Fraudy Gets Promoted

First thing I saw when I checked my mail today was the good news. Fraudy is going back to his natural habitat in Coimbatore. He's been appointed as TL there. For the uninitiated, Fraudy is Vijayendran K, CMT, presently QA here in Spheris, Bangalore. The first photo was taken on October 2, 2004, when he was, by an unlucky twist of fate, the QC of my team in night shift [From L to R: Fraudy, Baiju, Rohan, and myself]. The second photo was more recently taken on February 15, 2006, on ethnic day. It was ethnic day but Fraudy hid his arrow-tipped tail and 2 horns on the head cleverly and wasn't carrying his spear either [devil's attire]. By the way, CMT designation in his case stands for Corrupt Medical Transcriptionist and not related to anything prestigious like the one given by AAMT.

Officially, he is also the biggest monkey of Monkey Squad (MS) and is also called MS-III by Squad Members, the other Squad Monkeys being Rohan and myself. He quite blatantly denies the fact of being one of the Monkey Squad but just have a look at any of his recent trip photographs to BR Hills and Kodai and you will, by all odds, not miss him hanging from a tree branch or the hanging roots of a banyan tree, and I am not joking. I've heard that the difference in the genes between humans and chimps is just 3%, but there can be few aberrations to the general rule as is overtly evident in his case.



From genes, lets move on to transfer of genes. Have any of you ever given a passing thought as to why this young eligible monkey is still a bachelor and not married. Let me divulge the juicy secret. He's still waiting for the dowry rates to climb to dizzying heights, perhaps the way the BSE has seen a meteoric rise in the near past. I hope the greedy fellow gets married some day and doesn't keep waiting forever.

He was one among those many who encouraged me to take a shot at proofing, but before you brand him as a large-hearted human being, I should tell you that behind the encouragement lay the intricate devilish plot of the villainous mind of a hideous psychopath. His ulterior motive was to cut points in my QA files and botch the happiness of my life. He drew an inch closer to the realization of his morbid fantasy when I landed up in proofing eval finally on March 7, 2006, originally slated
for December 2005. However, he is appointed already TL, and I'm still practicing "Horror Docs" as of today.

It comes as no surprise that he's appointed as TL. Who else can better nurture future monkeys of Coimbatore to climb the ladder of success? He's humble and has no airs about himself, pretty much down to earth I must say. I am sure MTs under his team will have no issues with
him - unless they have some attitude problem themselves. I have always got the best piece of advice from him, but the thing that I'll miss the most will be Coimbatore chips that he used to
get on his return from his monthly visits.

Now, the world too looks up to India- The Times of India

I came across this article about India and felt like blogging it. Feels really nice to know that the world is looking up to India.

The world views India's role more positively than it does the role of the US, China or Russia, according to a BBC poll of close to 40,000 people across 33 countries. What's more, unlike these other countries, India is seen positively even by people living in its own neighbourhood. Overall, about 35% of all the respondents saw India's role in global affairs as positive against 25% who said it was negative, a sizeable 41% having no opinion. There were only six countries in which India was perceived by a majority as playing a negative role. The list of these six countries is a rather unexpected one — Brazil, Argentina, Finland, France, Turkey and the Philippines. The only country with a majority negative view on India is Philippines (57%), while in the other five, the number of those who saw India’s role as negative was more than those who felt it was playing a positive role. Pakistan was not among the countries in which the poll was conducted, but 71% of Iranian respondents, 59% of those in Afghanistan, 49% in Sri Lanka and 39% in China viewed India’s role positively, given the fact that only 47% of Indian respondents were of the same view. These are among the results of a poll of 39,435 people conducted for the BBC World Service by the international polling firm GlobeScan together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. The poll was conducted in 33 countries across the globe and the respondents were asked to give their opinion — positive, negative or neutral about India, China, Japan, US, Europe, Britain, France, Russia and Iran respectively. India also has reason to be pleased, as nine countries in which Islam is the major religion, only in Turkey does it get the thumbs down. In all the others, including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania, India was viewed more positively than negatively. Not surprisingly, the US comes out worst apart from Iran. Not only is opinion overwhelmingly against it in its own backyard — Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina — it is seen as a negative influence in all of Europe except in Poland. Africa is the only continent on which it is by and large viewed positively, while in Asia, the US gets a mixed response. Even South Koreans and Australians are not too pleased with the US role in world affairs. Europe and Japan received the most enthusiastic endorsements from the respondents. There was in fact, not a single country which viewed Europe’s role as negative, whereas Japan was viewed unfavourably only by its immediate neighbours and long-time rivals South Korea and China. Like the US, Russia was disliked in neighbouring countries like Poland and Finland, though not in China. In fact, like the US, Russia could garner support for its role mainly from the African continent. China was viewed positively by most of Asia - barring South Korea - Latin America and Africa, but negatively on the whole by Europe, apart from Spain, and North America. Iran was easily the country seen as the one with the most negative role, with respondents in only five countries saying it had a positive role to play.

Source- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1400412.cms

Partition of India

This is the link to a site which I came across while browsing for topics related to India's partition with regards to Burma and Sri Lanka. Although it does not deal the the said topic, its related to the Partition of 1947, written by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and also available for download in PDF format. It makes for interesting reading if you like history. I have included the various parts and chapters of the book. You'll get an idea what all the book deals with.

http://www.ambedkar.org/pakistan/

PAKISTAN OR THE PARTITION OF INDIA - By Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

PART 1 : MUSLIM CASE FOR PAKISTAN
Chapter I : What does the league demand ?
Chapter II : A nation calling for a home
Chapter III : Escape from degradation

PART II - HINDU CASE AGAINST PAKISTAN
Chapter IV : Break-up of Unity
Chapter V : Weakening of the Defences
Chapter VI : Pakistan and communal peace

Part III - WHAT IF NOT PAKISTAN ?
Chapter VII : Hindu alternative to Pakistan
Chapter VIII : Muslim alternative to Pakistan
Chapter IX : Lessons from abroad

PART IV : PAKISTAN AND THE MALAISE
Chapter X : Social stagnation
Chapter XI : Communal aggression
Chapter XII : National frustration

PART V :
Chapter XIII : Must there be Pakistan
Chapter XIV : The problems of Pakistan
Chapter XV : Who can decide ?