Sunday, December 20, 2009

Gender imbalance will lead to Third world war

It was August 1945 when atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the cities of Japan, during the Second World War. The whole world came to a stand still. Such was the devastation that the effect was felt for generations. Thousands of people lost their lives, many became crippled and many got infected with diseases and allergies capable of ruining generations. Though Japan has finally become as one of the most developed nations, the even thought of a "Third World War" shivers the whole body.


This is the age of “Technology” and technological advancements are happening in leaps and bounds. But still there are communities and societies where girl child is considered a taboo and is killed. Such killings is just the beginning of the end. The girl, if at all succeeded in surviving the first stage, enters the next stage where she is not given proper treatment and at par education with man which leads to her final stage of slavery in form of wife where is stuck for whole of her life. All these things have created ‘Gender Imbalance’ not only in terms of their decreasing population but also in terms of the being ill-treated for so long.


The gender bias and imbalance created will lead to a third world war where we might find the Women of the world fighting against the Men of the world for the equal rights of education, treatment, opportunities and above all, the equal right to live. There can be another possibility of this gender killing and bias that there would be one such day when all the women of this world will be extinct and the world will comprise only ‘Man’. The nature has been created in a way where everything is balanced. If there is day then there is night to balance it. If there is winter, then there exists summer too. If there is flood somewhere then there are times when there is draught. If there is rash and reckless man, then there is compassionate and patient woman to balance him. So if the ‘Woman’ doesn’t exist, the imbalance will lead to War, so fierce in nature, that never had such war been fought leading to complete destruction of life in any form.


In order to stop this menace, its important that the man should understand the importance of woman and let her avail the opportunities, education and treatment at par with his. The gender imbalance is corroding the roots of our existence and we must and should take immediate measures to curb this menace immediately else the day wouldn’t be far when there will be a ‘Third World War’.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Cisco @ Bangalore

Its has been long since I have blogged.So I got this idea of writing something about my stay in Cisco,Bangalore.


It has been almost 15 months in Bangalore. Cisco Systems, being my first step in the Corporate World, (though I had done full six months internship in Freescale Semiconductor,Noida)is completely different from what I have heard or seen before. I was mesmerized when I saw "Cisco Cessna Campus". Its was a huge campus with two blocks and the third one in making. You got to swipe your card everytime to go to the next room. The campus had a huge cafeteria serving foods ranging from North Indian, South Indian, Chinese, Tandoori , Juice-center and finally a Live-Kitchen where you could order from variety of yummy stuffs. Then I saw the club house with a Gym, pool tables, carrom boards, Fooseball tables, a basket ball court and an open ground where I saw people playing cricket. The initial one month in Cisco was fun. Parties,yummy foods,trips to Fun places filled with lot of interesting activities and of course day-long Induction presos for New College hires were common.


After the completion of Induction programmes, we moved to our Business Units (commonly called as BU's ,basically departments). I was moved in ARTG ( Access Routing Technology Group) as I had opted for VOIP (Voice/Video over IP). Within a week, I was moved from one team (SIP-TDM gateway) to another (Cisco Unified Border Element or in simple terms IP-IP gateway). The job was very interesting,say sixty percent of my time consisted of Lab testing and fifteen percent in preparing test plans and presenting them to India/US team and the fifteen percent in automating my testcases using Tcl.


Cisco Systems is full of oppurtunities/challenges. You get to know new technologies. Before the world can even think of , you are working on developing such technologies. The work might become sometimes so interesting that one might end up in becoming a "Workaholic" even before one realizes the transformation. And 'I' am one such person :) . Cisco has rightly kept its vision "To change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns."