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Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan is a physician by training, a public servant by choice, and a democrat by conviction. He joined the IAS in 1980. During his 16 years of public service in various capacities, he had many accomplishments to his credit. He is still remembered fondly by the people of the districts he once worked for. In spite of an impressive personal achievement, Dr. JP’s experience in government convinced him that faulty governance process is the biggest hurdle in India’s path of progress.

Gone are the good old days of DD News when the entire day's news were covered in about half an hour. Now is the period of 24-hour news channels. And along with it, gone are the days when news actually was something important. The following few instances really make me wonder whether what I'm watching are news channels or entertainment channels:

Ever wondered how an HR Manager could write a love letter to his girlfriend? Here it goes ...

To, My Dear Darling
Sub: Offer of love!

Dearest Ms Maya,

I am very happy to inform you that I have fallen in Love with you since the 14th of October (Saturday). With reference to the meeting held between us on the 13th of Oct. at 1500hrs, I would like to present myself as a prospective lover. Our love affair would be on probation for a period of three months and depending on compatibility, would be made permanent.

I had worked as a consultant during the past 5 months for a start-up Synovel which has been co-founded by my seniors. These guys have been doing some great work in the collaboration domain and their product Spicebird is definitely worth checking out. Below is the mail which I had sent an hour back upon reaching the end of my contract.

From: Rahul
To: Ashok, Sivakrishna, Prasad, Sunil
Subject: RE: Feedback

And my role at Synovel concludes :).

Grandmother was pretending to be lost in prayer, but her prayer-beads were spinning at top speed. That meant she was either excited or upset. Mother put the receiver down. "Some American girl in his office, she's coming to stay with us for a week." She sounded as if she had a deep foreboding.

While I was just settling down this morning to finish "The Google Story", I received a mail from my current domain registrar "Mitsu.in" reminding me reg. the renewal of my domain "amaram.name". And as always, I ended up spending a few hours reviewing the current domains and choosing what I felt was the best :).

Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General motors!!!!

An Interesting Story

Never underestimate your Customers' Complaint, no matter how funny it might seem!

This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive.

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:

Pidgin stores the passwords of the accounts in plain text in a xml file (i.e. if you have enabled the "save password" option for the accounts). Anyone who can get read access to this xml file (accounts.xml) will know the passwords of all the accounts for which you have chosen to save the password.