Perception a Problem?

The topic refers to the tension, dissever and nervousness the human mind goes through after reaching the dividing roads of life. The perception plays an important role here. Cause the most important criteria of judgement is played by perception in such a situation. But perception is after all perception, it is believed to be right but cannot be ensured. And hence the tension, dissever and nervousness. Its a circle in itself. The more you know, the more you perceive and yet far more your perception changes (in same or other direction).

I often wonder is it only me for whom the perception has such a wide play ground to lurk around? As for me, the perception about few major things have altered drastically. The latest happenings in my life has helped me to evaluate the perpetually altering perception as the basic criteria for selecting the road's crossway.

To let you know about my present state of mind, I am at a junction and need to select a way as means of my livelihood, between Business, Job and Further Education. I am a graduate now, have 1 year full time work experience and belong to a business family. I am lucky to have all the three options healthily available to me. But the divide here is the choice of selection.

Its already been long that I have tried to perceive about the pros and cons of all the three streams. Yet the dilema of confusion persist. More number of people I meet more of personal advice I get, and I am sure you have your own too to pass on to me, but hold on till this one gets over.

I, in order to make the most aware decision, met well settled and highly acclaimed people of my family's social circle of all the fields. And the irony being I found hardly anyone acclaiming his own profession to be superior than the other. An highly earning employed person thinks there's nothing better than own independence and work, while an highly earning businessman suggests the business has evolved a lot and its not as easy in today's competitive world as a professional life. But however slyly the latter accepts that in some aspects its always good to be entrepreneur. But still everyone has his own logic to adjunct the debated topic.

Since childhood I had strong inclination towards job and profession. I remember, in my early school - 1st to 3rd grade, I did not like to say that my father is neither a doctor nor an engineer but a business man. Even till the time I been for graduation, I was so lured with high executive job profiles that I wanted to do my PG from one of the best institution. However, during my grads I got under influence of some learned men from industry, learnt about their experiences - History - the Great Men of Worlds. This affected my school of thoughts and gave me the deviated insight. And finally the entire perception changed. Today looking back I am surprised that its the same me, who looked down upon the business once is all ready to embrace it. Even my work experience of small tenure helped me to build my perception.

Such a major change in perception is still a mystery for me. But however I feel today I am more aware, and has developed the basic anvil of reasoning to make my judgement based on perception. Still whatever the decision that I take, will be based entirely on perception. And more I know, more I perceive. And as here its entirely the new road the only experience at hand is the past record of the role the perception has played in such dilemma-tic situations.

Consequently as without any experience, the entire decision maker is perception the tension, dissever and nervousness continues. It ends only once an unalterable direction is chosen.

Ye Delhi hai mere Yaar..

Been to Delhi last week for a short trip!! Loitered on many streets in and around Delhi..!!

Its an endless city, which seems to have no boundary limits. I wonder how do people commute in such a big city, especially earlier when the metros didn't exist. Still lots of places yet out of reach from Metro, and multitude are traveling from one part of city to another using government and private buses. One can travel one end to another for 4 hours and yet not be able to cross Delhi limits (in vertical or horizontal direction). Well 4 hours might seem to be some big time, however when you consider Delhi traffic which is growing at constant rate, inspite of Metros, it seems to be very feasible.

Metros is no doubt an excellent example of public transport services that any government can boost of. A well built metro with stations built in major crowded places like Chandani Chowk, Kashmiri Gate, etc is worth seeing.

Chandani Chowk, now the famous Delhi 6, is one of the most busy street of Delhi. The main road has got splendid shops and constructions which coverts the old city of Delhi. But if you enter any of the galis, viz. Parathe vali Gali, Maliwara, Nayi Sarak, etc, you get to see the real Delhi 6. Here one feels he is roaming in the main market of any UP/Bihar city. All small lanes, with no space for a car to enter, for the matter of fact even bikes are not permitted inside those lanes. The shop keepers here are running their ancestral businesses. Roadside small shops, like a cubicle where the shopkeeper is sitting at the entry of the shop waiting for customers. One might think that these shopkeepers are just trying to sustain themselves. But actually their business model gives them profit better than those of malls, shopping complex and well to do shops of Delhi. You enter these shops and you are treated with some tea, cold drink and if you are lucky than even with Chat Items like Dahi Balle, Sev Puri-Dahi Puri, etc. These area also caters to some chatpata delicacies of Delhi. You will also notice lack of civic sense among shop owners. Most of them do not keep a dustbin and all their litters are found loitering in front of their shops on the street. And this makes you wonder more if you are really in some tier 2 Indian city.

Well litter is a major problem of most metros and Delhi is no exception. But however to imagine a dumped stinking area near the Famous Red Fort was a blow to my expectations. Down straight the Chandani Chowk I found Red Fort. I walked down the street for about a kilometer to find that it remains closed on mondays (the day being monday). However after a look at its facet I felt being at one of the tourist place of India. The horizontol crossing street was one of the major street of Delhi and beared heavy traffic. So I decided to take the Red Fort subway to cross the road. I was shocked to see the pathos condition of the subway filled with litter and poor dwellings. It was unbelivable to see the area of so importance being so filthy. Even the other end of the subway-outside on streets, did not give a happy feeling. I felt as if all the litter of entire Chandani Chowk Area is dumped so near to the Red Fort.

Now coming to the fastest developing part of Delhi, viz area of South Delhi. With 90 Kms around Delhi being declared as NCR, cities like Noida(UP) and Gurgaon(Haryana) has bloomed extensively. Noida is now a city of Shopping Malls and Educational institutions, while Gurgaon, the most benefited one from NCR status, houses most of the Indian and Multinational Corporate Offices. The entry of Gurgaon from Delhi Expressway is such a splendour visit, esp at night, that one feels of traveling in one of the best city of world, viz. New York, London, etc. All fancy illuminated buildings and lanscapes and the state of the art infrastructure. I think now Haryana Government should declare Gurgaon as the state capital (at present day Chandigardh shares the common status of state capital for Haryana and Punjab.)

NCR has been developed with the view point of providing the modern amenities to people residing outskirts of Delhi so that they need not travel to the capital and hence the herding problem during business hour can be controlled. But today with such a fast, efficient and continous development of these(NCR) areas, it seems soon Delhities would be moving to the NCR for their day to day work.

Well to conclude I would say Ye Delhi hai mere Yaar.. Bas isqh mahobat pyaar.. Dilli dilwalo ki!!

Its a new beginning..!!

Its a new beginning..!! Indeed it is..

Its a year down from my last post. And since then lot of things had changed. Year, government, economy, attitude, thinking and the most important one my life!! Everything changed drastically since last year. There has been a new facet for all of them.

Its a year of change. And very optimistically I call this change a Good One..!! Its time to leave the past and hold the hands of future with a rejuvenated energy.

Virtual Identity

Hello Everyone, I think this should be a gr8 one!! It includes some research on my part and is one of my best shot!

Virtual Identity or Internet Identity has become a new kid on the block. Its nothing new but is probably the forgotten challenge of Internet that few of our matured and elderly person could predict. But at that time, they were chided at as outdated or superstitious people. Unfortunately, the fear has come true. And it has stuck at the time, when even that generation has joined the bandwagon called fast world of Internet. Today the only person left who doubts the efficiency or ill effects of internet are the newbies or left out ones. And in almost 9 out of 10 cases these sceptical people once become net freak tends to forget their fears.

Confused? You should be, cause if you are reading this then there are high chances that you too are a net freak and will not easily accept there are any flaw with internet. Well yes there isn't any flaw with the internet as such, but one new bit worrying concept of Virtual Identity has built up very fast. Well not binding, I would rather put it that this Virtual Identity has either or both of the aspects viz good or bad. It entirely depends on your comfortability level. However to me it has more of negative qualities then positive.

Virtual Identity: What does it mean?
Well by now you must have guessed it what exactly this word means, but anyways, here is a short definition coined by me, just for the sake of making the term clear.

Virtual Identity, is the form of Identity of person existing on internet. The basic part of it is composed of the name (can be a pen name too), while it can have other major details as the photos of friends and family, permanent residence or work address, email address, chat Id's, Likes and Dislikes, etc details revealing more and more about a person's characteristics.

Well Have you ever tried keying in your name in Google?

Try it, and if you are in Facebook, then probably the first search result is your profile. If your name is common enought then there are chances of it slipping somewhat down. If not Facebook, try it in Orkut, to get precise search, after your name enter your city's name, and in 90% case you ll get your profile, or the profile you are looking for. One more such site is Linked In, for which google has high priority result. But then Linked In is a proffessional networking rather than social networking, so lets spare Linked In here.

My Experiences with Virtual Identity:
Before pursuing further, I would like to share, from where this idea stuck me? Once while talking on the phone, a friend informed me about a guy who had called her out of the blue and has been harrassing for phone friendship. She gave me some details about the guy, that he has provided to flatter her. Now me belonging to Web Research Background was quite sure about the guy's Virtual Identity, so all I did was some basic search on few well known social networking site and with 99% surity I had not just the pic of this dude, but even his cell phone number. He had been calling from landline number to her and so there was a possibility that he used to call her from Local PCO. But then it was a break through with my researching skills as now it was not the dude who will reach us, but its we who will reach him. We surprised him by our "Hello" call on his cell phone and since then he has been in frenzy and has yet not dared to call back.

Since then, I have traced lot of information about quite a few girls, cell phone numbers in some cases, and have managed to whack some pics too. To boost about it, I have stolen the pics even from locked photo albums or from the albums visible only to friends (including Facebook profiles!!)

Boon or Bane?
This tool is so effective that one can know not just the external details about a person, but if minutely researched and refined the personality details as likes and dislikes, the attitude, key to drive one, etc can also be precisely known.

Have you ever thought that all the details you provide on net, be it any site, is being recorded somewhere, though not at same place, in this vast space called net. And to crack those details all one need is smart analytical mind. Till now most of us have pondered over the security of data which involves monetary worth, viz. Credit Card, net banking details, etc. because we have been reading about it in papers and have come accross various scams too. But now its not just limited to banks; the entire meaning of personal data has been revamped by social networking sites. You wish to share your information to get your old and lost pals but you forget the risk of getting your enemies, foes, and imposters along. Or you rather overlook them for the cost of opportunity lost by not putting up your details.

With this ever increasing ballyhoo being created by the social networking site, I think soon we would get to read in papers about the more personal data being theft. Well I dont think I need to eloborate on the fact that a personal picture when stolen can be used in any and every way.

So now you have to decide, whether this world of virtual identity is a boon or a bane for you?

Last but not the least I would suggest, even if you are very much comfortable with sharing your details, do analyse the long term impact that any information provided can get you into.

(all your feedback and comments are most welcome, the views are personal and might have error in logic, concept or description. So please feel free to point them!!)

Puzzlezz...!! (?)

Hey Guys,

Hope you all doing good!! I came across few interesting B-School Puzzles. Try and solve them. Leave your answer as comments to the post, but try and be honest!!

• 1st one:

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There is a dragon with three heads, and three tails. And hou have a sword. You can either cut 1 head or 2 head or 1 tail or 2 tails of the dragon. If you cut 1 tail, 2 new tails appear. If you cut 2 tails, one new head appears. If you cut 1 head, one new head appears. And if you cut 2 heads, nothing appears. So in minimum how many strikes can you kill the dragon i.e. cut all its heads and tails.
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• 2nd one:

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Emily writes a list of 10 numbers less than 100. Her list contains number in ascending order (i.e. smaller number appears before the greater one). Few other peculiarities of her list are: The difference between any two adjacent number is also a number in the list and when these number written in words, the total number of alphabets in each number is also is in increasing order. (i.e to say if the previous number has 3 alphabets in its word form, (eg number '2'), then the next number has more than 3 alphabets in its word form.)

Find the sum of all the 10 numbers of the list that Emily has!!
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Well dats two for now. Have one more but for that will have to make a small pictorial presentation, so will add that in this one soon!! Till then try and solve them, especially the second one, which is quite challenging..

When Right goes Wrong!!

Russia (USSR) and America, two former super powers confused the rest of the newly independent world as to which approach for an economic planning is best for the country. Russia being Socialist, in its early years dominated and proved to be more fierce full in overall development than the latter's Capitalist Economy. In the era of cold war, Russia definitely won over USA by means of strong internal (government) support to the budding innovations and discoveries. Many countries consequently fell into line and accepted the Socialist economy, though with some necessary alterations. India being one of them.

Well the simple ideological difference between Socialist and Capitalist theory is while Socialist emphasises on distribution of wealth in the society, Capitalist emphasises on creation of wealth. The latter being more logical in the sense that in former the wealth is just distributed and without emphasis on creation, and hence there is a possibility of depletion of wealth to be distributed, while the latter though just creates wealth, but by the chain process in creating wealth it automates the function of distribution of wealth, and hence it has dual aspect which includes the aspect of Socialist ideology too. Later years that followed, the Russian economists could see the end approaching as the superpower had gradually given in to diminution of wealth and economy in nation. An ideology change was required and hence forth from 1991 Russia changed its face and took a step forward to follow the booming Americans' Capitalist Economy. In the same year India too came out of the iniquity politics of Socialist Economy and turned towards Capital Economy. India, Russia, and etc countries that realized the importance of "Generation of wealth" did show a drastic recovery. The pace being so strong that they were being called as the future superpowers of world.

But today like 1991, once again the world stands on the bend where the same question but in counter way is being asked, "Is Capitalist Ideology better than Socialist?" And the question coming right from American Economy, where the creation of excessive wealth has left behind a trail of excessive liability. Liability worth Trillions of Dollar. And for which American government is looking for a socialist approach.

If you wondering how come I am blaming America of becoming socialist in its approach, then the answer is bit simple, the American government has passed the bailout package for Industries and Markets which means the government would provide them with tax payers money. And when tax payers money is in question no government can allow the companies to function independently and manipulate that money freely. It will definitely bring in interventions and accountability of government in the normal functioning of the industries. While the sole motive of any government is the welfare of its dear citizen, hence gradually the main objective of these companies too will shift from maximization of wealth to distribution of wealth and welfare to the society.

An indeed a paradoxical situation, Russia turned to Capitalist Ideology while now America has laid a foundation stone for Socialist Economy. Given such scenarios the major sufferer are the developing economies like India, which fails to brace while swinging between these ideologies. It has to empower various stratagems especially those related to Liberalization and Globalization, to maintain its due growth along with stability in economy.


And at last the hot debate over Capitalist and Socialist continues!!

And the Award goes to Gujarat

Narendra Modi is the showman. Finally after weeks of speculations and months of tussle Tata has chosen Gujarat for its Nano project. Its a feat and celebration time for Gujarat. Narendra Modi has gone an extra mile to accommodate Mr Ratan Tata in his jurisdiction by allowing concessions and discounts which fall against his rules and principles. He has been personally avere to giving concessions to industry, on the ground that such concessions given in the past had led to huge loss of revenue to the exchequer. But however he has made a win - win deal this time by easing his rigid laws and offering Tatas a amiable hand.

The enthusiasm and accolade shown by Gujarat farmers in Sanand is in total contrast to that exhibited by their counterparts in West Bengal. Here, farmers has readily agreed to sell their lands to Tatas and participate in Industrial Development, rather than to woo for the lost agricultural opportunity. I believe such ostentatious welcome by Gujarat might have made West Bengal Farmers and their conman Minister Mamta Banerjee to realize their mistake. Well anyway, their blunder came as a boon to Gujarat. It will surely bring lots of development and growth for one of the most developed state of India.

The implications of this project are better employment opportunities for people of Gujarat, better business opportunities to local vendors and suppliers, including less transportation cost and competitive prices, geographic and political growth of the suburb of Ahemadabad - Anand, more revenue to state and exchequer, and if Tata permits a comparatively cheaper prices for their final product (Nano and others in future). It also gives a boost to morale of overall investors building their trust in brand Gujarat, which will indirectly lure more of investors to Gujarat.

Gujarat already scores high in the list of states with Industrial Development and this feat is like a feather in the hat. Gujarat's present government has got one more acclamation. There could be a huge gift in store for Narendra Modi as he has just completed seven years in office as Gujarat chief minister.