People Talk Of Love...

People Talk Of Love...

In today's world of greed,
In today's world of fraud,
In today's world of broken relations,
People talk of true love.

In today's world of materialism,
In today's world of selfishness,
In today's world of distress,
People talk of true love.

In today's world of mishappenings,
In today's world of misunderstandings,
In today's world of one- night stands,
People talk of true love.

People have the right to love;
If they honour the values and culture.
People have the right to love;
If they know the need of each other.
and people have the right to love
If they have faith that one day they 'll be together

A Poem By Tanu Mahajan

Why do good people suffer....????

The Evil You Do Remains With You; The Good You Do, Comes Back To You

A woman baked chapati for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapati on the Window-sill, for whosoever would take it away. Everyday, a hunchback came and took away the chapati. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: "The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!". This went on,day after day.
Everyday, the hunch-back came, picked up the chapati and uttered the words: "The evil you do,remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself...

"Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?"One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunchback," she said. And what did she do? She addedpoison to the Chapatti she prepared for him!
As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. "What is this I am doing?" she said Immediately, she threw the chapati into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window- sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapati and muttered the words: "The evil you do,remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"
The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Everyday, as the woman placed the chapati on the window-sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune.

For many months, she had no news of him. She prayed for his safe return. That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, "Mom, it's a miracle I'm here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapati."As he gave it to me, he said, "This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!"

As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapati that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the significance of the words:"The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"
Do good and; Don't ever stop doing good, even if it's not appreciated at that time.

Learning From the First Job

Working in Indian MNC for about 1.5 years was a great learning experience and hence what else could be the tag line of this post..!!!

The journey began on 16 Feb 2010, when I reached Infosys, Jaipur as a fresher to the Corporate World. This company gave me a chance to travel abroad…to Amsterdam, Netherlands, for the on-site training of their new process which was associated to a renowned Media and Publication Client. The trip was great and Learning began from the fight to get the Visa from there Mumbai Embassy. But after crossing every disappointment and huddle, I finally reached the city of Diamonds- Amsterdam. There was learning every day as I was in a different country..a different set of people with a completely different cultural set. But the journey was an enriching experience.

Soon new phase in life began…everything around was very uncertain and I was out of my comfort zone. I missed my friends badly in the initial days but soon realized that this had to happen and it was good that I was moving ahead in my career and learning new things. I began making new friends..My training began ….We were paid enough On-site by the company so money was not a problem ever.!!!

We completed our work in the week days so that we can go and explore the place over the weekends..the Canal ride, Rotterdam, Hague, Delft, The Volendam, The Country Site and many other places we explored during this trip. Everywhere we went we discovered things which were different and very new to us…

Coming back to India was painfulL as we were enjoying everything in Amsterdam. But time flew away very fast and I completed a span of 13 months @ Infy.I was able to stabilize the process with a support of a good team. It was time say Goodbye..u must be thinking if everything was going well..why did I resigned????

It was a matter of sheer coincidence that the time when I was serving my notice period, two great leaders @ Infosys resigned: K Dinesh and TV Mohandas Pai. Surprisingly, the reason stated by Pai for his separation was no different than mine. Pai had reportedly said that he did not agree with the Company practice of of seniority getting a priority over meritocracy in deciding the leadership team…If in today’s time, a Company cannot reward its employees equivalent to the hard work they put in, How can they ever get the attrition rates down???

The fight for promotion and progression comes later, but the importance of Employee Motivation and proper Recognition can never be ruled out…..The big learning from this phase of life was that you will never find much space in a big company to do things your way..If you want to do things your way..You need to follow your interests and dreams…Instead of following the Standard operating Procedures…!!!

GREEN FOR ALL AND IN YOUR PORTFOLIO

Year 2009 not ended with a very good note as Copenhagen summit concluded without any decision related to new climate agreement to succeed Kyoto Protocol. US was expected to take a bold leadership in Copenhagen by committing to a strong climate agreement. We all are facing the consequences of global warming in our lives, we might ignore and remain busy but it is there and affects everybody! Ask the victims of global warming- those who cannot harvest due to drought, those who watched their homes fell in water and countries which are losing natural energy resources the cause. People are coming together to fight the cause and we must join hands too.

Green In Your Portfolio

Yes, the world today is moving towards green hotels, green buildings, green apparels, green fuel, green tourism, green jobs and finally GREEN ECONOMY. No sector of economy would left untouched in this green revolution. In this changing scenario, the portfolio of investors also needs a correction. Some energy stocks if included in ones portfolio are really to boost up profits. Green Bull is coming and it will surely make the investors wealthy. People around the world are talking about clean energy and such measures in business then how can market remain unaffected. Big wing projects, solar panels, green hotels etc are surely going to do very well in market and return can go up to more than 100%.

Smarter investors will keep on accumulating the green energy stocks and this will lead to daily profits for them.

"IS THAT LUCK ONLY WHICH MATTERS IN LIFE"

I am in a confusion regarding good luck and hard and smart work. How this two are related and impact our lives. In our day to day lives we normally see that people who are really hard working get the results after a long wait and people who are clever and smart workers do often better in their lives. Does this mean that in modern world, it is only luck and looks that matter and not your actual capabilities. I really want to figure this out, please can anybody help??

Working hard is something which everybody cannot do and that is why the smart work comes in. in today's fast moving world one should be more of a smart worker than a hard worker. But does that mean that one should just stop working hard thinking that nothing is going to benefit. Are hard workers on such a back seat. Is working hard becoming useless?

No, is what i feel. Because what I have learnt from life is that the hard workers reap benefits but that might happen later. God tests their patience, may be. No issues at all. The person who deserves to be their on top will reach their one day only with hard work and not by flattery. Its talent and attitude at the end of the day which takes you to great heights.

Can I then conclude by saying that the topic of debate remains- "Do means justify ends" or the means you follow to reach the top don't matter at all.

"AERO MODELING WORKSHOP"

“KEEN TO LEARN HOW PLANES FLY….COME LEARN WITH US”

Yes, this was the tag line of a workshop which we conducted at our university campus titled –“welcome to the world of aero dynamics”. Conducting an event is not that easy, it is the blend of all activities which we learn in our management. We began with the planning of event which included the permission from authorities, deciding on the date and place and also the purpose and agenda of the workshop. Then comes the promotion of the event. It was very important to know the response of the students as we were mainly targeting the hostellers and the event was to take place on Sunday. We went to each class telling students what we are planning to do. We had posters and social networking sites helping us in promoting the event. Managing finance was the next challenge. Budgeting, handling and making payments for the materials ordered. Then we organized the sequence of events on the day of workshop. All were important things to manage the welcome speech, the chief guest’s speech, the air show and the practical learning. While organizing it was necessary to delegate some tasks as one or two persons cannot do everything- managing and maintaining discipline among 75 young enthusiasts who were keen to become aero modelers. And on the very last moment we found that web cam was not working. And oh my god! We had no time to arrange for the things. In fraction of seconds the chief guest was to arrive and we were not ready….?? Amazed… Let me tell you what we did, we called the IT people who helped us immediately and we were able to make things right. This was so unexpected but we learnt to fight contingencies. One workshop can teach so much and I am happy that I learnt this all.

DON’T LIMIT YOURSELF AND YOUR LEARNING. I took interest in the workshop just because I wanted to experience the phases one has to undergo. I am not from technical background neither I had any knowledge of the electronic components of a RC plane. But I learnt and now I am aware. LEARNING HAPPENS IN EVERY SECOND OF LIFE, TRY TO LEARN…..

SANJAY GHODAWAT- A Success Story

Ghodawat Group deals in food, agriculture, energy and in many more areas and earns a revenue of about 1000 crore.

Sounds strange…Never heard of this group..??????? The struggle started in 1988 when Sanjay Ghodawat now 45 years travelled in a tempo; to sell a pan masala called Quality, shop-to-shop across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa. But in 1992, times started changing when he introduced his own Gutka brand- STAR and it did all the wonders for him. Today his Gutka brand is most favored in western India. The incredible thing about Ghodawat’s business empire is that its almost completely based and fully run from a small town KOLHAPUR.

Today only one-fifth of revenues are coming from Gutka and rest coming from a big basket of other products in which the group entered.

He is now referred to as VIJAY MALLYA of Maharashtra- he owns a chopper- Eurocopter and a range of more than 100 CARS which includes Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Vintage Plymouth, a Bentley and the list goes on and is being extended. This group is a perfect example of small town-Big business running from Kolhapur.

The group currently has a muscle power of more than 5000 employees and is growing as per the diversification.

THE GREEN INITIATIVE-

The group currently owns and operates about 150 wind turbines which generate about 100 MW of electricity. The group plans to invest Rs. 400 crore in next five years, in energy.

MANAGER’S PERSPECTIVE-

As these businesses are run from small-towns, they sometimes fail to attract good talent. The main reason is that the professionals don’t want to move to small towns.