tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135351682011-04-21T17:29:42.995-07:00Though an MBA by training, I feel that I have a flair for words which I hope reflects in my posts. Two of my poems have received critical acclaim and three of my articles have been published in a couple of Indian spiritual magazines.Hirenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04733690983785357387noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13535168.post-1152426966033690052006-07-08T23:34:00.000-07:002006-07-08T23:36:06.046-07:00

Thanks to the authorities at blogger for creating such a wonderful platform. I am shifting to wordpress - the new location is Stray thoughts

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Yesterday(28/3/2006),I had the pleasure of watching(at the stadium)India beat England at the Firozshah kotla ground here in Delhi.There were some very interesting comments by the crowd on Mahendra Singh Dhoni but first the context:- About a week back , Sachin Tendulkar made frontline news in the Times of India and Hindustan Times when he was booed by his homecrowd for getting out very cheaply.

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Blogger is behaving strangely by putting the whole extract as one paragraph unless I am doing something wrong. Somebody has altered my previous posts also. Please not that PB stands for Para beginning and PE for Para End. Similarly POB stand for poem beginning and POE for poem end. This is a lot of waste of time and hope blogger does something {PB) On 21/2/2006, the Times of India displayed a

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I have found Rashmi Bansal’s blog(on my blogroll-youth curry) one of my favorites as it has been consistently good. Rashmi Bansal’s review on “Rang De Basanti” is as great as the movie itself and seems to be the unanimous favorite; going by some of the posts “Rang De Basanti” also reminds one of the colorful holi scenes of the immortal classic, “Sholay” where actress Hema Malini is very colorful

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About four five days ago, in response to Rahul Gandhi’s speech, a congress stalwart described him as a “youth icon” and “hope for the future”.Yesterday , in an interview, Priyanka Gandhi said that the congress party shall decide who will be the leader when asked whether or not her children shall join politics. It seems that the congress party suffers from India’s Olympic syndrome. Just as a

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Several years ago, when Rahul Dravid was not a regular member of the one day cricket team, the then Captain, Saurav Ganguly had told him that if he wanted to keep his place in the side, he would have to keep wickets. Dravid did and gradually became an established one day player as well. After Saurav Ganguly’s return, in the current Indo-pak series, since Rahul Dravid himself opened in the first

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A couple of weeks ago, many people were peeved by the undignified removal of Saurav Ganguly from the Indian cricket team. Justice has been done and considering the fact that cricket is a religion in India, deserves an appropriate response:- Many people have felt strongly About Saurav being dropped wrongly Let us hope that Ganguly Is able to face shoaib with as much dexterity as he has faced

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On my recent trip to South east asia, I was served huge glasses of tea which reminded me of an interesting incident that happened several years ago. My immediate boss was tremendously entrepreneurial( He was to get three cars and six promotions in just one year and go on to a build a mega business of his own) but at that time being at a relatively junior level, he was saddled with a boss who was

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Surprised! Astonished? Don’t they seem as different as chalk and cheese and North pole and South Pole or isn’t talking about cabaret in Yoga’s context akin to finding a polar bear in Africa. One of my Aunts( an illustrious corporate executive’s wife) advised me to do a cabaret before starting Yoga when she came to know that I had a stiff body and hated doing Surya Namaskar( supposed to be warm

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This is a poem that I wrote years agao and got a good response from poetry discussion forums and on my website:- This is in response to one of my friend’s wife’s query , “ I feel so bored when my husband goes abroad. I don’t know what to do?.” I could not help but think on these lines ( in mischief; nothing serious):- Whenever he goes to Japan I can easily pitch in and hold the fort for your

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The Delhi times(October 20,2005) had a cute story on B(l)ooked your blog yet?Blooker prize aims to award blooks-books printed from blogs. Stephen fraser of Lullu, the organization behind the prize says, " Magazines are watching the growing literary. Publishers are publishing books depending upon the material published on blogs"Prominent blogger Cory Doctorow and a judge for the prize says that

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Though, literaly speaking, Saurav Ganguly failed only against the Pakistan series in India last year, literaly the whole media and the public has been after our most successful captian. These days, his every action and stroke in the Duleep tropy against North Zone is commented upon and the whole situation is projected as a do or die situation.Considering that cricket is a religion in India, a

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CNBC expert analyst,Mr Ashwini Gujral in his latest book “ How to make money trading derivatives” says on page 203 “ Treat the market as a lady and you will be happy. When a lady says no, the gentleman says no. It works well with the ladies as with the markets.” Mr Gujral is trying to explain that one has to bow to what the market dictates instead of trying to be egoistic and impose one own ego's

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This is a poem that I had written and posted on www.traderji.com on India's finance minister, Shri.P.Chidambaram when he presented this year's budget:- My dear Chidambaram Considering that you had to do a balancing act catering to a wide spectrum Considering that you had to pander to many a communist tantrum Your budget is so wonderful that one feels like beating a drum One doesn’t mind getting

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My article on "Spirituality and the stockmarket got printed in the October issue of the magazine "The Eternal Solutions". I have also written for "LIFE POSITVE" . For those of you who may be wondering that spirituality and stockmarket are like North Pole and South Pole(that was the Editor's first response but on reading the entire article, it was accepted straightaway), here are several

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I have been trying to be a professional trader for the past one and a half years and if there is one thing that I have learnt is that nobody can predict the market in the short run and in the long run only blue chips do well. The kind of monitoring that CNBC does of the market is actually required only by a professional trader which can be done with real time software. Most traders know that

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As against investment in shares stock trading is a business. Professionally it is taking off in India though in the United states, it is a full fledged profession. In Trading, one has to learn Technical Analysis or analysis of the market by graphs and indicators of momentum, volatility, trend, volume etc. The best software for that purpose is Metastock which I have. Trading is of three types-

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In one of the books on management of self it was given that if you are sitting on a chair, you cannot move yourself. But once out of the chair , you can move yourself and the chair as you are unattached to it. Similarly in meditation the maximum benefits are obtained when you are able to detach yourself from the mind to watch dispassionately. That is how by observing and watching the mind without

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There is an interesting story about Albert Einstein practicing management by objective. Einstein once wanted a paper clip for putting his papers together but the only clip that he used was severely bent out of place. His assistant found a whole box of new paper clips and thought that he had solved the problem but to his dismay Einstein used the new paper clip as a tool to straighten the old paper

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I just finished reading “ The monk who sold his Ferrari” and it made fantastic reading in light of the fact that I have read several spiritual and management books in the past. Considering that I have myself written an article “Don’t settle for less than a calling” which appeared in India’s life positive magazine in November’2001., I feel that the author’s r exhortation to find the one’s

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I had the good fortune to read Po Bronson’s “What should I do with my life”. In that Mr Bronson describes the ordeal of a writer trapped in a management job and similar other cases. Sometimes one may have a spontaneous inclination somewhere but the vagaries of life and vicissitudes of existence may make him forcefully follow something completely different. A reknowned writer from the Hindi film

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I find the current controversy surrounding Mr Advani really an over reaction to him labelling Mr Muhammad Ali Jinnah secular. First of all, considering that he, more than anybody else has been identified with the hindutva doctrine, one wonders whether such a statement is an attempt at running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. Some newspapers have reported a balancing act by him to queer

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