Friends
Wish you all Very Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Year 2011. This is the first blog post of this year and also the first of this second decade of Twenty first Century. Today Nikita went back to Bangalore to resume the college after 10 days' vacations. Hitisha still with us as she is undergoing internship with a leading newspaper.
Recently I was thinking about a plot in Mahabharat epic where:
"Raja Dhritrashtra, Bhishma Pitamah, Guru Dronacharya, Korava heir Duryodhan, Raja Karna and all other family members, dignitaries were sitting. The game of dias had just finished with Pandavas losing every thing including making themselves slaves and also losing Dropadi to Duryodhan. It was the time when Dushasan was ready to insult Dropadi. He dragged out Dropadi from other room to the main hall by hairs. She was crying and begging mercy from every one right from Korava brothers to Bhishma Pitamah. No one could dare to stop Dushasan and other 100 korava brothers from doing anything they wish to Dropadi. Every one had their own excuse like Dhritrashtra , convincing himself for his blindness and also logic that since pandavas have lost the game, he is helpless in this matter. Bhisma Pitamah was convinced that he is committed to Hastinapur kingdom and hence can't help any body else except hastinapur king i.e. Raja Dhritrashtra only. Guru Dronacharya, Korav Brothers, and all other were just followers of Bhishma Pitamaha or Raja Dhritrashtra and finding excuse of not interfering. When all this was happening, Pandavas were sitting in a corner with head down and hands tied up(as they could not see all this happening with Dropadi) and helpless. One Brother's deeds (Dharamraj yudishther's) had put every one in big problem".
In above situation Minister Vidur stood up and requested Bhishma Pitamah to do some thing to stop all this as the Dropadi was bahu of the family. He also requested to Raja Dhritrashtra, Guru Dronacharya and all but nothing moved. Finally he announced his resignation and said that "for every fault 50% responsibility is of person doing the crime, 25% of the person facing the crime and rest 25% of the person who is silent." With this he went out of the court.
Thus he made responsible for this crime all the elders sitting there and watching all this happening. Silence is also a crime, particularly by those who are powerful enough in stopping the crime happening. In present situation this applies to our honest politicians who may not be corrupt but have been mute spectator, it also applies to bureaucrats, our elders, our boss, and every other one who refuse to interfere and stop the injustice happening.
Above plot also leads to following conclusions:
1. You may be too powerful but don't try to push your self in a situation which is not in your control or else you may be in a big soup.
2. You can put yourself in any situation but you don't have right to drag others also who are dependent you like your spouse, brothers, kids, Parents, employees, friends etc.
3. Before jumping into unknown water please test it properly.
4. Don't trust blindly.
5. When you are powerful enough, any of your deed is acceptable.
5. No body is going to oppose your injustice till those around you are getting benefit from you.
6. We all are selfish and always work for our benefit at whatever cost or harm to any body else.
This epic/story is about 5000 years old, but the morals are same even today.
CP

BYE BYE 2010

Friends
Finally today, the last day of this first decade of twenty first century has come. Tomorrow would be not only the first day of year 2011 but also the first day of second decade. Last 10 years remind me lot of developments, events, happenings, khushi (pleasure), Gamm (sadness), tensions and uncertainties. This 10 years have seen kids becoming older from school going to college going, more independent and intelligent, Me growing older with almost 80% silver hairs, specs on eyes and so on. The decade started with severe earthquake in my city, followed by communal riots, economic recession, political uncertainty and ended with good satisfaction on almost all fronts. Life is Good and nothing to complain. God is kind enough and has given more than I asked. I know even God can not satisfy all the wishes in life but at least he has been kind enough to me. Many friends and collegues left the city, settled some where else and many friends have been successful much beyond my expectations.
I wish the coming decade will be better than this and would help me to achieve my aims in life to the extent that when we analyse again the decade on 31.12.2020, I feel satisfied and happy on all the fronts. Me and my family wish a very happy and prosperous "New Year 2011" and "New decade 2011-2020" for all my friends, family members, Relatives, Collegues and well wishers. God bless to all of us and fulfill all the wishes we take to him. With this let us say good bye to 2010 and welcome 2011.
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Year 2010

Friends
Year 2010 is about to go. I wish it was a good year and pray to god that 2011 would be better than this. If I recollect the year 2010, it was one of the successful year of my career professionally and on social front it was satisfactory. To summarise the year 2010 :
1. I visited many locations i.e. Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Cochi, Andaman & Nicobar, Singapore, Banaras, Sarnath, Tirupati, Allahabad and Pune.

2. Hitisha moved to Pune for building career in media and journalism, My brother Rajesh moved to Uganda for Job.

3. we started office in Mumbai and also moved to new location in Ahmedabad also the team strengthened and moving towards right direction.

4. I could reconnect with my old friends after many decades (gap in years written)like: Alok Kala ( 20 years), Balkishan Jajoo ( 32 Years), Amit Goyal (28 years), Chandra Shekhar ( 30 Years), Dinesh Jain (18 Years) and Raghunath Singh ( 27 Years).

5. I read some good books like: i. Chanakya Neeti ii. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish iii. The Ultimate Life iv.The Five Dysfunction of a Team v.How Starbucks saved my Life vi. The Tipping Point vii. Blue Ocean Strategy, viii. India Unbound ix. Brida x. Ambani & sons xi. Connect the Dots & xii. Bachchan Madhushala. I wish I could read more books.

6. I could see the temple in my village fully constructed.

Over all the year 2010 was good on all fronts. However it was also full of mental pressure, tension, uncertainty but still it was good one.

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Friends
The travelling has suddenly been replaced by the social events. Lot of Marriages, Reception, Sangeet etc. are in place. Though as per Hindu religion there is no Muhurat for Marriage from 15th Dec. 2010 to 14th Jan. 2011, but for the NRIs this is the only period when they have vacations and can afford to spend 15 days in their home country. So in almost all the cases this is the marriage season for NRIs. It is also the time when kids have some vacations and they are back at home for some time. Of course this would not continue for long and after a week every thing would change.

Gujarat is going to celebrate new year with lot of functions and most important of all the functions is "Vibrant Gujarat' being held from 10th Jan 2011 to 13th Jan 2011. This even would witness presence of many leading industrialists in the State and delegates from many countries. In addition to this Kankaria Carnival, Patangotsav and Rannotsav would be great attraction.

In life we start with some thing, move forward and knowingly unknowingly change the track as per the situations. By the time we cross some distance, it gives feeling of substantial changes in the original plans, change in the team, change in relationship,change in business and so on......In every aspects of life the change is certain and continuous. It changes the priorities, preferences,tastes, behaviour, attitude every thing. Change is good in life but human nature never likes it initially and once accustomed to it then resistance develops for change again. And if change is forced then we feel bad and react boldly. But change is unstoppable and continue to be there in life whether for the good or bad.It happens with every one every time universally. We should take that change positively and try to adjust accordingly for making such changes beneficial.
As the year 2010 is passing, people have started analyzing the good and bad about this year and learn from the mistakes and move further for betterment of 2011.
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Friends
Last week I got the chance to visit Banaras (Varanasi), Allahabad, Sarnath and Bangalore. Except Bangalore all the three trips were social and it gave me chance to visit Kashi Vishwanath Temple (one of the Twelve Jyotirlingas), Sangam (Ganga , Yamuna & Saraswati Rivers) and Anand Bhawan. These are really great locations to visit.
I also finished two books i.e. 1)"Connect the Dots" by Rashmi Basal and 2) "Bachchan Madhushala " by Dr. Harivanshrai Bachchan. Rashmi Bansal has done good effort second time after her popular Book " Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish) in finding the entrepreneurs who are not MBA and without much education have succeeded in life achieving the success. This is a very inspiring book and worth reading. Madhushala by the legendary Bachchan Sb. needs no introduction and comment as this is being read since last 75 years. An excellent book of poems on life.
The year 2010 is about to become history and soon 2011 will be the happening year.
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Friends
Yesterday I was in Bangalore for some official meetings and got chance to meet some techno entrepreneurs. I also had chance to spend some time with Nikita. She mentioned about her newly launched blog which I read today. I am overwhelmed and proud with the first post written by my lovely daughter Nikita (http://nikitacjain.blogspot.com). I can not imagine that kids have grown up and think so deeply and positively.
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RICH VS WEALTHY

Friends
Again gap in writing blog. The thought in my mind is about the difference between "Rich" and "Wealthy". What is the key feature which differentiate a Rich person from the Wealthy one. In my view Rich may be having lot of money but the he /she needs to work continuously to remain Rich. He carries the risk of loosing richness and in most probability looses too. His income flow is very fast and uncertain and this keeps him busy, tense and vulnerable. On the other side wealthy person lives life lavishly, have sufficient time to enjoy the life and is not vulnerable to environment risk. The flow of income is good, certain and continuous. As I could understand the basic difference is in the income flow module. Wealthy people create fixed and certain income flow which is continuous and does not need their much of the personal time and attention. Such income flows are mainly from rentals, interest, royalty, dividends etc.
We should think seriously about becoming wealthy and not rich.
CP