Philosophy of life:
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.
A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their fish and asked how long it took them to catch them.
"Not very long." they answered in unison.
"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"
The fishermen explained that their small catches were sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.
"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children, and take siestas with our wives. In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.
We have a full life."
The tourist interrupted,
"I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you!
You should start by fishing longer every day.
You can then sell the extra fish you catch.
With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."
"And after that?"
"With the extra money the larger boat will bring, you can buy a second one and a third one and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.
Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants and maybe even open your own plant.
You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City , Los Angeles , or even New York City !
From there you can direct your huge new enterprise.
"How long would that take?"
"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years." replied the tourist.
"And after that?"
"Afterwards? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting, " answered the tourist, laughing. "When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!"
"Millions? Really? And after that?" asked the fishermen..
"After that you'll be able to retire,
live in a tiny village near the coast,
sleep late, play with your children,
catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends."
"With all due respect sir, but that's exactly what we are doing now. So what's the point wasting twenty-five years?" asked the Mexicans.
And the moral of this story is:
....... Know where you're going in life.... you may already be there!!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow... Learn as if you were to live forever..
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Really Interesting
Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life!!
--Anonymous
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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
--Oscar Wilde
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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
--Scottish Prover
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
--Sam Kinison
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Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
-H. L. Mencken
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When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why.
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why.
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Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener
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When a man opens the door of his car for his wife,
you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.
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I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back to home always.
--Anonymous
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I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our
anniversary? " She said,"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her,
"How about the kitchen?"
--Anonymous
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We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours.
That was only for the estimate.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then
the mud fell off.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too
late for the garbage?
Following her down the street I yelled, "No, jump in."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses
to get to married.
He says "the wedding rings look like minature
handcuffs... .."
--Anonymous
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If your dog is barking at the back door and your
wife yelling at the frontdoor, who do you let in first?
The Dog of course... at least he'll shut up after u
let him in!
--Anonymous
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A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly
parted mother and started back toward his car when his attention was
diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be
praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to
die? Why did you have to die?" The first man approached him and said, "Sir,
I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this
demonstration of pain in is
more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so? Deeply? A
child? A parent?"The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then
replied "My wife's first husband."
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A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband
leaned over, made a wish
and threw in a coin .
The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned
over too much, fell
into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned
for a while but then
smiled "It really works ! "
----------------------------------------------\ WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ!
(Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10!)
1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last ?
2) Which country makes Panama hats ?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?
7) What was King George VI's first name ?
8) What color is a purple finch ?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?
Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.
Check your answers below.
ANSWERS
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last ? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats ? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name ? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch ? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ? Orange (of course!)
What do you mean, you failed?!!
Me, too...!!!
( And if you try to tell me you passed, you lie! )
Pass this on to some "brilliant" friends, so that they may feel useless too!
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This is truly brilliant... It can't get more accurate than this!!!!
Sigmund Freud's Priorities
Five things are happening in your house at the same time. In which sequence would you solve them?
1. The telephone is ringing!
2. The baby is crying!
3. Someone's knocking or calling you from the front door!
4. You hung the clothes out to dry and it is beginning to rain!
5. You left the tap on in the kitchen and the water is already overflowing!
In which sequence would you solve these problems? Write the sequence and check below how your decisions were made.
BUT BE HONEST, THE FINDINGS ARE EXCITING.
First write YOUR sequence from 1 to 5 then scroll below and read after!
Answer:
Every individual point represents something in your life..
On the list you can see which meaning every point has:
1. Telephone represents Work
2. Baby represents Family
3. Door represents Friends
4. Clothes represent Money
5. Tap represents Love Life
Your chosen sequence determines the priorities in your life.
---------------------------------
The Seed
A successful business man was growing old and Knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, He decided to do something different. He called all the young Executives in his company together.
He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one Of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant The seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with What you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then Judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be The next CEO."
One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, Received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the Story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted The seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had Grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began To talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he Had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but He had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the Seed to grow.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company Brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick To his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment Of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot To the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety
Of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- In all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and Many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
Executives.
Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees, And flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will Be appointed the next CEO!"
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with His empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to The front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a Failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened To his seed - Jim told him the story.
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, And then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer!
His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow His seed.
"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.
Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this Room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, And bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; They were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.
All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and Flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you Substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the
Only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with My seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
If you plant hard work, you will reap success
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation
If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest
So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later ..
"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"
--Anonymous
-------------------------------------
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
--Oscar Wilde
---------------------------------------------
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
--Scottish Prover
------------ --------- --------- --------- -----
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
--Sam Kinison
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
-H. L. Mencken
------------ --------- --------- ---------
When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why.
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener
------------ --------- --------- ---------
When a man opens the door of his car for his wife,
you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife.
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back to home always.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our
anniversary? " She said,"Somewhere I have never been!" I told her,
"How about the kitchen?"
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
------------ --------- --------- ---------
My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours.
That was only for the estimate.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then
the mud fell off.
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too
late for the garbage?
Following her down the street I yelled, "No, jump in."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
Badd Teddy recently explained to me why he refuses
to get to married.
He says "the wedding rings look like minature
handcuffs... .."
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- --------- ------
If your dog is barking at the back door and your
wife yelling at the frontdoor, who do you let in first?
The Dog of course... at least he'll shut up after u
let him in!
--Anonymous
------------ --------- --------- ---------
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly
parted mother and started back toward his car when his attention was
diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be
praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, 'Why did u have to
die? Why did you have to die?" The first man approached him and said, "Sir,
I don't wish to interfere with your private grief, but this
demonstration of pain in is
more than I've ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so? Deeply? A
child? A parent?"The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then
replied "My wife's first husband."
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----
A couple came upon a wishing well. The husband
leaned over, made a wish
and threw in a coin .
The wife decided to make a wish, too. But she leaned
over too much, fell
into the well, and drowned. The husband was stunned
for a while but then
smiled "It really works ! "
----------------------------------------------\ WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ!
(Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10!)
1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last ?
2) Which country makes Panama hats ?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?
7) What was King George VI's first name ?
8) What color is a purple finch ?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?
Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.
Check your answers below.
ANSWERS
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last ? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats ? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut ? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name ? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch ? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ? Orange (of course!)
What do you mean, you failed?!!
Me, too...!!!
( And if you try to tell me you passed, you lie! )
Pass this on to some "brilliant" friends, so that they may feel useless too!
------------------
This is truly brilliant... It can't get more accurate than this!!!!
Sigmund Freud's Priorities
Five things are happening in your house at the same time. In which sequence would you solve them?
1. The telephone is ringing!
2. The baby is crying!
3. Someone's knocking or calling you from the front door!
4. You hung the clothes out to dry and it is beginning to rain!
5. You left the tap on in the kitchen and the water is already overflowing!
In which sequence would you solve these problems? Write the sequence and check below how your decisions were made.
BUT BE HONEST, THE FINDINGS ARE EXCITING.
First write YOUR sequence from 1 to 5 then scroll below and read after!
Answer:
Every individual point represents something in your life..
On the list you can see which meaning every point has:
1. Telephone represents Work
2. Baby represents Family
3. Door represents Friends
4. Clothes represent Money
5. Tap represents Love Life
Your chosen sequence determines the priorities in your life.
---------------------------------
The Seed
A successful business man was growing old and Knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, He decided to do something different. He called all the young Executives in his company together.
He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one Of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant The seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with What you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then Judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be The next CEO."
One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, Received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the Story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted The seed. Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had Grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began To talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he Had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but He had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the Seed to grow.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company Brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick To his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment Of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot To the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety
Of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful -- In all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and Many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young
Executives.
Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees, And flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will Be appointed the next CEO!"
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with His empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to The front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a Failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened To his seed - Jim told him the story.
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, And then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer!
His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow His seed.
"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.
Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this Room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, And bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; They were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.
All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and Flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you Substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the
Only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with My seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
If you plant hard work, you will reap success
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation
If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest
So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later ..
"Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back"
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Good Thoughts
If you judge people, you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Who is Real Hero
Management Views from IIM, Bangalore. by Prof. Y.L.R. Moorthy
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
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DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
=======================================
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Who is doing Real
Management Views from IIM, Bangalore. by Prof. Y.L.R. Moorthy
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
=======================================
DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon.
The correct answer is none of the above. The winner is 'Nokia' whose
main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone
cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera
outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma?
Sorry....the answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that playfor 30 seconds)
Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service
provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor
is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have
identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia
and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from
truth.
Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit
that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future.
But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you?
If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not
so much about mobile or music or camera or emails.
The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the
answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the
walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into
their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a
computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony
think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak
defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as
"digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between
going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and
getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both.
It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from
seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!"
and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.
The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious.
Tomorrow's is not.
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India?
Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are
better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and
others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence
services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT
executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to
use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad
scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight
in 2008. (Indiahas a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They
were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think
that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not
bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable
besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices
of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash.
Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are makingmoney. Then it will
surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly
different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The
filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans
who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or
at best 50 over cricket.
Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed intoone. IPL brought cricket
down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reducedto the length of a 3 hour
movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On theeve of IPL matches movie halls
ran empty. Desperate multiplex ownersrequisitioned the rights for screening IPL
matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the
mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so
as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what
in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push
films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did
you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen?
When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I
don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the
typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came
the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys
like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are
nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up
in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster
made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep
it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and
the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They
were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use
today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks
disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like
Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing
machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a
Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon
Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!
The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal
called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums
it up rather neatly.
Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a
post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.
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DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
Question and the Answer given by Candidates ohh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers now.
Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A.Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
Q.. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.
Q.. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
Q. How many buckets of water does Pacific Ocean contains?
A : It depends on the size of the bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview Placement)
Interviewer said 'I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!' The boy thought for a while and said, 'my choice is one really difficult question.'
'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this. 'What comes first, Day or Night?'
The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on his answer, but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY sir!'
'How' the interviewer asked,
'Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!'
He was selected for IIM!
"Dont ever be angry on your friends..Bcz at the last moments of our life, we remember not the words of our enemies... but the silence of our F.R.I.E.N.D.. S."
==========================================
Some known & unknown facts
MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after
Dinner. Later the
prefix 'with' was dropped..
NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's
business.
QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting
to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt
service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on
which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom
of Tips.
JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War
II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed
into JEEP later.
Interesting Facts * Coca-Cola was originally green.
* The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start
with.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on
one row ! of the keyboard.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
* You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
* People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your
heart stops for a millisecond.
* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
* The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language. * If you sneeze too hard, you can
fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood
vessel in your head or neck and die.
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from
history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the
air, the person died in battle.
* If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle
* If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
* What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser
printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A snail can sleep for three years.
* All polar bears are left handed.
* Butterflies taste with their feet.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
* Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over
million descendants.
* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.
* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
* Most lipstick contains fish scales.
* Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
=========================
Confidence !
The business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said.
After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller."
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, c onvinced he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Distribution of 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali books to devotees
I have got an inspiration from the story of Vishnu Sahasranamavali in Sai Satcharitra where in baba gave Vishnu sahasranamavali book to Shyama taking it from Ramadasi. Baba has told Shyama that it is a very powerful book. I have been inspired and got an idea to distribute 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali to various devotees in India to various mandirs and Sai Mandirs and other mandirs in 90th anniversary of Saibaba. We will bwe getting the books from Gita Press Gorakhpur. To start with I have decided to focus in Andhra Pradesh and Telugu Vishnu Sahasranamavali book code 911 of Gita Press costs 1 rupee. The same in Hindi/Tamil/Gujarati etc. costs 2 rupees. we get 15% discount for orders placed over 6,000 rupees and free transportation to destination. say some one places orders for 6000 rupees he will pay 5100 rupees and books will be delivered free to the place of destination in India from Gorakhpur. He can get 3000 books of Vishnu
Sahasranamavali in Hindi/Gujarati/ Tamil/Marathi/Bengali or 6000 books in Telugu to his place of choice.It costs $106 US dollars or 5100 rupees. he can then donate if he has some one at his place. The program started in December 3rd week and 48,000 copies in Telugu have been sent to various places in Andhra Pradesh and distributed. We are getting around 1,50,000 copies in Telugu to Hyderabad and will try to find funds and distribute in various temples. Any one can join by bringing a place of distribution or donation. Money can be sent to Gita Press Gorkhpur directly and ask them to transfer the money to Hyderabad office address for vishnu sahsranamavali books or to respective offices like Surat for Gujarat Bangalore for Karnataka Chennai for Tamil Nadu etc., They can also send money to Hyderabad office address of Gita Press office or to Mr. N. Poornanadam of Sai Annadanakshetram for sending handing over money to Gita Press Gorakhpur office in Hyderabad.
Mr. N. Poornandam uncle is from Sai Annadana Kshetram Kukutpally Hyderabad who are doing Annadanam every Thursday to 3000 devotees at Kukutpally Hyderabad. I will do the coordination with publisher as well as Hyderabad office and the distribution centres for despatch. Details of books sent to various places will be compiled and published. We need help from different devotees in Canada/USA/India in completing the project and helping in distribution.
Distribution of 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali books to devotees:::Let us all become a part of this noble deed
Details of Gita Press::
The web site address of Gita Press Gorakhpur is www.gitapress.org
They are located in Gorakhpur Uttarapradesh near Varanasi. The contact person names are Mr. Badri Agarwal Owner and Mr. Tripathiji is in charge of Sales. Phone no's are 0551-2333030/2334721 extn 250/251 and ph 2331250
Email address is booksales@gitapress.org and online@gitapress.org. If any one is sending money to them let them for Vishnu Sahasranmavali project let them send me a copy of mail so that I will coordinate for deliveries. For Telugu Copies they have to ask them to transfer the amount to their Hyderabad office. Gita Press has State Bank of India Account.
Address is State Bank Of India Bank Road Gorakhpur. Name of Account Gita Press Gorakhpur. Branch Code 86 A/C No. 011077939733. Swift Code is
SBI NIN BB497. Let them also verify once again with them. Gita Press Hyderabad Branch address is Gitapress Gorakhpurki Pustak Dukan 41, 4-4-1,
Dilshad Plaza, Sultan Bazar Hyderabad 500096 Ph 040-66758311/040-24758311.
Name of the person Manoj Kumar. He can not take foreign exchange directly and can take only cash/Cheque in India in the name of Gita Press. The other person I have given details is Mr. Nerella Poornandam Uncle of Sai Annadana Kshetram Hyderabad and he is handing over cash to Hyderabad office. Sai Annadana Kshetram is in Hyderabad (Kukutpally) and is in Sai Service for last 3 decades and I am associated with them for last 10 years.
Mr.Nerella Poornandam ICICI Bank Account No 004001536362 Madhapur Branch Hyderabad. Uncle's phone no. 040 23151313. cell no 9949094272.
Please feel free to ask any queries.
Regards
Ramesh Nagisetty ( 001-647-344-6394)
nagisettyramesh@yahoo.ca
PS::Kindly forward this email to all your friends who might wish to be a part of this spiritual deed
Sahasranamavali in Hindi/Gujarati/ Tamil/Marathi/Bengali or 6000 books in Telugu to his place of choice.It costs $106 US dollars or 5100 rupees. he can then donate if he has some one at his place. The program started in December 3rd week and 48,000 copies in Telugu have been sent to various places in Andhra Pradesh and distributed. We are getting around 1,50,000 copies in Telugu to Hyderabad and will try to find funds and distribute in various temples. Any one can join by bringing a place of distribution or donation. Money can be sent to Gita Press Gorkhpur directly and ask them to transfer the money to Hyderabad office address for vishnu sahsranamavali books or to respective offices like Surat for Gujarat Bangalore for Karnataka Chennai for Tamil Nadu etc., They can also send money to Hyderabad office address of Gita Press office or to Mr. N. Poornanadam of Sai Annadanakshetram for sending handing over money to Gita Press Gorakhpur office in Hyderabad.
Mr. N. Poornandam uncle is from Sai Annadana Kshetram Kukutpally Hyderabad who are doing Annadanam every Thursday to 3000 devotees at Kukutpally Hyderabad. I will do the coordination with publisher as well as Hyderabad office and the distribution centres for despatch. Details of books sent to various places will be compiled and published. We need help from different devotees in Canada/USA/India in completing the project and helping in distribution.
Distribution of 1 million copies of Vishnusahasranamavali books to devotees:::Let us all become a part of this noble deed
Details of Gita Press::
The web site address of Gita Press Gorakhpur is www.gitapress.org
They are located in Gorakhpur Uttarapradesh near Varanasi. The contact person names are Mr. Badri Agarwal Owner and Mr. Tripathiji is in charge of Sales. Phone no's are 0551-2333030/2334721 extn 250/251 and ph 2331250
Email address is booksales@gitapress.org and online@gitapress.org. If any one is sending money to them let them for Vishnu Sahasranmavali project let them send me a copy of mail so that I will coordinate for deliveries. For Telugu Copies they have to ask them to transfer the amount to their Hyderabad office. Gita Press has State Bank of India Account.
Address is State Bank Of India Bank Road Gorakhpur. Name of Account Gita Press Gorakhpur. Branch Code 86 A/C No. 011077939733. Swift Code is
SBI NIN BB497. Let them also verify once again with them. Gita Press Hyderabad Branch address is Gitapress Gorakhpurki Pustak Dukan 41, 4-4-1,
Dilshad Plaza, Sultan Bazar Hyderabad 500096 Ph 040-66758311/040-24758311.
Name of the person Manoj Kumar. He can not take foreign exchange directly and can take only cash/Cheque in India in the name of Gita Press. The other person I have given details is Mr. Nerella Poornandam Uncle of Sai Annadana Kshetram Hyderabad and he is handing over cash to Hyderabad office. Sai Annadana Kshetram is in Hyderabad (Kukutpally) and is in Sai Service for last 3 decades and I am associated with them for last 10 years.
Mr.Nerella Poornandam ICICI Bank Account No 004001536362 Madhapur Branch Hyderabad. Uncle's phone no. 040 23151313. cell no 9949094272.
Please feel free to ask any queries.
Regards
Ramesh Nagisetty ( 001-647-344-6394)
nagisettyramesh@yahoo.ca
PS::Kindly forward this email to all your friends who might wish to be a part of this spiritual deed
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
"Reham Najar Karo" Sai Bhajan
Reham Najar Karo Bhajan
This wonderful Sai Bhajan was created long back by Dasganu Maharaj when Sai Baba was in flesh. The complete story how this bhajan was written has already been posted on Shirdi Sai Baba Life Teachings and Stories blog. I request readers to please follow the link to navigate on story page.
http://shirdisaibabamp3.blogspot.com/2009/01/reham-najar-karo-bhajan-video.html
In the Service of Lord Sainath
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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This wonderful Sai Bhajan was created long back by Dasganu Maharaj when Sai Baba was in flesh. The complete story how this bhajan was written has already been posted on Shirdi Sai Baba Life Teachings and Stories blog. I request readers to please follow the link to navigate on story page.
http://shirdisaibabamp3.blogspot.com/2009/01/reham-najar-karo-bhajan-video.html
In the Service of Lord Sainath
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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Flash Animation of Shirdi Sai Baba
Dear Sai Readers,
I found this awesome flash animation of Shirdi Sai Baba on internet and thought to share with you all.
Please click
http://experienceswithshirdisaibaba.blogspot.com/2009/01/flash-animation-of-shirdi-sai-baba.html
Sai Dhun playing in the background makes one's heart swaying in Divine love for Sai Baba. Twinkling coloured lights in Baba's right Holy Foot produces an electric effect.
It is created by Thugs Studios and hosted by www.shirdibaba. org.
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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I found this awesome flash animation of Shirdi Sai Baba on internet and thought to share with you all.
Please click
http://experienceswithshirdisaibaba.blogspot.com/2009/01/flash-animation-of-shirdi-sai-baba.html
Sai Dhun playing in the background makes one's heart swaying in Divine love for Sai Baba. Twinkling coloured lights in Baba's right Holy Foot produces an electric effect.
It is created by Thugs Studios and hosted by www.shirdibaba. org.
SaiSevak SrinivasaRao Kasturi
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Friday, November 21, 2008
About myself
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| I am Kasturi. Venkata SrinivasaRao, K.V.SrinivasaRao,sometimes fondly as K.V, K.V.S, please Call me simply K.V, and presently working as Scientific Officer in Nuclear Fuel Complex, Department of Atomic Energy, D.A.E, Government of India, Hyderabad. I am a graduate in (Electronics & communication) and having vast experience in Instrumentation. I am friendly natured and devotional. Read my profile page for more information. Pl. see the individual pages for more information. I welcome your valuable feed-back. You can also write the same to my E-mail: kasturivenkat@gmail.com You are welcome to add my blog as your favorite blogs and if you permit me I will also add your blog as a link. | ||
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
My Resume
CURRICULUM VITAE
K.V.SRINIVASA RAO,
H.NO.7-22,
SIDDARDHANAGAR COLONY,
NEAR SAISIDDHARDHA PUBLIC SCHOOL,
DOMMAIGUDA,
NAGARAM,
R.R.DIST,
HYDERABAD – 500062
ANDHRAPRADESH,
INDIA.
CONTACT NO: +91-40-27138578
Mobile : +91-9866850132 (between 6 P.M to 8 A.M I.S.T)
E-mail: kasturivenkat@gmail.com & kasturivenkat@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.kasturivenkat.blogspot.com
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CAREER OBJECTIVE
To pursue a career in an organization where my knowledge and skills in my field of interest will be optimized and to succeed in professionally challenging environments with high rewards and regards.
Experienced in erection, commission, automation of instrumentation of process plants.
PRESENT EMPLOYMENT
Working in Nuclear Fuel Complex (N.F.C), Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in instrumentation division since 15 years. At present working in the capacity of Scientific Officer (Gazetted Rank).
Experience Summary:
· Working as Scientific Officer in instrumentation division in NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX, DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, HYDERABAD from April 1992 to till date.
· Taken challenging tasks of Erection, commissioning, automation of instrumentation and control of processing plants and successfully commissioned four plants using Program Logic Control systems (P.L.Cs).
- Received Certificate of outstanding performance in the year 2002 -2003 in Nuclear Fuel Complex, Department of Atomic energy, Government of India
Academic Qualifications:
- B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Vinayaka Missions University ,Salem, during the Academic year 2004-2006 in First Division with an aggregate of 77.8%.
- Diploma in Electronics and Communications Engineering from State Board of Technical education and Training, ANDHRAPRADESH during the Academic year 1993-1997 in First Division with an aggregate of 73.76%
- Post Graduate diploma in Business Management (P.G.D.B.M) by taking project as study on Human Resource Management in Hyderabad Race Club bearing Roll No.7 from SETWIN institute of Management , Run by Government of A.P, Vidyanagar a in First Division
- Successfully completed the course in Information Technology conducted by Computer Division, ELCTRONICS CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED (ECIL – Hyderabad) from 08-04-2003 to 13-05-2003
- SSC from Central Board of Secondary Education in First Division with an aggregate of 68.6 %.
- Attended Proficiency course in English in Central institute of English and foreign languages, CIEFL- Hyderabad in Sept 1985
- Passed Lower Grade Type Writing in English from State Board of technical Education and training, Andhrapradesh, Hyderabad in Second Division in Nov- Dec 1984
Training programmes attended:
· Attended PLC and SCADA training program at SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDIA Pvt. Limited, New Delhi in VIJEO CITECT BASIC + PL 7 PRO PLC from 26 -02-2007 to 02-03-2007.
· Attended training program in PLC and SCADA - HMI – SIMATIC WIN CC at SIEMENS – MUMBAI from 01-05-2006 to 06-05-2006.
· Attended International Seminar on Automation and Control – “Initiative India 2007”- conducted by SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDIA from 11 to 14th September, 2007 at HITEX, HITECK CITY, MADHAPUR, HYDERABAD.
· Attended seminar on “GE FANUC – Intelligent platforms – GE FANUC TECH DAYS 2008” conducted by GE FANUC PLCs and automation on 22-04-2008 at Hotel TAJ Banjara – Banjara Hills- Road No -1, Hyderabad.
Academic Projects:
· Title : DESIGN OF TEMPERATATURE INDICATOR ( in DIPLOMA)
· Title : DESIGN OF PC ADD ON CARD OF A DLC SYSTEM( in B.Tech)
Personal Strengths:
· Analytical Communication and Interpersonal Skills.
· Commitment and Determination towards work.
· Can motivate people as a good team player.
· Ready to share Responsibilities and knowledge.
Personal Profile:
Full Name : VENKATA SRINIVASARAO KASTURI
: K.V.SRINIVASA RAO
Father’s Name : Late Sri. K.S.N. LAKSHMI PATHI RAO.
Martial Status : Married
Religion : Hindu.
Nationality : Indian.
Date of Birth : 03rd January, 1966.
Gender : MALE.
Linguistic proficiency : English, Hindi, Telugu & Sankrit
Passport No : GO369588
Interested to work in : Singapore, USA, Australia, U.K, Malaysia
Expected Position : Senior – Management level, Group Leader, HR
Expected Remuneration : 80,000 US$ / IRS per annum
E-mail Address : kasturivenkat@gmail.com , kasturivenkat@yahoo.com
Hobbies : Traveling, Reading books, Internet & Making friends
Place: HYDERABAD (K.V.SRINIVASA RAO)
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