Friday, April 28, 2006
Fanaa
If you guys can leave Himesh Reshammiya aside for some time, you would do well to listen the track "Dekho Na" from Fanaa. It is a nice song rendered by Sonu Nigam and Sunidhi Chauhan.
The promos of the movie look really good. Check this page for more.
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Current Music : Yeh Safar/1942 A Love Story
The promos of the movie look really good. Check this page for more.
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Current Music : Yeh Safar/1942 A Love Story
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Private matters
These are depressing times in blogland. Our fav blog is dead, and the writer of this blog has himself admitted to be running out of ideas.
But then the show must go on. So I am shaking off lethargy to write something.
And these are depressing times in the political arena as well. Let us take a look at a portion of the CMP of the current UPA government. Link from Hindu.
"The UPA Government is very sensitive to the issue of affirmative action, including reservations in the private sector. It will immediately initiate a national dialogue with all political parties, industry and other organisations to see how best the private sector can fulfil the aspirations of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes youth."
Very noble intentions indeed. But if they are going to be forced upon the corporate sector in the form of quotas, then this will seriously impinge upon their competitiveness in the global market. We all know how the government has hampered the PSUs with its interference. As an example, because of the government's insistence to keep fuel prices down, the PSU oil companies like IOC, HPCL and BPCL are losing crores everyday when the global oil prices show no signs of coming down. Now wonder it is said that the State should not be in the business of running business.
The objective of a free enterprise is to maximise profit, which means it needs to hire the best people to do the job. The private sector has been a shining example of the free market and, it would be in India's interest to maintain it like that.
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Current Music : Chand Sifarish/Fanaa
(Somehow, I like the antara more than the mukhda, nice song !)
But then the show must go on. So I am shaking off lethargy to write something.
And these are depressing times in the political arena as well. Let us take a look at a portion of the CMP of the current UPA government. Link from Hindu.
"The UPA Government is very sensitive to the issue of affirmative action, including reservations in the private sector. It will immediately initiate a national dialogue with all political parties, industry and other organisations to see how best the private sector can fulfil the aspirations of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes youth."
Very noble intentions indeed. But if they are going to be forced upon the corporate sector in the form of quotas, then this will seriously impinge upon their competitiveness in the global market. We all know how the government has hampered the PSUs with its interference. As an example, because of the government's insistence to keep fuel prices down, the PSU oil companies like IOC, HPCL and BPCL are losing crores everyday when the global oil prices show no signs of coming down. Now wonder it is said that the State should not be in the business of running business.
The objective of a free enterprise is to maximise profit, which means it needs to hire the best people to do the job. The private sector has been a shining example of the free market and, it would be in India's interest to maintain it like that.
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Current Music : Chand Sifarish/Fanaa
(Somehow, I like the antara more than the mukhda, nice song !)
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The hand and the lotus
I realise that in the recent past, I had gone overboard in my praise of the Indian GOP (Grand Old Party i.e. Congress). As if to blunt it, they have done something which would force any rational person to rethink his support. With the proposal to get the IITs and IIMs have additional 27% quotas, they have set the clock back. And the timing of the declaration is suspect, coming just when five state assemblies are going to elect new governments. But the jury is still out whether Mandal - II is going to fetch any dividends for its proponents as Mandal - I did.
Coming to the BJP, L. K. Advani is on a Bharat Suraksha Yatra (if anybody really cares about it). It was in Pune yesterday(again, if it bothers you). The BJP has clearly run out of ideas and is yet to forget its debacle in the 2004 general elections.
TCA Srinivas Raghavan has written a nice article in Business Standard where he argues that the Indian political parties have one thing in common - contempt for people, and that they are refusing to change with time.
Coming to the BJP, L. K. Advani is on a Bharat Suraksha Yatra (if anybody really cares about it). It was in Pune yesterday(again, if it bothers you). The BJP has clearly run out of ideas and is yet to forget its debacle in the 2004 general elections.
TCA Srinivas Raghavan has written a nice article in Business Standard where he argues that the Indian political parties have one thing in common - contempt for people, and that they are refusing to change with time.
