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Update: New blog venture !
Hello everyone,
As I have been concentrating on my new blog venture (Dollar$hower) I am not too regular with this site. However, I will keep writing as and when time permits.
Please visit my new blog and provide your valuable feedback.
Ajith Prasad Edassery
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Cricket: Plagued by the 20-20 war...
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After a short break from India's tour to Australia, I was looking forward to see some good test cricket action from the current set of series - ie. West Indies v/s Sri Lanka, England v/s New Zealand and India v/s South Africa. Unfortunately except for some good cricketing moments in New Zealand, the other series seem to be already dissapointing.
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One of the common road-scenes during my childhood days has been the black smoke spitting diesel ambassador cars and willys jeeps - usually seen overloaded with the acrobatic driver sitting in an awkward position getting to utilize only one third of his allocated seat space. The plight of the vehicle sometimes gets worse while on uphill travel whereby some passengers have to get down and give a push to add some more horses to the underpowered vehicle.
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Financial: Investment strategy in a volatile market!
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Indian bourses have been setting new and new index highs every other week amidst heavy volatile trading. There are many arguments in favour of the Indian growth story. Some believe that what we are seeing here is a fundamental move where as some others swear that India is a special case compared to other emerging markets and we will keep going up. Some wisemen and analysts even predict targets for the 'Sensitive Index' for not just 2008 but for 2010 and 2020 as well. The weakening dollar combined with the huge market capitalization gains have made Mukesh Ambani the richest person on earth in less than two months time. However, it may be a matter of couple of months before 9 out of 10 retail investors loose out in the market after being exposed to the high-risk game in the volatile market. Having seen and experienced three huge market falls in my investment life, I would like to advise the inexperienced retail investors to be very cautious at this point of time.
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Quality Assurance & Quality Control are integral processes of the production/life cycle of any product in most of the industries. While quality governance is an
age-old process in the manufacturing industry, it is relatively an emerging topic in the software industry, which itself is only thirty or forty years young.
However, of late there has been a surge of too many well-defined quality processes and standards injected into the software development life cycle that half
of the production time is eaten up by these measures. In this article, let me try to do a root-cause analysis on poor software quality and see if these
processes alone can really drastically improve the product quality. Or is it just that we are missing some basics here?
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Politics: European Union model for Asia?
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The outgoing President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, has been the first citizen with a difference in many ways. Due to his non-political, non-aligned attitude and being somebody from science & technology background, he was always keen on adopting  workable technical, political governance models from all around the world for the benefit of the resurgent India. Some of his dreams included the national river-linking project, two-party political model in India and Asia adopting the European Union model. In the past, several intellectuals around the world have debated over the issue of EU model adoption in the Asian context. In this article, let us analyze how EU was evolved and the preparedness of Asia to adopt such a setup.
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