Friday, March 26, 2004
tum jo kehdo to aaj ki raat chand dubega nahin,
raat ko rok lo
raat ki baat hai aur zindagi baaki to nahin
tere bina zindagi se koi....
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Posted at 08:32 pm by Puneet
A wonderful article article on India
Hope you enjoy it.. Please note that the perspective is from a Pakistani's point of view.
Beyond the edge.
by Masood Hasan.
(The writer is a Lahore-based columnist and a well-known journalist , his contact email address is masood_news@hotmail.com)
THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL (Pakistani Newspaper)
The sight of Indian actress Urmilla on the rooftops of the old city of Lahore is a sight for sore eyes any time of the day. This week another 270 delegates from India among which are Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi, are expected to cross over into Pakistan. As both countries take a series of steps, gingerly to start with, there is just that little light at the end of the dark and endless tunnel that has held us "prisoners of our own device" - as The Eagles put
it in the famous number Hotel California. Will these measures lead to peace is a question for which even Tauqir Zia has no answers. All we can do is hope, pray and contribute in whatever way we can to normalise relations and bury the many hatchets that we have brandished for the last half-century.Travelling last week on the Wazirabad-Sambrial road towards Sialkot, the potholes and bumps on that narrow ribbon strip road began to revive memories of long
forgotten journeys made on that same road. I could have, after a few violent and rib-shaking miles, sworn these holes and craters were the same when one was in Kindergarten. Nothing seemed to have changed except that the dust was thicker, the pollution dismal and the people in numbers too large to comprehend. Perhaps in most of India the situation is not very much different and our much-touted smirking observations that India has huge problems might
have given us years of self-induced smugness, but things across the divide are changing at a speed that baffles the mind. Some years ago, an Indian said to a Pakistani, "It is true we are both in the gutter. The difference is, we are looking at the stars. You are looking
at the gutter."
Many of us associate India's new progress with its IT revolution and it is partly true. Indian companies like Moser-Baer located in an equally unknown Noida are now the world's third
largest optical media manufacturer and the lowest-cost producer of CD-Recorders. Exports? Only Rs 1,000 crore - Indian rupees I might add. This firm sells data-storage products to seven of the world's top 10 CD-R producers. There is another unknown. Tandon Electronics. Its hardware exports are Rs 4,000 crore.
There is more depressing data, all of it quite true and impartial. 15 of the world's major automobile makers are obtaining components from Indian companies. This business fetched India $375 million last year and in 2003 the number will be $1.5 billion. In half a decade, they will reach $15 billion. Hero Honda with 17 lakh motorcycles a year is now the largest motorcycle
manufacturer in the world. The prestigious UK automaker, Rover is marketing 1 lakh Indica cars made by Tata in Europe, under, wait a minute, its own name. Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging facility. It produces 1.2 lakh tonnes per annum and its clients include Honda, Toyota and Volvo among others.
Asian Paints now owns 22 production facilities over 5 continents and is the market leader in 11 of these countries. Hindustan Inks has the world's largest single stream fully integrated ink plant
of 1-lakh tones per annum capacity and 100% owned subsidiaries in USA and Austria. EsselPropack is the world's largest laminated tube manufacturer with presence in 11 countries and a global marketing share of 25% already. Ford has just presented its Gold World Excellence Award to India's Cooper Tyres.Other industries are winning equally prestigious awards all the time.While on cars, Aston Martin has contracted prototyping its latest luxury sports car to an Indian-based designer and is set to produce thecheapest Aston Martin ever. Suzuki, which makes Maruti in India has decided to make India its manufacturing, export and research hub
outside Japan. Hyundai India is set to become the global small car hub for the Korean giant and will produce 25,000 Santros to start with. By 2010 it is set to supply half a million cars to Hyundai Korea. HMI and Ford.
India are leaping ahead, posting astonishing results in the global markets from Brazil to China. The Indian pharmaceutical industry is blazing ahead too. At $6.5 billion and growing at 8-10% annually, it is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world. Its exports are over $2 billion. India is among the top five bulk drug makers and at home, the local industry has edged out the MNCs whose share of 75% in the market is down to 35%. Trade of medicinal
plants has crossed Rs 4,000 crore already. As for technology, India is among the three countries that have built supercomputers on their own. The other two are USA and Japan. Not a
bad club to be in, is it? India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany and Belgium. India's INSAT is among the world's largest domestic satellite communication systems.
Here are more depressing facts. India is one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres. About 9 out of 10 stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India. With China, India's arch enemy, trade has grown by 104% in the past year and in the first 5 months of 2003, India has amassed a surplus in trade close to half a million dollars. In the recession-hit West, Indian exports are up by 19% this year and the country's foreign exchange reserves stand at an all-time high of $82 (Now over 100) billion. India is dishing out aid to 11 countries, pre-paying their debt and loaned IMF $300 million!!
And since we think banning fashion shows is the way ahead, it might be interesting to know that Wal-Mart sources $1 billion worth of goods from India - half its apparel, GAP about $600 million and Hilfiger $100 million.These success stories are not propaganda and haven't happened overnight or by good fortune. The Indians have the same bureaucracy and many of the politicians simply play politics, the infrastructure creaks andpoverty abounds, corruption flourishes and there are huge pockets of inefficiency and walls that block meaningful progress.
Sure, it has an army that is not bursting with power-grabbing and subjugating its people every few years, but India's success can no longer be denied and the gap between us and them grows wider by, if I may use my childhood idiom,leaps and bounds. What makes them tick?
The answers are not simple and require great space and analysis by minds far superior to that of a weekly hack, but Cost and Brains are two factors. Add to that, a determination to rise above what faces you everyday, a vision of the stars as the man said. India provides IT services at one-tenth the price. No wonder more and more companies are basing their operations in India. An Indian MBA costs $5,000. An American MBA $120,000. Development of an automobile in the US costs $1 billion. In India, less than half. A cataract operation costs $1500 in the US. In India, $12. Bypass in the US anywhere up to Rs 6 lakhs. In India, it is Rs 40,000. Over 70 MNCs have set up R&D facilities in India in the past five years. 100 of the Fortune 500 are now present in India vs 33 in China. Intel's Indian staff strength has gone up from 10 to 1,000 in four years. GE with a $60 million invested in India employs 1,600 researchers, while it has only 100 in China. With better systems comes efficiency. The turnaround time in Indian ports is down to 4 days from 10 and its telecom infrastructure in 1999 provided a bandwidth of 155 Mbps. Today, it is 75,000 times more and with fibre optic networks in 300 cities, it will change the face of business. Mobile phones are growing by about 1.5 million a month. Long distance rates are down by two-thirds in five years and by 80% for data transmission. The facts go on and on.So what are the answers?
They lie in the way we look at things, our discourse, our vision, our ability to look ahead and our desire to genuinely put our country on the right road. The people of the subcontinent
are naturally talented and bright. When will we unleash the great potential of our people that lies dormant, crushed by the forces of evil that stop our progress for their personal agendas?
Posted at 03:07 pm by Puneet
Target 1 - IIM - Ahmedabad 2- MS in computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon Univ , New York 3- Civil services - IAS, IFS I want all three!!! and a noble prize for economics !! ********************************************* "When you want something you never had, then do something you never did" ********************************************* I AM GONNA DO IT!!
Posted at 10:15 am by Puneet
Thursday, March 25, 2004
jo kahi gayi na mujhse, wo jamana keh raha hai,
Ke fasana ban gayi hai , meri baat chalte chalte....
yuhin koi mil gaya tha..sare raah chalte chalte
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Posted at 04:33 pm by Puneet
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
am so tired today
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Sometimes I feel down, but then I remember I am the greatest person that has ever lived.
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cannot think of anything to write. excuse me for my lack of entertaining writing.
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Posted at 09:58 am by Puneet
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
I Wish I Was Homeward Bound...
Homeward Bound
-Simon And Garfunkel
I'm sitting in the railway station.
Got a ticket to my destination.
On a tour of one-night stands my suitcase and guitar in hand.
And ev'ry stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Ev'ry day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And ev'ry stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.
Homeward bound,
I wish I was,
Homeward bound,
Home where my thought's escaping,
Home where my music's playing,
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me.
Silently for me.
Posted at 03:51 pm by Puneet
hi
its nice to receive a mail from you. And its nice to know that you have been visiting my blog and have found it interesting.
the site/ blog is basically a dumping ground where i put in a lot of things trivial or important. I am not heavily into software ..but yes i have fumbled with things and have learnt to do a bit of html programming.
During my engineering, i had programmed in C and I like to spend time with computers and in the process learn something new. So, my blog is essentially not professionally designed. Actually , i am still working with it and the design will keep on evolving. Thats how it is,,with almost everything in our lives ..isnt it.
As far as the content is concerned,, well ...most of the times its the urge to share or vent out my thoughts that has led me to putting it up on the blog.Its my little corner where i put in all my thoughts and my worst fears and my little worries and apprehensions and small joys...and jeaousies...and what not...
I realize its not safe..I am opening up all my worst fears and my thoughts to perfect strangers..but its ok.
I dont keep anonymous, the blog has enough and more material to know my identity. You would have guessed i am a management student...in pune and belong to nagpur. Not a maharashtrian but nothing else too...
am an engineer and my special area of interest at this point of time is finance ...which might change with time. ..I am beginining to appreciate economics...and the best thing that could happen to me , at this time would be to go abroad for further studies. But lets see... maybe a job before that would be good. as i said,, everything in life keeps evolving...and i am caught up in this transcience.........
so long,,
take care
Posted at 01:51 pm by Puneet
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Dear Sir / Madam,
With reference to the vacancy posted at your site for the post of Business analyst – Banking Domain, please find attached my resume for consideration.
I am pursuing my Post Graduation in Management in Finance from the Institute of Management Development & Research, Pune and my curriculum ends this April.
I have consistently done live projects and assignments to keep up with the practicalities of the subjects being taught in the management curriculum. These I believe have given me an edge over others to contribute more to your organization that I aspire to work in. My summer internship in Karvy Consultants Ltd, Pune has given me a vast knowledge of the financial markets.
Although I have no prior experience in this field, I am confident that I will perform to the fullest. My conduct in the IMDR has been exemplary and my experience in working in the different committees has helped me to work better in a team keeping up to every demands.
I trust my resume will fit your requirements.
Regards
Posted at 12:50 pm by Puneet
Monday, March 15, 2004
"PRITHVI LAKHON VARSH PURAANI, JEEVAN EK ANANTH KAHAANI,
PER TAN KI APNI SEEMAYEIN, YADYAPI SAU SHARANO KI VAANI.
ITNAA KAAFI HAI ANTIM DASTAK PER KHUD DARVAZAA KHOLE,
APNE HI MAN SE KUCH BOLE.......APNE HI MAN SE KUCH BOLE........"
Posted at 03:57 pm by Puneet
Monday, March 08, 2004
Bharat ek khoj,,,one serial that i admired a lot. And llooking back ..i like the title song too...
something about this song that appeals to me,,maybe the way it was sung...or the music..dont know..but it does appeal..
so much that i actually searched for it and am putting it here on my blog,,with a translation for those of us who dont know hindi.
love
Srushtee se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin
Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhin nahin thaa
chhipaa thaa kyaa kahaan, kisne dekhaa thaa
us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa
Shushtee kaa kaun hain kartaa
Kartaa hain yeh vaa akartaa
Oonche aasmaan mein rahtaa
Sadaaa adhyaksh banaa rahtaa
Wohin sach much mein jaantaa..Yaa nahin bhi jaanataa
Hain kisi ko nahin pataa
Nahin pataa
Voh tha hiranya garbh srishti se pehle vidyamaan
Vohi to saare bhoot jaat ka swami mahaan
jo hai astitvamaana dharti aasmaan dhaaran kar
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Jis ke bal par tejomay hai ambar
Prithvi hari bhari sthapit sthir
Swarg aour sooraj bhi sthir
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Garbh mein apne agni dhaaran kar paida kar
Vyapa tha jal idhar udhar neeche upar
Jagaa chuke vo ka ekameva pran bankar
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Om ! Srishti nirmata swarg rachayta purvaj rakhsa kar
Satya dharma palak atul jal niyamak raksha kar
Phaili hain dishayen bahu jaisi uski sab mein sab par
Aisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Aisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Posted at 04:04 pm by Puneet
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