What is the name of the disease where NGOs spend highest amount of money? The answer is AIDS. They hardly help any victim and definitely don’t do any research in AIDS. All the money goes in advertisement and creating awareness (easiest way to prepare report without spending any??). At the end of the day, what is the level of awareness among the common people? It is way bellow the expectation. People don’t touch an AIDS patient expecting it is epidemic.
What is the name of disease which caused the highest number of casualties and deaths? It is Malaria. There are certain areas where if somebody goes to hospital for fever, doctor starts treatment for malaria before doing the blood test. Government or NGOs need not spend millions for advertisement/awareness. People know the problem. No research is required for medicine, we already have the medicines. NGOs and government need to work on it so that the number of causality because of malaria is lower and gradually eradicated.
Interestingly the number NGOs those who show interest in eradicating Malaria are far less than those who show interest in AIDS. Probable money generation is the motive behind starting a NGO and not helping the poor.
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Maoist Attack in Nayagarh
Maoists claimed they are working for people and against the Police and do not want to harm common people. Are they friend of common people? Hell no!! Why did they kill the shop owner who is selling tires? They wanted to rub the armoury and killed whoever opposed it.
Maoist attacked Nayagarh to loot the armoury. It is an intelligence failure of the State and centre and a plan well executed by Maoists. Police was helpless in front of the Maoists. It is a challenge for the cheif minister Naveen Patnayak to crub the maoists.
Maoists are not only looted the armoury but also able to put the citizen in fear and can keep their work going. Maoists now can get their work done both by the name of poor and fear. Do this or we will kill you your loved ones etc. Government need to remove the fear. Government need to ensure that the state is run by state government and not maoists.
Naveen has shown he is an able cheif minister by handling Kandhamal tension. I hope he will handle it and show he is still the best. Let government work for the people, so that maoists will loose the ground in Orissa. Wish the state government good luck.
Maoist attacked Nayagarh to loot the armoury. It is an intelligence failure of the State and centre and a plan well executed by Maoists. Police was helpless in front of the Maoists. It is a challenge for the cheif minister Naveen Patnayak to crub the maoists.
Maoists are not only looted the armoury but also able to put the citizen in fear and can keep their work going. Maoists now can get their work done both by the name of poor and fear. Do this or we will kill you your loved ones etc. Government need to remove the fear. Government need to ensure that the state is run by state government and not maoists.
Naveen has shown he is an able cheif minister by handling Kandhamal tension. I hope he will handle it and show he is still the best. Let government work for the people, so that maoists will loose the ground in Orissa. Wish the state government good luck.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Will YAHOO become another NETSCAPE?
Microsoft bids take over of yahoo to compete with Google in online advertisement. The sole purpose to buy Yahoo is to increase Microsoft'sshare in online ad? What is yahoo doing? Is it an online ad company? Itd oes much more than online advertisement. For me yahoo is a content provider than a search engine. It reminds me a similar instance, Netscape takeover by AOL. AOL bought Netscape because it did not want to pay licence fees for internet explorer and want to have its own browser. It did right by buying the best browser company Netscape.But once Netscape become an AOL Company, innovations at NETSCAPE has slowly died. Netscape no longer provided next generation web Technologies, rather it become a browser only company. Application Server, Web server, directory server etc has been sold out/out sourcedby AOL. May be people will forget Netscape as BRAND and will rememberNetscape as a browser. Will same thing happen to Yahoo? Hope it won't. Yahoo will keep itsinnovation. And it will be more than ad company.
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Time to give back to the society
I don't buy most of the ideas of my friend what I posted in my previous blog. However I do agree, one need to think about society and fellow members other than herself. And society will prosper if there are more people who give to the society than those who take from the society. So we need to think of what can we do for the society?
I was talking with a college senior couple of days ago. we were discussing when one should start doing social work. One of the argument is one should enjoy the moments now, do the duty for family and oneself which resembles to grahastya and after retirement one should do social service (but not quite banaprastha! huh) may be by some NGO.
Otherside of the talk is to have the social service along with the normanl work. Social service includes to respond someone when he is in trouble, and we are already doing it. Social service is not neccessarily pumping money but providing what the society what it needs.
I was talking with a college senior couple of days ago. we were discussing when one should start doing social work. One of the argument is one should enjoy the moments now, do the duty for family and oneself which resembles to grahastya and after retirement one should do social service (but not quite banaprastha! huh) may be by some NGO.
Otherside of the talk is to have the social service along with the normanl work. Social service includes to respond someone when he is in trouble, and we are already doing it. Social service is not neccessarily pumping money but providing what the society what it needs.
What will happen after 70 years in India: This is not my view..
These are not my school of thoughts. I don't agree with most of the arguments, however I found the argument interesting and the person who put forth even more interesting.
There will be in foghts that is lead by farmers and there will be a bloodshed and India will be born after 70-80 years. India was a country that is concived in 20th century by aurobindo Ghosh later supported by Tilak and British left the country because India was no more profitable to them. Since then we are exploiting and trying to get my share out of the country, never bothered about others. Look at the traffic, loook at the market, everywhere its "I" that preceeds over everything else. Farmers are suiciding across the country. Today's children are more concerned about themseleves and their ego. They have more knowledge on What is best univ in USA than who Mahatma Gandhi was. So once the "I" continues the powerful will get their share and the poor will starve which will lead to another revolution.
The revolution will be lead by firmers and will take another 70-80 years and bloodshed will happen and it will be end of Kaliyug.
There will be in foghts that is lead by farmers and there will be a bloodshed and India will be born after 70-80 years. India was a country that is concived in 20th century by aurobindo Ghosh later supported by Tilak and British left the country because India was no more profitable to them. Since then we are exploiting and trying to get my share out of the country, never bothered about others. Look at the traffic, loook at the market, everywhere its "I" that preceeds over everything else. Farmers are suiciding across the country. Today's children are more concerned about themseleves and their ego. They have more knowledge on What is best univ in USA than who Mahatma Gandhi was. So once the "I" continues the powerful will get their share and the poor will starve which will lead to another revolution.
The revolution will be lead by firmers and will take another 70-80 years and bloodshed will happen and it will be end of Kaliyug.
Monday, 11 February 2008
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Should Microsoft buy Yahoo?
Microsoft has put a proposal of 44.2 billion dollars to buy yahoo. Should it buy Yahoo? How will it impact the market? My perspective is the merger will be 21st century Time Warner, AOL take over. It will be an altra failure. MSFT and Yahoo have little in common other than rivalary with Google. Investors have reacted negatively to the bid by MSFT and shares have goe down. Yahoo has not responded positively yet. If everything goes well, then antitrust might come in the way of MSFT-Yahoo merger.
Cash rich MSFT will take debt to buy Yahoo. It needs to sort out burocratic issues such as merger, removing the duplicate work, anti trust et al. By the time it will be ready to compete with Google, Google will be a few step ahead than MSFT-Yahoo combined.
So I am skeptical if the merger will ever succeed.
Cash rich MSFT will take debt to buy Yahoo. It needs to sort out burocratic issues such as merger, removing the duplicate work, anti trust et al. By the time it will be ready to compete with Google, Google will be a few step ahead than MSFT-Yahoo combined.
So I am skeptical if the merger will ever succeed.
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