tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63781072333731715402024-03-18T00:31:32.177-07:00The TweetologerKartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-29359901227418951242016-03-19T20:15:00.002-07:002016-03-19T20:15:35.092-07:00#KhulKeKheloHoli<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I grew up in Chennai, where the concept of Holi was limited to certain pockets of the city. I was not from one of those pockets. My first holi experience came when I touched 30, and when I was in Bangalore. My apartment assosiation was having a holi function, and I decided to take part and also indulge in capturing certain frames for memories. Here's how the experience went<br />
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Grandparents brought their kids away from iPads and electronics to enjoy nature and festivities.</div>
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I just loved the way water was being sprayed about, and people playing with gay abandon.</div>
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Couples were rediscovering their love for each other!</div>
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People were happy to be dumped in Pink!</div>
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While some were happy to be subjected to the force of the hose pipe!</div>
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People were washing their differences with color and water</div>
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Proof that hand was used for better things than checking notifications.</div>
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Association tension and bad blood were forgotten over colours and camaraderie</div>
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Some were embarrassed by all the colours, but were enjoying Holi</div>
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The initiation ceremony for newbies was fun!</div>
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Kids welcoming other kids, just like the adults do!</div>
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The aim of the game was to make every inch of the face have all colours from the Vibgyor Spectrum</div>
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Some couples were hitting it well and were splashing it well</div>
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Actually splashing very well</div>
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The powder is waiting to be thrown at some face.</div>
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Father's getting their kids to start early! </div>
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I still see that his teeth isn't coloured. Holi isn't over unless you eliminate the shades of White.</div>
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Tip Tip Barsa Pani! Love the way adults are playing like kids</div>
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My first holi was wonderful with water! Hope to have fun in the coming years!</div>
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One of the best recent trips I had was my mother. I've never been able to spend time with my mother over the years since, if I would be in a different city, and my mother would be in our home town. If I am at my hometown, I would be visiting friends. I had an opportunity to travel to Goa for a week, and I decided, maybe I should take my mother along and show her how beautiful Goa is in the monsoon.<br />
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My mother was initially surprised, and was looking forward to a relaxing trip by the rains and the beaches. I surprised her by asking her if she was ready to start on a 18 km trek along the railway track, and she said YES. I did not quite expect that. What followed was a lot of conversations with my mother, since I did not have access to mobile signals and other distractions.<br />
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I took my other out travelling on the last compartment of a goods train, and she loved the experience of the goods train travelling through tunnels. I never realised she had all the energy to trek 18 kilometres out of the blue. Maybe I had been under estimating the traveller in her.<br />
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time when an iPhone was launched, and when I realized only after the India got
Independence, that I should upgrade to a smarter phone. So pardon the lack of
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not so much fond reasons. I had lost my Motorola c650 phone, bought just in
time for my first job. It was my first color phone, and I felt bad losing it on
a hurried trip from the east coast(Chennai) to the West Coast(Mangalore) in 12
hours. I resolved to be careful and bought myself a Sony Ericson W550, because
I could listen to music on my phone, and in a couple of months on my way to
work, it fell from my pocket when my bike sped on a speed breaker. A bus
smashed it with its rear tyre and left me gasping at my luck with phones. I
then used 2 basic Nokia Phones for the rest of the year and lost them on a train,
and the other from my loosely hanging shorts when on a bike. I had the horrors
of not being able to lose a phone. The next few months were spent being
paranoid in protecting the incumbent mobile from the curse of being lost. This
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phone, to communicate my thoughts, I decided to take the plunge that I had long
been waiting for. Buying my first smart phone. So what was ‘smart’ back in
2008? A decent camera, using internet on the move via 2G, listening to songs,
and sending emails from the phone, and using the phone as a navigation device.
I was more than thrilled to begin a new life back then. A blue color Nokia N81,
was in my pocket at a princely 15,000 rupees. It stayed on with me for the next
18 months before Moore’s law dictated a change with touch phones. I was in love
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recorder and upload videos to youtube( through Wifi). I enjoyed the kind of
freedom I used to get as being a source of media. Media those days were limited
to what the Television showed you. It was one dimensional in that sense. Now
with my ‘semi’ smart phone, I could actually create media in the form of short
quips of my thoughts or showcase the beauty of a place or a running train, and
a bunch of people could watch my thought on the web via Youtube. Basically it
was harnessing the power of the moment, the power of now! The process was
complete when I used to rush back to my home the same day and upload the media
via my computer on Youtube. I actually did cricket player interviews with Sunil
Gavaskar, Mashrafe Mortaza, Steve Tikolo and Johan Botha. I also interviewed
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikimedia Commons. It later struck me that my phone
had Wifi and was as good as a laptop device, because the only way you could
connect to the internet using wifi was through a laptop, and the phone at least
helped me find out quickly if any open wifi network was there, so that I could
open up the laptop and use the wifi, incase the work required some ease of use.
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from work, and head to VT Station, and get on any direction that fancied my
whim on a Friday night in Bombay. I found myself on trains to Vapi, Sawantwadi,
Karjat, Pernem and Cancona over a few months, and decided to check if my
phone’s GPS would tell me where I am , when I was in a crowded smelly
unreserved compartment. The N-81’s battery would heat up, as I would use up my
phone’s internet for tracking where I was and what’s around the place, if I
decide to get down. All this in the age of 2G, and yeah, I should have been one
patient person to browse at that speed. The next little innovation that kindled
my inner traveller, was that the phone added GPS coordinates to every photo
taken, so if I saw a beautiful scenery on the train, I could just take a photo
in that location, and find out the coordinates to plan a trip specifically to
that location. However little ‘smart’ that might seem without a touch phone and
apps, I was actually over the moon and enjoying how technology could enhance my
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presence of Internet on the phone and the fact that I could read internet
content and blogs while on the move. Also something of curious interest back
then was to hear a song on radio on the phone, and then having the craving to
wanting to download that song. Sitting in a crowded local train in Bombay, I
used to download songs during my journey. Also back in the days then, the phone
had fixed apps given by Nokia, with some third party apps. I was over the moon,
in just having real player for playing audio and video. If you needed to get
more apps or games, you had to go to Getjar.com and download them on your PC
and then transfer to your phone. Here’s where Nokia missed an opportunity
despite Apple having a store for its apps. Sounded fun back then, but even with
its minimalist features, that little ‘smart’ phone had me in love with
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with being ‘smart’. Nevertherless, for a first experience, it sure made my life
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-52531271082519789952015-03-16T08:36:00.001-07:002015-03-16T08:42:49.246-07:00Watching World Cup Cricket with Granny!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><i><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Feb 22</span></u></i><i><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">nd</span></u></i><i><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"> 1992</span></u></i><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">-</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">It was just the day
after my 9th birthday and I was quite on cloud 9. I had devoured the contents
of that week’s ‘The Sportsar’ World Cup Edition; I had a good birthday and that
cute Gujrati girl in my class consented to sit next to me in our hindi class. Hormones
seemed to have arrived earlir than expected and to say it in Ravi Shastri’s
words, they were ‘alive and kicking’. Quite a charmed life it was! As
Feb 21st gave way to the 22nd, the little suburb of Adayar in Chennai
had more snores than the sounds of TV sets being on. I was sleeping in a small
room next to my grandmother. It was 3 am. Quite the time, when Sachin
Tendulkar and I were batting in our partnership for the ‘C Block’ team, tearing
to shreds the bowling of the B block team. My little dream was not progressing
much, due to the noise in my room. I hazily stared at the light source at the
end of the bed, and the TV was on. My grandmother was fumbling with controlling
the voice on the TV. My parents were asleep in the other room. The
next 5 minutes were spent getting used to the bright light that invaded the privacy
of my dreams of batting with Sachin. The immortal voice of the holy trio of
Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry and Tony Grieg got me wide awake. My first cricket
world cup had begun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Tony Greig and Bill Lawry were shrieking at John Wright’s wicket
off the bowling of Craig McDermott, as the Kiwis and the Aussies opened the
1992 World cup. My granny in Tony Greig’s shriek and words was “Alive and
Kicking” listening to the match commentary, even though she understood little
of their accents. She fervently got up at 3 am and followed the scores and kept
giving her version of her analysis that usually differed from mine. She would
say The Indian team should drop Shastri and Manjrekar, and try out Amre to bat,
as they used to slowdown the innings. Her other gem used to be being David
Shephard’s virtual soul mate, being superstitious when it came to nelson
scores(111,222). She’d say if a team actually reached the nelson’s score,
without bypassing it they would win. As a 9-year-old kid, her word was the
bible for me though I never checked if her predictions on nelsons actually
worked. She didn’t have much knowledge about the game, but many years of
cricket on radio and newspaper reading had made her a fairly discerning grandma
when it came to cricket. To come to think of it, she would have made a good
fantasy cricket player, but back in the days, computers and televised cricket
were rare to come by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">The World cup in 1992 with the Indian team in the Australasian
continent was my first experience getting up with her and watching cricket
matches. My parents never exuded so much interest for a live match. My parents
preferred to watch cricket, as long it didn’t interfere with their household
chores and sleep. They never took offense to me getting up early or sitting up
late, watching cricket on the television, until I got caught for dozing off in
school due to lesser sleep at home.They then asked me that pertinent question
that every Tambrahm parent asks “Cricket a Soru Poda Pogarathu?” [Is
cricket going to feed you?]. I’d happily say yes. Watching cricket for a
profession looked far more interesting than clocking hours in a bank. My
grandmother never quite understood the fuss behind me occaissonaly sleeping in
class, and gladly allowed me my transgressions of waking up in the
morning. When the world cup was around, a few marks lost in remembering where
Cape Comorin was on India’s map, could be traded happily for watching Kapil Dev
take a wicket or for Manoj Prabhakar getting one to swing in. Thanks to my granny’s
passion, I decided to let the cricket mood set in. I started putting cricket
pictures, neatly cut from the Sportstar magazine all over that room, with
a huge poster of the fixtures. Thanks to that image, I always will know
the 1992 World Cup grounds at the back of my hand from Pukekara Park to Albury
to Ballarat to Mackay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Quite a few moments from the 1992 World Cup come to my mind,
when my granny and I watched the world cup in the first week. The standout
moments in the first week were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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giving India a 9 run loss in the opening game.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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had lost 2 in 2 then.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Cricket was fun with my grandmother, with both of us seeming to
enjoy the white ball, colour dress version of the game, a pleasant change from
the ‘whites and leather red’ version that we were used to watching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">The match which we vividly remember were the last 10
overs of the India Australia game at the Gabba. My granny felt that India had a
chance chasing 234 despite being robbed off 3 overs in a crazy rain rule. She
was praying for Ravi Shastri to get out, after he trudged his way to a 60 ball
20 odd. Both of us remember having a collective gasp seeing Sanjay Manjrekar
swat Merv Hughes to the midwicket boundary for a 6. Maybe her prediction was
working, until Kiran More had his stumps shattered by Tom Moody and we lost the
game due to a lazy Raju who forgot to run off the last ball. My grandmother
never managed to forgive Raju whenever she used to see him on television in the
subsequent matches. There was redemption in 3 days when the scene shifted
from the Gabba to the SCG,when India took on Pakistan and beat them
convincingly. Even though I had school, I came home just early enough to see
Aamir Sohail, fall to Sachin’s gentle medium pacers. She and I would celebrate
in our own way, resonating to the high pitched tone of Tony Greig,who also added
character to the whole celebration. While there very few India moments to
rejoice to except India beating Zimbabwe in a rain affected game, our love for
the game kept us hooked on to the live telecast and the highlights. On
reflection, that quite defined my world back then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Back in the 94-96 season, I remember using my school’s<i>( Bala
Vidya Mandir-Adayar)</i> PCO booth to figure a hack to get cricket scores.
I was already reprimanded for bringing a radio set to school in 1993, during
the India-England series. A reprimand was like the equivalent of a parking
ticket and I could not dare to bring a transistor again to school. I still
needed to find a hack to find the live scores in between classes Thanks to my
grandmother, I found one. When I dialed a number from my school PCO without
putting the coin in, it would ring and I would hear the person on the other
end, but they would hear me only if I put in the coin. So I would tell my
granny to recognize that if no one spoke on the phone from the other end for 10
seconds, it would most probably be me. She just had to tell the cricket score
and tell me who’s batting. I had figured a hack, but the lady at the admissions
office near the PCO figured out, I was upto some mischief in coming 4 times a
day, daily to speak on the phone.[<i>Google and Cricinfo were yet to happen]<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">My grandmother was hooked on too watching cricket till 1998 ,
when the tele-serial world invaded her “Cricket watching time”. My granny who
would usually a Bangladesh vs Kenya game, with enthusiasm slowly grew out of
the habit of watching cricket,and changed her stance to “watching India
matches only”. With time her eyesight, went on the Downhill and her earlier
Glaucoma condition flared up again. My grandmother could then only make out
that a ball was being bowled and hardly had any idea as to how the match would
go on, and this reduced her interest levels and she would hit bed by a
predefined 10 pm bedtime, which made me wonder, how her interest levels in
watching cricket has ceased over time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">10-12 years back she could see only 10% from her eyes and when
my grandfather passed away(2005), she couldn’t even see his dead self properly.
It hurt me a lot when she told me that, when we were by our grandfather’s side.
She became a little isolated in her thoughts. Cricket was hardly in her mind.
My mother was still trying to see if something could be done to rectify and
restore partial vision, so she consulted many eye specialists. A few doctors
who said, that she would never see, in years to come, were proved wrong when a
doctor in the Egmore Eye Hospital(Chennai) suggested an operation. With nothing
to lose, we went ahead and did the operation. In less than two months, we saw
that her vision improved dramatically and she was able to see with both the
eyes and perfectly. It must have been a feeling of rebirth for her, getting her
eyesight back. That was in September 2006 during the DLF cup in Malaysia, as
shown in the image. Its 9 years post that now. Her eyesight again has
gone back to being bad, but her enthusiasm in cricket has not dulled one bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while another world cup sprang in Australia and New Zealand this year, with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made my granny my valentine on the 14th of February 2015, told her
opinions beaming from twitter on the match, told her what the commentators are
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-54943474888125261792015-01-27T18:44:00.000-08:002015-01-28T00:57:41.725-08:00Tata Bolt Review By @Tweetologer #GetSetBolt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>I had been to a couple of centres in Chennai, to understand where I could see the Tata Bolt. I went on the 25th of January to the Tata Bolt promotional showcase in S.P. Infinity in Chennai, after quickly checking with the twitter handle of Tata Motors. I was able to see the car first there at this centre, and took some photos of the car's interiors and exteriors I could not however use it for a test drive, so I had to wait till the republic day passed, as it was a long weekend in Chennai. I called up Tafe Reach in Chennai's outskirts in Pallikaranai, to get a car at 5:30 pm, post which I managed to review the vehicle, and also click a couple of videos. There are 2 parts to this review. I have done a review in text and images and another one showcasing the same items as part of a video review. </i><br />
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Looking at recent history, we notice that in the era of Phones and Tablets, the Phablets
have evolved. So a similar cross between a hatchback and sedan, called as the
compact sedan is evolving as an important segment for Indians buying cars. Tata
which came out with the zest, around the IPL last time, has come out with the
Bolt, a little ahead of the cricket world cup. Tata seems to be focussed on developing smarter cars for the segment of the market that seems to be quite the cash cow for car manufacturers in India.</div>
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It’s a car for the smarter youth of today, where you drive
in tandem with with your social world, keeping the safety intact.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Usually Tata’s smaller cars like the Vista are used a lot
for commercial driving by taxi drivers, where the focus usually is on the back
seats rather than for the front seats. That image has been steadily changing in
the Zest and more visibly in the Bolt with quite a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beautiful front seat and digital display. It
feels like the car I now own-Tata Manza, my own little cockpit, but actually
its better than the Manza. I actually find it a little sporty given the finish.
At least on first perceptions the finish looks premium on the outside and the
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The Engine called Revotron for the Petrol and Quadrajet for
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Lets start with the resemblance it bears with something as easy to relate as our heart, and that’s what makes this
interesting. Just like you have the heart pumping more blood while you are on a
short but quick run, the engine here in the TATA bolt has a sports mode that
just mimics a short burst of power. The surge in power you get once you use the sport mode is clearly visible.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The next feature is the econo mode, which is geared towards
fuel efficiency on a long drive, where the engine mimics the movements of a
marathon runner in pumping blood in a regular and synchronized manner. Finally the last mode of the multi drive feature, the
city mode, which is a combination of a sprint and a marathon and has best of
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Also where the Revotron engine is beneficial is flat torque
curve, which basically helps if you are a little lazy on shifting gears in your
city drive, which by itself are great features to help the person driving as it gives more power to the person in front. Not to forget are the safety features such as the ABS and the Air Bags. The ABS or the Anti-Lock-Braking system, helps you release the brakes in a systematic fashion, helping the vehicle to not lose control when turning on sharp curves. This feature from a safety standpoint is what differentiates the modern day cars from cars that were bought a few years back. I myself have a Tata Manza Safire (2010) and a Hyundai Santro(2005), and very clearly see the difference the ABS makes to a safe drive. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><u>Twist the steering</u></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">- Show the Active return
feature, where the steering returns to about 95% of the original position, post
a turn. But hey, its suny outside, lets say its raining now, and I have
switched on my vipers, here’s an interesting feature. When you reverse your
vehicle, the vipers at the back also get activated during the rains, enabling
you clearer vision of what’s happening behind.</span></li>
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</span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><u>Jadoo Ki Jhappi /Body Hugging Design</u></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">- Remember this line from
Munnabhai MBBS? That’s exactly what the seats tend to do you with its body
hugging design to support the shoulders and back. Their shape basically
symbolizes the broad shoulders of a Rugby outfit. While I don’t have them,
maybe the Tata Bolt should do well to remind me that I should get to the gym!</span></li>
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</span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Talk about reminders, the Connectnext Audio
system can remind you of the right tempo for a song with its </span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><u>SPEED DEPENDENT VOLUME</u></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> feature, based on how fast you are
driving your car. Didn’t we always associate loud music with high speed. Quite
an adrenaline kick right, and that’s a good feature because I don’t have to
take my attention off the road or fiddle my hands around the steering to search
for the volume control.</span></li>
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<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">d)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><u>Connect-Next</u></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> We aren’t done with the entertainment system
yet, since the 5 inch LCD touch screen in the TATA Bolt here, helps you
navigate your way around, but there comes a caveat. You need to have an android
phone, and to download The ConnectNext app from the playstore and connect it to
your car infotainment via a cable. Maybe there’s an easier way in having a Tab
, Phablet or at worst a mobile, that can be fixed to your car glass, allowing
you to navigate through maps. The good part however if that the app does not
take data from the phone for driving directions as that is done by the GPS
inside the touch unit. Note of caution on the expectations on the touch unit, is that it doesn't look to be made of capacitive touch, but more of resistive touch. While this can be a dampner, its far better than dealing with buttons in different parts of the dashboard. </span></li>
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</span></span><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><u>Feedback for Tata Motors</u></b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">-A quick feedback for folks at
TATA. If you guys could make apps for the dashboard, it helps if consumers can
use their existing tabs or devices in the slot or work with a tablet vendor to
produce tabs for the car, which consumers can take out also and use as a normal
tab.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><b>Great spacing </b></u>for the legs in the back seat. You
are able to stretch your legs and sit comfortably. The vehicle easily seats 5
people on the car, without being cramped. In addition, your under thigh support
and back feel very comfortable while in the car, with decent headroom.<o:p></o:p><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><u>Front Cabin and Glovebox</u></b>- Pretty good. Can house
easily 4-5 beverage cans, and a couple of bottles if you need to keep. Very
spacious.<o:p></o:p><br />
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if you can flip the backrests, if it’s a 2 person trip. Otherwise the bootspace is the only limiting factor in what reminds you that this a compact sedan and not a sedan itself. <o:p></o:p><br />
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C2) <b><u>Smart Vipers</u></b>- How cool is it to have back wipers getting switched on when you are taking a reverse and having your front wipers out it in the rain? Very thoughtful feature addition.<br />
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I also quite liked the suspension, as it feel
reassuring when you take the car on a spin. The design is pretty unlike its
Japanese and Korean counterparts.<br />
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Black and Out headlamps strikes you first, as
you examine the car on the outside, and as you go to the backside, there’s a
huge chrome strip which reduces the bulk of the car. For a Premium hatchback,
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-32306415770732415272015-01-27T16:59:00.000-08:002015-01-27T17:11:20.412-08:00498A= The ticking time bomb in our midst<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“The quality of a nation’s civilization can be largely measured by the methods it uses in the enforcement of criminal law”. – -The Supreme Court Of India, 1994.</div>
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The concept of democracy in India is as porous as India’s border, with respect to loopholes being present. There are fronts where democracy is strong and there are fronts where democracy is turned a blind eye. While India as a whole is deemed better than many countries for having an active exchange of opinion and freedom of speech, the loopholes sometimes make a mockery of what constitutes a democracy. One such is something that even the Supreme Court has taken cognizance of, on it, being a burgeoning problem in Indian society. Welcome to the farce that democracy is with respect to not having gender-neutral laws.</div>
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The new legal cocaine/ecstasy pill, which bypasses and leaves no strand of democracy is a law called 498a, which is called the Domestic Violence or Dowry Harassment law. It came by in 1983 to protect women from dowry harassment. An aggrieved woman just needed to get to the nearby police station and file a 498a if she faced harassment, and her husband and his whole family would be arrested and by the police. So far so good as this meant power to the women in a country that was largely seeing a lot of crimes against the fairer sex.</div>
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The moot point was all a woman needed was just to complain and they did not need any proof at that instant. Slowly women realized that they could actually use this to their advantage to settle scores with their male counterparts, if there was any dispute. A new wave of legal terrorism and extortion followed until July 2014, when the Supreme Court passed an order to not have automatic arrests for the 498a unless an investigation was done. But an investigation can just be another reason for harassment, another step for money to exchange hands. 498a is still around and staring at you from the corner, even though a barrier has been put in place.</div>
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Here’s how this law was abused over time. When a husband disagrees or fights with a woman, the woman walks over to the nearby police station and files a 498a. Very few policemen actually enquire what’s the problem and are usually paid off by the woman or her family. The husband is then usually pulled out in front of society or office and dragged to the police station. Not only that, in some cases the whole set of distant relatives are pulled in too, including children. The husband is beaten and harassed in a police station and an FIR is filed against him and his family. His job sometimes is lost, his kid taken away by the mother, his parents subjected to mental and physical cruelty in the police station and in the society. By the time the man/husband gathers his composure and finds a lawyer, having suffered harassment in the jail does the damage mentally. The ones who makes it past this stage slowly find their feet, while some men succumb to suicide.</div>
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The ‘so called accused’ in these cases might have been on bail – but the injustice of pendency of trial for long periods is the uncertainty and the concomitant anxiety suffered by the under-trial. The under-trial is inhibited in making future plans for his life or executing present ones due to the uncertainty which pendency of trial brings. His confidence starts to erode and at the end of the trial, even if he is honorably acquitted, the scars of the long trial remain. He feels condemned despite the acquittal. Democracy never reaches the man, or it reaches very late when the damage has been done.</div>
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Now to add some salt to the wounds, the woman/wife has now gone on to file for divorce pressing huge compensation claims in the forms of alimony and maintenance. With the FIR on the man’s name, he has to pay huge sums of money to the lawyer and the police to get his name off the FIR. If doesn’t go to the FIR stage, the wife extorts her husband for money, otherwise she will create more trouble. In these false dowry harassment cases the husband is a sitting duck waiting to be extorted, for the crime of being a nice husband and a good father.</div>
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As any lawyer would tell you, husbands can only mitigate the extent of damage but cannot fight an equal battle legally with a woman. Due to India’s archaic laws women can never be aggressors or perpetrators of crime, but can only be victims, so women can never be brought to book in a mental/physical harassment case. Not only those, the police see each FIR as a means of milking money from the husband and the wife over time. It’s a standard formula for harassment legally possible as an option, and nothing but money can solve the problem.</div>
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“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. She will have her revenge and your family will collectively bear the brunt of it. The 498A Wives have a soft corner for your mother and your sister (s). Prepare your mom and sister(s) for special treatment. They may very well see the inside of a prison”- from <a href="http://www.498a.org/" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">http://www.498a.org</a></div>
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Lets look into some specific examples and stories to see how ineffective democracy is in a case like the one below with Rupesh Savant, Varshini Swaminathan and Nitish Shivrayan (*names have been changed to protect identities)</div>
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<em style="line-height: inherit;">Rupesh was married to Varshini and they had a 2 year old baby boy. While Varshini always showed traces of evil when she fought, Rupesh’s calm and patient nature somehow kept the marriage from falling apart. Rupesh was paying the EMI for a 3 BHK flat which was also in Varshini’s name. Once the flat was in her name, Varshini drove her in laws out, slapped her mother in law and then decided that in that state of being drunk on woman power it was okay in having a relationship with Nitish, her colleague. Varshini and Nitish used to have sex in the office lift, office basement, at Nitish’s place and even at Varshini’s place, with the 2 year kid kept in the other room, when Rupesh was away on work. Sometimes the kid would need to wait an extra hour at the day care because his mother was having an illicit relationship. When Rupesh discovered this one fine day, when he came earlier than expected, Varshini showed no sign of remorse or regret. She went over to the police station and filed a 498 a along with Nitish for company (acting as her brother). Rupesh and his family were jailed, despite showing proofs of the illicit affair that Varshini had. Varshini also got Rupesh sacked by filing a false FIR of dowry harassment and going to his office and crying. Rupesh is without a job, and the house he paid EMI’s for is now possessed by Varshini’s parents (who are also fighting a court case for misappropriation of funds from their former employer). Varshini and Nitish have settled in the USA working for an Indian company that supplies cheap software coolies to be rented by the hour. Rupesh is literally on the streets and with some help from friends stays at their places for a fortnight and keeps changing places as he has no home, and all his savings had been taken away from the joint account by Varshini, when Rupesh was remanded to police custody. Rupesh has been summoned many times in 2 different cities for false cases against him. Rupesh’s parents died on seeing him in mental agony. All of this because a false 498a was filed and the Indian laws make it comfortable for a woman to get away with crime which in this case is adultery). Rupesh has no sympathy, from his extended circle, as the world believes men must be brave and women cant commit crimes. The only way Rupesh can come out of this non-compoundable case is if he pays off the police and pays of his psycho wife for maintenance, and basically funds his wife’s next marriage, for a crime he has not even committed. Just another day in the life of the extortion racket, being played to the court’s galleries by the tri teams of evil women, corrupt police and greedy lawyers.</em></div>
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Rupesh’s story is one of the thousands of stories lost as it does not conform to the general script templates that news media has a daily orgy on. Rupesh’s minority story wont make it to ‘Satyameva Jayate’, nor will Arnab Goswami question Varshini that ‘The nation wants to know’. Rupesh doesn’t have money in his pockets as he has been out of a job for 6 months now. He has developed a fear psychosis and spends his day staring at his bail papers wondering what percentage of the ordeal still remains. His home, his child and his parents have vanished away because one woman decided to make a mockery of the law 498a. This is just one case. A law meant to protect our women, has armed the women with a nuclear weapon that is spoiling harmony. More than crimes against women, its crimes against humanity that needs to have a proper mechanism for justice. This article however, focuses on the part of democracy that’s a vacuum for crimes against men.</div>
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Whether its Rupesh, Peter or Farooq, thousands of such men are subject to crime by women. Like the ‘Farmer Suicides’, the ‘Husband Suicides’ too are on the rise. Every 9 minutes, a married man who is affected by the 498a, commits suicide in India. 64,000 married men commit suicides a year, double that of married women. Complete stats are provided <a href="http://savefamily.in/158-ncrb-data-and-analysis-of-arrests-in-498a-and-suicide-of-married-men.html" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">here</a>.</div>
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The government in order to appeal to a section of the female vote bank is mulling on a bill that gives an ‘aggrieved’ woman rights over the husband’s ancestral property also to make the extortion racket seem more evil. While we men and women rise up in unison, to fight the men who rape our sisters across the country, its time we raise up in arms to fight against these characterless women and the corrupt section of the police.</div>
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Democracy is almost naked and is dancing to the tunes of ‘Munni Badnam Hui’. You get to decide if you would like to disrobe democracy further or join the fight to cover it up. It’s never too late to dream about #betterdemocracy, is it?</div>
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-53956149970583364192014-10-22T06:14:00.001-07:002014-10-23T01:55:29.310-07:00The World is More Indian Than We Think!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What goes up, comes down, What goes around comes around! Newton formalised the law of Gravity, but something a little similar is the unwritten law of Karma, which basically says that wheels of fortune can come a full circle! India actually had the distinction of being the world's largest economy hundreds of years back, as it accounted for almost a third of the world’s GDP.The goods produced in India had long been exported to far off destinations across the world.Therefore, the concept of globalisation is hardly new to India, but as we begin the story in the 1980’s and the 90’s, India’s contribution to the World GDP was less than a 1%, being completely isolated from world markets, completely in contrast to how India was perceived hundreds of years back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The 80's and the 90's were quite the times for reserving your awe towards developed countries like the US,UK or Australia. Your cousins in the US spoke about having Mac computers at home, while you were were still hoping that your neighbourhood school got itself a computer. We Indians, were happy playing catch up, waiting for the cousins to come and haughtily narrate tales of the west. Hoping for India to be on par with the world, was still a dream that was never saw the light of the day. In 1991, as India's economy opened up, brands flocked to India, and soon we had the same brands that some of our cousins used to have in the west, right here in India. Things as simple as having a global chain like Pizza Hut or just having ACT II popcorn in your kitchen, meant a lot to your self esteem, eventually trickling down to a globalised world in the late 90's. The Foreign Direct Investment in India as a percentage of India's GDP was still low at 0.2% but the ascent towards a "Happy Days Are Here Again" sign had begun in the right earnest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As a 10 year old kid, I was happy to be watching the highlights of a Zimbabwe vs England World cup cricket game(1992), on the same day as the match happened. What a Zimbabwean fan or an English cricket fan, used to watch, now I could also watch. The rapid spread of news, fashion and thoughts through media was making me a globalised citizen, even before I knew it. Life could never be better. I felt included, as part of the world. To add to it, a Bengali girl had been selected Miss Universe, and a Mangalore girl had been selected as Miss World, and a little more importantly for me, India had won the Wills Cricket Cup soon after, capping an excellent 1994. India had arrived for me! I went out striding a bit more confidently with my bicycle on the road, feeling a sense of accomplishment as I overtook cars with a perceived foreign connection(DCM Daewoo and Cielo). On my way home from school, I used to stop my cycle with a swagger, just to stylishly drink a Fountain Pepsi and be in time to watch Small Wonder on Star Plus. Those very products that was the awe of Indians, when their desi cousins use to come home in the 80's and 90's were now, available at our Kirana store or in our living room. We Indians were more than happy to be included as an invitee for western brands to consider India worthy, as we swept past the Y2K bug into the next century. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It also helped that most of my friends found migrated way to the US either through writing code, or cramming vocal books in a fortnight, that one could envision a career abroad more easily than people a couple of generations ago. So far so good, India's was expanding steadily and the global potpourri mix had a bit of Indian'ness seep in. Basically a global cocktail, with a drop of Indian Jaljeera. To me, it looked like the world around me had compressed and there was an intense thought around the consciousness of the world as a whole.India's Foreign Direct Investment as a percentage of the Indian GDP now stood a 150 basis points higher at 2%, but still well below growing economies like Brazil and China, who have a number of around 5% for FDI flow as a percentage of their respective GDP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next major tectonic shift that tilted scales in India's favour were a bunch of seemingly unconnected events that seemed to happen around the same time. Apple iPhone's launch, IRCTC, Prime Time Televsion, A liberalised FDI policy, IT revolution, Real Estate Boom, and India's burgeoning billion plus population. Well it may seem disconnected, but here's how we connect the dots with these events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a) <u><i>Mobile and Tablets</i></u>- Apple's iPhone launch, left a lot of people around the world developing the strong desire to own a touch based smart phone, but not having the money to own one. Google and Samsung worked on an affordable model in Android, and a lot of people around the world could now buy smart phones, and what that meant was a globalised world existed in the pocket of every soul who had a smart phone. Also a new order was created in development of Apps. A team of 3 sitting in Bhatkal in Karnataka could now make an iOS app for children in Sierra Leone, or adults in Las Vegas. The world was truly at your finger tips, with the 'touch' devices revolution, that has snowballed into an avalanche over the following years. A lot of app purchases are done through credit card transactions virtually, and the next mega trend, shown below in point b, helped app purchases achieve scale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">b) <i><u>IRCTC</u></i>- Opening up Indian Railway's ticket inventory to the public over the internet, meant a lot of productivity for Indians who did not need to go to a physical centre or depend on a travel agent. What it also did on a large scale was set the ball rolling for a burgeoning yet-to-arrive online travel industry, the backbone of which depended on credit card being used virtually. India bonded with the world instantly, as one could purchase any service across the world with their credit card. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the learning from these mega trends, is that when all these mega trends converge it leads to a huge revolution wiping businesses and paving way for the new. As Steve Jobs once said in his <a href="https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVHWUCX6osgM&ei=GcJIVOzZCoLimgXMqIH4Aw&usg=AFQjCNHy_C3hIvbCHw2VR2Cmxfzp432ZpQ&sig2=8u4IUiz7GMELYEED9QxYIQ&bvm=bv.77880786,d.dGY" target="_blank">Stanford Commencement speech</a> that death, could be life's biggest change agent, and a similar view is valid for convergence of individual mega trends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">India has done well to be part of a global village all along, where India has blended well into the global mix. Globalisation is like a wave, and one can grow together along with it, and also fall along with it. While India is dependent on globalisation to make it better, India has also evolved certain aspects that make India unique to the outside world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The red carpet welcome to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the USA recently, showed the importance of India in Obama's plans. India has shown a lot of leadership, and has a lot of potential in helping out our neighbouring countries to foster peace and economic development, keeping India as the fulcrum for trade. Moving to the field of technology, A lot of Western tech companies have people of Indian origin at the helm, and many Indians defining the culture of these companies(Sundar Pichai at Android, Satya Nadella at Microsoft etc).India scores high on culture, history,technology,wellness, cricket and cinema, and is slowly making the outside take note and take in a bit of Indian-ness in their daily life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a) <i><u>Cinema</u></i>-Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey doing the lungi dance in an Indian award function, or Hollywood movies with an Indian theme(Eat Pray Love/Slumdog Millionare), definitely opens up India to the world. While the attention is on India, India need to keep honing their excellence at their craft, and work tirelessly. As they say in the movie '3 Idiots', success will follow excellence wherever it goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">b) <i><u>Wellness</u></i>- In the cult classic best seller in the West,"The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari", the world looks at India as the mystic place, whose ancient habits and rituals have protected Indians from ages, helping them lead a happy and contented life. The world is flocking east, to understand the ways of life and the rituals that make India what it is. May it be the flocking of faith, which attracts the largest gathering of people in the world at the Maha Kumbha Mela, or burgeoning Yoga and Ayurveda treatments which are needed as an antidote for today's "Tune in and burn out" work culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">c) <i style="text-decoration: underline;">Sport-</i> India for the last couple of decades, have produced sportsmen, who have shined individually like Sachin Tendulkar, Jeev Milkha Singh, Mary Kom and Abhinav Bindra, putting India on the sporting map. While India's position is still a blinking light, compared to the athletic and sporting development in similar economies like Brazil and China, India's sporting revolution seems to be led by Cricket. The global cricket economy runs on India's audience, and after the success of a globalised tournament like the IPL, India has been looking for revolutionising other sports like hockey, football and tennis with similar initiatives. Sport is a great way for cultures to mingle, and for opportunities for creating Indianisation in Sport(which is already happening in cricket)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">d) <i><u>Tech-</u> </i>While India has been lapping up the benefits of a technology revolution, there are lot of efforts made by people of Indian origin who lead a lot of the tech firms in Silicon Valley. India is warming up to entrepreneurship in technology, opening up avenues for India to slowly become a global power. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you looked at each of these 4 pillars through which the world is becoming more Indianized, you would have realised that all India has done, is put the right foot forward. These are baby steps and needs all the support in growing big over the years. These 4 pillars are mega trends in their own right and right now, will wait to converge. That will be the true power when the world will get to be more Indianized than ever, relative to the world being a similar Global village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While these are positive steps and helps India carve a niche for itself in the world, it needs to take a holistic look at how technology can make its primary economic driver of agriculture better, and make technology access to the bottom of the pyramid possible. Primarily, India needs to identify what's unique with its culture, and follow that. There's a line in the sand we draw between Indians getting globalised and the world getting Indianized, and thats possible only if we Indians are awakened spiritually to know what's right for us, instead of accepting a template and being blindly globalised. Blind globalisation of trends can some times erode into a region's uniqueness. You just don't want the world to be a place where you by default have a McDonald's, a Star Bucks, a Hard Rock Cafe and a Hilton Hotel. While Globalisation is great, India needs to ask itself its acceptance of Globalisation is coming at some cost, which is eroding into its Indianization. There's a very thin line there that separates both of these, and recognising that thin line is what will determine how Indianized the World will get relative to India getting Globalised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So to answer the question, while the world is set to get more Indian than we think, if we look at it holistically India is still more Globalised than the world being Indianized. I've written more on the trends that helped India adjust to Globalisation, and what's taken us so far here.But hey, we are in the incipient stages of the next big Mega Trend- The World getting more Indianised, and hopefully by the unwritten law of Karma, India's heydays should complete a full circle in the immediate future.</span><br />
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-80201670489064464512014-06-08T05:11:00.001-07:002014-06-08T05:11:42.555-07:00Skore T20 League- Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now, Coming to the most interesting part, we review the games that are there as part of the SPL(Skore Pleasure League)<div>
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As with the 8 team IPL franchisee format, SPL has teams from various cities like the IPL. I chose to stick my fandom with the Chennai Team. No Dhoni or Mccullum here, but I don't mind imagining myself bludgeoning like Dhoni or Mccullum in the bed revelling either in a T20 shoot out, or a long innings.<br /><div>
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Once I chose my team, it was now time to select the variant of the game, I wanted to play. I found it interesting and exciting that the team at SKORE carefully curated 8 variants of a simple quiz.<br />
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So, I started with "Read Between The Lines". A subject I never quite managed to understand with various women in my life, ranging from Mother, Sister and Wife.<br />
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It felt like I was playing in the IPL finals. Full of nerves, as I looked at each question, and tried guessing the answer.<br />
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The format was lovely and life like! You look at a woman's face and try and gauge her reaction. as they the devil lies in the details. I performed like I usually did with women. In IPL Parlance, I played like Dwayne Smith in the IPL final, terribly out of form and touch.<br />
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My scores showed! Maybe its time to test some of the other games! The first one was bad, as it usually is for Chennai in the IPL. Time to peak at the right moment and SKORE well!<br />
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-77775705862421469712014-05-24T04:51:00.000-07:002014-07-03T22:40:35.813-07:00Skore T20 League- Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I generally see condom adverts around a couple making love in a car, or silhouettes of curvy females with lust. One of the better ways to integrate your brand into what consumers lap on to, is an interesting way of reaching out with meaning to your consumers. Skore Condoms has used the IPL bandwagon to get into the minds of the cricket loving Indian. The other natural brand fit is the format of T20, which is a quick bang bang format, not to different from how sex is perceived in its myriad "Sex Surveys". It seems like its designed for women, from the limited attempts that I played. It would have been great to have questions for the women as well, about men. That would have added an other quotient, in a 2 X 2 matrix, where men and women get to answer questions on the opposite gender and themselves!<br />
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The website is designed well, with the core element of gameplay being captured, with limited attention to consumers who may also want to purchase condoms online. The whole experience revolves around picking variants of a quiz game centred around foreplay and understanding a woman.<br />
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Last year's theme revolved around 'Pataoing' a woman, while this year's theme explores pleasure. So we have a change of avatar from Skore Patao League (SPL) to Skore Pleasure League.<br />
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The registration is simple, and quick, and one can get on to playing the game in a jiffy! The only headache in the registration is the placement of the "Sign up" button. Some times people end up typing an email and a password and end up clicking on sign up, since it visually suggests that this may be the flow. Do read my next post on how some of the games look like.</div>
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-78936624669394751002014-05-15T08:32:00.001-07:002014-05-15T08:32:22.447-07:00What's your Cool Quotient? Blumerq's trendy summer collection is out!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Before settling into the music event, <a href="http://blumerq.com/index.php" target="_blank">Blumerq</a> had organised a fashion show. The designs that were displayed had Blumerq's shirts, tees, chinos, and denims on display. The brand while it portrayed fashion, showed a connection to the Indian way of fashion, with wrap arounds adding to the flavour.<br />
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The backdrop of the concert was very colourful, once the evening set, and the fashion show, hogged a lot of attention from the 10,000 strong crowd, that was waiting at the event. The concert was a fine melange of style focussed music afficianados, Spring summer 14 was colorful like never before with flashes of yellows and lime green, cooled by the blues. I quite liked the digital aesthetics & sensuous nature that was on display<br />
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Blumerq's casual bottoms are also getting colorful this summer from flaming brick red to the ever<br />
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-78763405619058676872014-03-03T20:55:00.000-08:002014-03-10T21:03:35.816-07:00Weekend Trip to Sawantvadi and Vengurla<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There has always been this romance associated with unreserved and unplanned travel in terms of meeting new people, understanding their life story, and exploring lands already explored by well known travellers.. I set off on this trip alone, after office on last friday. At 7 15 pm, I decided to call it a day and head to Dadar Railway station for buying a ‘unreserved’ ticket from Dadar to Pernem. Now the best train to catch, to head to the konkan coast, would be Train number 6335, from the outskirts of Mumbai. When buying unreserved tickets in Mumbai, for travel north or south, the best place to buy it would be at the bigger railway terminuses like Dadar/VT/Bombay Central/Bandra Terminus/Borivali/Panvel. I tried buyinga a ticket from Lower Parel, but that is seemingly not possible and if you do head to the Dadar, you need to get it only from the counter on Dadar East.</div>
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Now after purchasing my tickets and realising that the 10 pm train at Panvel was a better option than the Konkan Kanya express, I decided to head to Mani’s lunch home at Matunga and explore the combo that keeps every Tam guy worth existing- Ghee roast and filter coffee. After a short tiffen, I managed to find a taxi to Wadala Road station and took the local train to Panvel, which eased and ambled to Panvel by 9 30 pm, with the crowd being 1/1000th of what it was when I bullied people to head butt my way at Wadala road.</div>
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Once at Panvel, I removed the heavy bag I was carrying and allowed my shoulders to be free. The last 2 day’s work out sessions had obviously made every sinew of my shoulder writhe in pain. I was feeling weak all of a sudden, whether I would have the energy to last the night braving the crowd in the unreserved compartment. But Today was Gudi Padwa, Maharashtrian new year, so every Mumbaikar was at home celebrating with family and if he was a travel freak, he would have left on Thursday night and not on Friday night, when I was leaving.</div>
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Just when my shoulders were groaning, I came across a short, dark man who seemed to be glancing into reams of paper. I guessed, he must be the TTE, and went and asked him if there was a possibility of getting a reserved seat. Today was my day, and given that quite a few states celebrated new year on Friday, nobody was competing with me on the train to Sawantwadi. The TTE charged me 200 rs extra for accomadating me in a middle berth, for me to lay me shoulders to rest.</div>
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I must have woken up every half an hour after 2 30 am, and finally decided to get up at 5 am, as the train was scheduled to arrive at Sawantwadi at 5 15 am. With everyone sleeping in the compartment, I couldnt rely on ‘wisdom of the crowds’ to get off, so I decided to take the plaunge of connecting the mobile phone GPS on my N-81, on Roaming<em style="line-height: inherit;">(this combo guzzles the charge on your mobile).</em><i style="line-height: inherit;"> </i>I was still a few kilometres from my destination, and so I decided to abandon my 2 foot space of the middle birth and stand at the footboard, allowing the morning chill winds to hit my face. After staring aimlessly at darkness, I saw that next to the toilet, there was a charging point and decided to charge my mobile phone. My friend Vinay, was to pick me up at the station. He had arrived the previous night after a sales visit to central Maharashtra. Vinay had brought an auto along and we drove to Sawantwadi town, which was 9 km’s from the station. I hear that there is only 1 hotel near the sawant wadi railway station, and if you are caught up at the station, there’s atleast a paid home to go to unlike stations in Goa( Pernem/Thivim/Karmali/Cancona).</div>
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We had breakfast in an udupi hotel, where the sun’s rays had just pierced in at around 7 15 am. We tried to ask the hotel proprietor for breakfast at 6 20 am, but he was least interested in serving us, as words like ‘customer’, ‘dhandha’ are alien terms in this slow moving,bovine and peaceful town.</div>
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Its not that you have too many options within a few minutes of the hotel opening. Whatever we asked for resulted in 3 items being suggested/reccomended. Upma,Sheera and Poha. We were in a mood for any thing, as long as it facilitated bowel movement and gave us a pleasant taste to make us feel good, while we saunter around the town.</div>
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We went to the Sawantwadi bus stand to find a sleepy little mini-town that was in no hurry to head to the coast. The coastal buses here go to either Vengurla, Kudal or Terekhol. We decided on Vengurla and sat in the bus to find a certain calm that was not present in the big cities.</div>
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The bus never had a fixed time of leaving, nor did the conductor seemed to have any fixed target on number of commuters. It was a happy little world that fortunately had no one with a dagger saying DEADLINES! People could stop the bus by just plonking their foot 2 steps on the road and that would be a bus stop. We were asking around a farmer on some observations we had on the fields as to why Hay was kept in stacks all over the fields. We heard from him that, it was food for his horses and animals, who were working on the fields. Nothing super duper, just that corporate life dulls your common sense!</div>
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One needs to climb a small ascent to get to a ruined stone fort. Shot this from there. Alluring views of the azure waters and the palm/coconut trees.</div>
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How much must that be? 20 metres long and walkable in 20 seconds? NO… It was far longer than we expected and the water was close to 6-7 feet deep, during the high tide. Vinay decided to get inside and try out how quickly we could cross, as we had a laptop bag to ferry across. When he came back bleeding from the swim, we realised that the water was deep and had gorges and rocks inside, so we hired a small boat for 50 Rs to help us cross to UTOPIA.</div>
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While on the boat, during the 10 minute ride, we played the oarsman, learning how to use the oars in the lake, with the fisherman also giving an insight into his life. The fisherman,during the monsoon, also doubles up as a mechanic to supplement the income, which goes on a downward spiral with rough seas and weather conditions. during such impulse trips, conversations with the local people reveals a lot about the place, people, their customs, their lives, their motivations and then finally you are able to connect the dots between geography and history that lies dormant in your brain.</div>
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GOA??? Wasn’t I in Maharashtra during sunset? After we discovered at around 5 30 pm, that food might be a problem at Vengurla, We decided to explore the next beach, so a state transport bus from Vengurla market, took us to a town called Shiroda, and from Shiroda we reached Terekhol (border of Maharashtra). We took an evening(make that twilight) ferry and reached the other side, and had no other option but to take a taxi to civilization – Arambol</div>
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Next, we settled into German Bakery(<b style="line-height: inherit;">Damage- 300 Rs</b>), a room good enough just to park your electronic luggage. We then headed out for a dinner at “21 Coconuts Inn’ for a candle lit dinner, which was briefly interrupted by the romantic tele-presence of Vinay’s boss. By the time we finished, both of us were tired, and we hit the sack by about 12 am, after a brief walk through the Arambol market, hunting for medicines (for my headache).</div>
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Next morning, we were up by 5 30 am, and I had a bath in the Arabian Sea, while I waited for Vinay to get ready. We started to cross arambol and came to the Sweet Water Lake beach. The sweet water lake was dry and it wasn’t worth taking a dip there.</div>
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We saw a couple of nice portable boats cum tents. Looks like the Russians are all over(<i style="line-height: inherit;">Little Zizou ishtyle</i>). Only the Russians can be that adventurous, and after day dreaming about what a beautiful life those people must be having, and bitching about Indian corporate life, we set on to climb a huge hill, to reach Keri</div>
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While we were trekking, Vinay decided to take rest at a huge rock, and dozed of for a while, while gazing at the blue sky. It was a lovely feeling, dozing off and then waking up to the blue sky above as vision comes after a period of darkness. Try it some day!<br />
The mountain had a bunch of bushes and thorns that we had to make way through to reach the other part of the mountain. Vinay, then decided that we follow the footsteps of the dogs that were rambling, as they knew the terrain much better than us. Better to rely on dogs than our mutilated intelligence (thanks to the Corporate world).</div>
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-6944426276753819532014-03-02T20:19:00.000-08:002014-03-28T03:06:31.675-07:00At an Arijit Singh and Aakruti Kakkar Concert By BlumerQ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This was a concert sponsored by <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=570088869706445&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/blumerqofficial" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Blumerq Official</a>. During the event, Blumerq (a casual clothing brand for men) launched their Spring Summer 14 collection. The concert featured Kishore Sodha who opened the event with mellifluos renditions of Kishore Da’s songs. Kishore Sodha, had palyed the trumpet for “Badtameez Dil” in the movie “Yeh Jawaani Hain Deewani”. Arijit Singh and Aakruti Kakkar, entertained the audience with 45 minute performances. Some of the songs that Arijit sang where a unplugged medley of songs from Ashiqui-2, Agent Vinod and a few other recent Bollywood flicks. Aakruti Kakkar entertained and lifted the tempo of the evening, by singing some yester-year classics like “Aye Huzoor Tumko” and “Dama Dam Mast Kalandar(A Runa Laila Classic).</div>
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-1693550126176567492014-02-03T20:51:00.000-08:002014-03-10T21:03:20.725-07:00The Road to Hana<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><u>That Road to Hana and Haleakala!<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not having much time on a 3 day break in the US, I decided I would take the plunge and do a road trip instead of signing up with a tour operator in the city. The challenge, however, was to drive on the right as they do in the US, in contrast to driving on the left in India.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />I rented a Lucerne Buick, a luxury sedan and slowly set off from the airport, rambling about slowly for about 20 minutes, trying to din it in my head about driving on the right. As the rubber met the road and the GPS were starting to make me feel comfortable, I started to turn the music on to the yesteryear Kishore da road trip number ‘<i>Chala Jaata Hoon’</i>, humming my way along the expanse of the 60 mile ride to my hotel. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once I went to the hotel, I decided to keep only what was essential for the road trip, and kept the rest of my baggage at the hotel. The drive restarted with some wonderful vistas of the Pacific ocean by the side.. The agenda for the drive was a 300 mile stretch to Hana, through mountains and a rain forest, and back, followed by another drive to a 10,000 feet-above sea level volcano, before sunrise.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><br />The drive started with the contrast of the grey roads, and the ensuing scenery of the blues of the Pacific Ocean in the background, which changed to a green and grey contrast, as soon as I entered the rainforest region. I stopped over a quick lunch, in a ramshackle caravan that was serving lunch in the rainforest, and proceeded on my drive to Hana. The interesting part during the drive at a point was to sea sunshine on side with the sea on the left and sees rains on the other side with clouds and mist building up, and I was driving exactly between these 2 weather patterns. I found time to explore Hana,trek to a nearby volcanic red sand beach and have some lovely ‘me’ time peace, that I had not found in the chaos of work. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had time to drive by a beautiful ‘Greekish’ sunset by the beach, and now proceeded to drive to the best part of the journey after a short rest and dinner- The drive to Haleakala crater was a 150 mile distance again, and this started at 1 30 in the morning, driving on the mountain roads with no street lights. As you meander along the curves of the mountains overlooking the clouds, the chill in the air went up every curve until you reached the summit at 10,000 feet. It was beautiful looking at the how the clouds go orange from dark blue, as the sun comes up to take over from the moon, on its celestial duties! What started off as ‘Chala Jaata Hoon’ ended with a Bryan Adams number-‘ Those were the best days of my life’ as the morning sun rays became stronger!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Lucerne Buick that I rented.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Contrasting Weather Patterns on 2 sides of the same road.</span></div>
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Exploring Hana's coast and a trek to a Red Sand Beach!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Meandering Roads to the Volcano Summit</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yoohoo! <a href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=i+survived+the+road+to+hana&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4In0UfTMAtHIrQeSwoGwDw&ved=0CE0QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=673">"I survived the Road Trip to Hana"</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Those were the best days of my life, and This was the Best Drive of My Life! The complete pictureset can be viewed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kartik.kannan/media_set?set=a.416101325859.216380.643415859&type=3">here</a></span><br />
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-88058842865879984802013-12-31T20:58:00.000-08:002014-03-10T21:01:25.136-07:002013- Year in Review-Cricket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The year 2013 was quite a year for the institution of Cricket. It had its nadirs and zeniths, but a few of them stand out in the brain’s primary memory when I reflect the year gone by.</div>
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<b style="line-height: inherit;">The ‘Tigers’ at Home Theory:</b> World cricket is slowly getting to a stage when most teams are becoming tigers at home, and lambs abroad. You would associate this phenomenon with India over the 90’s, but globally this year, has epitomized that. England, won the Ashes at home, and expected to make it 4 in a row, and no one would have predicted anything different. Allan Border believed before the first test at ‘The Gabba’ that Australia’s fast bowlers would ambush England, and most of us mistook it for the empty boasts/sledges that come from Australian media before a series. How wrong were we! Mitchell Johnson ran through Australia, like a knife through butter, and yet another home series, was one by the hosts. There must be something in the air, which made test teams in 2013, get the trump card in the home advantage (Mukul Kesavan <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/231122.html" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">wrote a piece on the same</a>) The IPL too, showed similar signs, where Harsha <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/633785.html" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">observed</a> a similar pattern, where the hosts made their home grounds as their fortresses. The Bangladeshis carried some of that theory in ODI cricket, by near flawless performances in the ODI series against New Zealand.</div>
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IPL: When Sreesanth’s name flashed one fine morning, I thought it was one of those gimmicks, until the repeated coverage told me that something more sinister and serious had happened. To add to the drama, when IPL owners were betting, and when <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report-dna-exclusive-guru-always-had-links-with-bookies-of-chennai-dubai-reveals-bcci-chief-n-srinivasan-s-son-ashwin-1838768" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; color: black; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, border 0.2s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, opacity 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Srini’s son told of how his father’s connections</a> in Dubai were not just with the ICC, but also with suspicious characters, world cricket’s skeletons were being opened. The IPL, was attracting all the wrong set of people.</div>
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Then it was Ashraful who admitted that he had attempted in corrupt practices during the BPL, it did send a few signals to the world, that all of the money and the glitz of the T20 leagues may have a lot lying beneath, which may not be all that pleasant to stomach.</div>
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The BCCI’s has always been known to arm-twist cricket boards into not playing international cricket, or playing with second-string sides, during an IPL (thereby guaranteeing the best talent in the IPL). The BCCI went to a new low, by changing the Future Tours Program, to accommodate a grand farewell to Sachin at home, and also hitting the ego of Haroon Lorgat, which it saw as a thorn in their flesh (during Haroon’s reign as the former head of ICC). Two battles won in 1 move, but cricket lost in the end! The world got to see Sammy bowling to Sachin, instead of Sachin playing Steyn and Morkel. Anyways, maybe that was better than watching Sachin taking on some hapless Sri Lankan bowlers.<b style="line-height: inherit;"></b></div>
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In the era of big bucks pervading cricket, its quite rare to find cricketers playing just for the love of the game, ignoring remunerative career options. The Zimbabweans played the best cricket of their life in a decade, humbling Pakistan at home, in a series where the ZCU did not have enough money to fly players to another city, and put them in hotel rooms!</div>
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Afghanistan rise in world cricket has been meteoric since they qualified for the World T20 in the Caribbean (2010), and their fairy tale story went a notch further when they sustained their excellence by qualifying for the 2015 Cricket World Cup.</div>
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<b style="line-height: inherit;">Rise of Indian Cricket</b></div>
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Indian Cricket started the year gloomily by losing the Airtel ODI series against Pakistan, and ended the year badly with a series loss against South Africa. In between they recovered well, to win tests against Australia and West Indies at home, and a stellar performance away at the Wanderers against South Africa. They also struck gold in winning ODI series against England and Australia at home, winning a tri-series in the Caribbean, played their B side to win in Zimbabwe, and the icing on the cake being their victory in the Champions Trophy. In that period, they unearthed yet another swing bowler from the by lanes of Meerut, in Bhuvaneshwar Kumar who impressed fans, with his swing. India discovered a new and hungry Rohit Sharma in Tests, just in time to coincide with Sachin’s retirement in tests, and found Cheteshwar Pujara an ideal foil to replace Rahul’s absence in the middle. At the top of the order, India’s selectors discovered a successor to the fatigued, but warhorse opening combination of Sehwag and Gambhir, in Vijay and Dhawan who made impressive centuries to cement their place in the side. Mahender Singh Dhoni, found more reason to underline his immense importance to the side with crucial knocks, like the one in the Celkon Tri-series final cup in the Caribbean. The T20 domestic leagues, too found some blood going through their veins, with Mumbai Indians dominating the IPL, as well as the Champions League! Enough reasons to believe that “Happy Days are back again”</div>
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Childhood had become a habit, and could never disconnect with the adult self that the 80’s generation had grown up with, thanks to Sachin playing. His retirement and final series, reached a mass crescendo, pretty much to the tune of a national tragedy. The man who had given joy to millions of Indians, with the way his wood treated leather, had decided to hang up his boots. The BCCI and Star Sports decided to cash in on the Super bowl like opportunity to make it the longest farewell. The rest of the world did not quite treat their heroes with so much pomp, except for a few articles in print about their heroics. Swann and Kallis wouldn’t quite mind their silent journey into the sunset of their careers, as they seemed to truly pause when the law of diminishing marginal returns hit their cricket. Not quite, the same reason that Sachin chose to go, but Sachin would always be my hero!</div>
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There is so much of cricket on the television that I am starting to think like cricketers, if I should retire from watching one of the formats. I am already so fatigued, that I am not able to employ my primary memory to pull any more memories of the year. Maybe I will think about it, if Twitter makes #ThankYoutWEETOLOGER hash tags to trend for a day :-)</div>
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-91162981042566698082013-11-27T20:29:00.000-08:002014-03-10T21:03:02.321-07:00The Armor of God-By Ram Mishra- Book Review!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was part of a generation that grew up in the 80’s thinking that it was fashionable to have Hanuman’s mace and Ram’s quiver, more than G.I.Joe toys. In a country that knew nothing else than Doordarshan’s solitary TV Channel, one had little options than to watch Ramayan and Mahabharat. Naturally, I entered the 90’s armed with mythology trivia, also complemented by Amar Chitra Katha’s series of books on Indian Gods. All of that evaporated with STAR Television entering India in the early 90’s. The mythology I knew seemed all the more silly as I grew up, starting with statements like “King Dasharatha lived for a thousand years”. I was becoming a drop out on the subject of mythology, before I read <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/back-to-basics/article5053454.ece" target="_blank">Ram’s bookon “The Armor of God’</a>. The book has helped me look at mythology with a little more respect, since it has kindled my curiosity levels to seek for the hidden gems that’s were not told as part of our history text books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book is a good read, where characters from the past, and the present are mixed, in a fantasy tale, that aims to through light theories or viewpoints not known before. The book starts well with the fantasy tale, setting the tone for the further chapters, before an interesting theory of the Aryan Invasion is discussed. This is the point where I wondered where the blurring line between mythology and the ignored Indian history could have been. It is at this point within the first 30 pages, that lets you feel at ease, that the book is probably going to unravel more such stories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whether it’s the part where the body aches after time travel, or the powers of the Saligrama stone, the book enthralls you by opening up your mind, to think about the experience. The narrative of this cross era fantasy, never for once, lets your mind think that all of this could be made up, thereby making the reader put faith in the narrative, to read further to explore mysteries that were probably not told. While it does draw into the otherwise western notion, that India is a land of many mystics, the story remains relevant to the reader. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P37sbjLH-Pw" width="560"></iframe><o:p></o:p></div>
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To briefly talk about the story, its about how the normal lives of 2 beings on planet Earth, suddenly changes when they realize that they are incarnations of 2 popular characters from the Mahabharata, one of whom is Karna. The story does well to move back and forth between the present and the connection to the ages of the Mahabharata, and keeps the reader gripped on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In short, the book is a great investment in understanding our culture, through the spirit of enquiry, and sets your mind thinking on what the history of India was, and what was the history we were actually given in our text books. That delta is exactly your gain from reading the book. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> I realized that we had to reach Navrang Theatre ( North Bangalore) to board another private bus to Gokarna at 2130. Our bus to Bangalore was late(2010)and it reached Silk Board, on the southern periphery of the city, and I decided to get down here, and rush in auto to the northern end of the city. After agreeing to the auto-drivers random number quote, and frantic calls to my wife's cousin in Bangalore,we realised that we may not make it to the 2130 bus,being stuck in one of the many traffic jams. My relatives sensed that we had not had any food, so packed some rotis for us, and drove to the bus stand,to ask the bus to wait for us. Luckily for us, the bus was delayed by 30 minutes and waited 5 more minutes for us, after our 3 wheel mad goose chase across the ends of the city. The conductor called out loud and clear, for passengers to Gokarna, and the final surprise element evaporated in thin air, as my wife heard his shrieks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kartik Kannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01474924386712020221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378107233373171540.post-47885533444918771732013-07-11T20:51:00.000-07:002014-03-10T21:02:45.694-07:00Nikon India Bengaluru Blogger Meet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I walked into Skyye lounge, I wasn’t quite sure on what to expect. Would it be a session where Nikon would talk about photo experiences, or would it be a session on the technicalities on using a Nikon camera to get certain photo effects? I decided that I should probably do, what I do with travel- Go with an open mind and absorb what’s shown there.</div>
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When we walked in on the 16<sup>th</sup> floor of UB City, the view from the top was killing! I could see a panorama of Bangalore from that height and with the breeze and the cushy seating that the Skyye lounge had, I could have almost stopped and taken in the view, but I knew, something better would be on offer inside for the session. As we sat in our seats, we saw a couple of TV sets dedicated to showing tweets with the hash tag #ThroughTheLens. It was pleasant to see <a href="https://twitter.com/NikonIndia">Nikon</a> welcome each of us who had registered with a tweet that had our name in a JPG image, from their twitter handle.</div>
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The session started with <i><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=funny%20leone&src=typd">funny_leone</a></i> entertaining the audiences with his humor, and it moved to Nikon giving us a brief on what’s expected in the day. The surprise package unfolded then and there, when they announced that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghu_Rai">Raghu Rai</a>, the eminent photojournalist, was present amidst the audience. I had been admiring a lot of Raghu Rai’s photographs, whenever I used to get to book shops, and here there was the opportunity to listen in to the man himself. Raghu spoke on how digital has had him hooked, and he’s never quite had the opportunity to work on film post the digital era. Raghu did briefly speak about how he started Magnum publishing, and answered a couple of questions from the audience.</div>
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Post Raghu Rai’s talk, we had Nikon’s technical team introduce themselves to us, and they divided the session into some of the basics involving Nikon’s camera’s features. They delved into the history of Nikon, and then spoke on the importance behind the Guide mode. Couple of my ‘take aways’ from this session was the fact that bokeh effect, could be used by the advanced options in the guide mode, by softening backgrounds. I thought it depended on a lens earlier, so I had got these effects after purchasing a 50 mm 1.8F lens.</div>
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A few other interesting pointers that was spoken about was around were</div>
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<b>Quality of Images</b>-Due to advancement in the megapixels in modern day camera models, the level of detail, when an image is cropped is wonderful to examine. What would constitute a good crop factor? Would the details still be preserved even after a 50% crop? Maybe that’s a good test of how good the image is. So next time you have a 16 MP mobile photograph, you should stop raving about the 16 number, and check for the quality of detail in the images when you crop it. The image shown in the meet was that of the dome of the Vithala Temple in Hampi, on which they were trying to crop it and observe the detail and the quality of the image then.</div>
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<b>High Speed Continuous Focussing- </b>One of Nikon’s staff was showing the photographs taken of fighter planes. While taking such photographs, he added that being able to quickly adapt to the fast moving object in the frame, by keeping focus on it, is the key differentiator in great images. Based on the speed of the object moving in the frame, once can decide on the number of focal points we require. For a moving fighter plane or animal, one could use high end Nikon cameras that provide 39-51 Autofocus points, while for an object that doesn’t move as fast, we could use lesser autofocus points like the 11 Autofocus points, or just the 1 autofocus points for an object that would remain static. To show how the Nikon D4 does continous focusing, the Nikon team put a mike to the motor of the camera, and it very quickly took 200 shots in a very short frame of time(15-20 seconds maybe), while the sound off the mike resembled bullets being fired in the air.</div>
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<b>Other Features – </b>Nikon’s SLR cameras come with ISO as high as 12800, where the quality of the output has very high clarity and very less grains, which is generally expected as ISO levels increase. The quality of the ISO was showcased with some night shots taken in Ladakh. The Nikon crew also touched upon some of the other features that the Guide mode has like In Camera editing, Active D lighting and video features. The Active D lighting feature’s use was explained with an example of a silouhette shot on a beach with sunlight behind the object. In most cases the object(person) would be underexposed, and the probem that the Active D lighting solves is to reduce the underexposure in such instances.</div>
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a)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>The Nikon team spoke about HDR photography that’s routinely now being used by Landscape photographers, European Fashion photography and architecture photography. My take way from the session was that the human eyesight is the best when it comes to viewing High Dyanmic range, and that’s what True HDR imaging aims to achieve, where there is a balance in the exposure’s of all objects in the frame.</div>
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b)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>The other fast catching up trends of panoramic photography and timelapse photography were explained, with quick introductions on the models in the Nikon stable that are best suited for these genres.</div>
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Nikon spoke on the type of lenses, and the kind of pictures one can click with them. This was useful from the point where, I figured out that there was a type of lense called special purpose lenses. The team added that one could also feel and test these lenses post the session. An interesting video on how the Nikkor lenses are manufactured, was shown to the audience.</div>
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<b>My Thoughts<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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While I learnt from the session that Nikon has its own school for imaging, I thought it would be useful if <a href="https://www.nikonschool.in/default">Nikon School</a> invests in the following</div>
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a)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><u>Online High quality Training courses in specific subjects</u>. This helps a lot of amateur photographers to learn the right lessons and have a quick learning curve. A duller learning curve means consumers lose interest and never upgrade their camera accessories.</div>
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b)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><u>Applications to learn photography without travelling to a place</u>- Like CameraSim on iOS. Basically SLR simulators for specific models.Some one having a D3100, wanting to upgrade to a D7100 can test out the simulator for test shots and then make a purchase decision more quickly.</div>
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c)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><u>Entry into the marketplace segment.</u> A lot of photography shops/schools have an informal marketplace to trade lenses/bodies. If Nikon enters this segment, it could solve a great consumer pain point in getting the right prices for pieces to be sold, and Nikon could up sell some of the other newer models to photographers looking to upgrade.<br />
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Audience at the event. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghu_Rai">Mr Raghu Rai</a> is seen sitting on the sofa lounge.</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/dhempe">Hrish Thota</a> having a look at the <a href="http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/600mm-vr.htm">Nikkor 600 mm lens.</a></div>
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At the end of the workshop, folks had fun with some free portfolio shoots.</div>
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