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All the best to you for your career and life, may the effects of recession wear off from your career path ASAP :)

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Firangistan

This word was coined sometime back by yours truly. It means - "Land of the different coloured."

Etymology:
The origins of the word lie in the Pepsi Ad Campaign - Youngistan - "Land of the young." It is made up of two words Firangi and Sthan. Firangi is a Urdu word that means "One with a different colour". Sthan is a Hindi word that means "Place".

How exactly was the word coined? I don't remember now. But it was a few months back in reference to one of my friends going to a foreign country.

Today, this word has become an inseparable part of my vocabulary. Considering how beautiful it is I hope one day it becomes a part of the Oxford(or whichever one is the best then) English dictionary :P

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The Ethical Joke

Well, let's start with the title, it is a misnomer. The post is not about any joke that is ethical. It is about the joke that is ethics. People(most, not all) don't even get a conscience call, so to say, telling them that they are doing something unethical.

The posts on this blog are a result of something that the author has observed in the days prior to posting. But, almost never has the focus of the author been specifically on the event. The point made through the posts is almost always generic in nature, the event(if mentioned) is used just to exemplify the situation. But this time, this post will only talk about the event. Because the author is feeling ashamed. Truly ashamed.

This post is about a man, let's say S, who is on the author's friend's list on various socialisation sites, GTalk etc. S has just completed his MBA from one of the good, if not premier, B-Schools of India. And as such was probably looking for some good business opportunity. And these days our mailboxes are full of emails from random people asking you to do online jobs or earn money online using various methods. Probably that is how he got this idea of starting a blog and earning money through the Google AdSense program and through referrals to other programs. What's wrong? Everyone blogs these days... how can there be something wrong with it... that's what you are thinking. Right?

In India piracy is an accepted phenomenon. Something that we all participate in, though passively. The minimum that we can do is not participate in it actively. That is precisely what Mr S has done. His blog is not about his experiences, photographs, knowledge sharing or something else. The blog is a collection of popular stuff - the pirated copies of which have been uploaded onto free web space and the links provided for download. It contains everything movies, TV shows, books, advertisements, songs, even articles that S could lay his hands on.

The latest count of visitors on the blog is 113. The blog was launched on 27-03-09 and today is 03-04-09. The number of followers - 21. The author is also there - one of the first people to add himself. Why?

Because when he added himself there was no content on the blog. It seemed that the site was to be a review site for all the stuff, or a general gossip site. Adding yourself as a follower to a friend's blog is a way of encouraging the person. There are several people out there who are poets, artists, singers, or good writers in general. Most of them are never going to be known for that, and they know it. But still they are putting an effort, they are trying. Encouraging them may one day result in some of them becoming successful and achieving their dreams. And so the author has subscribed to 100s of blogs. And even reads them on and off and leaves encouraging comments, if deserved.

Ironically, the headquarters of Satyam are in the same city as his B-School. He may have drawn some inspiration from there!

The current generation talks about having educated people in politics so that something good may happen to this country. But, if such be the educated people of the country, than it is a matter of shame for all of us.