The Buzz & Beyond

I spend almost 10 hours a day at office that includes my commuting time, seven to eight hours in sleeping. With remaining 6 to 7 hours, I spend with my family. Not to mention the daily routines take away 1 to 2 hours in this. No doubt my wife screams at me whenever she finds me sitting in front of my PC. I just get hooked onto it. She claims, “I don’t know how many of them are reading it or even having a glance at it! You are sitting at it at the cost of your family interests!” She may be right however, every man has a bad characteristic in him and I have the weak point of sitting at net for hours! (Whichever that was left over) Writing a blog is the easiest thing ever one had but I beg to differ. I always wanted to be different and preferred to convey a message across irrespective some one reading it or not! I was going through the news of bidding for cricket players in its new avtar of IPL. I remember during my younger days, Kerry Packer was described as the villain of cricket as he ...

Lesson # 3: A sales representative, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, "I'll give each of you just one wish." "Let me be first! Me first!" says the admin clerk. "I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world." Puff! She's gone. "Me next! Me next!" says the sales rep. "I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life." Puff! He's gone. "OK, you're up," the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch." Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say

A priest offered a Nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?" The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?" The priest apologized "Sorry sister but the flesh is weak." Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, "Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory." Moral of the story : If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity

Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Babu, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Babu says, "I'll give you Rs 8000 to drop that towel." After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of him. After a few seconds, he hands her Rs 8000 and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, "Who was that?" "It was Babu the next door neighbor," she replies. "Great!" the husband says, "did he say anything about the Rs 8000 he owes me?" Moral: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure

Once upon a time there was an Indian rowing team. India and Japan agreed to do an annual rowing race. Each team should contain 8 men. Both the teams worked hard to get into best shape. Both the teams were similar in strength as far as paper was concerned and everybody expected a nail-biting finish. However, Japanese won over Indians by a mile.The mood in the Indian side was close to freeze-point. The Indian Management decided to win the race next year. They established a team of analysts to observe the situation and recommend a solution as to win the race. After several weeks of analysis they came out with their findings. The Japanese team had one captain and 7 rowers and the Indian team had 7 captains and only one rower. Facing such a critical scenario, the management showed a unique wisdom. They decided to hire a consulting agency to assist Indian team to win the race. After several months, the consultants came out with their findings: “The Indian team has got more captains ...

All of us are aware of Murphy’s laws but few of us know how it got originated. Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 but the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later. Within months `Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone-by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants referred to as Finagle's Law . The mimetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murp...

There was a man who wanted to become very rich. He was a whiner who always complained that despite all his efforts, he was not rewarded and luck had not favored him. He blamed all successful personnel as destiny favored them blah blah and blah! Instead of hard work, he relied on instant success. He was a true follower of God and believed in Him very much. He used to pray the God day-in and day-out as to make him rich by having him strike the first prize in the local lottery tickets. Years went by but the man had never won a lottery. At last, he died and he was taken to God.He complained to God, “I have remained a true Bhakt to you and I kept on praying you till my last breathe. All I wanted is to make me rich by making me win a lottery prize. You could not do this to me?” The God replied, “I would have made you win one but you did not even buy a lottery ticket!” Moral: Even for a miracle to help you, you should put in some efforts. Put in your efforts and do your best. God...

Dronacharya, the renowned Guru with all his disciples was strolling in a forest. He took them away as to test their skill in archery and to teach them hunting.All of a sudden, a wild dog started chasing them barking. The barking of the dog was irritating and disturbing the concentration of all his disciples including Arjuna the great. Arjuna is the example of Excellence; his concentration is well known to all of us. He is so skilled that terming him "Ambidextrous" is not an exaggeration. Arjuna, irritated by the dog's barking, decided to kill that one. While he was about to take his bow and arrow, an array of arrows rained and bound the mouth of the dog. Now the dog neither could bark nor bite some one. Everybody around was stunned, shocked at this act. Who could be such a master of excellence? Then came Ekalvya and bowed before Drona. Drona asked him who he was and who was his teacher. Ekalvya after his introduction replied that Drona was his teacher. Ekalvya then ...

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap case, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap case that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged cases of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soap case went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap cases that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent whoopee amount to do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc but instead came out with another solution. He ...

Pranayama This is a compound word - Prana + Ayama - which means regulation or canalization of life energy or cosmic energy. Our Rishis(sages) found that we hardly utilized 25 percent of our lung capacity due to improper breathing habit and as a result suffer from respiratory problems such as wheezing, asthma, sinusitis and dust allergy. Pranayama is a legacy left by our rishis and the following are the benefits: Helps in utilizing the lung capacity fully thereby insulating us from all respiratory hazards such as wheezing, sinusitis, and asthma without a need for medication. Rejuvenates all the internal organs of the human body. Extends the life span by cutting down the breathing rate per minute. Brings better body and mind co-ordination. Helps in controlling the mind. Reduces the ego. Creates distaste for undesirable habits like smoking, alcoholism etc. Classification of Pranayama Vibhaga or Sectional Pranayama This consists of Kanista, Madhyama and Jyesta Pranayama and helps to rejuv...

The selective rationalism in India is notorious and they find problems only with Hindu Mythology. The rulers are spineless that they cannot question them because of the fear of being labeled as Communalist! So, i am trying to put forth some questions to prove Mahabharata being a myth or a reality? It is a leaf out of many books surfed so far. One may not know that such question might arise in future. It has been believed by some historians and laymen that Mahabharat is just a fictitious fable emerged from the fantastic brain of the Sage Ved Vyas. It has been contended that such a 'war' could not have occured owing to the detailed description of various facets of the 'epic'. However, tradition as well as many Bharatiya scholars have all along maintained that Mahabharat did actually occur and is a complete reality. Mahabharat is not just a story, but the detailed account of a event occured in the past. The few points are noted below that indicate a few differences in wh...

It is a different story today. Mr. Tejishwar Khanna, our Lt Governor of Delhi is under tremendous pressure from all corners as all politicians cutting across party lines are pouncing on him. What did he do so? Did he do anything abnormal that Indians cannot digest or anything that is harmful to our country? If you thought so, then you, perhaps, did not understand Indian politics yet. All Mr. Khanna remarked is, “The traffic sense among North-Indians is bad as compared to South-Indians. They should learn from them so as to avoid many accidents that occur because of our lacuna” Enough is enough now. All the politicians are up on their sleeves pouncing on Mr. Khanna for making regionalist statement. Are you laughing? If so, that is the irony of Indian politics. I know and almost all of you knew that Mr. Khanna’s statement is not regionalist but a matter of common sense. He did not do any Raj Thackrey (refer my earlier blog). Still, surprisingly, our politicians, who did not find any fault...

Would someone have the guts to stand out and say this to the new kid in our politics Raj Thackrey, “Behave like Human first?” The very reason to mention so is his recent statement, “if you want to live in Maharashtra, behave like Maharashtrians!” I am not sure when did Maharashtra become a private property of Raj that he dictates the residents such terms and conditions! Maharashtra is a part of India and Raj has no right to lay down his own terms and conditions. Had he said “behave like Indians” I would have felt proud and hailed Raj as twilight in the Indian politics. Alas! He also proved to be one among the same rotten lot! I am still at loss to find out what did he mean by saying behave like maharashtrians. Perhaps, his supporters are demonstrating the behavior of Maharashtrians for the past week all over the state. Is this the way Maharashtrians behave? Does a Maharashtrian feel proud to claim that they behave in this barbaric manner? Would Raj like to demonstrate the world that M...