Atish Jadhav

What a match! It was IPL #5’ 49th match on Wankhede with Sachin on ground made me write this time. The kick start of Murali Vijay and his every knock flattening every bowler gave an initial edge to Chennai team.   I bite my tongue when Murali hit Munaf for 24 runs a over with 3 smashing sixes round the ground and a four. Bravo and Raina put no doubts with the intentions their team entered on Wankhede. Their partnership proved remarkable to put a target of 173 with an extra edge given by Dhoni's quick rally of 25 off 15.   Chasing massive RR of 9 per over, Franklin's dismissal much earlier of the game was proved to be a good draw which got Rohit Sharma in. All went well till a brilliant century partnership stand for Sachin and Rohit. Sachin's fifty with boundaries and sixes were a treat to eyes. Rohit too proved a good mentee for Sachin with a mature discussion on the pitch amongst boundaries and sixes around by both the Mumbai Indians. All looked goo...

Two story lines going in parallel - One story is based on Chanakya’s cruel and cunning political strategies. It revolves around Chanakya’s vengeance for his beloved father, his patriotic vision for akhand Bharat with the help of his trusted protégé Chandragupta Maurya. While flipping through each page, I wondered how come one can have so much of patience and determination throughout his life which continued till the incarnation of greatest king of that time. I was fascinated and thrilled with few of the quotes by Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin and some other legends. The story does not stop your ecstasy with only this story line. After 2300 years, another modern era Chanakya – a history teacher, Pandit Gangasagar Mishra from a small village in Uttar Pradesh grabs you with his freezing strategies and tactics for half of the book going in parallel with Chanakya’s war of politics. This history teacher inspired from Chanakya Niti, has only one aim in life – to take his pupil Chandini Gup...

Just completed Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020. “At last completed!” These were the words popped out of my mind when I put the book rather a movie script down after picking up that from nearby Crossword 4 months back. The story in Varanasi, roamed around three friends among which Gopal’s character was center of the stage who falls in love with Aarti in early teen age. Aarti being not ready for Gopal’s love, for that reason, not ready for LOVE, I would say, refuses to his proposal. Raghav who is Gopal’s childhood friend, has a promising career ahead being the IIT-JEE scorer and brightest in the town. Gopal being the failure one time in IIT-JEE, goes to Kota, Rajasthan (holy Kashi of wisdom for IIT-JEE aspirants) keeping his father’s last savings, borrowed loans at the stake, ends nowhere but at his father’s death ceremony on returning back to Varanasi. During this journey back to Varanasi, Gopal had already lost his only love of life in agony to Raghav as Aarti falls in love with Ragha...

In the midst of soaring Gold... In the midst of diving sensex... In the midst of Indian politics with a blend of Adarsh, telecom 2G scams at each corner... Here comes April 2, 2011, the day no Indian could ever forget!!! When the last world cup was lifted, I was 3 months old, still wrapped in my nappies, crying for milk, didn't know about what the heck is this world cup so special for? Even I am sure about MS Dhoni on that day when he must be 2 years old and may not be in the different mindset of what I was in? In both ours and in the lives of 1.21 Bn people's life, here comes a day, 2nd Arpil, 2011 An outstanding performance by Zaheer Khan, Gauti, Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh when roared by a "magnificent strike in the crowd" (Typical Ravi Shastri) when Dhoni hit a winning six in style, the entire nation's ecstacy went up in the sky touching a new height. The day was really different in every sense. Its a rare occassion in the history of cricket - When Mumbai l...

To all Cricket lovers, Yesterday, along with each Indian, crowd in the chidambaram stadium must have been roaring like a national anthem for Sachin's ton of tons. Considering Sehwag not playing this game due to injury, the crowd was excited to see another mesmerizing spell by Sachin, an another round of great entertainment as they saw in Nagpur in the last match against SA. In absence of Sehwag, Darren Sammy and team had some different plans for playing against India and especially against Sachin. Here comes relatively less experienced Ravi Rampaul with a wonderful delivery of his first over and the last encounter to which Sachin did not have a good response but still we all had hopes as usual when umpire refused Ravi's apeal. I sighed in relief. But what I see in next one minute was more shocking, which will take the wind out of your sails. Sachin turned back and started walking towards pavilion one match away from his 100th 100s. For a while I could not understand what h...

Demand – Purchase Order – Receipt is a typical process of information flow from retail stores to the vendors and back from there. Apart from these, most of the full fledged retail lead organizations may include standard practices which may become more complex down the line. But in general, most of the organizations follow the following flow – 1.        Regular Replenishment Orders (for all types of stock items at the retail stores) are created through automated systems which take care of demand planning. Most of the old retailers have the customized complex algorithms to take care of this. While with evolving technologies, packages such as JDA, Oracle and SAP have lot of inbuilt complex algorithms which the lead organizations can customize according to the different parameters required by the retailer. 2.        Most of the times, these replenishment orders are generated on the basis of forecasted demand. Accordingly, the purc...

While going through an article in times, big blaze went over me, made me think & write something on a piece of paper. This blog is one of those many thoughts. Before a decade or two, though the urban population was getting with its better lifestyle, the rural population was still struggling with the poor infrastructure, electricity, water and shelter problems. Though India is considered primarily as a land of farms, we were seeing more people shifting from villages to shinning/ brighter side of city life. I remember, the former prime minister of India saying, ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan’, but now who cares for this jingle? And don't we see this getting buried somewhere under the soil. With the rising inflation rate and the rate at which the poor getting poorer was much more than rate of rich getting richer, the social class of India was denying 7 layers and was ready to accept only 2 layers in society. But in spite of all this, we had hopes and we have better this time. This has ...