In the dirty game of politics played by Ms.Mamta Banerjee, no one benefited. Everyone is in loss now.

A company should consider its employees security more than its benefits and losses. Tata Motors has taken right decision of pulling out. One cannot work under life-threatening situation even if one gets police protection from the government.

Two years ago, CPM government invited Tata Motors for setting up Nano Project in Singur. Government acquired 1000 acres of land for the project that made more than 12000 farmers to lose their land. Although 80% of farmers had accepted compensation, remaining 20% refused and started protesting.

Trinamool Congress led by Ms.Mamta Banerjee saw the political opportunity in this and woke strong protests making it complete shit. During protests, Tata workers were attacked which made the situation even more worse.

The sad part of the whole thing, Mamta is still not repenting about whatever has happened and thinks it’s  a game plan done by government and Tata. Hail Mamta.

West Bengal didn’t lose only Nano Project, infact they lost almost all future projects by Tatas as well as from other companies. Will companies dare to invest in West Bengal from now on?

This project would have created thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Tata had offered employment for all land losers.  Several vendors including hotels, restaurants, tea shops and provisional stores had made investments around Singur.

West Bengal lost golden opportunity which would have become economical boast, now the same will turn into curse for the state.

Government has told firmly that it will not return lands back to the farmers and will be used for industrial purpose only. Farmers in addition with losing land now they lost jobs too. Thanks to Ms.Mamta Banerjee.

Other states , mainly Karnataka and Gujarat have laid red carpet for Nano Project.

One’s loss is one’s gain.

Seeing at the child, playing across street, which throws cute smile that has nothing but innocence, haven’t you felt even once that you lost something in you? Something that can never be regained? Yes, that’s the price we pay to grow up. We pay our child’ness.

Is it possible to retain our child’ness in us as time passes? No, we can’t. we shouldn’t and we were made to lose our child’ness.  We have to grow up. Even if we don’t want to grow up, people around us, our very own society makes us to grow up.

It is one of the most difficult phase of life where one has to act selfish and cunning even though one don’t want to act like that. That is the phase where you grow up from innocent child to self-centered adult.

One should grow up. One cannot remain child.

But can we not retain our child’ness even a very small percent? Yes, we can if we try.

When was the last time you acted childishly? last time you acted silly? last time you smiled heartily? last time you helped someone without any expectations? last time you cared for your loved ones? last time you hugged your dear ones?  last time you thought about others rather about you?

We should grow up else we cannot live. But we still can be child to some extent.

Be childish ! It is soul of our life

PS: Be happy when someone calls you child or kid. They don’t know what they don’t have and what you have.

What went wrong with Aditya ?

Giving a thought to this, his boss recalled that during last two years Aditya never used to do certain tasks that he feels uninterested. As he used to carry out most of difficult tasks successfully , those unfinished certain work were always given to someone else in the team. Aditya always had a freedom to choose what tasks to do first from the bunch of tasks that were assigned to him. Out of all tasks, he always used to complete 90% of tasks in less than 50% of allotted time. But he never used to do those remaining 10% tasks and those were always assigned to some other in the team.

At the client location, they used to follow strict order of doing tasks and Aditya was never allowed to choose the tasks that he wants to do. Unfortunately, he was assigned to do the tasks that he never wanted to do. The tasks, which he feels interesting, were queued after these uninterested tasks. Due to Aditya’s basic procrastinating nature, he never finished those uninterested tasks ( which client wanted to finish them first before taking rest of tasks ). Aditya failed terribly and was taken back from the client project.

How Aditya, his boss and the client could have handled this situation better?

The answer is Structured Procrastination.

What is Structured Procrastination?

Structured Procrastination is an approach / strategy discovered by John Perry. It is a way of doing everything else inorder to avoid one important task. It is a technique, if properly used, makes structured procrastinator most efficient than anyone else in his team.

How it is different from procrastination?

Normal procrastinators always avoid doing important tasks ( that are really important and urgent ) and also they don’t do other less important tasks inorder to avoid those important tasks.  They just procrastinate everything.

While structured procrastinators always avoid doing important tasks ( that are not really important and not urgent ) and they do other less important tasks ( some of these tasks are really important and most difficult ones ).

Got it? NO? Let me explain in detail.

How to become Structured Procrastinator?

The first step to be structured procrastinator is to create self-deception point.  Given a list of tasks, choose one or two tasks that you don’t like ( and are not so important or urgent ) and mark them as very important high priority tasks ( self-deception ). Mark the actual important tasks as low priority tasks. Creating self-deception for yourself, now you have to do all those low priority tasks ( which are actually important tasks ) inorder to avoid those high priority tasks ( which are less important or urgent ).

This may initially feel awkard / funny / weird. But as you go on practising it, you will achieve tremendous productivity.

How bosses should handle Structured Procrastinators?

There are many approaches:

Suppose say if there are six tasks to be done by a sub-ordinate which normally takes 18 days considering avg 3 days for each task.

1) Making him fool:  Assign all six tasks to him. Tell him that one out of six is very important task ( which is actually not an important task ). He will do rest 5 tasks in 9 days and will avoid 6th task which he don’t want to do. When he finishes 5 tasks, assign that 6th task to someone else.

2) Understanding what he likes and what he hates: A boss should always understand what his subordinate likes to do and what he hates to do. Always attach a task ( which he hates to do ) along  with other tasks. He will do rest of all tasks inorder to avoid that task which he hates. when he finishes rest of tasks, assign the remaining task to someone else.

3) Let him choose: Assign bunch of tasks and leave it to him. He will choose one task which he don’t want to do and will do rest of tasks. He will usually keep that as last task. As usual, you can always assign that last task to someone else.

Where bosses do mistake?

Structured Procrastinators are not normal workers. They need special treatment. You cannot treat them just as any other worker.

1) Assigning one task at a time instead of bunch of tasks where he will loose the freedom of doing rest of tasks and avoiding important task.

2) Enforcing to follow strict order to complete tasks such as Task A must be completed before taking Task B and Task B must be completed before taking Task C.. etc. If  Task A is the task that he hates to do, then he will never do it and thus he will not be able to do none of them.  ( This is what really happened to Aditya at client location in the above scenario ).

3) You can never ever force a structured procrastinator to do a job that he hates to do. Scold him, threat him, beg him, request him, kill him.. but he will never do that job. His boss must understand this.

Conclusion: Structured Procrastinators, if properly utilised,  take 50% of time to do 90% of tasks while normal workers take 90% of time for the same.  Structured Procrastinators are not black spots at workplace. Only their bosses should know how to handle them properly.

Day 1: Our journey began with Golkonda Fort. It is located about 10 kms away on the west of Hyderabad. It is one of the magnificent forts that I have ever seen with splendid architecture. Fort is said to be 800 years old and built by Kakatiya King and later expanded by three Qutab Shahi Kings consecutively.  As you enter the main gate, you will notice the magical acoustic system. A hand clap sounded at the main gate will be heard at the highest point of Golkonda which is almost a kilometer away.  There are beautiful palaces, mosques and temples inside the fort. The whole fort has water supply system. When you visit, don’t forget to see the rock made small pipes attached to the walls of Golkonda fort. The fort is also designed to have well ventilation and flow of air. You can feel the breeze of air even at interior constructions.

After this, we moved to Charminar which is situated at the heart of the city.  It is completely surrounded by shops of Lad Bazaar. Lad Bazaar is famous for pearls, diamonds, jeweleries and bangles. A must visit for  girls. You can also see splendid view of Mecca Masjid from the western direction of top of charminar.

Birla Mandir is a  temple built entirely with white marble. As you go up, temple gives a fantastic panoramic view of Hyderabad and Secundarabad.

Our last point of day one was Lumbini park. It is one of the beautiful parks of Hyderabad located at the banks of Hussain-Sagar Lake. The main attraction of the park is Laser Show. This multimedia show is first ever of its kind in India and is worth to watch it.

Day 2: Our day 2 started with Ramoji Film City. It is world’s largest film studio located 25 kms away from Hyderabad.  It will take almost one day to see entire film city. If you have kids, don’t forget to take them there, they will surely enjoy it. By visiting, you can recap all those popular telugu films’ scenes and also some hindi movies. Buildings with each side having different architectures.. hospital, airport, railway station, library.. etc. You will see many such buildings.

After spending whole day at Ramoji Film City, we went to Hussain-Sagar Lake in the evening. This beautiful lake separates Hyderabad and Secunderabad. There is a magnificent Buddha statue in the middle of lake. We took speed boat race. Ride was fabulous. You can have the glimpse of night view of twin cities, buddha statue and calm lake.

Day 3: This was our last day at Hyderabad. we visited Shilparamam, an arts and crafts village. You will see many hand crafted materials here. There is also a  rock gallery which has natural rock shapes and a village which shows village lifestyle. After this we left to Salarjung Museum. This museum is a must visit. It has so many things that you will feel tired to see all those. art pieces I couldn’t believe that it is one-man’s collections!. There is also one musical clock where for every hour a guardsman ,in the upper deck of clock , comes and strike the bell.

Rest of the day was reserved for some real shopping and some window shopping at the Necklace Road.

In total, it was rejuvenating 3-day trip. We travelled to all places through autos. Autos take you through  shortcuts, inner roads of Hyderabad where you can see the lifestyle of urban Hyderabad.

All photos are stored at this link http://www.zooomr.com/photos/harsha/sets/33799/

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On one fine sunday, you wake up late and find red coloured footprints all over your room. Being lazy to worry about such stupid things that spoil your sunday, You turn on the TV from your bed. And It’s all over the news! Strange Red Footprints all over the city. The newsreader says that it appeared all of a sudden and it is made up of some divine un-erasable material. Puzzled, you slowly get out of your bed and place your feet on the floor. Two new Red Footprints appear beneath your feet. You are the special one! And the only one! And all these Red Footprints that you saw on TV are all yours. So, If this really happens now, I have a few questions for you -

1. Which is the farthest place from home, in which humanity will find your Red Footprints?

—Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.

2. What is the highest place(above Mean Sea Level) you’ve left your Red Footprints?

—I guess it’s Ooty, had been there two years back during mid-december.

3. What is the lowest place(below Mean Sea Level)?

—I am not sure about this.

4. What is the loneliest place you’ve been to?

—It is a small village near Alamatti, Karnataka.

5. What is the most crowded place you’ve been to?

—Venkateshwara Temple, Tirupathi.

6. What is the most sacred place you’ve been to?

—Annapoorneshwari Temple, Horanadu.

7. What is the scariest place you’ve been to?

— Roller coaster especially when it turns upside down.

8. What is the most enclosed place where you have left your foot prints? (like a cave?)

— Badami Caves. There are totally four caves in Badami and I have visited all of them.

9. Which place has the highest density of your Red Footprints(apart from home)?

— Gadag, Karnataka.

10. Before you die, Where would you like to leave your footprints for the eternity to see?

— Himalayas.

11. Which is the most undisclosable place you’ve been to? (Disclose it here if you want to. Otherwise, just think about it and feel… err.. ashamed!)

— Bravo.. I won’t disclose this.

12. Is there an unusual or weird place you’ve set foot on?

— I have visited tanda tribe.

13. Where have you defied gravity and placed your Red footprint? (Ceilings? Walls?)

— Believe me, I have jumped from 1st floor building when I was in 5th standard.  Ground was covered only with thin layer of sand. Fortunately, nothing  had happened to me not even slight wound or fracture. It was not because of sand but I was just lucky.

14. Who are the humans on whom you would find your footsteps?

— will never do that

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Those who are in my gtalk list might have seen that for last 2-3 days.. I had put gtalk status  message as ” Sad “. I know it is weird to vomit our emotions on others, but sometimes I do that. Because, I need someone to share. When I can’t share with people, I use gtalk, blog and my sweet diary.

“I changed.. you changed.. life changed”

These are the words that made me sad. That is the power of words. Sometimes, knowingly or unknowingly, we hurt our loved ones. Why we hurt our loved ones? Is that another form of love? Or we taken them for granted or we just not able to understand them properly. Yes, we do fail to understand our loved ones no matter how deep our relationship is..

Loving is not about finding similarities but accepting differences. Relationship starts with the process of finding similarities. It is the initial stage that make us to feel, that we are identical Gradually, we realize that, we are not identical, we too have differences just like any other person  in this world. The survival of relationship depends on this entire fact,  “Differences that make relationship and not similarities”.

In order to build a long lasting relationship, there are some responsibilities from our side irrespective of whether the person from other side does it or not.

• Never stop loving. Never stop caring. Hope for best but don’t expect anything. Love will become divine when you don’t expect anything in return. It is the form of love that a mother gives to her child. Love that hurts will turn to love that heals when it becomes divine.




• It is more important to trust your relationship than anything else. Trust gives strength.. a strength that bears the pain of wound caused by the other person in a relationship.




• Be honest. It is not necessary to share everything. But whatever you share, make sure that it is true. Being honest is very important for the survival of relationship. You spoke harsh words. You hurt the person. You spoke a lie. You cheat the person. Love can heal the wound made by hurting, but it cannot heal the wound that caused due to cheating.




• Understand the situation. Everyone has their own duties. All are busy in their own lives. Still, they try to get the time for their loved ones infact they try their best.  Most important is understanding the person in a relationship. We do everything for that person but we actually fail to understand him/her. Thorough understanding adds another 100 years to the life span of your relationship. “I can’t cry.. that doesn’t mean I am heartless”




• Forgive and apologize.  We need to learn to forgive when others make mistake and we need to learn to apologize when we make mistake.

Love heals everything. Hmmm… That’s a secret for long lasting relationship.