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Hi Ajit
http://bigb.bigadda.com/2008/12/10/day-231i/
came across this post on the other AB’s blog.
Seems that the Lord Macauley’s note about the situation in India, that you had posted some time back was not a corect one
what should be considered correct thence?
Hi Sir,
What made u to become a CEO
I too like to become
Dear Sir, once upon a time in 1994, I had an opportunity to meet you, face to face, at your office in Worli. I don’t remember the building name now but I believe that was the one that collapsed.
I remember the scene very distinctly because I was a rookie then, even at an age of 24, I was kind of naive at being a professional. You had called me for a personal interview and I for one, now realise I probably made some kind of a mistake not being able to decide then about the offer.
(I remember the meeting specifically because of the look in your eyes then. I keep describing this event to my friends at times.
and to refresh your memory, I was working at Sprint RPG then)
But bygone being bygones and I am glad the Rediff brand that you were to launch then and I was to be a part of which has come this far.
I have one query though which you if possible can help me with - how does one go about looking and finding a mentor?
your thoughts are indeed a pleasure to read.
Shrikant
Helllo Dear Ajit Sir,
Just got link about railways Train search , Time Table, Fares from Rediff.
Indian Railways
We are the India's First company to provide Current Postions of Running train just before of Arrival @ perticular station. And till date no one have developed such system . The exciting part of the system is via simpel SMS you can track the status of Trains.
Once again please kindly note this is only system available in India.
I am interested in sharing this with rediff. As the world know Rediff is Indian Global portal.
So lets share our small but powerfull idea 4 mutul benifit.
Regards
Avinash
avi_awade@rediffmail.com
09329071894
Nidan Technologies
Jabalpur
Hi,
Do you know that the Geeta Fan Club is active again? Click here to reach:
http://thegeethafanclub.rediffiland.com/scripts/xanadu_diary_view.php
Also, Sahiti has started her series on Kundalini Awakening. Reach here:
http://sahitibharadwaj.rediffiland.com/scripts/xanadu_diary_view.php
Chief,
A few leading bloggers and I have been planning to self-publish a selection of our works as a book called ‘The Best of Rediff Iland — Volume I’.
Heh heh… we ain’t being modest here, Mr B.
Can we hope for some kinda support or participation from the Iland gods? (After all, such an exercise would benefit the Rediff Iland too, right?)
:0)
Warm Regards,
Ghost
Hi Ajit
Long time. See badlani.com to catch up. Write to rajiv at badlani dot com. Be nice to catch up.
Rajiv K. Badlani
Norquest Brands Private Limited
Norquest House
Udyan Marg, Mithakali
Ahmedabad 380009 India
Phones (+91 79) 2646 1626, 2646 3331
Fax (+91 79) 2644 1812
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Corporate & Business News from India’s Premier Corporate Newswire, InfoMailers.com
India PR Blog launches PR job board
PR agencies and corporate houses can post job vacancies to the job board and reach out to hundreds of PR professionals in India
New Delhi, Delhi, India,Tuesday, July 22 (InfoMailers.com) ::
India PR Blog, the popular public relations blog in India, has launched the India PR job board for PR and related jobs in agencies and corporate communications departments of companies.
PR agencies and corporate houses can post job vacancies at their organisations free of cost to the job board. The job board also provides the option to post a job simultaneously on popular sites such as Google, Google Base, Simply hired, Indeed, SimplyHired, Oodle, Edgeio, Vast, OLX, Bixee, and HotJobs - thus giving recruiters good amount of exposure opportunities of their messages.
These job posts are made available at the job board’s independent url, or through the combined India PR Blog RSS f
sir,
its pleasure reading ur article…..as usual its unique…would llike to read more such…….tks
Dear Ajit Balakrishnan
I have quite enjoyed reading your columns..Your writing has a uniqueness which I have found very interesting..Your approach to interpreting happenings is pleasantly unique and special..Hope you continue to give pleasure to us..Just another kudos to keep you writing..waiting to read your next one.
Rajesh
dear sir,
i was looking for your mail id @ rediff to wish you on your appointment as Chairman of Board of IIM-C. i cud not locate it there so i m conveying my heartiest congratulations thru ur blog..
Congrats once again & wish u all the luck.
Digambar S. Rana
Sales Officer - HPCL
Kannur
digambarsrana@rediffmail.com
I read with interest your article on suicides of farmers. Agriculture became a gamble in
the country after the advent of globalisation. Transition from agriculture to industry might
be one of the solutions to the farm crisis. But there is a serious mismatch between the
job skills present industry needs and people in villages have. I think confluence of
several steps are needed to solve the problem. The government should provide quality
farm inputs at subsidised cost. It should train farmers in technique which would reduce
cost of cultivation and increase the output. It should also provide accurate weather
forecast. Marketing facilities should also be provided to farmers to sell their produce at
remunerative prices. Presently, a huge number of people are dependent on agriculture in
the country for livelihood. Training in various skills should be given to people in villages
to make them employable in industries. It would help farmers families to cope with crisis
in
I read with interest your article on suicides of farmers. Agriculture became a gamble in
the country after the advent of globalisation. Transition from agriculture to industry might
be one of the solutions to the farm crisis. But there is a serious mismatch between the
job skills present industry needs and people in villages have. I think confluence of
several steps are needed to solve the problem. The government should provide quality
farm inputs at subsidised cost. It should train farmers in technique which would reduce
cost of cultivation and increase the output. It should also provide accurate weather
forecast. Marketing facilities should also be provided to farmers to sell their produce at
remunerative prices. Presently, a huge number of people are dependent on agriculture in
the country for livelihood. Training in various skills should be given to people in villages
to make them employable in industries. It would help farmers families to cope with crisis
in
Dear Ajit Balakrishnan,
I am a student from your native district - Kannur, doing my BCom. I along with some of my friends joined our hands together to make a social organistion among the students in India. The objective of our organisation is to club the spiritually - brained business community togeter with the Students community for spreading an awareness among the students in backward area’s about the kinds of CSR’s performed by the business community. We are having an objective to create somekinds of business climate in these areas, because it is the only solution for unemployment.
Can you please give advices to us for the better journey of this organisation and support uswith your ideas.
Thank you,
Yours faithfully,
Arun Thomas N
Dear Sir, Nice to go through your blog. keep it up.
Ajit
I wholeheartedly agree with your premise, that the laws of the land should not hinder entrepreneurship since it is the lifeline of a vibrant economy. Even now in the US, more than 60% of businesses qualify as small businesses.
However, with Indian banks just surviving the death-grip of non-performing assets load on their books and Indian businesses corrupt history of utilizing bank loans for personal gains rather growing their businesses, it leaves these banks with a very little room to have sympathetic loan covenants for the likes of Vikram (even though he may be the most committed entrepreneur).
One way, around to keep on encouraging not just small, but all businesses per se in India would be to follow the US example of leaving attaching the owners primary residence and one vehicle (primarily a car upto a certain value) out of the bankruptcy process.The rest of the owners personal assets should be fair game.
Dear Mr. Balakrishnan,
This is in response to your article on failed entrepreneurs, though on a different point. You say right at the beginning that you were watching ‘Bombay’ harbour. I do not ask this from any chauvinistic sense or anger but you are a respected media leader and your views and communication preferences have a huge impact. (I read your writing everytime I see it.) Should we all not make a point to say Mumbai and Chennai and Kolkata or you have a different view of this?
Regards
B U Kulkarni
Dear Shri Ajit,
The issue you have put in the story of the failed entrepreneur is indeed a very serius one. It is very customery to assume entrepreneur to be a software guy and the case of others is very different and difficult also. Since it is a very complex issue, there cant be any singular or simple solution. However, if the banks can asses the managerial potential of the customer and / or arrange for some consultancy in managerial issues, probably the entrepreneur may realise the problem a little earlier. Also the problem is that most of the times, these small entrepreneurs are technocrats, as your Vikram, and thre requirements are in some other fields also.
I had come across some such unfortunate cases, and I really thank you for taking the issue for discussion on your platform.
Sir,
This is Sagar from Bangalore and I am a regular visitor to rediff.com. I couldn\’t agree more with the views expressed by you in your article \”The next big business idea\”.
Though I am currently a part of the great IT bandwagon, I aspire to be an entrepreneur in future, with a passion for mass-market products. I do have a few business ideas and I am currently exploring opportunites to realize them.
I am also a great fan of Mr. C K Prahalad\’s \”Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid\” concept. It would be great if rediff.com can get Mr. Prahalad to write an article. Even better, if you can bring him down to India and provide an opportunity for youngsters like me to meet him!
I want to reiterate that I really appreciate your work!
With Regards,
Sagar
Would request to update your online shopping goods, like cloths, electronics items, and to provide address details with Phone no of the vendor selling there products on your esteem site, I suppose this would be more customer friendly and would help the customer to get details of vendor from there respective cities.
Thanking You
Ketan Doshi
Respected ajit,
i agree and respect the great effort whole rediff team has been putting in to make this site and email service more interactive i am ver much satisfied with the color combinations but i think layout need to be addressed as well as when it come to mail services there should be one more service for marking an email unread even after its been read by anyone it helps in many ways , like if user is in hurry and checks that mail in a hurry and if he wants to review it later then he can mark it as unread so that next time he logs in he can read that again, this for sure helps, thats my point of view.
Regards
Rahul
the theme is not to the mark… it should be some what dark/// the last one was better///
Grate Work….
fantastic layout !!
May God Bless You always!!
regards,
kcjagadeep@rediffmail.com
Great Job!
I feel proud when I come across any accomplishments by Indian\’s
Kudos!!
great job ,definitely rediff.com is the indian answer to email service providers of world
Dear Mr. Balakrishnan,
Excellent work done by you and ur team. fantastic layout and color combination. kudos to you and ur rediff team.
rahul
thise are hell of changes u people have made…..i guess i have to rethink to use redff anymore nw…
Cool Looks!!! But I tried the links - Airlines and Jobs and it the message i got was “The page has expired”. All the same, the new look is visually appealing
Dear Mr. Balakrishnan,
Great Job done by your team and the new page is really neat and simple…..Three Cheers to you n your team……
But i wish if your support team can also improve a bit and respond to the Queries little faster. I sent an email twice in a span of 2 weeks and the issue is that the emails are not going out from my rediff account. I’m a great fan of rediff and would never like to change the mail service. But I don’t think I have an option as till now I’ve not heard anything back from your support team. I would appreciate if someone can take a look into this matter. My rediff id is ‘hemantnarang@rediffmail.com’
Thanks,
Hemant
Hi.. I still Remember seing the Rediff.com OffLine On PC Quest CD . i think it was PC Quest’s 1st CD also.. as Internet was not available locally in Jammu & Kashmir. Congrats on New Look. and Best Of Luck .. in this Never Ending Race.
I like rediff.com a lot. Every morning I spend at leat half hour on the site before starting my day. I like the slide shows a lot as well as the movie section. Thank you for keeping the website filled with information and entertainment.
Somehow i did not like the change.
The previous theme was light, colorful and very informal - in fact probably making rediff look a bit amateur
The new theme is sauve, professional and very very corporate - typical high-collared american corporate look.
Almost suggests the identical comparison between Indian ads full of wit and emotions and American “robot” ads or “go! go! go!” (read *dumb*) ads
So good, Rediff will be taken more seriously by the white man
I for one prefer the previous - will take time adjusting.
Sir, I was working with expressindia and resided just opposite to rediff\’s office in mahim when rediff was launched, and also its \’lightening speed\’ email service. Since those days, rediff has been my Homepage for India and it is such a pleasure to see it in a fabulous new avatar. Congratulations and best wishes to you and the Rediff.com team.
Hi Ajith !
Nice to see you iLand. Impressive on the articles there. The new homepage is amazing…Great work. Rediff deserves a pat on shoulder…Keep it up…Keep going
Hi Ajit,
Let me first congratulate you on the new look rediff has donned.. It was really great to have a home page with full of interesting stuff… Keep up the good work.. Best of luck
Anurag Saxena
hi AB!
i still wonder where I would have been had i got the guts to say yes to being the ’sales person’ i was offered to be - 1994-95 I think.
way back when rediff was to be launched, i had the opportunity to meet you at the worli office. remember your eyes - like an alligator in the water
but neverthless at this time, it is good to be on the portal and share it’s growth story as audience.
way to go Sir!
best regards
Shrikant
Rediff is the best Indian site. It is very exciting to see changes in all services by Rediff like Rediffmail etc. Keep it up! and Best of Luck. Thanks.
Its interesting, the new look
Hi Ajit …
It really nice to see to new avtar of rediff.
Cheers,
Hi Ajit,
It was really great to have a home page with full of interesting stuff… i appreciate that when ever i visit rediff i found a new article to got thru. but the colors selection is not attractive as that of earlier… please change the color combination.
finally i wish u many more success.
kiran
you have one bug in address book it\’ll automatically check the first name
Hi Ajit,
Let me first congratulate you on the new look rediff has donned..Its simply outstanding.
Pradeep
hi Ajit
Must say.. that i have been impressed by the new look of the website. Keep up the good work..
I wish to congratulate you and your whole team for the new look of Rediff. I am a regular at Rediff and am quite pleased with the new neat look of the portal. The only irritating thing that still remains is the pop-up flash advertisement. Please think some other way so that it does not interrupt the pleasure of viewing rest of the portal.
Dear Ajit,
Just loved your blog and more importantly it is beautifully lead oput and easy to read. I look forward to participating in your conversations
Cool Mr.Ajit….
Sir, I really love visiting your website! Thanks for launching this great company and I hope you continue to make progress for the years to come! Yours truly, RG rahulgladwin.com
Hello Sir,
If you remember Sir I am same person who was in touch with you earlier when you came to Indore some where in 2004-05 for IMA convention. I was a volunteer for the event and also I got the opportunity to escort you for the whole event, that time I was studying MBA that time and now I am in Dun & Bradstreet, Mumbai.
It was nice to getting in touch with you again.
Warm Regards,
Alok
Hello Sir,
This is Alokananda Dutta from Kolkata. I happened to come across your article “IIM and IIITs’ Class-less Future” just before my EPGBM class. You have so aptly put across the fact that education is no longer bound by time or locations. For working professionals like us who wish to upgrade themselves in this competitive market, this is a unique way to access information and thanks to the progressive outlook we are able to receive guidance from the best of the best.
Regards
Alokananda Dutta
Brand Manager
Lowe Worldwide
9830438978
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