TFE Hindi IP'07

Cute Quote

God is not pleased to be insulted when He wears His dark suits.

-PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA on racial prejudice

Scribbled in my Room

Go to bed early
Get out of it soon
Use time in plenty
Every day is a boon


Listen to yourself. Look Within.
Speak up!


Time is precious
Today is auspicious
Wake up to the call
Go forward
Shoot the ball


Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein


Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count


Time and tide wait for none


Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves


Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment

Kher & Kakkar

Last 36 hours brought me into contact with two eminent personalities – Anupam Kher and Prahlad Kakkar. The former is an actor and the latter an adman. Both are genius. You never realize that until their charisma and enigma catches you live. Before both of the respective lectures, I was lethargic enough to rot in my room amidst the usual malodorous fumes. Providentially, I somehow happened to be in the sanctified auditorium and the juice was worth the squeeze. Some of the chronological commandments of life leaked out are as follows: (->the apology smiley is for the pathetic clichés of my notorious mind which have plagued the paragraph towards the end)

Failures are as worthy of celebration as success, perhaps more sometimes. When you are not afraid of failures, the latent potential within you liberates itself. Success brings with itself arrogance as dowry.

Life is about choosing between journey and destination and it turns out that journey can be of more worth than the destination itself. In fact, the key to happiness lies in enjoying the journey and taking life as it is.

Bheega hua aadmi baarish se nahi darta (A drenched person is not scared of the rains). Let yourself go through the vicissitudes of life but rise out of any abyss like a mountain.

Counting upon your past-achievements is losing your present ones.

Rising to the zenith is commendable but staying there is genius.

Success is like money. Once you realize that you have it, you have already taken your first step towards losing it. Failures elevate you to success; success brings with itself the fear of failure.

The best way to avert mistakes is not to repeat them. Silly mistakes are like common cold; you never know when they creep inside and spit phlegm on your answer sheet.

Cute Quote

Using cute labels in a program is similar to representing a power supply in a schematic by a picture of the sun or a ground with the digit zero.

- RAMESH GAONKAR

Karan-Arjun

Get a taste of the delicacy which is prepared when Karan Thapar and Arjun Singh meet:

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/decision-on-quota-is-final-arjun/11063-4-single.html

vHow: Poetry - Analysis & Guide

A poem, invariably, is the concoction of expression and emotion. Nevertheless, it results in a compromise of either of the two. Guided by perception and fuelled by the outer world's myriad forms, sounds, lullaby, silence, simplicity, complexity, tragedy, comedy, wonders, a poet sails throughout her/his life with the sole cause of liberating the souls of all physical phenomena. In the process, he swims on the surface, dives deep, goes within, looks around and what is thus exhaled is pure creation.

Is it fair to call a poetic work as creation? True, it's been displayed never before, true, it's a connotation of authenticity, true, it is an undisputed property of its owner, albeit doesn't it challenge the supremacy of the almighty who is the first and only creator in the universe, who created heart and mind, nature and creature, life and death and everything else? May be, a poet assumes his creativity in the womb of His blessings or perhaps, it's bogus to use the term creative according to the uni-creator theory with the tag line

"Man can not create but discover."

Since ages, poets have been pseud in their advice about the secrets of writing a verse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry

The Prince of Versia has shown a commendable act of generosity by agreeing to leak the secrets of writing poetry. Mr Virgineer proudly presents

A Complete Stud's Guide to Writing Poetry

Step1: Get yourself to a secluded place.

Step2: Forget everything, feel peaceful and think about things that have made an impact on your heart. Remember, a poet's heart is very sensitive. Damn anything in the world can impress it.

Step3: Choose the channel in which you wanna swim...

Step4: There should be one line that's going to be the most important in terms of representation of your thoughts...may be the 1st line.

Step5: Just go your way in your style, prefer ideas to rhyme scheme...If u don't get the rhyme right, put that idea somewhere else and work out some other idea that rhymes.

Sometimes people think backwards...they first think about a word that rhymes with the last one of a line and then formulate the idea. Either way it's fine as long as ur idea is impressive.

Once you've practised well, go ahead for writing sonnets, limericks and haikus...

**Note: Please, for Go..eh...Poetry's sake, don't sue me if the above doesn't work. I highly recommend it for novices who need a kick-start in their rhyming careers. Nevertheless, my recommendation is not recommended by me and, to put it simply, use it at your own risk!

शुभ दीपावली

आज मन ने इक बात कही
कि द्रुत गति से भाग रही
जीवन की रेलगाडी की
फिर चेन खींची जाये,
खुशी नगर के बीच चौराहे
आओ दिव्य दिवाली मनायें|


उत्तर दक्खिन पूरब पश्चिम
माँ लक्ष्मी की आरती गायें,
शुभ गणपति के राग पे
श्रद्धा की बंसी बजायें,
श्री राम के लौटने की ख़ुशी में
आओ दिव्य दिवाली मनायें|


अमावस की कालिमा पर
डाल दें प्रकाश की चादर,
जला दें दीप इतने ढेर सारे
दूर आसमां में कहीं जल उठें तारे,
देख धरती की सुंदरता, छिपा चांद शरमाये
आओ दिव्य दिवाली मनाएं|

India: Role of Technology ( Lec by Jhun)

• Shortage is the root cause of corruption.

• Civil Disobedience - Make govt small

• India gives opportunities to optimize tech

• Airline Industry booming in India tripled its passenger carrying capacity in 2 yrs, avg tariff fell by 3-times despite the rising petrol prices

• Scorpio and Indica are comparable to the best cars in the world in their price range

• With R & D driven initiatives, India is set to become leader in auto-components sector

• Growh in auto-component sector crossed 28 billion dollars last year, dreams to reach 1 trillion dollars revenue by 2020

• The world is flat but you ain't seen anything yet for the changes have not yet touched rural India Indian self-confidence is inferior to nobody else

• 300m urban India threatens the world...wait for the 700m rural India to catch-up

• 500k engineers graduate every yr from 1600 colleges - up from 25000 from 100 schools in 80s

• Major problem was fore-seen as uneven quality and resulted in reluctance to expand but it provided the human resource

• Politics is obstacle to growth

• 135m rural households 65m urban households - large market but only at the right price

• Urban avg Rs10,000pm and rural avg Rs3,000pm

Notebook - Start Up a Start-Up!

• Practical, unique idea
• See opportunity where others don't
• 7Ms: Motivation, market, money, material, machinery, man-power, management
• An idea can change everybody's life, particularly yours!
• Attack a viable market
• Perceive yourself and act as a part of an organism that is your firm
• Network with other associates
• Vinod Khosla
  
• Frugality
• Just Do It
• Innovation: Add new value to a product or improve a process
• Technology is not everything
• Keep all the stake-holders' interests in mind
• Quickly adapt to stimuli
• See opportunity areas other than IT too : Food courts, food services to companies, textile, shopper's stop, CCD
  
• Let the organization be free from individualism
• Heterogeneous mixture of persons in terms of ability with homogeneous set of goals form a perfect team
• Harness experience
  
• Similar basic philosophy and ethics should guide a team
• Look for complementary capabilities in team-members
• The basic funda: Congruence of individual goals achieved while fulfilling a super-arching goal.
• Hire the skills your team lacks
• Stick to basic values of company e.g. no family person to be hired
• Business should be extendible, not a one-idea show but a platform for a series of new ideas
• Red-queen hypothesis
• Entry Barriers: Infrastructure, registration, bureaucracy
• Anti-corruption firms
• Adaptability
• Ethical or non-ethical tracks
• Credibility - Evidence of having done a lot of work
• Parameters: Better, faster, cheaper
• Quantify everything