Which is the most corrupt country in the world?

Certainly not India, that's what the report says. India features among the top 55 most corrupt countries in the world.

Finland, Newzealand & Denmark are the least corrupt countries whereas Bangladesh & Haiti are the worst. In a survey taken in 146 countries, India ranks 91 in the List scoring "High corruption" bracket. The only lighter factor for us to proud is our "brother" Pakistan comes under "Highest corruption" with a overall rank of 132, where as, bangladesh & haiti shares the honrs of "thirutha mudiyatha jenmangal" list with 145 & 146.

The survey indicates there is an increasing bribary happening in the buracuratic circles of all government departments . India on a whole is actually improved over last year. With the globalisation & privatisation in this country happening, we hope to achive a decent level in another 10-15 years.

My View on this:
Half of the corruption related activities happens because of individual & organisational failure to foresee/forecast or violate the rules. We, Indians, on a whole, are not nurturing a clean habit of homework, time management from our school days. The schools are the first step in corrupting individuals, every other school i have come across, only "fines" the student for coming late to class, which in turn, nurtures, that with money, you can get going. Our schools need to be strictly teaches about time management. To me, half of the bribes happeing in EB, PWD happens because the individual has not taken initiative to file things on time.
Still a long way to go in achiving a clean-hands environment, but there are largely improvements in every government departments per se.

This survey has been conducted by Transparency International and released in India by their Indian chapter chairman Admiral (Retd) R H Tahiliani. The full list of countries is available here

Full newspaper article here

Veerappan Encountered

The final full stop for a man who lived & frightened the governments for last 20 years. This column is not to praise Munusamy Veerappan (now infamouse sandalwood smuggler) or any of his activities, nor I am a pro "tamil" liberation front supporter (I was years ago, and still can come back to the same, if the situation requires for that) or a journalist friend.

The intriguing nature of Veerappan is his knowledge about forests, birds, animals and other things. He might have been a great ornithologist or someone who can give an understanding of interacting with animals.

You may argue, that, he is a kidnapper, money monker, terriorist & smuggler. Accepted. But to 160 villages in & around, dharmapuri & TN-Karnataka border, he is god. Numerous human rights cases are pending against the Special Task Force on rape, evacuation & brutal murders.

Last note, What they killed is not one smuggler, but a whole bunch of truths about how an individual with political & extremist attitude can certainly terrorise & threaten the states. It's a relief to so many politicians, that they can check their BP levles being reduced by tomorrow.

History of Veerappar ( You need to give respect to the dead)
Bio-data (Knowledge about outsourcing forest assets, marketing lead, logistical head & better negotiation skills & management control )
Veerappar Shot Dead ( How to get your name in Reuters , CNN & ABC News )

Gamer Generation

This post is not meant for people who born before 1970 and i know, there are few members in our team goes with that golden rule ;-). Coming to the matter, the latest Harvard Business Review features an interesting article on how to manage a generation which in their own words
"grew up with a finger on the keyboard and an ear to the cell phone, and in a world where the forces of globalization have broken down national barriers like no time in history."

In an interview with one of the leading professor, they argue, that gamers make better employees and team players than others.

To give you an intersting question, how gamers view their career, companies & fellow workers.

Q: How have video games changed the way this generation views the business world?

A: Gamers approach the business world a bit more like a game. They see the different companies—and maybe the people they work with—as "players." They're way more competitive and are very passionate about "winning." They are both more optimistic and more determined about solving any kind of problem you can imagine; they think there's always going to be some combination of moves that will result in success. That drives them to be incredibly creative. They're a bit suspicious of company leaders: The game world is not big on following hierarchy. Plus, they are very confident. Like entrepreneurs, they would rather rely on their own abilities to succeed or fail. They're also more comfortable with risks, but aren't reckless.

Read the full article here

This article & interview is based on a book called "Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever" by John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade.

Going by the above standards, only one guy qualifies in the entire team to fit exactly in to this prototype - Saravanan and to an extend Gnana too. But, hey, nobody said that you need to play only online games but you gotta passionate about doing whatever you do.

Herbert is back in Action

Good news first.

Our very own Herbert has joined in Mascon Global system, chennai. Congratulations! & Looking forward for a great treat from his side ;-)

M.Kumaran Son of Mahalaxmi

review: This movie is a late release i suppose. Supposed to be released in 1980s, when T.Rajender & K.Baggyaraj was on their peak with sentiments.

Sorry Thumbs down.....except for the stunt sequence cinematography

7G Rainbow colony

Selvaraghavan once again proved his skills & greatness of his screenplay. 7g rainbow colony is a story you can always associate with a average middle class - housing board flat incumbant. the new comer hero has done his role pretty good in attempting to portrait, the typical, authentic, "good-for-nothing", average college boy.

Selva has done a decent job in looking from an average person's perspective of the society. May have a slight resemblence of the typical entry of "Prabhu deva" in Kathalan, good for nothing. But Selva proved his difference by authentically working on the screenplay in how foolishly & innocently an average guy will react to his first love.

Typical Selva branded, erotic songs, usage of tamil's "foul" language, dhanush like resemblance for flashback scenes. The first half of the movie is absoultely fun. The second half takes a bit serious turn and with all those nice scenes & build up, the director struggled to come to a good climax. Except for last 15 minutes of the movie, the movie is absoultely enjoyable.

Final verdict: Cut short the last song & climax. Above average. 'Kalla Kattum"

IS Taj Mahal a hindu temple

Friends,

Just before we forget the fight on babri masjid...there is another debate. The world famous taj mahal is claimed by few people as a shiva temple taken over by shajahan....well the link below states the same.

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm


Real History of "Taj Mahal"
"The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his ife Mumtaz Mahal
built
the Taj Mahal. It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000
artisans brought to India from all over the world! . Many people
believe
Ustad Isa of Iran designed it." This is what your guide probably told
you
if you ever visited the Taj Mahal. This is the same story I read in
my
history book as a student.


NOW READ THIS.......
No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the
whole
world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says
the
Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu temple
palace of
Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his
research Oak
discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from
then
Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court chronicle,
Badshahnama,
Shah
Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand
mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial. The
ex-Maharaja of
Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah
Jahan
for
surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as
a
burial place! for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice
among
Muslim rulers.
For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all
buried in
such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He
says
the
term "Mahal" has never been used for a building in any Muslim
countries
from
Afghanisthan to Algeria. "The unusual explanation that the term Taj
Mahal
derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.
Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he
writes.
Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's
name
to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, he
claims,
is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's Palace. Oak
also
says
the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created by
court
sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists.


Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the
love
story.
Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal
predates
Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by
Rajputs
of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a few
samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests
revealed
that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler
Johan
Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after
Mumtaz's
death), describes the life of the city in his memoirs. But he
makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter
Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death,
also
suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's
time.


Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural
inconsistencies
that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple
rather
than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed
since
Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the public. Oak
asserts
they
contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly
used for
worship rituals in Hindu temples. Fearing political
backlash, Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof. Oak's book
withdrawn from the
bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition
dire
consequences. There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak's
research.


The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal
under
U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.


Well these are not my views...but just a information came to me...hope this doesn't break another series of communal rights....whether its a shiva temple or a mumtaz'a burial ground...it gives india proud. So lets not destroy this in the process of claiming whose it is...lets preserve it together.

gnana

Hard(Hottest) Talk India - BBC Interview with JJ - Rudeness to the Core

Have you seen a ruthless lady faced with unshakable anchor. If you havent' seen, you have missed one of the terrible interview by "Amma" on BBC world's Hard talk. The interview is full of wrong facts, comments against Mu.Ka and made a big announcement of how she made TN state more progressive (???!!!?). I dont know, what is progressive mean by JJ.

the entire discussion can be summarised in the end of the program, when Karan Thabar said

"Chief Minister, a pleasure talking to you on HARDtalk India.' and here goes the reply from our CM

"JJ: I must say it wasn’t a pleasure talking to you. Namaste"

Badri has done a neat work on summarising this interview in his blog. Raja also blogged this. the transcript of the entire interview is available in BBC's tamil .

Just would like to know, whether Karan Thabar has reached his home safely or athukulla veetukku "auto"-voda "thodargal" poyittangalanu. But, anyway, the interview was in english, so unless & otherwise JJ translates the entire interview in "Namathu MGR", no "thodan" will care about this ;-)