HEY!! Can we have all Indians here?

Spidergal, Where is this coming from? Who said those words....?

Agree with sania .. she is still 19... has many possibilties.... haven't read any amitav ghosh's books yet but heard from my friend his recent book called "Hungy Tide" is good !

I read a marathi version of that book long back when i was in school.... It was nice.

vinsan, during that debate you were addresed as woman.right.
and on the other language forum, on Prince El's thread you said Mein Achha Hoon. Thats it.

I'm not an Indian, just wanted to say hello and welcome to Able2Know.

thanks!

it seems Brahmin is on a vacation....

Hello People,

Include me in the talks too...

I am in Bangalore

India is Happening folks

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hey everybody i hav just joined the forum and i m indian too.

i live in delhi and found this as one of the best forum on net

Welcome gunz_ansz to the forum,

Its upto us to make this forum a success.
I strongly feel that a forum should be a medium to learn rather cannonding and scraping down others...

Respecting other peoples views, and putting forward yours.

India as a country is so diverse that even an entire life is small to delve into its varied conscience.

Its such a beautiful feeling to be Indian, Lets share this feel.

Welcome to an out and out ardent voyage

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And Ya I wanted to share something with you people,

A must read for every Indian....

what Indian President said,

"I have three visions for India.

In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come
and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander
onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British,
the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what
was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not
conquered anyone.

We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried
to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom
of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe
that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war
of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and
build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.

My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been
a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation.

We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP We have 10
percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our
achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-
confidence to see ourselves as a developed
nation, self- reliant and self-assured. Isn't this incorrect?

I have a THIRD vision.

India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that, unless India
stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects
strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an
economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand.

We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a
self-sustaining, self driving unit. There are millions of such
achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures
and disasters.

Lets do what India needs from us."

Welcome gunz and Nitin
Hope we will have fun together!

Ah Well, I appreciate your attitude towards our country in a day when all our friends are waking up in the morning with memories of their last-night dreams of settling abroad in a lavish life free of Electricity power cuts, cows rambling about roads….Blah Blah Blah…..

I have deep faith in Vision 2020. As an 18 year old, who has little experience of the outside world, I only have optimism, determination and long-term visions at my disposal as opposed to the so-called "experienced" citizens plagued with vice, skilled at swindling their country men out of government grants; whose psyche has been conditioned over years to think of nothing but ill of their country.
And know what, the song playing on my computer right now is …Yeh jo Des hai mera from Swades.

And I can feel the adrenalin rushing through my blood stream in Patriotism's avatar. I AM PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN.VERY PROUD, MIND YOU!


Oh yes, I would like to inform that I have got another article published in Woman's Era.
It appears in September 1st Issue 2005. The first article in that issue is mine. So, please read it if you can get hold of the mag. The article offers some great advice, I promise.

Yup this forum is addictive!

Haan yaar bilkul

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It certainly isn't true that the British wanted to partition India, nor that they would have granted independence earlier. It was Jinnah who would not back down and the British were appalled and heartbroken by the split, but the climate of the times and empty British coffers called for a quick solution. Gandhi was extremely well treated by the Brits and if you hadn't been brainwashed by nationalist education, you would see that India was richer and fairer and less corrupt under their rule. Note, I don't say OUR rule because it happened before I was born, so I don't identify with the players in the game.

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Clary, I will advise you to not to take this discussion further..... otherwise brahmin would bounce back with his strange Ideaology and spoil all happy-go discussions, taking place here on this thread since he is absent.

Anyways we already have lengthy, disrespectful and harsh arguments between myself, steve and brahmin on the same topic in this and other threads.

So I would suggest others to continue this current peaceful, non-brahmin zone of discussions.

Hi All,
Sorry to Spidey, cud'nt yet get hold of my copy of Women's Era(How can I? Its a girlie Magazine),

Now we are a good bunch of people here, Let's introduces ourselves to each other.

Lets start this off from me. Well! I am Nitin Dandriyal, a Software Engineer working in Bangalore. I like Swimming, Rock Climbing, Trekking and love to listen to Hindi Music & English Soft Rock.
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I would like to share wit you people excerpts of an interview of yet another pillar of India, Chairman of Infosys Narayana Murthy. I think you'll like it.

"..... Looking at it another way, at USD 76,000, Infosys per
person productivity is 150 times the Indian per capita
GDP. We have to accept that people working in India
will have lower per capita income.

Will you always need thousands of people to get to
billions of dollars?
It is inevitable. We have to hire if we have to grow.
We have built a scalable model; we understand the game
and we play the game that way. We are gearing up to
expand significantly in the next five years.

What do you foresee for the Indian software industry?
Today, we have 5-6 people in the multi-billion
category. If we have eight, it will be wonderful.
Could be MNCs...job opportunities are created in
India. A couple could be Indian companies as
well--very feasible. About 15-20 in the next
category...half the revenue of top companies. I wish
more and more companies join the first rung. I don't
see any problem in having eight at the top. Both
Accenture and IBM are serious about India. They should
be able to join the first rung in terms of value
addition from India.

Do you think we might see Indian software companies
getting to the hub and spoke model where the small
companies survive through the ecosystem created by
large companies?
I feel, they have to create a niche for themselves in
the beginning and become unique players in their
niches. If they want to play the game our way, it is
unlikely; the top four have created such advantages
for themselves in terms of financial muscle, training,
people, infrastructure that it is not easy. If I were
in their shoes, I won't compete with these guys. I
would get to a niche and do something. For instance,
none of the top guys have anything significant in
healthcare practice. May be that's a good area. Or in
tourism. They need to focus, become leaders and then
expand laterally. Once customers know you, you can
grow.

We have seen trends such as Y2K, Internet,
Outsourcing, etc., driving our growth. What is the
next trend? When do you think we can create a trend of
our own and grow?
I think we should look at salesforce.com kind of
business or product --that is, providing a web-based
software platform. To me that offers extraordinary
opportunities for India. This depends only on
development--quickly adding new features. This could
definitely be the next wave. The web is truly a level
playing field and all can compete very well. You can
build such a web platform and have all services in the
US. It is not dependent on marketing. Here it doesn't
need huge infrastructure to create anything. On the
net, it is a different model."

If you people find my posts long boring and unrelated Please... say so candidly. I post them just because I feel that these things must be propogated at least in the educated communities.

Thanks
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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