Archive | March, 2009
Posted on 31 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 45%)
Meera Sanyal is contesting for Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate from South Mumbai. Meera Sanyal is a professional banker with over 25 years of experience. Currently the Chairperson and Country Executive of the erstwhile ABN Amro Bank (now RBS). She probably one of the few corporate citizens to enter the electoral foray. Read more »
Tags: ABN Amro Bank, Corporate Social Responsibility, Favebook, Lok Sabha, Meera Sanyal, RBS, South Mumbai
Posted on 31 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 25%)
Women send approximately five times more body language messages and gestures than men in the same time period. Body language has proven to be our most reliable indicator of how others feel about us Read more »
Tags: Body Language, Body Weight, Chair, Clothes, Gestures, Mirroring, Nervousness, Pupil
Posted on 30 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 23%)
Many a times in life you’d have across some incidents that changes your perspective about certain way of living. Sometimes you defy the common, sometimes you follow the herd and sometimes you are in a world of your own. Read more »
Tags: Ayodhya, BJP, Carnival, Gujarat, Histrionics, India, Mandal Commission, National Security Act, Pilibhit, Rath Yatra, Riots, Varun Gandhi, VP Singh
Posted on 30 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 25%)
When you’re in an environment bustling with people your posture becomes an immediate telltale sign of your confidence and composure. Your stance literally makes a stand for you, delivering a clear message about how you should be treated. Read more »
Tags: Blinking, Body Language, Clothes, Collars, Fingernails, Genitals, Hands, Interviews, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Lint, Presence, Shirt, Shoulders, TIME
Posted on 29 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 29%)
About a decade back I studied materials on Body Language and observed people on this unconscious communication. The book said “after reading this the whole world will look different through your eyes”. I ventured to compile interesting facts on this subject. These may help you in your job interviews. Read more »
Tags: Blinking, Body Language, Clothes, Collars, Fingernails, Genitals, Hands, Interviews, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Lint, Presence, Shirt, Shoulders, TIME
Posted on 28 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 22%)
M-B test has been quite popular in the corporate circles and is used in identifying an employee’s personality type and assigning tasks accordingly. Now, a website called Typealyzer has come up with a new tool that determines the M-B personality type of a blogger. Read more »
Tags: Blog, Extraversion, Feeling, India Special, Introversion, Intuition, Judging, M-B, Myers-Briggs, Perceiving, Personality, Psychometric, Sensing, Typealyzer
Posted on 28 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 23%)
India is joining the Earth Hour 2009 for the global fight against climatic change. The alarming climatic change has finally made people realize it is a bigger threat which questions the existence of human race. Read more »
Tags: 60, Aamir Khan, Climate Change, Earth Hour, Glaciers, Human Race, India, Industrial Waste, International Treaty, Land Usage, Ocean variations, Sea Level, Solar, Sydney, Volcanic, World Wildlife Fund
Posted on 27 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 21%)
Where there is a will, there is a lawyer,
There is a way, they will always say;
You win or you lose, it doesn’t matter,
End of the day, they are the ones richer! Read more »
Tags: Apple, Banker, Bonuses, Bubble, Doctor, Engineer, Fruit, Invention, Lawyer, Professions, Proverb, Rain, Sunshine
Posted on 27 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 15%)
Make no mistake – playing by the team and working as part of a larger ecosystem is more important today than ever before, but let us consciously make an attempt to encourage and reward individual brilliance as well. Read more »
Tags: Chauffer, ecosystem, Edison, Einstein, Invention, Newton, Opportunity, Patent, Scientist
Posted on 27 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 22%)
Elections in India is like a bawdy carnival. The worst of the country is on display. It is the season of tall promises, of blatant lies, and of hate. Allegations and counter allegations fly thick and fast. Rank opportunism, of some sleeping with the enemy and some others slithering away from their sleeping partners are the norm. Read more »
Tags: Advani, Ayodhya, BJP, Hindu, Karma, LK Advani, Pilibhit, politician, Rath Yatra, Varun Gandhi, VP Singh
Posted on 25 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 19%)
Alliances like the third front are extremely opportunistic and nothing more than trying to get a leg up in the on-going political battle. In exactly under 2 weeks, the TRS has pulled the plug on the TDP in Andhra Pradesh, differences apparently on the seat sharing issue. Read more »
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, AP, Chandrababu Naidu, Chandrashekhar Rao, CPI, CPI (M), Hyderabad, India, Rediff, TDP, TRS
Posted on 24 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 18%)
It took me a lot of time to actually believe that a team can refueling and changing 4 tires in anything less than 7 seconds, sometimes 6! That’s barely enough time for you to blink. The love for speed and the 300+ kms that cars hit on a straight, coupled with the G forces of up to 4G got me even closer to this sport. Read more »
Tags: Albert Park, Ferrari, Formula 1, G Forces, Kimi Raikonen, Maruti, McLaren, Melbourne, Schumacher, Speed, vroom
Posted on 24 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 23%)
Calls over the wired phone began with the trunk kind,
Slowly and surely happened the liberation of the bind;
Trying to come up with an all-in-one solution,
Began the era of the mobile revolution! Read more »
Tags: Black and White, book, communications, e-book, LCD, Plasma, Reading, technology, telegram
Posted on 23 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 36%)
Few years ago the town’s temple snapped into two. The next moment, flames leapt out from underneath spewing noxious gases. The people of Jharia then realized that the underground fire had finally reached their doorstep, until then it was thought to be on the outer circles of the city. Read more »
Tags: ancestors, appreciation, Coal mine, Cremation, depreciation, Dhanbad, India, Jharia, Jharkhand, Mines, mining history, school. road, temple, town
Posted on 23 March 2009 (Views: Popularity: 20%)
Hallucination meets reality once the child frequents the ’school’ for a couple of days, and makes you ponder if it was a desirable decision. The school, where majority of the times children are left alone to play with little or no attention. Read more »
Tags: analytical, daughter, Doctor, Education, Engineer, High School, IIT, India, Kindergarten, labour, memory, PhD, Pupil, reasoning, REC, School, US