Life
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Zombies borne out of new maladies
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
FMS BHU
The only problem is that it is owned by the Indian Government.... and really, the Government Babus who adorn all the offices of the BHU Suck...!!! It is one of the largest universities in the world in terms of area and it only has an engineering and a medical college to boast.. it has a history but now everything is plain be it humanities or science, commerce ... money is being poured in but i think it is landibng into the pockets of some people..
I think the fault lies in the place... and the people make the place... they are used to a laid back life with so called moral values(although all the moral crimes are committed there too). The mentality of the teachers cannot evolve and they impart knowledge that is too restraining for the learning and creativity of the students... The Faculty of management studies provides two courses - Masters in Business Administration and Masters in international business administration and they are considered to be professional courses... but is the teachers who don't take the course professionally..
Benchmarks
― Albert Einstein
Just wondering about how different are Personal benchmarks from General Benchmarks...
Start comparing these two and you will just fall between the horns of dilemma.
How do you perceive happiness? What is happiness? Or sadness? or success? How is it defined? Are you successful because you have crossed the general respective benchmarks? Or is it something that one decides to be achieved? One might have a family, great household appliances, gadgets, doting Wife, Son, own house etc etc, is he a successful person? Most will think he is but is he really?
Let's take another example: A CEO of a multinational organisation working in an exotic location.. Or a movie star with a heavy pocket and a worshiping nation but still a bachelor at 48. They are successful to me but they are the best judge about their own success/happiness metric.
So are you successful or happy? Are you going to look at the world and take that as a benchmark or would you look inside and really judge basis the real thing?
So, personal benchmarks might play a crucial role in the personal productivity and hence the overall growth, but if they are not adding value to the general "benchmarking system" or the general productivity parameters, then these personal benchmarks run the risk of becoming a black hole which confines the individual into a never ending pursuit of something which is there but will never add to anything tangible... well, something maybe, but that something is very negligible in nature... atleast in a practical sense.. although it might satisfy the individual upto a certain limit, but when that is done long enough, then one starts to think about the necessity of the whole thing..
Friday, January 14, 2011
Life and memories
I do some things, 'cause i try to do a lot,
And whatever things we do, satisfy us not,
What we already had with us could never be sought,
time ran so fast, could never give a thought..
Sometimes I do rummage my memory bag
And try to reach that nook,
which I always overlook,
Polish a piece of moment,
still wet with some wine and dews of mirth,
With some real good friends, a moment well spent
keep it back to save it for what it's worth,
close my eyes and savor the aftertaste it brought.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Online Branding Woes
There are so many magical possibilities in the digital mediums that "sky" is the limit and the funny part is, that this new medium is sold to the clients with over hyped promises of those magic. Funnier part is, that advertisers actually expect magical things to happen on those mediums. Be it Internet, Mobile or even Digital OOH.
Let me dig deeper and fish out some buzzwords which I have heard so many times (that has started to make me nauseated) from people who wouldn't know an impression from an insertion.
ROI
Engagement
Web 2.0
Community
Eyeballs
Podcasting
People working for very large corporations do not even have a feedback system in place so that they can even find out whether a lead is valid or invalid and they talk about Conversion Ratio... People who do not have anything to sell, talk about consumer experience happening online. People who want to do branding talk about clicks and hence people coming to their site. What are these people doing on their site? What do they expect those people to do on their site? You don't ask these questions in open forums.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Religion
Like we cannot change our parents, we cannot change our religion. there are somethings we are born with and there are somethings we create for which we stand for the rest of our lives and which form a 'join the dots' scenario which shapes our lives. The things we are born with is Family, society, religion and what we create is a character and principles.
Religion is nothing but a set of rules according to which we conduct our lives and the definition of which might vary from country to country and society to society. By this I mean that all the religions are equally relevant to each individual. Just because one person thinks that his religion is better than that of other one is totally defying and denouncing his own religion.
Religion should be personal. We should not wear our religion on your sleeve but try to understand and after you do, it can give us a sense of identity and security.
The greatest enemy of us is the kind of mob behavior among the people of today as a society who are impressionable, easily duped and begging to be a pawn in some other's hands but still independent to choose a representative who has a despotic power to run a country as they like.
We think about religion as we think is just because of some politicians and religious leaders who have not done their jobs but to feed our minds with baseless propaganda which has made OUR thinking a slave of their personal gain.
Evolution or not, it happened millions of years ago.. so to me, it is of no consequence. whats important is the fact that the way of living, culture, tradition comes from religion. We should be proud of the religion while not hating the other religions because that is the other person's choice. And thats what a modern society is all about. Live and let live.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
मुराद
आज तन्हा दिल बेचारा, किस मुराद पे जिए,
कल था एक कारवाँ पैर मंज़िल एक ख्वाब,
आज मंज़िल है रूबरू पर किस मुराद को जियें ...
Sunday, September 10, 2006
वंदे मातरम
सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्
बहुबलधारीणीं नमामी तारीणीम्
रीपुदलवारीणीं मातरम्॥
सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्
शस्य श्यामलां मातरंम् .
शुभ्र ज्योत्सनाम् पुलकीत यामीनीम
फुल्ल कुसुमित द्रुमदलशोभीनीम्,
सुहासीनीं सुमधुर भाषीणीम् .
सुखदां वरदां मातरम् ॥
सप्त कोटीकन्ठ कलकल नीनाद कराले
द्वीसप्त कोटी भुजैर्ध्रत खरकरवाले
के बोले मा तुमी अबले
बहुबल धारीणीम् नमामी तारीणीम्
रीपुदलवारीणीम् मातरम् ॥
तुमी वीद्या तुमी धर्म, तुमी ह्रदी तुमी मर्म
त्वं ही प्राणाः शरीरे
बाहुते तुमी मा शक्ती
हृदये तुमी मा भक्ती,
तोमारै प्रतीमा गडीमन्दीरे-मन्दीरे ॥
त्वं ही दुर्गा दशप्रहरणधारीणी
कमला कमलदल वीहारीणी
वाणी वीद्यादायीनी, नमामी त्वाम्
नमामी कमलां अमलां अतुलाम्
सुजलां सुफलां मातरम् ॥
श्यामलां सरलां सुस्मीतां भूषीताम्
धरणीं भरणीं मातरम् ॥
वंदे मातरम् ॥