Month: November 2010

India needs a Monarch

Have you heard of this king called King Pari?  His generosity is an inspiration for many apparently  AndiMuthu Raja, a disciple and follower of Muthuvel Karunanidhi, has been in the receiving end of this story from the Kalaingar.  King Pari was riding his chariot one day as he noticed a jasmine creeper lying on the ground.  People living in cities and the digital babies may not have seen a Jasmine creeper – they look a lot like the complex wiring you get to see in telecom systems.  Now King Pari’s heart went out for the poor creeper that he asked the charioteer to bring the chariot near the creeper and gently lifted the creeper and placed it on the chariot.  After this gesture King Pari walks back home and returns with some bamboo structures to support the creeper.  Such was King Paris benevolence.
Now such wonderful stories of sacrifice have been intricately wired into the minds of these literary stalwarts and as much of literature impacts science it can impact anything including untangling the complex telecom muddle too.

AndiMuthu Raja was  taking a walk down the corridors of his ministry one day when he saw this poor 2G spectrum unattended and trampled.  He cannot bear to see it so he picks it up and gently places itself around himself and gave it life.  Now the twist in the tale is due to the passage of time.  King Pari’s gesture was appreciated on that day; the context was a lot different. What Raja did was far nobler – he gave himself, so why all this hue and cry.  The creeper  found its way into his pockets but that’s not the fault of the man who made the biggest sacrifice.

The vagabond says Democracy is not fit for India, we need Monarchy back, and we need a noble king and Raja to rule us.  I agree with him.  Consider the state of deterioration in our country, when a man of noble birth carrying a noble name sacrifices himself for a noble cause the blood thirsty mortals are screaming for his blood.

Hear ye Raja, if ever you decide to start your own state with the 6000 crores, count on me for support.  I am willing to sacrifice myself and all that I have and serve as a humble Minister in your Telecom Department.

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"Lets not reinvent anything"

I managed to catch up  with two of my old friends yesterday. One of them said ” Chennai has too many events that I have decided not to attend any of them” ( so TiECON, I understood cannot be classified under an event, and that makes me happy) now the other one said “Well its better to have some event or the other happening than to have nothing at all”.   So when Vishy told me about the assignment at TiECON, all of me screamed  ‘God why me?’ yet one little gut  kept pleading within me to be part of this group.  The soft whisper of this little gut was louder than the screaming NO..

I’am glad I heard my gut.

To sum it up, only on  two occasions did I feel terrible about being part of this project.  That was when I had very little to do and then last evening as the God’s daughter, the dark night, spread its  canvas across the sky.

I remember the night I sat for the pages of Economic Times.   Hard work combined with sleeplessness should have made ordinary mortals crumble. Not so here.  The logical preciseness of JK, the overarching vision of Ramraj, the humor of Chandu and the design prowess of Uday came prancing now and then like the elves who helped the shoe maker turn around his enterprise.  So lesson:  Even when you are tired keep up the good cheer with some great company around.

There is no greater joy to see the youngsters engaging and committing their time for the conference.  Dorai Todla, has this ability to attract sensible and committed ones.  The team he put together under Sorav Jain‘s charge showed commitment and I am sure they are enriched after the conference.  Through them TiECON CHENNAI 2010 will echo and ripple for a while.

I have read that the Generals of Napoleon used to dread every victory, for Napoleon used harass them to find out what are the right things they had done to ensure victory.  And all they had to do was to repeat the right things in the next battle.

I can hear JK say “LETS NOT REINVENT ANYTHING ” . These words have become entwined in my neural pathways for I have heard this say this a million times.  When we sift the right things that were done, the ones that need improvement will stay behind for us to be addressed  next year.

Thank you guys for the great journey with TiECON CHENNAI 2010.

PS:  I actually read this blog again after publishing and found 6 mistakes and corrected them.  A small big lesson from TiE Chennai.
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Memoirs of Geisha – My take
Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

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I like this petite little fisher mans daughter who has no clue of her future – ends up hobnobbing with the high and mighty in a silk stocking set up.  How I like the men who patronize good looking girls,lift them  from the grime and dirt, pay to wash them clean and teach them to dance and talk and then own them for pleasure?

Lets do a fortiori,  if you let these girls alone to handle their own beauty they become feasts of the beasts around.  My friend Hari had narrated a story of how a poor girl (he maids daughter) with good looks was tossed around from bed to bed, led a despicable life feeding the pleasures of others and then killed herself.

Now wealth needs to be handled with care.  Sayuri, in Memoirs of Geisha, is actually a very upright girl, so were the ‘dannas’ and the other men around her life.  Its probably her eyes, that made people care for her .. whatever.  The book was quite a gripping on but just petered off towards the end.  The writer obviously at some point told himself  –  “Lets stop this for they may have to destroy the rain forest for no reason at all”

Final rating : I did not like it at all. Somehow it did not excite me and feel good about the whole thing.  No not the moral issue as such but the over book was flat.  I have picked up The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis as my next read, fantastic beginning.  I will love it for sure.

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Memoirs of Geisha – Big deal

I like this petit little fisher mans daughter who has no clue of her future ends up hobnobbing with the high and mighty in silk stocking set up. How I like the men who patronize good looking girls, from the grime and dirt, pay to wash them clean and teach them to dance and talk and then own them for pleasure?

Lets do a fortiori, if you let these girls alone to handle their own beauty they become feasts of the beasts around. My friend Hari had narrated a story of how a poor girl (he maids daughter) with good looks was tossed around from bed to bed, led a despicable life feeding the pleasures of others and then killed herself.

Now wealth needs to be handled with care. Sayuri, in Memoirs of Geisha, is actually a very upright girl, so were the ‘dannas’ and the other men around her life. Its probably her eyes, that made people care for her .. wotever. The book was quite a gripping on but just petered off towards the end. The writer obviously at some point told himself "Lets stop this for they may have to cut more trees"

Final rating : I did not like it at all. Somehow it did not excite me and feel good about the whole thing. No not the moral issue as such but the over book was flat. I have picked up The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis as my next read, fantastic beginning. I will love it for sure.