Back to this blog after a decade and how? COVID19 causing virus SARS-CoV-2 is neither the first coronavirus nor the last such to affect the human species adversely [i] . However, this grander SARS coronavirus has brought a pandemic of a scale never seen before in the modern world. Pandemics and epidemics, of course, have social, cultural, and economic impacts. Businesses may shift from epicenters to other geographies [ii] . There might be reduced social trust amongst the survivors and their descendants [iii] . In some cases, wages improved because of the shortage of labor [iv] . Let us now try to look at the issues business may face and strategies to mitigate those during the current pandemic. Since COVID19 spreads by human contact, most governments have turned to quarantine as a solution. The practice of social distancing for safety warranted most employers to let their employees work from home if possible. People are avoiding going to any place where they might contract the disea

Finally a come back. This is the inception of the story. China’s fast growing trade in Africa sure made a lot of new before it hosted Olympics. The journalist there sure did not like this romance. China is a communist country and it is trading vigorously in Africa securing natural resources. Moreover it is trading with bloody dictator led countries too. Thus the West’s deprive-them-of-all-facilities-if-they-are-not-a-democracy-except-yes-for-china philosophy goes down the drain. Of course any westerner will find it offending. But from then on the way it came in media, it appeared to be always biased. The better side can be found here . The book in discussion in this article however draws a rather rosy picture, Though the author doesn’t ignore the malicious motives of China that actually went to backburner there. Yes, I too agree that China’s interest will sure profit Africa a lot. True, Africa is not poor, people there are. It is poorly managed (- Johnson-Sirleaf). Not letting the

In last some months I happened to see the vast amount of data and statistics available in our govt. portals. I was always surprised at the amount the data available to public in western countries. Cities like NewYork provide charts on various topics available to people. They used a business intelligence tool (OBIEE) I work on for providing many useful graphs too. (No I did not not work on that project) Check the NewYork CPR (City Wide Performance Reporting) here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/cpr/html/home/home.shtml Even UN made its database available to public for along time and has been updating the way people can access it. ( http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/ updated to http://data.un.org/ ) One can see numerous infographics made out of these by people e.g: http://projects.flowingdata.com/state-of-the-world/ http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2009/apr/electric-grid/ http://www.candychang.com/desk/2008/11/12/vendor-power/ Now the best news of theme all is this: http://googleblog.blogspot

Finally back to blogging after many days. It's my first time on Dark Room . It's a nice writing tool. Anyways this blog is not about Dark room. It's something I wanted to write for a long time and finally writing it, winning over my procrastination. Some days back it was a day to celebrate with patriotic spirit. No! I'm not talking about Republic Day. It was birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. (You must be knowing the date, if you think you should know. Otherwise there is no use if I mention it here.) Somehow I feel we have apathy towards him. Not much of celebration from government, not even any mention in media. Moreover the general public also seems to have forgotten the hero. According to me, Netaji's death is one of the longest running political controversies in Indian politics. But not just his death, even his birthday too is being wiped out of people's memory as part of some political

Yesterday I woke up really late (around 12 o'clock).It was 5pm when I finished my lunch.Now we roomies needed to plan on how to enjoy the day..err evening. Cm'n it's a weekend after all.. Dil Dosti etc. was the first thing that came in my mind. It's a movie produced by Prakash Jha. The person behind movies like Gangajal. The starcast of the movie is impressive - Shreyas Talpade (Dor fame) and Imaad Shah (Son of Nasheeruddin Shah). And the story revolves around college life in Delhi. It's about how the current generation has the view of life. It's about our philosophy towards love, life, sex, friendship etc. With all this info about the movie b4 watching it obviously any person will like to watch the movie. Aur kya tha.. www.pvrcinemas.com Booked 4 tickets. Went to MG road and found Taste Of Tibet closed. So straight to forum and had some Mumos and fried Wontons @ Beijing Bites. The first time I had Mumos I fell in love with it. If u like non-veg and din't

Cybercoolies and...... as a preface plz go thru this blog first.. http://bakerstreetirregulars.blogspot.com/ Though it's rude, it's truth.Now things apart.....u can easily think of this. Why are we given these IT projects, try to understand...how it all works? It's not that difficult. Now Us and many other development countries have a large pool of talent which is gud . Still companies ther outsource ther project to countries like India. Reason is the talent they have is costly...... though they have masters of technology among them, they do and will outsource their projects. Mostly something laborious and hectic is given, to cut the cost their finance department takes the decision over to outsource. Now their tech guy ther is guru of technology and can do all their project but he will demand a lot of dollars...now he will just administer and do the key parts and remaining are outsourced..so he is paid less....gud for the company. Then the company outsource to a IT services