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Freelancers: To Expatriate or to Freelance?

April 3, 2016
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Every day, thousands of Indians leave our homeland seeking employment outside of India. Doctors, computer programmers, engineers and other professionals leave India daily in search of better opportunities for themselves and for their families elsewhere.

Government data show that there are about 2.8 million Indians working in Saudi Arabia, approximately 3.3 million Indians in America, about 1.2 million Indians in Canada and about 1.5 million Indians in the United Kingdom (see wikipedia).

Why so many of our citizens are leaving India to seek a better life elsewhere? Well, once upon a  time India did not have as much to keep us as it is now developing. But that is the past. Almost on a daily basis India is growing and becoming a stronger and wealthier country. Our infrastructure grows along with our financial strength as does the ability of our native India to offer our citizens a higher quality of life.

The question will someday soon not be: “Should I leave India in search of a better life elsewhere?” but instead “Why in the world should I leave India? Things are great here”

People of all skills and educational backgrounds are finding great employment opportunities in India. This is especially true for those with technical skills such as programmers, web designers and computer knowledgeable professionals. These excellent professionals can stay in India and have the work come from abroad to them by taking part in websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com.

And foreign countries know this. They know how absolutely excellent people of Indian heritage are – and they value them accordingly. Saudi Arabia, for example, announced today April 4, 2016 that expatriate workers from India who arrive in Saudi Arabia in search of work, will be given free pre-paid SIM cards on their arrival to the kingdom. Free SIM Cards! Think of it. Saudi Arabia knows what amazing quality it receives when they receive our expatriates. They know it so well that they are willing to give our citizens free pre-paid SIM cards on their arrival. It will not be long before the rest of the world knows and appreciates this as well.

Therefore, if you are a young Indian person with technical, computer, programming or Internet knowledge and skills, consider not leaving your wonderful homeland in search of a better life elsewhere. Consider working with IndiaFreelancers.com and having the world come to you!

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Fast Trains: Gaitman Express

April 2, 2016
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A friend recently traveled from Delhi to Agra via train. He mentioned that it took him well over 7 hours to travel that distance and that the train was very late. He also mentioned that the train made many stops (a total of 27 of them) at which stops many passengers spent a long time getting on or get off – making the journey even longer.

Well, the Gaitman Express is coming to help my friend’s misery. In two days, on April 5, this amazing train, which runs on state-of-the-art equipment and technology will make the journey –  which took my friend well over 7 hours – in just 1 hour and 40 minutes! This amazing train will run at speeds of 160 kmph. This is an amazing speed for a train. It will also have NO STOPS between Delhi and Agra.

It seems that everywhere we turn in India, improvements and better quality is happening everywhere in India. Now we have updated train service. The airport in Chennai looks like a dream! India has arrived on the world’s stage and we are making a wonderful entrance!

The key to this new and wonderful train will be technology. It will depend on programming to make sure that the gates are on time and that the programs that run the service are all synchronized. Where will these programs come from? They will come from the excellent programmers now available on IndiaFreelancers.com and from programmers who are IndiaFreelancers.com “graduates” if you will.

The number of young programmers who “cut their teeth” and obtained their first few programming jobs on IndiaFreelancers.com is amazing. Our “graduates” have gone on to be part of some of the most impressive and powerful companies in India – and worldwide! No wonder that it is very possible that one of our excellent programmers from IndiaFreelancers.com is now possibly involved in creating the software which will run the revolutionary Gaitman Express train.

IndiaFreelancers.com is the gate through which so many of our excellent and wonderful programmers in India pass and go on to make a name for India in the world.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Health Care: Diabetes

March 31, 2016
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Diabetes. There is a good chance that most of us know someone who has this disease. It is everywhere – or so it seems to be.

The World Health Organization (WHO) today reported that in 2015 in India of people between the ages of 30-70 approximately 80,000 males and 50,000 females died due to complication of  diabetes, whereas if we look at people above the age of 70,  approximately 50,000 males and 45,000 females died of the disease. This was in 2015 alone – and things are getting worse.

In the last 16 years the incidence of diabetes in India has doubled! There were about 32 million diabetics in India in the year 2000 and that number has grown to well over 60 million diabetics in India as of 2013. That is a 100% growth in the last 13 years!

Why is this happening? Well, unfortunately the answer is progress. Progress? How in the world can progress be responsible for some many more diabetics in India? Well, again, the unfortunate answer is not just progress but financial progress.

You see, as we get more and more rick in India; as the number of Indians who live in hi-rise expensive buildings and have extra money to buy luxury things increases, so does the number of Indians who are able to snack and eat things which they would otherwise not eat if they did not have such an amount of discretionary money.

This is no different than what is happening in other countries such as America. In Paris a few days ago a Global Survey has now discovered that today one out of every 8 adults is obese. That’s right obese. Obesity is the brother of diabetes. The more people weigh, the greater the chances of becoming diabetic.

To combat this, technology is coming up with things such as continuous monitoring patches which tell the patient and the doctors what the person’s blood sugar is at all times. There are more and more sophisticated glucose meters every day. It is only a matter of time before someone asks one of our excellent programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to build, design or program something for diabetics. When that happens, we want for our excellent, outstanding programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to be ready. To know what diabetes is here in India and worldwide and to be prepared to write the best program or application for this disease – in order to again put the name of India on the world’s stage as one of the places on earth where the best minds are creating the best products to help the human race. I would not all be surprised if the next big breakthrough in creating a program or an App for diabetes care comes from India. Further, I would fully expect that that great development will come from one of our excellent programmers or web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: An Indian name for Google?

March 29, 2016
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First we had Sundar Pichai of India as the new CEO of Google. What next? Well, the possibility that the next version of the popular Android mobile phone platform will have an Indian name. That’s what’s next!

India and Indians are, almost on a daily basis, making a splash on the world’s stage. Long gone are the days when India was considered a quiet, sleepy country. We are arriving and have arrived. The name or the new Android version may indeed have an Indian name – but apparently it has to start with the letter “N”.

What are our choices? Who knows. Some have suggested Nirmala or Neha Dupia or New Delhi. Of course, we will not know until all of the voting is completed, but the very fact that our own son is now chief of Google and that he has brought home to India the possibility of an Indian name on the next Android version is a sign of our arrival on the world’s stage.

India, and the excellent tech that comes from India, is slowly but surely becoming a world standard and a world’s admiration. Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella did not become CEOs of some of the most important and recognizable companies world wide by chance. It is their India roots that have contributed to their prominence. These same India roots are on display every day in the high quality of the programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com. There is not a day that goes by when someone does not comment on the quality and excellence of our technological members of IndiaFreelancers.com. And well they should. All of our excellent and wonderful technological personnel on IndiaFreelancers.com have in their hearts the same India roots which propelled people like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella to the pinnacle of their careers.

So when you next think of and consider advising someone of where to go to find the best programmers and/or web developers. Remember that the excellent programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com may someday be the next CEO of a large American company – and may be bringing an important thing home to India like the next Android version – for an India name.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Star Wars: Reality and Fiction get closer

March 27, 2016
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The most recent Star Wars movie is excellent. It combines the elements of the past Star Wars movies (the past actors and robots) with the newcomers. It allows us to join the past with the future. Luke Skywalker is resurrected. Its great.

But how about real life? How close are these things to real life? Well, science is quickly catching up to science fiction. Those of us who are old enough to remember, can recall an old TV detective comic from the past called “Dick Tracy”. In that series the main character, Dick Tracy, had a wrist-worn “walkie talkie” which, in 1931 when the comic was first launched, seemed like a far-off impossibility. Well, say hello to my Apple or Android Watch. It can make phone calls and read text messages as well as email. Science fiction meets Science reality.

The same can be said for weapons of the future. We have seen images of lazers used as weapons for about as far back as we can remember seeing science fiction movies. However, in a recent report from the New Delhi based Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), they note that indeed they are close to having developed something called a DEW which stands for a Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) and is something between a high-energy lasers and high-powered microwaves aimed at something. The Hyderabad-based Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS) noted that such DEW systems, in their hands, can have a reach of as much as 800 meters. 800 meters? That is almost a kilometer? Does this mean that this device can beam up and destroy an aircraft almost a kilometer up in the sky? Well, at this point the answer to that is “possibly.”

What does all of this have to do with the excellent Freelancers we have on IndiaFreelancers.com? Well the connection is that our outstanding programmers and developers are the bridge that is bringing science fiction and science reality together. Our superb programmers, developers and Internet geniuses on IndiaFreelancers.com may very likely be discovered on our website and asked to take part in what may very well be the future defense of India.

So please do not stop thinking and wondering. Our outstanding programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com certainly do not – and neither do the people working on DEWs or CHESS.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Medicine: What are Fixed Dose Combination Drugs?

March 22, 2016
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Today I had eggs and toast for breakfast. I had my eggs on one side of my plate and the toast on the other side. Yet, if I were to go to McDonald’s and buy an “Egg McMuffin”, I could buy a sandwich with bread and eggs all in one. That is what is a Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) medicine.

Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) medicines are pills (usually a pill or a capsule) which take a few different medicines and put them all (typically two but it can sometimes be as many as three) into one pill. The convenience of this is that when you take that ONE pill, you are really taking as many as THREE pills at once, but they are all mashed into that one pill.

One would maybe think “how convenient.” Instead of taking one pill, then another and then another. All you need to do with an FDC pill is take ONE pill and you would have ALL THREE medicines in that ONE pill. How easy can that be? Right? Wrong.

The dangers to taking an FDC medicine is the AMOUNTS of each of the individual medicines inside of an FDC pill! An FDC CONTROLS FOR YOU how much of EACH of these medicines you will take. You have no choice. Its like the Egg McMuffin. You do not get to choose how much egg or how much muffin comes to you. It comes already made. The amounts of each of these two ingredients (the egg and the muffin) are fixed before you get your sandwich. Now, when we are dealing with sandwiches that may not be such a bad thing but when we are dealing with medicines that can be terrible. What if you need a little MORE of medicine “A” but a little LESS of medicine “B”? Well, if you take a medicine in which both medicine “A” and “B” are fixed in that one pill and you cannot change the amounts of each of the medicines in that one pill – you may be in trouble. The results can be a disaster. You might wind up taking MORE of medicine “A” than what you need or LESS of medicine “B” than what you need.

If your body needs different amount of different medicines you would be wiser to be a little more industrious, put in a little more effort and take the individual medicines individually. My mom used to say “the person who strives to do less work usually winds up working twice as hard” and I believe that this is what is happening with these FDC medicines. If you wish to work so little that you do not want to take the trouble to take two different pills (heaven forbid you might have to open your mouth twice and swallow two times!), you will maybe pay the price of having to work twice as hard to get over the problems you might have by taking too much or too little of a medicine in an FDC.

Why are we talking about this here today? Well, the Madras High Court today, March 23, 2016, banned 344 of these FDC medicines. If you wish to know which are the medicines which have been banned, you can find them at this link here. However the key is to take your time, take a little more effort and take each medicine that you need individually.

Now, how is all of this relevant to IndiaFreelancers.com? Well the reason it is relevant to our excellent and outstanding freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com is because the future of medicine is in IT. More and more, medicine is going the way of programs and IT enhancements. CAT Scans, MRI Scans, Glucose Meters to test your blood sugar level, etc etc. Our world-class programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com would do well to keep an eye on the world of medicine. The next FDC that you may hear about, may be when someone is asking to hire you to make it easier for people to take their FDCs – and you will need to know what these medicines are if you wish to consider possibly accepting such a job.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

 

Freelancers and Apple: Please continue the romance

March 21, 2016
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Companies are, in so many ways, like people. They are both born and experience their early years. They both reach adolescence during which time they learn from their mistakes and they both then move on to being large and mature. Unfortunately, like people, many companies then go on to older years and then possibly one day cease to exist (or are bought out by another company).

Following the example above then, Apple is in many ways, showing us its age. One sign of this is the recent announcement now in March of 2016 of the launch of the iPhone SE and the decidedly lukewarm reception that this announcement has garnered. Gone are the large, adoring crowds for the launch of an Apple products. Gone are the long lines which stretch for blocks to the door of an Apple store in order to be “first” to buy a wonderful new Apple product. What we see in their absence, is a company which is slowly coming down to earth to be like almost just any other company. But notice I said “almost.”

Why almost? Well, because Apple is decidedly not just like “any other company.”  The many cutting-edge and new technological developments put in place years ago by Steve Jobs have ensured that Apple will be quite a remarkable company well into the next decade.

For this reason we recommend to our excellent programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to continue to sharpen their iPhone development skills. To continue to learn and become proficient with Apple’s Operating Systems and writing programs for it. Please continue the romance with Apple. Apple may be showing us its age, but it is most decidedly here to stay for a long time. Programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com would do very well indeed to continue to stay very much in tune with the programming and development changes announced by the tech giant, as they will serve us well for the foreseeable future.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Aircraft: Up in the sky?

March 20, 2016
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What in the world can our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com and aircraft have in common? How does one mix, as my mom used to say, rice with mango? Well the answer is in the programming.

As our lives continue to move to the IT and computer world, pretty soon, regardless of whether you are operating an airplane, a car or a toaster, there will likely be a software component to it. More and more “smart” homes are equipped with things such as “remote” operating door openers, air conditioners which you can operate from your mobile telephone and other such devices. More and more cars are becoming mobile computers and, of course, airplanes are no different. Regardless of how different the airplanes or the cars look, IT and programming will play an increasingly important role in their make up and function.

Take, for example the recent announcement of a very unusual aircraft. In London today, March 20th, 2016, the company Airlander announced the creation of a very strange looking aircraft which they have called the “Airlander 10.” In an article in the Daily Mail this new aircraft, which is billed as “part aircraft, part helicopter” and a “flying bum!” is pictured and described.

This is an aircraft filled with helium (in order to avoid a repeat of the Hindenburg disaster). This very long and odd looking contraption is reported as being almost 100 meters longer than the longest passenger jet flying today, capable of transporting 50 tonnes of freight, up to 48 passengers and able to remain in the air for up to 3 weeks at a time! What a contraption!

However, as varied and unusual and groundbreaking as this Airlander 10 appears to be, we know one thing with certainty. There is undoubtedly IT and programming on board. No question about it. And if there is IT and programming on board, then our excellent and outstanding programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com are capable of creating, writing or perfecting whatever software runs that thing.

That is one of the beautiful things about IndiaFreelancers.com. We have some of the best minds working as freelancers on our website – all capable of taking part in the most varied of things. Even a large helium-filled unusual aircraft.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Education and India’s future

March 18, 2016
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As I have mentioned often in this blog, India is on the rise. Our economy is on the rise. Our standing in the world is on the rise and the sons and daughters of India in prominent positions in some of the world’s largest corporations is on the rise.

But how about the not-so-fortunate in India? How about the children in rural settings. For example, those studying in government schools and those coming from less privileged backgrounds, such as Dalits and tribals? A recent study has shown that these children in these schools do not do as well in school as the children from more privileged such as some of the larger cities in India.

Education is India’s future. Whether it is for higher numbers of technical professionals like web designers and computer programmers of the quality that we find in IndiaFreelancers.com or doctors, engineers and many other professions. The days of rural, unskilled labor being the main type of labor in India are passing – and we need to educate our young people in preparation for this.

A recent study conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in the year 2015, evaluated 7,216 schools across 33 states and Union Territories (UT) in India. This study concluded a few important points:

1) Girls do as well as boys in Math and Science. This is important as many of our tech experts on IndiaFreelancers.com are indeed women. The old notion that females are not as capable in the math and science fields is not holding up to the realities of our current studies today.

2) Students from rural and less privileged backgrounds do worse in their academics than those from more privileged backgrounds. This is important as we need to bear in mind that all of India needs to rise if we are to continue to rise as the world power that we are poised to become.

3) Girls indeed do have better language skills than their male counterparts. This has long been felt to be the  case and this new study indeed bears this out as well.

In summary, India is on the rise. Tech experts such as the excellent ones we have in IndiaFreelancers.com are a sample of the excellence that is coming out of India and is making a name for themselves on the world’s stage. People from all over the world, Australia, England, America and beyond, hire programmers, developers and other tech experts from IndiaFreelancers.com. As they do, word of mouth in those countries will continue to grow and let the world know the quality that is to be found in India – especially on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: US Supreme Court and Surgeon General

March 16, 2016
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In so many ways, the new century of the years 2000 is the century of India. We are growing in India in so many ways. We have a very rapidly growing economy. In 2015 India’s economy was judged to be the fastest growing economy in the world with a growth rate of 7.5 percent. This was faster than even China’s 6.9 percent growth rate for 2015. The World Bank also projects that India will be the fastest growing economy for 2016.

But our growth and increasing world status is measured in the quality of our sons and daughters. Indra Nooyi is a prominent daughter of India who is today the CEO of Pepsi. Satya Nadella is CEO of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Google. Indians are slowly, quietly but most definitely rising to the highest positions in the world and showing the world our quality.

Now comes the position of the Supreme Court of the United States. There are reports that President Barack Obama of the United States is going to nominate Judge Sri Srinivasan to be the first Indian to the Supreme Court of the United States. He is very well regarded in all judicial circuits. In 2013, he was confirmed unanimously to the Washington DC Circuit Court . That was an amazing feat for a court which is considered to be the “introductory” court to a Supreme Court appointment.

Why are these things I have mentioned above relevant to our freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com? Well, the reason is because our excellent and outstanding programmers, web developers and technical experts on IndiaFreelancers.com com from the same high quality source as the people who are today the CEOs of Microsoft, Google and Pepsi. Our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com share the same quality heritage as the possible future justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dr. Vivek Murthy, the current Surgeon General of the United States.

So, as I always tell our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com, please remember that, as you do your work and answer your customers, your quality – and all of India – is on display. You are ambassadors to the world of the outstanding quality that is India.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

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