Anirban CV

 Anirban CV

Anirban Mukerji   Senior Manager Government Affairs Qualcomm anirmukerji@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirmukerji +91 8800915588 (mobile) Age 50 years, Work Ex 30 years Location Delhi/ NCR

Career Highlights

a)     Work Experience

i)       Senior Manager Government Affairs Qualcomm, 2012 September onwards.

ii)      Senior Consultant Program Development with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, (MEITY) Government of India, October 2010 – September 2012

iii)     National Manager e-Governance Solutions IBM 2007-2009

iv)    Consultant, Department of e-Governance, State Government of Karnataka 2005-2007

v)      Manager Strategic Partnerships Social Innovation Hewlett Packard 2003-2005

Qualcomm Inc. – Senior Manager Government Affairs-October 2012 onwards

Currently managing the Wireless Reach Program of Qualcomm in India and S.E Asia and L2PRO and IP training e-learning program.

The goal of Wireless Reach is to create sustainable technology projects that strengthen economic and social development for underserved communities. Wireless Reach programs are closely allied to Government Affairs and Business Development efforts and help shine the spotlight on the company.

In addition to managing programs, the job includes engaging with relevant Government departments for showcasing the impact and obtaining their support for scaling the program. I also create communication material, organize, and speak at events to showcase the impact of these programs.

An example of such a program is the Fisher Friend Mobile Application. This program provides information on ocean and weather conditions, fish prices, and coordinates of Potential Fishing Zone to marine fishers thereby making fishing safer for them and also increasing their incomes. The project has been featured by leading media outlets like Forbes, MINT, and CNN IBN. Indian Scientific institutions and the Government of India have appreciated the program.

L2PRO – Managed the L2Pro (Learn to Protect, Secure, and Maximize Your Innovations) IP e-learning platform. L2PRO  has been designed to educate startups, Small and Medium Enterprises, and innovators on fundamentals of Intellectual Property. Qualcomm collaborated with the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India and National Law University Delhi for this initiative

Department of Information Technology Government of India

Senior Consultant– November 2010 -  September 2012

·        Managed the e-District Mission Mode Project, a project with an outlay of Rs. 1600 Crores.

My role included program management of the project, appointment of Consultancy agencies, System Integrators, liaising with State Governments for ensuring the timebound execution of the Projects.

·        Formulated the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill.

This involved study of similar legislation, drafting of the law, drafting of the cabinet note on the Electronic Delivery of Services Bill, obtaining and responding to comments and queries from all Central Government Ministries and State Governments.

IBM India.    National Manager e-Governance Solutions –October 07 – October 09

·        Developed mindshare with several key bureaucrats (Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary, Director General of Police) in various Government Departments.

·        Worked on long terms high-value projects, like the Treasury Modernization Project, National Rural Land records modernization project.

·        Delivered over 10 Million $ in Revenue in Treasury, State Wide Area Network, Portals projects.

Self Employed e-Governance Consultant October 09 - October 10

Worked on engagements with NASSCOM and Government of Karnataka

Program Manager e-Governance Government of Karnataka Oct 05 – Sept 07

Worked on several e-Governance priorities of the Government of Karnataka, including the Rural Digital Services Project, expansion of Bangalore One, Bhoomi programs

Hewlett-Packard, Manager Social Innovation, May 03 – September 05

Worked in the social innovation lab – “Kuppam HP i-community” program of Hewlett-Packard, which aimed at the holistic development of the rural community through the use of technology in a manner that was self-sustaining both for the community and the company.

Career Summary

Date	Employer	Position/ Responsibility
Oct 12 onwards	Qualcomm	Senior Manager Government Affairs
2010-2012	Department of Information Technology, Government of India	General Manager Program Development
2009-2010	Freelance Consultant	Working on various public reform initiatives
2007-2009	IBM India	National Manager e-Gov Solutions
2005-2007	Government of Karnataka	e-Governance Consultant
2003-2005	Hewlett Packard	Manager Social Innovation
2002	n-Logue Communications	DGM Projects
2000-2002	Satyam Infoway	Sr. Manager B2B Portals
1996-2000	Hindustan Lever	Assistant Manager Agri-Business Division
1993-1996	Shriram Foods and Fertilizers	Assistant Manager Oil Purchase
1992-1993	M.P. Oilfed.	Assistant Manager Exports

Education

·        Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Management from IRMA 1992

·        B.Sc. Hon’s (Math’s) St. Stephen’s College 1989

·        NTSE Scholar, (A National scholarship awarded by NCERT  to only 250 students annually)

Speakership/writings

Have taught IAS probationers in LBSNAA, their academy, spoken at industry events at CII and other associations

Air India flight New Delhi - San Francisco and return

I recently flew the Air India flight from New Delhi to San Francisco and return on Business class.  This was the first time that I flew Air India for a International Travel and wanted to say that I was extremely happy with the experience

Until now I have flown mostly on Emirates and ofcourse the Emirate A 380 business experience is far superior but Air India is not bad.

The food in Air India is quite good and the seats are comfortable so if you want to fly direct New Delhi - San Francisco,  then Air India flight is a good choice

In New Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport, the Air India lounge ofcourse doesn't compare to the Emirates lounge.  In San Francisco, Air India business class passengers get to use the United lounge which also isn't comparable to the Emirates lounge in San Francisco.

The Emirates inflight entertainment system is also far superior to the Air India

Graham Greene - End of an Affair

Himanshu introduced me to Graham Greene, probably even now one of the finest writers of English, however, when I read Graham Greene in college , I felt I was too young as the plots are incredibly complex and deal with the most complex of all subjects – “human relationships”.

The first Graham Greene novel I read, to briefly summarize the story is that during war time Britain , the protagonist, an author( the novel is told in an autobiographical fashion) is having an affair with a married woman . ( At that time I ofcourse did not know what a relationship is and how yucky the idea sounds, but notwithstanding that) and suddenly the affair ends. The affair ends all of a sudden to the protagonist’s surprise and he feels that probably his paramour is seeing someone else and he hires a detective to shadow her. At some time in the novel, his paramour ( or ex-Girlfriend) becomes sick and eventually dies. Somewhere during her last days, the lady and the gentleman meet in a church and she tells the protagonist the truth that the last day after which she ended the affair, they were together in her ( and her husband’s ) house and just at the time she had left him to go to another room, a bomb hits their house in the bedroom where her lover was and as she rushes to find him, when she just enters the room, at the first sight she finds the damage terrible. Immediately at that time, before moving further,  she makes a pact with god that in case her lover survives she will not meet him again ever. Though luckily for her, her lover is completely unharmed but  then she can’t meet him again and can’t even tell him why.

Sometimes I think what consequences I would be willing to take to make someone happy and however sentimental it sounds I remember the graham greene novel and the sacrifice of that  great lady.  

Urdu Poem

Apne Naqshe Ke
Mutaabiq Ye Zameen
Kuch Kam Hai...

Bichde Logon Se 
Mulaqaat Kabhi Phir Hogi
Dil Me Ummeed To Kaafi Hai Yaqeen Kuch Kam Hai...

- Shaharyar (Akhlaq Mohammed Khan )

My Super Mom

My Mother was the youngest of three sisters and grew up in an affectionate extended family in West Bengal where everyone wanted to help and support her. Predictably, one day, she had to  leave her father’s home to get married. In March 1967, she married my father, an Air Force Officer who took her to his home in Belgaum, 2000 kms away from Calcutta and she had set up and managed home initially for the two of them. Over the next 13 years as typically of the life an Air Force Officer’s wife she kept moving with her husband from place to place as per the Air Force postings. Along the way she gave birth to two sons and brought them up.

In 1980 my father was posted to New Delhi and it was felt that there was need for some additional income in the family and Delhi also offered opportunities for my mother. My mother took up the challenge and first she undertook nursery training and got a job as a Nursery teacher. She later completed her B.Ed. to get a job as a fulltime teacher in Air Force Bal Bharti School. It was truly an accomplishment for her to undertake studies at the age of 40 and start working at this late age, having never worked at all. As typical of all working moms, she would wake up early, prepare food for all of us and then board her bus to take her to school.

In September 2010, very suddenly my father was diagnosed with lung cancer and succumbed to a botched up operation within 2 months. While I was with my father during his operation and later during the funeral and mourning, but I had to get back to my new job, which I had just joined a month back. Despite the fact that I couldn’t do help much initially, my mother handled all the tasks that enabled her to live by herself after the loss of her husband.

As mentioned initially, being the youngest sister, my mother’s parents and her elder sisters always looked upon her as a little girl who needed to be helped, but by looking after herself in various circumstances of life, she has proved herself to be a true heroine.

killer songs on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cprez2G15LI&list=RDyb4oCde7Zqs

London Thumkada lyrics

http://www.bollymeaning.com/2014/02/poora-london-thumakda-lyrics.html

Online Rape Map of India

Looks like under reporting of cases in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra

Source
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/03/a-rape-map-of-india/

IAS officer who became a Monk by Shailaja Chandra - one of my favourite writers

http://www.gfilesindia.com/MobileArtDetails.aspx?id=825&Name=IAS%20officer%20who%20became%20a%20monk!

 had heard of civil servants doing extraordinary things, but becoming a full-time servant of God was exceptional. This, then, is the story of an IAS officer who became a monk! He is today the vice-president of the Divine Life Society with its headquarters at the Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh. I wondered how monkhood could offer the same satisfaction as making and implementing policy at the national or State-level. How difficult was it to abandon the unquestioned authority he must have once enjoyed in exchange for continuous communication with God?

I had hazy recollections of a batchmate, Sunil Patnaik, when we were doubts? Did he feel up to facing celibacy forever? 

Unlike all the people I have interviewed, Swamiji read each question and answered it exactly to the point. But the flip side was that he did not offer a single extra word from his side. I, therefore, had to ask a variety of persons to fill in the blanks.

Facebook - my year in review

https://www.facebook.com/yearinreview/anirmukerji

Work Life Strategies that really matter

Every year for the last decade, I’ve spoken to MBA graduates returning for their one-year reunions. As predictable as the annual return of swallows to San Juan Capistrano, graduates who flock back to campus bring with them real-world anxiety over three things:

1) Work – doing meaningful work;

2) Companionship – finding a life partner, or figuring out life with their partner; and

3) Balance – dividing time and energy between work and family

This weekend, my own business school class marks its 40-year reunion, and the issues won’t have changed much. While for many of us, life’s ups and downs may have rounded off the sharp edges on those same apprehensions, they remain the struggles of our lives.

If any of us in the class of ‘73 has had success in four decades of dealing with these existential concerns, it’s because we recognized the truth of the following:

You can’t do it all yourself. Those who’ve done well will likely have one significant quality in common: They’ll have joined (or formed) the right teams. After picking the best players, they’ll have shared their own successes, and celebrated the successes of others. As Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson advised a young and wildly-talented Michael Jordan, “Let the game come to you." After Jordan committed to being a team player (though not always as the nice-guy), the Bulls won six NBA World Championships. In the same way, realizing that both business and family life are “team sports” will help with finding a team-centered life.

Life is a marathon. A meteoric rise right after grad school is impressive, but long-term success is far more satisfying. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Quick success sometimes goes to people’s heads – and makes them forget everyone who helped them get where they are. In the 1980s, after good fortune and good times made many folks wealthy, real estate markets collapsed. Some panicked; others dug in -- and dug out. It turned out that no one was as smart as they thought on the way up (or quite as dumb as others thought on the way down). But steadfast efforts when the chips were down revealed character not apparent when things were going well.

Bouncing back is key. Scanning reunions for grads once deemed “most likely to succeed” may not reveal the ones who did. Brains and ambition help, but it’s a never-say-die resiliency that allows people to move forward through life’s inevitable setbacks. “Most Likely To Bounce Back After A Fall” might have been a better yearbook category.

Give before you get. Real friends give without calculating a return on their friendship. So do spouses. Even salespeople first give information and authentic assurances in order to make sales. And while children require that you give, give, and give some more, they can return something far more valuable than you ever gave them — the chance to pass on the best of what you know, and the best of who you are, to the next generation. We end up caring about things for which we sacrifice. So, finding opportunities for giving goes a long way to relieving personal and career anxieties – which can be rooted in the desire to get before we give.

Don't underestimate refuge and recovery. I’ve never met a career-driven person who’s found peace in work alone. You need a space for refuge – a way to be alone, to recreate, and to recover; or things can go south. Letdowns are inevitable; so make sure you meditate, pray, stay active, or have a close friend in whom you can confide. Making sure you have the time and place and support for recovery is not selfish. It’s essential.

Wealth, power, fame and influence – perhaps all well and good – don’t reliably deliver satisfaction or meaning in life. I submit that meaning comes from the ability to look back with pride, and to look forward with peace, knowing that those we’ve worked with and cared for are better off for having known us. If recent graduates could be sure of these, they might choose to live with their team in mind.

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Love is Life

Love is life
By Vithal C Nadkarni
After spending 75 years and $20 million, the Harvard Grant Study boils down to one straightforward five-word equation, "Happiness is love. Full stop," says George Vaillant in Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study.
For 40 years, the psychiatrist led the study that tracked 238 men at Harvard who were
sophomores between 1939 and 1946. Candidates included US President John F Kennedy
and The Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, whose identities were kept secret. The writer
Norman Mailer and composerconductor Leonard Bernstein were among those rejected.
The absence of Eve's daughters from this sophomoric sample skews the study.
However, the result seems to suggest that without women, or without love really, no man can
call his life complete or contented!
Those who never gained intimacy with a partner; those who never matured or had learnt to draw
contentment from their work were the subjects most likely to rue over spilt milk in their later life. Vaillant has cogent advice for those sighing
over "lost opportunities" of the road they hadn't taken: reframe the question!
Ask not what you might have lost but focus on what you have gained by taking the path that you actually travelled. There is absolutely nothing out
there in the bush. The only bird that will ever be in your hand is the one in your palm right now.
What if one didn't have anything there? Then it is never too late to go for it, says the shrink highlighting his secondmost significant finding:
people can change a lot; find happiness even in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Just don't say die.

what facebook is as per Doghouse diaries

what facebook is as per Doghouse diaries

Tarun Tejpal and Arushi

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/rise-fall-tarun-tejpal-2013112591511692817.html

Tarun Tejpal and the sentencing of Arushi's parents are the centre of the storm in India


http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/01/26/aarushi_talwar_murder_a_look_at_one_of_indias_most_notorious_cases.html?app=noRedirect

The reporting in the story above seems biased

Child happy to receive new shoes - what joy

100 wisest words

Butterfly and Cocoon

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. And we could never fly.




A man found a cocoon of a butterfly, that he brought home. One day a small opening appeared in the cocoon. He sat and watched the cocoon for several hours as the butterfly struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making progress. It appeared as if the butterfly had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further. The man decided to help the butterfly in its struggle. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon... and the butterfly emerged easily. As the butterfly emerged, the man was surprised. It had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that, at any moment, the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. He knew that in time the body would contract and the butterfly would be able to fly. But neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle were required for the butterfly to be able to fly. The butterfly must push its way through the tiny opening to force the fluid from its body and wings. Only by struggling through the opening can the butterfly’s wings be ready for flight once it emerges from the cocoon.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint Exupery.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power