Deepak Mishra

        Everybody has been complaining about their boredom during the lockdown. They are not able to meet people because of WFH. As Biswa says, extroverts are like "Insaan kahan hai? Mujhe Insaan ke saath hang out karna hai thoda sa." meaning "Where are the human beings? I need to hang out with a human being." Not just extroverts, after so many days of social distancing, we all want to hang out with human beings. We want to celebrate festivals.            Our beloved PM Modi Ji, who is known to give tasks to the people of India, like make Aadhar cards, stand in ATM queues, donate cylinder, etc continues to give us tasks. First, he asked the people of India to come to the balcony to make noise. Now he is asking us to show lights. It has started feeling like Big Boss. Now I am wondering what his next tasks will be. Big Boss wants all the housemates to come to the balcony and pee to the ground?           Jokes apart PM Modi does know our situation here. He finds ou

Game Of Thrones S08E03: How the Night King should have been defeated? Many are unhappy that Arya killed the Night King and not Jon Snow. I am not. I loved that it was Arya and her training paid off. Many are unhappy that she did it very easily. Here I am unhappy too. So much build up of Night King to die like that. Everything else has been shown perfectly, but the last 10-20 seconds spoiled the whole thing. Let's rewrite a more sensible ending for the S08E03. When the Night King entered the Godswood, there were only two white walkers present. He comes and stands in front of Bran. Jon is trying to defend himself from the wight dragon and shout "Go", which happened. A white walker enters the Godswood and stands beside the other walkers. A walker feels a breeze and sees to his left to the walker who just came, but there was no one. When the Night King removes his sword and attempts to kill Bran, a white walker jumps to him with a dagger. Night King turns and holds th

I was 100% sure I will be joining Clipshow (name changed) as an Engineering Manager, which was my eighth offer of the season. I even gave my confirmation to join the company, so that the CTO can inform the investors and roll out the offer letter. I changed my status to " not looking out ". The scene with the other company suddenly got aggressive. The offer from Lindakart (name changed) for Principal Engineer was the ninth offer I had. I had even had a quarrel with the CEO of Lindakart when I met him, but still, he kept his ego aside. The HRs from Lindakart were urging me to join them, even though they were offering me Rupees 2 LPA lesser than Clipshow. After hundreds of calls from those HRs, the founders, the VPs and other stakeholders, I started appreciating their perseverance and also started liking the importance I got. I hesitantly called the Clipshow CTO informing him that I couldn't join them. Surprisingly, he was cool about it. I was supposed to join on Monday,

Finally, I published my first story on Amazon. The title is "Is Lal Bahadur Shastri Fine?" You can search and read it on Kindle. It is a science fiction short story. I hope you like the story. My Author Page: Dr Mystique Kindle Edition: Is Lal Bahadur Shastri Fine? Paperback: Is Lal Bahadur Shastri Fine? It felt great after publishing. It felt even better when one book was sold at Smashwords . -------------------------------- ------------ ------------ --- Updates: I have published another book through a publisher. This is science fiction as well. If you read it let me know how did you like it. Kindle Edition: The Travellers .

Policy 1: Sex ratio Many companies have a policy of maintaining the sex ratio in the engineering teams. Most of them have separate bars while interviewing male and female candidates. The lower bar for female candidates has been pissing off male candidates for very long. The men in the office don't respect the management decision of having women with lower calibre. To decrease the displeasure among the men employees and to justify pay as per productivity, the management offers lower pay scales to women candidates. It creates discontent among the women. If the bars are equal, the ratio decreases. Suppose, there are 80 boys and 20 girls in an engineering college and the percentage of smart ones is the same for both, say 20%. The set of selected candidates will have 16 boys and 4 girls. If the bars are different, the policies for maintaining the ratio will create unemployment among the male engineers or a shortage of women engineers in the long run. What is the solution to this?

        I have been in Bangalore for years, and I have not seen any auto driver accepting a ride by the meter. They have excuses to not obey the meter and always charge double, one and a half times of the meter or fifty rupees more. There are mainly three main excuses. Between 10 PM and 6 AM, the reason is the night charges, which are double, saying that it's Government rule. Between 9 AM and 1 PM or between 5 PM and 9 PM, they take more because of the heavy traffic. Between 6 AM and 9 AM, between 1 PM and 5 PM or between 9 PM and 10 PM, they demand more saying that they have to come back empty.           For  point 1: The night charges are applicable from 10 PM to 5 AM, not 6 AM; also the night charges are 1.5x, not double.           For point 2: Heavy traffic is a satisfactory justification, but they exploit it to extract out money from the customer's pocket, due to customer's critical obligation to reach on time.           For point 3: This one is the shallowe