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The White Tiger

--The creature that gets born only once in every generation. The white tiger -- By this time you might be familiar with this name "The White Tiger" written by "Aravind Adiga" and won Booker prize for this year. I really want to know how a booker prize book looks like. I read through this book with great excitement. 276 pages completed in 2 nights. I requested a hold on this book in Russel Library, Connecticut. I was desperately waiting for this book to come into my hands. I was reading through this book with loads of enthusiasm and it was cut down by the end of the book. I really dont know the criteria for Booker prize. If you understand let me know....here is the site http://www.themanbookerprize.com/ This book narrates how a son of rickshaw puller become entrepenuer in Bangalore (by slittting the throat of his owner). Thumbs up: some of the quotes in the book are revolutionary. Only three nations in the world never allowed foreigners to rule them its land for long...

Quotes from my readings......

Hi Friends, Here are some quotes from my book readings....... From Whale done.....Ken Blanchard Convey the needs, catch them doing right. The more attention you pay to a behaviour, the more it will be repeated. If you dont want to encourage poor behaviour, dont spend a lot of time on it. Instead rechannel your energy. Build trus, accentuate the positive, when mistake occurs redirect the energy. ABC of performance A = Activationr (Whatever gets the performance going) B = Behaviour (Performance that occurs) C = Consequences (your response to performance) No response, -ve response, redirection, positive response. Redirection response: Describe the error or problem as soon as possible, clearly and without blame. show its -ve impact if appropriate, take the blame for not making the task clear. Go over the task in detail and make sure it is clearly understood. Express your continuing trust and confidence in the person. GOTCHA: Catching the people doing things wrong. WHALE DONE...

Social Networking

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I know i picked a hot topic again!!!! aka Social Networking...... When i am doing Orkut i wondered how many such sites are there and how it is taking effect globally, so my investigation landed into an article on social networking..... Find my observations. Social Networking is web based community of people with similar interests. Some of the famous social networkig groups are orkut, Youtube (sharing video), Linked In, Face book, Myspace etc., Here is a master list of social networking sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites It is considered as best innovation after email. Social networking sites are opening gates for one another. (i.e if you have Face book you can link to your orkut account in the near future.....) One of the best web economies in coming days !!!! Advertisements industry is betting big on Social networking. Myspace got $700 - $800 million in advertisement in 07-08. Face book $300 - $350 million, it is 70 million member strong. Linked In...

In Wings of Fire -- A.P.J Abdul Kalam wrote:

My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, “Those things that hurt instruct!” I realized that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them. A beautiful quote: For all your days prepare And meet them ever alike When you are the anvil, bear- When you are the hammer, strike. Bread baked without love is bitter bread that feeds but half a man’s hunger. -Khalil Gibran An Incident which reflects the great leadership quality of Prof Sarabhai… Once Prof Sarabhai visited Thumba, at that time there was an ongoing development project on surface to air missile. Team thought to show some development to Prof and asked him to operate the timer circuit to activate the nose-cone jettisoning. When Prof pressed the timer it didn’t worked, team was disappointed and tried to demonstrate it through direct connection to pyros instead of using timer. It did work this time. After this whol...

Business Communication

Interesting facts i came through reading an article about communication: Fact File of Business communication: · 60% of all business calls end in a Voicemail system · 67% of business instant messaging conversations end in a phone call · The last 2 year 34.6 million euros was wasted on “Voicemail conversations” (people tend not to listen to voicemails) · The average information worker receives 51 messages per day, across 7 different media · More than 50% of employees spend more than 2 hours per day on reading and replying to e-mails · For 15% of them the usage of e-mail has grown to 4 hours a day. 50% of their working day on e-mail · For 50% of all phonecalls made the number to be dialed is looked up first in a different source than the phone Interesting or Disgusting !!!!!

My Experiments with Truth

Here i am giving some quotes from the book i am reading "My Experiments with Truth".... This book is autobiography of Gandhi ji........ Some quotes i liked / inferred from the book, These are my perceptions need not be exact quotes in the books ------Disclaimer :-) You are the scientist of your own life, if you dont experiment you dont invent anything. You will receive acceptance and rejection at every stage, as long as they satisfy your reason and heart in the path of achieving goals, You are on the right track. Karamchand Gandhi(faterh of mahatma gandhi) was married four times, he is son of 2nd wife of his father. Karamchand Gandhi's 2nd wife son is Mahtma Gandhi. Gandhi is the only student in his 1st class, who wrote spelling of 'kettle' wrong. All other students in the class wrote it correctly. He calls himself stupid. Harischandra and Shravan (who carried his blind parents for piligrimage) are his favourite historians. He believes they are historic because of...

Kotha Bangaru Lokam

Kontha Bangaru Lokam Long time no good to see movies in Telugu.... Yesterday i watched a new movie that is released with lot of expectations i.e., Kotha Bangaru Lokam with lot of expectation and the reason for the expectation is only because of the Production House.....Smt. Anitha Productions (with many block busters like Bommarillu, Dil etc..).. Let me start how did i feel about the movie.......... Movie started with an narration of how a mom feel abt his child and her love towards her family and all.... Movie is mostly targetted the so called "TEENAGE AUDIENCE"... bt mostly concetrated on certain set of audience like Intermediate Students (i.e., Plus 1 and PLus 2 )....... Prakash Raj(Hero Father) is as good as he is always and no words to explain hw he fits in to any role he play in....... Jayasudha (Hero Mother) is exceptionally good in playing a typical House wife in a remote place....Coming to our so called HERO.... I cn jst tell only onething to this guy i.e., people wa...