Mouli's thoughts and musics over two decades
Fantastic short about Eric Hollenbeck – a master wood worker in the red woods forests of California. Watch it.
There are some subtle yet deep philosophies in this video.
The last segment is priceless. And I quote here:
India’s impact
India has had a big impact. Sun Microsystems was founded by someone who’d been to an IT university in India. And here in Silicon Valley, there is evidence that 40 percent of the entrepreneurs are Indian foreign born. So it gives you a sense of the scale and reach of Indian entrepreneurs outside of the country. So the problem is not the Indians, the problem is the country. And the country appears to be relatively dysfunctional politically, and has some corruption issues. You can see the potential when the Indians come here. Imagine if they were there and they were doing the same things with the same kind of structure. They’d change the world.
There are some portions of the interview which may seem condescending towards India – for some viewers. But if you look at it objectively, it is the truth. For example, where he talks about the state of the broadband in the US vs India.
There are some great observations as well – for example, the potential of 4G LTE to disrupt the internet space. I think he is right. It is difficult to improve something as physical as broadband infrastructure. However, the cell phone telephony infrastructure is already there.
Similarly is the alternative of improving on wifi hotspots. This way the high data rates are avoided.
Source: mckinsey.com
Wow. This is awesome. Check out the take-off and landing. Nice. (via G.A.S)
If you buy vegetables/sprouts from Town Essentials or Bigbasket (or even cut vegetables from Namdhari’s in Bangalore), you get the vegetables in these light weight plastic trays (see below).
For a long time, my wife was wondering what to do with these. This post is dedicated to her lastest reuse idea.
Step 1: Take the veggies out. Clean the tray.
Step 2: Line the insides with news paper cut to size.
Step 3: You can now use this tray to keep Oil containers. This prevents them from soiling your counter top, and also makes sure they dont slip and fall etc.
Voila. These plastic trays now have a good use.
This is awesome. I am sure it ensures that every passenger gets to view the safety video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiPIHsIg&feature=youtu.be
Hilarious.
This is beautiful and inspiring.
I got this in a chain mail yesterday. I was thinking very hard whether to post it in my blog or not. I was afraid if folks would brand me as discriminatory. After a lot of thought, I think there is nothing wrong posting this here. It is the sad truth in many parts of the country. I am not generalizing here. There may be pockets where this is not the norm. But it is the sad state of affairs.
Original Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant’s a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant’s house.
Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .
Mayawati states this as ‘injustice’ done on Grasshopper .
Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven & Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .
Opposition MPs stage a walkout.
Left parties call for ‘Bengal Bandh’ in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the ‘Grasshopper Rath’.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ‘Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act'[POTAGA] , with effect from the beginning of the winter..
Kapil sibal makes ‘Special Reservation’ for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions in Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, it’s home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV, BBC, CNN.
Arundhati Roy calls it ‘A Triumph of Justice’. Lalu calls it ‘Socialistic Justice’. CPM calls it the ‘Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden’ Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later…
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley , 100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ,
….AND As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country…!!
Harvard Business School professor, Rohit Deshpande, did a case study on the employees of the Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai. On the fateful day of the terrorist attack, not one of the 600 employees ran away. All of them stayed back and helped the guests evacuate. Out of the 34 people who died that night, half were staff.