S. Venkatachalapathy

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...