Friday, February 25, 2011

Jugaad!! : Rural India's Most Cost Effective Solution


Jugaad (Hindi: जुगाड़ Punjabi(gharuka)) are locally-made motor vehicles that are used mostly in small villages as a means of low cost transportation in rural India. Jugaad (also sometimes juggard) literally means an arrangement or a work around, which has to be used because of lack of resources. This is a Hindi term also widely used by people speaking other Indian languages, and people of Indian origin around the world. The same term is still used for a type of vehicle, found in rural India. This vehicle is made by carpenters, by fitting a diesel engine on a cart.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

The End of the IT Department?



When people talk about their IT departments, they always talk about the things they’re not allowed to do, the applications they can’t run, and the long time it takes to get anything done. Rigid and inflexible policies that fill the air with animosity. Not to mention the frustrations of speaking different languages. None of this is a good foundation for a sustainable relationship.
If businesses had as many gripes with an external vendor, that vendor would’ve been dropped long ago. But IT departments have endured as a necessary evil. I think those days are coming to an end.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Amazing Facts about India



  1. India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
  2. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
  3. India is the world's largest democracy.
  4. Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
  5. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose – Mystery Revealed

A first person account of Netaji's life from 1965 to 1977


Netaji Subash Chandra Bose led the Indian National Army (INA) and struggled for the independence of India from colonial rule.
There is a large body of work documenting his life as a leader of the INA and his contribution towards the freedom of India from British colonial rule.  However, his disappearance towards the end of the World War II remains one of the enduring mysteries of the 20th century for people of India and the world.
This site is dedicated to revealing the mystery of the life and times of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Through this web site Dr. Suresh Padhye, Professor of Geography and retired Principal of Vidarbha Mahavidyalaya Amravati, Maharashtra, reveals the mystery of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. Dr. Suresh Padhye spent time off-and-on over several years from 1965 to 1977 with Netaji at the Shaulmari Ashram in North Bengal.
To know more, visit Netaji- The Mystery Revealed