Friday, December 31, 2010

Aim. Learn. Achieve.

Wish to share an incident with you all. It occurred yesterday only when I was taking Introduction batch of some CAT preparing Students. When I asked about their dream B-school, I got some interesting responses. Few of them replied, “It would depend on our CAT Score”, one of them said, “IIM Bombay” and few of them, “No Idea”. Such an irony, before starting the journey they even don’t know where they are heading. As they say, “If you don’t know where to go any road would take you there”. Believe me guys Success doesn’t come by chance but by a plan.

You don’t get what you Desire if you don’t Aspire…

Dreams do take shape of reality… But, if you don’t have dreams what will happen to reality…

Simple Suggestions:
1. You can’t hit the target, if you don’t have a target. have AIM before starting
2. You can’t hit the target, if you don’t learn the way to hit it. LEARN the tricks-of-the-trade
3. You can’t hit the target, if you aren’t prepared to try it. ACHIEVE – Don’t just Desire, Deserve

That’s why we have kept Punch line of CHEM
Aim. Learn. Achieve.

Take Charge
Sourabh Sharma

Spreadout to grow in height but to measure it grow in depth.

Spread out, to grow in height, but
to measure it, grow in depth.

It is life and is like a tree. Tree takes deep rooting down and spreading branches sideways to grow. It is that it ventures into Nature to attain growth. Its survival is subsisted by Nature and for this; it has to merge with Nature. So, it branches out covering space around while penetrate deep into earth through its roots to gain strength to grow up. However, the truth is that it doesn’t grow only for its subsistence but always to contribute its fruits, leaves or flowers for the needy otherwise and also it engages itself to provide photosynthesis to release oxygen to other flora and fauna.
Nature wants us to live and to live for others and other species too.

Ascendancy is the truth of life - it is the imperative truth, an unavoidable truth. Unless the tree adopts itself for growth, it meets with a natural death – a premature death might be. Birth is the momentum and life is the acceleration on which you have no control and death is the salvation. Life gets dwarfed if fail to grow or get stagnated to face the inevitable – the death. Nature destroys own liabilities, hence one has to contribute however trivial the share might be to sustain with life and one can not escape it. There is no substitution for participation and one has to absorb and adopt the environment and release and distribute his might too back. Trees and plants absorb fertility and contribute to add fertility to soil and this compensatory factor is the truth of life.

Man can not disassociate himself from taking part in life as he has indulged himself in through birth. He has embarked on a journey and he has to complete it in spite of traverse conditions and complications. The main purpose with the journey is to create goodwill and not animosity. Contradictions are inevitable but reconcile to the situations is where man scores. The trees too faces tsunami, Katrina, tempests and storms but survive and continue contributing with no complaints. Continue to grow, is the call of Nature and one has to comply with the command.

One can not retreat from life as there is no alternative provided to him. He has to cover pits and pitfalls to catch up to the mountain – the fulfillment. However, fulfillment is not a mirage for him but he can not choose to be in the oasis ever as he has to move forward. Fulfillments are not specific and static as ‘time’ interferes with them every time with expanding its range. Man, however, has either no control on time. Hence, life is a conflagration of fulfillments which represents what you have released and not what you have safe-guarded. Therefore, you need to part with things in life to give back to the Nature and never try to hoard things for yourself

Contributions can be trivial or tiny and not necessarily gigantic. The squirrel helped Ram to build the bridge to Lanka carrying grains of sand. Each grain was the full weight for it. Within oneself one has his reach and one might not fail himself in sharing with, his part. A simple sip or a bite turns often tastier than a gulp or devouring. Conversely a simple slip may turn out to be fatal but a big fall inconsequent. Donation of a rupee coin by a daily wage earner might be more valuable than a gold-coin by a rich man as the relevance is the affordability and not the gift.

Spread you wide and deeper you penetrate, give you strength to stand straight and grow and falter you to do so, befall you with no fulfillment and the life turn disdainful.


M.S.Kumaran

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Resolutions for 2011

A very happy new year to one and all. Celebrations are already in the air. Hotels and bars, lounges and discotheques are already booked by energetic and cheerful youths. Just a thought of all these has filled my heart with excitement and enthusiasm.

I am feeling the freshness of the new year. All the hopes are falling on my heart like the snowfall of the season. The footstep of the new year is making the sound of Christmas bells. 2011 is the beginning of a new decade. We are moving towards becoming the superpower by the end of the decade. To make this dream true, it is time to wake up and make up our minds. I am committed to make my life better and in turn making the country and the world a better place to live. There are certain resolutions which will help me to make my celebrations a year long or even life long. I am mentioning my top 10 resolutions here.

1. I will keep myself well informed about the current events - It is always required to keep oneself updated on the happening of the world around.

2. I will serve others - I can recall the lines of a famous hindi song here, "Tum besahara ho to kisi ka sahara bano, tumko apne aap hi sahara mil jayega".

3. I will serve mother nature - I see a lot of people posting their photographs standing in front of a luss green mountain, a waterfall, a river, a sea beach or along a tree. They look so beautiful. The reason: Nature is very beautiful. I will try to keep the mother nature beautiful by whatever little way I can do.

4. I will be kind to others.
5. I will read books.
6. I will be cool at head and warm at heart.
7. I will always be optimistic.
8. I will be puctual.
9. I will be organized.

and most importantly

10. I will be honest to my work, my family, my relationships, my country, my words, my commitments, my hopes, my resolutions and above all to myself.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Dessehra- the festival

Shakti in three manifestations - DUSSEHRA

Dussehra is the festival of devout devotees who indulge in purity observed during ‘nine days’ of penance practicing abstinence and renunciation from the materialistic pleasures of life.

Wealth, wisdom and valour are the driving forces of humanity where wealth provides you with status, wisdom the prominence and valour the power. The legend refers to the domain of these powers if resting with one ‘supreme power’, that is the goddess of ‘shakti’ in her three manifestations - Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga, each representing the respective sphere of action.

‘Navarathri’ is synonym with nine days of darkness but in reality the conceptual relevance is the ‘nine days of purity’ The ‘nine days of darkness ‘symbolizing nine evils of humanity pointing out to :
Lust, Anger, and greed
Ego, jealousy and Sarcasm
Ignorance, Irreverance and Irresponsibility
Which engulf man, influence him, incite him and make him indulge into committing crimes and sins. The festivities on these days presumed to be relieving the performers of the bad effects of these evils on them and purifying them for a fresh start with virtuous deliberations.

‘Dussehra’ is ritual to thousands, realizations to more thousands, repenting on past sins to many more thousands and fulfillment to lakhs – the fulfillment of being divested of the stains of the past perversions. Clarity and purity are the ruling forces of humanity which gives it the vision and mission for a sinless life.

‘Dussehra’ is penance for many. It encourages them to observe abstinence and renunciation from the pleasures of the ‘five prime organs’ (‘panchendriya’) of the body. The performers are drawn to spirituality away from the materialistic burdens and clear the path to help attain peace and solace to the mind. It impounds into them the message:
for the eyes to the right
for the ears to hear the right
for the mouth to say the right
for the hands to do the right and
for the legs to conquer the right
and ultimately the head to judge sensibly.

Let ‘Dussehra’ bring us peace and prosperity to life with enlightment and knowledge.



M.S.KUMARAN

Monday, December 6, 2010

SUN SET

She looks at her world , the tears fill her eys .
She thinks she should be happy , yet still she cries .
Theemptiness fills herand thatthat she can' thide .
She tries to bury the longing down deep inside .
She tries to get along through another long day .
Yet she wonders ,there just hasto be another way .
Is this all  that life was supposed to be .
She knows there is much  more that she truly needs
Yet she  remains silent until the very end .
The broken dreams she just can 't seem to mend
The Sun is setting , it 'sgetting very late .
She prays to GOD ," Please don 't let  the love turn to hate ."

Compiled by P.A. Varghese

Sunday, December 5, 2010

success- a myth or mirage

SUCCESS – A MYTH OR MIRAGE
Great thinkers and philosophers of the world believed that one should never look forward to being successful that the ‘success’ one believes at a time is shallow and will crumble to meaningless later. Is this a cry that the unreachable grapes turn bitter?
You may gain fame and richness if you are in a line of work and once you are out of it the same gets faded away. The statues- the symbolic creation for name and fame and thus for success loses its limbs one by one as the time passes and the generation changes and the remnant rumble after sometime as a ‘silent monger’. We have the idioms and phrases that preaches, ‘the survival of the fittest’,’ fight to be the best’ or ‘race to win the fastest’. All these are supposed to be result oriented maneuver - the success; but this success is short-lived, driven away by the next flood-fury or a fatalistic event where the victim slips in success and succumb to it. The ironical maxim is that ‘you try your best’ where success may fetch you or may happen the other way – this is the cynicism of approach. Out of ten one may fetch success; but can you say others were truly unsuccessful? The one climbed the steps of the ladder believes that he has conquered success but is oblivious of the fact that the ladder itself is getting tumbled and may lose its hold on the ground or the slope. A short lived success, therefore, is a’ blind vision’.

Reality often eludes you. The reality that you think that you have excelled and believe that ‘you are the best’ is simply a relative situation as the reality lies somewhere else which neither you nor I is aware of. If taken otherwise some others may think that they will do ‘next time best’ which is a strive for success belittling the ‘best of others ‘!

Success, therefore, is not an achievement forever and that it is a continuous process. If you consider success is the ultimate fulfillment and cease further initiatives on the matter is a negation of success. Every drop of water you fill into the tumbler only removes the vacuum of that tumbler but one should not forget that there are lines of tumblers that are empty. Continuity is of efforts, continuity is of fame, continuity is of life and continuity is of Nature are simply a process and is not eternal.

M.S.kumaran

A twist in the Wordlist Tale!


Bored with wordlist? Great, then you will read my blog. Wait, even if you are not, trust me, you need this! We have already taught you several ways of working with the wordlist with a strong instruction of DO NOT CRAM!

Yet some words remain in your mind. Some tease you as you do remember studying them but forget their meanings. Others would bog you down as they keep confusing you.  How much you hate those words!

How do I know this? Oh that’s simple. It happens with me too all the time. Yet that never really stops me from working with the wordlist. The more I forget words, the more I try to discover newer ways of studying words.

Today, I wish to share with you one such innovative way, if I may call it so, to remember words. During the start of the year, I did a little experiment with one of my RGPV specific batches. Since they kept cribbing over newer problems that they faced while doing the wordlist, I gave them my trump card.

I handed them an assignment that they would eventually remember for the rest of their year. I just picked up the first few pages of our (old) wordlist. I asked them to weave a story across a few characters and scenes using ALL the words from those pages. The scene was of Kaun Banega Karodpati. Characters were Mr Amitabh Bachchan and guest contestant Preity Zinta.

I still remember many funny stories, which this enthusiastic bunch of students submitted to me. They all exercised their creative skills to pen fictitious stories that had all the words from the assigned pages. “Mukti, I had to create situations to fit those words in the story you know!” shared one of the students. Well that’s exactly what my purpose was!

A few boys also ‘inserted’ Anil Kapoor in their tales squeezing excerpts from Slumdog Millionaire; some students wrote systematically as if they were writing a one-act play; others simply replaced Preity Zinta with Shahrukh Khan.  A students used the word ‘appellation’ for Big B; another used ‘adage’ for a question asked by Big B to Preity; ‘apropos’ for the way other contestants behaved. And the rest, as the batch still tells me, is HISTORY!

That day, I too got a lesson. There is no ONE way to remember words. And that’s the best part of it. We have very MANY ways to help us browse through the beautiful world of words. Through this simple exercise, all of us discovered a new way. Those words easily got into our lives since that assignment.  If it worked for us, it would for you too.

So here’s the deal.  Try writing a story using a page of wordlist. The idea is to make you sit and spend some creative time with words.  It would just take half an hour. But I bet, you wouldn’t forget those words ever!

For more such pills on wordlist, watch this space! 

By Mukti Masih 

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The reality of CAT "Analysis" by "Experts"

Today, a good friend and colleague, mukti and I were discussing reactions of CAT aspirants to their performance in the CAT-2010. Not surprisingly, the reactions were extreme.

Some (though admittedly only few) feel ecstatic because they have done well and can smell the call; others feel dejecetd to the extent that instinctively they feel like giving in, having decided that they would NOT receive a call. In the words of mukti "there is no one who seems to be in the middle".

Let me be flat on this - both reactions are irrational. Period. 

Yeah !! I can explain. What is the basis of such reactions of ecstacy or dejection. The analysis and judgement provided by so called "CAT experts" including "yours truly". But believe me, this is a very poor basis for making such judgements. Here is why?

How do you think the "experts" analyse and predict the required cutoffs for IIM calls etc. (and I include myself in the list). Well the best of us are making conjuctures. some of us are intelligent, some long time observers, some are self created experts, some are simply limelight seekers, some are commercial opportunists and some simply copy cats. The analytical minded would collect data and do statistical analysis; others more creatively oriented would do objective/subjective and often emotional introspection. Most of us are a mix of all these.

Want advice - dime a dozen
Its like the stock market analysis - every expert worth his/her salt has one and writes with confidence. If you look at all them closely - the sum total is that someone or the other has written about every possibility that exists. So at least some of us will always be accurate. The problem is that none (and I mean, "none") of us have been consistently accurate.

The more sensible out of us (or lets say the smart ones out of us) will offer a broad range of score/attempts which then is useless analysis because one or two questions in CAT will affect your rank by may be thousands.

So what am I saying
There is no sure of way finding out whether you are getting a call and no expert can predict it with any accuracy. In a few weeks you would anyway know - so why create a fuss and feel either ecstatic or dejected - both of which as I said earlier are irrational reactions.

The fact is that every year -
  • some of the most hopefuls DO NOT get a call
  • some of the most unnoticed GET the calls
  • some of the hopefuls GET the calls
  • some of the unnoticed DO NOT get the calls
What all these means is that none of us are able to conclusively seperate all the wheat from the chaff.

Don't believe it? OK !! Go ahead and read "The Mess Behind CAT Analysis" that I posted on my personal blog way back in Feb 2007. This was the year when for the first time the IIMs published the answer key of CAT 2006 on their official sites. In one stroke all so called "experts" on CAT were proven to be amateur marketers hungry for eyeballs of their prospective customers. 

In nut shell then I conclude,
  • you do not know that you are getting a call and
  • you also do not know that you are NOT getting a call
What I know for sure is that you should discard all this analysis and keep working with the same enthusiasm and sincerity as you have been doing till now. We surely do not want to be caught napping when the call eventualy and actually arrives.

Another of my friend and colleague Abbas texted on facebook today
"For some people CAT is over, for many, everything"
and I instinctively responded
"For winners CAT is generally the start"
Ohh!! I ned to remain focussed.

While I responded as an instinct - I now believe it was deep. Yes starting CAT the two months following it are crucial last miles for a really sincere CAT aspirant. It requires self drive to continue. It requires an ability to avoid the mob behaviour (phobia, mania and tirades) and focus on next set of goals. It requires keeping faith in once sincere efforts and to go on without getting affected by half baked analysis. It requires Arjuna's focus on "karma" without worrying about the results.


So friends, its time you get over the ecstacy and/or dejection and simply focus on your next step.

Easier said than done?? Agreed. But did I ever tell you that it would be easy? Wish you all bright future and great success.

P.S.
1. Do let me know what you think about all this. Your queries, feedback and suggestions are welcome. Just click on comment and enter your comments. Feel free to follow this blog by clicking the follow button at the right side panel.
2. I interrupted my series of posts on "GDs & PIs at this time??" for this post. The series continues - stay tunes. :) .

Monday, November 15, 2010

GDs & PIs - at this time?? Part I

At this time every year, I exhort young ambitious MBA aspirants to now increase their focus on Group Discussions/Personal Interviews (GD/PIs) preparations. Every year, I get to hear one of the so many standard reasons for not starting, at least not yet. Sample these and check out if you also tend to agree with one or more of them :  
confused, are you?

  • My CAT did not go as well as I had wished - should I not prepare for the other tests that are lined up?
  • The weightage of GD/PI in the entrance process is as low as 15-20%. Isn't it logical that I should focus on the written test & not worry about GD/PI so much.
  • Whats the point of starting GD/PI preparations so early. Let me receive a call first. What if I do not eve clear the written test?
  • Akash, I am so busy - my college exams are lined up. Other MBA tests are also there and then projects/ campus etc. I simply cannot give time to GD/PIs now.
I can already picture some of you smiling (gotcha........). Jokes apart, lets consider each of the question because they are at least not excuses - they are valid questions - I shall write one post for each of the question - so here we go....

First, Your CAT did not go as well as you would wish to and hence you would to prepare with increased focus for other exams?
And by increased focus on other exams, you mean........what? Let me guess - you would want to appear in more mock tests? As if you have not already taken scores of them. Not just at CHEM but may be at 'other' classes as well. So what will tests with increased frequency do to your focus. My take - Nothing!! except may be, making you feel less guilty about your performance.

Let me point to the flaws in the argument. You are assuming two things
one, that CAT did not go well for you
two, the above happened because you did not prepare well
Both the assumptions are faulty. Let me explain

Help me meet someone who cracked the CAT and is surely getting the call. Actually, CAT being a competitive test - one is not able to gauge the extent of one's performance. It is futile to try and judge how you did. Only results will tell you know the date on which results shall be released - don't you?

Now, the second assumption. CAT has happened and your preparations (good, bad or ugly) will reflect in it. However, this is not to say that you do not prepare for other tests. If you have not prepared well in all the months of your preparations before CAT, you cannot make much difference in this one month. And if you have been working in those months - all you need to do currently is to maintain continuity/momentum for the written tests lined up.

But you must take up preparing for GD/PIs in equal earnest for reasons that I am going to discuss in the coming days (so tune in to this space regularly).

P.S. Do let me know what you think about all this. Your queries, feedback and suggestions are welcome. Just click on comment and enter your comments. Feel free to follow this blog by clicking the follow button at the right side panel.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

It is planning time!

Now that we have reached halfway mark to CAT, many of us have either taken the CAT or are taking within a week most probably. Now it is time to plan ahead for next level of preparation. There are students who will have their semester exams in this month. They will concentrate on their study but should plan their future course of actions as soon as their exams are over. There are good number of students whose semester exams are over and therefore relaxing a bit from their regular college studies. These students should concentrate on two things: preparing for other entrance exams and preparing for GD and PI.

A call from a reputed B school is good only if it is converted. Just getting a call will not do any good. It is therefore very much necessary to prepare in advance for GD and PI. Fortunately our students need not worry much as they are already a part of India’s most comprehensive and successful GD & PI preparing institute CHEM. So guys, fasten your seat belt and register yourself in one of the most successful program mSuccess in any of the batch to take off to your dream colleges. This program will help you fine tune your preparation at these crucial time.

The others are those who are appearing in other entrance exams to be conducted in Dec or Jan e.g. TISS, JMET, XAT, FMS, SNAP to name a few. In preparing for CAT, you have already gone through most part of the preparation. However, these exams may require some extra topics or skills to prepare. These topics may be portions of higher maths, essay writing, general awareness, etc.

You have already taken some mock tests based on exams you are appearing in. There will be more such mock Tests based on specific exams. The best way to know about the patterns of exams is to appear in these tests and have an idea about the test. It will also help you to know where you stand. With the help of this you can revise and fine tune yourself accordingly. You can also take the help of your experienced faculties.

So guys, relax a bit after your CAT day but at the same time plan ahead to realize your ultimate goals and derams.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Omens of CAT 10

"Do you believe in omens?" came an SMS out of the blue this morning on my phone.
"No" was how I chose to reply it.
"Oh. Well, I think an omen is telling me that I should not solve NATCATs now", he persisted.
"Don't be silly. You are an engineer. Show me some logic. It's ridiculous."
"Believe me. Last night I kept my NATCATs in a bag that I accidentally happened to leave on my veranda. It all got wet. So I felt an omen was trying to influence me."
"Cut it dude. You gotta be kidding me."

This is only one of the several such so-called omens I have been hearing about from students still to take CAT 2010. I remember while Akash was sharing 'The First-hand CAT experience', a student asked if he could take his lucky watch along at the CAT centre. 'Grow up' was how Akash responded to it.

And that's what I have to tell you my dear students. For your own sake people, have faith in your abilities and your potential to perform. You have followed a rigorous and systematic, not to count a logical, process and yet you lose heart at the last minute.. Please do remember this my dear ones that even if you lose momentum for a few seconds before the finishing line, the entire race is lost.
Don't lose it guys. Not yet. There's a battle ahead. Go and win it! You can do that without the omens. Beleive me guys, you don't need them at all because you have worked hard. 

Now give me that winner's expression! 
God Bless 

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

'tulika -the echo still

TULIKA – My Nick Name

A flame in water
that belies the belief
strange though, it clings
to reality
a presentation in hiding
and truth beneath
what burns is the oil that
surfaces the water
It is to camouflage something
pretty and attractive
and to develop an urge
to search for truth
like a golden sword kept
inside the sheath
but an appreciation deserved
need to be parted with
and there stands TULIKA with
nerve and energy
embedded
and with enthusiasm
reflected in every action.
Parting is heavy for the heart
when built in bondage
as there forms
a vacuum
that pricks the memory
for bondage
gets strengthened
in separation,
longing ever to refresh meetings
frequented more with.

M.S.Kumaran

Reminisces - of parting

The pain persists
as the sting
has penetrated deep
in heart
as, also the sore keeps
reminding
us about the wound.
Memory line of human,
it is said,
may recede with time
but a wound or
a sore create reflections,
reminding us ever.

The breeze that pass
through our hair,
gently as is always-and tender
though it is,
still fluttering vibrant, in musing
with delight-
as if there is fragrance
in air from
the bouquet of roses never
ever should allow
the flower to wither caring
to get replenished
with fresh ones and not to
loose the aroma,
as the tender care is ours.

M.S.Kumaran

Memory

The charm of Night.

Nights normally are dark. Dark is pure. It is not adulterated.
With light flashing in the darkness weans away. Light is only a reflection on the dark surface. Darkness is the static base while light is a flow. The inference leads to the fact that darkness is the father of light. If illumination adds beauty the darkness stays with charm and warmth.
Darkness and light are biological creations and they have to co-exist for the rhythm of life to happen and progress. Stars probably are self-emulated while moons absorb light- reflections. However, these Stars, Moon or Milky Way are bright only in darkness. Without darkness they fail to blink and the sky never becomes bright. There is silence and tranquility in darkness.
The night is soothing and acts as a balm to the body. The silence in darkness makes you soliloquy in conversation – an act of talking to oneself opening the gate for self realization. The thoughts in darkness relieves you out of a restless mind, a sad heart or a troubled soul – yes, it is a peace-maker to the mind. Night is a great companion and listener. If light reveals day, light, colour and gaze but darkness takes you to solitude and deep thoughts and solutions eluded you so far. You may even experience an elevation of mind to hitherto unconquered areas of thought process. They are not actually dreams but certain conscious efforts of the unconscious mind –a real power of ignition and splash. You may be, it is possible, dragged to a world of imagery or even real thoughts. Artists and poets love this state of affair and they procure all their inspirations from darkness and not light. They achieve communion in musings. Scientists explore the astronomical truths in darkness. Their theories are based on light and shade which are manipulations of darkness.
There is innocence in darkness. Darkness is the daughter of nights and is flooded with mysteries which create inquisitiveness and an urge to know what were unraveled - a daughter’s curiosity to explore into the hidden facts. The thought penetrates into the depth in search of the pebbles that shine in darkness. It is an excavation into the source of realization which steps out from darkness. When light is shallow darkness is steadfast.
Light conceals more than what it reveals. Because it corroborates with your visual thoughts which has its limitations and horizon as closed entity. But darkness is beyond that even and enthralls you with imagination, as if springs emanating from closed circuits into a fiesta of garden of flowers and greenery. Your thoughts move in with specific perception as there is nothing to distract you from visibility. You are sensual through the echo and there professes a prowess of wholesomeness. Light reveals every thing what is good or bad but darkness makes up only what is good after a proper distinction and darkness is a good friend which takes you to a good friend because you are more guided and controlled by sensitivity than by the sight and excitement. In darkness you see through the inner eye and use wisdom to choose between the pain of daze of the light and soothing clarity in the calmness of darkness.
Death is an escape into the darkness while birth is the entry into the world of light and confusions. All of us travel with a torch in hand –the life, in search of darkness-the death.

M.S.Kumaran.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

W.A.R. Foundation- An NGO (Not-For-Profit)

Warm Greetings to every reader !!

I have recently got associated with CH, & would like to share the project WAR (Walk, Act & Rise Foundation) with all respected faculty peers & our dear students.


WAR Foundation is an rising NGO comprised of all young bodies, who have a common aim of contributing for the welfare of our economy, parallely with our daily rat race schedule.

Kindly spend a few minutes for seeking details by logging on to My Blog- http://indiayouth919.blogspot.com/2009/12/war-foundation-quiet-revolution.html

Thanks all

Regards..

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Lets be literates, students!

I took CAT on November 2. I was so disappointed to see quite a few students at Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering running back to the city to get their 'original, unexpired photo IDs'. Imagine the scene: 

There was this guy who brought the laminated copy of his driving license. He was made to go back and get the original one. 

Then there was another who brought a photo ID of his coaching institute. He was posed: Was this kind of ID listed on the CAT voucher or the admit card? He DID NOT have any other ID. He had to go back. 

Then there was a guy whose College Photo ID had expired. (The word 'unexpired' is in the very first line of the Photo ID instructions written on both the CAT voucher and the Admit card) 

People, for once think about your ENTIRE YEAR. Can you take this risk? For once, please atleast consider that those instructions are for your own good and nobody else's. 

We are blessed with litercy. Lets apply some education people. I am so proud of one of CH students who brought an affidavit stating his full name, date of birth along with his latest photograph. 

If he took the pains to save his one year, why don't you? 
God Bless 

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Dare to follow your heart


Dare to follow your heart?

Voice of heart or voice of mind or voice of the world. Often we are caught up in a situation where it is very difficult to choose the right path and no one is around to help us out. No elders to command, no friends to suggest, no familiar voice in the crowd of confusion and chaos. So how do we get rid of this dilemma? Who can we call to seek advice?

My dear friends, this is exactly the point where arts gets an edge over science. The latter advocates that the only function of the heart is to pump blood and it has got nothing to do with thinking. Although there is no proof or evidence to support that even the heart thinks and speaks. But by that logic, science also has no proof for the existence of GOD, yet even great scientists bow their head in front of a Supreme power and believe that HE exists.The same is true with the heart. Our heart can very well judge what's right or wrong. There is a voice (voice of heart) that constantly tries to guide us but whether to listen it or not is our will.
Whatever the situation, the heart always has a right and accurate solution to it. Now why am I discussing this? That is because I want to tell you my dear friends that more often than not, that solution is the only solution. It is a path that we must tread confidently in order to experience true happiness. Often your elders or seniors would testify that if you ignore the voice of heart, it results in unhappiness. What's worse is when we start neglecting this inner voice, it starts getting feeble and gradually fades in oblivion.
You should ensure it doesn't happen to you. We should always listen to that inner voice that keeps warning us whenever we are about to commit wrong. It helps us in choosing the right path.

REMEMBER: Competitive exams are cracked by studying and not by choosing one out of four alternatives whichever the heart is saying :-p