We have placed an order for Ikonos stereo 1m satellite imagery for Mumbai. We always wanted to use photogrammetry to extract building heights. Now finally, we will be able to do it and that has been path breaking for us. We hope to do a more accurate job than before and hopefully it will mean a win win situation for all concerned.

A holiday tommorrow. Welcome and Unwelcome. Welcome because the past week has been bad on so many fronts. Unwelcome because there is still so much left undone, before the week ends. The heater has been repaired. There is a part time maid to do the cleaning and the utensils. Huge sigh of relief. Most of the bills for this month have been paid. Good. Cool. At the end of the month, most of the bills have been paid. Which means that the beginning of next month is right here. Which also means that there is another round of bills just waiting to barge in.

Thus far and no further.

“If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!” – Rudyard Kipling

Damn tough.

‘Being a Man’.

‘To be a woman’, even more tougher.

There was a tender with Jalandhar Municipal Corporation and since the investment was high, we decided to go ahead with a lead partner, Genesys. It was all smooth till they asked for our company details and we asked for an agreement. Then we were asked to define our scope of work in the entire project. We mentioned that we could actually handle the complete technical execution from start to finish and that they needed to highlight what part they were keen on doing. And that was it. All communication stopped.
I am wondering if stating our capabilities was what busted it. I mean we should have shown our disability and shortcomings rather than our strength. And maybe because it is a company being headed by a woman. Maybe it is true that it is difficult, maybe impossible for a woman to break the glass ceiling in the corporate world. What else can explain the slow and tedious growth of Global Coordinates?
Or should I follow the idiom: ‘stoop to win’ literally. Jhuk jao, doormat ban jao. Then it might work. To do it with self respect and honesty and dignity, forget it.

Maybe I am speculating.Maybe I don’t want to see the reality even when it is staring me in the face. Jo bhi hai, kuch to theek nahin hai. Actually, kuch bhi theek nahin hai.

Theek ho jayega, like in the future tense. It will get better.
When?

is an irrelevant question.

Just walk the walk.