BRAToSPHERE

Author: Bharat Jhurani

  • >VelaGiri

    >Heard of a lot of RGGIRI when i entered IIML. how rampant it is? How it creates rifts between friends? and the dreaded outfalls of it. BUt never ever thought i would get involved in VelaGiri – Process of doing nothing fruitful and wasting all the time on hand.

    Something that i wrote in my diary last night – “Wasted the entire day, without opening the book for a single minute. 12 midnight now, royalstag bottle lying on the bed seductively, and yesterday’s hangover still looming large in the head. ‘anger Management’ movie ready on the lappy and have just completed ‘Sorry Bhai’.Ah! Now this is how hectic IIM life is!!“

    Especially after this PPO thing i have become quite laid back in life. not interested in anything, be ready to rebel anyone, don’t care attitude. Doing everything which i am actually not. Why? joblessness!! they say it right ” An empty mind is the devil’s workshop”, and amm sue the devil is having a gala time in this workshop. Very active indeed.

    Have an exam tomorrow, and have still not opened the book. Initially i had thought that i have two days of holidays before the exam and would complete the entire text twice and even practice problems on the software. now i doubt if i would even be able to complete the text half way through. Huh! VelaGiri!!!

  • >Now Assam

    >Where is India headed??

    Still when the Mumbai terror war is fresh in the minds, and the city is still in state of reconciliation, there it is – Bomb Blasts in a train in Assam

    From the south west state to the north east, the terror engulfs the whole nation.
    This is what the Indian Express has to say about the assam blasts:
    Three persons, including a child, were killed and 30 others injured on Tuesday in a bomb blast suspected to have been triggered by a militant outfit in a passenger train in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district.

    Police sources said the bomb, kept inside coach number 8209 of 901 Lumding-Tinsukia passenger train, exploded around 8 am as it entered Diphu railway station.

    They said they suspected militants belonging to Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF), which has given an indefinite call for economic blockade in the Karbi Anglong region in Assam from this morning to press their 10-point demand, to have planted the bomb.

    However, no one has claimed responsibility yet.

    But coordinated bomb blasts in Assam in October, which killed at least 77 people, were blamed on Islamist militants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

    After 9/11, travel by air became unsafe, and trains the next option. stay safely in hotels, but then the Mumbai blasts don’t allow you that. And now the trains..

    is staying at home the only option?? Not exactly!! Not heard about Earthquakes, or maybe the criminal assualts and robbery and stuff?

    So, the end conclusion – YOU ARE NOT SAFE ANYWHERE.
    On a lighter note i would say the terrorists need some kind of co-ordination. Harm all places, leaving one, and then by law of human nature, the whole population would shift there. So is pakistan (nothing against the country, just needed an example) safe?? nah! Remember that blasts in the hotel, quite recently.

    In all this turmoil, i guess my room no. 1053 in the IIML campus is the safest place, except for the assault by Himesh Reshamiya songs, and old flop hindi movies which my neighbours have to put up with.

  • >WORLD AIDS DAY

    >Sorry guys. Long time. Was so busy caught up in so many things, that this part of my life got totally ignored.
    1. Mid terms (Time in L that i can actually blog the most!!!)
    2. Trip to MICA
    3. Summer Placements
    4. Cadbury PPO and my subsequent acceptance of the same (yes yes! I am joining cadbury)
    5. Parties.. thnx to our international friends.. The frequesncy of parties just got too high
    6. loadsa other things…

    more about all of these in subsequent posts, which i promise would not be long.

    For now, i just wanted to kick start the posting thing again, after this long hiatus. So inspite of me still being caught up (This time in academic projects), i wanted to post this from ARBIT MBA.

    Funny take on MBA and the after effects on people surviving this two year fun ordeal.

    For the uninitiated (which i am sure and hope is a very small minority and more better none at all), World aids day according to Wiki..

    World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day. Government and health officials also observe the event, often with speeches or forums on the AIDS topics. Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an official proclamation on World AIDS Day. Governments of other nations have followed suit and issued similar announcements.

    AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007,and an estimated 33 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007,making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 2 million lives in 2007,of which about 270,000 were children

    Signing off for now, with the promise of coming back soon

  • >Google Chrome and baba Ramdev

    >Swami Ramdev , also known as Baba Ramdev, is an Indian, Hindu swami and an ardent admiror of Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. He is particularly well-known for his efforts in popularizing Yoga. He is also one of the founders of the Divya Yoga Mandir Trust that aims to popularize Yoga and offer Ayurvedic treatments.

    His camps are attended by a large number of people. Over 85 million people follow his yoga camps via TV channels, and video. His yog teaching sessions are for the masses and free for all. His stated principle in life is to be of help to all and as such the sessions are conducted free of charge.

    He also insists that the correct way to pronounce Yoga is Yog, as is done in Devanagari-based languages like Sanskrit.( Source: Wiki)

    Wait. What amm i doing? Talking about baba n cadre on my collegian blog. Have i got into Yoga, or Yog as baba would prefer? nah! i am still the same old Bharat Jhurani, who likes eating pani puri, and loves masala hindi movies.

    This is just to draw up a link between two very unusual things, and show where marketing can lead to. Creativity.

    Anyways, now lets talk about Google chrome, yes the google browser that has been making waves within less than a month of its launch. According to statistics reported by Market Share, Internet Explorer lost 1.63 percent of the Web browser market, falling from 72.15 percent to 71.52 percent from August to September. Mozilla’s Firefox, which has been hovering around 20 percent in share since May 2008, dipped slightly to 19.46 percent, down from 19.73 percent in August. Google’s shiny Chrome browser claimed less than 1 percent of the Web browser market, capturing .78 percent for the month of September.

    The fluctuations may not seem like much, with IE still dominating the Web browser market. But the numbers are interesting to look at on a monthly basis because they point to overall trends and browsing habits. And the biggest trend right now is that IE is losing some of its market.

    The numbers from Market Share seem to reflect the need for Web browser companies to always be in front of their users. Internet Explorer can certainly relate.

    As the numbers continue to fluctuate —and there is no indication that they’ll level off—the more visible browsers need to continue to fight to hang onto what they’ve already established.

    For Internet Explorer it was Firefox, Opera and Safari. Now that Google’s Chrome is in the mix, it will be interesting to see if and how the numbers continue to shift.

    So, google chrome has indeed been creating ripples.

    So what? What about Baba Ramdev? ” you can’t just leave that part dangling” I can hear these anguishes. Here is the link. This picture.

    Marketing at its best i should say. targeted right to the techies of Gurgaon, who in all probability were the first users of Chrome in India, and then showing them a connect to Yog. Awesome Babji, you rock. Only that it would take much more than marketing to convince a marketing student. Maybe a little motivation (not little lots of it!), and convictioin would pull me towards it. Not marketing for sure.

    S

  • >Working Overtime

    >This one is for all those.. working. n working in the sense, getting paid to work. Like, in a office kinda setup.

    Most of my friends are into Service companies… typical TCS, INFY types, and many more who were there but left soon not being able to handle their work.

    What i get to hear from them is that overtime is something pretty common these days. You go to the office in the morning, open up your mailbox, promising yourself a smoke after reading the mails. nd what do you see there? ” WORK ASSIGNED – COMPLETE BY EOD”.
    This 3 letter abbreviation EOD, meaning End Of Day, is the most terrible thing that has been coined.

    It just means, the work is supposed to be done before you leave office, and that may even mean not needing to come again the next day, coz you very well might not leave that night.

    In this regard, with all sympathies from a JOBLESS person (yes guys, i have never ever worked and earned money, not counting my stint in Cadbury – that was mere internship). Here to bring a small smile on their wrinkled face, which any Software Engineer, would get in 3 months of joining, i present a small cartoon.


    Do look and smile by EOD guys!!