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She decided to become
an IAS and for her anything less than that was a failure. She missed her first
attempt by 18 marks but in her second attempt she secured the 179th
position. Although she opted for IRS but her childhood love i.e. dream to
become an IAS failed to die. In her third attempt her rank dropped down to 290
but she overcame this setback to secure the first position in her fourth and
last attempt. Haritha.V.Kumar the 27
year old gritty girl gave Kerala its ‘IAS
no.1’ after two decades. She herself was surprised by her self-determination,
you can guess it from her words (published in http://iasmadeeasy.blogspot.in/):
You
must be thinking that it’s a story of another boring bookworm but in an interview
to The Hindu she revealed that she has learnt Carnatic music and
Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam. She is also a big fan of Malayalam cinema.
She
is an engineer but she opted economics because again in her own words
She
was from Malayalam background but she gained command over English after joining
IRS academy which played a important role in her selection. So those who think
that English is an obstacle can learn from her.
Nothing
is complete without parents support and blessing and in her case 'IAS' was her
parent’s dream before becoming her dream. So if you have a dream similar to her
here are some tips from the topper herself:
1)
Without you, you
are nothing: work with confidence, determination and dedication.
2)
Stop counting
number of hours: realistically divide the syllabus into parts and religiously cover
the part decided for a particular day before the day ends.
3)
Fall in love
with your pen:for the mains exam you need to have a lot of writing practice.
4)
Company matters:
find an interactive company for discussions to prepare for the interview.
5)
Never surrender
your dreams: various unexpected hurdles will try to divert or stop you but
smile at them with patience and permanent commitment to your dream, the hurdles
will surrender soon. Family and friends support is always a crucial anchor for
such massive dreams.
As
IAS is a tough nut to crack and its preparation may brings with it a series of multiple failed
attempts for the majority but at the end it is always worth it. So, be prepared
to give your best.
She decided to become
an IAS and for her anything less than that was a failure. She missed her first
attempt by 18 marks but in her second attempt she secured the 179th
position. Although she opted for IRS but her childhood love i.e. dream to
become an IAS failed to die. In her third attempt her rank dropped down to 290
but she overcame this setback to secure the first position in her fourth and
last attempt. Haritha.V.Kumar the 27
year old gritty girl gave Kerala its ‘IAS
no.1’ after two decades. She herself was surprised by her self-determination,
you can guess it from her words (published in http://iasmadeeasy.blogspot.in/):
"I did not believe that I got the first rank. My friends told me that I am the topper but I refused to believe. They dragged me and showed it to me on Internet and then only I believed them".
You
must be thinking that it’s a story of another boring bookworm but in an interview
to The Hindu she revealed that she has learnt Carnatic music and
Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam. She is also a big fan of Malayalam cinema.
She
is an engineer but she opted economics because again in her own words
“No matter what kind of administrative services you take up, an understanding of Economics is essential”.
She
was from Malayalam background but she gained command over English after joining
IRS academy which played a important role in her selection. So those who think
that English is an obstacle can learn from her.
Nothing
is complete without parents support and blessing and in her case 'IAS' was her
parent’s dream before becoming her dream. So if you have a dream similar to her
here are some tips from the topper herself:
1)
Without you, you
are nothing: work with confidence, determination and dedication.
2)
Stop counting
number of hours: realistically divide the syllabus into parts and religiously cover
the part decided for a particular day before the day ends.
3)
Fall in love
with your pen:for the mains exam you need to have a lot of writing practice.
4)
Company matters:
find an interactive company for discussions to prepare for the interview.
5)
Never surrender
your dreams: various unexpected hurdles will try to divert or stop you but
smile at them with patience and permanent commitment to your dream, the hurdles
will surrender soon. Family and friends support is always a crucial anchor for
such massive dreams.
As
IAS is a tough nut to crack and its preparation may brings with it a series of multiple failed
attempts for the majority but at the end it is always worth it. So, be prepared
to give your best.
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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He is veteran congress leader and freedom fighter (he went
to jail for freedom movement in 1942 along with his father) and have to guard
his image to maintain his vote bank which helped him to become Chief Minister
of Uttar Pradesh for three times as well of Chief minister of Uttrakhand once. Poor
old man was force to resign from the cozy post of Governor of Andhra Pradesh
due to his philosophy of ‘pyar do pyar lo’.I personally believe that due to
this ‘image pressure’ this ‘retired-bhawra(as he is 86)’ was reluctant to take
the post of ‘maali’.
Today India’s proud playboy Sri N D Tiwari is busy hearing
songs like ‘pyar kabi kario na…’ The feeling less Supreme Court is unable to
understand that he believes in ‘free love’ and cannot be humiliated publicly
for some ‘contraception failure (if he had used any)’. He is a ‘bhawra’ (bee)
not a ‘maali’ (gardener).. His only mistake is that thirty two years ago (his
‘dabaang’ son Rohit Shekhar is of 32 years) when he was 54 year old and playing the ‘final innings’
of his ‘manhood’ he was probably unaware of contraception and most dangerously
had no idea about the deadly technology of ‘DNA tests’, poor chap his fate
cheated him.
He is veteran congress leader and freedom fighter (he went
to jail for freedom movement in 1942 along with his father) and have to guard
his image to maintain his vote bank which helped him to become Chief Minister
of Uttar Pradesh for three times as well of Chief minister of Uttrakhand once. Poor
old man was force to resign from the cozy post of Governor of Andhra Pradesh
due to his philosophy of ‘pyar do pyar lo’.I personally believe that due to
this ‘image pressure’ this ‘retired-bhawra(as he is 86)’ was reluctant to take
the post of ‘maali’.
Tiwari sir forget the bitterness after all its your ‘seed’
which is standing as a ‘tree’ although you never gave ‘water ’ to it. Now in
this age you cannot make love so its better that transform it and shower it on
your recently born son(DNA report proved it today).For your information an RTI
filed has revealed that Mahatma Gandhi was never given the title ‘Father Of
The Nation’ officially by government of India. So, after CM and Governor its time
to aim for this title after all you served congress loyally till date and there
must be many secret admirers whom you can charm for support, you just need to polish your 'magic charm'.
Tiwari ji this Judgment is not a failure it’s a signal of
almighty to aim for the title of ‘Father Of The Nation’, grab it officially on
papers before you die.
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As an human being we all dream, think, plan, invest and toil
for ‘success’ , ‘failure’ is never on our ‘desire list’ but all of us have
to taste failure sometimes, even gods and superheroes tasted it. Ram ji failed to save Sita
mata from being kidnapped by Ravan, all our superheroes get beaten up by
powerful villains in the start and so on. The message is ‘FAILURE IMPROVES THE
VALUE AND QUALITY OF SUCCESS’.
Fig:The Necker cube and Rubin vase can be perceived in more than one way.
As an human being we all dream, think, plan, invest and toil
for ‘success’ , ‘failure’ is never on our ‘desire list’ but all of us have
to taste failure sometimes, even gods and superheroes tasted it. Ram ji failed to save Sita
mata from being kidnapped by Ravan, all our superheroes get beaten up by
powerful villains in the start and so on. The message is ‘FAILURE IMPROVES THE
VALUE AND QUALITY OF SUCCESS’.
Fig:SITA HARAN, Ravan kidnapping Lord Ram's wife Sita
In my post “Are you sure about your
Failure?” I told you that 'failure is a relative term'. Today I will discuss about the types of failure we face in our life
as every failure has its own story to tell i.e. reason. Category wise it can be of three types:
- Failure to anticipate
- Failure to perceive
- Failure to carry out a task
Anticipations
might be described more as hunches, or gut
feelings of what may happen. They usually involve a fair assessment of current
conditions, and are based on how the current conditions are most likely to
continue to develop. Anticipations help to serve more of an if/then type of
role, and they allow for adjustments in a trading plan. Please do not get
confused between the terms ‘prediction and anticipation’.
Fig: NASA Sunspot Number Predictions in March 2004 for Solar cycle
23 and 24, which did not come true. Even in 2006 a new scientific model
predicted with 98% accuracy that cycle 24 would start at the end of 2007, and
that its peak would be higher than cycle 23.Nevertheless, the cycle started two
years later and the current prediction says the peak will be lower than the
previous one.
Predictions are often grand proclamations of what is going
to happen, and they usually include details about even how events will unfold.It tend to be stubborn,
brash and unyielding, leaving no margin for error or revisions.
Now, beaming our attention to one of the oldest fields in Psychology i.e. Perception. It refers to interpretation
of what we take in through our senses. The way we perceive our
environment is what makes us different from other animals and different from
each other.
Fig:The Necker cube and Rubin vase can be perceived in more than one way.
“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific
to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe
you perceive is specific to you.” – Douglas Adams
Unlike our physical abilities, our perception is 'limitless', and it is the
one thing we can change and develop.With experience, organisms can learn to make finer perceptual distinctions,
and learn new kinds of categorization. Wine-tasting, the reading of X-ray
images and music appreciation are applications of this process in the human
sphere. Research has focused on the relation of this to other kinds of
learning, and whether it takes place in
peripheral sensory systems or in the
brain's processing of sense information.
Finally, carrying out a task depends on present circumstances, resources,
various kinds of skill required etc.It majorly consists of execution according to the per-defined guidelines and set deadlines.Its requires coordination or management of various entities required for execution.
We should understand that we failed at which stage and try to
find the reason behind it. Failure an opportunity to learn and improve but for
that we must know that when, where and
why we failed, merely shedding
tears on the undesirable outcome is flushing out the ‘golden opportunity’ with
buckets of ‘naturally free eye-made salty water’.
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Sam
Childers was born to a family of iron workers in USA who during his teens went into a destructive
relation with cigarettes, marijuana, heroin and much more. This relation of his
teenage years propagated him into several years of addiction to drugs, drug
dealing, alcoholism and many other illegal activities. He was crazy about
motorcycles and loved to live like an outlaw biker. This criminal nature at
last landed him in jail.
In
his own words, why he stood up for the African children:
Maharishi
Valmiki is a renowned figure who wrote the epic ‘Ramayana’. It is said that
once upon a time he was a highway robber who used to rob people before killing them but later on he realised his sins and left everything to become a ‘rishi ‘
and drowned himself in the name of lord Rama.
Sam
Childers was born to a family of iron workers in USA who during his teens went into a destructive
relation with cigarettes, marijuana, heroin and much more. This relation of his
teenage years propagated him into several years of addiction to drugs, drug
dealing, alcoholism and many other illegal activities. He was crazy about
motorcycles and loved to live like an outlaw biker. This criminal nature at
last landed him in jail.
After
being released from jail he converted to Christianity and went to Sudan for the
first time in 1998 to help Sudanese people battered by civil war. In the
numerous trips that followed he saw humanity bleeding helplessly under the
terror of Lord's Resistance Army(LRA). The bloodshed and barbaric atmosphere
challenged the fighter inside him to stand up and raise a war for the unknowns.
He stood up for the cause of orphans and ‘child-soldiers’ not only to support
them by mere words or some thousand dollars but to rescue them from hell with
his firepower. He became their preacher, a preacher who used to sleep with Bible on
one side and gun on the other. This heroic act gave him a new name “MACHINE GUN
PREACHER”.
He
and his ex-stripper wife Lynn with all of their resources and efforts founded the Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village in Southern Sudan.
The Children’s Village currently houses and educates over 300 orphans, with over
a thousand children rescued since its inception. The staff at the Children's
Village are primarily Sudanese orphans and widows themselves. This is currently
the largest orphanage in Southern Sudan and is unique in its approach of
leading armed rescue missions directly into LRA territory.
In
his own words, why he stood up for the African children:
“It’s
something when you can take a child who may not have a good life, maybe the
schooling is not good, maybe the food they’re eating is not good. But they
still have a smile on their face, they’ll still laugh and giggle. Children are
the same all around the world, and I believe, sometimes, the more a child has,
the more spoilt they can get – because in America there’s a lot of children who
just aren’t thankful for what they’ve got. But I noticed in Sudan, you can take
a bottle of Soda, you can give it to ten children and they’ll take little sips
until everyone gets a sip, they would just keep passing it around, sharing. You
don’t see that a lot in America.”
He
is also criticised by some ‘idiots & hypocrites’ who talk of right and
wrong ways sitting in their safe comfort zone but they do not know that ‘when
bullets are flying in air instead of butterflies, you have to grab a gun if you
want to breathe’. They talk about tolerance, non-violence and all that
diplomatic crap but they can’t ignore that this man had not fought for some
piece of land or money, he had fought only to rescue and protect children from
being abducted, killed or forcibly converted into ‘child-soldiers’. I too
support non-violence until the person in front starts considering it as my
weakness or cowardliness and tries to cause some harm.
From
last 13 years he protected, rescued and nurtured children in a distant
undeveloped country crumbling under civil war but now after peace some people
want to steal the good-will he earned by accusing him in different mean ways. Throughout
the human history great people were always accused after their services are not required
and Childers is not an exception but at the end Childers have successfully propagated his message
of ‘A Missionary With Muscles’ through his book 'Another Man's War'.On September
23 2011 a movie named ‘Machine Gun Preacher’ was released on his life featuring
Gerard Butler(300 fame).
Valmiki
left robbery to become a saint and wrote about Lord Rama who fought against
evil to rescue his wife, Sam Childers left his criminal past and modern ,safe
and secure life behind to fight against PLA on their own land to rescue African
childrens…..definitely this man is BETTER THAN VALMIKI.
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He
belonged to the prestigious ‘Bachchan Gharana’ .His father Late
Hariwansh rai Bachchan was a well renounced poet who still rocks the world with
his compositions like ‘Madhusala & Agneepath’ but this tall guy was
born to surpass the height of his father’s glory .So,today we know Late
Hariwansh Rai Bachchan as father of the ‘superstar of the millennium’
INQUILAAB SRIVASTAVA…….don’t get confused I am taking about AMITABH
BACHCHAN only.Actually ‘Bachchan’ was pen name of his
father which means ‘child like’ which he adopted as his surname in place
of his paternal one i.e ‘Srivastava’ and ‘Inquilaab’ was the
first name given to our superstar which was changed to ‘Amitabh’ on the
suggestion of renowned poet Sumitranandan Pant.
He
had left the job of ‘freight broker’ in his twenties after which he
broke all the records of the film industry but being an ambitious man he aimed
at politics in 1984. In a film crazy country where actors are called ‘HEROS’
and worshipped as ‘DEMIGODS’ scooping up votes was a child’s play for
the man who ruled the heart of masses with his ‘ANGRY YOUNG MAN’
image. His popularity was proved after his 26 July 1982 accident while
filming coolie after which there where long ques of public outside the
hospitals and temples ,some die hard fans offered to sacrifice limbs for his
recovery.
Later
on he and his brothers where framed in the ‘Bofors Scandal’ but
at the end he was declared clean.He took lessons from this chapter of his life
and had maintained safe distance from ‘direct politics’. Now he supports
his friend (Amar Singh helped him during his financial crisis due to the
failure of his company ABCL )Amar Singh’s Samajwadi Party by
campaigning for him and his wife is a member of that party and a ‘Rajya
Sabha’ member. He avoided to directly have a verbal fight with Raj Thackrey
during the recent ‘North Indian row’ in which Raj Thackrey accused him
for showering more affection on UP instead of Mumbai. During this menace his
dignified & well thought comments brought big shots like Bala Shaeb
Thakrey to his rescue.The lessons learnt in 80’s was a ‘Goldmine’ for him
in a world where people on peak are always in danger of being accused for petty
things.
He
attempted to re-establish his acting career and got the first breakthrough with
the success of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998),and was adored in Sooryavansham
(1999) but Lal Baadshah (1999) and Hindustan Ki Kasam
(1999) were a box office disaster indicating that the yesterday’s superstar
will have to face 'Agneepath' for some more time in his real life.
The
'Agneepath' ended when he became the super successful host of Kaun
Banega Crorepati(KBC) in 2000 which helped him to repay his loans and in
November 2000 Canara Bank withrew its lawsuit against him.In the same
year ‘Mohabbatein’ showered him with the affection of masses
after which K3G,Bagbaan,Khakee and many other movies proved that 'BOLLYWOOD
IS BACHCHAN’S EMPIRE'.
He
belonged to the prestigious ‘Bachchan Gharana’ .His father Late
Hariwansh rai Bachchan was a well renounced poet who still rocks the world with
his compositions like ‘Madhusala & Agneepath’ but this tall guy was
born to surpass the height of his father’s glory .So,today we know Late
Hariwansh Rai Bachchan as father of the ‘superstar of the millennium’
INQUILAAB SRIVASTAVA…….don’t get confused I am taking about AMITABH
BACHCHAN only.Actually ‘Bachchan’ was pen name of his
father which means ‘child like’ which he adopted as his surname in place
of his paternal one i.e ‘Srivastava’ and ‘Inquilaab’ was the
first name given to our superstar which was changed to ‘Amitabh’ on the
suggestion of renowned poet Sumitranandan Pant.
He
ruled the industry in his youth and in his late sixties he is still rocking it.
He also had his share of flop films, accidents on film sets (almost fatal one
on the sets of coolie) and struggle in the industry which we all know about but
in this article I want to talk about two of his major failures :
- Politics
- Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited(ABCL)
He
ventured into the corporate and political arena with a bang to explode like a
balloon later.
These failures not only brought ‘bad name’ to him but also made him
almost ‘bankrupt’.
He
had left the job of ‘freight broker’ in his twenties after which he
broke all the records of the film industry but being an ambitious man he aimed
at politics in 1984. In a film crazy country where actors are called ‘HEROS’
and worshipped as ‘DEMIGODS’ scooping up votes was a child’s play for
the man who ruled the heart of masses with his ‘ANGRY YOUNG MAN’
image. His popularity was proved after his 26 July 1982 accident while
filming coolie after which there where long ques of public outside the
hospitals and temples ,some die hard fans offered to sacrifice limbs for his
recovery.
With
help of his long time family friend Rajiv Gandhi he contested Allahabad’s
seat of 8Th Lok Sabha against the heavyweight politician and former
CM i.e H.N Bahuguna. His confidence was correct and he smashed Bahuguna’s
dreams with one of the highest victory margins in general election
history i.e 68.2% of the vote.
My
father always keep telling me “HATHI USE KO KHARIDNI CHAHIYE JISKIAUKAAD
HO HATHI PAALNE KI” , in simple words you should buy something
only if you are capable of bearing the running and maintenance cost. Mr.
Bachchan entered politics, won but had no real idea of how politics is done.
The ‘hero of reel- life’ was unable to fight the ‘real-life political
crooks’. He got frustrated and realised that politics is not his cup of
tea its safer and better to beat monsters in films.After three years of his
historical win he ‘surrendered’ by saying “POLITICS IS A CESSPOOL”
(a pit to collect domestic waste especially human excreta).I wonder why he said
this, he was old enough to know that politics is, was and will always remain
dirty (less or more, in this way or that way).It’s our favourite time pass to
abuse politicians although they are just mere reflection of ‘the so
called weak common man’ who is actually greedy & selfish. Sorry,
that’s a different topic. THANK YOU Amitji you made people who voted for
you to realize difference between ‘reel-life heroes and real-life heros’.
Later
on he and his brothers where framed in the ‘Bofors Scandal’ but
at the end he was declared clean.He took lessons from this chapter of his life
and had maintained safe distance from ‘direct politics’. Now he supports
his friend (Amar Singh helped him during his financial crisis due to the
failure of his company ABCL )Amar Singh’s Samajwadi Party by
campaigning for him and his wife is a member of that party and a ‘Rajya
Sabha’ member. He avoided to directly have a verbal fight with Raj Thackrey
during the recent ‘North Indian row’ in which Raj Thackrey accused him
for showering more affection on UP instead of Mumbai. During this menace his
dignified & well thought comments brought big shots like Bala Shaeb
Thakrey to his rescue.The lessons learnt in 80’s was a ‘Goldmine’ for him
in a world where people on peak are always in danger of being accused for petty
things.
In
1996 during his temporary retirement period he became producer setting up
Amitabh Bachchan Corporation, Ltd. (A.B.C.L.) in 1996, with the vision of
becoming a 10 billion rupees (approx 250 million $US) premier entertainment
company by the year 2000. ABCL's strategy was to introduce products and
services covering the entire section of the India's entertainment industry. Its
operations were mainstream commercial film production and distribution, audio
cassettes and video discs, production and marketing of television software,
celebrity and event management.
Soon after the company was launched in 1996,
the first film was produced by the company. Tere Mere Sapne failed
to do well. In 1997,he attempted to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata,
produced by ABCL. Though Mrityudaata attempted to reprise Bachchan's
earlier success as an action hero, the film was a failure both financially and
critically. ABCL was the main sponsor of the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant,
Bangalore but lost millions.
The fiasco and the consequent legal battles
surrounding ABCL and various entities after the event, coupled with the fact
that ABCL was reported to have overpaid most of its top level managers, eventually
led to its financial and operational collapse in 1997. The company went
into administration and was later declared a failed company by Indian
Industries board. The Bombay high court, in April 1999,
restrained him from selling off his Bombay bungalow 'Prateeksha' and two flats
till the pending loan recovery cases of Canara Bank were disposed of.
He had, however, pleaded that he had mortgaged his bungalow to Sahara India
Finance for raising funds for his company.
This
failure brought the 6’3” tall icon down on ground but ‘when going gets
tough, tough gets going’. Harassed by money lenders he returned to what
he knew the best with a positive attitude and steely grit. He admitted that he
is not a good businessman like ‘Ambanis’ who know how to manage the
smallest things to avoid future loss. This quality of admitting mistakes and
shortcomings is what makes him great. This was the time when he stated going to
gym regularly so that he may not miss his work due to health issues.He vowed
that his financial crisis will not curtail his children’s needs.
He
attempted to re-establish his acting career and got the first breakthrough with
the success of Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998),and was adored in Sooryavansham
(1999) but Lal Baadshah (1999) and Hindustan Ki Kasam
(1999) were a box office disaster indicating that the yesterday’s superstar
will have to face 'Agneepath' for some more time in his real life.
The
'Agneepath' ended when he became the super successful host of Kaun
Banega Crorepati(KBC) in 2000 which helped him to repay his loans and in
November 2000 Canara Bank withrew its lawsuit against him.In the same
year ‘Mohabbatein’ showered him with the affection of masses
after which K3G,Bagbaan,Khakee and many other movies proved that 'BOLLYWOOD
IS BACHCHAN’S EMPIRE'.
If
we look at his failure in politics and business then we will brand him as a 'learner’
instead of ‘failure’ who values his hard earned lessons.I wish he
will keep doing what he is best at(acting) till he can so that his
accomplishments can shout back at people who criticize him : “BUDDHA HOGA
TERA BAAP”.