Yes!! It is the first anniversary of the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. In this past one year quite a lot of things have changed in our country and its all for the good.The first in the list being India is no longer resilient. There has not been a single terror strike (of course excluding the attacks by ULFA and the naxals) in this past one year, the intelligence system of our country has improved the Govt. has finally decided to meet the demands of the armed forces' demands on their pay (truly!! they are the most deserving) and a whole lot of other things have also changed and I am proud of it.
Things have changed drastically in the past one year and before 26/11 there have been numerous terror strikes that hit various parts of our country, various serial blasts killing many people across various cities including some of the most developed. Yet these attacks could not be stopped nor was there any single prior information available or if at all information was available, no action was taken based on the data received.
But today things are a whole lot different. If all this change has to be attributed to one single cause, it has to be the changing the Home Minister of our country from Mr. Shivraj Patel, who apparently lost the 2004 general elections and still made the HOME MINISTER of our country to Mr. P. Chidambharam, who has done a pretty good job (rather an excellent job) thus far, I would say "Chidambharam is a better Home Minister than a Finance Minister".
Change is here today, if this change was available a year back, such an incident would never have occurred. But, it all happened and many lost their dear ones. I would like to stand-by those who lost their dear ones and convey my solidarity to them at the first anniversary. I wish all of you people can also join me. May their souls rest in peace.
OH MY GOD!!!
In the last post that i had written, that i was back and i seemed to have disappeared yet again. It was almost a month back that i had written my previous post and nothing before today... close to 5 posts saved as draft but nothing published. But, why?
Twitter - follow me @csrianth (Don't mind the DP)
Facebook - add me as a friend here
Work - the work on the website, the blog, twitter (follow us @robotixlab) and loads of other stuff that we are doing there (including the robots that we are making).
And now that Vinay has left us to join Oracle Business Solutions, the work that we shared on the internet front would entirely come on my shoulders meaning extra work load. And, I'm like (OMG!!!), Vinay i am so mad at you for this... just kidding man... All the best with your new work.. have fun you have after all borrowed my tie for first day at work, hope that gives you luck...:)
Signing off
Yours
Srinath
Twitter - follow me @csrianth (Don't mind the DP)
Facebook - add me as a friend here
Work - the work on the website, the blog, twitter (follow us @robotixlab) and loads of other stuff that we are doing there (including the robots that we are making).
And now that Vinay has left us to join Oracle Business Solutions, the work that we shared on the internet front would entirely come on my shoulders meaning extra work load. And, I'm like (OMG!!!), Vinay i am so mad at you for this... just kidding man... All the best with your new work.. have fun you have after all borrowed my tie for first day at work, hope that gives you luck...:)
Signing off
Yours
Srinath
GUESS I' M BACK
Work has indeed been very hectic off late and as days run out, it is only getting more and more hectic. Consequently, i wanted to take a break from blogging and thought i would get back later. But, certainly reduce the frequency of myself writing new blog posts (after all, making a commitment and not keeping up with it is never good!!!). So, i guess I'm finally back. But not sure how long this is going to last, as my company is planning to launch a new product very soon (in less than a month's time) and all of us are gearing up for that.
In the last few posts that i had written, I wrote a lot about google, SEO , Page Ranks etc. but none of these posts seem to have an impact on my page rank. It still continues to be 1 on 10. Guess i have been tricked by a write up i saw on the web that said write more about SEO and google to improve traffic and PR also.
Of course, i have changed the layout of my blog once again. Do leave your comment on the new template.
Hope to catch you all soon.
P.S. : Will update very soon on the new product launch.
In the last few posts that i had written, I wrote a lot about google, SEO , Page Ranks etc. but none of these posts seem to have an impact on my page rank. It still continues to be 1 on 10. Guess i have been tricked by a write up i saw on the web that said write more about SEO and google to improve traffic and PR also.
Of course, i have changed the layout of my blog once again. Do leave your comment on the new template.
Hope to catch you all soon.
P.S. : Will update very soon on the new product launch.
GOOGLE CONTINUES TO ROCK!!!
"It was like wow!!!" when I first happened to realise my blog posts are climbing up the google search results. Now my Feedjit tells me that more and more readers are reaching my blog by searching for their desired results on google and google blog search.
Here goes the list
first - "first salary" quotes
second - "we all live in a darwinian world"
third - "manmohan"
After all this, with some hope I checked my PR,it remains at 1 [:(]
Here goes the list
first - "first salary" quotes
second - "we all live in a darwinian world"
third - "manmohan"
After all this, with some hope I checked my PR,it remains at 1 [:(]
AT THE RIGHT TIME
Ever since the 50th post was published on my blog, I wanted to take a break from blogging for sometime. The reasons being four fold. First, my job getting the better of me (really hectic I must say) and my time (over the last one week, I have been returning home only post 7 in the evening). Second, not able to find enough time to allocate for my GATE prep. I thought, by reducing the time I spent on blogging, I would be able to find more time for my GATE prep. Next, the last one week or so has been a very low key affair on my blog. The comments that I have received have been very few. Zero, in many posts in fact. This was kind of demoralizing. Finally, I want to write about a few incidents and want to give my best in them. But when I do start writing, words fail me. This could have very well been noticed by the regular readers of my blog, I only wrote fillers repeatedly for a few days on my blog, nothing more.
When all this was going on my mind, I suddenly had a new reader reach out to me through gmail and the contact that I have given and I made a new friend :). Then after sometime, I had a comment on two of my blog posts (almost a week after I had published the posts) and real good ones I must say. Again by a stranger. And many more friends have told me through IMs that my blog is going really good. So, I guess I will carry on for some more time before I actually take a break.
Well, all this happened just at the right moment... so that I will carry on for now...
When all this was going on my mind, I suddenly had a new reader reach out to me through gmail and the contact that I have given and I made a new friend :). Then after sometime, I had a comment on two of my blog posts (almost a week after I had published the posts) and real good ones I must say. Again by a stranger. And many more friends have told me through IMs that my blog is going really good. So, I guess I will carry on for some more time before I actually take a break.
Well, all this happened just at the right moment... so that I will carry on for now...
A MISTAKE OF SORTS?
The Govt. run at the center by the UPA under the leadership of Dr. Manmohan Singh, has always been under the scrutiny when it comes to foreign policy matters. Right from the time of Mr. Natwar Singh to Mr. Pranab Mukarjee to Mr. S.M. Krishna now. This govt has misserably failed in framing its foriegn policy and repeatedly taking a beating on a day to day basis. During this session of parliment alone the opposition has staged a walkout twice just to show their dissapoinment with the govt for its misserable handling of various foriegn policy issues.
The biggest missery of them all is the Indo - US nuke dela, this still comes by every now and then to haunt the Congress led Govt. Recently at the G8 summit, it was pronounced that India should sign the CTBT and the NPT before the G8 community could actually have a commercial nuke treaty for civilian purposes. Our rights sacrificed? But when the USA secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton made her trip down to India, she said in interview after interview that the USA cannot ask the Indian Govt. to sign the CTBT unless they sign it themselves first (finally they have realised it I guess!!!). Only good out of this episode, the opposition seems to be scoring points.
Next, The Indo-Pak joint statement at Egypt. Reports say, the secretary level talks failed and in a hurry te Prime Ministers of the two coutries were desperate to give a joint statement and the Indians let the word Baluchistan feature in the joint statement leading to hell a lot of trouble for the Govt. The Pakistan media reports now claim that the Pakistan govt. has credible evidance of India directly supporting the Balooch terrorists. Of course immediately dismissed by the MEA, India as mere allegations. But the hard reality, has India been ambushed on the Balooch issue? Only time will answer.
My question is, why was Manmohan Singh so desperate in having S.M. Krishna as the External Affairs Minister? Of course the Prime Minister is also to be equally blamed for the above two incidents. Still, was Manmohan Singh desperate enough in having a failed Chief Minister of Karnataka at such a key portfolio? Or, was it the decision of the Congress supremo? Answering to the question of whether Dr. Manmohan Singh is a WEAK Prime Minister.
The biggest missery of them all is the Indo - US nuke dela, this still comes by every now and then to haunt the Congress led Govt. Recently at the G8 summit, it was pronounced that India should sign the CTBT and the NPT before the G8 community could actually have a commercial nuke treaty for civilian purposes. Our rights sacrificed? But when the USA secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton made her trip down to India, she said in interview after interview that the USA cannot ask the Indian Govt. to sign the CTBT unless they sign it themselves first (finally they have realised it I guess!!!). Only good out of this episode, the opposition seems to be scoring points.
Next, The Indo-Pak joint statement at Egypt. Reports say, the secretary level talks failed and in a hurry te Prime Ministers of the two coutries were desperate to give a joint statement and the Indians let the word Baluchistan feature in the joint statement leading to hell a lot of trouble for the Govt. The Pakistan media reports now claim that the Pakistan govt. has credible evidance of India directly supporting the Balooch terrorists. Of course immediately dismissed by the MEA, India as mere allegations. But the hard reality, has India been ambushed on the Balooch issue? Only time will answer.
My question is, why was Manmohan Singh so desperate in having S.M. Krishna as the External Affairs Minister? Of course the Prime Minister is also to be equally blamed for the above two incidents. Still, was Manmohan Singh desperate enough in having a failed Chief Minister of Karnataka at such a key portfolio? Or, was it the decision of the Congress supremo? Answering to the question of whether Dr. Manmohan Singh is a WEAK Prime Minister.
FILM REVIEWS
Very soon, I am going to start reviewing movies on my blog and make sure you keep watching this space for two big reviews coming up very soon
