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Gopendragon
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Posted : Feb 22, 2006 07:29
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On 2006-02-21 17:28, *Karma Cola* wrote:
hey all...
I just picked upa book called 'Siddharth' by Herman Hesser. Anyone read it yet, it comes highly recommended to me.
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oh yes before some years also highly recomended to me,veeery good!!!sidhartha a person who talks with nature and communicate with the forest...oooohhhmmmmm...listen to the river...this book inspires you to read it in nature...an indian tale...
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sorceress
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Posted : Feb 23, 2006 19:05
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i am simply overwhelmed by the book that i recently got and am reading now
The World is Flat
a brief history of Twenty first century by Thomas L. Friedman
the writter is an acclaimed columnist in America and wrote this book after visiting Banglore and meeting Infosys Heads.
he talks about how Globalisation is causing the world to get flatter which means - today a level playing feild is provided to all companies and countries for competition.
how India is coming up leaps and bounds by doing so much of business for America, europe and other countries.
it is a must read 
am learning so much more and enjoying every bit of it.
because of his background and the contacts and people the author knows around the world has help him provide data which leaves one to undersatnd and seeing more than guessing.
a great read after Auto Bio of a Yogi
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acidity
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Posted : Feb 23, 2006 21:48
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Hehehe @sorceress...Even I got that book. My dad bought it for me saying that I should stop reading Autobio and read something more practical.
It starts with a game of golf in the Infosys ground. Since I am from Blore, can connect to it much more.
Have read only 2 chapters. Will read more as soon as I finish - The Zahir by Paulo Coelho.
Heavy work letting me only reAD 4-5 pages before I go to sleep.
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sorceress
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Posted : Feb 23, 2006 22:55
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@ h2so4 - now i know why, ever since (about two hours) i posted aba this book i have been thinking about u
well yes actually bangluru  people can relate to this book better for they know what Friedman is talking about. so initially it does capture your imagination and aftrethat it's all a smooth sail.
for me this book is very imp for ever since i read celestine Prophecies i have been thinking about evolution of the world in a perticular stance and this book just words out all my thoughts. 
globalisation has changed our world so much !!!
Friedman writes about what Bangluru is to Amrika is what a place called dalian in China is to Japan, Japan and China being bitter rivals for china was ruled by Japan for so long now does all the software and other back ground work for it.
countries have actually lowered there boundaries to function today in todays competitive environment, it indeed seems to be a blessing of Information technology.
next he also talks about convergence, of how today i could use a Phone to click pictures to other stuff.
there is so much to it
and to top it all i think the book is marverlously written.
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djparanormal
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Posted : Feb 23, 2006 23:35
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@ h2so4 - now i know why, ever since (about two hours) i posted aba this book i have been thinking about u
well yes actually bangluru people can relate to this book better for they know what Friedman is talking about. so initially it does capture your imagination and aftrethat it's all a smooth sail.
for me this book is very imp for ever since i read celestine Prophecies i have been thinking about evolution of the world in a perticular stance and this book just words out all my thoughts.
globalisation has changed our world so much !!!
Friedman writes about what Bangluru is to Amrika is what a place called dalian in China is to Japan, Japan and China being bitter rivals for china was ruled by Japan for so long now does all the software and other back ground work for it.
countries have actually lowered there boundaries to function today in todays competitive environment, it indeed seems to be a blessing of Information technology.
next he also talks about convergence, of how today i could use a Phone to click pictures to other stuff.
there is so much to it
and to top it all i think the book is marverlously written.
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Is this still a trance forum??? hehehe.. just kidding.. but looks like a economic/ international trade forum...
If i get this book, i ll definately have a
read..
Till next time.
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Posted : Feb 24, 2006 02:11
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It's all about competition - it's funny why differnet countries seek to protect the competitive process in an economy - the US because its far more efficient - more competition, lower prices, lower costs, more innovation, better resouce allocation. The European Union and UK all just want to save the consumers, though I question how long that trend will last. The Indian competition regime, such like the remaining of our laws follow the UK and European approach - helping businesses (again). They just want businesses to stay in business and stay competitive. But isnt the aim of competition between firms to get rid of each other? Ha ha ha!!!
I love it - monopolies and mergers are outlawed but at the end of the day, public domains are public monopolies and that's why in India, all public owned sectors suffer from a lack of competition, productivity, price effectiveness.
Wow. Just my two bits. Has anyone read this book called Blink? It's fucking mindblowing. It's by Malcolm Gladewell, the guy who wrote tipping point and it's about how our subconscious picks up things that our brains tell us so much later. Definitely read this book!!!! When you think soemthins about to happen, its not a preconcieved notion - it often happens as well, and it was something your consciousness didn't miss out on.
Readdddd it!!
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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weird anomaly
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Posted : Feb 24, 2006 06:25
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acidity
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| Wow. Just my two bits. Has anyone read this book called Blink? It's fucking mindblowing. It's by Malcolm Gladewell, the guy who wrote tipping point and it's about how our subconscious picks up things that our brains tell us so much later. Definitely read this book!!!! When you think soemthins about to happen, its not a preconcieved notion - it often happens as well, and it was something your consciousness didn't miss out on. |
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Dude...holy fcuk...why is that all the book mentioned here are in my family library. This book Blink was bought by my brother couple of months back. He has already read it.
Since I dont like management much, I kinda never had the urge to read such books. The only money/finance management book that I have read is: The Richest Man in Babylon by {I dont remember his name}. Its a best seller!
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sorceress
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Posted : Feb 24, 2006 17:12
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it indeed still is a trance forum, and we talk about and with our music community here.
what is amazing are the stats that so many of us still share so many details all from different parts of the world.
am in Amrika now but am in touch with all my psy friends in India and other places thry here i know when Spiral makes a new track, Abhi makes a new gigs flyer, Ishaan reads a new book, Ritesh shifts places and how his dad gets him a book he must read, my bro Jabba paints a new some thing how Saher starts his own designer line, and my friend playing some where and another organising a gig and some others cooming to finish there courses and starting to make music proffesstionally and how Gopendra sitting in Canada is going to Sri Lanka.
what i mean to say is world is so much smaller today coz of internet evolution which was started in late 1980's by netscape which has dimished today coz of microsoft and how, rival countries and companies are working together to do some thing bigger.
i sittin in far off land have been speaking to my mother on internet for free and can even see my Dog in india jumping and looking for me every time he hears my voice on the speaker thru a net camara
i thank internet very day and now thru this book am able to glance at how it is all happening.
how a country like India which hardly had any foreign exchange left is competing with the superpowers of the world and how thru call center the graduate of our country is getting more oppertunity to improve his basic lifestyle.
how every one around the world drinks cokes, eats pizza from Pizza hut, burgers from Mc donalds, how Punjabi Juttis are doing raving bussiness in Amrika, how Kolahpuri's are the hottest trands in Milan, how today when i mett some one new here for work the minute they find out that i am from india says Namaste to me.
i think i got a lil carried away
but the book is a must read 
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acidity
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Posted : Feb 24, 2006 21:38
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Its due to globalization and internet that I have a business of my own.
5 years back, one could not even think of sitting in India developing shrink wrapped software and selling it all over the world. My 99% clientele are foreigners which is not surprising considering 80% priacy in India.
It is due to Internet, that I can compete against companies from Hong Kong, Russia etc. in a very attuned segment and still come out tops.
But personally, I dont like this BPO growth. They dont allow the intellectual part of us to develop and we merely become talking machine for the international companies. I would love to product/research driven companies being setup by Indians in India. In this case, the bio-tech segment is doing very good.
@sorceress: Ritesh shifts places - when did I shift places?
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sorceress
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Posted : Feb 24, 2006 22:23
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ooops
@ Ritesh, i thought u shifted from Bbay to Bangaluru. kindly accept apologies if u did'nt
as for BPO's growth being not good... to some extent yes it might be true that one entire generation is wasted as there is nothing productive that they get into but then because of BPO set up our country has been introduced to higher standards living. it being one of the ways for a lower middle class family guy doing an A grade job supportin his own education. and for some others it is an idea generation bank.
i guess this is how it always doe work u first work for a tailor and then open your own boutique eventually... u first work for a multinational and then compete against it.
we not too far behind bro... as u read the book u will know
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acidity
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Posted : Feb 25, 2006 08:26
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Nah. I was born and brought up in Kolkata and then shifted to Bangalore to do my graduation. But then my project/work got too exciting and I had to drop out
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Posted : Mar 3, 2006 20:38
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I have the idea that this one topic is maybe the most unique one in the forum,and seems that as we live and growing up and the years passing we will still keeping it up!!!
Bravo Karma Cola could you ever imagine when you started it,that it will be kept with 55 pages,giga topic...
I have read once an ancient indian myth about Shiva Nataraja and the power of his dance....
Before thousands of years when Shiva was the most powerfull god in india with so much devotees following him,a faithfull devotee came frightened and said him that there was a mighty evil demon who started to take much devotees from his side and make them slaves with tortures,the devotee ask from Shiva to help them and show his powerfull stregth by killing the demon and let free all those devotees...
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Lord Shiva meditated and as Nataraja the lord of dance,starting to dance wild and find the demon to kill him...the mighty demon left free the most mighty tiger to eat Shiva,but Shiva with one movement as He was dancing get the skin of the tiger for a clothe to wear,after the demon let free the most mighty snake cobra to bite Him,but Shiva again with his one hand as dancing catch the cobra snake and wear it on His neck like a mala....
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....after some other movements of His dance ,He started to dance with His footsteps up on the back of the demon.....
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He won that mighty demon so easy with the magical occult powers of his dance....
I see here a connection ,the wild dance of Shivas Tandav keeping His natural analogic skiny drum beat playing and keeping the cosmic rythm stay tuned with harmony and ballance
Similar with the trance dance in psychedelia and the electronic digital drum beat of the music,so dance in trance have a spiritual deeper meaning here if you respect the principle...when jiva becames shiva..
seems that we all have such as powerfull strength as we dance if we be little more spiritual and believe in our inner self with faith and respect....
personnally I feel that kind of magical power the time I dance,fighting against the dark skull of ignorance with fire and light...the more you respect and believe with strong faith,and be pure clean,with much love as you could fell ,the more powerfull you will be in each dance step you do...
Those things I wrote I believe that you all here in that topic you know them,and better than I do maybe.
I just only fell that someone had to mention that relation ,if someone have to add something on that,please do it,dance is active meditation one of the types of yoga ,like tai-chi and much other methods and technics.
thanks you read it sorry if you get bored.
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*Karma Cola*
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Posted : Mar 3, 2006 21:03
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@Gopendra
See, what i feel when dancing is that i am cleansing myself. I highly recommend a trance party for everyone, once a week. Dance your heart out, and just 'dance'. It might seem silly to say this, but the moment you enter that magical episode while your dancing, it all makes sense.
@sorceress
Do you believe that we 'indians' are able to embrace western ideals and at the same time accept that we shall never be one of them? I ask this, because i have been living abroad for the last 4 years and i do see the gaping hole in which many of us are stuck. In fact, Japan is the only nation i have seen that are truly proud of their culture and seek to *preserve* it.
@melloncollie & h2so4
Did u hear abt the $500 million deal Merryl just clinched in India? Well, so an Indian dude in hong kong just sealed this deal for ML by making them pay 500 mil to an indian company, and now everybody;s screamin murder because it quite stupid to drop such a large chunk into a new market so early on. It reduces competition, thereby increasin risk. The more the companies involved, the risk can be divided amongst them right? So most of the I bankers i know are tearin their hair out, because whats stoppin the next indian guy to ask for some unreal sum like that.
....I honestly thought this topic would dissappear in the dark after a week or two. Well, maybe this has a connection to Yogananda's power or maybe we just like yappin to each other  but this thread could not have kept running without the addition of all you guys. I actually learnt a lot while readin this thread.
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acidity
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@Gopendra: Dance is the best form of extercise and meditation and as Karam suggested the best way to release your negative energy. Dance is something which has been prevalaent from time immemorial. Even the stone age people had rituals where they used to dance. All the kings and gods had their own darbaar for dancing (but then those were different purpose alltogether).....maybe a post on the same in blog sometime later
@karma: I didnt understand what you asked to @sorceress. You mean Indians in US are becoming more westernised or vice versa? Care to elaborate so that I could put my thoughts on the subject....
@karma: Nah...i didnt hear about the news. Do you havea link for the same? I am more of a Slashdot.com kind of news reader
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