Rakupathy

September 27 Late. Mr. Rakupathy S November 19

I thought of dedicating this blogpost to my cousin who died on 19 November, 2008 in Bangalore.

he is the person who toiled himself to greater heights, achieved many things, recognized by people, worked for some of greatest companies in the world, had a caring family,friends and wellwishers.

he is the person who is really loved by everybody for his nature, purity in relationships etc…

Everything shattered on November 19, 2008 night when i received a call from my dad and then my other cousins who informed his death.

it was like a massive blow on my heart… when i reached my home of stay in chennai, it was almost 11.40 pm, i opened Orkut and saw his photograph.

His memories cannot be erased till my soul departs from my body.

when the recession started, when bangalore newspapers published that news, he was the one who called me and told me not to panic and asked me to come there after my bond gets over.

my heart gets filled with grief when i see his mails, scraps etc…

he was my friend, guide, cousin, brother…we, his cousins shed our tears when we went there to his home for funeral.

The tears shows our real love for you…

may your soul rest in peace…

My eyes are wet and my heart is bumping fast…Dedicated to Sourav Ganguly

It’s my secondary days when we used to flock together to TV hall and sitting down monitered by our wardens in our hostel while we watch cricket matches during our sundays and inbetween the Study hours and Dining time.

Its was our good old trunk boxes and suit cases which along with our dresses and some other items will hold or have Ganguly and Sachin’s photos sticked on it.

we were in schooling days and ganguly was in his early twenties.

It is fantastic to remember the days when we roared for every fours and sixes, shouted for victories, felt bad for losing side.

The himalayan sixers are still in front of my eyes. i can still visualize the play of ganguly.

Days passed by…

Captaincy changed…

And when the cricket in India was in its almost worst condition, sourav was handed the captaincy.

And we still remember your game, the bold decisions you made, the best fights you did, the players you shaped, the team you built, the emotion and spirit that kept us lively, you are a true to be best of all captains we saw in our days sourav!

we remember your sixes, off drives, your commanding style, you are like a tiger which roars, when you are in field…

Its hard to think and feel that now we lose you and anil, and one day we will lose sachin and dravid, some days ater laxman…

We feel aged when we see all these things in future…

we might have criticised you… it may be because of love towards the game which was developed just because of you in our generation. if you are not there, if sachin is not there, we wonder what indian cricket’s state may be now…

we feel proud to have you…

we pray for you to have a peaceful and a wonderful life hereafter and for ever…sourav…

My eyes are wet and my heart is bumping fast sourav…when i see you in my television.

Obama’s Possible name selections.

There is a spreading news that Barack is taking a fresh and historic steps like including some top officials of Bush administration is into the namelist of his office.

I am providing the link for you.

have a look at it.

http://news.aol.com/article/names-surface-for-top-obama/240820?referer=sphere_related_content

Chandrayaan

The world has no time for looking into the silent success of Indian Space Research Organisation.

In fact, we, the Indians, might not have looked into the serious victory of lunar mission.

it may be because of our own worries. the economic conditions. the surging markets. et cetra.

i wonder if this mision has not fulfilled every indian might be knowing it properly.

i question you “have you ever tried to visit ISRO’s website?”, “have you ever tried to know the team apart from Dr.Kasturirangan or Dr.Madhavan Nair?”.

ISRO Chandrayaan Team

i guess most of us will answer “no” for my questions.

we have pride in our nation’s every successes. we unite together every moment the nation falls.

i remember my days when i was in secondary education when kargil war broke. i donated 100 Rs. as a fund. i consider it as a proud contribution despite the amount whether its 10 rs or 100 rs. i took part in my nation’s struggle.

it’s how we were. in our childhood. its true that our schools are meant for marketing and developing the patriotism.

i now feel proud to post the photograph of successful team of indian lunar mission “Chandrayaan”. i feel proud that i graduated from a college which provided me an opportunity to interact with people like Dr.Kasturirangan who originally gave us a detailed introduction about Chandrayaan two years ago when the project was in its post-initial stages.

Lets share and celebrate our Space Teams victory…

Indian Prime Minister’s speech on Global Slowdown to Industrial Leaders

Nov 3. 2008,

New Delhi.

Friends,

We are meeting at a time when the world economy is going through an unprecedented crisis which started in the financial sector in the US but has now spread globally. The financial crisis has exacerbated a global downturn that was expected earlier but is now likely to be more severe and prolonged. A crisis of this magnitude was bound to affect our economy and it has. International credit has shrunk with adverse effects on our corporates and our banks. Global uncertainty is also tending to dampen investor sentiment. All countries have recognized the severity of the problem and its likely fallout, and are taking strong steps in a coordinated fashion. We have done the same and I wanted to share with you the approach we will follow.

Our first priority was to protect the Indian financial system from possible loss of confidence or contagion effects. I am happy to say that the direct exposure of our banks to problem assets is minimal. Our banks are well regulated and also well capitalized. I think we have successfully conveyed to our people that our banking system, both in the public and the private sector, is safe, and the Government stands behind it and that no one should fear for the safety of bank deposits.

We have also taken several measures to infuse liquidity into the system to ensure adequate flow of credit. We have reduced the Cash Reserve Ratio by 350 basis points. We have also reduced the SLR and the Repo rate. Special facilities have been introduced that will allow banks to obtain finance from the RBI to meet the needs of debt mutual funds or NBFCs. I believe these steps have made a substantial difference. We recognize that the situation is abnormal and we need to be constantly on the alert. The situation is being watched on a day to day basis and more steps will be taken if required.

With these measure I am confident that our financial system will be stable and function well. However, we are also concerned that the negative impact on the real economy must be minimized. The additional liquidity provided or the reduction in Repo rate will help to provide credit at reasonable rates. The public sector banks have been instructed to ensure that they act counter cyclically in this situation to counter the general erosion of confidence. We are able to act more boldly because our efforts to contain inflation have begun to be effective. Movements in the WPI over the past six weeks suggest a definite abatement of inflationary process.

Some duty cuts have been announced to provide relief to civil aviation sector and the iron & steel industry.

Overall, the Government is closely monitoring the evolving macro economic situation and is fully alive to its responsibilities to sustain the growth momentum of the economy at a reasonable level. Expanding investment in infrastructure can play an important counter cyclical role in this situation. We will review projects and programmes in the area of infrastructure development, including both pure public sector projects and public private partnership projects, to ensure that their implementation is expedited and they do not suffer from constraints of funds. We are in any case expanding expenditure in the social sectors i. e. health and education and in rural and agricultural development and progress in these areas will be closely monitored. I am happy to state that our efforts in reviving the momentum in agriculture have clearly bore fruit and we have seen a growth rate of around 4.7% in the past three years and this is expected to continue in the current year. Taken together, these efforts will help to maintain the pace of both growth and stability in the economy.

I invite all of you, to join in the effort to convert this global crisis into an opportunity for India. I trust you will continue to show the confidence and dynamism that had taken our manufacturing growth to all time highs and the rate of growth of the economy to a level that was considered unimaginable, even a decade ago. Our high savings and investment rates have been a great strength in the recent past and we hope that the Indian corporate sector will not let the global crisis shake its confidence. While every effort needs to be made to cut costs and raise productivity, I hope there will be no knee jerk reaction such as large scale lay-offs which may lead to a negative spiral. Industry must bear in mind its societal obligations in coping with the effects of this global crisis. Government and industry must act in a true spirit of partnership to meet the challenges that lie ahead.

I would like to assure each one of you that the Government will take all necessary monetary and fiscal policy measures on the domestic front to protect our growth rates. On the international front, we are working closely with other countries to ensure coordinated policy action and increased development cooperation for the containment of this crisis. We will seek reform of the international financial institutions, and improved regulation and supervision, to prevent recurrence of such crises.

I welcome you comments and suggestions regarding the strategy we should adopt, both in our international negotiations and in the domestic arena.

A graceful exit of McCain. Concession Speech.

Phoenix.

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MCCAIN: Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.

My friends, we have — we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.

A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him.

(BOOING)

Please.

To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.

In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.

This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.

I’ve always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too.

But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation’s reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters.

America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.

Let there be no reason now … Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.

Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer him my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day. Though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.

Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain.

These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.

I urge all Americans … I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.

Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.

It is natural. It’s natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again.

We fought — we fought as hard as we could. And though we feel short, the failure is mine, not yours.

AUDIENCE: No!

MCCAIN: I am so…

AUDIENCE: (CHANTING)

MCCAIN: I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We do, too (OFF-MIKE)

MCCAIN: The road was a difficult one from the outset, but your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.

I’m especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother … my dear mother and all my family, and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign.

I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.

You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate’s family than on the candidate, and that’s been true in this campaign.

All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.

I am also — I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I’ve ever seen … one of the best campaigners I have ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength … her husband Todd and their five beautiful children … for their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign.

We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.

To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly, month after month, in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.

I don’t know — I don’t know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I’ll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I’m sure I made my share of them. But I won’t spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.

This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life, and my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.

(BOOING)

Please. Please.

I would not — I would not be an American worthy of the name should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century.

Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone, and I thank the people of Arizona for it.

AUDIENCE: USA. USA. USA. USA.

MCCAIN: Tonight — tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama — whether they supported me or Senator Obama.

I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.

Americans never quit. We never surrender.

We never hide from history. We make history.

Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.