Andhra Maverick

Dear   All,   Please   find below the speech of  Dr..APJ  on our approach towards country vs our contribution to the system. It   holds good for the organization’s system vs our individual activities.   *The President of India (Former) DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .* Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse acknowledge them--- Why? We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I was in Tel Aviv on...

  Narayana Murthy's views on staying late in the office It's half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on... PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing... and who's at work? Most of them??? Take a closer look... All or most specimens are ??-something male species of the human race... Look closer... again all or most of them are bachelors... and why are they sitting late? Working hard? No way!!! Any guesses??? Let's ask one of them... Here's what he says... "What's there 2 do after going home... here we get to surf, AC, phone, food, coffee.. that is why I am working late... importantly no bossssssss!!!!!!!!!!! This is the scene in most research centers and software companies and other off-shore offices. Bachelors "time-passing" during late hours in the office just bcoz they say they've nothing else to do... Now what r the consequences... read on... "Working"(for the record only) lat...

    BALANCE SHEET OF  LIFE Our Birth is our Opening Balance! Our Death is our Closing Balance! Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities Our Creative Ideas are our Assets Heart is our Current Asset Soul is our Fixed Asset Brain is our Fixed Deposit Thinking is our Current Account Achievements are our Capital Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade Friends are our General Reserves Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill Patience is our Interest Earned Love is our Dividend Children are our Bonus Issues Education is Brands / Patents Knowledge is our Investment Experience is our Premium Account The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately. The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award. Some very Good and Very bad things ... The most destructive habit....... ......... ......Worry...

    SPIRITUAL ANALYSIS OF "NAMASKAR" What is the meaning and the benefits of 'Namaskar'? Origin and the meaning of the word 'Namaskar' The word 'Namaskar' is derived from the root 'namaha', which means paying obeisance (Namaskar) or salutation. From Science of Justice - 'Namaha' is a physical action expressing that 'you are superior to me in all qualities and in every way'.. Worldly Benefits - By doing Namaskar to a deity or a Saint, unknowingly their virtues and capabilities are impressed upon our minds. Consequently we start emulating them, thus changing ourselves for the better. Spiritual Benefits - Increase in humility and reduction of ego / Enhancement in the spiritual emotion of surrender and gratitude / Gaining the Sattva component and faster spiritual progress ...

Chapter and Worse Learning how to fail and other tips—what the IIMs don’t teach you (By Rajeev Gowda- Who is a Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, IIM Bangalore )     There’s an old story about Dhirubhai Ambani and Rupert Murdoch. Keen on investing in India , Murdoch arrived in Delhi and met key officials manning the licence-permit raj. He then met Dhirubhai and told him he was satisfied and ready to get started, now that he had met all the right people. “Aha!” Dhirubhai replied, “to succeed in India , you must meet all the wrong people!” Well, Indian business schools are like that only. We teach the grand theory, the distilled wisdom of how the world works. But we showcase the sainted while ignoring the tainted. We prepare students for the globalised, bonus-heavy world of the MNC. We never give them a whiff that Indian business is a ripoff-heavy world, where family firms jump into bed with the political class, wit...

JAMBUR - INDIA KA AFRICA Imagine Africa in India. Imagine 4,000 men, women and children of unmistakably African origin called Siddis living in an Indian village for centuries. Yes that’s what Jambur in Gujarat is all about. Jambur is about 100 kms from Junagarh Nilambur - The school of Magic for Sadhus and Tantriks If you see people flying or disappearing, then don’t get surprised. You are in Nilambur where sadhus and tantriks from all over the world come to learn the art of magic. About 100 kms from Thissur Ramnagaram, rose to fame after Super Hit Hindi cult film Sholay was shot here in the 1970’s. It is now also a popular destination for rock climbing. Go ahead, Sholay’s homeland awaits to whisper a ‘Bollywood’ dialogue or two into your ears. About 100 kms from Tumkur Bysanivaripalle - A village full of solar energy and sunglasses If you happen to pass through Bysanivaripalle, you will see all young and adults, males and ...

Know some unknown history of words............................... MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped.. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S.. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business. 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. 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  ...

As narrated by some unknown guy: Hi friends, We all love Sardar jokes. But do you know that Sikhs are one of the most hard working prosperous and diversified communities in the world.    My friend told me about the following incident which I wish to share with you. It has had a deep impact on my thinking.    During last vacation, my few friends went to Delhi . They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar and boys being boys, these pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to tease the old  man.       But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.    At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid the cab hire-charges. The Sardar returned the change, but he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said,    ''Son, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to Them all and let me tell you, some of them were in bad taste. Still, I Don't mind coz I kn...

*This can happen only in our Bombay ....no where else. Read on.....* Only local train passengers in Bombay will know how helpful commuters try to be......  Last week, a hapless victim fell prey to the over enthusiastic Bombay 's local train commuters. Our hero, a man from Pune, wanted to go to Matunga, but as luck and Trains would have it, boarded a fast train not halting at his destination. He panicked on realizing his mistake but by then the local had started moving. On seeing his plight, a sympathetic co-passenger decided to come to his rescue. It seemed that he had been commuting by that particular train (6:03 pm Kasara Fast) for the past 6 years and had noticed that the train always slowed down just before Matunga station and crawled at a snail's pace while passing through it. He told the man to jump out of the running train as it slowed down and that with a little bit of fleet-footedness, he would make it safely on terra firma. However, knowing the m...