Drishtikone
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. Read more
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. Read more
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Read more
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. Read more
The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Read more
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Read more
Unitech has bought 345 acres of prime land in Noida for a staggering Rs 15.82 billion. This is fairly bold when you consider the total size of Unitech itself is Rs 16 billion! For this deal they beat the No. 1 DLF to the post. The major plus of this land is that it is just 15 minutes from the posh Maharani Bagh in New Delhi. They will make 4000 top-of-the-line apartments at Rs 2 crore each! Although the markets in India - specially the real estate - seem to be booming, it might be a speculative bubble. As one analysts said that only 25-30% of the residential property is inhabited - the rest is part of the speculation activity. Almost 75-80% of Unitech's invetsment is hitherto in residential type properties - which might create issues for it in future if the market tanks. However, since the builder can finance 50% of the project cost through advances from the future residents, the IRR is twice that of Commercial Property! Read more
Anurag - one of the readers - related the the incident where one of his college guys asked a panelist a very important question: "What is better Brain Drain or the Brain in the Drain" I think this is a question that we should all ask of the situation in India - where the politicians who were hitherto nowhere when the Brains were busy charting the course for India's recovery.. have suddenly jumped in to carve out their fiefdoms and create a Drain out of upcoming garden!! I am not sure what right they have of doing that.. but that is EXACTLY what is going on!! I think there will come a time soon .. when the educated and the bright will ask: "Why give the power to these idiots!!" And as Paritrana - the new Political party of the IITs - is showing the way.. we might see more of these "start-ups" in the political field of India!! Read more
On October 14, 1947, a young Air Force test pilot climbed into the Bell X-1—a small, rocket-powered airplane—cradled underneath a modified B-29 flying high above the California desert. As the Bell X-1 fell away from the B-29, Capt. Chuck Yeager, a WWII fighter ace from a small town in West Virginia, fired the airplane’s rockets and flew into history. Moments later Yeager became the first man to punch through the mythical “wall in the sky” and break the sound barrier Read more
Success is not about being the best talent in any field. Often success depends on one's passion for an art or a vocation. If you want something enough.. .strongly enough that you can be ready to trade your happiness and comforts - then no matter how high and terrible the odds.. success cannot be far off. I was reading an interview with arguably India's the finest actor - Naseeruddin Shah. He is going to teach at one of the newest Actors training school this year.. here he talked about the qualities he will be looking for in his students. These following lines could possibly fit anywhere.. to any profession! Worth writing down and remembering!! Read more
The first commercial mobile telephone service begins in June 1946. A driver in St. Louis, Missouri uses a handset from under his car's dashboard to place the world's first mobile telephone call. A team from Bell Labs works for more than a decade to develop the service. By 1948, mobile telephone service is available in almost 100 cities and 30,000 calls are being made each week. Read more
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