It is an ecstatic moment to tell that, this year also four Puneites will be awarded Padma awards this year. Last year four Puneites were awarded padma awards. 1. Prof. S.B.Mujumdar, Founder of SIBM-
Founder and Chancellor of Symbiosis International University, S B Mujumdar has been awarded Padma Bhushan. He has received Padma Shri in year 2005. It is a recognition for his work in educational fraternity.
President Pratibha Patil with S. B. Mujumar at SIBM
Some introduction reproduced from SIBM website..
Born on 31st July 1935 in a small town Gadhinglaj in Kolhapur District (Maharashtra), Dr. Mujumdar completed his college education at Kolhapur and Pune. He obtained a first class first in M.Sc. (Botany) and a Doctorate in Microbiology.He was the Head of the Department of Botany, Fergusson College, Pune for 20 years. He has written many standard books and published several papers in national and international books. He was also a member of the Executive Council of the Pune University for 9 years.
Through his experiences at Fergusson College, he realized the difficulties faced by foreign students, particularly those from Afro Asian countries, studying in Pune. Inspired by the ideals of Viswa Bharati of Gurudeo Tagore and ‘Antar Bharati’ of Sane Guruji, and with a desire to help foreign students and offer them a ‘Home away from Home’, in 1971 he established an organization called Symbiosis, which means ‘living together of two different organisms for mutual benefit’. The motto of Symbiosis is “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” – The world is one family.
2.Dr. K.H. Sancheti, Founder of Sancheti Hospital
Founder of Sancheti Hospital, Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Centre Dr K.H. Sancheti has been awarded second highest civilian award -Padma Vibhushan. He is one of the five people who received Padma Vibhushan Award. 3.Arun Firodia, Chairman of Kinetic Group
Industrialist Arun Firodia, chairman of Kinetic Group will be awarded Padmashri award. With the help of two wheeler automotive industry, he first introduced kinetic bike for women.
4.Artist Satish Alekar-
Satish Alekar, playwright and theatre personality has awarded Padmashri for his contribution of art for around three decades.
Find the Last year also four people received padma awards: Keki Grant,Shobhana Ranade,M. K. Dhavalikar,Sheetal Mahajan. Find in details Padma award winners here.
The President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards 2012, the country’s highest civilian awards. This year 109 recipients will get the awards including 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous and 19 women awardees. These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards.
Padmashri Awards of 2012
1
Vanraj Bhatia – Art – Music – Maharashtra
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Zia Fariduddin Dagar – Art – Music – vocal – Maharashtra
The President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards 2012, the country’s highest civilian awards. This year 109 recipients will get the awards including 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous and 19 women awardees. These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards.
Below is the list of Padma Bhushan award winners of this year.
Padma Bhushan Awards 2012
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Shabana Azmi – Art – Cinema – Maharashtra
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Khaled Choudhury – Art – Theatre – West Bengal
3
Jatin Das – Art – Painting – Delhi
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Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta – Art – Instrumental Music – Sarod – West Bengal
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Dharmendra Singh Deol alias Dharmendra – Art – Cinema – Maharashtra
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Trippunithwra Viswanathan Gopalkrishnan – Art – Classical music – Tamil Nadu
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Mira Nair – Art – Cinema – Delhi
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M.S. Gopalakrishnan – Art – Instrumental Music – Violin – Tamil Nadu
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Anish Kapoor – Art – Sculpture – UK
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Satya Narayan Goenka – Social Work – Maharashtra
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Dr. (Judge) Patibandla Chandrasekhar Rao – Public Affairs – Germany
12
eorge Yong-Boon Yeo – Public Affairs – Singapore
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Shashikumar Chitre – Science and Engineering – Maharashtra
14
Dr. M S Raghunathan – Science and Engineering – Maharashtra
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Subbiah Murugappa Vellayan – Trade and Industry – Tamil Nadu
16
Balasubramanian Muthuraman – Trade and Industry – Maharashtra
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Dr. Suresh H. Advani – Medicine – Oncology – Maharashtra
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Dr. Noshir H Wadia – Medicine – Neurology – Maharashtra
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Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty – Medicine – Cardiology – Karnataka
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Dr.Shantaram Balwant Mujumdar – Literature and Education – Maharashtra
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Prof. Vidya Dehejia – Literature and Education – USA
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Prof. Arvind Panagariya – Literature and Education – USA
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Dr. Jose Pereira – Literature and Education – USA
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Dr. Homi K. Bhabha – Literature and Education – UK
The President of India has approved conferment of Padma Awards 2012, the country’s highest civilian awards. This year 109 recipients will get the awards including 14 in the category of Foreigners/ NRIs/ PIOs/ Posthumous and 19 women awardees. These comprise 5 Padma Vibhushan, 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shri Awards.
GfK has conducted the market survey in India. In this survey, it is observed that life of people is closely connected with screen devises. These are part of our everyday life. We wake up to the sound of an alarm, where our old age clock has more than likely been replaced by a 3.5” screen mobile phone. When on the move, we read news on a 10” tablet; in our office we start our daily schedule on a 15.6” Notebook and we finish our day by watching entertainment on a 32” LCD TV. Furthermore, when we travel, we take a 2.7” screen digital camera to capture our trip.
David Ogilvy once said, “I don’t know the rules of grammar – but if you are trying to persuade people to do something or a buy something, it seems to me that you should use their language- the language they use every day, the language in which they think.”
Kolaveri did the same thing. Lyrics of the song is in ta-nglish (Tamil+English) english words which are used by common man in South India. Simple principle shook the India for few weeks.
In any business, the businessman should ask basic metaphysical question to himself like “Who are you ? Whom are you serving? And Do you serve well?” It’s the true story from the case study done by Marketing professor in my MBA class. It really amazed me and I couldn’t stop me placing over here.
It is the incidence told by Manager of Taj Hotel, Mumbai. One Non-Indian family comes to Mumbai and visits the Taj Hotel with their one little kid. After stay of couple of days, Family packs up and returns back to UK. On next day, It is found that, the couple forgot the Teddy Bear (toy) in their dorm room. Now, Hotel men has to return it keep a faith with visitors.(I thought, What Hotel people would do with that little Teddy Bear? Or They could parcel back their Teddy Bear to the address of Family. )
Secretary in the Hotel packed the Teddy bear in a gift wrapping box and sent back to the address of that family. They also sent few pictures of Teddy Bear with notes in that box. Pictures were taken at different places the room, where the family had lived. Picture had notes on them ‘Teddy watching Television’, ‘Teddy playing’, ‘and Teddy having dinner’.
Family whenever comes to India never looks towards any hotel than Taj.
He was the fifty year old man and milk shake salesman. He believed in persistence. When he opened his first restaurant in his city, He placed below lines on his office wall.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful me with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The man mentioned above is Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald-one of the biggest Fast Food retail chain in the world!
Last week, I was facebooking. I saw one question being dropped on many profiles. ”Why this is Kolaveri Di?’ I really didn’t get. Who is it Kolaveri? The video seemed to be Tamil. After couple of day, I saw many girls in my FB list ‘liked’ that song. Few friends have downloaded song on their cell. From couple of days, Sujit is playing this song while driving in a car. Children in my colonies are shouting Kolaveri Kolaveri. People are also humming this song from a week.
Viral Marketing of Kolaveri :
“Song is officially released on 18 November. Then it spread like a fire through social networking sites. Within first week of release, it received 1.3 million views on YouTube, more than 1 million shares on face book. This is the first Tamil song to be premiered on MTV India. On 30th November, Song has crossed 10 crore hits on YouTube. International Time Magazine, Huffington Post and BBC has published report of this song.”
Now, below description will not be an exaggeration :)
Viral Description of Kolaveri :It is detected that, Kolaveri virus spreading through human souls irrespective of age, sex and language. Most of the victims are observed humming ‘Kolaveri.. Kolaveri.. Kolaveri.” In the mid night of 18 Nov, virus is injected though social media targeting all youth with no language barrier. Virus will remain active for around 40-50 days. It will flow in the Indian blood affecting their souls. General symptoms are indulgent and warm feeling kindled in the heart. Infected patients are humming ‘Kolaveri Kolaveri’ continuously. Kolaveri worm will be alive till the Movie “3” release expected in Jan,2012. Lofty and soft voice seems almost responsible for outnumbering victims around the country. Many intellectuals are researching how the virus marketing to suck the money through entertainment industry. Treason has been plotted to suck money through rich as well as poor communities. There is no need to worry. Kolavari virus will die after couple of weeks of movie release.
Do you want to know actual details how this viral song spread around? Want to know..? Keep reading on…
Dhanush in 3
What is this Kolaveri Kolaveri?
Kolaveri means “murderous rage” i.e. ‘sudden and tremendous anger against someone’
“Why this Kolaveri Kolaveri Di” It means “Why are you so angry with me??” These are words of a boy whose love has been rejected by the girl whom he loves so much and from the heart.
Lyrics of this song track have words from Tamil (Madrasi) and English general slangs used in India. This 4:08 minute soundtrack and background score is composed by Anirudh Ravichander.
Invention of Kolaveri:
This funny lyric is composed by Anirudh Ravichandar. It is sung by Danush for his movie “3”, directed by his wife Aishwarya (daughter of RajaniKant). She added this song into a movie to show the heart break of a boy. She wanted to have one lofty and fresh song sung by a young boy who suffered break up and looks much depressed. Boy is asking the girl continuously, “Why are you angry? Why are you angry with me? “ Song is not an actual poem. Song is made up of dis continuous framed sentences in normal tamil slangs like Why, How, I, You, Like, Love. Director said, Song is mainly for bath room singer.
Background Video:
Song video has Actor Danush singing this song in a studio and practicing as playback singer. Co-Stars Shruti Hasaan and Aishwarya Ramchandran hear the song sitting behind him. Song composer Anirudh playing a piyano. Specially, Video includes actual creator of Kolaveri.
Dhanush and Shruti Hassan in 3
Kolaveri for Future Managers:
As per the ET, The soup song has turned an anthem for the future managers in the country. All IIMs has accepted this song as the best examples of viral marketing. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) has included this song in the subject “Contemporary Film Industry: a business perspective” IIMA faculty Bharathan Kandaswamy has said, “I will discuss Kolaveri Di as part of a session on social media and online tools when my class starts in December. Kolaveri Di is a perfect case of viral marketing, which has created a huge difference in the world of publicity.”
Professors of IIMs-Bangalore, Rohtak and Lucknow-have played the song in class and discussed its Marketing strategy. The institutes have also made videos of the entire class singing to Kolaveri Di and posted them on networking sites. Ramya, a student at IIMB student posted on her Facebook wall, “Kolaveri has been screened in many classes in IIM Bangalore. The professor sits along with the students and enjoys…Real Rage.“
Rajeev Kumra, faculty of marketing, at IIM Lucknow, says, “Companies have to be serious about viral marketing now, which is an upcoming area in marketing. We were discussing in class how the beautiful strategy used by Kolaveri Di can be used by company to leverage their marketing activities. The video of Kolaveri Di is watched with rapt attention and got transmitted like virus.” Sajal Kumar, a first year post-graduate programme student at IIM Kozhikode, has done a case study on the song, calling it Project Kolaveri.
Kolaveri and Youth Energy:
As I said first, the song has created much craze among children and youngsters. Song is blowing over the lips of all college girls and boys in these days. It is not only the case that ‘Boys are using this song to please their girl friends. This is song is used to fight against all ‘unfair’ activities. I have also overheard that song is being manipulated to tease the Agricultural minister Sharad Pawar, who is being slapped to express anger against the inflation and rising food prices. Local political campaigns are edged with Kolaveri. Amithab Bachchan also appreciated this song over his blog. By Exceptional case, Javed Akhtar has told, “There is no creativity in this art. The culture is being madly following the undesirable quality.’
Kolaveri: Example of Viral Marketing:
(a) Magic of Kolaveri lyrics: “White skin-u girl-u girl-u, girl-u heart-u black-u.” It is the reason for this song being hold in lips of all indian youth. Even child can hum this song with no efforts to know what exactly it is.
(b) Video footage: Video song has shown “Making of Kolaveri Di” i.e. how this song is made by the Kolaveri team. It shows Danush practising the coup song. Aishwarya, Shruti Hassan are sitting along to listen the song with him. Actual movie video would be obvious different from what is broadcasted.
(c) Refreshing Sound: Kolaveri fans tell that sound and music is refreshing and pleasant. It is composed by 21 year old young Anirudh Ravichander. Boys would love to sing this in front of their girlfriends or in the group.
(d) Common phenomenon: Director of “3″ wanted to have a common and easy song for batchroom singers and it is Kolaveri. So,the song doesn’t restrict any group or community or age. Female version of Kolaveri has also been shared on internet. After couple of days after release, different language version are made and are shared over the internet.
(e) Use of All social networks: Twitter trend records are out broke when this song shared on FB and Youtube. RJs from Chennai Radio stations has reported that more than 90 % listened has requested for this song in last week.
(d) Production by Celebrity: Song sung by Dhanush, who is son-in-law of RajaniKant. The movie “3” is directed by RajaniKant’s daughter Aishwarya RanajiKant.
Shruti Hassan is co-star actress with Dhanush in the “3”. She is daughter of Kamal Hassan and long time classical denser and famous Tamil actress. Apart from this , Song is quickly appreciated by Big B Amitabh Bachchan. He has blogged out with ‘mind blowing’.
Kolaveri in 3
Watch this song below !
Kolaveri Lyrics:
I appended the lyrics herewith for Kolaveri fans.
yo boys i am singing song
soup song
flop song
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
rhythm correct
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
maintain please
why this kolaveri..di
distance la moon-u moon-u
moon-u color-u white-u
white background night-u nigth-u
night-u color-u black-u
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
white skin-u girl-u girl-u
girl-u heart-u black-u
eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u
my future dark
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
maama notes eduthuko
apdiye kaila snacks eduthuko
pa pa paan pa pa paan pa pa paa pa pa paan
sariya vaasi
~ “Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.” ~
~ “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” ~
~ “Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment.” ~
~ “Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.” ~
~ “It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.” ~
~ “People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.” ~
~ “Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” ~
~ “Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.” ~
~ “When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?” ~
~ “To be loved means to be recognized as existing.” ~
~ “Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.” ~
~ “We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.” ~
Shares of Renuka Sugar shares are 52 weeks down below Rs. 32. (You can see the fluctuations in share here.) They have reported the loss of 615.8 cores in Q4 of Sept 2011( Last year Q4, They had a profit of 128.1 crore) . They have also reported forex loss of 570 crore. Founder CEO Narendra Murkumbi has said, “Shree Renuka Sugars had a difficult quarter due to a challenging operating environment in Brazil, especially in Sao Paulo state, due to bad weather severely affecting the sugarcane.” From last decade, Renuka Sugar factory has turned as a boon to the farmers around North Karnataka. It manufactures sugar on large scale taking sugarcanes cultivated by farmers. As sugar cane is one basic cash crop in the North Karnataka. The sugar produced is consumed in India as well as exported outside. I have been known about Renuka Sugar from my childhood, as my grandparents (who were farmers) and also used to send the sugarcane to Renuka Sugar factory. Renuka Sugar is founded by IIMA graduate Mr. Narendra Murkumbi and his mother Vidya Murkumbi in 1998 with their vision to produce most efficient sugar producer in the country. Narendra has received Economic Times’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2010.
Below beautiful lines on Opportunity are true for Renuka Sugar…
“We do not brood on problems, we count on opportunities.Because opportunities come under the gard of problems.Because opportunity seekers only survive and thrive.Because it is easy get discouraged by problems, but takes mettle to turn them into an inspiration.Because what is good for futuristic opportunity-focused business is good for envirionment, community and the world.This is not convenient word play or gorgeous make-believe.“
Renuka Sugar uses Jack Welch Strategy- “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
I would like to extend this post to tell something about, how and where Narendra Murkumbi learnt Entrepreneurship.
LEM Professor Sunil Handa at IIM Ahmedabad provides example Narendra Murkumbi during many sessions of Entrepreneurship. (LEM: Laboratory of Entrepreneurial Motivation) He was the first entrepreneurial student of Sir Sunil Handa. I would like to put the excerpt of blog post about Prof. Sunil Handa.
“Prof. Handa spoke about his teaching career’s first entrepreneurial student, Mr. Narendra Murkumbi. This lad’s first idea was that of manufacturing a Neem Insecticide in Belgaum. Though Prof. Handa was apprehensive about the idea initially, he was assured of its success after speaking to an international neem expert, Dr. Gupta at ICRISAT. Though the product turned out to be a great success, the customers were farmers and hence the Receivables on his balance sheets were huge. It was in 1995 that Narendra came up with the idea of buying old sugar mills and starting production of sugar. Prof Handa told him that he was crazy and that sugar was meant for people in the upper echelons of politics. But like many entrepreneurs, Mr. Murkumbi was willing to risk it. He went on with his plan and today he is the owner of one of the world’s most scientific state-of-the-art sugar mills, Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. Not only that, he was also featured as one of India’s new bilionaires by Business World. One interesting thing about Renuka Sugars is that they use co-generation to produce their own energy (using the waste, bagasse which comes from sugarcane). No electricity is purchased from outside. When Murkumbi explained the idea to Prof Handa, he said, “When god created sugarcane, he put enough energy in it to bring the sugar out of it.”
World class Pakistani Cricketer Imran Khan has started political campaigning for elections in 2013 in Pakistan with his party, Tehrik-e-Insaaf. Charismatic personality is going to head on competition with PPP, lead by President Asif Zardari. He has given many dynamic speeches.
Imran Khan
Let’s see only what he thinks about India.
He gave message to Indian government- “I believe there is never a military solution to any problem. In the past 40 years, according to Rand Corporation, only 7% have been solved by military forces. More than 90% was solved through dialogue, intelligence and police. When you put the army in civilian areas,it causes enormous amount of human-rights violation. Whether it is the Indian army in Kashmir or the Pakistani army in FATA or Balochistan or the US army in Iraq or Afghanistan, the result is the same everywhere: alienation of the local people. This is treating cancer with Dispirin.”
His message to his fans in India – “Well, it is simple. India and Pakistan are neighbors and we cannot change neighbours. We have to live as civilized neighbors. We have to solve differences not through guns and bombs, but though political dialogue. We are on the verge of becoming the energy corridor of the world if all three of us China, India and Pakistan join hands. Millions of people in the subcontinent will stand to benefit, economically and socially from this political action of coming together.”
Branson doesnt have to deal with a rough business environment.
Mallya does.
Richard Branson,on the other hand,oversees the Virgin Group which has 300 branded companies worldwide,with group revenues exceeding 11.5 billion (approx.$18 billion) in 2009.
Mallya leads from the Bangalore headquartered UB Group which includes United Spirits (the worlds third largest liquor company),Kingsfisher Airlines and has divisions that make fertilisers and undertake engineering contracts.
Branson hailed from a middle-class background and made his fortune from scratch.
Mallya inherited a fortune even though it was a considerably smaller one.
Branson is a self-made millionaire who over the years has invested relatively small amounts of money, by Mallya standards, but he has invested shrewdly and then turned that into a fortune.
Mallya on the otherhand inherited a fortune and is used to growing his wealth by basically out-spending the competition. He made India’s Kingfisher beer a top-selling beer by spending millions on advertising and marketing. In other words, he effectively bought market share.
Branson has his fingers in several pies.He runs trains,financial services companies and none of his firms are absolute market leaders.They are challengers and thats the way he likes it.
Mallya likes to lead in his businesses be it alcohol or airlines.In the alcohol business too,he went after market share.Thats what he tried with Deccan and suffered.
The perception is that Branson’s Virgin Atlantic is a large airline. But if If you look at its fleet size you will see that currently it has around 38 aircraft. That’s not very big when compared to the likes of SIA and BA. Branson of course would argue that his fleet may not be big in number but each aircraft is big in size. But there is no getting away from the fact it only has around 38 aircraft. If you look at the amount of money Branson invested to set-up his Australian low-cost carrier Virgin Blue you will also see it was quite modest. Ten million dollars to be exact.
Dr Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines has only been operating for a few years and its already got a fleet of over 100 aircraft. He has tried to beat the airline competition by outspending his competitors but aviation is a different business to beer and not even Dr Mallya’s pockets are deep enough to spend his way to the top.
In the summer of 2008,this correspondent met Branson.Branson had just jumped off a 35-storey five-star hotel to promote the launch of Virgin Mobiles operations in India.He turned up for the meeting on the dot,dressed in a white shirt and cream-coloured trousers.Throughout the interview,he avoided eye contact and was painfully shy unlike the brash public persona he oozes.Half my time is spent in creating new businesses,the rest is used to tackle social issues the world is facing, said Branson.Later in the evening,he would twirl actress Neha Dhupia like fiddlestick at a promotional event.He was 57 years old then.
In contrast,this correspondents first and only face-to-face meeting with Mallya was,well,unusual.In early 2004,Mallya was contesting the general elections and was generously giving television interviews.Outside his rather spartan political headquarters in Bangalore,a riff-raff of supporters and political wannabes had assembled not the crowd Mallya would be seen with otherwise.Inside his office,a photograph of a snoozing Deve Gowda held centre stage.Dressed in a spotless white kurta,Mallya delivered a bombastic speech about the need for a change of leadership and a revival of the youth in the country.The Janata Party,whose campaign Mallya headed in Karnataka,was routed.
It was a Saturday. I opened Facebook and it was a bad news and gave me a slow emotional numbness. I saw couple of pop up messages about Steve Jobs. I didn’t care because, Steve Job is as usual frequently in news from the time, when iPads entered into world market. In the next moment, it turned more than a surprise, when I saw a many more wall updates titled, “RIP Steve Jobs!” It really, shook my thought processes to that news, I guessed what would be inside and it was true. It is not wrong to say, the sea of twitter and Facebook was swelled in the melancholic messages and updates.
“Pancreatic cancer has taken away the Steve at the end, leaving the entire world in mournful silence.” He was fighting with cancer from last seven years. He was at the age of 56 at the moment of his death.
It was really sad news for me, because I watched Stanford commencement speech a week back. He told three stories in his words-1. Connect the dots, 2. Love and life and third 3. Story of a death. His speech ends with line “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish”All the thoughts are quick inspiring. These thoughts will inspire all coming generations. It is actually grand philosophy to make best out of your life.
I came to know about Steve Jobs four years before, when I was working on the multimedia project in college days and required to install iTunes player. Apple has made our batch to have on MacOS in our computer lab of Computer Graphics.
In my heart, he was one of the great leaders, who revolutionized the computer, music and publishing industry. All the products that came out of Apple like iTubes, iPods, iPads, MacOS are example of his art and creativity.
“The sun glides out from behind the house positions itself mid-street and breathes on us with its scarlet wind. Innsbruck I must leave you. But tomorrow a glowing sun stands in the half-dead gray forest where we have to work and live.“
It is one of the beautiful picture sketch by Tomas Transtomer, a swedish writer. He has won Nobel prize for literature of this year 2011. As I heard this news, I went through few of his poems, translated into English from here. Most of his work deals with war, life and nature. It creates a vivid picture in front of eyes while reading between the lines.
I will try to go through his work more in detail if I get a time and opportunity at right time. I am happy to note down my feelings about his poems.
She was called up by chairman of board and told that you are being fired from the place of CEO. Carol Bartz was one of the daring ladies to hold the top most place of Yahoo CEO. After this incidence, she emailed the 14,000 people in Yahoo saying, She is being fired from Yahoo.
To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.
Carol
On the next day, itself She called the board of Yahoo as “Doofuses” Further in an interview with Fortune, She said, “Yahoo fXXXed me over.”
This series of responses had turned the Silicon Valley around. Yahoo, company bases in Sunnyvale. Every one spoke about her sudden response. ‘She underestimated the future of company where she led’, “uncontrolled unwomanly behavior of lady”
After all, it is obvious, she still wanted to on board of Yahoo. Organization behavior was bit of impatience and the e-mail sent was just to ask for the comments from people in her organization. During her time in Yahoo for about 2 year, she made big changes like job cuts and taking support of yahoo to grow the search engine business. Slow pace progress of Yahoo under her leadership may have made board to change the place. Here, No one should underestimate, because, she took the top place in Silicon Valley after looking at her successful results in SunMicrosystem, Autodesk. Sudden response of her was just some frustration working within men, who turned unsupportive.
During one discussion in my ongoing MBA class, Professors teaching “Key Ideas in Management” told much more about Peter Drucker, as a revolutionary management thinker. He would many times, start with Drucker quotes. His ideas and concepts still rule and evolve the current management and business practices. One of my colleagues, who is knowing about Drucker first time, told me, He was not a CEO or businessman, but he only wrote management, but has no practical knowledge about management.
Jim Collins has answered this question long back. He tells them, “Look out the window, not in the mirror.”
Further noteworthy details Collions as he gave about Drucker-
“Drucker falls in line with thinkers like Darwin,Freud and Taylor – empiricists all. Darwin wrote copious notebooks, pages and pages about pigeons and turtles. Freud used his therapeutic practice as a laboratory. Taylor conducted empirical experiments, systematically tracking thousands of details. Like them, Drucker immersed himself in empirical facts and then asked, “What underlying principle explains these facts, and how can we harness that principle?”
Drucker as an individual:
“Drucker could be acerbic and impatient, a curmudgeon. But behind the prickly surface, and behind every page in his works, stands a man with tremendous compassion for the individual. He sought not just to make our economy more productive, but to make all of society more productive and more humane. To view other human beings as merely a means to an end, rather than as ends in themselves, struck Drucker as profoundly immortal. And as much as he wrote about institutions and society, I believe that he cared most deeply about the individual.”
One Drucker quote in last session of “change and innovation”
There is nothing higher than the possession of the self. To gain higher reward of perfection, we must direct our attention to the supreme reality of your own presence. The true spirit of human has neither commencement nor decay. This spirit is immortal. “To know Him(God), whom we do not know is the true end of human man. If we suppress this side, you are slayer of your own self.
Below lines are from 45th verse of second chapter in Bhagavadgita. These lines tells the importance your own self.
When Arjun is confused, Shri Krishna advises him, “Hey Arjuna, There are three types of virtues(gunas) –Satva, Raj and Tam. You go beyond these virtues. There are dualities like Happiness-Sorrow, Respect-Disrespect, Win-Lose. You should work irrespective of these dualities. Go beyond the eternal boundaries of them. Instead of thinking about material world and collection of this world, think only about your own soul.”
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Inflation in terms of Wholesale Price Index (WPI) in March,2011 was 9.7 %. RBI has taken an anti-inflammatory stance with the weapon of increasing interest rate to decrease the demand. Bank is adopting this only weapon from last one year and has hiked interest rate on lending FIFTEEN times in TEN months. Rise in interest rate is 25 basis points from May,2010.
RBI Policy
Commonly argued reasons for inflation is food and commodity price rise, large fiscal deficit, rising demand of consumer apps. Central bank has no control over any of these roots. They can only try to force down the demand or expenditure on every front. This decision is also risky until they communicate to the people about the decision to reign over the inflation during shorter period of time. Here, excessive use of this policy may reduce the investment and growth of retail industry.
Taylor rule of monetary policy tells that every percentage increase in inflation, output, central bank should also increase the interest rate more than one basis point till the situation gets under control.
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