PD Ponders

Disclaimer : I wrote a series of articles for an online magazine called Cheers between 2004-2006, am putting them out here since I found them in Lockdown 2.0 IT - Call centers (BPO) and cultural changes 21 ‎February ‎2006, ‏‎01:31:12 When the IT boom happened in India it was thanks to the congress government efforts of globalization.  MNC's noticing India's English competency came in with full swing mainly from Europe and America.  The first of its kind boom started with the rise of dot com industry.  The Y2K boom and bug closely followed the fall of dot com industry.  American software industry was full of Indian techies working in all sectors from NASA to AT&T. The success of hotmail and Subir Bhatia the Indian brain behind this venture was like a landmark case study for the entire Indian IT segment.  The amount of money he made overnight was like a carrot behind which the Indian IT industry ran.  When the dot com bubble boomed there were millionaires...

The Selfie post performance It was a pleasant surprise when I got a call from NHVPS for a non PTM discussion.  I was happy that the school chose me to do a workshop with the children from 9, 10 & 11 to introduce them to theatre and probably do a performance by end of the workshop.  We did pretty interesting times in 21 sessions I took over there, the last five being the rehearsals for the final performance.  I thanks NHVPS for this opportunity & hope the kids who survived till the last day will do some theatre somewhere & remember me through their performance. For the final performance we chose a small story "A letter to God" from and laced it up with songs from my times to the ultra modern times making it easy for the kids to blend in.  The script I created from the story is below... & CLICK HERE for the Video of the final performance... ________________________________________________________________________ A letter to God ...