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Windows Live Search seems to have introduced a video search recently. When I searched “Vishwak” the results page impressed me – you can mouse over on a result image and see the video playing in place with audio. Surprisingly it included results from Google’s YouTube as well and playing it in a Live branded page.
This is yet another post on Chennai’s traffic. Traffic in T.Nagar area is becoming worst day by day due to the bridge constructions. Every month TiE Chennai conducts their monthly events at 7PM mostly at Hotel RainTree, St.Mary’s Road. I don’t attend every month, but whenever I attend I get stuck bad in traffic and go late. I leave my office (Habibullah Road, T.Nagar) around 6:15PM and reach the venue around 7:15PM or so, though the actual journey shouldn’t take you more than 15 minutes. I have tried all the different (so called side roads) routes but of no use, either I get stuck at Pondy Bazaar/Mount Road junction or at Vijayaraghava Road/Mount Road junction and so on. Today I decided to brave it out. I left office at 6:30PM, went through Panagal Park, Venkatanarayana Road, Nandanam Signal and believe it or not, I reached the venue at 6:50PM. And this at the peak time driving through two of the Chennai’s renowned traffic choke points. I am now more than ever confused on the routes that take less time in Chennai. Being in the IT Industry you can feel the energy of growth, innovation and excitement that’s in India now. You can relate the present scene to the one that was there a decade back when IT professionals were rushing to United States and India suffered a brain drain (as it used to be called). Now the scene is completely the reverse where you are seeing many of those professionals returning back to India. They have had time to enjoy the western lifestyle, save some money and return back to India which was unheard of few years back. I personally know few of my friends at least who have returned from their high-paying/senior profile jobs in companies like Siebel, Microsoft, etc. in the last few years to India. In this connection I saw this Video in Hindustantimes that quantifies this to be about 60,000 Indian IT professionals who have moved back to India in last few years. Moreover, nowadays people in the mid to senior roles don’t want to leave their family behind and want to go to USA – they are getting salaries in India itself that are attractive and comparable. |
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