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21 મી સદીનું થીંકીંગ : શબ્દ અને સ્વાદનો સમન્વય એટલે દશેરા
આજનું શીર્ષક જોઇને એમ થાય છે કે દશેરામાં
શબ્દ તો બરાબર છે પરંતુ આ સ્વાદનો સમન્વય જરા અજુગતું લાગે. પરંતુ આ સ્વાદ એ અમદાવાદીઓના
ફાફડા-જલેબી અને ચોરાફળી સાથે જોડાયેલો છે. પહેલાના સમયમાં સવારે નહાઈને
પરિવાર સાથે મંદિરે જવાનો ક્રમ હતો જે
આજના જમાનામાં બદલાઈ ગયો છે.
આજે સવારે નહાવાને બદલે
સીધા જ ઉઠી, બ્રશ
કરીને બર્મુન્ડો - ટી-શર્ટ પહેરીને
સ્કૂટરની કિક મારીને સીધા
જ ગાંઠિયા, જલેબી, ચોરાફળી લેવા
પહોંચી જવાનું કેમ કે
પછી ભીડ બહુ થાય
યાર !
ઘરમાં જો વડીલ
વ્યક્તિ હોય તો કહે
કે દીકરા, પહેલા સ્નાન
પતાવીને મંદિરે તો જા.
તો દીકરો બોલે, પપ્પા
ગઈકાલથી તમે કહેતા હતા
ને કે ગાંઠિયા જલેબી
ખાવા છે તો પહેલા
એ લેતો આવું પછી
બહુ જ લાઈન લાગશે.
વર્ષ 2011 ના ટાઈમ્સ ઓફ
ઇન્ડિયાના આંકડા પ્રમાણે અમદાવાદમાં
જ લગભગ 25 કરોડ રૂપિયાના ફાફડા-જલેબીનું વેચાણ થાય છે
તો આ વખતે ભાવવધારાને
પરિણામે આ આંકડો 40 કરોડ સુધી તો પહોંચી
જ જશે.
આપ જો સૌરાષ્ટ્રમાં
જાઓ તો ત્યાં ફાફડા-જલેબીના બદલે તમને મિક્ષ
મીઠાઈના તૈયાર બોક્ષ મળે
અને એમાં જો રામકૃષ્ણ
ડેરીની મીઠાઈ મળે તો
તો મોઢામાં પાણી પાણી..
ગઈકાલે
ટીવી 9 ગુજરાતી ઉપર સમાચાર આવેલા
કે અમદાવાદના કુલ 25 ફરસાણ માર્ટને
ત્યાં ફૂડ વિભાગના દરોડા
અને સેમ્પલ ચેક કર્યા
પછી 22 મીઠાઈની દુકાનવાળાઓને નોટીસ પાઠવી. આ
સમાચાર વાંચ્યા પછી લોકોએ ફાફડા-જલેબીની ખરીદી વધારી દીધી
એટલા માટે કે કદાચ
ખાલી થઇ જશે તો?
જલેબીનો
ફોટો જોઇને ઘણા રીડર્સને
એમ થતું હશે કે
દીપકભાઈ, બ્લોગ લખવા કરતાં
દુકાને જઈને ફાફડા-જલેબી
ઝાપટો. પરંતુ દશેરા એ
માત્ર ફાફડા-જલેબીનો જ
તહેવાર નથી. આજે સવારે
જયારે હું 7 વાગ્યે હેર
સલુનમાં ગયો ત્યારે મેં
વાળંદને કહ્યું કે, જયંતીભાઈ
જરા જુવો તો ખરી
આ સવારમાં 7 વાગ્યે પેલી દુકાને
ફાફડા-જલેબીની ભીડ કેટલી છે.
ત્યારે મને જયંતીભાઈએ કહ્યું
કે દીપકભાઈ, આપણા આ દાંત
છે ને એ જીભને
એમ કહે કે તને
હું ચપટીમાં કચડી નાખીશ. ત્યારે
જીભે એમ કહ્યું કે,
હું જો એક શબ્દ
બોલીશ ને તો વગર
હથિયારે તારા બધા જ
દાંત પડી જશે.
જજીસ
બંગલો રોડ ઉપર અમુક
મીઠાઈઓની દુકાનવાળાઓએ તો બાઉન્સર રાખેલા
છે. એમને એમ હશે
કે કદાચ આજે ફાફડા-જલેબી લેવા માટે
રાવણ આવી જાય તો
શું કરવું ?
આજે
મેં નક્કી કર્યું છે
કે દશેરા ફાફડા-જલેબી
વગરનો જ મનાવવો છે
.
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Why Steve Ballmer Failed - Posted by Nicholas Thompson
Steve Ballmer, the
C.E.O. of Microsoft, finally figured out a way to make some money for himself:
he quit. This morning, Ballmer announced that he will retire within the next
twelve months. The company’s stock surged; Ballmer is now worth about a billion
dollars more than he was on Thursday.
Ballmer is roughly
the tech industry’s equivalent of Mikhail Gorbachev, without the coup and the
tanks and Red Square. When he took control, in 2000, Microsoft was one of the
most powerful and feared companies in the world. It had a market capitalization
of around five hundred billion dollars, the highest of any company on earth.
Developers referred to it as an “evil empire.” As he leaves, it’s a sprawling
shadow. It still has cash—but that matters little.
What has gone
wrong? For starters, Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs. He missed every
major trend in technology. His innovations alienated people. When he tried
something new, like Windows Vista, the public lined up around the block to
trade it in. Microsoft missed social networking. It completely misjudged the
iPhone and the iPad. It embraced complexity in product design just as everyone
was turning toward simplicity. It entered growing markets too late. When was
the last time you used Bing? In 2000, Microsoft made most of its money selling
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows. Today, it still makes its money that
way. Ballmer’s reign has done more to defang Microsoft than the Justice
Department could ever have hoped to do.
The company
suffered from the classic innovator’s dilemma. It built extraordinary software
that you run on your desktop. And as we moved away from our desktops and into
the cloud and onto mobile devices, Microsoft trundled slowly and tentatively.
It hesitated to embrace the cloud, and it hesitated to build anything that
didn’t work with Windows. In 2005, it brought in a legendary coder, Ray Ozzie, to solve this problem. In 2010, he left. The
company has built a technically brilliant gaming system, and the recently
launched Xbox
One is fully cloud-based—and almost totally separate from the parts of the
company that bring in cash.
Ballmer, manic and
sweat-stained once too
often, failed to be a great manager, or even a tolerable one. As Kurt
Eichenwald wrote, devastatingly, in Vanity Fair, the company long
utilized a system called “stack rating,” whereby every member of the company
was judged relative to his peers. If you worked on a team of ten, you knew that
two of your colleagues would get great ratings, seven would pass, and one would
fail. “Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited
stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft,” Eichenwald wrote.
What comes next
for Ballmer? He’s just fifty-seven, a couple years younger than Gorbachev was
when he left. But I think he’ll be quiet: doing good deeds, giving away his
fortune, and popping up his head from time to time. The more important question
is what comes next for Microsoft—an American company, founded by a skinny nerd,
that provides software used around the world. Reversing the company’s decline,
in an industry that transforms itself by the day, won’t be easy; Microsoft
needs someone who can attract brilliant developers as well as she anticipates
trends. They need someone very different from Ballmer. In his memo to Microsoft
employees, he wrote, “I cherish my Microsoft ownership, and look forward to
continuing as one of Microsoft’s largest owners.” Given the size of his
financial stake in the company, there’s almost no one who should want a better
C.E.O. for Microsoft than Ballmer himself.
Photograph:
Lee Jae-Won/Reuters
This article is originally published in The New Yorker on August 23, 2013.
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Top international book fairs of 2013 (વિશ્વના પ્રખ્યાત પુસ્તક મેળાઓની માહિતી અને વેબસાઈટ)
2013's major international book fairs will
see publishers orienting themselves to a world of readers that use print as
well as digital, and one in which Chinese, Indian and South American markets
are of growing importance.
New Delhi World Book Fair
February
15-23, 2013
Pragati
Maidan, Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi, India
Formerly
held every two years, the New Delhi World Book Fair marks its annulization in
2013, this year adopting “indigenous voices” as its theme, placing prominence
upon folk and tribal literature, and welcoming France as guest of honor. In
2012, 1,300 Indian exhibitors and 30 foreign exhibitors were represented at the
event. For visit: www.newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in
Salon du Livre
March 22-25
Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
The Paris Book Fair boasted 1,200 exhibitors with 40
countries represented at its 2012 edition, having refocused on a shortened
exhibition period and now working to accommodate small and first-time exhibitors
alongside established players. Guests of honor for 2013 are to be Romania and
Barcelona. http://www.salondulivreparis.com
London Book Fair
April 15-17, 2013
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, UK
The London Book Fair is the leading spring book event in
Europe, with the Frankfurt Fair dominating the second half of the year. While
the event spotlights the UK publishing industry -- the second-largest in the
world for English-language books -- it also attracts up to 25,000 visitors from
130 countries around the world. Turkey will be the Market Focus at the 2013
fair. http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
April 24-29, 2013
National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, a leading book
fair for the Middle Eastern market organized in part by the Frankfurt Book
Fair, boasts half a million titles on dislay and hosts the International Prize
for Arabic Fiction and Sheikh Zayed Book Awards. The 2013 focus will be on
digital publishing, apps, and technology. http://www.adbookfair.com
BookExpo America
May 30 - June 1, 2013
Javitz Convention Center, New York, NY
BookExpo America is the premier book fair in North
America and the largest English-language book fair in the world. More than
2,000 exhibitors and 500 authors attended the 2012 event, as well as an
estimated 30,000 visitors. Live streaming of select events will return for 2013.
The fair began in 1902 with Mark Twain as the featured author; the 2012 program
featured Stephen Colbert, Barbara Kingsolver, Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon and
Lee Child. - http://www.bookexpoamerica.com
Tokyo International Book Fair
July 4-7, 2013
Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
TIBF is the leading book event focusing on the colossal
Japanese publishing industry, which is estimated to be the second largest
woldwide. Focuses include general fiction, business titles, and manga, as well
as Japan's growing e-book market. In 2012, e-books and e-readers became a
focus, and the fair welcomed 66,115 visitors from 42 countries.
http://www.bookfair.jp
http://www.bookfair.jp
Hong Kong Book Fair
July 17-23, 2013
HK Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
Asia's biggest book fair in terms of visitor numbers, the
Hong Kong Book Fair is a cultural phenomenom, attracting huge numbers of
visitors with its author autographs, book bargains, and cultural events. The
2012 fair attracted 900,000 visitors despite disruption caused by a typhoon
warning; 2013's major exhibit categories include e-books, e-readers and
e-learning, as well as children's and teens' books, religious books and
stationery alongside the usual fare. - http://www.hkbookfair.com
Beijing International Book Fair
August 28 - September 1, 2013
New China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
The BIBF presents itself as the largest publishing
industry event for the Asian market, and one which continues to grow in
importance as publishers set their sights on the huge Chinese market with its
demand for translated and English-language titles. Over 200,000 industry
members and visitors attend the event, which is historically open to the public
on the fourth day. The 2013 edition will be the BIBF's second year in a new
convention center, so organizers are predicting an even smoother event. - http://www.bibf.net
Frankfurt Book Fair
October 9-13, 2013
Messegelände, Frankfurt, Germany
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's biggest gathering
of publishers and authors. The 2012 fair hosted over 7,300 exhibitors from
around 100 countries, attracting 281,753 visitors. Celebrities from the fields
of books, video gaming, TV and film are frequently in attendance. Spotlights in
2013 will fall upon children's books, book rights, gastronomy, travel,
specialist information, and the Frankfurt Sparks digital initiative platform.
Brazil will be guest of honor. - http://www.buchmesse.de
Guadalajara International Book Fair
November 14-20, 2013
Exhibition Center, Guadalajara, Mexico
The "FIL" (Feria Internacional del Libro de
Guadalajara), usually held in November, is the principal event for
Spanish-language publishing worldwide, attracting 660,000 visitors in 2011 and
nearly 2,000 publishing houses from 43 countries in the Spanish-speaking world
and beyond. Israel is guest of honor in 2013. - http://www.fil.com.mx
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