social networking for social cause

http://www.carbonrally.com/ is a one amazing site which i just happened to bump into .....while various diffrent environmental organisation are busy creating awareness on environmental issue, corporates are busy adorning their papers and speeches with the word 'go green'.... http://www.carbonrally.com/ is one site gathering people from various walks of life to compete on carbon reduction challenges.... they have various challenges which groups and individuals can take to reduce their respective carbon footprint. it also gives a number of tips be green and reduce carbon emmision Corporates can learn a lot from this site. They can organise more amnd more such competition and encourage various departments and employees to compete... i'm sure this will bring down their carbon footprint immensely.

bangalore....where have you disappeared

last night while i was switching channels i suddenly spot NDTV news showing the pollution levels stats for the day ....it didn't come to me as a shock that bangalore was the most polluted city , but when i saw that water pollution and water contamination were highest in banglore...i started wondering should still stay put in this city,that i love so much or should shift base to a lesser polluted area...then i told myself "how far can one run"?.... While i was think of running, i remembered the various marathons organised in city for various cause...and i said what the use of running these marathos we run and run and run and get nothing .....but may be we should start running relays where you can share your responsibility and run together...what i mean to say is we need to keep passing the batton of awareness to each and every person we know, directly or indirectly...wake up bangaloreans....lets get our city back its glory.

educated bangaloreans vote for namesake

Elections in karnataka the buzz word of today. thousands of educated, all knowing citizens in bangaloreans ...don't know what to do , To vote or not to vote, whom to vote for or whom not to vote for. These all knowing bright citizens are in dilemma of selecting a leader for themselve...i think, the less knowing, uneducated people are in a much better suituation then the educated as they don't have to undergo the turmoil within themselve saying that everyone who is contesting is a rogue and how can they elect the rogues as their leaders, their votes are anyway bought buy the corrupt politician with a pack of brinyani and a quater of arrack. A number of my collegue, friends and peers when asked; are you going vote? The numbers saying they will vote has increased compared last time, but number who will vote for namesake is higher than ever. Now being a citizen of this great country right to vote is only right we all get to make a diffrence in the admistration of this country, but alas we do what we need to with all deligence only for namesake...will this namesake attitude ever change for' my country's sake'

IPL: indian premier league or illegal proposition legalised

its sad to notice that in a country were thousands of people cannot afford 2 proper meals a day, were electric illumination is luxury for many, education is dream. Crores are spent on illuminating stadiums for a day and night match,cheer leaders, adverstising etc ...a doubt arises in my mind are we really educated indians..., why are our minds so blind with cricket that we are ready to spend 100s on tickets but not ready think there 1000s of brothes and sisters who without food are falling down like wickets. when the wickets of our opp team fall we all shout with all gall, but when thousand of human wickets fall because poverty we dont even stop and sigh.

construction on foundation of distruction

Aah i know not what to say ? are we really heading towards a develop world or towards a crippled world. you may be thinking why i'm questioning in this manner?...i serious have lost my senses from the minute i saw two huge banyan trees on madivala-kormangala intersection disappear like they were never there....the two huge trees stood majestically giving company to each other, shelthering hundereds of birds and purifying tons of air on the ever polluted road. And one fine day the BBMP decides that trees were more menace than solace and raised them surface. The reason they gave was broadening of the road....i'm not againts development,but if only the trees could be transplanted to another place... world would head towards betterment, but this way constructing our future on foundation of distruction will take us no where...what is your take?

global warming in the name of 'no global warming'

A managment institute recently organised a concert by Boney M to rock for global warming awareness in bangalore. This was such a contridiction...i pity that the organiser didn't realise that they were adding to the carbon footprint by millions of tons by organising this show. They had to fly down the rockstarts which generated tons of carbon, 20,000 odd people attended the concert for which they had to travel to venue and back this would added few more tons and finally all the lighting and all the watts used up for the show...by the time i walked out of the show....i was grooving away ,the show was great boney M in their usual...but somewhere deep in my heart i was guilty that i have again added my bit to global warming

Boney M rock for global warming awareness

it was great to watch boney M...but the concert was contridicting the very cause for which it was organised...life is such a contridiction...

fear of failure, damps spirit of success

I recieved this forward from a friend of mine today which spoke about how elephants are tied with a small rope and yet this huge strong animal does not make an attempt escape. Appraently when these animals are very young a same size rope is use to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away and hence do even try to break away ...the article ended saying "Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before"
It's so true that many a times since we are scared of failure we do not even try doing a number of things, or even if we do, muster the courage to do something and end up in a failure we stop trying further.
I feel the culprit is 'Fear' which ingrained into us when we were little children...i shall write on fear in my next blog

Web 2.0 Politics- an interesting article.

While we all are grappling with issues of how to market our solutions and service efficiently...politician are are already using the web 2.0 to take the campaigns to a diffrent level.
'Web 2.0 Politics' is an interesting article i read of marketingprofs which discribes how brands canlearn from the presidential campaings. We get to learn about the three key benefits of using new social networking media. Audience reach, Viral marketing and Brand/ campaign enagement. Do read the article http://www.marketingprofs.com/8/2008-presidential-campaign-social-media-marketing-hogeboom.asp?sp=1.

khash-khash e bahar(poppy seed pattys)

This is a new recipe i tried out, which my friend told me on way back from office.
ingredients :
poppy seeds 50 gms
6-7 green chilles finely chopped
salt as per tates
2 medium onions finely chopped.
1 tsp maida
oil to fry
preparation:
Soak poppy seeds in water for 3-4 hours, drain the water and grind the poppy seeds into a fine paste. Add the finely choped onices, green chilles, maida and salt to the poppy paste and mix well. Make small balls of the mixture and pat them into small patties. Heat a heavy bottom tawa and fry the patties with little oil. remove once done...
serve hot with tomato sauce or tamrind chuntney.....do write if you like the recipe

heights of flexibilty or lack of civic sensibility

You can use them as cricket stadium, football ground, stage for orchestra, function hall, grazing land etc., use them the way you want, there is no one to question yes you guessed it right these our own indian roads...
yesterday while i was driving back home from office with collegues, one of them remarked that there is nothing as flexible as our roads and anyone would use them the way they pleased. It ture we all like flexibilty, but when the same flexibilty takes form of civic insensibilty it create nusance for everyone . Its high time we gather our senses and take onus of our civic duty and raise our voice towards misuse of our roads

Yipeeee.....i'm back from the Young Indians National Summit all knoweledgeble. Indeed it was a awakening call. All the sessions were very interesting except for 1 or 2. The inugaral address by K.V Kamath's set the ball rolling in the right direction...he said this was right time to be born in india as it is at the realm of the growth. And we would continue growing if we do not commit the 'bad' mistakes which other growing economies committed. He emphasized on the point the we need inclusive growth, growth which is structually diffrent from that of the other contries so that we can sustain it for long time. He said we are growing at 10% rate and giving new dimensions to growth, like other ecomies we are not dependent on Manufacturing but on Knowledge Ex IT industry .

The four key things he stressed on were:

Right skilling : education is major challenge our country is facing hence accoring to Mr. Kamath we need right skilling which meet the demands of the job market. For this we need to change the cirriculum at the school level and the corporate need to make this point.

Health: the government needs to play a huge role here and hence corporates need to involve government

Water : the need for Clean water.

Globalisation: On who's terms should globalisation happen

Wake up india

I plan to attend the CII Yi National Summit at chennai tomorrow... I quite liked the theame
“Wake up, India.” The focus is suppose be on the issues that have been ignored during India’s recent economic surge. The sessions topics seem to be interesting....i'm eargerly waiting to hear Ms Sylvia lee of WEF on Climate change and the inuagral address by Dr Pachauri ...i shall update once i'm back ....

Tissue - a Serious Issue

It's such a shame, i have been one among the many culprits who use tissue ...yes i 'm talking of the tissue paper we all use without even thinking twice. I read today that tissue paper is a major source of waste. It takes 6,000,000 trees to make one-year's worth of tissues for the world. Using hand kerchieves is a small way in which we can do our little bit to save the green of our world