The Word Route

Books are a man’s best friend. This adage has been proven time and again. Any one born in the pre-digital era will list out their collection of books and their favourite authors in a jiffy. During my growing years (80s-90s), Panchatantra , Amar Chitra Katha , Hitopadesha , Champak and Readers Digest , were my best friends during train travel and vacations. I don’t exactly recollect how and when I fell in love with the print for the first time, but I do remember when I did, it was meant to be a forever bond! Whether I was happy, sad or angry, I would just go to my corner and read my favourite book. I still remember the morning of my Xth board exams. I had an unfinished novel in my hand. Such was my love for books! Other days, after school hours and play time, at least half an hour was reserved for reading aloud newspaper stories and headlines and sometimes, solving an occasional Crossword. Those were the Doordarshan days when the television channels would blank out automat...

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Director: Jis Joy Starring Asif Ali, Salim Kumar, Aparna Gopinath, Devan, Sai Kumar, Bineesh, Rahul Madhav, Vijay Babu Just like the title of the film, the story revolves around four friends who are bicycle thieves. Bose (Salim Kumar), Rahim (Bineesh) and Ramesh (Rahul Madhav) run a stolen bicycle business. Chacko (Asif Ali) has lost his parents in a tragedy and is living with his uncle's family who treat him like a servant. One morning, the 11 yr-old Chacko steals his cousin's brand new cycle and escapes from home. He lands at Bose's garage where he sees myriad cycles and is totally fascinated by the sight. He agrees to join the trio in stealing bicycles and reselling them. The foursome make a lot of money in the business. However they begin to get bored and look for bigger moolah. Enters Matthews (Devan) who approaches them with a tempting offer. As part of the deal, he asks them to kidnap his boss Pattanaswamy (Sai Kumar) and steal a sum of 3 crore from him. In retu...

Industry experts have cited the Business Process Outsourcing or BPO model as an emerging contributor to a country’s economy. It has solved many third world and other developing nations’ problems by reducing their unemployment issues and in turn, helped developed nations cut down their labor costs in production practices. Most candidates get rejected on grounds of inadequate academic qualifications, but BPOs accept candidates without considering their low grades or poor status. So if you are good at speaking impeccable English, and possess a confident personality to provide correct on-the-call advice, and do not mind working in night shifts, you may be the right candidate. These days, all operations of business process outsourcing units are based mainly on data entries. There are various categories of data entry and six types outsourcing BPO services as listed below: Figure-based data • Companies outsource to business outsourcing units that can compute and calculate telephone bi...

Till the advent of the computers, all papers and legal documents of every company were filed, stored and catalogued systematically in the form of files stacked in cabinets. If one had to access any of the data, they would have to employ people for the same work. Small and big organizations had to employ extra manpower if they wanted additional help regarding verification of financial transactions and company expansion activities. Outsourcing of jobs was unknown to many in the pre-digital era. Though, the system of awarding contracts to a third party for making machinery parts had begun long ago. Slowly, but steadily, organizations began understanding that they need to outsource other jobs as well, to increase the productivity of their company as well as performance of employees. They started creating strategies for to outsource their business to other companies, minimizing their own labor costs. The term business process outsourcing or BPO caught on with organizations, which start...

If you like writing and want to spin money out of your words, then search engine optimization or SEO is the right place for you to earn from writing. It means to increase the visibility of a website in the page ranks of a search engine by using the right keywords or terms. These days, many websites need good writers with impeccable English who can write articles in a short time span. In other words, SEO content writing is slowly emerging as a big industry after data entry outsourcing. The job market is teeming with SEO content writing jobs across the globe since the demand for competent content writers is higher. In an SEO company, deadlines need to be maintained by the writer. After data entry outsourcing, this is the next most popular form of outsourcing being used by companies to attract traffic to their website and raising revenue from articles. Companies are outsourcing this type of specialized writing to firms that have writers specializing in various fields of technical and...

How many of you have read computer monitor reviews before buying one? Do you compare prices of computer monitors on websites? A large percentage of people have been found to do extensive surveys before making a purchase of the device. But what about those who haven’t done? Reviews of any gadget or device give a detailed insight on its resolution, dimensions, image quality, price, colors, camera (if it’s a mobile phone or a tablet) and finally the market ratings. Similarly, a computer monitor is a vital component of a PC or personal computer. Without the monitor, the computer is incomplete. So once you read computer monitors reviews, you are less likely to make a wrong choice while choosing between a Samsung or Dell monitor. First, check what type of monitor you want. This is because each brand specializes in providing different types of monitors. For instance, there are seven types of Samsung computer monitors available. Samsung offers a wide range of computer monitors like LCD, L...