Misguided youth

Bangalore police has been arrested an IT employee name Mohammed Yahya Kammakutty with the allegation of having connection with banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The IT capital of India has been shocked by this news. Corps of Detectives (CoD) of Bangalore Police has arrested this 32 year electrical engineer who is also an ex-employee of General Electric (GE) Software.

Kammakutty is born and brought up in a village near Kozhikode in Kerala and he is living in B’lore for last 8 years. Although he was sacked from his last employer GE Software but still he lived in B’lore.

This news rises a serious question: do our young talent and resources are misleading to wrong path of life?! Citizen of Kolkata perhaps well aware of early ‘70s situation when thousands talented Bengali students were misguided to Naxal movement and lost their lives.

Latest News: Indian salary hikes up to 15%

Indian salaries rose an average 15.1 per cent in 2007 with the highest increase coming from the real estate sector, according to a survey conducted by human resources firm Hewitt Associates.

The momentum is expected to continue in 2008, rising about 15.2 percent, but will temper to stabilize at 9-10 percent by 2012, Hewitt said in a statement released late on Tuesday.

"The struggle for talent and sustainability is large and rapidly growing in India," Hewitt said.

"Employees are increasingly looking for great career opportunities and are actively being pursued by other organizations offering extremely attractive opportunities and packages," the company said.

However, Hewitt forecasts a shortage of people with specialist and technical skills and a lacuna in leadership talent in India.

Although this news affected me but my salary didn't being affected...LOL! Hey guys what you think are you coming under the same category whose salary rose upto 15% ?!

Cricketers for Sale!!!!

Isn't it amazing to see Ricky Ponting going first down to accompany Sourav Ganguly on the pitch and Brett Lee asks Yuvraj to field at point....few days back this was a dream for every cricket lovers. But the evangelistic marketing stance by Indian Cricket officials this dream comes true for us. The much awaited cricket event IPL is going to start on April and we all are pulling our legs out of the socks to see it. Guys I am really excited as I am not a guy who has great patience to watch test matches for 5 days not even spend a whole day in front of TV to watch a One Day match. Now this 20-20 tournament will surely give me joy to watch cricket. Interestingly today was the bidding day for this cricket gala and today my favorite Kolkata team owned by SRK and leaded by Sourav bagged Pakistani speedstar Shoaib Akhtar and Australian skipper Ricky Ponting. Another promising speedstar Ishant Sharma will also play for Kolkata. Another star of New Zealand cricket also a blaster with willow Brandon macculam will play for kolkata...so lets hope best for this dude of Kolkata...oh guys our Kolkata team will be coached by John Buchanan who gave Ausssies World championship title twice.

Aussies down under...

Finally India tame Aussies at their den...W.A.C.A. Perth, happens to be the world's fastest wicket. Just imagine friends Indian top order batsmen faced bowlers like Brett Lee, Shaun Tait, Johnson, Clark at W.A.C.A. and scored 300+ in both innings. Indian bowlers also performed well...Aussie batting line up was demolished in 50 overs in the first innings. I guess this test match should be remembered for two records...firstly India broke Australia's 10 years long unbeaten record at Perth and secondly Anil Kumble for hauling his 600th wickets. It was India, who put the brakes on Steve Waugh’s record streak in 2003 and it’s India again who have quashed Ponting’s chances to be the skipper with the most consecutive Test wins. Beating Australia also becomes all the more remarkable especially after being 2-0 down in the series and with the on and off field controversies that could have easily taken their focus away from the game. Hats off to Kumble's lad. Way to go guys.

Happy New Year

This New Year Wish You All Very Happy and Prosperous Life.

Again the same old story of Indian communalism

This Christmas while we all were enjoying with our friends and family then some maniacs were vandalizing Churches and houses to fulfill their anger over Christians at Orissa. The tension began on Monday when some groups of Christians and Hindus fought over some issues. The rest story is I guess well known to us. Some places like Kandhamala district are under curfew. Many important roads and railway tracks are blocked by the mob and which incurred a loss of resources. I am not writing over the reason of this riot or not I am not really concerned with whom are involved in this creepy issues. I am worried about the humanity and the future generation of this nation. As I am a 20 something guy who loves to watch movie or cricket never minds to categorizing people by their cast. I can still remember the day when Robin Utthappa hit down the Pakistanis in T20 tournament all over the India were excited make his worship…did those fanatics who killed Muslims in Gujrat ever asked Zaheer Khan about his cast while he hauled Hayden and Ponting in MCG test today. The answer is very simple guys…its very easy to be a Hindu, Muslim or Christian but its not that easy to be an Human Being. This poisonous tree of communalism has been rooted in our mind and soul for years and this will be inherited in our next generation…if we don’t uproot it then peril of Indian civilization is not so far.

Justice...that She Deserves

Guys as when I started this blog I put focus on some social issues which are like curse to us like poverty, child labor, sexual harassment, racism etc. Although I am working for people who are in USA but still don't feel regret to say that in America racism is very acute and sometimes it hurts people like hell.

Today while surfing the net I came across a news on Yahoo news which tells that an Indian engineer got compensation of 5.5 million dollar from her Silicon Valley firm. The whole story is like this...

Kiran Pandey is an Indian Engineer working in Silicon Valley USA. She lodged a complaint against her previous employer of racism. The jury found Kiran Pande's former employer Chevron liable for wrongful termination and retaliation and ruled that she be given roughly USD three million for past and future economic losses, and USD 2.5 million in punitive damages.

Pande, who is India-born and holds a Ph.D. In petroleum engineering from Stanford University, was fired by Chevron in late 2003 after 15 years with the company.

After a three-week trial stemming from incidents that occurred between September 2000 and December 2003, the jury found that Chevron retaliated against Pande after she complained about discrimination and fired her for reasons that violated a public policy.

Chevron first hired Pande as a research engineer in 1988. But in 2001 Pande began to suffer racist remarks and discrimination at the hand of his senior Rex Mitchell, who is now the company's chief compliance officer, according to her complaint, filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

By March 2002, Pande complained to Mitchell's supervisor, James Johnson, about Mitchell's conduct.

Johnson did not investigate, Pande said and alleged that she was given the choice of leaving the company or leaving the group or staying for up to 18 months and getting along with Mitchell.

Later she filed a formal complaint against Mitchell with a company ombudsman.

See guys I love this when I find people get justice...aren't you!