Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

During our every day journey we come across a lot of people. That way we also learn about a lot of attitude and get enormous experience. There are people who are so mean that they want to make the best for their own benefit at the cost of others. There was a recent experience with one such spiritual service consultant who was helped by this writer in revamping his website for free. But then he was trying to take an undue advantage of enqueuing a lot of more change requests at the expense of writer's main tasks. When it was refused he used to show a long face. Furthermore, a lot of freebies he was expecting.  There was also quite a few things which the writer discovered about him -- Non-compliance regarding tax returns. Despite advising him a number of times he was not budging. And during the recent trip to US, this elite gentleman was trying to give a long list of things to get -- laptop, accessories like bluetooth keyboard etc. When it comes to payment he will give in piec...

What was 2015 carrying out for me? A few tidbits from the same. Till February. Part of AllState Insurance in Northbrook IL March to April. Part of Amex Prod Support in Chennai Syntel . May. Had a divine pilgrimage to Badrinath, Haridwar and Rishikesh June to September. Was part of Softura Network . October. Was part of consulting to IT Sculptors . November to Current. Contracting with ITBright (subsidiary of Coteng ), referred from Hiree .

A UK based employer had initially extended an employment offer in October 2015. However subsequent to this writer's background verification the organization failed to respond to a few clarifications and hence the writer wanted to void the contract. Stung by an ego hurt, the organization filed a case with Chennai High Court alleging facts and fabrications. Our legal counsel too examined the issue at depth and finally resolved the issue voiding the employment contracts with the employer. A few things to note were: The organization does not have a defined scrum meeting schedule and expects employees to appear for the meeting whenever the CEO is free. Sometimes at 9.30 PM Wage payment delayed. And on questioning it they silently disappeared blocking Whatsapp also. I am quite curious and am eager to see when such employers would realize the true value of employees instead of treating them as commodities.

A while back I had shared about a retaliation of the corruption accused on this writer over here . The corrupt were thinking that I would close the fifteen year old account getting afraid of them. Unfortunately now they had to sniff their own arses  because I had totally moved the account and all respective relationship with that branch to another one with the help of their appellate team. Anyways there is not much to blame the accused because the person hailing from a backward community and having secured position through the so called reservations can not be expected to have good virtues other than being corrupt. This is by far the unfortunate truth that is prevailing in many departments of Indian government.

The most abominable and commonly used word in India is 'Sir' for everything and anyone.  The real acronym for the word 'Sir' is (S)lave (I) (R)emain. And it is the remnant of the imperialistic effect that British has left upon us several centuries before. If you have watched the tamil movie 'Thamizhan' (starring Vijay) where he condemns the writer of the police station for forcing people to call the inspector as 'Ayya' (sir in Tamil). He adds that if he is so obsessed with that relationship, it is up to him but not to thrust the same on others. I have been observing quite a number of software companies in Chennai also, unfortunately, catching up this trend of juniors addressing seniors as 'SIR'. What is the purpose of 'first name' (given name) and 'last name' for the person then? Why are people so obsessed with the relationship of being a slave?

One of my client had vested with me responsibility of managing the tenancy at his apartment near Medavakkam. Of late the tenants had been little fooling around by delaying credit of rent in the account. They finally vacated the apartment in May however failed to properly remit the utility bills leading to which my client had late payment alerts from the service provider. The phone numbers of the tenants were also not reachable and hence I had to force law enforcement into the action. Initially I had some difficulties registering a report and here is where CCTNS came to the rescue.  The police commissionarate dispatched the report to Thazhambur police station (jurisdiction) and after which the tenants obliged to come for an enquiry and the issue got amicably resolved.

We are indeed spending a lot of hours online everyday and countless minutes are being wasted over mundane things. But we ought to ensure sometime is dedicated for our spiritual upliftment and prayers. I am trying to see if we can make use of the e-Sri Rama Jayam campaign that was published a few years back with a few amendments. Language is in English. So not to worry about crazy setup issues like Unicode etc and rather we focus on the objective. The earlier campaign blocks use of system clipboard. But I don't think that should be a deterrent. Even to make use of the clipboard we are taking some effort. So let us allow it. Check out the hosted Sri Rama Jayam here . Why not you also start to make a similar sheet from one of your favorite online cloud utilities and share it out? Some of the services offering online spreadsheets are: Microsoft OneDrive Google Docs Zoho Sheets

    Around six years back on this day I undertook the most memorable step. And in the common man's world a ride in Pallavan Express from Chennai Egmore to Srirangam station. And the occasion is to seek the hands of my better-half. There is not a great story to add onto this post other than a reflection (or rather an introspection) of this memory here as 'This Day That Age'.

In India, particularly Chennai seems to be haunted with the following issue, --Nagging people who are exiting from the play. So what does the 'play' here stand for? Anything.  At workplace if an employee is going a bit early on some day or on a long vacation, the stupid managers would then only try to see as-if the business itself coming to a standstill and raising a hell lot of questions on 'knowledge transfer' and other things. When you see the status after your return, the sad and interesting truth is that nothing would have progressed anywhere. At workplace when an employee is about to exit the services, the final few days would be a fortuitous interference on his/her personal life with a number of 'Why/What-after/Where'. This along with the issue mentioned in (1) is a cumulative. When you try port-out a number from one cellular operator to another, the stupid pesky call from the losing (donor) operator with beguile offers is another heada...

மண்மீது மதலையாய் வந்துதித்து நாட்டை ஆளும் மன்னனிடம் அண்ட சராசரங்களை ஆளும் மகேசன் மாதவன் புகழ்பாடி பொற்கிழி பெற்ற பெரியாழ்வாரின் புத்திரியாய் வந்துதித்தவள் கோதை விண்ணிலிருந்து மண்ணுக்கு வந்து மாதவனை அறியாது அறியாமையில் மூழ்கி மீண்டும் மண்ணுக்கே போகும் மானிடர்களை வாழ்விக்கவந்த கருணை தெய்வம் கோதை யசோதை செய்த மாதவத்தால் யாதவனாக இப்புவியில் வந்துதித்து பிறவிப் பிணிக்கு மருந்து தந்த தன்வந்திரி பகவான் மாதவனின் பெருமைதனை மறந்துபோன நம் போன்ற உயிர்க்கெல்லாம் மீண்டும் காட்டி தந்தவள் கோதை வேதம் கற்றோர் வேதத்தின் உண்மைப் பொருளறியாது வாதம் செய்து கொண்டிருந்தனர் அறிந்த சிலரும் அதை சக மானிடர்கள் கடைத்தேற உபதேசிக்க மனமில்லாது இருந்த நிலையில் வேதத்தின் விழுப்பொருளை பாமரனும் அறியும்வண்ணம் அழகு தமிழில் பாடித் தந்தாள் ஆண்டாள் என்னும் கோதை மார்கழி மாதந்தன்னை மாதவனைவணங்கி மகிழ்ந்து மாளாப் பிறவியை அறுக்கும் மாதம் என்று அனைவருக்கும் உணர்த்தி மனித குலத்திற்கு நல்லதோர் வழியைக் காட்டியவள் மண் மடந்தையாம் கோதை. அமரரும் அறியா ஹரியின் பாதத்தை அறியும் வழியைக் அனைவருக்கும் காட்டித் தந்தவள் கோதை ...

Finally we have two levels of Number Portability in India now. January 11 2011 (Regional Mobile Number Portability (referred as MNP)) July 3 2015 (National Mobile Number Portability (referred as NMNP)) Around the first quarter of 2014, I had the opportunity to taste the fruits of MNP from Vodafone (Maharashtra & Goa) to Airtel (Maharashtra & Goa) . The reasons for this switch are: Very local dialects of Vodafone making it uncomfortable talking with them. Too much hidden charges and fine prints Bad network coverage in the area I was living (Dehu Road, Talwade) And I always believe in not to put all the eggs in the same basket. And for some reason I had a few of the SIMs from Chennai BSNL Network itself in 2015. So I implemented a simple method to divestiture into other networks. Ported one of my Chennai BSNL number into Vodafone Chennai (June 2015) -- This was also necessary because of not-so-good customer support and coverage for my freq...

I had been observing for around sometime that the lights on Olympia nameboard atop one of its towers has got fused. The word 'P' is darkened.  With such a big maintenance team for the tech park none have bothered to fix it over the week. An intimation of the same was sent on 23rd May 2015 to the following parties: Sundara Vel (Security Administrator) sundara.vel@cbre.co.in Chandru chandru@khivrajmotors.com,  Customer Service cs@khivrajgroup.com Chandrasekar chandrasekhar@khivrajmotors.com,  Agarwal agarwal@khivrajmotors.com Human Resourcs OTP hrdmanager@khivrajmotors.com Julian julian@olympiatechpark.com Durga Prasad durgaprasad@olympiagroup.in MIS OTP mis@khivrajauto.com GM (Marketing) gm-marketing@olympiagroup.in GM (Legal) gm-legal@khivrajmotors.com GM (Operations) gm-oprs@olympiatechpark.com Finance OTP finance@khivrajmotors.com New Ventures (Khivraj Estates) infonew@khivrajestates.com, Khivraj Nandanam khivrajnandanam@olympiatechpark.com,...

As a fallback of the labor dispute that has been going along, the organization had also not properly sending the tax related information and I was held by IRS as a defaulter of not filing correct tax returns. After a lot of to and fro conversations with tax consultants and audits, IRS figured out there is no deficiency of tax from my side. Thanks to Shanidev for clearing the issues. Sath sath koti pranam Shanidev!

One of my friend who practices astrology as a profession and marketing through his website had a unique issue when he hired the services of I Creat Solutions, a SEO consultancy based in Tambaram. Initially the consultant offered to tweak the website for suitable SEO changes but then eventually went against the promise and was treating my friend as a good 'milking cow' by extracting more and more money for each junk entry they were adding to the website.  We came to know about their service through JustDial and have also informed their malicious ways of promoting business to JD. Worst yet they also put an incorrect phone number (possibly their own) to divert business calls to my client for themselves. When the business was challenged and reprimanded regarding their unethical moves, they stopped all updates despite getting the money from us. This was when CCTNS came to our rescue. We filed a formal police complaint to Chennai Police Commissionarate who summoned the appropr...

It has been a real long time since I wrote. There had been a lot of things happening around, lot of travels criss-crossing through the globe, discoveries etc. Since early 2013 I have been little busy and hence my blog had been little low profile. You can find out more about where do I stand from my LinkedIn profile and follow me via twitter or Facebook Community Page. When I say FB, it is the community page and not my timeline. Do not send me a friend request at the timeline if you do not know me. You are welcome to follow my community page anyway.

There had been a dispute that had been going between this writer and a consulting organization in US in Prince William Circuit court. Possibly I see this as a corollary of my family dispute . Partially this reflects my callous attitude of handling people and my giving 'long ropes' as a gesture of magnanimity.  Fortunately as of today, we reached an amicable solution with all parties without hurting any one's ego or sentiments. Thanks to Shanidev.  Sath sath koti pranam Shanidev

இன்று கேப்டன் விஜயகாந்தின் 58வது பிறந்த நாள். தகவல்: கூகிள் . தமிழ் திரைப்பட உலகிலும் இப்போது அரசியலிலும் ஒரு தனி முத்திரை படைத்துத்  திகழும் பல சோதனைகளை கடந்து சாதனை படைத்து வரும் விஜயகாந்திற்கு 'இனிய பிறந்த நாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள்'.

Over the past two weekends, had a chance to slightly touch on both the aesthetics and functionalities of  http://lavanyadeepak.tk/ . The release notes for the current publication are: A seamless navigation amongst all components without break. HTML5 compliance Rich use of jQuery/jQuery UI The much awaited album in its first pilot version from the profile page. Not all sets are included though. Spiritual Chanting Utilities including Sri Narayaneeyam Feel free to share your feedback on the same...

Today I got an opportunity to visit a Malayalam website where they have presented Narayaneeyam as an assorted collection of links. I took a moment to have it defined as HTML5/jQuery-jPlayer playlist along with easy options to download the same. The same is available at this URL .  Narayaniyam  is a medieval  Sanskrit  text, comprising a summary study in poetic form of the  Bhagavata Purana . It was composed by  Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri , (1560-1666 A.D.) one of the celebrated Sanskrit poets in  Kerala . For more information, check out the wiki page here .

Today took a day off the hectic schedules. However after lunch I felt would do a bit of pending tasks. One of the todolist items were to upgrade my technical blog's theme. LavanyaDeepak now seems a new rejuvenated metro theme. Check out http://www.lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/ with a new metro theme. Feel free to send me your suggestions/comments/criticisms on the same.