Every trip to India is like a reminder of how much I have changed. It is scary, reflective, and pointed. I wonder if others feel the same way. Have you found yourself visiting your home country and coming away with the feeling of your past and your current life?
I would love to hear about it.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
India in the media
Today, checking New York Times most emailed articles, I found that four out of ten were somhow onnected to India: outsouring, yoga, poverty and other topics. It is still something new to me to see so much about India in the media as for last 30 years I rarely saw India mentioned in any major media. Oh yes things have changed, and as a self-appointed media watch on India and other things, not to mention a self-appointed critique of how Indian culture is changing - I notice it more clearly than may be others. Now I wonder what kind of impact this new interest in everything-Indian is going to create to the Indians who live outside of India as well as inside of India. Is the border blurring so much so that it would be hard to know if you are physically there or not? Would all of it help in creating a more self-assured India and Indians or would it just become another western-influenced society? Interesting! Only time will tell, I guess.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
India in the news all the time now
Today, checking New York Times most emailed articles, I found that four out of ten were somhow onnected to India: outsouring, yoga, poverty and other topics. It is still something new to me to see so much about India in the media as for last 30 years I rarely saw India mentioned in any major media.
Oh yes things have changed, and as a self-appointed media watch on India and other things, not to mention a self-appointed critique of how Indian culture is changing - I notice it more clearly than may be others.
Now I wonder what kind of impact this new interest in everything-Indian is going to create to the Indians who live outside of India as well as inside of India. Is the border blurring so much so that it would be hard to know if you are physically there or not?
Would all of it help in creating a more self-assured India and Indians or would it just become another western-influenced society?
Interesting!
Only time will tell, I guess.
Oh yes things have changed, and as a self-appointed media watch on India and other things, not to mention a self-appointed critique of how Indian culture is changing - I notice it more clearly than may be others.
Now I wonder what kind of impact this new interest in everything-Indian is going to create to the Indians who live outside of India as well as inside of India. Is the border blurring so much so that it would be hard to know if you are physically there or not?
Would all of it help in creating a more self-assured India and Indians or would it just become another western-influenced society?
Interesting!
Only time will tell, I guess.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Laws of Life
Here are some of the laws of life that I found interesting.
The Dilbert Principle says, "The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management."
Joy's Law, coined by Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, captures every manager's sinking sense of despair: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else."
Brooks' Law, from software engineer Frederick P. Brooks: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
Or as Brooks also put it, "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion."
The Dilbert Principle says, "The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management."
Joy's Law, coined by Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy, captures every manager's sinking sense of despair: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else."
Brooks' Law, from software engineer Frederick P. Brooks: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
Or as Brooks also put it, "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
Parkinson's Law: "Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion."
Lunch: Buy or Bring?
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Lunch: Buy or Bring?
Today as I walked into the elevator at lunch time, I was surprised to find how many people, all of them happened to be women, buy lunch at the cafeteria. I was wondering why, despite the financial industry beating the drum about brown bagging your lunch, most office workders find it easier to buy. Ours is a small cafeteria, with limited choices in a secluded part of a subarban town which means that when you buy your lunch, you are pretty much dependant on what the cafe is serving that day.
It would be interesting to find out what percentage of workers in the U.S. bring their own lunch. I am certainly one - most of the time, of course.
Any idea?
Chintan
A fun way to explore every day happenings.
Lunch: Buy or Bring?
Today as I walked into the elevator at lunch time, I was surprised to find how many people, all of them happened to be women, buy lunch at the cafeteria. I was wondering why, despite the financial industry beating the drum about brown bagging your lunch, most office workders find it easier to buy. Ours is a small cafeteria, with limited choices in a secluded part of a subarban town which means that when you buy your lunch, you are pretty much dependant on what the cafe is serving that day.
It would be interesting to find out what percentage of workers in the U.S. bring their own lunch. I am certainly one - most of the time, of course.
Any idea?
Chintan
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