What makes me happy ? ( Besides money ofcourse!)

This Sunday I sat down to think what really makes me happy...Ofcourse the first thing that came to my mind is having a million dollar in my account ...Then I thought this is something that every one and their grand maa desire...So me too...but beyond this what does really make me happy...Now that's something I feel every one would have something different than the other one...

When I laugh so much that it hearts.. (Buy a comedy eBOOK?!)
Having some bizarre dream that I keep remembering of the whole day....
The giggling smile of my son....Do you want to Ignite your Child's Imagination?
Watching my niece warning my father not to take too much chocolates.... ( Buy a Child Behavior Management Tool for your child today)
Remembering my days in scool when I used to sing loudly in my school playground in rain...
A bottle of wine....
Reading inspirational books and making a promise to myself the very moment...( and finding reasons not to keep that promise the very next day.)
Cranking the music up and driving around in my car while no one is on the road.....
Passing off side by an empty higway and shouting loudly...
Having conversations with taxi drivers about life.....
Making good decisions and praising myself either infront of mirror or my firends....

Lets get wet in the rain....Dance and Kiss in the rain..

It’s been pouring outside, hard thunder and all that. I was standing outside the balcony and watching the rain pour down.Just thought to take a clip of the same and here it is ....



Its a wonderful feeling though.....Those nights on the long verandah, with plantain pillars, squirrel beams and bird rafters — the flickering oil-lamp throws shadows on the panelled wooden-walls with heartbeats, as the last raindrops dance to the beat of thunder drums. I sway to the bheen of drunken monsoon winds. The smell of sand perfumes the air in a trapeze of fireflies. A courtyard quivers in the lap of the pale moon, in the southern corner of a distant nation, I call motherland — where eyes meet eyes in greeting and languages melt in smiles. Those monsoon nights, rising from a fond letter, are drowned in cups of desi chai as a Manx morning wakes up to a tiger sky...

It reminds of Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari Kissing in the rain.The chill of the rain melts away against the heat of a kiss.It really does.

Learn the Art of Kissing!

Write a Novel ?

When I was younger, I always excelled at creative writing assignments, and teachers said that I showed real promise. But as I got older and had to do more structured writing I struggled to achieve the perfection that I desired to the point that I grew to dislike writing. In fact, I never took a single English department writing/composition course in college. Now that I’m older and I enjoy writing again (even though most of what I do is non-creative).

Offlate when ever I got time from my mundane daily job I’ve written at least a hundread beginnings to countless stories that I’ve come up with, but I seem to lose momentum as the story goes on. I think it’s because I notice how many pages I’ve written and feel a little intimidated by it. I realize that I have years to write out a compelling novel, but I want to prove myself that that I can attempt writing a novel. I’m not just some angsty livejournal poster who has epiphanies every day or so. I feel like something’s in what I write and I just lack the ability to draw it out.

But there’s been a novel bouncing around inside my head, on and off, for the past few years, and I’d love to commit it to paper someday. I probably need to watch "Chak De" again and again to keep this motivation alive in my head .

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Independent India and its changing soul after 60 years of independence

Long Before I went to school and learnt about glorious indian history, or read about the Buddha, Mahatma or vedic wisdom, I learnt from an untutored woman, my grandmother, the essence of morality. Of being good, moral and to conduct myself with self esteem. The rules were simple. I had to respect what I had been given and be nice to people around. Toys had to be shared with my sister and a smile and hello were mandatory to the milkman. If the kid next door was playing on the slide in the neighbourhood park, I had to wait till he finished. The cycle-rickshaw wallah had to be wished 'good morning uncle' with a smile on the way to school, and then it was the peon at the school gates. The fellow human being had to be respected.

Food had to be respected too. Plates had to licked clean, because there were people going hungry elsewhere. Gifts had to be earned. A kind act was always returned with a kinder one. It was what being a 'good boy' was all about. The limits were defined and could not be questioned. There was no room for examining them, dissecting them or even to test their borders. Across the concrete wall, off limits, lay the 'bad boy' image, and that meant punishment. No hugs or kisses from maa or bapa, no chocolates and certainly no gifts. Silence at the dinner table. Nobody would talk to the sinner. The lack of gifts and chocolates would be bearable to a point, but the thought of being unloved or unwanted was too much to take. In school I learnt history, Ashoka's amazing conversion and Puru's glory in defeat. Gandhi's other cheek and Bose's bravado and Mangal Pandey's passion. They were good people, examples of the very things that granny had taught me as a kid. And through it came a realization that I had a responsibility to my country, that of being good. It was my duty and my contribution. It was my pride. Only by trying to be the best that I can be, I could fulfill the promise that came with being an Indian. I was glad I was born here. India was my country and I was proud of it. I would not trade it for the world.

Now I am all grown up into a rational adult. I work with big corporates who pay me well. I honk incessantly on the roads, bully smaller verhicles, swear at them using the filthiest of words with the vilest of tempers, if they try to push their way through. I push too, but thats alright. I will take the advantage if I can. I dont mind causing inconveninence to others if I have to do so in order to get ahead. And I am not in the habit of saying sorry. All that ended a long time back. It was a false pride over a nation of rude, violent animals struggling to get by. I live in the present, and I do what I have to, to exist. Being good does not work anymore, blaming the system does. The system put a traffic light. I jump it. I even start moving before I get the amber lights. The rules say that I need to stay in my lane and put on my blinkers if I want to change, but I dont. I just barge in and barge out. The system put a 'No Parking' sign, but I dont heed that. Hey, sab chalta hai, this is India. I crib about general cleanliness, and still throw my cigarette butt ends around. I chew paan masala and spit on the road. I scream at pedestrians crossing streets and scream at cars when I am walking. I speed like a mad dog when I get an empty stretch, and I hit and run if someone comes in my way. I scream at the traffic cops calling them inefficient, but am always on the lookout to sneak out when he isnt looking. The system says 'Q please', but I dont queue up. Instead, I go and ask the guy at the top of the line to buy me some tickets, or sometimes just try to shamelessly stand at the top of the queue seemingly oblivious of the others waiting in line.

Are , yahan koi kuch nahin bolta, India hai bhai. You can insult anyone's intelligence. Sab chalta hai. Yeh system hi aisa hai yaar. India mein asia hi hota hai. Hey, this is the way we are, bas aise hi hain hum. Kya karein, India always moves in slow motion. We have lots of other problems to take care of. Cant change it man, just got to endure it. But we are a proud lot. We have a glorious history. Aur waise bhi, so many things are looking up, look at IT industry man….

Aaj kal bahut tough ho gaya hai yaar, Now I want to leave. I want to settle down abroad. Amrica jana hai ..

Looks like the only thing of importance that the Great Indian Nation gave me was my passport. The other unimportant things that have been written in history books are for dinner table conversations, needless, thoughtless banters. I will tell my kids to read them anyway, might help them score good grades in examinations. India sucks.

Hell no, I do. I suck. And I have sucked out the 'good' from my country. My grandmother is dead and my parents are old anyways. Who would know !!

Have you tried Picasa?

Then and Now...Mountains have moved!!

Sunday afternoon! Who can foretell the nature of the afternoon from the heat of the morning sun! I had an appointment with an old friend to catch up after a long-time. While I was sipping the tea at his home , overlooking the long tennis court infront of his home, we caught up on the old days and how stars had a different story for each of us. And then we went to a bowling hangout to unwind and returned after few hours.After dropping him and his family at their residence I headed towards my den. Though it was just few hours,but I guess those were some good moments in a long time. On my way back as usual I caught up with the taxi driver and we discussed on life and stuff..

I started..."You know what.. I was here 3 years back and this place was a jungle..It seemed at that time as if there was no human settlements for a 2 km stretch...Things have changed since then....Mountains have moved.." and to this he responded "...take a close look..it still is a jungle...not green but a jungle of cemented structures.....human soul is still farther..."...I didn't quite get what he meant when he said "human soul is still farther..I kept on asking why did he make that remark...and his response made me think the whole night..."saab bimari bahut teji se badh rahi hai....man ki bimari....tan ki bimari to thi hi....par ab man ki bimari badh gayee hai....pehle jinke paas roti nahin thi...un ko tan ki bimari hothi thi...ab jinke paas jyada roti hai unko man ki bimari ho rahi hai..aur ye bimari teji se badh rahi hai..." ......did you get that ?? ....human soul is still farther...

This man outrightly rejects the growing young urban multiplex goers as humans with souls..He is young and makes a decent earning for himself from his driving profession. He seemed to be emotionally intelligent and has an excellent attitude. This made me ponder over his remarks further....

Back at my den as I watch TV news , I wonder if this has something to do with our PM's recent speech at CII on "Austerity drive"..I feel so..It's probably to do with the new challenge infront of the corporate India...Inclusive Growth...

Then...it was about growth ...Now ....Its about inclusive growth....Mountains do move..We would see change....The taxi driver would feel the soul ..the human soul...only if we would promote inclusive growth.

Cellphones come calling to Indian Villages.....

International Herald Tribune writes:

Camel-drawn carts, tractors and brightly clad women carrying shallow bowls of fuel and food on their heads usually dominate traffic in this northern Indian village Mundawar, Rajasthan. But on the evening of 5th May, Mundawar played host to a jarring new visitor: Nokia's traveling mobile phone van. Hundreds of spectators, most men and boys between the ages of 15 and 50, gathered outside or squeezed into the van, hoping to win free merchandise like a Nokia-branded hat.

Mobile phone usage is rising faster in India than anywhere else in the world, with some six million customers added every month. Large cities and many medium-sized towns are already blanketed with retail outlets, and competition among manufacturers and carriers is fierce.

Rural India has become the next frontier for the industry's biggest players. About 70 percent of India's 1.1 billion population, 770 million people, live in villages and rural areas.

Phone manufacturers have begun introducing new products that will be targeted at rural markets. Yesterday, Reliance said it would sell a Chinese-made phone that would retail for 777 rupees, or $19. Nokia also unveiled seven new models last week targeted at emerging markets to be priced at $45 to $120. In last November, Motorola introduced the ultra-low-cost Motofone in India, costing about $40.

When everything connects......Wireless revolution

1 - Your refrigerator says you "I am out of milk"
2 - Your body says you "blood pressure is too high"
3 - Your cars says you "accident ahead"
4 - Your water pipe in kitchen says "I am sensing contamination"
5 - Your fruit basket says "we are 80% off"
6 - Your garden earth says "ground needs watering and fertilizer"
7 - Your doggie says "time for walkies"
8 - Your kid says "I am here papa: N 51 30.24 W 0 08.19"
9 - Key that you left somewhere says "You left me here"

Will this happen ? How soon ? Will that be called as wireless revolution....time will tell..

Just what is Orkut anyway?

ORKUT is a turkish word meaning 'city of happiness and luck'. It is also the first name of the turkish scientist who developed it in 2004. with 49 million subscribers, it is second only to my space which has 106 million accounts.

3.7 Crore and Growing

Did you know that of India's 3.7 crore internet users in 2006, 34 lakh were college students and they spent 37% of their time on information and education related searches , 35% on email, 14% on chat and 9$ on entertainment.

Physical size does not gurantee success, what matters is mental size!

Knowledge@Wharton: You make a couple of interesting statements in your book. One is that "Startups can avoid mistakes by pretending to be big". And second, you write that "being big is not about size, but about mindset". Could you explain what you mean?

Bagchi: Thank you for that question. The concepts behind both are very dear to me. One is about pretending to be big. If you look back in time, all of us at some point in time have pretended to be big. It's a very important directional statement. For example, the little girl, who, when Mom is not watching, puts on Mom's lipstick or tries to step into Mom's stiletto shoes, or the little eight-year-old boy, who, when nobody is watching, is foaming his face with Dad's shaving cream. When you do that, you are mentally growing up. You want to grow up to be a big boy or big girl someday.

In an organizational context, there are two things that come to mind. One is process, and the second is governance. Usually, start-ups underestimate the power of these two things and their capability to properly reduce in size and sustainability.

Excited about India Mobile ? Look at China's growth Story !!

Wall street journal writes :

The listed arm of China's largest mobile carrier by subscribers reported net profit of 17.56 billion yuan ($2.28 billion), up from 14.36 billion yuan in the year-earlier period. Revenue increased 20% to 77.71 billion yuan.

The company added 14.89 million subscribers in the first quarter this year, up from the 14.08 million users it added in the fourth quarter. It added 5.12 million subscribers in March, up from February's addition of 4.91 million subscribers. China Mobile had 316.12 million subscribers as of the end of March.

Average revenue per user per month in the first quarter fell to 85 yuan from 93 yuan a year earlier.

The company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization rose 14% to 40.72 billion yuan. Its margin for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, was 52.4%.

Google giggles and Microsoft riddled

Businessweek on Google and Paul Grahm on Microsoft :

Google - through its text ads strategy - has managed to weave itself into the very fabric of the Web. In doing this, the company freed itself from even Internet geography and became ubiquitous. By empowering companies and individuals to publish Google ads on their sites, Google solved the unlimited supply and demand problem in one fell swoop.

What killed Microsoft ? Four things, I think, all of them occurring simultaneously in the mid 2000s.

The most obvious is Google. There can only be one big man in town, and they're clearly it. Google is the most dangerous company now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word. Microsoft can at best limp along afterward.
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[Ajax] was the second cause of Microsoft's death: everyone can see the desktop is over. It now seems inevitable that applications will live on the web,not just email, but everything, right up to Photoshop. Even Microsoft sees that now.
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The third cause of Microsoft's death was broadband Internet. Anyone who cares can have fast Internet access now. And the bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the desktop.
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The last nail in the coffin came, of all places, from Apple. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the dead in a way that is extremely rare in technology.

A beautiful mind and a not so beautiful one.....

12 PM . Midnight in Bangalore. Pitch Dark. Out in the balcony. Smoke on my lips. Overlooking the lush green. Mother nature. Dead calm . Inside. More than anything else, I feel worry free right now. I feel alive. I am not shaking. I don’t feel like complaining, about anything. I am not numb. Just comfortable.

There is a strange calm about my mind that I haven’t felt since years. Excessive planning, ambitions and expectations, worries, trying to do many things at the same time, running away from facing fears and unpleasant situations, indecision, anxiety, nervousness about the future, brooding over past, insecurities over imperfections have dogged my life for the last 10 years. And that should be just about enough, isn’t it!

This morning I met Gungun who is now an year and half. I saw her when she was born . What did I see today? A look of absolute glee on her face .Eyes squinched up to straight lines, screaming at the top of her voice. You never know what goes on inside that little head of her . A mind that's worry free, A mind that's anxiety free , a mind that's without any nervousness about the future , a mind that just lives in the moment . An absolutely free mind and a beautiful one. It defines freedom. You got to see it, to know what the heck I am talking about. You got to see those eyes, that expression, the glee and the noise level.

I left the sight of Gungun after an hour or so but her glee was still infront of my eyes and I was thinking if I am losing it . I could have wept like a kid when I left my mother at the airport last week, were it not for the good old ‘Act your age’ voice inside my head. Well, I escaped with moist eyes. Quite commendable indeed, if you saw bapa, 62 years of age, father of three grown-up adults, seen it all, been through it before, done it all, strong man of experience, fighting hard with the ‘you-thought-it-wasnt-there’ tear glands of his. Kerchief in hand, he had the ‘Dont-look-at-me-right-now-You-might-be-thinking-I-am-crying-but-I-am-not’ look. You could forgive the women. Tears are part of their inner fabric, flesh and blood for their emotional skeletons. Can I not become Gungun again ? Can I not weep again in my mother's lap ? Worry free? I am losing it !!

I am quietened. Cool breeze outside my balcony. The world is an incredible place, full of amazing experiences. I just need to stop and think, and soak in it as they happen to me. Life is not the sum total of what we do in our days. More often than not, it is all the things that we cannot do, or sometimes just forget to do in the midst of the daily grind. Things that remain in our subconscious, waiting for that quiet moment to show their faces. The mind is an inexplicable mesh of thoughts. It is just impossible to see clearly all the time. But we try, in the course of self discovery. Everyone does, I guess, at some point or the other. I don’t know what I want. I haven’t the faintest idea. I just know right now, that I need to be worry free. I need to get back the beautiful mind like that of Gungun.

What is a webtop?

What is the "webtop"?, well the webtop is basically a web-centric version of the desktop OS. Microsoft's $270BN market valuation attests to the value of the desktop OS (and its suite of integrated applications) and there is a growing belief in the tech world that much of that $270BN may be up for grabs again as end-users make the platform transition from desktops to webtops. There is also a realization that in the standards-based world of the web, the only real sustainable advantage is control of unique customer data because without that data one webtop OS is basically indistinguishable from the next.

To put this another way, if you think about what really makes your PC or laptop "your" computer it's not the desktop operating system, but all the unique data and applications you have installed on top of it. If you take away that data all you have left is a terminal that most people could care less about. On the web, there is no need to install applications because all applications are universally accessible. That leaves personal data as the only unique asset that defines one webtop from another.

अब अपके लियें हिंदी मैं ब्लोग्गिंग ....कुछ जोकेस......

अजित: रॉबर्ट, टेस्ट मैच में क्या हो रह है?
रॉबर्ट: बॉस, विवियन रिचर्ड्स छक्के पे छाके मार रह है
अजित: साले को सबक सिखाना पड़ेगा। लंच ब्रेक में उससे फ़ोन मिलाना
रॉबर्ट: येस बॉस
अजित ( रिचर्ड के साथ फ़ोन पे) : विवियन रिचर्ड , तुम्हारी माँ हमारे कब्जे में है ....
अजित: मैकल , इस सेल के एक हाथ में लाल और दुसरे हाथ में हरा रंग लगा दो।
मैकल: लेकिन क्यों बॉस?
अजित: बेवक़ूफ़ , इतना भी नहीं जानता ?जब पुलिस येन्हा आएगी तो इसे रेंज हाथों पकड़ लेगी। हे हे हे .......

Did you watch The Namesake?

One of my earlier posting did mention about this recent work by Meera Nair. I just came across a review in economictimes that I would like to share with all of you... Growing up in two worlds simultaneously

Where is my nearest Starbucks?

From News.com:

Coffee behemoth Starbucks has launched a new cell phone-based service that lets you efficiently locate the nearest store and get your caffeine buzz on. Starting today, when you send a text message with the ZIP code of your location to the number "MYSBUX" (697289), you'll receive another text with the addresses of the three nearest Starbucks locations. It won't cost you anything besides your cell phone plan's normal texting fees.

Only problem is, if you're wandering around in an unfamiliar city, you might not have any clue as to the exact ZIP code of where you're standing--unless your phone or car is GPS-equipped, and then you'd likely have some kind of satellite-based directory feature at your fingertips anyway. Starbucks has, however, also launched a mobile version of its Web site so Web-enabled mobile phones can access maps and directions. Plus, the company has asserted that it has now provided store location data to the mapping services that are used by in-car GPS units.
Then again, the average American city now has a Starbucks on about every third block, so in truth, you probably don't need any kind of gadgetry to find one.

Questions for Enterpreneurs

Chriswand's Questions for Enterpreneurs:

This is one of those lists which no entrepreneur should do without. Every now and then, it is a good idea to review these questions and answer them for the venture that you are doing. Better still, the entire management team should independently answer these questions and then compare notes.

1) WHAT IS YOUR VISION?
- What is your big vision?
- What problem are you solving and for whom?
- Where do you want to be in the future?

2) WHAT IS YOUR MARKET OPPORTUNITY AND HOW BIG IS IT?
- How big is the market opportunity you are pursuing and how fast is it growing?
- How established (or nascent) is the market?
- Do you have a credible claim on being one of the top two or three players in the market?

3) DESCRIBE YOUR PRODUCT/SERVICE
- What is your product/service?
- How does it solve your customer's problem?
- What is unique about your product/service?

4) WHO IS YOUR CUSTOMER?
- Who are your existing customers?
- Who is your target customer?
- What defines an "ideal" customer prospect?
- Who actually writes you the check?
- Use specific customer examples where possible.

5) WHAT IS YOUR VALUE PROPOSITION?
- What is your value proposition to the customer?
- What kind of ROI can your customer expect by using buying your product/service?
- What pain are you eliminating?
- Are you selling vitamins, aspirin or antibiotics? (I.e. a luxury, a nice-to-have, or a need-to-have)

6) HOW ARE YOU SELLING?
- What does the sales process look like and how long is the sales cycle?
- How will you reach the target customer? What does it cost to "acquire" a customer?
- What is your sales, marketing and distribution strategy?
- What is the current sales pipeline?

7) HOW DO YOU ACQUIRE CUSTOMERS?
- What is your cost to acquire a customer?
- How will this acquisition cost change over time and why?
- What is the lifetime value of a customer?

8) WHO IS YOUR MANAGEMENT TEAM?
- Who is the management team?
- What is their experience?
- What pieces are missing and what is the plan for filling them?

9) WHAT IS YOUR REVENUE MODEL?
- How do you make money?
- What is your revenue model?
- What is required to become profitable?

10) WHAT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT ARE YOU AT?
- What is your stage of development? Technology/product? Team? Financial metrics/revenue?
- What has been the progress to date (make reality and future clear)?
- What are your future milestones?

11) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR FUND RAISING?
- What funds have already been raised?
- How much money are you raising and at what valuation?
- How will the money be spent?
- How long will it last and where will the company "be" on its milestones progress at that time?
- How much additional funding do you anticipate raising & when?

12) WHO IS YOUR COMPETITION?
- Who is your existing & likely competition?
- Who is adjacent to you (in the market) that could enter your market (and compete) or could be a co-opted partner?
- What are their strengths/weaknesses?
- Why are you different?

13) WHAT PARTNERSHIPS DO YOU HAVE?
- Who are your key distribution and technology partners (current & future)?
- How dependent are you on these partners?

14) HOW DO YOU FIT WITH THE PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR?
- How does this fit w/ the investor's portfolio and expertise?
- What synergies, competition exist with the investor's existing portfolio?

15) OTHER
- What assumptions are key to the success of the business?
- What "gotchas" could change the business overnight? New technologies, new market entrants, change in standards or regulations?
- What are your company's weak links?

The New AT&T

Taken from The New York Times:

The new AT&T has 66.5 million land-based telephone lines, 61 million wireless subscribers, 12 million broadband lines, and sells local phone service in 22 states. It has 302,000 employees.

AT&T's $242.77 billion market capitalization by far surpasses that of the next largest phone company, China Mobile, at $ 183.13 billion, and is double that of the nearest American competitor, Verizon Communications, at $109.62 billion.The company has come a long way largely on Ed Whitacre's vision,said John C. Hodulik, an analyst with UBS.Right from the beginning, he realized the benefits of scale in the telecommunications business.

The Namesake

I got an opportunity to watch "The Namesake" this saturday. Based on the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake is set in New York and Calcutta over a period of several decades. It's one of those adaptations that's so sprawling and episodic and crammed with incident that, at times, you may wish you were reading the novel. I haven't read the novel as yet but would definitely read it in coming days. Nair tries to shoehorn too much of a big novel into a small two-hour movie. But her ardor for the material matches her ambition. This is a generational family saga everyone can relate to, and Nair gives it her special magic.

Fly Bhubaneswar with Deccan at the rate of Train fair

It was 31st october 2004 when I made my first trip from Bhubaneswar to bangalore and at that time it was only Sahara Airlines that was offering a package from Bhubaneswar to Bangalore via Mumbai with an waiting hour of 4 at Mumbai before you could depart for Bangalore from Mumbai. All togteher it took 8 + hours from BBSR to Bangalore with a hefty amount of 12400 INR for one side trip .

On 29th Dec 2006 I made a trip again Bangalore-BBSR-Bangalore with an amount of 10400 INR ( read it round trip , and the flying hours were 3 hrs each side with 30 mins waiting in Chennai - no change in aircraft ) . Though this time people in the same craft travelled for a price as little as 6400 INR ( round trip ) all inclusive of taxex and etc. The service provider was Indian ( former Indian Airlines)

On 10th March 2007 I made a trip again from Bangalore to BBSR with a price of INR 4190 . I had not planned my return as I was unsure of the date due to my wife's delivery . When I decided on 24th March to retun on 26th march by default I went to Indian site to book the return ticket and teh available price was same 4190 INR . However my father pulled out Dharitri to show that Deccan is starting frm 26th March and why dont you check their price. I did try and to my delightment it offered a price of 2999 INR and the flying hrs remain same but it starts earlier than Indian which means I could resume my office by 3 PM .

Then I had to plan for my next visit on 5th April and I did not think of Indian this time . Straight away went to Deccan site and guess what , I made a round trip booking for only 3998 INR ( 1999 INR each side ) .

I could not restrict my delightment and called up Mishraji immediately and while I was explaining him about this he was clever enough to visit the site and plan for his travel in June . And guess what he figured out an offer of 1249 INR from bangalore to bhubaneswar . This price ofcourse is less than the 3 teir AC train fair .

Some like Vijay Mallya call it as low fare madness, but hats off to captn Gopinath , he made flying as affordable as possible for people like me . Visit Deccan at http://www.flyairdeccan.net/AirDeccan.htm

Presenting you Master Swaraj Panda

Swaraj Panda was born on 22nd March 6:52 AM , weighing 3.2 kg and measuring 21 inches from head to tiny little toes. Mother and Son are both doing beautifully, or else father wouldn't be blogging.