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Monday, July 2, 2007

THE INDIAN WAY OF DOING THINGS- Divorce and Businessdeals.

THE INDIAN WAY OF DOING THINGS- Divorce

After 48 years of marriage, an elderly Sindhi man in Bombay calls his
son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day son, but I have to
tell you that your mother and I are getting a divorce; 45 years of
misery is enough!"

"Dad, what are you talking about?" the son screams.

"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says.

"We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about
this,so you call
your sister in Hong Kong and tell her!"

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone.
"Like heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this."
She calls Bombay immediately, and screams at the old man,
"You are not getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get
there. I'm calling my
Brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow.Until then, don't do a
thing, DO YOU HEAR??" and she hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay", he says,
"It's all set. They're both coming for Diwali and paying
their own airfare!!"
WHAT A BRIGHT IDEA TO BRING BACK OUR CHILDREAN HOME!!!

SYL

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THE INDIAN WAY OF DOING THINGS- Business

Three contractors . . . one from India, another from Germany and the
third from England are bidding to repair the White House fence. They go
with a White House official to examine the fence.

The English contractor takes out a tape measure and does some
measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says. "I
figure the job will run $900 . . . $400 for materials, $400 for labour
and $100 profit for me."

The German contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says,
"I can do this job for $700 . . . $300 for materials, $300 for my crew
and $100 profit for me."

The Indian contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the
White House official and whispers: "$2,700."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the
other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

"Easy," the Indian explains, "$1,000 for you, $1,000 for me and we hire
the guy from Germany to do the work."

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Lipstick

According to a news report, a certain private school in Sydney was
recently faced with a unique problem .

A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would
put it on in the bathroom.

After they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the
mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the
girls would put them back.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done .

She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the
maintenance man.

She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem
for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night - ( you can
just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she
asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was
required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and
cleaned the mirror with it.

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror ..

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Moral to this story:-

There are teachers.... And then there are educators ..

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Raju Narayanaswamy IAS

,___ The story of one of three members of TASK FORCE FOR EVACUATION
in munnar...!!!!!!!

Dear friends,
Pls Read this article and think about RAJU NARAYANASWAMY IAS
First Rank in State in Secondary School Examination
First Rank in University in Plus Two
First Rank in IIT Entrance Examination
First Rank in All India IIT Computer Science
First Rank in IAS Entrance Examination
First Rank in IAS Training Institute
On passing out from IIT Chennai Mr. Narayanaswamy was offered
scholarship by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, USA . He who came from a middle class family believed that he had
a moral obligation to give something in return for the lakhs of
rupees the government spent on him as an IIT student. He had the
intelligence and conviction to realize that this money came also
from the poorest of the poor - who pay up the excise duty on
textiles when they buy cloth, who pay up customs, excise and sales
tax on diesel when they travel in a bus, and in numerous other ways
indirectly pay the government. So he decided to join IAS hoping he
could do something for the people of this country. How many young
men have the will power to resist such an offer from USA ?
Narayanaswamy did never look at IAS as a black money spinner as his
later life bears testimony to this fact.
After a decade of meritorious service in IAS, today, Narayanaswamy
is being forced out of the IAS profession. Do you know why?
A real estate agent wanted to fill up a paddy field which is banned
under law. An application came up before Narayanaswamy who was sub
collector the, for an exemption from this rule for this plot of
land. Upon visiting the site he found that the complaint from 60
poor families that they will face water logging due to the waste
water from a nearby Government Medical College if this paddy field
was filled up was correct. Narayanswamy came under intense political
pressure but he did what was right - refused permission for filling
up the paddy field. That was his first confrontation with
politicians.
Soon after his marriage his father-in-law closed down a public road
to build compound wall for his plot of land. People approached
Narayanaswamy with complaint.
When talking with his own father-in-law did not help, he removed the
obstructing wall with police help. The result, his marriage broke
up.
As district Collector he raided the house of a liquor baron who had
defaulted Rupees 11 crores payment to government and carried out
revenue recovery. A Minister directly telephoned him and ordered to
return the forfeited articles to the house of the liquor baron.
Narayanswamy politely replied that it is difficult. The minister
replied that Narayanaswamy will suffer.
In his district it was a practice to collect crores of rupees for
earthen bunds meant for poor farmers, but which were never
constructed. A bill for rupees 8 crores came up before
Narayanaswamy. He inspected the bund. He found it very weak and said
that he will pass the bill after the rainy season to ensure that the
bund served the purpose. As expected the earthen bund was too weak
to stand the rain and it disappeared in the rain. But he created a
lot of enemies for saving 8 crores public money. The net result of
all such unholy activities was that he was asked to go on leave by
the government. Later such an illustrious officer was posted as
"State Co-Ordinator, Quality Improvement Programme for Schools".
This is what the politician will do to a honest officer with
backbone - post him in the most powerless position to teach him a
lesson. Since he found that nothing can be achieved for the people
if he continued with the State Service he opted for central service.
But that too was denied on some technical ground.
What will you do when you have a brilliant computer career anywhere
in the world you choose with the backing of several advanced
technical papers too published in international journals to your
credit?
When you are powerless to do anything for the people, why should you
waste your life as the Co-Ordinator for a Schools Programme?
Mr. Narayanaswamy is on the verge of leaving IAS to go to Paris to
take up a well paid United Nations assignment. The politicians can
laugh thinking another obstacle has been removed. But it is the
helpless people of this country who will lose - not Narayanaswamy.
But you have the power to support capable and honest bureaucra ts
like Narayaswamy, G.R.Khairnar and Alphons Kannamthanam who have
suffered a lot under self seeking politicians who rule us. You have
even the power to replace such politicians with these kind of people
dedicated to the country. The question is will you do the little
you can do NOW? At least a vote or word in support of such
personalities?
Please convey this mail as much as possible
--
K DEVARAJ
Ph.D SCHOLAR,
THERMAL TURBOMACHINES LABORATORY,
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING,
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS ,
CHENNAI-600 036.
Mobile : +91-9840618967
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understand your objective, you will be wasting your time in actions.
Know your objective first " -