Love and Success story of Infosys Narayan Murthy and Sudha

Love & Success Story of Narayan Murthy and Sudha (From Sudha's Autobiography)

It was in Pune that I met Narayan Murty through my friend Prasanna who is now the Wipro chief, who was also training in Telco. Most of the books that Prasanna lent me had Murty's name on them which meant that I had a preconceived image of the man. Contrary to expectation, Murty was shy, bespectacled and an introvert. When he invited us for dinner. I was a bit taken aback as I thought the young man was making a very fast move. I refused since I was the only girl in the group. But Murty was relentless and we all decided to meet for dinner the next day at 7.30 p.m. at Green Fields hotel on the Main Road, Pune.

The next day I went there at 7' o clock since I had to go to the tailor near the hotel. And what do I see? Mr. Murty waiting in front of the hotel and it was only seven. Till today, Murty maintains that I had mentioned (consciously!) that I would be going to the tailor at 7 so that I could meet him...And I maintain that I did not say any such thing consciously or unconsciously because I did not think of Murty as anything other than a friend at that stage. We have agreed to disagree on this matter. Soon, we became friends. Our conversations were filled with Murty's experiences abroad and the books that he has read. My friends insisted that Murty was trying to impress me because he was interested in me. I kept denying it till one fine day, after dinner Murty said, I want to tell you something. I knew this was it. It was coming. He said, I am 5'4" tall. I come from a lower middle class family. I can never become rich in my life and I can never give you any riches. You are beautiful, bright, and intelligent and you can get anyone you want. But will you marry me? I asked Murty to give me some time for an answer. My father didn't want me to marry a wannabe politician, (a communist at that) who didn't have a steady job and wanted to build an orphanage...

When I went to Hubli I told my parents about Murty and his proposal. My mother was positive since Murty was also from Karnataka, seemed intelligent and comes from a good family. But my father asked: What's his job, his salary, his qualifications etc? Murty was working as a research assistant and was earning less than me. He was willing to go dutch with me on our outings. My parents agreed to meet Murty in Pune on a particular day at10 a. m sharp. Murty did not turn up. How can I trust a man to take care of my daughter if he cannot keep an appointment, asked my father?

At 12noon Murty turned up in a bright red shirt! He had gone on work to Bombay, was stuck in a traffic jam on the ghats, so he hired a taxi (though it was very expensive for him) to meet his would be father-in-law. Father was unimpressed. My father asked him what he wanted to become in life. Murty said he wanted to become a politician in the communist party and wanted to open an orphanage. My father gave his verdict. NO. I don't want my daughter to marry somebody who wants to become a communist and then open an orphanage when he himself didn't have money to support his family. Ironically, today, I have opened many orphanages something, which Murty wanted to do 25 years ago. By this time I realized I had developed a liking towards Murty which could only be termed as love. I wanted to marry Murty because he is an honest man. He proposed to me highlighting the negatives in his life. I promised my father that I will not marry Murty without his blessings though at the same time, I cannot marry anybody else. My father said he would agree if Murty promised to take up a steady job. But Murty refused saying he will not do things in life because somebody wanted him to. So, I was caught between the two most important people in my life.

The stalemate continued for three years during which our courtship took us to every restaurant and cinema hall in Pune. In those days, Murty was always broke. Moreover, he didn't earn much to manage. Ironically today, he manages Infosys Technologies Ltd., one of the world's most reputed companies. He always owed me money. We used to go for dinner and he would say, I don't have money with me, you pay my share, I will return it to you later. For three years I maintained a book on Murty's debt to me. No, he never returned the money and I finally tore it up after my wedding. The amount was a little over Rs 4000. During this interim period Murty quit his job as research assistant and started his own software business. Now, I had to pay his salary too! Towards the late 70s computers were entering Indian a big way.

During the fag end of 1977 Murty decided to take up a job as General Manager at Patni Computers in Bombay. But before he joined the company he wanted to marry me since he was to go on training to the US after joining. My father gave in as he was happy Murty had a decent job, now. WE WERE MARRIED IN MURTY'S HOUSE IN BANGALOREON FEBRUARY 10, 1978WITH ONLY OUR TWO FAMILIES PRESENT.I GOT MY FIRST SILK SARI. THE WEDDING EXPENSES CAME TO ONLY RS 800 (US $17) WITH MURTY AND I POOLING IN RS 400 EACH.

I went to the US with Murty after marriage. Murty encouraged me to see America on my own because I loved traveling. I toured America for three months on backpack and had interesting experiences which will remain fresh in my mind forever. Like the time when the New York police took me into custody because they thought I was an Italian trafficking drugs in Harlem. Or the time when I spent the night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with an old couple. Murty panicked because he couldn't get a response from my hotel room even at midnight. He thought I was either killed or kidnapped.

IN 1981 MURTY WANTED TO START INFOSYS. HE HAD A VISION AND ZERO CAPITAL...initially I was very apprehensive about Murty getting into business. We did not have any business background. Moreover we were living a comfortable life in Bombay with a regular pay check and I didn't want to rock the boat. But Murty was passionate about creating good quality software. I decided to support him. Typical of Murty, he just had a dream and no money. So I gave him Rs. 10,000 which I had saved for a rainy day, without his knowledge and told him, this is all I have. Take it. I give you three years sabbatical leave. I will take care of the financial needs of our house. You go and chase your dreams without any worry. But you have only three years!

Murty and his six colleagues started Infosys in 1981, with enormous interest and hard work. In 1982 I left Telco and moved to Pune with Murty. We bought a small house on loan which also became the Infosys office. I was a clerk-cum-cook-cum-programmer. I also took up a job as Senior Systems Analyst with Walchand group of Industries to support the house. In 1983 Infosys got their first client, MICO, in Bangalore. Murty moved to Bangalore and stayed with his mother while I went to Hubli to deliver my second child, Rohan. Ten days after my son was born, Murty left for the US on project work. I saw him only after a year, as I was unable to join Murty in the US because my son had infantile eczema, an allergy to vaccinations. So for more than a year I did not step outside our home for fear of my son contracting an infection. It was only after Rohan got all his vaccinations that I came to Bangalore where we rented a small house in Jayanagar and rented another house as Infosys headquarters. My father presented Murty a scooter to commute. I once again became a cook, programmer, clerk, secretary, office assistant et al. Nandan Nilekani (MD of Infosys) and his wife Rohini stayed with us. While Rohini baby sat my son, I wrote programs for Infosys. There was no car, no phone, and just two kids and a bunch of us working hard, juggling our lives and having fun while Infosys was taking shape. It was not only me but also the wives of other partners too who gave their unstinted support. We all knew that our men were trying to build something good.

It was like a big joint family, taking care and looking out for one another. I still remember Sudha Gopalakrishna looking after my daughter Akshata with all care and love while Kumari Shibulal cooked for all of us. Murty made it very clear that it would either be me or him working at Infosys. Never the two of us together... I was involved with Infosys initially. Nandan Nilekani suggested I should be on the Board but Murty said he did not want a husband and wife team at Infosys. I was shocked since I had the relevant experience and technical qualifications. He said, Sudha if you want to work with Infosys, I will withdraw, happily. I was pained to know that I will not be involved in the company my husband was building and that I would have to give up a job that I am qualified to do and love doing. It took me a couple of days to grasp the reason behind Murty's request. I realized that to make Infosys a success one had to give one's 100 percent. One had to be focused on it alone with no other distractions. If the two of us had to give 100 percent to Infosys then what would happen to our home and our children? One of us had to take care of our home while the other took care of Infosys.

I opted to be a homemaker, after all Infosys was Murty's dream. It was a big sacrifice but it was one that had to be made. Even today, Murty says, Sudha, I stepped on your career to make mine. You are responsible for my success. I might have given up my career for my husband's sake. But that does not make me a doormat...Many think that I have been made the sacrificial lamb at Narayan Murty's altar of success. A few women journalists have even accused me of setting a wrong example by giving up my dreams to make my husbands a reality. Isn't freedom about living your life the way you want it? What is right for one person might be wrong for another. It is up to the individual to make a choice that is effective in her life. I feel that when a woman gives up her right to choose for herself is when she crosses over from being an individual to a doormat.

Murty's dreams encompassed not only himself but a generation of people. It was about founding something worthy, exemplary and honorable. It was about creation and distribution of wealth. His dreams were grander than my career plans, in all aspects. So, when I had to choose between Murty's career and mine, I opted for what I thought was a right choice. We had a home and two little children. Measles, mumps, fractures, PTA meetings, wants and needs of growing children do not care much for grandiose dreams. They just needed to be attended to. Somebody had to take care of it all. Somebody had to stay back to create a home base that would be fertile for healthy growth, happiness, and more dreams to dream. I became that somebody willingly. I can confidently say that if I had had a dream like Infosys, Murty would have given me his unstinted support. The roles would have been reversed.

We are not bound by the archaic rules of marriage. I cook for him but I don't wait up to serve dinner like a traditional wife. So, he has no hassles about heating up the food and having his dinner. He does not intrude into my time especially when I am writing my novels. He does not interfere in my work at the Infosys Foundation and I don't interfere with the running of Infosys. I teach Computer Science to MBA and MCA students at Christ College for a few hours every week and I earn around Rs 50,000 a year. I value this financial independence greatly though there is no need for me to pursue a teaching career. Murty respects that. I travel all over the world without Murty because he hates traveling. We trust each other implicitly. We have another understanding too. While he earns the money, I spend it, mostly through the charity. Philanthropy is a profession and an art... The Infosys Foundation was born in 1997 with the sole objective of uplifting the less- privileged sections of society. IN THE PAST THREE YEARS WE HAVE BUILT HOSPITALS, ORPHANAGES, REHABILITATION CENTRES, SCHOOLBUILDINGS, SCIENCE CENTRES AND MORETHAN 3500 LIBRARIES. Our work is mainly in the rural areas amongst women and children. I am one of the trustees and our activities span six states including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Orissa, Chandigarh and Maharashtra.I travel to around 800 villages constantly. Infosys Foundation has a minimal staff of three trustees and three office members. We all work very hard to achieve our goals and that is the reason why Infosys Foundation has a distinct identity. Every year we donate around Rs 5-6 crore (Rs 50 - 60 million). We run Infosys Foundation the way Murty runs Infosys in a professional and scientific way.

Philanthropy is a profession and an art. It can be used or misused. We slowly want to increase the donations and we dream of a time when Infosys Foundation could donate large amounts of money. Every year we receive more than 10,000 applications for donations. Everyday I receive more than 120 calls. Amongst these, there are those who genuinely need help and there are hood winkers too. I receive letters asking me to donate Rs five lakh to someone because five lakh is, like peanuts to Infosys. Some people write to us asking for free Infosys shares. Over the years I have learnt to differentiate the wheat from the chaff, though I still give a patient hearing to all the cases. Sometimes I feel I have lost the ability to trust people. I have become shrewder to avoid being conned. It saddens me to realize that even as a person is talking to me I try to analyze them: Has he come here for any donation? Why is he praising my work or enquiring about my health, does he want some money from me? Eight out of ten times I am right. They do want my money. But I feel bad for the other two whom I suspected. I think that is the price that I have to pay for the position that I am in now.

The greatest difficulty in having money is teaching your children the value of it and trying to keep them on a straight line....Bringing up children n a moneyed atmosphere is a difficult task. EVEN TODAY I THINK TWICE IF I HAVE TO SPEND RS 10 ON AN AUTO WHEN I CAN WALK UP TO MY HOUSE. I cannot expect my children to do the same. They have seen money from the time they were born. But we can lead by example. When they see Murty wash his own plate after eating and clean the two toilets in the house everyday they realize that no work is demeaning irrespective of how rich you are. I DON'T HAVE A MAID AT HOME BECAUSE I DON'T SEE THE NEED FOR ONE. When children see both parents working hard, living a simple life, most of the times they tend to follow. This doesn't mean we expect our children to live an austere life. My children buy what they want and go where they want but they have to follow certain rules. They will have to show me a bill for whatever they buy. My daughter can buy five new outfits but she has to give away five old ones. My son can go out with his friends for lunch or dinner but if he wants to go to a five star hotel, we discourage it. Or we accompany him. So far my children haven't given me any heartbreak. They are good children.

My eldest daughter is studying abroad, whereas my son is studying in Bangalore. They don't use their father's name in vain. If asked, they only say that his name is Murty and that he works for Infosys. They don't want to be recognized and appreciated because of their father or me but for themselves. I DON'T FEEL GUILTY ABOUT HAVING MONEY FOR WE HAVE WORKED HARD FOR IT. BUT I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE FLAUNTING IT...IT IS A CONSCIOUS DECISION ON OUR PART TO LIVE A SIMPLE, SO-CALLED MIDDLE CLASS LIFE.WE LIVE IN THE SAME TWO-BEDROOM, PARSELY FURNISHED HOUSE BEFORE INFOSYS BECAME A SUCCESS. Our only extravagance is buying books and CDs. MY HOUSE HAS NO LOCKERS FOR I HAVE NO JEWELS. I WEAR A STONE EARRING WHICH I BOUGHT IN BOMBAYFOR RS 100. I don't even wear my mangalsutra until I attend some family functions or I am with my mother-in-law. I am not fond of jewellery or saris.

Five years ago, I went to Kashi where tradition demands that you give up something and I gave up shopping. Since then I haven't bought myself a sari or gone shopping. It is my friends who gift me with saris. Murty bought me a sari a long time ago. It was not to my taste and I told him to refrain from buying saris for me in the future. I am no good at selecting men's clothes either. It is my daughter who does the shopping for us. I still have the same sofa at home which my daughter wants to change. However, we have indulged ourselves with each one having their own music system and computer. I don't carry a purse and neither does Murty most of the time. I do tell him to keep some small change with him but he doesn't. I borrow money from my secretary or my driver if I need cash. They know my habit so they always carry extra cash with them. But I settle the accounts every evening. MURTY AND I ARE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH OUR LIFESTYLE AND WE DON'T SEE THE NEED TO CHANGE IT. NOW THAT WE HAVE MONEY.


Murty and I are two opposites that complement each other... Murty is sensitive and romantic in his own way. He always gifts me books addressed to >From Me to You. Or to the person I most admire etc. We both love books. We are both complete opposites. I am an extrovert and he is an introvert. I love watching movies and listening to classical music. Murty loves listening to English classical music. I go out for movies with my students and secretary every other week. I am still young at heart. I really enjoyed watching "Kaho Na Pyaar Hai" and I am a Hrithik Roshan fan. It has been more than 20 years since Murty and I went for a movie. My daughter once gave us a surprise by booking tickets for "Titanic". Since I had a prior engagement that day, Murty went for the movie with his secretary Pandu. I love traveling whereas Murty loves spending time at home. Friends come and go with the share prices... Even in my dreams, I did not expect Infosys to grow like the way it has. I don't think even Murty envisioned this phenomenal success, at least not in 1981. After Infosys went public in 1993, we became what people would call as rich, moneyed people. I was shocked to see what was happening to Infosys and to us. Suddenly you see and hear about so much money. Your name and photo is splashed in the papers. People talk about you. It was all new to me. SUDDENLY I HAVE PEOPLE WALKING UP TO ME SAYING, OH, WE WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, WE HAD A MEAL 25 YEARS AGO. THEY CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT OUR WEDDING (WHICH IS AN UTTER LIE BECAUSE ONLY MY FAMILY WAS PRESENT AT MY WEDDING). I DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO KNOW MURTY AND ME SO WELL. But that doesn't mean I don't have true friends. I do have genuine friends, a handful, who have been with me for a very long time. My equation with these people has not changed and vices versa. I am ALSO VERY CLOSE TO NARAYAN MURTY'S family, especially my sister-in-law KAMALA MURTY, a SCHOOLTEACHER, who is more of a dear friend to me. I have discovered that these are the few relationships and friendships that don't fluctuate depending on the price of Infosys shares. Have I lost my identity as a woman, in Murty's shadow? No. I might be Mrs. Narayan Murty. I might be Akshata and Rohan's mother. I might be the trustee of Infosys Foundation. But I am still Sudha. I play different roles like all women. That doesn't mean we don't have our own identity. Women have that extra quality of adaptability and learn to fit into different shoes. But we are our own selves still. And we have to exact our freedom by making the right choices in our lives, dictated by us and not by his world.

Infosys Narayan Murthy life experiences

Hi frens, i would like to share with you few stories, facts about Mr. N.R. Narayan Murthy, Non-Executive chairman and chief mentor of Infosys which i have read from various forums, blogs and websites.

Full Name : Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy

Early Life :

Born on August 20, 1946, N.R. Narayana Murthy is a B.E. Electrical from University of Mysore (1967) and M.Tech from IIT Kanpur (1969).

His first position was at IIM Ahmedabad as chief systems programmer. After IIM Ahmedabad , he then joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune. Before moving to Mumbai, he met his wife Sudha Murthy in Pune who at the time was an engineer working at Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd (now known as Tata Motors).

Life Experiences :

He shared his life experiences when he was invited to deliver a lecture at New York University.

(1) The first event occurred when he was a graduate student in Control Theory at IIT, Kanpur, in India. At breakfast on a bright Sunday morning in 1968, he had a chance to encounter with a famous computer scientist from a well-known US university. He was discussing exciting new developments in the field of computer science with a large group of students and how such developments would alter our future. Mr. Murhty got inspired and went straight from breakfast to the library, read four or five papers which he had suggested, and left the library determined to study computer science. This experience taught him that valuable advice can sometimes come from an unexpected source, and chance events can sometimes open new doors.

(2) The next event occurred in 1974 at Nis, a border town between former Yugoslavia, now Serbia, and Bulgaria. "I was hitchhiking (is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, travel by getting free rides from motorists) from Paris back to Mysore, India, my home town. By the time a kind driver dropped me at Nis railway station at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, the restaurant was closed. So was the bank the next morning, and I could not eat because I had no local money. I slept on the railway platform until 8.30 pm in the night when the Sofia Express pulled in.

The only passengers in my compartment were a girl and a boy. I struck a conversation in French with the young girl. She talked about the travails of living in an iron curtain country, until we were roughly interrupted by some policemen who, I later gathered, were summoned by the young man who thought we were criticising the communist government of Bulgaria.

The girl was led away; my backpack and sleeping bag were confiscated. I was dragged along the platform into a small 8x8 foot room with a cold stone floor and a hole in one corner by way of toilet facilities. I was held in that bitterly cold room without food or water for over 72 hours.

I had lost all hope of ever seeing the outside world again, when the door opened. I was again dragged out unceremoniously, locked up in the guard's compartment on a departing freight train and told that I would be released 20 hours later upon reaching Istanbul. The guard's final words still ring in my ears -- "You are from a friendly country called India and that is why we are letting you go!"

The journey to Istanbul was lonely, and I was starving. This long, lonely, cold journey forced me to deeply rethink my convictions about Communism. Early on a dark Thursday morning, after being hungry for 108 hours, I was purged of any last vestiges of affinity for the Left.

I concluded that entrepreneurship, resulting in large-scale job creation, was the only viable mechanism for eradicating poverty in societies.

Deep in my heart, I always thank the Bulgarian guards for transforming me from a confused Leftist into a determined, compassionate capitalist! Inevitably, this sequence of events led to the eventual founding of Infosys in 1981. "

(3) On a chilly Saturday morning in winter 1990, five of the seven founders of Infosys met in our small office in a leafy Bangalore suburb. The decision at hand was the possible sale of Infosys for the enticing sum of $1 million. After nine years of toil in the then business-unfriendly India, we were quite happy at the prospect of seeing at least some money.

I let my younger colleagues talk about their future plans. Discussions about the travails of our journey thus far and our future challenges went on for about four hours. I had not yet spoken a word.

Finally, it was my turn. I spoke about our journey from a small Mumbai [ Images ] apartment in 1981 that had been beset with many challenges, but also of how I believed we were at the darkest hour before the dawn. I then took an audacious step. If they were all bent upon selling the company, I said, I would buy out all my colleagues, though I did not have a cent in my pocket.

There was a stunned silence in the room. My colleagues wondered aloud about my foolhardiness. But I remained silent. However, after an hour of my arguments, my colleagues changed their minds to my way of thinking. I urged them that if we wanted to create a great company, we should be optimistic and confident. They have more than lived up to their promise of that day.

In the seventeen years since that day, Infosys has grown to revenues in excess of $3.0 billion, a net income of more than $800 million and a market capitalisation of more than $28 billion, 28,000 times richer than the offer of $1 million on that day.

In the process, Infosys has created more than 70,000 well-paying jobs, 2,000-plus dollar-millionaires and 20,000-plus rupee millionaires.

source: rediff

The Fact about Surya's character in YUVA

"If you think you are beaten even before the battle begins, chances are you can never win."

Do you know YUVA was a true story of a guy called George Reddy from Osmania University? Lecturers were afraid to teach because they weren't confident they could answer his questions, he was outstanding. Apart from being academically brilliant he was a prominent student leader and everyone was sure he would win a seat in the assembly. George Reddy fought against the politically powered devils & bureaucrats, to every one’s shock George Reddy was killed by activists (another student group and inner organization of a political party). This happened around mid 80’s. Students who were all educated in and around Osmania University limits know about the war of George Reddy.

George Reddy was the founder of the Revolutionary Students Movement in Andhra Pradesh. He was a student of the Osmania University and was the university gold medalist, a mark of academic excellence.

He was the founder of the Progressive Democratic Students Union, which was a student body on the campus of Osmania University, and is now the student wing of the Communist Party Of India(Marxist) New Democracy.

Reddy was murdered on campus by the Jan Sangh sympathizers within sight of the police.

George Reddy is the inspiration for the lead character Michael (Surya) in the movie YUVA and Aayitha Ezhuthu, by Maniratnam.

Source : Wikipedia

Google now indexes flash content

Search Engine giant Google moves ahead of its competitors. According to the official Google Blog , Google search engine robots (Googlebot) can easily index flash files.

Before, it was very difficult to index flash based website or other flash elements like flash intros, flash banners in a website .

To know about how Google works check this link http://sandytechzone.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-google-search-works.html

Although, the demand of flash websites increased in modern times but only a handful of them could reach the target audience. Web designers made beautiful flash web designs but that did not help in inviting the website traffic. Wonderful flash works were not search engine friendly. Hence, the flash website were usually ranked low in the search engines.

Problem in the past:

Search engine robots usually found the flash designs too much complicated. The flash files could not be indexed properly like simple files. The search engine robots could only index the names of the files. It failed to index the content embedded in the flash works.

Various techniques were employed in order to optimize flash websites and other flash elements. This included Off Page optimization, use of keywords in the right place, use of Macromedia Software Developer and use of proper tags.

Google improves its technology:

Google has taken a big step by updating its technology, which has enhanced its indexing power. Now, the search engine robots can index the content embedded in flash files without difficulty.

It has initiated a new Flash-indexing algorithm of its own. Google has used Adobe’s Flash Player technology and increased its performance. Web designers can now build wonderful flash websites.

How it works?

The technology of flash reader of Adobe has enabled the search engines to effectively read Flash files, extract text and links. It has enhanced Google to index content in SWF files. Now, Google is able to get the textual content in websites that appears to the web visitors.

The new algorithm helps to read flash files like a human. It works in the same method as human being acts like clicking buttons and so on.

The search robots index textual content in flash files and words that become visible in flash files. It also tries to find out URLs that appears in flash files.

However, it must be observed that the search engine king is presently noticing and indexing textual content only.

Present Limitations

No doubt, the new technology has largely improved the workings of the search engine king yet there are certain limitations. There are mainly three drawbacks, which are mentioned below:

1. In certain cases, Google robots fail to index some kinds of JavaScript. In case, the flash file of a web page is loaded using those JavaScript then it will not be indexed.
2. Google search robots cannot index bi-directional languages like Arabic and Hebrew languages as the text is written in a form i.e., right-to-left (RTL).
3. Suppose, a flash file loads different files like HTML file, SWF file etc. The search robots will index all the files separately and never be regarded as a part of the textual content of the site.
4. Google search robots are unable to index text embedded in the images in the flash files.

It is indeed a big step in the web arena. Now more and more websites can hope to reach the audience through good ranking in the search engine. Google is already working to make things more search engine friendly and enhance the process to rank websites in a better way.

Nice words written by a boy who lost his parents in Tsunami

Sea, i will never forgive you anymore even if your waves touch my feet Million times

Interesting fact about AUGUST 2009

An Interesting fact about August 2009 :

This August has 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays All in 1 month this happens after 823 years.

Richest Beggar

The man in the picture is Sambhaji Kale and he is the richest beggar in Mumbai. He and his family of four beg for a living and the end of the day they make a cool earning of Rs. 1000/- . Even if the days are bad, they always have Rs. 40000 in their bank account, a few thousand rupees in investment companies, a flat in Virar and 2 houses and a plot of land in Solapur.

Few facts about beggars in India

* Average daily income of beggars in metros is Rs 80.
* 75 per cent spend Rs 50 a day, 27% up to Rs 100.
* Most earn more than daily wage earners.
* Graduate and postgraduate beggars are increasing.
* able-bodied beggars are more than disabled.
* Rs 25,000 average bank balance of beggars in Kolkata.
* Rs 180 CR is the worth of Mumbai beggars.
* 14 per cent beggars have no expectation from the government.

In most of the foreign countries like in US and UK beggars perform musical performance, comedy, dance etc they entertain the passers along the street to make an earning. People who perform in public places for tips are known as Buskers or street performers. Buskers may do acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, card tricks, clowning, comedy, contortions & escapes, dance, fire eating, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime and a mime variation where the artist performs as a living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or recite poetry or prose as a bard, street art (sketching and painting, etc.), street theatre, sword swallowing, or even present a flea circus. People busk for a variety of reasons: for money, for fun, for the attention they get, to meet people and socialize, for the love of their art, to practice their skills, or try out new material in front of an audience.

The man in the above picture is David Johnson, also known as the World Famous Bushman, is a busker who has been entertaining passers-by along Fishersman's Wharf in San Francisco since 1980. In the beginning he tried dressing as a robot but he found that there were too many others doing the same thing. Currently Johnson hides motionless behind some eucalyptus branches and waits for unsuspecting people to wander by. When they approach, he jumps out and startles them. Crowds gather to watch him work, often including those he has previously scared.


Johnson claims to earn $60,000 and also employs a bodyguard to protect him against attacks by the unamused, to distract his targets, and to alert him to the approach of elderly people so he can avoid scaring them.

White People Stole my car

One of the most searched terms on Google on 25 August 2009 is “White people stole my car” and that is because of a mistake. When you Google for the term “White people stole my car”, Google suggests you to search “Black people stole my car”, which is both funny and some say that Google is racist by its suggestions.

Actually there's a popular email being passed around saying that Google is racist with a picture showing a Google search for "white people stole my car." Underneath, it shows "Did you mean: "black people stole my car." The joke, you see, is that Google would replace the term "black" for "white."

India stepping ahead with the launch of Bhuvan

ISRO has launched Google Earth like application called Bhuvan. Bhuvan means Earth in Sanskrit, using bhuvan one can see any part of India except few sensitive locations like military and nuclear installations. The 3D mapping tool uses images taken a year ago by ISRO's seven remote sensing satellites, including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2. The satellites can even capture the images of objects as small as a car on a road. Bhuvan displays satellite images of varying resolution of India's surface, allowing users to visually see things like cities and important places of interest looking perpendicularly down or at an oblique angle, with different perspectives and can navigate through 3D viewing environment.

Hyderabad based National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), which is a part of ISRO, had a lead role in designing and developing 'Bhuvan'.

Requirements to run Bhuvan:
(1) First you need to register, after registration you have to download the Bhuvan plug-in to access the site.

(2) Direct X 9 is required for installing the plug-in.

URL of Bhuvan website : http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in

DOS simulator

This C program simulates DOS.

Turbo C++ version 3 was used to write, compile and execute the program.

click here to download the source code

click here to download the application

Sudoku Solver

This java program can solve easy to medium Sudoku problems.
The program was written using java and netbeans IDE was used to create the GUI.

click here to download Main.java

click here to download Solution.java (this file contains the actual code for solving the problem)

click here to download Sudoku.java (contains code generated to create GUI).

click here to download Sudoku.jar (this jar file requires java 1.6 installed on your computer to run)

Data Entry and retrieval program using 'C'

This is a data entry and retrieval program written using C language. This program accepts 5 fields.

The program was written using Turbo C++ version 3.

Click here to download source code

click here to download application

download support file required to run application

How Google Search Works

In this post i would like to share my presentation about How Google Search Works.
I have given this presentation when i was in MCA final year i.e. in the year 2008 at Muffakham Jah College, Hyderabad, India. The presentation is in .doc format created using MS - Word, it briefly describes about the history and the working of Google. At the end of the presentation i have listed few useful links.

click the below link to download the presentation.

Click here to download Presentation

Number Puzzle Game

This is a Number Puzzle game developed using 'C' programming language.
I have written this C program using Turbo C++ version 3. To run this game EGAVGA.BGI support file is required.

After downloading both the files Number Puzzle Game.exe and EGAVGA.BGI save them in the same directory and double click the Number Puzzle Game.exe file to play the game.

Download from below links :

Click here to Download EXE file (Required)

Click here to download support file (Required)

Click here to download Read ME file

Both the EXE file as well as the EGAVGA.BGI file should be saved in the same directory.

-> Press 'P' to start playing.
-> Press 'S' for a new game or reset the game.
-> Press 'Q' to exit/quit from the game.

-> Use arrow keys to play.
-> You need to arrange the numbers in the sequence 0 to 14.

Why US elections are on Tuesday that too in NOV?

Hi, on Nov 3 2008 that is on Tuesday the US Presidential elections have been conducted. But why on Tuesday that too in the month of November?

Well, every time the elections are conducted in the month of November and that too after first Monday i.e. on Tuesday this is because

-> In 1845 America was known for farming (i.e. for agriculture)

-> On Sundays people go to church, so Sunday is meant for worshiping and taking rest

-> in those days people have to travel long distances in order to vote, so Monday was meant for traveling.

-> Wednesday is market day, so they thought Tuesday was fine.

Why on November?

-> Because by November harvesting will be done and the whether will be fine to travel.

Why after first Monday ?

->Elections were held after first Monday because it will never fall on Nov1 which is All Saints Day.

-> still they follow it.


I got this information from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBjSNYuTa0I

What is WEB 2.0 ?

Initially when internet was at its infancy stage there were static web pages available on the internet. These static web pages were created by few who own and know how to create a website and the rest were readers who know how to access these web pages and read the content in the web page and believe in what they have posted. so the posting of internet content was restricted to few Computer and technology giants. This stage of WEB was called as WEB 1.0

Now Every user of internet can post content on the internet. This stage of web is called WEB 2.0 where you can do social networking(example orkut),subscribe to a web page, post your content on the web by creating a blog.

Example: in wikipedia.com website we can read any article and if we feel that some more content has to be added or some corrections has to be made on the content of the web page, then we have a edit button to edit that article.

Also blogs allow us to post our own content on the web as a web page. So every internet user has the liberty of posting and commenting on the web content.

Suppose if your a regular visitor or reader of a blog or a web page and you search for the new content on the web page. Instead of doing so you can just subscribe to the web page and just check if there are new posts or articles in that web page. So you can get the updates.

Get ready to browse the internet with Google

Google has launched its version of web browser called "CHROME" , a beta version for Microsoft Windows was released on 2 September 2008 in 43 languages. Mac OS X and Linux versions are under development. To download it visit http://www.google.com/chrome , Google has released CHROME

Java 1.6 Installation

Follow the steps to install Java on your computer.

-> Double click the setup file to install jdk into your system.



-> it will install jdk in your system




-> Install it in the default path i.e. c:\program files\java\ , do not change the path.


-> After installing it, set the environment variables as follows

(1) right click My Computer icon
(2) click Properties
(3) A tabbed window appears, click the Advanced tab


-> click the Environment Variables button.
-> here you have 2 sections User Variables and System Variables.

-> Click the New button in the System Variables section and provide the following entries for

Variable Name : classpath

Variable Value :

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\lib\dt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\lib\tools.jar;.;

-> Click OK after entering the values.

-> C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\lib is the default path where java gets installed. It means we have to provide the path where Java is installed, suppose if you have installed java in d:\java, then provide the Variable Value as d:\java\jdk1.6.0\lib\dt.jar;d:\java\jdk1.6.0\lib\tools.jar;.;

where jdk1.6.0 is the folder which is created within the java folder when we install.


-> click the New button again in the System Variables section and provide the following entries

Variable Name : path

Variable Value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin;

-> click OK after entering the values.

-> to check whether Java is installed or not, type the command javac in the command prompt


-> it will list the possible javac options. If it flashes an error saying " 'javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command ..........." than it means that you didnt set the classpath and path variables correctly in the environment variables.

Few Facts About India

• The Ashoka Chakra in the centre of the Indian Flag has 24 spokes .

• Rabindranath Tagore is not only the first Indian Nobel Laureate but also the first Asian to be honoured by the Nobel Committee.

• The railway platform at Kharagpur in West Bengal is 833 mts (2,733 ft) long - the largest in the world.

• A four-stroke 150 cc 9 hp scooter called Legend from Bajaj Auto Ltd , Pune was launched on July 25 , 1998 . This is the world's first geared four-stroke scooter.

• the Lifeline express (or the Jeevan Rekha Express) is the world's first hospital on wheels . The train set out on june 16 , 1991 on its pilot journey to provide people living in remote parts of India with free medical and surgical facilities .
  

Amazing Facts

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

• The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died ever.

• Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

• There was one a town in west Virginia called "6"

• Ten tons of space dust falls on Earth every day.

• A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.

• Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.

• The Eiffel Tower has 1792 steps.

• Right handed people live on; average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

• Coca-cola was originally green.

• At 40 degrees centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

• More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

• Pearls melt in vinegar.

• There are more than 100 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.