ഇല്ലിമുളം കാടുകളില്‍ ലല്ലലലം.....

ഗുരുകുല വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം...ആ പഴയ വിദ്യാ "അഭ്യസന" രീതിയെ ആര്‍ഷ ഭാരതം കൈവിട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു...ഇന്ന് വിദ്യകൊണ്ട്  അഭ്യാസം ആക്കി മാറ്റിയിരിക്കുന്നു...ലോകോത്തര പ്രഥമ  സര്‍വകലാശാലകള്‍ ആയ നളന്ദയും ..തക്ഷശിലയും...ഉയര്‍ത്തിപ്പിടിച്ച ആ മൂല്യങ്ങള്‍..., സൈന്ധവലിപിയുടെകാണാകാഴ്ചകള്‍...സിന്ധുനദിയുടെസംസ്കാരസമന്വ്യയങ്ങള്‍  ....മോഹന്ജദാരോ  ...ഹാരപ്പന്‍ മുദ്രകളുടെ അന്തര്‍ലീന തത്ത്വ സംഹിതകള്‍...അന്ന് ലാളിത്യത്തിന്റെ സന്ദേശം പകര്‍ന്ന ഭാരതീയ വിദ്യാലയങ്ങളില്‍ (സരസ്വതീ  ക്ഷേത്രങ്ങളില്‍) നിന്നുയര്‍ന്നത്‌ അറിവിന്‍റെ മന്ത്രാക്ഷരങ്ങള്‍ ആയിരുന്നു....ഇന്ന് ഉയരുന്നത് സവര്‍ണ്ണ ഗര്‍ജ്ജനവും  ...പൌരോഹിത്യ-ന്യൂനപക്ഷ മുറവിളികളും ആണ്.അറിവിന്‍റെ ആ വഴിവിളക്കുകള്‍ ഇന്ന്കേവലം ദീപ "സ്തംഭം" മഹാശ്ചര്യം ആയി മാറിയിരിക്കുന്നു.ചോര്‍ന്നൊലിക്കുന്ന വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍...നിലംപൊത്താറായ ചുമരുകള്‍....ഒന്ന് കാറ്റടിച്ചാല്‍ പറന്നു പോകുന്നമേല്‍കൂരകള്‍.ഇതാണ് സമകാലിക ഭാരത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍.പുരാതന കാലത്ത്  ഭാരതത്തില്‍ ഉടനീളം സഞ്ചരിച്ച ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന്‍ യാത്രികന്റെ വിവരണത്തില്‍  നിന്ന്  പ്രചോദനം ഉള്‍ക്കൊണ്ട്‌ ഇന്തോനേഷ്യയിലെ ബാലിയില്‍ നിര്‍മിച്ച ഒരു വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനം ഒന്ന് നോക്കൂ...ഇല്ലിമുളകളാല്‍ നിര്‍മ്മിക്കപെട്ട 

കലാലയം..ഈ ഹരിത വിദ്യാലയത്തിലേക്ക്‌ഒന്ന് കണ്ണോടിക്കൂ...എത്ര ശാന്തത..എന്തൊരു ഭംഗി...ഇതാണ് വിദ്യാലയം.(Pic-Courtesy-Gmail)

Mr.Infosys-(D person & d Brand.)

 

A person who inspires  I.T.generation..............

Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy is retiring from Infosys, the company that he founded (with a few of his friends), a company that he led to pre-eminence even as everyone is asking “Why” and not “Why not?”. To a perpetual student of branding like me, Mr Narayana Murthy is the ultimate personal brand — demonstrating in no uncertain terms that people from the corporate world can as much be brands as people from sports or entertainment. For five years, brand-comm, the company I founded did a business leadership survey amongst management students in India and every year, Mr Narayana Murthy with predictable and monotonous regularity was the most admired business leader as chosen by India's future managers. We promptly gave up doing the study after five years! Tempted as I am to wax eloquent about his rise to personal brand stardom, I shall desist and stay with my views of him as a person that I knew. Although my opportunities to interact and learn from him were limited, they were impactful enough to make an impression on me and provide opportunities to learn from. The early years I first met Mr Narayana Murthy when I was the head of Mudra in Bangalore and it was our agency that had handled the advertising for the public issue. I remember a team of eight of us going for the meeting. (To those of you who are unfamiliar with the advertising industry, I must confess that we believe in the strength of numbers rather than in the power of ideas). In those days, Infosys operated in a small office at Koramangala. Today that is a heritage office of the company. But believe it or not, there were not enough spare chairs in the office and some of the employees went out to stretch their legs. And just see where NRN has taken the company in two decades! A simple lesson — it is not where you are now, but where you wish to be that matters in the ultimate analysis. I did have a small regret though. The cutting edge campaign that we created for the company was not approved. In hindsight, the company took the right call as the campaign depicted what Infosys could be, and not what it was then. Even in its advertising, the company was not making forward-looking statements — something that other corporates might do well to note. An unlikely cricket fan I had wanted to interview Mr Narayana Murthy for my first book One land, one billion minds and he readily agreed. I was carefully noting down whatever he was saying in his cabin when we were interrupted. He had an unexpected visitor in G. R. Vishwanath, who incidentally was my favourite cricketer. Mr. Narayana Murthy excused himself and when someone introduced him to Vishy, he said, “Of course, I am a great fan of yours. I was at Kanpur at your debut with my friends and can never forget your innings.” To which that wonderful cricketer said with a twinkle in his eye, “Not the first innings, I hope,” , as he had scored a duck in the first innings. While the incident itself was a simple one, it showed a new dimension to the great man. The wonderful game of cricket had an unlikely follower in one of India's leading lights of industry who even knew what the batsman had scored on his debut. There was another aspect of the great man that I must mention. When the government thoughtlessly decided to control the functioning of the IIMs, the IIM-B alumni association of which I was a part sent a letter of support to over 40 board members of the different IIMs. We got one solitary acknowledgement — that was from Mr Narayana Murthy who was the chairman of the board of IIM-A. Not even IIM-B, our alma mater, responded! I have always admired Mr Narayana Murthy's ability to always acknowledge and respond to mails and letters. Sadly not many follow his example in today's corporate world, and perhaps not even in Infosys. With brains and a heart It is easy to talk at length about Mr Narayana Murthy's simplicity, his spartan life style, his down-to-earth qualities and the influence of his values on the company that he founded. His phenomenal success over the years had no impact on him as a person. Even today, when he has become a global brand, he remains the same simple individual that he was in '91. And let us not forget his contributions and those by his family members to various social causes. I wish corporate India had more gentlemen with brains and open wallets like the founder of Infosys who retires. He leaves with Infosys a legacy of success, values and ethics that few have created in their lifetime. I am sure the future holds greater things for him. Mr Infosys - the person and the brand Narayana Murthy walks into the sunset leaving Infosys with a legacy of success, values and ethics that few have created in their lifetime. (The author is the CEO of brand-comm and a Director of Custommerce.)

         Courtesy-:(It's 4warded mail- attached here 4 further I.T.generation reading)

ഉണ്ണികളേ ഒരു കഥ പറയാം....

കഥ എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാല്‍ ..ഒരിടത്ത് ഒരിടത്ത് ഒരപ്പൂപ്പനും  അമ്മൂമ്മയും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു...എന്ന് തുടങ്ങണ കഥയല്ലാട്ടോ ..ഇത് നടന്ന കഥ.

"ലോകം ചുറ്റുന്ന ഒരു സഞ്ചാരി കണ്ട ഒരു അത്ഭുത  കാഴ്ചയുടെ കഥ".  ചുരുക്കി വിവരിക്കാം...

 ഈ കണ്ട ചിത്രം അദ്ധ്യേഹം തെക്കന്‍ പസഫിക് 

സമുദ്രത്തില്‍ കൂടി പായ്കപ്പലില്‍  സഞ്ചരികുമ്പോള്‍ കണ്ടത്...

കടലിനു മുകള്‍ തട്ടിലൂടെ...തിരമാലകള്‍ക്ക് മുകളിലൂടെ മണല്‍ ഒഴുകി വരുന്നു...

അതെ...അത് ബീച്ച് അല്ല...

അത് ഓളം അടിക്കുന്ന തിരമാലയില്‍ കൂടി ഒഴുകി പരക്കുന്ന മണലാരണ്യം  ആണ്. 

ആ കാണുന്നത് പായ്കപ്പല്‍ അവശേഷിപ്പിച്ചു പോയ സഞ്ചാരവീഥി.

ഇതാണ് ആ യാത്രികന്‍ .....'"മൈകെന്‍ എന്നാ സാഹസിക കടല്‍ സഞ്ചാരി"".

അതാ അദ്ധ്യേഹം നോക്കി നില്‍ക്കെ അങ്ങകലെ ആകാശത്ത് വെളുത്ത പുകച്ചുരുളുകള്‍ ദൃശ്യമായി

അത് താന്‍ സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന കടലില്‍ നിന്നാണെന്നു അദ്ധ്യേഹം ഞെട്ടലോടെ തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞു.

ചാരവും..നീരാവിയും പുറത്തുവിട്ടു ആ പ്രദേശമാകെ പുക തിങ്ങി  നിറഞ്ഞു ...

ലോകത്തിന്‍റെ അവസാന കോണില്‍ എത്തപെട്ടതുപോലെ  അദ്ധ്യേഹത്തിനു തോന്നി..

"എല്ലാ   പീഡനയാത്രകള്‍ക്കും  അവസാനം ഒരു അത്താണി പോലെ ശ്രേഷ്ടം ആയ ഒരു  തുരുത്ത് നാം കണ്ടെത്തും എന്ന് മഹത് വചനം പറയുന്നത് പോലെ .". നോക്കി നില്‍ക്കാലെ..ഒരു പുതു പുത്തന്‍ ദ്വീപ് ഉയര്‍ന്നു വന്നു....

കറുത്ത ചാരം കൊണ്ട് സമ്പുഷ്ടമായ ഒരു വലിയ തുരുത്ത്..
അതെ അതായിരുന്നു.......Tonga Volcanic Eruption 08-Nov.2006.18:07

ശൂന്യതയില്‍ നിന്നും ഒരു ദ്വീപ് സൃഷ്ട്ടിക്കപെടുന്നതിനു  ആദ്യത്തെയും..ആകെയൂള്ളതുമായ (ദൈവ സൃഷ്ടിയുടെ) സാക്ഷികളായ 

ആ സഞ്ചാരികളെ നാം  എന്ത്  പറഞ്ഞു  വിളിക്കും ?

ഞാനും...നിങ്ങളും ഊഹിക്കുന്നതു  ഒന്ന് തന്നെ... മരണത്തെ മുഖാമുഖം കണ്ടപ്പോഴും....സാഹസികരായ ആ കപ്പല്‍ സഞ്ചാരികള്‍ യാത്ര തുടര്‍ന്നു....മുന്നോട്ട്.!!!
പ്രതിസന്ധിയില്‍ തളരാതെ...അപരിചിത  ദര്‍ശനങ്ങളില്‍ സ്വന്തബന്ധങ്ങള്‍ ഓര്‍ത്ത് ആകുലരാകാതെ...സാഹസികതയുടെ തോണിയില്‍ മുന്നോട്ട്.!!!


ദൈവം അവര്‍ക്കായി കാത്തു വെച്ചത് ജീവിതത്തില്‍ ഒരിക്കലും മറ്റാര്‍ക്കും ലഭിക്കാത്ത ആ അസുലഭ നിമിഷം.
Courtesy-: National Geographic Magazine.


"Could u Imagine d thrill of being d first & only people 2 see " a new island "being created,seemingly from nowhere?"


Yeh!....I can imagine it right now,Tell me..what about U?

സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ ദിന സപ്പ്ളിമെന്റ്റ് ( Deshabhimani daily)

ഹൃദയ(ദിന)ത്തെ സ്മരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍..........

A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya(Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.

Q: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar
Q: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart? Ans: No

Q : It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective? Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

Q: Are heart diseases hereditary? Ans: Yes

Q: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.

Q: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart? Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints
Q: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so? Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient.
Q: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases? Ans: Extremely rare.

Q: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age? Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood .
Q: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ? Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

Q: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines? Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

Q: Which is the best and worst food for the heart? Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.
Q: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive? Ans: All oils are bad .

Q: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test? Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.
Q: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.

Q: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

Q: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems. Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.

Q: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes.

Q: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true? Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child

Q: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. However, as you grow older,respect the biological clock.

Q: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short / long term)? Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

Q: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks? Ans : No.

Q: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease? Ans : No.

Q: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala dosas.

Q: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food? Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

Q: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension? Ans : No.

Q: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)? Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.
Q: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems? Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.
Q: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise? Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.
Q: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar? Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation? Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cho lesterol, BP, weight.

Q: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?Ans : No.

Q: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs? Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.
Q: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks? Ans : No.

Q: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women? Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45. (Present Global census show that the Percentage of heart disease in women has increased than in men )
Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition? Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ....

Indian Food Bill -Distance from Somalia to ( II Somalia-- INDIA??? )

Is there any need of Second SOMALIA in this World????

Our Government is working on a disastrous recipe. It’s a BILL that will place genetically modified (GM) food on our plates, without our knowledge.

The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill can be tabled anytime in this monsoon session of Parliament. The bill, which is not even public, is being pushed in a hasty and secretive fashion. According to an earlier version leaked by the media, the bill will create a centralised non transparent body which will become the sole approver for GM crops.

By being secretive, the government is only creating more suspicion about the intention of the bill. Public opposition helped stop Bt Brinjal, last year. Now we need to get the national government to stop this bill and save our food.


Opposition from people against GM crops in Karnataka made the government declare a ban on the field trials of GM crops in the state.This can be achieved again. Support from lakhs of people will help put pressure on the PM to stop this bill.

The last known draft of the bill had a clause which allowed BRAI to escape the purview of Right to Information. If the bill is passed as is, we will not be able to stop genetic modification of 56 other crops in the pipeline.


So We must act accordingly....
Mr.PRIME MINISTER.....,  "STOP THIS FOOD BILL,"


"SAVE OUR CROPS,
SAVE OUR FARMERS,
SAVE OUR GENERATION"

(Dear Friends...By sharing this info pls express ur Solidarity)

with love & respect, Ur Sheeba Ramachandran.

സംപൂജ്യരെ...."മന്ത്രിമാര്‍ തിരക്കിലാണ്..(ദയവായി അല്‍പസമയത്തിന് ശേഷം..)

നമ്മുടെ സമാദരണീയരായ  ജനപ്രതിനിധികളെ ബന്ധപെടുവാനുള്ള നമ്പറുകള്‍. എന്‍റെ സുഹൃത്തുക്കള്‍ക്ക് "അത്യാവശ്യ ഘട്ടങ്ങളില്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കാന്‍ "ആയി പോസ്റ്റ്‌ ചെയ്യുന്നു.ഈ നമ്പറിനു മാറ്റമോ..തെറ്റോ വന്നിട്ടുണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ അതിനു ഞാന്‍ ഉത്തരവാദിയല്ല.മാറ്റം ഉണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ എന്നെ കൂടി അറിയിക്കണേ...എന്നെ വിളികേണ്ട നമ്പര്‍ഒന്നുമുതല്‍ പൂജ്യം വരെ...