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Monthly Archives: January 2009
the new (r)age of babudom!
It might be sheer imagination or a script gone wrong for all the Software guys. Add the already melting global cues and spice it up with Satyam, you get a more bitter wine which wont go down your throat.
I have chat with some of my friends who just wonder whether they have missed the boat. Well we were talking about being in Government Service, the pay slip would read some 4 digit to five digit with some 300 odd rupees increment. That is just old and history to be precise. The 6th pay commission has a great leverage for all the babus right from the Peon. Never mind he rakes in most in the intra day trading (not the shares) that he does normally.
The next in line is the teaching fraternity who have hit the ball for a six. They just cannot get enough free time these days to calculate how much they can take home. Its true that it was long overdue. The management institutions must be in real fix these days never would have thought they have to forego so much in salary when they started the college some few years back.
It all started when one reputed institution took the lead in announcing the Sixth pay commission much ahead of the Govt institutions…so it goes…
Needless to say the people in the IAS, IPS are the luckiest lot. My only concern is will this bring down corruption because it was seen as an alibi for bad payscales.
On the other front the Services have not been given their credit and due. Poor people because they have no say in voting a popular government….:(
Anyways hope this ushers in a rejuvenated class of teaching and govt fraternity to help the next generation scale higher peaks of glory…
Senthilkumar
Sponsorless Narain’s A1GP car
It pained me no bounds when I got to know Narain will be driving without any of the sponsors aboard the A1GP India car powered by Ferrari. It was an anticlimax or an paradox that the first driver who represented the nation in the pinnacle of motor sports has been left to fend for himself in such an disrespectful fashion.
Having known Mr. Narain as a professional, I am sure this is just a passing phase and his positive vibes are sure to get him back to the helm of affairs rightful place among the stars. It also puts a question mark on the viability of Indian brands to reach for the global status. That F1 anf A1GP are of international magnitude is a documented fact and A1GP received a shot in the arm with Ferrari coming on board with their 2007 F1 engine.
The races F1 and A1 have great advertising and massive television reach though A1 cannot be compared to the larger audience that F1 commands, but they are truly international in reach and making it a force to reckon with for the media guys in the advertising fraternity.
It is of course nobody’s case when Doordarshan our national broadcaster shows its door to F1 supremo Bernie few years back when he gave the TV rights on a platter but we refused because of the tobacco advertising and I fail to understand how I am watching Grand Prix a half hour show every night in DD sports and mind you its all the old broad cast files and bet you had more tobacco advertising than today…:(
Then we have Mr. Mallya with ideas that only he thinks deem fit that no Indians are worth the F1 cars that he is owning. Crass imperialist notion we Indians are known for. Like that of Slumdog Millionaire. I just cant digest an anchor like the “Prem” played by Anil Kapoor, still leaving you wonder if anyone worth his self respect can be so rude as those were played real time on small screen by Big B and SRK and ofcourse the Dus Ka Dum Sallu.
So where does it leave Indian Motorsports, not so rosy picture I guess, nevertheless that a die hard optimist that I am as always I am hopeful that there shall be some great business Samaritans to help the Team A1 GP out of the slushy pit of the financial trouble that they are in now.
Hopefully if Narain can pull it off, it will be possible only by Narain. Keep going as you say that 110% on the over drive…
So that leaves us to think about a long term plan for the motorsports industry now that Bernie has almost promised a GP an Indian GP in 2011. And let the people who are handling the Circuit do their best to get the races asap.
Here’s NK interview at ndtv.com
Signing off
R Senthilkumar aka Indian F1 fan
In defence of Satyam!?
Well, lots and lot of reams have been written about Satyam and albeit the IT industry in particular. Its nobody’s case that Satyam is a fraud of unheard of magnitude and proportion and the basic questions that haunts us is whether this is only possible with two brothers and a CEO.
My take is this. What we see is just a tip of an iceberg. There is an overall view that Mr. Raju would not have wanted everyone to be booked and given the stringency or the validation of the crime and the consequences he was a willing partner and nothing else.
For once IT industry is taking the beat to the heartiest satisfaction of all the other sectors. This was one industry which thought of sharing the profits at much larger chunk than any other industry would have ever dreamt of. Was that a little too much for the kind of employees they had. May be. Still it has to be understood in the light of Satyam Scandal. The IT companies have always been working to make the biggest profit in an economic situation which calls for better rationalisation. That has always been possible by charging the clients a huge fee by Indian Standard and a cheaper fee by American Standard. The best was yet to come when the companies decided to work with ESOP. At good times ESOP is best alternative to cash.
to be continued..
R Senthilkumar
Hello world!
Welcome to my world on the web… Hope to keep you occupied with my interests professional and personal outta here…
Been looking at changing my blog for quite sometime and here it is… I dont know if I will be regular but you thats one of my new year do’s.
See ya and catch up!..and ya thanks for dropping by….
R Senthilkumar