Why didn’t Nano turn up to AP???

While there were still discussions going on between the Tata Motor’s management and various State governments, I had a very strong urge for Nano to come to Andhra Pradesh expecting that there would be an international Exposure of AP.

While Karnataka, Gujarat and AP left no stone unturned to bag the project to their hometown, the Tata’s were also weighing their options against one another.

The day before Mr. Ratan Tata announced that Nano would roll out from Gujarat, the Tata Motors team headed by Mr.Ravikant the Managing director of Tata Motors was in Hyderabad to meet Andhra Pradesh chief minister Mr.Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy. The Team was also planning to go to Karnataka to take into consideration their offerings amidst which Mr.Tata made the announcement of camping from Gujarat.

One possible reason for AP being deprived of Nano may be, after having discussions with AP Government officials, Mr.Ravi and team proceeded to the proposed site which was planned for Nano set up.

The Team had a bitter experience as the Villagers protested against setting up and industry in their Agricultural area. The Resentment must have reminded the Nano Management team to re-consider their thoughts as they had been through this Imbroglio situation in West Bengal.

Also adding fuel to fire was Gujarat Government’s swift action to acquire land and to be in a position to transfer the land into Tata’s account while Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were still in the process of getting approvals and the Land Allotment would take sometime , the time which Tata’s didn’t have much in their roll out of Prestigious Nano Project.

 

Trip to Anantgiri Hills

Though our Mission Godavari plan is being chalked out and is yet to be implemented, we were struck with the thought of another Small trip which was primarily a 100 Km drive away from Hyderabad.

 During Googling for Mission Godavari we came up across some interesting Locations in the vicinity of Hyderabad. We thought we shall explore them beginning this weekend to a trip to Anantgiri Hills supposedly to be a trekking spot.

 A Google search of  “Anantgiri Hills” takes you to numerous pages that talk about Eastern Ghats and the Hilly terrain surrounding Vizag and anantgiri hills located nearby.

 Interestingly  nearby to Hyderabad, at a distance of 100 Kms on the Vikarabad Tandur stretch is another place called anantgiri which is famous for a temple dedicated Ananta Padmanabha Swamy.

 I started at 9 AM after patching up with my friends Lucky and Shali. After small breakups for Tea we reached the spot in 3 Hours. Though the roads were not that great bits and pieces of the stretch were good.

 The Temple was being renewed with added features while we were said that there are some naturally formed caves and a Small Koneru (pool) down the hill. The Caves looked to be made of Natural red Soil with pores. Also near the Koneru were the Dome shaped structures.

 If you remember the movie “Aithe”  where the youngsters prison the mafia Don after kidnapping him, it is here the Dome shaped structures that the scenes were shot.

 Surrounded by lush greenery, the weather was pleasant enough due to the natural Vegetation. After trekking the caves for about an hour we though it was time to continue further.

 6 Km from there we heard that there was a place called Bugga Rameshwaram popular for its Underwater spring. The Road to this place had some hair pin bends and you feel like you are traveling though some valleys. Being the Jammed Roads during the weekdays we found solace in those roads where there was hardly any other human being .

 Occassionally the Village Cattle said hello to us but there were no other disturbances.

 As we reached the Temple we identifie dteh Underwater Spring. The Priest of the temple informed us that this was the Originating place for the River Musi. Though it sounded exciting enough I didn’t find the answer convincing enough.

 Out of our sheer curiosity we asked the priest if there were any other Places nearby to visit ,for which he smilingly said that there is a natural water fall 18-20 kms from here.

 With our adrenaline pumping, we geared up ourselves on the kacha Road expecting to catch a glimpse of our Niagara Falls for the ay.

 After 30 mins drive through the dirty Roads (or better if I call it as No road) all  our aspirations have been lulled down at the site of a lake but no falls.

 Dissappointed by the site we started back to home.

 All in all it’s a great trip as we found some natural beauty and splendid locations which we managed to capture in our Digi.

 

 

No Smoking in Public Places – Forever vs Time being

Rejuvenating myself over my favourite cup of tea (mom made one with Ginger flavour), I started off my Dry day. 

As I opened today’s News paper was reminded that from today Smoking is banned in Public Places. So all in all today is Dry Day cum No Smoking Day while the latter is for ever for the time being. 

As a Passive Smoker what does this mean to me. The new law says “A Public Place is defined as a place with more than 30 People”. And all the Incharges/supervisors/CEO’s of that particular public place have to implement the law. 

Do we know who is the Incharge/Suprvisor/Ceo of a Bus Stop/Parking Lot/near grocery Stores ., etc. Even if there is a person who monitors this, is he equally empowered to punish by levying fine upon people who make a mockery of law.

 Can a Parking Lot incharge go and levy fine upon a Honda City owner for Smoking in a Public place.

 How about this, Can I as a passive Smoker when I feel not so comfortable when people near me Smoke - go and say them that this is a public place and you should quit smoking here. I would be lucky enuf to get out of that place safely.

 Now the Ministry also provided a remedy for such situations saying that coming soon there shall be Contact Numbers and names of people whom I can call and complain against a guy who is trespassing the law by smoking in a public place. A smoker completes his heinous act in not more than 3-5 minutes, does this timeframe give enough evidence or time for the other person to respond.

 All in all another new law in to the system which has been infused by laws and laws over years.

 Let me re-iterate, I am not against banning public Smoking. It’s a wise decision and is the need of the hour. But the means resorted or the way it has been planned to implement is something which I am apprehensive about.

 This reminds me of my high school concept “Rules are meant to be observed in Spirit not in words”. If we can drive out this message of No Smoking through the right channels of medium we can strike the chord with many.

 For the moment I hope this law will also yield good and Positive results like the recent compulsory helmet restriction implemented by Hyderabad police.

 

 

 

 

World K****** Day @^*#&^@!

Guess whats today???? Yes September 24th !!!!

Still not getting……

I was also under the impression that today is also a regular day sparring few Birthdays. When I saw the Newspaper early today morning was shocked to know that its World Kissing Day.

Yes you heard it right today is World Kissing Day.

Now don’t ask me who founded it and where.I had No clue as to how am I supposed to react.

Just like a Friendship Day/Independence Day should I go and wish people Happy Kissing Day (Iam sure I wud b thrown out of office if I dare to do tat).

I was not even sure whether it was correct , but I can’t question the authenticity of a report that’s published in The Hindu.

So with a doubt in my mind I went to office and was completely lost in my work as I had an urgent Client meeting wherein I had to explain to do some consulting exercise.

By End of Day I completely forgot the fact that I learnt in the morning.

Its not only me but all the committed (status) people in my office also didn’t know that there is a day called Kissing Day.

Oops iam not sure if Vishwa Hindu Parishad or BJP knew this, or else there wud have been an attack on the News paper and then on Parks . A regular jog that these guys do whenever such article comes into limelight.

Crisis Crisis Crisis…..

Even though my week started off peacefully, the week wasn’t the same for everyone.

Fallout of Lehman Brothers financial institution, take over of Meryllynch by Bank of America, a narrow escape for AIG from bankruptcy.

I started to follow news closely hoping to gain some key insights into what does this mean to me. When I say “mean to me”, I do not know how does this affect me? Being an Aspiring MBAiian added to the complexity to the problem making me stumble across every Jargon and finding its root.

Trying to get my hands on every piece of literature available starting with all news editions, Googling, Wikipediaing.

Yeah the Meryll-BOA Episode had some repercussions to my Organisation as, currently 2% of our revenues are from Meryllynch.

All in all its not only me, or my Organisation thinking about the turmoil, the complete Banking, Financial Sector enabled IT services companies are giving it a second thought.

I Spoke to a friend of mine who works for this going to be estranged Customer for my company (ie., Meryllynch). He sounded very disheartened. He was not sure what would be his future and that has left him in a mirage of illusions.

Hope these would be the last major changes in this week….

Posted on 18th Sept 2008 (Thursday) at 10.05 pm

Crucial Decision….

All of us might have made some tough decisions of which some of them would have clicked well and some would have made us learn a Lesson.

Its now officially 2 years that I have been into the IT Industry. A Decision that I have taken 2 years back to join a team of 100+ Business Analysts rather be a member of the Bandwagon of 50000+ Software Development Engineers.

Though Some of my friends chose that path, given my interests and necessity I had to make a choice between a wells settled path (S/W Engg) or try out a new one about which I was Ignorant.

But only one strong driving force that kept me in this line was “ down the line I WILL do my MBA and this shall help me rather than my techie stuff.”

I still remember the day I and my friend hasham were offered this role in as a BA, I was calling to all the available contacts in my mobile’s contact list to enquire if I can understand what does a BA mean.

Starting as a White Page I had the opportunity to emboss every thing I do and co-relate that to my future 2 years down the line. Also the I was able to put in my Hard work because the decision was my choice.

And today when I proved myself as a key resource in my team , my friends keep on asking me one Question. Do u have any requirements in your team?

It gives me immense pride to say that I chose path to my destiny rather than giving up to what people forced up on me. It reminds me of my friend Sra1’s communicator note “Try to do things u want to do, or lese you shall be forced to take what others want u to do…”

Created on 18th September 2008 (Thursday) at 10.27 PM

Spirit of Ganesh Chaturthi!!!

Amongst the Teen maar beats, today our lane's diety Mr.Ganeshji was given a given a heavy heart farewell with pooja’s being performed from evening 5 pm.

The other spectrum consisted of people getting ready with their Energy Drinks to bid farewell to lord ganeshji. In the name of lord, people showoff their piousness with varying frequencies, some like it by performing pooja’s, some by making public offerings and some by raising a toast of their favorite hot beverage.

Truly it happens only in India.

Now after their favorite’s acts of performances the citizens of our lane spanning from the youngest Chanti to eldest Mr. Rao Uncle every one was in a jubilant mood trying hard to forget that they have to get back to normal life of schools, Offices. , etc since tomorrow being Monday.

As every time the fever of 6 pack abs has even bitten Hyderabadi Ganesha. My Friend Lucky was showing me a snap of an 8 pack abs ganeshji who was there at a pandal in Charminar. Now that’s a dichotomy to the fact that Ganeshji was supposed to be the god with a belly (mom recites the mantra “oh Bojja Ganappayya nee bantu nennayya”).

Every Ganesh chaturti has its own specialty in Hyderabad and this time the speciality chose to be in the form of Hindu Muslim Brotherhood.

Accidentally or coincidently however you may like to term it this time Ganesh Chaturthi came in the holy month of ramzaan. At a ganesh pandal in hyd Muslim’s were given a special iftaar(where in they would be offered Fruits and snacks since muslim’s would be on fast called roza since morning). And similarly Muslim brother’s expressed their gratitude in response by offering Prasad to Lord Ganesh.

A true festival helping to bridge the gas in between people of different religions.

Ganapathi Bappa moriyaaaaaaaa…

Posted at 11.02 PM on 14th September 2008.