you to great extent.. and that's me.. :) extremely confusing..

i hate consumerism... i hate it to the core.. i just hate people..when they keep buying things to satisfy themselves..and i am open about it... and i hate companies.. that advocate consumerism..

its a big bane to humanity..!!!!...

what is there in big brands.. and i like thinking about them.. cuz.. off late i have understood what brands mean.. why companies try so hard to build great brands..
and i think great brands are created only by great companies (greatness by corporate heart and leadership,awesome culture and not by size).... and never the other way..

i must be really crazy to write different things in this spot..

long time no write!!!

when was the last time i thought of blogging??.. hmm.. wait.. let me check my google task bar... cuz i generally have everything there.. the day i started my endeavor with one of the top B school in andheri west i manage everyday with that small task bar to the right of ur laptop screen.. (thanks to the best B School in andheri west.. i had to shell out 50 K for a lappy..)
instead of getting one along with everyone in coll.. i got one myself.. u see.. i never like going with the crowd.. never.. always like to stand out.. and just that i never stand out.. unless its dark out there and i am smiling ... they call me the poster boy for close up.. tough i never use that toothpaste..

now getting back to the issue in hand.. when was the last time i blogged.... oopss... my taskbar has no entry.. looks like i never did blog before.. hahhaa.. quite funny..

anyway whats so great about blogging.. i really think people use it to express themselves..
i think they are extremely stupid to do that..why u need to express everything that u think in your head.. who in this world wants to know what one in a billion think about some issue..

but looks like there are many in this world who wanna know what other's think.. gossips, blogs.. all similar.. all will stay as long as men is alive in this world..

so i thought why not join the band wagon and write something.. again .. i never stand out .. i am always inside.. deep withing the crowd of bloggers.. not to be noticed by anyone.. to tell u the truth..
thats what i want.. i love to be alone and not noticed by anyone.. its soo good at times. the power you get when u know that u control everything around you and no one knows.. specially when people try hard to spoil any person's happiness ..cuz in another person's miserly lies immense happiness.. :)