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Kannada short film makers need to read this !

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Early morning on a weekend, I wanted to research about the predictive analysis and logged onto the internet. Thanks to power ministry, my desktop had an unexpected shutdown yesterday due to the powercuts. As soon as I started Chrome, it asked “Whether I should restore your session? “And I said, yes! After sometime, I got an offline message on FB chat asking for my phone number from a Kannada short film maker. Wondering whats in store, I shared the number and the first Q which popped up was “ Are you admin of Samanya Kannadiga (SK)page? “ I said, since I busy with other things I am not managing that page but let me know if you need something to be posted on that page. Then, Shashank ( the person who pinged me on FB ) told me that SK page has posted the video of his friend and he likes it to be removed.  He didnt say that directly but his conversation in leaning in that direction. Yesterday night, I was just wondering about the misplaced priorities and lack of understanding
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whats on your mind?

FB asked Whats on your mind? Today morning, read about 2 disturbing incidents where women were harassed and both of them felt no use in giving complaint or believed that the system can give them justice. 16 yr old girl was sent back after counselling who later committed suicide and the other lady is still recovering from the shock ! One of my colleague comes to me and says he is stressed out from growing traffic day by day. His 6 yr old son said to him " Appa, lets shift to the village . I dont like this place, its so crowded . I feel happy when i am in the hometown and want to lead life with nature" My colleagues in the bus discuss about when would Metro would open and if we can dream about travelling in Metro from our home to offices atleast in next 3 years. One of my friend who is into recruitment says that recession is around the corner, therefore most of the companies are going slow on hiring. But, the government thinks otherwise and can effect a change. Unless
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Dont keep blaming everything around you , look at yourself first

Lets start with some introspection  There are lot of social media unrest over Salman Khan, Jayalalitha, R Raju and so many other cases. The social media netizens are questioning the sanity and correctness of the judicial system. Before you starting blaming the judiciary, blame yourself. We are the people who have stopped following basic rules, We need policing for everything, right from following lane to paying taxes on time, We love finding short cuts before starting any work, We love jumping Q's , paying bribes to get work done faster , bending rules to suit our needs, We want to become super rich, super smart ; hook or crook, We want to show that we are powerful, well connected We love to display wealth ; be it new architect designed flat or custom made car We have stopped giving time for correcting flaws in system We are the ones who laugh at activists , say they dont have any other better work in life We are the one who think that anyone opposing the system is
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How was Bengaluru in the 90s?

1. School kids had to buy 2 sweaters with uniform. Half sweater and full arm sweater. Without half sweater, no one would even step out of the house.  The thumb rule was  Strong n sturdy folks can wear half sweater Easily prone to cold should wear full sweater.  But, when winter kicks in. It was like wearing muffler, full arm sweater and then blowing out the air from the mouth to see who has thick fog. I always thought that children could smoke by doing so.  2. One could reach any part of the city in 20 mins in the Lambretta, Vijay, Enfield, Chetak, IND - Suzuki, TVS.  3. Train ride in Cubbon park  Band stand in Vidhana Soudha/LalBagh/Cubbon park  Joy Ice cream after giant wheel ride were considered as "cool" activities to be done on Sunday. There was no concept of weekend 4. Almost, all roads were 2 way and I remember people were amazed when Avenue road was made one way. JC road was later made as one way, I guess 5. If a area didnt have enough trees, it was considered as out
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Whats the ideal place for IIT in Karnataka?

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Whats the ideal place for IIT in Karnataka? There is lot of debate ongoing on which location is best suited for IIT in Karnataka.  Since its a central sponsored institution, there are some noise from few citizens that such institution doesnt add value to the state education system.  The state would benefit from the presence of an IIT in Karnataka. Most of the students or their parents did not prefer any IIT since Karnataka did not have one. The ones who used to study for IIT exams used to prefer IIT Powai or IIT Madras depending on proximity to their home town.  With the establishment of IIT in Karnataka, the odds might change and we can see more students trying to crack IIT exams in coming days.  Now, lets come back to the original point. Which place in Karnataka would be ideal for IIT.  I have listed down few factors which would be beneficial to student/faculty while studying in IIT Karnataka. Lets remember that in house facilities do matter but students and faculty
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Bengaluru elections

 BJP has started making the noise for BBMP elections by putting Naidu to talk about delay in metro, traffic congestion issue in Bengaluru Congress should pull up the socks and work towards pressuring BJP to release JNNRUM funds in 2015 to push infra projects AAP should have more local connect than hindi centric model of politics. Even its 3 language formula communication will irritate the local population which is already frustrated of Hindi and English dominance. What Bengaluru needs 1. Party which can assure solution for traffic problem. a. Widen or extend  the dead end of various 60ft, 50ft roads in layouts adjacent to main corriords of Bengaluru. This would ease gridlocks in Banerghatta road, Whitefield, Airport road etc. 2. Someone who can talk in economic sense rather than populist measures Whats the GDP of Bengaluru , how are we going to improve it? How are we going to contribute to 'ease of doing business'? 3. Clear confusion regarding title, property n oth
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Remove those scumbags from IT industry

In 90's era ; Indian IT industry came up bcoz of hard working engineers who sat day , night ; understood age old code ; solved problems, provided bug fixes ! In 00's decade ; the dirty corporate structure always wanted to extract more and more from the talented pool and appointed half baked, unworthy people who can talk , talk and talk as managers since they were always believed in NETworking than working. In 10's decade, these people have grown to become VP's, Directors and are treating the engineer/architect's as mere slaves ; bringing back the policy raj ; approval based incentives etc. I wonder, Why should we have a manager to approve leave? --> Wont a employee know that if he/she takes leave and comes back tomorrow ; his/her work wont vanish. Instead, he would have to take care of previous day work and present one too. Why do we need a line manager, project manager, assignment manager and so on? -->Line manager wont add any value to the team a
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