Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so.

Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity.

Technological advancements have drastically affected each and every organism on the planet. The topic suggests that these innovations in technology have been detrimental and the author makes a premonition that they cannot solve the ever existing problems which we are facing. Effects of technology depends how we use it. If the technology is used to make nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction then it is bane for mankind, but if its used to find out the treatement for a deadly disease like AIDS then its definetly boon for all of us.

Developments in various feilds of science and technology have made our lives much more comfortable. The amount of energy which our predecessors used to spend was very high compared to what we do now. A vaccum cleaner to clean furniture, washing machine to wash clothes, Mixer and grinders reduce the culinary tasks, coolers, Air conditioners and the list goes on. On the other side technology has lead to the creation many jobs.

In biotechnology feild there have been many breakthroughs which increased the chances of our survival. In India in the early 1950s the child mortality rates were very high one out of three used to die due to the lack of proper medication. Now the conditions have changed a lot, even the deadliest diseases like cancer and AIDS have a cure.

Communication is another feild which was impacted due to the scientific discoveries. Few decades back if some incident happens then it used to take some days for the information to reach all the stake holders.Now at a touch of a button we can connect to any one on the globe. Internet has changed the way information is exchanged between any two entities around the world. Now the whole world has become a global village.

Technology is leading the humanity to its destruction. Now there are many countries with reserves of nuclear weapons. Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities of Japan were victims of nuclear disasters in the World War II, even till date the effects of nuclear war can be seen. In case there is another world war then none would be left on the planet .

Pollution is blanketting the whole earth. Water pollution rates are reaching their limits. Plethora of vehicles polluting the earth every second. Plastic pollution is the new buzz word these days, with ubiquitous thing being cheap and handy finds its way in the hands of every one. The quality of not being degradable makes it more dangerous.

Technology has not helped in solving the needs of the poor and destitute population. With the cost of living growing each day, the quality of life these people live in is miserable. Technology has made life easy for the rich population, and worse for the rest. Developing countries need scientific innovations which can curb poverty. Moreover Technology has not helped in avoiding natural disasters like Hurricanes, and floods. Tsunami in the year 2005 took a death toll of thousands around the globe. If we could have developed systems to foresee such disasters then lives of thousands and the loss of crores could have been saved.

Technology is like a sword. It can be used to harm others and also to protect ourselves from others. Its upto the owners discretion to use if effectively in order to lead a happy life. Similarly, technological advancements in all the feilds have made our lives easier but they have also added problems. I would like to conclude by saying that while developing a technology we should ensure that it will be helpful to all and detrimental to none.

Too much emphasis is placed on role models. Instead of copying others, people should learn to think and act independently and thus make the choices.

Too much emphasis is placed on role models. Instead of copying others, people should learn to think and act independently and thus make the choices that are best for them

A role model is a person whom we like and want to be like him. Each one of us have a role model from our childhood. We learn a lot from them and we try to imitate them in several ways. Having a role model is very common but learning from them changes from person to person. They range from school teachers to rock stars to football players.

Role models come in all shapes and size and try to impact our thought process in many ways. They not only tell you what to do but also suggest what not to do. Walking on the footprints of a role model is good but sometimes detrimental too. Children at their tender age cannot distinguish between truth and fiction about their heroes. Children try to resemble their Super heroes, inturn hurt themselves. There was such an incident in India, after watching Spiderman movie one child tried to jump from the branch of a tree. The child wanted to be like the Spiderman but didnt know that the movie was a fiction and that his hero wouldn't be able to do the stunt in reality.

When we want to become like our role model, we tend to limit our capability. We should set higher standards for ourself rather than bounding ourselves to the limits of our role model. When i see another student in my class coming first in the class i want to be like him. I want to be as good as him. But here unknowingly i am setting a lower range. I could score better than him but setting my limits low doesnt motivate me to go out of my zone of comfort.

Many a times people select a wrong role model and thereby tend to gain the negative things from that person. On the other side of coin role model teach us many things. First of all they motivate us to do better than what we are. A painter who sees Monalisa, sees himself in the same position as the great Leonardo Da Vinci. Whenever he looks at his creations his energy levels grow higher and he performs better, day by day. Role models inspires us to reach their levels.

Secondly we have a role model we have a focused goal. When we see him we tend to see our amibitions in him. Many a times role models are not plaigarized. Instead they are just taken as a reference. When we have a reference to judge ourselves we grow concious and take our steps accordingly towards goal. When we have focussed goals, we dont wander around many goals and achieving none of them. Moreover learning about the role model we know how he or she had solved that problem, this will help in solving our problems too.

In our day to day life a role model acts as a person in whom we see ourselves in the next couple of years. Though following them is bad at sometimes, but they definetly show us the path like a stranger who helps the blind person to cross the street. I conclude by saying that its upto the human being to choose the right role model and gain the beneficial things from him.

We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and in

Learning means gaining knowledge or skill. We learn from childhood till we are interred. Learning happens in many forms from watching a aerialist performing on the road to lectures in the class. In any form learning gives us the power to survive in this ever changing world. Discussion is also a form of learning which involves many people and myriad number of views on the same subjects. We human beings tend to discuss many things but hardly learning anything out of it due to our nature of defending our stance.

Agreements don't cause mental tensions, here people agree upon what ever is being discussed. On the other hand, disagreement tends to create an atmosphere of anger, with each part backing its stance and not trying to understand the opinion of others.
Moreover if someone believes your own views then you start firmly believing your view. This is good when you want to reassure what ever you have learnt over the ages.

Though many think that agreements leads to learning but it not quite true. If everyone agrees on one point then there would be no development and no improvement in the thought process and thus no learning. When people agree upon something then it is more likely that they are not analyzing all facets of the discussion. One example which would support this argument could be designing a system. If all the stock holders agree without any questions on the design then it doesn't mean that designer has done a great job, but it means that others haven't thought enough about the problem. This leads to a poor system design.

All the discoveries and inventions, which make our life more comfortable, are there because of difference in opinion. When there is a disagreement we come to know a different aspect of the same thing. Knowing all the facets helps in understanding and improving our knowledge about the topic. Learning process will definitely flourish in such an environment.Disagreement in a discussion leads to learning only if the discussion happens with great composure and coolness. Heated discussions only lead to waste of time and energy. All the interlocutors involved in the discussion should come with an attitude to learn and not to altercate. One famous example I could site for this can be the Galileo's theory about the earth's revolution around the sun. Administration at that time didn't agree upon such a revolutionary theory. Galileo proved his theory due to this difference of opinion, which helped the civilzation in knowing the truth about the universe. Had Galileo agreed upon the contemporary theorists of that time we wouldn't have learnt about it till date.

In disagreement people come to know where they are mistaken. If a child was taught from childhood that sun rises from west. He or she would know that he was wrong only when some one opposes his view point.

I would like to sum up by saying that it is important for us to interact with different kinds of people. And that learning would happen when there is disagreement in the group, and it depends upon the individual attitude.

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Drop by Drop life goes out!

Two years back in the October month I finished my Amritsar-Delhi-Chandigarh trip. After returning to campus i enjoyed each and every day of my life at campus as it was my last cultural festival(OASIS). In this ecstasy i forgot everything including myself. Few days later my phone was not working. I got a mail from my a least know junior informing me to call up my cousin as soon as possible. In that mood only thing i thought was positive so I thought that my cousin got a job and was leaving soon. Then another call to my friends cell phone asking me to call up immediately. I still couldn't sense the urgency of the matter. At last i called up my uncle, to hear something which i would never would have thought in my worst nightmares.

He informed me that my mother was sick. Sick is a generic word sometimes makes me sick too, you never know the how convoluted the situation is after hearing this word. After hearing to his words i called up my dad immediately. He seemed to be hiding something from me. I enquired if she was alright and if i could talk to her now. He informed me that everything was alright and she would be fine with in days. He asked me to come as soon as i could to a place called Vellore in Tamil Nadu. I was then studying in a place near Rajasthan. I didn't know what to do next. I informed my Warden regarding this and packed my bag. Somethings which i can never forget in this journey is that few friends are just for name sake and few will cross any boundaries to help you. One of my friends understood the complexity of the situation and offered to come with me. I was moved by his reaction. No one else even bothered to ask. Some showed sympathy but no help at last. But i was least worried about them. Then we headed to the Delhi station. In the early morning at around 4 am we arrived at Delhi station and took the ticket for Vellore. My train was at 10:30 am and my friend left few hours earlier.

Train journey lasted for two days. My mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts. Baffled about the situation, i couldn't think of anything else. Finally the train halted at the station where i had to get down to go to vellore by bus. My cousin came to pick me up. First question i asked him was how my mother was. He told me that situation was not good. He told me that she would look a bit distorted due to the medicines, so dint be afraid after seeing her. I then went to the room where we all stayed together. I never saw my dad in such a dejected form. He told me about what he knew about the situation but two my astonishment he knew nothing. My aunt and my cousin didn't tell him much as he may not handle stress at his old age. I was informed before hand not to tell dad anything. Next day morning i went to meet mom. She lied down in her bed with all syringes on her hand. She was in coma, we tried to wake her up but no response. I was late by one day, till the previous day she was normal but today she went in coma. What a luck i thought? Then a marathon started. The doctors came and went. I talked to them. They told me that her liver was malfunctioning, and could cease at any moment.

What would be the reaction of a teenager to such a statement? My dad was dumbfounded by the doctors statement. It was around lunch time and we had our lunch. I dropped dad at the hotel and was waiting in the hospital ward with my cousin and aunt. My aunt and my cousin went for lunch and i was left alone. In the mean time i was trying to distract myself by playing around with my cellphone. Soon a nurse came out running and called up the nearest doctor. Doctors informed me that condition was critical and she needed to be shifted to a higher ward. I agreed to their statement and helped the compounders push the trolley to the next cabin. I was running with the trolley when my aunt and cousin showed up. Their faces were surprised to see me with the trolley. Then after half an hour they shifted her to the Intensive care unit in the hospital.

ICU(Intensive Care Unit) allows visitors to see their patients only 2 times a day. So we stayed there for sometime and left for the room. In the evening my cousin and my aunt told me in person that if your mother dies then where would you like to do the rituals. I felt like slamming their head in the wall, how come they can think of such things when someone is alive. They were assured of her death as the doctors at Visakhapatnam and Vellore gave their word. And then the final fall of her health at the end of third day, the doctors told that her kidneys were not working. I saw tears coming out of my dad eyes. It was a rare incident as i never saw my dad crying. Till then i didn't cry as i didn't want to weaken my dad by crying, i had to support him at that time. Doctors finally gave their word that she could die any where between 12 to 24 hours. My cousin stayed outside the ICU whole night to notify us of any eventualities. That night was worst night for me. I couldnt sleep. I cried like a baby who lost its beloved toy. Moreover i couldn't share my emotions with any one. It was a hell for me. Morning i woke up after my cousin called up and told that everything was fine. And he wanted me to come there to see mom. I was freshing up and then came the second call. My aunt looked at me and she could understand my facial expression and told me not to tell dad about this. Dad asked me if everything was alright. I lied, i had no other option. I took dad for breakfast, he took his blood pressure tablets. Then we headed towards the ICU.

My dad had no clue about what he might have to face inside the closed room. I couldn't control my emotions. We entered the room and doctors at last told us that she no longer belonged to this world. I can still hear those words echoing in my ears. My dad almost lost his self. He kept on crying for a hours and hours together. Blaming himself about the current situation. Then i got a call from my brother who was in USA, who wanted to know about the situation. I couldn't tell him the truth. He was in much more ignorance then what my dad was. I told him that everything was fine and that mother was still in ICU. My brother didn't know anything until he came to India. I can understand how he felt after the words fell in his ears. Lying sometimes hurts lesser than truth.

We were still in vellore and had to decide where we need perform the last rituals. Atlast we decided that we would take the dead body to vizag. We took her body on train from Madras to Vizag. Meanwhile we got calls from a whole bunch of relatives, friends and well wishers weeping over mother's death. Bringing the body from vellore to vizag was not easy. My cousin and my aunt had done a great job in doing all the necessary arrangements for the same. Having a good rapport with the family and friends helps a lot. I can never forget the assistance they gave when we were in such a situation. I must thank them for all they have done.

Finally we arrived at vizag. After getting down the dead body was carried over an ambulance to the nearby ceremonial ground. By this time my brother and other relatives had already arrived at the burial place. All these arrangements were done by my uncles at Vizag. The rituals got over in an hour. We went back to my uncles place to stay there for 14 days.

At that time when all this happened it was nothing but a nightmare for me. With relatives going and coming for the next two weeks we were busy with them and trying to forget about the whole thing. But things were not easy for my father who just had spent his whole life with her. We stayed with parents only for till tenth standard but after that we used to visit our house twice or thrice in a year. My father was totally broken after this incident. He couldn't control his emotions at the slightest thing reminding this incident. One day all our relatives were assembled at one place and were chit chatting there, my mind was still searching where mom was, i could feel something was missing from my life.

After this whole incident i went back to my college, completed all my remaining exams and in the semester holidays i came back to my house at Dhanbad. When i stepped inside the house my eyes were still searching for the familiar figure in the house. Alas no one was there, i had to consolidate my mind. Emotions were flowing in and out of my body.

It is said that “An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.” I could learn so many new things in my life. First one is that if you have good friends who will help you any time are rare to find. And if you find one then they you should rarely miss them. Second one is that whenever you give something to any one it comes back from some one else in some other form. My parents did charity to many people, they had good rapport with a number of friends and relatives, and which inturn helped us when we were in such bad situation. Thirdly, when you think life is going to be as you wish , life takes a U turn. Lastly never rely on doctors. My mom was treated with wrong treatement for a period of 3 months which eventually led to her death.

This is just the part 1 of my story. The later posts will have the story half year after the whole incident.

Plastic Surgery of Nature

Long time ago I went to a Animal Park. Park was full of animals and birds. I was astonished to find one sign board talking about a deer's death. It was not a mere death of some rare species of deer, but a trigger which opened the eyes of the Park authorities. The incident which occured was none of a surprise. The deer died due to the intake of a plastic bag.

One visitor threw some food item along with the plastic in the deer's cage. That innocent mammal didn't have any clue of what is going into its belly. It wouldn't have imagined that the enthralling beauty of plastic could be the venom for its death.

Many such incidents provoked the writer in me to write about Plastic, ofcourse the evil side of it. Its presence is ubiquitous. Railway stations, Bus stands, offices, footpaths, temples, parks are full of multi colored plastic items. It is multifaceted too, in the form of plastic covers, plastic glasses, plastic switches and what not.

Every day when i wake up i hold my plastic tooth brush, comb my hair with plastic comb, apply oil from a plastic bottle, drink water from plastic drum, bath in a plastic bucket, put on my plastic headphones etc etc. Every second of my life has an instance of plastic in it. I wonder how we lived without this. Plastic is so handy and cheap that you can't live without using it.

There is no one on earth who doesnt know the property of plastic, that it doesnt get destroyed and that it can't be converted into other forms, which makes it more deadly for the mankind. There is a famous line from Matrix which is like "Everything which has a begining has an end Neo". But Agent Smith didnt think of plastic then. Its not hard to imagine the future of earth in next few years if the plastic consumption goes like this for next couple of decades. Heaps of Plastic surrounding the whole earth.
If we dont proactively take actions against this then we there would be hardly any place to live in this planet. In some of its forms plastic carries many chemicals which when mixed with food items causes slow but long lasting side effects.

Though there are many solutions to remove plastic and replace it with bio plastic which is degradable and recyclable. But the problem with new schemes are that they are costly and takes some amount of time to dethrone the existing entities. Meanwhile we can just take some steps to avoid using plastics. Whenever possible use cloth bags, avoid taking too many covers if you can manage with one, reuse the existing plastic as far as possible, avoid carrying food items directly in plastic bags.

Understanding Multi Processing

My Mom starts her chores in a unique fashion. She sets off with cooking and while she is in this process she does washing of clothes. And by the time lunch is prepared she does room cleaning and the washing machine makes weird noises. Every natural act which we do has some part of multi processing. Even our internal body mechanism involves multi processing like heart beat, digestion, swallowing etc. These processes dont depend on each other for their functionality.

Multi processing by itself first seems to be a concept only available in Computer Science. But looking into the practical use of it one can confirm that its use in CS is only one of the myraid use of this concept. Assembly line workers work in a pipeline to do the work faster. Courier companies hire many workers to send their work faster and with more reliability. While typing this blog i am reading the daily newspaper and paying my credit card dues. TV veiwing accompanied with reading magazines.

When we say Multi Processing we mean doing multiple tasks at the same time. But in any case this definition is not correct. It just means that when one tasks doesn't require any intervention you serve the next task. For example when you are on the phone and the other person is checking for something you may want to check your mailbox.

This understanding can be extrapolated to understand multiprocessing in Computer Science. When the CPU sees that the current process will involve I/O operation it will then swap the process and get the next process which is waiting for the CPU time. This switching happens in microseconds of time, so for the human eye it seems as if the Processor is doing multitasking.

Concepts in CS are not work of some supernatural being with weird thought process, but of those who utilize the mundane knowledge.

Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society

Advertisements running in the news channels, magazines talking about companies , sport channels filled with myraid number of championships all suggest the impact of competition we have in our daily life. Competition has drastically changed the society and the industry. Competition is ubiquitous, there is no one who hasn't tasted what competition is. From a school kid to a CEO of a company every one knows how important it is. Competition is good as well as bad, it depends how human beings percieve it.

Competition motivates human beings to do their best. When a student is confronted with an exam he studies. If there were no exam then he would have been complacent and the learning wouldn't have happened.

Economics suggests that any competition is always better than monopoly. Competition in business is advantageous to consumers and producers. In India Aviation Industry was monopolised by Indian Airlines, which was costly and was out of reach of common man. With the advent of foriegn airlines entering the sector not only the cost of flights got reduced but also the services offered were much better. Producers try to reduce cost in order to cope up with competition. Recently Intel laid off many employees as a part of cost cutting, which happened due to competition.

Competition gives a benchmark for human beings to measure their achievements and advancements. In this pursuit of competing human beings find individuals with the same passion. This leads to knowledge sharing and learning. Healthy competition is necessary condition for the overall growth of the human beings and nation in general.

Every coin with head on one side has tail on the other. Competition may seem to be good but has many negative impacts on society. Conflicts in society is commonly seen due to competition. People tend to become overly involved in their pursuit to win that they start hating their competitors.

Zeal to win leads to malpractices. Many sports person seem to take narcotics, drugs and other performance enhancing substances to win. Maradona was accused of taking drugs in one of World Cup matches. Micheal Schumacher stopping his car in the mid of the lap there by eliminating the chances of his opponent Alonso to speed his car to the end of the lap. Sledging in cricket quite common. All these examples highlight the bad side of competition.

Competition is quite stressful. Students commiting suicide due to the competition pressure is not very uncommon in India. Employees working long hours trying to bring the product into the market before their competitor does, shows how stressful competition can become.

Competition is an essential part of our lives, we can't avoid it. Hence it can be concluded that competition is more beneficial than detrimental to the society.

Software Recruitment How much Transparent is the process

When i passed out of the college from a premier institute i didnot have any idea how the world will welcome me. But the tag name of my institute didnt let me down. I was placed in a good company with a handsome salary and was happy. I thought it was my talent which got me into such a big company. I was under the illusion that in this IT boom every software engineer in India is placed in some or the other company.

A year later one day i came to know that some openings at my company and then i went forward to send a mail to my college alumni group, informing about the the oppurtunities at my company. The first day i got the mails from the students who were from my college and fullfilling the requirements. But later i got hundreds of mails from people seeking for jobs from some other colleges.

Lets look at this situation from two angles. First suppose that i am candidate who is seeking for a job. I come to know about the openings at some company. I dont think of anything else but forward my resume with a nicely written cover letter. I think that as soon as the mail is sent some one at the recieving end is going to filter them. And i wait for a day or two and see if i get a call for the interview alas i didnt get. What should i do? Should i go and kill myself for not getting a call. Or shall i assume that my resume is not excellent enough for the call. All this questions bugs me for a day or two.

Now lets assume that i posted a job in some website. I get mails from some people. I have an attitude that i will stop forwarding the mails to my HR after i get some 20 mails which fit the job requirements. So starting day 1 with full enthu i open one by one resume scan them and send the best resume to the HR. Now i am done with my work and i close the issue. I wait for the HR to reply back to them. But here matter doesnt end. As i see my mailbox flooding with thousands of mails. How many do i see? I simply do a delete. I dont have to take care about the feelings about the sender. I am just an ordinary man, looking for some kind of benefit from referals. And moreover i cant take all of the mails sort them by their knowledge and give them rankings and then send them. This will take O(n*n) time which no one has these days. I am in a dilemma. Am i making those hundreds wait for their job call, making them feel bad about their qualifications.

Selection, Choice

Selection is one of the important things which all of us as human beings make on a day to day basis. Making right choice is not only difficult but time consuming too. Many people make the decision in the nick of time and some who take a decade to do the same thing. No one can argue whether the decision taken was right or wrong.

How much time and energy can be wasted in taking a decision? What is the optimal time to stop evaluating your choices? What weights that need to be assigned to the parameters which influence the options? Where to find the right information? Which information to rely upon? Who can give the correct and timely information? These questions keep on bugging ones mind when ever a decision is pending. An example can answer all such questions. For example a person is about to buy a digital camera. First of all parameters needs to be fixed. What is the price range? What is the resolution which i need? Do i need to have a professional camera or a casual camera? Which brand to go with? Experts are available to set some of these variables. Some friends who have already used cameras or some online website which provides such comparisions. After setting these variables, all the possible cameras are jotted down. Thus a small subset of cameras are left. Now the decision remains with the individual to decide which parameter to give more weigthage, is it the looks which you prefer more or is it the ease of use, or the brand, or the customer reviews. More or less if these steps are followed then with gurantee one can argue that he will land in problem after making a wrong cull.

Some wrong choices can make one suffer for his life. But the simple example in the last paragraph doesn't come in that category. Once a camera is brought it can be replaced. But say its the case of culling upon a life partner. Till what time will you wait to get your dream girl? What qualities will you look for?
Another example is when selecting from a pool of jobs. Which company will fulfill my dream, which will pay more, which will offer a better career, which will give me more benefits then the rest. Many such mind boggling questions which in earth no one can answer with 100% confidence.

Another view of the same issue is this, is it that if more options are there then more confusion or if lesser options are there then one may think that he has lesser options and he may choose the best among the lot which may not be best in the market.

In this arcane world with myraid number of choices one may feel to be left out without any clues. Following the steps mentioned in these paragraphs one can ensure that the choice willn't hurt him in future. Decision making may be tough task but never let it overwhelm you in any case.

Stampede

Stampede

Not a strange term for many of those who have gone into some gathering or the other.
Mobs are calm, quietly work their way back to their homes. Stampedes by definition means a crowd running madly without any intention in mind. It starts off with few men running to do something, this ignites the dynamite crowd to run widly into one another. This effect is so spontaneous that with in seconds one can see the whole crowd frenziedly walking over their own dead bodies.

This is not just a theoretical term, we can find plently cases when thousands lost their lives. Few days back we heard the tragic incident of Haj. The incident happens every year with nearly hundreds of people murdering themselves in such a holy place like Haj. In 2000 it was recorded that a peak of 1800 odd men and women were killed while offering their worships. And this year the trend continues with 360 odd men dieing and more than 1000 injuring themselves for no reason. In Chennai no one expected to have a stampede at a place where food was being distributed for the flood affected victims.

I dont think such stampedes are 100% out of our control if the administration can do some thinking on avoiding such holocausts. Take the case of Tirupathi where lakhs of devotees visit the temple on the hills of Tirumala. Not even a single time we find such stampedes. The adminstration there has taken lot of care and has devoted its resources in making the pilgrimage safe and stampede free.

With over 25 lakhs of people visiting Haj at this time of the year the administration should make proper arrangements for accomodating atleast double the actual size of the pilgrims. If arrangements are not made to check out such simple problems then time will come when people will not fear to drive their bike at 80 but will definelty abhor to attend mass gatherings!!

MBA in India

These are the top institutes in India for MBA..
Not in the order of ranking...
IIM-A
IIM-B
IIM-C
IIM-L
IIM-K
IIM-I
XLRI Jamshedpur
NITIE, Mumbai
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi
Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi
S P Jain Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai
Narsi Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
Institute of Rural Management Anand
Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
ISB, Hyderbad

Murder in the Womb

I like to read the editorial of The Times Of India. And i am impressed by the way they give innovative solution to the everyday problems like female foeticide.

Though i am no specialist in this area, i can surely give you the link which deals with it. I got inspired by this article in TOI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1366420,curpg-3.cms
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/SAsia/suchana/0326/kaur.html
which gives a good way to stop this barbaric practice. First method is to expemt tax for those who have a girl child. Secondly give girls free education. Lastly to root out this problem government along with other social groups should spread awarness among the masses to eradicate such inhumane system.

Men are from Mars Women are from Venus by John Gray

Book Review
This book talks about the differences Men and women have. And how these differences effect their marital life. Men who are from mars like to spend time alone when they are frustrated and women like to spend their time discussing their problem with some one who they love. And no one knows these differences. Due to this their marital life is strained and this leads to divorce.

Author who is an expert in this area writes about how we should tackle these differences of the opposite sex and how we can modify ourselves to understand the feelings of the other.

This book is must for all those who want to have a stable marital life and also to those bachelors who are going to tie the knot in near future.

Freakonomics: Book Review

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

For those who havent read the book. I would like to write a review on this book.
If you are a aficionado of economics then you will definetly praise this book but if you are not this book will definetly interest you.

Freakonomics name comes to the mind of the author as there is no unifying theme for this book. Only thing which we can find common is the underlying economics.

Book starts with some vague and never asked questions which i atleast never thought or never even heard some one discussing. In the following chapters he tries to find the answer of these questions. Some questions which i found most interesting was what is common between a sumo wrestler and a school teacher, why do drug dealers still leave with their mothers etc...

The book suggests that many difficult questions can be answered in a correct way only if we search in the right data. At the end author has wooed the readers to ask such questions, and to find the right answers.