- A for Anxiety, which we get after seeing the pending paper-work.
- B for Budget, which we always get less than the expectations.
- C for Chai/Coffee, whose excessive consumption adds more toxins in our body.
- D for Delay in decision making, which kills the enthusiasm of work.
- E for Exercise, which we avoid doing.
- F for Fried Food, which makes us over-weight.
- G for Group tasks, which overshadow the individual efforts.
- H for Helplessness, which we feel because we fail to ask for help.
- I for Ignorance, which we never try to remove through constant learning.
- J for Justice, which is either delayed or ignored.
- K for kill time, which we do in gossips and long meetings.
- L for Listening, which we do less because speaking gives us more pleasure.
- M for Motivation, which we rarely get from outside.
- N for Nutrition, which we care least due to our glutton tendency.
- O for Ownership, which we try to pass on someone else.
- P for Politics, which is a part of our profession and brings no conclusion to the problem.
- Q for Questions, which anyone can ask under Right To Information without having any clue on the subject.
- R for Rotomac Pen, which always gets lost at the time of signing important documents.
- S for Sympathy, which no one shows when we desperately need a holiday.
- T for Timeline, which we always cross due to unknown factors.
- U for Unpaid bills, which haunt us in different ways.
- V for Vision, which is generally blurred due to short-sightedness.
- W for Water Closet, which remains untidy because sweeper is always on strike.
- X for Xerox Machine, which would always have shortage of pages esp. when we need it.
- Y for Your Spouse, who always believes that you have no time for him or her.
- Z for ZZzz, which means we don’t take enough sleep and invite health related troubles.
Critical Essays
Tuesday 27 February 2018
A to Z of Office Stress
Saturday 27 January 2018
How introverts can develop Social Skills?
In 21st
century, people decide your net-worth by the network you have. We can never
succeed in life if lots of people don’t want us to succeed. We all need a
social support system around us.
Networking is a
tough task for introverts. I can understand this because I myself is an
introvert.
Both of my
parents were working and most of the time, I was alone in my house guarding it
and protecting it. When we spend most of the time in isolation, we start
enjoying it and avoid social interactions as much as we can. Believe it or not,
I had never went to my college canteen just to avoid conversations!!! Introverts
avoid people because most of the time introverts don’t know what to say. Other
than my classmates, I never tried to know anyone else in the school or college.
Juniors and seniors were alien for me. When I was doing my Bachelors in
Business Administration that was the time when I learned the importance of
networking in one of the management classes. I learned that talent and relationships
both help us jointly in real-life. From that point of time, I am working on my
social intelligence.
Though, I don’t
consider myself as a master socializer but I can share some practical tips by
which any introvert can improve his or her social skills.
1. Introverts are
not talkers- This is a reality. No matter how many communication classes you
attend, you would find that talking does not gives any pleasure to an
introvert. However, listening is easier for introverts. In the real world,
listeners are quite rare. Most of the people want to talk, but don’t want to
listen. Listening others attentively can make any introvert a master
communicator. When other person stops talking then ask questions related to his
or her interest and he or she would start talking again. This is one of the
best ways by which introverts can engage others in a conversation.
2. Smile-
Introverts do not smile and this is a universal trait of introverts. Introverts
always have a flat face. This is a big mistake which we do. Smiling face
attracts more people than a dull face. Force yourself to smile. Smile whenever
you get chance to smile. Stop scaring people with your flat face.
Vladimir Putin Not Smiling Vs Smiling |
3. Take help of friends- Making friends and forming groups is natural characteristic of human beings. Even introverts have few good friends (not more than four). In order to expand your network, take help of your already existing friend circle. When I was doing MBA, I had 4 roommates and through them I break-the-ice with rest 106 people of our batch. This process was long, but effective. Through this method, we can know more people in less time.
One person can help in knowing six other people |
4. Make use of
social media- Writing is easier for introverts than speaking. Writing engages
mind of introverts and they can interact easily with more people through
messages. Make use of LinkedIn to form a good professional network. Facebook
can help in making an interesting informal network and WhatsApp can help in daily chats. Introverts
would find themselves to be more actively involved on social media than in real
life.
5. Take care of your
appearance- Once a film actor was asked that why so many people are mad for him
and he said that “May be because I am beautiful.” What an easy answer for a
complex question. Actors understand the importance of appearance more than any
other person. Actors know that human beings are highly visual people. Our eyes
crave for beautiful things. Take care of your appearance. Looking good requires
only two things- (1) Exercise daily to keep your body toned (2) Don’t wear
disorganized clothes. Do these two things and you would look better than
two-third people. Good appearance would give you confidence and it would attract others. This would make interactions more quick and easy.
Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun |
All the best to all the introverts.
Monday 31 July 2017
On Indian Style of Dancing
Photo- Mythical Hindu God Nataraja |
In Sanskrit
Civilization, Dance was divided into two forms-
1. Lasya- Lasya represents feminine qualities. It means that dancer should have ability to show female expressions, body language, and appearance in its dance.
1. Lasya- Lasya represents feminine qualities. It means that dancer should have ability to show female expressions, body language, and appearance in its dance.
2. Tandava-
Tandava represents masculine qualities. It means that dancer should have
ability to show its male expressions, body language, and appearance in its
dance.
Dance is not
just about the physical movement, it also means that how a dancer looks like
during the performance. Therefore, dancer should take care of its appearance
and clothes which it wears during the dance performance. Dancer cannot effectively portray
the feelings of a man in the dress of a woman.This is an
important piece of information.
Many times new dancers think that if they are
male then they should only learn male dancing style and female dancers think
that they need to learn only female dancing style. It is an incomplete approach
towards dance. Learn to dance in both male and female styles. It would increase
your empathy towards the other gender. It would also increase your thinking
ability which we limit with our gender-specific-roles.
Dancing is an
interesting type of training for young boys and girls, it helps in developing
interpersonal skills between boys and girls.
Learning
positive things from both the genders would develop you as a complete human
being.
In Sanskrit,
Dance is called “Nritya.” If we divide the word Nritya, we would get two words-
Nritta and Natya.
Nritta means
expressing emotions and Natya means acting. Every effective dancer has ability
to express its emotions through its face and body. Good acting skills help in
developing the correct body-language.Dancers can
easily portray the feelings of the lyrics and music through their face &
body.
Dancing
requires knowledge of acting and psychology e.g. dancers should know how a
person reacts in love, fear, anger, etc. (this is psychology) and they should
have ability to express these feeling meticulously through their body (this is
acting).
Dance is an art
form which combines our mind and body. Dance dissolves our mind and body, and
we become one. That is why, it gives us a special kind of pleasure.
Dance
entertains and educates. Dance is used in many religions to remember God, may
be because our ancestors had understanding of its soft-power.
There are nine types of emotions which are conveyed while dancing. These emotions depend upon
the lyrics and music on which the person is dancing. These emotions are-
1. Shringara- It
means ‘romance’. The most important thing to take care of while dancing on
romantic tunes is that the dancer should lose its grace. Romance should not
look like a frivolous act. Romance should have a grace in it; a melody which
can tune anyone’s heart.
2. Rudra- It means
‘anger’. There are dances which requires dancer to show anger. It requires
masculine movements; and excellent work of eyebrows and breathing. When we get
angry, we shout. But, suppose you need to show your anger without shouting or
even talking then how would you do that? Make note of those expressions and
show them in your dance.
3. Bibhasta- It
means ‘disgust’. Sometimes we need to project our feelings of disgust in our
dance. Disgust is a mixed feeling in which we are sad and angry both. Feeling
of disgust pushes us for the change. Disgust creates a hidden rebel inside us.
4. Veer- It means
‘heroism’. Hero carries positive anger in him or her. Heroic dancer projects
assertiveness in its action i.e. getting into action for the justice. It is an
inspirational and courageous form of dancing.
5. Shaanta- It
means ‘peace’. Dancer should have ability to project peace in its actions. It
helps in harmonizing the audience and creating a collective rhythm in the
environment.
6. Haasya- It
means ‘humor’. Dancer should have ability to make its audience laugh with its
actions. It is easy to make people laugh on a verbal joke, but dance is more
about non-verbal humor. Dancer should have ability to create madness around him
or her.
7. Karuna- It
means ‘sympathy’. Dancer should have ability to develop sympathy in the
audience on the topic on which he or she is dancing.
8. Bhayanak- It
means ‘dangerous’. Dancer should look dangerous in this style of dancing.
People should find him or her merciless and villainous.
9. Adbhuta- The
literal English translation of this word is ‘wonderful’, but adbhuta means
something more than that. It means carrying a mystic and surprise element in
the dance form. Dance should have a mystic grace in it which can amaze the
whole audience. It should leave with an astonished feeling.
Anyone who could show both lasya and tandav was considered to be the complete dancer. Every dancer was required to master these nine emotions and they were displayed as per the occasion and requirement.
The purpose of the blog was to share the lost ancient wisdom on dancing. I hope it served its purpose.
Friday 23 June 2017
How to be a Spiritual Badass?
Spiritual Myth 2- Remain Content Spiritual Truth:-Many people believe that we should live the way we were born e.g. we should not change our country, religion, job, relationships, the house we were born in, and we should remain content with whatever boring things we have around us. This is one of the biggest traps. Never live the same boring life and call it living. If you feel that something needs to be changed then change it. Live a great life and get rid of that everything that stops you from being the best. Never cultivate a bad relationship just because society has planned that for you. Plan your own life. Get surrounded with happy and positive people. Dream Big. Make lofty goals. Learn. Fail. Try again. If you are not expanding then it means you are dying.
Spiritual Myth 3- Honesty and Hard-work gives success
Spiritual Truth:-Honesty and Hard work can be called foundational principles of success, but they alone can never give anyone success. The first thing you require for success is talent. No matter how much honest or hard working you are if you don’t have the talent then you would never make it. Make yourself talented. Learn about your job, initiate, innovate, give results and together these things would make you successful.
Spiritual Myth 4- Devotion is the only form of worship
Spiritual Truth:-Reading spiritual scriptures makes me realize that God has made us so that we can woship HIM and the one who would not worship him would get punished by HIM. There are many forms of worship like devotion, charity, love, meditation, chasing excellence, penance, etc. Making offerings to God and singing and dancing in his name are only a type of worship. Find your medium of worshipping God. Which method suits you the best? Find it. Follow it or create your own way of approaching God. Unless you would not experiment with different methods then who knows what would give you spiritual peace. God is infinite and HIS search is also infinite. If HE is formless then HE is also nameless.
Spiritual Myth 5- My religion is the best
Spiritual Truth:-Religion is only a medium to understand spirituality. It is only a way and not goal. Your goal is to find your spiritual strength and any religion can offer you that. Every human being should have freedom to choose his or her religious faith. I would prefer to have multiple faiths. I would prefer to follow Buddhism and Shaivism under scientific temperament. Never think that your way is the only best way. Your faith may be the best, but only for you. You can discuss about it, but you have no right to compel anyone to follow you. Between life and death we have a journey and we all have to plan out our own journeys.
Saturday 13 May 2017
How to produce terrorists?
Photo source: Unknown |
After Global
Warming, terrorism is the next big global problem. Almost all the 196 countries
of the world are under the threat of any terrorist activity.
As a human being,
I believe that we all want to live a peaceful and healthy life. We all want to raise good children, spent time
with our wonderful spouse, give comfort to our parents, and die gracefully.
Then what turns
people into a terrorist? Why number of terrorists is rising day-by-day? I
believe that only 10% people are natural criminals and rest 90% are just
ignorant followers.
In this blog, I
would share some methods which can turn anyone into a terrorist.:-
1. Deprivation- We become aggressive when we think that our rights are being violated.
It makes us fearful and this fear compels us to do things that we don’t want to
do. A terrorist leader says that people of a particular community get more
privilege and they are raping our women, and we become afraid of our future and present security. We also get ready to fight without even analyzing the truth. Most of
the problems in the world are the result of fear and every smart human being
uses it to control the other human being. Terrorists use deprivation very convincingly to ignite hatred.
2. Communication-
Generating fear is not enough, we also need to sell it and selling requires
communication. Terrorists propagate their agenda through the different mediums
of communication like pamphlets, radio, internet videos, posters, and
television interviews. I have heard that they are now developing mobile
applications to spread the hatred. They want the message of fear to reach each and every human being. They want us to live in suspicion and a continuous
state of uncertainty. Their over-communication is creating miscommunication in
the society.
3. Need
of Affiliation- Chances of becoming a criminal is higher in an orphan than the
person who has a family. We want to get affiliated to a group to beat our own
loneliness. Terrorist organizations give a sense of belongingness to their
terrorists and esp. those who don’t have a family. They give them a
pseudo-confidence that they belong to something big and give them an illusion
of common brotherhood. Army also uses this, but they use it for construction
whereas terrorists use it for destruction.
4. Employment-
It may sound odd, but many people are involved in terrorism because it gives
them employment. Terrorist organizations hire poor and aimless boys, and girls.
They promise them training, money, food, etc. They give them a direction in
life (though that direction is a type of misdirection). They manipulate their ambitions to fulfill their own objectives.
5. Religious
Sentiments- I am writing this point in the end because I didn’t want people to
look at this whole blog from the point of view of the religion. There are
different layers to this problem which I wanted to talk about before saying
anything about the religion. We are emotional about our religions because it is
something which we inherit from our parents and forefathers. Religion teaches
us way of life and art of remembering the Creator. Any threat on our religion moves us deeply and it gives us a spark to do something. Terrorist organizations
manipulate our religious sentiments very intelligently. They connect their
whole plan of action with religious philosophy and compel us to act as per
their guidelines. It depends upon us that whether we want to use religion to
live a better life or kill innocent people who had no fault other than being
from a different community.
I
don’t know how people would react on the above points, but what I am writing is
because I demand to live in a united and peaceful society. It is my small step
to make educated people like you aware about the truth.
Anyone
who thinks that I have written this to target any religion then let me tell you—I am
a Hindu, born in a Christian Hospital. My best friend was a Sikh and my neighbors
are Muslims.
.
Monday 6 February 2017
Basic techniques for finding humor in your daily life
Photo Source: Unknown |
Humor is like salt. It is required in
the conversation, but only in a small amount. Too much or absolutely no use of
it would ruin the whole conversation.
Before cracking any joke, always keep
few things in mind :-
1. No need to make everyone laugh because everyone would not understand your joke
1. No need to make everyone laugh because everyone would not understand your joke
2. Avoid cracking jokes in front of
strangers and unknown gatherings because you would never know that how people
would react on them.
3. Remember, humor is like a two-edge
sword. It has potential to protect you as well as damage you. So, be prepared
for the consequences.
There are some basic principles of
creating humor, they would not make a professional comedian overnight, but they
would help you in finding humor in your daily life.They are as follows:-
1. Tell
them the Truth- Let’s take an example, I am committed to lifelong
learning…because most of the time I feel like a fool. This punchline sounds
funny because it has an honest confession in it. People are afraid of telling
the truth and anyone who tells the truth is considered to be mad. People laugh
on honesty with an open heart. You can tell the truth about society, culture,
art-forms, politics, etc. and people would burst-out laughing because no one
expects you to tell the truth. Most of the cartoonist actually tell the truth
with an exaggeration and everyone finds them to be a genius.
2. Exaggeration-
Let’s take an example, after eating my hostel food even death prayed for death.
This is an exaggeration. We all know that death can’t pray for death.
Exaggerate a normal situation as much as you can and it would turn into a joke.
Normal human beings would understand that when you are exaggerating the matter
and they would start laughing because they would figure out that you were
lying.
3. Weird
Logic- Let’s take an example, don’t worry if you don’t have a valentine on
Valentine’s Day….many people don’t have AIDS on AIDS day. This statement shows
a weird logic. We all have some basic power to reason, but giving a weird logic
requires creativity. You need creativity to say absolutely non-sense thing
which has some slight element of logic in it. The more weird your logic is, the
more humor it would generate.
4. Mimicry-
Mimicry requires two things (i) Frustrated Actor (ii) Ability to observe
others. If you don’t have ability to observe others then it would become very
difficult for you to do mimicry. Mimicry is not just about changing your voice,
it requires proper gestures, postures, and expressions. No one likes mimicry
with a flat face. Good acting skills would help you in presenting yourself
properly.
5. Vulgarity-
Anything that you are afraid of saying in front of your mother is vulgarity (I
hope you understand). You would generally get a mixed type of audience. Many
people like toilet-jokes and many people dislike them. Many people like jokes
on politics and many people would not tolerate even a single joke on their
political party. Surprisingly, vulgarity connects people more quickly than any
pasting gum. People understand sex-jokes very easily. Say something vulgar and
they would remember you till death. But, as a precaution, avoid cracking
sex-jokes in front of religious people because they believe it would hurt their
chastity.
To
make any situation funny just follow any two or more principles mentioned above
and the whole incidence would turn into a hilarious event because they are the
basic principles of humor. Execution of these principles requires madness and
it comes from inside. So, I can’t tell you how to be a mad person. You would
have to find your own madness to give your jokes a personal touch.
Keep Smiling !!!
Friday 23 December 2016
Positive traits of Indian Men
Photo Source: Unknown |
It is my
suggestion that position of women can’t
be improved by bringing down the position of men. Lots of blogs are being
written against men just to uplift the status of women and I am against this attitude. This blog is dedicated
on the positive traits of Indian men. May be this is the only blog of 2016 which
favors men :-
1. Collectivism:-
An ideal Indian man knows the importance of living in a group. That’s why he
gives priority to his religion, caste, family, and peers because they are the
different types of social groups. He believes in patience, humbleness, and
tolerance because these traits are important in group functioning. He believes
in collective growth and collective identity. He has tolerance for different
religions because Indian man knows that no matter what path you take, it ends
in God.
2. Respect
for the Environment:- Capitalism played major role in damaging the environment.
Global Warming is a result of the greed of Industrialization. India and China
were the countries who controlled the 50% of world’s economy till 18th
century without doing any huge damage to the planet Earth. Indian men respect
their soil, trees, birds, animals, rivers, and mountains. They worship them and
how can you hurt something that you worship. Chipko Movement in India was
started to protect the trees from being cut by the government. People used to
embrace trees in Chipko Movement to prevent them from being cut. World had not
seen such bravery before to protect the trees. It is an another proof for their respect to the environment.
3. Workmanship:- India is a leading producer in tea, coffee, fruits, vegetables, rice, wheat, mica, sugar, jute, rubber, etc. India is among the few countries who have Nuclear power. Only five countries in the world, including India, have capacity to create any missile. It has the second largest Army in the world. India is the favorite destination for Medical Tourism. India has done all this in just 69 years of Independence. Indian men have excelled in every field despite having many economic and social challenges within the country. Bhagavad Gita- an ancient text of Indians- talks about Karma yoga which states that showing excellence in work is a form of worship. Work is worship for Indian men and this makes them a competent workman.
4. Mental
and Physical Growth:- Colonial era tried to crush the core ideologies of
Indians, but they could not crush the practice of Yoga and Meditation. It is
because every Indian man already knows the importance of Mental and Physical
growth. You don’t need to teach them about fitness because it comes naturally
to them. Though food habits of Indian men are not healthy as per global
standards, but they are not ignorant on the topic of health. Ayurveda is one of
the oldest forms of medicinal practices of India and natural cures are
preferred in the country more than the high-cost allopathic treatments. Fasting
is still practiced by men for both mental and physical benefits.
5. Science and Spirituality are one for them:- Indian race is the only race in the world which has accepted every scientific discovery without making any chaos. Theory of Evolution, Gravitational Theory, Concept of Nine planets, etc. were accepted by Indian men more easily than the West. West is known for its machines and East is known for its thinkers. Spiritual as well as scientific thinking was prominent in the civilization from hundreds of years. Indian men keep a good balance between faith and fact. Their faith evolves with the scientific evolution..
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