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Old 21st May 2006, 13:24   #68 (permalink)
Ram
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Default Thanks for the compliment

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Originally Posted by prabuddhadg
Hey Ram, I think I had read on some thread somewhere that you were into software. How come you have so much info on this car? Amazing! Honestly I am impressed.You must really love this car.
Dear prabuddhadg:

Yes I really love my Premier Padmini S1. Thanks for the compliment.

Just like any Team-BHPian, I have info on my cars because of deep interest.

My profession gave me the pleasure of exposure to the global world of cars.
Armed with a 1980 university bachelor's degree in electronics & telecommunication engineering, I joined the software industry in Jan 1981. I like to imagine that I helped shape India's software export industry in the decade of the eighties.

The pre-Internet years saw most of us, computer professionals of India's early software consulting companies living and working in North America and Western Europe.
Here is a narrative on some of my cars.

Like most Team-BHPians, my passion for the automobile goes back far into childhood.

India's proliferation of world-class cars happened post 1985.

The fax machine first appeared in India in 1986 and the World-Wide Web followed in 1993.

These technologies ushered in the globe-shrinking information era. They enabled the concept of India-based offshore software factories for overseas markets.
They also established high-paying software jobs for lakhs of students coming out of Indian engineering colleges. These disposable incomes initiated, grew and sustained a viable volume market for Zens, Ikons, Palios and Esteems.

But hold your horses. The best is yet to come!

Warm regards
Ram
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