S. Venkatachalapathy

When December starts every year, some how people irrespective of religion starts some spiritual exercises. This may be because of the Christians who often start Christmas celebrations from the start of December and continue with their choir through out the month with the Santa Claus moving with them to the home of every member of the particular church. By December Muslims would have completed their Ramzan fast and would have amply expressed their spirituality. Now it is the time for Hindus. The 45 days sanctity is to be adhered for all these purification exercises because it is believed that all the cells in our body will be replaced by new cells within 45 days. So some one instituted the Ayyappa Temple based on some stories in epics that Ayyappa is common to both Vaishnava and Saiva cults of Hinduism. Saivaits have their own vradha in January and go on pilgrimages to Lord Muruga’s Temple. The preparations involves rigorous exercises like getting up early in the morning and t

In my last article I have concluded that health is in our hands. That leaves a question in us, ' When and how best we can take the help of the doctors. Certainly there are many occasions we are dependent on the services of the so called health care professionals. Some of the occasions one can think of is as follows. 1.At times of certain infection causing fever, rashes and acute body pain. 2.When some one has diarrhea and vomiting 3.When some one is wounded in accident and in the course of games. 4.At times of insect and reptile bite. 5.Wounds due to animal and human attack. 6.Severe pain in any part of the body. 7.Excessive continuous discharge of body liquids. 8.When some one is unconsciousness or semiconscious 9. Excessive intoxication due to drug or alcohol 10. When some one is facing difficulty in breathing 11.During emergency conditions to provide life saving care. When we take somebody, we must be conscious not to get excited

Most of us have great faith on God. Being pious is a comforting feeling and adds to the psychological strength. If we have some problems, we pray God and we believe that our prayer is heard. Most of the time the problem get solved or we accept the bad results as our fate. Similar faith we seem to build on the doctors. If we are ill we go to doctors and religiously obey their words and gulp what ever they give as medicines. I have asked many of my friends and acquaintances, who are under treatment for some common ailments like fever about the medicines they take. Even well educated people are ignorant of the names of the medicines they take. So people have great faith in doctors and this really makes doctors to behave like super human beings in charge of the life and health of living beings. In this part of the world where I live doctors want every one of their patients to patiently wait for hours in the ill equipped waiting room. Friends are no exception to this general waiting

If there is an activity which works against Newton's third law of motion viz., for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction it is human communication. The law of communication can be defined as to every communication there is a reaction in the same direction or in the opposite direction or no reaction at all. This makes the practicing of this trait very interesting and challenging. If you smile you will get a smile in return. If you smile you will be stared at sometimes. If you smile you may get back an angry look or even get scolded! If you advance your hand to shake hands you might receive the other person's hand or some times you might get a Namaskar. If you shout at someone you might be returned with a shout or some times the other person may obey. Communication is basically a stimulus. The response depends on so many factors. Many guidelines can be suggested. But one must be willing to harness the skill rather than continuing with the habitual

Punctuality is a trait that appears to be personal and inter personnel. Personally one could feel proud about being punctual. However when there is a phone call or some unexpected guest reaching , keeping up the time becomes difficult. In the present life, amidst the electronic boxes viz. Mobile phones, TVs and Computers, stress to maintain punctuality is high. When an individual's mind is strongly habituated to observe punctuality, ways to do things in time is automatically devised. However, compliance of the ways very much depends on people around including those who can access on mobile phones. When one observes punctuality very strictly,some times people who have to go with us may feel comfortable and some times they may feel uncomfortable and even let down . The stress to maintain time increases as the no. of people involved are more. If we fail to maintain punctuality, there is huge collective interference loss of time. For instance if three people are to leave to a

As expressed by an eager participant The school management felt an urgent need to train us on soft skills so that we the teachers can perform better and the students excellence can go up. It was decided to get the services of United Soft Skills to achieve this. Twenty five teachers handling class LKG to 10th standard Matriculation stream of education were selected for the series program. On the first day there were sessions on Listening skills and communication skills. The atmosphere was cool. The faculties were dedicated to their mission. The slide presentations were colorful. I was very happy with the sessions and when a feed back report was asked for, I was enthusiastic to prepare the best. Language was a barrier because there were better qualified among the group but my enthusiasm was up beat. Suddenly I could remember the faculty stating that some times communication can happen even with limited language skills! Is it true ? Is this the kind of feeling one experiences whe

During Soft Skills Training To Teachers of Meenakshi Matriculation Higher Secondary School  Er. K.Muthuraju, Er.Venkat.  

Lakhs & Crores of people are ahead of me and lakhs are behind me, we are all running “Where are we going?” I asked some one by my side. “People ahead of us are clear about the destination, they know everything. So we are following them.” “People behind us can also think like that, so could the assumption be wrong?” I said. He stared at me and started running. “What can we see at the end of our journey?” I enquired another. “You can reach glittering heaven and God will welcome us there”. “Is there any one who has seen this and returned or some one who can confirm this?” “You are an atheist and you will not achieve anything and you will never allow any one else to achieve”. He cursed me and went ahead. Without giving up, I asked the next guy, “Why are we running?” He said “Our legs are created for running and we have been trained to run and so we are running.” “If we have been trained to stand, relax and sit then can we conclude that legs are for that only?”

Festivals are for rejoicing the relationship of our friends, relatives and professional associates. Gifts are mediums for expressing the love, affection and fellowship. It is customary in India to gift sweet boxes and make people around happy during festivals like Deepavali. I have a practice of offering Rasgolla tins to all my employees and close relatives every Deepavali. I like the taste and rationally evaluated Rasgolla as the best sweet available based on so many considerations. Some dislike the taste of this sweet and when they receive a tin from me as Deepavali gift, force a smile and murmur a life less “Thank You”. But there is a group of people who like Rasgolla like me. They wait for their turn and beam a smile that nullifies the hostile effect of the earlier group. Each one has his or her story behind this. When they go home the day before Deepavali, the family members some times even elderly people used to eagerly ask whether Rasgolla has come. Uncles and aunties after g

It was a Saturday evening. My son, a very bright mechanical engineer had come for the weekend and just wanted to go out for dinner. On the way he asked his mother whether we can buy a microwave oven. From the driving seat I replied that an offer like this should never be made to ladies since there is absolutely no likelihood for a ‘No’. One could guess what could have been the reaction. My son started feeling that I am a little old fashioned and a hurdle in modernising the kitchen. My wife didn’t want to loose the pride of owning a microwave oven. I tried to reason out my objections for two reasons. 1.Since the demand for the oven had not come from the lady who is supposed to use it, there is every likelihood that the equipment may not receive the attention that is required to put it to effective use. 2.I have not made any literature survey about this technology and do not have information about the mechanism, the advantages, the power consumption, the running cost and finally the ef

A simple boon for common man Gayathri Manthra is the prayer of United Smart Soft skills and I would like to put on this blog why at all we chose this. The verse dates back to Rig Veda period when no religion was conceived. This was dedicated to this world by Brahma Rishi Maha Maha Viswamithra. This is a basically a prayer and exercise to enhance the intelligence and increase the awareness, the fundamental requirements for soft skills. How both are achieved by this manthra? Is it scientific or miraculous? When the mechanism of a miracle is understood it can be catagorised as scientific. The manthra has four lines including the prefix called vyahruthi, the first line of vedic manthras. OM BHUR BHUVA: SUVA: THATH SAVITHUR VARENNYAM BHARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHI DHIYOO YO NA: PRACHODHAYATH. The literal word by word meaning is as follows. OM- The pranavam Bhur- wake state Bhuva: - dream state Suva: -sleep state Thath Savithur- That Savithur( SUN GOD) Varennyam- the best be

Entrepreneurship is a wonderful experience. If you are one who is in any manufacturing activity, you are doubly blessed, to feel happy about the products you manufacture and the customer satisfaction that your team produces. The biggest right you have under the sun is to orient your organization in the direction of your dreams. You may use any B-school jargons like mission or vision to make a show off that you have had the so called management education. Literally only your management skills make you cherish your higher platform and not your B-School scores. You have a wonderful position giving you access to almost all those who are working towards the goals set by you and those who are outside too, helping you in your mission. You enjoy the privilege of being driven internally by your own creative intelligence. You enjoy your unlimited freedom to live each and every moment as you wish creating new values, setting better examples and shouldering social responsibilities. How to enhance

It appears to be so funny when I listen to the +2 passed guys spell out their choice of the branch of study they want to take up. Some guys say that they want to take up bio-technology . Some guys want only electronics and communication Engineering …!!! If they say that they want to take up computer science, it sounds little logical, because they have some feel of the process of computer programming. But with near zero knowledge about ECE & Bio-tech how they have become passionate about these two branches? There is one more comedy called bio informatics. The colleges are definitely making huge collections exploiting this craze. Once the guys finish their engineering, the management education craze starts. Most of the Management institutes have a single building, a medium size library, two class rooms and a small seminar hall. This is their infrastructure!! They collect astronomical fees of the order of 13 lakhs. to 16 lakhs. A multi million racket is in place for looting money

Some perceive Sree Krishna as the God, some adore him for he condensed the essence of Vedas and dedicated them through Baghavat Geeta, some try to establish that he is the Avatar of Perumal the Hindu God and thus tactfully restrict his great work only to the so called Vaishnavas a sect in Hinduism. Some one wanted to release Sree Krishna’s works from Vaishnavas and formed International Society For Krishna Consciousness(ISKON). We have to; in a way appreciate the work of ISKON without which I would not have had the opportunity to buy Baghavat Geeta. I bought this book from a guy who came to my door steps and solemnly pleaded that I take a copy for Rs.100/-. The only thought at that time was to just buy this book since I was taught in school that Bagavath Geeta is the holy book of Hindus. Since I was born as Hindu I thought at least I should read once what has been said in the holy book. I had completed two courses in Bible during my school days. There were also some portions of Ra