Most of my travel by road throughout my life has mainly been for work. I know many in Indian Roadie and associated forums whose purpose of travel matches mine. 

Spotting road/ vehicle signages, billboards screaming something that's unusual, people engaged in 'out of the box' businesses/ professions, out of the box happenings on every kilometre of road, etc, etc, etc possibly gives me a far bigger kick than getting a glimpse of a snow capped mountain peak or the ocean or the jungles or deserts. 

More than three decades ago while I was with Castrol India, I used to visit the sprawling highly mechanized manufacturing unit of matchstick manufacturer WIMCO near Dakhineswar in North Kolkata. It used to be a thoroughbred blue chip MNC those days. 

The drive on a dug up CR Avenue followed by the indefinite wait at Shyambazar and then a seemingly never ending narrow B.T.Road upto Dunlop Bridge and PWD Road upto Alambazar used to be a whole day's assignment. 

The officials used to serve me wonderful food and beverages. They were so friendly. In one of my official trips to the factory, I happened to meet the head of HR who was there on a factory visit. Some chit-chat followed over coffee and he straight away offered me a lucrative job offer. However, I declined the offer after almost 2 months of negotiations because I wanted to be posted in Mumbai while the offer was for Kolkata. 

The ugly head of communism had already crept in with inciting posters and banners screaming at everyone from every corners of the factory. Within the next few years the heavily overstaffed company closed down thanks to Jyoti Basu's militancy policies and Indira Gandhi's policies of reservation of matchstick manufacturing for the SME sector. 

Those tiring drives in mid/ late 1980s made me an even more confident roadie on the bumpy roads of Kolkata in yesteryears. 

The attached video of matchstick manufacturing in some small unit somewhere in India is far more relevant for me than any photos, reels and videos depicting a setting sun along a riverfront. 

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TCS ends hybrid work policy w.e.f 2023-10-01

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reportedly asked its employees to work from the office five days a week from October 1, 2023.

According to a CNBC TV-18 report, the company is likely to end its hybrid work policy from October 2023.

Since September 2022, TCS wanted its workers to follow a roster and be in the office three days a week. 

Goodfellows, a startup by Ratan Tata

At 85, Mr. Ratan Tata has floated a new start-up named GOODFELLOWS along with Shantanu Naidu.
It's a praiseworthy initiative 🙏

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WBJEE 2022 - How many students appeared

How many students appeared in WBJEE 2022

Number of candidates registered for WBJEE 2022	Within West Bengal	64,413
	Outside West Bengal	32000
Number of candidates appeared for WBJEE 2022	Within West Bengal	62,913
	Outside West Bengal	18480
Number of candidates got rank	Male	58,623
	Female	21,509
Successful candidates based on domicile	Within West Bengal	61,794
	Outside West Bengal	18,338
Board-wise distribution of successful candidates	WBCHSE	41,839
	ISC	2146
	CBSE	22227
	Others	13,920

WBJEE 2022, 2023 toppers

WBJEE 2023 Toppers

Rank	Topper Name	School/Institute
1	Md Sahil Akhter	DPS Ruby Park
2	Soham Das	DPS Ruby Park School
3	Sara Mukhopadhyay	Bankura Banga Vidyalaya
4	Souharda Dat	Midnipur Collegiate School
5	Ayan Goswami	Hemshila Model School, Durgapur
6	Aritra Davao Dutta	Narayan School, Sodpura
7	Kintan Saha	Ma Bharati Senior Secondary School, Kota, Rajasthan
8	Sagrik Nandi	Bakura District School
9	Raktim Kundu,	Disha Delphi Public School, Kota, Rajasthan
10	Siraj Chandra	Holy Angels School, Katwa

WBJEE Topper 2022

Rank	Name of the candidate	School
1	Himanshu Sekhar	Barrackpore Central Model School
2	Himanshu Sekhar	Siliguri
3	Saptarshi Mukherjee	The Future Foundation School, Kolkata
4	Jahnavi Shaw	South Point High School, Kolkata
5	Kaustav Chowdhury	Jenkins School, Kochbihar
6	Saumyaprabha Dey	Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant High School, East Midnapore
7	Debraj Karmakar	DBMS Kadma High School, Jamshedpur
8	Agnidhra Dey	South Point High School
9	Ayon Adhikari	Calcutta Boys High School
10	Shubhankar Bandyopadhyay	Central Model School, Barrackpore

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Big mouthed Ashneer Grover says he will thrash IT officials with his ₹2 lakhs shoes

This big mouthed arrogant guy Ashneer Grover, erstwhile founder of BharatPe is nothing better than a street corner 'chapri'. He has been booted out from the very company he founded in 2018. He keeps gloating about his IIT IIM-A qualifications and the money he made. 

Just wait for the day when he will be pushed behind bars. He himself has been frequently heard saying that he has scores of pending court cases against him. 

Some people feel that he is a role model for college students and entrepreneurs. After getting booted out from BharatPe, he is earning money by posing to be a great motivational speaker. He should be debarred from entering through the gates of any college/ university and chambers of commerce in India. 

How dare he publicly says that he will thrash government officials with his shoes 😡.  Does anybody think that the crook had the courage to utter those words to the IT officials who had called him for questioning 🤔. 

His language sucks 😡.  Uttering a sentence like 'Naw (9) saal marwayi naukri mein' in a hall packed with students and elderly educated people speaks of his frustration in life. 

His arrogance sucks 😡 

His behaviour, body language and the forced display of confidence speaks of the fear of uncertainty lurking in the days ahead. It's evident that nobody has ever told him of the hardcore reality, viz. 40 And Nowhere To Go.

VP of HDFC Bank misbehaving with Branch Managers

HDFC Bank VP Pushpal Roy thinks he is a great manager. Let him sell sugar candies and hair shampoos for a couple of days and produce results. With such behavioral traits, Roy will land himself in a mofussil hospital with lots bruises and broken bones! 

The video of Pushpal's uncouth online interactions with Branch Managers went viral and the guy has been suspended. 

Pushpal Roy might be a qualified Chartered Accountant (going by his claims on LinkedIn), however, he isn't an educated CA under any circumstances! 

P.S: All these BFSI/ FinTech company guys, foremost among them being Ashneer Grover are so similar in their behavioral traits. 

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