Friends.. due to some problems with my previous host company, my site was down. Now we are back up. Please go through your favorite site and read your articles.. and if you find something amiss please let us know at drishtikone dot mail at gmail dot com. THANKS! Read more
I dont know what to make of this news but the US VP's daughter who is openly lesbian is expecting a baby. So what happens to the "Father" now? Is it still a family... as per the Christian enthusiasts who talk against the marriage of gays? What does this mean to them! What I find amazing is that the VERY people who fight hard fro some "principles" flout them openly! Whether it is the Irani Mullahs or Christian Evangelists. No one drinks and womanizes more than those Irani Mullahs - a very close Iranian who has seen these things at close quarters tells me repeatedly... and no one "gay-ises" and use the kids more than the Catholic priests themselves.... even at the HIGHEST level of the evangelist circles! Read more
The IT sector was doing well until the Indian Government babus got the wind.. but no more.. these SoBs will throttle the entire sector.. here is a news of the Indian Government clamping down VoIP providers! This is downright crazy! If you want to invest in India.. look for a sector that the Government has NO IDEA about ... the chances are that it will succeed BIG TIME!! Nothing fails like Success in India! After blogs and websites, the government is planning a clampdown on BPOs and KPOs over, what it feels is, illegal use of internet telephony. Read more
This is a chilling reminder of how Islam is taking over the West through conversions and immigration! Here the author laments the Islamization of UK.. and the "brand" of Islam that gets propogated in these societies is not any Enlighened variety but the hard-core extremism variety. Heck .. the only Indian to be caught as an Al Qaeda guy was from Britain.. and a born Hindu who converted and went to Pakistan and was plotting against India with the terrorist Jehadis being sent to Kashmir! THAT is the kind of brain-washing that goes on! Read more
Is Pakistan ready to abandon their Kashmir stance? Musharraf seems to be suggesting this in his interview with Prannoy Roy on NDTV (interview yet to be aired)! Its all well in the way he says it.. but the truth is that terrorism has not ended or even slowed down in the last so many years. That Mushy cannot take care of the terrorist is none of an Indian citizen's concerns! The deal has to be struck between India and the whole of Pakistan.. not just Musharraf! So, if he gets frustrated it is not because of the Indian Government response.. but his "inability" or pretence of it with respect to stopping the terrorism! Read more
There is a story this morning on Wall Street Journal about how the book stores in the US have separate sections for White and Black authors! The story starts with Brandon Massey - a black author - who finds his books next to other African American books! The stores that regularly do this segregation are: Borders, Walmart, and the ones at the Airports. The stores that do not segregate are: Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Is this a good practice or not? Well in a way it is good for the author because African-Americans spend a lot of money on books. While the book sales in first 9 months of 2006 in the major book stores fell by 1.6% to $12.1 billion, the black authors were "flourishing"! So, in a way it helps the black authors in a commercial way.. but it does irk many on the diversity and tolerance perspective! Read more
What makes companies cool and successful? Tom Peters, the original "Excellence" Guru dissects some companies and has a kind of running list.. that he has recently updated with the characteristics: X.06/Success Factors: Whole Foods Markets (high-end, experience-design, demographic) ... Starbucks (people, experience) ... Wegmans (people) ... Commerce Bank (nuts about customers, WOW, people, execution) ... Apple (design-experience, breakthrough, "virus management," resilience, talent, "seriously cool") ... London Drugs (design-experience, people, "solutions") ... Griffin Hospital/Planetree Alliance (customer-centric, "whole person") ... The Met School/Big Picture (engagement, self-control) ... Carl Sewell (experience!) ... Progressive Insurance (speed, IT) ... Stanford women's sports (demographic, Blue Ocean) ... Stanford D-School (design-biz-engineering, Blue Ocean) ... HSM (execution, experience) ... WSB (integrity, broad view of customers, execution) ... Build-A-Bear (experience) ... RE/MAX (people/"create success stories") ... Donnelly's Weather Strip Service (high end, execution-reliability, simply the best) ... Jim's Group (imagination-Blue Ocean, demographic, customer-centric) ... Cirque du Soleil (talent, R&D, Imagination, resilience, design-experience, partnering) ... U.S. Grant (execution, delegation, people, K.I.S.S., action-at-all-costs, win, bold ) ... Horatio Nelson (execution, delegation, people, K.I.S.S., action-at-all-costs, win, bold) ... Stew Leonard's (people, experience-design, Wow) ... DeMar Plumbing (experience, people, Blue Ocean) Read more
Gadar as Gotham Chopra defines it is the "Gay Radar"... the ability to detect if a stranger is homosexual or not - well here is a real funny movie clip where an Indian guy tries to disclose to his parents that he gay. I have had at least three run-ins with some persistent gays and my GADAR could pick it up reasonably well... Read more
Health Savings Account is fairly new into the personal finance arena. What is it and how does it help... here is the information from an interesting story on Kiplinger. Who can get an HSA? Anyone under age 65 who buys a qualified high-deductible policy can open an HSA. You can't be covered by another health insurance policy that isn't a qualified high-deductible plan (either as an individual or a dependent), although you can still have other disability, dental, vision and long-term care insurance policies. Read more
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