Year of 1966 saw 2 major changes in United Kingdom. First change was England team won Football (soccer) World Cup on home soil when Sir Geoff Hurst scored a hattrick in final. The second change was British parliament passed law pertaining to Drunk Driving. This road safety act limited alcohol Read more…
For last couple of weeks football (aka soccer) news cycle belonged to Manchester City. During the week, city made headlines for all the wrong reasons when Football leaks exposed alleged behaviour by City hierarchy to balance the books. Then on Sunday (11 November) team outclassed Manchester United on pitch in Read more…
Couple of weeks ago, a colleague (who seats in next cubicle) and I were having chat about career prospects in India. He joined the company last year as a campus graduate. He completed 4 year engineering course and got his Bachelor’s degree. Like most people from that age group, he Read more…
Over last few weeks, wife and I have been discussing if we should get Netflix subscription or not. We already have Amazon Prime membership. Today Netflix and Amazon are competing with each other online streaming market. About 15 years ago, Netflix had a different competitor, a company named Blockbuster. Chances Read more…
Both my wife and I get 24 vacation days every year. It’s mandatory to use minimum 12 days out of those 24. If you don’t do that, good folks in Human Resources question employee’s manager about associate not taking time off. As a result, we try to have 2 trips Read more…
This weekend, my wife and our maid a small argument. Our maid wanted a salary advance of INR 1,000 (about $15). Wife had paid her salary last week only, so she was curious about why maid needed the money. Apparently, maid had some emergency. Wife paid her advance amount. This Read more…
We Indians use a popular term called “Brain Drain” to describe a phenomenon about how talented minds left India to migrate to Western Hemisphere and made name for themselves. The reasons for migration is topic of separate post. But general consensus is they migrated due to lack opportunities. There are Read more…
For Indian political parties “Democracy is in danger” is a very popular slogan these days. Honesty speaking, they’re absolutely right. India as a parliamentary democracy is facing a very unique challenge – there is no credible opposition. After 2014 General Elections, BJP is on a roll winning Assembly elections after Read more…
Over the course of next 12 months, India is expected to hold its next round of General Election to elect new Central / Federal Government. Prime Minister Modi won majority mandate in 2014 election and since then BJP has expanded its rule in and now has Government in 22 states. Read more…
Before entering into main topic of this blog, I am going to take a paragraph to give overview of Agile and Waterfall software development methodology. In waterfall model, project sponsor / business partner comes at the beginning of project gives the requirements and leaves. When product is finally ready, he Read more…