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Hope you all heard about the recent Obama move to bring back the ailing US economy back in track. Obama said that all US company’s who creates a job in Buffallo city instead of bangalore will get tax deductions. How great is that?

“We will stop letting American companies that create jobs overseas take deductions on their expenses when they do not pay any American taxes on their profits,” Obama said at White House announcing the international tax policy reform.

“We will use the savings to give tax cuts to companies that are investing in research and development here at home so that we can jump start job creation, foster innovation, and enhance America’s competitiveness,” Obama said.

What will be the effect of this idea on outsourcing to countries like India,China,Philipines etc? Is this an anti-outsourcing phenomenon? is america playing agianst globalisation? or is this just a strategy to increase the american reveneue or create new jobs inside america for a while?

Well literally 100’s of questions can arise on an Indian’s mind, especially on the young IT pros. I will share my thoughts below.

Taking biggies first, TCS,INFOSYS & WIPRO – what’s their stand? I dont think obama’s move is going to make any effect on these companies and its operations other than the setback they are facing now due to bad economic conditions. Reason is for years they have evolved & evolved in their process and operations to become IT giants! Means they have setup their own infrastructure,HR potentials,talent pools, knowledge resources etc etc which is not available in America right now. If any American Fortune 500 wanna execute some IT project, they must depend on these biggies or an Indian IT company. So I hope Obama’s move has nothing to do with IT outsourcing!

Second reason is – American companies are not forced to PAY any additional Taxes for outsourcing their businesses. Only thing is the Tax deductions they enjoyed so far because of creating an outsourcing job is gonna end. I dont think American fortunes created outsourcing jobs because they can benefit a lot from “Tax Deductions”!

But I highly doubt this “Obama move” can cause significant problems in the BPO industry like call centre, data checkings, entries, etc etc where not highly skilled jobs are created. Many companies can transfer these jobs to Baffalo city from Bangalore without much over head, if they wanna do so! This is because BPO industry is backed by Soft Skills (which can be achieved by training) and not by Technical Skills like IT industry is backed by.

Let me know your thoughts as comments!

Look @ the pic below and enjoy yourself!

BSP Chief and UP Chief Minister Mayawati paid more than Rs. 26 crore for year 2007-08 to income tax department and she is at no. 20 in the list!. Reportedly, most of her income apparently comes from “gifts” from her supporters. Her income is estimated to be around Rs 75-80 crore.She is the highest income-tax payer among all politicians in India!   

You were knowing that? 

I hope the poor Indians have a hope if she becomes NEXT PM!-Shes able to donate “something” to the slums & poors!!….its not that difficult for the highest tax payer of the country…right?

Here comes another pool of talent! This time its a friend from United Kingdom and her wonderful photographs.  Just see the gallery and enlarge all images for a tougher analysis, say me which one you liked the most on the comments section of this blog.

I really really liked the second photograph named “Path of Sparrow” and the 4th one – a single leaf! really nice! So whats your opinion? I am sure you will love it!

Meet The Talent:

Well her name is Sana Suhail doing graduation in UK. You can meet her via Orkut , if you want to or express your criticism and ratings via comments of this blog.

You also have some talents to show through this blog?

Hi all,

Here comes my next post in Talent Showcase and this time its a video directed by my friend & old school mate Nithin. Please watch this video and you can comment about his direction skills.

A Love Story… like what? from SMU Campus TV on Vimeo.

Meet The Director:

Name: Nithin – You can meet him @ Orkut

My Comments: Appreciated work. Congrats! but you need to improve.

You also have some talents to show through this blog?

Hey dear ones,

The movie awards season is going out there! Ujala-Asianet film awards were over by last week, the Matrubumi awards is coming next week and now its time for one more award night? Here introducing for first time in Malayalam – Internet Movie Awards. Its first time a campaign is being conducted on the web for Malayalam cinema awards. As we all are a part of the web community, I thought you can also be a part of this award selection jurie by taking the poll. So here we go, Click the Image below to register your votes! For your info, phenomenal actor Mohanlal is leading as the best actor! Hurraay!…so start voting for your favourite movie and favourite stars.

Hi all,

Please go through these two posts first:

1. Peoples’s view about slumdog millionare as stated in Indian Express

2. My own post about the controversies going in name of Slumdog Millionare

If you dont wanna go through above links, the basic understanding is, there are a lot of people who says

“Slumdog Millionaire” casts India in a negative light with its depiction of poverty in Mumbai’s slums:”

Now watch the 3 pics below and say what you feel ????

Country is into a big controversy now, “Slumdog Millionare” controversy! Some people says its a great film, will win many awards (especially oscars) etc etc; while some people say’s Slumdog is just a crap film made by the west to spit their sarcasm on the Indian faces. This is something worth writing, I believe.

Well, as a movie based on a fiction novel “Q&A” by Vikas Swaroop (an Indian Strategeist on foreign affairs), I liked it. I liked it as a good movie, well written, well executed, well made music and some interesting performances especially by the kid who played “Jamal Malik” as a child, also as teen by Dev Patel.  Movie is well directed by English director Danny Boyle and has a well written screenplay by Simon Beufoy.

But I dont think this movie is worth for its 10 oscar nominations. Though this movies falls into a “good” category, its not sth great! A.R Rahman deserves one for music (its simply superb, I dunno much abt western music though!) and the rest all are okay okay types. I found the direction of hindhi film “Rang De Basanthi” and its plot more praiseworthy than Slumdog Millionare.

So the question is, is slumdog millionare just a spit of western sarcasm and arrogance ?

Amithab Bachan said like this:

http://bigb.bigadda.com/2009/01/25/day-276/

See the one from Arindam Choudary:

http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.com/2009/01/dont-see-slumdog-millionaire-it-sucks.html

Guys above say’s Slumdog people have not portrayed the “actual” India in this movie, which is vibrant, 5-star, with billionares and billionares!! or in short, Slumdog Millionare is just a western shit and a satisfaction of their racial dominancy feel.

On the other side, people like Irfan Khan, Anil Kapoor etc said, “Slumdog millionare speaks about facts in India, there is such a condition that exists”

Irfan Khan also said to CNN that “afterall its just a drama movie!” , well I agree with that 100%. Why so much noises on that?

We also can make one movie portraying the british “fancies” or the “funny” western life, if we want!!…lol!!

Fact is that India has 5 classes of people living here.

Taking a specimen of Mumbai, you will find

1. The low-end people (who lives in slums, one bedroom flats, one rooms etc)

2. The lower-middle class people ( who lives in flats with rent Rs.8000 and above)

3. The middle class people (who lives in the Rs. 15 to 20K range)

4. The upper middle class ( who lives in 30 to 40K range)

5. High Class people ( who lives in luxury)

Afterall the guys who produced this movie, directory Dany Boyle, actors Anil Kapoor,  Irfan Khan, musical maestro A.R. Rahman, writer Vikas Swaroop and most of the Slumdog Millionare crew represents the categoey “HIGH CLASS” who lives in luxury!

Now the ones who raised voice against the movie, Amithab Bachan and Arindam Choudary also represents the same.

Now only one question!!

are these guys willing to spend atleast 1% of their total income for the welfare of backward Indians?

Projecting out the Indian slum, producers of movie might have grabbed millions of dollars and will they spend atleast 1 million dollar ? or even a 100$ ??

The “Big” people are worried…some says there are slums…some says there are not!!…while the actual slums remains happy (with what they have and what they love)!!…they might not even know about such a crap going on around!

share your views!

Watch the photograph  and just think a bit on it! When it come to election campaigns BJP’s are a bit advanced all time. 5 years back during the last Loksaba elections too BJP’s were great in campaigns lead by Late.Pramod Mahajan! But I think web campaign is first in India by any political parties & BJP’s are the pioneers in this.

Why web campaign is important?

1. It shows the importance of WEB as a media in India. No.of internet users rises every year in India @ a rate of 30 to 40%. To make use of this, a campaign through web is necessary for anyone including political parties to advertisers! This is also a sign of the huge potential thats gonna come (alreasy exists!) in web advertising industry in India.

2. FACT that countrys 50% + of population is youth! WEB is the widely used media of the youth & it ranges from SNS to BLOGS to various other social medias!

3.Inspired from Barack Obamas campaign strategy which lead to his successful win – Obama campaigned wildly among the youth using SMS-es, blogs, SN-s, webs etc.

There might be plenty of other reasons! Share your views on this & how about the UPA govts strategy? What strategy thy should follow to win hearts of Indian youth!?

Have you heard of this intelligent women? well, Anjali menon is the director of “Manjadikuru” – a recently made feature film in malayalam which has won the awards

• Best Film of Malayalam – IIFK conducted @ Trivandrum
• Best Indian debut Director – Anjali Menon – IIFK

Go through WikiPedia if you want more about IIFK & Awards

I haven’t watched this film or know anything about this film yet! What I only know is an outline which I picked from her blog & is like

How many folks out there have grown up outside India and remember going back on holiday to our tiny hometowns? The annual vacation which would be marked clearly on those Indian calendars hanging on foreign walls. Weeks in advance the shopping would be done- a gift for the second cousin, sweets for the nephews, medicinal oils and balms for the older uncles, a scent spray for the new couple. And finally the day would come to set out for the home shores.

I was a Gulf kid and our vacations were always during the Middle eastern summers which wonderfully coincided with the monsoon showers of Kerala, India. There are a thousand things I remember about those times. Today I have moved back to India and am a filmmaker making my first feature film soon. The film “Manjadikuru” is about those very impressions. Like the lucky red seeds – they will remain little nuggets of memory that throb every time one smells wet earth or sees a touch-me-not flower or hears “Manjil virinja poove…”- a hit song from early 80s.

I came to know about Anjali Menon from TV (1 month before in a news channel) & today I happened to watch a talk show with this woman in MM TV. To be frank I got attracted to her observations,intelligence,view on her profession, view on cinemas,life etc. Well, the uniqueness that makes medias to boast off about Anjali is that shes a woman!! Its a great attempt that should be admitted & admired, compared to many other women who doesn’t even think of doing anything! (hmm!!..not all women actually!…there are ladies who makes their mark in this world & sometimes even a bolder mark than men!!)

There are only few people who gets to work on their dream or passion &  pursue what their heart desires! Anjali is one among that & I wish her all success for her future works! I am a serious admirer of Malayalam cinema, who wishes it to regain the quality of 80’s & 90’s and I hope Anjali will do her role in that process!

Film “Manjadikuru” is performed by Pritviraj, Murali & Thilakan (as i heard from MM News). I will review this movie here in my blog after watching it soon!

You can know more about Anjali in her blog: www.luckyredseeds.blogspot.com

I Googled a lot for her picture but failed to find one! Sorry!!