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Is it end of recession in IT sector ?

Viral — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:49:32 +0000

(So-called) Recession is going on since last year or longer. But there are clear sign of end of recession in atleast in Information Technology sector in India.

- Recent results of Tech giant Infosys ,which even pushed stock price of TCS alot.

- IPO of Infinite over subscriced 43x times & 11x times in Retail category, surely suggests investors confidences back in IT bussiness.

- Ascent, job advertisement supplement of ToI is full again with IT jobs.

At-least picture looks bright in media, god knows what is holding inside.

Navratri 2009

Viral — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:05:27 +0000

This year Navratri was from 19th to 27th September. For typically Gujarati person, navratri means

- To participate in arti (and obviously dont miss prasad)
- Do garba (in all possible stype, steps, as long as he can do)
- Play rass (with as many people as possible)

On top it, if he can do
- Play Sanedo
- Eat good fafda with sambharo and marchi and Hot Jalebi on Dasara

Similar to Last year, This year also I went to Jayanagar Syunkt mandal organized function, my friends and me did all above stuff . Everyyear, it is held at BES college in Jayanagar.

This time, I did better garba, rass than last year and obviously enjoyed more. To add more, as always, last night, we had unlimited Fafda Jalebi All and all, to enjoy garba in Bangalore, Jayanagar and Palace ground are best palace. Obviously, during navrati, I did meet more new gujarati people in Bangalore and had nice time with them.

Navratri ‘08

Viral — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:54:27 +0000

This year Navratri dated during September 30 to October 8, 2008. We also had couple of leaves owing to Eid (October 1) and Gandhi Jayanti (October 2). Thus, we end-up having lot of garba and dandiya.

I had gone with my room-mate and few friends. We went to Jayanagar Sayunkt Mandal’s Garba for 3 nights. The venue was BES Law College ground. Typical, it starts at 10 pm with first aarti followed by slow garba. Garba picks speed over a half an hour. Besides Garba, we had Raas and Sanedo. Raas is traditions dandiya-raas, mostly as shown in plenty of hindi films. Sanedo is centuries old traditional Gujarati folk song type. During sanedo, basically we sing couples of song, covering topics like general critics, current social issues and players follow his tune.

On the last night of Navratri and next morning (on Dasara day), Gujaratis eat Fafda, Gathiya and Jalbi. We were lucky, as organizers at Jayanagar Sayunkt Mandal had decided to provide free and unlimited fafda and jalbi. We had four rounds of it. Last night, we played and enjoyed till 5 am in morning. You can see few snaps here:

Navratri 2008

Visit to Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore

Viral — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:29:03 +0000

Along with my office-mates, I visited Bannerghatta National Park on June 7th, ‘08. It is located in out-skirts of Bangalore (around 20 km from centre towards South). My company had hired a big cab and we reached with-in one hour at BNP. BNP has good amount of tigers and lions, including white tigers.

I was able to take small video of White tiger:

A Zoo and Butterfly Park is also located at site. Zoo contains few verity of snacks, monkeys, zebra, deer, fox, crocodile and other animals. We had good lunch at near-by restaurant. I had taken few photos and upload here :

Bannerghatta National Park,