My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Here is an invite for the next program for ewit (empowering women in IT). What a wonderful topic it is. eWIT invites you to a networking event! Date: 30 th September 2009 Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Venue: Benz Park Hotel No. 62, Thirumalaipillai Road, T. Nagar Chennai, Chennai - 600017 Get Directions 044 28159999 Topic : ‘Making Relationships Work' More About The Topic Have you cried at work because your boss was unhappy with your work? Do you feel that your co-workers are hostile towards you? Do you feel respected at work? Are your ideas heard at work place? Do you find that your relationship at home is weakening because you spend a lot of time at work? Do you find it difficult to distinguish and identify when a 'professional relationship' at work starts and when it gets 'personal'? Making Relationships work. Women are extremely good at people skills, especially understanding/empathising with others and even counselling . Yet, they run into various problems and ar

The other day when reading the news paper about the Chidambaram Temple and its administrative takeover by HR & CE department - I thought about what secularism means. On searching the google - I found this explanation in wiki Secularism is the concept that government or other entities should exist separately from religion and/or religious beliefs. In one sense, secularism may assert the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, and freedom from the government imposition of religion upon the people, within a state that is neutral on matters of belief, and gives no state privileges or subsidies to religions. In another sense, it refers to the view that human activities and decisions, especially political ones, should be based on evidence and fact unbiased by religious influence. In its most prominent form, secularism is critical of religious orthodoxy and asserts that religion impedes human progress because of its focus on superstition and dogma rather than on reason

so much has been talked about the economy class travel by flight, train etc by our politicians. - But my question is what is there to talk about at all. When there are other issues that are more critical for the country, you and me - why should this take all the limelight. If these people are going by Economy class, it is good and need of the hour and that's that. Why create a publicity out of it. Is the intention for these people to travel by economy class to reduce cost or to invoke publicity. If it is the first one, then why should they let it be known to the press/public and get portrayed as martyrs " sacrificing personal comfort" for the sake of the country. It is the media that needs to be blamed. If they leave all such small things from getting so much media attention and take up critical issues - they can focus on say a particular locality in the country and talk about what is good that is happening and what is not happening, etc, and ask people to

My rotary club, Rotary Club of Chennai thiruvanmiyur is organizing a one day workshop on " Profitability through Innovation & Creativity " on 25 th September Friday at The Accord Metropolitan TNagar Chennai. This workshop is being done by Dr Rekha Shetty , the Corporate Director, who is the MD of Farstar Distribution Network, a unique consultancy company devoted exclusively to innovation and creativity under the brand name Mindpower . She has an Ph .D from Madras University on the subject of Innovation. This seminar is for the Line Managers and HR managers who are holding responsible positions with deliverable in strategic initiatives to create an innovative culture conducive to talent growth. the workshop aims Demystify innovation & creativity at breaking through the barrier to innovation and creativity convert ideas into profit find new business opportunities & stimulating ideas from employees Make it happen - Maximise the chances of success Susta

I promised myself that I would write about America and my impressions while on travel, but probably, I am getting old and travel schedules are catching up with me that I couldn't honour my promise. Here I am in India, got bogged down with routines and trying to cope up with the day to day work... Anyway breaking free of the shackles, I am back to this blog write up. I wanted to share the funny coaching schools that have sprung up in US, atleast one in particular, about which I read about in Newspaper. There is this school which is for the first timers - guess what... The first timers to the jail and lock up. Nowadays with the white collar crimes increasing this school teaches or takes the enrolled students through - what is jail, what to expect out of it, how to be prepared for the hard life, the dos and donts, etc. As soon as I saw this newspaper article, I burst out laughing forgetting for a moment that I was in the airlines lounge with other passengers nearby. Look where the wor