Sunday, June 30, 2013
Economic Times released “India’s best companies to work for (2013)” earlier this week and declared following as top 10.
1. Google
2. Intel Technology
3. American Express
4. NIIT
5. Forbes Marshall
6. NTPC
7. Ujjivan Financial Services
8. MakeMyTrip
9. Marriott Hotels
10. Blue Dart Express
Interesting to note names like NTPC which is public sector organization and not so well known names like Forbes Marshall, Ujjvan Financial Services. Recently I remember lot of friends signing "Bloody Monday tu mera khoon chus le (Bloody Monday, you can sucking my blood)", however in these companies employees love coming to work. Few standout examples from the survey which really make these organizations a great place to work.
In Intel, managers ensure that personal life of subordinates is not affected and there is bond among colleagues beyond typical manager-subordinate relation.
“Chairman’s Quality Club” in NIIT identifies top talent to be further developed under the chairman of the company.
Marriott, right from Junior associates are encouraged to stay for one night with families on occassions such as birthdays. Blue dart prides itself in growing in house talent with whopping 96% of senior management growing with in the company.
Key highlights that can be learned from such examples:
1. Scope of something new in job
2. Humans are treated like humans with love and bonding
3. Recognition by top management
4. Perks/society recognition to motivate employees at root level also
5. Merit based promotion with preference to in house talent
Sunday, June 30, 2013 0
Post attending TedxGateway Mumbai last December, see post here, wish to dig deeper into issues brought by Mittal Patel (speaker at Tedx).
Mittal Patel, has been working for Nomadic tribes of Gujarat, which has now taken a shape of Vicharata Samudaay Samarthan Manch (VSSM). VSSM focuses on education, livelihood housing, works in several districts of Gujarat which is always in limelight due to good works by currently best available Chief Minister in India Mr. Narendra Modi. Her video can be seen here.
Various de-notified tribes are spread across India waiting for recognizition from Government agencies. These tribes are spread across India and follow different religion, customs, beliefs, languages and occupations. One such tribe is nomadic, spread across Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat. It is believed that in Gujarat alone nomadic tribes number cross whopping 4 million which approximates to population of Singapore. Nomadic tribes are not recognized even by local village authorities. They are forced to reside outside main village boundaries without basic ammenties like road, electricity, water, school, hospital and proper shelter. Women are forced to prostitution here y default to earn bread. Community can't even obtain voter id cards (necessary for voting in democratic India) and ration cards (necessary for subsidized government food scheme). In all, they are non existent on this earth. Due to this, they are unable to participate in government rural guarantee work schemes like NREGA.
Mittal Patel, popularly known as Mittal Ben in Gujarat has been successful in garning Government attention for nomadic tribe's issues. VSSM has been conducting field surveys and already submitted details of thousands of people to state election officer. Survey is one part, verification and stamp of local village authorities makes the process complicated. However, more than 10,000 people got voter id card getting recognizition for the first time in history due to her efforts. Gujarat government passed a resolution to give nomadic tribes land rights and allocated over 500 plots bringing much cheer to these people.
Well, work is far from done. It requires human hands and finances to take it to scale. Request readers to contribute to such social causes, I personally believe that they need our voice and time than only money. Let us come togther to make this earth an equal & better place to live in.
This post is influenced by Franklin Templeton "The Idea Caravan" to create awareness on social issues. Franklin Templeton Investments partnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Its newly released movie 'Yamla Pagla Deewana 2' with likes of Dharmendra, Sunny Deol is indeed classical example of bad product for the Indian audience. Riding somewhat success of 'Yamla Pagla Deewana' (previous release), this movie has made sure that no more sequel would be made now of this series.
Posing as a baba on the ghaats of Benares, con artist Dharam (Dharmendra), with the help of his son Gajodhar (Bobby Deol), fools unsuspecting disciples into parting with their riches. When they encounter wealthy London businessman Sir Yograj Khanna (Annu Kapoor), the father-son duo pose as millionaires themselves, and hatch a plan to wed Gajodhar with the rich man's daughter (Neha Sharma). But their operation is nearly derailed by Dharam's older son Paramveer (Sunny Deol), who is shocked to discover that his dad and his brother are still up to their old tricks.
The film's potpourri of mad characters includes a self-obsessed villain named Dudeji (Anupam Kher) and his pair of costume-coordinated sidekicks (Johnny Lever and Sucheta Khanna). Jokes written surronding an ape and Johnny have clearly failed to impress. The film is shot in UK and seems to cater to Indians in India and in UK, both I believe were asked to put mind aside while watching. Few pointers that made me think its a below average product for the segment:
1. Tasteless humor with Anupam Kher and Johnny Lever.
2. Sunny Deol with same old shit of demolishing entire army and rip Sumos apart.
3. Poor standard of comedy with Dharmendra swaying to tunes of 'Yeh dosti hum nahin todenge', like really!
4. Songs that you won't remember even just after the movie
5. Nothing original
Both female actresses had great on screen presence but got limited role in front of Deols. Finally, regarding the marketing:
1. Less promos to be seen
2. All sardars in the ad - like really!!!
3. No great hook up online, rather FB-Twitter-Blogs are all sad for this movie
Overall, a time and money waste.
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