Wednesday, November 12, 2008

A quote from Mahabharat (Bhagvat geeta)

"हे धनंजय, सत्पुरूष कभी अपनी अधिकारोंकी सिमाओंका उल्लंघन नही करते" - श्रीकृष्ण

सध्या महाभारताचे ठराविक भाग पहातोय .. त्यात ऐकलेलं हे वाक्य; श्रीकृष्णाने अर्जुनाला म्हटलेले एक वाक्य .... अर्थातच संजयच्या ’दैवी’ दृष्टीमुळे आपल्याल समजलेले. मी विचार करत होतो की युद्धभुमीवर युद्ध चालू असताना सारथ्य करताना श्रीकृष्णाला एवढा वेळ कसा मिळाला की त्याने अर्जुनाला जीवनाचं सार समजवलं ?
थोडं शोधलं, त्यावर एक युक्तीवाद असा केला जातो की श्रीकृष्णाने सुक्ष्म वेळ नियंत्रीत केली आणि अर्जुनाला साक्षात्कार घडवला ..... पण मग मला संजयचं विशेष वाटतंय यासाठी की त्याला ही सुक्ष्म वेळेही अनुभवता आली.... म्हणजे तोही gifted होता का ?

अजून एक मालिका NBC TVवर चालू आहे ... Heroes काही काळापूर्वी मी त्याचे काही भाग पळवत पळवत पहायचो ... त्यात Hiro
कडे अशीच काहीसी क्षमता असल्याचं दाखवलय .. अर्थात महाभारत आणि ह्या Science Fiction मध्ये compare करण्याचा काही प्रश्नच नाही .. असंच आठवलं म्हणून खरडलं.

Title to the post

Some times, when I really don't have specific to scribble in the blog and want to write at least 'something', I find it very difficult to give a name to the post. And that's where the story gets delayed.

Couple of things I have been watching:-
- Recently whenever I look at news papers, online reports, and news channels; all of them are reporting losses that corporates are facing or dip in their profits, sales, etc.

- Probable, colleges like mine are few of the first in India to feel the heat of the global turmoil.

- Sometime in next week, I want to write marathi post about this article I read online. I am finding some relevance to what is happening around and what worse in business scenario can be expected with it. Basically the author, in this article talks about how the financial collapse are unavoidable and government actions in supporting the banks can lead to worsening the situation.

- Google has been finding it difficult to see promising competitor in its online streaming business i.e. the famous youtube.com. The name is HULU. It's a formed with a joint venture of NBC and Fox and it is becoming popular with TV shows and movies. More importantly, it's gaining commercial support unlike youtube because corporates (like MGM, etc) are skeptical about youtube's position in respecting copyright informations. Just because HULU is more focused on TV shows and movies, it's likely to be successful in the targetted video streaming business

- Crude oil prices have plummeted below $60 to $59.39 - 20 weeks low price despite cut in production by OPEC. It's interesting to know that OPEC countries haven't cut the production by the declared number of barrels i.e. 1.5 million barrel cut was expected. But it is heard that they have cut the production byt 800,000 barrels a day. Why haven't they cut it by more 700,000 barrels? Probably, it will greatly impact their economies of scale operation (shall I call it as reverse of economies of scale ?)

- Mr. Prime Minister, Doesn't want to reduce prices of oil products in India? Indian o companies are making profit of more than Rs. 4 on sale of one liter of petrol and bearing loss of less than Rs. 1 on sale of diesel. The argument proposed for the same is, sale of diesel is far more than that of petrol.