My home town - Thodupuzha

Well what should i tell ? This is a snap which was taken by me atleast 2 years and 1 month back .The first time i had set foot in my home town which i initially i hated later on started loving it slowly and slowly . I dont know is this right or nor but what i know is Life is short and its always good to be where belong 2 .

Funny incidents about states in our country

India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters.

I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.

I shall always strive to be worthy of it.

I shall give my parents, teachers and all elders respect and treat everyone with courtesy.

To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.

In their well being and prosperity alone, lies my happiness.

Jai Hind!

Well this is something which most of us had to say right from our schooldays ,especially everyday morning . However most of us tend to forget it right after our schooling . Well how is that possible ? Even now people in our country are getting educated , becoming affluent within months , settling down every minute . How is that we still forget to put side the differences of our states and our languages . Even now when we sit back and watch a hindi movie or a cricket match we say that this particular actor is from our state or so . Why does this happen .
Let tell something very similar incident which i had faced in sometime . Well i had landed down to Kerala for my higher education right from Tamil Nadu ( Chennai ) without any prior knowledge in Malayalam . To be frank i could hardly speak few sentences in mother tongue. Nor can read or write, but somehow managed to pull those wonderful couple of years . All this time i had i used to visit places , loved to meet new people and also loved to make new friends and move on with a new experience to share .

but the reason why i am here telling you all this is to formally introduce my nature to you , i love traveling even when i don't know where am i headed to , or how to do i do it ..all it matters to me is that i reach my destination . So come to crux of the story is about this state and language discrimination . Whenever i had opened my mouth and uttered few words in Malayalam ( actually to work on my language and improve it so that it helps to give better command over the language ) , but how unfortunate of me the next question which is shot from the person in the other end is "Are a Tamil guy ?" For which i do reply saying ya . i was brought up in Chennai for many years so i never learned Malayalam .Next moment i meet two sects of people 1. would be people who think i am really a tamilian or the 2. next sect would comprise of people who are totally fanatic about Malayalam and who think their mother tongue should get the preference of the national language and so everyone ought should learn it , which actually sounds nuts .

The reason why i cant digest the fact that people discriminate each other is a pretty obvious one "No mans an island " for instance a state like Kerala has a huge natural resources but lets deal with the fact Mallus are the laziest creatures in their home town (except for few people ) so what happens when there is a need for labor , most are outsourced labourers from Bengal , Tamil nadu and Bihar . Still there exits a huge gap between the people . Why is that especially in a state like Kerala which is considered to be the state with highest literacy rate . Why cant people start opening their mind and grasp the new set of ideas .

Frankly speaking if this is what our generation is going to do , then the dont worry the next generation will also follow us much better and try their best to divide each state into a kingdom and days of imperialism will be returned back to these nations like us where we never had a unity right from the beginning and we still claim unity in diversity .

Now comes Rs 1.3 crore pen in India

NEW DELHI: Austerity is passe. With the economy back on track, you can think of penning your own success story with the most expensive pen ever brought to India at Rs 1.35 crore, thanks to Swiss writing instrument maker Caran d'Ache.

William Penn, a Bangalore-based retail store chain for luxury pens, which has an exclusive tie-up with Caran d'Ache, said the pen sold under the name 'La Modernista' is by far the most expensive ever introduced in India.

"This is the most-expensive pen ever introduced by Caran d'Ache in India and to my knowledge the most-expensive pen in the country," William Penn Chief Executive Officer Nikhil Ranjan told PTI.

The hand-crafted pen with an 18-carat gold nib is considered the second most-expensive pen in the world after German luxury pen maker Mont Blanc's 'Mystery Masterpiece' which was sold at a price of $730,000 (Rs 3 crore).

Mont Blanc's controversial luxury pen dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi is arguably the most expensive in India priced at Rs 11 lakh to date.

"There has been a lot of interest among pen collectors in India for luxury pens. Unlike the rest of the world, when high-end items are not doing so well, the Indian market for luxury pen is growing," he said.

With its growing economy, India has been targeted by many luxury product companies, including the likes of carmakers BMW, Audi, Mercedes, and top-end fashion brands like Armani and Ferragamo to tap the increasing number of affluent people.

The company, which sells over 20 premium writing instruments like Sheaffer, Sailor, Mont Blanc and Parker in the country, said it has been growing at the rate of around 25 per cent year-over-year and is likely to maintain the growth.

"We are opening another five stores in the metros taking the total number of stores to 15 across the country. We believe there is potential for luxury pens in India and we are definitely in an expansion mode," Ranjan said.

Besides, William Penn introduced the limited edition of its 'Shiva' collection from Caran d'Ache priced at Rs 5.15 lakh.

"We have introduced 108 pieces of Shiva and almost 80 per cent have been sold out. Besides, we have also got a lot of queries for 'La Modernista'. So, India is an interesting market for us," Caran d'Ache General Manager Silvio Laurenti said.

One of the inspiring article from Economic times dated on 24/02/10

The actors as a brand

Is Shah Rukh Khan a brand by itself ?

A definition of a brand which was learnt by us was any design , symbol , tagline which defines a product . Does that same criteria apply for brands / products /actors like SRK , Beckham , AB and many others ?

Well even if they dont fit that criteria i feel that they can fit the bill of faculties at B -schools for sessions related to Brands , IMC and many others .

The goverment policy

19/02/10

Well being an indian and to to exercise my voters right for which an id card is mandatory , i had gone to a small town called Nedungandam somewhere at Idukki district ( kerala ) . Man i had a whole day ruined out there starting from around 4 in morning .. where i had to wait for nearly 4 hours in the queue for my documents to be inspected by officer then might send me for the next round which is again the same old procedure , wasting lots of paper documents .

I have a simple question to ask the government cant they move into the age of computers than still sticking on to the age of papers , like for instance the in the transport bus stand at Trivandrum where there is ticket issued for buses , the only use is to print and type the tickets so what is actually use of a computers ?

The government can work on simple thing by asking some software companies to develop a simple software in which these officials can work on and create a form in which all these details can filled in and officials can check it based on the e-papers and reduce the stress for the individuals also .

happy new year .. guys

Whats the sports marketing ?? is this concept getting more popular due the sportstar ??