My sis and I started Manjushaa(box of jewels)-Sale of Affordable Ethnic Jewelry and attached link has pics of our latest collection http://picasaweb.google.co.in/manjushaa09/ManjushaaSummerCollection#
The prices are also available in the website. Right now we are doing sales online and you can visit us at our house and take a look at the pieces. We can take it forward according to your convenience. This is a sample collection and we can custom make and order jewelry according to your preferences also. We can also design for a special occasion if required. You can mail your enquires to manjushaa09@gmail.com
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Friday, July 11, 2008
Been a while
Since I blogged. I think its almost a year and I am hoping to be regular now in my blogs. Thanks to the long hiatus , I can't even make up my mind on what I am going to post. Will be back with more soon...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Ethics in Hospitals: Is this asking for too much?
Chennai Hospitals are popular world over with people from all over India and the world coming here to get treated in different illnesses. Hospitals however go to any extent to make lucrative deals out of their existing client base (patients)! I have heard stories in these lines but I heard someone very close to me go though a harrowing experience in one of the leading hospitals in Chennai.
The patient was asked to take a scan that was outdated in the first place. Second the patient had already taken a similar scan just a month back. The doctor refused to proceed with the operation if this was not done. I could think of only one possible reason as to why this was advised. Any scanning device would have cost the hospital several thousand rupees and the doctor has to ensure that the hospital gets the ROI quickly. Maybe they are even ranked on this basis. Amazing right!!. This is just the start of the problem. Based on the results of the scan, more tests and procedures could be advised that were totally unnecessary. Luckily we had 2 other family doctors who were able to identify and tell us that this was unnecessary
All I could think was imagine the lakhs of underprivileged people who consider doctors as Gods, They trust them totally and believe that every step the doctor takes is most necessary. Do they have any way of even finding this out? When they are hardly able to afford just one doctor where is the question of asking for a second opinion? I am not saying doctors should do social service. After all it’s a profession for them too. But they can realize that in their case however they are dealing with lives of people and that deserves a little more care.
The patient was asked to take a scan that was outdated in the first place. Second the patient had already taken a similar scan just a month back. The doctor refused to proceed with the operation if this was not done. I could think of only one possible reason as to why this was advised. Any scanning device would have cost the hospital several thousand rupees and the doctor has to ensure that the hospital gets the ROI quickly. Maybe they are even ranked on this basis. Amazing right!!. This is just the start of the problem. Based on the results of the scan, more tests and procedures could be advised that were totally unnecessary. Luckily we had 2 other family doctors who were able to identify and tell us that this was unnecessary
All I could think was imagine the lakhs of underprivileged people who consider doctors as Gods, They trust them totally and believe that every step the doctor takes is most necessary. Do they have any way of even finding this out? When they are hardly able to afford just one doctor where is the question of asking for a second opinion? I am not saying doctors should do social service. After all it’s a profession for them too. But they can realize that in their case however they are dealing with lives of people and that deserves a little more care.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Stop at this Traffic Signal
Yeah I am talking about the latest Madhur Bhandarkar movie “ Traffic Signal”. Given a choice I suggest you do not venture to the theater to watch this movie!
The movie is set in Mumbai with the traffic signal providing the perfect backdrop for events that unfold! Yeah that’s just about it. You expect anything more than that you would be disappointed. Myriad of characters with sad family backgrounds that led them to lead a life around the traffic signal. That’s describing the movie in a line. I can’t say more coz nothing else happens. You do not have a strong screenplay to support the movie. Btw you should appreciate Silsila(Kunal Khemu) for his performance! Konkona sen is totally wasted! Ranvir is just so poinless in the movie you wonder why he was even there in first place!The kids are a delight!
For one and half hours till the intermission the characters are just established. Ok you get the point, just move on! Then you expect something more from the movie and it lets you down. In fact the scene where the movie ended is a good place to have the intermission. A movie cannot sustain the interest of the viewers when there is no concrete plot to take it forward. Prostitutes, gigolos, pedophiles, extra marital affairs was shocking to Indian audiences when they saw page 3. Now they expect a little more than that in a movie. The movie would have been worth a watch if you remove half a dozen characters and introduced a plot instead! Reel life imitating real life is ok. We all love it and appreciate it. But we also need something more than that. Traffic Signal just disappoints !!!
The movie is set in Mumbai with the traffic signal providing the perfect backdrop for events that unfold! Yeah that’s just about it. You expect anything more than that you would be disappointed. Myriad of characters with sad family backgrounds that led them to lead a life around the traffic signal. That’s describing the movie in a line. I can’t say more coz nothing else happens. You do not have a strong screenplay to support the movie. Btw you should appreciate Silsila(Kunal Khemu) for his performance! Konkona sen is totally wasted! Ranvir is just so poinless in the movie you wonder why he was even there in first place!The kids are a delight!
For one and half hours till the intermission the characters are just established. Ok you get the point, just move on! Then you expect something more from the movie and it lets you down. In fact the scene where the movie ended is a good place to have the intermission. A movie cannot sustain the interest of the viewers when there is no concrete plot to take it forward. Prostitutes, gigolos, pedophiles, extra marital affairs was shocking to Indian audiences when they saw page 3. Now they expect a little more than that in a movie. The movie would have been worth a watch if you remove half a dozen characters and introduced a plot instead! Reel life imitating real life is ok. We all love it and appreciate it. But we also need something more than that. Traffic Signal just disappoints !!!
Monday, January 22, 2007
Infrastructure Wo(w)es!
Been a while since I blogged. Guess was caught up with too many things (usual excuse!). Btw wish you all a very happy new year. Like every year this year also I am not taking any new year resolution.:-)
I travel for about an hour to work everyday. Our company bus takes the ECR or OMR route in Chennai. For the uninitiated, the OMR is propagated as the IT highway of Chennai! Roughly from Madya Kailash Temple to Siruseri and further beyond! We talk of growth in the IT industry, foreign investments, mergers, acquisition, India (superpower in 2020) and the like. We rant and rave about the IT boom and the subsequent advantages that it offers! But we all also end up discussing the major issue that we face going forward. Infrastructure.
Traveling in these roads everyday just makes me think. We have a good stretch of road till about SRP tools junction(again for non-chennaites this is like a small stretch when you compare the IT Highway). The government has taken care to lay the road, build state of the art medians, lights, bus stops and even have paintings and statues in this stretch. They made a big hue and cry of this inuagration though the completion date was as usual well past the deadline.
You cross this stretch and then reality hits you. We have an excuse of a road/half done construction blocks lying everywhere, mud piled up and as your bus roars past all this , all you get is dust on your face! I am truly trying to understand why does it take so long to build a road? This is not even an initiative from the scratch. This initiative was already started contracts handed out but there is just no road. Sometimes makes me think if democracy is the road block here. Can’t help but compare with China. You see the infrastructure you would be amazed! I visited Hong Kong recently and you need to see the infrastructure to actually believe it! With so many IT companies along the road can’t something be done. These roads also pose more than one safety hazard for the commuters.
I have heard people here compare this with Bangaluru and be contented that we still have not come to that state. But is the solution? Solution to this would involve changing fundamentally the way India operates. Ok, Now I am talking of utopia!!!!
Elected politicians and corporation council members should behave like directors of a publically held company aware that the share holders(in this case the common man) can question them if they do not fulfill their duties! Its well known that immense lobbying happens to get these contracts , that’s the system. But after that the least you can do is implement the contract without squandering any more public wealth! As a tax payer in this country I think I can atleast expect this.
What is the solution? Do any of you have any bright ideas??
I travel for about an hour to work everyday. Our company bus takes the ECR or OMR route in Chennai. For the uninitiated, the OMR is propagated as the IT highway of Chennai! Roughly from Madya Kailash Temple to Siruseri and further beyond! We talk of growth in the IT industry, foreign investments, mergers, acquisition, India (superpower in 2020) and the like. We rant and rave about the IT boom and the subsequent advantages that it offers! But we all also end up discussing the major issue that we face going forward. Infrastructure.
Traveling in these roads everyday just makes me think. We have a good stretch of road till about SRP tools junction(again for non-chennaites this is like a small stretch when you compare the IT Highway). The government has taken care to lay the road, build state of the art medians, lights, bus stops and even have paintings and statues in this stretch. They made a big hue and cry of this inuagration though the completion date was as usual well past the deadline.
You cross this stretch and then reality hits you. We have an excuse of a road/half done construction blocks lying everywhere, mud piled up and as your bus roars past all this , all you get is dust on your face! I am truly trying to understand why does it take so long to build a road? This is not even an initiative from the scratch. This initiative was already started contracts handed out but there is just no road. Sometimes makes me think if democracy is the road block here. Can’t help but compare with China. You see the infrastructure you would be amazed! I visited Hong Kong recently and you need to see the infrastructure to actually believe it! With so many IT companies along the road can’t something be done. These roads also pose more than one safety hazard for the commuters.
I have heard people here compare this with Bangaluru and be contented that we still have not come to that state. But is the solution? Solution to this would involve changing fundamentally the way India operates. Ok, Now I am talking of utopia!!!!
Elected politicians and corporation council members should behave like directors of a publically held company aware that the share holders(in this case the common man) can question them if they do not fulfill their duties! Its well known that immense lobbying happens to get these contracts , that’s the system. But after that the least you can do is implement the contract without squandering any more public wealth! As a tax payer in this country I think I can atleast expect this.
What is the solution? Do any of you have any bright ideas??
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Am I reading this right??
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/2-bihar-toddlers-accused-of-rape/27454-3.html
This news from CNN IBN talks about 2 toddlers accused of raping a 20 year old woman...Yes you are reading my lines right!!I read this and was shocked that these innocent toddlers in Bihar are being accused of another crimes as well! I am not sure of the authenticity of this piece of news. Can someone throw more light on this?If its true I don't believe what the world has come too!!If its false(I am hoing it is!) I hope the media is taken to task for this..
This news from CNN IBN talks about 2 toddlers accused of raping a 20 year old woman...Yes you are reading my lines right!!I read this and was shocked that these innocent toddlers in Bihar are being accused of another crimes as well! I am not sure of the authenticity of this piece of news. Can someone throw more light on this?If its true I don't believe what the world has come too!!If its false(I am hoing it is!) I hope the media is taken to task for this..
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Tribute to Thatha
Its been two years since my Thatha passed away. I still feel he is around ,deep down in my heart! This post is a tribute to him…
Born in Kerala he was one of the very few people who went to college in his times. His specialization was Telecom and he worked with the Indian Telephones department(a rare honor then!). I have stayed with him since my first standard and I can easily say that I was one of his favourites! A modern man who insisted that women also work and be financial independent which gave my mom her carrer!! He was so academically inclined that his enthusiasm was infectious!! Right from school days he used to be my guru in “Math” and English grammar especially.
I still vividly remember this incident. Computer Science as a subject was just introduced and he sat and learnt the subject from scratch so that he could teach my cousins! His favorite past time used to be reading! His old tattered oxford dictionary was his cherished possession. He had a bad temper while teaching especially when we made silly mistakes his comment will be “thappidam. Yosichu pannu”(Wrong think and do it). He used to take us to the park nearby in the evenings and get us our favorite Puff and cake from a bakery nearby!His story weaving capability was just outta the world and his method of teaching us english grammar clauses was very unique!With the wren and martin in one hand he would single handedly put our grammar to test! When I was doing my engineering he used to keenly talk to me about my course as I was in the same ECE field. Amazing how sharp and strong his basics were! I used to be stumped on most occasions! My Masters was also in the same field and I still remember the mails I used to send which had so much details regarding the courses I was taking. His joy was to see his grandchildren well educated and shining in their respective carrers. His health condition worsened during Aug 2004. He was so sick during my wedding and he still managed to smile and be there for me! He was so happy when I got my first job in India. Its almost as if he was waiting to hear the news …..He passed away Oct. 2004……He’s left behind such a strong impression on me and I still send him a silent message when something good/bad happens to me!!
Thanks Thatha for everything! Not sure if I got to say that when you were around!
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