My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

here is this months's event schedule. Date 19th Dec Time ; 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm Veneu - Hotel Breeze, Poonamallee High Road, chennai Schedule 18.00 hrs - Registration 18.30 hrs - Welcome Address 18.33 hrs Briefing about IT SME Association 18.40 hrs Address by Chief Guest - Ms Rajalakshmi, Director, STPI, Chennai 18.50 hrs Presentation ON "Funding of IT SMEs & Hedgin g of Forex Transcations - SBI - SBI, SME Unit, LHO Chennai 19.30 hrs Address - Mr Suresh Raju - TVS Investments 19.50 hrs Q & A 20.00 hrs Vote of Thanks 20.50 hrs Dinner Hosted y IT SME Association EC members Looking forward to meeting you all of you who are interested in our association

This time I am going to talk about the Ripon Building This is a fine example of Indo-Saracenic style of architecture, a combination of three types of architectural styles - Gothic, Ionic and Corinthian. The building is white in colour and is located near the Central station in Chennai. Commissioned in 1913, it was built by a builder named Loganatha Mudaliar. The Building took four years to build at a cost of Rs. 750,000 . Ripon building was named after Lord Ripon, Governor-General of British India and the Father of local self-government. Earl of Minto, the then Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation on December 12, 1909. The building is rectangular in shape and measures 85 metres long and 32 metres wide. The first of its three floors offers about 2,800 square metres of space. Its central tower is 43 metres tall and has a clock 2.5 metres in diameter. The walls were constructed with stock bricks, set and plastered with lime mortar. The roofs are supported with teak w

From the general perspective lets look at various places that are of importance in chennai and which are to be taken as part of the city tour. The controlling power of the entire state is here - yes it is Fort St George. We still live with our British legacy - what gave them the foothold to expand is now the Power house of our State today housing the Legislative Assembly of the State Government of Tamil Nadu. So essentially, the assembly elections results terms the party that captures the majority votes it as the Winner of the Fort in both figurative form of speech and also the natural form of the capture of the power to run the state. Fort St George is the name of the first British fortress in India, founded in 1639] at the coastal city of Madras. The East India Company, which had entered India around 1600 for trading activities, had begun licensed trading at Surat, which was its initial bastion. However, to secure its trade lines and commercial interests in the spice trade, it felt t

My city - where I have spent most of my life. Chennai (formerly known as Madras) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is on the south east part of India situated on the Coast of the Bay of Bengal. With an estimated population of 7.5 million (2007), it is the fourth largest metropolitan city in India. The city was established in the seventeenth century by the British, who developed it into a major urban centre and naval base. By the twentieth century, it had become an important administrative centre, as the capital of the Madras Presidency. Chennai's economy has a broad industrial base in the automobile, technology, hardware manufacturing, and healthcare industries. The city is home to much of India's automobile industry and is the country's second-largest exporter of information technology (IT) and information-technology-enabled services behind Bangalore. Though a late starter in IT scenario, Chennai has really caught up. The population varies from very cons

I am starting a new series in my blog. This is also something close to my heart - my country. I just Love and I am happy and blessed to be born an Indian, with all its positives and negatives. Yes there are a lot of things I am very very proud of, but, at the same time, there are also a lot of things which make me feel ashamed or sad or helpless sometimes or angry or a mixture of all emotions. But this series is going to be something I am going to talk about the best things of my country. In these past few years as a head of a company, I have had the honor of showing around my city to few of our visitors. Every time, this was one of the best things that has happened to me and to my guests. This has helped me to build a very strong personal bonding with the visitors. If I can showcase a slice of India at its best, then, I feel I am doing something for my country. What a country India is - a multicultural, multi religious, multilingual, multiethinic, multiclimatated - a kaleidoscope o

We are now a formally registered body under the name "IT SME Association" with growing number everyday and getting a lot of enquiries. for those of who, who wish to become members, please visit the our website www.itsmesindia.com and download the application form. We intend this to be a global forum with local city chapters. So I would request fellow IT CEO to join hands together greater success. Our association first official networking event is going to be held at Hotel Breeze, Chennai on 19th December. there are going to be 2 topics 1. Financial institution's role in helping the SMEs 2. Innovative Strategies for growth - Talk by a successful Entrepreneur who has been able to take his/her company to great heights. We intend to have the 2nd topic as a Lecture Series with each month featuring an Successful Entrepreneur Please join us to be Heard, Seen and Keep growing synergitically

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