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Archive for March, 2009

One another reason to vote for BJP…

Posted by Lakshminarayanan on March 24, 2009

This is not definitely a campaign post for BJP. But, it will certainly seem like one :) . I just wanted to share one of the most interesting things I have come across recently. This election will be an interesting one. For the first time, we have a strong third front ally apart from Congress and BJP. I always had an aversion towards Congress and this time I feel that every Indian should have that. The incumbent Congress government has failed in all possible dimensions. Be it national security, economy or infrastructure and healthcare, the government has evidently nose dove.

I am not in supportive of the third front either which has almost declared Mayawati for prime ministerial candidacy. She has been awful in UP. Instead of eradicating reservation, she introduced reservation for upper caste and started implementing reservation system in private sector in UP. If she does that at the national level, our GDP will plummet as the efficiency of the private companies will become as that of government’s. So, I am left with no other option but to support BJP. I was supporting BJP since I started voting, but they haven’t done any magic during their reign either. But, they were way better than the current government.

Coming to the point, the reason for this post is the new IT Vision created by BJP which is available in LK Advani’s website (http://www.lkadvani.in/eng/images/stories/it-vision.pdf). Its a 40 pages document which has addressed several problems in India with the help of IT. As an IT professional, whatever I can visualize as a solution to the problems that we face in India, is there in this document. Though in some places the ideas look far fetched, overall, I could see a lot of thought process and intelligence behind this document. If BJP gets a chance to form a government (which is a big question with their weak allies) and implement their promises, we can definitely overcome China which has started implementing IT everywhere since 2001.

Modi already did some of this in Gujarat and the results are evident. So, nobody can claim now that it is not possible to change the way the government operates. All that we need is a strong, visionary leader who can have absolute control over things. But, as I mentioned above, BJP has done the same mistake again this time. Losing too many strong ally possibilities. And one of their biggest challenge will be taking this IT Vision to the majority voters who live in villages and make them understand the proposals. Nevertheless, this will be an interesting election with lot of tussles expected towards the end…Lets wait and see….

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25 random things about me…

Posted by Lakshminarayanan on March 16, 2009

Somebody tagged me with this nasty thing in Facebook because of which I had to write 25 random things about me…

1) Good things first, I am extremely hard working. Somehow I don’t lose energy till the task is completed. But, when I do not have much to do, I procrastinate things to the very last minute and waste time on useless things…so, I always like to have loads of pending things left…

2) I am an ardent believer of Almighty and destiny. Even after putting our best, if we don’t get right opportunities at right time, the efforts go waste…so, I attribute all my success to Almighty first before thinking about my hardwork…

3) In my childhood my favorite color was Red…but somehow changed it to blue in past few years…you can see a blue shade in everything i do..my shirts, my blog, my presentation backgrounds, my project report backgrounds…my mind doesn’t think out of blue…

4) Though I watch movies from all languages, I only listen to Tamil songs…somehow couldn’t change this habit…

5) My memory is content specific…I remember lyrics of several hundreds of Tamil songs…I could still remember the lyrics after several years…but I forget subjects immediately after exams :)

6) The only thing I am afraid of is DOG…once a dog chased me for nearly half a mile and I luckily escaped :)

7) I had an aversion towards Curd (Yogurt), Butter Milk and Butter till my age of 22…I even leave the place if someone is eating any of these…but, now these are integral part of my life…in fact, its a huge transformation in my food habits since I came out of my house for work

8) I am extremely bold towards incidents…I never lose hope and courage till the very end…my policy is simple – ‘except for death, nothing is end of life’

9) Having said that, I cried for almost every exam till 12th standard because of ‘exam fear’…I study at the very last moment and get afraid of the portion left to be read…till my mom says ‘don’t cry…just get (score) whatever you can’, I keep crying and reading… I didn’t write my quarterly and half yearly exams in my 12th standard as I fell sick because of ‘exam fear’…on the day of last exam of half yearly, my uncle slapped me and dragged me to the exam hall…i scored 97% without reading anything…thats the last day I cried for an exam :)

10) My mind is very ‘relative’…I automatically remember all things I heard, read or seen related to a topic as soon as that topic is being discussed…

11) I plan for far off things but do not plan for immediate things…for instance, I do not have a plan for next week but I have a plan for what I should do after my age of 40

12) I started reading things in English and conversing in English only 8 years back :)

13) The only thing I feel bad about myself is my weight…the maximum I have been is 61 kgs (134 lbs) 4.5 years back…I constantly try to improve on that but never did :( …I also feel bad for not having developed reading habit…I seldom read books…

14) I didn’t talk to my brother for 4 years since he didn’t listen to my advice…I didn’t talk to my neighbors for 6 years since they scolded me for a mistake I didn’t do…I am serious about things like these :P

15) I have been myself irrespective of the place…everywhere I try to follow all the rituals and practices I do at home

16) I wanted to learn several things in my childhood which I am yet to learn (like Mridhangam, Sanskrit, etc)

17) I take bath everyday without fail ( yey! thats an achievement) and I always take bath only in hot water (even in extreme hot temperatures)

18) I get excited very easily and quickly recover from that…

19) I was short-tempered a while ago…now, I am more matured and better…once I beaten my brother with a club black and blue for cheating in a game…he didn’t go to school for a week after that…

20) I am a pure vegetarian except for chocolates (snickers to be specific)…I am somewhat addicted to it…

21) I don’t like people who don’t follow their rituals and become rebels…I never had a friendship with such a person…

22) I am an ardent fan of Ajith (Tamil actor)…if I am in India, I watch all his movies on the opening day…when I was not earning, I even stood in queues for 5-6 hours to watch his movies…(still don’t know why)…

23) I love cooking…thats one of my stress busters…another stress buster is shopping (only window shopping :P )

24) I was a good painter in my childhood…probably, the last painting I done was the day before we
bought a PC…

25) I think and write very fast (even if it doesn’t make any sense ;) )…during my undergrad, for one of the exams I wrote 65 pages (ruled sheet) in 3 hours….you can see it here, I didn’t have any problems in thinking 25 random things about me…you will feel the difficulty when you start writing :)

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