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Pradeep Viswambharan

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Pradeep Viswambharan

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olitics, as it is practiced in ourcountry, is not my cup of tea. How-ever, if politics, as defined in MerriamWebster’s Dictionary is to be taken asa guideline, I am all for it. Webster’sdescribes politics as

the art or scienceof governance, the art or science con-cerned with guiding or influencing government policy,

and the art and science concerned with winning and holding control over a government

.View it from any of these three anglesyou like, the recently held generalelections and its outcome will tell youthe story of a nation coming of age,and a billion-strong electorate thatconstitutes the world’s largest democ-racy, attaining maturity enough to tellthe world that, yes, India is finally readyto endorse the art and science of goodpolitics,

not wholly or in full measure,but very substantially

, to quote fromJawaharlal Nehru’s

Tryst With Destiny

speech!It was Winston Churchill who infamous-ly remarked prior to us winning free-dom that Indians are not fit to governthemselves; they will only make a mock-ery of democracy. Unfortunately for us,it turned outto be pro-phetic, sev-eral timesover the pastsix decadesof our histo-ry

The willof the peopleexpressedthrough elec-tion after election did not translate intothe good of the

aam admi,

the commonman. And finally, the first half of the1990s changed it all forthe better when India took courageand unshackled itself from wornoutideologies and opened up itself for theworld to come and join in its re-dis-covery. Destiny had painstakingly pre-pared a

discoverer

in the person of Dr.Manmohan Singh, who as Finance Min-ister under Prime Minister P.V. Narasim-ha Rao, helped awaken India from itsslumber, the outcome of which is therefor all of us to see, partake of andbenefit from, especially so for us inIT, for whom a whole new world hasbeen opened up to experiment with.The recent elections, the result ofwhich has ensured that India has po-litical and administrative continuity,will go down in history as a landmarkin our quest to seek and enhancechange. A gov-ernment of thepeople, by thepeople and(hopefully) forthe people canperform wellonly if there areno roadblocks in its path. While, dur-ing the past five years, Dr. ManmohanSingh’s bandwagon of governance wasslowed down by road blocks, in thissecond turn he has no such hiccups tofear from. People of India have cho-sen

well, and most of the members ofthe lower house of our parliament arewell educated, dedicated, and com-mitted to the cause of politics, which,as I said earlier, is the art or scienceof governance, policy making and win-ning, and controlling the levers of pow-er.At long last we have proven WinstonChurchill wrong. However, our lead-ers and administrators should contin-ue to strive to prove Boise Penrose alsowrong, who in 1931 wrote in Collier’sweekly:

Public office is the last ref-uge of a scoundrel.

This is their best chance to prove it.Let’s wish them Godspeed in the task.

Winston ChurchillTeam Manmohan soon after taking office in May

Accentia’s Bhubaneswar unit successfully completed 2 years of operations onJune 1, 2009. These two years have been highly productive, with plenty tolearn and good support provided by everyone in Team Accentia globally, reportsMr. S. Pankaj, Dy. Production

Managerin the unit.”Accentians in Bhubaneswarexpect plenty more to happen in theyears to come, and are committedtowards providing quality service to alltheir clients”, he adds.”At thisjuncture, we want to express delightfor the privilege in working witheveryone in Accentia and wouldcontinue to seek guidance wheneverrequired to achieve the vision set forus.”

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EDITORIAL

An Accentia Technologies Update

Managing Editor

Pradeep Viswambharan

pradeep.vs@accentiatech.com

Editor in Chief

Rajeev Viswambharan

rajeev.vs@accentiatech.com

Executive Editor

C.K. Sooraj

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Editorial Consultant

Mathukutty J. Kunnappally

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Rajeev Viswambharan

A breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airA breath of fresh airand K and K and K and K and K argil rememberedargil rememberedargil rememberedargil rememberedargil remembered

he global economy is still in tailspin mode. No one knows when itwill stabilize, whether share priceswill move northwards or dividends willhappen to spread a smile of cheeraround. Mega corporations are shy andreluctant to come out with their an-nual results simply because there isnothing much to show by way of prof-its or returns. This is especially trueof the IT industry where the crisisseems to be deepening day after day.It therefore was welcomed as a breathof fresh air when Accentia’s Board ofDirectors, after due deliberations,approved a final dividend payment of20% on face value to its shareholders,based on the company’s performancein 2008-09.

This proves that there isroom for hope even in the season of adversity

was how The EconomicTimes, India’s premier financial daily

Editor in Chief

qualified our growth story.AccentiaTech.Com congratulates every-one on Team Accentia for making thisnear-impossible story possible throughdiligence, dedication, and intelligenthard work. A detailed news analysis onpage 5 of this issue.Remember Kargil War? The blatant vio-lation of our Himalayan borders by aneighbor that led to fierce fighting andthe loss of several precious lives?Though India won the war, the scar ofthat wound remains. Sathyajit K.K. ofAccentia-Trivandrum looks back as theanniversary of Kargil approaches, witha piece appropriately titled ‘Lest weforget.’ Is there room for laughterbehind all those serious messages onTV and Radio advertisement jingles?Nagma Tabassum of Accentia, Banga-lore employs some imagination andcreativity to tell us that, indeed thereis a lot of laughter behind those hid-den persuaders.This much and more await you in thepages that follow.

1054

Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)

1776

Declaration of Independence - U.S. gains independence from Britain

1837

Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opensbetween Birmingham and Liverpool.

1840

The Cunard Line’s 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britanniadeparts from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the firsttransatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.

1906

Great Britain, France and Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia .

1865

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.

1876

1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco

1884

Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris

1886

The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of theUnited States.

1918

Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendardate).

1934

Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

1946

After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines attainsfull independence from the United States.

1947

The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before British House ofCommons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereigncountries – India and Pakistan.

1966

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Actinto United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.

1976

Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all butfour of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized byPalestinian terrorists.

1976

American people celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Declarationof Independence

1997

NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.

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hy is July 4 a date so important? Because it happens to be theIndependence Day of the USA of course!. But besides that, July 4 hasalso gone down in history as a noteworthy day for so many other reasons.Here are some of the more significant among them: