Sunday, December 30, 2007

Indian Heroes for you

80 years back --- Bal Gangadhar Tilak,Gopal Krishna Gokhale
50 years back --- Nehru,Mahatma Gandhi
Today ----------- Dhiru bhai Ambani,Premji

This is the story of the heroes and how their face has changed.Today, the people who are the role models for the youth of our generation are not political leaders but people who matter more in business.This shows the changing mentality in the Indian Middle Class.

Wishing to see more Phoenix rising from nowhere !!!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Is saal ka winner kaun ??

Well, this question was raised by Bhatti on 21st December.The question is ki ,who is that person ,jisko we can call winner of the year from KNIT 2005 batch.

Nomintations invited for all years after 2005..
Some possible winners :-
2005
Ashwani Tyagi - NTPC Electranix ka pehla ladka jisne PSU mein jhande gade
2006
Ratnakar Srivastava - Fair Issac mein highest package from batch
2007
Anay Agarwal - Batch se pehla IIM
Bhavna Kaushik -IES Rank 11 .Electronics
2008
????

If anyone from KNIT parivaar (Batch 2005 )is interested in nominating themselves or nominating someone else ,please post your comments in the blog.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

"The Day you cease to learn, is the day you cease to exist..."

Found this line somewhere, not sure where.
But it has lots of gyaan stuff about it.

Our existence is to learn something or the other daily.
Still trying to learn and unlearn things of life.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

The Magic of Gurcharan

These Days, I have got hold of a book called .'India Unbound'..The Book is written by a former CEO of P&G ,India - Gurcharan Das.The best part of the book is the presentation.Just like his articles in Sunday Times ,the book has a personal touch about it.This makes topics on India's triumph and failures to be looked upon with a different perspective.
As of now , one thing that I will like to share after reading the first 100 pages is the story he mentions of Porus and Alexander.
All know the history stuff that Porus lost to Alexander in the war.Once Alexander asked him as to how should he be treated, Porus replied "As a King treats another King".
But his learning from this story is from a managerial point as well as Indian Psychology.Porus lost because his infantry strength was low and the support that he received from his cavalry got hampered by Alexander's strategy.In the end , his elephants were killing his own foot soldiers.
What the author mentions here is that although , there was no caste lines in those days in the army , there were still some divisions due to which the infantry never got the desired support.Same has happened in the Indo -Pak and Indo-China wars , though not a larger basis.

Another point that I got from his learnings was that Indians esp. males are not team players (its not in our blood).It all starts with the bride getting married.She has immense pressure to get a male heir for the family.Once the son is born , he is a pampered lot.All his wishes are fulfilled. No doubt about this.
Once he grows up ,all this plays an important part in developing his ego.That way ,he either gets arrogant and never becomes a team player or he gets subdued and frustrated.Hopefully , with more working mothers , this situation might also be resolved for better.