India celebrating 61 Independence Day

Happy Independence day to all the Indians world wide.

D-Link launches video IP Phone

D-Link launches video phone, which works based on the Internet Protocol(IP). The devices exist already but USP of this is, it is Indianised. It works typically under the Indian conditions like lower bandwidths (as low as 128kbps) and cost-effective. Existing cost us a 75k, where as this will be available at 25k. One more revolution from India into the telecom domain.

Congrats team D-Link.
Also special hearty congrats to Mr.Srivaths(second from left), a dear friend from my Engineering course.

Launch of Chiranjeevi Party: Politics of India, Jumpers, Part 2-Is there really a need?

Megastar Chiranjeevi aka Konidela Siva Shankara Vara Prasad.

The name does not require an intro to the people of Andhra Pradesh. Almost 150 films to his credit. 30 years of experience in the filmy world. Many awards, laurels and millions of fans following, blood banks, eye banks, lots of social activities. A demi-god he is. As a person, he is very humble, sensitive and very human. I love all this about him.

But I am shocked about his entry into politics. Politics of course itself means a very negative tone in India. But it is really not so negative. A negative image has been created and born just beacuse of the way those politicians behave and their works and idiotic plots. Morality is a word which can never be found in the politicians.

Back to Chiranjeevi, he has taken a decision to launch a political party. Right now there are almost 45 parties representing in Andhra Pradesh(inclusive of the national parties like Congress , BJP etc) . Refer the link for the complete list of the political parties with the symbols allocated.

http://www.apsec.gov.in:8080/apsec/polilitcalpartindex.htm
(The site may be unavailable sometimes)

The list given does not include the would-be launching Chiranjeevi party, Nava Telangana Party by Devender Gowd, TRS(N) by Narendra. Close to a half century mark.

With so many parties floating around, can we just expect how a better government can be formed and they governing the state( applies to the entire nation also). A decision to be taken by the government requires the bill to be passed in the State Legislative Assembly, with so many "idealogies" around, how can a bill be passed so easily. Clearly it is a simple logic that no political party wins the clean majority so easily, to form a governement of its own with out the support of the other political parties. Simplifying, with so many parties around, can a non-hung government be formed easily?

Just at this moment, Chiranjeevi is ready to foray into state politics and form a government (assumptions going on as of now). The motive and principles on which he is planning to launch the party will be good, no queries about that. But if we just look into the current movements of the political 'leaders' from other parties, they are ready to jump into this particular party. The tag line of the Chiru party is, people are looking for a change and waiting for the right governance and Chiranjeevi is the answer. With all these jumpers around from the other parties into this party, where is the real change? It reminds me of a moral story(click to read it) which i read and heard as a child. Those people who are ready to join hands with Chiranjeevi are all the greedy and it is a very open secret. They are expecting, if the party goes on to form government, they can have some good posts. Can we imagine any other single motive? If they are really concerned about working for people, doing some good to the society, they can do it now any how. But what is the need to change the party? What sort of signal do they want to give to the people? Let us take some people who have openly expressed the desire to join Chiru party. HariRamaJogaiah (Congress), Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao(TDP), Bhuma Nagi Reddy(TDP) etc..many more to jump. I dont criticise them or oppose them, but as a neutral thought, I discuss. Jogaiah can easily serve people, as his party is in power now. He can bring pressure on government and do the good works to society. The other two leaders were respresenting a party which was in power for over nine years. The differences with in their political outfits forced them to leave their parties and join the Chiru party and clearly the motive of serving the people is left behind.

So a clear picture is visible here. The real intentions of Mr.Chiru are (may be) very good. But we welcome him, if he comes out with new faces and new leaders, real leaders, who are interested to serve the people with honesty and sincerity, else it would be a mere waste. More over, if his party people get corrupted( 99% probability is there), all the good name he has earned for the past 30 years(as a celebrity and a legend) will be ufff, gone. He can serve people and fight legally if required with his associations of organizations instead of a political party. Because an organization tends to be a more neutral platform to fight the corruption or bad governance.

Please think over it Megastar!

Once again, our Jumpers did a good job, shame shame...

PS: Personally I am a fan of Mr.Pawan Kalyan, the Power Star.

India gets a Gold

Congrats Abhinav!

Indian Shooter Abhinav Bindra wins a Gold Medal for India, and thats a good news to all the Indians world-wide.

I was discussing about the Olympics with my friends on the inaugural day. We were googling about the medals India got and the performance of India in Olympics so far. It was very much heart-breaking that India had no Gold medal in individual competition earlier. We had medals earlier, of course 8 Golds were from the Hockey game. We discussed what was lacking with us, efforts or resources or proper channel of approach or lack of enthusiasm. One conclusion we had after all the varying perspectives, we were unable to make it big at the event.

A Historical moment for India at Olympics. A day to be remembered for generations.

Congrats to Abhinav, u raised the tricolors and wishing all the best to all the other players who are ready to compete, give ur best n it rocks and cheer-up to all the lost players.