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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
HUMOR : Instructions for use - 1. Insert foot in mouthI couldn't resist putting up this comment from Aqua on Jivha's post about google bombing The Times of India as "The Dishrag of India". i tried your google bomb. typed "dishrag of india" in google and clicked on "i'm feeling lucky". got redirected to your blog instead http://www.jivha.com/blog/archives/000806.html.Jivha has just learnt the perils of that famous statement "A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing", when he learnt how to google bomb the ToI, but not how to keep them at the top :)
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
SPORTS : Gentlemen, we got 'emIt's been a long, long time and I'm savouring every moment of it. The only people I can curse today is the damn ministry of Information and Broadcasting for introducing CAS in Chennai only. My first thought in the morning was "Hello. What's the score?" and thanks to some nifty sms-features by cricinfo I have been updating myself with the score for the match. And what a match it has been. The Indian teams of the past are known for their meekness and their fallability while travelling abroad. They called us poor travellers. They called us susceptible to the "chin music". They said we didn't have the pace/skill to handle Australia. Well, look at Zaheer. Look at Nehra. Look at Agarkar. Look at Kumble (*wink*). Well, they can no longer look for the reasons Australia lost. While Buchanan can call their batting immature, and others can look for a million reasons why Australia lost, there's simply one answer. They didn't. We won. We first stood up to them at the Gabba. Then we knocked them down with that sucker punch. A sweet right-arm from Dravid and the left-armer from Agarkar. Both of whom don't have happy memories from their last tour of Australia. Dravid, in his last tour arrived with a 52-ish average and left with a 48-ish average. Ajit "Bombay Duck" Agarkar would have nightmares about his series with his record-breaking series of runs - 0(1), 0(1),0(1),0(1),0(2), and then two ducks when they came to India. Slowly, but steadily the demons of the past are being banished - one in Zimbabwe, one in WI, one in England - to condemn Steve Waugh to only his second home test defeat as a captain. And that's no mean task. The Aussies couldn't handle the calmness that was Dravid. 305 runs in a test match, playing the Aussies at home is awesome. Laxman who's taken a liking to the Aussies since the last test of the last tour with that spanking 165 couldn't get enough. Tendulkar who till the beginning of India's second innings had taken more wickets on the tour than taken runs, with his never-say-die attitude. Parthiv Patel, that puny little chap, who managed that 31 incredible runs in the first innings. Kumble, dropped in the first, back with a vengeance with his fiver in the second. And of course, Captain Courageous, who with his attitude simply demonstrates that we're no pushovers. Here's a statistic that says it all. Steve Waugh has lost only 8 tests in his 60 matches a captain. Three of them have been against India. We ARE the final frontier. P.S. I haven't stopped humming "Jitna bazoo utne sar, gin le dushman dhyaan se. Hare ga woh har baazi, jab khelenge jee jaan se" all through the morning. P.P.S. I wish I was in Bombay. Chennai-ites don't know how to dance in the streets. And they don't know how to celebrate.
Monday, December 15, 2003
MEDIA : The Resident Idiot, Former senior editor At the Dishrag of India.The Indian media's Resident Idiot, Prafool Bidwai, has gone off shooting his mouth again, this time not at the expense of Rediff, but the more prestigious (?) BBC. In an article on why call centers are bad for India, he mixes oranges and apples. Perhaps spurred on by the recent debates in the UK, about the seriousness and the economic losses due to IT outsourcing, Mr. Resident Idiot has jumped onto the bandwagon with his absurdities. Here are some of his valuable comments on the article - "There is a kind of irrational exuberance about the prospects of this kind of low-paid, low-value-addition work which creates this content both here and in the West, where people are losing jobs.The Resident Idiot doesn't seem to understand that with the current high population growth and the churning out of engineering graduates from Indian engineering colleges, there is a huge band of jobs being created within the IT/ITES sector. While call center jobs lie at the extreme lower end of this band, the Wipros and Infosys's are at the higher end. And that the annual churnout has to be accomodated within this band and other newer sectors that are coming in. This annual churnout too, has a band in terms of skills and aptitude, which blends well with the band on the job sector. He then goes on to state He also said the Indian government was pinning too much of India's future on the industry as a "catch-all" solution to the country's problems... which is absurd because he doesn't understand the social division between the people who work at call centers and those who he declares to be in a "state of deprivation". The government, which you can lay blame for a substantial amount of this countries woes, isn't responsible for the corporate development and cannot govern the flow of jobs/services/work into the country at such a micro- level. Economic development for poverty alleviation is one thing and call center job are a completely other thing. It isn't that a homeless bum is being made to work in a call center by the Government. Lastly what the Resident Idiot doesn't understand is the economic development in terms of better exposure to foreign markets, and the economics of spending. The salaries which are being earned by these employees will eventually be pushed back into the economy in other sectors in terms of proportional spending. P.S. I think I'll just google-bomb Mr. Praful Bidwai as the Resident Idiot. I've had enough of him. Seriously.
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