Administration, over the years, has been the mainstay of any trade.

Its
operational efficiency determines how long the trade will stay afloat successfully.
Ones dexterity in administration is determined by ones perception of and
willingness in dealing with obstacles. My family has always advised me to be the
one swimming against the tide, and being unfazed at the prospect of
adversity. Owing to the fundamental approach I engage in to confront a
situation, I have always believed in every lock has a key mantra.
During my graduation, I learned the art of effective management by serving as
the Event Manager for the colleges cultural festival. The planning,
implementation and the operational efficiency involved has fascinated me ever
since. It has induced in me the notion for having to plan rigorously for my further
endeavours and have a contingency plan in case things do not pan out as
presupposed. I took up a job at TCS, to synchronise with the protocol followed in
the corporate world, to weigh their significance and look for ways to optimize.
Working as a SAP consultant for the Security team, I have gained perspective in
the need to tune myself with the customers point of view to make processes
efficient and devoid of any friction.
I perceive degree in MBA as a platform which would provide me with the guided
impetus: in terms of the processes involved and the knack of creating
opportunities where none exist. Business acumen coupled with technical gen will
provide me with a tangible opportunity to leverage my analytical disposition for
the betterment of my organization.
NMIMS, for the excellent pedagogy and exposure that it has, will provide me with
the prospect of an insight into the corporate culture from a different perspective
and consequently, shape me up as a top notch professional.

Mine:
Cassanova: Lesser achievements analogy
Relative truth is fact.
Knowledge one brings or value one brings
I am always addicted to thinking.
Simplicity of Pronouns to lifes intractable problems
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Why MBA? Go to the past to make the connection clear, framework. I want to
imitate the thinking of people that have gone throught the rigors of the
management perspective to every scenario. This is an incipient phase in India,
Capitalism from the collectivistic mindest. Best of both worlds. I have few
qualities that hold me in good stead for this: Poise in trying situations, not judgin
anyone at face value, having made the transition from style to substance.
Understand the dynamics through exposure and mba provides me that
opportunity. To move from a want to do attitude to a can do attitude while In
college to a Will do afterwards. Social wise: Will give me the best platform to

reach out to corporate honchos to indulge in social innovation, and PPP models
to social sectors.
My musings are an intangible asset, that cannot be capitalised at a fair value.
The way I have perceived the nitty-gritties of life. All examples

Article Snippets:

1. Rob Steen, Espncricinfo

We make much of self-assurance as the most priceless of assets. Not only does it
embolden, it also enhances the power of bluff. Confidence, achievement and reputation
form a virtuous circle; how often do off-form achievers prevail purely by dint of repute? Ian
Botham managed just 40 wickets in his last 23 Tests, and most of those owed more to
name than skill. That confidence may or may not be innate; for those whose work exposes
them to daily ordeals by competitive fire, in public view, it can certainly be mercurial. One
numbing or humbling failure at an inopportune time can do more to deflate it than a
hundred triumphs can buoy it. It depends on how deep it runs.
Yet strength can only be enhanced by reducing or eradicating vulnerability; by logical
extension, therefore, failure can be more important than success. Failure means those
glances in the mirror are likelier to be stares - broodier, more searching, less self-deluding.
Weaknesses are likelier to be addressed, lessons learned. Success, conversely, can dazzle,
even blind. It can also deter acknowledgement of the influence exerted by sheer blind
luck, an ingredient never more potent than in the competitive arts. Perhaps only the tiny
ranks of the doubt-free actively desire failure - as motivation, as a counter to complacency

- but maybe that's what keeps us all going. Should we fear it? No, but a spot of
constructive loathing can come in handy.

2. Dialogues about India

Albert Einstein, American Scientist: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"
Mark Twain, American Author: "India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother
of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most
astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!" "So far as I am able to judge, nothing
has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits
on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." "In religion, India is the only
millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give
that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined."
Will Durant, American Historian: It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west,
such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the
decimal system. "India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a
unifying, pacifying love for all human beings." "India is the motherland of our race and Sanskrit is the mother of
Indo-European languages. She is the mother of our philosophy, of our mathematics, mother of ideals embodied in
Christianity and mother of our democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all." (Story of
Civilization)
Henry David Thoreau, American Thinker /Author: Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that
some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of
sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great
Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.
R.W. Emerson, American Author: In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy,
but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and
thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
William James, American Author: "From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house
building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion,
science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."
Max Muller, German Scholar: "If I were to look over the whole world to find out a country most richly endowed
with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow in some part a very paradise on earth I should
point to India." "There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads."
(Sacred Books of the East)
Romain Rolland, French Philosopher: If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living
men have found a home from the very earliest day when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Apollonius Tyanaeus, Ancient Greek Traveler: "In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not
adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing."
Dr Arnold Toynbee, British Historian: It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning
will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely
dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way.
Hu Shih (Former Chinese Ambassador to USA): "India conquered and dominated China for 20 centuries without
ever having to send a single soldier across its border." (Bhavan Journal 15.05.1999)
Swami Vivekananda, Indian Philosopher: "Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and
modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it
has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked
in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans,
by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully
existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and
tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched
out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of
the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"
Shri Aurovindo: "India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still

something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not anglicised
oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but
still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme
source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma
Sir William Jones, British Orientalist: "The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure,
more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either."
P. Johnstone: "Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood
circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of."
Emmelin Plunret: "They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BC. Vedas contain an account of the
dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and Galaxies." (Calendars and Constellations)
Sylvia Levi: "She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long
succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and
symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of
Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!"
Colonel James Todd: "Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were prototypes of
those of Greece: to whose works Plato, Thales and Pythagorus were disciples? Where do I find astronomers
whose knowledge of planetary systems yet excites wonder in Europe as well as the architects and sculptors whose
works claim our admiration, and the musicians who could make the mind oscillate from joy to sorrow, from tears
to smile with the change of modes and varied intonation?"
Lancelot Hogben: "There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians)
made when they invented ZERO." (Mathematics for the Millions)
Schopenhauer: "Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world."
(Works VI p.427)
Wheeler Wilcox: "India The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect
life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the
seers who founded the Vedas."
W. Heisenberg, German Physicist: "After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of
Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense."
Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon: "The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and
W. Heisenberg, German Physicist: "After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of
Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense."
Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon: "The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special
branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming
new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed."
Sir John Woodroffe: "An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced
scientific and philosophical thought of the West."
B.G. Rele: "Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal description of the
human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious
books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine." (The Vedic Gods)
Keith Bellows, VP - National Geographic Society: "There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into
your heart and wont go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the
land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated
intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I had been seeing the world in black & white and, when
brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor."
Adolf Seilachar & P.K. Bose, scientists: One Billion-Year-Old fossil prove life began in India: AFP Washington
reports in Science Magazine that German Scientist Adolf Seilachar and Indian Scientist P.K. Bose have unearthed
fossil in Churhat a town in Madhya Pradesh, India which is 1.1 billion years old and has rolled back the
evolutionary clock by more than 500 million years.
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