Finally, out of rat hole of Cognizant

Its had been on my mind for around 2 years. I tried my best to get out of it in London. But out there, to get a job on work permit was just too difficult. I had only one choice. Get to US and get rid of CTS. And thats what I did.

I came to Houston in Feb. Wasted a month since my passport was confiscated and Visa extension was waited. After that next 4 months I was only sticking to CTS to get valid paychecks which are needed for H1B transfers. I got them and resigned.

The market out here in US so HOT that as soon as I placed my resume on Monster, I started getting more than at least 5 calls a day. I caught a consultant and he started marketing my resume. I interviewed pretty heavily. I cleared practically all the interviews I gave except one. I got selected in UBS for NY and switched.

The sorry feeling of a underpaid and an overworked individual trapped in a jail is gone for good.

Another lesson in life, Having definitive focus helps move things quickly.

I know people from CTS here in US who have stuck to the company from last 2 and more years being on an H1. I switched almost immediately after arriving in US.

Another lesson learnt for me in life, Do things when time is ripe otherwise one rots.

I am in NYC now. Life is better.

Clarification about the Aryan migration, once again

These set of links again are a research into the fact that Aryans never migrated into India. It was the other way round. This research was done by an independant researcher David Frawley.

Myth About Aryan Invasion

Update on Aryan Invasion Theory

This is an excellent collection of articles I came across which eradicates the myth that Aryans migrated from Europe.

They were natively from the Indian heartland itself.

Click here for the articles

Islamist fundamentalism

These days I've suddenly gained interest in Islam. A religion which has desperately gone wrong.

I seriously want to know what makes these fools think that the world should be exactly same as it was in 300BC when Mohd was around.

Some of the more critical blogs I've recently read are :

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com

I like them. They talk reality.

Cool Poem

THE SUPREME REALITY–A Dialogue between He and They
He asked – Who is God ?
They said – God is the Supreme Reality.
A precisely vague reply !

He asked – Where is God ?
They said – He is everywhere.
Where ? Everywhere ! but where ?

He asked – Have you seen Him ?
They said – Well, no ! but we’ll meet him in heaven .
Oh Heavens ! Didn’t they just say God was everywhere !

He asked – You have proof of God ?
They said – God is an experience .
Experience the experience !
Surely, there must be better proof that God exists !

He scorned with a smile and said –
You know not who God is .
You know not where God is .
You have not the proof of his existence.
Why then should I believe in God ?

Vexed, they turned red-hot as iron,
they turned to leave.
They mumbled , “ Let him go to dogs !”

He cried out –
You clogged brains !
you do not realize,
that you have created God .
Mankind has created God !
Created him of necessity !
A necessity for your psyche ,
For, you weak-minded souls ,
need a pillar to give you solace,
to allay your fears ,disturbances, worries…
Admit it or not – Originally man created God,
then God created man !
Now, that’s the Supreme Reality !

They mocked at him, they left .
They stigmatized him as an agnostic.
Was he not only a free thinker !

SUSHMA NAGARAJ

Where the Hell is Matt?

This is a cool video I found at YouTube.com. Check it out.

Beware of the Telugu guys

Its surprising that Telugu people have practically no noise back home in India.

I mean living in Pune and Mumbai which are pretty cosmopolitan places you meet a lot of South Indian guys and learn about thier culture.

Surprisingly the guys you meet generally happen to be from Karnataka, Tamil nadu or Kerala. There are very few Telugu guys setteled there, I guess. You don't get to meet them very often nor hear any big news coming out of Andhra regularly.

However, come to U.S. and all you hear about is Telugu guys. They are here. They are there. They are Everywhere. I can take you to apartment complexes where you'll feel you've arrived to Hyderabad! Man, they have a mini-Andhra established in this country.

Houston, the place where I am living currently, has so many Telugu guys settled that its hard to believe that therez anybody left in Andhra anymore!

Now, the major business these guys run is body shopping consultancy firms where they sponsor H1B visas for aspiring guys in India and get them onboard to U.S. Believe me, if you ask some of the professionals that have worked with them, you'll know what hatred is. The spite they have for these people is just amazing!

Practically everybody I meet till now gives me the first advise that, come what may, don't work with a consultancy which is run by Telugu guys. It's a hell out there.

Why?

Desigiri.

Working with a Telugu consultant means a lot of hassle and haggling :

(1) You are pretty much sure that they'll fleece you with the salary they promise and the salary you actually get when your paycheck arrives.

(2) My roomie, Ranjith works with one such consultancy and says that his firm holds his 15 days worth of salary to ensure that he dosen't abruptly leave the consultancy and run away. They're just sure that every candidate who works with them is sure looking for jobs at other places and hence will run away soon.

(3) You never know whether you'll get a salary on time. You'll definitely get it. But not timely. Sometimes 15 days late and otherwise 2 months late.

(4) Some promise you that they'll immediately process your green card but later (once you've already joined) they'll tell you that you'll have to pay the green card processing fees from your pocket! You were never told that when you were about to join!


This is just some of the facts I've heard. Imagine what this blog post would read like if I'd been working for one of such firms. Just talking with people makes me doubt these guys. Imagine, what'll I write if I work for such a firm!

Moral of the story?

BEWARE of the Telugu firm in America! He might just fleece you off your money and peace of mind!!

Hey, but not everybody is bad?

Therez gotta be someone firms who're good. I mean c'mon this world has more good people than bad. Right?

So, I can't really go for what I hear from other people. That's just gossip.

Wait till I find out the reality about these allegations for real and I'll change my view.

If there are any Telugu guys reading this, please don't get offended. I mean c'mon this is just a sorry ass blogpost by a sorry ass guy who lives in Houston. Who the hell is he to comment on Telugu firms !! Huh???

Quota - My thoughts

India is burning right now with great outrage over the OBC quota issue.

Firstly, lets face it. We, the upper castes (Note:I don't care a fuckin' shit of my Brahminism) have tortured the lower castes for more than 5000 years of history.

Now we expect that the lower castes should forget about it and live in harmony with everyone. Frankly, Does 5000 years of torture compare to 56 years of reservation?

These guys will always have resentment towards upper castes who tortured their ancestors on the name of 'god' and 'religion'.

Won't they be hating us for making them poor, giving them apathy, not providing them education. The upper castes had convinced the lower castes that their lives were useless and even God hates them and hence they were born in the caste they were.

All these wrong doings? And you want to end it in 56 years with granting of equal rights?

How can we expect that they won't get back at us? Why do we expect this anyway. Its just natures cycle of 'what goes around come around'. This has to happen. Let it happen. I am not opposing it. Even being a Brahmin I'm not opposing it.

However, I have a concern and a request.

India has just started gaining ground on the world frontier as a knowledge capitol and a economic powerhouse. The world's next wave of growth is only going to be fueled by India and China. No other country has any potential to do that.

With increasing wealth and prosperity India is definitely poised to become a world superpower. It took us 56 years to realise that free market economy and higher education can take us on the world map of rich and powerful nations.

Lets not break this positive run with dragging issues like casteism.

We need to come up with a Game Plan which can save the interests of the lower castes and still let us March forward with economic expansion. All I want the policitcians to do is come up with a win-win game plan which dosent harm the country and its people.

If you think its not possible to come up with such a plan. Here's one off the top of my head.

Convert everybody into Brahmins

Don't leave no lower castes in the population at all. Once everybody becomes a brahmin, this caste issue will dissappear.

Reservations should be everywhere. Not just in Govt and Education. Even in private companies

If Idea No 1 dosen't work then this is No 2.

There is nothing wrong in having reservations in private companies. We just need to make sure that only certain types of companies can be gives rights to do so.
For e.g. Only co's having huge revenue in a certain range can offer reservations in thier positions. Also, reservation hiring should be only on the lower rankings of the organizations and not on Managerial or critical positions.

Everybody comes into the organization on a lower level and has to figure out his own way to rise the ladder. This should apply to reservation hiries as well.

May be more thinking on such topics could bring in more agreeable ideas which will better suit both the lower and upper castes.

I'll be writing more on this topic in coming times as I think I might come out with some more good ideas to end this issue on a more agreeable front.

This is why I love this guy !

People have judged you;
you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny.
And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments,
and you are throwing those judgments on other people.
And this game has become out of proportion.
The whole humanity is suffering from it.
If you want to get out of it, the first thing is:
Don't judge yourself.

--Osho Rajneesh.

final conclusion about God

Ok, I'm finally convinced that there is no god. It just can't be. Most of my convincing comes from the Osho books + recordings + a lot of thinking of my own.

Well, you need someone to nudge you to think outside the frame of what you generally think. Till today my view towards the world was God, even if it exists dooesn't play a fair game. Right from problems of poverty to wars to petty thefts can be solved by God within minutes. Since they remain unsolved, I always had a doubtful view towards the concept of god. I could never believe in god just because a billion people around believe in it.

Imagine it logically, No one has seen god, God itself hasn't ever shown itself.
Whats there to be afraid of showing yourself if you know you are God.

what will happen if you do?

If God shows itself, people will be convinced that he is there and will probably stop all the wars, politics, poverty etc etc coz' they know they've someone to account all that to. So, if God shows himself there's more Good to happen than Bad.

Since God didn't show himself from last 10000 years of man's conscious history whats the guareentee that he will show himself in the rest of the time to come?

So there is no point in accepting the fact that God exists.

Life is open ended. We don't know certain things as to how they work. Our consciousness is constantly developing and dsiscovering new boundaries which we never discovered before. So this process, as time goes by, will definitely let us to the ultimate reality someday. Even if it dosen't , it won't matter. Things will remain as they are.

So as Osho says, Don't bother, meditate, rejoice , drink and enjoy. Life needs abundance of everything..poverty of anything was never life's way to see things.

Hope the reader understands what I'm trying to get at.