Unspoken Truths

This is a some thing from heart...My cute chweety friend gadha wrote this ....

Around a blinding sun,

Nothing's resolved
Nothing's yet won.

I've mislead my fear,
Though not for long.
Always sincere;
I just don't belong.

Cast out, dragged in
Without, within

"I've found friends true"
We tell one another.
But do we really have a clue
When we comfort each other?

Are we promising to
The bitter end?
You've never knew
A better friend?

We all are so fake
But our conscience is clear.
Or just a numb ache
We need not adhere.

Patriotism, is it a seasonal feeling?

We are gona Celebrate August 15th. imm... We all says now we are proud to be an Indian, we will die for our country and so on. Well is it a seasonal feeling? Do we think so in other months too?

We talk about our country, patriotism and so on in this near by dates, but do we really mean it?

I need your comments. Is it a seasonal feeling. Do we remember, we are Indians every time? I think we remember only when we are watching international sports and games or when such days came,or when watching a movie? Is this day to remind us we are Indians?Is this day celebrating to remind lakhs of people died for our country?

When we hear "Sarfaroshi Ki thamanna , ab hamare dil mein hein..." it likes getting energised. But is that feeling still in our heart when we are not listening the music? Are you sarfarosh?

'Sarfarosh' = One who is ready to stake his life (for a cause).

'Sarfaroshi' = Readiness to stake life.

How many of u celebrated Quit India day? It was on August 9th (Quit India : 1942 August 9). How many of you were aware about it?

Quit India Movement was one of the most important mile stone in our freedom struggle. If we are proud to be an Indian, if we do remember about the people who sacrifice their life, then how come we forget the day?

I am not different from you people...Really I am ashamed of myself. Because if I am proud to be an Indian, if I am that much patriot, me too will not be like this.......

Art of Hand shaking!

Whats in a hand shake? You may wonder on it, coz some of you may never realize that a hand shake can convey so many meanings.

When u offer a handshake, it convey lots of meaning depending upon the position of palm, the pressure you insert and the time taken for the hand shake.

Let us discuss about the position of palm first...

1. Palm down

Keeping our palm down while hand shake means we are superior or we are strong. This gives the message that the man with palm down is more stronger or he is leading one or simply your Boss [;)]

2. Palm up

This is something like , we are on the other guy's service. This "at your service" indication is mostly done when we offer a service for our client.


3. Palm Vertical

The most generous way to offer a handshake is palm vertical. It sends the signal of cooperation. "

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Have you ever think about this things?

Then let us talk about pressure inserted while shaking hand

Pressure

It depends on geographical locations, as in some place, the firm hand shake, i mean inserting more pressure means, he is impolite to you. In some places it shows that you are confident about the thing. It also express that you agree the deal and so on.

If an American woman, to the Far East , she has to care a lot.. Taking a man's hand and giving it a firm press, signals him that the woman has a sexual interest. So please do not be surprised, if the man reacts "strangely" to you !

Length of time you shake the hand.

The longer you keep holding the hand, the more powerful you look.

Doing the same in America it is regarded as rude!

So make it gentle and normal


Just try out these things yourself............comment be back ur experiences....


with love
anu

An IDEA alone cannot change your life!

when ever I saw the ad word, i felt like is it so? Can Idea change our life? Well to be frank, I never think so. Most of you people will disagree with me, but still I believe, Idea dont have that much importance. I am talking from ma personal experience. I weave 100s of ideas each week and its just ideas...coz it never gets it way out.

Lemme scrap some thing which I had experienced.

So many people weave ideas and they afraid to discuss it with their friends of Veterans. They do think that the other guy will stole their Ideas and they keep it with them.Atlast it will buried in the corner of their mind..

What I think is thats the greatest stupidity. You have to discuss about your ideas with friends and veterans, then only you will get it more vivid. When you discuss that idea with others, keep the core business in mind, just talk abt the idea as a whole. From the other's comments, you will get more and more views on the same.


Getting an idea is tough but the most toughest part is implementing it in right sense. An idea alone cant be survive, it needs the right time and right money to start.

If we have an idea and we don't have time to implement it, then? That idea is waste

If we have an idea and we don't have money to implement it, then? That idea is a big zero.

An idea is said to be successful if it is executed in time. For that we need

1. Right Resources including HR, infrastructure etc.
2. Right Time
3. Enough money

An idea , let it be a greatest of ever time. If it is implemented in wrong time, what use in that?

So an Idea alone cannot make a boom. An idea is just an idea till it get right resources.

So what I have to tell you is

1. Never try to make all ideas urs, share it.
2. Remember, never share the core. [:)]
3. Making money and time is the biggest deal than making a flawless idea, coz the first two can clear the flaws sometime.



An idea alone cannot change your life.

Starting a company...

I started my first company when I was in my 7th semester. I am not associated with that now.Again so many bad experiences with that. I disjoint that firm after 1 year. From that I learned a few more lessons too.

1. Never ever believe anybody in business, let it be your father.
2. Never start a business with people who dont know what a business is.. It was the greatest lesson I learned, today I will never even thought about farming with partners who dont know what is it all about.

Later I started a firm in the first floor of my house, it also brings bad experience, and I lost some great relationship due to the mismanagement of my employees.

After that incident, I got some new lessons and later on I started my new firm by gaining some potential clients.

My very first client was also from US, a beautiful lady with lots of dreams...Liza. It was the beginning of my business. We had done a great application for her and now it is selling as a hot product in the retail shops of US and Europe.

The first problem was selecting a name. I was not interested in selecting a ususal xxxsolutions, yyy info and so on. I need a unique name, which can attract my clients the very first moment. There came the name "askanoop consultancy services".

I selected the name askanoop because...

1. When a client heard this name, the first question will be "what a different name, why u choose this name?" My answers are enough to attract him. Well thats the main business tactics , so I dont want to add my answers here [;)]

2. There are lots and lots of small - mid sized companies, The clients dont need a new company, the need is mine..So I want to make my presence odd from others...

3. askanoop, means when ever you need a technology solutions, just ask to anoop.. well in my concept, anoop is not me, its an Alien like character and when we start our company in our own office , I will definitely place a big sculpture of that Alien in the front of my building [;)]

As usual finance was the very big problem ....But I succeed in bringing investment from my father. But I launched it officially when I got enough clients to sustain

Now I have clients from Dubai, Hungary, UK, US, and so on....

How I bagged my first business?

Well getting first client is not that much big thing, but make the client a recurring potential client is the whole thing matters. My first client was from US, one Mr.Gerald King. I got him when I was in my 2nd semester in Sree Buddha College of Engineering. At that time the dream of starting a company was just in dream, like my other dreams ..

At that time I was not serious about the profession. the project was to start a website for his school which is fully dynamic, CMS integrated. At that time I know only HTML and a bit ASP. I was concentrating in system level programming. My client wants to develop the web app within 7 days and must be in PHP. That was the incident which compels me to learn PHP. I learned PHP and mysql and completed the project within 6 days, it contains 40+ dynamic pages. I uploaded it to his server, but he didnt send me payment.

It was the first experience from my client.

Later I succeed in gaining potential clients..well I will tell you that story later.

Why India is Preferred Location for Offshore Outsourcing?

1. India's human resources

Being the world's second highly populated country, human resources are a boon by itself. Just as the Gulf is renowned for its natural resource of crude oil, and South Africa for its diamonds, India is proud of the abundance and easy availability of its highly qualified and technically skilled English speaking computer professionals; who are key to success in the field of IT outsourcing to India.

2. Cost efficiency of IT outsourcing in India

Significant cost saving can be achieved by IT outsourcing to India, owing to the wide gap between the personal costs in India and that of the developed countries. Offshore outsourcing to India offers considerable economical benefits for those who are prepared to exploit the advantages of outsourcing.

3. Standard quality that firms doing IT outsourcing in India guarantee

The Indian companies involved in IT outsourcing in India provide high quality work, meeting international standards and complying with the ISO & SEI-CMM standards. Three out of every four SEI-CMM 5 companies worldwide is located in India. Thus India promises quality - IT outsourcing in India as it has the potential to furnish these services perfectly.

4. The reliable communication facilities

Excellent telecom, ISP, and cellular networks are available in all cities & towns in the country. India prides in the reliable satellite and submarine communication links that facilitate good band connectivity with the rest of the world. Thus companies engaged in IT outsourcing to India, can be in touch with the vendors without any connection hurdles. This plays a significant role in determining the success of offshore IT outsourcing to India.

5. Technologically advanced outsourcing firms in India

India's technologies offer excellent software solutions. The applications include E-commerce, Business Process re-engineering, System Migration, Maintaining Legacy system, System integration etc. India prides in outsourcing facilities that are required to compete with others; which is yet another reason as to why the world prefers It outsourcing to India.

6. Galloping growth in Indian economy

The service sector in India contributes 51% of the GDP. Computer software export was prominent with a growth rate of 40%-50% per year during the 90s. India being the second largest software exporter in the world its large business houses and public sector units are growing steadfastly towards raising economic growth..

7. Stable government facilitating IT growth

India has a stable pro - IT government whose policies, economy, GDP growth, taxation, power, telecom, industrial parks & special zones have been helpful in improving the infrastructure as well as communication. The government proves to be a great support for software firms by further providing all the basic facilities required for an outsourcing company to flourish thus playing a major role in contributing to the success and well-being of IT outsourcing to India.

8. Indian government policies

• IT is regarded as one of the top 5 priority industries in India. IT is a part of the national agenda, and policies are framed so as to obtain maximum benefit out of IT outsourcing to India.
• The liberalization and deregulation initiatives taken by the government are aimed at supporting growth & integration with the global economy. These reforms have enabled the entry of foreign companies to the Indian market. FDI investment from NRI's including Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCB's); owned by the NRI's are warmly welcomed in India.
• The new National Telecom Policy has invited private participants to the Indian telecom sector.
• The IT bill passed in 2000, gives a legal framework for the recognition of electronic contracts, prevention of computer crime and electronic filing of documents. NASSCOM along with the government is playing a notable role in protecting the interests of the IT sector. Thus with all these help, IT outsourcing to India has reached a point of no turning back.

Tax Incentives

The tax incentives offered to the investors by the Government of India are a boon for firms involved in IT outsourcing to India. The incentives that facilitate economic growth and development are:

1. Infrastructure:

A 10 years tax holiday to ventures engaged in developing and / or maintaining and operating an infrastructure facility.

2. Power:

10 years tax holiday to undertakings, which generate and / or distribute power.

3. Telecom:

5 years tax holiday for companies providing telecom services including Internet services and broadband services. Also 30 % deduction from profits for the next 5 years in any 10 continuous years out of first 10 years is also offered.

4. Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones

10 years tax holiday is applicable to ventures that develop and /or operate or maintain in notified IT parks and special economic zones.

5. Incentives for Exports:

Tax is deducted on exporters profits for unit set up on EPZs, STPs, EHTPs, FTZ and SEZs.

7. Other Incentives:

Tax concessions are allowed for FTI and a weighted deduction of 150% for scientific research and development expenditure have been offered. 10 years tax holiday is available for R&D companies engaged in scientific and industrial research.

Nasscom Manpower Resource Survey

Nasscom conducted a survey in the year 2001-2002, on the IT work force status in the country. These were the issues under study.

• To ascertain the present quarter of IT work force in the country.
• To make future projections about supplying IT-manpower resources needed to meet the industry demand.
• To frame a strategy for the sam

The survey revealed that:

• The number of employed IT software and services professionals showed an increasing trend. (A whooping 522,000 by the end of 2001-02 compared to 280,000 employed in the year 1998-99.
• This figure covers professionals, who are engaged in application software, IT services and IT enabled services including professionals engaged in software development units in user organization.
• South India ranked the highest in hiring of new IT professionals amounting to 41% while the Eastern region was ranked the lowest with 6%.
• 25.6 years was the overall median age of software professionals.
• 44% of them had over 3 years of working experience.
• Interestingly male domination was seen among the software professionals in Indian IT firms; with ratio of 79:21 (male: female); which is likely to continue to 65.35 by the year 2005.
• The areas that required skills are

• Software engineering/programmers/analysis
• Database administrations.
• E-commerce and Internet application
• Digital media.
• Web based applications.
• Java
• Communication engineers and Network specialists.
• Networking application.
• Data ware housing.
• Project management.
• Business applications of software development.
• Client networking.
• Quality assurance and technical writing.
• Legacy systems etc.

with love
Anu

www.askanoop.com