Why??

Why somebody has to bear?
Why someone has to tolerate?
Why some one who has allready decided the course of specialization has to study other subjects?
Why why and why?
Why does one has to sit and listen to something which one dosent want to?

Would add more whys in future

Insecurity is the basis of life

INSECURITY is the very basis of life. When we hear this, we are totally shaken. We are overcome with fear. We do not want to listen further. We like to believe that everything about life is assured and that life is in our hands. In reality, life is nothing but a risk. Death is the only certainty in life. We are not bothered about life, but in the name of security we make many efforts to live a risk-free life. We try to seek security in many ways. We try to look for security in the form of money, power, relationship and so on. We definitely need money to live a good life. Wa n t i n g enough money to live our life is alright. But there are people who live just for amassing more and more money or wealth. Such people do not make money for basic living, they live for making money! Thinking money will give them the much needed security in their lives they begin to run after it. They become possessed by it. They run after money without stopping and lose the capacity to enjoy the money that they make. They end up running into their graveyard itself. We search for security through relationships. If a particular person gives us a secure feeling in terms of comfort, attention, etc., we seek security through them. In our life, most of the time our energy is wasted in thinking of our wife, husband, parents or relative who gives us security. If we truly see, these other persons do not enjoy security in themselves. They also seek security through you or others! What security can they then give you? Still we look to them for security. When they are not able to give us the security, we talk ill of them and say that they have breached our trust in them. Truly, only if we get the clarity of thinking that no one can guarantee security to anyone, can we enjoy the people around us. Try to understand: in truth no one can guarantee anyone security, because the basis of everyone’s life is insecurity. The only security is Existence or God. When we deeply contemplate on this truth, a permanent and real security which is Godawareness happens in us. Then we will not run after the objects of the external world for security. We will enjoy a deep and secure state within where there is permanent peace. Be blissful!

(Cosmic Uplink-- Economic Times)

Philosophies of life

* You can not make everyone happy
* Set some principles of your life and leave your life based upon it
* Be innovative in your approach

Nirdosh

The idea of Nirdosh is really innovative one ..Well I came to know about it after we had a case study in Marketing Management subject ..
http://nirdosh.co.nz/index.html

also u can google for "Nirdosh cigaratte India" ...
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Better late than never ..

Dont Loose contact of ur inner voice

Hi Everyone,
I want to tell u that be good and friendly with all. But dont loose the contact with ur inner voice, the inner being, the original you. This original being is the one that makes you special amongst others. The Differentiator. You are in harmony with yourself when u are "U". Dont make too much of compromise with this pure soul. Its the Child within u. The good being.

Happiness Index

Happiness index: Indians fare a lot better than most
Gayatri Nayak MUMBAI
FOR a change, never mind the cold macro numbers. A 9% growth may liven up economists and stock market punters. It may not mean anything to you. But here’s something to further pep up your festive mood. India may be lagging even some of the African countries as far as human development goes, but Indians are far more happy than most in the planet. Certainly, more than the richer lot in G-8. What could be a little disappointing is that compared with her neighbours in the subcontinent, Indians are happier than only Burmese and Pakistanis. In fact, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh fare better than India in the happy country scale. If you disagree, blame it on a new report by the New Economic Foundation — a UK-based think-tank that compiles the happy planet index (HPI). According to the report, the archipelago in South Pacific Vanuatu, east of Australia, is the happiest country in the world. And, Zimbabwe in Africa is the saddest. Both are former British colonies. And the US, the world’s largest economy in terms of GDP, is ranked 150th. India is ranked 62 in terms of happiness, second only after China in the list of top 11 of nations ranked in terms of GDP. It’s another fact that India is ranked 125th in terms of human development indicators (HDI). In fact, almost the entire North America, Europe and Australia are less happy than India, with the exception of Austria and Malta, which are slightly happier than India. Others include Grenada, Uruguay and Ecquador. While Brazil, Iceland, Switzerland and Italy are a few notches sadder than India. New Economic Foundation has complied the index for 178 countries. The think-tank essentially looks for countries where people live long and happy lives without damaging the planet. The HPI combines data on life expectancy, surveys on life satisfaction and the consumption of natural resources (energy, land etc) in each country. Analysing a similar theme, a recent study by Deustche Bank Research has explanations to offer for the stagnation in happiness among richer countries. Three main reasons explain the long-run stagnation of happiness and life satisfaction. First, people simply get used to the higher income, consumption or circumstances: driving that new car for the first time may make you really happy — but this effect evaporates over time. Second, humans tend to aim ever higher: once the new house is completed, one may feel that it would be even better to have a house in a better or safer neighbourhood. Third, an individual’s satisfaction tends to be influenced by how well others are doing. Driving a big car may make you happy if you are the only person with such a car — but satisfaction with that same car quickly diminishes if friends and neighbours drive similar cars, says the report. Even worse, if you buy a big car, this may depress the happiness of your neighbours, so aggregate happiness may not rise, it says. On the happy index, the report says that because of its strong focus on the environment, this index favours countries near the equator. The HPI may be a good guide for holiday destinations, according to the German bank’s research arm.

Thats my place !!

Well our end-term is scheduled to start from this Friday...then what am I doing ...posting at my blog ??????? !!!!! ...well got some really cool pictures(coutesy senior's album) of my college IFMR ... http://ifmr.ac.in ...couldn't resist to place those here... please have a look at these...



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NOTE: Look out for this space in future, for more insights on my college

Two new finds !!

Hello everybody...For the first time I am blogging about something that life taught me and I think that these 2 things I need to ponder upon for the rest of my life...

1. Doing an MBA 1st lesson I learnt is networking...be in contact with as many people possible and win the good will and love of maximum people around u.

2. U like the people not because of what they are...u like them because u have a special soft corner for them ...a bias u can say...u dont like them in totality...u like them b'coz of one special thing in them that halos all other limitations they have.

Man creates God in his own mould

EVERY man lives in one of the seven chakras, the energy centres. If you are in the lowest level, that is the Muladhara chakra, you are caught in lust and desire. You worship a God who can grant all your boons. That is why God is understood as a giver of boons and is very popular. People are caught up in fantasy, expectations and desires and whoever fulfils these becomes their God. The moment they miss giving a single boon, their Gods will get dethroned! Next is the person who is caught in the Swadishthana chakra. You worship the God who gives confidence, who you believe will take care of you; you go behind the idols that have many weapons and many hands. You experience God as a protector. The third level person stays in the Manipuraka chakra. You continuously worry and remain confused. You worship the God who gives clarity and peace. Next is the person who lives in the Anahata chakra. Here, you are attracted towards the God who showers love on you. You worship the God who gives emotional fulfilment. Next, if you are raised to the level of the Vishuddhi chakra, the God of creativity or Energy appeals to you. You experience God as the creator. If you are centred in the Ajna chakra, you are locked in ego. Somebody in the egoless state attracts you: rishis, seers, sages, prophets and Masters attract you. The egoless man becomes your idol. That is why I say man creates God in his own mould! You simply relate to God or the Masters from these six levels; a relationship doesn’t happen — you simply reduce them to mere mortals. You have a concept in your mind and you are demanding from them that concept — it is simply a monologue. In the Ajna chakra, the dialogue starts. Only in the Sahasrara chakra, the communion happens! If you understand you are actually relating to your Gods and Masters from these chakras and that you need to go beyond this and catch the transcendental expression of the Divine, all your problems will dissolve! When you are in the Muladhara chakra, the Master drills into you like a crowbar. At a little higher level, he is like a knife penetrating you. At the level of the Sahasrara chakra, he is like a fragrance! If you are alert and aware, the Master can transform you. You just need to be passive for the alchemy to happen. If you are alert and aware, you can catch the smell and experience it!

S P I R ITUAL Q U OTI E NT
Economic Times ..Editorial Page.
• PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA

Scavangers, Bhangis or Cleaner??

ALOT of my current work is in small towns and villages. One town I work in, and with, closely is a small town in the backwaters of Andhra Pradesh. This little town has a unique and clean little street right next to an otherwise dirty downtown centre; even if the uniqueness is marred somewhat by the unfortunate name of the street — “Scavengers’ street”. Deployment of the term ‘scavangers’ for those who clean our streets and remove human waste is our home-grown terminology; used extensively even in our daily vocabulary. There are any number of government of India reports, press reports and even textbooks that use this unfortunate term freely. Similarly, bhangi is another regrettable term frequently used in the same vein, particularly in the north of the country. The very capital of the country has a ‘Bhangi colony’. Considering we are a country, over half of whose population seems to enjoy nothing more than an open-air defecation, a deprecatory usage of the term (even if it is often unwitting) for those who engage in clearing our surroundings is more than merely ironic. One would think that it is those who soil the milieu that ought to be the object of witting or unwitting derision; and not those who clean up the filth. What is more, in any well-known dictionary, such as Chambers or Oxford, ‘scavenger’ has only one of the two meanings: either those who forage in other people’s rubbish for food or other things, or, animals that feed on dead animals not killed by them. So the term scavenger, its deprecatory undertone or overtone apart, hardly describes the task in question, assuming the term must describe the vocation. What about the other term that we use with equal facility to describe those who help keep our villages, towns and cities clean, namely, Sweepers? Surely the term describes the vocation better? Perhaps; but it is barely any less insensitive. How about ‘janitor’? But a janitor is more truly a building’s caretaker. Mahatma Gandhi meant well and used the term Harijan. But the well meaning usage of the great man today has been reduced to a mere caste equivalent. So then which term describes the vocation best and is yet sensitive and dignified as much to the vocation as to its practitioners? How about cleaners? Those who clean the roads, villages and towns can only be cleaners, right? The term also puts matters in perspective. Those who clean are the cleaners and those who dirty are the ‘dirtiers’. The term is implicitly respectful of those who clean, in contrast to those who ‘dirty’. Will our parliamentarians, when they are not rushing into the ‘well’ of the House next time, pass a Bill banning the usage of terms like scavengers, bhangis and sweepers, at least in government documents? Will all of us, if we consider ourselves enlightened, consider such terms and their regional equivalents, socially, politically and humanly inappropriate? Will we do to these terms what they did successfully in the US to various deprecatory racial terms? We frequently express our concern at the socio-economic development of the underprivileged. But the real development must first happen in our attitudes. It is only when our attitude to cleanliness changes that our attitude to cleaners will change. It is only then will we make our cleaners better paid; only then will we provide full protective gear to those who dive naked into city sewers and manholes for cleaning; only then will we provide gum-boots and gloves and aprons to municipal cleaners who stand knee deep in muck in the undescribably dirty municipal garbage trucks. Also only then will we learn to provide them with ergonomically and sanitationwise superior tools for cleaning in a manner that provides dignity to a labour that this nation needs more than anything else. Yes, more than education, more than health, more than food, our country needs cleanliness. More than our poverty, our illiteracy, and our corruption, it is our filth and squalor that shames us most in the world community. And those who rid of this filth must be treated far better than we do. Yes, we need to learn to celebrate cleaners. So what can we do in concrete terms to give community cleanliness greater dignity? Those of us in suitable positions could begin working with institutions and work places under our care to explore if employees can take turns voluntarily (with points awarded in the performance management system) to clean the work-toilets themselves, once a week, say, on Saturdays. Needless to say, unless those of us who promote such a system are directly involved in such labour, the idea will not pick up. Yes, I am talking about reinventing Gandhi. Can the movement become a part of corporate social responsibility?
(The author is CEO, GMR Varalaskhmi Foundation. Views are personal.)

Snakes in the grass are OK ...Pythons in the mail are not !!

FOREIGNERS love to write about India as a country where skyscrapers abut jhopdis and where the rural poor squat on either side of railway tracks to do the big job every morning. And yet India never mixes up things. When transported from one place to the other, serpents are carried in proper baskets by snake charmers who cannot be mistaken for conductors. In all this byplay of contrasts, the right distance is always maintained so that no one gets an unnecessary shock of the kind that happened at a German post office at Mechernich the other day. There was panic when a 1.5 metre albino python broke free of its packaging. A 28-year-old woman had sold the snake over the internet and was mailing it to the buyer after labelling the package as glass! BBC News quotes the local police as saying, “the staff put the package in the back of the office. All of a sudden, they noticed it moving around and saw a big snake wriggling out of it. A valiant worker wrestled the snake and put it into a container. It is not illegal to send snakes via mail but the woman will be investigated for mistreating animals.” In India, where everything is perceived as maya, we have through the ages maintained this tradition of not mixing up illusions. The story goes that in the early 8th century AD, Adi Shankaracharya was walking with his disciples and telling them that everything was maya. Just then, a bull ran towards the group and all of them climbed up the nearest tree. “If everything is maya, why are we sitting on this tree to escape the bull?”, a disciple asked. “The tree is also maya,” the Shankaracharya said. Ergo, the maya that was the tree was climbed to let the disciples keep a distance from the illusion that was the bull. Now if only the woman had not mixed up maya by transacting the sale of the python on the internet and mailing it, there would have been no need for panic — real or illusory — in the Mechernich post office!

Embrace The Change ....

This post has some impactful sentences from the book ONLY THE PARNOID SURVIVE - Andrew S. Grove

Who is Andy Grove?
Dr Andrew S. Grove, participated in the founding of Intel Corporation and was a key driving force in its rapid success.He is a Senior Advisor to Executive Management of Inrel Corp. Ltd. Previously Grove was Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation from May 1997 to May 2005. From 1987 to 1998 he served as the company’s CEO and from 1979 to 1997 he served as President. Prior to participating in the founding of Intel in 1968 with Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, he worked as the Assistant Director of Research and Development for
Fairchild Semiconductor.

In "Only the Paranoid Survive", Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads - when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window.

Impactful sentences

Strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change.

In the mid-eighties, the Japanese memory producers brought upon us an inflection point so overwhelming that it forced us out of memory chips and into a relatively new field of microprocessors.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: It canot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated.

Businesses are about creating change for other businesses. Competition is about creating change: technology is about creating change.

Middle manager- especially those who deal with the outside world, like people in sales – are often the first to realize that what worked before doesn’t quite work anymore; that the rules are changing. They usually don’t have an easy time explaining it to senior management, so the senior management in the company is late to realize that the world is changing on them- and the leader is often the last to know.

Even those who believed in the scientific approach to management will have to rely on the instinct and personal judgment. When you’re caught in the turbulence of strategic inflection point, the sad fact is that instinct and judgment are all you’ve got to guide you through.


First, when the strategic inflection point sweeps through the industry, the more successful a participant was in the old industry structure, the more threatened- it is by change and more reluctant it is to adapt to it.

As an industry becomes more competitive, companies are forced to retreat to their strongholds and specialize, in order to become world class in whatever segment the end up occupying.

Customers drifting away from their former buying habits may provide the subtle and insidious cause of a strategic inflection point – subtle and insidious because it takes place slowly.

I suspect that the people coming in are probably no better managers or leaders than the people they are replacing. They have only one advantage, but it may be crucial: unlike the person who has devoted his entire life to the company and therefore has a history of deep involvement in the sequence of events that led to present mess, the new managers come unencumbered by such emotional involvement and therefore are capable of applying an impersonal logic to the situation. They can see things much more objectively than their predecessors did.

Your genes were right for the original business. But if key aspects of the business shift around you, the very process of genetic selection that got you and your associates where you are might retard your ability to recognize the new trends.

The Cassandras in your organization are consistently helpful element in recognizing strategic inflection points. As you might remember, Cassandra was priestess who foretold the fall of Troy. Likewise, there are people who are quick to recognize impending change and cry out an early warning. Cassandras are usually in middle management.

Classify your time you spend in listening to them as an investment in learning what goes on at the distant periphery of your business, whether you think of distances in geographical or technological terms.

You can’t judge the significance of strategic inflection points by the quality of the first version.

The more complex the issues are, the more levels of management should be involved because people from different levels of management bring completely different points of view and expertise to the table, as well as different genetic makeups.

Contemporary management doctrine suggests that you should approach any debate and argument with data in hand. It’s good advice. Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.

In the case of a strategic inflection point, the sequence goes more as follows:
Denial, escape, or diversion and, finally, acceptance and pertinent action.

Escape, or diversion, refers to the personal actions of the senior manager. When companies are facing major changes in their core business, they seem to plunge into what seem to be totally unrelated acquisitions and mergers. In my view, a lot of these activities are motivated by the need of senior management to occupy themselves respectably with something that dearly and legitimately requires their attention day in and day out, something that they can justify spending their time on and make progress in instead of figuring out how to cope with an impending strategically destructive force.

Its not surprising that senior mangers will keep implementing the same strategic and tactical moves that worked for them during the course of their careers – especially during their “championship season”.

You are trying to define what the company will be, yet that can only be done if you also undertake to define what the company will not be.

If you are in a leadership position, how you spend your time has enormous symbolic value. It will communicate what’s important or what isn’t far more powerfully than all speeches you can give.

At times like this, your calendar becomes your most important strategic tool. Resist the tacit temptation to accept invitations or make appointments because you have done so in past. Ask yourself the questions , “ Will going to this meeting teach me about the new technology or the new market that I think is very important now? Will it introduce me to people who can help me in new direction? Will it send a message about the importance of new direction? “ If so, go to it. If not resist it.

Intel operates by following the direction set by three high level corporate strategic objectives: first has to do with our microprocessor business; the second with the communication business; the third with our operations and the execution of our plans. We add a fourth objective, encapsulating all the things that are necessary to mobilize our efforts in connection with Internet.

Coffee ...something to start thinking..

Read this to enjoy the savor in life.

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned in to complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee,the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot ofcoffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal,some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them tohelp themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for youto want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of yourproblems and stress.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups.Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society arethe cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the qualityof Life doesn't change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

"So, don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead."

My colour

There's nothing saccharine about me — My sweetness is one hundred percent natural! A gentle, thoughtful romantic like me must be paired with a color that's soft and warm — but still has a subtle sophisticated sheen. That's why Pink Chiffon is the perfect color for me!I am probably known for making the most of every situation and trying to see the best in people. But while I may be cheerful and innocent at times, I am nobody's fool. I may see the world through rose-colored glasses, but I can still see, after all.

Baby Steps.....

Hello everyone out there!!

I too have joined the band wagon of bloggers finally !!

Well I have no idea at present what to post ...!!

Check out my blogspot soon...
Something really interesting would be here !!