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I exist therefore I am

“I exist therefore I am” echoed a firm voice on Saturday 14th Dec 02 on the IIT Grounds, Chennai. And for a sweet surprise it was Kamalhassan’s voice which stressed on the motto behind The Banyan. He was dressed in a sherwani with a shawl around him. A few comments came from my friends that he was trying to pose the Big B.

It was a show called Netru Indru Naalai [Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow], organised by The Banyan, a public charitable trust which reaches out to destitute, mentally-ill women, who are often to be seen wandering through our streets. The Banyan was created in August 1993 by two college girls Vandana Gopikumar & Vaishnavi Jayakumar . This is a yearly event organised to collect charity for Banyan.

Kamalhassan was not the only star in the event. It included a host of other stars and singers like Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Revathy, S.P Balasubramaniam, K J Yesudas, Sujatha, Karthik, Srinivas and ofcourse Mumtaz and Sneha.

But the show highlights was Kamalhassan and his promotion to his latest movie Anbe Sivam. When they played the teaser of Anbe Sivam, Kamalhassan came to the stage, singing the theme of the movie. Looks like he is trying to portray that Love is the only god. The movie line is about a train accident and its aftermath. Kamal plays as an artist of a village art and looses one of his legs in the train accident. He also damages his face badly and the movie goes on to say about love and stuff like that. This is the storyline that goes in rounds in the cinema circle but I am not very sure if this is true one. Madhavan too plays next to Kamal in this movie. Vidyasagar’s theme music is fabulous. Well about songs, we need to wait and see.

Kamalhassan went on to sing his few songs in the unplugged fashion with a famous Pianist (forgot his name). It certainly was a great gesture by Kamal to come to such an event but few had a feeling that he hijacked the show for his movie promo.

Then came the historical duo of tamil cinema, KJY and SPB. Songs they choose to sing weren’t the best ones indeed but it was nice to see the two on stage. SPB accepted like before that his breathless song in Mannil Indha Kathal was just jazzed up tech stuff and he sang it, ofcourse taking a breath.

Shobana and her fusion bharatnatyam was extra-ordinary. This is not her best again but the fusion music to which she dance had more depth in it.

What reverberated in us when we came back was the meaning of I exist therefore I am. True indeed.

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Finally found some time to buy a domain from net4domains. Got http://www.kirukkal.com for 495 bucks and I have no clue how i am going to use it. I would probably host my blog on to this domain or forward the domain to my blogspot address. I need your advices tp proceed ahead. Also tell me the best hosting place in India or abroad.

Had a superb weekend. Went to a cultural show by Banyan Org at IIT, Chennai. Will write more on this special event probably tomorrow.

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Overheard at iWay:

Well, I know it is absolutely nasty to overhear something. But someone beside you in a net cafe, just a few yards away, laughs his way to glory and yaps at top his voice is impossible to ignore. I first thought that the few guys sitting in the next system to my side were just showing off their decibel levels. They were the ones who were managing the whole net cafe. One of them kept talking a lot and the other two were a sharing a headphone, one per ear.

After some giggles and ‘wow’s, I finally decided to see their system what they were upto. They were listening to an audio track in Winamp and ‘heck’, I thought. But the guy who was doing all the talking, made me even more curious. They were a bunch of younsters who worked for a Call Center. Each one had a nick name which was american and they answered to the customer calls and provided them support. Since these guys used a IP Telephone, they answer calls through a PC. And these naughty guys recorded their customer call as audio files, uploaded them to the net and downloaded them at the net cafe and were having fun laughing at it. It didn’t sound a funny thing to me. And they were also making nasty comments about the female customers. One guy said when one of his female customer demanded an explanation, he had called her by names in vernacular language, which obviously she didn’t understand. If this is what we desi’s are upto, then the future of call centers are a BIG ????

Also the companies, for ex : Companq, Hp, AOL etc.. which have call centers, can be honest enough to their customers back in US. They can say that they have a 24/7 support center at India. This would stop having these guys to have a nick name which sounds ridiculous. When I spoke to those guys after they told, they need to attend 100 calls a day and then they can do anything. And they also said because of this they are in constant pressure of taking 100 calls and also finishing it as soon as possible. They accepted that they don’t provide their fullest service to the clients, reason being this target of 100 calls. They guy named Karthik had a nick of Jason and Ramaswamy was called Rich. Sounds stupidish…

They are also sure that they can’t make a career out of this call center jobs. Their attitude was like going to a temp job till they settle down with HCL, TCS or Wipro as software consultants. This atittude is dangerous for the company also because they would not be able to extract the fullest productivity. One of them told he gets good girl friends there and girls are in dozens there. He is able to take atleast one on a date, everyweek. He said all what a call center company looks for is English and anyne who has a degree from a university can talk his way out. The additional qualification is to spend 1500 bucks to one of the institutes in T.Nagar to get the american accent in one and half months.

With IT enabled services becoming the biggest grosser of this year and also in the coming years, we have to get more serious about this business. Else we will be left out in this rat race with china.

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