Different Perspective

I bought this phone about a week back from flipkart. Delivery was excellent. With this phone noticed a few issues -  I am unable to connect the audio output to car aux. Either the sound does not come in the speaker, or the phone goes into mute on its own. The default email application is useless. Downloads on internal memory only. And if you  read an email and delete it it fetches the same the next time. The GPS is only useful with the default google maps widget, and that itself is rickety. There is too much error in your location, and also GPS does not connect many a times. I bought a ZTE blade with android also recently, and it works much better. The camera clicks well only in day and for things which are close. So not that great. Apps are very limited for bada. I want the predictive typing as default, but did not find the option. The defaults widget and synchronization with facebook accounts etc is rickety. The PC application - KIEs does not have the facility to m...

Many a times in my career i have seen the struggle between the process and the people. People do not like the process if it does not suit their way of working/style, but want it when they get stuck or in a mess. It's tough to make and implement a process, and most of the people/organizations make the mistake of picking up something from another organization and try to implement the same. This mostly ends up in failure and frustration as all organization culture and people are different. Generally the people in India seem to hate processes, partly because of our experience with the government/social infrastructure where everything is denied to the common man in the name of some process that takes years and never bears any results. Every process needs to define exceptions, but should not necessarily try and cater to every exception. That only ends up making it more complicated and hard to follow/implement. I have seen most of the failures happening when people try to make a...

People generally assume that car rental is very expensive and owning a car is cheaper. Here is a sample analysis for the same, Assuming Car Value = 5 lacs Expense Per month Interest = 4000 Depreciation = 6000 (for first yr) Insurance = 1000 Maintenance =1000 Driver = 8000 Lets assume 1000 km a month and average of 15 Petrol = 4500 Total expense for 1000 Km for a month = 24500. i.e. 24.5 Rs/Km Most radio cabs charge from 15-20 Rs per KM. So it isn't really a bad deal. However your own car offers a huge convenience of using it anytime at a moments notice and personalization. 

It takes time to understand that its best practice to NOT keep a baggage on you when you have a fight or altercation with someone. Such baggage only increase with time and the burden is always increasing. One also then tends to make a perception which then influences any further interactions. We need to think if it is worth it? Isn't it much easier to try and get off the load and move much faster ahead happily? When you start keeping baggage's, people also start to keep theirs, and  then others interact with one another, collating their bad experiences making a harder perception against you and you end up more and more isolated. Instead of carrying bad memories it is always better to carry the good ones. It helps to take the lesson from bad ones so as to prevent it later. Also we have a fixed memory bank, why should we then spend on things we don't like? Why can't we make life simpler?

We were taught in school that India got independence because of Mahatma Gandhi. Is it really true? What would India have been without Gandhi? I am not trying to say he was not a great leader, but his leadership and politics of congress split India and Pakistan, and the effect of that is for the generations to follow. Most of the british colonies started to gain independence after the second world war ended in 1945. There was great devastation after the second world war and ruling over the colonies had become very tough. With congress we had an elitist class coming to rule over India. So from the Queen in England we had the local Kings now. And now we have the Nehru family rule over India from one generation to another. Will this change for India? I don't think so. There are two things that need to be done for India to progress, greater education and stronger judiciary. In all our 60 yrs of independence we have greatly failed in both. It has actually gone worst as education has b...

I decided to get my credit report from CIBIL to see my details and the score. I was expecting it to be very good, but was surprised on getting it. There was lot of old information with CIBIL . lot of contact information was incorrect, the problem, when the agents just make you fill the form and fill your form with wrong spellings. I will try and get it corrected so that in future when i try to get some credit i do not face a problem. American Express bank reported a delayed payment when there was none, now have raised a dispute for that. We need to have a system where the banks are penalized for giving wrong information to CIBIL . Also now need to think if i should close some of the credit cards which i do not use, it should improve the credit score. 

In India even after 65 years of independence the nation struggles with electricity. There are power cuts in all major cities. In small towns the electricity is there for 12-14 hrs, and as the towns get smaller, the electricity time gets shorter. Here are some of the reasons which I think contribute for the same - Free electricity which government provides to farmers - No/less electricity solves this problem. The government does not want to educate people, that they have to pay if they for electricity. Government just thinks of votes and promises free electricity. Transmission losses - There is lot of electricity theft, thanks to corruption and hunger for votes. Additionally we have invested little to reduce this. Bad planning - The general answer of the government is it takes time for electricity planning and implementation. Is 65 yrs not enough? For most of this time only 1 political party/family has been in power.