1. If time doesn't wait for you, don't worry! Just remove the damn battery from the clock and Enjoy life!
2. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. Think about it.
3. Beauty isn't measured by outer appearance and what clothes we wear, but what we are inside. So, try going out naked tomorrow and see the admiration!
4. Don't walk as if you rule the world, walk as if you don't care who rules the world! That's called Attitude! Keep on rocking!
5. Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did!
6. He was a good man. He never smoked, never drank, never had an affair. When he died, the insurance company refused the claim. They said, he who never lived, cannot die!
8. So many options for suicide: Poison, sleeping pills, hanging, jumping from a building, lying on train tracks, but we choose Marriage, slow and sure!
9. Only 20 percent boys have brains, rest have girlfriends!
10. All desirable things in life are either illegal, banned, expensive or married to someone else!
11. Drinking is our biggest enemy- Jawaharlal Nehru
We should learn to love our enemies- Mahatma Gandhi
Now, whom to follow and which one to choose?
12. 10% of road accidents are due to drunken driving. Which means - it a logical statement that 90% of accidents are due to driving without drinking!!
4 Dec 2010
Excellent story of Appreciation
One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial
position in a big company.
He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made
the last decision.
The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result is
excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate
research, never has a year he did not score.
The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the
youth answered "none".
The director asked, " Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the
youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my
mother who paid for my school fees.
The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my
mother worked as cloth cleaner.
The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair
of hand that is smooth and perfect to the director.
The director asked, " Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth
before?"
The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read
more books, furthermore, my mother can wash cloths faster than me.
The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to
clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.
The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went
back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother feel
strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hand to the kid.
The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tear drop down as he did
that. It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and
there are so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incites pains so strong
that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.
This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this
pair of hand that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees,
the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his
graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.
After finishing the cleaning of his mother hand, the youth quietly cleaned
all remaining clothes for his mother.
That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.
Next morning, the youth went to the director's office
The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: " Can you tell me
what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"
The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished
cleaning all the remaining clothes'
The director asked, " please tell me your feelings."
The youth said,
No. 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother,
I would not be, what I am today.
No. 2, I knew how to work together with my mother, then only
I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done.
No. 3, I knew the importance and value of family relationship.
The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person
that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of
others to get things done, and a person that would not put money as his
only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.
Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of
his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the
company's result improved tremendously.
A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he
developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is
ignorance of his parent's effort.
When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when
he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and
always blame others.
For this kind of people, he can have good result, may be successful for a
while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he will grumble
and full of hatred and fight for more.
If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy
the kid?
You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano,
watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them
experienced it.
After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl together with their
brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a
maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way.
You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parent are, one day
their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person.
The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and
experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get
things done.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can Change your
direction anytime.
position in a big company.
He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made
the last decision.
The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result is
excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate
research, never has a year he did not score.
The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the
youth answered "none".
The director asked, " Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the
youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my
mother who paid for my school fees.
The director asked, " Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my
mother worked as cloth cleaner.
The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair
of hand that is smooth and perfect to the director.
The director asked, " Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth
before?"
The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read
more books, furthermore, my mother can wash cloths faster than me.
The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to
clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.
The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went
back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother feel
strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hand to the kid.
The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tear drop down as he did
that. It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and
there are so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incites pains so strong
that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.
This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this
pair of hand that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees,
the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his
graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.
After finishing the cleaning of his mother hand, the youth quietly cleaned
all remaining clothes for his mother.
That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.
Next morning, the youth went to the director's office
The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: " Can you tell me
what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"
The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished
cleaning all the remaining clothes'
The director asked, " please tell me your feelings."
The youth said,
No. 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother,
I would not be, what I am today.
No. 2, I knew how to work together with my mother, then only
I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done.
No. 3, I knew the importance and value of family relationship.
The director said, " This is what I am asking, I want to recruit a person
that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of
others to get things done, and a person that would not put money as his
only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired.
Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of
his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the
company's result improved tremendously.
A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he
developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is
ignorance of his parent's effort.
When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when
he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and
always blame others.
For this kind of people, he can have good result, may be successful for a
while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he will grumble
and full of hatred and fight for more.
If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy
the kid?
You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano,
watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them
experienced it.
After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl together with their
brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a
maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way.
You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parent are, one day
their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person.
The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and
experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get
things done.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can Change your
direction anytime.
2 Apr 2010
Green Tea - Benefits
Green tea has increasingly become a very popular drink worldwide becauseof its immensely powerful health benefits.
It is extraordinarily amazing what green tea can do for your health.
And if you're not drinking 3 to 4 cups of green tea today, you'redefinitely NOT doing your health a big favor.
*1. Green Tea and Cancer*
Green tea helps reduce the risk of cancer.
The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin Cand 25 times better than vitamin E.
This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to belinked to cancer.
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*2. Green Tea and Heart Disease*
Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the levelof cholesterol.
Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up therecovery of heart cells.
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*3. Green Tea and Anti-Aging*
Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight againstfree radicals.
What this means it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity.
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*4. Green Tea and Weight Loss*
Green tea helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat andboosts your metabolism rate naturally.
It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day.
That translates to 7 pounds in one year.
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*5. Green Tea and Skin *
Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects offree radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging.
Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.
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*6. Green Tea and Arthritis*
Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
Green tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by
blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage.
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*7. Green Tea and Bones*
The very key to this is high fluoride content found in green tea.
It helps keep your bones strong.
If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bonedensity.
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*8. Green Tea and Cholesterol*
Green tea can help lower cholesterol level.
It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, byreducing bad cholesterol level.
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*9. Green Tea and Obesity*
Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fatcells.
If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, itis unlikely you'll be obese.
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*10. Green Tea and Diabetes*
Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharpincreases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate.
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*11. Green Tea and Alzheimer's*
Green tea helps boost your memory.
And although there's no cure for Alzheimer's, it helps slow the processof reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer's.
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*12. Green Tea and Parkinson's*
Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in thebrain,
which could cause Parkinson's.. People drinking green tea also are lesslikely to progress with Parkinson's.
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*13. Green Tea and Liver Disease*
Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure.
Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fattylivers.
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*14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure*
Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure.
Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressingangiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.
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*15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning*
Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes foodpoisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.
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*16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar*
Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols andpolysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.
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*17. Green Tea and Immunity*
Polyphenols and flavenoids found in green tea help boost your immunesystem, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.
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*18. Green Tea and Cold and Flu*
Green tea prevents you from getting a cold or flu.
Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.
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*19. Green Tea and Asthma*
Theophylline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support thebronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.
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*20. Green Tea and Ear Infection*
Green tea helps with ear infection problem.
For natural ear cleaning, soak a cotton ball in green tea and clean theinfected ear.
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*21. Green Tea and Herpes*
Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment ofherpes.
First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry beforethe interferon treatment.
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*22. Green Tea and Tooth Decay*
Green tea destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental diseases.
It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.
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*23. Green Tea and Stress*
L-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in green tea, can helprelieve stress and anxiety.
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*24. Green Tea and Allergies*
EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies.
So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking greentea.
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*25. Green Tea and HIV*
Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) ingreen tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells.
What this means is that green tea can help stop the HIV virus fromspreading.
14 Mar 2010
Life....
"Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them - Work , Family , Health , Friends and Spirit and you're keeping all of these in the Air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked,nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four Balls - Family, Health, Friends and Spirit - are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked,nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.
Time Magazine's quote on Sachin Tendulkar....
When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France & Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy. It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had a Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.
9 Mar 2010
"HAVE BREAKFAST. OR.BE BREAKFAST!"
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling standalone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question - "who is my competitor?"
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget
So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years.When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast .or.. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.
Success is not something to wait for; it's something to work for.
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling standalone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).
Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.
"What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."
In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.
Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question - "who is my competitor?"
In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget
So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!
India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.
Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years.When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.
One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast .or.. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.
Success is not something to wait for; it's something to work for.
The man behind India
The man behind India
The airport in New Delhi slipped into utter chaos as soon as the Indian cricket team arrived to board a chartered flight to Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon. People fished out pens, notebooks, paper, mobile phones and cameras and pushed through the security cordon to reach players for autographs and pictures.Even as players stood around, crowded in by overzealous fans, most obliging them with a quick smile or a scribble on whatever they had in their hands, Gary Kirsten, India coach, smiled to himself and walked to one corner, almost unnoticed, with Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel, The White Tiger, tucked under an armpit.Despite the odd statement from a grateful cricketer, or the odd comment in the media, for the public at large, the contribution of this low profile man-behind-the-successful-team is as yet not understood. But for India’s superstar players, the he is the man of the moment.On Wednesday, Sachin Tendulkar told the world what he thought of Kirsten when he singled him out for special mention — everyone else was thanked in general.“I have been playing well after the 2007 World Cup and much of the credit goes to Gary. He has held the team beautifully, and it’s all about holding the team together. Even at the nets, he works as hard as the players, probably harder than anyone else. If you look, he has been bowling at me a lot at the practice and I would like to thank him for everything,” said Tendulkar.Helping players out in the nets and ironing out flaws is, however, just one small aspect of his job. His biggest achievement perhaps lies in allowing the players to be themselves and keeping the dressing room environment light and friction free. Sehwag had once said: “He is the best coach I have ever seen. The best part is that he doesn’t force things on you. But whenever you need him for practice, throwing balls, sharing ideas and worries, he’s always there.”Besides, what has earned him the respect of the team is his willingness to adapt and adjust. India skipper MS Dhoni feels Kirsten came in with an open mind and instead of forcing his ideas, made the effort to learn what the team needed from him. “He came in and learnt what Indian cricket is all about, what the culture is and how individuals work in the side. Accordingly, he made his strategies, which is working for all of us. We are really comfortable in dressing room,” said Dhoni.Seeing an Indian dressing room which, a few years ago, was torn apart by Greg Chappell’s terrible man-management, transform into this happy bunch that enjoys each others’ company, is something quite remarkable. As is Kirsten.
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