Data and Me - 2

Check the graph below.



What really happened in India between 1998 and 1999? which lead to the spike we see.

The answer is National highways development project. The sad part is the momentum couldn't be maintained post 1999.

And there we almost had the world class infrastructure.

Data and me - 1

Recently I have started looking at the Data / numbers to make out some meaning out of it. I found one really good source. Google Public data. I will try to understand and give my thoughts on some of the analysis I do.

I think this is self explanatory. The lost of trust in politicians.

Shout it loud..IPO

Well, so here it goes. A big social networking company makes its rendezvous with the stock market. Hey everyone, come be a part of this dream. Become rich. Lets share this greed. So how much greed is enough will always be a philosophical question, but why a company should go public can have some objective reasoning behind it.

I try to find some reasons that hit my peanut size brain as to why will anyone take the company public.
1) Its the IN thing to take a company public :- Why not? You gain the respect of the business community a build a credibility in the market. Hey you, I have Maybach, a private Jet. What do you have? I have a public company. Yikes!!!!!!
2) Need money to expand operations :- Pretty genuine reason. But if a company is making a hell lot of profit, does it give enough grounds for needing money to expand operations?
3) Let me make common public the part of my success story :- well, I am not running a charity institution. Mind you, the first one to benefit out of a company going public for sure will be the VCs needing to take there money out and put it some other place to make even more MONEY.

Reminds me of the ABBA song, "Its a rich man's world".

Well on the same lines, why would one not take the company public? Dude, its no more a private affair. Share holders need an answer for the private jet you took for honeymooning.

Some how it makes more sense to me for a company to stay private for as long as possible and avoid this whole fanfare of going public. Business is for wealth creation. But for whom? For everyone, then I am living in a socialist world.

I am not a business thinker neither a noble prize winner in economics. Just a Techie who happened to be away from coding for sometime now and hence all the thoughts expressed above are nothing more than the ramblings of an idle brain.

Very aptly expressed

Found in one of the Rediff's discussion forum.

"If this movie had shown Indians as slum dwellers, poverty ridden, racist, corrupt and had shown Westerners as compassionate and our saviors, this would have topped the charts and won a few Oscars.
The hypocrisy of the Western scoundrels is mind blowing.
I'm not saying these things dont exist in India but to relentlessly portray only the negative side of our country in virtually every movie amounts to racial stereotyping. And frankly I'm tired of the BS."

Thanks Mr. Vijay M for echoing the same sentiments which was brewing in my mind since I saw this movie. Couldnt get words for it.

who's right and who's not?

Well its a much discussed tea table issue. Atleast in our country. Who is right?You or your parents? As far as marraige is concerned, it is very contentious. one can take their personal decisions on any other issue ( career, friends, etc.). No parents object to the same.

So here we are standing at the point in life taking a major decision in life to spend the whole life with a person about whom the parents are not approving.

Now the question is how to decide who's right and who is not?And how can one decide? the most subtle argument is "For a person whom you know for a few moments, you can forget the whole life spent with us".

Indeed very subtle. But there is no fine line dividing the decisions as to who is right and not wrong. Its absolute.Either parents or not.

Something more interesting to read about
Love wrong,Parents right?


Listening to song "In between"- Linkin park