A BEAUTIFUL MAIL-People make the difference….

Exact Narration by Suvendu Roy of Titan Industries, who shares his inspirational encounter with a rickshaw driver in Mumbai:
Last Sunday, my wife, kid, and I had to travel to Andheri from Bandra.
When I waved at a passing auto rickshaw, little did I expect that this ride would be any different....
As we set off, my eyes fell on a few magazines (kept in an aircraft style pouch) behind the driver's back rest.
I looked in front and there was a small TV. The driver had put on the Doordarshan channel.
My wife and I looked at each other with disbelief and amusement.
In front of me was a small first-aid box with cotton, dettol and some medicines.
This was enough for me to realise that I was in a special vehicle.
Then I looked round again, and discovered more -
there was a radio, fire extinguisher, wall clock, calendar
and pictures and symbols of all faiths - from Islam and Christianity to Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism.
There were also pictures of the heroes of 26/11- Kamte, Salaskar, Karkare and Unnikrishnan.
I realised that not only my vehicle, but also my driver was special.
I started chatting with him and the initial sense of ridicule and disbelief gradually diminished.
I gathered that he had been driving an auto rickshaw for the past 8-9 years; he had lost his job when his employer's plastic company was shut down.
He had two school-going children, and he drove from 8 in the morning till 10 at night.
No break unless he was unwell. "Sahab, ghar mein baith ke T.V dekh kar kya faida? Do paisa income karega toh future mein kaam aayega."
We realised that we had come across a man who represents Mumbai – the spirit of work, the spirit of travel and the spirit of excelling in life.
I asked him whether he does anything else as I figured that he did not have too much spare time.
He said that he goes to an old age home for women in Andheri once a week or whenever he has some extra income, where he donates tooth brushes, toothpastes, soap, hair oil, and other items of daily use.
He pointed out to a painted message below the meter that read: "25 per cent discount on metered fare for the handicapped. Free rides for blind passengers up to Rs. 50.
My wife and I were struck with awe. The man was a HERO!
A hero who deserves all our respect!!!
Our journey came to an end;
45 minutes of a lesson in humility, selflessness, and of a hero-worshipping Mumbai, my temporary home.
We disembarked, and all I could do was to pay him a tip that would hardly cover a free ride for a blind man.
I hope, one day, you too have a chance to meet Mr Sandeep Bachhe in his auto rickshaw: MH-02-Z-8508.
Work for your satisfaction not for others, and you’ll enjoy every bit what you do.

SMS & REAL LIFE

Recently I got a sms - There were one couple who went to commit suicide .When boy jumped from the top of the hill girl turn backward & said -LOVE IS BLIND .Boys then opened the parachute and says - LOVE NEVER DIES.
This is a very simple sms I just forwarded it to one of my police friend,after a while I got a reply from him that - this actually happened in his cadre when he just begun his career in police but the premi had jumped in the godavari river!
His sms made me curious to know more about what was the fate of the man & women who jumped.I asked him his reply came as- only d premi jumped , premika come back and reported the matter in police station.She was charged with abetment to suicide.
My next question was -what happned to the girl & why she did this?
reply came as - the premika developed cold feet and they decided to jump together. While the premi jumped, she could not.She was unmarried but the premi was married and father of 3 small kids .aren't women smarter:-)
I could not understand how come this reflect that women are smarter , this married man was also smart to rope a unmarried girl to have fun in life....& if for any reason premika was smarter then why she had gone to police station , she could had gone to hide or for a run...

WONDER LAND BY TWO GERMAN BROTHER

Two german brother has putted this train set together. Its a wonderful ride.You may also try.

.The pic which you are watching here is of no model or heroine but the from Pakistan who was at women's press club , a part of business delegation to visit India.She is Faiza Samee , a fashion designer from Karachi.When I asked -You are without BURKA . Her answer made me surprised , she said -don't compare us with middle- east we are asian ,our culture is different.Jung Group 's managing director SHAHRUKH HASAN made a comment on it lightly -that they left burka at the airport.

INCREDIBLE INDIA

WHAT IS INDIA ?
A nation where PIZZA reaches home faster than AMBULENCE & POLICE ....
where you get CAR LOAN @5% but EDUCATION LOAN @ 12%...
where RICE is Rs 40 /kg but SIM CARD is free....
where people standing at tea stall reading an article about child labour from newspaper and say " YAAR BACHCHO SE KAAM KARWANE WALO KO FASI PAR CHADHA DENA CHAHIYE" and then they shout "OYE CHOTU 2 CHAI LAA..."
THIS IS OUR INDIA ...INCREDIBLE INDIA....
(received by sms by a good friend , felt like sharing with all of you)

SWAMI VIVEKANAND'S SPEECH AT CHICAGO

There can be a doubt about the authenticity of the voice recording, whether original or not. Quite an experience anyway.
Listen to Actual Voice of
Swami Vivek Anand
Dear Friends,
Listen to the actual voice of Swami Vivek Anand in his speech at World Conference in Chicago on 9/11/1893. COPY & PASTE N Click on the webpage below.

http://www.udeps.com/Vivekananda.html

MEDIA SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES vs CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

It is a very relavent question to the media industry. First: The foot soldiers of media i.e. stringers are important part of the industries and they are rendering services to their respective houses but almost for free or you can say that in an hope to yeild in near future but that future never come. If they are not utility oriented to the organisation then why they make them work. If they were working not over here they would have been working at some other place or could be fetching something.
On social ground if government is making the losses good made by the corporate houses then why they are keeping an close eyes on the exploitation of these younger lot.
These younger lot work as a negotiating agents for these political parties. SO they want to keep them as this only- helpless , ready to work for small money.

I feel that these individual stringers are the foot soldiers of the industry but are not given the due recognition or the success of the industry , you can say this is the example of concentration of wealth in few hands . Editors farm houses also I consider the extension of this arguments.
If we will not talk about the living condition of these stringers then why we talk about the CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. The sole purpose of any business house is make profit not the social welfare of their worker, suppliers, customers , investors & those who are associated with them.If political parties - journalists are keeping an check on them then why not to keep an check on media house or rather you can say MEDIA SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES. Then we must not also make a hue & cry on the salary of CEO of any MNC and huge gap between the pay scale of any CEO & an ordinary employee of that company.

PAID NEWS - POLTICIAN FELT CHEATED FIRST TIME BY MEDIA

There was a seminar today on MALPRACTICE OF ADVERTISMENTS BEING PURVYED AS NEWS in Speaker’s Hall, of Constitution Club, Panel were Election Commissioner Mr. S.Y. Qureshi,Leader of the Opposition: Ms. Sushma Swaraj ,CPI (M) General Secretary: Mr. Prakash Karat ,Congress spokesman: Mr. Manish Tewari ,Prasar Bharati Chairperson: Ms. Mrinal Pande ,Editorial Director: Mr. T.N. Ninan ,& politician Mr.Ansari were there.
The whole debate was that this is the first time the corruption of media has pinched the political parties interests otherwise corruption was there also but at that time it was managed by political parties in their interest . But now political parties are paying money but the media houses are taking money from both the parties and praising & accusing both- opposition & ruling party . So it is hurting political parties interests . What I feel that

political parties are demanding principle in dishonesty.

This is not that political parties are not aware of dishonesty of media houses, they are very much aware of the media houses malpractices toward their employees either in terms of paying them less, making them working late, throwging their story in dustbin if it is harming the interest of owners. But non of the political parties are interested in raising this issues.
This time they are raising the issues because media’s marketing managers are making fool out of them by taking money from all the parties so they are feeling victimized. Look at

the mind track of media baron they feel that till now politician has used the country to make money and served their own purpose but now this marketing managers of media houses & media owners are becoming more smart than politician so thay are fooling them and making money out of them

. Might be our political bosses are not liking it so they want to control media so that media can work accourding to their wishes.
In democracy opinion force the people to take a decision - “which party to vote or not” so the role of media is very important over here .Now media houses are able to realize its power and (mis)using it.Now their powers heat is hurting the political bosses’s interest so they are worried.
When I asked Sushma Swaraj that in our country a media student who is coming out of media education institution after paying 1lacs fees and after working for six month- one year are not able to fetch a job , how he/ she afford to be honest for how long.How long his/her family is going to make them support. She said – is this a place for the empowerment of stringers? and Manish Tiwari of Congress also replied in the same tone. It shows that political parties are not interested in the exploitation of the small journalists or younger lot they are more interested in controlling media for their own interest.& bother with the biger lot of media.
Ms Swaraj has complain that media call politician corrupt , now how corrupt media have became themselves?
But who will tell her few smart people in media has learned the corruption from them only .
LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST - NOR MEDIA HOUSE NEITHER POLITICIAN FEEL THAT STRINGERS ARE HUMAN BEING AND THEY SHOULD BE PAID DECENT SALARIES SO THAT THEY CAN LIVE A HUMAN LIKE LIFE.THIS IS WHEN STRINGERS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE 60% OF THE TOTAL NEWS.
Has anyone asked these rich editors- how many farm houses they are owning?
The big question is who is going to put a bell in the neck of a cat!!!!!!!!
One good point raised by my fellow journalist friend that when in the era of everyone from sports person , film stars to businessmen paying the media houses to get their published why bashing politician alone…..!!!!!!!!!!!!

A BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH P CHIDAMBARAM

In a recent interaction with our union home minister Mr P Chidambaram at our INDIA WOMEN'S PRESS CORPS. Chidambaram made it very clear that police & law -order is a state subject, central government can only help them to sort out the matter.He was pretty annoyed with some journalists because he feel some stories creat confusion & miss lead people.He further made his annoyance crytal clear by saying that few journalists ask question on the basis of some abstract information ,until & unless he has some solid information in his hand he can't say anything.
While encountering the question on keeping CRPF jawans at schools he said state government has provided that place for them so they have to stay there. Chidambaram further questioned that why any journalists have not yet done any story on "why 350 school has been bombbarded by maoists". In response to a querry on the lack of development in maoists affected area he said that the area is not under the control of the state government so no question of development arises. First let us take the control of that place then only state government can start development activities.
On fair representation of women in police he said that we can't apply women quota system in police but yet there are lots of women in police in CRPF,BSF,ITBP& other wings of police. But he also highlighted the point that there are some places like high altitude area where it will be difficult for women to operate.On question of how he keep himself cool , he said that he has no tension with a cheerful smile.
During the whole encounter with women journalists he was very cool,logical & very smartly answering.

CHANGING FACES OF ICAI

ICAI was very conservative institute in 90ies where you will be able to see quite conservative lots of girls & boys willing to join the profession unlike the macho lot in MBA. Boys & girls used to sit in separate seats just watching each other from distance. But now two decade later if anyone go to see ICAI ,the lot has improved a lot & the communication level between girls & boys has improved quite a lot.They seem quite friendly to each other unlike the conservative history of ICAI's students.
So this new generation of second decade of 21st century is going to change the face of ICAI.

President Barack Obama appointed Melanne Verveer as Ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues.Ms.Verveer visited IWPC on friday, 6th of nov, 2009 to discuss the agenda of women’s progress and development in all spheres of life. She had a heart to heart with women journalists on a variety of women matters.

Talking candidly with the women journalists at IWPC, Melanne strongly advocated economic independence of the women and recommended strictest punishment for those indulging in various crimes against women.

Ms Verveer also shared her experience of Mumbai with Bollywood actors & actresses on issues of human trafficking, greater awareness for domestic violence etc. In Mumbai, she visited SEVA, a reputed NGO. Besides, she also met Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women & Child Development and bureaucrat Mr. Kumar Shikri on the issues of hundred per cent literacy, education of girl child, special agenda in terms of women empowerment, global health proposal to reduce female
mortality rate, sexual exploitation and forced labour of women among other issues.

During interaction with IWPC members, she also underlined the fact that the government cannot finish this big task alone and it requires the participation of private sector, society, academicians, institutions et al. She spoke on the issues of development, food security, climate change, micro finance for women, small & mid-size women entrepreneurs.

Ms Veveer answered the question raised by one of IWPC member on the issue of rape in Afghanistan by the US Army. To this, she strongly advocated strict punishment for the culprits on being proven guilty. She praised a lot for Indian Women Police force for performing the wonderful task as Peace Keeping Force in Liberia. On the lighter side of conversation on the lifestyle of the First Family of US, she defended the vibrant lifestyle of the Obama family and said that they represent ‘Young Ideal American Society’.

When asked about women empowerment, she candidly replied that her Government just doesn't want to categorise this issue as one among the other ones but wants to deal with it as a separate and important issue focussed for the development of women and society at large.

Madhavi shree

Few days before at our women's press club Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, H.E Tariq Karim has come for a formal dialogue with female journalists. Mr Tariq is a seasoned diplomat having experience in Iran & other important countries.

His conversation indicate that Bangladesh has became very mature nation within all these years. Now they means business with India and they want to have business relationship with western state of India like Haryana , Punjab ,rajsthan , gujrat etc rather than their traditional partner throughout these years W.Bengal & north –east state like assam.

Mr Karim was very keen on the investment made by BHARATI – MITTAL group in Bangladesh in telecom sector. Now they are looking forward for investment from India on various sectors.

It was a wonderful candid conversation with Mr.Karim.This new government of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh has come up with 80% voting in that country.