I notice that you have higher marks in 12th & MS as compared to 10th & BCA. One suggestion might be to remove the mark from every where - or - just keep 12th and MS degree in your resume with their marks - remove 10th & BCA.
Do you want to move Java from Internet Applications to Languages line? If you really meant the java used in web pages, may be you might want to put JavaScript instead.
Consider expanding your projects - reducing or realigning in single line the items like: address on top, hallmarks, hobbies.
I am afraid you are giving too much of personal information. If possible remove every thing - except the languages known - that you an move it up.
Try to keep it just one page resume.
You normally don't have to declare and sign at the bottom - in the IT industry.
Consider rearranging the top name and address some thing like a letter head.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Comparison shopping
Taking On The Comparison Shopping Gorillas
Tom Taulli, 09.28.05, 12:00 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Online comparison shopping has undergone several waves of consolidation. The first wave was from 1998 to 2001, when such companies as Junglee, C2B, Liquid Market, Cadabra and MySimon sold out.
In the past year, we've seen another wave, with targets such as PriceRunner, LowerMyBills.com, Kelkoo, Shopzilla, Shopping.com. Because of this, big gorillas--like Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )--are now in the shopping comparison game.
Too late for new entrants? Definitely not. Actually, there are next-gen comparison shopping sites hitting the Net.
One example is MyRatePlan.com, which focuses primarily on comparison shopping for cell phones. Before starting the business, Allan Keiter did pricing work for UPS (nyse: UPS - news - people ), Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ), and BellSouth Cellular (which is now part of Cingular). "During my time at Continental," said Keiter, "the Web came into vogue as a way to compare airfares, purchase travel and, from the airline's perspective, take distribution costs out of the system. Then, while at BellSouth, it dawned on me that buying wireless wasn't really fundamentally different from buying an airfare, because it would eventually become a commodity mostly shopped on price, and therefore the industry would follow the same general distribution path."
He tried to convince BellSouth Cellular to go online--but was rebuffed. Getting weary of big company bureaucracy, Keiter developed his own system, using more than 100 calculations on cellular rate plans.
No doubt, Keiter realizes the competition in comparison shopping is fierce and that, to thrive, he needs a compelling value proposition. What sets him apart? "Our site attempts to build comparisons around the way people shop for a service. This is different from other shopping comparison sites, which uses a set shopping platform that is applied across everything from can openers to laptops to women's dresses," he says.
With wireless, there are two components: a product (the phone) and service (the rate plan). Simply put, this just does not really fit the model of most shopping comparison sites. "Our site is set up so that people can start with either of these components and create a customized solution unique to their usage or needs," said Keiter. "As a result, we have a fairly unique niche that the other shopping sites really don't compete directly with."
Another online comparison shopping site, FatLens, also believes it has its own unique edge. Basically, the company initially targeted a category that was not part of shopping comparison; that is, event tickets. "This is a very difficult category," said Siva Kumar, the co-founder of FatLens. "For instance, inventory and prices change frequently. We thought that if we could build something that would be effective for event tickets, we could use our technology for other complex categories."
Unlike a typical shopping comparison site--which gets its content from merchants-- FatLens has another approach: it uses technology to crawl and spider the Web to index e-tailers. Think of it as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) meets comparison shopping.
Example: Suppose you search for "Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) Bluetooth Headset." Well, you will not get listings from other manufacturers. What's more, the results are ordered by the Consumer Merchant Preference (CMP) ranking, which prioritizes results using consumers' aggregate purchasing and search preferences (this is similar to how PageRank works with the Google search engine). This means that the first results shown are exactly what all other consumers found as the most important for that specific search in that category.
The FatLens search engine interface is optimized for shopping search. The site's Wish List feature enables shoppers to save product search results. Users can then come back at a later time to look at items of interest, or easily compare multiple items from different searches. And, just like other search engines, FatLens does not include extraneous capabilities such as merchant grading systems, user reviews or feature comparisons.
Another interesting player in the space is Smarter.com. Some of the cool features include: online coupons and cash-back rewards. In fact, there is an SMS (Short Messaging Service) service that will automatically send you alerts on your cell phone.
Keep in mind that Smarter.com raised no outside capital. To build its operations, the company set up operations--with 120 employees--in China. "We get more scale for our dollar by going overseas," said Harry Tsao, the co-founder of Smarter.com. "It also means we have more money to put into marketing."
Tsao estimates that the U.S. market for comparison shopping is roughly $500 million, which is only about 10% of the paid search marketplace. Furthermore, he thinks global markets are highly underserved. "We believe there is a lot of room for growth internationally and here in the U.S.," said Tsao. "I also believe innovation will continue, but will be driven by newer players. Years ago, when C/Net bought MySimon.com, what innovation did we see come after that?"
Tom Taulli, 09.28.05, 12:00 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Online comparison shopping has undergone several waves of consolidation. The first wave was from 1998 to 2001, when such companies as Junglee, C2B, Liquid Market, Cadabra and MySimon sold out.
In the past year, we've seen another wave, with targets such as PriceRunner, LowerMyBills.com, Kelkoo, Shopzilla, Shopping.com. Because of this, big gorillas--like Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )--are now in the shopping comparison game.
Too late for new entrants? Definitely not. Actually, there are next-gen comparison shopping sites hitting the Net.
One example is MyRatePlan.com, which focuses primarily on comparison shopping for cell phones. Before starting the business, Allan Keiter did pricing work for UPS (nyse: UPS - news - people ), Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ), and BellSouth Cellular (which is now part of Cingular). "During my time at Continental," said Keiter, "the Web came into vogue as a way to compare airfares, purchase travel and, from the airline's perspective, take distribution costs out of the system. Then, while at BellSouth, it dawned on me that buying wireless wasn't really fundamentally different from buying an airfare, because it would eventually become a commodity mostly shopped on price, and therefore the industry would follow the same general distribution path."
He tried to convince BellSouth Cellular to go online--but was rebuffed. Getting weary of big company bureaucracy, Keiter developed his own system, using more than 100 calculations on cellular rate plans.
No doubt, Keiter realizes the competition in comparison shopping is fierce and that, to thrive, he needs a compelling value proposition. What sets him apart? "Our site attempts to build comparisons around the way people shop for a service. This is different from other shopping comparison sites, which uses a set shopping platform that is applied across everything from can openers to laptops to women's dresses," he says.
With wireless, there are two components: a product (the phone) and service (the rate plan). Simply put, this just does not really fit the model of most shopping comparison sites. "Our site is set up so that people can start with either of these components and create a customized solution unique to their usage or needs," said Keiter. "As a result, we have a fairly unique niche that the other shopping sites really don't compete directly with."
Another online comparison shopping site, FatLens, also believes it has its own unique edge. Basically, the company initially targeted a category that was not part of shopping comparison; that is, event tickets. "This is a very difficult category," said Siva Kumar, the co-founder of FatLens. "For instance, inventory and prices change frequently. We thought that if we could build something that would be effective for event tickets, we could use our technology for other complex categories."
Unlike a typical shopping comparison site--which gets its content from merchants-- FatLens has another approach: it uses technology to crawl and spider the Web to index e-tailers. Think of it as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) meets comparison shopping.
Example: Suppose you search for "Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) Bluetooth Headset." Well, you will not get listings from other manufacturers. What's more, the results are ordered by the Consumer Merchant Preference (CMP) ranking, which prioritizes results using consumers' aggregate purchasing and search preferences (this is similar to how PageRank works with the Google search engine). This means that the first results shown are exactly what all other consumers found as the most important for that specific search in that category.
The FatLens search engine interface is optimized for shopping search. The site's Wish List feature enables shoppers to save product search results. Users can then come back at a later time to look at items of interest, or easily compare multiple items from different searches. And, just like other search engines, FatLens does not include extraneous capabilities such as merchant grading systems, user reviews or feature comparisons.
Another interesting player in the space is Smarter.com. Some of the cool features include: online coupons and cash-back rewards. In fact, there is an SMS (Short Messaging Service) service that will automatically send you alerts on your cell phone.
Keep in mind that Smarter.com raised no outside capital. To build its operations, the company set up operations--with 120 employees--in China. "We get more scale for our dollar by going overseas," said Harry Tsao, the co-founder of Smarter.com. "It also means we have more money to put into marketing."
Tsao estimates that the U.S. market for comparison shopping is roughly $500 million, which is only about 10% of the paid search marketplace. Furthermore, he thinks global markets are highly underserved. "We believe there is a lot of room for growth internationally and here in the U.S.," said Tsao. "I also believe innovation will continue, but will be driven by newer players. Years ago, when C/Net bought MySimon.com, what innovation did we see come after that?"
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
webaddressbook project
Try to write small programs to access database (MySQL) and display. Your
first program can be online contact list management - multi user
environment. To begin you can use the Microsoft Outlook's schema - so that
folks can import their address books.
For examples of working programs - check out Hotmail's addressbook, Yahoo
addressbook, www.plaxo.com or some thing like that.
Use:
Apache
MySQL
Tomcat
Windows/Linux
first program can be online contact list management - multi user
environment. To begin you can use the Microsoft Outlook's schema - so that
folks can import their address books.
For examples of working programs - check out Hotmail's addressbook, Yahoo
addressbook, www.plaxo.com or some thing like that.
Use:
Apache
MySQL
Tomcat
Windows/Linux
Sunday, August 28, 2005
open source web design
http://www.oswd.org/
Recently we registered a domain and posted 'under construction' page. Shopped around for some one who can quickly create few web pages to spread the word. I got quote from 2 sources and they were much more than $250 with couple of hours investment from me. I have basic understanding of HTML and I was wondering why we got to invest more that kind of money for the web design that is a living document - meaning will change multiple times in a year.
On a weekend we typed "web design open source" on a search engine. Clicked the first result. Picked up a design and we were able to quickly make a imageless set of web pages. All in less than 3 ours of my time. Now, I wonder if my >$250 would have to me better web site. Images take long time to load any way and I got many folks who would load the web page from lower bandwidth locations.
Wondering if open source has taken away $250 of my business from some company/individual. What would happen if this proliferation grows where every thing is open source - no one nothing gets paid. How would any one make money - would we get back to community funding as it used to happen many thousands of years.
Recently we registered a domain and posted 'under construction' page. Shopped around for some one who can quickly create few web pages to spread the word. I got quote from 2 sources and they were much more than $250 with couple of hours investment from me. I have basic understanding of HTML and I was wondering why we got to invest more that kind of money for the web design that is a living document - meaning will change multiple times in a year.
On a weekend we typed "web design open source" on a search engine. Clicked the first result. Picked up a design and we were able to quickly make a imageless set of web pages. All in less than 3 ours of my time. Now, I wonder if my >$250 would have to me better web site. Images take long time to load any way and I got many folks who would load the web page from lower bandwidth locations.
Wondering if open source has taken away $250 of my business from some company/individual. What would happen if this proliferation grows where every thing is open source - no one nothing gets paid. How would any one make money - would we get back to community funding as it used to happen many thousands of years.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
meeting 8/20
Meeting with Vijay, Murugesh, Hari and Senthil Kumar.
What’s a typical salary for CEG fresh graduate. The range I heard was 2 lakhs-4 lakhs. Hari mentioned that there was a news stating some one in 3rd sem CEG being picked up by Microsoft for 6 lakhs. This has come in news with photos.
Why is the large amount of money earned by s/w professional not going to the poor people - including farmer? What does people do with large ‘discretionary income’ by software professionals. They invest in expensive cars, cinemas, change cell phones often, make travel/vacation.
The top 5 s/w companies in India: TCS, Wipro, InfoSys, Satyam & HCL. These companies employ roughly 80% of the total s/w professionals in India. Assume each at 40K employees – we have less than 250K employees in S/w.
Big names are going for low tech work. Like ensure the cannon printer is printing fine.
When the attrition is far less – say 6%, the company has to pay the annual increments with no extra cost to client. This puts the pressure on companies to get creative and move folks around so that they can still survive. Upper management folks are tracking charts like how many people are in the team, what’s the average salary, average time in the project – and are being constantly challenged to improve these numbers – to meet the profitability needs.
TCS lay off 1000 people and this seems to have triggered issue. They were let go on performance basis. It is too difficult to explain performance in 6 months.
The reliving order is still present in India.
The normal time taken to hire a new person is 4-6 weeks. 12 weeks is not unheard off. It is normal to give 4 weeks notice to current employer in India.
ISO9000 is not too important differentiating factor – as smaller companies don’t demand such restrictions on smaller vendors. Usually the jobs are done through smart people and the process don’t add significant value.
Linux is used heavily in the org. We wish to contribute to open source. However the open source network is highly intimidating. We fear that we might make a mistake in our check in and this could bite us back. The open source code in most cases is very well written – so we got to make equally strict coding to be accepted in the inner circle. Also, the folks in open source are having long memory – so any mistake might be difficult to recover soon. The idea might be to pick up a not so popular software or a narrow market software and make contributions – instead of say, Linux core.
Our parents were more harsh on us than we are with our kids. One potential reason – our parents 40 years back were mostly trying to make the ends meet in basic form. Today the basic needs of food and shelter are all met very easily and the problem/drive are for esteem needs.
How about the idea of releasing a whole bunch of code that’s written and is laying in a corner – not being used. This has to be tested, commented and documented before offering to open source.
BPO translators are paid 2-4K a month. This raises to 10K if you can talk over the phone like an US person.
Now we are 100+.
What’s a typical salary for CEG fresh graduate. The range I heard was 2 lakhs-4 lakhs. Hari mentioned that there was a news stating some one in 3rd sem CEG being picked up by Microsoft for 6 lakhs. This has come in news with photos.
Why is the large amount of money earned by s/w professional not going to the poor people - including farmer? What does people do with large ‘discretionary income’ by software professionals. They invest in expensive cars, cinemas, change cell phones often, make travel/vacation.
The top 5 s/w companies in India: TCS, Wipro, InfoSys, Satyam & HCL. These companies employ roughly 80% of the total s/w professionals in India. Assume each at 40K employees – we have less than 250K employees in S/w.
Big names are going for low tech work. Like ensure the cannon printer is printing fine.
When the attrition is far less – say 6%, the company has to pay the annual increments with no extra cost to client. This puts the pressure on companies to get creative and move folks around so that they can still survive. Upper management folks are tracking charts like how many people are in the team, what’s the average salary, average time in the project – and are being constantly challenged to improve these numbers – to meet the profitability needs.
TCS lay off 1000 people and this seems to have triggered issue. They were let go on performance basis. It is too difficult to explain performance in 6 months.
The reliving order is still present in India.
The normal time taken to hire a new person is 4-6 weeks. 12 weeks is not unheard off. It is normal to give 4 weeks notice to current employer in India.
ISO9000 is not too important differentiating factor – as smaller companies don’t demand such restrictions on smaller vendors. Usually the jobs are done through smart people and the process don’t add significant value.
Linux is used heavily in the org. We wish to contribute to open source. However the open source network is highly intimidating. We fear that we might make a mistake in our check in and this could bite us back. The open source code in most cases is very well written – so we got to make equally strict coding to be accepted in the inner circle. Also, the folks in open source are having long memory – so any mistake might be difficult to recover soon. The idea might be to pick up a not so popular software or a narrow market software and make contributions – instead of say, Linux core.
Our parents were more harsh on us than we are with our kids. One potential reason – our parents 40 years back were mostly trying to make the ends meet in basic form. Today the basic needs of food and shelter are all met very easily and the problem/drive are for esteem needs.
How about the idea of releasing a whole bunch of code that’s written and is laying in a corner – not being used. This has to be tested, commented and documented before offering to open source.
BPO translators are paid 2-4K a month. This raises to 10K if you can talk over the phone like an US person.
Now we are 100+.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Online (Free) Translation resources
Google Language Tools
Yahoo! Search Language Tools
World Lingo Free Online Translator
AT&T Natural Voices - Demos (Interactive)
AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
Free Translation and Professional Translation Services from SDL International
FREE Text Online Translator :: PROMT Company
alphaWorks : About alphaWorks
Yahoo! Search Language Tools
World Lingo Free Online Translator
AT&T Natural Voices - Demos (Interactive)
AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
Free Translation and Professional Translation Services from SDL International
FREE Text Online Translator :: PROMT Company
alphaWorks : About alphaWorks
Monday, August 15, 2005
Company Todo
To Do List
Web Site company web site compliance
products/solutions
services
training
jobs
solutions
careers
contact us
partners
customers
Case Studies
News
Articles
Legal
Privacy Statement
Terms of Use
trademark
research
Press releases
Multiple language enable the site
corp collatral
Brocure
white paper
File to store docs
Bank Account Business Checking
Busines Credit Card
Bank of America
American Express
Grand Opening
Partners
Board of Directors
Marketting
Candidates
Template Resume
Contract with end customer
Contract with supplier
Purchase order
Invoice
expense reimbursement
Time Card
Legal Contact (H1B processing)
Things to buy Computer
iPod
Car
Camera
Video Camcorder
Web Site Hosting
Cell Phone reimbursement
Company phone
Company email accounts
Business Plan
Resources links
Web Site company web site compliance
products/solutions
services
training
jobs
solutions
careers
contact us
partners
customers
Case Studies
News
Articles
Legal
Privacy Statement
Terms of Use
trademark
research
Press releases
Multiple language enable the site
corp collatral
Brocure
white paper
File to store docs
Bank Account Business Checking
Busines Credit Card
Bank of America
American Express
Grand Opening
Partners
Board of Directors
Marketting
Candidates
Template Resume
Contract with end customer
Contract with supplier
Purchase order
Invoice
expense reimbursement
Time Card
Legal Contact (H1B processing)
Things to buy Computer
iPod
Car
Camera
Video Camcorder
Web Site Hosting
Cell Phone reimbursement
Company phone
Company email accounts
Business Plan
Resources links
comapny name search
consultancy
head hunt
mentor
tutor
training
quality
test
virtualengine
automation
factory
process improvement
large numbers
info - information
Sys - system
banyansys
banyansoft
panaitech
panaisoft
guru
namaste
inno
sys
info
tech
soft
quality
works
guru
Banyan systems
reliance
reliability
window2info
stellalight
infouniverso
qapark
qapax
qualitypax
win2info
door2tech
infoskool.com
large scale
macromini
distributed
mosaictek
tarkasys
head hunt
mentor
tutor
training
quality
test
virtualengine
automation
factory
process improvement
large numbers
info - information
Sys - system
banyansys
banyansoft
panaitech
panaisoft
guru
namaste
inno
sys
info
tech
soft
quality
works
guru
Banyan systems
reliance
reliability
window2info
stellalight
infouniverso
qapark
qapax
qualitypax
win2info
door2tech
infoskool.com
large scale
macromini
distributed
mosaictek
tarkasys
India & China potential NextGen world leaders
BusinessWeek Online
A New World Economy
Friday August 12, 4:00 pm ET
By Pete Engardio
Slide Show
It may not top the must-see list of many tourists. But to appreciate Shanghai's ambitious view of its future, there is no better place than the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, a glass-and-metal structure across from People's Square. The highlight is a scale model bigger than a basketball court of the entire metropolis -- every skyscraper, house, lane, factory, dock, and patch of green space -- in the year 2020.
There are white plastic showpiece towers designed by architects such as I.M. Pei and Sir Norman Foster. There are immense new industrial parks for autos and petrochemicals, along with new subway lines, airport runways, ribbons of expressway, and an elaborate riverfront development, site of the 2010 World Expo. Nine futuristic planned communities for 800,000 residents each, with generous parks, retail districts, man-made lakes, and nearby college campuses, rise in the suburbs. The message is clear. Shanghai already is looking well past its industrial age to its expected emergence as a global mecca of knowledge workers. "In an information economy, it is very important to have urban space with a better natural and social environment," explains Architectural Society of Shanghai President Zheng Shiling, a key city adviser.
It is easy to dismiss such dreams as bubble-economy hubris -- until you take into account the audacious goals Shanghai already has achieved. Since 1990, when the city still seemed caught in a socialist time warp, Shanghai has erected enough high-rises to fill Manhattan. The once-rundown Pudong district boasts a space-age skyline, some of the world's biggest industrial zones, dozens of research centers, and a bullet train. This is the story of China, where an extraordinary ability to mobilize workers and capital has tripled per capita income in a generation, and has eased 300 million out of poverty. Leaders now are frenetically laying the groundwork for decades of new growth.
Invaluable Role
Now hop a plane to India. It is hard to tell this is the world's other emerging superpower. Jolting sights of extreme poverty abound even in the business capitals. A lack of subways and a dearth of expressways result in nightmarish traffic.
But visit the office towers and research and development centers sprouting everywhere, and you see the miracle. Here, Indians are playing invaluable roles in the global innovation chain. Motorola, (NYSE:MOT - News) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ - News), Cisco Systems (NasdaqNM:CSCO - News), and other tech giants now rely on their Indian teams to devise software platforms and dazzling multimedia features for next-generation devices. Google (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News) principal scientist Krishna Bharat is setting up a Bangalore lab complete with colorful furniture, exercise balls, and a Yamaha organ -- like Google's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters -- to work on core search-engine technology. Indian engineering houses use 3-D computer simulations to tweak designs of everything from car engines and forklifts to aircraft wings for such clients as General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - News) and Boeing Co (NYSE:BA - News). Financial and market-research experts at outfits like B2K, OfficeTiger, and Iris crunch the latest disclosures of blue-chip companies for Wall Street. By 2010 such outsourcing work is expected to quadruple, to $56 billion a year.
Even more exhilarating is the pace of innovation, as tech hubs like Bangalore spawn companies producing their own chip designs, software, and pharmaceuticals. "I find Bangalore to be one of the most exciting places in the world," says Dan Scheinman, Cisco Systems Inc.'s senior vice-president for corporate development. "It is Silicon Valley in 1999." Beyond Bangalore, Indian companies are showing a flair for producing high-quality goods and services at ridiculously low prices, from $50 air flights and crystal-clear 2 cents-a-minute cell-phone service to $2,200 cars and cardiac operations by top surgeons at a fraction of U.S. costs. Some analysts see the beginnings of hypercompetitive multinationals. "Once they learn to sell at Indian prices with world quality, they can compete anywhere," predicts University of Michigan management guru C.K. Prahalad. Adds A. T. Kearney high-tech consultant John Ciacchella: "I don't think U.S. companies realize India is building next-generation service companies."
Simultaneous Takeoffs
China and India. Rarely has the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations been watched with such a mixture of awe, opportunism, and trepidation. The postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan and South Korea. But neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries. China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy. The closest parallel to their emergence is the saga of 19th-century America, a huge continental economy with a young, driven workforce that grabbed the lead in agriculture, apparel, and the high technologies of the era, such as steam engines, the telegraph, and electric lights.
But in a way, even America's rise falls short in comparison to what's happening now. Never has the world seen the simultaneous, sustained takeoffs of two nations that together account for one-third of the planet's population. For the past two decades, China has been growing at an astounding 9.5% a year, and India by 6%. Given their young populations, high savings, and the sheer amount of catching up they still have to do, most economists figure China and India possess the fundamentals to keep growing in the 7%-to-8% range for decades.
Barring cataclysm, within three decades India should have vaulted over Germany as the world's third-biggest economy. By mid-century, China should have overtaken the U.S. as No. 1. By then, China and India could account for half of global output. Indeed, the troika of China, India, and the U.S. -- the only industrialized nation with significant population growth -- by most projections will dwarf every other economy.
What makes the two giants especially powerful is that they complement each other's strengths. An accelerating trend is that technical and managerial skills in both China and India are becoming more important than cheap assembly labor. China will stay dominant in mass manufacturing, and is one of the few nations building multibillion-dollar electronics and heavy industrial plants. India is a rising power in software, design, services, and precision industry. This raises a provocative question: What if the two nations merge into one giant "Chindia?" Rival political and economic ambitions make that unlikely. But if their industries truly collaborate, "they would take over the world tech industry," predicts Forrester Research Inc (NasdaqNM:FORR - News). analyst Navi Radjou.
In a practical sense, the yin and yang of these immense workforces already are converging. True, annual trade between the two economies is just $14 billion. But thanks to the Internet and plunging telecom costs, multinationals are having their goods built in China with software and circuitry designed in India. As interactive design technology makes it easier to perfect virtual 3-D prototypes of everything from telecom routers to turbine generators on PCs, the distance between India's low-cost laboratories and China's low-cost factories shrinks by the month. Managers in the vanguard of globalization's new wave say the impact will be nothing less than explosive. "In a few years you'll see most companies unleashing this massive productivity surge," predicts Infosys Technologies (NasdaqNM:INFY - News) CEO Nandan M. Nilekani.
To globalization's skeptics, however, what's good for Corporate America translates into layoffs and lower pay for workers. Little wonder the West is suffering from future shock. Each new Chinese corporate takeover bid or revelation of a major Indian outsourcing deal elicits howls of protest by U.S. politicians. Washington think tanks are publishing thick white papers charting China's rapid progress in microelectronics, nanotech, and aerospace -- and painting dark scenarios about what it means for America's global leadership.
Such alarmism is understandable. But the U.S. and other established powers will have to learn to make room for China and India. For in almost every dimension -- as consumer markets, investors, producers, and users of energy and commodities -- they will be 21st-century heavyweights. The growing economic might will carry into geopolitics as well. China and India are more assertively pressing their interests in the Middle East and Africa, and China's military will likely challenge U.S. dominance in the Pacific.
One implication is that the balance of power in many technologies will likely move from West to East. An obvious reason is that China and India graduate a combined half a million engineers and scientists a year, vs. 60,000 in the U.S. In life sciences, projects the McKinsey Global Institute, the total number of young researchers in both nations will rise by 35%, to 1.6 million by 2008. The U.S. supply will drop by 11%, to 760,000. As most Western scientists will tell you, China and India already are making important contributions in medicine and materials that will help everyone. Because these nations can throw more brains at technical problems at a fraction of the cost, their contributions to innovation will grow.
Consumers Rising
American business isn't just shifting research work because Indian and Chinese brains are young, cheap, and plentiful. In many cases, these engineers combine skills -- mastery of the latest software tools, a knack for complex mathematical algorithms, and fluency in new multimedia technologies -- that often surpass those of their American counterparts. As Cisco's Scheinman puts it: "We came to India for the costs, we stayed for the quality, and we're now investing for the innovation."
A rising consumer class also will drive innovation. This year, China's passenger car market is expected to reach 3 million, No. 3 in the world. China already has the world's biggest base of cell-phone subscribers -- 350 million -- and that is expected to near 600 million by 2009. In two years, China should overtake the U.S. in homes connected to broadband. Less noticed is that India's consumer market is on the same explosive trajectory as China five years ago. Since 2000, the number of cellular subscribers has rocketed from 5.6 million to 55 million.
What's more, Chinese and Indian consumers and companies now demand the latest technologies and features. Studies show the attitudes and aspirations of today's young Chinese and Indians resemble those of Americans a few decades ago. Surveys of thousands of young adults in both nations by marketing firm Grey Global Group found they are overwhelmingly optimistic about the future, believe success is in their hands, and view products as status symbols. In China, it's fashionable for the upwardly mobile to switch high-end cell phones every three months, says Josh Li, managing director of Grey's Beijing office, because an old model suggests "you are not getting ahead and updated." That means these nations will be huge proving grounds for next-generation multimedia gizmos, networking equipment, and wireless Web services, and will play a greater role in setting global standards. In consumer electronics, "we will see China in a few years going from being a follower to a leader in defining consumer-electronics trends," predicts Philips Semiconductors (NYSE:PHG - News) Executive Vice-President Leon Husson.
For all the huge advantages they now enjoy, India and China cannot assume their role as new superpowers is assured. Today, China and India account for a mere 6% of global gross domestic product -- half that of Japan. They must keep growing rapidly just to provide jobs for tens of millions entering the workforce annually, and to keep many millions more from crashing back into poverty. Both nations must confront ecological degradation that's as obvious as the smog shrouding Shanghai and Bombay, and face real risks of social strife, war, and financial crisis.
Increasingly, such problems will be the world's problems. Also, with wages rising fast, especially in many skilled areas, the cheap labor edge won't last forever. Both nations will go through many boom and harrowing bust cycles. And neither country is yet producing companies like Samsung, Nokia (NYSE:NOK - News), or Toyota (NYSE:TM - News) that put it all together, developing, making, and marketing world-beating products.
Both countries, however, have survived earlier crises and possess immense untapped potential. In China, serious development only now is reaching the 800 million people in rural areas, where per capita annual income is just $354. In areas outside major cities, wages are as little as 45 cents an hour. "This is why China can have another 20 years of high-speed growth," contends Beijing University economist Hai Wen.
Very impressive. But India's long-term potential may be even higher. Due to its one-child policy, China's working-age population will peak at 1 billion in 2015 and then shrink steadily. China then will have to provide for a graying population that has limited retirement benefits. India has nearly 500 million people under age 19 and higher fertility rates. By mid-century, India is expected to have 1.6 billion people -- and 220 million more workers than China. That could be a source for instability, but a great advantage for growth if the government can provide education and opportunity for India's masses. New Delhi just now is pushing to open its power, telecom, commercial real estate and retail sectors to foreigners. These industries could lure big capital inflows. "The pace of institutional changes and industries being liberalized is phenomenal," says Chief Economist William T. Wilson of consultancy Keystone Business Intelligence India. "I believe India has a better model than China, and over time will surpass it in growth."
For its part, China has yet to prove it can go beyond forced-march industrialization. China directs massive investment into public works and factories, a wildly successful formula for rapid growth and job creation. But considering its massive manufacturing output, China is surprisingly weak in innovation. A full 57% of exports are from foreign-invested factories, and China underachieves in software, even with 35 software colleges and plans to graduate 200,000 software engineers a year. It's not for lack of genius. Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) 180-engineer R&D lab in Beijing, for example, is one of the world's most productive sources of innovation in computer graphics and language simulation.
While China's big state-run R&D institutes are close to the cutting edge at the theoretical level, they have yet to yield many commercial breakthroughs. "China has a lot of capability," says Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Craig Mundie. "But when you look under the covers, there is not a lot of collaboration with industry." The lack of intellectual property protection, and Beijing's heavy role in building up its own tech companies, make many other multinationals leery of doing serious R&D in China.
China also is hugely wasteful. Its 9.5% growth rate in 2004 is less impressive when you consider that $850 billion -- half of GDP -- was plowed into already-glutted sectors like crude steel, vehicles, and office buildings. Its factories burn fuel five times less efficiently than in the West, and more than 20% of bank loans are bad. Two-thirds of China's 13,000 listed companies don't earn back their true cost of capital, estimates Beijing National Accounting Institute President Chen Xiaoyue. "We build the roads and industrial parks, but we sacrifice a lot," Chen says.
India, by contrast, has had to develop with scarcity. It gets scant foreign investment, and has no room to waste fuel and materials like China. India also has Western legal institutions, a modern stock market, and private banks and corporations. As a result, it is far more capital-efficient. A BusinessWeek analysis of Standard & Poor's (NYSE:MHP - News) Compustat data on 346 top listed companies in both nations shows Indian corporations have achieved higher returns on equity and invested capital in the past five years in industries from autos to food products. The average Indian company posted a 16.7% return on capital in 2004, vs. 12.8% in China.
Small-Batch Expertise
The burning question is whether India can replicate China's mass manufacturing achievement. India's info-tech services industry, successful as it is, employs fewer than 1 million people. But 200 million Indians subsist on $1 a day or less. Export manufacturing is one of India's best hopes of generating millions of new jobs.
India has sophisticated manufacturing knowhow. Tata Steel is among the world's most-efficient producers. The country boasts several top precision auto parts companies, such as Bharat Forge Ltd. The world's biggest supplier of chassis parts to major auto makers, it employs 1,200 engineers at its heavily automated Pune plant. India's forte is small-batch production of high-value goods requiring lots of engineering, such as power generators for Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI - News) and core components for General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE - News) CAT scanners.
What holds India back are bureaucratic red tape, rigid labor laws, and its inability to build infrastructure fast enough. There are hopeful signs. Nokia Corp. is building a major campus to make cell phones in Madras, and South Korea's Pohang Iron & Steel Co. plans a $12 billion complex by 2016 in Orissa state. But it will take India many years to build the highways, power plants, and airports needed to rival China in mass manufacturing. With Beijing now pushing software and pledging intellectual property rights protection, some Indians fret design work will shift to China to be closer to factories. "The question is whether China can move from manufacturing to services faster than we can solve our infrastructure bottlenecks," says President Aravind Melligeri of Bangalore-based QuEST, whose 700 engineers design gas turbines, aircraft engines, and medical gear for GE and other clients.
However the race plays out, Corporate America has little choice but to be engaged -- heavily. Motorola illustrates the value of leveraging both nations to lower costs and speed up development. Most of its hardware is assembled and partly designed in China. Its R&D center in Bangalore devises about 40% of the software in its new phones. The Bangalore team developed the multimedia software and user interfaces in the hot Razr cell phone. Now, they are working on phones that display and send live video, stream movies from the Web, or route incoming calls to voicemail when you are shifting gears in a car. "This is a very, very critical, state-of-the-art resource for Motorola," says Motorola South Asia President Amit Sharma.
Companies like Motorola realize they must succeed in China and India at many levels simultaneously to stay competitive. That requires strategies for winning consumers, recruiting and managing R&D and professional talent, and skillfully sourcing from factories. "Over the next few years, you will see a dramatic gap opening between companies," predicts Jim Hemerling, who runs Boston Consulting Group's Shanghai practice. "It will be between those who get it and are fully mobilized in China and India, and those that are still pondering."
In the coming decades, China and India will disrupt workforces, industries, companies, and markets in ways that we can barely begin to imagine. The upheaval will test America's commitment to the global trade system, and shake its confidence. In the 19th century, Europe went through a similar trauma when it realized a new giant -- the U.S. -- had arrived. "It is up to America to manage its own expectation of China and India as either a threat or opportunity," says corporate strategist Kenichi Ohmae. "America should be as open-minded as Europe was 100 years ago." How these Asian giants integrate with the rest of the world will largely shape the 21st-century global economy.
A New World Economy
Friday August 12, 4:00 pm ET
By Pete Engardio
Slide Show
It may not top the must-see list of many tourists. But to appreciate Shanghai's ambitious view of its future, there is no better place than the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, a glass-and-metal structure across from People's Square. The highlight is a scale model bigger than a basketball court of the entire metropolis -- every skyscraper, house, lane, factory, dock, and patch of green space -- in the year 2020.
There are white plastic showpiece towers designed by architects such as I.M. Pei and Sir Norman Foster. There are immense new industrial parks for autos and petrochemicals, along with new subway lines, airport runways, ribbons of expressway, and an elaborate riverfront development, site of the 2010 World Expo. Nine futuristic planned communities for 800,000 residents each, with generous parks, retail districts, man-made lakes, and nearby college campuses, rise in the suburbs. The message is clear. Shanghai already is looking well past its industrial age to its expected emergence as a global mecca of knowledge workers. "In an information economy, it is very important to have urban space with a better natural and social environment," explains Architectural Society of Shanghai President Zheng Shiling, a key city adviser.
It is easy to dismiss such dreams as bubble-economy hubris -- until you take into account the audacious goals Shanghai already has achieved. Since 1990, when the city still seemed caught in a socialist time warp, Shanghai has erected enough high-rises to fill Manhattan. The once-rundown Pudong district boasts a space-age skyline, some of the world's biggest industrial zones, dozens of research centers, and a bullet train. This is the story of China, where an extraordinary ability to mobilize workers and capital has tripled per capita income in a generation, and has eased 300 million out of poverty. Leaders now are frenetically laying the groundwork for decades of new growth.
Invaluable Role
Now hop a plane to India. It is hard to tell this is the world's other emerging superpower. Jolting sights of extreme poverty abound even in the business capitals. A lack of subways and a dearth of expressways result in nightmarish traffic.
But visit the office towers and research and development centers sprouting everywhere, and you see the miracle. Here, Indians are playing invaluable roles in the global innovation chain. Motorola, (NYSE:MOT - News) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ - News), Cisco Systems (NasdaqNM:CSCO - News), and other tech giants now rely on their Indian teams to devise software platforms and dazzling multimedia features for next-generation devices. Google (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News) principal scientist Krishna Bharat is setting up a Bangalore lab complete with colorful furniture, exercise balls, and a Yamaha organ -- like Google's Mountain View (Calif.) headquarters -- to work on core search-engine technology. Indian engineering houses use 3-D computer simulations to tweak designs of everything from car engines and forklifts to aircraft wings for such clients as General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - News) and Boeing Co (NYSE:BA - News). Financial and market-research experts at outfits like B2K, OfficeTiger, and Iris crunch the latest disclosures of blue-chip companies for Wall Street. By 2010 such outsourcing work is expected to quadruple, to $56 billion a year.
Even more exhilarating is the pace of innovation, as tech hubs like Bangalore spawn companies producing their own chip designs, software, and pharmaceuticals. "I find Bangalore to be one of the most exciting places in the world," says Dan Scheinman, Cisco Systems Inc.'s senior vice-president for corporate development. "It is Silicon Valley in 1999." Beyond Bangalore, Indian companies are showing a flair for producing high-quality goods and services at ridiculously low prices, from $50 air flights and crystal-clear 2 cents-a-minute cell-phone service to $2,200 cars and cardiac operations by top surgeons at a fraction of U.S. costs. Some analysts see the beginnings of hypercompetitive multinationals. "Once they learn to sell at Indian prices with world quality, they can compete anywhere," predicts University of Michigan management guru C.K. Prahalad. Adds A. T. Kearney high-tech consultant John Ciacchella: "I don't think U.S. companies realize India is building next-generation service companies."
Simultaneous Takeoffs
China and India. Rarely has the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations been watched with such a mixture of awe, opportunism, and trepidation. The postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan and South Korea. But neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change the game in a complete spectrum of industries. China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to transform the 21st-century global economy. The closest parallel to their emergence is the saga of 19th-century America, a huge continental economy with a young, driven workforce that grabbed the lead in agriculture, apparel, and the high technologies of the era, such as steam engines, the telegraph, and electric lights.
But in a way, even America's rise falls short in comparison to what's happening now. Never has the world seen the simultaneous, sustained takeoffs of two nations that together account for one-third of the planet's population. For the past two decades, China has been growing at an astounding 9.5% a year, and India by 6%. Given their young populations, high savings, and the sheer amount of catching up they still have to do, most economists figure China and India possess the fundamentals to keep growing in the 7%-to-8% range for decades.
Barring cataclysm, within three decades India should have vaulted over Germany as the world's third-biggest economy. By mid-century, China should have overtaken the U.S. as No. 1. By then, China and India could account for half of global output. Indeed, the troika of China, India, and the U.S. -- the only industrialized nation with significant population growth -- by most projections will dwarf every other economy.
What makes the two giants especially powerful is that they complement each other's strengths. An accelerating trend is that technical and managerial skills in both China and India are becoming more important than cheap assembly labor. China will stay dominant in mass manufacturing, and is one of the few nations building multibillion-dollar electronics and heavy industrial plants. India is a rising power in software, design, services, and precision industry. This raises a provocative question: What if the two nations merge into one giant "Chindia?" Rival political and economic ambitions make that unlikely. But if their industries truly collaborate, "they would take over the world tech industry," predicts Forrester Research Inc (NasdaqNM:FORR - News). analyst Navi Radjou.
In a practical sense, the yin and yang of these immense workforces already are converging. True, annual trade between the two economies is just $14 billion. But thanks to the Internet and plunging telecom costs, multinationals are having their goods built in China with software and circuitry designed in India. As interactive design technology makes it easier to perfect virtual 3-D prototypes of everything from telecom routers to turbine generators on PCs, the distance between India's low-cost laboratories and China's low-cost factories shrinks by the month. Managers in the vanguard of globalization's new wave say the impact will be nothing less than explosive. "In a few years you'll see most companies unleashing this massive productivity surge," predicts Infosys Technologies (NasdaqNM:INFY - News) CEO Nandan M. Nilekani.
To globalization's skeptics, however, what's good for Corporate America translates into layoffs and lower pay for workers. Little wonder the West is suffering from future shock. Each new Chinese corporate takeover bid or revelation of a major Indian outsourcing deal elicits howls of protest by U.S. politicians. Washington think tanks are publishing thick white papers charting China's rapid progress in microelectronics, nanotech, and aerospace -- and painting dark scenarios about what it means for America's global leadership.
Such alarmism is understandable. But the U.S. and other established powers will have to learn to make room for China and India. For in almost every dimension -- as consumer markets, investors, producers, and users of energy and commodities -- they will be 21st-century heavyweights. The growing economic might will carry into geopolitics as well. China and India are more assertively pressing their interests in the Middle East and Africa, and China's military will likely challenge U.S. dominance in the Pacific.
One implication is that the balance of power in many technologies will likely move from West to East. An obvious reason is that China and India graduate a combined half a million engineers and scientists a year, vs. 60,000 in the U.S. In life sciences, projects the McKinsey Global Institute, the total number of young researchers in both nations will rise by 35%, to 1.6 million by 2008. The U.S. supply will drop by 11%, to 760,000. As most Western scientists will tell you, China and India already are making important contributions in medicine and materials that will help everyone. Because these nations can throw more brains at technical problems at a fraction of the cost, their contributions to innovation will grow.
Consumers Rising
American business isn't just shifting research work because Indian and Chinese brains are young, cheap, and plentiful. In many cases, these engineers combine skills -- mastery of the latest software tools, a knack for complex mathematical algorithms, and fluency in new multimedia technologies -- that often surpass those of their American counterparts. As Cisco's Scheinman puts it: "We came to India for the costs, we stayed for the quality, and we're now investing for the innovation."
A rising consumer class also will drive innovation. This year, China's passenger car market is expected to reach 3 million, No. 3 in the world. China already has the world's biggest base of cell-phone subscribers -- 350 million -- and that is expected to near 600 million by 2009. In two years, China should overtake the U.S. in homes connected to broadband. Less noticed is that India's consumer market is on the same explosive trajectory as China five years ago. Since 2000, the number of cellular subscribers has rocketed from 5.6 million to 55 million.
What's more, Chinese and Indian consumers and companies now demand the latest technologies and features. Studies show the attitudes and aspirations of today's young Chinese and Indians resemble those of Americans a few decades ago. Surveys of thousands of young adults in both nations by marketing firm Grey Global Group found they are overwhelmingly optimistic about the future, believe success is in their hands, and view products as status symbols. In China, it's fashionable for the upwardly mobile to switch high-end cell phones every three months, says Josh Li, managing director of Grey's Beijing office, because an old model suggests "you are not getting ahead and updated." That means these nations will be huge proving grounds for next-generation multimedia gizmos, networking equipment, and wireless Web services, and will play a greater role in setting global standards. In consumer electronics, "we will see China in a few years going from being a follower to a leader in defining consumer-electronics trends," predicts Philips Semiconductors (NYSE:PHG - News) Executive Vice-President Leon Husson.
For all the huge advantages they now enjoy, India and China cannot assume their role as new superpowers is assured. Today, China and India account for a mere 6% of global gross domestic product -- half that of Japan. They must keep growing rapidly just to provide jobs for tens of millions entering the workforce annually, and to keep many millions more from crashing back into poverty. Both nations must confront ecological degradation that's as obvious as the smog shrouding Shanghai and Bombay, and face real risks of social strife, war, and financial crisis.
Increasingly, such problems will be the world's problems. Also, with wages rising fast, especially in many skilled areas, the cheap labor edge won't last forever. Both nations will go through many boom and harrowing bust cycles. And neither country is yet producing companies like Samsung, Nokia (NYSE:NOK - News), or Toyota (NYSE:TM - News) that put it all together, developing, making, and marketing world-beating products.
Both countries, however, have survived earlier crises and possess immense untapped potential. In China, serious development only now is reaching the 800 million people in rural areas, where per capita annual income is just $354. In areas outside major cities, wages are as little as 45 cents an hour. "This is why China can have another 20 years of high-speed growth," contends Beijing University economist Hai Wen.
Very impressive. But India's long-term potential may be even higher. Due to its one-child policy, China's working-age population will peak at 1 billion in 2015 and then shrink steadily. China then will have to provide for a graying population that has limited retirement benefits. India has nearly 500 million people under age 19 and higher fertility rates. By mid-century, India is expected to have 1.6 billion people -- and 220 million more workers than China. That could be a source for instability, but a great advantage for growth if the government can provide education and opportunity for India's masses. New Delhi just now is pushing to open its power, telecom, commercial real estate and retail sectors to foreigners. These industries could lure big capital inflows. "The pace of institutional changes and industries being liberalized is phenomenal," says Chief Economist William T. Wilson of consultancy Keystone Business Intelligence India. "I believe India has a better model than China, and over time will surpass it in growth."
For its part, China has yet to prove it can go beyond forced-march industrialization. China directs massive investment into public works and factories, a wildly successful formula for rapid growth and job creation. But considering its massive manufacturing output, China is surprisingly weak in innovation. A full 57% of exports are from foreign-invested factories, and China underachieves in software, even with 35 software colleges and plans to graduate 200,000 software engineers a year. It's not for lack of genius. Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - News) 180-engineer R&D lab in Beijing, for example, is one of the world's most productive sources of innovation in computer graphics and language simulation.
While China's big state-run R&D institutes are close to the cutting edge at the theoretical level, they have yet to yield many commercial breakthroughs. "China has a lot of capability," says Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Craig Mundie. "But when you look under the covers, there is not a lot of collaboration with industry." The lack of intellectual property protection, and Beijing's heavy role in building up its own tech companies, make many other multinationals leery of doing serious R&D in China.
China also is hugely wasteful. Its 9.5% growth rate in 2004 is less impressive when you consider that $850 billion -- half of GDP -- was plowed into already-glutted sectors like crude steel, vehicles, and office buildings. Its factories burn fuel five times less efficiently than in the West, and more than 20% of bank loans are bad. Two-thirds of China's 13,000 listed companies don't earn back their true cost of capital, estimates Beijing National Accounting Institute President Chen Xiaoyue. "We build the roads and industrial parks, but we sacrifice a lot," Chen says.
India, by contrast, has had to develop with scarcity. It gets scant foreign investment, and has no room to waste fuel and materials like China. India also has Western legal institutions, a modern stock market, and private banks and corporations. As a result, it is far more capital-efficient. A BusinessWeek analysis of Standard & Poor's (NYSE:MHP - News) Compustat data on 346 top listed companies in both nations shows Indian corporations have achieved higher returns on equity and invested capital in the past five years in industries from autos to food products. The average Indian company posted a 16.7% return on capital in 2004, vs. 12.8% in China.
Small-Batch Expertise
The burning question is whether India can replicate China's mass manufacturing achievement. India's info-tech services industry, successful as it is, employs fewer than 1 million people. But 200 million Indians subsist on $1 a day or less. Export manufacturing is one of India's best hopes of generating millions of new jobs.
India has sophisticated manufacturing knowhow. Tata Steel is among the world's most-efficient producers. The country boasts several top precision auto parts companies, such as Bharat Forge Ltd. The world's biggest supplier of chassis parts to major auto makers, it employs 1,200 engineers at its heavily automated Pune plant. India's forte is small-batch production of high-value goods requiring lots of engineering, such as power generators for Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI - News) and core components for General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE - News) CAT scanners.
What holds India back are bureaucratic red tape, rigid labor laws, and its inability to build infrastructure fast enough. There are hopeful signs. Nokia Corp. is building a major campus to make cell phones in Madras, and South Korea's Pohang Iron & Steel Co. plans a $12 billion complex by 2016 in Orissa state. But it will take India many years to build the highways, power plants, and airports needed to rival China in mass manufacturing. With Beijing now pushing software and pledging intellectual property rights protection, some Indians fret design work will shift to China to be closer to factories. "The question is whether China can move from manufacturing to services faster than we can solve our infrastructure bottlenecks," says President Aravind Melligeri of Bangalore-based QuEST, whose 700 engineers design gas turbines, aircraft engines, and medical gear for GE and other clients.
However the race plays out, Corporate America has little choice but to be engaged -- heavily. Motorola illustrates the value of leveraging both nations to lower costs and speed up development. Most of its hardware is assembled and partly designed in China. Its R&D center in Bangalore devises about 40% of the software in its new phones. The Bangalore team developed the multimedia software and user interfaces in the hot Razr cell phone. Now, they are working on phones that display and send live video, stream movies from the Web, or route incoming calls to voicemail when you are shifting gears in a car. "This is a very, very critical, state-of-the-art resource for Motorola," says Motorola South Asia President Amit Sharma.
Companies like Motorola realize they must succeed in China and India at many levels simultaneously to stay competitive. That requires strategies for winning consumers, recruiting and managing R&D and professional talent, and skillfully sourcing from factories. "Over the next few years, you will see a dramatic gap opening between companies," predicts Jim Hemerling, who runs Boston Consulting Group's Shanghai practice. "It will be between those who get it and are fully mobilized in China and India, and those that are still pondering."
In the coming decades, China and India will disrupt workforces, industries, companies, and markets in ways that we can barely begin to imagine. The upheaval will test America's commitment to the global trade system, and shake its confidence. In the 19th century, Europe went through a similar trauma when it realized a new giant -- the U.S. -- had arrived. "It is up to America to manage its own expectation of China and India as either a threat or opportunity," says corporate strategist Kenichi Ohmae. "America should be as open-minded as Europe was 100 years ago." How these Asian giants integrate with the rest of the world will largely shape the 21st-century global economy.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Trip: Uvas Canyan Waterfalls
Aug 07, 2005 - Saturday.
We started out from San Jose at 9:30 AM. Head out 85 South. It was interesting to join 101 South using the Car Pool lane to car pool lane switch. Right on Tennant, Left on
Monterey Road, Right on Watsonville Avenue, Right on Uvas Road. You will see the Uvas reservoir on the Right. Left on Croy Road. You will reach Sveadal - this is private property - so go slow. At the end is the Uvas Canyon County Park. Take a $5 day parking permit for your car and park in the parking lots. The drive on freeway was 30 miles and the rural road was 15 miles of which less than 5 miles was slightly winding (very easy).
Watch for Poison Oak. We photographed at-least one of this picture.
Took the waterfall loop trail. skipped Black Rock Falls as the quantity of water was too less. The first falls we officially saw was the Upper Falls. We took pictures at the top and bottom of the falls. Next ventured towards Basin Falls. Some on has tied a rope to a tree at the top of the falls. It was fun going down the rope. Noticed the standard Rocky mountain's rocks. One different thing was the new black (Granite rocks?) had well rounded and soft rocks embedded in them - kind of like the granite flowed into the soft rocks or the soft rocks fell into the granite in molten state and solidified. We caught up with the Black Rock on the return. This was too dry this season. Definitely we could see it's potential when it is full running. Noticed many small lizards on the down trip. Noticed few areas of minor rock (1 inch rocks) slides. We got to be careful in the rainy seasons.
On the way down, we reach the Granuja Falls that has no marks from the trail - but there is a sign board near the falls. Following the falls we reached the road. Cross the road/bridge and get on the Swenson Creek trail. We yanked out to the picnic area and to the parking lot.
The water Falls trail seem to start closer to the camping area.
I believe we should have gone further down the Swenson creek trail and might have noticed Uvas Falls when Swenson joins Uvas. May be we can take care of this on our next trip - hopefully when the water is flowing in larger quantities.
At upper falls, we did not have much energy to continue towards the contour canyon - to reach the Triple Falls. We skipped this falls totally for this time.
Next potential trips are to
Big Basin park – it is 12 miles round trip and it is strenuous due to long trip.
Mt. Diablo on the east bay
North Bay
Saturday, August 06, 2005
berry creek falls
In Big Basin, Santa Cruz county. !2 mile hike - 5 1/2 to 6 hours hike. The height is not the issue - it is the length combined with 500-600 ft climb. There is a 50% biking route.
http://www.bigbasin.org/trailsberrycreekfalls.html
http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca-berry-creek-falls.html
http://www.icogitate.com/~tree/redwood.trail.intro.htm
http://www.localhikes.com/Hikes/BerryCreekFalls_7362.asp
http://www.thebackcountry.org/berrycreek/index.htm
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/bbrdo.html
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/Berry.html
http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/11493718/boulder_creek_ca/berry_creek_falls_trail.html
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/hiking/hik_big_basin2.htm
http://www.weeklywalker.com/Walks%20by%20county/Santa%20Cruz%20County/Big%20Basin_The%20Ultimate%20Thanksgiving%20Feast.htm
http://www.weeklywalker.com/Walks%20by%20county/Santa%20Cruz%20County/Berry%20Creek%20Falls.htm
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10225116/Berry_Creek_Falls.htm
http://www.mnn.net/berry.htm
http://110am.com/php-bin/list_dir.php?cwd=berry_creek_falls
http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZsmIinw7Egul_ry6sEJfFVA.html
http://www.bigbasin.org/trails.html
http://www.bahiker.com/slideshows/south/bbrdopics.html
http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.asp?trailid=HGS164-100
http://www.webshots.com/g/33/617-sh/26082.html
http://www.goldengatephoto.com/westus/waterfall.html
http://www.terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca9490.html
http://www.southcoast.net/rbrady/brycrk.html
http://www.cyberhikes.com/HBBP0434.HTM
http://www.trilithon.com/pagespersonal/bigbasinpicture01.html
http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/airplane_journal/26864719/
http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/735/files/transcriptbigbasinredwoodssptour.pdf
http://www.ocliw.com/things/weekdays/berryCreekFalls/
http://www.fedak.net/albums/BerryCreekFalls-page3.html
http://www.ericwpreston.com/berrycreek1.html
http://www.thetrailmaster.com/articles/toptenwaterfalls.html
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/nature/flora/plants_trees/286106_berry_creek_falls.php?id=286106
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/Photos/Bay%20Area/pages/R08-09.html
http://felixwong.com/gallery/gallery.cgi?Category=82
http://www.art.com/asp/mountshop/default-asp/_/pd--10225116/sp--C/Berry_Creek_Falls.htm
http://bayinsider.ktvu.com/recreation/guides/hiking/hikes_big_basin.html
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2000/000401/bigbasinfalls.html
http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/~sergent/photos/2000/Big%20Basin%20(Berry%20Creek%20Falls)/
http://www.infohub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2247&page=1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2003/04/03/SP37408.DTL&o=1
http://www.qbabe.com/archive/o_berryCreekFalls.html
http://www.sfoac.com/cgi/details.cgi?control=269
http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=859
http://www.mitcnc.org/www/Events_Single.asp?eventID=1065http://www.thebackcountry.org/berrycreek/index.htm
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~eujin/pics/bigbasin2003/berrycreek.html
http://www.paulandsteph.com/gallery/bigbasinfeb2005
http://mishalov.net/big-basin-4mar04/big-basin-4mar04.html
http://www.prade.net/nicolas/we/20011121.html
http://www.chainreaction.com/waddellcreek.htm
http://felixwong.com/gallery/gallery.cgi?Category=41
http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0102_Waterfalls.html
http://www.mymaps.com/nwfalls/cn/cn11.htm
http://www.tow.com/photogallery/2001/20011025_skyline_to_sea/
http://www.mountaintravelguide.com/California/SantaCruz/Hiking/BerryCreekFallsTrail.htm
http://www.californiawaterfalls.com/review_waterfalls.htm
http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=64E07AA8-58C6-4D4F-A55E-8A45FB9C4BE7
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/May/29/local/stories/01local.htm
http://www.pacifictrailruns.com/BBR_Course_Description.htm
http://www.bigbasin.org/trailsberrycreekfalls.html
http://www.waterfallswest.com/ca-berry-creek-falls.html
http://www.icogitate.com/~tree/redwood.trail.intro.htm
http://www.localhikes.com/Hikes/BerryCreekFalls_7362.asp
http://www.thebackcountry.org/berrycreek/index.htm
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/bbrdo.html
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/Berry.html
http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/profile/11493718/boulder_creek_ca/berry_creek_falls_trail.html
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/hiking/hik_big_basin2.htm
http://www.weeklywalker.com/Walks%20by%20county/Santa%20Cruz%20County/Big%20Basin_The%20Ultimate%20Thanksgiving%20Feast.htm
http://www.weeklywalker.com/Walks%20by%20county/Santa%20Cruz%20County/Berry%20Creek%20Falls.htm
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10225116/Berry_Creek_Falls.htm
http://www.mnn.net/berry.htm
http://110am.com/php-bin/list_dir.php?cwd=berry_creek_falls
http://www.virtualparks.org/scenes/ZsmIinw7Egul_ry6sEJfFVA.html
http://www.bigbasin.org/trails.html
http://www.bahiker.com/slideshows/south/bbrdopics.html
http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.asp?trailid=HGS164-100
http://www.webshots.com/g/33/617-sh/26082.html
http://www.goldengatephoto.com/westus/waterfall.html
http://www.terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca9490.html
http://www.southcoast.net/rbrady/brycrk.html
http://www.cyberhikes.com/HBBP0434.HTM
http://www.trilithon.com/pagespersonal/bigbasinpicture01.html
http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/airplane_journal/26864719/
http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/735/files/transcriptbigbasinredwoodssptour.pdf
http://www.ocliw.com/things/weekdays/berryCreekFalls/
http://www.fedak.net/albums/BerryCreekFalls-page3.html
http://www.ericwpreston.com/berrycreek1.html
http://www.thetrailmaster.com/articles/toptenwaterfalls.html
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/nature/flora/plants_trees/286106_berry_creek_falls.php?id=286106
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/Photos/Bay%20Area/pages/R08-09.html
http://felixwong.com/gallery/gallery.cgi?Category=82
http://www.art.com/asp/mountshop/default-asp/_/pd--10225116/sp--C/Berry_Creek_Falls.htm
http://bayinsider.ktvu.com/recreation/guides/hiking/hikes_big_basin.html
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2000/000401/bigbasinfalls.html
http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/~sergent/photos/2000/Big%20Basin%20(Berry%20Creek%20Falls)/
http://www.infohub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2247&page=1
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2003/04/03/SP37408.DTL&o=1
http://www.qbabe.com/archive/o_berryCreekFalls.html
http://www.sfoac.com/cgi/details.cgi?control=269
http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=859
http://www.mitcnc.org/www/Events_Single.asp?eventID=1065http://www.thebackcountry.org/berrycreek/index.htm
http://crypto.stanford.edu/~eujin/pics/bigbasin2003/berrycreek.html
http://www.paulandsteph.com/gallery/bigbasinfeb2005
http://mishalov.net/big-basin-4mar04/big-basin-4mar04.html
http://www.prade.net/nicolas/we/20011121.html
http://www.chainreaction.com/waddellcreek.htm
http://felixwong.com/gallery/gallery.cgi?Category=41
http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0102_Waterfalls.html
http://www.mymaps.com/nwfalls/cn/cn11.htm
http://www.tow.com/photogallery/2001/20011025_skyline_to_sea/
http://www.mountaintravelguide.com/California/SantaCruz/Hiking/BerryCreekFallsTrail.htm
http://www.californiawaterfalls.com/review_waterfalls.htm
http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=64E07AA8-58C6-4D4F-A55E-8A45FB9C4BE7
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2005/May/29/local/stories/01local.htm
http://www.pacifictrailruns.com/BBR_Course_Description.htm
Santa Clara, Santa Cruz,
Santa Clara, Santa Cruz,
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n4_v190/ai_13812469
Winter waterfalls
http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0102_Waterfalls.html
San Pedro Valley Park
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/200401BrooksFalls.html
Murietta Falls
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/HenryCowell.html
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/Berry.html
North bay falls
http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/cataractfalls.html
http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0102_Waterfalls.html
Wimble Scale?
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n4_v190/ai_13812469
Winter waterfalls
http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0102_Waterfalls.html
San Pedro Valley Park
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/200401BrooksFalls.html
Murietta Falls
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/HenryCowell.html
http://kevingong.com/Hiking/Berry.html
North bay falls
http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/cataractfalls.html
http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org/lp0102_Waterfalls.html
Wimble Scale?
Company - start new or join another
My friend is wanting me to join his company as partner instead of me starting my own. I am not sure the difference. He is in Ohio and I am in the golden state. He is currently running Under a Dollar shop.
Buying home
There are new homes coming up on 580 east of 680 intersection. If the homes are less than 300K, may be buy and hold for years. Move in after 3 years when more families have moved in.
May be at Tracy - use it as vacation (@ Tracy - bad idea). Or rent it to folks who want to get away from the busy bay area.
The mortgage guy told about Merced homes - that are really low cost.
May be at Tracy - use it as vacation (@ Tracy - bad idea). Or rent it to folks who want to get away from the busy bay area.
The mortgage guy told about Merced homes - that are really low cost.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Uvas Canyan Waterfalls
Uvas Canyan water falls
Waterfall loop nature trail guide
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2000/000520/UvasCanyon.html
http://www.kevingong.com/Hiking/200504UvasCanyon.html
http://www.mnn.net/waterloop.htm
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/uvas.html
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/3Dbayarea/html/UvasCanyon.htm
http://www.waterfallswest.com/region_ca_sf.html
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2004/2004.01.04/20040104.html
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2003/2003.02.02/20030202.html
http://app.donji.com/mt/archives/000035.html
copycat?
http://wimble.org/~fomfok/Blog/archives/2005/01/january_15_2005_1.html
http://www.wildrecovery.org/PDF/WR_Flier_Sep-Oct_2001.PDF
http://www.bayareaquests.com/Morganhill.htm
http://pages.prodigy.net/rhorii/sccparks.htm
http://www.pbase.com/bhill94087/uvas_canyon__11132004
http://dorothyphoto.typepad.com/photos/uvas_canyon_11072004/
http://dorothyphoto.typepad.com/photos/uvas_canyon_11072004/20041107_uvas_canyon_mg_0325p.html
http://phil.photosite.com/Outdoors/31305_uvas/
http://gilroydispatch.com/printer/article.asp?c=35835
http://www.reinigohananui.com/Photography/Flash/Uvas.html
http://www.watergrass.com/hiking/hiking032.html
http://www.reinigohananui.com/Photography/Flash/Uvas.html
http://www.iqon.net/recreation/hike/hike.jsp?id=3nnwcyyy
Waterfall loop nature trail guide
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2000/000520/UvasCanyon.html
http://www.kevingong.com/Hiking/200504UvasCanyon.html
http://www.mnn.net/waterloop.htm
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/uvas.html
http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/3Dbayarea/html/UvasCanyon.htm
http://www.waterfallswest.com/region_ca_sf.html
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2004/2004.01.04/20040104.html
http://www.webself.com:16080/~fomfok/FOMFOK2003/2003.02.02/20030202.html
http://app.donji.com/mt/archives/000035.html
copycat?
http://wimble.org/~fomfok/Blog/archives/2005/01/january_15_2005_1.html
http://www.wildrecovery.org/PDF/WR_Flier_Sep-Oct_2001.PDF
http://www.bayareaquests.com/Morganhill.htm
http://pages.prodigy.net/rhorii/sccparks.htm
http://www.pbase.com/bhill94087/uvas_canyon__11132004
http://dorothyphoto.typepad.com/photos/uvas_canyon_11072004/
http://dorothyphoto.typepad.com/photos/uvas_canyon_11072004/20041107_uvas_canyon_mg_0325p.html
http://phil.photosite.com/Outdoors/31305_uvas/
http://gilroydispatch.com/printer/article.asp?c=35835
http://www.reinigohananui.com/Photography/Flash/Uvas.html
http://www.watergrass.com/hiking/hiking032.html
http://www.reinigohananui.com/Photography/Flash/Uvas.html
http://www.iqon.net/recreation/hike/hike.jsp?id=3nnwcyyy
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Innovative Mortgage suggestions
All Fund Mortgage
Licensed Mortgage broker & Lender
Nirmalya Modak
Marketing Director
Consultant - Loan & Finance
Branch/Processing Centre - 4214
3940 Freedom Circle, Suite 106
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1204, USA
nmodak@allfundmortgage.com
www.nmodak.allfundmortgage.com
408.200.7487(W)
408.829.0041(C)
408.270.0676(Voicemail)
408.521.9199(fax)
Instead of keeping excess equity in your home, you can put it to use.
Ensure that you maintain only 20% of the home's current value you own. have the rest of 80% through lenders. Don't pay a dime towards your principle part of the loan. Pay only the interest - it makes sense from tax incentive perspective as well.
Pull out the equity and invest in income real estate properties. The net equity you would have in 2 years is more than if you kept your equity in your home.
$434,000 5/1 arm - interest only - monthly payment of $1898/- (Cost of mortgage purchase - $2422/-)
$534,000 1year lockin - arm after 1 year - interest only - $1717/- monthly
Licensed Mortgage broker & Lender
Nirmalya Modak
Marketing Director
Consultant - Loan & Finance
Branch/Processing Centre - 4214
3940 Freedom Circle, Suite 106
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1204, USA
nmodak@allfundmortgage.com
www.nmodak.allfundmortgage.com
408.200.7487(W)
408.829.0041(C)
408.270.0676(Voicemail)
408.521.9199(fax)
Instead of keeping excess equity in your home, you can put it to use.
Ensure that you maintain only 20% of the home's current value you own. have the rest of 80% through lenders. Don't pay a dime towards your principle part of the loan. Pay only the interest - it makes sense from tax incentive perspective as well.
Pull out the equity and invest in income real estate properties. The net equity you would have in 2 years is more than if you kept your equity in your home.
$434,000 5/1 arm - interest only - monthly payment of $1898/- (Cost of mortgage purchase - $2422/-)
$534,000 1year lockin - arm after 1 year - interest only - $1717/- monthly
QA candidate help
Candidate looking for QA posiiton.... While I can't guarentee placement at this point, I can add value to the candidate in terms of increasing the morale to face the interview. Also try to enhance the resume (with out trying to tell lies). May be take a moke interview and give feed back. If you think this would help the candidate wife, let me know and I can help.
preparation before H1B arrives
Have you started scanning the potential employers, positions, pay? Have you decided on your expected salary from your emploer? The H1B docs may say a number - the actual salary negotiated will most likely be different. You have some more home work to do.... Sorry, I keep giving you more and more work - hey it is better to get a head start instead of getting surprises - when actual event occurs.
We are in Aug right now. The H1B for 2006 opens in October 1st. 2005 for ~65,000 visa approvals. I guess your papers can make it to the 2006 quota fine. I want to see that you are getting placed in the project before the Thanks Giving holidays. If we miss that, we risk the placement dragging until Jan 2nd week (after all the holiday season - Thanks Giving, Christmas, New Year). So, we have to be prepared in every possible way by October 2005.
Until October, plan on spending 3-6 hours every working day to be working on technology stuff. This will get you prepared for the upcomming interviews. How is your multiple resume going on?
--Did we mention that the main H1B documents are required for converting the H4 Visa to H1B.
We are in Aug right now. The H1B for 2006 opens in October 1st. 2005 for ~65,000 visa approvals. I guess your papers can make it to the 2006 quota fine. I want to see that you are getting placed in the project before the Thanks Giving holidays. If we miss that, we risk the placement dragging until Jan 2nd week (after all the holiday season - Thanks Giving, Christmas, New Year). So, we have to be prepared in every possible way by October 2005.
Until October, plan on spending 3-6 hours every working day to be working on technology stuff. This will get you prepared for the upcomming interviews. How is your multiple resume going on?
--Did we mention that the main H1B documents are required for converting the H4 Visa to H1B.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Language Resources
Google
AltaVista BableFish
World Lingo
SunRain Gives Chinese technical terms translations
Terminologies
Voice Talent
Voice Actors (radio announcers are poor choice)
directors
dialogue specialists
Uses of translation services in the domain of:
speech recognition personas
IVR prompts
auto attendant greetings
Telematics
Talking Email
broad communications campaigns
automatic call distributor
automated customer self-service
GPS Navigation
'believable and sincere voice'
Voice recording steps:
Scripting
Persona Grade Voice Prompts Recording
Persona Grade Voice Prompts Post-Production
concatination of segments in to phrases in different methods
In-Context Recording
Knowledge of Context Recording
Touchtone List.
While translating we need:
Glosary of terms
- words
- phrases
- accronyms
User manual & requirements document can help in understanding the technical terms
If English->new language->English returns the same word/phrase, there is a possibility of a good translation.
AltaVista BableFish
World Lingo
SunRain Gives Chinese technical terms translations
Terminologies
Voice Talent
Voice Actors (radio announcers are poor choice)
directors
dialogue specialists
Uses of translation services in the domain of:
speech recognition personas
IVR prompts
auto attendant greetings
Telematics
Talking Email
broad communications campaigns
automatic call distributor
automated customer self-service
GPS Navigation
'believable and sincere voice'
Voice recording steps:
Scripting
Persona Grade Voice Prompts Recording
Persona Grade Voice Prompts Post-Production
concatination of segments in to phrases in different methods
In-Context Recording
Knowledge of Context Recording
Touchtone List.
While translating we need:
Glosary of terms
- words
- phrases
- accronyms
User manual & requirements document can help in understanding the technical terms
If English->new language->English returns the same word/phrase, there is a possibility of a good translation.
Bowling
For bowling you need the right shoes and right ball - apart from skills.
My choice was Shoe: 6.5; Ball 8lb Medium
My choice was Shoe: 6.5; Ball 8lb Medium
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
resume tips
Resume is not static and not unique - especially in the consulting business - as consultant. I know it is hard to digest initially. What ever changes that are suggested, try to make it - except I am not too much in favor of out right lies. That said, I always suggested folks to tweak the resume to match the needs of the client. This might mean, shorter resume or looonger resume. Some times you have to remove some projects or areas of expertise in order to make room or highlight other skills that are of interest to the client. You got to make your marketing manager happy to market your skills. Absence of that would make the marketing manger not focus on your resume - which potentially could hurt your prospects in short term.
One of the item that I would recommend removing in your resume is the reference to DOS. I have not had any one convince me that writing DOS in the resume would benefit in getting hired. I have had many people, including myself, feel that writing DOS lowers the level of competence in the candidate. I am not claiming that what I feel/think is correct - however, I put the ownes on you to prove to yourself that writing DOS in your resume adds the value of your resume.
Try to write couple of resumes. I have had more than 5 resumes at any time - when I am actively interviewing. I know my skills are diverse that forces me to have few resumes focusing on couple of selected areas and few that has wide areas coverage. Few small (2 pages - I have not been able to write one page yet..) and few long - 4-5 pages.
Try loading bunch of free ware packages and try them out - you can add in your resume that you have familiarity. Try to contribute code to free ware, if you have chance. This will make it easy to get hired - if some one is looking for such skills. If you can have Linux at home - more free wares work effectively on Linux.
Few areas of recommendation in open source:
1. My SQL - installation and try to use for any of your Database (ODBC/JDBC) projects
2. Apache - administration
3. Perl/PHP/Python
4. FireFox - browser
5. JBoss
6. TomCat
If you want to get in to Release Engineering role there are bunch of areas you can brush up
1. Shell programming - wizard level
2. Make System
3. Apache ANT
4. Mozilla Bonsai/TinderBox(?)
If you want to focus on Test Lead (QA)
1. Learn Bugzilla - install/administer
2. Test Case management systems - Bugzilla Test Runner
Getting Developer Lead role is slightly tricky and the number of openings are few. Of-course the $$ is good/high in that role. In order to get a quick break, I would suggest to focus on individual contributor role - that are inherently more available than managerial roles. With India/China outsourcing in it's peak growth, couple of my friends are telling me that lead roles to manage the India/China team is in demand in the US. I don't know if this is correct - but, sounds logical enough to believe. Even Google and Microsoft are fighting on people resource for getting right candidate for leading the teams...
One of the item that I would recommend removing in your resume is the reference to DOS. I have not had any one convince me that writing DOS in the resume would benefit in getting hired. I have had many people, including myself, feel that writing DOS lowers the level of competence in the candidate. I am not claiming that what I feel/think is correct - however, I put the ownes on you to prove to yourself that writing DOS in your resume adds the value of your resume.
Try to write couple of resumes. I have had more than 5 resumes at any time - when I am actively interviewing. I know my skills are diverse that forces me to have few resumes focusing on couple of selected areas and few that has wide areas coverage. Few small (2 pages - I have not been able to write one page yet..) and few long - 4-5 pages.
Try loading bunch of free ware packages and try them out - you can add in your resume that you have familiarity. Try to contribute code to free ware, if you have chance. This will make it easy to get hired - if some one is looking for such skills. If you can have Linux at home - more free wares work effectively on Linux.
Few areas of recommendation in open source:
1. My SQL - installation and try to use for any of your Database (ODBC/JDBC) projects
2. Apache - administration
3. Perl/PHP/Python
4. FireFox - browser
5. JBoss
6. TomCat
If you want to get in to Release Engineering role there are bunch of areas you can brush up
1. Shell programming - wizard level
2. Make System
3. Apache ANT
4. Mozilla Bonsai/TinderBox(?)
If you want to focus on Test Lead (QA)
1. Learn Bugzilla - install/administer
2. Test Case management systems - Bugzilla Test Runner
Getting Developer Lead role is slightly tricky and the number of openings are few. Of-course the $$ is good/high in that role. In order to get a quick break, I would suggest to focus on individual contributor role - that are inherently more available than managerial roles. With India/China outsourcing in it's peak growth, couple of my friends are telling me that lead roles to manage the India/China team is in demand in the US. I don't know if this is correct - but, sounds logical enough to believe. Even Google and Microsoft are fighting on people resource for getting right candidate for leading the teams...
Thursday, July 21, 2005
shasta trip
SHORT HIKES (15-45 minutes)
John Everitt Vista Point
Walk through large, old growth conifer forest to volcanic rock outcropping with panorama of area south to McCloud and Sacramento River Canyons. Look for botanical tree signs.
Time: 20 minutes Length: 1/2 mile RT Elevation: 5000' to 5100'
Difficulty: Easy. Climbs then levels to easy grade.
Trailhead: 9 miles up Everitt Memorial Hwy. to parking lot.
http://www.davestravel.com/articles/mtshasta/4.htm
The John Everitt Vista Point is named after a firefighter. John used to be an avid protector of the natural resources on Mt. Shasta. John died a short distance away from where the current vista point is located. In fact there is a small monument to him, which marks the exact spot where he died. There are parking and restrooms located here as well. The views of Mt. Shasta and of Strawberry valley are incredible. There are several hiking trails in the area. Two areas that come to mind are the trails at Bunny Flats, and the trails at Panther Meadows. Either location are only minutes drive from the Vista Point.
To get to the Vista Point take the central Mt. Shasta turnoff from Interstate 5 and drive east on Lake Street through the stop lights, to the top of the hill. Lake Street will eventually bend and become the Everitt Memorial Highway. The Vista Point is only 6 miles up the road. This road is almost all uphill to the Vista Point.
Panther Meadow Loop
Spring water flows in rivulets through fragile alpine meadow full of wildflowers. Peaceful loop trail allows great view of mountain. Sensitive plantlike; please stay on trail. No drinking water. Note: Only accessible after snow melts, typically June 1.
Time: 45 minutes Length: 1.5 miles RT Elevation: 7500' to 7900'
Difficulty: Easy. Rocky path is well-marked.
Trailhead: 12.5 miles up Everitt Memorial Hwy. to marked trailhead.
John Everitt Vista Point
Walk through large, old growth conifer forest to volcanic rock outcropping with panorama of area south to McCloud and Sacramento River Canyons. Look for botanical tree signs.
Time: 20 minutes Length: 1/2 mile RT Elevation: 5000' to 5100'
Difficulty: Easy. Climbs then levels to easy grade.
Trailhead: 9 miles up Everitt Memorial Hwy. to parking lot.
http://www.davestravel.com/articles/mtshasta/4.htm
The John Everitt Vista Point is named after a firefighter. John used to be an avid protector of the natural resources on Mt. Shasta. John died a short distance away from where the current vista point is located. In fact there is a small monument to him, which marks the exact spot where he died. There are parking and restrooms located here as well. The views of Mt. Shasta and of Strawberry valley are incredible. There are several hiking trails in the area. Two areas that come to mind are the trails at Bunny Flats, and the trails at Panther Meadows. Either location are only minutes drive from the Vista Point.
To get to the Vista Point take the central Mt. Shasta turnoff from Interstate 5 and drive east on Lake Street through the stop lights, to the top of the hill. Lake Street will eventually bend and become the Everitt Memorial Highway. The Vista Point is only 6 miles up the road. This road is almost all uphill to the Vista Point.
Panther Meadow Loop
Spring water flows in rivulets through fragile alpine meadow full of wildflowers. Peaceful loop trail allows great view of mountain. Sensitive plantlike; please stay on trail. No drinking water. Note: Only accessible after snow melts, typically June 1.
Time: 45 minutes Length: 1.5 miles RT Elevation: 7500' to 7900'
Difficulty: Easy. Rocky path is well-marked.
Trailhead: 12.5 miles up Everitt Memorial Hwy. to marked trailhead.
H1B petition candidate documents
Here is the list of Documents required for H1B petition:
- Copies of ALL degrees and transcripts (both front and back), (starting from 10th standard)
- Certificate(s), Diploma(s) and transcripts relating to training in courses for computer/software programming
- Copy of Educational/Work experience evaluation report, if any;
- Copies of all experience letters for experience in IT . Try to give as many documents as you can, including Offer letters, appraisal letters, promotion letters, salary hike certificates etc., (if u are having)
- Copies of 4 latest pay-stubs
- Copy of latest Resume
- Copy of Passport with I 94s(If already in US)
- Copy of SSN Card (If U have)
- Your current address & Foreign Address (Permanent Address out side of the US)
- Copies of all Previous H1B/L1 approval notices(If any)
- Name of the nearest US consulate that you can obtain H1 visa stamping
- Date of first arrival in to US on H1 status
- Prior Periods of stay on H1 classification (Give all the dates)
- List Education Qualification: Highest Degree
interview
Here are the next steps that you got to start preparing.
1. Market research - figuring out what's required that's close to your skills.
2. Resume - matching the taste of the potential employer/project
3. Interview skills (Phone & in Person) Follow up after interview
4. Offer negotiation - it is not always the $$. Some times location/technology/corporate culture/career growth/flexible working hours/working from home - can be higher priority
5. On the job help, as needed.
Read as many Job requirements/postings - even if you are not interested/going to apply. This will tell you approximately where (geographical/technology) there is demand and how is the $$ in each areas on skills.
There are lots of resumes - real and samples in the internet. Remember this is one of the first brief view of YOU. Make the best use of the person/machine that scans for match.
Some of the job postings, I see these days, are requiring exposure/knowledge of new types of processes. It might be a good idea to know some aspects - so that you can engage in productive conversation - during the interview.
Unlike in traditional countries where people are selected for their pure personal merit/skills, here, you have to be liked by the manager and the interview team members. How to make some one to like you is very difficult area. In many cases, if you liked the interview, mostly you will be selected. If you did not like the interview, most likely the manager/interviewer also did not like talking to you - so not selected. You got to make the interviewer interested in your skills and also should be comfortable working with you.
Anyway, you got to be happy at the end of the day. A revenue stream is a part of securing happiness - not everything.
1. Market research - figuring out what's required that's close to your skills.
2. Resume - matching the taste of the potential employer/project
3. Interview skills (Phone & in Person) Follow up after interview
4. Offer negotiation - it is not always the $$. Some times location/technology/corporate culture/career growth/flexible working hours/working from home - can be higher priority
5. On the job help, as needed.
Read as many Job requirements/postings - even if you are not interested/going to apply. This will tell you approximately where (geographical/technology) there is demand and how is the $$ in each areas on skills.
There are lots of resumes - real and samples in the internet. Remember this is one of the first brief view of YOU. Make the best use of the person/machine that scans for match.
Some of the job postings, I see these days, are requiring exposure/knowledge of new types of processes. It might be a good idea to know some aspects - so that you can engage in productive conversation - during the interview.
Unlike in traditional countries where people are selected for their pure personal merit/skills, here, you have to be liked by the manager and the interview team members. How to make some one to like you is very difficult area. In many cases, if you liked the interview, mostly you will be selected. If you did not like the interview, most likely the manager/interviewer also did not like talking to you - so not selected. You got to make the interviewer interested in your skills and also should be comfortable working with you.
Anyway, you got to be happy at the end of the day. A revenue stream is a part of securing happiness - not everything.
Intereviewee questions
- What is the typical release cycle - in terms of how many releases per year or how many moths it takes for a release. Be prepared for major/minor releases. Emergency patches
- When is the next release date - It can be beta/patch/General Availability
- What are the 3 major challenges for the person getting hired for this position
- How are conflicts managed in the project - example what happens if the feature is interpreted differently between Coder and tester
3 parameters of most projects
- Resource
- Schedule
- Features
When I was passing by a manger in the coffee room and mentioned these 3 parameters, the manager was really surprised that the parameters available to tweak are just 3 - not more - not less....
We can nail only 2 of these parameters - the third one always floats - else the project has the higher risk of failing.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Testing - quote
"testing is a set of skills that allow the tester to select or invent testing practices to suit each unique situation". I am a strong beliver of this philosophy.
Wikipedia
Context Driven Testing
Wikipedia
Context Driven Testing
Google Maps - satellite
Google Maps is picking up steam these days - after the acquisition of KeyHole last year. The maps are given as APIs as well.
Question would be the copy right protection that Google claims on these pictures. Basically many of these raw data could be from NASA or from Government sources. It would be interesting to know if Google can claim copyright when it has copied for free from the US tax dollars.
Question would be the copy right protection that Google claims on these pictures. Basically many of these raw data could be from NASA or from Government sources. It would be interesting to know if Google can claim copyright when it has copied for free from the US tax dollars.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Bill Gates crys wolf
Microsoft and Bill Gates seems to be concerned that he is not able to provide the environment that's required to retain the best in the industry. So, it has gone the extra mile to be on the other end of the legal suit.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8BEO55O0.htm
Also, Bill Gates has been persuading younger people to take up Science and Computer Technologies - and he promises them that there are still more complex problems to be solved...
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2005/07-18FacultySummit.asp
What is Bill Gates seriously worried off?? Is the table turned 180 degrees... Bill Gates created/swept away/Monopolized the PC software market from IBM - now he probably fears that the On-Line service market will be monopolized by Google. Things are happening too fast these days - you can see the plates switch on areas where you thought plates can never switch places....
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8BEO55O0.htm
Also, Bill Gates has been persuading younger people to take up Science and Computer Technologies - and he promises them that there are still more complex problems to be solved...
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2005/07-18FacultySummit.asp
What is Bill Gates seriously worried off?? Is the table turned 180 degrees... Bill Gates created/swept away/Monopolized the PC software market from IBM - now he probably fears that the On-Line service market will be monopolized by Google. Things are happening too fast these days - you can see the plates switch on areas where you thought plates can never switch places....
Clinton Global Initiative
"The fact is that we can't kill, jail or occupy all of our potential enemies," he says. "We've got to have a strategy to make a world with more partners and fewer terrorists."
Clinton Saves The World
Dennis Kneale, 07.19.05, 6:00 AM ET
Clinton Global Initiative
Clinton Saves The World
Dennis Kneale, 07.19.05, 6:00 AM ET
Clinton Global Initiative
Saturday, July 16, 2005
anger
- Anger Management
- screaming when angry
- expressing myself calmly and diplomatically (as I do in school)
- learning to express myself with out using 'bad' language
- when angry, learn to leave the situation until my angry subsided and talk it through when I am thinking clear
- find other ways to let off steam rather tan yelling at people
- maybe take my anger on other things
- when an argument comes up in regards to simple things, learn to give in
- learn not to be so arrogant and strong willed
panai info
the panai tree can evoke imagery of panai tree leaves [panai Olai], dried panai leaves (used for writing) [Olaich chuvadi], the alcoholic beverage tapped from the panai tree [kaL], the non-alcoholic sweet beverage tapped from the panai tree [pathaneer], unrefined sweet jaggery made from panai sap [karuppatti], the tender panai fruit [nungu], people who climb the panai trees, and the panai tuber [panaikkizhangu].
Friday, July 15, 2005
parenting links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_time-out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Children_Seriously
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_parenting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_time-out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Children_Seriously
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_parenting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_depression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
Monday, July 11, 2005
Harry Potter pre release issues (1)
New 'Harry Potter' book leaked
Last updated Jul 11 2005 12:26 PM PDT
Raincoast Books, the Canadian publisher of the Harry Potter series, is in full damage-control mode after a B.C. store prematurely sold up to 15 copies of the latest book last week.
Raincoast heard about the gaffe on Friday, the day after the books were sold at the Great Canadian Superstore in Coquitlam – more than a week before the July 16 official release.
On Saturday, the B.C. Supreme Court granted Raincoast a court injunction to help get the books back, and keep a lid on the plot.
Raincoast Books announcement
Company spokesperson Jamie Broadhurst says some of the purchasers have voluntarily returned their copies. And he says the company is offering a reward to get the others returned.
"We're asking them to contact us and to temporarily return their copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to us," he says.
"And in exchange, what we will do, is on July 16 at one minute past midnight, we will return their copies to them along with a signed autographed bookplate to be affixed in their book from J.K. Rowling, and some gift items as well."
The injunction also bars anyone from leaking the plot of the latest Harry Potter book before 12:01 a.m. this Saturday.
The injunction exempts the book's official public relations campaign.
This latest incident is similar to one in 2003 when a Wal-Mart in Quebec accidentally sold a few copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before the release date.
BRIEFS - FROM JUNE 27, 2005: British man pleads not guilty in Harry Potter theft
Recently, two men in England were charged with theft after allegedly stealing copies of the latest book from a distribution centre. Police say the two tried to sell the book to a newspaper reporter.
About 10.8 million copies are planned for the first printing of The Half-Blood Prince, compared to the 8.5 million for the previous book.
Author J.K. Rowling's tales of an orphaned wizard-in-training have sold more than 200 million copies around the world.
Last updated Jul 11 2005 12:26 PM PDT
Raincoast Books, the Canadian publisher of the Harry Potter series, is in full damage-control mode after a B.C. store prematurely sold up to 15 copies of the latest book last week.
Raincoast heard about the gaffe on Friday, the day after the books were sold at the Great Canadian Superstore in Coquitlam – more than a week before the July 16 official release.
On Saturday, the B.C. Supreme Court granted Raincoast a court injunction to help get the books back, and keep a lid on the plot.
Raincoast Books announcement
Company spokesperson Jamie Broadhurst says some of the purchasers have voluntarily returned their copies. And he says the company is offering a reward to get the others returned.
"We're asking them to contact us and to temporarily return their copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to us," he says.
"And in exchange, what we will do, is on July 16 at one minute past midnight, we will return their copies to them along with a signed autographed bookplate to be affixed in their book from J.K. Rowling, and some gift items as well."
The injunction also bars anyone from leaking the plot of the latest Harry Potter book before 12:01 a.m. this Saturday.
The injunction exempts the book's official public relations campaign.
This latest incident is similar to one in 2003 when a Wal-Mart in Quebec accidentally sold a few copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before the release date.
BRIEFS - FROM JUNE 27, 2005: British man pleads not guilty in Harry Potter theft
Recently, two men in England were charged with theft after allegedly stealing copies of the latest book from a distribution centre. Police say the two tried to sell the book to a newspaper reporter.
About 10.8 million copies are planned for the first printing of The Half-Blood Prince, compared to the 8.5 million for the previous book.
Author J.K. Rowling's tales of an orphaned wizard-in-training have sold more than 200 million copies around the world.
Monday, July 04, 2005
Crater Lake travel
Started out on July 2nd, 2005 at 7:00am from San Jose. Stop over for quick stop in a town on Interstate 5 Filled gas. Next stop at Yeraka for gas. There was no county park or any picnic table in this whole town... Had to stop in the JcPenny parking and have our lunch.
Next exi,t was at Medford.
The highways numbered with the milestone. I5, 66, 99 & 138 are real milesotones.
62
Take the Crater Lake entrance. First spot was un notch. The hike was kind of steep short though. The view was worth it.
The west rim
Next exi,t was at Medford.
The highways numbered with the milestone. I5, 66, 99 & 138 are real milesotones.
62
Take the Crater Lake entrance. First spot was un notch. The hike was kind of steep short though. The view was worth it.
The west rim
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Pinnacle National Monument
Started out from San Jose atr 7:30 am
Temprature was very plesent
Treck to Balconey Caves return via the Balconey trail.
It is really really dark in there. Our flash lights were already dead before opening it. So, they were really useless.
Watch for excess water - your shoes can be soked.
Soledad
Lunch at TacoBell at Soledad.
On the way back stopped at Gilroy factory outlet for quick summer wear purchase.
Temprature was very plesent
Treck to Balconey Caves return via the Balconey trail.
It is really really dark in there. Our flash lights were already dead before opening it. So, they were really useless.
Watch for excess water - your shoes can be soked.
Soledad
Lunch at TacoBell at Soledad.
On the way back stopped at Gilroy factory outlet for quick summer wear purchase.
Crater Lake
Prospect Area water falls:
Barr Creek Falls
Mill Creek Falls
+ Prospect Falls, Pearsoney Falls & Lower Red Blanket Falls
Glide Area Water Falls:
Toketee Falls
Watson Falls
+ Slide Creek Falls, Surprise Falls, Columnar Falls
Misc info:
RogueWeb
Height Map
Current Status of the Lake
NPS Lake
Crater Lake Lodge
Mazama Village
Rim Village Visitor Center
Steel Visitor Center
Lakes:
Vidae Falls
lakes database
Columbia Platue
oregon cascades
Both Kerr Notch and Sun Notch Viewpoints are particularly spectacular viewpoints, with views down to Phantom Rock and across the lake to Wizard Island.
Barr Creek Falls
Mill Creek Falls
+ Prospect Falls, Pearsoney Falls & Lower Red Blanket Falls
Glide Area Water Falls:
Toketee Falls
Watson Falls
+ Slide Creek Falls, Surprise Falls, Columnar Falls
Misc info:
RogueWeb
Height Map
Current Status of the Lake
NPS Lake
Crater Lake Lodge
Mazama Village
Rim Village Visitor Center
Steel Visitor Center
Lakes:
Vidae Falls
lakes database
Columbia Platue
oregon cascades
Both Kerr Notch and Sun Notch Viewpoints are particularly spectacular viewpoints, with views down to Phantom Rock and across the lake to Wizard Island.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Verizon edge : summarized
Verizon Wireless' Wizard
JUNE 21, 2005
CEO Dennis Strigl has some of the most satisfied customers in the mobile industry. Here's how he intends to keep them and attract more
For years, Dennis Strigl, the chief executive and president of Verizon Wireless, enjoyed the enviable position of running the largest player in the wireless industry. But last October, Cingular Wireless took over the top spot when it closed its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services. Cingular has used its newfound prominence to get exclusive access to hot new phones, including Motorola's (MOT ) Razr.
Advertisement
Now, Strigl is playing an aggressive game of catch-up. Verizon is a close No. 2 and is gaining ground on Cingular by more quickly adding new subscribers. Last year, Verizon Wireless increased its sales an astounding 23%, to $27.6 billion, with net income surging 52%, to $1.6 billion. That's higher growth than Cisco (CSCO ), Microsoft (MSFT ), Intel (INTC ), or Dell (DELL ).
Under Strigl, the company has gained a reputation for operational excellence, too. Its churn rate, a closely watched metric measuring the average monthly percentage of customers who leave in a given quarter, ended 2004 with an industry best rate of 1.5%, down from 1.8% in 2003.
This year, operations continue to plug ahead at an impressive clip. In the first quarter of 2005, Verizon Wireless posted 20.4% sales growth, adding 1.64 million new customers, while its churn rate dipped to 1.33% -- a new low. By contrast, Cingular increased its sales 5.3%, adding 1.4 million new subscribers, while its churn rate fell to 2.2% from 2.4%.
BusinessWeek Computers Editor Spencer E. Ante recently sat down with Strigl to talk about Verizon Wireless' strategy, competition, and promising new ventures, such as a forthcoming music service for cell phones. Here are the edited excerpts from their conversation:
Q: There's plenty of consolidation in the wireless industry. Cingular buying AT&T Wireless. Nextel and Sprint merging. Will Verizon Wireless continue to go it alone?
A: While others are merging, our goal is to take market share. We were successful last year and in the first quarter of 2005. We were first to market with our data strategy with our V CAST [TV on mobile-phone service]. We intend to take advantage of it. We figure we've still got a good one-year lead on this market.
Q: Is Sprint's competing TV service, MobiTV, a threat?
A: It's just a slower product. We've still got a technical advantage. Our service transmits data at 400 to 700 kilobits per second. Sprint's rate is 60 to 80 kilobits per second.
Q: What are your plans for capital spending?
A: You have to continue to invest in the network. We will spend $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in 2005. We will spend $500 million on our EVDO network [Evolution Data Optimized, Verizon's high-speed wireless network for video and other data services]. The rest will go toward filling out our [coverage] footprint and upgrading capacity.
Q: What new services are you working on?
A: We want to get into music. I think we'll be a very viable competitor to iPod and other players. This will be the next major focus of the [wireless] carriers.
We also want to penetrate the business marketplace with wireless broadband. We've got more to do there. About 6.3% of our sales come from data revenue, while Sprint gets 9% of its sales from data. Data can become 25% of our revenues in the next six to seven years.
Q: When will you launch a music service?
A: We will do our best to introduce a product by the holiday season.
Q: What's the most challenging aspect to the music venture?
A: The hardest part is working with the manufacturers. Cost and pricing issues are difficult. We haven't announced an agreement with a manufacturer yet.
Q: Cingular, with its acquisition of AT&T, is the biggest wireless company. What's your advantage over Cingular?
A: Network reliability. It's not something Cingular can replicate overnight. We probably have a three-year lead on network [reliability]. As long as we continue to invest, you can't catch up. Our second advantage is distribution. We're putting stores in the right locations -- 65% of our new customers come from Verizon stores.
Q: Will you surpass Cingular in total subscribers?
A: The difference now is about 4.5 million subscribers. It's 45.5 million to Cingular's 50 million. I would like to wake up one morning and see we've surpassed them. But our goal is to be the best network operator. Biggest comes second. We're a much lower-cost operator.
Q: What types of acquisitions are you considering?
A: We did $5 billion in deals last year. [Verizon Wireless made many acquisitions to obtain wireless spectrum rights, including a $930 million purchase from NextWave Telecom for licenses in the New York area.] But we have no burning need to make another acquisition. We have spectrum that will serve us well for years to come.
JUNE 21, 2005
CEO Dennis Strigl has some of the most satisfied customers in the mobile industry. Here's how he intends to keep them and attract more
For years, Dennis Strigl, the chief executive and president of Verizon Wireless, enjoyed the enviable position of running the largest player in the wireless industry. But last October, Cingular Wireless took over the top spot when it closed its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services. Cingular has used its newfound prominence to get exclusive access to hot new phones, including Motorola's (MOT ) Razr.
Advertisement
Now, Strigl is playing an aggressive game of catch-up. Verizon is a close No. 2 and is gaining ground on Cingular by more quickly adding new subscribers. Last year, Verizon Wireless increased its sales an astounding 23%, to $27.6 billion, with net income surging 52%, to $1.6 billion. That's higher growth than Cisco (CSCO ), Microsoft (MSFT ), Intel (INTC ), or Dell (DELL ).
Under Strigl, the company has gained a reputation for operational excellence, too. Its churn rate, a closely watched metric measuring the average monthly percentage of customers who leave in a given quarter, ended 2004 with an industry best rate of 1.5%, down from 1.8% in 2003.
This year, operations continue to plug ahead at an impressive clip. In the first quarter of 2005, Verizon Wireless posted 20.4% sales growth, adding 1.64 million new customers, while its churn rate dipped to 1.33% -- a new low. By contrast, Cingular increased its sales 5.3%, adding 1.4 million new subscribers, while its churn rate fell to 2.2% from 2.4%.
BusinessWeek Computers Editor Spencer E. Ante recently sat down with Strigl to talk about Verizon Wireless' strategy, competition, and promising new ventures, such as a forthcoming music service for cell phones. Here are the edited excerpts from their conversation:
Q: There's plenty of consolidation in the wireless industry. Cingular buying AT&T Wireless. Nextel and Sprint merging. Will Verizon Wireless continue to go it alone?
A: While others are merging, our goal is to take market share. We were successful last year and in the first quarter of 2005. We were first to market with our data strategy with our V CAST [TV on mobile-phone service]. We intend to take advantage of it. We figure we've still got a good one-year lead on this market.
Q: Is Sprint's competing TV service, MobiTV, a threat?
A: It's just a slower product. We've still got a technical advantage. Our service transmits data at 400 to 700 kilobits per second. Sprint's rate is 60 to 80 kilobits per second.
Q: What are your plans for capital spending?
A: You have to continue to invest in the network. We will spend $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in 2005. We will spend $500 million on our EVDO network [Evolution Data Optimized, Verizon's high-speed wireless network for video and other data services]. The rest will go toward filling out our [coverage] footprint and upgrading capacity.
Q: What new services are you working on?
A: We want to get into music. I think we'll be a very viable competitor to iPod and other players. This will be the next major focus of the [wireless] carriers.
We also want to penetrate the business marketplace with wireless broadband. We've got more to do there. About 6.3% of our sales come from data revenue, while Sprint gets 9% of its sales from data. Data can become 25% of our revenues in the next six to seven years.
Q: When will you launch a music service?
A: We will do our best to introduce a product by the holiday season.
Q: What's the most challenging aspect to the music venture?
A: The hardest part is working with the manufacturers. Cost and pricing issues are difficult. We haven't announced an agreement with a manufacturer yet.
Q: Cingular, with its acquisition of AT&T, is the biggest wireless company. What's your advantage over Cingular?
A: Network reliability. It's not something Cingular can replicate overnight. We probably have a three-year lead on network [reliability]. As long as we continue to invest, you can't catch up. Our second advantage is distribution. We're putting stores in the right locations -- 65% of our new customers come from Verizon stores.
Q: Will you surpass Cingular in total subscribers?
A: The difference now is about 4.5 million subscribers. It's 45.5 million to Cingular's 50 million. I would like to wake up one morning and see we've surpassed them. But our goal is to be the best network operator. Biggest comes second. We're a much lower-cost operator.
Q: What types of acquisitions are you considering?
A: We did $5 billion in deals last year. [Verizon Wireless made many acquisitions to obtain wireless spectrum rights, including a $930 million purchase from NextWave Telecom for licenses in the New York area.] But we have no burning need to make another acquisition. We have spectrum that will serve us well for years to come.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Grade night out
My wife and I decided to take our daughter for her outstanding performance in her academics for the year 2005. This also coincided with me trying to start appreciating others success. I am too trying to make progress...
My wife was mentioning about how Kinko's began in a humble way. One great thing of winners is that they all share a passion to be some one irrespective of their skills/abilities.
My wife was mentioning about how Kinko's began in a humble way. One great thing of winners is that they all share a passion to be some one irrespective of their skills/abilities.
Fathers day 2005 special
Fathers day 2005 is a special day - 6/19/2005.
My wife and daughter planned to surprise me with a pot luck party - in the disguise of my friend's birthday. We were 4 families and we had lunch and play in the neighborhood park.
My 14 year old daughter baked a nice Vanilla cake with Chocolate icing on top. That was wonderful for a first timer. Most of our friends enjoyed it.
Wife made Bhadam Halwa - that's one of my most favorite one.
Shared with my friends of the possibility of personal lending. I know none of them had lots of money to share. This gave me courage to ask for money - starting point for my guts building that I keep saying that I lacked. Let's see how I make progress...
My wife and daughter planned to surprise me with a pot luck party - in the disguise of my friend's birthday. We were 4 families and we had lunch and play in the neighborhood park.
My 14 year old daughter baked a nice Vanilla cake with Chocolate icing on top. That was wonderful for a first timer. Most of our friends enjoyed it.
Wife made Bhadam Halwa - that's one of my most favorite one.
Shared with my friends of the possibility of personal lending. I know none of them had lots of money to share. This gave me courage to ask for money - starting point for my guts building that I keep saying that I lacked. Let's see how I make progress...
fremont older hike - again
Today again I went to the Fremont older trail. Start at 9:04 and reach back by around 10:20. I guess I am able to do it quicker - may be I am getting healthier!!
Noticed a small squirile. The color is more dirty dunk color than the grey color of the adult. Saw the pointed feathere on head birds who normally walk - 2 or three of them.
Noticed a lump of bird feather - meaning a hunter around.
A white (pure white) spherical flower ready to release it's seads to fly off - many of them around.
The hay is very dry now. The popping sound of the seads is no more present. Can you imagine few of the hay are more than 5 feet tall and yet less than 1/8 of an inch in diameter?
At the parking lot on the return - 2 surprises. The birds have had their act on the rear of my car. There was a snake (less than 18 inches long) beaten to death and cut in to half by the most brillient mamal on the planet - human...
Noticed a small squirile. The color is more dirty dunk color than the grey color of the adult. Saw the pointed feathere on head birds who normally walk - 2 or three of them.
Noticed a lump of bird feather - meaning a hunter around.
A white (pure white) spherical flower ready to release it's seads to fly off - many of them around.
The hay is very dry now. The popping sound of the seads is no more present. Can you imagine few of the hay are more than 5 feet tall and yet less than 1/8 of an inch in diameter?
At the parking lot on the return - 2 surprises. The birds have had their act on the rear of my car. There was a snake (less than 18 inches long) beaten to death and cut in to half by the most brillient mamal on the planet - human...
Thursday, June 16, 2005
tamilnadu stats
Districts 30
Revenue Divisions 73
Taluks 206
Firkas 1,120
Revenue Villages 17,244
Municipal Corporations 6
Municipalities 151
Panchayat Unions (Blocks) 385
Village Panchayats 12,618
Special Village Panchayats 562
Lok Sabha Constituencies 39
Assembly Constituencies 234
As of June 16, 2005
Revenue Divisions 73
Taluks 206
Firkas 1,120
Revenue Villages 17,244
Municipal Corporations 6
Municipalities 151
Panchayat Unions (Blocks) 385
Village Panchayats 12,618
Special Village Panchayats 562
Lok Sabha Constituencies 39
Assembly Constituencies 234
As of June 16, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Wiki Valdal - page archived (Dindigul)
Dindigul is an administrative district in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The district headquarters
are located at Dindigul. History of Dindigul Dindigulis one of the historical cities in Tamilnadu. It
plays a significant rolein promotion of trade, as a vital trade centre to cater the needs of nearbyvillages. A Fort over a small
hill, the three hundred and sixty year oldmonument stands gallantly in the west,and this fort stands as a land mark.
Dindigulwas famous during the seventh century it self. "Appar" the great poet hadvisited the city. Thus the city had been noted
in "Thevaram". Dindigulwas mentioned in the book "Padmagiri Nadhar Thenral Vidu thudhu" writtenby the poet "Palupatai
sokkanathar" as Padmagiri. This was later statedby OO.Ve Saminatha Iyer in his foreward to the above book. He also addedthat
Dindigul was called as Dindeecharam.
Dindigulregion was the border of the three great Kingdoms of South
India, the Pandiyas,the cheras and the Cholas. Hence
Dindigul has its set back in its growthby successive wars among the
three. In the ancient time the cheran kingDharmabalan has
built temples for Abirami ambigai and Padmagirinathar.After that in the
book Silapthigaram it is mentioned as the Northern
borderof the Pandaya Kingdom whose capital was Madurai. Historian
"Strabo" hadalso written in 20 A.D. The Roman Emperor "Augustus
Ceaser" has sent ateam to the pandya kingdom in 73 A.D., Pillni the
great historian of thetime has described about the Pandya
king in his works we have more proofsthat Pandya kingdom was
established before the Christian era.
Inthe first century of the Christian era the Chola king named Karikal Cholanhad captured the Pandya kingdom hence Dindigul has
been ruled by both Cholasand Pandyan with the change of time. In the sixth century the pallava'stook over Southern India, they
were in the power until twelth century.Dindugul has been under the rule of Pallavas untill Cholas regained thestate in the
Thirteenth century. In the fourteenth century Southern Indiawas invaded by the Moguls. The Vijaya Nagar rulers restricted their
entryinto the part for the time being. Dindigul was safe in the hands of VijayaNagara before cheras take over the Pandya kingdom
Chandrakumara Pandyanwon the war against cheras with the assitance provided The Vijaya NagarKingdom. The commander of the vijaya
Nagar army Kambanna udayar playedan important role in the war.
Everyhistorical city in India have a good number of temples, reflecting cultureand prosperity of the people. In the fourteenth
century KalahastheeswaraGnanambika temple was built. The seenivasaperumal temple built in the bottomof the hill was eroded by
time. By the 16th century Pandyan acquired thewhole chera kingdom with the support of Vijayanagar king
Sachudevarayer.Sachudevarayer, on his visit in 1538 A.D. ordered for the repair worksand Garnish the temple of Abirami amman
& Padmagirinathar. This isinferred from the script written over stone in the Fort temple.
In1559 Nayakkars became powerful, their territory ended with Dindigul inthe north. The ruler, Viswanatha Nayakkar wanted to
secure the bordersof the pandya kingdom. Unfortunated he died in 1563. After his death MuthukrisnaNayakka became the king of
pandaya kingdom in 1602 A.D. He built the stronghill tort in 1605 A.D. secure Dindigul from invasion. He also built a fortat the
bottom at the bottom of the hill. This was later called "Pettaiwall" The East gate of the fort was near the American mission
compound.the North gate was at the junction of palani & vedasenthur roads thesouth gate was at the junction of Palani &
Vedasenthur roads. The southgate was adjacent to the Begampoor Mosque.
MuthuveerappaNayakkar and Thirumalai Nayakkar followed Muthukrishna
Nayakkar. Dindigulgot its significance during Nayakkars rule
of Madurai. Thirumalai Nayakkarredressed the Hill tort. He built the
Front hall of the Kalahastheeswaraswamy temple. Sowndaraja
Perumal temple in Phadikombu was erected. Duringhis Nayakkars stay in
Dindigul, he fell into sickness, he prayed Sree
Rangaperumalbut his sickness remained with him. Madurai Meenakshiamman
came in hisdream and ordered him to rule over with Madurai
as his capital. He didso and got himself relived from his sickness. His
successords did not farewell. They died soon. This made
Rani Mangammal became the ruler of theregion. She ruled ingenusly. She
built the six hundred steps for the hillfort.
In1736 Sanda Saheb Seized power from Vangaru Nayakkar. Hence, Dindigul
cameunder his regin. In 1742 Mysore army under the
leadership of Venkatarayerconquered Dindigul. He governed Dindigul as a
representative of Maharajaof Mysore. He built the Chatram
(a macting place for the civils) in thewest car street. By then the
street is called as chatram street. Therewere Eighteen
Palayams (a small region consists of few villages) duringhis reign.
They were 1. Kandamanayakkanur 2. Thevaram 3. Bodi
Nayakkanur4. Erasakka Nayakkanur 5. Pilliappa Nayakkanur 6. Nilakottai
7. Virupatchi8. Kannivadi 9. Marunuthu 10. Thottaian
Kottai 11. Emakalapuram 12. Ambathurai13. Ammayanakkanur 14.
Tharasimadai 15. Edayakottai 16. Sholavandan 17.Kombai 18.
Sandhaiyur. Now these palayams present under Dindigul taluk,Periyakulam
taluk, Palani taluk, Nilakottai taluk & Thirumangalam
taluk.At old times all these palayams were under Dindigul Semai with
Dindigulas capital. These palayams refused to pay respect to
venkatarayer. So in1748 A.D. Venkatappa was made governer of the region
after the dismissalof Venkatarayer. Even this leadership
failed.
In1755 Mysore Maharaja sent Haider Ali to Dindigul. He handled the Situationin an adept manner and captured Sholavandan alos.
Later Haider Ali becamethe Maharaja of Mysore. In 1765 Haider Ali went back to Mysore. In 1777he appointed Purshana Mirsaheb as
governor of Dindigul. He strengthenedthe fort and made few changes. One among them is the construction of presentgate and he
ordered to close the East Gate. His wife Ameer-um-Nisha-Begamdied during delivery. Her tomb is now called Begambur.
In1783 British army, lead by captain long Dindigul. In 1784 after an agreementbetween the Mysore province and British army.
Dindigul was restored byMysore province. In 1788 Thippusultan, Son of Haider Ali was crowned asKing of Dindigul. He ordered to
broguht docon the statues of padmagirinathar& Abiramiambigai from the hill temples to the Kalahastheeswara Swamytemple.
In 1790 Tames stewart gained control over Dindigul by invading it in the secondwar of Mysore. In a pact made on 1792
Thippusulthan give back Dindigulto the English. Dindigul is the first region to come under English rulein the Madurai District.
In 1798 the British army Strengthened the hillfortwith cannons, and by building sentinal rooms in every corner.
TheBritish army, under statten stayed at Dindigul fort from 1798 to
1859.After that Madurai was made head quarters of the British
army and Dindigulwas attached to it as a taluik, In 1866, 11th November
Dindigul becamea Municipality. The city got its railway
station in 1875 when rail linefor Trichy to Tuticorin was constructed.
Dindigul given to British in 1792was under the rule of the
British. Untill we got our Independence on 15thAugust 1947.
The Great sri Ramanamaharishi who born in Dindigul and studied in Nehruji memorial school upto 7th std before he moves to
thiruvannamalai.
Dindigul is an interior region of Tamilnadu. Dindigul lies on the banks of Kudavanar river with a total landscape of 6058
sqkm. Inspite of its geographical location there are about 110 tanneries both registered and non-registered in and around
Dindigul. This district is well known for the making of locks. The Dindigul district is divided into 7 taluks namely, Dindigul
taluk, Natham taluk, Kodaikanal taluk, Nilakkottai taluk, Palani taluk,Oddanch atram taluk & Vedasandur taluk.
Sri Kottai Mariamman Koil: Itis more than 200 years old. The Mariamman
idol is said to be installedby the army men of Tippu
Sultan at the fort of the mountain. Hence it iscalled Kottai (Fort)
Mariamman temple fo Dindigul. The temple is constructedin the
shape of a square. There is a temple for Vetri Vinayaka at the
South& Lord Muruga at the North of this temple. There is a
Mandapam (Hall)in the centre of the ground in which there is a
sculpture of a Lion facingthe Sannidhi. The Sanctum Sanctorum is
small & square shaped. The deityconsecrated (Moolavar) is seen
here, embedded deeply under the floor.
Thereare several sculpture on the sniper structure over the Sanctum
Sanctorum,depicting various incarnations of the goddess
Mariamman. All the four sides,various seenes showing the destroying of
monster by the goddess are seen.On the eastern side over
the Amman Sannidhi is a temple for Vinayaka, andon western side a
temple for Madurai Veeran. On the front side of Sannidhithe
Navagraha idols are installed. On the back side of the temple, thereis
an idol of Kaalhi & another one for Dhurga. The temple
is situatedin such a large are a as 2 acres (8,000 m²). The golden
shield will adorm the deityon every day between 5 PM to 9 PM.
The temple is run by a board of Trustees.
Festivals:
Startingon the 5th day after the New Moon day, the great festival of
Masi is celebratedfor 10 days every year . There are other
festivals in all the 12 monthsof the year. The devotees come here &
worship to get rid of severaldiseases like eye disease,
small Pox etc and get cured .Larger & largercrowds are attracted to
this temple every year. The devotees perform
severalduties like taking Agni Chatti (Fire Pot), Milk Pot, Mulzaippari
procession,Maavu Vilakku etc. Nearly 10 lakh people visit
the temple during the festivedays.
Sri Kaalakatheeswarar Temple:
Eventhough the temple is very old, it came into lime light during the periodof Thirumalai. Naicker who renovated several
temples in and around Maduraigod Kaalakatheeswarar and goddess Gnanambika are the presiding deitieshere. It was a practice to
bring the idols of Abhirama Devi & PadmagiriNagar from above mountain to this temple & Celebrate the Festival
ofBrahmasaram in the month of Chitrai. The Mandapam used for this purposehas been later emballished and the deities
Kalakatheewarar & Gnanambikaiwere installed & consecrated during the 14th century.There will bePoojas for all the 5
timings in the temple. Other regular religious eventsare arranged as a routine.
St. Antony's Church:
ThisChurch was constructed by Thomas Fernando during the period 1982-1989.The important Ceremony of this temple will start on
last Friday of Januaryand will continue for 15 days.
St. Joseph Church: Thischurch was constructed 100 years ago by British people construction ofthis church was started on
1866 and completed bythe year of 1872. This church is the head church for all other churchesin Dindigul District.
Festivals in Dindigul:
Severalfestivals are celeberated here in grand manner.
1.Chithira Big Festival Celebratedfor 12 days in the month of
Chithirai. Religious discourses, Musical concertsare also
conducted. 2.Chitra Pournami Ethi Seval Itis the welcoming function to
the Alagar of Thadikkombu during the Fullmoon day in the
month of chithirai. It is a famous festival. 3.Aani Thirumanjanam
Conductedin entry Aani month. 4.Aadi Sukravar Festival
Duringthe Fridays of Aadi month special Poojas & Aaradhanas are
arrangedto the deities Abhirami, Gnanambikai. There will be a
procession of goddessAbhirami on a flower pallak taken around the main
streets. 5.Sri Vinayaka Chadurthi Itis celebrated in the
month of Avani 6.Navarathiri GoddessAbhirami will be on Kolu. There
will be 1 lakh Archana to the goddess Gnanambikai.
7.Kandasashti Itis celebrated in the month of Iyppasi for 6 days,
denoting the Soora Samharam,the divine marriage between Lord
Muruga and Deivanai. 8.Karthigai Festivals Entiretemple will be
decorated with lamps. The 5 idols (Pancha Muthir) will betaken on
procession. 9.Margazhi Festivals Therewill be chanting of Thiruvembavai
Songs on every early mornings.ArudhraDharsan of Lord
Nataraja will be on the Thiruvathirai Day. 10.Thai Month Pongalfestival
will be celebrated on the 1st day of Thai. Special
decoration& Aaradhanas will be arranged to the deities here.On the
Poosam day,the festival of Padmagiri Nathar, Abhirami
& Dhomdayadapaani will becelebrated in a grand mannu. 11.Maasi
TheDays of Magam Maha Siveratri for Nataraja are celebrated.
12.Panguni Festivalfor Shanmuga (Muruga) & Sri Valli - Devasena is
celebrated on the dayof Uththiram.
Hospitals
- TheGovernment hospital is located near the bus stand.
- TheRaja Rajeshwari hospital is at a walkable distance from the bus stand.
- ThePunidha Adhithanar hospital is on the way to Nehruji nagar.
- St. joseph Hospital ( Kattaspithry)
- Rajarajeswari Hospital near by bus stand
Hotels
- AryaBhavan,Bus Stand
- AshokBhavan,Main road
- Kurinji
- SaravanaBhavan,Bus Stand
- Maha jyothi
- Hotel Iswarya
- Hoter Gowri Krishna
Name: The hillock made mostly of single rock (kal) looks like a pillow (Dhindu). The combination in Tamil language makes it
Dindigul.
Data:
Location: 10.05-10.9 North and 77.30-78.20 East
Area: 6266.64 Sq. Km
Revenue Divisions: 3
Taluks: 7
Panchayat Unions: 14
Population: 1,918,960 (2001 Census)
Temperature: 31-38 Celsius
The Islamic population as a percentage is relatively high in this city (the
decendents of the muslim rulers). This diversity in faith makes the city more dynamic. The diversity some times trigger communal
tension as well.
Religious worship places:
Kottai Mariamman Temple
Thadikombu Sundarraja perumal temple
Abirami Amman temple
Malaikeni Murugan Temple
Rock Fort Anjanayer Temple
Villai Vinayakar Temple
Vazhi Thunai Mariamman Temple
Rock Fort (Malai Kottai). Still there is some kind of preserve up the hillock.
Ring Road Masjid
St.Joseph Church
Cinema Theaters:
Naga & Lakshmi Theater A/C
Rajendra & Uma A/C
Aarti & Siva A/C
Central theatre
Ganesh theatre A/C
Shan theater
Dindigul is the nearest main town for Kodaikanal - 2133 meters high hill
station credited locally as “Princess of Hill Stations”.
Industries & Mills :
Iron Locks & safe (before 1970s)
Leather Taining
Angu Vilas scented Tobacco Industries
Roja Supari
KAR Leathers
ShanmugaVel Textiles Pvt Ltd
Siva Textiles Pvt Ltd
Annamalayar Textiles Pvt Ltd
Bhuvaneswari Textiles Pvt Ltd
Cloth Shops
SKC Textiles Pvt Ltd
Bakirans Textiles
Maharaja Textiles
Subramaniyam Textiles
Parvathy Textiles Pvt Ltd
Jewelry Shop
OC Pillai
Vasavi
Educational Institutions:
- PSNA College of
Engineeing and Technology - RVS College of Engineering and Technology
- Christian Engineering College
- Christian
Polytechnic - RVS Polytechnic
- GTN Arts and Science College
- MVM Muthaia Arts and Science College
- Ramaprabha Arts and Science College
- Parvathy Arts and Science College
- Gandhigram Rural University
- Mother Terasa University for women
- MVM Muthaia Pillai Mariammal Matriculation School (Boys)
- MVM Muthaia Pillai Mariammal Matriculation School (Girls)
- J.K
Maticulation School - Om Shanthi Matriculation School & CBSE
- Maharishi Vidhyalaya (CBSE)
- MSP
Higher Secondary School - Dudley Higher Secondary School
- Municipal Higher Secondary School
- Government Girls Higher Secondary School
- Government Secondary School (Gandhiji)
- Annamalayar Higher Secondary School
- Our Lady Higer Secondary School
- Akshya
Vidhyalaya - St.
Josephs Girls School - St.Marys Higher Secondary School
- Soundara
Raja Vidhyalaya
- Government ITI
- Siva ITI
Sri Kottai Mariamman Kovil:
The 200+ years old temple buit in the foot of the hill (fort) is in praise of the Hindu
deity Amman. The hindu temple was built with the Tippu Sultan's (Muslim ruler) army. The
temple is square shapped. It has 4 deities. Lord Ganesh on the south, His brother Lord Muruga in North. West has Madurai Veeran
and the East has Lord Ganesh. There is a Mandapam (Hall) in the centre of the ground in which there is a sculpture of a Lion
facing the Sannidhi. The Sanctum Sanctorum is small & square shaped. The deity consecrated (Moolavar) is seen here, embedded
deeply under the floor.
Abirami Amman Temple:
Navarathri Kolu is the best season to be in Abirmi temple. There will be 100,000 Archana. The tamil month Adi, Friday the Goddes
will be taken on a procession decorated with flowers.
St.Joseph Church:
Catholic Church constructed between 1866 and 1872 by British. This is the Head Church of all other Roman Catholic Churches in
Dindigul District.
Round Road:
A circular road, used to be the place for horse ride. One on the cicle is the district police head (Superindent of Police)
official residance.
External link
- Dindigul District official web
site (http://dindigul.nic.in/)
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