For all those who sleep alone
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above -
Know that you aren’t alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
–Vikram Seth
Maybe the whole world feels the way I do.
July 26th, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 2 Comments
duet
the song I sing,
it’s words are yours.
our voices different,
the meaning still ours.
life has two sides.
so does time
day begins
night hides
a river is one
it’s banks two
hapiness is life
sadness too.
we are the same
nations differ
let our voices unite
that we’d prefer
July 17th, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 2 Comments
An or(kutti) world
Orkutting today.
A few thoughts on how the interface can be changed.
Searching is a pain.
1. Considering the fact that I am searching amongst my friends, who would belong to the same community that I belong to, it is very silly that any name first does not get searched along these lines before being passed off onto general search.
2. Account management still sucks. Why Oh Why, can’t they simply have one login and translate them automagically to gmail logins. If you already have a gmail account with the same name, integrate it.
3. It’s not integrated with Gmail. And gmail should be able to tell me if someone has messaged me on orkut and make it appear right there as a mail message. Not done 
4. Communities are again a plenty. Lots of scything required there.
5. Does not work over my mobile phone, does not integrate into my address book. Waiting for 3G
Pleasant , but can be much much better
July 12th, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments
clubbed to death
After a rather pompous show of each club of MDI with it’s associated activities, in resplendent PPT or flash I am left here clutching my head, wondering if it all really makes sense. The fundamental argument for a club is that it does something valuable for the individual: it makes a leader out of him; teaches him to work in a team; helps develop his managerial attributes.
BOLLOCKS!!!
Most people are associated with a club for about eight months in a B-school. What are the chances that eight months will accomplish what could not be done in twenty three years of upbringing. People who are new to the club will anyway end up working on a small aspect of the club activity. Bollocks to leadership there. People who are capable of managing an event will manage one event, just one event in their two year stay. Their chances to learn from this are simply zero, since it’s very unlikely you will do another event. So your learning goes to zero, unless you count learning as learning what happens in an event. So you are given ringside seats to an event management function. Leadership qualities my ass!!!
This brings me to an opiniated succinct summary of all clubs in MDI. It’s down to one line, so no problems there.
Clubs at MDI. The cult of the politburo…
Imperium: Let’s have a Beerfest, but call it by some dignified name.
Illumina: Hell we had too much fun at Imperium, let’s do something with the corporates.
Delphique: Shit! We still had too much fun at Illumina, so let’s do something more with the corporates, but then let’s make people dress up in monkey suits now.
Corp-Comm: We don’t have anything to do, so let’s cut out newspapers.
Iteration: We like an e at innapropriate pelaces.
Mandolins: We love to screech, but we call it talent
Natyamatics: We also love to screech, but we call it a performance.
Sports and Cultural: We love to screech and we call it sports, we also love to screech and we also call it a cultural event.
Ramanujam-of-the-month: We believe that all Ramanujam needed was a gel pen.
Prayas: My dad owns a store
Unnati: My dad owns a bank
Samaritans: I wish I could teach my colleagues to read
Monetrix: I like numbers, but I am essentially lazy
Placecom: We love a bunch of suckers
Yea! Yea! I can feel my leadership gushing around. Just don’t step on it!!!
July 6th, 2006 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 2 Comments