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This Summer @ Pune
2007-03-24 07:53:00
Please don't read this if you don't want to know about the person behind the name 'Robin'.The reason I choose my Blog title as "Tirunelveli--->Chennai--->Indore--->???" is mainly because it neatly sums up 'who I am' in a whole lot of ways. A person from a place unknown to most in the country(Tirunelveli) first experiencing a city that too a metro city with a more than a million people(to be exact - 4.2 million people in the city), then moving from the conservative TamilNadu to one of the places filled with highly intellectual people. These transitions and stays, coupled with my hopes about the unpredictable future have imparted an unique flavour to me. [My competitive advantage]My home town - Tirunelveli, which is making a slow transition from a semi-urban to a city life style gave me a privilege of identifying myself with the rural masses of this land. Chennai exposed me to traffic, pollution, exorbitant auto rates, multiplexes and the beauty of beaches. Though i lived in the...
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Human Beings! I am disappointed with you!
2007-03-18 07:40:00
If the Earth's moon gets an chance to speak...An Imagination...Moon: "O Unfaithful men! How much have you changed in these thousand years?. In the early days of your rudimentary life on earth, you saw me as one of your gods/goddess. Even when the later religions gained importance, you still gave me the importance i deserved... [by deciding the date of celebration of the important festivals on the basis of my different phases.]I was there everyday when you used to fear darkness; giving you hope that my Big Brother 'Sun' would come back, next morning. I with my star slaves gave you company at night when you were bored or afraid. I was there as your laboratory and your observation tower. You predicted the future of the nations and individuals based on me. My beauty always reminded you of your beloved. I gave you meaning for your night life. But when my competitor 'Science' came with new inventions you started forgetting me. You never cared when my brightness was slowly getting red...
More About: Society , Human , Point , Uman , Bein

Google Gadgets for Cricket World Cup 2007
2007-03-12 10:47:00
For Google Desktop Users OnlyGoogle has released new desktop gadgets to help cricket fans like me, keep track of the scores, news, videos of ICC World Cup 2007. If you are in need of a desktop gadget that displays the live scores of World Cup cricket matches, download it here. You can even view the full scorecard for a match using the 'see full scorecard' link. It also displays the schedule of next match.If you want to know about other gadgets that Google has released to cash in on the cricket fever, click here for a post by Amit Agarwal in his blog "Digital Inspiration".
More About: Cricket , Gadgets

Holi @ IIM-Indore
2007-03-04 08:47:00
Being a South Indian means you are only exposed to soft 'Holi' where at most a few colour powders were sprinkled on your face and dress. But now in IIM-Indo re, as a 2008 PGP Batch we have a few traditions to live up to. Hearing senior's narrations and reading from super senior's blog, My expectations for the Holi celebrations were running high.Tearing up T-shirts(only boys'!!!!), painting whole hostel blocks with colours, Rolling up people in the 'holi' water pool, Drenching them in mud pool, Bath in coloured waterfalls. It was all i expected to be. Hope the photos conveys the fun we had.Body Skating in 'Holi' Water Pool Mud BathTraditional IIM-Indore 'Holi' Photo 2007Hmm.. Another year passes by and another Holi celebrated in this Planet-i. Another South Indian comes to know the ecstasy of 'Holi'.Photos Courtesy: Asha Anju, PGP-I

Predictions - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2007-03-01 08:15:00
After the post about my predictions regarding ICC World Cup 2007, now it is time for my predictions for the storyline in the widely expected book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ". My regular disclaimers apply for this post too.Disclaimer: I am not an astrologer nor i have any supernatural or paranormal powers to prophesy about the future. Disciplines like water divining, astrology, numerology, and fortune telling, along with many other forms of divination are unknown to me. And Believe the predictions at your own risk.And sorry to all, who have been until now able to dodge the Potter magic, you may not be able to comprehend all the predictions.Predictions :I am pretty much sure that J.K.Rowling would take us to a storyline where Harry Potter would be trying hard to find atleast one of the Horocruxes when it would be pretty much near or very easy to find out. [Sort of expecting Kreacher to help them in the discovery of atleast one Horocrux.]Sure that Harry Potter wont kill Vold...
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Water - A source of life & Perennial Conflict
2007-02-06 13:54:00
After the recent Cauvery tribunal verdict, there has been tension reported in Karnataka, especially in Bangalore. (Read the news here). Hope any untoward incidents like the one that happened in 1991 do not happen this time around. If any violent incident occurs, Bangalore is sure to lose the status of "Silicion Valley of India".(atleast in the minds of the Tamils)It was reported in Indian Express that there were sporadic incidents of violence in the Tamil dominated areas in Bangalore. We have been living as a single nation for more than 50 years. But Still how far apart, people in each State have been. [What is the logic behind targeting a community for the verdict by a national body in which they have no role to play?. This escapes my mind.]. These incidents shows how much racism is still prevalent in india.If communities/States/Nations fight for water now itself, fear to think of the up-coming days of global warming, when it will be more tough to find water on this beautiful e...
More About: Politics , Life , Source , Water , Conflict

Hurrah! Time to Party!
2007-02-05 14:29:00
My long wait for the last of the Harry Potter series is going to be over in another 166 days. :-) If you want to know how important Harry Potter is to my life, read @ "Harry Potter & Me". For the muggles, who have not heard the news, the final book of the Harry Potter series " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be published on the midnight of July 21, 2007.Hurrah! Now Time to Part y !!!!

BSNL and Its Comical Vision
2007-01-30 15:11:00
This is not a post to give various reasons for Indian public sector companies to be privatised. But because while working for my Strategy Planning project about BSNL , I found out how inefficient the Indian public sector companies are, that i could not stop myself from posting. The vision of BSNL according to the company's website is "To become the largest Telecom Service Provider in South East Asia." Read it over here. But according to Wikipedia, South East Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia. The point to note over here is that South East Asia does not include India, the only country in which BSNL has its presence. Except BSNL, everybody in this world know that the subregion of Asia which includes India is known as South Asia.I do not know whether it is just a mistake they committed in their website or it is a mistake in the vision statement of BSNL itself. Anyway, no excu...
More About: Management , Sion , Visi , Vision , Visio

What can I Give to My Nation?
2007-01-26 11:28:00
The title is taken from the Address to the nation by the President of India Dr. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM on the eve of the 58TH REPUBLIC DAY - 2007 . If you have not read it until now, please read it here.A must read for every Indian who loves his nation...After reading it, i am unable to wait for the India of 2020 with 100% literacy rate and nearly zilch People below Poverty line.The address also stresses the role that needs to be played by each and every Indian especially the youth for such a future. I was especially attracted by the call to the youth to enter the politics. Politics has always been a career option that i have been looking at for a very long time. [If i am entering politics, surely would be running for elections in TIRUNELVELI only:-)) But, with the current set up of Indian politics, it is virtually impossible for any honest youth to have at least a semblance of chance to win the elections. To win, you need a backup of a well known-party to win the elections. Also...
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Racism & India
2007-01-22 12:57:00
Right from the time, the recent racial(is it so?) remarks against Shilpha Shetty in 'Big Brother'(the U.K. reality show) hit the news(Read the Story here), every India n has lifted a protest flag complaining that we are always at the fag end of the racial attacks. But before pointing our fingers at others, let us first examine ourself.According to Oxford dictionary, the racism is defined as "Belief in superiority of particular race; antagonism towards other races"Going by that definition,Is not the still prevalent caste system(the National SIN of India) in India a kind of racism?Are not the recent attacks by the ULFA on Hindi-speaking people racist?Can not be the regular Shiv Sena attacks on non-Mumbaites be called as racist attacks?Are not we treat the outsiders(who are also INDIANS) as second-rate citizens?And who can forget this photograph?... Even thinking about this has made my heart to lose all the happiness & joy. Oh! India, even after living for more than 50 years as a s...
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Why Tirunelveli is "The City" of the world!!!
2006-12-15 18:18:00
"In life, we meet a lot of people, but make friends with few... In those few, some touch our life in such a way, that their presence is felt in their absence too..."Ya! You guessed it right. A regular SMS message from one of the umpteen number of friends of mine...But................This message was different.....Reason:- It was from one of my very close friends who has been with me right from my school. He for some reason saw it fit to send this message. (He has never forwarded me a SMS before). To cut the story short, this message made me thinking. Made me to understand why wherever i go, Tirunelveli will always be my city of the world!!! It made me to think of the awesome friends that God has gifted me in my childhood.Those of us who had seen the Microsoft Ad would accept that it is the people who differentiates the organizations and gives it the competitive edge. In the same way, it is my friends who differentiates Tirunelveli from the rest of the world. It is because of them, ...
More About: Personal , World , City , The World

Think About the Newspaper U Read
2006-12-14 13:25:00
----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- -------------- Right from my childhood, "The Hindu" has provided my life with a staple diet of current affairs (for knowledge and thought). "The Hindu" has been and always will be synonymous with the word "Newspaper s" in my life. You never understand one's importance unless it goes off from your hands. Now living in a land, where i can receive my beloved Newspaper only a day late.. that too in the afternoon made me to realize how i have grown up on the newspaper. NO! This post is not about Hindu. But about Indian newspapers in general. Indian newspapers have a rich and unique past. A Set of newspapers not formed for profit, not formed to provide people with news of what is going on in sports or business but to aid the nation's struggle for freedom. The history of Indian newspapers are dotted with such great personalities! But what had happened to the Indian newspapers now is a matter of gre...
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In Service for Sight
2006-11-29 22:55:00
This post is on the request of one of my friends who asked me to write/post on any interesting material that we, the management guys(:-)) would come across. As someone who blindly loves his home town, it is natural that I post on the case which made my home town to appear in the map of one of the management books I study. If you are thinking about what I am talking about, just answer this connect question? . . Connect Harvard Business Case Studies, A Small Temple Town in Southern Part of India and Cataracts? . . It is none other than Aravind Eye Care Hospital. Ø A role model for many hospitals and subject of study in many business schools Ø A Hospital to which the Google co-founder and president (Products), Larry Page, flew down to look at the overall view of its functions. Ø The only examination centre of the Royal College of Ophthalmology, United Kingdom, in the country Ø Designated by the World Health Organisation as a collaborating centre for pr...
More About: Management , Service , Tirunelveli , Vice , Sigh

Will never vote for Flies
2006-07-21 11:19:00
Fly - This insect until now in my life has been just a two-winged insect... Not to be worried about much or even cared about.. But in these days, these insects have now made me to change my decision. Here goes my story. As i start spotting a lot of flies near the mess, i thought this is something that is restricted to areas near to the mess.. Also they are attracted by the leftovers of the eggs and other things that are used to bathe the birthday baby. Yesterday, after coming from the class, saw 10 0r 15 flies inside my closed room.. Thought o.k. it is not a problem. They can be easily driven away. But to be my surprise, these insects are good at dodging away from the well-aimed shots taken by me. If i keep my room open, there are more number of flies eagerly awaiting for their chance to have a darishan of my room.. Just coming to the conclusion that i can do nothing about them, even if they come and sit in my face, i slept. Next morning, went eagerly to our QT professor's ...
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My Take on Tamil Nadu Elections
2006-05-15 19:57:00
As someone who has keen interest in politics right from my childhood days, if I did not have a post on the recent state elections in Tamil Nadu it would be so wrong on me. So here are my analysis and opinion: First of all, hats off to the people who for the first time elected a minority government to the state. Also a strong opposition in the assembly means that whenever the opposition wants to talk something, they won?t be removed (i.e. thrown out) from the assembly. Also it will be interesting to note what strategy that Jayalalithaa follows whether she is going to follow Karunanidhi?s footsteps of zero attendance in the assembly or she is going to be a constructive opposition leader. Let us wait and see. Since there was no visible wave this time around, small factors in each and every district played a major role. Vijayakanth was a major factor who reduced the victory margin in lots of constituencies with his 8% vote share. Except for the vote from his fa...
More About: Politics , Elections , Tamil Nadu

My First Post
2006-05-14 12:42:00
This is my first blog. If you asking why this blog, the reason is i just got motivated on reading other's blog.. Still don't know why i am doing this. But hoping that like all the other new things i attempeted this does not end in ditch after a few posts.[Deleted a few things from this blog...]
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