An entreprise is built upon dynamic process of communications and collaborations - it is not about just people. It functions in a collaborative environment, and significant amount of effort goes towards sharing of information and action performed based on it. This process requires creation, review and tracking of reports and significant data.

With a host of outsourcing models being in action and managers along with workers going mobile, dependence on flexible but accountable information systems is a must. An obiquitous existence of Internets and Extranets have been an indicator to this. Today, a business development manager spends more time at client’s place with ease as all information and tools are at their fingertips as they are connected to corporate Intranet/Extranet. He/she can be in constant touch with their product manager who is working at their corporate office. A small discount on a particular product can instantly be communicated to the business development executives to have an edge over competition. In a similar fashion, the product manager can review the status on a small patch to the product prepared by his/her development team located in a different part on the globe.

If communication is happening quickly and effectively, and if the collaboration is seamless irrespective of locational disparities of departments, we say that the entreprise collaborates well.

When I delve deep into the interplay of technological efforts and babelian disparities among technology vendors, it looks a chaotic transition of the state of Web from one to another. And the transition is quite volatile that the process towards an equilibrium can have cascading effect to settle in an unexpected state.

We welcome any technology that comes in our way, and start creating applications around it. Huge documentation follows with a number of websites created to highlight the same. Freelancers and small business houses start building business around any single idea. New economy is created and communities are built up in their own ways. Many virtual civilizations, unaware of each others, grow up in months.

Big companies take up a few ideas and create another version of a platform or a product to popularise it with a billion dollar marketing budget. Even companies will not stop to add another web browser to this already overcrowded browser-baskets. A small innovation can make a big news if publicity is well organized.

We are basically trying to create our own language to speak and everybody separately. The communication process is becoming increasingly difficult and a big economy is even growing to ensure interoperability and inter-communication capabilities. Does it look funny? But it is true with Web 2.0.

Where is an intention to crowdsource the already working platform or product? Innovation can never be Innovation2.0 with Web2.0. In fact, we are 2 down zero now!

It was year 1975. The great maestro of music had then been left alone with his soul mate and junior moving to divine abode. Critics said Shankar music was not getting the means of Sailendra for a justifiable expression. The politics of music business had taken toll of his business viability and scope in the silver screen. There was no other popular medium to unleash his magic at that time. Disciples had distanced themselves with so called coterie establishing around Shankar. Orchestra man Sebastian was planning for a retirement and rhyme in-charge Dattaram was looking for new assignments outside to cope with his own financial needs.

The greatest music composer roared with his awe-inspiring score. The music album of Sanyasi was created. The history of film music was rewritten and direct rope between serene sexuality and whole-hearted devotion got re-established. A great confluence of glamour and spirituality took place.

The old disciple Lata returned to render SJ-magic with her pious voice. Hema Malini set to establish herself as the symbol of Indian sensuality for generations to come. Devotion had found a personalization in handsome Manoj Kumar. Maestro had chosen six lyricists to reduce the impact of Sailendra’s absence, oh, of course Hasrat was there though only for one. Shankar had chosen their favourite raga, Vairavi, to push the big orchestra to climax reaching divine altitude.

“Chal Sanyasi Mandir Mein” resolves the conundrum of many centuries if the musical effort of Menaka before Vishwamitra could be true. After all, the meditating sage can only listen to the seducing musical jhankar to shed brahmacharya. The quickly undulating musical octave helped Hema Malini to venture for the woman’s most sensuous arrogance in the song. The best in the chart! Please don’t refer to remix-version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or411l_j6tA however

“Sun Baal Brahmachari” will be remembered as two best songs in the album along with the first one above. The female expression in musical score is vibrant and reverbarates atmosphere with romantic and sensuous hue.

“Bali Umariya Bhajan Karoo Kaise” does not require any review as many songs in 90’s have earned big applause by copying its different portions. I like interludes - a true romantic satire expressed with musical notes.

“Jaisa Mera Roop Rangila” is the highly galvanizing song with a western effect. Very close to my ears — listen to this song once, it will be to yours too.
“Shaam E Furqat” is a good and usual Shankar treat but cast in the fresh musical domain of this album.

“Kya Maar Sakegi Maut Use” is a lovely song where Indeevar’s two-parts poem has got a high musical elevation. “Shankar” has been addressed in a different context in the song.

“Karm Kiye Ja” - Lyrics is very good and very well musically cast

“Choron Ka Maal” - Good song and context-driven. Nice to listen.

Shankar asserted his supremacy over music, melody, trend, and mass taste. This musical edifice will be a torchbearer for all music composers for times to come and a prize catch for all music lovers.

Recommendations:
1. Go to a hilltop on a mild sunny day early in the morning and play the record. You will surely feel the divine touch around your ears.
2. Keep Sanyasi music on your mobile: http://mobilesearch.rediff.com/ringtones/mobilesearch.php?query=Sanyasi+(1975)&searchtype=movie

Every mission to Mars had started with wild expectations, and ended with few facts and disastrous failures. However, with each failure, the agency has learnt immensely about process, approach, and management. The current mission with Phoenix has been headed by Peter Smith is a collaborative effort by government, academics and industry.

The mission envisages to explore the history of water on the red planet and habitable conditions in its arctic region. View a video giving details of the mission to Mars.

I have grown listening to Shankar-Jaikishan music. I still remember when Shankar left this mundane world twenty-one years ago. I was studying in Class IX when I visited the homeopathic clinic of my uncle along with my father. I saw them going into a very engaged discussion immediately, and was curious to know what happened. When my father identified my curiosity, he called me and pointed to a small item on the front page of an Oriya newspaper. It read Famous Music Composer Shankar Is Dead.

Oh, then I understood the gloomy atmosphere there, and could understand most of the discussion. I was shocked as I had listened to my one of the most favourite song “Sunle Mere Payal…” from movie “Sasural” in the evening of the previous day. We, both father and son, had discussed the zing of music from Shankar-Jaikishan.

For us, an era had ended!

With the initial success of Web 2.0, the essence of this set of useful technology tools have penetrated the hard-shell of scientific collaboration and publishing process. The ubiquitous things like tags, social networks, and blogs have created a new dimension to the approach of scientific publishing. Popularly called Science 2.0, the new approach facilitates publishing raw results of research and a broader platform for collaborative research.

On one hand, a section of the scientific community hails this phenomenon as a natural progression whereas others treat this as a major source of controversies about retention of patent and intellectual copyrights. There have been quite a few websites that have started using this approach whereas major print journals have started adding Web 2.0 tools to their websites. Anyway, Science 2.0 has already been here.

This new approach revolves round the principle of open access, and is perceived as more productive. Going by arguments of numerous open discussions and continual refinements by the scientific community through the last several centuries, this approach, crowdsourcing, reaffirms our unchanged direction of accumulating scientific knowledge.

The obvious pitfall in this approach is the possibility of premature exposure of research ideas and findings, thereby, resulting in breach in intellectual property rights if rival researchers exploit the situation. This may also result in hard-feeling among the genuine researchers and may jeopardise the basic safety and genuine assessment of patents.

The Buddhist monasteries in this historic region of China have been tense in the recent days due to another phase of conflict between Tibetans and Han nationals. A fear psyche is prevalent on the roof of the world due to probable violent consequences of seeking larger autonomy from the benevolent dragon.

Theocratic head of Tibet in exile, Dalai Lama, is seeking greater level of autonomy, and is arguing in favour of cultural and religious freedom for the people who are believed to have been originated from a monkey and a female demon as per legend. Marxist government of China, though has been greatly liberal since two decades, is still being viewed with suspicion in spite of their many efforts in bringing modern education and contemporary social life to this highly superstitious Himalayan territory.

With China establishing itself as a formidable economic and military power, global powers are unusually silent over the current impasse. The situation, however critical, can never be considered to fall along the axis of evils in the eyes of western powers. Any circumstance leading to gulf like situation is certainly ruled out. However, everybody is observing at the hectic diplomatic process with keen interest due to the grand sports event, Olympics, this year.

I was having chat over tea with my friend. We were in relaxed mood, and were trying to beat hot summer outside hiding in a couch in the air-conditioned room of restaurant. We were waiting for Masala tea with honey! The gorgeous lady was smiling, and was indicating that we can have our turn at anytime soon.

My friend, who was working in a small company, brought an interesting character to discussion. He started describing a colleague from his company with an unmatched passion ignoring the impending warm drink that was our favourite in this way-side restaurant.

“She knows how to talk — a great report writer” - he quipped. The person, he was describing, probably had an uncanny skill of using words and to impress upon the little boss in that little company. He continued - “I must tell that she is the best salesman but sits in an armchair with a buraucratic responsibility in the company.”

I was getting impatient as the one-side briefing continued abated. “How does that affect you? It is the company and its boss, your boss, should ponder”, I remarked.

My friend looked at me mischivously and replied: - “I am in the same boat that has a titanic destination! The whole team is making an ignorant preparation for disaster.” He was not stopping and was expressing his frustration overtly. I was getting serious. I was imagining the situation and was trying to put myself in his shoes.

“It is unfortunate that this happens, but this is not surprising as we are part of a greater human dynamics. We believe, understand and carry prejudice in the way we perceive. So, it is not an exception where there is a selfish, williful individual uses behavourial manipulation with adequate emotional quotient to dominate workplace without doing any work at all.” — I was pouring my thoughts.

We are agreeing though our perception might be different over the whole situation. The agreement had been strengthened with the warmth of tea the smailing lady served a few minutes ago.

“Quit that company!” - I suggested as I was adding more sugar to sweeten my tea further. I was asserting my maturity, and was trying to help my friend out of this muddy situation. The smoke from cup was moisting my wide eyes as I was staring at him.

There has been many instances when a person thinks that the world moves around him or her. A city lad thinks that his street is his world with his residence at the centre, a hospital at one corner and his school at the other. He goes berserk if told about a beautiful village nearby. Well, a more mom-lapped boy may glue to TV at home to boast of his knowledge about the world – hmmm, it is about a place shown on Animal Planet channel or a test match played on a beach with cute girls clapping and going berserk? Mind it – I am not going the English dictionary way, rather following it literally!

I come across people in corporate showing a manipulated certificate to climb the career-ladder. They go berserk if reminded of their ghastly act, and then give a profuse lecture on numerous such prevailing occurrences around the globe. I come across people in various fields, infected by wilful lady-influence, going berserk to throw their whole achievement into waste-bin in a span of few days. They justify their perception filtered with a romantic coloured glass, and rush to live in a dream-land.

I go berserk knowing that somebody has been contaminated with this fatal disease, but cannot justify spending time in such infected environment. I don’t get the thrust of Mother Teresa to change the condition, but rather push myself outwards to get fresh air. I simply tell, “Why do you go berserk?”, and quip, “I shall now quit!”

As I am all set to release an information portal on Orissa in the next one month, one point forces me to think again and again: shall I consider the present state of Orissa as a revival from its feudatory past for several centuries or as a continuation of the act of crowd on this globe with short-memory? To put it in different way, I am sitting between two competing thoughts - our quest for an identity and our adaptation of a sense of equality.

As I delve deeper into this issue, I wonder if we can make a balance between the two - bringing a sense of identity while being aware of equality paradigm.

I feel this is practical. Orissa has come a long way from its golden period with full of stories of warring tribes and expression of art in quite a few world-class sculptures. It has come from a conglomerate of Kongoda, Utkal, Kalinga and several other small kingdoms with an unparalleled history of global trade and commerce to being a vibrating state of Indian Nation. The current sprout of industries and external investments have brought an enviable attention to this state.

As the jungles are getting wiped out to make way for new manufacturing and power plants, the real estate booms are widely visible in rather sleepy towns and administrative headquarters in the state. When people staying in proposed plant areas are struggling hard to seek their new homes, many flock into the capital town of Bhubaneswar for jobs and living - creating the rat race for space and material success. When a quarter feels to build a new Orissa with material and oriental wealth, other quarter feels threatened by the rapid changes occurring now.

In reality, these are two complementing opinions towards our effort for progress and prosperity. We are probably struggling to make a change in continuation, and I assume that this change is revival!