B ThoughtStream: 11/07/2004 - 11/14/2004

ThoughtStream

The flow of thought

Saturday, November 13, 2004

For some,working for large company is like a working on a contract basis. Come in , do your job and go home. There seems to be no bonding among employees as is in a startup.
When I started working at my current job at a large company, I was coming after about 4 years of working for startups. As days passed, I noticed that, a large company is just a cluster of smaller groups. You are working for your team and within the team, there is good amount of bonding. We go out to lunches together, have mini celebrations etc..
Today, on the occassion of Deepavali, the Indians in our team had put together a small celebration, with Indian food, Dancing, indian games etc. It was good to see all the Indians, irrespective of their religions and languages, dressed up in Indian attire, come together and have fun.(Even the non-Indian, dressed up in Indian attire, participated well).
I think, if we can keep our religions, languages and castes at home and party as Indians, India can be a better place.

Monday, November 08, 2004

The rupee continues to appreciate against the dollar everyday. A rising rupee means Indian goods will be more expensive in the international markets. To offset this, productivity has to rise. Is it rising?
The quota on textile and garment exports would be lifted on Jan 1, opening up the entire market to the most competitive player. While this gives an advantage to the strong larger players, the weak ones will perish.
India today exports about $11 billion worth of garments a year. Will this increase or we would leave everything to the chinese to gobble up.
The good news is, large companies started the consolidation process quite sometime back and are ready to take on the world.
With India's congested ports, bad roads, poor infrastructure and reliance on old technology, it would be a tough challenge.