My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

This is the link to a good blog from my friend, Umashree , a prolific writer, poet, a multi faceted personality in a nut shell. http://umasreeraghunath.blogspot.com/2010/09/ayodhya-verdict-babri-masjid-vs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UmasreeRaghunath+%28Umasree+Raghunath%29

I got married into a very conservative family which hails from one of the villages on the banks of Cauvery.  Our family had good land holdings which they were cultivating on their own + giving it for lease to people.  Over the years, I have seen that somehow or other, we have been only loosing our money and it is not that much profitable.  Our family has been growing Sugarcane, banana and Paddy.  Each one had its own story about profitability.  Even today India weather spins the fortune wheel so your can have a fortune or deep loss.  The cost of cultivation has been going up, but the remuneration for the land owners is not that every attractive in this traditional method though nowadays I see a lot of machinery being used in cutting, thrashing, etc in the village sides. So anything that brings a profit for the farmers always used to be hearting for me, so when I got this link, I wanted to share it with my readers so that the word can spread as much a...

In today's Hindu, there in the center page are 2 particles one next to the other about Pakistan.  The first one is about an constructive activity and the next one is about the destructive activity.  What a contrast. The constructive activity is all about an Pakistan Solider  Mr Muhammad Yousuf Jamil, a Lance Naik in Pakistani Army planting 20,101 saplings in 24 hours to enter into  Guinness World Record.  What a news it is especially an Army solider doing this is more heartening. the other news items is " CIA intensifies drone strikes within Pakistan". So we see good and bad together at the same page side by side. Happy reading

ITSME  association invites you to a breakfast meeting for “ Utilizing the power of Social Media" on October 6th at 8.30 am at Hotel Savera . The target audience for this program will be CxO and all those involved in the sales & Marketing functions in your company. About the Program : That social media has caught on with a large segment of today's marketplace. A 2010 Nielsen study in the U.S. found that it now occupies roughly 25% of online activities--and that's nearly double from just a year ago. So it's fair to say that this is an activity that's already being embraced by your existing customers as well as people with whom you'd like to do business. Your challenge, therefore, is to find ways to make social media part of your client-attraction system. Learn from the Business leader who has successfully utilizing this forum for building up his business – Mr Dorai Thodla, CEO, iMorph Inc – a Serial Entrepreneur with about 40 years of experience in t...

This post is all about me....  No dont get me wrong....  It is not about me personally, but about a woman next door  going on to become a Role model for many a people in terms of Entrepreneurship.   Hindu has featured a article about this in their Sunday supplement Down Town and here is the link: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/article796019.ece Happy reading.

This is a belated post, but wanted to write the good thing about India and the spirit of Nationality that is in everyone.  while we had been honest and exposed the way things were moving around commonwealth games getting criticized that we dont have the Indianess in ourselves, see what has happened. Many a corporate house has come forward - Sahara Group, GMR group and ITC and others in the hospitality sector - putting men, machine and their Nationality out so that things are getting better for the athletes to land up in New Delhi. My hearty thanks to all these people to Make India Stand up with Pride Sarada

While we are nearing the hosting of the Commonwealth Games, I am really saddened and ashamed at the kind of scandals and shoddy work that is being brought to limelight with each passing day. My India is a growing Super power capable of great things and has taken a very great stride in terms of its infrastructure building throughout this nation. Despite all these, to get these kind of news items and is really demeaning for every Indian. Mistakes happen everywhere and if we find that there has been problems lets acknowledge it and make it up such that the visiting participants and these people go back to their country with having experienced the best of India, the India, I am very very proud of it for its culture, for its people, for its capability and expertise. This event has been so much in the news for all wrong reason in the recent past - whether it was the unearthing of a the committee having paid 150,000 pounds Sterling to a unknown company in London, the leaking roofs or the co...

These are some of the abstract from the wikipedia  and also the official site about the commonwealth games.   The 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 19th Commonwealth Games,  is  scheduled to be held in Delhi between 3 October and 14 October 2010.   The games will be the largest multi-sport event conducted to date in Delhi and India generally, which has previously hosted the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi. It will also be the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India and the second time the event has been held in Asia (after 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).   India won the bid to host the event against Ontario, Canada. by a margin of 46 votes to 22, confirming India's first successful bid for the Games, with the bid motto of  New Frontiers and Friendships. India has promised that it would provide US$100,000 to each participating...

This time I am pasting the invite from the eWIT (empowering Women in IT) regarding the upcoming program on the Women that we want to be part of the IT landscape from the other than metros and rural areas. Greetings! It gives us great pleasure to inform that Empowering Women in IT (eWIT) and Computer Society of India (CSI) are jointly conducting a one day event. We are happy to extend you an invitation! Date: Friday, 24th September 2010 Time: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Venue: Muthaian Auditorium, Anna University , Chennai Theme : Role of Stakeholders in Increasing the Share and Sustainability of Women from Tier-2, Tier-3 and Rural Areas in IT/ITES Industry This is a FREE event. The seats are limited so we request you to please confirm your participation on or before 22 nd September by replying to this mail. For More Information / Confirmation  email: admin@ewit.co.in Thank you, Sincerely, Vijayalakshmi Rao President – eWIT Director - Scope eknowledge Cen...

Here I am quoting the leading Newspaper Hindu on its article which talks about an accident http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/16/stories/2010091657830100.htm So what is that's different here.  Accidents are caused by all - so why should the paper in its headline itself say that a woman driver caused an accident.  Aren't there 22year olds from the other gender cause accidents.   this is what I was talking about when I wrote about the perceptions about Woman.

i am reproducing the invite for the members for our AGM ITSME/3rdAGM /2010 September 1st, 2010. NOTICE FOR THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION Notice is hereby given that the Third Annual General Meeting of the members of the ITSME Association will be held on wednesday, the 22nd September, 2010 at 1900 hrs at Hotel Savera, 146, Dr.Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai – 4 to transact the following business :- ORDINARY BUSINESS a) To receive and pass the Annual Report and Audited Accounts of the Council for the financial year 2009-10. b) To appoint the Auditors to audit the Accounts of the Council for the financial year 2010-11 and to fix their remuneration. Members are requested to kindly make it convenient to attend the Annual General Body Meeting and also join us for the Dinner thereafter, at the same venue. Mythili Parthasarathy Secretary Chennai

On Sunday, I was called for the Prize distribution function arranged by Columbia Kannan Trust and Jayadhaarini Trust for the youngsters who had participated in Classical music/semi classical music light music  under vocal and instruments  category in the competition held on 5th and 12th of September Here again, I went with the question - what a IT company head has to do with Music competition.  Everyone in my family was looking at me with  wide eyes when I told them where I am going.  I told them, to enjoy a movie, you dont need to be a movie maker so to enjoy music you dont need to be necessarily a singer and also they are calling me to a function where I dont need to sing, but to distribute the prizes to the winners. I came to know of these trusts only recently. Columbia Kannan Trust is a very young trust just one year old instituted in memory of Late S Kannan ,  who is famously known as columbia kannan who has served his life with music an...

On Saturday, I had gone over to Captain TV, one of the private channels started quite recently by Actor turned Politician Vijayakanth in Tamil Nadu.  I had been invited to their studios to do be in their Success Stories called Sigaram Tottavar - meaning those who have reached the Summit.  ( while I feel that I am yet to reach Mt Everest in terms of my professional career, I do admit that in my own rights there is something I have achieved in this second innings of mine.  Having a started a Software Training industry at a mature age of 36ys and also after years of being just a homemaker - with no financial, technical and entrepreneurial background and out of which have spawned this living entity called Computers International and sustaining it against all odds is quite an achievement) Oh No, I am drifting from what I was trying to write, this post is not about me - but about what I observed in Captain TV was astonishing.  It is just a 6 months old entity an...

This part is about the State Government of Tamil Nadu.  In India, when a patient gets admitted to the hospital, more than the worry about the state of health of the patient, the relatives worry about the amount that will be needed for the treatment ( Of course, we dont have the worry about how much will my insurance cover, and beyond which how do I treat - here it is about how we manage to get the money for the treatment from our various sources, as most often the medical insurance may or may not be there) The next biggest worry  is about how to get the food that needs to be given to the patient and also how the people who are staying along with the patient get their food.  Many hospital nowadays provide in-patient food, but to make horlicks or hot water - the helpers have to run to tea shops nearby or make sure that it is brought from home. Now I am proud that the Government has seen this need to be an area to be addressed and opened up the community kitchen in couple ...

Here I am once again. There were a lot of things that I wanted to write about everyday, but couldn't find time to blog. So once again, I am starting again. This time, there are couple of news items about which I wanted to write about. First is about The Federal Government revoking its permission given to Vedanta Mining company that was mining bauxite from the tribal areas of Orissa. This issue was highlighted as something akin to Indian Avatar happening where the Hill which is very sacred to the people is going to be mined for commercial exploitation. See my earlier post on this story. Now I giving the extract from Hindu about the press conference statement made by the company where it claims that the State Government has promised the company to provide alternate site and that Supreme court has not found anything wrong with the mined area. Lets see what happens next as the Orissa Chief Minister has said the same day that he hopes there was no political decision that was made by...

Quite recently I was on travel along with my husband. Since I travel more than my husband, I have a Gold membership card with few airlines and hotel chains, while in most cases, my husband either had a silver card or no membership at all, as we travel to different destinations most of the time. Everywhere I went,  whether it was US or India or any country for that matter, the person in the front office will always assume that he is the person who is the Gold card status holder and I am his companion.  I had an hearty laugh in Vancouver, on the day we were flying to Washington through Seattle from that airport.  From Vancouver to Seattle it is a small aircraft and so both our class of travel was same.  But from Seattle to Washington, mine was first class and his was economy class.  The airline representative was telling me that I don't know how a silver card holder has got an first class upgrade while a gold card holder is travelling in economy at the same ...