Saturday, December 31, 2005

Re: Happy New Year

U too Venkat.

Venkat Addanki <venkatesh_addanki@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hai,
       This is Venkat Addanki. I wish you a happy and prosperous new year. I wish all the joy and happiness come in your way. I wish all your dreams come true in this year and above all. Always be happy.


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Friday, December 30, 2005

RE: IS India shining -kalyan


Is India shining?

My answer is YES. One should compare the various parameters with respect to
what India was about 10 years back.

Do we need to sleep or pause in the pursuit of making it more developed? No,
we are yet to reach even an equilibrium stage. There is very long way to go.
Lot of corrections will happen on the way to India�s goals.

Here is my take on why India is shining:

1) Literacy rate of 70% is unbelievable achievement. We were at 35-40% in
the 80s. This is definitely going to have trigger effect in the future.

2) We have come out of the dilemma of capitalism vs. socialism. We are
progressively moving towards capitalism. This will trigger entrepreneurship
and in turn converts the ideas into wealth. The wealth generated leads to
more jobs. We are entering into a cycle of wealth creation. In other words,
we moved from garibi hatao to Amir bano stage.

3) The digital age has reduced the distances. Information is available to
remotest location in India. The information age is set to start many grass
root movements and it is a natural process. Added to that if infrastructures
like roads, electricity and transportation are added, and then sky is the
limit for the rural entrepreneur. The positive news is infrastructure
development is pursued aggressively by the government.

4) Finally yet importantly, India�s political process is more vibrant than
in the past. It learned to live with coalition dharma in spite of some
disadvantages. Real democracy is to stay.

However, there is an old saying that not all that glitters is GOLD. To
convert the shining India to GOLD in the next 15 years, India has to do many
things. These are clearly written in the India 2020 vision written by Abdul
Kalam. I recommend everyone to read the book.

The things that need to be done for golden future are( all my views ):

1) Modernize Agriculture. Agriculture cannot be enslaved to poor farmer.
Capitalism should creep into agriculture so that more investment can happen
in this area. We should be able to produce a lot of food with less water and
in less land.

2) Aggressively pursue modernization of India�s defense. We need more
stealth ships, multi role aircrafts and tons and tons of missiles. India did
this mistake in its previous golden era. External forces came to India just
to loot its wealth. As we increasing becoming wealth, we need to spend at
least 3 percent of GDP on defense. This is the lessons learnt form our
history.

3) The above two points are nothing but Lal Bahdur Sashtri�s slogan �Jai
jawan Jai kisan�.

4) Pursue massive infrastructural changes in all aspects of core sectors
like Electricity, transportation and ports. This will trigger manufacturing
which will offset the layoffs that can happen in agricultural modernization.
In other words, this reduces the dependence on agriculture.

Here is the fantastic article:
http://www.indiaempowered.com/full_story.php?content_id=76249&spf=true

I strongly recommend the members to read the above article written by none
other than Abdul Kalam.

-Ramana

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Re: Happy New Year

thks and same2u

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IS India shining -kalyan

The sensex of India has reached 9000 mark and going to hit 10000 mark
with a great speed . the indian sensex astonishing all the business and
corporate trades as it virtually doubled in between 2004 and 2005 .
Dalal street diverted the attention of international corporate trades
towards investments in India .

GDP in India poised to grow 7.5% in this fiscal year . manmohan singh ,
the prime minister of india asserted at the economic summit that India
should be .aiming at 10% GDP growth in the next 2-3 years.More Exiting
are projections that india's GDP will keep growing at 6-7% every year
for the next 20 years or so , by when it will emerge as the third
largest economy of the world. The mobile phone users in india are
already reached 5 crore mark .

It would be false assumption if we think india is shining by comparing
all data in the piece of paper . Still,most of the Indians are below
the poverty line with the starvation as india is unable to meet
secondary needs like education , health and unemployment . According to
human development report , india ranks 127 out of 177 countries . The
adult and youth literacy percetage in india is just 73.3% and lagging
behind with Srilanka(97%) and china(98.9%) .

The students who just finished their graduation in techinical , madical
and management studies straight out of from the universities and B
schools are able to demand tens of thousands of rupees as a montly
income. We cannot expect this type of bumper salaries in any other
professions or in rural areas . The average daily wage of the
agricltural labour in the rural areas is less than the daily
expenditure of the student studying in corporate schools . The above
examples shows the nature of economic disequilbrium in our country
.According to shashi tharoor , an eminent coloumnist in international
journals ,opined that the dividing lines between rich and poor,eastern
and western countries, are high speed digital optical fibre lines.His
opinion looks true in real sense.

A new question triggered in our minds that how can this scientific and
IT development helps us to remove economic imbalances in our country .
How can avail of free education helpful to a boy without a proper diet
.Demographic sources are predicting that India would be emerge as a
largest young economy of the world by 2025 . But the question is , how
this youth can helps in the construction of Indian development ?

as most of the talented brains of our country would prefer to serve
their valuable services to foreign countries for acquiring money

or good status in a short term period .Every one should realise that

the rural and agricultural development brings the qualitative changes
in poor and down trodden but not with the Information technology . The
main problem of the indian economy is not with the lack of natural
resources but with the under utilisation of natural and human resources
.

-kalyan chandra

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kalyan.indian@gmail.com
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Happy New Year

Hai,
       This is Venkat Addanki. I wish you a happy and prosperous new year. I wish all the joy and happiness come in your way. I wish all your dreams come true in this year and above all. Always be happy.


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Re: MNCs Sucking up India's IQ - Tom Friedman

Friends,
Nice excerts by chandu, I have put in my comments for each of them.


Chandu Sambasiva Rao <srchandu@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Friends,

In my mind the top ten points made by Tom are as below. CliffsNotes
verison, if you will) I think these are very good points for this group
to take up for discussion. First of all, do you agree or disagree? What
of these you agree with or disagree.

How best to address these cencerns?

Regards,
Chandu




1. Indians are less interested in politics and more interested in
growth opportunities.
   -- I do agree that Indian's are more towards Growth and interested  in petty politics.  There is not much belonging nesss among us.

2. Creation and distribution of wealth depends on infrastructure,
education and governance.
-- Very true
3. India has a prime minister who really gets it. You don't have to
start by explaining it to Manmohan Singh. He's the Deng Xiaoping of
India. Who you need to explain it to is half the Congress party and
others who, in this coalition, are like the ball and chain around his
ankle.
-- Most difficult part is to keep explain to rest of the team and pursue them to be along with him.
4. I think India's most debilitating liability is the third leg, it
doesn't have the governance. .. Terrible corruption. Good people-all my
dynamic and exciting Indian friends-wouldn't think of going into
politics. Because they see it as a waste of time, energy and also as
violent and corrupt.
-- Governance is very important aspect for any thing to run successfully. Being a democratic country, people needs to enter into politics especially  Good and dynamic people, other wise there will be greater imbalance.

5. Capitalism makes people unequally rich, socialism makes people
equally poor. India was an expert at making its people equally poor. It
now moves to capitalism to make people unequally rich. But as a general
phenomena, it has also lifted the floor. India wouldn't have the
largest number of middle class today if that weren't true.
-- Capitalism is good, at least  middle class will be majority instead off poor.
6. My daughter is in love with her iPod. Do you know where the MP3 chip
in her I-pod was designed? Hyderabad. Not made, not put together by a
bunch of cheap Indian workers, but designed.
-- Well this is in contrary to rest not bad it’s designed in India and assembled else ware, needs     brain power to design.  But only this is that we gets benefited more is the question?

7. Microsoft just opened its fourth research centre in the world-in
Bangalore. You think they are there for cheap labour. They are there
for, what they call, an 'IQ suck'. They want to, like a straw, suck out
as much IQ as they can from India.
-- I guess it’s good that lot of research centers are getting to India, to build infrastructure like china it take long time and lots of investment.

8. You give a farmer a cell phone and you'll see the biggest leap in
anti-poverty that one can possibly imagine. This isn't about everyone
becoming a call centre worker in Bangalore. Poverty will really be
alleviated when India, when people who live on the land in agriculture,
become more productive. And technology has the greatest chance to do
that in the shortest time. You look at the number of farmers in India
who want their kids to study English.
-- former needs medical facilities and guidance to for his day to day work, he does not cell phone.

9. The fact that Indians can now innovate without waiting in line at
the US embassy, without having to come to cold Minnesota and look for
an Indian restaurant to get their chapati and curry, the fact that they
can stay home, live in their culture, be in their extended family, eat
their native food, wear their native clothes, take part in the most
cutting-edge innovation, that is really cool.
-- This is one thing very noticeable; most of the IT people in India have pretty good resumes.
10. When farmers can get more from their land, when they can understand
global markets better, when they can produce niche products for
different markets, that's when India will really turn around.
-- That's true then only we can declare India is an advanced country.
Venkat Krishna Sreeram.

 


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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Narayana Murthy attacks politicians


I generally do not agree attacking politicians for all the ills of the
Nation. However the Radio incedent he refers seems to be correct.

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Narayana Murthy attacks politicians
http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14086534&headline=Narayana~Murthy~attacks~politicians

Thursday, 29 December , 2005, 10:50

Bangalore: Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited N R Narayana Murthy on
Wednesday said corruption has become pervasive in institutions in the
country and there is a strong incentive for politicians to keep people
ignorant and illiterate.

"Our institutions - from our Parliament and legislatures to our courts and
distribution systems - have become pervaded with corruption," he said.

Corruption in India has become the norm, he said addressing the second
international alumni meet of National Institute of Technology.

Indians, the Chief Mentor of NASDAQ-listed firm said, spent over Rs 21,000
crore in bribes and illegal payouts in 2004 - close to one per cent of the
country's GDP. |Read more Finance news.|

"There is a strong incentive for our politicians to maintain the current
status quo - where the government is not accountable to the public on the
most basic issues - by keeping people ignorant and illiterate," he said.

Giving an example, he said India's private radio stations are only allowed
to broadcast entertainment and not news and information programmes. "There
is absolutely no good reason for this restriction. Only reason is they
(politicians) do not want the poor people to know what's happening in the
country."

Murthy pointed out that radio is a low-cost media with the highest
penetration in India- it reaches 27 of every 100 households in the country.
It is easily accessible to low-income, illiterate people and can be an
important source of knowledge, news and information.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Positive News about India


Folks,

This is very nice article about India and its place in the strategic world.
I have one disgreement with this article.
we should agressively pursue China as rival in all aspects. We should also
become more "Chanikyan" and we should strategise to beat out all masters in
the long term. In strategic affairs longterm wise China is the #1 enemy of
India. Currently we have the wherewittal to beat China in all aspects even
though we are #2 currently. We should pursue with all the neighbors of China
in the East Asia to checkmate it milatarily and economically. We should use
Russia and US (they desperately need us for their own different reasons) to
defeat China.

Read the following article and I am hopeful to know other members
perspective.
Ramana

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1583739,00120001.htm

HINDUSTAN TIMES.COM

The Rising

Manoj Joshi

December 28, 2005

Condoleezza Rice, Wen Jiabao, Junichiro Koizumi�s visits, the signing of a
Comprehensive Economic Cooperation agreement with Singapore, participation
in the East Asia Summit and its active role in the WTO negotiations � all in
2005 � are perhaps the best indicator of the pivotal role that India has
begun to play in the emerging Asian balance of power. The year gone by, and
the one to come, have enormous significance for India because today it
occupies a unique geopolitical position in Asia.

Located where it is, on the flanks of the Asean and the East Asian region,
and those of the West and Central Asia, India is in a swing-zone from where
its huge working age population, intellectual resources, manufacturing and
agricultural potential and military power, can enable it to influence events
in these regions.

There is a 19th century echo in the word �geopolitics�. Yet, it best
describes the moves taking place on the chessboard of nations today. In the
most basic sense, �geopolitics� is about the correlation between
geographical location and political power, and the division of the world
into core and periphery areas. But in a more sophisticated sense, it is a
palimpsest layered over by the resources a nation has, both physical and
human, its demographic profile, its political system and its military power.
Given its size, India is both a heartland and a maritime nation. In its
north, there are vast land-locked states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya
Pradesh and Rajasthan, each the size of a large European nation. On the
other hand, India�s political geography � primarily its unresolved conflict
with Pakistan and its troubled North-east � makes it a maritime nation
because most of its trade is seaborne and dependent on the security of sea
lanes. The peninsula, adjacent the key oil sea lane flowing from the Persian
Gulf to the Straits of Malacca, only serves to accentuate this.

India�s potential was always there, but it was locked up in a State that was
a founder-member of the non-aligned movement, and whose economic policies
verged on the autarkic, and some will argue, self-defeating. In 1990-91, the
end of the Cold War and a domestic economic crisis compelled change. India
practically abandoned the non-aligned movement, dismantled the licence-quota
raj and opened itself to the East and West. Instead of traps and pitfalls,
India found opportunities: its English-oriented education system yielded
Business Process Outsourcing advantages; liberalisation unleashed economic
growth, expanding domestic and export markets; and the 1998 nuclear weapons
test signalled that it was not willing to be militarily consigned to a tier
of second-ranking global States.

Since then the country followed a three-pronged approach. First, to
reintegrate India into the world economy. Second, to ensure the integrity
and security of the country. And, third, to further its political and
economic interests in the Asian region and across the globe. In these
endeavours, it is seeking to move the big geopolitical blocks � retain good
ties with Russia, improve ties with China, build strategic coalitions with
the US, the EU and Japan � with the expectation that the smaller ones will
fall into place on their own.

In the process, India has emerged as a significant element in the emerging
geopolitical equations that are sought to be rewritten in Asia as a
consequence of the rise of China. India�s importance comes from the fact
that it is No. 2, behind China, on virtually every measure of power. Had we
been No. 1, everyone would be finding ways to check us. As No. 2 we are in a
safe position of not being viewed as hegemonic (except in our limited South
Asian region), and courted by big players like the US, Japan and the EU.
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of our current trajectory is the
not-so-subtle declaration by the US that it is committed to helping India
become a world power in the 21st century. The US decision to overturn its
decades-old policy of denying India nuclear and space technologies is one
outcome of this, as are the Japanese moves to sharply step up their
engagement with India.

In orthodox balance-of-power theory, States choose to balance or bandwagon a
hegemonic power. The choice before many of the smaller Asian powers is to
bandwagon with rising China, or help balance it. As of now, with a bit of
push from the US and Japan, they appear to be following the latter strategy
� in classical terms, seeking a state of stability or parity between
opposing forces. This was the principle that drove the post-Westphalian
State system in Europe, which was based on the understanding that the only
way to check power was by ensuring a balance or parity through diplomatic or
military action.

But we must be careful not to transpose too much of the 19th century
balance-of-power ideas on the situation of today. In a world where rivals
like the US and China are each other�s biggest trade partners, and nuclear
weapons maintain the balance of terror, competing States need to evolve ways
of cooperating with each other and developing a vested interest in the
other�s well-being. That is why it would be a serious mistake to see India
as an element of some new strategic alliance system aimed at China. True,
China�s continuing efforts to hobble India by providing nuclear and missile
technology to Pakistan are not those of a friendly country. But big boys
don�t cry. They get on with the game. And that is what India is doing in
seeking to resolve its border dispute and to forge deeper economic links
with China.

There was a time when geopolitical power was defined by simple arithmetic of
adding the tanks, aircraft and warships, or counting the GDP numbers and
natural resources. No longer. Nuclear weapons can, if used, trump any
conventional measure of military strength. But the lesson of the Soviet
collapse was that even nuclear weapons cannot get you too far. Russia�s
present predicament, among other things, is its adverse demographic profile
that limits the advantages of its enormous geographical spread and natural
resources. As the example of Japan shows, economic might alone is not
enough. Neither, for that matter, as the case of Saudi Arabia would reveal,
control over strategic resources like oil.

Power today is a multifarious compound of economic strength, cultural
vibrancy, diplomatic skills and, of course, military power. It is as much
about location, as it is about an optimum mix of soft and hard power. In all
these departments, India has something going for it, and hence the attention
it is getting. But India�s role in this is not so much aimed at China, as
towards peace and stability of the Asian region.

It is a well-known axiom that the strength of a gravitational force is
proportional to the mass of a body. In the Asian context, there is just one
country that can approach China in terms of its size, population, economic
potential and military capacity, and that is India. The new geopolitics is
not about revising the Cold War to contain rising China, but about the
emergence of a body with sufficient gravitational force of its own. One that
will offset the enormous pull, and consequent strains, that are being
exerted on the world system by its rise.

Re: MNCs Sucking up India's IQ - Tom Friedman


Dear Friends,

In my mind the top ten points made by Tom are as below. CliffsNotes
verison, if you will) I think these are very good points for this group
to take up for discussion. First of all, do you agree or disagree? What
of these you agree with or disagree.

How best to address these cencerns?

Regards,
Chandu

1. Indians are less interested in politics and more interested in
growth opportunities.
2. Creation and distribution of wealth depends on infrastructure,
education and governance.
3. India has a prime minister who really gets it. You don't have to
start by explaining it to Manmohan Singh. He's the Deng Xiaoping of
India. Who you need to explain it to is half the Congress party and
others who, in this coalition, are like the ball and chain around his
ankle.
4. I think India's most debilitating liability is the third leg, it
doesn't have the governance. .. Terrible corruption. Good people-all my
dynamic and exciting Indian friends-wouldn't think of going into
politics. Because they see it as a waste of time, energy and also as
violent and corrupt.
5. Capitalism makes people unequally rich, socialism makes people
equally poor. India was an expert at making its people equally poor. It
now moves to capitalism to make people unequally rich. But as a general
phenomena, it has also lifted the floor. India wouldn't have the
largest number of middle class today if that weren't true.
6. My daughter is in love with her iPod. Do you know where the MP3 chip
in her I-pod was designed? Hyderabad. Not made, not put together by a
bunch of cheap Indian workers, but designed.
7. Microsoft just opened its fourth research centre in the world-in
Bangalore. You think they are there for cheap labour. They are there
for, what they call, an 'IQ suck'. They want to, like a straw, suck out
as much IQ as they can from India.
8. You give a farmer a cell phone and you'll see the biggest leap in
anti-poverty that one can possibly imagine. This isn't about everyone
becoming a call centre worker in Bangalore. Poverty will really be
alleviated when India, when people who live on the land in agriculture,
become more productive. And technology has the greatest chance to do
that in the shortest time. You look at the number of farmers in India
who want their kids to study English.
9. The fact that Indians can now innovate without waiting in line at
the US embassy, without having to come to cold Minnesota and look for
an Indian restaurant to get their chapati and curry, the fact that they
can stay home, live in their culture, be in their extended family, eat
their native food, wear their native clothes, take part in the most
cutting-edge innovation, that is really cool.
10. When farmers can get more from their land, when they can understand
global markets better, when they can produce niche products for
different markets, that's when India will really turn around.

MNCs Sucking up India's IQ - Tom Friedman


Dear Friends,

Most of what Tom says makes sense. What are we to do to better reap our
own fruits? Your discussion/ideas are welcome.

Regards,
Chandu

(Thanks to outlookindia.com for this interview)

The three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign affairs
columnist thinks the new, changing India can become an economic
powerhouse.

ALAM SRINIVAS
He's put India at the centre of a new, flat world map. He thinks the
new, changing India can become an economic powerhouse. He feels Indian
policymakers have a chance to change the fortunes of the next
generations. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with the three-time
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign affairs columnist, whose
The World is Flat has just topped a million.

Have you noticed a change in mindsets or attitudes of the Indians you
have interacted with over the past decade because of the outsourcing
boom?
I don't want to pretend that I have met with the entire cross-section
of India. There are people in villages that I haven't encountered. I am
meeting a self-selected group. Of that group, I would say that people
are more self-confident. But not in an American way, as Indians, by
culture and nature, are more reserved and not boastful. I would say,
and this is a gross generalisation, they are less interested in
politics and more interested in growth opportunities.

In your book, you say that globalisation 3.0-a world of highspeed
connectivity-has set in. In this era, where will countries like India
and China be 10-20 years from now?
I see India and China as two super highways. Two six-lane super
highways. The Chinese super highway is perfectly paved, has great
sidewalks, and all the street lamps work. But, off in the distance,
there's a speed bump called political reforms. When 1.3 billion people
driving at 80 miles an hour hit a speed bump, one or two things can
happen. One, the car jumps up in the air, lands down, the passengers
look around and ask "You ok?", "No problems", and the car drives along.
The other thing that can happen is that the car hits the speed bump,
jumps up in the air, slams down and all the wheels fall off. So, with
China, we don't know what's going to happen.

India is also a six-lane super highway. But it's full of potholes,
cracked cement, unfinished sidewalks, and broken street lamps. But off
in the distance, it looks like the Indian highway starts to smooth out.
There are better sidewalks, the street lamps are working. The question
I have about India is whether that is a mirage or an oasis. Both India
and China have these big question marks.

My view about the world is very simple. Wealth is going to go to those
countries, companies, individuals and institutions that get more of
their people connected to the flat world platform. And who's going to
get more of their people educated in order to take advantage of this
platform, and to be able to innovate on it. Thirdly, who's going to get
the governance that's needed to provide a frame for that innovative
educated population. It's all about infrastructure, education and
governance. No secrets here, it's right in front of you.

With China, we know the solution-it needs political reforms. How can
India to convert that mirage into a reality?
India has a prime minister who really gets it. You don't have to start
by explaining it to Manmohan Singh. He's the Deng Xiaoping of India.
Who you need to explain it to is half the Congress party and others
who, in this coalition, are like the ball and chain around his ankle.

In the flat world scenario, the positive impact is restricted to a
small segment of the population. How do you take it down to the
millions of poor?
It starts by doing the right things. The state has the resources to
provide that infrastructure and education to precisely those people who
are not in the system. People tell me, 'Aah, Friedman, you are talking
about one per cent of India.' Well, I'm glad I'm talking about one per
cent, instead of a tenth of one per cent. Because 20 years ago, that's
what we would have talked about.Today, we're talking about one per
cent-now that's progress. You don't turn this ship around overnight.

I think India's most debilitating liability is the third leg, it
doesn't have the governance. So, when the state budgets a million
rupees for a school between Mysore and Bangalore to give it the
infrastructure and teachers, by the time you say school it has become
1,00,000 rupees. Terrible corruption. Good people-all my dynamic and
exciting Indian friends-wouldn't think of going into politics. Because
they see it as a waste of time, energy and also as violent and corrupt.
China is a Communist country, in name at least, but its institutions
work better than India's.

Critics say that technology cannot bridge the divide between the haves
and have-nots. The digital divide is happening even in developed
countries like the US.
I think it's wrong. If you look at the data, you see two things
happening. One is that the floor is rising. The number of people in
India or China today living on two dollars a day as opposed to a dollar
a day, which is to say the lower middle class, has expanded in more
numbers, more rapidly than anytime in the history of the world. But the
gap between the floor and ceiling is also rising. So, the gap between
the poor and the richest people in India is also rising. That's an
issue for governance. Capitalism makes people unequally rich, socialism
makes people equally poor. India was an expert at making its people
equally poor. It now moves to capitalism to make people unequally rich.
But as a general phenomena, it has also lifted the floor. India
wouldn't have the largest number of middle class today if that weren't
true.

In this outsourcing wave, India is getting low-end work due to cost
arbitrage, while the high-end one is in the developed world. If that's
true, can't it go to another country?
My daughter is in love with her iPod. Do you know where the MP3 chip in
her I-pod was designed? Hyderabad. Not made, not put together by a
bunch of cheap Indian workers, but designed. Microsoft just opened its
fourth research centre in the world-in Bangalore. You think they are
there for cheap labour. They are there for, what they call, an 'IQ
suck'. They want to, like a straw, suck out as much IQ as they can from
India. You know all of India isn't going to be rich tomorrow. Not
everyone in India is going to be designing mp3 chips. But where do you
start? Do you make the perfect the enemy of the good? Just because
everyone in India overnight hasn't become Azim Premji, does that mean
this system isn't any good. It's nonsense. All this criticism is just
nonsense.

And how much time will it take for this change to happen? You bet it'll
take a long, long time. You had 50 years of wacky socialism. And after
that, ten years of a sort of capitalism, I look at it as another
50-year process. But over the next 50 years, will the next generation
of Indians live better than their parents? Absolutely. You give a
farmer a cellphone and you'll see the biggest leap in anti-poverty that
one can possibly imagine. This isn't about everyone becoming a call
centre worker in Bangalore. Poverty will really be alleviated when
India, when people who live on the land in agriculture, become more
productive. And technology has the greatest chance to do that in the
shortest time. You look at the number of farmers in India who want
their kids to study English.

Outsourcing has been happening for decades. In manufacturing, the
process is nearly complete. So, what's unique about this wave of
outsourcing in the services sector?
What is new is that it is happening in the services sector. Therefore,
it is the ability of a country like India to capture real knowledge
work.Once you've captured it, it allows you the one most important
thing in a flat world. You can do it without having to emigrate. The
fact that Indians can now innovate without waiting in line at the US
embassy, without having to come to cold Minnesota and look for an
Indian restaurant to get their chapati and curry, the fact that they
can stay home, live in their culture, be in their extended family, eat
their native food, wear their native clothes, take part in the most
cutting-edge innovation, that is really cool.

Why did India miss the manufacturing outsourcing bus? Infrastructure.
If you have to make something in Bangalore and ship it out, the airport
is basically a Greyhound bus station with a runway. But when it became
1s and 0s, when it became bits and bytes, as opposed to boxes and
packages, India could play with its weak infrastructure. The way it
gets translated into a broad anti-poverty movement is when it comes to
non-hi-tech sectors. When farmers can get more from their land, when
they can understand global markets better, when they can produce niche
products for different markets, that's when India will really turn
around.

(Interview as Published in OutLookIndia.com)

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Personal Cost of Political Career


Picture showing the personal side of our CM.

See it before it gets moved to the archives.

http://eenadu.net/homelink.asp?qry=cartoon

Regards,
Chandu

Monday, December 26, 2005

Re: Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

Thanks.
I reciprocate the same and wish you and your family all the best in the New Year -- good health, and prosperity.
SS. Naidu

Har Swarup Singh <ambassador4@estart.com> wrote:
We fully reciprocate the sentiments and wish you and yours a Happy Holiday season and all the best in the New Year -- good health, much happiness, and prosperity.
Cordially, Har Swarup Singh and family
 
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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

Dear Friends,



Dear Friends,
 
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
 

Thanks & Regards,
SRINIVASA RAO CHANDU
 
 


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Sunday, December 25, 2005

Re: Positive News from India and AP


This is slightly old but great news. For AP watchers Vizag information
should be music to ears.
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http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=104901

The last time in 2000, India's aspiration to emulate China in SEZs
failed miserably. The new SEZ Act 2005 has prompted 45 new projects
worth over Rs 1.5 lakh crore in investment. Who's doing what?

When the Mahindra & Mahindra group set up India's first private
sector SEZ in 2000 in Chennai, it struggled for 4 years to get its
first occupant. Today, in its new avatar Mahindra World City, there are
three SEZs-auto, apparel and IT-within the township. Its occupants
include Infosys, and BMW which has secured land inside the township
butnot in the auto SEZ. The TVS group is actively considering setting
up a facility in the city.

Mahindra World City is just one of the many cases that reflect a sudden
surge in interest in setting up special economic zones in the country.
Reliance Industries, ONGC, Mahindra & Mahindra, Reliance Energy, Wipro,
Biocon, Hewlett Packard, Nokia and the Adani group are prominent among
the 40 players who have announced SEZs of their own. If all these
projects go as per schedule, new SEZs in India will attract investments
in excess of Rs 1.5 lakh crore.

Truly a metamorphosis from the situation in 2000 when India's
original Act on SEZs yielded little more than a few crores. China has
over 600 SEZs while India has struggled to take the figure to even 10
in the last decade.So far, if the 7,000-acre Special Economic Zone in
Visakhapatnam gets functional in the next three to six months, as
planned, it could be the largest in the country.

So what has changed? BG Menon, CEO of Mahindra World City attributes it
to the recently passed SEZ Act by the Centre and the Tamil Nadu SEZ Act
which are trying to ''make investment options attractive''.
Companies within the zone get 15-year income tax holiday besides
benefits like zero customs duty on inputs, self-certification and
single window clearances.

Today, the Government of India, various State Governments as well as
those private business houses that have been in infrastructure domain
are turning SEZ developers. Reliance Industries Ltd has already got an
in-principle approval for a Rs 30,000-crore petrochemical SEZ in
Jamnagar - the largest in the country. It expected to be operational in
the next three years.

The public sector sector ONGC too will be setting up three
petrochemical SEZs in the next few years. These include a Rs 25,000
crore project in Mangalore, a Rs 6,000 crore project in Dahej, Gujarat
and a Rs 5,500 crore project in Kakinada, Karnataka. Even the Gujarat
government set up an SEZ for the petroleum sector to attract
multinationals and large corporates to set up base in the state. In
addtion, the textiles, chemicals, gems and jewellery sectors too are in
an expansion mode.

Can all this be attributed to the SEZ Act that was passed by the
Government of India in September 2005? SEZs are typically a means of
attracting companies to set up manufacturing or services bases within
the country. This becomes a major revenue earner for the country.
According to BP Acharya, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Andhra
Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (APIIC),
the promoter of SEZs in the state, the time is ripe in the country for
SEZs to take off in a big way. Moreover, in a bid to make SEZs more
viable, ''we are adopting a public-private partnership model,''
he pointed out.

Some states, though, have been more aggressive than others. Close on
the heels of VSEZ, recently Andhra Pradesh has announced the Kakinada
SEZ. The 9,000-acre SEZ has multiple stakeholders wherein ONGC and its
subsidiary MRPL will hold 46%, the AP government through APIIC 3% (by
way of land) Kakinda Seaport Ltd and IL&FS 51%.

Next on the cards is the Gangavaram port where there will be another
SEZ, completing the eastern corridor. The reason for the development of
SEZs in the area, the key elements needed for setting up and developing
SEZs like land, infrastructure, access to roads and more importantly
sea ports are all there. ''We are going to position Vizag SEZ as
the Pudong of the Indian east coast,'' claimed Mr Acharya.

While there are large, multi-product SEZ, the state is also looking at
product specific SEZs. For instance, an SEZ exclusively for gems and
jewellery in the IT Hardware Park near Hyderabad is being promoted by
Gitanjali, a well-known jewellery brand. Also, there is a Nanotech park
for related industries inside the Hardware Park. Similarly, Ramky
group, developers of the Pharma City near Vizag is mulling a pharma SEZ
inside the Pharma City.

But do product or industry specific SEZs work? ''If the economies
of scale are worked out properly, they would. Further, sharing common
infrastructure could be an advantage,'' said Mr Acharya. This is
typically true of succesful SEZs around the world.

Government enthusiasm and facilitation often boosts the success of the
facility. The AP government, in a bid to boost the SEZ rush is even
contemplating ordinances till the glitches in the state SEZ Act are
ironed out. Infrastructure is a definite must.

Projects like the Mundra Special Economic Zone (Mundra SEZ) which
already has the Port, Container Terminal, its own rail link and
airport, and its existing social infrastructure may have a head-start
and make a bigger difference. However, all of them in due course will
have a positive impact. ''Gas will be a key driver of the Kakinada,
Gangavaram and Vizag SEZs,'' Mr Acharya pointed out.

Are some sectors more suited to operating in SEZs than others? Says
Sanjay Gupta, CEO, Adani Exports, ''Prima facie, the most prominent
sector is the manufacturing sector which would gain the maximum from
SEZs - specially light and heavy engineering industries that are
oriented towards exports. We expect the electronics and light
engineering to ride the advantage of the SEZs and reach greater
heights. Auto and auto-components could also avail of the SEZ to create
the much talked about small car manufacturing hub of the world in
Indian SEZs making these as the in-gate and out-gate to the global
markets.''

Besides these, industries which are being impacted by reducing tax
breaks too are now moving towards SEZs. The gems and jewellery sector
will also find it more attractive to move into SEZ as their income tax
advantages will end by 2009. Some software firms are now considering
setting up SEZs since the income tax benefit available to them in a STP
will not be available beyond the 2009-10 assesment year, an STP
official in Kolkata said.

According to STP rules, firms enjoy 100% tax holiday for a period of 10
years or till 2009-10, whichever comes first. In contrast, units under
SEZs tax benefits for 15 years irrespective of the year of their
commencement. This apart, SEZ units are also exempted from paying
service tax. The drugs and pharmaceutical sector as well as the agro
and food processing sector too are seriously considering availing the
SEZ platforms.

Scale is important in ensuring adequate Return on Investment. This is
typically in the range of 15%. Of the 40 odd SEZs that have received
the in-principal approval, many of them tend to be sector specific and
small ranging from 5 acres to about 150-200 acres in size. These sizes
can only avail of the SEZ status to get the fiscal benefits of the
governments.

To truly benefit from scale of operations they need to be closer to
20,000 acres that is the international norm. The large ones,
particularly those of international size of over 20,000 acres can
create their own captive power plant, captive water supply and create
industry specific parks with industry specific common facilities within
the Zone. The existing sea port and other multi-modal infrastructure
make the zone leverage all the existing assets for greater synergies.

Sector-specific SEZs such as Manikanchan in West Bengal offer a new
business model. This SEZ for gems and jewellery promoted by West Bengal
Industrial Development Corporation Ltd and was the countrys first
sector specific SEZ in the country when the state government notified
its policy in June 2003. Jewellers at Manikanchan started operating
from July 2004. The units at Manikanchan started their operations in
July 2004, and within a year (till August 2005), they have been able to
generate Rs 400 crore of export revenue. The facility is exporting
close to Rs 40 crore of gems and jewellery a month, a state government
official said. Spread over an area of 5 acres, the faclity now houses
six jewellery manufacturing and exporting units while eight more are
expected to start operations soon.

A software development and IT enabled services SEZ developed by Wipro
Ltd too is being eveloped in the Salt Lake Electronic City near
Kolkata. This is expected to trigger other software companies to
abandon STPs in favour of developing their own SEZs.

Whatever the trigger, SEZs are certainly the flavour of the season.
Whether the central and state governments can harness the true
potential and wipe out the bitter memories of SEZ Round 1.

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Re: Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

We fully reciprocate the sentiments and wish you and yours a Happy Holiday season and all the best in the New Year -- good health, much happiness, and prosperity.
Cordially, Har Swarup Singh and family
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

Dear Friends,



Dear Friends,
 
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
 

Thanks & Regards,
SRINIVASA RAO CHANDU
 
 

Narayanamurthy on Indian Higher Education


Hi! Group

Here is a good article on improvement of Higher
Education to increase future Global services.

http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/dec/23bspec.htm

thanks
subba rao kolla


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Saturday, December 24, 2005

Seasons Greetings!

Respectful group members,
 
 
WISH YOU ALL, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND BEST EVER HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006!!!!!
 
With love,
Ramesh 
 
"Let all the things be happy, Let all the beings be peaceful, Let all the beings be blissful."
                                                      Raja-Yoga by Swamy Vivekananda

Friday, December 23, 2005

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.

Dear Friends,



Dear Friends,
 
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
 

Thanks & Regards,
SRINIVASA RAO CHANDU
 
 

Re: HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!!!!!!!!


Dear Friends,

I wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year too.

Have a great time and keep the discussion going.

Best Regards,
Chandu

FW: [hssreston] Sign the petition - End Harvard's assocation with Hate groups !

Hi,
 
Following email is not directly related to the matters of A.P., but it contains lot of serious issues pertaining to us  as 'Indians'. Interested members can take a read through and sign the petition.
 
Thanks
Pattabhi
-----Original Message-----
From: hssreston@yahoogroups.com [mailto:hssreston@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Ravi Raghavan
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 11:47 AM
To: raviraghavan76@yahoo.com
Subject: [hssreston] Sign the petition - End Harvard's assocation with Hate groups !

Please click on the link below and sign this petition - End Harvard's assocation with Hate groups!
 
 
 
End Harvard Association of Hate Groups!
View Current Signatures   -   Sign the Petition

To:  Trustees, Alumni and Students of Harvard University

We the undersigned insist that Harvard University end its association with Aryan Supremacist / Creationist hate-mongering activities.

Professor Michael Witzel and his "scholars clique" in the Harvard Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department have exhibited a pattern of hateful, ignorant statements and abysmally low standards of scholarship. This is not the Harvard that alumni paid heavily in time and money to attend and build a reputation for excellence. Witzel’s activities have made Harvard the object of anger, disgust, contempt and ridicule of ordinary citizens.

Shockingly Low Standards?

Recently, Witzel and his "scholars clique" earned ridicule for Harvard by sending a shockingly incompetent letter [1] to the California State Board of Education. This letter represented the collective achievement of 50 self-described ‘Prominent Academics’. The sweeping hate stereotypes, ad hominem attacks, and general lack of facts in their letter make for depressing reading by any Harvard well-wisher. On questioning, several of the signatories confessed to not even having seen the proposed changes that they were bitterly opposing. Predictably, the California Board, after affording these losers undeserved courtesy based on Harvard’s name, rejected their position as unscholarly, insensitive, biased and devoid of facts - heaping ridicule on the Harvard brand. If this is the standard of tenured Professors, what does it imply for the worth of a Harvard education?

Hate Groups on Harvard Pay?

Michael Witzel signed his Harvard affiliation to the following sample quotes on the "Indo-Eurasian Research" (IER) Internet hate group that he runs. These show his bias against the Indian-American community, who should be Harvard’s primary customer base for Sanskrit and Indian history studies. We record our abhorrence of these actions which have shredded Harvard’s reputation as a civilized institution. We summarize from a recent article [2] that details the references:
• Witzel writes that 'Indian Civilization would be a good idea'
• Witzel writes that NRI (non-resident Indian) stands for Non-Returning Indians! A schoolyard bully’s taunt against immigrant children, but coming from a tenured Harvard Professor?
• Witzel claims that Indians in the USA do not invest in the higher education of their children (since they avoid the zoo that Witzel has made of his own department?)
• Witzel used the slur "HiNA" meaning in Sanskrit, inferior, lowly and defective, as an acronym for Hindus in North America. Does this juvenile propensity to invent racial slurs, much as it may impress his Prominent Academic IER cronies, define Harvard's intellectual class in 2005?
• Witzel declared Hindu-Americans to be "lost" or "abandoned", parroting anti-Semite slurs against Jewish people. Coincidence or symptom?
• Witzel’s fantasies are ominously reminiscent of WW2 German genocide. He says that 'Since they won't be returning to India, [Hindus immigrants to the USA] have begun building crematoria as well.'
• Witzel sneers at the Hindu belief in evolution, enshrined in the Ten Incarnations, which include the Varaha, the wild boar. He writes that second generation [Hindu] people just understand [Hinduism] as 'boaring rituals' (puja, etc.), temple visits and Indian (mythological) comic books ... "

We note that Indian-American parents must resort to comic books to teach their heritage to their children, precisely because of the sorry state of textbooks and academic curricula [3] Witzel as self-proclaimed “world expert” has failed to exert positive leadership in the field of his presumed scholarship.
• Witzel ridicules the most sacred of Hindu mantras: inexcusable for a schoolyard bully, not to mention a historian and professor. He writes:
”Many short mantras (the later biija mantras) like oM have humble origins the Veda.... used in the Veda to call your goat .. and your wife.” This was carried on for several posts of racist ‘banter’ on the IER forum with S. Farmer.
• Witzel demeans the daughters of Indian-American parents, who take the trouble to learn their heritage through traditional art forms. In the worst of racist slander, Witzel claims that Indian classical music and dance reflect low moral standards.

The above reflect the attitudes associated with the Nazi genocide planners of 1930s Europe. The Nazis systematically whipped up hatred through distortion, defamation, vilification and demonization. Isn't it more than alarming that Harvard nurtures such attitudes in 2005?

Such racist bigotry is standard fare on the IER forum, where all posts require editing and approval by Witzel or his assistant S. Farmer. Witzel presents this behavior as being approved by Harvard university, using his Harvard Wales Professor designation.

This is a clear, egregious violation of faculty standards advertised by Harvard.

The Aryan Supremacist School of Creationism?

Witzel’s screeching against the community is often part of his marketing of the “Aryan Invasion Theory” (AIT), now re-packaged as "Aryan Influx Theory". This marries Farmer’s Creationist dogma, with Witzel’s Aryan Supremacist requirement that all civilization must have emanated from his “Aryan” Caucasian roots. Devoid of intellectual substance, this gang personally abuses anyone who cites the growing scientific evidence debunking “AIT”. The evidence points to distributed local evolution of civilization, independent of any Caucasian influx.

Harvard Calls Californians “Idiots” for Rejecting Bigotry?

Witzel and Farmer use their censored forum to publish juvenile sneers at California State Board of Education Curriculum Commissioners, retired international banking senior executives, at Indian historians, and generally at the community of well-read, accomplished, scientifically expert Indian-Americans who challenge ignorance and bias. Farmer is on record calling the California State Board of Education’s rejection of the Witzel rants, “idiocy” and threatening to overturn their decision, presumably through extra-legal means.

Harvard Working Full-Time to Overthrow Lawful Decisions?

Farmer cites Witzel's boast that several others (presumably Harvard graduate students) continue to work full-time for several weeks during the Fall 2005 academic term, on pressuring the California Board. Clearly, full-time work on such political pressure tactics constitutes abuse of Harvard resources.

A Clear Record of Incompetence and Out-of-Control Behavior
Harvard Administrators have known for over a decade[4] about Witzel’s egregious conduct. Hired as a Visiting Professor, Witzel was made department Chair with undue haste, ignoring the need to exert due diligence before awarding tenure or administrative responsibility. His disastrous performance [5] as Department Chair is clearly documented.

Academic Freedom or an Atmosphere of Fear at Harvard?

The chaos caused by Witzel forced students to go public in the 1990s, with the unique spectacle of a Department Chair threatening a student with a lawsuit because she took and forwarded minutes of a student meeting in the department. Ten years after this debacle, Witzel is still propagating a culture of nepotism and inbreeding, anointing unqualified, immoderate individuals to “world expert” titles using Harvard’s name, and joining them in vicious behavior.

Summary: Enough of Irresponsible Behavior!

Harvard’s reputation has been battered by association with anti-Semitic Nazi groups, the faculty role in driving policies that led to genocides in Cambodia and East Pakistan[6], the revelations about racial slurs and other foul language [7] by its most famous faculty, and its President’s ludicrously sexist statements. Our hopes of moving on from such things have been shattered by the behavior of Harvard’s Aryan Supremacist Sanskrit Professor. The nepotism and inbreeding of bigotry are dismal revelations about 21st century Harvard.

Harvard’s Responsibility

• The facts are clear. A Harvard employee is, and has been, systematically using Harvard resources to conduct abusive attacks on the community.
• The statements being made on Harvard time and affiliation are blatantly racist and bigoted, and inflame hatred against minorities – something no university can hide under “academic freedom” excuses.
• Far from supporting community organizations and parents who have been working patiently to correct the errors in textbooks, Harvard has attacked them with slanderous accusations of political motivation and violent association.
• False claims of international prominence are being bestowed on unqualified individuals in Harvard’s name to hide their ignorance and incompetence.

Such activity is clearly incompatible with published university regulations [8]. We therefore respectfully insist that:

1. The Provost of Harvard University bears responsibility for enforcing Harvard regulations as they pertain to faculty conduct using the Harvard name. S(he) must act forcefully to enforce standards [9].
2. Harvard's President must post an immediate apology to the offended groups and individuals. The slurs and slander against Hindu Americans are far more egregious than Harvard’s ill-considered remarks about gender differences in intelligence.
3. Harvard must enforce termination of Harvard's association with hate groups such as IER and with those who run such groups.
4. Harvard must forthwith put in place polices and processes to prevent recurrence of such abuse of the Harvard name.
5. Clearly, the actions of the present department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies department, are destroying Harvard’s hard-won reputation for excellence. We strongly advise Harvard to disband this department, at least until such time as they can find qualified scholars who can relate to the community, and can understand the history, culture and modern evolution of India and Hinduism to respectable standards.


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End Notes

[1] Witzel, M., "Letter rom Prominent Academicians" on Harvard letterhead to CA Board of Education. http://jitnasa.india-forum.com/Docs/Edn_CA_Text_Book_letter_by_Prominent_Academicians_1114.pdf
[2] Kalyanaraman, S., "Harvard professor launches anti-Hindu Crusade", India Forum, December 9, 2005. http://www.india-forum.com/articles/55/1/Harvard-professor-launches-anti-Hindu-Crusade
[3] U.S. Hinduism Studies: A Question of Shoddy Scholarship http://www.beliefnet.com/story/146/story_14684_2.html
[4] Lewin, Jonathan A., "Sanskrit Dept. in Disarray, Students, Officials Say". The Harvard Crimson, Wednesday, June 07, 1995. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=500579
[5] No Writer Attributed: "Former Sanskrit Chair Remains Controversial
Students Grumble in Spite of Changes" The Harvard CRIMSON, Wednesday, June 05, 1996. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=89651
[6] Wikipedia entry on Henry Kissinger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger.
[7] Staff, “Kissinger 'regrets' slur against Indians”. The Guardian, July 1, 2005.
“Henry Kissinger said today that he regretted calling Indians "bastards", after recently released transcripts revealed his comments during a taped conversation with then-president Richard Nixon.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,12559,1519396,00.html
[8] The use of Harvard Names and Insignias http://www.provost.harvard.edu/policies_guidelines/useofname/names_insignias.php
[9] Statement on Outside Activities of Holders of Academic Appointments
http://www.provost.harvard.edu/policies_guidelines/academic_appointments.php

Related Reading

[A] “Textbooks should instill a sense of pride in every child in his or her heritage" California State Board of Education Guidelines http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/socialcontent.pdf
[B] Stickel, S, et al, List of changes approved by CA State Board of Education Curriculum Review panel, pertaining to Hinduism and India on Nov. 5, 2005.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr05/documents/bluenov05item05.doc
[C] Komerath, N., "Scholarship of Equine Posteriors - Har(vard)appa Style". India News at iVarta.com, December 4, 2005. http://www.indiacause.com/columns/OL_051204.htm
[D] List of co-signors of Witzel Letter. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/witzelletter.pdf
[E] SepiaMutiny discussion:"Reading the fine print in textbooks". http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/002613.html#comments

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This Open Letter was created by the Citizens To End Racism in Academia (CERA) in collaboration with Alumni for Civility in Academic Discourse (ACAD, and Citizens to Stop Funding Hatred (CSFH). We are literate, knowledgeable and competent in what we do, we care about our children's education, and want them to succeed as sensitive, caring human beings in a competitive, multicultural global community of the 21st century. We wish Harvard University a bright future of excellence, along with an environment that welcomes diversity, sensitivity, and freedom from hatred. Thank you.
Sincerely,
The End Harvard Association of Hate Groups! Petition to Trustees, Alumni and Students of Harvard University was created by Citizens to End Racism in Academia and written by Rahul Taneja & Myron Dershowitz (Rahul_CERA@yahoo.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.
 
 


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Positive News from India and AP



Chandu Garu,
I would like to use this thread to post just positive news from India and AP.  Just positive news with no criticism.

First congratulations to India for addding another INSAT communication sattellite. Next year we will be launching INSAT from Sriharikota. That day we can really celebrate. One more good news is that we will have our own cryogenic engines. That is another gung-ho news. We should really celebrate when that happens.

RIL pledges gas to AP first, gets SEZ in return
 

Hyderabad, Dec. 22: The State government will give Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) 20,000 acres of land near Shamshabad on the city outskirts to set up a special economic zone (SEZ). The decision came after Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy secured an assurance from the company�s representatives that RIL would supply Krishna-Godavari basin gas first to the State before taking it elsewhere.

After meeting an RIL delegation headed by its president, oil and gas division, P.M.S. Prasad on Thursday, the Chief Minister told officials of the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation to identify land near Shamshabad close to the international airport. Mr Prasad gave a presentation of RIL�s operations in the K-G basin where the company has struck an estimated 16 trillion cubic feet of gas. He sought land to set up a special economic zone that RIL could develop into an industrial area. He expressed RIL�s interest to set up a petrochemical complex in the State and said it could come up in the SEZ if it had all the facilities, he said.

Mr Prasad said enough gas was available in the K-G basin and assured that RIL would take out gas outside the State only after meeting AP�s requirements. RIL is building a 48-inch pipeline from Kakinada to Hyderabad and would extend it to its refinery at Jamnagar. The pipeline would run 565 km in the State and cover 56 mandals in seven districts, he said.

RIL was keen to undertake city gas distribution projects in the State. RIL would promote and develop city gas networks in districts and towns like Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Guntur, Rajahmundry, Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Medak, Warangal and Nalgonda in the first phase, he said.

Mr Prasad said RIL was contemplating the setting up of a bio-diesel production plant. In the first phase, RIL proposed to create capacity to produce 1,00,000 tonnes of bio-diesel at Kakinada by 2011. It proposed to establish captive plantations of jatropha, which produces oil for bio-diesel, on its own farms and through contract farming in 1,00,000 hectares in the State.

The Chief Minister reiterated that RIL should ensure adequate gas to the State before taking it to other States. Production should begin by July 2008, he said. �We know that you are under tremendous pressure from other States. Since the gas reserves are in our region you have to meet our requirement first,� he said.

He said though the Gas Regulatory Authority would decide the price of gas, his government wanted that oil companies reduce the production cost by using modern technology so that LPG is available at about Rs 200 per cylinder. Dr Reddy offered land to RIL to raise jatropha plantations and suggested that use the PPA model through the AP Forest Development Corporation. He assured full support from the government both for gas development and bio-diesel production.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Chandu Sambasiva Rao
Reply-To: AndhraOne@googlegroups.com
To: AndhraOne
Subject: INSAT-4A launched; in good health
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:38:30 -0500
Indian space scientists on Thursday received signals of INSAT-4A, which was
launched by Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana and said the health
of the satellite is 'good'.
"Satellite signals have been acquired by our station (Master Control
Facility) at Hassan (in Karnataka). Signals are good. Health of the
satellite is good," Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan
Nair said soon after the launch.
"INSAT-4A is the most advanced, heaviest and most powerful satellite (of
India)," Nair said, describing its launch as a "very important milestone in
the history of ISRO".
It carries 12 ku band and 12 c band transponders, which would add to the
capacity of 150 transponders that the INSAT series possesses today, he said.
"So, this is going to revolutionise the TV broadcasting directly to the home
and improve the entertainment scenario in India," he said.
According to ISRO officials in Bangalore, 12 ku band transponders provide
around 140 to 150 DTH channels. The satellite is expected to be operational
by next month end, they said.
(From Rediff.com December 22, 2005)
--
Sambasiva Rao Chandu
http://groups.google.com/group/AndhraOne

Thursday, December 22, 2005

INSAT-4A launched; in good health
















Indian space scientists on Thursday received signals of INSAT-4A, which was launched by Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana and said the health of the satellite is 'good'.

"Satellite signals have been acquired by our station (Master Control Facility) at Hassan (in Karnataka). Signals are good. Health of the satellite is good," Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair said soon after the launch.

"INSAT-4A is the most advanced, heaviest and most powerful satellite (of India)," Nair said, describing its launch as a "very important milestone in the history of ISRO".

It carries 12 ku band and 12 c band transponders, which would add to the capacity of 150 transponders that the INSAT series possesses today, he said.

"So, this is going to revolutionise the TV broadcasting directly to the home and improve the entertainment scenario in India," he said.

According to ISRO officials in Bangalore, 12 ku band transponders provide around 140 to 150 DTH channels. The satellite is expected to be operational by next month end, they said.

(From Rediff.com December 22, 2005)

--
Sambasiva Rao Chandu
http://groups.google.com/group/AndhraOne

RE: Good start from Loksatta to cleanse Political Corruption at grass root level


This article went to Archives.

Here is the link.

http://www.eenadu.net/archives/archive-21-12-2005/panelhtml.asp?qrystr=htm/panel2.htm

thanks
subba rao kolla
--- Ramana Muppalla <muppallar@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Problem with Eenadu links is they are not unique for
> a given article.
> Currently the link you provided is showing a
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: SUBBA KOLLA <subba_k@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: AndhraOne@googlegroups.com
> To: andhraone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Good start from Loksatta to cleanse
> Political Corruption at grass
> root level
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:20:17 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
> Hi!
>
> Here is a good article from Loksatta on
> Restructuring
> Panchayat system and cleanse Political corruption .
>
>
http://eenadu.net/panelhtml.asp?qrystr=htm/panel2.htm
>
> thanks
> subba rao kolla
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RE: Good start from Loksatta to cleanse Political Corruption at grass root level


Problem with Eenadu links is they are not unique for a given article.
Currently the link you provided is showing a different article.

-Ramana

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Subject: Good start from Loksatta to cleanse Political Corruption at grass
root level
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:20:17 -0800 (PST)

Hi!

Here is a good article from Loksatta on Restructuring
Panchayat system and cleanse Political corruption .

http://eenadu.net/panelhtml.asp?qrystr=htm/panel2.htm

thanks
subba rao kolla

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Re: Lets get to the bottom of it.

Dear Friends,
 
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year ... Have a Safe and nice Holidays ...
Holidays are here, lets be in peace and hormony.
 
Venkat Krishna Sreeram.


Ramana Muppalla <muppallar@hotmail.com> wrote:

I agree 100% with Mahesh.

Forums, groups are actually very useful to learn the unknown things.

It is a simple formula:

1) Try countering with facts. Provide links and book references. Try best to
share your knowledge.
2) Contirbute your best.
3) If we lost all the facts/material to counter then agree to disagree.
4) Ignore the dirt and filth. Just like in an evening market, forums/groups
will have all sorts of people. Don't we ignore junk mail. Install any great
junk filter, you still get it. In the same way we should ignore emails from
nonsense.

Since this thread is about "Lets get to the bottom of it", can we get the
specific posts that are like promoting sub regional, casteistic or only to a
political party etc.? Can we honestly introspect the percieved wrong doings
of this forum.

Honestly, I am of the opinion that this forum is progressing as compared to
couple of months ago.

-Ramana
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----Original Message Follows----
From: Mahesh Gorle
Reply-To: AndhraOne@googlegroups.com
To: AndhraOne@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Lets get to the bottom of it.
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:20:08 -0500

Very well put Chandu.
Perhaps it is time for all of us to think about it seriously.
It is very important to think about us.
Supposedly after living in USA for so long, we should all have lot in
common.
Together, if we cannot run a forum like this, I think all the 'criticism' we
put to the politicians or bureaucrats in India may not weigh much.
We have to control these egos and competitiveness among us.
This constant measurement of how high I am to the other should be
normalized.
We should all mature to by-pass unwanted criticism and put friendship and
sharing up front.
I pray God to give us all good health and a friendly and kind heart in the
coming new Year.

Happy Holidays Friends.

Mahesh Gorle.


On 12/21/05, Chandu Sambasiva Rao wrote:
>
> Nice twist to our discussion. In fact very important twist.
>
> What I think:
>
> 1. "We" are not trained on "soft skills" formally in our schools
> 2. Specifically, we are not trained on how to give/receive objective
> feedback
> 3. We learn the ropes ourselves by watching others. While this
> diversity is welcome, we also fall short in dealing with larger and/or
> diverse groups
> 4. We tend to treat feedback as "criticism" more often than needed
> 5. Managing feedback is a core strength of any "team"
> 6. Mastering this skill is essential to progress any career
>
> What I would like to know:
>
> 1. All stereo types are to be avoided where we can. I just used one
> above in explaining our situatation by saying "we" (Please read that
as some
> of us- if you need to). Does the behavior of how one handles feedback
depend
> on formal education/ society/ .../ region/ counrty?
> 2. What role "ego" plays in handling discussions/feedback?
> 3. What other factors influence how one handles feedback?
> 4. How best to educate ourselves and others on this?
>
> I appreciate your thoughts.
>
> Regards,
> Chandu
>
>
> On 12/20/05, Vikram Varun wrote:
> >
> > Why is it so hard for telugu people to get along..? why is it hard for
> > them to work together as a team..? are we lacking anything as a
society.
> >
> > luv
> >
>
> --
> Sambasiva Rao Chandu
> http://groups.google.com/group/AndhraOne
>



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