But don’t get me wrong, Iam not criticizing my own company, yes my own company which I have built with lots of khoon(blood) and pasina(sweat). I was reading a blog post from an MIT researcher whom I regularly follow, he said people like to read negative stories about brands. His post was so engrossing that he grabbed my attention for almost 20 minutes on this post. (Now his blog is a secret since I draw a lot of marketing ideas from this guy, and I know a lot of my competitors follow me, so I wont reveal him publicly here, but if you are someone whom I like/know, just comment and I shall reply you via email.)

So, this is my idea to bring some good press to Globussoft and spread word about it. The apt title about this post shall be decided after the entire post has been written since I myself don’t know now what should be the very apt title for this post.

I have so many things in my head right now and I want to jot them down at one go.

Here I start,

Globussoft as you all know is NOT yet another IT services start up or a freelancing oriented body shop which many people have started percieving us.

We are an end to end consumer product company with major product releases slated by end of 2010.

We have already released 2 products – TwtZilla and Gamebibo which have been huge successes so far and are being liked a lot in their respective consumer communities.

Also, why we are not trying to be another company in  Axis of Evil as correctly mentioned by Vishal Gondal, there are several reasons -

1. These stupid IT Services companies, or so called largest IT companies of India produce hordes of Autobots each year.  Although Vishal calls them outbots I would like to change the nomenclature, I call them Autobots. Read more about my post on Autobots in next few weeks.We don’t want to join the league, we want to create a group of creative people who can create unique softwares which have very high appeal to mass market and end consumers.

2. I personally am part of the group which thinks that the Axis of Evil of IT Industry has created a very wrong brand of Indian Engineering Talent.  Engineers are asked to do ticket solving, or maintain year old systems or document code written ages ago by some freaky American company which makes 10 times the money by selling the shelved product of the very code which we Indians working in these IT companies maintain. FYI, this work can be done by even B.Com. or B.Sc. graduates and I have heard that they have started hiring B.Sc. graduates since they are not able to get enough engineers for these so called challenging tasks.

What we are trying to do is not create autobots but smart people who do justice with the degree they have earned in their 4 years of education.

A lot of people who work with me @Globussoft do follow my vision and buy my idea of creating a difference and not be part of the millions of autobots who do hamali at the IT Industry.

But ya I would gladly accept that there are quite a few do not subscribe to my vision and like to hop jobs which is a trend in the Indian IT industry, again created by the Axis of Evil.

Ideally I would like, as many of my Start-up friends feel, they should be stopped from Hiring Engineering Students from Any Engineering college in India. They have already been banned in IITs and the top premier engineering colleges due to the low work quality they offer that IITians consider as bullshit and instead prefer to work with start-ups or go for higher education.

This would be a great move to boost up the start-up space in India where we find lack of talented people who are willing to work with start-ups and be creative and be part of an organization trying to create a difference.

There are several reasons why one should be working with a start-up-

1. A start-up can give you some real food for thought, where you can flow your brain juices and effectively utilize your grey matter.

2. You get a chance of making a large impact and get recognized for your feat. Just imagine with 200 engineers facebook is able to handle 500 million consumers, that’s 1 engineer to 40,00,000 Users. What an impact a single engineer is making to the user community worldwide.

In our company, myself and another engineer built a product called TwtZilla and today its being consumed by over 20,000 people. Just imagine how much impact that engineer is able to make and what sort of challenges we face daily and solve while building such systems.

Dont you think its more challenging than solving tickets ?

3. Some start-ups like ours, offer you equities . Working with these shitty Indian IT biggies you can never reach those luxuries which every Indian dreams of. But if even a single product of the start-up you are working with clicks and strikes gold, you are a rich man and worth millions if not billions within no time. Do I need to give examples here? There are plenty I guess….

4. A start-up culture is the most favorable culture for proper career growth both personally and professionally. You get to play multiple roles in a start-up and everyone does everything. It helps you to grow yourself via multiple epicenters of your personality. Apart from that, you work as a small team with zero bureaucracy and feel pleased to actually get rewarded for your own hard-work, where nobody can steal your credit for his own benefits.

This list can go endless, and I can keep on adding the benefits of working with a product start-up rather than just another body shop.

However, I feel I have written enough on why Globussoft rocks! and does not suck .

It qualifies with all the qualities of a great and a successful start-up to be a part of.

If you are reading this post as a soon-to-be employee of Globussoft, I hope your stay with us will be equally challenging and enjoyable as I have promised here.

Recently I have been receiving quite a few emails from colleagues and my buddies all across the country working at some of the top notch Tech. firms expressing their strong desire to migrate back to Chattisgarh for some IT related opportunities. No, not because a lot of Global MNCs are moving to C.G .. read along..

A year ago, I decided to quit the well known IT giant TCS to realize my long cherished dream of a startup here in my hometown Bhilai. Since then we have been taking up a lot of steps to contribute to the IT innovation landscape in C.G. Just like me, there are many others who after gaining ample exposure from the captive R&D centers or the so called MNCs want to return home and be a part of something adventurous, something they have a reason to feel proud of!

It’s my good fortune that I have been endowed with overwhelming support from my well wishers all super excited to join forces with us in the various mind blowing (if I may) initiatives that we are working on, here at Globussoft.

Globussoft – the startup founded by me is now a 100,000$ company in total revenues and we are looking for smart and determined individuals like you who would like to be a part of this rapidly growing IT company and contribute towards the growth of IT and Software in C.G, our home state.

Excuse me for being a little blunt, but the government of the state of C.G is not taking many efforts for the upliftment of IT in the state nor is the local STPI society (Software Technology Parks of India) here in Bhilai any friendly to entrepreneurs and startups (believe me, I have been through it all!!). It’s difficult to retain local talent and candidates flee to metros and other prominent cities the moment they get a chance for reasons which I feel sorry to accept, are true. It’s high time that we take necessary steps to ensure that our state too can match up to the southern states and attract lucrative IT investments.

In the mutual benefit of the state and individuals, I on behalf of Globussoft request one and all to extend helping hands via project sponsorships, direct or indirect equity and be a part of India’s next IT revolution. We know we have the potential; it’s time to put together our collective minds.

It’s not compulsory to be employed with Globussoft to participate. You can contribute as an individual who wants to make a DIFFERENCE – it’s as simple as that!!!

And no, we don’t need any money. By God’s grace and our hard work and will, we have ample of that; all we need is your skills, your ideas and your precious time .

This sounds interesting, how do I proceed?

You need to send us an email with willingness to contribute your time. Right now Globussoft has envisioned 10 business units which have been incepted in 2010. Some are already functioning (Namely, NetVaani and TweetMati), while others are still being conceptualized.

Other than these 10 business units we have around 50-55 products which are at various stages of maturity.

You can take part in any of these business units OR you can suggest a product or an idea which can be incepted as an entire business unit of its own. Recently a guy, Virender from Rajnandgaon contacted me with his idea on device drivers. Our team is collaborating with him and soon the product will hit development roadmap and then head straight to the markets.

This way you too can have your ideas realized with us and in turn help generate IT jobs here in C.G, make it a better state for IT incubation. By working with Globussoft, you have a great marketing team at your disposal. We will help market your product and create business out of it via an established business model which is bound to succeed.

At Globussoft, a business unit is a mature product cum service which has its own eco-system and is able to function independently from the parent company.

Ok, I am in, what do I get in return?

In return you get equity of a product, of a business which YOU own. Your product will literally be your baby. We simply help you find the chance to plant the seed, nurture it, see it maturing and take pride in calling it your baby. It’s an out of the world feeling

Globussoft marketing team helps you with all the latest marketing techniques and you get your share of the overall income the product generates. This helps us hire more people to maintain and grow the product into a mature competitive business unit of its own.

A product sold 50x for less than 100$ is 5000 USD i.e. 2.4 Lakh INR. This is our worst case scenario for sale of any of our products. We normally sell 200-500 copies of our best products very year! Don’t be surprised if this amount turns out to be greater than your annual “package”

So why wait? Time to give momentum to your ideas, see them come to life! Come join us and be a part of this revolution!!

Sumit Ghosh

(The Ideator!!!)

The word S.A.L.E.S has a very deep and prominent impact in my life since I embarked on my career as a Sales Man for Home Security Systems at a local computer shop in Bhilai.

That first job taught me a lot of real lessons that I value today in my entrepreneurial life.  It made me realize the importance of sales in business and how a bad sales team can actually cause a business to go from everything to nothing in a matter of time. I concluded that only goods when marketed and sold right can help build great companies. Whatever I am today as an entrepreneur is due to those very lessons I learnt from that job as a sales guy!

To be honest, I was a bad sales man during my first job as I made zero sales in the first month or rather all of the subsequent months. In fact our entire sales team made no sales, not a single one and the business eventually shut shop just in 3 months due to unsuccessful operations.

One important reason (which I do feel strongly even today after all these years) for that business going down the drain like that was their bad management policy towards sales and salesmen in general. Salesmen were not treated as men and people but only as the ‘numbers’ they generated. For them business was all about numbers. We were just some numbers having no individual identity.

After the first few months of an unsuccessful job as a sales person, this is what my senior boss had to say about sales people they employed - “Jisko Kuch nai aata wo sales me ghus jaata hai.” To be more precise, he meant all sales people are junkards, worthless and should cease to exist. As if they were good for nothing and added no value.

While resigning from that job, I tried to make my point clear to my boss why there were no sales and what was going wrong in my opinion, but he clearly had no interest in hearing a word. Probably he was under the notion what can a 20 year old guy know a thing about sales?!! His total experience in business was greater than my age!

Anyway, this failed job, yes I call it a failure since I was not able to achieve what I was paid for, what I was hired to do opened my eyes to something valuable and I made a few resolutions to myself.

That very experience turned out to be the stepping stone leading me to the entrepreneurial success I envisage today as the CEO of Globussoft where I primarily manage the sales and marketing of my company catering to customers all across the Globe – right from the comfort of a desktop/laptop, sitting in a small town in central India. We make excellent sales, we sell high end products, and we sell technology. All of this without any physical interaction! Everything is virtual and yet we are successful – this is the power of good sales strategies!

That very first failed job of my life actually threw me a challenge. Yep! I challenged myself that ‘SALES’ was no Mt Everest and I can master it in MY ways, out of my own experience. This was in the first year of college,  it was somewhere around September 2007.  Those months I used to search news paper classifieds especially for sales and marketing jobs.

Basically there were 2 reasons for this –

1. Since I was a student I couldn’t afford to bunk college and take up a full time day job ( remember this was in my first year. After third year, I rarely attended college lectures )
2. Only sales and marketing was an area where you could work at the luxury of your own timings since any company hiring you for sales was only truly interested in the numbers you raked in ! They see the number of sales you made, and give you a commission based salary.

I found sales to be very exciting, and at the time a suitable, job opportunity for me. The next few months saw me selling Mobile phones (for a Reliance India Mobile Direct Sales Agent), Cold drinks (for a local cold drink brand), and even Gutka and Pan Masala Brands (yep can you imagine a to-be engineer selling Pan Masala.. lol, it was real fun those days!!).  CDs, soaps, detergents followed. I sold every damn thing I could get hold of and made money out of it. The list is endless!

These small part time jobs led me to discover some real fascinating secrets about Sales which later on became the strong pillars of foundation for my own entrepreneurial journey which was soon to begin.  It gradually descended upon me that Sales is not just about numbers, Sales is about connecting people, knowing them and building trust and faith between each other!

Business is not about profit and loss statements, business is about people! Bringing good people near you and making them great people along with you, that’s what business meant to me.

While I was enjoying my new found success as a ‘successful’ sales person who could sell anything he got hold of to anyone you ask him to sell, I always felt there was something missing. There was always a missing link; I used to wonder what it is.

I was a geek at heart and a coder by passion, so any time that I could save from my college studies and my part time job would be spent reading stuff on latest technologies and coding projects. All this landed me my first freelance project for a local company in Raipur. The owner was so happy with my work that he wanted to hire me part-time for his projects and I gladly accepted his offer. This was still the 5th semester of my college.

And yes, I discovered the missing link too . All those years I was working hard selling almost everything, but the fact was – I was slogging selling products manufactured by others. This was the first time where I got a chance to sell something which was manufactured by ME. Yes, it was software that I wrote, my own baby! This was the first time I got to sell something which I produced and it really matched my passion as well – coding.

So I bid farewell to all my other part-time jobs and focused mainly on software development and selling my own creations to customers. They ranged from custom built software in VB6 , C++ or web sites in classic ASP in those times.

A lot of people prior to me had taken this path and failed, so I too was very skeptical at first. I had heard numerous ghost stories of software ventures failing in their very early days in Chhattisgarh at the time. However with my by-then delectable Sales skills and coding abilities which I could vouch upon, I plunged in without caring about the results.

Though I saw initial success and decent sales of my services (not softwares), I noticed that people in my city or nearby cities couldn’t care less about IT and my software offerings.  Suddenly I started feeling like it’s going to reach me nowhere.

All my Sales skills were leading me to a pit hole as people then had a common notion that all software should be given out free. It could mainly be since here we mostly get the entire windows OS (pirated) for free.

All those stories about IT companies closing down shops in Chhattisgarh kept ringing in my head. There were nights when those thoughts would keep haunting me keeping me wide awake in the middle of the night. Finally I decided not to waste any more time with the local market and carved a fresh dimension for my venture.

It was a totally new experience, out-of-the-box kinda! In fact, I have reasons to believe that Globussoft was the pioneer in entire CG area in this kind of a business concept. I am not aware if anyone before me were even aware of online market places and ways of taking their business to the next level – the virtual one!

Selling your business online is an entirely different ball game! The media, the communication channel, and payment ways – everything changes. But as usual, Sales is fun! This concept seemed to work for me and today I have one of the largest and the fastest growing software companies in entire Chhattisgarh. And without a doubt, our strength is our overtly talented sales teams who I can proudly say understand and appreciate what Sales is all about.

I made it a point to keep sales and marketing under my direct visibility since I strongly believe Sales to be a coherent part of any business and every savvy entrepreneur must master its tips and tricks to be successful in his/her venture.

Concluding words – I dedicate this post to my favorite employee Subeer who is actively helping me with our Sales. But sometimes I get the feeling that he feels he is not doing much of a “worthy” job.

He is not aware of this, but he is one of most sought after employees and truly an asset to me.  I can train 10 coders but to generate sales intelligence in someone is very difficult. I wrote this post putting in days of thoughts recalling all those earlier days, since I strongly believe Sales is not in any way a worthless job and a salesman is by no means a worthless creature.

Sales is an Art, not a skill which can be developed with run of the mill training. It has enough power to make or break an entire lifetime of a business.  Don’t you think it’s time we treat sales people with the respect they deserve! – Sumit Ghosh

Here at Globussoft, we seek genuine techmaniacs!

So, if you are fresher dreaming of whipping up some cool software, please visit our campus with a copy of your -
1. UPDATED resume.

2. Final Year Project with code and documentation.

We will ask you to setup the project in our test labs and do a run through for us. Most candidates get rejected at this phase since they have bought their final year project from somewhere or merely copy pasted some body else’s existing project.

We ask you to explain your involvement during various stages of the project development, the challenges you faced and your overall participation will be evaluated based on your responsiveness. Hence unless  you are genuinely prepared, you are going to find it a tough round to get past.

3. An algorithmic test – We ask you to code 5 programs in our campus.

4. HR round – Last and Final round to see if you are really employable

Please read about Globussoft before coming for this round…

Our business has doubled in last 2 years from 25000$ in first year as revenues to $65,000 in gross revenues in the fiscal 2010. (Source – Software Technology Parks of India – Annual Reports 2009-2010).

Our team strength has quadrupled from a 5 man team in 2007 to a 30 man team in 2010 in bhilai. All in all we are growing superbly fast and we need extremely talented souls to work with us and take part in what they do best.

To be a part of this fastest growing IT firm in Central India we look forward to have following qualities in you.

1. Be a motivated self starter.
2. Be a self learner and a fast learner, we need the fastest to be the fastest in this planet.
3. You should love what you want to do! (3 Idiots , Aamir? Does it ring a bell, if not go watch 3I again), for those you just hate coding, Iam sorry this is not a Good place to work
..
..
And yada yada …

Life @ Globussoft is awesome with weekly cricket matches on Saturdays,quarterly outings and an Annual Picnic. Work timings are flexible since we need to accommodate the whole world as our customer base. Infact to be true Globussoft never sleeps and the Sun never sets for us too

All in all its a fantastic start up to work for , be it a fresher or be it an experienced pro in some cutting edge technology.

Read along following sections based on your professional level.

Hiring for Freshers @ Globussoft

Hiring for experienced professionals @ Globussoft

To all those who know me and have made some assumptions by now -

You all are wrong because -

1. No I was not ultra busy @ Globussoft cooking up code or marketing my company online , or generating leads for my business (as a lot of my friends were thinking) , Just so that you know I used to do the same amount of work earlier when I used to regularly update this blog as well, so being ultra busy is definitively not the reason.

2. I lost interest in “whats latest in technology” and hence I had nothing to write ? Lol, If you really know me, Can this ever happen in my life until Iam dead ?? ha ha, not a good reason again.

3. Probably I tried to follow path of the latest emerging trend of bloggers blogging shit everywhere who even don’t know what they are writing about and now since I feel enough is enough lets gets back to business and leave this shitty blogging business . It was just a trend in time, since every one in my (community, business, peer-group has his blog , I should also have a blog and write some shit in it and read it multifarious time and giggle lol.

For all those who thought this, probably a lot of my competitors, its a real shame that you failed to estimate my flair for writing mates…

Keep looking there is lot more to come…

PS: Some one whom I Admire a lot said that I sound rude and bold in this post

Yeah , she is partly correct since I forgot to add the fun element….

So friends what was something which stopped me from writing all these months other than the most obvious reasons which you might have been thinking.

Well you will laugh to death once I tell you. It was my BAD ASS – WEB HOSTER

Yeah I was using the services some some bad ass indian hosting company called as pradiphosting, he is some bong from west bengal and is such a bad ass. There is no way you can reach him, no phone calls, no address nothing. Only way I can contact him was email and Iam on his mercy whenever he feels like he can answer me , there was no professionalism as such , most of the times my blog was down, sometimes it went down while I was composing a new post.

All this made me so much frustrated that I gave up writing up new posts and start waiting when will this hosting cycle end and I will shift my blog to some new host with better service and timely support.

Now the fun part starts here -

I waited for almost almost 5 months for the billing period of pradiphosting to end without being wise enough to transfer my domain to a different provider.

After 5 months when my hosting expired,I was bombed. I had no way to get my blog back

I sent tons to mails to this pradip hosting guy but he never responded.

Such a big fool Iam, I was made to pay the renewal fees again to pradiphosting and also to the new hoster where I wanted to move the blog.

So I paid double the hosting fees just to save my love, Technomlounge Anything for you my love!

So finally I could login to my cpanel, take backup of everything and move my domain to a new control panel.

Currently my blog resides on one of India’s best hoster’s servers, call me if you want to know and Iam a damn happy customer

Tried to uninstall the existing installtion but in vain. Finally something from Microsoft came to my rescue.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb968856.aspx

It an automated uninstall tool, works in silent mode and uninstalls Visual Studio peacefully.

Was a real life saver for me!

Hope all those reading this blog will also find it useful.

Now Campus Duniya has grown from an infant baby to a true social networking beast.  Iam pretty sure it will trigger another social revolution among the campus going students of India,by the appeal and innvoation thats prevailing within it.

It has now become a true social platfrom for all campus goers to make it a social UGC powered site.

And – Campus Duniya was born!

CampusDuniya will provide all college goers an oppurtunity to connect with each other and share ideas,learnings and add value to the indian student community on a whole.

Do check it out and register yourself today!

I didn’t get a chance to see a lot of things since we were there for only some hours. But we visited the infamous bridge building competetion and  some demonstrations in SOM Foyer.

There were many sponsors as usual, but one of them DirectI really drew my attention. They had the maximum buzz in their stall. They were asking some programming questions to students and students were very eager to answer those and win some cool T-shirts.

No wonder I won 2 T shirts and Mohit won one.

Finally as a memorabilia , we bought the Techfest T-Shirt and left for home.

After seeing my blog, a lot of people ask me how to create one, although creating a blog is not rocket science but still I see that a lot of people are ignorant about it. Even some of my techie friends from TCS, INFY etc are ignorant about it. It’s not a crime though, but off course Ignorance to Technology is no bliss according to me.

I have just highlighted some simple ways by which you can get your own blog setup and running by following some simple steps. Read On….

The best and easiest way is to create a free account at blogger.com,wordpress.com, or weebly.com by signing up with them, they allow you to select a nice template for your blog as well and within 5 minutes you are done!

You can also do a Google search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=create+a+free+blog

And find a list of other free blog hosting sites.

Steps to create a blog using Blogger.com

1. Browse to the Blogger.com home page.

Blogger.com Home Page

2. If you have a Google Account , you can use it straight away or else you will have to sign up for a google account. If you use any of google services like Gmail, Orkut etc then you already have a google account.

You can create a Google account like this -

Register and Create a Google Account.

3. Since I already have a Google account , I will use the same -

Sign In to Blogger Using your Google Account.

4. Then you need to put in your display name and accept their terms and conditions.

Put in Your Display Name and Accept the terms and conditions.

5.Then you will have to give a name to your blog.

Give a name to your Blog

6. Select a Template which best suits your blog’s theme

Choose a Blog Template

7. Make a Blog Post

Create a Blog Post

8. Voila!!! Your Blog is ready ……….

Your Blog is ready!!

This is what most of the newbies and non techies do to create their blogs and mark there on-line presence.

However if you are a Techno-Moron like me, who feel its below their dignity to follow such a straight path, and want to put in some unnecessary grey matter to do things which are already done. I have outlined a method for you as well. This method is adopted by professional bloggers around the Globe , who want to create their identity in there blogosphere.

The first thing that you need to do is to select a blogging platform to create your blog. There are many out of the box blogging platforms which I evaluated like. I have posted a separate post on those evaluations.

1. WordPress
2. TextPattern
3. Movabletype
4. Serendipity
5. Lifetype
6. Flatpress
7. Wheatblog
8. Sblog
9. Eggblog
10. Loudblog
11. Expression Engine
12. Joomla’s Blog Module
13. Blogengine.Net

This is not an ordered list but whatever came randomly to my mind I just added one after other. Read my other post of Blogging Platforms to know my reviews about these.

The best one which I recommend to create your own personal/professional blog is word press. You can download a copy from wordpress.org

Upload all the files to your root folder using an ftp client, in Linux hosts with helm control panel its public_html folder.

Follow the installation instructions and you are done.

The movie is about a 18 year old slum dweller Jamal Khan (Dev Patel) from mumbai, who also works as a chai wala in a call center. The story is brilliantly woven across his entire life, starting from his childhood when he and his elder brother have to leave home after a riot kills their mother , his falling in love with childwood sweetheart Latika , losing her in between and again getting her back.

The movie starts with Jamal Malik in lockup with a hawaldaar who slaps him thinking that he has cheated to win the game show. He lands up himself to the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, which is the Indian version of Who wants to be a Millionaire and is hosted by Anil Kapoor. He has made it to the final question , but is accused of cheating by the host.

The story starts quite interestingly with his 3rd degree police torture in a lockup by Srinivas.(played by Sourabh Shukla).Those who used to watch Tehkikaat will remember him as GOPI Takla. In the lockups he is questioned by police COP , played by Irfan Khan, another noted bollywood actor.

The interrogation leads him to go for flash back to his life. He tells the inspector how he and his brother grew up and how each instance in his life gave him keys to the answers in the game show. Its starts with the first question about Amitabh Bachaan and he goes to a flash back where as a kid, he used to play cricket at the airport grounds, and ran to life from the policemen chasing him.And that he has to dive to a pool of human excreta to take autograph from Amitabh Bacchan who happened to visit their slum one day.

He has to run away from his slum for the anti muslim riots which killed his mother, it was here that he saw a child pianted in all blue who imitated lord Rama and he rememered the answer to the second question in the show.

He , his brother Salim and Latika whom they met in the riots, both dwelled together in trash heaps , collecting trash. One fine day, Living on the trash heaps, they are discovered by Maman, a gangster who runs an orphanage and then uses the children to beg and bring in money. Salim is groomed to become a part of Maman’s operation, he used to act a sub master to one of Maman’s men,later he is tasked to bring Jamal so he can be blinded to improve his income potential as a blind singer. Salim rebels against Maman to protect his brother, and the three children try to escape, but only Salim and Jamal are successful. Latika is re-captured by Maman’s organization and raised as a culturally talented prostitute whose virginity will fetch a high price.

The brothers eke out a living, traveling on top of trains, selling goods, pretending to be tour guides at the Taj Mahal, and pickpocketing. Jamal eventually insists that they return to Mumbai since he wishes to locate Latika. When he finds her working as a dancer in a brothel, the brothers attempt to rescue her, but Maman intrudes, and in the resulting conflict Salim draws a gun and kills Maman. Salim then uses the fact that he killed Maman to obtain a job with Javed, a rival crime lord. Salim claims Latika as his own, and when Jamal protests, Salim threatens to kill him and Latika intervenes, accepting her fate with Salim.

Years later, Jamal is working as an assistant in a call center, serving tea to the employees. When he is asked to cover for a co-worker for a couple of minutes, he searches the database for Salim and Latika. He gets in touch with Salim, who has become a high-ranking lieutenant in Javed’s organization. Salim invites Jamal to live with him and, after following Salim to Javed’s house, he sees Latika (played by Freida Pinto) living there. He talks his way in as the new dishwasher and tries to convince Latika to leave. She rebukes his advances, but he promises to be at the train station every day at 5 p.m. One day Latika attempts to rendezvous with him, but is recaptured by Javed’s men and Salim. One slashes her cheek with a knife, scarring her.

Jamal again loses contact with Latika when Javed moves to another home. In another attempt to find Latika, Jamal tries out for the game show because he knows that she will be watching. He makes it to the final question, despite the hostile attitude of the host who feeds Jamal an incorrect answer during a break. At the end of the episode’s taping, Jamal has one question left to win 20 million rupees and is taken into police custody, where he is tortured as the police attempt to learn how Jamal, a simple slumdog, could know the answers to so many questions. After Jamal tells his whole story, explaining how his life experiences coincidentally enabled him to know the answer to each question, the police inspector calls his explanation “bizarrely plausible” and allows Jamal to return to the show for the final question. At Javed’s safehouse, Latika watches the news coverage of Jamal’s miraculous run on the show. Salim gives Latika the keys to his car and his phone and urges her to run away. When Jamal uses his Phone-A-Friend lifeline to call Salim, Latika answers his phone and they reconnect. She does not know the answer to the final question either, but believing that “it is written”, Jamal guesses the correct answer (Aramis) to the question of the one Musketeer whose name they never learned, and wins the grand prize. Simultaneously, Salim is discovered to have helped Latika escape and allows himself to be killed in a bathtub full of money after shooting and killing Javed.

Later that night, Jamal and Latika meet at the train station, and finally share a kiss. The closing credits then play with a Bollywood-style musical number.

Depictions

I like the way Boyle(the Director), has depicted Jamal’s life. The way that his becoming  a millionaire was wriiten by God for Jamal. The way Anil Kapoor fed him a wrong answer but still he could make out by seeing in the eyes of Anil and got the answer right.

The most interesting part was Latika’s role in his life, it was written that they shall meet and hence even after loosing her twice he was finally able to get her back in his life.

Music and Scores

A. R Rehman has given music in the movie and the songs show a typical rehman flavour of class and elegance, all the songs are simply too great and will make you listen to them again and again. I like the song O…Saya performed by A.R Rehman himself as the title track of the movie.

To be different , you have to dare to be different.

A lot of my friends think , that leaving TCS in such gloomy economic times is foolishness. This is for them

Ram was giving final touches to this 2 chat room based flash project. I asked him to create a custom flv player for me and he did it within 15 minutes, I was quite impressed by the way he was grown competent in actionscript on his own.

Evening saw me taking a training session for some new trainees with Globussoft. They were very excited to have me address them.

Globussians were very excited to know that finally Iam going to leave TCS and join Globussoft fulltime from this february, I could see those expectations and faith in their Glittering eyes.

The previous year has been very tough for Globussoft , I was out and away for almost whole of the year and as it happens even with world’s strongest companies, in absense of efficient leadership, all deafs and dumbs start singing. Something similar happened here, although we suffered with this symptom for some time, but things came in control during the VT session.

Globussoft saw all ups and down it can and finally stablized a bit in the last months of the year. However we saw some immense losses in terms of man power, as some trained man power whom I had trained personally with my personal efforts left Globussoft to join its potential competetors(Although I dont consider them as any competetor as it needs a lot of technical expertise,experience and thought leadership to compete with Sumit Ghosh). The only thing which struck me was that they weren’t able to have sustained confidence and faith on me like their peers in Globussoft.

Any ways, I wish them a very best of luck for there future, it has happened in past with people who have left Globussoft in rush have felt guilty about their decision later.

It was one of my new years resolution to start a blog. So finally I ordered a domain for me, installed wordpress on it, selected a nice theme and bingo!, Iam done. It took me 3 hours to setup everything and now Iam ready to blog.

This is my second post where I welcome all my users to my blog. You will get to know more about myself, more about technology which interests me and more about things I like to do.

I will primarily focus on technology than writing about myself.

So lets get started….