Blog Title: ENagar

Happy (?) birthday to you

Birthdays have always had a special place in our lives. The only difference I feel at this point is whose… Before becoming an engineering student, my birthday was my most important day. But since then, it has always been to the fellows close to my hostel room. Ya, you guessed it. Its bumps time! Also known read more..

Gold Farming

Today in the class, someone mentioned a very interesting case about how an scientist successfully recovers gold nanoparticles and mercury from agricultural crops. Not only this process is commercially viable, but it also improves the quality of soil that is often left contaminated with toxic chemicals used during mining. I wonder if it would make sense read more..

Hot Air balooning

Finally I can knock 1 more item from my to do list. Now my next 2 targets are sailing and sky diving. Most likely this summer I would find a nice place to sail near Mumbai, but I still have no idea where in India we can do sky diving. Posted in Thoughts       read more..

Why I got hired

I will be in Bombay for 2 months during my summers in April Posted in Thoughts      

Is Negative Positive? (FMCG Working Capital Management)

More companies go under because of cash flow issues, rather than declining profitability. Hence traditional prudence always suggests that a firm should have sufficient cash to cover its immediate liabilities. However there is a growing breed of FMCG companies that claim otherwise. Unlike most other industries, the turnover of a FMCG company is not limited by read more..

Few myths about FII

Ila Patnaik in her wonderful article has tried to bust some commonly held misconceptions about FII. Its a good read. Stock prices in India have seen a huge decline along with the fall seen in stock markets all over the world. The world environment has impacted India hugely and all theories of decoupling of financial markets read more..

Lies, Lies and more lies

This company FemCare made a press release to clarify that there is no talks about acquisition with Dabur and then within 30 days the company is acquired. 7 months ago Dabur did exactly the same thing. Read this article by livemint Why do indian corporates lack professional integrity? It is not that the company wanted to keep read more..

Awww…what the helL

  I joined a reputable MBA college recently… Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah blah. I know you have come across lots of books on mba’s and iitians. Why this post again? Just to tell you how my personality has been affected in the few months I have been here. I have become more cynical, a little darker and read more..

Can I buy you a drink

Maybe going though this flowchart help Posted in Thoughts      

The Inimitable Wodehouse

For the uninitiated, go through P_G_Wodehouse ·      “Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,” murmured Psmith. (No earlier usage of the precise words “Elementary, my dear Watson” has yet been found, even in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.) ·      Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. read more..

Double or Triple Standards

We have all heard of double standards prevalent in all societies across the globe. A good friend of mine decided to add another dimension to it over dinner. ‘The Indian society’, he said, ‘has not double, but triple standards. One for me, the other for my wife and a third for the other fellow’s wife’. read more..

Military Etiquette

Officer: Soldier, do you have change for a dollar? Soldier: Sure, buddy. Officer: That’s no way to address an officer! Now let’s try it again. Do you have change for a dollar? Soldier: No, SIR! Posted in Thoughts      

Body doubles

Last summer an Iraqi general summoned Saddam’s 48 body doubles to a safe house in Iraq. “I have good news and I have bad news” he told the doubles. “The good news is, Saddam is alive!” Everybody in the room gave a big cheer, “Saddam!” “Saddam!” “Saddam!” “Saddam!” The Iraqi general then turned to the doubles and read more..

State of libraries in India

A year ago went I had gone to Singapore, one of the first thing that my host wanted me to see was the Library. According to him, the big public library of Singapore was one of the biggest perk of staying in Singapore was that library. I knew him as a learned man, but since read more..

Natural Resources and Poverty

Ever wondered that if you ignore the regions rich in Oil and Gold, then why are the regions that are rich in natural resources are actually poorer and more politically unstable than those regions without any natural resources/minerals? Its because of Dutch Disease. You can also read a short paper on “Why Mining could bust us” read more..

Rented House

Found this one in Satish’s blog Hero goes to a house owner, and asks him for a rented house. The owner denies to give him house on the basis that he is a ‘bachelor’. Hero says, “When you don’t believe a bachelor to give your house, why do you believe a bachelor to marry your daughter? Why read more..

New stock market terms

CEO –Chief Embezzlement Officer CFO– Corporate Fraud Officer. BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex. VALUE INVESTING — The art of read more..

Tune mera namak khaya hai

Ever wondered why a traitor is called a Namak Haram… salt is something that’s worth 5/- a kg and even if someone robs me with a 8 tonne truck load of salt, its worth just 40,000 INR (<1000 USD). However going through the following references about salt, I realized that not so long ago, the purchasing read more..

Meet the in-laws

A young woman brought her fiancé to visit her parents. After a nice dinner, the father invited the fiancé to the library for a drink. “So what are your plans?” he asked the young man. “I am a Torah scholar,” he replied. “A Torah scholar. Hmmm,” said the father. “Admirable, but how will you provide a home read more..

Interview questions

These are few of the interview questions that an candidate should always be prepared to answer to. I. Personal A. Background 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. What would you like me to know about you that is not on your resume? 3. What are the three most important events of your life? 4. What were you doing during this gap of time I see here on read more..

you know you are out of college when…

1. Your salary is less than your tuition. 2. You keep more food than beer in the fridge. 3. You have to pay your own credit card bill. 4. Mac & Cheese no longer counts as a well-balanced meal. 5. You haven’t seen a soap opera in over a year. 6. 8:00a.m. is not early. 7. You hear your favorite song read more..

Sex Education/Moral Guidance

Came across a nice news item.  Here is an excerpt. ‘They do it because everyone else is and they feel they should, too. Information isn’t guidance. Telling people they can have contraceptives in school or giving them sex education at five just isn’t enough. What young people need is moral guidance  -  that is what is read more..

Order in Chaos

An observation made me wonder if freewill exists, why can it be so easily manipulated? My MBA class has 66 students and in the regular classroom, everybody has a demarcated seat they are expected to occupy. Today due to fumigation, we had to move to a different classroom. Being a temporary arrangement, there was no fixed read more..

2 faced

Recently when ML visited our campus for summers talk, this is exactly what I was feeling. THE autumn recruiting farce continues. Amidst a veritable layoff apocalypse on Wall Street, some firms are still wining and dining aspiring bankers. Merrill Lynch is going ahead with its efforts to attract young talent, despite its recent sale to Bank read more..

Men are like

Men are like…. 1. Men are like Laxatives . They irritate the crap out of you. 2 Men are like. Bananas. The older they get, the less firm they are. 3. Men are like Weather .. Nothing can be done to change them. read more..

GDP density

Why is the world so much obsessed with per capita GDP? Its gives us an illusion that population is the limiting factor for every nation. However we very well know that in most countries 5-7% unemployment is considered healthy. Also if you are as rich as USA/Western Europe then one of the major concern of the read more..

Sentence structure with Sarah

Watch this wonderful video. Posted in Thoughts      

Investment Bank and Pigeon

How is an investment banker different from a pigeon? A pigeon can still leave a deposit on a new Ferrari! Posted in Thoughts      

Divorce aur Sensex

Two Wall Street traders were bemoaning the recent stock market gyrations. “This is worse than a divorce!” said one. “How’s that?” asked the other. The first grimaced, “I’ve lost half my net worth but I’ve still got the same wife!” Posted in Thoughts      

marking the territory

Why do women clean the room? Is it because of some primal instinct to mark one’s territory? Dogs have strong olifactory senses, Hence they piss all over their territory, maybe females use cleaniness in the same way. Don’t beleive me? Look at this room I have known this guy for 8 years now and there is no read more..

Are we fools

It is interesting that among all the countries in the world, we are the only country where the government is repeatedly saying that nothing is wrong and everything is all right. At the seminar, the comments in the lobby were that if all is well, why are our markets down by more than 60% while read more..

truths of life

GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats. 2) When your mom is mad at your dad, don’t let her brush your hair. 3) If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person 4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a read more..

Love Case Studies?

Well in that case you must watch the 1973 movie Paper Chase its about how scary Case Studie Posted in Thoughts      

Whorehouse

John McCain and Barack Obama somehow ended up at the same barbershop. As they sat there, each being worked on by a different barber, not a word was spoken. The barbers were even afraid to start a conversation, for fear it would turn to politics. As the barbers finished their shaves, the one who had McCain in read more..

Break Even Analysis

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive, double-pane energy-efficient kind. Yesterday, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the windows had been installed a year ago and I had not paid for them yet. Hellloooo. Now just because I’m blonde doesn’t mean that I read more..

South Indians and Hindi

First of all Hindi is not our national language, so it is not necessary for people to know it. However as this guy rightly points out, there are a few barriers to speaking in Hindi as well. Hindi and Me So next time feel a bit for those guys who only learn Hindi in school. Posted in Humor, Links, read more..

dilemma

Like in real life, the outcome is determined not only by what the winner’s strategy was, but also what decisions the rest of the competition took. Now suppose because of a few bad early moves, you have reached a stage where you know there is no chance of your winning. Also since its winner takes all, read more..

Love sticky notes?

here is how you can use them to make your office more fun. Posted in Thoughts      

beautiful song by 4 kids

got this in an email forward Posted in Thoughts      

3 proofs

THREE PROOFS Three proofs that Jesus was Jewish: 1 He went into his fathers business 2 He lived at home until the age of 33 3 He was sure that his mother was a virgin and his mother was sure that he was God Three proofs that Jesus was Irish: 1 He never got married 2 He never had a steady job 3 His read more..

resume writting tips

Humanize your resume tell us what u have done way to a winning resume video on online resume Posted in Thoughts      

Honeymoon is over

You must hear to the nice commentary for this jackpot race Posted in Thoughts      

Feel like a woman

On a recent transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck by lightning. One woman in particular loses it. Screaming, she stands up in the front of the plane. ‘I’m too young to die,’ she wails. Then she yells ‘Well, if read more..

The silent Majority

T V R Shenoy writes an excellent article about the religious majority. The Silent Majority Their silence is letting the small brand of extremists hijack the religions. It does not help that the religious leaders are sitting mum. By sitting mum they are actually giving their support to these extremists. Like a naughty children who does not get rebuked by read more..

Oligarchy in India

this article by Livemint tries to find out the reason why india has the second highest number of billionaires per unit GDP in the world. the reason why I liked this article is because, until now I thought the threat of Oligarchy came from Judiciary. You can read my previous article attempting to highlight the risk read more..

RTI Videos

Amit forwarded me some nice RTI Videos. you might like to take a look at them Posted in Thoughts      

Unemployment and Maids

I wonder why in a country where there is so high level of unemployment, its so hard to get a domestic-help. Even if you are fortunate enough to be able to get one, then be prepared to treat your servant as a King. Your domestic help will take an unscheduled leave, or even abscond whenever read more..

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

There is summary of a nice Bloomberg article that explains out how rating agencies caused this financial crisis. The whole world is a sucker for AAA+ rating and all the world’s investment flows towards it. However the agencies that award it, claim that its their mere opinion (backed by private research). Hence they are not liable read more..

being missed

In this world where everyone is believed to fend for themselves, the neighbors don’t know each other, and any conversation that lasts longer than a smile or the word “HI!” is an intrusion of privacy. I think the biggest sign that humans beings are still a social animal is that when someone genuinely says that He/she read more..

3 wise women

Can you imagine what the Bible would have to say if instead of the three wise men, you’d have three wise women? You might get the following: * They would have asked for directions. * They would have arrived on time. * They would have helped deliver read more..