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I am very much frustrated with the continued agitation that Gujjars are holding for their reservation. It is hopeless that they are troubling peaceful public to show their agitation and that government is just taking its time to resolve the issue. This is not the first time we have seen the agitation and I am sure Gujjars have inspired enough small communities to fight for their reservations or whatever demands. Message is clear: You can trouble common public because no body cares for them! I am going to put my views from different facets and will like to put up a hawk eye view of the problem. From the eye of Gujjar's: Who are the Gujjars? Details According to Vincient A Smith’s ‘The Early History of India,’ Gujjars are “allied in blood” to the Huns who poured into the Indian subcontinent after attacking the Kishan Kingdom of Kabul. Another theory claims that Gujjars are related to the Rajputs who converted to Islam after losing in the wars with Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, and

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Podcasts @  http://manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics Solution to a Stalled Technical Career 35:22 27/06/05 Mike and Mark discuss a friend's stalled technical career.  What's the secret to reinvigorating his career? more technical expert => less people management, less public relations organization only advertises technical skills for IT folks, but not social skills these folks are intelligent enough to understand social skills, but they need to put their mind in this direction. we dont want him to be salesperson, but just good enough to communicate and get things done. relations in company are important: one can not improve his/her skills or organization position in short span. Rely on relations to grow I want to work with people I like, need not with smartest people Divide "success one gets" into two parts based on what leads to success 10% technical 90% relations How do I improve my relations? Ans: Communicate the way others want (quantity and

Let us compare the difference between the salaries given to top management with that given to small fishes in big companies like Yahoo!, Oracle, etc. Some salaries Yahoo's CEO (Carol Bartz) annual package: $47.2 million (Rs 250 crore) [ Source ] Oracle's CEO (Larry Ellison) annual package: $70 million (Rs 336 crore) [ Source ] Yahoo's / Oracle's employee average salary for a Senior Software Engineer in Bangalore: $20k (Rs 10 lakh) [ Source ] Some maths $47.2 million / $20 k = 2360. $70 million / $20 k = 3500 Conclusions Carol Bartz's cost to company is same as that of 2360 Senior Software Engineer employees in Bangalore. Larry Ellison's cost to company is same as that of 3500 Senior Software Engineer employees in Bangalore. No comments :)

What motivates us? It is not just the money but also purpose. Somehow big corporations separate the two for small fishes like me and that is the part I don't like! One more interesting video on Family values.

You can paste a google wave to your site so that users can collaborate. Pretty cool, as you customize the wave and make it specific to your use case.

At times I wonder about what is this life. Probably everybody wonders about this paradigm and has his/her own thoughts about it. This is my blog and so I get the honor to put my thoughts. They may sound weird to few but actually I don't think anyone will have an all logical and straight forward reply to "What is life?" I at times imagine world to be a simulation being run by superior beings (may be we call that existence as God). We are their puppets running around or living as we are designed to and they are watching us and getting amused on how we react to various situations and so on. God gave us a canvas consisting of land, water, air, vegetation, etc. He also gave us senses to know the world around and also "mind" to think and interpret. I am not sure what we think, is actually what we wanted to think. I believe Matrix movie depicted this very artistically. It showed that the way humans understand is by the process of neurons interaction in brain. Neurons

You can not pass an array by "pass by value", whereas objects can be passed by value. Here is a snippet: You can pass an array to a function in only following manner: int arr[2] = {0,1}; void s(int arr[]){ //This statement is equivalent to: void s(int *arr) arr[0]=2; } s(arr); // This passes array pointer by value and hence the complete is passed by reference. Meaning to say function s will operate on real array and not on a "copied" array of the one passed in argument. You can pass an object to a function in two ways: void s(Obj* o) // this statement is equivalent to: void s(Obj & o). Pass by reference void s(Obj o) // Pass by value. The actual ojbect passed as parameter when invoking the function, gets copied and function acts on copied object and not on actual object

#include "iostream" // a PREPROCESSOR directive using namespace std; int main() // function header { // start of function body using namespace std; // make definitions visible char * t1 = new char; *t1 = 'a'; cout<< "Case 1: " << t1 << "\n"; //Output: a. Valid output char * t2; //*t2 = 'a'; //Can also lead to bus error. Incase it is out of memory assigned to t2 //cout<< "Case 2: " << t2 << "\n"; //Output: a???. Garbled output, since you are trying to store 'a' in neverland //char * t3; //t3 = 'a'; // Compile error: myfirst.cpp:15: error: invalid conversion from 'char' to 'char*' //char * t4; //* t4 = "a"; // Compile er

Jill's speech was so impressive. Setting up the mind to share Her experience during a severe hemorrhage is great..the feeling of 'nirvana' is the most inspiring though I am little confused about the experience during such trauma. Buddha and few other persons are known to experience the rare NIRVANA during their lifetime..bt here,JBT experienced that rare happening during hemorrhage..unbelievable and inspiring. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

Some sample questions a mentor can ask: If I give you 1 crore how will u invest that in a day Best ans: 30 lakh for myself and my family future and comforts, rest 70 lakh for business. May be I will hire 4-5 best brains to work for me, etc etc. Or how u plan to grow your current business Mentor wants to judge how much are you concerned for your personal comfort, do u have a vision to invest money in your business Most exciting thing you did in college or life It can be academics but also something non academic. How passionate you are to achieve what you want. Something you really wanted to do and you went out of way, went crazy to do it Winning some trophy, Getting gf, some adv trek How ur friends describe you? Friends can judge you best. Some answers can be: visionary, Reliable, strong temperament, enthusiastic, etc Family background Mentor wants to figure out if you have future personal commitment. Most of entrepreneurs drop because of family reasons Why do you want

Photos: picasaweb It was long… It was tiring… It was a spectacular journey… Let’s start from D ay 1: (28 th May) All 4 of us met in Jammu. Sanchit and Naman came from Delhi via bus , while Pratyush and Neeraj came by Malwa Express from Indore. The weather was bad. A day before it had rained and now dusty sand storm prevailed. Even at 4pm sky got dark and dangerous. Took an auto and managed to get a descent hotel in jewel chowk . Next day, we had plans to leave early morning for Srinagar. But at night it rained a lot. We talked to locals and at Srinagar tourist center and got to know that in last 2 days it had rained heavily. Usually, May end is supposed to be hot and rains was a bad surprise. Travel agents said Srinagar-Kargil road will not be open and therefore there was no point in going to Srinagar. After talking at numerous places, we concluded that reaching L eh was out of reach. Therefore, we started thinking of 4-5 day treks in and around Srinagar. After discussing