tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32220613497782616392024-03-13T22:43:29.749+05:30EMPTY VESSEL"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers," - Greek philosopher PlatoPrasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-90087728127772830762014-01-28T13:02:00.001+05:302014-01-28T13:22:52.599+05:30Am I worthy enough ...?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am living a lie,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if I say, "Everybody loves me"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am living a lie,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I say, "I love everybody"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I am not living a lie,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I say, "I don't hate anybody"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I might dislike the manners</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But if I hate somebody,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I dislike the very existence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By hating somebody, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's the time to question myself,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Am I worthy enough to do so?</span><br />
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Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-43974414824592029032013-11-19T00:24:00.001+05:302013-11-19T00:25:24.359+05:30Is your MOM cared enough?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> India is an ancient country. We have a history of thousand years. In many ways India ,as a country, is a grand-mom to almost all other countries in the world. In a pleasant contrast we are also a country of young people. According to World bank report published in 2012 every second person in India is young ( person of working age). But it doesn't mean that rest all are old; remaining population is made of older or younger people. My specific interest was in knowing how many of them are old which typically means people above the age of 60 years. And data shows that 10% of them are old. It means every tenth person in India is old and this percentage is growing every day. By 2040 every eighth person in India would be old and then onward there would be steep increase in the number of elderly people around us. Are we, as a country and society, ready for this demographic change? Unfortunately answer for this question is big "NO".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Our countries infrastructural and socioeconomic changes are in fact creating a very unfavorable environment for elderly people. If I have to state a few major problems then they would be...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Cost of Living and Medication </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Marginalization by society which is prominently young</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Stress of lifestyle mismatch with current generation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Weakening of family bonds </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Psychological side effects of loneliness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Elderly unfriendly infrastructure and provisions </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Virtually non-existent elderly care system </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> All these factors have assumed big enough proportion to be looked into and addressed. Time has come that we proactively look into these issues and start creating necessary awareness about the elderly care which in turn may lead to favorable government policies, better focus from NGOs and possible attention from business community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My friends we owe so much to this grayed population; now time has come to return the favor. </span></div>
Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-31595501387441160742013-11-18T23:56:00.001+05:302013-11-22T13:23:59.219+05:30MICRO AUTOBIOGRAPHY<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I characterize myself by a prime time TV character, Homer Simpson. I am amused by the similarity of this character, or rather exactness of this character, with a character called me. In fact I started suspecting that author has developed Homer after carefully studying me and my lifestyle. My suspicion forged into confirmation when I saw this picture of Homer Simpson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reason I am sharing this is very simple, I intend to set your expectations right. As a brainless chap I lived a very insignificant life and following is a brief account of the same. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was born to a school teacher and a house maker. Being their first child they had lot of expectations from me. But I was quick enough to set their expectations right. My father detected my brain paralysis (or rather absence of anything called brains) in my early age . For my mother, it took some time to come to the terms but eventually she accepted the fact. Being a mother she was little more patient but years later my choice of bride has confirmed the condition to her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have two siblings; a sister and a brother. They are twins who collectively carry the load of the very same expectations which my parents earlier had from me. All three of us did our schooling in a small town from Maharashtra and went to same school. Me and my school never had a cordial relationship. We always had differences of opinions on what is right on what is wrong, especially in the context of answers to exam questions and behavior in general. Obliviously I, being meek and week, was always overpowered by school. This resulted in less than poor performance at school and less than zero appreciation at home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My existence in school was so much insignificant that I am merely remembered by anybody in the school. To quote an example, my class teacher of six consecutive years , who would eventually become my mother-in-law, was so much so unappreciative of me that she had to be reminded of me when her daughter re-introduced me to her. She could relate to me only when it was told that I am elder to my younger brother and sister who also studied in the same school. Obliviously my parents were not wrong in resting their hopes on my siblings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After my schooling I did my diploma in mechanical engineering and by some strange coincidence landed in National Chemical Laboratory(NCL) which is a reputed research lab of India. I joining NCL was a reason strong enough for my relatives to question the credibility of NCL. During my NCL tenure most of the time I was doing nothing; there I was a total misfit among those scientists, chemists and PhD aspirants. I survived there for a year and later made a switch to information technology sector. One biggest advantage of IT industry is that jerk like me can easily hide himself in a crowed and can still claim contribution to success under the disguise of teamwork. IT industry was kinder to me it and it continues to provide me my bread & butter & pizza & McD Burger & many more such essential things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later I married to my long time girlfriend who had special preference for dumb husband. She had a belief that dumb husband is easier to control than the smarter one. She was a smart girl and she always believed in conventional wisdom. Understandably, falling in love wasn't difficult for me because being dumb comes naturally to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Couple of years letter we were blessed with a daughter who is six years old now. Recently I overheard her talking to her mother; she was referring me as brainless scarecrow from a popular children story book, "The wonderful wizard of oz". This book features a Scarecrow as a character which is in search of brains. That day my life came full circle as I was being called by the same name as my father used to call me by, BRAINLESS. Of course, this time, along with truth, there was lot of innocence in it and I loved it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Note for the personalities mentioned in the story above:</b> Please do not feel offended if you find your mention untrue and far from the reality. I wrote this blog as a creative writing exercise; I have no intentions to hurt anybody. It was just a fun writing for fun reading. :-)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-71751369011381426052013-08-22T17:10:00.000+05:302013-08-24T09:44:14.744+05:30WEIGHTONOMICS<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was four O'Clock in morning. I was in a rush; I needed to catch an early morning flight. As usual I woke up late. Cab was waiting out for a long time. By far, cab-driver had called me thrice; first two times to ask for the directions and third time to wake me up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I hurried through my morning rituals and jumped into the car. The moment my seat hit the car seat a buzzer went up and number NINETY started flashing on the car dashboard. I was not surprised by the buzzer but was certainly surprised by the number NINETY. I was eighty-five kg just a week back and here I am at ninety today; five kgs of gain in a week's time was surely a reason to be surprised and to be worried too. I credited some of this gain to my unfinished morning rituals to soften my guilt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Speaking of driver disturbed my thoughts. In a very polite tone he was telling me that I am twenty kg overweight by the standard of taxi service and it means I need to pay extra, over and above the normal taxi fare. I smiled at him, showed him my frequent traveller card and told him, "I have enough balance". I knew that I have at least hundred kgs accumulated under my account. Thanks to taxi company which credits one kg for every 100 kilometers of road travel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In the company of my thoughts I didn't realized that I am already at airport. I jumped out of the car leaving five kg discount coupon as a tip for the driver. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Standing in a check-in queue, like any other passenger, I too was thinking about today's overweight kg(OWKG) rate. Recently RBI had pegged Overweight KG to US dollar and I knew that yesterday's running rate was ten dollars for a kg. I couldn't really convert it into rupees. Rupee was on slide since 2013 and ever since it was very difficult to track it's value. Relatively, overweight kg was much stable currency. You could always use US dollars if you are out of overweight kg. However Outlets like McD, KFC, Pizza-hut were keeping new overweight KG currency in a healthy circulation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> By then it was my time to check-in. I paid twenty new overweight kg notes for my extra twenty kgs and secured my boarding pass.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I still had some more time before I board the plane. So I stopped by a buffet breakfast restaurant. Obviously I was welcomed by a "Good Morning" and a weighing scale. Buffet rate were linked to the guest's weight. Sitting there, around me, were many weights of different kinds, size and shapes. Looking at them anybody would have told you that WEIGHTONOMY was booming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I stepped out of the resto after a filling breakfast and boarded by plane. Sitting there I pulled out a new overweight kg note. It looked very similar to regular Rupee note except for the picture of Mahatma Gandhi. Here was no picture of our regular thin & lean Mahatma Gandhi; instead there was a picture of well rounded and overweight SUMO who had a face of Mahatma Gandhi.</span></div>
Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-50150176667124537102013-05-05T16:06:00.001+05:302013-05-06T14:53:43.046+05:30WE ARE CONDITIONED<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me start with a small trick. I want you to imagine any number between one and ten. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now multiply that number by nine. Next, only if your product is a double digit number than do a summation of those digits and use that as your current number. Now multiply your current number by five. Good!!! now store this last number in your memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next task is to imagine digit one as a letter "A", two as a letter "B", three as a letter "C", four as a letter "D" and so on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now pull out that number which you have parked earlier and replace it's digits with letters as we have mapped them in our earlier step. At this point you have your number converted to a string of letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next, think about the name of a country which starts with first letter and name of an animal which starts with second latter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are every chances of you thinking about "Denmark" and "Elephant". If not, one possibility is that you are from the country "Djibouti" or "Dominica"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. But believe me, majority of us would think of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Denmark" and "Elephant". </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The point which I want to make is very simple, "We all are conditioned". And that's why in many ways we are predictable. The trick I played is a proof of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are conditioned to think the way we think, we are conditioned to behave the way we behave and we are conditioned to react the way we react. We are being conditioned since the day one on this planet. Starting from our parents we have been conditioned by each and every person and institute which came in our contact. We are conditioned by our relatives; by our neighbors; by our friends; by the school where we studied, by the society, by universities; by our loves, by our spouses and list will go on and on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All these influences make us what we are today. These influences govern our thinking patterns, our selection patterns, factors we consider for making decisions and more than anything else they decide how we perceive our own self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interestingly all of us are implicitly aware of this phenomenon of human personality development and generations of us have effectively used it to their purpose; purpose of creating predictable creatures. In fact I would go to an extent to say that we are robots who in many ways think similarly, act similarly and react similarly. Though many of us have found ways to celebrate their uniqueness but in nutshell that uniqueness is nothing but a variation in conditioning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being predictable isn't wrong; in fact it is very much required for the order of our daily life. But worry is that many of us have started believing our conditioning as our reality. We have forged rigid ideas of good and bad. And because of which we refuse to accommodate new ideas; new perspectives and new paradigms. I call it "A for Apple" syndrome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of us must strive to break free of this illusion. On occasions it is nice to imagine "A" as "Another World" which has "Ten Moons" and "A Sun" which melts by evening to cause a flood of light.</span></div>
Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-63652897509393699632012-09-08T19:13:00.000+05:302013-05-06T12:10:58.346+05:30MAUNAM SARVARTHA SADHANAM (SILENCE IS GOLDEN)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My grandfather was
sitting in his chair. He was wearing somewhat sheepish expressions and was
staring at the wall in front of him. He knew that she is in foul mood and it
would be futile to explain. My grandmother was obviously very angry with him. I
don’t exactly remember the reason why but for me that wasn’t important. The old lady was short tempered so she was
never short of reasons. My object of study was my grandfather whom I was
observing carefully while pretending to be studying in the same room. I didn’t hear him say ANYTHING; sometime he
would nod but it was very difficult to deduce anything out of that. The show
went on until my grandmother ran out of steam and shifted her base. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">On her departure I
went to him. He still had the same expressions. I whispered to him, “what
happened?”, but he couldn’t hear. Next time I was much louder but still no
response. But this time he noticed that I am trying to say something; so he lifted
up his hands towards his ears; removed his ear plugs and said, “YES DEAR, WHAT
DO YOU WANT TO SAY?”…. This was first time that I witnessed the POWER OF
SILENCE. Later I have seen even my father applying it. I too practice it on
regular basis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Silence is a very potent
tool in marriage. It saves you the hassle of answering unending series of
questions if you master it well. Moreover it allows you to keep things open
ended by its virtue of not taking any concrete stand. Here is an example…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My wife: Shall we go
to Singapore for this December vacation? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My wife: Priti is there
so we can stay at her place. It saves us expense on stay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Me: <two
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My wife: Jet is
offering very good price for to and fro ticket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Me: <two more
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My wife: <Smiles – her day is made><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her, we are going as I didn’t say NO. For me, we are not as I didn’t say YES.
Silence continues to be at work for few more days of blissful life. Later the topic
loses its fizzle since it isn’t discussed much and her mother gets an
invitation for December stay. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Silence is equally effective
at office. It helps you avoid assignments from your boss. Here is an example…since
it is office communication it is through email…face-to-face talks are
considered foul in the game of office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My Boss: Prasad,
please help me think creative for a new customer proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Me: <it means he
wants to make stories about something which we don’t know- I remain silent by
not replying><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My Boss: <after a long wait> Let us meet post
lunch for this discussion <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Me: <continue to remain silent by not
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My Boss: <after
another long wait> It’s okay; Radhika is joining me for this. You continue
your work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Me: <after 30 mins of safety period> Oh!
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My silence got my boss
a woman of his creative inspiration and it saved me from a really boring job. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My friends, out
there is one man who really understands the importance of silence. He took
silence to new heights and because of him SILENCE is now ruling the country. He
is the man who gave silence a glory when he recently said, “My silence is
better than a thousand answers”. Learn
from our PRIME MINISTER (Dr. Manmohan Singh); he is a living example of “MAUNAM SARVARTHA SADHANAM”
which means, “ANYTHING CAN BE ACHIEVED BY BEING SILENT”. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-26561407752640533572012-06-01T22:22:00.001+05:302012-06-01T22:34:26.281+05:30A Pilgrim's Way<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If these are added I rejoice - if not, I shall not mind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So long as I have leave and choice to meet my fellow-kind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For as we come and as we go (and deadly soon go we!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The people, lord, Thy people, are good enough for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thus I will honour pious men whose virtue shines so bright</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Though none are more amazed than I when I by chance do right)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I will pity foolish men for woe their sins have bred</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Though ninety-nine percent of mine I brought on my own head)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And Amorite or Eremite or General Averagee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The people, Lord, Thy people are good enough for me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when the bore me overmuch, I will not shake mine ears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recalling many thousand such whom I have bored to tears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when they labour to impress I will not doubt nor scoff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I myself have done no less and sometimes pulled it off</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Yea as we are and we are not and we pretend to be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The people, lord, Thy people, are good enough for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when they work me random wrong as oftentimes hath been</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will not cherish hate too long (my hands are none too clean)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when they do me random good I will not feign surprise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No more than those whom I have cheered with wayside courtesies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But as we give and as we take - whate'er our takings be)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The people, lord, Thy people, are good enough for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when I meet with frantic folk who sinfully declare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no pardon for their sin, the same I will not spare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Till I have proved that Heaven and Hell which in our hearts we have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Show nothing irredeemable on either side the grave</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For as we live and as we die - if utter Death there be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The people, lord, Thy people, are good enough for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deliver me from every pride - the Middle, High and Low</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That bars me from a brother's side, whatever pride he show</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And purge me from all heresies of thought and speech and pen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That bid me judge him otherwise than I am judged. Amen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I might sing of Crowd or King or road-borne company</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I may labour in my day, vocation and degree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To provr the same by deed and name, and hold unshakenly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Where'er I go, whate'er I know, whoe'er my neighbour be)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This single faith in Life and Death and to Eternity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> " The people, lord, Thy people, are good enough for me."</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Rudyard Kipling</b><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Note: Special thanks to Jagmohan Nanaware for introducing me to this poem</span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-10977965525809218102012-05-14T23:00:00.002+05:302012-05-16T23:03:23.230+05:30Rajnikanth's lessons on Project Management<br />
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<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Tahoma; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #010101;"> Once a Project Manager ,who is also a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajinikanth">Rajnikanth</a> fan, goes to Rajni and tells him his plight. He tells him about scope creep, cost overrun, schedule variance, quality issues, regression and all that which is always the state of almost all projects. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #010101;"> On this Rajnikanth thinks for a fraction of nanosecond and shares some gyan with this project manager; very similar to what Krishna did to Arjuna in Kurukshetra. This project manager ,being a wise person, records it and publishes a book on it. That book becomes very popular in project management community. People start referring it as a bible of project management practices. Soon professionals start doing certification on that book and that certificate becomes de-facto standard in Project Management expertise. All in all it becomes a 'Holy Grail' of Project Management discipline.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #010101;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> The said book is popularly known as, <b>"PMBOK Guide"</b>. </span></span></div>
</div>Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-89854710946462102342012-05-07T21:21:00.001+05:302012-05-07T21:21:35.421+05:30If<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can keep your head when all about you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But make allowance for their doubting too;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or being hated, don't give way to hating,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And treat those two imposters just the same;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can make one heap of all your winnings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And lose, and start again at your beginnings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And never breathe a word about your loss;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To serve your turn long after they are gone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so hold on when there is nothing in you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If all men count with you, but none too much;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can fill the unforgiving minute</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>By Rudyard Kipling</b></span><br />Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-17873680278431057942012-05-03T22:24:00.000+05:302012-05-07T21:34:04.647+05:30L'affaire culinaire<div>
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<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It was just yesterday when I was married. Like any another just married person I had only one thought on top of my mind, how am I going to carry all these gifts to my work town? While thinking about it I was also helping my new wife packing for our honeymoon tour by instructing her from T.V. room. Same time my younger sister was preparing breakfast for me and post which my dear mother would make my special coffee. My father and brother had left for market to fetch me my favorite sweet which is the specialty of our town. All in all, it was pretty hectic morning and any more work would have been injustice to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It was then when I got a call from my Boss; you can always trust your boss for such a perfect timing. In a mix of commanding and favoring tone he asked me to start preparing for an international assignment. On my arrival from vacation he wanted me to fly to Paris for three months. He concluded the call with this short message as it was a time for him to make another untimely entry. Next moment I broke this news to family and my surrounding filled with reactions. In that chaos of opinions, suggestions & recommendations I understood two important things, one that my wife can not travel with me as her passport is still not ready and two, I can not afford to eat out for whole three months so I must take a crash course in cooking before I depart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Crash course in cooking reminded me of a crash I caused a couple of years back. It wasn't that I didn't know anything about cooking. By then I had tried my hands at making omelets. On one occasion I agreed to demonstrate this skill of mine to my younger brother and sister. We carefully chose the time of my parent’s absence as we were brought up as vegetarians. I indeed did a good job of demonstrating life cycle of chicken from egg to omelet and audience was certainly happy. I was at the last stage of my demo where I flip omelet by tossing it in pan. Omelet had already left the pan and before it could take back it's earlier position doorbell rang. I knew that my parents are back which made omelet nervous and it directly crash landed on stove. This incident taught me a lesson that one must always plan for failure. Especially when failure means, cleaning whole house and living with <i>GOMUTRA</i> sent for next ten days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #010101; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Sound of pressure cooker's whistle brought me back from my memories and I found myself standing in kitchen. I realized that my mother is already on the job of training me and lesson was about cooking rice and <i>dal</i>. This was the only lesson she could impart before I dropped out of the course. And of course, this was the only lesson I practiced all through my three months of stay in Paris with omelet as a side dish. During this period I discovered another important thing. I knew that fridge is made to store food for longer period without spoiling it. But in my trip to Paris I discovered that rice and <i>dal</i> survive week long storage and they still smell fresh once you microwave them for just two minutes. It effectively means I cooked only twelve times in three months period. Isn't that great?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #010101;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Eventually I came back from Paris and resumed my family life. I was just settling down when my phone rang again. Again it was my boss and again it was the same request. But this time I was better prepared; I had already invested in 2 months of cooking classes; 1 month of baking classes and few special home recipes. After doing all these classes my wife was best prepared to join me for my next trip to Paris.</span></span></div>
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<br />Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-38195383416621661112011-09-18T17:15:00.000+05:302011-09-18T17:15:09.723+05:30CORPORATE PRESENTATIONS - MY EXPERIENCE<div id="__ss_9300365" style="width: 425px;">
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Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-4786353612962830822011-09-15T11:17:00.000+05:302011-09-15T11:26:16.803+05:30Puss in Boots<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last weekend while I was flipping through
movie channels I stopped at one. It was running a movie from Shrek series, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892791/">Shrek Forever After</a>. Story has a
theme of altered reality and many original characters are portrayed very differently.
In one of the scene, Puss is seen as obese
and lazy cat; very much contrary to his original character which projects him
as a flamboyant, agile and swift sword fighting cat. This was very interesting transformation
and I couldn’t stop relating it to real life.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see similar transformation when a young professional
turns into big belly & big bottom character after a few years of service. Same
trend is seen with few organizations as well; after early years of success
(which is surely achieved through agility) some organizations start becoming self-praising,
middle heavy & sluggish. Of course, market knows how to deal with such enterprises
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I got to know that year 2011 will see the release of movie, “Puss in Boots”. It’s
a prequel to Shrek series where Puss will be seen as alter ego of Zorro. It
will be an interesting watch. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></span><br />
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Prasad Puranikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949964646239841238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3222061349778261639.post-16590887474109333652011-09-05T01:32:00.001+05:302011-09-06T14:22:56.826+05:30Brainless Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two days back I watched this movie,
“The Wizard of Oz”. A master piece from MGM Studio based on the 1900 fairytale
novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. In fact I was watching it second
time after a gap of almost seven years. No reason why but a random thought led
me to search this movie again and I bought a DVD as a surprise gift for my
three year old daughter. More than a gift, I wanted to watch this movie again with my daughter sitting beside
me. I imagined that it would be a great experience and believe me, the experience
was better than my imagination. Since then both of us are just not enough of
singing, “We’ re off to see the wizard; the Wonderful Wizard Oz”.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ever since I watched this movie
again even my mind is full of thoughts. Once such thought is provoked by a meaningful
dialog between Dorothy ( a farm girl who is a central character in the movie
and who just realized that Scarecrow can talk) and Scarecrow ( which is another
important character from the movie). Dialog goes something like this…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOROTHY:
You did say something, didn't you?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[The Scarecrow
shakes his head, then nods. Dorothy looking at the Scarecrow as he nods his
head and she speaks to him...]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOROTHY:
Are you doing that on purpose, or can't
you make up your mind?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[The Scarecrow explains, shows his straw
head]<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SCARECROW
: That's the trouble. I can't make up my
mind. I haven't got a brain -- only
straw.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOROTHY:
How can you talk if you haven't got
a brain?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SCARECROW: I don't know. But some people
without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOROTHY:
Yes, I guess you're right.</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Note: you can watch above snip @ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw85U2-FRdU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw85U2-FRdU</a>)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t think I need to explain any further; this piece puts
it just perfectly. I am an epitome of this brainless scarecrow and would
henceforth fill this space with my senseless blabber. :-)</span></div>
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