Finally an early stage startup fund ! India's desperate need is finally addressed

Just read an article here

Its heartening to hear that India is finally being considered as a serious player in venture capital industry. Till now like of Shaadi.com, Sulekha.com and several others have raised some cool venture capital from several valley based firms.

However, all of these ventures were late stage funded. All this time there was a general fear psychosis from venture capital industries for early stage investments in Indian companies for some unknown reason.

Google has started a seedfund as the article mentions which is going to be a great help for folks with big ideas but no money and probably little experience in execution.

Now that Google has done it others will simply cave in and follow.

Osho thought

Nothing is good, nothing is bad. When this dawns in your consciousness, suddenly you are together, all fragments have disappeared into one unity. You are crystallized, you are centered.

This is one of the greatest contributions of Eastern consciousness to the world.

-- Osho Rajneesh

The Kohinoor row

Suddenly out of the blue we've waged a war for the return of the Kohinoor. What were we doing all this time ? Sleeping? Why didn't it bother us 50 years ago when we got Independence?

This is what i hate about our entire Indian civilization. Living in the past. Identifying heavily with the past. Whats wrong if we don't have that hira? Do we loose anything ? Or Do we gain anything?

Heritage. Crap! When we slowly and gradually lost independence in the 1700's and 1800's where was our pride and heritage? Why the fuck did we fight against each other and let the British take advantage of it ? Why didn't we protect our Heritage and sovereignty that time?

Lets get rid of the cloud of our past and try to do things which don't let us feel ashamed of us again and again. We've had a bad recent past and we've gotten out of it. Screw the Kohinoor. We don't want it. If Pakistan has claims upon it, let them get it. We've got too much to worry about. We got to get rid of poverty and march ahead in our quest of becoming a prosperous superpower. Fuck the Kohinoor. We don't need it.

www.goolti.com - Review Desi Consultancy firms in the US/India

I've embarked on another small venture. http://www.goolti.com. This one is a simple forum where people can share their experiences of working with Desi consultancy firms in the US.

There is a lot of dirtiness which goes on in the Consultancy companies run by Desi's out here in US.
1) Some don't give H1B original papers to their employees.
2) Some in the fear that the employees will leave the firm immediately make them sign a contract.
3) Some hold up some part of their salary so that they don't leave immediately.
4) Some have horrible experiences since they are on bench and their employers don't get them a contract soon.

The list can go on and on. Specifically, students who switch from their F1 visa status to H1B status are special targets to harass since they are new to the game and can be exploited.

www.goolti.com is a site where people who have gone through such good/bad experiences can voice their opinions so that other people benefit from it. Its a simple user forum where you can write a review for others to be viewed and commented on.

Please note that the users can also put up 'good' reviews about their consultants.

I hope this finally becomes a mode to force these consultancy companies to play a fair game.

You may be the last generation who has the possibility to rebel.
And if you don´t rebel, there may be no more chances: humanity can be reduced to a robot-like existence. So rebel while the time is still there!

--Osho Rajneesh

How was the Universe created?

I've reached new levels today in understanding, How the universe was created. The question which is haunting the mankind for centuries in the past and which is going to haunt the mankind for all the time to come has finally been solved by good old me!

So the thing is, the theory that somebody created this universe is absurd as far as my mind can think of. Because, it leaves a circular question open. If X created the universe then who created X? And this question can go on and on and on. So, I refute creationary theories completely and won't bother about them here.

Next, assume that what ever you see as created never really existed. The earth, the stars, the planets, the galaxies and the nebula's, everything. Assume for a while that all that your mind understands as 'creation' just disappears. So what is left now? Total darkness and emptyness, right?

What is left? Nothing. Right? Now what is this Nothing? As far as our minds can perceive 'Nothing' its just absence of 'everything'. If everything disappears, what is left is deep dark space. Fathomless emptyness.

Now, max you can conclude is, out of this emptyness our universe was created. How? Don't bother about that. We will focus our quest to the base. The root, rather than the fruit. Once the root is sorted out, the fruit can be reached.

Next. Can anybody create this emptyness? Absence of everything is presence of this deep dark space. Now 'Nothingness' does not need creation. I mean c'mon its nothingness after all. How can you create nothingness. At least I'm convinced on the fact that 'Nothingness' needs no creation and hence bothering about where it came from and what is it there for is crap and waste of your time.

So, however far the physicists reach in concluding the birth of the universe a final explanation with proofs cannot be ever available.

Hence today, in a final revelation, the final light has dawned and I conclude that this existence never began in the first place and hence will never end. It never was created and hence will never be destroyed.

Hope this explanation made some sense. At least it makes sense to me.

Entrpreneurship

Full marks to this guy ...

God and Belief

The believer is not a seeker. The believer does not want to seek, that´s why he believes. The believer wants to avoid seeking, that´s why he believes. The believer wants to be delivered, saved, he needs a savior. He is always in search of a messiah — somebody who can eat for him, chew for him, digest for him. But if I eat, your hunger is not going to be satisfied. Nobody can save you except yourself.

-- Osho Rajneesh

Statistically Insightful

Pope and the Muslims

Recently Pope made a comment while reading a text at some place which said that Mohammed had brought the biggest evil on the world.

This is disgusting. I think all Christians should give up Christianity on moral grounds. If the highest authority of your religion makes such ignorant comments it shows the narrow-mindedness of your religion and its core values. Orthodox Christians suck bigtime.

On the other hand, once again the Muslims showed to the world that they are still living in the 11th Century. Their angry reaction to the whole incident was overrated. They could have demanded an apology without burning down Churches and Chapels in the middle east.

If pope turns out to be an asshole why should Muslims respond to it in an assholish manner ?

I'm again reminded and convinced that Religion & God has nothing to do with Human life. Both the concepts are biggest conspiracy theories of all times.

Drop Religion and concept of God from your mind. Both do not exist.