IT policy Workshop

Attended a workshop on the Draft IT policy of the Government of Kerala as a part of a delegation from IIMK. The policy measures looked sound enough to start with, and the panel discussions on IT's role in society, governance and industry further improved on them. I was a part of the panel discussion on E-Governance measures and was amazed to see the awareness levels of the officers of the state government particularly with respect to the needs of integration of various software apps across departments and the challenges for FOSS.

Another thing, The Draft IT policy does talk a lot about promoting open-source, even to the extent of visualizing Kerala to be the future hub of FOSS in the country!

Online Journals and Weblogs

Saw this piece journal vs. weblog. (courtesy Manu Bhardwaj@LJ)

This sounds pretty interesting. Online Journals are different from Weblogs (or Blogs)!

Shiv Kumar Batalvi

HAD to write this one.

if there's beauty to music and poetry, its because of the work of Shiv Kumar Batalvi and Jagjit Singh/Chitra Singh's rendition of the same. I just can't help being a big admirer of this particular brand of music. The way the duo have weaved magic into (already) superlative lyrics and thoughts of Batalvi, is unimaginable. This particular album is named 'Birha Da Sultan' and is a pretty old work. But do get hold of it if you are game for some punjabi soulful music (and of course poetry).


PS: A particular piece goes like this:

Ghamaan di raat lambi e
Jaan mere geet lambe ne

Na Bhaidhi raat mukdi e
Naa mere geet mukde ne


Is it the night or my songs which are longer..
Neither the evil night nor my songs seem to end.
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Environmental concerns and solutions - 2

okay, I can explain this sudden inclination towards environmental problems!!!

When you have a course called 'Environmental Management', you can certainly hope to pick up some gyan on happenings around the world. While most of my colleagues here may not agree with my viewpoint, I feel the course is pretty decent.

And I have a midterm to give for this very course after two hours. :)
And I have not read much for the same.
And I feel theres not much to read.
And I feel courses like these should not be evaluated!!!!!

Environmental concerns and solutions

The founding fathers of IIM Kozhikode's now famous campus were definitely visionaries. How else can you explain an educational institution that is built on top of two hills and possesses a magnificent rainwater harvesting system. The system is such that the catchment area at the foothills collects almost all the rainwater that falls on the campus through an efficient drainage system and some traditional and efficient construction practices.

I am almost 8 months into the programme here and had caught only a glimpse the system I just told about, until I read this:

IIM Kozhikode runs on rainwater

Blogger!!

Got to admit, this place surely rocks.

Happy to get a new blog!! :)