www.ashitsarkar.co.nr

The FAMILY:

Only son:
Dr. Vivek Sarkar B.Tech (IIT/Kanpur), M.S. (Wisconsin) & Ph.D. (Stanford)
Currently, the 'ED Butcher Professor for Computer Science' at Rice University, Houston, Texas. See details by clicking this April 2007 HPCwire article!

Earlier, for twenty years he was with IBM Corporation, USA, and was Senior Manager, Programming Technologies; Member, IBM Academy of Technology; and Research Relationship Manager for Aerospace & Defence, at their Research Lab: T.J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne NY).

He was awarded the Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in 2006 for "significant accomplishments and having made a significant impact in the computing field".

ACM has since recognized him as a 2008 ACM Fellow (Click to see the News Report) with their highest award. The Citation stated: "For contributions to technologies for parallel computing".
"These men and women are the inventors of technologies that impact the way people live and work throughout the world," said ACM President Wendy Hall, adding that the honor recognizes "contributions to solving complex problems, expanding the impact of technology and advancing the quality of life for people everywhere."
(ACM website: "The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership as the world of information technology evolves").

to see the Professional AWARDS received by Vivek.

Daughter-in-law:
Dr. Ratna Gupta Sarkar B.Tech (IIT/Kanpur), MS, MBA & Ph.D. (all from Stanford University)
Presently, the Associate Dean of Engineering for Global Initiatives, and also Adjunct Faculty, Jones Graduate School of Management at the Rice University, Houston Texas. Before attending business school, Ratna worked as a software development engineer for the Rolm Corp. in San Jose, California. Later, she was an associate at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. After her doctoral studies in management accounting at Stanford, she became an Assistant Professor of accounting and control at the Harvard Business School, and continued as a research fellow at HBS and also a consultant for CRA International Inc. before joining Rice in 2008.

Two grand-daughters:
Both schooling in the United States of America.
Shilpa (20)
She is doing her under graduate studies at Stanford University - proudly following the footsteps of her alumni parents!
During her Westhill High School days at Stamford CT, besides being the Associate Editor of the newspaper " The WESTWARD", she won the Student Leadership Award from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education in June 2007 for "exhibiting extraordinary leadership skills among their peers.
To Read a Poem by Shilpa: about her 2000 India visit

........................... AND ............................ Aparna (17).
She is continuing her studies in High School (in the tenth grade) at Houston, and eagerly waiting to catch up with Shilpa! Her proficiency and passion in playing violin has won her a place in the Houston Fall Concert 2008 in the Philharmonia group - after similar earlier participation in the Stamford City orchestra.
During her earlier school days, she was popularly elected as the "School President" by her fellow students at Stamford's premier private school - The King Low Heywood Thomas (KLHT).

However, the family's center of attraction is undoubtedly RAJA
(even if it is only a stump that he can wag to welcome you)!

TO SEE A FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM, just run the following 9 minute Flash slide-show:
However, if the space below remains blank, you may alternately click here to see the AKS Album
(It may take a while to load, but on starting it runs automatically - you may move to the next slide, or pause etc, using the buttons)

A THUMBNAIL OF ANOTHER PHOTO SLIDE-SHOW (Many common photos) FOLLOWS
(at times captions may be running ahead of the photos!):

PLEASE USE THE "BACK" ARROW ON YOUR PC TO RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE anytime,
or at the end, but PLEASE DO NOT EDIT or ALTER MY Picasa Web Album Page in any way! THANKS

to see The SARKAR Family Tree (my paternal side) or, to see The ROY Family Tree (my maternal side)

MORE PIX & A SLIDE SHOW!

ENJOY Ashit's 75th Birthday bash slideshow:

75th Birthday Party

Slide Show of the Ride Organized by Chris Healy's "Above The Clouds" Team!

Now, About ME - PROFESSIONAL:
  

   

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Mr. Ashit Sarkar leads an active retired life mostly, but at times continues with interesting assignments as a Management Advisor & Consultant - having over 47 years of professional career and rich experience - mostly in ITC Limited and Britannia Industries Ltd. - the two major multinational giant FMCG market leaders in India - starting in ITC's manufacturing plants/factories in the Production function, and then after twenty years moving to Personnel/HR management at the factory followed with managing from the Corporate Head Office, and finally retiring as Senior Vice President - Human Resource. The service life included membership of the Managing & Executive Committees, Managing Trustee of Retiral Funds, a short overseas posting, and considerable interaction with the overseas partners to develop organizational relationship - mostly in HR areas. Post retirement from Britannia in 1992, he spent two years in The Assam Company - the premier tea company started by the East India Company, to restructure their HR systems. Thereafter, the next three exciting years with IFB Industries Limited for a total revamp of their HR function and systems most successfully. However, no rest for him, as he was recalled by Britannia once again for another three years from Jan 1997 to early 2000 to take charge of the HR function during their spectacular growth & expansion phase, before hanging up his boots!

He was invited by a Swedish & UK based joint venture group of Companies in India The Tega Group/Hosch (GB) Ltd UK to be a Non Executive Director in 1992, and he remained involved with them for over eight years.

Mr. Sarkar has been connected with many professional bodies like NIPM (National Institute of Personnel Management), AIMA (All India Management Association), EFI (Employers Federation of India), GMCC (Greater Mysore Chamber of Commerce), BMA (Bangalore Management Association), FKCCI (Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce & Industry), and AIMO (All India Manufacturers Organisation) etc., often in their Executive Committees from time to time. In particular he has been specially involved continually as an Advisor/Member of the Executive Committee of the Karnataka Chapter of NIPM from 1999. He represented the Indian employers (being nominated by the Government of India) at Geneva as a member of the ILO's Second Food & Drinks Committee (1991-96). He is currently an advisor to the AIMO on all labour issues. He was based in many different locations in India, & briefly abroad, and had regularly and widely travelled to Europe, USA, Gulf & the Far East, both for professional purposes and assignments, as well as to meet personal commitments. He was involved in Management Development activities for well over 20 years, and has specialized in the restructuring of the Management Compensation system - especially as he was a member of the multi-national RemClub (HR Heads of 15 major Multinationals in India) for almost two decades. Additionally, for a short while, he was an examiner with the Department of Management Studies of The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, for Ph.D. students in Personnel Management. Many of his articles have been published in reputed journals, books or papers, and he has made many presentations, and given a large number of talks at various professional Seminars, Workshops & other forums, including to the management students in their institutions (links to some of them are given later - in 'Published Articles').

Mr. Sarkar is a keen photographer, enjoys people interaction, travel, reading & music, and is also involved with many philanthropic & welfare organisations. He is a life member of The World Wildlife Fund, Alzheimer Association of West Bengal and the Cheshire Homes, India. His late interests in assembling his own PC and in self-learning html to develop this Homepage, enlarged his pastime to computing, internet and related issues during his retirement - purely as an amateur. These provide him with hours of enjoyment on his PC!

Result of Jung Personality Test taken by Ashit Sarkar
(similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI) (you may take one by clicking here)

ESTJ (see detailed analysis of Ashit's test results by clicking) SUMMARY: "Administrator" Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population.

What are these tests?

Jung Tests

These tests are based on the work of Carl Jung, David Kiersey, Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs. They are similar in underlying theory to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Kiersey Temperment Sorter. They measure four bipolar factors, Introversion/Extroversion, Thinking/Feeling, Intuition/Sensing, and Judging/Percieving. (Test yourself - by clicking here)

Enneagram Tests

The Enneagram is a nine factor personality system that is sort of a historical mutt, many different influences. The nine factors are - orderliness, helpfulness, image focus, hypersensitivity, detachment, caution, adventurousness, strength, and calmness.
Take Free Enneagram Personality Test (personality tests by similarminds.com)

Result of Enneagram Test taken by Ashit Sarkar:

Main type	Variant

Enneagram Test Results Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||||||| 70% Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||| 66% Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||| 56% Type 4 Sensitivity |||||||||| 36% Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||| 43% Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||| 53% Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 53% Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||||||| 66% Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||||||| 66% Your main type is 1 Your variant is social

LESS SERIOUS....

Look at the spinning lady - if she is turning right, the right side of your brain is working. If she is turning left - the left side of your brain is responding . If she appears to turn both ways - then you have a 160 or better IQ level....

Comprehensive professional work-life details may be seen here

MORE of ME, or from ME - but, (quite!) PERSONAL:

1938        1956        1957       1990        1991       1999        2001        2003        2004         2005        2006        2007          2008      2009 FOR THOSE INTERESTED: You may peruse a write-up of a personal narrative depicting the various transitions in my life - that I have appropriately titled as above.... I must caution you that it is fairly lengthy (nearly 50 pages!) and will be time consuming! So relax and be comfortable first...... You may plan to read it in installments! If you are still really keen to go through the above chronicle (with some photos), then: Here is a link to the old family photos which you may view independently without having to go through reading the article (USE SLIDE SHOW)

FOR A CHANGE, how about seeing an inspiring presentation?
Keep your sound ON

Please use "Go Back" button at its end - you may have to allow scripts by clicking on the screen again for it to start!
A few more short flash movies are there to enjoy later.

SOME OF MY PUBLISHED PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES (that you might find useful or interesting!) MANAGING "RETIREMENT" An article published in Personnel Today (March 2006), on this 'inevitable' topic! HR's ROLE IN BUSINESS VALUE ADDITION (An article published recently, on this very debatable topic!) HR CHALLENGES IN THE NEW MILLENNEUM (Write-up/presentation made during the prestigious Asia Pacific HR Conclave as 'The Guest of Honour Keynote Address' - Jan 13 to 15th, 2000 - at The Nehru Center, Worli, Mumbai). Reported widely in the press, and published in several journals. MANAGEMENT COMPENSATION (An article covering this very vital subject in the highly competitive Indian scenario post liberalisation) PERFORMANCE BASED AWARD SCHEME (An article discussing the concept, and explaining a methodology with a practical working example - for the above recent way of rewarding) DEFINED BENEFIT vs. DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PENSION Schemes A Case Study of Britannia Post 2003. An article discussing the two types of Schemes, and the sad mishandling by Britannia (as reported by the Economic Times nationally on Dec 10, 2004), and later published in PERSONNEL TODAY. Follow-up articles in Economic Times of Sep 17, 2007 may be seen by clicking here, and the later report of Feb 18th, 2008 - here. Also, see The Business Standard article of Jan 01st 2008 here. Latest EcoTimes Article on Jan 10th, 2009 giving details of Interim Pensions ordered by City Civil Court, Bangalore BRITANNIA BETRAYAL - FORGOTTEN PROMISES?? (An article about the sad 2003 turn-around of Britannia's values related to the Pensions for their ex-employees, extracts and condensed versions of which were reported or reproduced in or by the press), as above. PRESENTATION to The NATIONAL COMMISSION on LABOUR (Recommendations made in October 2001 for Labour Law reforms, at the invitation by the NCL Study Group) PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - OLD WINE ?? (An article published in 1998 in "Personnel Today" discussing the history of the progress, and basics of Personnel & HR function - the differences or perceptions in the changing scenario) HR MANAGEMENT - CHANGING CHALLENGES (A follow-up sequel to "PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - OLD WINE" above, and has been published by PERSONNEL TODAY recently) GOOD HR PRACTICES A presentation made during an NIPM Seminar in Oct 1999, describing a case study of a highly successful HR Intervention at Britannia's Delhi Factory to meet changing business needs with full support & co-operation from the workers and union EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT BEYOND TRAINING (An article about value addition beyond the Training activity) COMMUNICATION (An article about the basics of the Communication process, and how to increase it's effectiveness) GET SELECTED - Success Tips for Job Applicants (A very popular article published both in the English media, as well as in Bengali newspapers at Kolkata, and subject of many presentations to the Management Student community.) As a follow-up to the article, you might reinforce the skills through the following presentation: Highlight of the above SELECTION PROCESS article may also be seen in a Flash Slide show here. (It runs automatically, but by clicking, you may advance quicker) and, SOME NON-PROFESSIONAL, but EASY READING ITEMS from me: MEMORIES WORTH SHARING.... (Some light-hearted memorable and amusing incidents - all true - between the "Big Boss" & very junior staff during my ITC days!) REMINISCENCES .... An article reflecting the parents dilemma as their 9 year young son has to join Boarding School in 1969. (published in the Centenary Issue of "The Scindia School", in 1997) As a post script, it also includes the reminiscences of the very same ex-student about his visit in 2002 with many of his 1976 batchmates to commemorate their Silver Jubilee Reunion at their 'alma-mater'! Jayaji House, Scindia School, Gwalior THE QUOTA PARADOX (A 'tongue in cheek' satire - do quote me on this recent controversy!) THOUGHTFUL AND SERIOUS: : THE BRAHMO SAMAJ, and RAJA RAMMOHUN ROY (Extracted, Developed & Composed by: Ashit Sarkar) Gives the history, the main doctrines or philosophy and the details of the social and relegious movement almost two hundred years ago (also known as the Bengal Renaissance) started by Raja Rammohun Roy, as well as a sketch of the biography of this extraordinary person. It also includes a tribute written by Ms Gopa Chanda (click to see) YOU WILL FIND OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES ON DIVERSE TOPICS ON PAGE 3 of My Home Page - Click here It also includes a large collection of Jokes, and interesting Powerpoint Presentations, besides Links to NEWS sites

You may enjoy this 5 minute MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY presentation below
(takes a while to load, but it should surely delight you...)

However, while waiting you might marvel at the connection between the English Alphabets & Numbers in this short presentation immediately below:
YOU WILL NEED TO CLICK TWICE ON THE FIRST SLIDE to start, and may use the Right Bottom Corner Arrows Logo to go Full Screen

MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY:

HERE ARE A FEW MORE SHORT INSPIRATIONAL MOVIES.....
(with sound)

OR, ALTERNATELY
CLICK for Presentation on Thinking Outside the Box!
OR

All the above Flash Movies are courtesy:

Here is an Amazing Powerpoint Presentation to Download & See (& to keep!)
ONE IN A MILLION PHOTO COLLECTION!
(To start the slide show after downloading, you will need to click the button at left bottom)

YOU MAY ALSO RUN THE "40 FANTASTIC PICTURES" Slide Show below:

(It may take a minute or so to load)

CLICK Page 2 For some of my favourite items on Astronomy, Planets & Planetary Issues, Solar system, DATE & TIME etc. & interesting Links, along with some great pictures

To find useful and Interesting Links, Write-ups, Jokes, and This includes some terrific Powerpoint Presentations etc., (MAY BE ABSORBING, and will require lots of time - so do it by bits and pieces!), and finally Acknowledgements. THANK YOU! Oh yes, it also has the GUEST BOOK for your comments or feedback....

IDEALLY, GO THROUGH BOTH THE PAGES you might find them interesting!

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