Author: akshay

Great news for Orkut buddies who are always in Orkut and wanted to chat with their friends instead of scrapping and waiting for reply. Orkut has integrated the chat feature in Gmail to Orkut too. When you log into orkut, you are available and you can change these settings too – under your name and at the top bar. Much more, there is even the invisible mode. Just click on the green dot to the left side of your friends and you are ready to go.
Feel like chatting in orkut? Here is the friends page
Here is the orkut home page
And here is the orkut blog to learn more

Don’t be proud on your resume See this and tell me…………

CAN U BEAT THIS RESUME !!!!!!!!!!!!!

RESUME

EDUCATION /Qualification:

1950: Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Punjab University , Chandigarh ,

1952; Stood first in MA (Economics), Punjab University , Chandigarh ,

1954; Wright’s Prize for distinguished performance at St John’s College , Cambridge ,

1955 and 1957; Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge ,

1957; D.Phil ( Oxford ), D.Litt (Honoris Causa); PhD thesis on India ‘s export competitiveness

OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience :

Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59;

Reader, Economics, 1959-63;

Professor, Economics, Punjab University , Chandigarh , 1963-65;

Professor,International Trade, Delhi School of Economics ,University of Delhi,1969-71 ;

Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi ,1976 and

Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi ,1996 and Civil Servant

Working Experience/ POSITIONS :

1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade

1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance

1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India ;

Director, Industrial Development Bank of India ;

Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, Asian Development Bank;

Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD

November 1976 – April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (Department of economic affairs);

Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member,finance, Space Commission

April 1980 – September 15, 1982 : Member-secretary, Planning Commission

1980-83: Chairman , India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee

September 16, 1982 – January 14, 1985 : Governor, Reserve Bank of India .

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India , Board of governors, International Monetary Fund

1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister

1985: President, Indian Economic Association

January 15, 1985 – July 31, 1987 : Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

August 1, 1987 – November 10, 1990: Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva

December 10, 1990 – March 14, 1991 : Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs

March 15, 1991 – June 20, 1991 : Chairman, UGC

June 21, 1991 – May 15, 1996 : Union finance minister

October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket

June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance

August 1, 1996 – December 4, 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce

March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance

August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules

Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges

2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

BOOKS:

India ‘s Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth – Clarendon Press, Oxford University ,

1964; also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge , 1956

Padma Vibhushan, 1987

Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;

Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

1966: Economic Affairs Officer

1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, U N C T A D

1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform

1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings

1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting

1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting

1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus ,&

1993:Human Rights World Conference, Vienna

RECREATION :

Gymkhana Club, New Delhi ; Life Member, India International Centre, New Delhi

PERSONAL DETAIL:

Name: Dr. Manmohan Singh,

DOB: September 26, 1932

Place of Birth: Gah ( West Punjab )

Father: S. Gurmukh Singh

Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur

Married on: September 14, 1958

Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur

Children: Three daughters

Our Prime Minister

seems to be the most qualified PM all over the world.

Pass this to every INDIAN…. and be PROUD to be an INDIAN

You have probably used wikipedia more than once by now. But do you know who the founder of wikipedia is? I was not particular about finding it. But when I found a link called the founders here, I couldn’t resist clicking it. And I found out Jimbo Wales, the founder of wikipedia from the list of founders (actually there is only one in that list)
See him

OK This one is again from Orkut IC 370 from this thread by James

I got this again from the India community (IC 370) in Orkut from a thread started by a person called Mukesh

The Indian Army’s soldier. Who is he?

You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday
He holds his letter close and smells his love’s perfume

You roll your eyes as a baby cries
He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they’ll ever meet

You criticize your government, and say that war never solves anything…
He sees the innocent tortured and killed by their own people and remembers why he is fighting

You hear the jokes about the war, and make fun of men like him
He hears the gunfire, bombs and screams of the wounded – and of the innocents who have no one to stand up for them

You see only what the media wants you to see
He sees the broken bodies lying around him

You stay at home and watch TV
He takes whatever time he is given to call, write home, sleep, and eat

You crawl into your soft bed, with down pillows, and get comfortable
He crawls under a tank for shade and a 5 minute nap, only to be awakened by gunfire

You sit there and judge him, saying the world is probably a worse place because of men like him
If only there were more men like him!

The Indian Army’s soldier

My search for the lightest browser that can compat all the problems of my system’s memory shortcomings continues. My latest discovery is the K-Meleon browser with which I am blogging right now. It is just too fast. I don’t know whether it crashes or has any other problems. But it is a lot more stable than other browsers with orkut and blogger. And it is lightning quick too. That is what attracted me. It is the RAM less man’s Mozilla Firefox. It has got great stability. But it is very very quick. I can’t describe my feelings in words. I am running media player and it is still dazzling fast. I keep on repeating praising its speed because it is really that fast.
So why wait?
Go to K-Meleon’s home page here
To download it directly, go here

I got this as an email.

LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER

Dear Mr. Prime minister

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has
capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least
squeak but we don’t even do that.

Today I heard your speech. In which you said ‘NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED’. I
would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb
blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he
is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets
him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your
ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him
everybody will be exposed. Your statement ‘NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED’ is
nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India.

Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by
about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are
not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and
there will be one more Hiroshima.

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You
promised Mumbaikar Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out
this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to
Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn’t it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me
corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar. Look at all the
politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray ,
Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money.
Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only
business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to
Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way
and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right
on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house ,
enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.

Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders.
Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and
with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are
not aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn’t
it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I
myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell
you everything.

If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to
write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching
moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has
converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim,
Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste,
Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have
raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person,
such a fine human being. You politician didn’t even spare him. Your party
along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are
supreme and there is no place for good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most
learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose
all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account
holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among
us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of
death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can
work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else
will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or
you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people.
Prakash B. Bajaj
Chandralok ‘A” Wing, Flat No 104
97 Nepean Sea Road
Mumbai 400 036
Phone 98210-71194

This is really sad. It is extremely disarraying for the mind to see something like this. A young man who is on Orkut, but who is not on earth. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan who braved his life in the fight for Taj was on orkut. This is no fake profile. He has (or had? I am in a confusion) 78 friends, but unfortunately his scrapbook is locked. The profile is going to remain as a living monument of his bravery in orkut. I got this from a very small community called Anti-Terrorist Squad, from this Sandeep Unnikrishnan -NSG Commando thread

Click here to go to his orkut profile

I was in front of NDTV all through last night. They were showing always-on live coverage of the attack against the terrorists. What I noticed amazingly striking was that though there were only about 30 terrorists in the fight, they were not so easily giving up. They have decided to give their lives for this attack to be a success – to kill maximum – so they are doing everything possible to hide from our commandos and there are more than enough places to hide in at the Taj, Oberoi Trident and Nariman House. So one thing is for sure. This is going to be a long fight. And it will be only once this is all over that we can discuss in serious where we went wrong.

But one positive thing about these attacks is the way things were handled during the crisis. The hotel staffs were exceptionally courageous and they led the guests living inside to safety before the gunmen could catch a sight of them. Also the commandos. They have been doing their duty, but exceptionally well, by capturing or killing these terrorists.

It is high time that we look into our own security. Though I may be sitting in my chair and typing this post now, I can be killed or injured at any moment. So let us unite for a better and safer India

Nation is challenged. Mumbai is attacked. More than 100 killed. Terrorists of number about 30 each firing from 3 hotels in Mumbai – Taj, Oberoi and Nariman House. Everyone is in chaos. The largest orkut community has only one voice – we should unite for a mass action against the terrorists for securing our own safety.