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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Mr. Lalit modi does a simple looking tweet in less than 140 characters and whole bunch of characters fall out of closet. Mr. Shashi Tharoor uses the tweets to garner public sympathy. He has to go away because the so called sensible opposition party BJP of India demands his resignation based on a tweet of an individual. A lady comes into the scenario and complicates the matter for her knight and the knight has to go back to his masses and addresses them in the quiet of his state. The government is forced to order IT Raids because the news media is harping and creating a molehill out of a simple tweet. The final of the IPL match is done. Mr. Modi is standing on the prize distribution dais quoting Bhagavata Geeta and preaching fearlessness. Media breaks news that BCCI has sacked him and given a 22 point chargesheet against him. The poor guy was claiming to head the BCCI governing council meeting and his head rolled. I was worried in mo...

Image via Wikipedia We choose our leaders through election process. We blame ourselves for bad governance because we did not go out in the heat or cold and cast our vote. We choose the TV channels based on our choice. There are whole host of choice out there. There are skimpy channels, sad/ugly/crying channels, godly channels, children focused, local content focused, movies, news. What we miss in the news channel is a breath of positive energy ? In spirituality we are taught to focus on the world within.If we can steady ourselves then the world around us will be anchored. How can we influence the TV anchors and management to move towards positive content? By reducing their TRP's? By street protest ? By human chain? By online poll ? By email chain? We can choose what we see. We can ignore sensation, tantalisation by news media . There are enough channels to choose from. We can come back to current news channel for weather report only, its the only time they are not pound...

Who is responsible for your misery? Who is to blame for your pain? How has been your journey of life? Are you holding on to something you know for sure will leave you? It was never yours to begin with. Do you have the knowledge that the things you hold tight is in reality loose sand? If you knew there was so much pain would you have liked to be a bird instead. Fly and be free. A whale. Swim and simply drift. As humans why do we get attached to something superior or inferior to us. Ego is always higher and lower than you really are. It is never in your line of sight. What is your identity? Your name. Your parents have given to you. A acquired assets. Your married status. Your spouse. Your degree. Your school/college. Your designation. Your profession. Your neighbors. Your society. What will you do to clean this mess people call stress? Is it something that can be easily swept away? Is it something acquired? Is it something that belongs to you? Is it a foreign object tha...

Image via Wikipedia They love to tickle. They love to drive people mad by highlighting petty issues. They love to miss facts. They love their "sources". They are only acting as conduit for their "sources". If you are following the latest breaking news and coverage by the TV news media in India then you would have noticed that every channel is getting sensational. I don't know if they feel the sensation but they surely are transmitting. Even the business channels have caught on the bug and are having political spokesman on their prime time . Hello, aren't you suppose to focus on business and quarterly results. Outlook magazine publishes a report based on its sources and the channels pick up the allegations and start to beat them to death. They are seen to be inserting the micro phone in mouth of people who are creating controversies, just to get the sound bit. Suddenly that sound bite becomes the news. The person is branded as "confident...

Image via Wikipedia   Why should you have stunning performers as coterie? Why should you respect mediocrity but cannot endure them as colleague? You should respect individuals for their existence but not someone to share your workspace with? You could be mediocre too but you will not grow in company of mediocrity?    The reason large organization are difficult  is because they become precise with mediocrity and cannot live nor sustain the chaos required for creativity . This could frustrate you after a while.    Process is good for efficient systems, mostly found in manufacturing or in safety critical systems found in healthcare and space missions .  But in software you need to allow your self to get creative. Produce products that you love to create and that folks around love to use.    Excellence and chaos go hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder. Do not be angry when you fail miserably as chaos can cause confusion and defeat....

Image via Wikipedia In India the mention of Ash so far reminded you of spouse of Mr. Abhishek Bachan, otherwise known as Aishwarya Rai. The volcanic eruption in Iceland has changed that point of view now. Now ash belongs to the sky where she belongs.  This presents several business opportunities for entrepreneurs and I would list a few of them. I think the government of respective countries should come forward and find reasons to blow some taxpayers money. A filter in front of aircraft engine to suck ash and feed engine with pure air . The product could have specifications as to what percentage of ingredients will be let through and what would be trapped and released in mid air. A cross Atlantic train service connecting Europe to Americas. Please ensure tracks do not touch ocean floors. Product specs/differentiation could be tsunami resistant, quake resistant, whale repellent. Acid free roof tops. Construction materials that prevent entry of acid  from...

Once again the time comes to pay tax to government . I called Mr. Shivappa who offers his services after office hours to residents of Brigade Gardenia. He asked me to come to the newly constructed BBMP help center in RBI layout, behind Capital School on 2nd Main. I could not locate it the first time and the good old postman on the Luna asked me to sit behind him and turned back from his onward journey of dropping letters to show me the place. To our dismay the help center was right in front of us after 2 sec ride. Mr. Shivappa who had explained me the address of the place and also asked me to come there with previous two years receipt, khata and blank cheque . I requested him to disclose the amount so that I can pay it online. He did not. He asked my the flat area and then ignored my bodily existence. When I was in front of him requesting the same information he suddenly stopped understanding my Hindi and English . A good samaritan who was standing nearby explained to him that...

She could not hear when she was young. Her doctors warned that she would grow but will not have mental growth. She was born in Delhi and her parents realized that she could not hear when she was almost three months old. Then began their journey to hospitals , sometimes in bus and sometimes on foot. Her parents accepted her as gift from GOD and decided to give to the best of their abilities. She did not like the hearing aid when she was few months old. She would just throw the foreign object away. She would get very irritated when her parents could not understand what she was trying to convey. But they persisted and she would have absorbed their fighting spirit, she has now blossomed into her youth, a beautiful and energetic basketball player who is making her parents proud with her medals and achievements. She has even been to special Olympics to represent India in basketball. She found the spirit to live and she is living handsomely. Truely an insiparation for one and...

If you are a freelancer and obtaing your payments through online inward remittances to India then you will run into either Paypal/MoneyBookers or one your Bank with their wire transfers services. The charges levied by both paypal and  moneybookers are of similar nature and you end up paying around 5% of your forex amount for inward remittances to India . This is especially true after incidents of past few days in which paypal had to respond to and function within the purview of Indian tax law . It is better to sign with a bank that gives cost effective wire transfer charges. Let me know if you know of any. SBI works through Standard chartered and they charge about $20 for intermediary services. This adds on to the $30 that your client or online marketplaces like odesk adds to your online services fee. Thus its always $50 no matter what amount you recieve. So they become effective means if you have amount crossing over $1000 per transaction and that does not happen ofte...

गंगा नदी स्वर्ग से आई ओर हरिद्वार , प्रयाग,  से होती हुई गंगा सागर मैं विलीन हो जाती है. राम चरित मानस की गंगा शिव जी के मुख से निकलती है, हरी कृपा के हरिद्वार से होते हुए, संतों के संग प्रयाग से गुजरती हुई, परम विश्राम पाती हैं गंगा सागर मैं. वह भागीरथी के तप से प्रकट हुई. यह माँ भवानी पारवती के अनुग्रह से. उसमें शिव ने अपनी जटाओं मैं उसे समाया ओर फिर एक लत खोलकर उसे पृथ्वी लोक को पवित्र करने के लिए छोड़ दिया. इसे शिव ने अपने मुख से सरे ब्रह्माण्ड को पवित्र करने के लिए मुक्त कर दिया. हरी कृपा पाने के लिए तीन टिकेट चईये. मन, कर्म, ओर वचन बिना चतुराई के. सिर्फ समझदारी से. आजकल बचोँ को हम चतुराई सिखतें हैं, समझदारी नहीं. छल जाने मैं गर्व हो छलने मैं गर्व न हो. बिना कपट के जब हुम हरि से कुछ मांगें तो सिर्क इतना की किसी संत का संग मिले, जिससे वह भी उतना प्रेम करतें हैं जितना तुम हरि से करना चाहते हो. बाकि तो उसने जितना दिया है वह उसकी असीम कृपा है.