My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

This is just to let anyone who is interested in ITSME Forum to know about this month's meeting schedule. We are having our August month's meeting on 29th Tuesday at Hotel Pratap Plaza, Kodambakkam Chennai, at 5.00 pm. The agenda : 1. Update about the memorandum presentation about the extension of STPI scheme to the Central Minister for IT & Communication 2. Filing for IP rights and copyrights with reference to Software companies All are welcome. Sarada

For us Indian, anything Foreign should be excellent, while our Indian products and services will not be anything to compare against at all. What a wrong notion. Take for instance the air travel. yes because of late, I have been so much flying (one of my family members commented that I would be logging more air miles than even a senior pilot in our domestic airlines!!!!)I am taking this for comparison Some of the key things that are good with our domestic airlines - Hot Food for even a short haul flight - Good flight service (almost) - A little more leg room - Free trolleys - When flights are cancelled some arrangements including hotel accommodation for stranded passengers, food coupons, assistance (of course the degree varies), but almost all the out of town passengers are taken care. The last point becomes very very important as in a visiting city, when you take the flight home you would have wound up your stay arrangements and if the flight gets postponed then it becomes imperative

Chak de India - buckle up India WOW! What a film. This film really made me sit up and feel very very happy to see it. This is the best movie I have seen for a very very long time. It is all about Team work - how united we should be to achieve things you want to achieve in life. The entire crew, the filming, the theme presentation, the direction everything is so superb. There was never a dull moment, no way you could divert your attention away from the film. At the end, it was like you were part of the team of Women Hockey players who have won the world cup. I was wanting to stand up and clap my hands as if I was in the stadium witnessing the winning watch live. For once, this movie is without any romance, no duet, nothing vulgar, no double meaning talks, nothing to spoil the atmosphere. Sharuh Khan is superb and so are all the girls who are getting coached by him for the hockey world cup matches. The casting has been done very nicely indeed, with each girl fitting her role and her temp

Depending on what is your seat location and the company with whom you are in - it is WOW what a travel or Oh My God when is it going to end. For travellers like us - flying from India to United States - By the end of yesterday's flight I have crossed my 30th flight this year - the travel becomes a necessary chore to be done to meet up with our clients. Of course, this time this is different, as we are travelling as a family combining both business and pleasure. We had a long travel - Madras to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Chicago and Chicago to LA. Even before starting, being a seasoned traveller, I had advised my daughters to pack one set of clothes and 2 sets of underwear. The bath at Frankfurt Businss lounge was refreshing and made us fresh after a overnighter. My advice to the family helped them a lot here. In India, as soon as we land, while waiting for customs clearance, we complain about the long queue, the long time taken for immigration and the time to be spent waiting for

About 7 months back a group of Entrepreneurs from Chennai who had a common thread of running their software companies got togehter to form a cohesive group - The IT SME FORUM - as a Strategy to accelerate their individual growth through synergy. Each one of these entrepreneurs are successfully running their software companies fighting individual battles to keep the company up and running, maintain a steady growth rate, increase their customer base, etc. Running a company in India is not a easy task - it is literally getting pulled in thousands of direction and believe me - A business leader is supposed to concentrate only on Growth - Marketing - Sales. But I have found that typically in the Indian environ, we get pulled into operations and managing to spend some time for the most crucial aspect of the business. This gave rise to the idea - why not have a platform to share the best practices, to learn how to tackle problems, get a better voice and get a big bandwidth in terms of out rea

Feeling too full after a heavy meal...... Here is a simple remedy 1. Take either a cardamonon (ellaichi) or lavang (karambu) 2. If both are not available take a glass of warm - hot water Both these will help you get instant relief. To have a good digestion day after day - it is a good and healthy practice to have one banana after meals everyday. Especially for those people who eat outside food, it is advisable to finish off their night dinner with a banana. Thsi will help the food digestion very much and once this is taken care off, we can prevent a lot of discomforts

Many of us in IT or for that matter all working people tend to take a lot of tea or coffee. This leads to build up of a lot of poison into the system leading to headache, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc. A simple home remedy for this is to drink Ginger juice. Let me share with you the recipe for making fresh ginger juice at home. Take 50 gms of fresh ginger and try to shave off the skin. Cut it into small pieces and grind it along with water and required sugar say 1 - 2 tsp to get the Ginger juice. Strain the juice and allow the juice to stand for 5 mts. The heavy portion will settle down and you can take out only the lighter portion. Add lime juice (half lime is enough) and drink it fresh. This is best when taken on a empty stomach. But you can also take it before food. Allow at least half an hour to one hour before consuming food. This will help the digestive system to clean itself properly. This can be done in a regular basis say once a month. Wishing a healthy living with nature