Are Rich Happy or Poor?.... Observing the true side of the Human Race.....

Human, the most intelligent animal on planet Earth. I agree completely on this. Yes we are intelligent because we have divided the human race in terms of Poor and Rich wherein a poor gets poorer and the rich gets richer as the days passes by. Its not the human race who is ruling the world today, its the creation of the Human race which is doing so and that creation is nothing else than "MONEY".

But there is one thing always striking my not so loaded brain and that thing is are the Richer ones happy or the ones who are poor?. I guess everyone of you also might have felt this so many times.

Today, I started my day with a cricket match with few of my friends near my house and after that match I went for having some hot dosa's and while going I saw a handicapped beggar who was not able to walk and was limping on the roadside to reach his daily place of begging. I felt little uncomfortable watching him like that but I was surprised to see that he was the only guy in that lane whose face was showing a glimpse of satisfaction and happiness. I came back home and I was really in a state of shock that how could some one like that be happy when many of us who have a job, a family and money are not so satisfied.

As I was engrossed in thinking about it, I heard a Vegetable Vendor selling vegetables on a bicycle talking amazingly with one lady who was buying some vegetable. The lady was actually asking for a discount and to this the vendor replied with a great smile- "Madam, Abhi Sabji Japan se aarahi hain isliye mahangi hain, jab Australia se aayegi sasti hogi" (Madam, as of now the vegetables are coming from JAPAN so they are costly, when it will come from Australia it will be cheaper). I was really flattered by the way the vegetable guy was selling his product, though I was completely aware that he was bluffing about Japan and Australia. The utmost thing I liked in this guy was that he was motivating his customer to buy with a smile and happiness on his face which most of the so called big Marketers of big MNC's fail to do.

And again a nail was nailed in my brain which made me think "Are rich happy or Poor?"

Afternoon, again it was a sense of different kind of experience for me when I saw a Auto Rikshaw driver using a bluetooth device connected with a chinese mobile. Though he was not using a blackberry mobile like many of us do, he was happy and he had a sense of pride in his asset.

Those are the poor people of my Country. Infact I should change this sentence uttered by me to : "Those are the happiest people of my country".

Just observe for a while and you will find that the happiest people on earth are those who are happy with what ever they have.

Thanks,

Rohit Tiwari

India? Who? Before 20 years or Today?

India, one of the fastest growing Economy is known for its culture, IT industires, Genius, Democracy and many other things. Today; we have many Entrepreneurs from India heading onto the list of top 100 richest persons in the world. Indian Companies are being recognised as a trust worthy brands throughout the world.

Today every kid in a every TOM DICK AND HARRY named countires know India and more than just name they know about what actually India consists of. You will hardly find any country on the globe which will not have any Indian Genius mind working there. The National Anthem of India is continously being treated as the worlds best National Anthem. The actors from India are given a chance to perform in Oscar winning movies and the Music Directors like AR Rehman is going International. Indians are proving themselves everywhere. Let it be Sunita Williams - the astronaut or Shilpa Shetty - the Big Brother Show winner, Indians are every where.

This all is about India presently in 2011.

Just Imagine India before 20 years during 90's. Was India the same?. Who knew India as one of the fastest growing country?. I think not even the 25 percent of the worlds population knew about a country like India.

The world used to ignore India's economic liberalization during 90's in way of reaction stating INDIA,WHO? And that was when the people who trusted India's potential and invested here made their fortune. India was a Godlen Bird, it is and it will be. The people here trusts alot in God and many people might make fun of Indians having such an extra ordinary beleif in God. But the belief again has proved it self.The Padmanabha temple provided India with a treasure of worth 1 lakh crore which is a very huge amount in itself and thats the power of belief. (Though It still remains the question how usefully it would be used for benefit of the people). India didn't just developed in its economic activity and religious belief but also in sports and entrepreneurship. We won the world cup, many medals in the olympics and CWG. We have got many startups functioning at a large level in India. Thats India my friend.

Just think about a rikshaw wala 10 years ago and today. If we compare them we will find a lot many changes like for example the first change you will notice is today a rikshaw wala uses a mobile fone and communicate with its clients over the fone and gets booked. Some Rikshaw wala's in Chennai have also started their own website for catching the foreign toursits in India. Thats development which India has shown.

A pan wala from the streets of Mumbai in India starts his own website and with in no time he starts getting orders for exports of his pan to countries like South AFrica and other African countires. Thats Innovative India and thats what world needs today.

Today India is a dominant player in something termed as BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India, China which is an accronym coined by Goldman Sachs containing the fastest growing economies which can be a threat to the G6 countries like US, UK, France etc. And thats India Today....

Even the Indian univeristies and Institution are being recognised globally and the IIM's, ISB are the best examples. Many Indians are heading the top Intrapreneurial posts in many big MNC's and some are also becoming the directors and CEO's which was a rare case before 20 years.

The women here are developing day by day leaving much behind the men. The best of the Women entrepreneurs, Politicicans, Athelets, Astranauts are Indian Womens. Thats India for you all .....

I think no one ever in the World would ever dare to say again Who, India? and take us lite. Go India Go.......

Thanks,

Rohit Tiwari

Again its Mumbai.... How many more to go?.. A Mumbaikar point of view; who lost their beloved ones....

Again its Mumbai........

The Maximum City as it is referred to as has been facing so much and going through so much of pain that it is impossible for a person like me or you situated in some other city of some other state in India to feel that pain.Its not for the first time that this city which never give up has faced this kind of bomb explosions, attacks etc. It started with 13 bomb explosions in the year 1993, followed by a bomb explosion in the year 2003 which killed around more than 50 odd people. It was not the end of the pain the city of Mumbai went through, the things went on repeating and increasing. In the year 2006, the blasts in the Suburban railways in Mumbai shook the whole India . Little more creativity and innovation added by the terrorists resulted in the Mumbai terror attack in the year 2008. Once again the Capital city of Maharashtra which provides shelter for Bollywood, Big MNC's, Historical Places etc has been hurt by 3 Bomb explosions in 3 different areas. This to me is ridiculous.

I was going through few news channels and I found out the same thing which I have seen during the terror attacks in the year 2008. The News Anchor asks a person to share his views and the person says that THIS TIME the people of Mumbai are very angry. Common for the God sake, I request all those people who talk in the NEWS saying that Mumbaikars are angry to prove that they are angry and they are not going to bear any more nonsense in terms of their security. If I am not worng, I am sure that in a week span of time we will hear in the same News Channels that "the spirit of Mumbaikars has not gone down, they have faced the problem bravely and they are back in their ususal life". And this is the problem with almost every place in India and its citizen.

The same thing is seen in the way the Politicians behave. Saw couple of Politicians saying that this many are dead and this many are injured with a cream of addition saying that "we are investigating". What the hell man, in the worlds largest democracy, people are not able to feel a sense of security. Is this we called as our development?......

We all have to think about it. Just imagine from a Mumbaikars point of view who lost their beloved ones and you will get a different perception. It easy for us to just say that ONLY 20 are dead and few are injured. Imagine the pain those 20 families may be facing who have lost their beloved ones who are actually innocent. The word injured makes us feel that, "Ok few are dead and many are injured"; think from that persons mind who has been injured. Then we will feel the pain.

Its high time for us (The Indians). We have to be more intelligent and should forsee all such things and be reasy to avoid it. Finally I request you all to please pray for all those who lost their lives and also the injured.

Thanks,

Rohit Tiwari

A shift- Pacific Ocean to dot near Mount Manasarovar. (A race between a Rat and a Hare)

Its been so long that I have been hearing almost from every professor of mine about the race between India and China. Always in most of the topics discussed there is an example cited of Indian and Chinese economies and the fierce competition between them.

I have been always very much fascinated hearing to this examples of Chinese and Indian Economy; as some where it makes me feel proud to be a citizen of the fastest growing economy. Today had an amazing session in my college on the subject of "International Business"; and again there was a example of India and China being cited when it came to some discussion on GDP and Economic growth.

When I was in school and my intermediate studies, the only competition between India and China I ever heard of was in terms of population. But as I became more matured and as the level of my education increased I came to know that there is a great level of competition between the two in many other different aspects also.

Today after attending a seesion on "International Business", I quickly moved my body to the library of my college and searched for a book on this topic of "India vs China" and finally was able to find one book titled "SUPER POWER" written by Raghav Bahl (Founder of TV 18 now called as Network 18).

I went through the book till evening for around 3 hours and was finally able to understand why people always cite example from the race between India and China. Just try to analyse the structure of this two economies. Both of them are very different; China is an economy which is mostly handled by the government corporations and India on the other hand is very different where the GDP is mostly contributed by the private households and the private industries.

Is Indian economy better or the Chinese?. Perhaps the answer will not be quite as simple as who is investing more and growing today because it depends on a set of factors which are not easy to draw conclusions upon. But today I feel after reading few chapters from the book that, Its not about China versus India but China & India versus the rest of the world. There is a greater shift of economy from the countries like USA, UK, Japan to China and India.

But still the structure between the two economies differs like south and north pole. China on one hand is an economy which has been going rapidly and have a greater amount of human resoruces working as required by the government and Nation; India is one amoung those free democratic economy.

So we never know what will happen in future: will China re-write economic theory (which till now says an economy can develop if people are free and allowed to work privately) or India could blow its chances. But what many happen in future, one thing is for sure, slowly their is an economic shift from far west to this two countries.

Thanks,
Rohit Tiwari

A Poets Hat - Innovative Idea & A Marvari's Hat - Monetizing Idea...... Thats Entrepreneurship....

I am greately inspired by a saying quoted by Mr. Benjamin Franklin "One TODAY is more than two Tomorrow's". A short quote but if you analyse it, you may get an indepth meaning of it.

Now a days there is a fast moving virus of being an Entrepreneur in every third brain we meet (I am refering to a person by saying brain). But the problem with many of them is that half of them have a very innovative idea and other half have the talent of monetizing any idea given. And this is the biggest drawbacks many youngsters who are aiming at starting their own business are facing today. The people who have innovative ideas are unable to find a way to monetize it. Any new startup's first foundation brick would be an innovative idea and the second most important brick is the idea of monetizing it because the ultimate goal of a business is to earn more than the amount invested.

Let me make it more simple for you to understand; Let us assume the first step of "Creating Innovative Ideas" as "POET's HAT". A person should always think like a poet while devicing a plan for a business with innovative and unique touch. But this is not the end its just the starting. After that the same poet should also try and wear "A Marvari's Hat". The Marvari's Hat doesn't mean that you need to be a marvari community based person. It actually means that the idea should be converted into a money making machine (Maravari is a community known for its business money making abilities in India).

But unfortunately the youngsters and new start up today have a great idea (Poets hat) but they fail to make it a proper money making machine (Marvari's Hat). So it becomes necessary to convert the Idea in to money yeilding ideas. That is Entrepreneurship.........

Thanks,

Rohit Tiwari

Branding of Gods.

Everything in this world has a gestation period, some things for a longer time remains popular in human minds and is sooner or later replaced by something new in the same segment of the former popular thing. The same thing is similar and familiar with ‘God’. God may be one but human have made him into many and every human has its own God now a days.

So this makes me think, “is there a reason that people are looking for someone specific (GOD) to take care of themselves?”

-The answer for this question is as simple as the marketing concept of branding suggests, that one name has a brand life and people tend to choose the most popular brand and in search of that they are choosing something specific for themselves.

Remember the days when human beings did not know about the Sai Baba. Where they not happy? Were things not going right? Was not life as it is today? Human being is a such a complicated species created by the Supreme Power whose want has never been satisfied, they are not happy with one thing, they always want to switch from one thing to another ( i.e. from one brand to another and in this case from one God to another)

Given the opportunity to work on this topic by Dr.Ravi Paturi (Director Aurora’s Business School), I have gone through many articles on branding and few books related to history of cultures and religions especially focusing on Indian context. The difference in opinion and belief of people I have found here is drastically changing by influence which can be observed as a type of branding.

For instance:

Ø Before Mughals in India, Hinduism was at its peak and was being branded and reinforced by Aryans,

Ø Then during the reigns of Harshavardhana, the branding of Buddhism grew and went up to central Asia.

Ø Then After Mughal Invasions, people started believing in Prophet Mohammed and this was branding of Islam in India.

Ø Then came the British Rule which branded along with western culture, Christianity in India.

Ø And now we can see how people are getting switched from believing in one God to another as the situation demands inside the boundaries of same religions i.e. from Lord Venkateshwara to Sai Baba, from Haji Ali to Ajmer Shareef.

These type of branding is not only taking place in the form of changing Gods or religions but it has also giving foundation to new types of markets and are providing opportunities to brand differently.

If we see typical Indian shops, a decade back used to have shops name on any of the God or Goddess name like Durga, Vishnu, and Krishna etc. Slowly this pattern was changed with names of god Venkateshwara as Balaji, Venkatesh, Tirupati, Govinda etc. And the present boom is of the name ‘Sai Baba’. I can quote many examples for Sai baba being used and made a brand, like Sai Baba was made into a TV show which was hugely popular and from that came DVDs and Cds of this show. We can observe the same kind of pattern with Lord Krishna’s Branding. If we take example of ‘Green Gold Animation’, their popular show Chota Bheem’s 2^nd part was ‘Chota Bheem and Krishna’ which is a big hit which later started selling books, key chains, notepads, mugs etc on Krishna and Chota Bheem.

Same thing goes with the LOGO for this kind of Branding of GOD.

If you see a cross you recollect Christianity, The OM goes for Hinduism, The half Moon with a Star makes us recollect Islam, A man Meditating tells us about Buddhism and so on. This is also a great thing in which the religions have branded their own God with different Logos.

The same thing can be observed with the attires of some communities.

Especially in south India, the people who follow Lord Ayappa, tends to dress in black clothes. Like wise the people who are of Sikh community ties a turban on their forehead which makes it clear to others that they belong to Sikh Community. The same goes for people who wear white long coats belongs to Christianity and may be a Father of the church, the people who wears a white small cup like cap over their head and keeps only beard without mustache are Islamic.

So to conclude, as the taste and preferences of people are changing their faith and belief are also changing. And from centuries together this concept of Branding related to Gods and Religion is going on and has been developing at a rapid speed. One can foresee a brighter and bigger market for these brands in coming years.

GO India, Shake the World....

15th August, just another national holiday for some... A day to be proud and revel and bring out the patriotism for others... This Independence Day, let’s not shy away from saying out loud and wishing others a "happy independence day” or merely laughing when someone wishes u in turn... lets stand up tall and wish everyone... and salute proudly to the fluttering tri color. Here’s something to remember by for the day...

The year1947 saw the birth of a new India. It’s been so long since that August in 1947. What a great and tumultuous time it was. We today far away from the epicenter of all the actions which had happened 63 years ago in our country are not really touched the way we should be . During that period news did trickle down though, and we did hear about the unrest, riots, Gandhiji’s fast and many more.

AS early as June 1947, the viceroy has announced that the British Indian Empire would be partitioned into nations of India and Pakistan. This announcement sent a chill down every Indian’s spines. Every Indian wondered how we would function with a portion of a country cut off. Of course most of us were upset. But that was before we realized that everything around us was changing. Eventually we ourselves were changing. But today we have proved the world what we are. We are the best of the best and we can do anything what other powerful and advanced nations can do.

I would like to divert your mind to the speech Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru ji had given at the midnight of 14th August, 1947. He said “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially”. He went on to say “Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon the Assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India”.
A touching, inspiring speech that infused in every Indian a feeling of hope for the future of the country.

With great respect to what our beloved Nehruji has once said I would like to note it down that: Today we are cursing the ministers and politicians for many things but did we ever ask over selves who are the one who brings such politicians to the assembly and provide them chairs. The answer would be one word “WE”.
Unless we provide a chance for a person to enter our house and encourage him to do nonsense with our family member, no one will dare to do it. Likely unless we provide a chance to such people who are not capable of being ministers they can never become ministers. So I would say a word I always hear in an Ad of Tata tea “Jaago India”. Hope this word clicks our mind and next time instead of blaming others we start cross checking over selves and the reason for the faults in politicians, policeman, government officials etc.

Dear Friends it has taken more than 2 centuries and more than a billion lives to bring India to what it is today. So please try to contribute whatever you can socially, morally, monetarily or in any other form for its development. It’s our country and we are responsible for its development and as well as its downfall. So from today “stop blaming and start working”. Work for your country as you work for yourself and your family.

Lastly I would like to quote what Gandhi ji has once said “In a gentle way you can shake the world”

Go India, Shake the world…..

DRUGS for Success...!!!!!!!

Drugs for success……!!!!!

I often hear people saying that they want to succeed in their life. But when asked them how will they succeed they have no proper answer. Recently I happened to interact with a school friend of mine who was very much worried about his career and was seeking my advice on how to start up his journey to the most dreamed about concept of Success.

I myself was not able to deliver him a perfect answer for the questions he had. So I asked him to give me some time so that I come up with a great answer to his extravagantly great question. For a week my baffled and lazy mind was wandering in the large store house of my brain searching for the best answer to the question of my friend. So finally I came up with a great idea to help him out.

I fixed a meeting with my friend after a week and I gave him the following speech:

My dearest friend. Success is the largely and hugely demanded thing in this world. People dream about it day and night but they never try to fulfill it or take any step to reach it. They just fantasy success but they don’t make it realistic and when life plays its saddest music over such people, they curse there luck.

To be successful you must do unreasonable things. There are two types of people: people who do Unreasonable things and the people who do Reasonable things.

Unreasonable people are those people who try every single minute to reach towards their goal and who will give up everything (like their laziness, sleep, enjoyment etc) to get towards their goal. They are the people who will get up early and start a great beginning everyday to reach their goal. They are the people who always aim high and have a passion for doing something great in there life.

On the other hand Reasonable people are totally opposite. They are lazy, they sleep more than they work, they do not work hard. They just want Success to be served them as food is spoon feed till they are young. They are not realistic. These kinds of people just dream. They are only best at dreaming. They think to be successful is very easy task.

In short Unreasonable people refer to Realistic people and Reasonable people refer to Non Realistic people.

Now when, I have given you the definition of Unreasonable people and Reasonable people. Let me give you a small mantra to be successful in life. But before giving you the mantra you have to promise me for one thing that you will never tell it to any person because I will be in trouble.


So the mantra to be successful is:


Have DRUGS...........................


Yes you heard it rite to be successful you should have DRUGS. Now your fully loaded brain may be thinking why this idiot is asking us to take Drugs. So to protect my self from the legal aspects of the court I would give you the meaning of DRUGS according to my context.

By Drugs I mean
D: Doing
R: Realistic
U: Unreasonable
G: Goal
S: Setting in life.

That’s Drugs for you. If you set realistic goals and do unreasonable things everyday to reach it, you are successful.

So please before you take any step it’s a request that the following article written by me is a philosophical article so never take it seriously and have Drugs which are medically termed for success..

Deliver the Lecture how much required.

Whenever I give some presentation or debate, before I start speaking, I tell myself this story:

A renowned Management Guru entered a large lecture hall to deliver a lecture on Motivation to the employees of a large industrial organization.

To his horror he found that the large hall was empty except for a young man seated in the front row.

The Management Guru asked the solitary audience who he was.

“I am a Cook in the Industrial Canteen,” said the young man.

The Management Guru, pondering whether to speak or not, asked the Cook, “You are the only one here. Do you think I should speak or not? Tell me frankly, should I deliver my lecture?”

The Cook said to the Management Guru: “Respected Sir, I am a simple man and do not understand these things. But, if I came into the Dining Hall and saw only one man sitting there, I would certainly give him food.”

The Management Guru took the Cook’s insightful answer to heart and with full gusto began to deliver his lecture.

He spoke passionately for over two hours delving in great detail on each and every aspect of the theory and practice of Motivation.

Immensely proud after his virtuoso performance, the Management Guru felt highly elated, on top of the world, and wanted his audience to confirm how fantastically illuminating and effective his lecture had been.

So the Management Guru asked the Cook, “How did you like my lecture?”

The Cook answered, “Respected Sir, I told you already that I am a simple man and do not understand these things very well. However, if I came into the dining hall and found only one man sitting there I would feed him, but I wouldn’t give him all the food I had prepared in the kitchen.”

Moral: The story makes it clear that the lecturers should try to deliver their elite lectures as per the capacity of the so called brain fitted at the head office of very individual’s body. It says that u should deliver how much required but not more. Teach for the sake of making a learning environment for the students but not just for the sake of teaching…..

THE CRACKED POT - A Teaching Story

Let me tell you one of my favorite teaching stories.

This one is for parents, teachers, mentors… especially those who want to achieve their unfulfilled, unrealized and unrealistic ambitions vicariously through their children and protégés and hence put a lot of pressure and drive the poor kids, overwhelm them with high expectations…and everyone wants their kids to stand first (winner takes all and loser is left standing small philosophy).

This story is also for those perfectionists, at the workplace and at home, who expect everyone to be perfect like themselves and this quest for perfection makes everyone’s life hell…
Read on…

A water bearer had two large pots, one hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walk from the stream to the master's house, the cracked pot always arrived only half full.

For two years this went on daily, with the water bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his master's house.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, fulfilled in the design for which it was made.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was unable to accomplish what it had been made to do.

After two years of enduring this bitter shame, the contrite cracked pot spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream, “I am ashamed of myself and I apologize to you.”

“Why are you feeling so guilty, so penitent, so repentant …?” the water bearer asked the sad cracked pot, “Tell me, what are you so ashamed of…?”

“I feel sorry that for these past two years I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master's house. Because of my flaws, you have to do extra work and you don't get full value from your efforts,” the pot said full of remorse.

The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, “As we return to the master's house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path.”

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and was consoled somewhat.

But at the end of the trail, the cracked pot still felt remorse, shame and a feeling of guilt because it had leaked out half its water load, and so again the pot apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the cracked pot, “Did you not notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, and not on the other pot's side…? That is because I have always known about your flaw and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we've walked back from the stream, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master's table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty, these lovely flowers, to grace his house.”

Moral of the Story:

There are no winners and there are no losers – everyone is a winner in his or her own way. Each of us has our own unique flaws. We are all cracked pots. But it is the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what and who they are, and look for the good in them – most importantly, we must look for the winner within us, maybe hiding deep inside our own selves.

There is one more thing I want to say.

Most of us seem too self-conscious about our weaknesses and spend too much energy and resources in the process of trying to correct our imperfections and hence neglect our strengths.

Why not forget our weaknesses, our imperfections, and focus all our resources on improving our strong points…?

That is what great persons do…they just ignore their frailties and concentrate all their efforts on enhancing and bettering their strong points, their forte, and achieve great heights…so that’s the way to excellence – nourish your qualities and ignore your weaknesses and be a winner…it works…you can take my word for it…

All the Best