Lok Satta Party wins my support!

It is almost election time in India and my home state Andhra Pradesh(AP). With Lok Sabha elections in India and Assembly elections in AP fast approaching some of my friends and I have been debating the various choices available before the people of India and AP. I guess the debate will continue till the election day for many but I have made up my mind on who I will support. The new political party Lok Satta Party(www.loksatta.org) wins my support hands down unless something dramatic happens to change it. Lok Satta Party has a visionary leader in Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan (JP). His inspiring leadership and policies of Lok Satta have helped me easily make this decision. I believe Lok Satta can definitely usher in new kind of politics and hopefully help India get rid of the corrupt politicians and practitioners of divisive politics of which most Indians have grown tired.

I just wanted to put this post out first, so that people won't be surprised to see my twitters and blog posts about Lok Satta in future. Some of you(read friends) might even get phone calls about this as I plan to actively volunteer in raising awareness about Lok Satta in the run up to elections:). Do get in touch if you want to help out too!

Are b-schools responsible for current financial mess?

Here's a post wondering if b-schools are responsible for the current financial mess!
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/12/insidious_mbas.cfm

Can b-schools really train people to be not greedy?

Interesting way to raise money for charities!

Interesting! I will probably follow this IPO keenly!

http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=12208564

Funny video about Indo-Pak standoff

My colleague pointed me to this funny video about Indo-Pak standoff ! Do watch it!


Volatile India-Pakistan Standoff Enters 11,680th Day

I hope that the stand-off doesn't continue for another 60 years!

Now twitter updates

Just joined the twittering bandwagon. I don't expect to twitter all the time but surely look forward to some updates when I am doing something fun or have absolutely nothing to do except twitter in frustration. So if you are into twittering, please feel free to follow me. BTW, you can find my top 5 twitter posts on this page. So keep visiting this page as I am sure there will be some new content for you in terms of twitter updates if not blog posts! I know I have been too lazy to post something on this blog for a while now. Hopefully, I will be out of my slumber soon and start posting again soon!

Great news for people applying for H1-B under Masters quota!

Great news for people on OPT! OPT time has been extended to 29 months for people who fail to obtain H1-B this time. I already have friends who are wishing that their H1-B application gets rejected so that they can save money on taxes for 29 months!

Click here for more info
OR visit http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1207334008610.shtm

Who got how many H1-Bs in 2007?

InformationWeek had a good article about how H1-Bs got allocated in 2007. Click here for the full article!

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001329&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

The following excel sheet pointed in the above article has the full list of companies. Interesting to see that Microsoft had only 3 new H1-B visas!

http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/1179/H-1B_Approvals_for_initial_benefits_by_employers_FY07.xls