My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

I am very emotional at this particular moment, after having seen the movie Taare Zameen Par - which literally means " the Stars in the Land ". This movie is all about children with dyslexia and how even the parents aren't in a position to understand them. My niece works in a school for such children and she used to share how these children are very normal and are always able to outperform the normal children, with some initial help in overcoming their learning shortcoming. This movie is a brilliant portrayal of such a thing. Every aspect about this film is so superb and fine - whether it is casting, or acting or direction, or the speed of the story play. No wonder it has won the top national awards. Both Aamir Khan who takes the hand as a teacher to understand the student's problem and tries to help him cope up and bring out the best in him, & Darsheel Safary who plays the 8 year old boy are fantastic. Also Walt Disney Company has bought the video righ...

Here are the details of the October month program from the ITSME Association - The interactive session on “ Risk Mitigation in a Volatile Global economy”. Date: October 3, 2008 at 5.30 pm Venue : Hotel Savera, Chennai Program Agenda 5.30 - 6.00 Networking and High Tea 6.00 - 6.10 Welcome address – Mr Sankaran Raghunathan President ITSME Association 6.10 - 6.40 Trends in FE Market – Mr. Arun Chengalaveetil - Asst. Vice President Head Trade and Foreign Exchange, ABN Amro, Tamil Nadu . 6.40 - 7.10 A perspective on The Global Economic Situation – Mr Gautam Rao , Managing Director, Business Risk & Hedge Management Strategies Pvt Ltd 7.10 - 7.30 Q & A 7.30 7.35 Vote of Thanks We would definitely encourage you to make the best use of this event. This event comes with an attractive gate ...

The recent crashes of very big firms which were looking so solid just few days ago should be a wake up call for all of us to just time off and do a introspection, whatever industry you are in and what ever post you hold. But why? Nothing happens suddenly, it is just the frog in the water being boiled syndrome, where till the last minute the frog doesn't realise that it is in hot water since it is in its comfort zone, it lives happily and when it is too late only, it realizes that its life is coming to an end. Same way, most of us are getting into a comfort zone and and never bother to understand the dangerous time we are in and it becomes too late for many of us. Take for eg all the layoff that's is happening. How many of them would have saved money for the rainy day, I believe it will be very few. While people in IT industry get a good salary, way beyond what many of their peers get when they are in other industries, these people spend all their money or should I sa...

On Sunday I saw the TV Program by Vishu called the ‘ Makkal Arangam (meaning where people gather together to discuss various things). He had earlier successfully launched the Aratai arangam (it means the place where people gather to gossip, discuss, etc). What I like about his reality show are as follows: 1. His concept made lot of people to come out and speak with courage conviction and brings to limelight very ordinary people with good oratory skills in unexpected part of the country/world. 2. The best part of the show is ‘ his public show of emotion’. He proved to the world that getting emotional is not a weakness but a strength. 3. Showing the needy and thereby enabling philanthropists to support such needy people is one other best things that happens on the show. 4. Many of the common man sufferings have come to lime light 5. He also showcases the achievement of ordinary people. 6. There is a public awareness campaign about some topic or other – this time it was the follow up...

After a long time I have come to my favourite topic - Entrepreneurship . So this time around you are going to meet a very very successful Entrepreneur. What a great personality. Like the title says - He is one of the most silent man with no airs being exhibited, but his achievements are great. For me success is not a measure of numbers, but it is much more than getting up even when you have gone down. So not only by numbers, but also raising like Phoenix makes this person a very Great person. I am talking about none other than Mohan Subramaniam of Kumaran Software . His company is one of those companies which are poised for great growth in the coming years. But for all this, you cannot find more simple a person than him. I really have to thank the ITSME forum for bringing me close to him. Mohan's vision is to transform Kumaran into a 10,000 employee Innovative Solution Providing Software Development Company creating value for its employees and customers. Starting out as a Se...

Great Lakes Human Resource Conclave, 2008 Great Lakes Institute of Management takes pleasure to inform about organizing the Great Lakes Human Resource Conclave on Tuesday, the 2nd of September 2008 at Hotel Le Meridien, Chennai. PROGRAMME 0900 – 1000 Hrs Registration 1000 – 1120 Hrs Inaugural Session 1000 – 1020 Hrs Welcome Address Dr. Bala V. Balachandran 1020 – 1050 Hrs Address by the Chief Guest Mr. Prem Chand Gupta 1050 – 1120 Hrs Address by the Chief Guest Dr. T. V. Rao 1120 – 1135 Hrs Tea / Coffee Break 1135 – 1200 Hrs Address by Guest of Honor Mr. Pranab Baruah - Tackling talent acquisition challenges in spiraling inflationary times. 1205 – 1405 Hrs Session 1 Theme: Integration of Corporate cultures and People Management post-merger 1205 – 1230 Hrs Session Chair Address Mr. Chandra Sekaran - Integration of Corporate cultures and People Management post-merger 1230 – 1250 Hrs Keynote Address Dr. Chandrasekhar Sripada - A consulting perspective on managing workplace diversity po...

Government Museum, Chennai is a multi-purpose State Government Museum located in Egmore , which is the heart of the city, spreading to an area of 16.25 acres of land. Six independent buildings in this Museum campus has 46 galleries. I have reproduced down below the history of the museum itself as it has an interesting past - what it being a place where the elite of the city met, to being a zoo, to an aquarium, then a library and finally the great grand museum. History of the museum The proposal for a museum in Madras was mooted by the Madras Literary Society in 1846 AD and Sir Henry Pottinger , the then Governor, obtained the sanction of the Court of Directors of the East India Company in London. In January 1851 AD, Dr. Edward Balfour, Medical Officer of the Governor's Body guard was appointed as the First Officer in charge of the Government Museum. The notification in the Fort St. George Gazetteer dated 29 th Aprtil 1851 AD contained the first announcement regarding the ope...