Ranjith’s Castle

I was there to Ascenda’s Food Court today evening. The infrastructure is amazing with leading vendors like McDonalds, KFC, Subway, etc., The prices too were amazingly high. My mind went into a comparison between the price of US and India. A veg delight in US cost around US $1.5. The same cost around Rs 50/- here @ the subway @ Ascendas. The price as such compared was Rs 10/- to 15/- higher in US when compared in Indian money.

But the real comparison should be the Cost to Salary ratio. A normal salary in US in a software industry [any industry ] will be around $5000. But a normal guy in a Software industry earns around 20 to 30,000/- which calculates to less than $800. India is much costlier when compared to US on the food industry as the salary itself is 5 times less than US. On the same note the normal wage paid in any industry won’t have much difference when compared to India. In India, a normal person starting his career in a mechanical industry will get some where around 5 to 8K in Indian money.

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Ranjith

I was stopped by a signal in Chennai at a mile away. The traffic is so huge on my side that the vehicles are moving at snail’s pace. When I reached the signal, I noticed that the amount of traffic flow from the side from which I am traveling is much larger than the once flowing from the different artery. The roads are such that this information of the traffic imbalance is not visible to the police men. As a result, the signal and the policemen showed no difference in the traffic regulation. It was the same time sliced flow. The data is not passed on to the correct place to act upon.

I also thought this seems to be a good idea for writing a product using all software and sensors to notify the police men at the signal and the signal as well to regulate or time the flow from each side according to the traffic flow rate.

Products apart, I feel this is the same situation with respect to the Human living. Our knowledge about our co-humans reduce as we go out and out in the concentric circles. Mani commented some time back that the affinity of our living and the decisions we take will be at the benefit of the people at the inner concentric circles. Yes this seems to be true that we are getting blinder and after some time it will be dark, as we don’t have data from the outer circles.

Cheers - Ranjith

I was out to my native and was on a long weekend!! My native being on the Southern most part of India is currently on the days of the South West monsoon with the Courtallam Season ON.  I was able to find the same amount of venom from the sun, but the winds blowing with a little of humidity made me feel much relaxed and cool. Being in the city, We really miss a lot of good things found around the country.

• A relaxed life.
• Good Air and water.
• Great winds that consoles your body and mind.
• Green Trees where you love to rest by.

I feel little nostalgic and want to live in such a peace rather than living in the hot polluted city.

The main constraint of moving to such place being in the software industry is the necessity of Internet to make your living. Tele-com Vendors are feeling the necessity to taking broadband to these places.  I feel that the days are not too long for us to migrate to such place. Waiting for the opportunity.

Cheers - Ranjith

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I was talking to couple of My friends at office. Their Cars are still getting filled with Petrol from Shell Bunks. I discontinued filling shell diesel when the difference in price went over Rs 2/=.Do you know there is a cost difference of Rs 10/= from the Normal bunks having the same premium quality and of Rs 13/= for petrol.I would like to know the benefits you get against this cost difference ?

Some of the vehicle service centers advice to fill only normal petrols/ diesels against this super charged fuels. We are getting advises on the other way also.

I am not sure about the price of the fuel in the Reliance outlets on the Highways. We have stopped filling there too as the prices went up.

Cheers - Ranjith

Disclaimer:- I hold shares of Reliance petroleum. This is written in General interest and has no intentions against Reliance or Shell.

Update: I know that Reliance has announced for closure of some of its fuel out lets and as per a mail from my friend, it seems that Reliance has almost closed most of its Fuel Outlets across the country.

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BSNL seems to have some problem. Some websites are not going intermittently. It seems that the DNS query for the particular sites are failing at some particular point of time.  This is happening from the last Saturday for me. I was not able to access google sites on that day. A couple of days back a friend of mine is not able to access the Zoho Services.

Cheers,
Ranjith