tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260820152024-03-05T23:05:03.485+05:30Rajita Chaudhuri's Review: IIPM Faculty Rajita Chaudhuri BBA+MBA CourseProfessor Rajita Chaudhuri is the Dean of IIPM Center for Enterprise Management (3 years integrated (BBA+MBA) course in Planning and Entrepreneurship) and well acclaimed columnist of 4P’s Business and Marketing magazine.Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.comBlogger253125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-58233412761790146502012-09-06T16:22:00.000+05:302012-09-06T16:27:10.272+05:30IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri's Review on Thoughts and Courage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>IIPM Faculty Rajita Chaudhuri's Review on Thoughts</b></div>
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A person who can control his thoughts, a person who has a strong mind is the one who achieves the most. As someone said, “As you think, so shall you become.” Think about what you are planning to do today, for your thoughts become your actio
ns. If your thoughts match your plans, only then will you succeed. The book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill says that if you have a burning desire to achieve something, you will get it, for that [burning desire] will help you overcome all obstacles and opposition. Thoughts become things, and as Hill puts it, “All achievements, all earned riches have their beginning in an idea!” So find that idea which will engulf you and make you work towards it like a man possessed, and you will never look back.
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Both your thoughts and actions finally decide your future. So think right – this will help you to plan right. Before that, de-stress and declutter your life; simplify it so that you can focus on the really important stuff. Finally, once you have decided on something, don’t let anybody in the world change it... Just do it! <a href="http://rajitachaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/08/just-do-it.html" target="_blank"><b>Read Complete</b></a>
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Success also comes when you have the humility to accept you were wrong and change your course of action. The most difficult words to say are “I am sorry” and ‘I was wrong”. People who have the courage to use these words win in the long run.
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In fact, it’s so important to accept your failures that kings of medieval times kept court jesters, who were allowed to comment on the king’s failures; something others dared not to do. <b><a href="http://rajitachaudhuri.blogspot.in/2012/08/never-never-never-give-up.html" target="_blank">Read Complete</a></b></div>
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<b>Thousands descend on Battis Shirala every year to worship live snakes on Nag Panchami commemorating the slaying of Kalia, the evil serpent by Lord Krishna. Shruti Murkutkar looks at the spectacle </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><img align="left" alt="" hspace="5" src="http://thesundayindian.com/secure/app/webroot/js/uploaded/tsi261/47.jpg" vspace="5" />In
common parlance, a snake usually has negative connotations: it is a
deadly creature not to be trusted. But in the small town of Battis
Shirala, 60 km from Sangli, people not only live in harmony with
poisonous snakes but also worship these objects of dread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thousands
of devotees descend on the town – it got its name because it is located
amid a cluster of 32 big and small villages – on Nag Panchami day every
year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The day commemorates the legend of Lord Krishna’s slaying of Kalia the evil serpent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In
Maharashtra and elsewhere in India, the usual practice is to worship
snakes in the form of clay and mud idols installed in temples and homes.
But the residents of Shirala do not believe in paying obeisance to
inanimate snakes. They catch live snakes, often poisonous ones, and then
shower their faith on the serpents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A
hilly town nestled in thick forests, Battis Shirala has no less than 75
snake mandals (clubs). It is not without reason that it is referred to
as a land of snakes.</span></div>
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<a href="http://thesundayindian.com/secure/app/webroot/js/uploaded/tsi261/48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://thesundayindian.com/secure/app/webroot/js/uploaded/tsi261/48.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family: Arial;">The
villages around the densely-populated Battis Shirala are infested by
snakes because, as the locals point out, the land here is soft and the
climate is humid round the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
sarpanch of Battis Shirala, Devendra Patil, says Nag Panchami has been a
huge religious occasion for these villages for over a hundred years.</span></div>
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it is believed that the tradition began much earlier than only a
hundred years ago. There are references to the snakes of Shirala in the
songs of renowned 17th century Marathi saint-poet Samarth Ramdas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ramdas had travelled from Kolhapur to Shahapur in the year 1645 and was believed to have passed through Shirala.</span></div>
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Dhere, an authority on the literature of the Marathi saints, has also
cited the Nag Panchami festival of Shirala in one of his books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Snakes
are such an integral part of the existence of these villagers that many
residents of Shirala sport cobra tattoos. Shirala also has a town
square called Nag Katta.</span></div>
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sea of devout humanity converges on the town on the fifth day of
amavasya (no moon day) in the month of Shravan to worship the snake god.
On this day, people offer milk, bananas and coconut to snakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In
run-up to the Nag Panchami festivities, after Ashadi Purnima, the
villagers of Shirala fan out in different directions and start hunting
for live snakes and poisonous cobras in nearby forests. The snakes are
traced with the help of the trail thet they leave behind on the soil as
they slither around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The
villagers are expert snake catchers and employ the usual methods of
trapping a serpent. A stick is placed on the snake’s tail to prevent it
from getting away and then the serpent is grabbed just below its hood
and stuffed into a gunny bag or a mud pot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On
Nag Panchami day, the mandals (snake clubs) carry these snakes in a
procession to a temple, where they seek the blessings of the goddess
Amba Bai.</span></div>
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<a href="http://thesundayindian.com/secure/app/webroot/js/uploaded/tsi261/50.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://thesundayindian.com/secure/app/webroot/js/uploaded/tsi261/50.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family: Arial;">The
captured snakes are then taken to Gorakhnath Temple for further
rituals. People feed milk to snakes and perform special pujas.</span></div>
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villagers take special care to ensure that the snakes are not injured
during the annual festival. Once the rituals are over, the reptiles are
released into their natural surroundings and allowed to return to the
spots from where they were originally caught.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Shirala
has followed this custom since well before the cobra was put on the
list of protected animals under the Indian Wildlife Act 1972.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Legend
has it that on the day of Nag Panchami, saint Gorakhnath once visited
the town and stopped by for alms at the residence of a ‘Mahajan’ family,
and demanded alms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There
he saw some women worshiping images of large snakes drawn on a wall.
Touched by this gesture and impressed with their love for animals, the
saint presented them with a live snake and instructed them to worship a
live snake every year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since
then snakes are worshipped in every village of Battis Shirala. Nag
Panchami is today as much a social event as it is a religious occasion
with entertainment and competition thrown in. </span></div>
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“Men rule because women let
them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences,
but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.” --Germaine Greer </div>
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“What will electing a woman PM do for Australian women?” --Sun Herald, June 28, 2010 </div>
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For any company to be truly
successful and for any country to truly become a powerful nation, the
rule is the same – making the women powerful. If there is one country
that has done it and shown the world what a difference it can make, it’s
China. Compared to 1949, the status of Chinese women as of today has
changed significantly; and this has been possible due to (apart from
numerous other factors) one milestone, which came when in 1954, a clause
on men and women being equal was included in the country’s
constitution. This meant that women had the same status as men;
politically, economically, culturally and educationally, in all aspects
of life. Additionally, this equality status became formally protected by
law. China was now ready to take on the world, because a country that
looks after its women grows the fastest. It is the best growth strategy
that any company or country can adopt. After all, the world’s greatest
unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. The
ones who have this foresight will stay ahead of competitors and lead. </div>
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One organization that realized
this early was Google. When Marissa became the first woman engineer to
be hired by Google, this is what Larry Page and Sergey Brin told her,
“You know, we have seven engineers, and they’re all guys. But we’ve
thought a lot about how we want to start our company, and we’ve read a
lot of books, and we know that organizations work better when there is
gender balance. So it’s important to us that we have a strong group of
women, especially technical women, in the company.” Today, numerous
Fortune 500 companies are being headed by women. They bring along with
them two qualities, which are distinctly female; that of ‘patience and
compassion’, which makes them better leaders. It’s said Krishna was a
better leader than Ram because he had these two qualities, which Ram did
not have. So though Ram became the perfect man, it was Krishna who
became the perfect leader. </div>
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“Attacking is the only secret.
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare
again , and it will succumb.” --William Thackeray </div>
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Do not be afraid to do different
things; things, which had never been done before by any woman; for if a
whole lot of women had not dared, the world would not have been the way
we see it today. </div>
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If she had not dared to enter a
“man’s profession”, we would not have discovered radium. Marie Curie
went on to become the first woman to win the Nobel Prize; and she said,
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” If it
hadn’t been for these daring women who took enormous chances and made
great discoveries in spite of or rather because of the resistance they
faced in the male-dominated field, a lot of mysteries would not have
been solved. If research is to be believed, then according to the book
The Madame Curie Complex, women scientists have often asked different
questions, used different methods, come up with different explanations
for phenomena in the natural world, and in doing so, have transformed
forever a scientist’s role. They have also proved that the concept of
‘male professions’ is a myth. If decades ago, Madame Curie had to fight
hard against the general perception of people that science was not for
women, then today a whole lot of women are fighting the perception that
‘technology’ is not a field for women. Those are daring women like
Sheryl Sandberg and many more who have worked hard to change this
mindset and pave the way for future female leaders. It’s not surprising
that this time, IBM decided to appoint Virginia Rometty as its first
ever female CEO, something unheard of in technology companies. However,
women like Meg Whitman (e-Bay) and Carly Fiorina (HP) have already shown
that women are as capable of handling technology as men! </div>
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The world may not always have
been fair to the fairer sex, but it has not deterred many from daring to
live their dreams. According to an old Chinese proverb, women hold up
half the sky. Do they get their ‘half’ of the pie on earth too? We still
live in a world that does not do justice to women, and this fact has
been highlighted in the numerous true stories compiled in a book aptly
named Half the sky. The best part is that these are stories of courage,
of hope. These are stories of how women across Asia and Africa turned
oppression into opportunity. One story is of a Cambodian teenager sold
into sex slavery who had the courage to run away and start afresh.
Today, she runs a thriving retail business. Another heart breaking story
is of a woman from Ethiopia who suffered devastating injuries during
child birth. Not only did she fight for survival but in time, became a
surgeon. Ordinary women, but with extraordinary stories. They may not
have changed the world. No, not yet. But they dared to change their
world; that’s what courage is all about. </div>
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It’s time each woman dared to change the rules and dared to live her dream. </div>
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The aim of a marketing campaign is to make the brand stick out in your
memory. Being different, i.e., sticking out, helps in doing that. The
golden rule being, do exactly the opposite of what the others are doing.
This rule holds true everywhere; the way you dress, the way you apply
for a job, the way you advertise and the way you speak. If everyone
wears a casual attire to work, wear a suit to stand out. If every
competitor of yours is using advertisements with more visuals and less
text, do exactly the opposite.
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An MBA from Texas desperately wanted to get into the company Accenture,
but nothing worked. Ultimately, he decided to do something different. He
created a website ‘Hire- MeAccenture.com’, which had his flashy photos,
his blog and his resume. Yet another job seeker mailed a shoe with his
resume stuffed inside it to his potential employer with a note “Just
trying to get my foot in the door”. One even sent his resume in a pizza
box with a note, “Delivering you a great candidate”. Sometimes, the
gimmicks work and sometimes they backfire; but if you have it in you,
then a little extra attention goes a long way towards achieving your
goal.
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So set a goal, a target for yourself, and chase it passionately, while
keeping in mind the simple fact that to stick on to people’s minds and
to be remembered; you need to stick out, and keep thinking of ways of
doing things differently from the rest of the world. You will be
noticed. Advertisers have been using this trick for decades. Earlier
(even now), advertisers used beautiful women to sell just about
everything. You have a beautiful woman in an ad for a razor, for a
shirt, for a men’s deo, for a bike, for a car, for just about anything.
Now they are using men to sell products used by women!
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The rule is simple. If you want to succeed in this highly cluttered and
competitive world, then work hard towards not just being good but also
towards being different from others, so that you stand out from the
crowd. Do not blend in. Make your own rules and you will be noticed.
Being noticed is the first step towards success. So while making your
strategies, remember, “Stick out, don’t blend in”!</div>
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Cicero's Carnival is the biggest carnival in the country for school students. It started as an experiment and today it has grown into a big event which sees participation from all schools across the country.
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We at IIPM believe your education is incomplete if all you did in school was study! There are various other activities that 'teach' you more than just course books, the most important being the sports field. It teaches you one of the most important lessons in life and that is, how to deal with failure. You learn that it's ok to fail and it's ok to commit errors. Most importantly you learn that failure is not final for there is always another game that can be won.
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Cicero's Carnival gives students a chance to rediscover themselves as they compete with the best players across the country. It gives students a chance to develop their competitive spirit and put in a good fight, for nothing is more satisfying than emerging victorious against strong competition. After all, competitive spirit is not about wishing the other to fail but rather is about pushing yourself to excel and exceed that standards of excellence established by your peers. Victory is not just winning but also about being able to tell after a fight that “I gave it all I could. I gave it my best'. That is also the spirit of Cicero's Carnival. It's not just about winning or losing; it's about learning to develop that 'competitive spirit'. The various competitions at the carnival are designed to help you excel as an individual as well as a team. As the saying goes “If you think you think you can, you can”. The carnival is a place where you can test your beliefs and your competitive spirit.
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Cicero's Challenge gives students that chance to come out of their class-rooms and have fun while they compete with each other. It gives them a chance to think beyond and dare to do different things. This is what drives IIPM and we passionately believe that if you dare to do things that you believe in, then you are bound to achieve success.
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It gives me immense pleasure to see how this carnival has grown, and how every year thousands of students come to attend it. There is no greater satisfaction than to see these very young and very bright minds come here and not just sincerely and passionately compete with each other but also have fun, make new friends, discover their hidden potential and take away not just some fabulous prizes but also some fantastic memories.
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I hope as you read this special edition, you too get a feel of the carnival atmosphere and the competitive spirit with which the environment was abuzz that day.
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-42732820281973954452012-06-05T12:13:00.000+05:302012-06-05T12:13:00.601+05:30IIPM Rajita Chaudhuri on 'GOOD IDEA IS GOOD BUSINESS'<div style="text-align: justify;">
Good ideas make you rich but not the reverse. As William Cameron said,
“Money never starts an idea, it’s the idea that starts the money.” If
you have an idea that came out of your passion for something and not for
the objective of making money, it’s going to make you a lot of money,
for that’s what makes legends. Not just the knack of inventing and
creating new ideas but even the ability to identify the potential of new
ideas is what makes businesses successful. A genius is someone who can
make use of the simplest of ideas. In fact, the simpler an idea, the
more profitable it is. Think about ‘Hotmail’, a simple idea of sending
mails for free over the internet, which made its founder Sabeer Bhatia
richer by $400 million back in 1997. PayPal, a simple idea of making
payments online, made its founders richer by $1.5 billion when eBay
bought it. Instagram, the most recent company creating waves, is also a
simple idea. In fact, it’s not even a new idea, for Flickr does the
same; just that it’s for the web while Instagram is for the mobile.
Flickr also made money for its founders when it was bought by Yahoo! a
few years back<br />
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A successful businessman is one who keeps an eye open for ideas with
potential. When eBay acquired PayPal, it saw a potential and today,
Paypal is contributing in revenues as much as eBay’s core business.
Something similar is what Mark Zuckerberg saw in Instagram. Those were
not the profits of the company but its potential to grow which attracted
him to it; for no one understands the model of establishing an audience
before generating sales better than him. When he made Facebook in his
Harvard dormitory, he wanted it to become popular, to be liked by
youngsters and not make money. Instagram, too, was made with the same
philosophy and is loved by its users. They love it so much that they
would not move to any other application easily. Love is what makes the
world go round; surprisingly, even the business world, and no one knows
it better than Apple. It is most loved, has a cult-like following and
its consumer base is most loyal. Michael Dell once said that Apple
should close down while it still had something to return to its
investors. This same company today has passed Exxon-Mobil as the world’s
most valuable company and has bigger financial reserves than the US
government! For a company that many thought would close down soon, it’s
not done too bad. Even though Steve Jobs is no more with us, but the
world will not forget him for his iPad. It was a new way of looking at
the dying market of tablets. Thanks to the iPad, the tablet market is
the most thriving one with new consumers being added every day.<br />
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In fact, his iPad has been responsible for infusing fresh life not just
into the tablet market but into so many others too. Magazines and
newspapers are finding an innovative way to increase the life span of
their products. The iPad has made magazines more user friendly, more
trendy and more attractive. Schools are finding it easier to teach
reluctant kids, making subjects more fun and the teaching style more
interactive. It’s Apple and it’s iPad and iPhone that started a whole
new business of ‘apps’ and one company for sure (<i>Instagram</i>) is thanking Steve Jobs today for making them billionaires!<br />
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A good idea has the power to change a lot of things and inspire so many
others too. In fact, one idea can take so many different proportions
that could have never been imagined. As Pablo Picasso said, “I begin
with an idea and then it becomes something else.” The iPad was just an
idea and today it is the new way of doing business for many companies.<br />
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Similarly, <i>Hunger Games</i> was just an idea for a novel and today it
has spawned so many businesses. When Suzanne Collins wrote the book,
little did she know the ripple effect it would create. Even before the
film was released, Lionsgate, its producers, and a host of others built a
whole world of marketing around it. Set in the future, the movie is
about a place named ‘Capitol’, which selects a boy and a girl from the
twelve districts that it governs and makes them fight to death on a live
television show, for the thrill of the Capitol’s residents and to keep
the districts under full domination. It revolves around a brave girl who
is also a sharp shooter and how she not just wins but changes the rules
of the game too. A movie that keeps you at the edge of your seat right
till the end is also an important lesson in marketing. In a world full
of male superheroes, here comes a young ‘girl-superhero’. The audience
loved her for they had seen none like her. Her powers (<i>shooting with a bow and arrow</i>),
too, were not in-born but could be nurtured. She was a dream that could
be achieved and her effect on the young audience has worked like magic.
The idea of the story was so brilliant that it influenced many. China
Glaze, a cosmetics company, has launched a <i>Hunger Games</i>-inspired
nail polish line and yes, you guessed it, it has twelve shades – one for
each district. Never to be left behind, Facebook has a game called <i>The Hunger Games</i>
adventures, where players build their own traps, concoct potions and
even grow food. New York Sports Club has launched a new workout inspired
by <i>Hunger Games</i>, which has moves like those used by the girl
Katniss and her friends for survival. The winner of the workout is the
one who is fit to survive the treacherous arena that Katniss survived in
the movie. Very soon, we might see a Barbie changing from a dainty
little girl to one with a bow and arrow like Katniss (<i>Jennifer Lawrence</i>),
the new heartthrob of young fans. The sound track of the movie soared
to the number one slot, making the singer Taylor Swift most wanted. It’s
remained the top film for three weeks and even the mighty <i>Titanic</i>
could not overshadow it. Doing a business of over $300 million, the
film shows no signs of slowing down and neither do the marketers who
just can’t stop finding ways of making the most of this mania.<br />
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One story changed the fortunes of not just the author (<i>she is the best selling author on Amazon and everywhere else</i>),
but also of a host of other businesses. The power of an idea could not
have been better explained than the way it was done in the movie <i>Inception</i>,
where Leonardo DiCaprio is on a mission to plant an idea in the mind of
the heir of a business tycoon to dissolve his deceased father’s
business empire. He rightly says, “What’s the most resilient parasite?
An idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can
transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”<br />
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In fact, a whole lot of new inventions are doing just that. If the iPad
shook up the world in 2010, then wait to see what these can do. A new
technology named DIDO will eliminate the need for cell phone towers and
you can say goodbye to slow download speeds forever. There is a printer,
which will be able to print skin. You can keep your palm on the device
and the cartridges filled with skin cells will print out your skin.
Although still in the development stage, a lot of burn victims and
soldiers are eagerly waiting for it.<br />
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There is going to be a world of opportunities that is going to open up;
just keep a lookout for the new ideas around you and within you. Be not
afraid of expressing your view even if it sounds silly; for most often,
that is the foundation of a successful idea. As Einstein said, “If at
first it’s not absurd, there is no hope for it.” Remember that there is
nothing more powerful than a good idea. Have faith in your ideas and
don’t let somebody’s yawn or sneer kill it. You owe it to yourself and
the world, for you know what a good idea can do.</div>
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The merger of Chiranjeevi's PRP with the Kirankumar Reddy-led Congress may prove to be successful in staving off the Opposition's bid to unsettle the government but it will surely make Andhra politics extremely boring, feels Naresh Nunna.
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Vaudeville refers to a stage-variety entertainment show, featuring a series of short acts, songs, dances, acrobatics, comedy skits and animal acts; 'turnaround' denotes a film that has been abandoned by a studio; 'unbilled role' means a supporting role for a major star. Now let's put these jargons to use. In Andhra, a vaudeville-like PRP has made a 'turnaround' by merging with the Congress, confining PRP founder and megastar Chiranjeevi (Chiru) to an 'unbilled role'.
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Before and during the launch of the much-hyped PRP, TSI had foreseen the possible walk-on (minor brief role) of Chiru in the political arena. The predictions were not based on wild political speculation but on psephological hypothesis. When the second daughter of Chiru eloped with her friend and got married, it was said that it was a conspiracy hatched to embarrass Chiru by Congress leaders who allegedly paid for the travel and stay of the young couple and the hefty legal fees. Chiru was then unsure about his entry into politics. Chiru made up his mind for a counter-attack with his own political outfit. A real leader would not have been impulsive and no party should have its roots in personal whims.
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“A real leader should not be impulsive. It is not a film, there is no avenging hero. Despite his huge fan following, which could be equal to that of the legendary N. T. Rama Rao’s, Chiru was at receiving end, owing to his imprudent steps,” noted psephologist Ramalingam D. Vavilala.
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PRP was confined to winning just 18 seats in the 294-member state Assembly in the 2009 elections. In a jolt to his personal ambitions, he was unsuccessful in his native district where he lost to a Congress lady. The actor managed a narrow win in Tirupati, one of the two seats he contested for the Assembly.
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“It is not a debacle for a new entrant. It was wrongly perceived to be disastrous since the expectations were high. Though PRP won only 18 seats, its contestants came second in 34 Assembly constituencies. Garnering 17 per cent of the total votes, PRP played a key role in deciding the fate of 65 seats,” Vavilala added.
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“The romanticist generally has strong likes and dislikes, irrespective of logic. With all his emotions and fancies, he dreams, imagines, sometimes they are utopian. The flip side of the romanticist is that he is aware of no reality, no rationale, and no logic,” Tankasala told TSI.
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If Chiru had been a romanticist in the classic sense of the term, he could have learnt a lesson from the outcome of 2009 elections. It was the first time that his romanticism was faced with the hardcore reality outside. But, the election results did not change the man. An over-ambitious Chiru failed to generate a sense of confidence among its people. During the days of preparation, his discussions with the intellectual gentry merely resembled his sittings with film directors.
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“Chiranjeevi tried to fill the voids within, being formed by more than three decades of ignorance - an ignorance of reality,” political commentator Sanjiva Reddy said. Juxtaposing the icons of Gandhi, Mother Teresa with Phule and Ambedkar led to further confusion. In fact, his party's slogan was also very filmy: 'preme lakshyam, seve margam (Love is the destiny and service the only means.' He started disappointing his followers at the very first meeting at Tirupati when he read out a prepared speech.
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Chiru became a virtual non-entity in state politics and Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's sudden demise changed the political equations in Andhra Pradesh. The Congress high command started experimenting with the veteran K. Rosaiah. Now, a new guinea pig in the shape of Kirankumar Reddy is being used with the sole aim of ending ‘YSRisation’ of the state Congress. This gradually isolated Jagan and ensured his exit from party. The issue of a separate Telangana state also jolted state politics. There were serious doubts about the survivability of the government.
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“Appointing Srikrishna Committee to study the feasibility of a Telangana state was the first move of the Congress high command. The Telangana ferment was pacified for time being,” Reddy said. Referring to the allurement of Chiranjeevi by the Congress, senior political analyst Prakash Tadi said that the Congress clinched an instant victory with the merger of PRP as ''victories in politics are (must be) immediate and momentary''.
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“Individually speaking Chiru is a weak politician. The present CM, Kirankumar Reddy is a constituency-level leader. But, the strategic combination of these two feather-weight champions marked a remarkable victory over the two gigantic figures of Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy and N. Chandrababu Naidu,” he told TSI.
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Naidu dare not go for a no-confidence motion against the present government as it could become ‘counter-productive’. Jagan, who bragged that the government is running at his mercy, is now in a fix as he is uncertain of his strength, after the merger. Some MLAs in the Jagan camp are gradually distancing themselves from YSR's son and are reiterating their loyalties to the high command.
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By roping in Chiranjeevi, the Congress, which has 155 MLAs, is now confident of facing a trial of strength in the Assembly. But Chiru's romanticism won't go away. After coming out of 10 Janpath, he said his party merged with the Congress to fight more fiercely for social justice. Since his feeble shoulders could not bring about any change, he decided to take the support of the more muscular Congress. Chiru's romanticism may turn Andhra politics into another yawner (a boring film).</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-27923169430484350622012-01-20T17:06:00.000+05:302012-01-20T17:07:50.155+05:30THE STUDENTS BRANDED THE CONCEPT OF DIVINITY AND FAITH IN ALL OF THESE PLACES IN AN EXCLUSIVE WAY...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a></span></span><br /><br />It was an elegant morning when we started our excursion of the old fort, followed by Humayun Tomb, where the students were exposed to the exclusive Mughal sculpture. “This place made me very emotional and I liked how the IIPM students expressed the tomb,” feels Simona Pasinelli – one of the Italian student. After finishing our session with the extravagant tomb, we took them the group to the fantastic Qutub Minar and the students felt that the story behind making this tower was a fantasy. After such an awesome visit we took them to taste some authentic Indian cuisine in Delhi Haat for a scrumptious lunch. And with that we completed our cultural tour in the cosmopolitan capital of this country. But an excursion for Europeans visiting India is incomplete if they don't visit at least one divine city and the elegant Taj Mahal.<br /><br />Our next excursion was in the holy city of Amritsar and we headed towards the Golden Temple. The very first glance of the Golden Temple shining bright in the sunlight amazed everyone. The divine phrases from Guru Granth Sahib attracted everyone's attention despite of the fact that most of the Italian students didn't understand the language. “Language is not required to connect yourself to the Almighty,” is what Marco Inversini – one of the Italian students remarked while we were moving out of the Golden Temple. The visit to Amritsar would not have been complete without going to the wagah Border for the very famous Flag Lowering ceremony. The passion with which the IIPM students explained the significance of the very famous ceremony very well highlighted their patriotic feelings. The Italian students were highly impressed by the chaismatic personality of the Indian Army personnel.<br /><br />Our next trip was to Agra-which reflected the Mughal culture. Now it was the time to introduce them to the Indian Art and Laterature.<br /><br />Our next aim was to show these students Indian art. It was a seminar with Prof. Rajeev Lochan that took us all to the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. Prof. Lochan expressed his views on modern art. He also threw some light on the lives and works of Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Abanindranath Tagore. The seminar was followed by a visit to the gallery where the students appreciated the art of various artistes. 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Go on, admit it: some Goan beaches would have been on the top-of-the-mind even though you may not have named it. And those of you, who considered consulting Google for an answer, welcome to the club. The quest for a healthy dose of pure unadulterated sunshine and the desire to witness some sand-sea bonhomie led me to the east coast of our country. I was headed for Vizag.<br /><br />Visakhapatnam or Vizag was one of the first places along the coast where the French and later the British set up shops, as this region was known for its natural port. The sea is unnaturally deep out here as the continental shelf (Google tells me) suddenly falls, allowing heavy vessels and ships to come really close to the port.<br /><br />Today, Visakhapatnam is a moderately crowded place and as I winded through the streets I traced the footsteps of many a tourist who had walked these pathways before me. The rental car meant to take me around had not yet arrived at the hotel, so I thought of checking out one of the testimonials of local creativity: sandalwood sculptures. Exceptionally beautiful, these handicraft sculptures had a kind of finesse which… My phone rang and it was the receptionist from the hotel lobby telling me that my car had arrived. I was soon taken to the Ramakrishna Beach, one of the most popular beaches in the city. Just in time for that magical-every-time moment of the setting sun, there was quite a crowd on the beach – some seated, some sauntering. The sun hanging low on the horizon and the silhouettes of the strollers made the scene surreal.<br /><br />The next day, Borra Caves was first on the itinerary. Deep in the heart of the earth – the deepest in India – are these breathtaking natural formations lit up in many colours by artificial lights, giving the place an extra-terrestrial feel. After the cavernous affair, I emerged fully exhausted but overwhelmed by the natural heritage of this land. Recently modernised by the Tourist Dept. of Andhra Pradesh, the caves also house a temple for Lord Shiva after a structure resembling the Lingam, or the phallic symbol of the deity.<br /><br />On the Vizag-Bhimli Beach Road is the Tenneti Park, and that, arguably – however, much I know I’m not exaggerating – is the most beautiful place in all of Vizag. At sunrise, the air is filled with a mystical mist and the ocean turns orange. It’s a true spectacle of nature and is one of the sharpest memories I have of Vizag.<br /><br />Other locations that must not be missed when you are in the port town of Visakhapatnam are Araku Valley, Kailasagiri and Simhachalam. Be it trekking through caves or sitting and watching the sun set over the horizon, the ‘Goa of the East Coast’ as Vizag is also known, will not disappoint.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-75480180388675568302011-11-20T10:48:00.000+05:302011-11-20T10:48:00.163+05:30Revolts in Europe have deep links with socialist movements<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why Karl Marx was right</span><br /><br />2010 has been quite challenging for the European policy makers. European states including Greece, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Lithuania and many more have been blazing due to incessant strikes one after the other. Starting from June 2010 to September 2010, each day was hectic for the state police trying to control agitations on streets led by different labour unions demanding wage increase, reforms in pension schemes and working conditions. Although these incidents seem apparently discreet, they have deep links with the socialist structure and mark the beginning of a full-fledged social movement.<br /><br />German philosopher, sociologist and historian Karl Marx envisioned a new economic system, the foundation of which was to be dictatorship of the proletariats – the larger section of the society – and the state was to be responsible for safeguarding the interests of proletariats against the bourgeoisie. This later came to be known as 'Socialism.' But history is testimony to the fact that any nation that had experimented with socialism, had somehow failed to safegaurd the interest of proletariats and often saw discreet discontentment in the form of revolt or strikes. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) imbibed socialism in 1917 through the October Revolution led by the great visionary V. I. Lenin. However, the world witnessed that the experiment failed when USSR split in 1991. There were many reasons behind the failure including wars, famine in USSR, the short life span of the leader Lenin etc. Moreover, the irony in the case of USSR was: inspite of the fact that agriculture gets special focus under socialism, USSR witnessed drastic fall in agricultural output during the socialist era. Finally, while socialism was supposed to be dictatorship of proletariats, there was dissatisfaction among them which resulted in widespread revolts across USSR. Worse was the use of police force by leaders like Stalin to suppress such revolts. Even the socialist journeys of Central and European states like Romania, Bulgaria, though quite successful, were often knocked off by incidents of dissatisfaction among citizens.<br /><br />Modern Europe can be considered in the same league. European states are increasingly incorporating socialist policies with time. History shows that the entire rebuilding and reconstruction of Europe was based on Keynesian theory. A more critical observation shows that many things are changing in Europe recently. Trade unions are gradually becoming more powerful. They have more influence over policymakers unlike in India or other mixed economies. In contrast, the bargaining power of the capitalist class and their dominance is declining. In totality, there are high chances that proletariats will overthrow pro-capitalist governments and establish socialist policies in full swing. This is what Marx had prophesised centuries ago. The transformation may not be so sudden and radical as Marx had said but there are all possibilities for a drive, a change or a transition. When and how? Even Karl Marx had not given a timeline!<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong></strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-37372650045221538822011-11-17T11:08:00.000+05:302011-11-17T11:08:00.065+05:30Not just a beauty queen…<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is “Turning 30” all about? What drew you toward this role?</span><br />“Turning 30” is about a girl who is turning 30. It’s a story of her trials, her tribulations, her joys and sorrows as she approaches her 30th birthday. Being an achiever, she is doing very well professionally and her life is going very well, all according to the plan. Thirty is kind of a benchmark that most people set for themselves; say by 30 we want to achieve all these things in life. She has achieved everything, but suddenly everything falls apart as she turns 30.The director came to meet me and I liked the story, premise, treatment, vision of the director, and I always appreciate real life characters as I can identify with them. Also, the movie is produced by Prakash Jha. I have always admired his work.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ups and downs are a part of life; can you tell us of a time when you faced a crisis in your life, when you felt that your career/life wasn’t heading anywhere? How did you deal with such a situation?</span><br />I don’t consider any phase to be a ‘down’ in my life. I can’t remember a single moment when I was depressed. Being a runner, I exercise regularly, so I’m always charged with endorphins! I don’t feel depressed and despondent at all! I am somebody, who doesn’t get bogged down by things. My attitude is of someone who is ready to get up and get going. I don’t spend time thinking about the downs in my life at all. That’s why I’d say that I haven’t faced a period of depression in my life.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You were very active in sports and public speaking when in school. How did the thought of participating in beauty pageants occur to you?</span><br />Yes, I was an athlete and was very active in debates as well. I figured out that these beauty pageants were something more than just beauty. I thought I should give it a shot because it would be another feather to have in my cap. So, that’s how it happened.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is there any advice that you’d like to give to the girls who aspire to win beauty pageants?</span><br />I think beauty with substance matters the most. So, if you’re not inherently beautiful, you can make yourself beautiful with intelligence.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So you’d say intelligence matters in these contests?</span><br />I would like to believe so! (laughs)<br /><br />Share some memorable moments of the time when you were one of the contestants.<br />Oh, you know at that time, my excitement was all about being there and winning goody bags and so many gifts each day. Everyday we would come back and find new things on our bed, like a new camera, a pair of jeans etc. For me, all of this, plus just being on national television was very exciting.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Usually films are the next progression after beauty pageants. Is that how films happened to you?</span><br />I did television for four years before coming into films. At some level, I think, all girls want to be movie stars and beauty queens. And I had the same thought! But consciously, I never thought about it whether in school or in college. I got an opportunity to be a part of television. After that I had offers of films as well, but there was nothing that pleased me. There were roles where I had to be the hero’s girlfriend with just 5-6 scenes and that didn’t interest me. So, I chose to use my communication skills to my advantage and used that in television before graduating to films.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You have always done character-based roles and not tried out-and-out commercial Bollywood films. Why is that?</span><br />There are a lot of factors actually. First, I believe that every film is made for a commercial purpose. Every film is made to earn money. The idea of releasing a film and showing it to the audience means it’s a commercial film. Yes, some films might have a different scope and different budget, and small budget movies are meant to cater to a different audience. More than the intelligence of the script and story, I think the treatment of the film is very important. Whatever genre you make a film in, it should be real. That’s what I look for. For instance, “Rajneeti” was a film with a massive budget, but it had a ‘real’ element to it. So realism in the film is very important to me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Which character is closest to your heart or the one which you could relate to the most?</span><br />I think Naina, my character in “Turning 30” is very versatile, aggressive and professional. Any girl in today’s age who works, has a job, is struggling, can relate to this character. So, this character has a very high identifiable quotient.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apart from films and television, you’ve been involved in a lot of adventure. One of that is the F1 racing experience. Tell us about that…</span><br />Well, the fact that I’ve been into adventure hasn’t been a secret. And when they were looking for somebody to represent India, my name came up. I ride bikes. It was so exciting to be driving a car, which goes faster than a plane when it’s taking off! I wasn’t scared at all. Recently, I raced in a track in Chennai. It was the Volkswagen Polo Cup. All this is very exciting.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you had to choose between adventure sports and movies as a career option, which would you pick?</span><br />Well in India, to be honest, sports do not have much potential. Films definitely have a wider scope. And it’s easier to take that up as a profession! Both are very competitive where the rule of ‘survival of the fittest works’. But, I’d say films would be my choice.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-33807503674199475792011-11-14T11:03:00.000+05:302011-11-14T11:03:00.595+05:30Yamla Pagla Deewana: An enjoyable no-brainer<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Deol deal</span><br /><br />The Deols reunite for a film that is all about them. Yamla Pagla Deewana<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3xEGmCy8lU3OGUuq6sWlDuXyP6ZLYTzPjjJVUUhaGX9TGUMWylY2TYqaM5cUUzm3TNRnRTzc1M9bvR4tV6G1iMqqQZ6gmi-FNCwdYSuWndqZCytPzSgcyIOuLeqWPGpobDpNc/s1600/Yamla-Pagla-Deewana.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3xEGmCy8lU3OGUuq6sWlDuXyP6ZLYTzPjjJVUUhaGX9TGUMWylY2TYqaM5cUUzm3TNRnRTzc1M9bvR4tV6G1iMqqQZ6gmi-FNCwdYSuWndqZCytPzSgcyIOuLeqWPGpobDpNc/s400/Yamla-Pagla-Deewana.jpg" alt="Yamla Pagla Deewana" title="Yamla Pagla Deewana" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670345505073326178" border="0" /></a> is a part self-indulgent part self-deprecating effort from the trio, which aims to entertain from the beginning to the finish. The brothers in real life play bros on-screen too but they get separated when their con-man father Dharam (also their real life father Dharmendra) takes his younger son Gajodhar (Bobby Deol) and leaves their mother (Nafisa Ali). Twenty years later, the mother and elder son Paramveer (Sunny Deol) are settled in Canada, but when they hear about Dharam’s whereabouts, Paramveer travels to India to find his long-lost father and brother. Conveniently, Gajodhar is the first person he meets in Benaras, and while Dharam refuses to acknowledge Paramveer as his son, he does allow him to tag along with them once they witness his brute strength. The plot then focuses on Gajodhar’s romance with Saheba (Kulraj Randhawa), and after her five brothers assault Gajodhar and take the girl home, the trio, in DDLJ fashion, follow her to Punjab.<br /><br />The brothers know what they’re good at, and so while Bobby sticks to romance, Sunny spoofs several of his own action sequences. Dharamendra as the tottering conman is good, but this is no where close to any of his best performances. Where the film provides us with several LOL moments, it also has a lot going against it. The Gajodhar-Saheba romance is a drag, the music is mostly terrible, and a lot of gags fall flat in the face. Yet, Yamla Pagla Deewana is good family fare, as long as you don’t reason too much about the happenings.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong></strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-37174155635527122462011-11-11T10:01:00.000+05:302011-11-11T10:01:00.329+05:30To mine or not to mine...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a></span><br /><br />The government, through a new legislation, wants mining companies to share 26 per cent of their net profit with the local community. While worried miners have projected the new-profit sharing formula as an end of road for the industry, the government seems confident of making it work.<br /><br />After having displayed a laggard approach on the need of a more contemporary mining policy for years, the government has recently shown great urgency in bringing out a new legislation that promises to address mining-related concerns of most stakeholders. The new proposal, 'The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2010', which is an amendment to the MMDR Act, 1957, and has been approved by the Union cabinet to be put before the Parliament in the forthcoming Budget session, aims to increase the benefits from mining to local communities and also open up the country’s resources to foreign and local private investment. Most interestingly, the contours of the new Bill make it mandatory for mining companies to give 26 per cent of their net profit as compensation to locals displaced by the projects. As S. Vijay Kumar, Secretary, Department of Mines, explains to TSI in an exclusive interaction, “We are trying to give enough options to the local communities by giving them a recurring financial compensation. And it's not a compensation for land, it is to empower them to do something different.”<br /><br />The expansion of mining in India is a key towards maintaining the GDP and export growth of the country. While Mines minister B K Handique says that the share of mining sector to the country's GDP (between 2.5 per cent and three per cent currently), is poised to increase substantially, the current scenario of mining in India is rather disappointing. The battle between the mining companies and the people displaced by their projects have posed as a huge obstacle for the growth of Indian mining industry in the past. In this context, the question remains, can the new Bill go a long way in resolving these battles?<br /><br />Going by the miners, well, it will not be as easy as it seems. As per them, they are disturbed with the new profit-sharing formula. The reason, they say, is that 26 per cent sharing is an addition to the regular corporate tax and royalties they are already paying. “While there is no denying that the interests of the tribal population have to be kept in mind, the government also needs to ensure that the industry does not get wiped off,” says R K Sharma, Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI).<br /><br />While the industry contests that royalty linked contribution by mining companies is the best way to deliver justice to affected people, the Mines ministry, on the other hand, has proposed that a 'District Mineral Foundation' be created and the beneficiaries be paid out the 26 per cent net profit of the mining companies from it.<br />The government is firm on its stand to ensure that miners give tribal and other affected sects of the population a share of the profits they make from exploiting mineral resources. However, Sharma firmly believes that appropriating a percentage of earnings will demotivate entrepreneurs. “On one hand the government says that it wants to bring tribals to the national mainstream, and on the other hand you yourself ensure that they don't,” he observes.<br /><br />It is interesting that both the government and industry have raised similar concerns on this issue. Both sides recognise the need for a fresh thrust in exploration of minerals and metals in which India is deficient and depends totally on imports (such as gold, copper, nickel and platinum). Both parties also believe that mining should be carried out in a manner that does not hurt the interests of the locals or tribals. However, a consensus still eludes.<br /><br />Apart from the new profit-sharing formula, there are some other facets of the proposed legislation which has the industry worried. “The Bill stipulates a payment of 26 per cent of net profit or 10 per cent as royalty, whichever is more. So, even if a company is in loss, it will still have to pay the 10 per cent royalty, above other taxes that we are already paying,” Sharma says, adding that the fresh move will only lead to illegal mining in India.<br /><br />While the actual impact of the renewed Act on the mining sector in India will unfold only once it is implemented, the government is fairly confident of making the new formula work. “I agree that by giving away 26 per cent, the company’s reserves will go down, their expansion plans might be hit and I sympathise with the industry. But there is no other option, if the locals do not get 26 per cent they will not allow mining. The option here actually has to be between mining and not mining rather than expanding or not expanding,” says Kumar.<br /><br />Nevertheless, the Bill offers the miners some reasons to smile as it proposes transparent and quick procedure for granting of licenses, size specifications designed to invite interest from big players with better technology and expertise, creation of a National Mining Tribunal for appeals against executive decisions et al.<br /><br />The aspirations of the new draft legislation provide enough evidence of the damage caused by current mining practices. Even though FIMI's Sharma terms the Bill in its current form as “the grand obituary of the mineral resource industry in India”, Mines Secretary Kumar is very clear about his plans. “Everybody is extracting from mining areas and nobody is giving back. Even the royalty from the state governments is being used in non-mineral areas. I am paying back. Others will have to adjust,” he concludes.<br /><br />With the need for changing the image of the mining industry in India gaining momentum, the government will have to strike the right balance between the social and economic demands and implications of mining in India, while ensuring that it does not pitch itself as an unattractive destination.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong></strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-73966332786279912012011-11-08T11:59:00.000+05:302011-11-08T11:59:00.037+05:30The appointment of an 'outsider' as head of Deoband's Darul Uloom sparks a debate in one of Islam's leading centres of learning<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The man from gujarat</span><br /><br />An air of discontent hangs over Darul Uloom (literally meaning a house of learning) in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh. An 'outsider' has been appointed mohtamim (rector) of the famed Islamic institution and a section of clerics is openly articulating its concerns over the 'negative' implications of the move.<br /><br />The new appointment was necessitated due to the demise on December 8, 2010 of the seminary's mohtamim, Maulana Marghoob-ur-Rahman, an eminent Islamic scholar. On January 10, the executive council of the institution named Maulana Ghulam Mohammad Ismail Vastanvi, a Gujarati businessman and cleric, as the new rector.<br /><br />The mohtamim wields great authority over the institution and considerable influence over the community. Thus the post is of great political and social significance. This is, incidentally, only the second time in independent India that Darul Uloom has witnessed a change of guard. The institution was established in 1866.<br />The controversy surrounding Maulana Vastanvi's appointment is a case of history repeating itself. In 1982, during Indira Gandhi's reign, the then rector Maulana Qari Mohd Tayyab Deobandi had to make way for Maulana Marghoob-ur-Rehman when he opposed the executive council's decision to declare Darul Uloom a 'cultural and secular' seat of learning. <br /><br />Dr Obaid Iqbal Asim of Deoband describes Maulana Vastanvi's appointment as a “decision taken in great haste”. He says: “Every institution has its own character. Darul Uloom is no exception. All the previous rectors had been Qasmis (graduates of Darul Uloom). They had an intrinsic understanding of the institution's ways. Maulana Vastanvi is a non-Qasmi. It will be difficult for him to grasp the basic character of Darul Uloom.”<br /><br />Dr Asim alleges that money played an important role in this decision. “The strong financial position of Maulana Vastanvi influenced the move,” he says. “Members of the executive council might have thought that Maulana Vastanvi could bring more money to the Darul Uloom.”<br /><br />A senior Darul Uloom cleric, on condition of anonymity, says: “Ours is not a mere educational institution. It represents an entire school of thought. It should be headed by someone who is deeply immersed in its ethos.” This cleric's worry is that Maulana Vastanvi's liberal outlook might be at odds with Darul Uloom's core principles. He, too, suspects that Vastanvi's money power swayed the executive council.<br /><br />Dr Asim minces no words. “It is against the basic tenets of Darul Uloom to look towards rich people to run the institution. It was established with public contributions. One very important principle that Hazrat Nanautavi proposed for Darul Uloom was trust in Allah and the support of the people, no matter how poor they might be.”<br /><br />A member of Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind raises another issue. He says: “Maulana Vastanvi is a busy man. He runs Jamia Islamia Ishatul Uloom, Akalkuan, Maharashtra, 20 BUMS and engineering colleges and 15 educational institutions for women. Moreover, he belongs to Gujarat. He might not be able to devote enough time to Darul Uloom.”<br /><br />Maulana Vastanvi's political connections are well known. On the way back to Gujarat after being elected the mohtamim of Darul Uloom, he met senior politician Haji Shahid Akhlaq in Meerut and a veteran Congress leader in Delhi. There can be no denying that there is deep-rooted support for him within the community as well as in the political establishment.<br /><br />Indeed, Maulana Vastanvi's appointment is being hailed in certain quarters. Says Badar Kazmi, vice president of Majlis Amal: “Those that are criticising the decision are people who want to use Darul Uloom for their political ends.”<br /><br />Kazmi says: “Maulana Vastanvi is a graduate from Mazahirul Uloom of Saharanpur, which is an important institution of the Deobandi school of thought. He has also been a member of the executive council of Darul Uloom for ten years. So he knows the institution very well.”<br /><br />Kazmi emphasises that Maulana Vastanvi has the vision and resources to establish modern educational institutions without distorting the historical and religious character of Darul Uloom. The executive council might have kept this in mind while electing him.”<br /><br />He adds: “This decision has sparked new hope among students and staff members. In the next ten years, we will witness revolutionary changes in Darul Uloom.”<br /><br />Despite the fact that the newly elected rector is a businessman with a strong financial base and also enjoys close proximity with several senior politicians, the sailing was not as smooth as expected. Fourteen of the 17 members of the executive council were present during the meeting. Only eight members were in Maulana Vastanvi's favour.<br /><br />It is being said that the presence of three members and particularly of Maulana Raabe Hasani Nadvi would have changed the situation. One group feels that in that situation the scales would have tilted in favour of Maulana Arshad Madni. The general mood in Deoband is in favour of Maulana Madni, who is widely respected by students and the staff. He also happens to be a relative of the new rector.<br /><br />The transition hasn't been smooth. Hence Maulana Vastanvi will be under pressure to dispel the misgivings about him, especially those that link his appointment to his wealth. Not only will he have to live up to the financial expectations – the annual budget approved for this financial year by the executive council is Rs 17.79 crore – he will also have to work doubly hard to prove that he possesses other more crucial credentials for the job.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-48364383798360803922011-11-05T10:50:00.000+05:302011-11-05T10:50:00.737+05:30Coffee, served dark: The stunning natural beauty of Coorg hides a shocking truth.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In its sprawling coffee plantations, over 50,000 bonded labourers are trapped in a system of slavery reminiscent of pre-Civil War America </span><br /><br />Coorg, nestled in the Western Ghats, has produced great military strategists like KM Cariappa and KS Thimmaiah as well as brave soldiers for the Indian Army. But the treatment that the coffee growers of the area are doling out to their labour force isn't something that the native Kodavas can be proud of.<br /><br />In Coorg, workers, mainly tribals, are bought and sold like cattle by coffee estate owners to work on their plantations. The exploitation happens in the garb of a money-lending system that leads to the workers losing their freedom completely.<br /><br />Ravi is one such labourer. A Jenu-Kuruba tribal of Nanachchi-Gadde village, he took an advance of Rs 4000 from Kotramadu Ramesh, an estate owner, before joining the workforce. “I worked there for three and a half years on a wage of Rs 85 a day. The owner would make me surrender Rs 50 every day as loan repayment. Yet, more than three years later I was still in debt,” laments Ravi.<br /><br />But that wasn't the end of his woes. Ramesh sold Ravi to another estate owner (known simply as 'Bellary gate collector') for Rs 4000. To meet his needs, the poor tribal took an advance of Rs 2000 from his new employer and sank deeper into debt. Says Ravi: “He too would deduct money from my daily wages. I never asked how much my wage was and how much was being deducted, nor did he ever explain.”<br /><br />Ravi's debt burden climbed to Rs 7,000 within a year. “That was the amount my previous owner paid 'Bellary gate collector' to buy me back,” states Ravi. “I've no idea how my loan swelled to Rs 7,000.” Ravi is trapped for life in an arrangement he has no control over. He obviously isn't alone. The slave trade is rampant across the 200,000-hectare coffee belt of Coorg.<br /><br />Coffee cultivation, particularly at the time of harvest, requires huge manpower even when a plantation is as small as one or two acres. With the number of labourers in Coorg villages and tribal hamlets diminishing rapidly, owners have devised devious ways to 'retain' workers. <br /><br />Coffee estate owners dole out some money – usually in multiples of Rs 1,000 – when they hire a worker. This loan doesn't get repaid despite decades of hard labour and wage deductions. Much worse, in many cases it swells to as much as Rs 30,000, which is completely beyond the means of the toiling tribals. So the workers are doomed to work in the coffee estates until death sets them free. They are transferred back and forth between the coffee estate for a fee. It is the employer who gets the money. The hapless tribal labourer's 'workplace' changes, his fate doesn't.<br /><br />Appanna's saga of slavery is just as bad. “My wife and I work in Kallichanda Vishnu Karyappa’s estate. I had taken Rs 8000 as advance while joining. We've been toiling here for over two years but the loan burden refuses to go away,” he says.<br /><br />Before the couple came to Karyappa's estate, they worked for nearly eight years in Bachikanda Annayyandan’s plantations. When he expressed a desire to quit, Annayyandan told Appanna that the latter owed him Rs. 5000. “It was a lie. I was paid Rs 60 as daily wages and the owner would cut Rs 100 to Rs 150 a week. Eight years on, he claimed I still owed him Rs 5000,” says Appanna. Karyappa then paid Annayyandan Rs 5000 and bought Appanna and his wife, residents of Kodange village. “I now receive Rs 100 as daily wages,” says the tribal worker. Most coffee estate workers are tribals living around Nagarhole reserve forest. They have similar stories to share. Thrown out of the forest, they are compelled to work for the coffee growers.<br /><br />The population of Thithimathi area, made up of 36 hamlets, is around 46,000. Nearly everyone here works in a coffee estate and is trapped in the cycle of exploitation. Nobody dares ask for details of wages, debt and deductions. If anybody ups and quit his job, the debt automatically increases. The coffee estate owners systematically exploit the fear that stalks the workers as well as the disunity in their ranks. <br /><br />“My wife and I work for Kalichanda Dileep Sommanna for the last three years. He bought us by repaying my ‘debt’ of Rs 7000 to my earlier owner, Tadiyangada Hari. Here in this estate, he has been deducting Rs 100-150 every week and yet the loan has now swelled to Rs 15,000. Yes, I did borrow some money for household expenses, but the amounts were always meagre. Now nobody is ready to hire me as the loan burden on me is too big. There's no escape,” Ganapathy tells us.<br /><br />When TSI visited the area, many such ‘slaves’ encircled us, desperate to articulate their miserable tale. Shivaji, Kempa, Boja, Kalpana, Bojappa – each one of them was is a victim of this pernicious system.<br /><br />“This is nothing but bonded labour. That a practice of buying and selling workers continues in the 21st century is a shame,” says Somanna, a lecturer who has had to bear the wrath of the Kodava coffee estate owners for taking up the workers' cause.<br /><br />The exploitation of coffee estate workers is also rampant in the estates of Chikmagalur, Shimoga and other mountainous districts. As the oppression mounts, the resistance is gathering momentum.<br /><br />BS Surya Prakash, president, Coorg Coffee, says:“If a system equivalent to slavery still exists in Coorg, it is shameful and condemnable. I came to know about this only after you told me now. Since I am in the Bangalore factory, I really don’t know what kind of relationship is maintained between workers and the estate owners. It is true that coffee harvesting requires more manpower and estate owners compete among themselves and use various methods to bind the workers.”<br /><br />Retired Justice V.S. Malimat says: “Legal action can be taken on those who practice bonded labour under Bonded Labour Abolition Act. No owner can force any labourer to work under him/her on the pretext of loan, dues or any other previous commitments. All the workers are free to change the owners, irrespective of how much he/she owes his/her owner.”<br /><br />Budakattu Krishikara Sangh (Tribal Agricultural Labour Association) is closing its ranks to oppose this present-day form of 'slavery'. “Oppression unleashed on the tribals assumes various forms. If the workers protest, false robbery cases are filed against them. The estate owners, who have strong links with politicians and bureaucrats, have even tried to slap false cases on the association. Whistle-blowers in the administration are instantly transferred,” alleges Thimma, secretary of the Tribal Agricultural Labour Association.<br /><br />The association's interventions are slowly but surely bearing fruit. Appu, a boy who has been working in a coffee plantation since the age of eight, was repeatedly refused permission to go home for a break. The association filed a case against the owner to secure Appu's release. However, the young boy hasn't received a single penny as wages from the owner.<br /><br />Some owners, however, do oppose the system. “Yes, exploitation does take place,” says Kotrangada Subrahmani, an estate owner. "However, in our estate we provide facilities like provident fund and medical allowance to workers.” But this is obviously an exception. <br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong><br />IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-86384765785397043672011-11-02T17:41:00.000+05:302011-11-02T17:44:24.942+05:30Duty-free shops in India do not accept Indian currency<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">INR not accepted!</span><br /><br />Last year, India introduced a symbol for the Indian National Rupee (INR) amidst a lot of criticism and praise. Not only did the new symbol give our currency a new meaning and essence but also added it to the series of globally recognised currencies. INR today shares space with currencies like dollar, pound, yen, euro etc. For a country like India, especially when it’s trying to make its mark on global forums, such currency design initiatives not only add intrinsic value to the currency but also make it globally recognised and help it to be at par with the world's leading currencies.<br /><br />There seems to be an aura of celebration and pride whenever our currency becomes stronger vis-à-vis dollar or euro. However, such celebration and pomp end as soon as one enters India's internaitonal aiports. Duty free outlets, especially at departure terminals, in almost all countries accept dollars, euros and the resepective country's national currency. Additionally, duty free shops also mention the price of products/commodities in the world's leading currencies along with their national currency. Surprisingly, this is not true in case of Indian duty-free outlets at our international departure terminals. Indian duty-free outlets at any international departure terminal in India do not accept INR, nor do they mention prices of commodities/products being sold, in INR.<br /><br />This not only insults INR, which is trying hard to come at par with the global currencies, but also decreases the very essence of our own currency. Imagine the plight of a tourist who is left with some INR and would like to shop at these duty-free outlets. He/she would have to get his/her INR converted into dollars (pay a commission/tax for conversion) in order to buy products at the outlets. Indian duty free shops should not only mention the prices in INR but also accept it. The Indian government should also force these outlets in Indian departure terminals to promote INR. Our government should also have talks with various other nations where the Indian rupee is still not accepted and have proactive quid pro quo arrangements with such nations.<br /><br />With the opening up of T3 at IGI, Indian airports have entered the league of the best airports of the world. And with India being talked about in various global forums, it is expected that our international airports are seen as an advertisement for what India has to offer. To that extent, let's hope that we absolve ourselves of useless inferiority complexes as those that exist now.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong></strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-59376090686568668182011-11-02T10:29:00.000+05:302011-11-02T12:49:02.417+05:301761-Third Battle Of Panipat: How History Haunts<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong>IIPM: What is E-PAT?</strong></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">250 years on, the catastrophic Military Defeat stalks and stokes Maratha Pride & Prejudice... </span><br /><br />Here we are, two journalists who belong to Maharashtra, thundering in a classic North Indian taxi towards the Grand Trunk Road. Before we can pause for breath or curse the driver for his love for the Formula 1 circuit, we reach Panipat at about eight in the morning - an electrifying and frightening 100 km drive from Delhi. We confront a sea of saffron flags and are assailed by the kind of sound that we are familiar as a slogan back home in Maharashtra. Scores of jeeps have loudspeakers that are loudly proclaiming "Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai!" We almost feel as if this is not Haryana but a town in Maharashtra where invoking Shivaji is a labour of passion, a strange war cry that makes us feel proud.<br /><br />We haven't travelled through 100 kilometres of fog with a suicidal driver to Panipat on a whim. It is January 14, 2011. Exactly 250 years ago, these verdant fields, now surrounded by markets peddling mobile phones and underwear, were the arena for what many think to be the greatest battle and war fought over a single day. Sure we know our history though we don't claim to be experts. We know that 250 years ago, the then Maratha Empire gathered in Panipat to oppose and try to stop a marauder called Ahmed Shah Abdali from piercing the innards of 'Hindustan' to be able to pillage and rape Delhi once again as many invaders had done in history. We also know that the Marathas lost that battle (many in our office call it a decisive war) and Indians were never again ruled by Indians till 1947.<br /><br />We were quite amazed by the number of people who were there to commemorate the battle. Many had come from our home state Maharashtra and spoke fluent Marathi. There was the usual procession of political leaders who gave the usual speeches about Maratha pride. Frankly, we were bored. And we started to wonder if this was yet another show that preferred to find security and identity in past glory that has perhaps disappeared forever.<br /><br />But what intrigued us was the presence of thousands of (pardon our saying so) Jat-looking types who were scattered and crowded all over the commemoration venue. We gathered the requisite courage to ask a person sitting in the audience about his well being. His first response was that his name was Kalinand Ramanand Bhadwade. More intriguing for us was his reply in pure Haryanvi that he was a 'Road' Maratha. Of course, he had absolutely no clue about Marathi as a language but insisted that he and his family members always said, ''Jai Shivaji Maharaj'' whenever their children caught a fit of sneezing. We met hundreds of such people who claimed to be Road Marathas. Not a single one could speak Marathi. But they all insisted that they were descendants of brave Maratha warriors who never returned home after their crushing defeat in the Third Battle of Panipat. Most concur that those brave warriors of 250 years ago who survived the carnage of 1761 were too ashamed to go back to Maharashtra (It did not exist as a modern state till 1960). Most also claim mystical bonding with Shivaji, the Maratha warrior who also triggered and inspired political aspirations in native Indians.<br /><br />Just in case you had forgotten your history lessons, here is what happened at the Third Battle of Panipat. Well before 1761, the Marathas had effective control of Delhi, allowing a nominal Mughal ruler to wear the crown of Hindustan. So when the most dominat political and military force of India of the time, the Maratha Empire, realised that an invader called Ahmed Shah Abdali was marching towards Delhi, they did not hesitate to go forth and protect both Hindustan and their new-found political and military authority. Says Vishwas Patil, a senior bureaucrat who has just recently written the preface for the 31st edition of a fictional work on Panipat that he wrote way back in 1988: "People accuse me of pandering to an elite of Pune when I wrote the book on Panipat. It is totally wrong. In those days, Mumbai was not an important city and Pune was the centre of the Maratha Empire. But Pune had a total population of about 20,000 people at that time. So how did more than 1.5 lakh warriors gather in Maharasthra to leave for Panipat? Caste was irrelevant then." There are many historical accounts of what actually happened at Panipat on January 14, 1761. But the fact remains that Ahmed Shah Abdali won, the Maratha Empire suffered a paralysing defeat and Delhi was once again laid bare for foreign invaders to pillage and rape. Of course, we all know how this opened the doors for the British to gradually capture political and military control of India.<br /><br />When we were kids, we hadn't heard anything much about the Road Marathas. So we followed a leader named Veerendra Verma to his village. He is the man who has led a political movement to claim legitimacy for the Road Marathas and persuade the rest of India and the world into believing that they were the descendants of a valorous army of Maratha warriors who laid down their lives to defend their motherland. We had a wonderful meeting with Mr Verma who virtually convinced us that the Road Marathas were actual descendants of the survivors of 1761. He pointed out many uncanny similarities between the words, gestures, mannerisms and marriage rituals of the Road Marathas and people who actually live in Maharashtra. We couldn't find a satisfactory answer as to why he was - in a manner - digging up ghosts of the past. Of course, we realised later that our host was also a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the Lok Sabha elections of 2009. He lost. We also found out that the government - we really don't know at what level - has accepted the claims of these people to be Maratha descendants. The people we interacted with during the January 14 ceremony to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Third Battle of Panipat told us with a smile - and perhaps a smirk - that 200 from their community had got jobs as soldiers in the Maratha Regiment. We felt nice, though not elated, proud or celebratory.<br /><br />The good feelings and the nostalgia being exchanged, we thought we could ask the Road Marathas about their opinion on Marathi leaders who came for the function. We asked them about BJP leader Gopinath Munde who was the chief guest at one of the functions. They had absolutely no clue who he was. We asked them about Uddhav and Raj Thackeray. Either they had absolutely no idea or they did a masterful job of acting in front of us. Nor was anybody willing to talk about the purpose behind gathering so many people from Maharashtra for an event that happened so long ago. But having been born and brought in Maharshtra, we are well aware of the wave of 'Maratha' sentiment that sweeps across the state today. For example, both of us remember a trip to Pune where we were tutored and coached by a member of the Sambhaji Brigade to realise that people like Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were enemies of the 'Maratha nation'. In Pune, we have also witnessed sessions where the mother of Shivaji is revered as a deity while his historical Brahmin advisor Dadoji Konddev is someone today's Marathas would prefer to forget. As journalists, we are well aware of the caste equations that dominate the political landscape of Maharshtra today. But what surprised us was how the new caste equations and battles have spilled over even to the so-called 'Punya Bhumi' called Panipat.<br /><br />When we came back, our colleagues in the office both teased and asked us: "So do you feel more proud to be a Maharashtrian today?" Without a moment of hesitation, both of us asserted that we were and would always be proud of our Maratha heritage. Some asked us why the name of Maratha general Sadashivrao Bhau, killed in Panipat, is no longer taken by the current custodians of Marathi culture and pride. We thought for a bit and said perhaps he was as much a victim of caste politics as Mahatma Gandhi was for the Bahujan Samaj Party and K. Kamaraja was for the DMK in Tamil Nadu. More questions followed and we answered them effortlessly. After all, how difficult is it in India to proclaim that you love your language, region and religion even as you love India? We discussed for hours about 'What If' scenarios where the Marathas would not lose the 1761 war and Marathas and the British together would controll the Indian sub-continent. There were many jokes about the fusion of British and Marathi cuisines.<br /><br />But there was one question from a junior reporter we simply failed to answer. He asked: "In 1761, you guys travelled more than 2000 kilometres to save India from invaders. Today, your Uddhav and Raj Thackeray order their cadres to attack non-Marathi citizens of India who they think have invaded Maharashtra. Is that the Martha vision today?"<br /><br />Of course, we didn't get into an argument. What would be the point? We knew that the so-called mainstream media had chosen to ignore many genuine grievances of the people from Maharashtra.<br /><br />At the back of our head, we also know that today's Maharashtra does not have a single political leader who has the courage to really fight both for India and Maratha pride. We almost said, ''Jai Hind'' and ''Jai Maharashtra'' before leaving the boisterous discussion. We did neither. We just smiled and left.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">'It's Punya Path'</span><br /><br />Senior bureaucrat Vishwas Patil, better better known in Maharashtra for authoring quite a few best-selling novels, spoke to Devdas Matale on the 250th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Panipat.<br /><br />I begin the rendezvous by asking him, “Panipat is a battle we lost. So, what made you write a novel on that?”<br /><br />Patil smiles and says, “I read The New History of Marathas by Govind Sakharam Sardesai which had a chapter on the Battle of Panipat. After reading that, I was struck by what Panipat actually was. It was not merely a ‘lost battle’. There was much more to it. It is a major turning point in the history of the Marathas and Maharashtra. My mind started working on the subject almost immediately and I also started gathering relevant materials on the same. This was in 1984. And by the end of 1988, Panipat, the novel, was published.”<br /><br />The 30th edition of Panipat has been specially published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the battle ie on January 14, 2011. And due to overwhelming demand, the publisher has already geared up for the next edition. In the preface titled Vasaa Panipatacha (Legacy of Panipat) to the latest edition, Patil writes that the northen kingdoms did not help the Marathas in the war. When asked to elaborate on this, Patil says, ‘The Marathas were highly capable and strong. The northern Hindu Kings were aware of this. They feared that if the Marathas won this battle, it would be difficult to keep the Marathas limited to the South. That was the sole reason they refrained from coming forward to help the Marathas.”<br /><br />I try to poke him by asking if the tradition of non-cooperation with the Marathas continues till date. But he proves a tough nut to crack. “I can not comment on contemporary leaders as I have not studied them thoroughly. But the leaders of the past were true visionaries and looked ahead in time,” are his exact words.<br /><br />After writing Panipat, Patil faced scathing criticism and comments such as ‘Did you write the novel to make heroes out of the Punekars?’ Patil is dismissive: “One can’t help it. A few people are bound to think that way. These narrow-minded people do not know that this battle was not fought by warriors of any one particular caste or community. The entire length and breadth of Maharashtra had come together.<br /><br />In that period, Mumbai was not a big city. Pune was. But even then, Pune’s total population was not more than 20,000. But the army that left for Panipat consisted of 1.5 lakh soldiers. Entire Maharashtra came together to fight. Brave soldiers from all castes and communities left their homes for this battle. The invading enemy Ahmed Shah Abdali had crossed about five or six kingdoms till then. Nobody had dared stop him. But the Marathas went all the way to Panipat to stop him. The Marathas were courageous, brave and die-hard warriors. The current generation should try to emulate this psyche of our ancestors. Panipat was not a lost battle, it is a Punya Path… a holy road that leads to higher levels of achievement.”<br /><br />But nowadays, everyone seems to be dividing people on the basis of caste, community or language. What does Patil think about this? Patil is once again evasive. He says, “No comments.”<br /><br />What about the current trend of challenging history, over-insistence on changing historical facts? Patil says, “Such changes do not last. No one can change history or a make a mockery of it. Historical truth always comes to the fore. So we need not worry about it.”<br /><br />I round up our discussion by asking him which identity gives him more satisfaction, that of a bureaucrat or that of a writer.<br /><br />Patil says, “It does not matter what I like. People think of me more as a writer. They refer to me as ‘Panipat-kar.’ Of course, I try to do equal justice to my role as a bureaucrat as well. I never let my writing affect my job.”<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Legacy of Panipat</span><br /><br />I don't quite know what terrific connection my breath and blood have with the word 'Panipat', but at the young age of 25, I had set off to collect basic material for the novel on this subject. And by the time I was 28, the final draft of the novel was ready, all of it written by me with great passion!<br /><br />I must share with you an incident that comes to my mind regarding Panipat. Former defence minister of the country, Yashwantrao Chavan, happened to pass through the town of Panipat once on his way from Punjab to Delhi. He stopped there and went straight to 'Kaala Aam', the place where the historic battle of Panipat was fought. The memorial of Maratha warriors stood there in one of the farms. It was a rough structure in black stone. Yashwantraoji sat down in front of the memorial and picked up a handful of the soil. A poet at heart, he could not control his emotions and tears rolled down his cheeks.<br /><br />After letting his heart out, Yashwantraoji said to those around him, “Friends, this is the holy land. This is the place where about a lakh Maratha warriors demonstrated how to fight the enemy when the country is invaded. Each of the families in Maharashtra has lost at least a brave man here. This soil has turned holy with their blood.”<br /><br />Kurukshetra stands just a few miles from Panipat. The third battle of Panipat between Ahmedshah Abdali and the Marathas was fought on Wednesday, January 14, 1761. There is no other example of such a fierce battle in that period where within just eight hours, 1.5 lakh people and 80 thousand animals from both the sides were killed. Even the two American nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki took a few days to claim as many lives.<br /><br />The Marathas had left for Panipat on a mission on the basis of the “Ahmedia Agreement” of 1752 for the defence of the Emperor of Delhi, which meant the defence of Hindustan then. People asked if I was writing ‘Panipat’ to eulogise the Punekars. I told them that I had neither Punekars nor Satarkars in my plan of things. Much in the same way as all kinds of people gather together in Pandharpur for Ashaadhi-Kartiki, the whole of Marathi region stood united on the grounds of Panipat to fight with the enemy.<br /><br />When the entire population of Pune was not even 22,000, a lakh of brave Marathas geared themselves up for the war at Panipat. It had about seven-eight Brahmin Sardars including Bhausaheb and Vishwasrao and about 60-70 front runner Sardars from not only the Maratha community but also from all the castes of Bahujan Samaj. Panipat was a battle fought by young men. The enemy, Ahmad Shah Abdali, was all of 32 then. Bhausaheb was 28, Dattaji Shinde 22, Vishwasrao and Janakoji Shinde were mere teenagers at 17. None of the country’s rivers had any bridges then— there were no roads or means of transport. Imagine what a task it must have been to walk with 60,000 horses and lakhs of soldiers!<br /><br />We fought the battle for the dignity of Hindustan, but unfortunately the kings of the north did not help the Marathas. The Rajput kings of Rajasthan hid themselves into sand. A few days before this battle, Govindpant Bundele was killed. Govindpant had till then seen to it that we received the money and grocery via the Ganges and Yamuna. With Govindpant’s demise the problem began. Yet, Bhausaheb stood firm. But Nanasaheb Peshwa did not abide by his duties. Nothing was received from Pune.<br /><br />Alasingh Jat of Patiala was sending the supplies but later on those supplies too reduced. In the end, the Maratha army had to survive by eating tree leaves and shaadu soil on the banks of the river. But fight they did till the end. And how? We do not need any other witnesses as our enemy Ahmed Shah Abdali. He writes: “The southies (Marathas) had established a strong foothold on Panipat. On the day of the battle they attacked us again and again with a die-hard attitude. Had our great worriers Rustum and Isfindar witnessed this inimitable bravery of the Marathas, they would have been astonished.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unravelling the Maratha psyche Imtiaz Ahmad</span><br /><br />Wars damage both victors and vanquished. For the vanquished, the damage is far greater. It leaves bitter memories and assails the sense of pride. This happens more often when they have already nursed a sense of invincibility and pride. The Marathas, and Maharashtrians in general, eloquently illustrate this.<br /><br />Shivaji’s rise was a military feat. At the same time, it infused a sense of invincibility and pride among the Marathas. Shivaji’s escape from the clutches of the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb bolstered up these sensibilities. However, the defeat of the Marathas at the hand of Ahmad Shah Abdali in the Third Battle of Panipat virtually killed the Maratha prospects of advance towards North India. Since then, the Marathas have lived uncomfortably with a sense of assailed pride and defeat.<br /><br />Shivaji was like so many regional rulers who aspired to free themselves from Mughal rule and create an independent kingdom of their own. However, Shivaji remains unique in that he infused this political ambition into a popular aspiration. He gave the common Maharashtrian a feeling of pride.<br /><br />The Third Battle of Panipat was in this sense the last straw that virtually crushed this strong Maratha nationalism. Seen as a military or political event, it was a common everyday event in those times when rulers engaged in internecine warfare to establish their supremacy. Seen as a psychological turning point, it crushed Maratha hope and aspiration to dominate over the country. Maratha pride was crushed at Panipat but it did not completely die out. It resurfaces time and again at the slightest promise of success. One has to only look at the drama surrounding the shift of Y. B. Chavan from Maharashtra to Delhi to appreciate this bitter fact. Brandishing a sword, symbolic of that of Shivaji, he moved to Delhi as if it was a recapture. The critical point in this drama is that the Maratha sense of pride and invincibility, assailed by their defeat at Panipat, suddenly surfaced again.<br /><br />Maharashtra is a state within India but its name itself demonstrates its legacy of a past when the prospect of dominating India kindled strongly in the Maratha mind and personality. Literally, Mahar-ashtra means the nation of the Marathas. Unlike other states of India, Maharashtra is unique in incorporating its sense of pride as a nation inscribed in its name.<br /><br />One way to appreciate and understand the consequences of the Panipat defeat on the Maharashtrian mind and psyche would be to recognise the duality that has since become a feature of their existence as a people. On one hand, they carry a strong sense of pride and a hope of domination. On the other, they also carry a strong sense of being overwhelmed and besieged. This has bound their psyche into a psychological cage. This uncomfortable situation is pathetic but it has been a part of Maratha personality which they have not been able to grow out of.<br /><br />This, to a considerable extent, explains contemporary Maharashtrian politics. From Bal Thackeray to Raj Thackeray, the running theme of regional Maharashtrian politics has been a feeling of being in a siege; being overwhelmed by others who have, since the establishment of British rule, moved into the thriving metropolis of Mumbai. At first, this sense of siege was directed against South Indians. More recently, it has been directed against poor migrants from UP and Bihar. Most migrants have moved in to fill the jobs which the common Maharashtrians are unwilling to take up. However, this has not deterred the Thackerays from directing their ire against them.<br /><br />The other feature of the Maharashtrian personality is a sense of pride which was assailed by the defeat at Panipat but not entirely put down. Thus, when Raj Thackeray gives a call that Marathi should be the lingua franca within Maharashtra or that all those who have come to live in Maharashtra should communicate in Marathi, he is merely harping on the theme of Maratha pride. For him, as for a common Maharashtrian, the dream of political domination outside Maharashtra may not be realisable in the present but at least the assertion of pride in the region’s greatness must be protected and promoted. Historical experience of a people has a unique role in shaping their psyche and personality. As the Maratha case so eloquently explains, the peculiar combination of a historical defeat and undying sense of pride continues to shape contemporary life and developments.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/IIPM-ranks-No-1-in-International-Exposure-in-the-Third-Mail-Today-B-School-Survey/" title="IIPM Ranking" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM ranks No 1 in International Exposure in the 'Third Mail Today B-School Survey'</strong></a><br /><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank"><strong>Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</strong></a><br /><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri</strong></a><br /><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html"><strong></strong></a><br /><a href="http://www.iipm.in/news-and-events/Thorns-to-Competition-amongst-the-top-10-best-sellers-of-the-week" target="_blank" title="Thorns to Competition"><strong>"Thorns to Competition" amongst the top 10 best sellers of the week.</strong></a><br /><a href="http://iipm.in/public/images/articles/media-bytes/iipm/ranking-education-mail-mail-today20sept2011.jpg" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM RANKED NO.1 in MAIL TODAY B-SCHOOL RANKINGS</strong></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thornstocompetition.com/order.html" title="Thorns" target="_blank"><strong>'Thorns to Competition' - You can order your copy online from here</strong></a><br /><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-42333431132029901512011-09-21T16:58:00.005+05:302011-09-21T17:36:11.484+05:30As Delhi-NCR’s management schools prepare for the 2012-14 academic session, heads of the 12 best share their future plans<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-is-e-pat.html" target="_blank">IIPM: What is E-PAT? </a></span></strong></strong><br /><strong><strong></strong></strong><br /><strong><strong></strong></strong>THE WORLDWIDE fears of a double-dip recession have yet again put the spotlight back on B-Schools. Are they preparing their students for the uncertain new world? Will these students be industry ready? Will they be prepared to face the challenges of the new economic order?<br /><br />We posed these questions to the key functionaries of the BSchools that bagged the first 12 positions of the third Mail Today B-School Rankings. And we came back reasonably assured that the institutes were working harder than before to raise the quality benchmark.<br /><br />If our joint topper, IIPM Saket, has teamed up with Yale for a ground-breaking stock market analysis, the institute that shares the honour, MDI Gurgaon, is talking about new campuses, faculty expansion and more foreign tie-ups.<br /><br />The big trend, in fact, is to go global. “IMT’s recent collaboration with the Kellogg School of Management is part of its initiative to expose our students to the case studies their peers at top management schools around the world get to study,” explains its director, Bibek Banerjee.<br /><br />And at Galgotias Business School, Greater Noida, students will get an opportunity to complete their last year of study in associated foreign universities. IIPM’s Dean of Academics, Prasoon Majumdar, puts all these developments in perspective. “As the country grows, the demand for management graduates will keep growing and so will the number of B-Schools,” he says.<br /><br />Recognising the demands of the new market, IIT Delhi’s Department of Management (DMS) has opted to overhaul its curriculum to make it more industry friendly. Says Sudhir K. Jain, Head of DMS.“Our academic curriculum review is based entirely on industry feedback.”<br /><br />FORE School of Management will inaugurate a fully residential campus in Sonepat next year. Jagan Institute of Management Studies will open a multi-specialty university in Bahadurgarh, Haryana. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade is planning a second campus in Kolkata and a new one in Kochi.<br /><br />The International Management Institute, Qutab Institutional Area, has a Rs 30-crore war chest for infrastructure expansion. And the women students of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management will have their own hostel next year.<br /><br />FORE School of Management Director Jitendra K.Das says IT applications will change the way management is taught in BSchools. “Today, more time is spent on computer-based simulations in classrooms than anything else,” Das says. “We have to get attuned to seeing things on the email and handheld devices instead of the notice board.”<br /><br />The Indian Institute of Finance, Noida, which is celebrating its silver jubilee next year, “has identified as many as 12 new areas in the field of finance alone and will be rolling out programmes in them by the beginning of April 2012,” says its chairman, J.D. Aggarwal. An exciting new world awaits students who have set their sights on these B-Schools that are changing the rules of the game.<br /></div><br /><table border="1"></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 Best B School in India</span><br /></div><table align="center" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 B School in India</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />(INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL)</span><br /><ol><li>MDI-Gurgaon<br /></li><li>IMT-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li>IIT Delhi-DMS<br /></li><li>FORE School of Management- Delhi<br /></li><li style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM-Saket</li></ol></td><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 B School in India<br />(QUALITY OF FACULTY)</span><br /><ol><li>IMT-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM-Saket</span><br /></li><li>MDI-Gurgaon<br /></li><li>IIFT-Gurgaon<br /></li><li>IMS-Ghaziabad</li></ol></td></tr><br /><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 B School in India<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE</span>)<br /><ol><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM-Saket</span><br /></li><li>MDI-Gurgaon<br /></li><li>IMT-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li>IMS-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li>Indian Institute of Finance-Noida</li></ol></td><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 B School in India</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />(PLACEMENT RECORD</span>)<br /><ol><li>MDI-Gurgaon<br /></li><li>IIT Delhi-DMS<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM-Saket</span><br /></li><li>IMT-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li>IIFT-Delhi</li></ol></td></tr><br /><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 B School in India<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(INDUSTRY INTERFACE)</span><br /><ol><li>MDI-Gurgaon<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM-Saket</span><br /></li><li>IMT-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li>IIT Delhi-DMS<br /></li><li>IMI-Delhi</li></ol></td><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP 5 B School in India</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />(POTENTIAL TO NETWORK)</span><br /><ol><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM-Saket</span><br /></li><li>IMT-Ghaziabad<br /></li><li>IIFT-Delhi<br /></li><li>IIT Delhi-DMS<br /></li><li>FORE School of Management- Delhi</li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles. </strong><br /><strong><a title="Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://managementguru.co.in/" target="_blank">Management Guru Arindam Chaudhuri Dean Business School IIPM</a></strong><br /><strong><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank">IIPM Excom Prof Rajita Chaudhuri </a></strong><br /><strong><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank">Kapil Sibal’s voters want Jan Lokpal, not Government-proposed Lokpal Bill<br /></a><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/anna-hazare-jan-lokpak-bill-vs.html" target="_blank">Anna Hazare Jan Lokpak Bill Vs Government Lokpal Bill</a><a title="Jan Lokpal" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/08/kapil-sibals-voters-want-jan-lokpal-not.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></strong></p> <p><strong><a title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM Mumbai Campus</strong></a></strong><br /><strong><strong></strong><strong></strong></strong><strong><a title="IIPM Gurgaon" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2008/01/iipm-gurgaon.html" target="_blank">IIPM, GURGAON</a></strong><br /><strong><a title="Noida Extension" href="http://blogger-source.blogspot.com/2011/07/noida-extn-dreams-breaks-as-court.html" target="_blank">Noida Extn dreams breaks as court scraps new acquisition</a></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/09/iipm-leading-consistently-on-multiple.html" target="_blank">IIPM: Leading consistently on multiple fronts<br /></a></strong></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-49825508504841613932011-07-27T15:25:00.002+05:302011-07-27T15:30:20.237+05:30William-Kate wedding hit British economy<div align="justify"><a title="IIPM Mumbai" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">IIPM Mumbai Campus</span></a><br /><br />The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate in April was supposed to have catalysed Britain's ailing economy, but official figures released today show that it was one of several events that affected GDP figures adversely. The Office for National Statistic (ONS) said that growth in the UK economy slowed in the three months to 30 June. GDP grew by only 0.2 per cent in the second quarter, which is down from the 0.5 per cent growth in the previous quarter. The ONS highlighted a number of special events in the second quarter that may have affected the GDP figures, such as the additional bank holiday for the royal wedding, the wedding itself, the after-effects of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the first phase of Olympic ticket sales and the record warm weather in April. During the build-up to the royal wedding, experts claimed that the enthusiasm for the event would have a positive impact on Britain's economy, including from larger than usual entry of tourists.<br /><br />The ONS estimated that without these events, GDP would have been 0.5 percentage points higher. While chancellor Goerge Osborne said the 0.2 per cent growth was good news, shadow chancellor Ed Balls accused him of choking the recovery.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a title="”Rajita" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank">IIPM Excom Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri</a><br /><a title="Arindam Chaudhuri" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2054466.ece" target="_blank">Arindam Chaudhuri on his third National Award and his unique business formula for films</a><br /><br /><a href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/01/gidf-club-of-iipm-lucknow-organizes.html" target="_blank"><strong>GIDF Club of IIPM Lucknow Organizes Blood Donation Camp</strong></a><br /><strong><a title="IIPM Student Notice Board" href="http://dearsonu.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/planman-consulting-the-sister-concern-of-iipm/" target="_blank"><strong>IIPM BBA MBA Institute: Student Notice Board</strong></a><br /></div><br /><div align="justify"><a title="Rajita Chaudhuri's Article" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://blogs.rediff.com/iipmpages/2011/07/06/rajita-chaudhuri-on-the-magic-of-number-3-in-marketing/" target="_blank">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri on ‘The Magic of Number 3 in Marketing’</a><br /></div></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-43727527137497437662011-07-20T17:45:00.001+05:302011-07-20T17:47:02.635+05:30FBI arrests US-based lobbyist and brings to light ISI subversion of Kashmir issue<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" title="IIPM Mumbai" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/07/iipm-mumbai-campus.html" target="_blank">IIPM Mumbai Campus</a></span><br /><br />Federal authorities on Monday arrested a prominent US-based pro-Pakistan activist associated with the Kashmiri separatist movement accusing him of funneling money from the Pakistani spy agency ISI to lobby US decision-makers.<br /><br />In the process, the Obama administration's law enforcement brigade also blew open the Pakistan and its spy agency's two-decade long subversion of the so-called Kashmir cause.<br /><br />The FBI swooped down on the Virginia residence of Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, a well-known representative of Kashmiri separatists in the US and detained him on charges of ''participating in a long-term conspiracy to act as agents of the Pakistani government in the United States without disclosing their affiliation with the Pakistani government as required by law.''<br /><br />Another individual, Zaheer Ahmed, like Fai a US citizen, was also similarly charged, but he is at large and believed to be in Pakistan, according to US authorities.<br /><br />Fai has been a familiar and prominent figure in Washington DC for nearly two decades, lobbying Kashmiri separatist cause as executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council (KAC) and dallying with senators and congressmen. US authorities now say the KAC was just an ISI front, funded by Pakistan's spy agency.<br /><br />The FBI affidavit alleges that, although the KAC held itself out to be a Kashmiri organization run by Kashmiris and financed by Americans, ''it is one of three 'Kashmir Centers' that are actually run by elements of the Pakistani government, including ISI.'' The two other Kashmir Centers are in London, England, and Brussels and Belgium.<br /><br />According to the affidavit, a confidential witness told investigators that he participated in a scheme to obscure the origin of money transferred by Pakistan's ISI to Fai to use as a lobbyist for the KAC in furtherance of Pakistani government interests. The witness explained that the money was transferred to Fai through Ahmad, an American living in Pakistan.<br /><br />A second confidential witness told investigators that the ''ISI created the KAC to propagandize on behalf of the government of Pakistan with the goal of uniting Kashmir.'' This witness said ''ISI's sponsorship and control of KAC were secret and that ISI had been directing Fai's activities for the past 25 years.''<br /><br />The FBI affidavit alleges that Fai has "acted at the direction of and with the financial support of the Pakistani government for more than 20 years." Four Pakistani government handlers have directed Fai's US. activities and Fai has been in touch with his handlers more than 4,000 times since June 2008, according to the FBI.<br /><br />The affidavit also alleges that Fai repeatedly submitted annual KAC strategy reports and budgetary requirements to his Pakistani government handlers for approval. One document entitled "Plan of Action of KAC / Kashmir Center for Fiscal Year 2009" laid out Fai's intended strategy to secure US. Congressional support in order to encourage the Executive Branch to support self-determination in Kashmir; his strategy to build new alliances in the State Department, the National Security Council, the Congress and the Pentagon, and to expand KAC's media efforts.<br /><br />According to the affidavit, Fai also set forth KAC's projected budgetary requirements from the Pakistani government for 2009, including $100,000 for contributions to members of Congress.<br /><br />Fai and the KAC have received at least $4 million from the Pakistani government since the mid-1990s through Ahmad and his funding network, the FBI said. The money is allegedly routed to Fai through Ahmad and a network of other individuals connected to Ahmad. Ahmad allegedly arranges for his contacts in the United States to provide money to Fai in return for repayment of those amounts in Pakistan.<br /><br /><strong>Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><strong></strong><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank" title="”Rajita">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri - The New Age Woman</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/Profile/" target="_blank" title="”Excom" rajita="">IIPM Excom Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri's Profile</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-progress-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/04/bollywoods-no1-mum-kajol-step-ahead-mom.html" title="Kajol" target="_blank">Bollywood's No.1 Mum Kajol: Step ahead MOM!</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-progress-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/05/katrina-kaif-british-indian-actress.html" title="Katrina Kaif" target="_blank">Katrina Kaif: A British Indian Actress Born on July 16, 1984</a><br /><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ReadToLead/" target="_blank title=" rajita="" s=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"><em></em></span></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ReadToLead/" target="_blank title=" rajita="" s=""><span style="font-weight:bold;"><em>Rajita Chaudhuri's</em> tips to start a new trend in Market</span></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ArindamChaudhuri/" target="_blank title=" arindam="" s=""><span style="font-weight:bold;">IIPM Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Achievements</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogs.rediff.com/iipmpages/2011/07/06/rajita-chaudhuri-on-the-magic-of-number-3-in-marketing/" target="_blank" title="Rajita Chaudhuri's Article">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri on ‘The Magic of Number 3 in Marketing’</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-83138317882655643872011-07-09T13:07:00.002+05:302011-07-09T13:11:31.925+05:30LPG Refills To Cost More Very Soon<div style="text-align: justify;">If the oil ministry has its way, cooking gas consumers would soon get only four refills in a year at subsidized rate. Every subsequent cylinder would cost Rs 800 or so at today's market price.<br /><br />The ministry proposes to limit the number of subsidized cylinders for even BPL (below poverty line) at four cylinders a year. But the government would give them a one-time assistance of Rs 1,400 for getting a connection. A formal proposal, being drawn up by the ministry for the ministerial panel on fuels, explains that the plan would ensure that government subsidy reaches only those who deserve it and stop the huge black market in subsidized kerosene supplied for the poor.<br /><br />The proposal outlines the criteria to identify those who have to pay market price for refills. These include anyone who owns a car, two-wheeler, house or figures in the income-tax list. The subsidy to BPL cardholders would be delivered through the unique identification number, Aadhar, as it is commonly known, regime that is in the works. The proposal rationalizes the move on the ground the present system does not differentiate between the needy and those who can afford to pay market price. It says even billionaires get their fuel at subsidized rate in the present system.<br /><br />The ministry reckons four cylinders would be enough to take care of the cooking needs of a BPL family. The ministry's view is based on studies that indicate that most of the kerosene consumed by BPL families is used for lighting purpose and wood or cow dung cakes remain the choice of fuels for cooking.<br /><br />The Centre at present supplies 9-10 million tonnes of subsidized kerosene a year for selling to poor through ration shops controlled by state governments. Several government and independent studies have said nearly 40% of the fuel is diverted for adulteration of motor fuels, giving rise to a black market worth over Rs 16,000 crore at today's market price. Consumers now pay an average of Rs 400 for a cylinder because of a subsidy of Rs 395. The government had last month raised cooking gas price by Rs 50 a cylinder, kerosene by Rs 2 per litre and reduced oil taxes. Still, together with diesel, it expects a subsidy bill of Rs 120,000 crore in 2011-12.<br /><br />The proposal says the new plan would reduce the government's subsidy burden on cooking gas, estimated at Rs 12,000 crore as per the price prevailing in 2009-10. This would be much higher according to 2010-11 price line.<br /><br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/Profile/" target="_blank" title="”Excom" rajita="">IIPM Excom Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri's Profile</a><br /><a href="http://glorious-blogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/domestic-violence-has-been-silent.html" target="_blank" title="Domestic violence"><b>Domestic violence has been a silent relationship killer since time immemorial.</b></a><br /><a href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/01/gidf-club-of-iipm-lucknow-organizes.html" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><a title="Mobile Phones" style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/06/highest-radiation-mobile-phones.html" target="_blank">Highest Radiation Mobile phones launched</a><br /><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ArindamChaudhuri/" target="_blank” title=" arindam="" chaudhuri="" s="" achievements=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Achievements</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank" title="Rajita Chaudhuri">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri - The New Age Woman</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/07/iim-indore-introduces-5-years.html" target="_blank" title="Get into IIM after Class 12">IIM Indore Introduces 5 Years Integrated Management Program After Class XII (12th)</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-47089229596978546382011-07-09T12:09:00.001+05:302011-07-09T12:11:25.815+05:30Get E-Ticket On Your Cellphone<div style="text-align: justify;">Rail travellers can now get e-tickets on their cellphones, and won't have to carry print out of tickets.<br /><br />Called m-ticket, it can be booked by passengers having internet facility by downloading the mobile ticketing application on their cellphones from the railways' new web portal. A passenger can book train tickets through a mobile phone and carry the display ticket sent to her\his cellphone through an SMS.<br /><br />The facility is part of comprehensive Indian Railways Portal, www.indianrailways.gov.in, which was launched by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerji in Kolkata on Thursday.<br /><br />The new portal aims at consolidating all the services and information into a single window web-interface for the public.<br /><br />On completion of booking and payment formalities, an SMS containing the ticket details will be sent to the user, which is referred to as Mobile Reservation Message (MRM). The cost of MRM from IR web portal will be borne by the Indian Railways. The facility of booking e-tickets through railways' web portal will be available from 12.30 am to 11.30 pm daily.<br /><br />In addition to facility of e-ticketing provided by the new portal, no travel agents have been allowed so that passengers can have ease of booking during peak hours.<br /><br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank" title="”Rajita">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri - The New Age Woman</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/Profile/" target="_blank" title="”Excom" rajita="">IIPM Excom Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri's Profile</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" title="Arindam Chaudhuri" href="http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2054466.ece" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/01/gidf-club-of-iipm-lucknow-organizes.html" target="_blank"><strong>GIDF Club of IIPM Lucknow Organizes Blood Donation Camp</strong></a><br /><strong><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/05/professor-arindam-chaudhuri-man-for.html" target="_blank" title="Arindam Chaudhuri"><b></b></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIPM" target="_blank" title="IIPM"><strong>IIPM: Indian Institute of Planning and Management</strong></a></strong><br /><strong><a href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-colleges-for-vocational-courses-in.html" target="_blank"><strong>Best Colleges for Vocational Courses in India</strong></a></strong><br /><strong><a title="IIPM Student Notice Board" href="http://dearsonu.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/planman-consulting-the-sister-concern-of-iipm/" target="_blank"><strong><br />IIPM BBA MBA Institute: Student Notice Board</strong></a></strong><br /><strong></strong></div><strong><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/01/indian-universities-and-higher.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ReadToLead/" target="_blank title=" rajita="" chaudhuri="" s="" tips=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"><em>Rajita Chaudhuri's</em> tips to start a new trend in Market</span></a><br /><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ArindamChaudhuri/" target="_blank title=" arindam="" chaudhuri="" s="" achievements=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">IIPM Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Achievements<br /><br /></span></a></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-60308150929515263142011-07-04T17:56:00.001+05:302011-07-04T17:58:47.273+05:30No consensus on Lokpal, Anna may rethink fast<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank" title="Rajita Chaudhuri">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri - The New Age Woman</a></span><br /><br />There is no consensus yet again on the Lokpal bill. Anna Hazare may rethink his August 16 fast as political parties push back civil society saying Parliament will decide shape of the Lokpal bill. There is no clarity on who will eventually create the final draft of the Lokpal bill. A crucial all-party meeting called by the Prime Minister to end the deadlock proved inconclusive. Parties now say it's not civil society but Parliament that would determine the shape of the Anti-corruption law.<br /><br />There was no consensus at the end of a three-hour long all-party meeting on Sunday. It simply became a platform for the Opposition parties to attack the government for not taking them on board the Lokpal deliberations earlier and for the government to delay a final decision. A one line resolution calling for a strong Lokpal is all that was achieved, almost as if it was a perfect script.<br /><br />The stage was set by the Prime Minister himself who said at the beginning,"it is important that such an institutional arrangement enjoys the support of as large a section of people as possible and that there is the widest possible consensus regarding the bill." It's the BJP though which remains non-committal on the entire issue. While the party was bitterly divided even on the question of attending this all party meeting, it asked the government to ensure bringing of a Lokpal bill in monsoon session of Parliament.<br /><br />"We've asked the government to bring the bill in the monsoon session of the Parliament and present it before the standing committee so that the political parties can express their views," said Sushma Swaraj. Parties like the CPI, RJD and SP questioned the government's strategy in dealing with team Anna Hazare. Most parties while criticising the government also wondered why should civil society dictate the terms of the Lokpal bill. RJD's Lalu Yadav criticised the civil society groups saying 120 crore people elect us, who elected them.<br /><br />AIADMK cautioned frivolous complaints against the Prime Minister will derail the process. BSP wanted the government to bring the bill in Parliament first before seeking its views. The outcome of the meeting obviously didnt go down well with the activists. "It's sad to see that an institution that could have been set up 44 years ago has been delayed further. If the Prime Minister wants to be included in the ambit of the Lokpal then he should present the mandate to his ministers," said Santosh Hegde.<br /><br /><strong>For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.</strong><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/Profile/" target="_blank" title="”Excom" rajita="">IIPM Excom Prof. Rajita Chaudhuri's Profile</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dearsonu.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/iipm-prof-arindam-chaudhuri-on-internet-hooliganism/" target="_blank" title="Arindam Chaudhuri">IIPM Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri on Internet Hooliganism</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/05/iipm-announces-anna-hazare-fellowship.html" target="_blank" title="IIPM">IIPM announces Anna Hazare Fellowship</a><br /><a href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/01/gidf-club-of-iipm-lucknow-organizes.html" target="_blank"><strong>GIDF Club of IIPM Lucknow Organizes Blood Donation Camp</strong></a><strong></strong><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-growth.blogspot.com/2011/05/healthcare-issue-private-hospitals.html" target="_blank">A Healthcare Issue: Private hospitals' efficiency questioned</a><br /><br /><a href="http://glorious-blogger.blogspot.com/2011/05/domestic-violence-has-been-silent.html" target="_blank" title="Domestic violence"><b>Domestic violence has been a silent relationship killer since time immemorial.</b></a><br /><a href="http://respected-business-school.blogspot.com/2011/01/gidf-club-of-iipm-lucknow-organizes.html" target="_blank"><strong></strong></a><a href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/ReadToLead/" target="_blank title=" rajita="" chaudhuri="" s="" tips=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"><em>Rajita Chaudhuri's</em> tips to start a new trend in Market</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-info-iipm.blogspot.com/2011/07/iim-indore-introduces-5-years.html" target="_blank" title="Get into IIM after Class 12">IIM Indore Introduces 5 Years Integrated Management Program After Class XII (12th)</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">IIPM</div>Surenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06205648931604321654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26082015.post-71254544493023161022011-07-02T16:35:00.002+05:302011-07-02T16:43:12.481+05:30Vodafone To Pay Huge Tax<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iipm-rajitachaudhuri.com/" target="_blank" title="”Rajita">IIPM Prof Rajita Chaudhuri - The New Age Woman</a></span><br /><br />Vodafone may have to shell out withholding tax of up to Rs 3,700 crore during the current financial year on its $3.8 billion deal involving the purchase of shares from Mauritius-based Essar Com Ltd and Essar Communication Ltd. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chairman Prakash Chandra said on Friday that Euro Pacific Security Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone, has withdrawn its application from Authority of Advance Ruling where it had disputed the withholding tax demand invoking immunity under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with Mauritius. Vodafone's subsidiary had purchased 22% stake held by Essar's Mauritius arm in the Vodafone Essar. According to CBDT, it should have deducted 20% withholding tax in addition to surcharge before making any payment. "Tax liability will be around Rs 3,500 to Rs 3,700 crore, including surcharge," Chandra said, hoping that Vodafone will pay the withholding tax now. He said the development will have tax implications on similar cross border M&As.<br /><br />Already, the Income Tax department is working on some cases and demands would be raised soon.<br /><br />"Whatever payments Euro Pacific makes to Essar, it should first deduct the tax," Chandra said. He hoped that the company will clear all tax liability by the end of this fiscal which means the Vodafone will have to pay entire dues before March 31, 2012.<br /><br />Essar's 22% stake held by its Mauritius subsidiaries is valued at $3.8 billion, on which the Income Tax department has raised withholding tax demand. Essar's remaining 11% stake is held by its Indian subsidiary and valued at $1.2 billion, resulting in a total deal size at $5 billion. Vodafone had already paid $1.9 billion to Essar for the first tranche of shares equivalent to an 11% stake. The remaining payment was to be made in the second week of July.<br /><br />Earlier, Vodafone had said that there was no tax payable on its purchase of majority interest in Hutchison-Essar for over $11 billion in 2007. 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