Can The Elephant Dance once again?

Well, after the downfall of the Indian rupee, it has become rather fashionable these days, to discuss & judge the capability of the Indian economy & ability of Indian people. We should not forget the achievements of Indians. Some of the very daunting I have mentioned below:

• The current Android division & Chrome Division of the Google is being handled by an Indian. Mr. Sunder Pichai.
• It was an Indian professor Mr. Amit Singhal who rewrite the code (Ranking Algorithm) of Google after Larry page & Sergey Brin messed up with it. 
• To my surprise it was actually an Indian professor from IIT Kanpur who came up with the idea of Google, wrote the thesis which was then eventually read by Larry page and Sergey Brin after his death. 
• Speaking of the knowledge, In 1930 Albert Einstein called Rabindranath Tagore to Germany to discuss the idea of Science and Religion.

        If we don't forget our past, more than 25% of the Indian professors are working abroad. Around 5 dozen Indian IT companies are in silicon valley. 1/3rd of the world’s software is being produced by the Indian firm. Because of Indian IT Industry IT-Knowledge from a noun has become an “adjective”. The verb Bangalored for that matter. The key operating components of Apple’s iPod were invented by the Hyderabad Company PortalPlayer.  More than 60% of the ICICI customers are out of India.  Genpact is the first company of the world who initiated the process of call centre.

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Well one can never forget the Indian Entertainment Industry. As per The Reuters, The second biggest consulting industry in the world is “Bollywood”. By 2009, Hollywood earns $1 Trillion in a year but Bollywood earns $244 Trillion in a year. There is a group of people in a village in Senegal of United states, who takes a bus once a month to the capital city of Dakar, just to watch a Bollywood movie. They can’t understand the dialogue. They are illiterate; they even can’t read the French subtitles. But, these movies are made to be understood despite such handicaps, and they have a great time enjoying the song and the dance of the movies.

And this is happening more and more. Afghanistan: we know what a serious security problem they have. India doesn’t have a military mission there. But still one can see the effect of Indian culture over there. You couldn’t try to call an Afghan at 8:30 in the evening. Because that was the moment when the Indian television soap opera, Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi from 2003 to 2007, dubbed into Dari, was telecast on Tolo T.V. And it was the most popular television show in Afghan history. Every Afghan family wanted to watch it. They had to suspend functions at 8:30. Weddings were reported to be interrupted so guests could cluster around the T.V. set at 8.30, and then turn their attention back to the bride and groom. Crime went up at 8:30. This was actually mentioned in the Reuters that at that time how robbers in the town of Mazhar-i-Sharif stripped a vehicle of its windshield wipers, its hubcaps, its sideview mirrors, any moving part they could find, at 8:30, because the watchmen were busy watching the T.V. rather than minding the store. And they scrawled on the windshield in a reference to the show’s heroine, 'Tulsi Zindabad' & 'Long Live Tulsi'.

With so much influence on the world, Elephant yes can dance once again.

Indian Constructors Killed in Afghanistan - Top 5 Wikileaks till now

1. Indians Killed in Afghanistan

After the infamous aftermath in Afghanistan by the US, Afghan President Hamid Karzai & his Council decided to rebuild the demolished infrastructure of Afghanistan. Karzai signed few tenders with the Indian Builders to rebuild roads & offices in Kabul & in other adjacent states from 2008 till further. According to the cable releases by the Whistleblower - Wikileaks, several Indians Constructors & workers were killed by the Pakistan Forces & other insurgent groups in the span of 2 years. While on the other hand the Afghan Government are denying this fact altogether & claiming that Wikileak facts are nebulous & are here to abhor the India & Afghanistan relationship.

2. American Soldiers  Killed Civilians in Iraq

Horrifying video footage showing 15 people including two Reuters journalists being shot dead by a US Army Apache helicopter gunman, taken from the helicopter's gun camera, appalled the world when it was released on Wikileaks.

The crew were heard laughing at the "dead b-----ds" and saying "light 'em up!" and "keep shooting, keep shooting". 

The US military has refused to discipline the helicopter's crew, saying that there were "insurgents and reporters in an area where US forces were about to be ambushed.

"At the time we weren't able to discern whether (Reuters employees) were carrying cameras or weapons."

The brother of one of the dead Reuters journalists was sceptical: "My question is how could those highly skilled American pilots with all their hi-tech information not distinguish between a camera and a rocket launcher." 

3. Sarah Palin’s Email Account
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, the private Yahoo email account of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was hacked, revealing that she was using it for official business. It was alleged that this was in part to avoid American public record laws.

Well, According to the US Laws no Government official can use anything privately during the tenure of his/her service to the United States & more importantly not during the Elections/Campaigning. Even President Obama's Blackberry is being scrutinized regularly by The White House Officials.

Now what the hell she was doing...that only she or God knew.

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Shoddy Indian Journalism - Top 5 Wikileaks till now

4. Guantanamo Bay operating procedures - HELL ON EARTH 

Now this I termed as Barbaric.

To the inkling fact if heaven exists on earth then so does HELL!!!...Guantanamo Bay is one such thing. Its a so called famous prison of United States.

The "Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta", the US Army manual for soldiers dealing with prisoners at Camp Delta, was released on Wikileaks. Human rights groups were concerned to discover that according to official guidelines, prisoners could be denied access to the Red Cross/Health Services for up to four weeks. It also showed that inmates could earn "special rewards" for good behavior and cooperation - and that one such "reward" was a roll of toilet paper. 

They were not allowed even to get a TOILED PAPER!!!!

5. Shoddy Indian Journalism

You do not need to be a journalist to understand the basic premise of ethics, which starts with
protecting victims first; and that is done by avoiding key information from being aired publicly - such as but not limited to revealing the number of possible people still in, the hideouts of hostages & people stuck in building.

• In one instance Barkha Dutt asked a husband about his wife being stuck, or held as a hostage. The poor guy adds in the end about where she was last hiding. And that Info get Aired! My dear friends with AK-47s, our national news is helping you. Go get those still in. And be sure to thank NDTV for not censoring this bit of information. The terrorists were watching this on Television, they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about them on TV.
  
• Another instance, during the Kargil conflict, Indian Army sources repeatedly complained to her channel that she was giving away locations in her broadcasts, thus causing Indian casualties.
• In fact, Hemant Karkare died because these channels showed him prepare (wear helmet, wear bullet-proof vest.) in excruciating detail live on television. And they in turn targeted him where he was unprotected. The brave officer succumbed to bullets in the neck.
  

What the Hell is this goin on man!!!!....

In the interval of this story US warned Julian Assange, the father of Wikileaks, to stop publishing the statements & the work is being marked as illegal. Though he is now hailed as ‘Rising Star’ of investigative journalism by a section of the media.

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7 things you shouldn't do before writing CAT - My CAT Story: Part 2/3: My Center was closed

Glossary:

Pagalguy.com: It is a famous website for the MBA preparation.

Prometric: Company conducting online CAT on behalf of the IIM's.

Note: Its a bit boring part because i have to write the mistakes as brief as possible, so its your choice to read it or skim it.

PART 2: My Center was closed

Now its 3 days before CAT.

19/11/2010

"Who the hell is disturbing me. Who is there, damn it, stop pounding me you cold handsss..."

"Wake up bhaiya, your mom ordered me to put cold wet hands on your face."

"Leave me...leave me alone chandu i am not over yet"

"Bhaiya, its already over...you are overslept again today & by the way you have a phone call from some Sushmitaaa...of a male voice"

"Whats the time now? & its not sushmita chandu its Sush stop looking me like i am a Homosexual"

"Its 12:30pm & only 3 days are left for your CAT. & please don't call him Sush...its sushant"

"Ohh shittttt...ohh shittt...time is running time is running...i haven't even revised Quant wholly...please goddd have some patience...have some patience"

Well, chandu is our servant's son, always obeying & nevertheless mischievous.

Me on phone with Sush: Your call is on hold please stay on the line. Your call is on hold please stay on the line.

Sush: Come on you stupid i know your voice, give up now.

Me: ya whats the matter sush, stop calling me now i am a busy man.

Sush: ya i know how much you are busy...duh. I want to inform you that we haven't yet downloaded our Admit card, so if you some time call prometric & retrieve our passwords. It slipped of my mind.

Me: Ok i will do that, even i forget mine.

Sush gave me the number of Prometric. It was 1-800-xxx-9293 & i mistakenly dialed 1-800-xxx-2993 instead.

Operator: Hello Sir, how many kids do you have?

Me: I am unmarried sir. And does it have any significance with my enrollment.

Operator: Yes it does obviously.

I was wondering how come IIM were concerned about how nay kids did i have..!!!

Then after some discussion i got to know that i dialed a wrong number to some prep school for infants.

I put down the phone, checked the number & now this time it was prometric. I got our passwords & gave this to Sush & we printed our Admit Cards.

20/11/2010

Two days before CAT.

As i was a last minute person i thought i should practice some questions to get the feel of the paper. I solved 50 odd questions of English & out of that 50, 38 went wrong. Moreover i got a message from Roy that he had scored 98%tile in a Mock Test which we gave a week before, in which i scored a dismal 92. It heightened me & my preparation fumbled. In a rush to revise everything on the last days, everything went wrong. Nothing was on the track, atleast it looked like.

21/11/2010

A Day before my CAT.

I was on Pagalguy the whole day, practiced as much as i could & gained some momentum though. In order to revise everything, i forgot to sleep on time & went to bed at 5 in the morning, read the line again...at 5 in the morning, whereas i had to leave my house at 11:30 in the morning in order to write my paper which was scheduled on 3:30pm. So there were just 6hours left. I slept for 4 hours & woke up at 9 & got ready till 11.

22/11/2010

D-Day.

Note: Our center was at Under Construction Badarpur Metro Station & we had to put down at Sarita Vihar which was 2 stations prior to it. 

As me & Sushant had opted for the same center & same timing so i planned to meet him in Sarita Vihar Metro Station at 1:20pm. The reporting time was half past 1 & our exams was on 3:30pm. To add further, we were on NH-2, no bus nothing so we thought its just about 2 damn metro stations & so planned to take a stroll.

After 25minutes of walk.

"It seems i am gonna die walking G."

"I think we have done a blunder. We forgot to check the location on Google Maps Sush. Its our prejudice that the stations should be nearby but its not."

We talked to one of the passer by & confirmed that the distance between our venue & Sarita Vihar is of 6 kilometers. & we only had covered 2km mere.

Around 2:15pm we were there on the gate of the Delhi Business School, walked around an hour, & nobody was there outside of the Venue & it seemed that the building was closed.

The Building was Closed!!!!...