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1. Management Lessons from "3 Idiots" Movie From
Vinayak Khedkar
2. Why Change is Needed From Hitesh Bhatt
3. An Old Story From Beenu Tripathy
4. Attitude Counts From Barun Sarkar
5. R.K. Laxman's selected ones From Shirish
Daftary
6. The Chalk Guy is back From Himangshu patel
7. Bet You Didnt Know These From Uday
Nagarsekhar
8. Some Known and Unknown facts From Nirav
Tarkas
9. Cartoon Of The year From Kedar Padte
10. How to Identify Different Citizens of India
From Venkat Iyer
11. You Know You Are Living In 2010 From Rupal
Shah
12. Chinglish Beats Hinglish from Atul Munshi
13. Introspect from Deepak Bhagde
14. Understanding Computer Technology From
Randhir Puri
15. We Never Do This Because We Have Brains By
Shirish Daftary
16. The Economy Is So Bad That From Manoj Jaspal
17. Excellence By Beenu Tripathy
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Management Lessons from
"3 Idiots" Movie
By Vinayak Khedkar
1. Never Try To Be Successful
Success is the bye-product. Excellence always creates
success. So, never run after the success, let it happen
automatically in the life.
2. Freedom To Life
Dont die before actual death. Live every moment to the
fullest as you are going to die today night. Life is
gifted to humankind to live, live & live @ happiness.
3. Passion Leads To Excellence
When your hobby becomes your profession and passion
becomes your profession. You will be able to lead up to
excellence in the life. Satisfaction, pleasure, joy and
love will be the outcome of following passion. Following
your passion for years, you will surely become something
one day.
4. Learning Is Very Simple Teachers do fail.
Learners never fail. Learning is never complicated or
difficult. Learning is always possible whatever rule you
apply.
5. Pressure At Head
Current education system is developing pressures on
students head. University intelligence is useful and
making some impact in the life but it cannot be at the
cost of the life.
6. Life Is Emotion Management Not Intelligence
Optimization
Memory and regular study have definite value and it
always helps you in leading a life. You are able to
survive even if you can make some mark in the path of
the life. With artificial intelligence, you can survive
and win but you cannot prove yourself genius. Therefore,
in this process genius dies in you.
7. Necessity Is The Mother Of
Invention Necessity creates pressure and forces you to
invent something or to make it happen or to use your
potentiality. Aamir Khan in this film, 3 idiots, is able
to prove in the film by using aqua guard pump at the
last moment.
8. Simplicity is Life
Life is need base never want base. Desires have no ends.
Simplicity is way of life and Indian culture highly
stresses on simple living and high thinking, and this is
the way of life: Legs down to earth and eyes looking
beyond the sky
9. Industrial Leadership
Dean of the institute in 3 idiots is showing very
typical leadership. He has his own principles, values
and ideology, and he leads the whole institute
accordingly. This is an example of current institutional
leadership. In the present scenario, most of the
institutes are fixed in a block or Squarish thinking.
10. Love Is Time & Space Free
Love is not time bound and space bound. It is very well
demonstrated in this movie same love was demonstrated by
Krishna and Meera. Love is border free, time free and
space free.
11. Importance Of One Word In Communication
If
communication dies, everything dies. Each word has
impact and value in communication. One word if used
wrongly or emphasized wrongly or paused at a wrong place
in communication what effect it creates and how is it
affected is demonstrated very well in this movie.
12. Mediocrity Is Penalized
Middle
class family or average talent or average institute is
going to suffer and has to pay maximum price in the life
if they do not upgrade their living standards. To be
born poor or as an average person is not a crime but to
die as an average person with middle class talent is
miserable and if you are unable to optimize your
potentiality and die with unused potentiality then that
is your shameful truth. One should not die as a
mediocre. He/she has to bring out genius inside him/her
and has to use his/her potentiality to the optimum
level. 
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An Old Story
By Beenu Tripathy
The Ant works hard in the withering
heat all summer building its house and laying up
supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant
is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The
Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the
cold.
Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering
heat all summer building its house and laying up
supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the
Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer
away. Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a
press conference and demands to know why the Ant should
be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold
and starving. NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures
of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this
be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the
Ant's house. Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with
other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be
relocated to warmer climates during winter . Mayawati
states this as `injustice' done. Amnesty International
and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not
upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper. The
Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking
support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and
Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the
wrath of God for non-compliance). Opposition MPs stage a
walkout. Left parties call for Bengal Bandh in West
Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry. CPM in
Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from
working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality
of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers. Lalu Prasad
allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian
Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention
of Terrorism against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with
effect from the beginning of the winter. Arjun Singh
makes 'Special Reservation' for Grasshoppers in
Educational Institutions & in Government Services. The
Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes; its
home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to
the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV. Arundhati
Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'. Lalu calls it
'Socialistic Justice '. CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary
Resurgence of the Downtrodden ' Koffi Annan invites the
Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly. Many
years later.... The Ant has since migrated to the US and
set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation ......AND
As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and
feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing
country
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Attitude Counts
By Barun Sarkar
Jerry is the manager of a
restaurant in America. He is always in a good mood and
always has something positive to say. When someone would
ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I
were any better, I would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his
restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they
could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.
The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his
attitude.
He was a natural motivator. If an
employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there,
telling the employee how to look on the positive side of
the situation.
Seeing this style really made me
curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I
don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the
time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I
wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I
can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in
a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood.
Each time something bad happens, I
can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from
it. I always choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me
complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or
I can point out the positive side of life. I always
choose the positive side of life."
"But it's not always that easy," I
protested. "Yes, it is," Jerry said "Life is all about
choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation
is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You
choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to
be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you
live your life."
Several years later, I heard that
Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed
to do in the restaurant business: left the back door of
his restaurant open one morning and was robbed by three
armed men. While trying to open the safe, his hand,
shaking from nervousness slipped off the combination.
The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found quickly
and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery
and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the
hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his
body.
I saw Jerry about six months after
the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied,
"If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my
scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him
what had gone through his mind as the robbery took
place.
"The first thing that went through
my mind was that I would have locked the back door,"
Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on
the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could
choose to live or choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared?" I asked.
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept
telling me. I was going to be fine. But when they
wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the
expressions n the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got
really scared. In their yes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I
knew I need to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked. "Well,
there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said
Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything." 'Yes,'
I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as hey
waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled,
'Bullets!' over their laughter, I told them, and I am
choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive,
not dead'."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of
his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I
learned from him that every day you have the choice to
either enjoy your life or to hate it.
The only thing that is truly yours
that no ne can control or take from you - is your
attitude, so if you can take are of that, everything
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Bet U Didn't Know These
Things
From Uday Nagarsekhar
'Stewardesses' is the longest
word typed with only the left hand.
And 'lollipop' is the longest
word typed with your right hand.
No word in the English
language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
Dreamt is the only English word
that ends in the letters 'mt'.
our eyes are always the same size
from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The sentence: 'The quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the
alphabet.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and
'level' are the same whether they are read left to right
or right to left.
There are only four words in the
English language which end in 'dous': tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the
English language that have all five vowels in order:
'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
TYPEWRITER is the longest word
that can be made using the letters only on one row of
the keyboard.
A cat has 32 muscles in
each ear.
A goldfish has a memory
span of three seconds.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of
time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish
that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three
years.
Almonds are a member of the peach
family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than
its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
February 1865 is the only
month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no
new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked
past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of
the rate of reproduction.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the
scissors
Peanuts are one of the
ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when
refrigerated.
The average person's left
hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE 2, moves
only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented
after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so
cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
There are more chickens than
people in the world.
Winston Churchill was born in a
ladies' room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as much
as men.
Now you know more than you did
before!! |
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Some known & unknown
facts
From Nirav Tarkas
1. MOPED is the short term for
'Motorized Pedaling'.
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music'
shortened.
3. BUS is the short term for
'Omnibus' that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen
Nights' (Two Weeks).
5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a
'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner.
Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
6. NEWS refers to information from
Four directions N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some products
bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells
about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9. 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..
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Coca-Cola was originally green.
13. The most common name in the
world is Mohammed..
14. The name of all the continents
ends with the same letter that they start with.
15. The strongest muscle in the
body is the tongue.
16. Women blink nearly twice
as much as men!!
17. You can't kill yourself by
holding your breath.
18. It is impossible to lick your
elbow.
19. People say "Bless you" when you
sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a
millisecond.
20. It is physically impossible for
pigs to look up into the sky.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Horse Statue in a Park
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.
24. What do bullet proof vests,
fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all
have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
25. A crocodile cannot stick its
tongue out.
26. A snail can sleep for three
years.
27. All polar bears are left
handed.
28. Butterflies taste with their
feet.
29. Elephants are the only animals
that can't jump.
30. In the last 4000 years, no new
animals have been domesticated.
31. On average, people fear spiders
more than they do death.
32. Shakespeare invented the word
'assassination' and 'bump'.
33. The ant always falls over on
its right side when intoxicated.
34. The electric chair was invented
by a dentist.
35. The human heart creates enough
pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood
30 feet.
36. Rats multiply so quickly that
in 18 months, two rats could have over million
descendants.
37. Wearing headphones for just an
hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.
38. The cigarette lighter was
invented before the match.
39. Most lipstick contains fish
scales.
40. Like fingerprints, everyone's
tongue print is different |
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Cartoon of the year
From Kedar Padte
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How To Identify
Different Citizens Of India?
From Venkat Iyer
Scenario 1
Two guys are fighting
And
a third guy comes along,
Then a fourth and
They start arguing
About who's right.
You are in Kolkata
Scenario 2
Two guys are fighting and
A third guy comes along,
Sees them and walks on.
That's "Amchi Mumbai"...
Busy place dude....
Scenario 3
Two guys are fighting
And
a third guy comes along
& tries to make peace...
The first two get together
& beat him up.
That's Delhi
Scenario 4
Two guys are fighting.
A crowd gathers to watch.
A guy comes along and
Quietly opens a chai-stall
That's Ahmedabad
Scenario 5
Two guys are fighting
And a third guy comes.
He writes a software program
To stop the fight
But the fight doesn't stop
B'cos
of a bug in the program
That's Bangalore.
Scenario 6
Two guys are fighting.
A crowd gathers to watch.
A Guy comes along
And quietly says
That "AMMA"
Doesn't Like All this nonsense
Peace comes in.
That's Chennai.
Scenario 7
Two guys are fighting.
Both of them take time out
And call their friends on their mobiles.
Now 50 guys are fighting. Y
ou are DEFINITELY IN PUNJAB !!!
Scenario 8
Two guys are fighting.
Third guy comes along with A carton of beer.
All sit together drinking beer
And abusing each other
And all go home as friends.
You are in Goa.
Scenario 9
Two guys are fighting.
Third guy comes from nearby house.
And says"aamchya gharasamor bhandu naka, Dusarikade jaun
bhanda"
(Dont fight in front of my place, Go somewhere else and
fight)".
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U Know U R Living in
2010 when
From Rupal Shah
1. You accidentally enter your
password on the microwave.
2. You havent played
solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone
numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works
at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in
touch with friends and family is that they dont have
e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway
and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help
you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television
has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your
cell phone, which you didnt have the first 20 or 30 (or
60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you
turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and
go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head
sideways to smile. : )
12. Youre reading this and nodding
and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to
whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice
there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up
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Introspect
From Dipak Bhagde
The following speech gives us a few
points to introspect and perhaps imbibe them. Speech by
Chetan Bhagat (best selling author) at Symbiosis:
Dont just have career or academic
goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful
life. I use the word balanced before successful.
Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships,
mental peace are all in good order.
There is no point of getting a
promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in
driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not
enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
"Life is one of those races in
nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a
spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is
no point coming first. Same is with life where health
and relationships are the marble. Your living is only
worth it if there is happiness in your life. Else, you
may achieve the success in your career, but fail in your
life. This spark, this feeling of being excited and
alive, will start to die.
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One thing about nurturing the spark
- don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be
taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are
like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are
lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is
just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked
up?
. Have all the emotions, we need emotions to
live.
It's ok, bunk a few classes,
scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few
interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little
fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed
Dont be serious, be sincere."!! |
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Understanding Computer
Technology
From Randhir Puri
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We Never Do This Because
We Have Brains
By Shirish Daftary
It was a Sports Stadium. Eight
Children were standing on the track to participate in a
running event. * Ready! * Steady! * Bang!!! With the
sound of Toy pistol, all eight girls started running.
Hardly had they covered ten to fifteen steps, when one
of the smaller girls slipped and fell down, Due to
bruises and pain she started crying. When the other
seven girls heard the little girl cry they stopped
running, stood for a while and turned back. Seeing the
girl on the track they all ran to help. One among them
bent down, picked her up and kissed her gently And
inquired as to how she was.. They then lifted the fallen
girl pacifying her. Two of them held her firmly while
all seven joined hands together and walked together
towards the winning post........ .. There was pin drop
silence at the spectator's stand. Officials were
shocked. Slow claps multiplied to thousands as the
spectators stood up in appreciation. Many eyes were
filled with tears and perhaps even God's! YES! This
happened in Hyderabad [INDIA], recently! The sport was
conducted by National Institute for Mental Health. All
these special girls had come to participate in this
event. They were spastic children. Yes, they were
Mentally Challenged. What did they teach the WORLD?
Teamwork?
Humanity?
Equality
among all?
We
never do this because we have brains!!!!???
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The economy is so bad
that
By Manoj Jaspal
The economy is so bad that:
I got a pre-declined credit card
in the mail.
I ordered a burger at McDonald's
and the kid behind the counter asked,
"Can you afford fries with that?"
If the bank returns your check
marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if
they meant you or them.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4
ouncer.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired
their nannies and learned their children's names.
A truckload of Americans was
caught sneaking into Mexico.
Dick Cheney took his stockbroker
hunting.
Motel Six won't leave the light
on anymore.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25
Congressmen.
Congress says they are looking
into this Bernard Madoff scandal.
Oh Great!! The guy who made $50
Billion disappear is being investigated by the people
who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
And finally: I was so depressed
last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my
savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I
called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in
Pakistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got
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Excellence
By Beenu Tripathy
A German once visited a temple
under construction where he saw a sculptor making an
idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying
nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need
two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor
without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one
got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined
the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the
damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of
the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
"Where are you going to install the idol?"
The sculptor replied that it would
be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol
is that far, who is going to know that there is a
scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked. The sculptor
stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and
said, "I will know it."
Moral of the story: The desire to
excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else
appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from
inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else
to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.
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