"StartupCity - Bangalore" was gr8 platform

May 24th, Saturday around 4000 techies, 300 CEOs & 20+ VCs thronged the Nimhans conventional center, Bangalore as the SmartTechie Startup City organized a great networking platform for them.
Guess who rocked the event.. not the VCs, nor the CEOs, and neither the Programs Managers, geeks, techies or sales representatives. It was a one-man show by LeadIndia champ Mr. R.K. Mishra !!! Hats off to the guy, to the insight, passion and the vision be is having.
Be it entrepreneurship, politics or leadership, he has really fascinated the crowd with his views and case-studies.
Now ask why I was invited to attend it? No, certainly not to impress you. I don't have much inetrest in entepreneurship. SO let's talk about the business which I am into ..
Yes!! telecom .. and here's the summary ..
Companies like Divitas Networks, which started back in 2005 - developing mobile unified communications applications, were a great show. Sloka Telecom has also stepped into WiMax applications development space. No wonder, not-so-startup, Starent Networks is already doing great after being opening up their second dev center in Bangalore in 2005, in the wireless space.

For more coverage of this event, click here

Those who code/test - Engineers; Those who can't, People Managers

For Indian techies, there are lot of reasons for so-called popular obsession of choosing management as a career option. Lots of my senior colleagues opted for being Project Managers in most of the IT services companies. Few give reason that there is no other way for 'growth' in engineering until one reaches higher-ladder (Management) cadre, few say that they are extra-smart enough to interact with clients, bring business to company and run the programs efficiently and thats what drives the tech business. There are few ones who ca and few are compelled by the social restrictions who feel inferior if they remain engineer for more than 5 years of their technical career.

According to them, one who is managing resources and program schedules sitting in cabin, is 'levels' above than those who write code on IDEs sitting in their cubie. They make themselves happy by thinking that they have a broader idea about the overall product without being knowing about single feature implementation. They have the so-called 'power' of manging 'people' and their decisions are going to drive the overall product/program.

more to come soon...

Weekend Trip to Kerala

Just came back today morning after having a blast in Alleppy and Komarakom. We sailed thru the back-waters and the ocean in house-boat and partied heavily on saturday-nite with the deadly combination of sea, rain and the sand.
I must say staying overnight in house-boat amidst backwaters was a wonderful experience and I would recommend my friend-n-folks to have a visit during such a tropical summer.
The very next day we went to Kumarakom bird-sanctuary and that too was awesome experience in the woods. Nice chill-out we had in the nature's lap and it was a nice experience than what we generally do in so-called pub-city of India.
This was my second trip to Kerala down-south and it was altogether different from the first one which I had to Kerala up-north in Jan 2006.