Probably this will be in papers tomorrow, but its party time at the indian school of business today.
FT (Financial times) rated ISB the 20th best B School in the worldhttp://rankings.ft.com/global-mba-rankings
And its the only indian school in top 100. This is the first time ISB participated in rankings, since only schools above 5 yrs in service can participate and isb just turned 6.
Another link of interest
Top Consulting and finance pay :
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3f930b0c-cb17-11dc-97ff-000077b07658.html
Sorry about the bragging , but if u dint realize this is BIGGGGG and its only natural that one feels proud.
--Badri--
P,S : this is surely the biggest milestone in the 6 yr history of the school.
I searched for God couldnt find proof for existence of one
Longed for a guru but found none
Read many books and confused myself and my brethren
Became skeptic and argued about everything from tantra to zen
Nothing seemed to be right and no one in flesh seemed realized
In my hunt for enlightenment i got demoralized
Why do i want liberation, How can i be a bhaktha if god is a myth
The questions are huge and so is my frustrations width
Greed came in under the guise of survival essential,
Then anger, lust and every sin you can name seemed inconsequential
Bah Karma is a bluff and we are but specks in a large universe
I did tell myself and reread richard dawkins every atheist verse
But oh mother i feel ashamed of myself when i see your picture on the wall
Although every claim of your presence a bluff i would call
What am I going through and where am I headed
What do i do to get my ego shreded
Bhagawan Ramana said so do vichara and I tried
But the mind resists and every few seconds i cried
Am i filled with so much filth that purification is impossible
Or am i such a genious that abating my thought storm is not feasible.
Nah this mind should be silenced and the thoughts stopped
All that destroys calmness and equanimity must be dropped
I might not believe in god nor in realization
But there is a better way to go through life and thats through de-ramification
What do i do to maintain the calm
When for bread and existence I ship in the storm
I dont want to give up and say realization is through prarabdha or destiny
If i cant calm my mind now, my having sown seeds in a previous birth to calm it seems funny.
Guide me oh masters and my mother, if you do exist
I dont want intellect or siddhis through which i can persist
Just one boon i need and all the evils of this world i will resist
Tell me how my when thoughts arise upon them silence i can insist.
--Badri--
If a guy promises to marry a gal, and cos he has promised to marry she has sex with him, but later on he decides not to marry or he just cant marry then the following are true
i) He raped her
ii) She dint consent to have sex she was just willing to have sex
iii) Her consent is not "legal consent"
So says who : New Delhi Court. More at the below given link
Sex after false promise of marriage is rape: Court
For fear of being sued under contempt of court, i shall just say three words - Oh Come On!!!
--Badri--
After making a detailed plan for the expenses for the month and storing the same as a xls on my hard disk, my computer crashed. mobo problem. But I was wise I had set aside 5k for incidental expenses. Got myself a new mobo and a processor(my old processor wont do well on this processor) costed me 6.4k a tad above my budget but i thought that was ok.
Came home fixed the mobo and processor , everything was going alright and dadack!!! i dropped the screw driver on the mobo , it scratched the circuit and i find myself spending another 2.5k now - so much for planning. :(
--Badri--
Its kinda ironical but while a SBI Credit Cards sales person ran behind me for almost a week, called me several times to sell a credit card that I dint need much.
A recovery agent, today, called my home and my dad 5-6 times within 3 hrs, for a 1 month delay in payment of Rs.1120 , two years after i purchased the card from SBI.
I dont understand, at one end these companies want to do business, at the other the qualities such as customer friendliness and all that crap is totally forgotten. I can understand the need for recovery agents but what i cant understand is
i) why does the agent call my house or my dad, when sbi has my cell number
ii) why does he use abusive language
iii) why do they harass people with so many calls.
iv) why do these morons have to call me and remind me to pay when yesterday i called them and told them i have dropped the cheque and apologized for the late payment - guys havent u heard of something called a tracking system.
v) u do fine folks for late payment right, 350 or wateva and its just one month delay, so fine me go ahead and see if i still dont pay next month why all this hurry is SBI going bankrupt without my 1120 rupees.
vi) why cant i make a complain against these people at some place/forum/council and get to see some justice - a call to their 'every friendly' customer "support" helped me get a sorry - i guess thats the maximum justice i can get
The other day a medical shop fellow , took me for a ride by charging me 1 rupee extra on a 6 rupee purchase, why cos no bills are given for a 6 rupee purchase, no one checks to see if they are charged right for such small amounts , and while trading at such small quantities that re.1 extra is a business "adjustment".
When i questioned him , he bad mouthed me and said he doesnt need such bad customers. When i threatened to lodge a complaint he confidently replied "go and tell who ever you want I feed enough people to handle trouble makers like you". Sometimes I get scared of living in such a society - NDTV, Citizen Journalist TVs , somebody listen to me , help help help.......
How do I fight these folks....
--Badri--
Doesn't it so often seem that Shakespeare was so totally correct when he said all the world is a stage and we mere actors. When you look at this stage and actors thingy with you as the point of reference then well your life is the drama and the folks around you the actors ,you the hero(finally one place where u can be that) and someone unknown the script writer/director.
For some strange reason this director introduces new character quite so often, One such character to enter this play(my life) was a colleague called "Shubashri". Not all these characters that are introduced get closely woven into the main stream of the story. Some stay for a few scenes and fade away to come later.
But Shubashri this morning decided to sign off for ever. She passed away this morning after a being hospitalized for 8 days post an accident she met with on new years eve.
Interestingly I was a character too in her short but i am sure beautiful play. I hope I played my part well.
God bless you Shubashri, may your soul rest in peace.
--Badri--
P.S: Strange are the ways of the world. I dint post a blog when my grandmother(one of the greatest and most important characters in my play) died, perhaps I dint feel so saddened then cos I was expecting the same, she was old, hospitalized, suffering from heart problems etc, but today was so depressed that i had to give my thoughts words.
Recently got myself a 5paisa.com share trading account. Although I am not a frequent intra day trader I figured an account like 5paisa with a 0.03% brokerage on intraday trading might come in handy.
With an investment of INR 5000 i made INR 284 at the end of trading session yesterday of which 5paisa charged me Rs.101 as brokerage.
Today with the same investment i was hovering at around Rs.450 in profit and 180 shares of HCL tech sold at 321.40 that i was hoping to buy back at 321.10. Boom - net connection crashes. As hard as i might try the5paisa account wouldn't help me connect. Left with no other options I called the friendly broker at 5paisa and told him about my situation , he got my username and password and pin(which on second thoughts was perhaps a bad idea) and tried to square off for the day but as luck would have he couldnt succeed too.
With 5 min left on the clock for market close my browser managed to connect to 5paisa account and i had just abt time to click one button - 'square off'. At hcl tech trading at 322 i had to buy back at a loss. With brokerage running close to 450 for the day and me registering a few rupees in loss. At first sights not a great way to start trading this new year. Not only because of the loss, but also cos of the panic, the frantic phone calls, the adrenalin rush, the pumping of fists , shouting etc.
But on retrospection it was my avarice that did me in. So there was something there to learn. Also there were 2 other important lessons to learn
i) never trade online in the last 30 min of market
ii) 5paisa is not 5paisa there are way too many hidden charges.
Now that i have so much gyan and some idea on how to day trade using 5paisa account i guess it was totally worth it. After all taking both days of trading together i still end up with Rs.40 in profit. :)
cheers,
--Badri--
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