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FRIENDSHIP
1. A friend is someone who knows all there is to know about you, but loves you anyway.
---Glenda Nunn
2. We must love each other enough to cause growth.
---Neal A. Maxwell
3. The milestones into gravestones turn, and under each a friend.
---Cicero
4. A true friend always leaves us better than he finds us.
---Bennie Harris
5. You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
---Ruth Smeltzer
6. It is easy to die for a friend, but difficult to find a friend who is worth dying for.
---Submitted by Tarun Shah
7. Those who do not believe in love, are dead to the world and were dead from birth.
---Submitted by Ursula Mayr
8. Thee lift me, and I'll lift thee, and we'll ascend together.
---Quaker Proverb submitted by Risë Harris
9. What is a friend? One soul in two bodies.
---Aristotle submitted by Shannon Shan
10. If you seek the very best of friends in your life, a great spouse won't be far behind.
---Submitted by Anita Popp
11. We may rise or fall, but in the end we'll meet our fate together.
---Creed submitted by Warrick Ball
12. A friend in need is a pest.
---Submitted by Jeff Buchop
13. Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
---Robert Kennedy submitted by Rueben Aitchison
14. You become what you surround yourself in.
---Submitted by Anita Popp
15. It is difficult to be depressed when the focus is on helping someone else.
---Submitted by Anita Popp
16. Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
---New Age saying and Christian hymn submitted by Wilfredo Jose de Jesus Maldonado Diazvia
17. If you found a friend you found a treasure (Chi trova un amico, trova un tresoro).
---Italian Proverb submitted by Lorena Vassallo
18. All for one and one for all.
---Alexandre Dumas submitted by Lorena Vassallo
19. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
---Submitted by Beth Ann Allison
20. We need to learn, practice, study, know and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient. Every man, woman, and child will have all they need just as soon as they become honest. When the majority of the community are dishonest, it maketh the honest portion poor, for the dishonest serve and enrich themselves at their expense.
---Brigham Young
21. If you have friends who are not good influences, make changes; even if it means facing loneliness.
---Boyd K. Packer
22. I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you.
---Jesus Christ
23. When two souls finally find each other there is between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in Heaven.
---Submitted by Tennille Winfrey
24. Life is to be fortified by many feelings. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
---Sydney Smith submitted by Tennille Winfrey
25. If you want to know what love is, give much of yourself. Be honest. Be sincere. Be thoughtful. Be understanding. Be patient and still. Be ready to get hurt.
---Marie
26. Friendship lasts until the next quarrel.
---Uldarico Kulalapnot
27. A friend of your friend is your enemy.
---Unknown
28. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
---Woodrow Wilson submitted by Lacey Rader
29. Love is not blind. It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
---Rabbi Julius Gordon submitted by C. Woodhouse
30. Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees, but cannot cure.
---Edgar A. Guest submitted by C. Woodhouse
31. Sometimes you cannot get the exact love you want, only the love someone can give.
---Unknown submitted by Lauralee Johnson
32. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
---Moriah Seibert submitted by Denise Stokes
33. One friend in a lifetime is much, two is many, and three nearly impossible.
---Unknown submitted by Kim
34. Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends they like.
---Unknown submitted by Kim
35. Love between two people is hard to see, but when you are in love you can see it.
---A.J. Santiago submitted by Hernan A. Santiago
36. If you love something let it go. If it comes back, it's yours; if it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.
---Submitted by Aisling Walsh
37. Loving yourself prepares you to love others.
---Shelia Mari Pabalan
38. A smile is just a smile, but when you are in love with someone, a smile can be a thousand words.
---Submitted by Beth Ledger
39. Some people come into our lives and quickly go; others stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
---Submitted by Jen_ds3
40. True friendship is a tree of slow growth.
---Submitted by Joanne C.
41. Friends are not necessary to live. They do, however, make life worth living.
---C. S. Lewis submitted by Sean
42. When you love somebody a whole lot, and you know that person loves you, that's the most beautiful place in the world.
---Ann Cameron
43. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
---Jean Webster
44. Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
---Sharon Creech
45. You can't expect two start to drop in the same field in one lifetime.
---P.L. Travers
46. A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a body.
---Nate K
47. Love is what you hope and hope determines what you choose to love.
---Siddarth Seth
48. Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
---Greek Proverb submitted by Stacy Sher
49. Without friends you are like a book nobody bothers to pick up.
---Submitted by Ummul Khair
50. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and wait to hear the answer.
---Ed Cunningham
51. Friends are people who have your permission to be a pain in your butt.
---W. Jonathan McCoy
52. A real friend is one who walks in when the world walks out.
---Submitted by Karren
53. If you lived to be a hundred, I wish I could live to be a hundred minus one day. So I would never have to live without you.
---Winnie the Pooh submitted by Lindsey
54. It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.
---French Proverb submitted by Kandance Welch
55. If you open your heart and listen, you'll hear the whisper of angels.
---Submitted by Pamela Rose
56. Trust is easily broken, hard to receive, and even harder to regain.
---Roger L. Marsh
57. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
---Unknown
58. True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare, false friends are like autumn leaves falling everywhere.
---Submitted by Sabrina Lee
59. If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
---Winnie the Pooh submitted by Annie Posea
60. Without love, we are like birds without wings.
---Mitch Albom submitted by Annie Posea
61. When you hug someone never be the first to let go.
---H. Jackson Brown, Jr. submitted by Annie Posea
62. The vitamin for friendship...............B-1
---Submitted by Bob Brown
63. Men are like stars, there are a million of them, but only one can make your dreams come true!
---Submitted by Katie Boyers
64. The death of a best friend is a lot like suicide.
---Matt King
65. We are angels, but with one wing, and we fly by embracing each other.
---Vicki Bothwell
66. Guys and girls are fully capable of just being friends, granted that both are ugly and heartless.
---Duc Nguyen
67. True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
---Submitted by Justin Goodwin
68. You never lose by loving..you always lose by holding back.
---Submitted by Jenna Weag
69. A smile relieves a heart that grieves.
---The Rolling Stones submitted by Hope Martin
70. Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
---Henry Ward Beecher
---Glenda Nunn
2. We must love each other enough to cause growth.
---Neal A. Maxwell
3. The milestones into gravestones turn, and under each a friend.
---Cicero
4. A true friend always leaves us better than he finds us.
---Bennie Harris
5. You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
---Ruth Smeltzer
6. It is easy to die for a friend, but difficult to find a friend who is worth dying for.
---Submitted by Tarun Shah
7. Those who do not believe in love, are dead to the world and were dead from birth.
---Submitted by Ursula Mayr
8. Thee lift me, and I'll lift thee, and we'll ascend together.
---Quaker Proverb submitted by Risë Harris
9. What is a friend? One soul in two bodies.
---Aristotle submitted by Shannon Shan
10. If you seek the very best of friends in your life, a great spouse won't be far behind.
---Submitted by Anita Popp
11. We may rise or fall, but in the end we'll meet our fate together.
---Creed submitted by Warrick Ball
12. A friend in need is a pest.
---Submitted by Jeff Buchop
13. Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
---Robert Kennedy submitted by Rueben Aitchison
14. You become what you surround yourself in.
---Submitted by Anita Popp
15. It is difficult to be depressed when the focus is on helping someone else.
---Submitted by Anita Popp
16. Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
---New Age saying and Christian hymn submitted by Wilfredo Jose de Jesus Maldonado Diazvia
17. If you found a friend you found a treasure (Chi trova un amico, trova un tresoro).
---Italian Proverb submitted by Lorena Vassallo
18. All for one and one for all.
---Alexandre Dumas submitted by Lorena Vassallo
19. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
---Submitted by Beth Ann Allison
20. We need to learn, practice, study, know and understand how angels live with each other. When this community comes to the point to be perfectly honest and upright, you will never find a poor person; none will lack, all will have sufficient. Every man, woman, and child will have all they need just as soon as they become honest. When the majority of the community are dishonest, it maketh the honest portion poor, for the dishonest serve and enrich themselves at their expense.
---Brigham Young
21. If you have friends who are not good influences, make changes; even if it means facing loneliness.
---Boyd K. Packer
22. I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you.
---Jesus Christ
23. When two souls finally find each other there is between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in Heaven.
---Submitted by Tennille Winfrey
24. Life is to be fortified by many feelings. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
---Sydney Smith submitted by Tennille Winfrey
25. If you want to know what love is, give much of yourself. Be honest. Be sincere. Be thoughtful. Be understanding. Be patient and still. Be ready to get hurt.
---Marie
26. Friendship lasts until the next quarrel.
---Uldarico Kulalapnot
27. A friend of your friend is your enemy.
---Unknown
28. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
---Woodrow Wilson submitted by Lacey Rader
29. Love is not blind. It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
---Rabbi Julius Gordon submitted by C. Woodhouse
30. Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees, but cannot cure.
---Edgar A. Guest submitted by C. Woodhouse
31. Sometimes you cannot get the exact love you want, only the love someone can give.
---Unknown submitted by Lauralee Johnson
32. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
---Moriah Seibert submitted by Denise Stokes
33. One friend in a lifetime is much, two is many, and three nearly impossible.
---Unknown submitted by Kim
34. Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends they like.
---Unknown submitted by Kim
35. Love between two people is hard to see, but when you are in love you can see it.
---A.J. Santiago submitted by Hernan A. Santiago
36. If you love something let it go. If it comes back, it's yours; if it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.
---Submitted by Aisling Walsh
37. Loving yourself prepares you to love others.
---Shelia Mari Pabalan
38. A smile is just a smile, but when you are in love with someone, a smile can be a thousand words.
---Submitted by Beth Ledger
39. Some people come into our lives and quickly go; others stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
---Submitted by Jen_ds3
40. True friendship is a tree of slow growth.
---Submitted by Joanne C.
41. Friends are not necessary to live. They do, however, make life worth living.
---C. S. Lewis submitted by Sean
42. When you love somebody a whole lot, and you know that person loves you, that's the most beautiful place in the world.
---Ann Cameron
43. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
---Jean Webster
44. Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
---Sharon Creech
45. You can't expect two start to drop in the same field in one lifetime.
---P.L. Travers
46. A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a body.
---Nate K
47. Love is what you hope and hope determines what you choose to love.
---Siddarth Seth
48. Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
---Greek Proverb submitted by Stacy Sher
49. Without friends you are like a book nobody bothers to pick up.
---Submitted by Ummul Khair
50. Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and wait to hear the answer.
---Ed Cunningham
51. Friends are people who have your permission to be a pain in your butt.
---W. Jonathan McCoy
52. A real friend is one who walks in when the world walks out.
---Submitted by Karren
53. If you lived to be a hundred, I wish I could live to be a hundred minus one day. So I would never have to live without you.
---Winnie the Pooh submitted by Lindsey
54. It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.
---French Proverb submitted by Kandance Welch
55. If you open your heart and listen, you'll hear the whisper of angels.
---Submitted by Pamela Rose
56. Trust is easily broken, hard to receive, and even harder to regain.
---Roger L. Marsh
57. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
---Unknown
58. True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare, false friends are like autumn leaves falling everywhere.
---Submitted by Sabrina Lee
59. If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
---Winnie the Pooh submitted by Annie Posea
60. Without love, we are like birds without wings.
---Mitch Albom submitted by Annie Posea
61. When you hug someone never be the first to let go.
---H. Jackson Brown, Jr. submitted by Annie Posea
62. The vitamin for friendship...............B-1
---Submitted by Bob Brown
63. Men are like stars, there are a million of them, but only one can make your dreams come true!
---Submitted by Katie Boyers
64. The death of a best friend is a lot like suicide.
---Matt King
65. We are angels, but with one wing, and we fly by embracing each other.
---Vicki Bothwell
66. Guys and girls are fully capable of just being friends, granted that both are ugly and heartless.
---Duc Nguyen
67. True love can not be found where it does not truly exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
---Submitted by Justin Goodwin
68. You never lose by loving..you always lose by holding back.
---Submitted by Jenna Weag
69. A smile relieves a heart that grieves.
---The Rolling Stones submitted by Hope Martin
70. Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
---Henry Ward Beecher
WORK TO LIVE, NOT LIVE TO WORK
It's 5 o'clock in the morning; the alarm sets off. You get out of bed. You take a bath. You have your breakfast. You leave the house. You're ready to face another working day. Or are you?
When I was a kid, I would ask my mom why she and my father had to work. She would always tell me that they had to, so we could have the money to buy food, to pay for the bills, to pay for schooling & so on. Both my parents worked but I'm really grateful to God; that in spite of that, I was never lacking in love, time, nor care from my parents.
As a matter of fact, I grew up to be a responsible individual because my parents really took care of me. Although they were at the office 5 days a week from 8am to 6pm, they still found time to look after me, and teach me, my lessons in the evening.
They made sure that I did my homework. They didn't pressure me to aspire for honors, but I was motivated enough to study hard so I'd get good grades. It was my way of repaying my parents who never complained about working. I guess fate has been really good to me because, modesty aside, I managed to land in the top of my respective classes.
My parents taught me that one has to work in order for him to live a good life. They stressed, however, that this should not be taken as having to live just to work! They said that work should only be a part of life and it should not occupy one's whole existence.
And they lived this philosophy. At the end of the work day, they would leave all their work-related problems in the office so that at home they could be devoted to us 100% as a family, no less.
I must say that I agree with them. To this day, I still hear their message that work should be just a part of life and not life itself. I pity those people who have their way in this game called life. They have forgotten how to really live because they work too hard.
There' nothing wrong with striving at work, but people must watch out for signs that they have begun to work themselves to death. Remember that anything in excess is bad. Maybe, they want to achieve something badly, that's why they work so hard. But I believe that success in the workplace doesn't always bring happiness.
To be successful means that you have to sacrifice some things and sometimes, you end up sacrificing your family, your friends, your life; you achieve your professional goals, but you lose yourself. Then you wonder if the loss is worth the gain.
Everybody's wish, in this world, is happiness and there are many ways to be happy. But when we work too hard or worry too much, we often forget that the simple things in life are those that make us happy…. a call from a friend, a smile from a stranger, the sight of a lovely flower, a surprise gift, a filling meal, a pat on the back, etc. It doesn't require much to get these gifts. These gifts are for free, but they provide immeasurable happiness.
Work to live and not live to work. Find time for yourself, for your family, for your friends. Keep in mind that your priority is your loved ones, and not your work. Everybody deserves to be happy and I hope that everyone grows old without any regret in life.
I hope each of us will have a smile on our faces when we reminisce the old times, I hope that everyone
When I was a kid, I would ask my mom why she and my father had to work. She would always tell me that they had to, so we could have the money to buy food, to pay for the bills, to pay for schooling & so on. Both my parents worked but I'm really grateful to God; that in spite of that, I was never lacking in love, time, nor care from my parents.
As a matter of fact, I grew up to be a responsible individual because my parents really took care of me. Although they were at the office 5 days a week from 8am to 6pm, they still found time to look after me, and teach me, my lessons in the evening.
They made sure that I did my homework. They didn't pressure me to aspire for honors, but I was motivated enough to study hard so I'd get good grades. It was my way of repaying my parents who never complained about working. I guess fate has been really good to me because, modesty aside, I managed to land in the top of my respective classes.
My parents taught me that one has to work in order for him to live a good life. They stressed, however, that this should not be taken as having to live just to work! They said that work should only be a part of life and it should not occupy one's whole existence.
And they lived this philosophy. At the end of the work day, they would leave all their work-related problems in the office so that at home they could be devoted to us 100% as a family, no less.
I must say that I agree with them. To this day, I still hear their message that work should be just a part of life and not life itself. I pity those people who have their way in this game called life. They have forgotten how to really live because they work too hard.
There' nothing wrong with striving at work, but people must watch out for signs that they have begun to work themselves to death. Remember that anything in excess is bad. Maybe, they want to achieve something badly, that's why they work so hard. But I believe that success in the workplace doesn't always bring happiness.
To be successful means that you have to sacrifice some things and sometimes, you end up sacrificing your family, your friends, your life; you achieve your professional goals, but you lose yourself. Then you wonder if the loss is worth the gain.
Everybody's wish, in this world, is happiness and there are many ways to be happy. But when we work too hard or worry too much, we often forget that the simple things in life are those that make us happy…. a call from a friend, a smile from a stranger, the sight of a lovely flower, a surprise gift, a filling meal, a pat on the back, etc. It doesn't require much to get these gifts. These gifts are for free, but they provide immeasurable happiness.
Work to live and not live to work. Find time for yourself, for your family, for your friends. Keep in mind that your priority is your loved ones, and not your work. Everybody deserves to be happy and I hope that everyone grows old without any regret in life.
I hope each of us will have a smile on our faces when we reminisce the old times, I hope that everyone
beautiful nature...
Watch a sunrise at least once a year
- cause watching it will tell u each day starts anew.
~Look people in the eye
- to let the people know that u are confident of what u are doing or saying.
~Sing in the shower
- to make urself appreciate ur own voice.....and to keep urself jolly
~Be forgiving of yourself and others
- So that others would forgive u when u make mistakes
~Never give up on anybody, miracles happen everyday
- cause people change everyday.
A person may not be able to do something today but by u giving up on them
they will have the spirit to do that something someday
~Surprise loved ones with little unexpected gifts
-to make them smile and to show them that u care
~Make the best of bad situations
-so that life will never be upsetting
~Admit your mistakes
-cause when u admit, u are showing u are courageous to face the consequences
~Slow dance
- to relax ur mind in times of stress
~Remember that the most important thing is trust
-Trust is the base of life. Trust can do wonders
~Make it a habit to do nice things for people who'll never find out
- Just imagine someone u have helped without their knowledge,. Seeing their happiness will make u feel
contented
~Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures
- to show that u appreciate even little things
~Never cheat
- cause cheating will set ur mind guilty all the time....
~Smile a lot
- cause smiling reduces wrinkle
~Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have
- hope can even make the blind see
~Strive for excellence, not perfection
-cause no one is perfect
~Be kinder than necessary
-so that others will be happy
~Never take action when you're angry
-cause that is when u will be very regretful
~Be romantic
- so as to make ur partner and urself happy
~When someone hugs you, let them be first to let go
- to signify that u will never let go no matter what happens
~Seek out the good in people
-to forget their bad
~Look at the stars
-to think of life as beautiful as the skies
~Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying
peace, health and love
-cause there is no use of success if u don't enjoy it at al
~Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them
- cause no one is guranteed to be alive when u want to tell them
~Laugh a lot
-to make urself happy
~Love deeply and passionately
-so as to have a closer bond with ur partner
~Eat meals with your family
-to have a easy talk with ur family
~Be the first to forgive
-cause no one is perfect so do forgive others
~Don't let Weeds grow around your dreams
- cause those weeds will be ur life then
~Live and Be Happy
Posted by Gudur Sarab Lokesh
at 4:45 AM
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Two Days We Should Not Worry
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry,
two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;
we cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone forever.
The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
with all its possible adversities, its burdens,
its large promise and its poor performance;
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.
Tomorrow's sun will rise,
either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.
This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.
Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time
Posted by Gudur Sarab Lokesh
at 4:42 AM
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Mother love, A very touching poem
He cannot tell his mother he's dying.
Somehow he's embarrassed, ashamed of fifty-six years
of imperfections, of doing everything she told him
(even as a teenager) not to do.
He's ashamed for her, too--her second son to die this way,
that out of her milk-white and perfect bones
came a perfect cell that would divide and divide
her heart into a million pieces, if she only knew.
His world was every yellow tulip she breathed in April,
every strawberry whose redness she swallowed in July,
every song on her lips whose notes
slid in tenor waves through her thin skin
and lulled him off to sleep again hush little baby don't say a word.
She once felt his fingers and toes fluttering
beneath the tight skin of her belly, his straining to open his mouth
and tell her everything in the world he knew was beautiful.
Now he feels an invisible weight
pushing out on his belly and his love has no words
for all the nothing in the world
he knows is beautiful.
- cause watching it will tell u each day starts anew.
~Look people in the eye
- to let the people know that u are confident of what u are doing or saying.
~Sing in the shower
- to make urself appreciate ur own voice.....and to keep urself jolly
~Be forgiving of yourself and others
- So that others would forgive u when u make mistakes
~Never give up on anybody, miracles happen everyday
- cause people change everyday.
A person may not be able to do something today but by u giving up on them
they will have the spirit to do that something someday
~Surprise loved ones with little unexpected gifts
-to make them smile and to show them that u care
~Make the best of bad situations
-so that life will never be upsetting
~Admit your mistakes
-cause when u admit, u are showing u are courageous to face the consequences
~Slow dance
- to relax ur mind in times of stress
~Remember that the most important thing is trust
-Trust is the base of life. Trust can do wonders
~Make it a habit to do nice things for people who'll never find out
- Just imagine someone u have helped without their knowledge,. Seeing their happiness will make u feel
contented
~Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures
- to show that u appreciate even little things
~Never cheat
- cause cheating will set ur mind guilty all the time....
~Smile a lot
- cause smiling reduces wrinkle
~Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have
- hope can even make the blind see
~Strive for excellence, not perfection
-cause no one is perfect
~Be kinder than necessary
-so that others will be happy
~Never take action when you're angry
-cause that is when u will be very regretful
~Be romantic
- so as to make ur partner and urself happy
~When someone hugs you, let them be first to let go
- to signify that u will never let go no matter what happens
~Seek out the good in people
-to forget their bad
~Look at the stars
-to think of life as beautiful as the skies
~Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying
peace, health and love
-cause there is no use of success if u don't enjoy it at al
~Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them
- cause no one is guranteed to be alive when u want to tell them
~Laugh a lot
-to make urself happy
~Love deeply and passionately
-so as to have a closer bond with ur partner
~Eat meals with your family
-to have a easy talk with ur family
~Be the first to forgive
-cause no one is perfect so do forgive others
~Don't let Weeds grow around your dreams
- cause those weeds will be ur life then
~Live and Be Happy
Posted by Gudur Sarab Lokesh
at 4:45 AM
0 comments
Two Days We Should Not Worry
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry,
two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;
we cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone forever.
The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
with all its possible adversities, its burdens,
its large promise and its poor performance;
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.
Tomorrow's sun will rise,
either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.
This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.
Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time
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Mother love, A very touching poem
He cannot tell his mother he's dying.
Somehow he's embarrassed, ashamed of fifty-six years
of imperfections, of doing everything she told him
(even as a teenager) not to do.
He's ashamed for her, too--her second son to die this way,
that out of her milk-white and perfect bones
came a perfect cell that would divide and divide
her heart into a million pieces, if she only knew.
His world was every yellow tulip she breathed in April,
every strawberry whose redness she swallowed in July,
every song on her lips whose notes
slid in tenor waves through her thin skin
and lulled him off to sleep again hush little baby don't say a word.
She once felt his fingers and toes fluttering
beneath the tight skin of her belly, his straining to open his mouth
and tell her everything in the world he knew was beautiful.
Now he feels an invisible weight
pushing out on his belly and his love has no words
for all the nothing in the world
he knows is beautiful.
Live and be Happy
~Watch a sunrise at least once a year
~Look people in the eye
~Sing in the shower
~Be forgiving of yourself and others
~Never give up on anybody, miracles happen everyday
~Surprise loved ones with little unexpected gifts
~Make the best of bad situations
~Admit your mistakes
~Slow dance
~Remember that the most important thing is trust
~Make it a habit to do nice things for people who'll never find out
~Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures
~Never cheat
~Smile a lot
~Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have
~Strive for excellence, not perfection
~Be kinder than necessary
~Never take action when you're angry
~Be romantic
~When someone hugs you, let them be first to let go
~Seek out the good in people
~Look at the stars
~Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying
peace, health and love
~Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them
~Laugh a lot
~Love deeply and passionately
~Eat meals with your family
~Be the first to forgive
~Don't let Weeds grow around your dreams
~Live and Be Happy
~Look people in the eye
~Sing in the shower
~Be forgiving of yourself and others
~Never give up on anybody, miracles happen everyday
~Surprise loved ones with little unexpected gifts
~Make the best of bad situations
~Admit your mistakes
~Slow dance
~Remember that the most important thing is trust
~Make it a habit to do nice things for people who'll never find out
~Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures
~Never cheat
~Smile a lot
~Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have
~Strive for excellence, not perfection
~Be kinder than necessary
~Never take action when you're angry
~Be romantic
~When someone hugs you, let them be first to let go
~Seek out the good in people
~Look at the stars
~Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying
peace, health and love
~Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them
~Laugh a lot
~Love deeply and passionately
~Eat meals with your family
~Be the first to forgive
~Don't let Weeds grow around your dreams
~Live and Be Happy
How to say I Love You in 100 Languages !!!
English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oi
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te ubesk
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of
fingers when
signing'I Love You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oi
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te ubesk
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of
fingers when
signing'I Love You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe
10 secrets to be a better person
The FIRST secret - the power of THOUGHT.
Love begins with our thoughts. We become what we think about.Loving thoughts
create loving experiences and loving relationships. Affirmations can change
our beliefs and thoughts about others and ourselves. If we want to love
someone, we need to consider his or her needs and desires. Thinking about
your ideal partner will help you recognise her when you meet her.
The SECOND secret - the power of RESPECT.
You cannot love anyone or anything unless you first respect them.
The first person you need to respect is yourself.
To begin to gain self-respect, ask yourself, What do I respect
about myself?-
To gain respect for others, even those you may dislike, ask
yourself,
What do I respect about them?-
The THIRD secret - the power of GIVING.
If you want to receive love, all you have to do is give it!
The more love you give, the more you will receive.
To love is to give of yourself, freely and unconditionally.
Practice random acts of kindness. Before committing to a
relationship ask not what the other person will be able to give to
you, but
rather what will you be able to give them.
The secret formula of a happy, lifelong, loving relationship is to
always focus on what you can give instead of what you can take.
The FOURTH secret - the power of FRIENDSHIP.
To find a true love, you must first find a true friend.
Love does not consist of gazing into each other"s eyes, but rather
looking outward together in the same direction.
To love someone completely you must love him or her for who they
are and not for what they look like.
Friendship is the soil through which love seeds grow.
If you want to bring love into a relationship, you must first
bring friendship.
The FIFTH secret - the power of TOUCH.
Touch is one of the most powerful expressions of love, breaking
down barriers and bonding relationships.
Touch changes our physical and emotional states and makes us more
receptive to love.
The SIXTH secret - the power of LETTING GO.
If you love something, let it free. If it comes back to you, it"s
yours, if it doesn"t, it never was.
Even in a loving relationship, people need their own space.
If we want to learn to love, we must first learn to forgive and
let go of past hurts and grievances.
Love means letting go of our fears, prejudices, egos and
conditions.
Today I let go of all my fears, the past has no power over me -
today is the beginning of a new life.-
The SEVENTH secret - the power of COMMUNICATION.
When we learn to communicate openly and honestly, life changes.
To love someone is to communicate with them.
Let the people you love know that you love them and appreciate
them.
Never be afraid to say those three magic words: .I Love You.-
Never let an opportunity pass to praise someone.
Always leave someone you love with a loving word -
it could be the last time you see him or her.
If you were about to die but could make telephone calls to the
people you loved, who would you call, what would you say and .. why
are you waiting?
The EIGHTH secret - the power of COMMITMENT.
If you want to have love in abundance, you must be committed to
it, and that commitment will be reflected in your thoughts and
actions.
Commitment is the TRUE test of love. If you want to have loving
relationships, you must be committed to loving relationships.
When you are committed to someone or something, quitting is never
an option.
Commitment distinguishes a fragile relationship from a strong one.
The NINTH secret - the power of PASSION.
Passion ignites love and keeps it alive.
Lasting passion does not come through physical attraction alone;
it comes from deep commitment, enthusiasm, interest and
excitement.
Passion can be recreated by recreating past experiences.
When you felt passionate spontaneity and surprises produce
passion.
The essence of love and happiness are the same;
all we need to do is to live each day with passion.
The TENTH secret - the power of TRUST.
Trust is essential in all loving relationships.
Without it one person becomes suspicious, anxious and fearful
and the other person feels trapped and emotionally suffocated.
You cannot love someone completely unless you trust him or her
completely.
Act as if your relationship with the person you love will never
end.
One of the ways you can tell whether a person is right for you is
to ask yourself, .Do I trust them completely and unreservedly?
If the answer is .no-, think carefully before making a
commitment.
Love begins with our thoughts. We become what we think about.Loving thoughts
create loving experiences and loving relationships. Affirmations can change
our beliefs and thoughts about others and ourselves. If we want to love
someone, we need to consider his or her needs and desires. Thinking about
your ideal partner will help you recognise her when you meet her.
The SECOND secret - the power of RESPECT.
You cannot love anyone or anything unless you first respect them.
The first person you need to respect is yourself.
To begin to gain self-respect, ask yourself, What do I respect
about myself?-
To gain respect for others, even those you may dislike, ask
yourself,
What do I respect about them?-
The THIRD secret - the power of GIVING.
If you want to receive love, all you have to do is give it!
The more love you give, the more you will receive.
To love is to give of yourself, freely and unconditionally.
Practice random acts of kindness. Before committing to a
relationship ask not what the other person will be able to give to
you, but
rather what will you be able to give them.
The secret formula of a happy, lifelong, loving relationship is to
always focus on what you can give instead of what you can take.
The FOURTH secret - the power of FRIENDSHIP.
To find a true love, you must first find a true friend.
Love does not consist of gazing into each other"s eyes, but rather
looking outward together in the same direction.
To love someone completely you must love him or her for who they
are and not for what they look like.
Friendship is the soil through which love seeds grow.
If you want to bring love into a relationship, you must first
bring friendship.
The FIFTH secret - the power of TOUCH.
Touch is one of the most powerful expressions of love, breaking
down barriers and bonding relationships.
Touch changes our physical and emotional states and makes us more
receptive to love.
The SIXTH secret - the power of LETTING GO.
If you love something, let it free. If it comes back to you, it"s
yours, if it doesn"t, it never was.
Even in a loving relationship, people need their own space.
If we want to learn to love, we must first learn to forgive and
let go of past hurts and grievances.
Love means letting go of our fears, prejudices, egos and
conditions.
Today I let go of all my fears, the past has no power over me -
today is the beginning of a new life.-
The SEVENTH secret - the power of COMMUNICATION.
When we learn to communicate openly and honestly, life changes.
To love someone is to communicate with them.
Let the people you love know that you love them and appreciate
them.
Never be afraid to say those three magic words: .I Love You.-
Never let an opportunity pass to praise someone.
Always leave someone you love with a loving word -
it could be the last time you see him or her.
If you were about to die but could make telephone calls to the
people you loved, who would you call, what would you say and .. why
are you waiting?
The EIGHTH secret - the power of COMMITMENT.
If you want to have love in abundance, you must be committed to
it, and that commitment will be reflected in your thoughts and
actions.
Commitment is the TRUE test of love. If you want to have loving
relationships, you must be committed to loving relationships.
When you are committed to someone or something, quitting is never
an option.
Commitment distinguishes a fragile relationship from a strong one.
The NINTH secret - the power of PASSION.
Passion ignites love and keeps it alive.
Lasting passion does not come through physical attraction alone;
it comes from deep commitment, enthusiasm, interest and
excitement.
Passion can be recreated by recreating past experiences.
When you felt passionate spontaneity and surprises produce
passion.
The essence of love and happiness are the same;
all we need to do is to live each day with passion.
The TENTH secret - the power of TRUST.
Trust is essential in all loving relationships.
Without it one person becomes suspicious, anxious and fearful
and the other person feels trapped and emotionally suffocated.
You cannot love someone completely unless you trust him or her
completely.
Act as if your relationship with the person you love will never
end.
One of the ways you can tell whether a person is right for you is
to ask yourself, .Do I trust them completely and unreservedly?
If the answer is .no-, think carefully before making a
commitment.
What wonders a smile can do...
She smiled at a sorrowful stranger.
The smile seemed to make him feel better.
He remembered past kindnesses of a friend
And wrote him a thank you letter.
The friend was so pleased with the thank you
That he left a large tip after lunch.
The waitress, surprised by the size of the tip,
Bet the whole thing on a hunch.
The next day she picked up her winnings,
And gave part to a man on the street.
The man on the street was grateful;
For two days he'd had nothing to eat.
After he finished his dinner,
He left for his small dingy room.
He didn't know at that moment
that he might be facing his doom.
On the way he picked up a shivering puppy
And took him home to get warm.
The puppy was very grateful
To be in out of the storm.
That night the house caught on fire.
The puppy barked the alarm.
He barked till he woke the whole household
And saved everybody from harm.
One of the boys that he rescued
Grew up to be President.
All this because of a simple smile
. . .That hadn't cost a cent.
The smile seemed to make him feel better.
He remembered past kindnesses of a friend
And wrote him a thank you letter.
The friend was so pleased with the thank you
That he left a large tip after lunch.
The waitress, surprised by the size of the tip,
Bet the whole thing on a hunch.
The next day she picked up her winnings,
And gave part to a man on the street.
The man on the street was grateful;
For two days he'd had nothing to eat.
After he finished his dinner,
He left for his small dingy room.
He didn't know at that moment
that he might be facing his doom.
On the way he picked up a shivering puppy
And took him home to get warm.
The puppy was very grateful
To be in out of the storm.
That night the house caught on fire.
The puppy barked the alarm.
He barked till he woke the whole household
And saved everybody from harm.
One of the boys that he rescued
Grew up to be President.
All this because of a simple smile
. . .That hadn't cost a cent.
Watch your table manners!
While most job interviews take place in an office, not all do. There are interviews that take place in clubs, restaurants and various other places that are tucked well away from the office. If you find part or all of an interview being conducted while you are expected to have a drink or eat, be careful.
The first tip we can give is for you to be just as alert in these surroundings as you would be in the office. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security by thinking there is no interview or the interview is over and you can now relax. You are still being observed just as carefully as ever - maybe, even more so.
A typical example of what not to do: Andy has nervously gone through a series of morning interviews with different people in the organisation. As lunchtime approached, he was invited to go to lunch with two of the people with whom he had already interviewed. As the three crossed the street to the restaurant, Andy breathed a sigh of relief and indicated he was glad the interviews were over. He proceeded to act as if they were. He no longer gave thoughtful responses to questions and he seemed very opinionated. Indeed, the company associates got to see Andy as he really was and decided they didn’t like what they saw. You are on stage until you take your exit. Don’t forget your part.
The second advice is to follow the leader as far as possible. If the interviewer orders only a soft drink, do not up the ante by ordering liquor. The worst is if you decide to order food while others do not. At lunch, the best advice is to decide on a fruit juice or something equally neutral even if others have ordered a beer. They may be testing you, and going back to work or more interviews after even one drink is not advisable no matter how well you think you can handle it.
Finally, if food is offered, order something that’s easy to eat and in small portions. Try to avoid spaghetti, fried chicken, and bony fish. You’re probably not hungry anyway, and you won’t be eating much because you will be talking most of the time. But be sure you direct your attention to your audience, not your food! Your social graces - and especially your table manners -- are particularly on display in such settings.
The first tip we can give is for you to be just as alert in these surroundings as you would be in the office. Do not be lulled into a false sense of security by thinking there is no interview or the interview is over and you can now relax. You are still being observed just as carefully as ever - maybe, even more so.
A typical example of what not to do: Andy has nervously gone through a series of morning interviews with different people in the organisation. As lunchtime approached, he was invited to go to lunch with two of the people with whom he had already interviewed. As the three crossed the street to the restaurant, Andy breathed a sigh of relief and indicated he was glad the interviews were over. He proceeded to act as if they were. He no longer gave thoughtful responses to questions and he seemed very opinionated. Indeed, the company associates got to see Andy as he really was and decided they didn’t like what they saw. You are on stage until you take your exit. Don’t forget your part.
The second advice is to follow the leader as far as possible. If the interviewer orders only a soft drink, do not up the ante by ordering liquor. The worst is if you decide to order food while others do not. At lunch, the best advice is to decide on a fruit juice or something equally neutral even if others have ordered a beer. They may be testing you, and going back to work or more interviews after even one drink is not advisable no matter how well you think you can handle it.
Finally, if food is offered, order something that’s easy to eat and in small portions. Try to avoid spaghetti, fried chicken, and bony fish. You’re probably not hungry anyway, and you won’t be eating much because you will be talking most of the time. But be sure you direct your attention to your audience, not your food! Your social graces - and especially your table manners -- are particularly on display in such settings.
An Open Letter to a Graduating Daughter
The writer's daughter graduates this March from the Ateneo de Manila University, and he shares his letter of advice to her with all college students graduating this year.
Dear Elynaea,
Today is your day. As you sit barely listening to the endless stream of graduation speeches, a lot of things must be rushing through your head and producing a mix of emotions.
You must be recalling those days of struggle -- the countless hours spent studying, doing research, preparing projects, agonizing over possible test results -- and relief passes through you as you realize that they are finally over.
Too, your mind must be trying to peer into the future. You daydream of landing your first job, of earning your first salary, even of eventually getting your own car, acquiring your own flat and traveling to different places.
But as you gaze around, the sight of your classmates must dampen your enthusiasm and fuel feelings of anxiety. So many new graduates soon to go looking for a job, just like you. And you must be wondering: How will I fare in the job market? Will I be another jobless statistic? Or will I be among the lucky ones who find a good job right away? How tough is it really out there? Will I be successful in my chosen career?
Your trepidation is understandable, and I wish I could guarantee your future for you. But I can't. Only you can decide your fate through the priorities you set, the decisions you make, the efforts you spend, the sacrifices you make.
The best thing I can do for you today is to share years of insight on how to effectively manage one's career. These insights come not only from my own experience but also from observing successful people -- friends and former classmates, peers in the profession, my superiors, work associates and many others. They come from different fields and took different approaches, but the underlying principles for their success are uncannily similar. Here they are:
Have a clear vision. Your vision should be as clear and as specific as you can make it. Aim as high as you believe you can go. If you aim too low, you might find the challenge insufficient and the achievement too shallow. If you aim too high, you may have difficulty hitting your target and may live a life full of frustration.
Your vision should be something you truly believe will give your life significance and meaning. Being young, you may think that financial reward or fame would make you happy. They won't. People with such vision often end up miserable and empty inside even when they do succeed. To find your vision, imagine yourself retiring four decades later and asking yourself, "Did my achievements make me the best of what I could be?"
Draw up a focused plan. This plan will give you the focus and the general guidelines to attain your vision and mission. For now, it should contain only the broad strokes and offer answers to the "what" and the "when." The specifics (the "how") will come later.
It is also very important that you know the value of properly pacing yourself. A pace that is too fast can lead to exhaustion and burnout. A pace that is too slow can lead to complacency, meandering and loss of interest.
Right now, you will not be able to determine your correct pace, but you can start creating a time frame containing rough estimates. With experience, you will develop a better sense of timing and can adjust your plan accordingly.
Prepare a specific action plan. After you have defined your vision and mission then it is time for implementation.
The first thing you have to do is, of course, get a job based on your vision. Find the organization that can help you achieve your vision -- provide you proper training and development, recognize your talents and give you opportunities to move up. The search may be long and hard, but if you put your heart and mind to it, you will find this organization. There are many articles on job hunting, including those that I have written. Now is the time to apply the insights you have gained from them.
Once aboard that organization, try to acquire a clear idea of how the company works. What are its vision, goals, strategies and priorities? How aligned are these with yours? Use this information to prepare your strategy for accomplishing each step of your mission. These are now the specifics, the detailed action plan.
To help you draw up that action plan, try answering these questions: How long will it realistically take you to move from one level to the next higher one? What are the things you have to accomplish? What preparatory training and developmental steps must you take? Can the organization provide you these? If it can, how can you avail yourself of them? If it cannot, can you obtain them outside the company? How much will it cost you? What assistance will you need?
As I said earlier, this is just a very rough framework for career success. The gaps and details will have to be filled by you.
Later in life, certain events may occur that will require you to revise your plan, rethink your strategy, or adjust your timing. Some of them may be good -- an unexpected promotion, a significant transfer, even a better job offer. If this happens, do not become complacent or overconfident. Always keep your feet firmly planted on the ground.
Some may be bad and derail your plan -- an economic or industry slump, a shift in the organization's priorities, a change in management. Don't despair. Adjust your plan and timing, but keep your mind focused on your vision. The road to success is not always straight and paved; there may be detours and rough trails along the way. But with patience, perseverance and determination, no doubt you will make it.
I have saved the best for last that you may remember it best: Always pray to God for guidance and strength in all your endeavors. No matter how well you plan and how hard you work, without His blessing, all will be in vain.
God bless and Godspeed!
Dear Elynaea,
Today is your day. As you sit barely listening to the endless stream of graduation speeches, a lot of things must be rushing through your head and producing a mix of emotions.
You must be recalling those days of struggle -- the countless hours spent studying, doing research, preparing projects, agonizing over possible test results -- and relief passes through you as you realize that they are finally over.
Too, your mind must be trying to peer into the future. You daydream of landing your first job, of earning your first salary, even of eventually getting your own car, acquiring your own flat and traveling to different places.
But as you gaze around, the sight of your classmates must dampen your enthusiasm and fuel feelings of anxiety. So many new graduates soon to go looking for a job, just like you. And you must be wondering: How will I fare in the job market? Will I be another jobless statistic? Or will I be among the lucky ones who find a good job right away? How tough is it really out there? Will I be successful in my chosen career?
Your trepidation is understandable, and I wish I could guarantee your future for you. But I can't. Only you can decide your fate through the priorities you set, the decisions you make, the efforts you spend, the sacrifices you make.
The best thing I can do for you today is to share years of insight on how to effectively manage one's career. These insights come not only from my own experience but also from observing successful people -- friends and former classmates, peers in the profession, my superiors, work associates and many others. They come from different fields and took different approaches, but the underlying principles for their success are uncannily similar. Here they are:
Have a clear vision. Your vision should be as clear and as specific as you can make it. Aim as high as you believe you can go. If you aim too low, you might find the challenge insufficient and the achievement too shallow. If you aim too high, you may have difficulty hitting your target and may live a life full of frustration.
Your vision should be something you truly believe will give your life significance and meaning. Being young, you may think that financial reward or fame would make you happy. They won't. People with such vision often end up miserable and empty inside even when they do succeed. To find your vision, imagine yourself retiring four decades later and asking yourself, "Did my achievements make me the best of what I could be?"
Draw up a focused plan. This plan will give you the focus and the general guidelines to attain your vision and mission. For now, it should contain only the broad strokes and offer answers to the "what" and the "when." The specifics (the "how") will come later.
It is also very important that you know the value of properly pacing yourself. A pace that is too fast can lead to exhaustion and burnout. A pace that is too slow can lead to complacency, meandering and loss of interest.
Right now, you will not be able to determine your correct pace, but you can start creating a time frame containing rough estimates. With experience, you will develop a better sense of timing and can adjust your plan accordingly.
Prepare a specific action plan. After you have defined your vision and mission then it is time for implementation.
The first thing you have to do is, of course, get a job based on your vision. Find the organization that can help you achieve your vision -- provide you proper training and development, recognize your talents and give you opportunities to move up. The search may be long and hard, but if you put your heart and mind to it, you will find this organization. There are many articles on job hunting, including those that I have written. Now is the time to apply the insights you have gained from them.
Once aboard that organization, try to acquire a clear idea of how the company works. What are its vision, goals, strategies and priorities? How aligned are these with yours? Use this information to prepare your strategy for accomplishing each step of your mission. These are now the specifics, the detailed action plan.
To help you draw up that action plan, try answering these questions: How long will it realistically take you to move from one level to the next higher one? What are the things you have to accomplish? What preparatory training and developmental steps must you take? Can the organization provide you these? If it can, how can you avail yourself of them? If it cannot, can you obtain them outside the company? How much will it cost you? What assistance will you need?
As I said earlier, this is just a very rough framework for career success. The gaps and details will have to be filled by you.
Later in life, certain events may occur that will require you to revise your plan, rethink your strategy, or adjust your timing. Some of them may be good -- an unexpected promotion, a significant transfer, even a better job offer. If this happens, do not become complacent or overconfident. Always keep your feet firmly planted on the ground.
Some may be bad and derail your plan -- an economic or industry slump, a shift in the organization's priorities, a change in management. Don't despair. Adjust your plan and timing, but keep your mind focused on your vision. The road to success is not always straight and paved; there may be detours and rough trails along the way. But with patience, perseverance and determination, no doubt you will make it.
I have saved the best for last that you may remember it best: Always pray to God for guidance and strength in all your endeavors. No matter how well you plan and how hard you work, without His blessing, all will be in vain.
God bless and Godspeed!
What is a friend??
A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy and grace and makes the world we live in, a better, happier place.
A friend is someone to laugh with, over little personal things, a friend is someone we're serious with, in facing whatever life brings.
Friends gently teach you, how to give and how to care, and true friends warmly reach out to you anytime, anywhere.
Among the great and glorious gift that we are blessed with, it is the gift of understanding that we find in loving and true friends.
A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need lift, a friend is someone we treasure, for true friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone very dear, who shares your hopes and dreams, who shows you that the grayest day is brighter than it seems.
Friends are for sharing, when life brings you gladness, for being supportive, whenever there's sadness.
A friend is someone who believes in you when faith is running low, and whose gentle words of wisdom help you choose which way to go.
A friend is someone who comforts us when we feel blue, whose special warmth and happy smile makes us feel that life's worthwhile.
A true friend always thinks of you, when all the others are thinking of themselves.
A friend is someone who knows your joy, your sorrows and tears. Someone who cares and shares your world throughout the sad-sweet years.
A friend is kind and thoughtful, whose company is pleasure, someone who listens and understands, whose good advice is treasure.
A friend is someone whose warmth and patience, never seems to have an end,someone who has caring heart...that someone is a friend.
A true friend hears the song in your heart and sings it to you when your memory fails.
A true friend is someone who brings us laughter, even in our tears, whose memories make us smile across the miles and though the years.
Silence make the real conversations between friends, not the saying but the never needing today is what counts.
A true friend is someone who walks into your world, when the rest of the world walks out on you.
The friends who are really worth having are those who will listen to your deepest hurts, and feel they
A friend is someone to laugh with, over little personal things, a friend is someone we're serious with, in facing whatever life brings.
Friends gently teach you, how to give and how to care, and true friends warmly reach out to you anytime, anywhere.
Among the great and glorious gift that we are blessed with, it is the gift of understanding that we find in loving and true friends.
A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need lift, a friend is someone we treasure, for true friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone very dear, who shares your hopes and dreams, who shows you that the grayest day is brighter than it seems.
Friends are for sharing, when life brings you gladness, for being supportive, whenever there's sadness.
A friend is someone who believes in you when faith is running low, and whose gentle words of wisdom help you choose which way to go.
A friend is someone who comforts us when we feel blue, whose special warmth and happy smile makes us feel that life's worthwhile.
A true friend always thinks of you, when all the others are thinking of themselves.
A friend is someone who knows your joy, your sorrows and tears. Someone who cares and shares your world throughout the sad-sweet years.
A friend is kind and thoughtful, whose company is pleasure, someone who listens and understands, whose good advice is treasure.
A friend is someone whose warmth and patience, never seems to have an end,someone who has caring heart...that someone is a friend.
A true friend hears the song in your heart and sings it to you when your memory fails.
A true friend is someone who brings us laughter, even in our tears, whose memories make us smile across the miles and though the years.
Silence make the real conversations between friends, not the saying but the never needing today is what counts.
A true friend is someone who walks into your world, when the rest of the world walks out on you.
The friends who are really worth having are those who will listen to your deepest hurts, and feel they
What is a friend??
A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy and grace and makes the world we live in, a better, happier place.
A friend is someone to laugh with, over little personal things, a friend is someone we're serious with, in facing whatever life brings.
Friends gently teach you, how to give and how to care, and true friends warmly reach out to you anytime, anywhere.
Among the great and glorious gift that we are blessed with, it is the gift of understanding that we find in loving and true friends.
A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need lift, a friend is someone we treasure, for true friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone very dear, who shares your hopes and dreams, who shows you that the grayest day is brighter than it seems.
Friends are for sharing, when life brings you gladness, for being supportive, whenever there's sadness.
A friend is someone who believes in you when faith is running low, and whose gentle words of wisdom help you choose which way to go.
A friend is someone who comforts us when we feel blue, whose special warmth and happy smile makes us feel that life's worthwhile.
A true friend always thinks of you, when all the others are thinking of themselves.
A friend is someone who knows your joy, your sorrows and tears. Someone who cares and shares your world throughout the sad-sweet years.
A friend is kind and thoughtful, whose company is pleasure, someone who listens and understands, whose good advice is treasure.
A friend is someone whose warmth and patience, never seems to have an end,someone who has caring heart...that someone is a friend.
A true friend hears the song in your heart and sings it to you when your memory fails.
A true friend is someone who brings us laughter, even in our tears, whose memories make us smile across the miles and though the years.
Silence make the real conversations between friends, not the saying but the never needing today is what counts.
A true friend is someone who walks into your world, when the rest of the world walks out on you.
The friends who are really worth having are those who will listen to your deepest hurts, and feel they
A friend is someone to laugh with, over little personal things, a friend is someone we're serious with, in facing whatever life brings.
Friends gently teach you, how to give and how to care, and true friends warmly reach out to you anytime, anywhere.
Among the great and glorious gift that we are blessed with, it is the gift of understanding that we find in loving and true friends.
A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need lift, a friend is someone we treasure, for true friendship is a gift.
A friend is someone very dear, who shares your hopes and dreams, who shows you that the grayest day is brighter than it seems.
Friends are for sharing, when life brings you gladness, for being supportive, whenever there's sadness.
A friend is someone who believes in you when faith is running low, and whose gentle words of wisdom help you choose which way to go.
A friend is someone who comforts us when we feel blue, whose special warmth and happy smile makes us feel that life's worthwhile.
A true friend always thinks of you, when all the others are thinking of themselves.
A friend is someone who knows your joy, your sorrows and tears. Someone who cares and shares your world throughout the sad-sweet years.
A friend is kind and thoughtful, whose company is pleasure, someone who listens and understands, whose good advice is treasure.
A friend is someone whose warmth and patience, never seems to have an end,someone who has caring heart...that someone is a friend.
A true friend hears the song in your heart and sings it to you when your memory fails.
A true friend is someone who brings us laughter, even in our tears, whose memories make us smile across the miles and though the years.
Silence make the real conversations between friends, not the saying but the never needing today is what counts.
A true friend is someone who walks into your world, when the rest of the world walks out on you.
The friends who are really worth having are those who will listen to your deepest hurts, and feel they
7 stages of love
LOVE
It's that feeling, that nobody could explain cause it different ppl have different experiences in this regard.
Love just not happens at a sight. It is a horizon and every horizon have a fall, so love travels through seven stages.
ATTRACTION:
First of all see someone, you meet hundred of new people in your daily life. The first stage is attraction, that something appeals you, look twice, you get attracted by a person.
INFATUATION:
Then you get infatuated by that person. You start admitting it to yourself, that you like him/her, you ask yourself that what does that person means to you why you want to see him/her, why you adore his/her voice, why you get excited, when the attracted person looked at you, even a general look makes your heart bloom.
COMMUNION:
Then the third stage comes, when you admit it in front of that person, you introduce yourself like HI! i have noticed you around , I found you to be very attractive would you like to spend sometime with me or you started becoming closer to that person , so that he/she can notice you and you start chatting.
INTIMACY:
A very famous song is "everybody is looking for intimacy", that is deep friendship. Your communion stage is over & you both become necessary for each other to share, are the ideas and thoughts of each other , you have started thinking on the same levels that other person is thinking.
SURRENDER:
Then after coming or passing through the intimacy stage, your love enters in deliver our stage i.e surrender, you surrender yourself to that person, yes i am in love with that person.
PASSION:
Once you surrender, your loved one becomes passion for you. You want that person like anything, you adore & can't escape the thoughts about him/her you become passionate.
ECSTASY:
Last but not the least is the stage when you have strong feelings or agitation i.e ecstasy, thinking about one thing & that's the person, your all thoughts starts & finishes with that person. Here you decide that you
can't live without that person. So you got or you lose. The most interesting thing i find out after reading this love horizon is the end. Now you read it
THE END
It's that feeling, that nobody could explain cause it different ppl have different experiences in this regard.
Love just not happens at a sight. It is a horizon and every horizon have a fall, so love travels through seven stages.
ATTRACTION:
First of all see someone, you meet hundred of new people in your daily life. The first stage is attraction, that something appeals you, look twice, you get attracted by a person.
INFATUATION:
Then you get infatuated by that person. You start admitting it to yourself, that you like him/her, you ask yourself that what does that person means to you why you want to see him/her, why you adore his/her voice, why you get excited, when the attracted person looked at you, even a general look makes your heart bloom.
COMMUNION:
Then the third stage comes, when you admit it in front of that person, you introduce yourself like HI! i have noticed you around , I found you to be very attractive would you like to spend sometime with me or you started becoming closer to that person , so that he/she can notice you and you start chatting.
INTIMACY:
A very famous song is "everybody is looking for intimacy", that is deep friendship. Your communion stage is over & you both become necessary for each other to share, are the ideas and thoughts of each other , you have started thinking on the same levels that other person is thinking.
SURRENDER:
Then after coming or passing through the intimacy stage, your love enters in deliver our stage i.e surrender, you surrender yourself to that person, yes i am in love with that person.
PASSION:
Once you surrender, your loved one becomes passion for you. You want that person like anything, you adore & can't escape the thoughts about him/her you become passionate.
ECSTASY:
Last but not the least is the stage when you have strong feelings or agitation i.e ecstasy, thinking about one thing & that's the person, your all thoughts starts & finishes with that person. Here you decide that you
can't live without that person. So you got or you lose. The most interesting thing i find out after reading this love horizon is the end. Now you read it
THE END
precious INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Why do we lag behind China
SCEPTICS remain unconvinced that liberal trade and foreign investment policies have resulted in a significant improvement in the performance of India's external sector.They argue that export growth during 1990s has not been much higher than that achieved during 1980s when the level of protection rivalled Mount Everest. They likewise argue that the response of foreign investment to liberalisation has been less than overwhelming.Are the sceptics right? The answer is a qualified 'no'. Evidence on the relative performance of the external sector during 1980s and 1990s belies the sceptics.
Exports of goods and services grew at an annual rate 10.7 per cent during 1990s compared with only 7.4 per cent during 1980s. Likewise, imports grew at 9.7 per cent during 1990s but only 5.9 per cent during 1980s.The annual growth rate of exports as well as imports has, thus, risen by 3.3 percentage points. This rise has manifested itself in a significant increase in the imports-to-GDP and exports-to-GDP ratios.On the export side, the ratio approximately doubled from 7.3 per cent to 14 per cent between 1990 and 2000 and on the imports side it jumped from 9.9 per cent to 16.6 per cent.The overall trade to GDP ratio has thus gone up from 17.2 per cent in 1990 to 30.6 per cent in 2000. In contrast, the change in the trade-to-GDP ratio between 1980 and 1990 was tiny: from 15.2 per cent to 17.2 per cent. On the foreign investment front, India has been receiving approximately $5 billion every year since 1994-95 compared with just $0.1 billion during 1990-91.This amount is split approximately equally between foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investment. There has also been a significant shift in the remittances from abroad: from $2.1 billion in 1990 to $12.3 billion in 2000.While the basic claim of the sceptics is thus readily refuted, it must be acknowledged that the response of the external sector to liberal trade and investment policies has been an order of magnitude weaker in India than China.
Exports of goods and services grew at annual rates of 12.9 and 15.2 per cent during 1980s and 1990s respectively in China. Imports exhibited a similar performance. Consequently, China's total trade to GDP ratio rose from 18.9 per cent in 1980 to 34 per cent in 1990 and to 49.3 per cent in 2000.On the foreign investment front, differences are even starker. FDI into China has risen from $.06 billion in 1980 to $3.49 billion in 1990 and then to a whopping $42.10 billion in 2000.China was slower to open its market to portfolio investment but once it did, inflows quickly surpassed those into India, reaching $7.8 billion in 2000. Even if we allow for an upward bias in the figures as suggested by some China specialists, there is little doubt that foreign investment flows into China are several times those into India.While some differences between the performances of India and China can be attributed to the Chinese entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and Taiwan, who have been eager to escape rising wages in their respective home economies by moving to China, a more central explanation lies in the differences between the compositions of GDPs in the two countries. Among developing countries, India is unique in having a very large share of its GDP in the mostly informal part of the services sector.
Whereas in other countries, a decline in the share of agriculture in GDP has been accompanied by a substantial expansion of industry in the early stages of development, in India this has not happened.For example, in 1980, the proportion of GDP originating in industry was 48.5 per cent in China but only 24.2 per cent in India. Services, on the other hand, contributed only 21.4 per cent to GDP in China but as much as 37.2 per cent in India. In the following twenty years, despite considerable growth, the share of industry did not rise in India. Instead, the entire decline in the share of agriculture was absorbed by services.Though a similar process was observed in China, the share of industry in GDP was already quite high there. As a result, even in 2000, the share of services in GDP was 33.2 per cent in China compared with 48.2 per cent in India.Why does this matter? Because typically, under liberal trade policies, developing countries are much more likely to be able to expand exports and imports if a large proportion of their output originates in industry.
Not only is the scope for expanding labour-intensive manufactures greater, a larger industrial sector also requires imported inputs thereby offering greater scope for the expansion of imports. In India, the response of imports has been just as muted as that of exports.This is demonstrated by the fact that recently RBI has had to purchase huge amounts of foreign exchange to keep the rupee from appreciating. Imports have simply failed to absorb the foreign exchange generated by even modest foreign investment flows and remittances.This same factor is also at work in explaining the relatively modest response of FDI to liberal policies. Investment into industry, whether domestic or foreign, has been sluggish.Foreign investors are hesitant to invest in the industry for much the same reasons as domestic investors. At the same time, the capacity of the formal services sector to absorb foreign investment is limited. The information technology sector has shown promise, but its base is still small. Moreover, this sector is more intensive in skilled labour than physical capital.Therefore, the solution to both trade and FDI expansion in India lies in stimulating growth in industry. The necessary steps are now common knowledge: bring all tariffs down to 10 per cent or less, abolish the small-scale industries reservation, institute an exit policy and bankruptcy laws and privatise all public sector undertakings. The real question is: Will the government act?
Exports of goods and services grew at an annual rate 10.7 per cent during 1990s compared with only 7.4 per cent during 1980s. Likewise, imports grew at 9.7 per cent during 1990s but only 5.9 per cent during 1980s.The annual growth rate of exports as well as imports has, thus, risen by 3.3 percentage points. This rise has manifested itself in a significant increase in the imports-to-GDP and exports-to-GDP ratios.On the export side, the ratio approximately doubled from 7.3 per cent to 14 per cent between 1990 and 2000 and on the imports side it jumped from 9.9 per cent to 16.6 per cent.The overall trade to GDP ratio has thus gone up from 17.2 per cent in 1990 to 30.6 per cent in 2000. In contrast, the change in the trade-to-GDP ratio between 1980 and 1990 was tiny: from 15.2 per cent to 17.2 per cent. On the foreign investment front, India has been receiving approximately $5 billion every year since 1994-95 compared with just $0.1 billion during 1990-91.This amount is split approximately equally between foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investment. There has also been a significant shift in the remittances from abroad: from $2.1 billion in 1990 to $12.3 billion in 2000.While the basic claim of the sceptics is thus readily refuted, it must be acknowledged that the response of the external sector to liberal trade and investment policies has been an order of magnitude weaker in India than China.
Exports of goods and services grew at annual rates of 12.9 and 15.2 per cent during 1980s and 1990s respectively in China. Imports exhibited a similar performance. Consequently, China's total trade to GDP ratio rose from 18.9 per cent in 1980 to 34 per cent in 1990 and to 49.3 per cent in 2000.On the foreign investment front, differences are even starker. FDI into China has risen from $.06 billion in 1980 to $3.49 billion in 1990 and then to a whopping $42.10 billion in 2000.China was slower to open its market to portfolio investment but once it did, inflows quickly surpassed those into India, reaching $7.8 billion in 2000. Even if we allow for an upward bias in the figures as suggested by some China specialists, there is little doubt that foreign investment flows into China are several times those into India.While some differences between the performances of India and China can be attributed to the Chinese entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and Taiwan, who have been eager to escape rising wages in their respective home economies by moving to China, a more central explanation lies in the differences between the compositions of GDPs in the two countries. Among developing countries, India is unique in having a very large share of its GDP in the mostly informal part of the services sector.
Whereas in other countries, a decline in the share of agriculture in GDP has been accompanied by a substantial expansion of industry in the early stages of development, in India this has not happened.For example, in 1980, the proportion of GDP originating in industry was 48.5 per cent in China but only 24.2 per cent in India. Services, on the other hand, contributed only 21.4 per cent to GDP in China but as much as 37.2 per cent in India. In the following twenty years, despite considerable growth, the share of industry did not rise in India. Instead, the entire decline in the share of agriculture was absorbed by services.Though a similar process was observed in China, the share of industry in GDP was already quite high there. As a result, even in 2000, the share of services in GDP was 33.2 per cent in China compared with 48.2 per cent in India.Why does this matter? Because typically, under liberal trade policies, developing countries are much more likely to be able to expand exports and imports if a large proportion of their output originates in industry.
Not only is the scope for expanding labour-intensive manufactures greater, a larger industrial sector also requires imported inputs thereby offering greater scope for the expansion of imports. In India, the response of imports has been just as muted as that of exports.This is demonstrated by the fact that recently RBI has had to purchase huge amounts of foreign exchange to keep the rupee from appreciating. Imports have simply failed to absorb the foreign exchange generated by even modest foreign investment flows and remittances.This same factor is also at work in explaining the relatively modest response of FDI to liberal policies. Investment into industry, whether domestic or foreign, has been sluggish.Foreign investors are hesitant to invest in the industry for much the same reasons as domestic investors. At the same time, the capacity of the formal services sector to absorb foreign investment is limited. The information technology sector has shown promise, but its base is still small. Moreover, this sector is more intensive in skilled labour than physical capital.Therefore, the solution to both trade and FDI expansion in India lies in stimulating growth in industry. The necessary steps are now common knowledge: bring all tariffs down to 10 per cent or less, abolish the small-scale industries reservation, institute an exit policy and bankruptcy laws and privatise all public sector undertakings. The real question is: Will the government act?
NEW HAVEN
NEW HAVEN -- George W. Bush is a geopolitical incompetent. He has allowed a clique of hawks to induce him to take a position on invading Iraq from which he cannot extract himself, one which will have nothing but negative consequences for the United States--and the rest of the world. He will find himself badly hurt politically, perhaps fatally. And he will rapidly diminish the already declining power of the United States in the world. A war against Iraq will destroy many lives immediately, both Iraqi and American, because it seems clear that high-altitude, surgical-strike air attacks will not suffice in military terms. Invading Iraq will lead to a degree of turmoil in the Arab-Islamic world hitherto unimagined. Other Arab leaders don't like Saddam Hussein one bit, but their populations won't stand for what they will inevitably feel is an unprovoked attack on an Arab state, leaving leaders with little choice but to be swept along in the turmoil or drown. And an attack on Iraq might ultimately spark the use of nuclear weapons, which, if unleashed now, will be hard to again make illegitimate. Iraq may not have such weapons yet, but we can't be sure. Even if it doesn't, might it not attack Israel with conventional missiles that would prompt Israel to respond with the nuclear weapons we know it has? For that matter, are we really sure that, if the fighting gets tough, the U.S. is not ready to use tactical nuclear weapons?
How have we gotten into such a disastrous cul-de-sac?
It seems probable that U.S. military action against Iraq is now not a question of whether but of when. The U.S. government insists action is necessary because Iraq has been defying United Nations resolutions and represents an imminent danger to the world in general, and to the U.S. in particular. This explanation of the expected military action is so thin that it cannot be taken seriously. Defying U.N. resolutions or other international enjoinders has been commonplace for the last 50 years. I need hardly remind anyone that the U.S. refused to defer to a 1986 World Court decision condemning U.S. actions in Nicaragua. And President Bush has made it amply clear that he will not honor any treaty should he think it dangerous to U.S. interests. Israel has, of course, been defying U.N. resolutions for more than 30 years, and is doing so again as I write this commentary. And the record of other U.N. members is not much better. So Hussein has been defying quite explicit U.N. resolutions. What else is new?
Is Hussein an imminent threat to anyone? In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. That action, at least, did pose an imminent threat. The U.S. response was the Persian Gulf War, in which we pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait and then decided to stop there--for good military and political reasons. But that left Hussein in power.
The U.N. passed various resolutions requiring Iraq to abandon nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons and mandated inspection teams to verify that it had done so. The U.N. also put in place a variety of embargoes against Iraq. As we know, over the decade since then, the system of constraints on Iraq put in place by these U.N. resolutions has weakened considerably, but not totally by any means.
Several weeks ago, Iraq and Kuwait signed an agreement in which Iraq agreed to respect the sovereignty of Kuwait. The foreign minister of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al Ahmed al Jabbar al Sabah said his country is now "100% satisfied," adding that he had written the agreement himself. A spokesperson for the United States nonetheless exhibited skepticism. The U.S. is not about to be deterred simply because Kuwait is "satisfied." What is Kuwait, that it should participate in such a decision?
U.S. hawks believe that only the use of force--very significant force--will restore our unquestioned hegemony in the world. It is no doubt true that the use of overwhelming force can establish hegemony, as happened with the United States in 1945. But U.S. hegemony is not what it once was. The country's economic superiority in the world between 1945 and 1965 has been replaced with a situation in which the U.S. economic position is not significantly better than that of the European Union or Japan. This relative economic decline has cost the U.S. the unquestioned political deference of its close allies. All that is left is military superiority. And, as Machiavelli taught us all centuries ago, force is not enough: If that's all you have, then its use is a sign of weakness rather than of strength and weakens the user.
It is clear that, at this point, almost no one supports a U.S. invasion of Iraq: not a single Arab state, not Turkey or Iran or Pakistan, not Russia or the great bulk of Europe. There are, to be sure, two notable exceptions: Israel, which is cheering Bush on, and Great Britain--or rather its prime minister, Tony Blair, who declared last weekend in Texas that "doing nothing ... is not an option" with regard to Iraq. Yet an article in The Observer last month reported that "Britain's military leaders issued a stark warning to Tony Blair last night that any war against Iraq is doomed to fail and would lead to the loss of lives for little political gain."
I cannot believe that U.S. military leaders have drawn a different conclusion, although they may be more wary of stating that unpleasant truth to President Bush. Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly of the CIA and the Iraq specialist on Clinton's National Security Council, says military action in Iraq would require sending in 200,000 to 300,000 U.S. troops, presumably from bases in either Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, as well as additional troops to defend the Kurds in northern Iraq.
The U.S. seems to be counting on intimidating its allies into going along. But after Israel's occupation of West Bank cities, the remote hope that Saudi (or even Kuwaiti) bases would be made available to U.S. troops has almost surely disappeared. Turkey clearly has no interest in defending Iraqi Kurds, since such action would certainly strengthen the Kurdish movement in Turkey, against which the Turkish government fights with all its energy. As for Israel, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon--with Bush's strong support--is in the process of destroying as rapidly as possible the Palestinian Authority, which certainly won't help Bush build his anti-Iraq coalition.
Still, there will be an invasion, which will be difficult if not impossible to win. The action could well become another Vietnam. Just as in Vietnam, the war will drag on and will cost many U.S. lives. And the political effects will be so negative for the U.S. that eventually Bush (or his successor) will pull out. A renewed and amplified Vietnam syndrome will be the result at home.
How have we gotten into such a disastrous cul-de-sac?
It seems probable that U.S. military action against Iraq is now not a question of whether but of when. The U.S. government insists action is necessary because Iraq has been defying United Nations resolutions and represents an imminent danger to the world in general, and to the U.S. in particular. This explanation of the expected military action is so thin that it cannot be taken seriously. Defying U.N. resolutions or other international enjoinders has been commonplace for the last 50 years. I need hardly remind anyone that the U.S. refused to defer to a 1986 World Court decision condemning U.S. actions in Nicaragua. And President Bush has made it amply clear that he will not honor any treaty should he think it dangerous to U.S. interests. Israel has, of course, been defying U.N. resolutions for more than 30 years, and is doing so again as I write this commentary. And the record of other U.N. members is not much better. So Hussein has been defying quite explicit U.N. resolutions. What else is new?
Is Hussein an imminent threat to anyone? In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. That action, at least, did pose an imminent threat. The U.S. response was the Persian Gulf War, in which we pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait and then decided to stop there--for good military and political reasons. But that left Hussein in power.
The U.N. passed various resolutions requiring Iraq to abandon nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons and mandated inspection teams to verify that it had done so. The U.N. also put in place a variety of embargoes against Iraq. As we know, over the decade since then, the system of constraints on Iraq put in place by these U.N. resolutions has weakened considerably, but not totally by any means.
Several weeks ago, Iraq and Kuwait signed an agreement in which Iraq agreed to respect the sovereignty of Kuwait. The foreign minister of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al Ahmed al Jabbar al Sabah said his country is now "100% satisfied," adding that he had written the agreement himself. A spokesperson for the United States nonetheless exhibited skepticism. The U.S. is not about to be deterred simply because Kuwait is "satisfied." What is Kuwait, that it should participate in such a decision?
U.S. hawks believe that only the use of force--very significant force--will restore our unquestioned hegemony in the world. It is no doubt true that the use of overwhelming force can establish hegemony, as happened with the United States in 1945. But U.S. hegemony is not what it once was. The country's economic superiority in the world between 1945 and 1965 has been replaced with a situation in which the U.S. economic position is not significantly better than that of the European Union or Japan. This relative economic decline has cost the U.S. the unquestioned political deference of its close allies. All that is left is military superiority. And, as Machiavelli taught us all centuries ago, force is not enough: If that's all you have, then its use is a sign of weakness rather than of strength and weakens the user.
It is clear that, at this point, almost no one supports a U.S. invasion of Iraq: not a single Arab state, not Turkey or Iran or Pakistan, not Russia or the great bulk of Europe. There are, to be sure, two notable exceptions: Israel, which is cheering Bush on, and Great Britain--or rather its prime minister, Tony Blair, who declared last weekend in Texas that "doing nothing ... is not an option" with regard to Iraq. Yet an article in The Observer last month reported that "Britain's military leaders issued a stark warning to Tony Blair last night that any war against Iraq is doomed to fail and would lead to the loss of lives for little political gain."
I cannot believe that U.S. military leaders have drawn a different conclusion, although they may be more wary of stating that unpleasant truth to President Bush. Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly of the CIA and the Iraq specialist on Clinton's National Security Council, says military action in Iraq would require sending in 200,000 to 300,000 U.S. troops, presumably from bases in either Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, as well as additional troops to defend the Kurds in northern Iraq.
The U.S. seems to be counting on intimidating its allies into going along. But after Israel's occupation of West Bank cities, the remote hope that Saudi (or even Kuwaiti) bases would be made available to U.S. troops has almost surely disappeared. Turkey clearly has no interest in defending Iraqi Kurds, since such action would certainly strengthen the Kurdish movement in Turkey, against which the Turkish government fights with all its energy. As for Israel, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon--with Bush's strong support--is in the process of destroying as rapidly as possible the Palestinian Authority, which certainly won't help Bush build his anti-Iraq coalition.
Still, there will be an invasion, which will be difficult if not impossible to win. The action could well become another Vietnam. Just as in Vietnam, the war will drag on and will cost many U.S. lives. And the political effects will be so negative for the U.S. that eventually Bush (or his successor) will pull out. A renewed and amplified Vietnam syndrome will be the result at home.
Disunited Indian Family
Disunited Indian Family
Dear members of my extended family,
Over the past month, I've been corresponding with you in an attempt to view from your perspective the Gujarat developments, as well as the issue of minority-majority rights which has once again become the talking point in households like ours. Indeed, many of my friends have families that echo your feelings.
Your case is broadly as follows. One, in Hindu-majority India, secularism has become a tool to justify the wrongs done by the minorities: Islamic terrorism is glossed over, while Muslim obscurantism is encouraged, often by the state, as in the Shah Bano case.
As a result, Muslims obsessively cling to tradition, refuse to modernise and almost never condemn atrocities committed by fellow Muslims. Worse, most of them harbour trans-national loyalties. Two, the pseudo-secularist media indulges the minorities almost to the point of being anti-Hindu. It dismissed the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits and the burning alive of Hindus in Godhra, but was outraged by the retaliatory attacks on Muslims.
Unfortunately, my efforts to tackle these points have elicited the same response. At the humdrum level: But Muslims marry four times, they breed to outnumber us, they are zealous converts, they identify with Pakistan. At a more sophisticated level: Minority appeasement by the secularists has delivered the soft Hindu middle-class to the Hindutva crowd.
Before I go further, I would draw your attention to the October 31, 1992 issue of India Today, which ran a riveting cover story on the changes being forced in the Muslim community by its youth. Titled 'Young Muslims: Forging a New Identity', the story captured the aspirations of a generation for whom Pakistan held no meaning, that wanted to chart a path far away from the clergy.
The young people it profiled were not khandani mussalman, but from middle-class homes. Like Sameena Usmani, an engineering student at Aligarh Muslim University, who proudly posed in her riding breeches. Like Uzma, who challenged the maulanas to "stop the change" that had set in. Like Ayesha Shabnam, daughter of an illiterate housekeeper, who taught biology at the Humdard institute. Like Mohammad Yaseen, reader at AMU, who bristled at the mullahs: "The biggest disservice ever done by the mullahs was to oppose the Shah Bano judgment".
The story further spoke of Muslim ulema conducting mass literacy drives and criss-crossing the country, highlighting the social evils that had crept into Muslim society. It spotted the beginnings of a movement against practices like triple talaq and jahez (dowry). It quoted Babri Masjid Action Committee leader, Jawed Habeeb, as vouching for the safety of Muslims in secular India.
Two months later, there was another cover story on Muslims. This time in Sunday magazine. The title was, 'Indian Muslims: A time of grief, insecurity and doubt'. The accompanying photograph was of a frightened skull-cap wearing Muslim. What happened between the two cover stories was a momentous event. The demolition of the Babri masjid on December 6, 1992.
Could it be that this outright attack on their religion had driven back the modernisation process that had started in the community? While travelling in UP recently, I stayed one night with the family of a Maulvi. The Maulvi's daughter had married into a family in Ahmedabad. Oh, how proud she was of Ahmedabad: It was modern, and it allowed conservative Muslim girls like her the choice of combining regular school with madrassa education.
My heart sinks at the thought of what Sameena, Uzma, Ayesha and Yaseen would say today. I wonder if the Maulvi's daughter will still be proud of Ahmedabad. There are hundreds of other modern Muslims, now forced into ghettos. Mr Bandookwala's heart-rending story has been told. But there is M H Jowhar, management professional, visiting faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Rational Thinking. Mr Jowhar, who was proudly secular and who took on the fundamentalist forces, today seeks safety and solace within his own wounded community.
Then there are the Muslims of Godhra, not those who burnt coach 6 of Sabarmati Express, but those who condemned the outrage, even apologised on behalf of their community (source: Jyoti Punwani). But the local Gujarati press refused to publish their statements. Pakistan never mattered to these Muslims. But if today some of them should think of it as an option, can we blame them?
Talking of trans-national loyalties, how would you describe the thousands of American-Indians who last year welcomed Atal Bihari Vajpayee to cries of: Desh ka neta kaisa ho? Atal Bihari jaisa ho? Which nation, pray, were they talking about? Are you confident that the anti-immigrant mood that is currently sweeping Europe, will not one day target our overseas relatives?
Don't the NRIs cling to tradition and custom? Should you not recognise this as a special need of all minority groups, whether they are the NRIs, the African-Americans, Indian Muslims or the Kashmiri Pandits? The Pandits certainly deserve better, both from the media and the BJP government. But yes, I wouldn't say that since they were once the ruling class, it is right for them to suffer today.
I should and I have always condemned terrorism. But last week, I watched a peculiar development on TV. The clip showed perfectly respectable Tamils attending a pro-Prabhakaran meeting in Chennai. Now, Prabhakaran is a proclaimed terrorist whose LTTE is banned by the US and India. Prabhakaran killed Rajiv Gandhi, who held a constitutional office. Can you imagine the consequences if Prabhakaran had assassinated a former American president?
By now, our American family members would have gone through several rounds of racial profiling. Had Prabhakaran been Muslim, the Indian government would have arrested you and me under POTA. And yet, the Tamils openly felicitate him without any of us coming to the slightest harm. Is terrorism by Tamils okay?
I can go on. You are wrong about the four wives. Of all Indian communities, polygamy is lowest among Muslims. They are also almost invisible on the job market. The appeasement was of the mullahs, just as today the appeasement is of the VHP (three of the accused in the Babri case are ministers).
By the way, have you ever wondered at the ease with which Mr Karunanidhi flaunts his three wives in public? Equally, have you wondered at the predominance of Hindu symbolism in Indian public life? The lighting of diyas, the breaking of coconuts. Finally, I wish you would react as angrily when the media buries dowry deaths on page 13 and ignores the public stripping of Dalit women, not to mention young lovers hanged to death by village panchayats because one of them was Dalit. Maybe we should turn some of the anger inward?
Dear members of my extended family,
Over the past month, I've been corresponding with you in an attempt to view from your perspective the Gujarat developments, as well as the issue of minority-majority rights which has once again become the talking point in households like ours. Indeed, many of my friends have families that echo your feelings.
Your case is broadly as follows. One, in Hindu-majority India, secularism has become a tool to justify the wrongs done by the minorities: Islamic terrorism is glossed over, while Muslim obscurantism is encouraged, often by the state, as in the Shah Bano case.
As a result, Muslims obsessively cling to tradition, refuse to modernise and almost never condemn atrocities committed by fellow Muslims. Worse, most of them harbour trans-national loyalties. Two, the pseudo-secularist media indulges the minorities almost to the point of being anti-Hindu. It dismissed the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits and the burning alive of Hindus in Godhra, but was outraged by the retaliatory attacks on Muslims.
Unfortunately, my efforts to tackle these points have elicited the same response. At the humdrum level: But Muslims marry four times, they breed to outnumber us, they are zealous converts, they identify with Pakistan. At a more sophisticated level: Minority appeasement by the secularists has delivered the soft Hindu middle-class to the Hindutva crowd.
Before I go further, I would draw your attention to the October 31, 1992 issue of India Today, which ran a riveting cover story on the changes being forced in the Muslim community by its youth. Titled 'Young Muslims: Forging a New Identity', the story captured the aspirations of a generation for whom Pakistan held no meaning, that wanted to chart a path far away from the clergy.
The young people it profiled were not khandani mussalman, but from middle-class homes. Like Sameena Usmani, an engineering student at Aligarh Muslim University, who proudly posed in her riding breeches. Like Uzma, who challenged the maulanas to "stop the change" that had set in. Like Ayesha Shabnam, daughter of an illiterate housekeeper, who taught biology at the Humdard institute. Like Mohammad Yaseen, reader at AMU, who bristled at the mullahs: "The biggest disservice ever done by the mullahs was to oppose the Shah Bano judgment".
The story further spoke of Muslim ulema conducting mass literacy drives and criss-crossing the country, highlighting the social evils that had crept into Muslim society. It spotted the beginnings of a movement against practices like triple talaq and jahez (dowry). It quoted Babri Masjid Action Committee leader, Jawed Habeeb, as vouching for the safety of Muslims in secular India.
Two months later, there was another cover story on Muslims. This time in Sunday magazine. The title was, 'Indian Muslims: A time of grief, insecurity and doubt'. The accompanying photograph was of a frightened skull-cap wearing Muslim. What happened between the two cover stories was a momentous event. The demolition of the Babri masjid on December 6, 1992.
Could it be that this outright attack on their religion had driven back the modernisation process that had started in the community? While travelling in UP recently, I stayed one night with the family of a Maulvi. The Maulvi's daughter had married into a family in Ahmedabad. Oh, how proud she was of Ahmedabad: It was modern, and it allowed conservative Muslim girls like her the choice of combining regular school with madrassa education.
My heart sinks at the thought of what Sameena, Uzma, Ayesha and Yaseen would say today. I wonder if the Maulvi's daughter will still be proud of Ahmedabad. There are hundreds of other modern Muslims, now forced into ghettos. Mr Bandookwala's heart-rending story has been told. But there is M H Jowhar, management professional, visiting faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Rational Thinking. Mr Jowhar, who was proudly secular and who took on the fundamentalist forces, today seeks safety and solace within his own wounded community.
Then there are the Muslims of Godhra, not those who burnt coach 6 of Sabarmati Express, but those who condemned the outrage, even apologised on behalf of their community (source: Jyoti Punwani). But the local Gujarati press refused to publish their statements. Pakistan never mattered to these Muslims. But if today some of them should think of it as an option, can we blame them?
Talking of trans-national loyalties, how would you describe the thousands of American-Indians who last year welcomed Atal Bihari Vajpayee to cries of: Desh ka neta kaisa ho? Atal Bihari jaisa ho? Which nation, pray, were they talking about? Are you confident that the anti-immigrant mood that is currently sweeping Europe, will not one day target our overseas relatives?
Don't the NRIs cling to tradition and custom? Should you not recognise this as a special need of all minority groups, whether they are the NRIs, the African-Americans, Indian Muslims or the Kashmiri Pandits? The Pandits certainly deserve better, both from the media and the BJP government. But yes, I wouldn't say that since they were once the ruling class, it is right for them to suffer today.
I should and I have always condemned terrorism. But last week, I watched a peculiar development on TV. The clip showed perfectly respectable Tamils attending a pro-Prabhakaran meeting in Chennai. Now, Prabhakaran is a proclaimed terrorist whose LTTE is banned by the US and India. Prabhakaran killed Rajiv Gandhi, who held a constitutional office. Can you imagine the consequences if Prabhakaran had assassinated a former American president?
By now, our American family members would have gone through several rounds of racial profiling. Had Prabhakaran been Muslim, the Indian government would have arrested you and me under POTA. And yet, the Tamils openly felicitate him without any of us coming to the slightest harm. Is terrorism by Tamils okay?
I can go on. You are wrong about the four wives. Of all Indian communities, polygamy is lowest among Muslims. They are also almost invisible on the job market. The appeasement was of the mullahs, just as today the appeasement is of the VHP (three of the accused in the Babri case are ministers).
By the way, have you ever wondered at the ease with which Mr Karunanidhi flaunts his three wives in public? Equally, have you wondered at the predominance of Hindu symbolism in Indian public life? The lighting of diyas, the breaking of coconuts. Finally, I wish you would react as angrily when the media buries dowry deaths on page 13 and ignores the public stripping of Dalit women, not to mention young lovers hanged to death by village panchayats because one of them was Dalit. Maybe we should turn some of the anger inward?
Finish each day and be done with it
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your oldnonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies." --Dale Carnegie
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Motivational Quotes 3-4
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Winning is not everything. It's the only thing." --Vince Lombardi
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Build an online business based upon what you know
(from work experience, hobbies, passions, or past-times).
If you know your subject matter, and if you're motivated
to build a REAL business with growing, diversified revenues...
http://www.famous-motivational-quotes.com/infopublishing.
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Motivational Quotes 5-6
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." -- Earl Nightingale, speaker, author
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain
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Motivational Quotes 7-8
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."--James Allen
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Motivational Quotes 9-10
"Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." -- Calvin Coolidge
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." --Jim Rohn
"The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies." --Dale Carnegie
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Motivational Quotes 3-4
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Winning is not everything. It's the only thing." --Vince Lombardi
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Build an online business based upon what you know
(from work experience, hobbies, passions, or past-times).
If you know your subject matter, and if you're motivated
to build a REAL business with growing, diversified revenues...
http://www.famous-motivational-quotes.com/infopublishing.
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Motivational Quotes 5-6
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." -- Earl Nightingale, speaker, author
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain
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Motivational Quotes 7-8
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."--James Allen
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Motivational Quotes 9-10
"Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." -- Calvin Coolidge
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." --Jim Rohn
BPO gives US more jobs than India
BPO gives US more jobs than India
EconomicTimes.com[ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2004 11:06:32 PM ]
Is outsourcing creating more jobs than it is destroying in the US ? It is difficult to know for sure.
Wall Street Journal's Jon E Hilsenrath has explained just such a scenario. Last year, when executives at Infineon Technologies AG had decided to eliminate 40 high-paying engineering jobs at its San Jose research facility and transfer the work to India , there was chaos. After all, people had lost their jobs.
But, interestingly at the same time, the company had hired 150 engineers in the US for different departments.
Here, one may say that not all people face the pinch of outsourcing. While some of the Infineon workers in San Jose are directly affected, some of them have also gained from the employment created by foreign investment in the US .
But, Infineon's global job dance certainly raises a fundamental question about the shift of US jobs abroad . How does one count the number of jobs that are gained or lost as companies shift their operations around the world? The answer to this question is, however, not very clear.
As one gets down to think on these lines, there are certain other queries that cross the mind. Is the US government actually keeping a track of the jobs that are outsourced to cheaper destinations? Or is it that the statistics available on outsourcing are sketchy?
And finally the most important point: Is outsourcing creating more jobs in the US than it is destroying?
Many economists estimate that roughly 100,000 high profile jobs migrate overseas each year. And the figure is likely to increase to 600,000 by the end of this decade.
Ravi Aron, a Wharton School professor, calculated the impact of offshore outsourcing and noted that about 440,000 high profile US jobs were lost as a result of outsourcing between the year 2000 and 2004.
Now the question arises as to whether the multinational companies have been able to churn out the same number of jobs that they have outsourced to cheaper destinations?
Let’s imagine for once, that the companies have been able to balance all the lost jobs by the creation of new jobs. Even then, for which posts have they signed up candidates? Are the firms hiring more number of entry-level candidates in order to cut down on costs? What about those employees who have lost the hi-tech jobs during the backlash?
EconomicTimes.com[ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2004 11:06:32 PM ]
Is outsourcing creating more jobs than it is destroying in the US ? It is difficult to know for sure.
Wall Street Journal's Jon E Hilsenrath has explained just such a scenario. Last year, when executives at Infineon Technologies AG had decided to eliminate 40 high-paying engineering jobs at its San Jose research facility and transfer the work to India , there was chaos. After all, people had lost their jobs.
But, interestingly at the same time, the company had hired 150 engineers in the US for different departments.
Here, one may say that not all people face the pinch of outsourcing. While some of the Infineon workers in San Jose are directly affected, some of them have also gained from the employment created by foreign investment in the US .
But, Infineon's global job dance certainly raises a fundamental question about the shift of US jobs abroad . How does one count the number of jobs that are gained or lost as companies shift their operations around the world? The answer to this question is, however, not very clear.
As one gets down to think on these lines, there are certain other queries that cross the mind. Is the US government actually keeping a track of the jobs that are outsourced to cheaper destinations? Or is it that the statistics available on outsourcing are sketchy?
And finally the most important point: Is outsourcing creating more jobs in the US than it is destroying?
Many economists estimate that roughly 100,000 high profile jobs migrate overseas each year. And the figure is likely to increase to 600,000 by the end of this decade.
Ravi Aron, a Wharton School professor, calculated the impact of offshore outsourcing and noted that about 440,000 high profile US jobs were lost as a result of outsourcing between the year 2000 and 2004.
Now the question arises as to whether the multinational companies have been able to churn out the same number of jobs that they have outsourced to cheaper destinations?
Let’s imagine for once, that the companies have been able to balance all the lost jobs by the creation of new jobs. Even then, for which posts have they signed up candidates? Are the firms hiring more number of entry-level candidates in order to cut down on costs? What about those employees who have lost the hi-tech jobs during the backlash?
Outsourcing slowing new job creations
HOUSTON: Workforce reductions in the US technology sector, which fell to a three-year low in the first quarter, could be partly attributed to oustourcing which is slowing new job creation, according to a a new survey.
First-quarter job cuts in the high-tech sector -- which includes telecommunications, electronics, computer and e-commerce -- were 64 per cent lower than the 82,328 cuts announced in the previous quarter and 52 per cent lower than the first quarter of 2003 (61,032), according to the survey by Chicago-based Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc.
"This may not mean that telecom is the weakest of the technology industries, but it is clearly the most volatile. While some areas in this industry are consolidating, others are expanding," said John Challenger, chief executive officer of the company said in a statement.
"Overall, technology job cuts appear to be waning, a trend which may temper some of the increasingly heated debate over the controversial practice of offshore outsourcing.
"However, while the latest survey data show that offshore outsourcing is not leading to a surge in job-cut announcements, one can still argue that it is slowing job creation in technology," he said.
According to the survey of Silicon Valley venture capital firms on employment trends, technology startups face difficulty getting off the ground if they don't outsource some company functions.
One company calculated the monthly cost of keeping one tech employee in Silicon Valley at $15,000; a worker with the same skills, responsibilities and job package would cost $2,500 a month in New Delhi .
That represents a savings of $12,500 every month or $150,000 per year. By sending 10 jobs to India , a startup can eliminate $1.5 million from its payroll, it noted.
First-quarter job cuts in the high-tech sector -- which includes telecommunications, electronics, computer and e-commerce -- were 64 per cent lower than the 82,328 cuts announced in the previous quarter and 52 per cent lower than the first quarter of 2003 (61,032), according to the survey by Chicago-based Challenger, Gray and Christmas Inc.
"This may not mean that telecom is the weakest of the technology industries, but it is clearly the most volatile. While some areas in this industry are consolidating, others are expanding," said John Challenger, chief executive officer of the company said in a statement.
"Overall, technology job cuts appear to be waning, a trend which may temper some of the increasingly heated debate over the controversial practice of offshore outsourcing.
"However, while the latest survey data show that offshore outsourcing is not leading to a surge in job-cut announcements, one can still argue that it is slowing job creation in technology," he said.
According to the survey of Silicon Valley venture capital firms on employment trends, technology startups face difficulty getting off the ground if they don't outsource some company functions.
One company calculated the monthly cost of keeping one tech employee in Silicon Valley at $15,000; a worker with the same skills, responsibilities and job package would cost $2,500 a month in New Delhi .
That represents a savings of $12,500 every month or $150,000 per year. By sending 10 jobs to India , a startup can eliminate $1.5 million from its payroll, it noted.
Media is a mixed blessingMedia is a mixed blessing
WHEN Hindus vandalise Muslim places of worship and plant small statues of Hanuman in each of these mosques, what does the media do - tell it like it is? In a State that is already burning? Star News and Aaj Tak decided not to show these Hulladia Hanumans as they were called, in Gujarat last month, even though neither news channel has much of a reputation for restraint. The Gujarat Samachar however saw no reason not to report this. On March 1, 2002 it carried a front-page box item, which said, "Reaction of Godhra in Ahmedabad. Several Mosques and Dargahs Ravaged - Hanuman Idol installed after destroying mosque at Paldi. The new idol is named Hulladia Hanuman."
Pictures of these Hanumans were not hard to come by in Ahmedabad. Vendors were hawking them in front of the District Magistrate and District Commissioner's offices. Yet how many of them did you see carried in the much-maligned metropolitan press? The Indian Express did carry one day a picture of one of these Hanumans planted on the razed remains of a mosque.
The more developed countries are much more evolved in the area of media ethics. Our media is still young, our regulations still in the pipeline. But while their ethical dilemmas are more conventional, ours defy imagination. Just pick a few examples from Gujarat. Should TV and print report that a foetus was ripped from its mother's womb and then burnt? Should they report that people were electrocuted in a room by avenging mobs? Should they carry pictures of bodies in wells?
So what do we do about media ethics when all hell is breaking loose?
Gujarat's leading newspapers did not tie themselves into knots asking the questions that the rest of the media has been torturing itself with since the violence broke out. They went right ahead and took the decisions that they thought would endear them to the popular mood. On February 28, Gujarat Samachar carried photographs of the dead on the Godhra platform and the burning bogies, above its masthead. Its banner headline below the masthead said (translated), "Most barbaric and shameful incident of the country at Godhra station". And below that, "60 roasted in the train". A box item enshrined Bal Thackeray's by-now famous quote about Hindus cowering like dogs with tails between their legs.
Its rival Sandesh, while matching the photographs and the banner, was more graphic. It said bodies of the burnt victims were glued to each other. The paper bristled with horror stories. Inside it said that two mutilated bodies of young girls had been found, something its rival, Samachar, denied the next day in a three-column story. Later the editor of Sandesh would tell the Editor's Guild team which went to Gujarat to look at the role of the media, that he had a paper to sell, and a rival to out-manoeuvre. His paper's circulation during the month of massacre was up by 150, 000, he is reported to have told them. The Guild team was shown a letter of congratulations sent by the Chief Minister to some Gujarati newspapers, for their coverage. And of course, none of those asked for his resignation as the press in the rest of the country did.
While on the subject of media and massacre, let's hark back not to the Gulf War, which is held to be the first milestone in live conflict reporting, but to Tiananmen Square in 1989 which was believed to be a watershed moment in defining different roles for television and print journalism. "Television became the raw `news' and print became the analysis and research-based reservoir of facts. While newspapers used to set the news agenda for both television and print, that was reversed by the live shots from Beijing." (Turmoil at Tiananmen. A study of U.S. press coverage of the Beijing Spring of 1989, The Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, 1992)
In retrospect, though some Pulitzers were won for the memorable coverage there, it was found to have suffered from biases, and endangered those whom it featured. It set a pro-student framework for the coverage: there was not enough objectivity about the students' movement, and the not-so-positive aspects of it. The technology outpaced the journalism, which created some serious problems. Lopsided access created lopsided coverage. The use of new technology allowed the inclusion of misleading or irrelevant materials, including unverified rumours that were hard to check and resist in the competitive pressure to provide something new. Some Chinese sources who appeared in news reports suddenly found themselves in danger. They were identified by authorities.
We suddenly have as much or more media than many a First World country. We do not have the financial or intellectual resources to monitor or research what that media does on an ongoing basis. Two organisations based in Delhi have begun to do this. But compared to the depth of research in some other countries, what we do here only scratches the surface of possibility. Meanwhile, because we need a Parliamentary majority in a fragmented polity to pass it, media regulation, on the anvil since 1997, simply does not come.
Television in India is young. Everything major that happens is a first: first war, first riot, first hijacking. Newspaper journalism is not young. The rules for it have been set time and again. That did not faze some of the regional press in Gujarat. The print media's provocative role is not new for this country, the Press Council was referring to it even back in 1968, which is when the All India Newspaper Editor's Conference came up with its code for coverage during communal riots.
Media ethics is an evolving field. In the U.S., the Radio-Television News Directors Association has a code of professional ethics and practices that was first evolved in 1946. But its current version, updated in the year 2000, reflects changes in broadcast journalism across half a century.
So far, going live has been an exciting tool for Indian channels. Now we need to look at safeguards others have put in place. The ease with which TV can go live can create problems. Safeguards for reporting in times of crisis, such as hostage taking, have to also be put in place. Television endangers lives, if you don't handle it with care in crisis situations. But equally, it saves lives when you wield its power against anti-social elements. People in Ahmedabad who were trying to get the State to intercede effectively in the mayhem, have said repeatedly since that the television coverage which irked the Government so much, saved lives.
Pictures of these Hanumans were not hard to come by in Ahmedabad. Vendors were hawking them in front of the District Magistrate and District Commissioner's offices. Yet how many of them did you see carried in the much-maligned metropolitan press? The Indian Express did carry one day a picture of one of these Hanumans planted on the razed remains of a mosque.
The more developed countries are much more evolved in the area of media ethics. Our media is still young, our regulations still in the pipeline. But while their ethical dilemmas are more conventional, ours defy imagination. Just pick a few examples from Gujarat. Should TV and print report that a foetus was ripped from its mother's womb and then burnt? Should they report that people were electrocuted in a room by avenging mobs? Should they carry pictures of bodies in wells?
So what do we do about media ethics when all hell is breaking loose?
Gujarat's leading newspapers did not tie themselves into knots asking the questions that the rest of the media has been torturing itself with since the violence broke out. They went right ahead and took the decisions that they thought would endear them to the popular mood. On February 28, Gujarat Samachar carried photographs of the dead on the Godhra platform and the burning bogies, above its masthead. Its banner headline below the masthead said (translated), "Most barbaric and shameful incident of the country at Godhra station". And below that, "60 roasted in the train". A box item enshrined Bal Thackeray's by-now famous quote about Hindus cowering like dogs with tails between their legs.
Its rival Sandesh, while matching the photographs and the banner, was more graphic. It said bodies of the burnt victims were glued to each other. The paper bristled with horror stories. Inside it said that two mutilated bodies of young girls had been found, something its rival, Samachar, denied the next day in a three-column story. Later the editor of Sandesh would tell the Editor's Guild team which went to Gujarat to look at the role of the media, that he had a paper to sell, and a rival to out-manoeuvre. His paper's circulation during the month of massacre was up by 150, 000, he is reported to have told them. The Guild team was shown a letter of congratulations sent by the Chief Minister to some Gujarati newspapers, for their coverage. And of course, none of those asked for his resignation as the press in the rest of the country did.
While on the subject of media and massacre, let's hark back not to the Gulf War, which is held to be the first milestone in live conflict reporting, but to Tiananmen Square in 1989 which was believed to be a watershed moment in defining different roles for television and print journalism. "Television became the raw `news' and print became the analysis and research-based reservoir of facts. While newspapers used to set the news agenda for both television and print, that was reversed by the live shots from Beijing." (Turmoil at Tiananmen. A study of U.S. press coverage of the Beijing Spring of 1989, The Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, 1992)
In retrospect, though some Pulitzers were won for the memorable coverage there, it was found to have suffered from biases, and endangered those whom it featured. It set a pro-student framework for the coverage: there was not enough objectivity about the students' movement, and the not-so-positive aspects of it. The technology outpaced the journalism, which created some serious problems. Lopsided access created lopsided coverage. The use of new technology allowed the inclusion of misleading or irrelevant materials, including unverified rumours that were hard to check and resist in the competitive pressure to provide something new. Some Chinese sources who appeared in news reports suddenly found themselves in danger. They were identified by authorities.
We suddenly have as much or more media than many a First World country. We do not have the financial or intellectual resources to monitor or research what that media does on an ongoing basis. Two organisations based in Delhi have begun to do this. But compared to the depth of research in some other countries, what we do here only scratches the surface of possibility. Meanwhile, because we need a Parliamentary majority in a fragmented polity to pass it, media regulation, on the anvil since 1997, simply does not come.
Television in India is young. Everything major that happens is a first: first war, first riot, first hijacking. Newspaper journalism is not young. The rules for it have been set time and again. That did not faze some of the regional press in Gujarat. The print media's provocative role is not new for this country, the Press Council was referring to it even back in 1968, which is when the All India Newspaper Editor's Conference came up with its code for coverage during communal riots.
Media ethics is an evolving field. In the U.S., the Radio-Television News Directors Association has a code of professional ethics and practices that was first evolved in 1946. But its current version, updated in the year 2000, reflects changes in broadcast journalism across half a century.
So far, going live has been an exciting tool for Indian channels. Now we need to look at safeguards others have put in place. The ease with which TV can go live can create problems. Safeguards for reporting in times of crisis, such as hostage taking, have to also be put in place. Television endangers lives, if you don't handle it with care in crisis situations. But equally, it saves lives when you wield its power against anti-social elements. People in Ahmedabad who were trying to get the State to intercede effectively in the mayhem, have said repeatedly since that the television coverage which irked the Government so much, saved lives.
Call centres in UK need to perk up
LONDON : Call centres in Britain must improve their image, according to a report published by Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt.
The report warns that the trend towards outsourcing jobs overseas could be accelerated because countries such as India are overtaking Britain in IT skills.
The findings are included in the first comprehensive report on the call centre industry, entitled "The UK Contact Centre Industry: A Study". It was produced by independent consultants CM Insight and commissioned by the department of trade and industry.
The report predicts call centre jobs nationally would increase by 25 per cent over the next three years. But, it follows a wave of concern that jobs are being lost overseas, where wages are much lower.
The report states that the call centre industry now stands at "a critical point in its development".
Britain cannot compete with overseas locations on cost, so it must rely on a more highly skilled workforce, the report says.
But it warns: " India is able to supply a large number of qualified graduates for complex IT help desk functions. Indeed, in some areas, their expertise may exceed that which would be available to a UK-based call centre."
The report warns that the trend towards outsourcing jobs overseas could be accelerated because countries such as India are overtaking Britain in IT skills.
The findings are included in the first comprehensive report on the call centre industry, entitled "The UK Contact Centre Industry: A Study". It was produced by independent consultants CM Insight and commissioned by the department of trade and industry.
The report predicts call centre jobs nationally would increase by 25 per cent over the next three years. But, it follows a wave of concern that jobs are being lost overseas, where wages are much lower.
The report states that the call centre industry now stands at "a critical point in its development".
Britain cannot compete with overseas locations on cost, so it must rely on a more highly skilled workforce, the report says.
But it warns: " India is able to supply a large number of qualified graduates for complex IT help desk functions. Indeed, in some areas, their expertise may exceed that which would be available to a UK-based call centre."
US to outsource obesity to India
US to outsource obesity to India
ECONOMICTIMES.COM[ THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2004 10:57:23 PM ]
Tired with ranting at Indians for taking away their jobs and churning out jokes about outsourcing CEOs as well as the President, American wits are now busy sympathising with Indians for their outsourcing pains!
Can you imagine a situation where India is begging the US to stop outsourcing! No way, you say? And you are right. It is yet to happen, but up to their neck with outsourcing, Americans are busy dreaming up such scenarios.
"Outsourcing makes businesses more competitive, and we thought the influx of high-paying jobs was a good idea at first," says Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. " But the cost to our society has been enormous .
Starting with Indians acquiring American accents and studying their customs to work in call centres, apparently they are now turning into Americans themselves!
"These call centre and customer support workers have trained so hard to act American on the telephone that they have essentially become Americans," laments the Indian Prime Minister. "It is as if we suddenly had a huge influx of American immigrants. The cultural ramifications have been overwhelming."
What's more! The Americanised workers have been demanding reduced schedules which are closer to the typical 40-hour American work week. They have also fuelled a sharp rise in fast-food outlets and litigation. In short, they are now Americans.
And Americans are sure that this outsourcing of their lifestyle will be the ultimate Trojan Horse. Yes, with their jobs, the sedentary lifestyle and the flab are also getting outsourced.
The fat American wanting to outsource his flab to India is the next big thing and if Newsweek's Andy Borowitz is to be trusted, succeeding as well! To quote Borowitz, "The United States is rapidly outsourcing obesity to India and hopes to shed as many as three trillion pounds of unsightly cellulite annually, as announced by President George W Bush.”
The President says "that since most of the millions of jobs outsourced since he was elected President were extremely sedentary, those jobs are now making the people of India fat instead of us”.
Hoorah! Finally, a brownie point in favour of outsourcing! So after the American President feeling happy about offloading sedentary, fat-inducing jobs to Indians, we have the Indian Prime Minister crying hoarse about the loss of Indian cultural identity.
ECONOMICTIMES.COM[ THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2004 10:57:23 PM ]
Tired with ranting at Indians for taking away their jobs and churning out jokes about outsourcing CEOs as well as the President, American wits are now busy sympathising with Indians for their outsourcing pains!
Can you imagine a situation where India is begging the US to stop outsourcing! No way, you say? And you are right. It is yet to happen, but up to their neck with outsourcing, Americans are busy dreaming up such scenarios.
"Outsourcing makes businesses more competitive, and we thought the influx of high-paying jobs was a good idea at first," says Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. " But the cost to our society has been enormous .
Starting with Indians acquiring American accents and studying their customs to work in call centres, apparently they are now turning into Americans themselves!
"These call centre and customer support workers have trained so hard to act American on the telephone that they have essentially become Americans," laments the Indian Prime Minister. "It is as if we suddenly had a huge influx of American immigrants. The cultural ramifications have been overwhelming."
What's more! The Americanised workers have been demanding reduced schedules which are closer to the typical 40-hour American work week. They have also fuelled a sharp rise in fast-food outlets and litigation. In short, they are now Americans.
And Americans are sure that this outsourcing of their lifestyle will be the ultimate Trojan Horse. Yes, with their jobs, the sedentary lifestyle and the flab are also getting outsourced.
The fat American wanting to outsource his flab to India is the next big thing and if Newsweek's Andy Borowitz is to be trusted, succeeding as well! To quote Borowitz, "The United States is rapidly outsourcing obesity to India and hopes to shed as many as three trillion pounds of unsightly cellulite annually, as announced by President George W Bush.”
The President says "that since most of the millions of jobs outsourced since he was elected President were extremely sedentary, those jobs are now making the people of India fat instead of us”.
Hoorah! Finally, a brownie point in favour of outsourcing! So after the American President feeling happy about offloading sedentary, fat-inducing jobs to Indians, we have the Indian Prime Minister crying hoarse about the loss of Indian cultural identity.
BPO job
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, MAY 08, 2004 11:21:05 PM ]
NEW DELHI: And now, BPO companies have found the perfect way to cope with the high attrition rate that had become a major headache: Hiring older employees on a part-time basis.
It has been touted as one of India's biggest success stories of recent times. And in keeping with its image, the BPO industry is growing, and growing fast.
A recent ICRA study suggests the size of the domestic market will touch $12 billion by 2006 and employ 400,000 people. But if the sector is reputed for its great job opportunities and good pay packets, it's also known for high attrition rate.
Companies like GE, Wipro-Spectramind, V-Customer and many others have been doing it for some time. Part-timers account for 15-20 per cent of the workforce, say experts.
Nasscom forecasts the ratio of part-timers and middle-aged employees to fresh-graduate full-timers in the BPO sector is likely to increase in the future.
"Companies are beginning to look beyond recruiting fresh graduates on a full-time basis at retired professionals and housewives on a part-time basis. The advantage is that they tend to prefer stable jobs and are less prone to 'job-hops' for a marginal increase in compensation. It also helps to considerably increase the base for recruitment," says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
According to Ganesh Kejriwal of Megamind, "With part-timers becoming popular, a broad range of people are now in circulation, which was not possible earlier."
So, you have students, aspiring artists and young professionals rubbing shoulders with housewives and retired defence officers.
What attracts the bunch is the shorter schedule - five hours most often - with ample free time to pursue other interests.
As Raja Varadarajan of Wipro Spectramind says, "It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for both the company and the employee." An arrangement, which is fast becoming popular
NEW DELHI: And now, BPO companies have found the perfect way to cope with the high attrition rate that had become a major headache: Hiring older employees on a part-time basis.
It has been touted as one of India's biggest success stories of recent times. And in keeping with its image, the BPO industry is growing, and growing fast.
A recent ICRA study suggests the size of the domestic market will touch $12 billion by 2006 and employ 400,000 people. But if the sector is reputed for its great job opportunities and good pay packets, it's also known for high attrition rate.
Companies like GE, Wipro-Spectramind, V-Customer and many others have been doing it for some time. Part-timers account for 15-20 per cent of the workforce, say experts.
Nasscom forecasts the ratio of part-timers and middle-aged employees to fresh-graduate full-timers in the BPO sector is likely to increase in the future.
"Companies are beginning to look beyond recruiting fresh graduates on a full-time basis at retired professionals and housewives on a part-time basis. The advantage is that they tend to prefer stable jobs and are less prone to 'job-hops' for a marginal increase in compensation. It also helps to considerably increase the base for recruitment," says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
According to Ganesh Kejriwal of Megamind, "With part-timers becoming popular, a broad range of people are now in circulation, which was not possible earlier."
So, you have students, aspiring artists and young professionals rubbing shoulders with housewives and retired defence officers.
What attracts the bunch is the shorter schedule - five hours most often - with ample free time to pursue other interests.
As Raja Varadarajan of Wipro Spectramind says, "It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for both the company and the employee." An arrangement, which is fast becoming popular
BPO job
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, MAY 08, 2004 11:21:05 PM ]
NEW DELHI: And now, BPO companies have found the perfect way to cope with the high attrition rate that had become a major headache: Hiring older employees on a part-time basis.
It has been touted as one of India's biggest success stories of recent times. And in keeping with its image, the BPO industry is growing, and growing fast.
A recent ICRA study suggests the size of the domestic market will touch $12 billion by 2006 and employ 400,000 people. But if the sector is reputed for its great job opportunities and good pay packets, it's also known for high attrition rate.
Companies like GE, Wipro-Spectramind, V-Customer and many others have been doing it for some time. Part-timers account for 15-20 per cent of the workforce, say experts.
Nasscom forecasts the ratio of part-timers and middle-aged employees to fresh-graduate full-timers in the BPO sector is likely to increase in the future.
"Companies are beginning to look beyond recruiting fresh graduates on a full-time basis at retired professionals and housewives on a part-time basis. The advantage is that they tend to prefer stable jobs and are less prone to 'job-hops' for a marginal increase in compensation. It also helps to considerably increase the base for recruitment," says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
According to Ganesh Kejriwal of Megamind, "With part-timers becoming popular, a broad range of people are now in circulation, which was not possible earlier."
So, you have students, aspiring artists and young professionals rubbing shoulders with housewives and retired defence officers.
What attracts the bunch is the shorter schedule - five hours most often - with ample free time to pursue other interests.
As Raja Varadarajan of Wipro Spectramind says, "It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for both the company and the employee." An arrangement, which is fast becoming popular
NEW DELHI: And now, BPO companies have found the perfect way to cope with the high attrition rate that had become a major headache: Hiring older employees on a part-time basis.
It has been touted as one of India's biggest success stories of recent times. And in keeping with its image, the BPO industry is growing, and growing fast.
A recent ICRA study suggests the size of the domestic market will touch $12 billion by 2006 and employ 400,000 people. But if the sector is reputed for its great job opportunities and good pay packets, it's also known for high attrition rate.
Companies like GE, Wipro-Spectramind, V-Customer and many others have been doing it for some time. Part-timers account for 15-20 per cent of the workforce, say experts.
Nasscom forecasts the ratio of part-timers and middle-aged employees to fresh-graduate full-timers in the BPO sector is likely to increase in the future.
"Companies are beginning to look beyond recruiting fresh graduates on a full-time basis at retired professionals and housewives on a part-time basis. The advantage is that they tend to prefer stable jobs and are less prone to 'job-hops' for a marginal increase in compensation. It also helps to considerably increase the base for recruitment," says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
According to Ganesh Kejriwal of Megamind, "With part-timers becoming popular, a broad range of people are now in circulation, which was not possible earlier."
So, you have students, aspiring artists and young professionals rubbing shoulders with housewives and retired defence officers.
What attracts the bunch is the shorter schedule - five hours most often - with ample free time to pursue other interests.
As Raja Varadarajan of Wipro Spectramind says, "It's a mutually beneficial arrangement for both the company and the employee." An arrangement, which is fast becoming popular
Education and success-Is there a correlation
Education and success-Is there a correlation?
The following points could be discussed under this topic:
This is a topic which provides ample scope for dialectics. One can argue for and against it.One of the best examples is Bill Gates who went on to become the richest man in the world despite dropping out of hid education. Closer home we have the example of Dhirubhai Ambani. What a person learns and what he really wants to do has no correlation many a times. A person succeeds only if he likes what he does.The argument for education will be that , in practice, it is your marks and qualifications that opens doors for you.While one can become successful without education, education brings about a richness in one's life. One is able to appreciate many facets of life due to the extended knowledge that education provides. It opens a new window and provides a different perspective towards things, ability to distinguish between ethical and unethical, moral and amoral ....etc.......
The following points could be discussed under this topic:
This is a topic which provides ample scope for dialectics. One can argue for and against it.One of the best examples is Bill Gates who went on to become the richest man in the world despite dropping out of hid education. Closer home we have the example of Dhirubhai Ambani. What a person learns and what he really wants to do has no correlation many a times. A person succeeds only if he likes what he does.The argument for education will be that , in practice, it is your marks and qualifications that opens doors for you.While one can become successful without education, education brings about a richness in one's life. One is able to appreciate many facets of life due to the extended knowledge that education provides. It opens a new window and provides a different perspective towards things, ability to distinguish between ethical and unethical, moral and amoral ....etc.......
Globalisation versus nationalism
The stern travel advisory that foreign nations issued in June urging their citizens to leave India provokes a set of questions that should be debated against the context of globalisation and liberalisation.Do governments on account of their obligation to safeguard their citizens have overriding "rights" to expect compliance, in matters such as where, when and for what purposes, citizens should travel?Should MNCs subordinate their responsibility towards their host society, not to mention their shareholders, to comply with the directives of their parent government?Should the political risk assessments of foreign office functionaries be accepted as gospel notwithstanding the fact that most companies carry out their own sophisticated internal assessments?
I ask these questions not because I have any doubts about the motives for the June advisory. I can appreciate governments acting with prophylactic caution in anticipation of what could have become a logistical nightmare of large-scale evacuation had the border situation spiralled out of control.I ask these questions because, right or wrong, the advisory triggered reactions that tells us something important about the context in which MNCs and governments operate today. The CII, for instance, saw the advisory as a form of economic sanction; others as a component of a broader geopolitical plan to pressure India and Pakistan to de-escalate; yet others as simply a misreading of ground realities.The advice also put MNCs in an awkward situation. They had to decide whether to accept the advice and evacuate all expatriates notwithstanding possibly their own more optimistic assessment but risking thereby the disruption of operations and the erosion of carefully built up local relationships. Or to demur and then risk criticism from their embassy.They also had to consider the impact on staff morale. After all, if the situation was indeed dire enough to warrant immediate evacuation of foreigners then surely the security of local staff who after all are no less a part of the organisation also needed to be addressed.
This article cannot answer all of these questions but it can provide one backdrop against which I believe, the answers should be formulated.There will no doubt be other perspectives. The point is to ensure that in the event border tensions escalate again the resultant actions and reactions will be less divisive and preemptory.We live in a world today, which is in many respects truly global. This does not mean that the nation state and nationalism is dead; rather that there is now greater interaction amongst societies.There are a large number of issues in which governments and companies (not to mention NGOs and the public) have overlapping, though often conflicting, interests.Global terrorism, environment, narcotics , AIDS, are but a few such issues. The challenge for governments in this "new order" is to manage the tension between, the "germ of a universal consciousness" (to quote the scholar Raymond Aron) in the value of transnational cooperation and liberal open market norms on the one hand, and the continued pull of national self interest and "unilateralism" in decision making on the other. The travel advisory in June has highlighted this challenge. MNCs face a not too dissimilar set of challenges.
Globalisation and liberalisation has given them greater freedom of action and a greater say in policymaking in many countries.It has opened up new avenues for investment and growth and facilitated a "footloose" manufacturing and marketing strategy wherein components are often manufactured in one country, assembly is done in another and sales of the final product are made to a third.The challenge for companies is to run a multinational and multicultural operation that respects local, religious, cultural and national identities, but simultaneously, operates within well defined and agreed global principles.The challenge is compounded by the heightened expectations of the public regarding environmental and social performance. Companies that do not behave responsibly risk harsh reactions and possibly the withdrawal of their licence to operate and grow.Companies make a commitment to local relationships and wider community development not simply out of philanthropy.The call for the unilateral evacuation of expatriate staff without consideration of the impact on local stakeholders belied recognition of the complexity of the various commitments that globalisation entails.These arguments should not be unduly stretched. There is no denying that governments and companies must forewarn visitors against travel to potential trouble spots; nor that foreigners especially westerners are often the targets of random attacks; and that most people feel a heightened sense of insecurity in a foreign land.There is also no denying that globalisation has not altered the "enduring national nature of citizenship".
A primary driver behind the June advisory was domestic public opinion -- what if indeed one of their citizens got hurt? Equally, however, one must not deny that in this emergent "new order" the adoption of narrowly self interested policies have consequences, often unintended, that can reach well beyond the target audience.The June order has dealt the Indian tourist industry a severe blow and the Indian IT companies are scrambling to reassure their international clients of uninterrupted service.Notions of sovereignty predate the imperatives of globalisation. A clash is not therefore surprising. The question is whether, notwithstanding the conflicting constituencies of governments and industry, the consequences of such a clash can be contained.The tools of technology exist to share and scrutinise information and facilitate collaboration. Next time a border crisis occurs it should be deployed to bring together all concerned parties (CII, embassies, companies, NGOs) to ensure that at least each eschew the simplistic "unilateralism" of the status quo ante.
I ask these questions not because I have any doubts about the motives for the June advisory. I can appreciate governments acting with prophylactic caution in anticipation of what could have become a logistical nightmare of large-scale evacuation had the border situation spiralled out of control.I ask these questions because, right or wrong, the advisory triggered reactions that tells us something important about the context in which MNCs and governments operate today. The CII, for instance, saw the advisory as a form of economic sanction; others as a component of a broader geopolitical plan to pressure India and Pakistan to de-escalate; yet others as simply a misreading of ground realities.The advice also put MNCs in an awkward situation. They had to decide whether to accept the advice and evacuate all expatriates notwithstanding possibly their own more optimistic assessment but risking thereby the disruption of operations and the erosion of carefully built up local relationships. Or to demur and then risk criticism from their embassy.They also had to consider the impact on staff morale. After all, if the situation was indeed dire enough to warrant immediate evacuation of foreigners then surely the security of local staff who after all are no less a part of the organisation also needed to be addressed.
This article cannot answer all of these questions but it can provide one backdrop against which I believe, the answers should be formulated.There will no doubt be other perspectives. The point is to ensure that in the event border tensions escalate again the resultant actions and reactions will be less divisive and preemptory.We live in a world today, which is in many respects truly global. This does not mean that the nation state and nationalism is dead; rather that there is now greater interaction amongst societies.There are a large number of issues in which governments and companies (not to mention NGOs and the public) have overlapping, though often conflicting, interests.Global terrorism, environment, narcotics , AIDS, are but a few such issues. The challenge for governments in this "new order" is to manage the tension between, the "germ of a universal consciousness" (to quote the scholar Raymond Aron) in the value of transnational cooperation and liberal open market norms on the one hand, and the continued pull of national self interest and "unilateralism" in decision making on the other. The travel advisory in June has highlighted this challenge. MNCs face a not too dissimilar set of challenges.
Globalisation and liberalisation has given them greater freedom of action and a greater say in policymaking in many countries.It has opened up new avenues for investment and growth and facilitated a "footloose" manufacturing and marketing strategy wherein components are often manufactured in one country, assembly is done in another and sales of the final product are made to a third.The challenge for companies is to run a multinational and multicultural operation that respects local, religious, cultural and national identities, but simultaneously, operates within well defined and agreed global principles.The challenge is compounded by the heightened expectations of the public regarding environmental and social performance. Companies that do not behave responsibly risk harsh reactions and possibly the withdrawal of their licence to operate and grow.Companies make a commitment to local relationships and wider community development not simply out of philanthropy.The call for the unilateral evacuation of expatriate staff without consideration of the impact on local stakeholders belied recognition of the complexity of the various commitments that globalisation entails.These arguments should not be unduly stretched. There is no denying that governments and companies must forewarn visitors against travel to potential trouble spots; nor that foreigners especially westerners are often the targets of random attacks; and that most people feel a heightened sense of insecurity in a foreign land.There is also no denying that globalisation has not altered the "enduring national nature of citizenship".
A primary driver behind the June advisory was domestic public opinion -- what if indeed one of their citizens got hurt? Equally, however, one must not deny that in this emergent "new order" the adoption of narrowly self interested policies have consequences, often unintended, that can reach well beyond the target audience.The June order has dealt the Indian tourist industry a severe blow and the Indian IT companies are scrambling to reassure their international clients of uninterrupted service.Notions of sovereignty predate the imperatives of globalisation. A clash is not therefore surprising. The question is whether, notwithstanding the conflicting constituencies of governments and industry, the consequences of such a clash can be contained.The tools of technology exist to share and scrutinise information and facilitate collaboration. Next time a border crisis occurs it should be deployed to bring together all concerned parties (CII, embassies, companies, NGOs) to ensure that at least each eschew the simplistic "unilateralism" of the status quo ante.
Tangled Website
Mummy, do all fairy tales begin with 'Once upon a time...'? asks a daughter being tucked in and put to bed with a story. "No, dear", says the mother, wearily, having waited for hours for her husband to come home. "Some of them begin with "Sorry darling, I was held up in the office".
This cartoon story might have helped in the past to draw the chestnuts from the fire. But modern housewives see through excuses when the spouse attempts to pull the wool over her eyes. The Bible spoke of the seven deadly sins and what the price to be paid was. Now British marriage counselling firms, psychologists and sociologists have added on eighth deadly sin - the Internet, to the earlier list.
The poet did say "What a tangled web we weave/ When we first practise to deceive". Here the tangled web is the website surfed on the sly, the cyber-pornography sites revisited, and e-mail relationships which are built on sand. Britain's largest charitable marriage counselling organisation, Relate, with nearly 100,000 couples as members, has disclosed that their staff and psychologists have identified the Internet as a "relationship-breaker", posing the same kind of threat to harmonious domesticity and mutual trust, as long working hours did in the past.
Almost one in every 10 British couples was seeking 'virtual' companionship through Internet and the most vulnerable age group was 25 to 35. Voltaire did mention how ''man is born free, but everywhere, he is in chains".
The Internet chains have come on the wings of science and technology but are no less restrictive for all that.
Some obsessive web-surfers, cyber-pornography viewers and e-mail relationship seekers, have started referring to their time away from the Internet friend as 'widowhood' and 'widower-hood' - a sequel which the progenitor of Windows 95, and its sequels had not fully thought of.
The pitch is also queered, since Internet introductions provide easy and ready access to old school and college companions and hold promise of reviving old flames and rekindling adolescent romances.
Just as the ubiquitous cellphones have the potential of tearing down the walls of shyness, gender differences and privacy, the Internet has opened the floodgates of virtual companionship and enticing the many who were hitherto looking at these developments feeling "lonely in a crowd".
Some observers say that Boccacio's Decameron and Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra have come alive again in the 21st century.
This cartoon story might have helped in the past to draw the chestnuts from the fire. But modern housewives see through excuses when the spouse attempts to pull the wool over her eyes. The Bible spoke of the seven deadly sins and what the price to be paid was. Now British marriage counselling firms, psychologists and sociologists have added on eighth deadly sin - the Internet, to the earlier list.
The poet did say "What a tangled web we weave/ When we first practise to deceive". Here the tangled web is the website surfed on the sly, the cyber-pornography sites revisited, and e-mail relationships which are built on sand. Britain's largest charitable marriage counselling organisation, Relate, with nearly 100,000 couples as members, has disclosed that their staff and psychologists have identified the Internet as a "relationship-breaker", posing the same kind of threat to harmonious domesticity and mutual trust, as long working hours did in the past.
Almost one in every 10 British couples was seeking 'virtual' companionship through Internet and the most vulnerable age group was 25 to 35. Voltaire did mention how ''man is born free, but everywhere, he is in chains".
The Internet chains have come on the wings of science and technology but are no less restrictive for all that.
Some obsessive web-surfers, cyber-pornography viewers and e-mail relationship seekers, have started referring to their time away from the Internet friend as 'widowhood' and 'widower-hood' - a sequel which the progenitor of Windows 95, and its sequels had not fully thought of.
The pitch is also queered, since Internet introductions provide easy and ready access to old school and college companions and hold promise of reviving old flames and rekindling adolescent romances.
Just as the ubiquitous cellphones have the potential of tearing down the walls of shyness, gender differences and privacy, the Internet has opened the floodgates of virtual companionship and enticing the many who were hitherto looking at these developments feeling "lonely in a crowd".
Some observers say that Boccacio's Decameron and Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra have come alive again in the 21st century.
US uses BPO key to Indian market
US uses BPO key to Indian market
ECONOMICTIMES.COM[ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2004 11:54:05 PM ]
As the US job market scene brightens up, the US government has gone on record saying that it is not against outsourcing of jobs to India and other countries, despite the outcry against it in certain sections of American society. Rather, it would like an opening of markets in India to provide more jobs to Americans.
Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca said that the administration led by George W Bush has made it clear that "we do not oppose outsourcing."
"What we would like to see in exchange," she said, "is an opening of markets in India and other countries, which in turn provide more jobs in the United States . That is the way the policy has been formulated."
Rocca was testifying on June 22 before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the House International Relations Committee on 'US Policy Towards South Asia.' The Committee was chaired by Representative James Leach (Republican).
She denied that there was any " India-bashing " on the part of the Bush Administration with respect to outsourcing of jobs.
"If there was more opening of markets in India, it would also help the furore die down because it would- by its nature - increase a lot of jobs here and elsewhere as well," Rocca added.
The issue of outsourcing was raised during the question-answer session by the Delegate from American Samoa, Eni Faleomavaega (Democrat), who wanted to know about the US administration's position on it.
"What are we talking about in terms of jobs? I mean, these are American companies now doing business with Indian companies and, in reading reports of the media, it seems like there's a whole problem that we're outsourcing, to imply millions of jobs. Is this India-bashing fair?" he asked.
Rocca said: "I don't have the latest numbers at my fingertips, and certainly India's not the only country to which the US companies outsource jobs.
"I think the US Trade Representative has made it clear that we do not oppose outsourcing. What we would like to see in exchange is an opening of markets in India and other countries, which in turn will provide more jobs in the United States. That's sort of the way it's been formulated. But I don't think you've heard any India-bashing on the part of the administration with respect to outsourcing of jobs."
Republican Congressman Thomas Tancredo, who had repeatedly tried to limit the number of visas given to overseas professionals in the US, said, there was an explosion in the number of L1 category visas granted to foreign companies to bring professionals.
"Already there are somewhere near a million people here as a result of the widespread abuse of visas," he alleged.
"Many of the people are brought here saying that they are uniquely qualified but the real reason is that they would work for less. The Indian Government has agreed to the case," Tancredo said.
Rocca assured the Congressman that "our Consulate people are taking the visa fraud issue very, very seriously."
ECONOMICTIMES.COM[ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2004 11:54:05 PM ]
As the US job market scene brightens up, the US government has gone on record saying that it is not against outsourcing of jobs to India and other countries, despite the outcry against it in certain sections of American society. Rather, it would like an opening of markets in India to provide more jobs to Americans.
Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca said that the administration led by George W Bush has made it clear that "we do not oppose outsourcing."
"What we would like to see in exchange," she said, "is an opening of markets in India and other countries, which in turn provide more jobs in the United States . That is the way the policy has been formulated."
Rocca was testifying on June 22 before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the House International Relations Committee on 'US Policy Towards South Asia.' The Committee was chaired by Representative James Leach (Republican).
She denied that there was any " India-bashing " on the part of the Bush Administration with respect to outsourcing of jobs.
"If there was more opening of markets in India, it would also help the furore die down because it would- by its nature - increase a lot of jobs here and elsewhere as well," Rocca added.
The issue of outsourcing was raised during the question-answer session by the Delegate from American Samoa, Eni Faleomavaega (Democrat), who wanted to know about the US administration's position on it.
"What are we talking about in terms of jobs? I mean, these are American companies now doing business with Indian companies and, in reading reports of the media, it seems like there's a whole problem that we're outsourcing, to imply millions of jobs. Is this India-bashing fair?" he asked.
Rocca said: "I don't have the latest numbers at my fingertips, and certainly India's not the only country to which the US companies outsource jobs.
"I think the US Trade Representative has made it clear that we do not oppose outsourcing. What we would like to see in exchange is an opening of markets in India and other countries, which in turn will provide more jobs in the United States. That's sort of the way it's been formulated. But I don't think you've heard any India-bashing on the part of the administration with respect to outsourcing of jobs."
Republican Congressman Thomas Tancredo, who had repeatedly tried to limit the number of visas given to overseas professionals in the US, said, there was an explosion in the number of L1 category visas granted to foreign companies to bring professionals.
"Already there are somewhere near a million people here as a result of the widespread abuse of visas," he alleged.
"Many of the people are brought here saying that they are uniquely qualified but the real reason is that they would work for less. The Indian Government has agreed to the case," Tancredo said.
Rocca assured the Congressman that "our Consulate people are taking the visa fraud issue very, very seriously."
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