aamir "The King Khan"

aamir has proved yet again that he is the original "King Khan" by his movie "Talaash". Although, the movie is a suspense thriller meant for an engaging experience. But, it is not comparable to his earlier masterpieces like "Taare Zameen Par", "3 Idiots" or "Dil chahta hai". Honestly, I was expecting more from him this time as well. Nevertheless, it was a delight to watch him in the movie. All the characters played their bit and were able to create a captivating experience for the watchers. Its a very good story with relatively weak screenplay. Mr perfectionist should direct his films by himself. Though, I was able to crack the suspense plot before it gets revealed in the movie. Yet, I would recommend everyone to go for this movie at least once.

IT Talent pool in India

Guys, I wanted to share my experience of recruiting IT talent for the projects been developed at offshore location in India. Though, I have been quite a regular Interviewer from last 5-6 years conducting those technical & aptitude rounds yet, I have realized due to recession market is flooded with new starters, amateur programmers but majority of them lack in the depth of both hard and soft skills. This is a worrying & mind blogging truth, I think this is an aftermath of 10-12 years of bulk outsourcing deals dumped in offshore locations by big companies  that we are producing only copy cats & brain dead crammers. Most of the candidates can give answers for syntactical issues , But would give you very bad choice of solving real life problems. I can't comment for senior levels as I haven't done recruitment for that level, But problem is huge in hiring at entry to middle level. . In my opinion, we have to equally blame ourselves, educational system & institutes for such a mess. Education system only has examination part in place as we have most difficult examination system in the world for Engineering grads but we seriously lag in providing good education. Nowadays ,Private institutes have nice air conditioned buildings but they produce very few or no research work, white papers, In the name of industry interface they ask students to themselves find companies for summer trainings. Most of the outsourcing companies are also busy in getting small-large outsourcing deals to keep their pipeline flowing and living on QoQ basis without planning long term careers & nurturing its employees. Situation can get worse in the years to come when we would start facing shortages of talent for both exports & internal consumption unless we do a complete overhaul to the system.

Kudos to PM Manmohan

PM has shown his commitment to this country at last by making tough decisions and promising to go down fighting. Well! that's the Manmohan whom we know and was missing in the arena from past 2 years. Leading spineless, toothless govt, suffering from scams & policy paralysis. He is the same guy who put his govt in trouble in favor of Nuke deal during 2008. Its always good to see an intellectual, soft spoken gentleman showing his intent & resolve in such difficult times. FDI in retail would open floodgates of investment as this is the largest democratic economy having 1.2 billion consumers. With farmers and industrialists it would also give less educated rural youth an opportunity to participate in India's growth story. Often such decisions invite criticism in country like India where you have different demographics & multiple stakeholders. Lets wait and see how does it pans out in the years to come. So far, I have not seen any constructive criticism from left, NDA or communist parties on its merit & demerits. They only demonize everything good or bad happening in this country.Its our bad fate that opposition in our system wants to pull the ruling party down by hook or crook.