Experiences that Defined our Generation in India – 1

Last updated on: January 25, 2009 at 12:48 am By Desh Kapoor

Growing up in India - there were certain things that made you come alive. I will try and share things that made me sit up and which changed the way things would work from then on. This ad from Cadbury's was one such thing. I still remember when it was first aired. It hit the imagination of the college going and young folks like nothing else before. Everyone became young again. That dance - its exuberance... that life.. and that spontaneity - has probably never been witnessed since! Every other act of so-called spontaneity looks "practised". So, sharing this as the first of those things that our generation related to so strongly. Can you please share such things that made YOU come alive? Read more

God and our Increasing Spirituality

Last updated on: January 24, 2009 at 6:28 pm By Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

SIMPLE DAILY ACTIONS TO HELP US BE MUCH MORE AWARE OF OUR INCREASING SPIRITUALITY. Today, I feel like sharing something very valuable with you all. I wish to inform you how to experience many more pleasant physical sensations. These paculiar sensations will soon become our safe and reliable guide to know when it is appriopiate to communicate with our master within and also, by writing down the exact minute and hour plus date of these special pleasant feelings. We can repeat thesae spiritual magical moments later on, maybe in the next month or week. Past experiences recorded by my students and myself cast important light in how sometimes this inner communication is advisable for everyone at the same time, and how most times each one of us has to follow the right affinity sacred and magical moments for this amazing and very productive communion. Read more

Ability to handle Change is a key competitive advantage

Last updated on: January 24, 2009 at 6:21 pm By Desh Kapoor

Value is built and destroyed in the Change. Change in business and processes is not easy but it is an imperative companion. So, either the your failure to cope puts a cost on you (and value is destroyed), or you can put a cost to your failure to cope (and value is created). Very few businesses actually properly anticipate change in environment and go on the long journey of change in business and subsequent change in processes. Most businesses see the changing environment and then start making changes at the lower levels - maybe tools.. maybe processes here and there... maybe even some strategies. But the syncing of this is absent. Response to Change has to be synced throughout the company! Read more

India's Top 10 Scams

Last updated on: January 24, 2009 at 8:03 am By Desh Kapoor

Here is a list of the top 10 Corporate scams in India - with our dear old Ramalinga Raju leading the pack! 1. Ramalinga Raju The biggest corporate scam in India has come from one of the most respected businessmen. Satyam founder Byrraju Ramalinga Raju resigned as its chairman after admitting to cooking up the account books. His efforts to fill the "fictitious assets with real ones" through Maytas acquisition failed, after which he decided to confess the crime. With a fraud involving about Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion), Satyam is heading for more trouble in the days ahead. On Wednesday, India's fourth largest IT company lost a staggering Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in market capitalisation as investors reacted sharply and dumped shares, pushing down the scrip by 78 per cent to Rs 39.95 on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The NYSE-listed firm could also face regulator action in the US. Read more

Scoopy Do or Not to Do?

Last updated on: January 24, 2009 at 7:34 am By Desh Kapoor

That's the toughest choice in life.. you standing in the ice cream shop.. trying to lose weight everyday.. and the QUESTION! C> vs. <3 single scoop vs. double scoop? Read more

The Facebook Murder!

Last updated on: January 24, 2009 at 7:30 am By Desh Kapoor

We all know the benefits of Facebook. Let's take a moment to see the negatives it can bring as well. A husband in UK was so enraged when his estranged wife changed her "Marital Status" on FB from Married to Single that he started calling her. When she did not reply, he went to her parent's house and broke the front door window and went onto to the bedroom the wife was in and stabbed her to death! Read more

Ace Korean blogger on Economy thrown in jail

Last updated on: January 24, 2009 at 6:40 am By Desh Kapoor

If as a blogger you could: - predict the fall of Lehman brothers - collapse of your country's fast growing stock market - accurately forecast a fall in the currency AND if every post of yours attracted roughly 100,000 readers... you would probably be a celebrity in the US.. or a normal country. But heck, a blogger, who had learnt economics just reading some books and wrote a blog under a pseudonym "Minerva", while giving amazingly accurate predictions is now behind bars! In SOUTH KOREA! Why? Read more

Honor Killings are not a crime: Pakistan's Lahore High Court

Last updated on: January 23, 2009 at 9:12 pm By Desh Kapoor

Honor Killings have been a big issue in the Islamic countries from Arabic countries to Indonesia. In fact some Muslim women living in US and UK have been victims of this practice - where the family thinks that it is important to uphold the family honor - over and above the life of a person. Here is a definition:[1] An honor killing or honour killing is the murder of a family or clan member by one or more fellow family members, when the murderers (and potentially the wider community) believe the victim to have brought dishonour upon the family, clan, or community, normally by (a) utilising dress codes unacceptable to certain Islamic people or (b) engaging in certain sexual acts. These killings result from the perception that defense of honour justifies killing a person whose behavior dishonours their clan or family. Look at the stories of these women: Hatin Surucu Hatin Surucu just wanted to live her own life. Instead, she became Berlin's latest victim of honor killings. Her Turkish Muslim brothers allegedly gunned her down for adopting Western ways.[2] Read more

Stone walls do not a prison make – having Stress without Distress

Last updated on: January 23, 2009 at 7:42 am By Desh Kapoor

Stress is a common occurence in everyday life. Change is the constant in every person's life and change brings stress - some positive but mostly negative stress. It leads to anxiety and anger and often to violence. Those are the outward effects. The most terrible, however, are the internal threats to the body and brain. Over 1500 chemical changes occur due to repeated or prolonged negative stress, and can lead to exhaustion and loss of energy and finally to increased incidence of disease. [Source: "The Power of 5", Author: Bloomfield and Cooper] Pituitary glands and the nerve impulses trigger increase in creation of adrenalin and cortisol. While the latter increases the numbers of blood platelets, the former increases their stickiness - thus forming a very formidable weapon against the heart, arteries and the brain! Read more

An Amazing Cosmic Communion

Last updated on: January 23, 2009 at 3:26 am By Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

This morning while walking, suddenly the cardinal points toward I was heading stared a conversation with me. While walking northwards I sense more than listen to the following words: “You’re waking toward where cold crystalline water arises from the Nort Pole into a high altitude, and from there travels very fast heading southwards. I am dropping some of this magic water into your head until all your hair and scalp are completly wet. This wetness feels like you are being baptized, so The Holy Spirit can descend over you penetrating every single cell in your physical and spiritual body. From now on your communication with our Father will be carried out with much stronger spiritual links, so obey all the suggested pieces of advice.” Read more