Rengudu's Blog

"WHAT IS AN AUDIT"? Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt. The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie gets out and asks the shepherd, 'If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?' The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the large flock of grazing sheep and replies, 'Okay.' The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Website, scans the ground using his GPRS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms and pivot tables. He then prints out a 150-page report on his high-tech mini-printer, tu rns to the shepherd and says, 'You have exactly 1,586 sheep.' The shepherd cheers, 'That's correct, you can have your sheep.' The young man takes one of the animals from the flo...

Edakkal Caves are two natural caves located 1,200 metres above sea level on Ambukkuttimala 25 km from Kalpetta in the Wayanad district of Kerala. They lie besides an ancient trade route connecting the high mountains of Mysore to the ports of Malabar coast. Inside the caves are pictorial writings believed to be dating to at least 5000 BC Sun Light penetrating through the Edakkal, a pictureque view.

A man enters a barber shop for a shave. While the barber is foaming him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a close shave around the cheeks. "I have just the thing," says the barber taking a small wooden ball from a nearby drawer. "Just place this between your cheek and gum." The client places the ball in his mouth and the barber proceeds with the closest shave the man has ever experienced. After a few strokes, the client asks in garbled speech, "And what if I swallow it?" "No problem," says the barber. "Just bring it backtomorrow like everyone else does." The train was quite crowded, so a U. S. Marine walked the entire length looking for a seat, but the only seat left was taken by a well dressed, middle-aged, French woman's poodle... The war-weary Marine asked, 'Ma'am, may I have that seat? 'The French woman just sniffed and said to no one in particular 'Americans are so rude. My little Fifi is using that se...

From email: Germany is a highly industrialized country. It produces top brands likeBenz, BMW, Siemens etc. The nuclear reactor pump is made in a small town in this country. When I arrived at Hamburg, my colleagues who work in Hamburg arranged awelcome party for me in a restaurant. As we walked into the restaurant, we noticed that a lot of tables were empty. There was a table where a young couple was having their meal. There were only two dishes and two cans of beer on the table. I wondered if such simple meal could be romanctic.There were a few old ladies on another table. When a dish is served, thewaiter would distribute the food for them, and they would finish every bit of the food on their plates. We did not pay much attention to them, as we were looking forward to thedishes we ordered. As we were hungry, our local colleague ordered morefood for us. As the restaurant was quiet, the food came quite fast. Since there wereother activities arranged for us, we did not spend much time d...

Anna Hazare at 78 fasts unto death starting 5th April for all of us & our future generations. He's demanding enactment of a strong anti-corruption law - Jan Lokpal Bill - to ensure swiftness & certainty of punishment to the corrupt. Things to know about Anna Hazare and Lok Pal Bill : 1. Who is Anna Hazare? An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War 2. What's so special about him? He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra. 3. This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills. In 1975, it used to be a poverty clad village. Now it is one of the richest village in India. It has become a model for self-sustained, eco-friendly & harmonic village. 4. Anna Hazare was awarded Padma Bhushan and is a known figure for his social activities. 5.He is supporting a cause, the amendment of a law to curb corruption in India. 6. How that can be possible? He is advocating for ...

The celebration has begun in our state - for the politicians, I meant. Fire crackers, Drum beats, Garlands, parade of wasteful man power, rather youth power I would say. War of words, war of freebie schemes to hide their corrupt background between various political parties gallop. In the midst of such a scenario, it was an interesting exchange of questions and ideas within a group of youth. I peeked in the group and overheard the core of the arguement. It was about the current political condition, various parites contending in the forthcoming assembly elections, various freebies, schemes announced by different parties. I could see a sadness among all the faces in spite occasional laughter (probably to hide away the inherent inability to challenge the predicament of people). I understood that these young guns are not ignorant about the state of politics in our country. They knew every detail about the infamous 2G spectrum scam, Kalmadi game (common wealth game), Tehelka, bribing of MPs...