Right 2 Emergency Care - New Supreme Court Ruling

Update: I wish it's a true ruling, but it looks like it's a hoax.
http://india.targetgenx.com/2007/09/29/right-to-emergency-care-a-flooding-rumour/

Ring the bell against domestic violence

Pretty much impressive ads are being shown on TV against domestic violence.
http://www.bellbajao.org/

Good initiative.

Quote of the day

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, 

but 

anyone can start today and make a new ending.

From a Satyam employee - good one

As a techie, I can't stop appreciating this Satyam guy.

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I (Satyam Employee) am deputed at client location and came across a very interesting conversation in cafeteria yesterday. One of my co-worker, also deputed with the same client through some lesser known two room company, mustered guts to ask me sarcastically in front of entire team, "So, Satyam is gone! What are you guys planning to do now?" In normal circumstances, I have a habit to not to reply to lose talks, but in front of entire team.... I thought I need to fix this guy's thought process. I asked him, as my military training has imbibed in me the habit to fight till last breadth, "Who says Satyam is gone when I am very much alive here and committed to create value on behalf of my company?". He shot back, "Hello Mr., your chairman has resigned, you guys are facing financial turbulence and you still have a face to say that Satyam is not gone!"

At this juncture, I thought of replying to this guy in his own language. I asked him, "Tell me, what will you do and where will you go if our country India was not there?" He was not prepared for this level of thought and asked back, "What a stupid question, How can India be gone, it is a country?" I asked him back, "Country! What makes a country? Land? Economy? Our Prime Minister? Our President? Our Geography? Or the PEOPLE? If our PM resigns, will you say India is gone? If our economy faces a slowdown, will you say India is gone? But yes, if the people of a country are lost for any reason, we will say that country has no meaning. Who cares of vast land of Antarctica today which has just one permanent resident, Father Georgy? Which country does it belongs to? Why does not it has any government? Why does not it has any economy? Or, how many countries were there when humans used to hunt for food in pre-historic times? Countries, Wealth, Infrastructures and booming economies are nothing but creations of efforts of PEOPLE, and they do not have any existance on their own. And the final blow was, "When one man can create Satyam as an organization of 53,000 people, why not 53,000 committed people can rebuild one SATYAM?"

Smile Please

Quote of the day

Sometimes words are not comfortable to express our feelings,
But our true lovable ones understand our feelings without any words..

Helping Hand

The wife and the window!!!

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hang the wash outside.

That laundry is not very clean, she said, she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.

Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this.

" The husband said: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!"

And so it is with life: "What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge. "

The Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so... ·

Love the people who treat you right. ·
Pray for the ones who don't - that they see the wisdom of their foolish ways'

"""""""Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it! """"""

New Year, New Resolutions- An appeal to my friends

Hi friends,
I wish u & ur family a happy new year 2009. May this new year brings happiness, health & wealth.

Lot of people will have lot of resolutions on this new year, but helping the humanity may top the chart. I thought new year would be the right time to spread this message. I know many of you must be returning some the wealth, that God gave to us, back to the society. I'm giving here some organizations info so that atleast some of this audience would respond to the needy.

Help the needy, God will help you back.

1. Provide scholarships to the needy through BREAD www.breadsocietyindia.org/ or NSF (US) http://www.northsouth.org I've been donating some amount to these orgs for the last few years. The entire amount we donate will be passed on to the needy and the organization is being run thru the interest

2. I visited a poor students' ashram Chavadi Child Welfare Society, Telecom Nagar, Gachibowli (www.tccws.org) recently and distributed fruits, biscuits and chocolates. I spoke to the director of this org for any donation, but he told me that they have sufficient funds for the current strength and suggested me to sponsor any bright student after 10th. I need to go to this school again to interact with the kids. Similar organization is Samyuktha Foundation samyukthafoundation.org . They run schools for the children of construction workers. I need to visit one of these schools.

3. www.shareaservice.org/ A meeting place for donors and the organizations.

4. Ramakrishna Math at Indira Park: I've been visiting Math and used to donate money for annadaanam on special occasions. You can donate that suits your pocket and program. The best thing with this Math is that they provide food only for kids, ladies, elderly people and physically handicapped. They spend Rs 3000 a day. They also provide free education thru Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence; you can also donate for it.

5. You can also donate to any needy people based on news from papers. I responded in 1 or 2 cases.

6. Donate blood. You can register here www.friendstosupport.org/. I registered here and donated blood recently in the office

Dedicating this message to Swapnika, the acid attack victim, who lost her life on 31st December 2008 after fighting for 22 days on bed. May her soul rest in peace.

Have a beautiful & wishfilled year ahead.