Change in my blog title

Yes, I had to change the title from 'penning my experience' to 'just a blog'.
Its well justified for the reason that there has been less write on my experience and more on the blog habit in the last few updates.

Good quote :)

All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or married to someone else

IPL IPL IPL (money money money)

Yes, the IPL fever has caught up and how!! Taste this ...

IPL 4 will have 2 new teams. Sahara bagged Pune for $370 million and Rendezvous Sports World Limited bagged Kochi for $333 million !!!!!!!!!!!! (am still counting zeroes)

This increases total number of matches to a whopping 94
Its raining sixes, boundaries, TRPs ...... and of course money!!

Coming to cricket ... Royal Challengers, Bengaluru (RCB) is my fav team, a strong contender for the trophy.

ಯುಗಾದಿ ಮರಳಿ ಬರುತಿದೆ (Yugadi is back ... again)

!! ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಹಾರ್ದಿಕ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು !!
A very happy new year to all the readers ... belated thou ;)

BTW, I am not referring to Jan 1st here !! In Hindu system new year starts for us from Ugadi (Yugadi) that happened to be on March 16th.
This is the reason why Fiscal/Financial year starts from April 1st :) April maps to 'Chaitra' maasa (maasa is month in Kannada), first month of Hindu calendar.

A heart touching performance on 'bhratru-prem' (brotherhood)

Sensible, moving performance on Zee TV's Dance India Dance by contestants Puneet & Saajan.




Very close to reality ............ the one doesn't wished to be for :(

Sachin 'Double' Tondulkar

What a delight to watch this master reaching another milestone!!!! As always a performance that others could just dream of. He is taking the game to such a height that others will really have to put so much of themselves to climb it.



Aye, Take a bow......... master :)

Have Breakfast… or…Be Breakfast!

Very interesting article from Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi, prof at IIM-B. Worth going through every word of it.
Its all about the perspective of how things are moving n where you get from ..... or where you give out!!

Hit the link below this article for the source. And and find time to read the comments as well, which are equally interesting.

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Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. The answer is: None of the above. The winner is Nokia, whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cellphones.

The reason is that cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling standalone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all.

Try this. Who runs the biggest music business in India? The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel earns more than music companies do by selling albums.

Airtel is not in the music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of a competitor is difficult to detect and even more difficult to beat. By the time you have identified him, he has already gone past you. But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy, you couldn't be further from the truth.

Nokia has reportedly acknowledged that it missed the smart-phone bus. It admits that Apple's iPhone and Google's Android can make life difficult for it in the future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, it is that there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) in this context is: "What is tomorrow's personal digital device?" And, a related question: "Who is my competitor?"

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways for international flights in India? Singapore Airlines? Indian Airlines? Maybe, but there is a more interesting answer: The videoconferencing services of Hewlett-Packard and Cisco.

Senior information technology executives in India and abroad were compelled by their headquarters to use videoconferencing to keep travel costs in check. Of course, there could be a rebound in travel. But to think that the airlines will be back to their previous business post-recession is something I would not bet on. In the short term, yes. In the long term, it is a resounding no.

Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware, where prices consistently fall. Between 1977 and 1991, prices of the now-dead VCR crashed to one third of their original levels in India. PC prices also dropped. If this trend repeats itself, then videoconferencing prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then.

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The film gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan etc). That was when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50-over cricket.

Then came the Indian Premier League and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs, reducing the game to the length of a three-hour movie. Cricket became a competitor to film. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If the IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, films would have to sequence their releases so as to not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned, both are a three-hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!"

One final illustration. Some 20 years ago, what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? An alarm clock, that monster of mechanical springs. It had to be physically wound up every day. It made so much noise that it woke you -- and the rest of the colony. What do we use today? Cellphones. An entire category of clocks practically disappeared without warning.

The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.

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Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126465641868236415.html#articleTabs%3Darticle