Adding Political color to "Jai Ho"....

While all the excitement about Ar rehman bringing in home 2 Oscar's is about to settle down,seems like our very own politicians are not yet poised to accept the fact.

With the onset of General Election 2009 Schedule out , all the parties are busy putting their tricks to pull the AAm AAdmi to the polling booth and cast his vote in favor of them thereby digging his own grave :-(

Seems like this time Oscar shall also add their flavor to our general elections.

While the ruling Congress led UPA governament is vying to buy the rights for the Song "Jai Ho" (Oscar winner from Slumdog millionare) from the british Production Company to use it for their Party Election campaigns,leaving no stone unturned to take the pride of developing Indian in their Regime.

The Prime opposition BJP led NDA Conglomerate's favourite Narendra modi ahs started to hit out that "Had Congress not been there, there would be no Slums and when there are no Slums there would be no Slumdog millionare and no Oscar in turn".

All said and done, pointing that Jai Ho won an Oscar because of Congress (What the &#(% ???)
Poor rehman, would regret deeply had he known that the fruits of his efforts are being used to reap the benefits for our Ever-Hungry-Politicians.

Ofcourse it hurts....

Yesterday i got a call from a School friend of mine after a long time.

After our usual gupshup, she started to ask how am i doing and hows my job. With all smiles i gave a satisfied answer and her curiosity rose to zeniths..How come if u are so cool and composed the media reports of layoffs,salary cuts and winding up of ur Organisation.

Rather than being happy may b my response evoked curiosity to ask me Direct Question.

She:"By the Way Vamsi Did u get your Full Salary last month"
Me: "Yes dear (with an AWE)"

She:"Oh gud to hear that. ANyways you have you have commitments i guess,So how are you planning to meet them incase of any adversities"
Me: "Iam mailing you my Account Number. Do transfer the amount and i shall meet my commitments. I dont need to be bothered when i have frenz like you (Emo-S-nal Atyachaar)"

She was little taken aback...may be was checking her inbox if i had really dropped my acc num.

She:" Hey !!!Do you know? " (just trying to deviate the topic)
Me: "Would have known had u called me after my last call which was 8 mnths back"

She: "my dad is searching matches for me"
me: thank God..God save the banda

She: "I rejected 2 matches out of the 4 finalised (as if she has chosen the final 2 contestents of Indian Idol)"

the going gets more interesting to mourn for...:-(

Me: "Bechaarey why didnt they qualify for the finals"(expressing my deepest regrts)
She: "they were from Satyam"

Me: speechlessss
She: "My Security is important to me"

Me: "have you spoken to the guyz atleast"
She:"Nope"

Me:"How did u decide that they are not gud without even speaking to them. may be the guys were better than ur final choices"
She: ---------

Me: "then do u mean that at this point of time even iam not gud enuff"
She: "hey i didnt mean that yaar...Did it hurt you"

Me: ---------

missed blog :-)

iam a part of - history in the making

1 Year is a long time and things change upside down.

Never realised the impact of this in such an elan. Today i had been to Bank of India, to collect some Educational Loan repayement receipts for IT submission.

The Bank Manager who takes care of the Loan's section is a very good person. Last year when i had been to his office for the same purpose as now he looked at me with honor as if i had brought a gold medal to india in olympics, bcoz his son who is about to complete his Engg has not made a Campus Placement still and he viewed me as a benchmark for his son.

1 Year down the lane, today when he saw me there was a spurious infecting smile in his face. The way he asked me are you still with Satyam, u guyz have become the National News, R they paying salaries...(Nothing offending) but curious Questions as he got a on hand employee who can address his tidbits.

I answered with utmost restraint to make him feel that his son still doesnt have a job in hand and i do have one.

But after coming out i felt sad, an act which was committed by 2-3 people has tarnished the global reputation of a company.

Also it reminds me that there is nothing notable to say when u work with a company when the firm is going thru gud times, it is testing times like these that we at Satyam are facing that prove our true level of commitment ,which many others are expecting by means of Service level bonds, and here are we who are ready to commit in spirit not in words.

Case Studies or Innovations happen during these times.

Every world renowned company had its tough time, GE,IBM,Dell,Apple..., everyone fought back and today they are no.1 even the books like Success of GE,Who said elephants can't dance (of IBM) are top sellars.

I see this opportunity as another new book of how to fight back in the making..All that goes down has to come up and we might have gone down..but there shall be a new day tommorow, new hope and new Satyam.

1 year down the line from today, most of them would forget about all this but the experience that i woud get out of this real time learning opportunity shall not be macthed by any B-School Case study discussion bcoz iam a part of ---History in the making :-)

Voila!!!

With all due respect to the producer of "V for Vendetta"...i found the below lines pretty amazing....I keep it as my Desktop intro and all my collegues admire my self description :-)

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me ---Vamsi.

– Vamsi's introduction to everyone

i am still learning the meaning of all those V's...:-(

Race is On….

During the 2day “Vibrant Gujarat” Industrial summit, Mr Narendra Modi coined a new word, “Race”- that stood for “lower Risk, Alertness of the government, low Cost and high Efficiency” for the success of Industrial sector.

Whatever may the Opposition parties say about him, I think he has been a Dynamic Chief Minister in terms of bringing Investments to State and contributing hugely to the State development in turn improving India’s GDP.

Today Gujarat is eyed as the first state for any Investment of huge scale. Given the varying factors like huge NRI sentiments, most of the gujju’s eye Entrepreneurship as a career option the Efforts put in by Mr.Modi’ to revive the sentiments is tumultuous.

He was primarily criticized for his way of dealing the Godhra Incident, but the people of Gujarat re-elected him since they belived that he was the ONE who can change things and bring in better jobs for their children, a future ray of hope.

Today except for IT, Gujarat remains the Show Stopper for any major investments inside India. Whether it is by decision or by fate mr.Modi doesn’t seem to know what does it mean by “”being Complacent”.

Gujarat attracts investments (Jamnagar the worlds biggest refinery is in Guj) as a natural destination for investors, or proves to be a better choice (Nano project moving from Singur after the crisis had many options but the best deal was struck in Guj).

sAnKrAnThi MuSinGs....

Today its - Bhogi, first day of the 3 day Sankranthi festival. Having born and brought up in Hyderabad I do not have great expectations of Sankranthi while my mom has stories unending about her Sankranthi celebrations when they were there in their village. My mom hails from Guntur District of AP. 

All I know about Sankranthi is home made sweets, Kites, new movie releases (a sentiment for major blockbusters to be released) and yes Hyderabad roads become desolate. The barren roads of Hyd invite us with a broad smile. Most of the NRH’s (Non residents of Hyderabadi’s) move onto their native places and we are the kings again.

 Maudlin at times, after hearing to mom’s stories and today after speaking to my friend who has been to home for Sankranthi I feel I also need to check their kind of Sankranthi as well. Their definition of celebration is to stay with ur loved ones inside home and mine till date was to hang around with frenz Outside.

 Their Version of Sankranthi – Bonfire, Colorful Rangoli (we call it Muggulu), Get together of families (Babai,pinni,attayya,maamayya,ammamma…the entire bandwagon), Temple visits, special pooja’s, especially in coastal parts of Andhra new Son-in-laws get a Royal treatment from their In laws a tradition followed, Cock fights (Kodi-pandalu) though officially banned there are those flamboyant heads who donot care about them.

 Mom says people fight with cut-throat competition to prove that their Cock is the best - it’s a matter of pride. Palnati Yuddam kind of ones….

 Mouthwatering delicacies like Nethi Arisellu,Kobbari boorellu,Garelu,chakralu,Payasam never appear tiresome to keep u away from them. 3 days u end up only eating ,eating and eating with lot of affection wherein u will be forced to eat to make sure tat u do not hurt their emotions.

 “Sankranthi vachindi tummeda..Saradalu techindi tummeda …“ (forgot this song’s movie nameLL)

 Also Sankranthi is the time when we (my mom had these privileges) pay respect to our Ancestors. Grandfathers and great grand fathers expect their next generation fellows to pay obeisance to mark the new harvest season.

 Oops Sankranthi marks the First harvest season of the crop and is hence celebrated jubilantly. Also this is the most important festival which I believed was bcoz ur half yearly exams are done and u get a break of 15 days and also 3 new blockbuster movie's release – sadly my reasoning sounded insane.

 Mom kept on repeating “Kanna that’s why I tell you… choose a telugu girl who hails from such a village where atleast ur next generation will not miss this excitement “.

 Though I revert saying its my mom’s Emo-s-nal atyachaar, at times feel what she mentioned is also a point to be noted.

 Or else I end up smsing “Happy Sankranthi/Ugadi/Dussera/Diwali ”, and the celebrations remain the same routinely.

 “Choodamu ley amma…ivvala repu inni qualities unna ammayi dorakaalantey kashtam”

 Huhhhhh…ekkada ekkada ekkada undo taaraka……padahaaru anaaala teluginti aadapaduchu ekkada unaavey???