DISSECTION OF 'OUT OF BOX THINKING' !

Debacles knock our doors in two ways ! They come into one life because of one's wrong deeds or because our character is tested in unimaginable depths. It creates waves, they may be damped waves or uncontrolled waves. They make us focus on a point to make it big or focus on our mental depression. Never think about the latter part. Always consider problems as puny. Then comes a spark, from which one will break out of the cocoon of philistine principles. It kindles new thought.

What I've blabbered till now is a preamble for the ignition of Creativity and Innovation. Which corporate culture redefines as "out of the box thinking !". Creativity and Innovation seems to be the same, but the difference is quite discernible. Lack of these two things precludes this society from developing. The explanation is quite simple. There is neither a laptop nor this blog without innovation or creativity. Let's go into definitions.

Before explaining creativity, we've to understand what innovation is !

Innovation - Pardon ! I'm not going into the etymologies here, I'm not well educated with the inception of words. Innovation is the main reason for the man to have a choice of leading great life. Lets examine a newly born baby, how does he feel seeing a TV ? This present generation of developing India is still in the trance of admiring a mobile phone's uses. 10 Years back, the same country used to look at such innovations with awe. Innovation is something which leads to an invention, innovation is the manifestation of a purposeful idea. Who thought of a magnetic compass before it was made ? Who imagined a pen which imprints thoughts upon a touch ? Everything is innovation.

The greatest oblivion is that innovation has come to a saturation. It's always wrong because Innovative things are not defined in the past, and come without announcement in the future. Innovation is everywhere. Its like a Christopher Nolan's see-saw screenplay in Insomnia. Its in the idea of starting T20 internationals. Its in a Pranav Mistry's sixth sense technology ! In a smart phone. Innovation is a paradigm shifters. Most of the people have average IQs. Not exactly, I say that most of them are not innovative, they rarely understand what this world needs in the coming 10 years, or what this world is lacking since time immemorial.

But every human being is creative.

Creativity : Creativity is a follower of innovation. It deals with modifications, ramifications and renovations. Its something like a cat woman addition to a batman ! Every human can be creative, What it needs is a pinch of raw materials for creation. Some experiment with creativity, other judge it before experimenting. Creativity is a strict status quo stuff. Its just like making a 2-sim mobile breaking the idea of single sim mobile. Sim card is innovation, dual sim is creativity.

Creativity has no limit, where as innovation has. Innovation is an underlying mechanism over what we see as a machine. Birthday cake is an innovation, creativity has is the icing and flavors. The flavors are unlimited. It further gets creative with with candles, creams, names etc.

Creativity without innovation is too irritating to bear and jades thought. And innovation without creativity is too pristine to cope up with. Balancing these two is an art and it leads to a proper way of living.

I live in India and what I expect is a contemporary thought process that must muster Indian brains, which are regarded as some of the smartest brains in the world. What India is lacking, is innovation, it has lot of creativity. Indians are more used to modify someone's ideas. Indians are becoming too stereotypical. If not this society 'll certainly run into a quagmire which ultimately reflects the recklessness.

P.S. : While I was thinking on this article, an innovative thought came into my mind.

We often can't find how much water is mixed into milk. So lets make a beaker to fill the milk such that the beaker has a mark of the level of milk for exactly 1 Kg of milk. Now, if the milk gets diluted, since the densities of water and milk are different, the level of milk for 1 Kg 'll not be upto the mark (because density of milk is more than density of water). So we don't need a lactometer everytime, just sell beakers with 1 Kg water level mark. Now this beaker is an innovation. Wah... I'm scientist Keshav hahahaha !....

JAAGO VOTERS

This is a story of truth behind Indian mind set and Indian political scenario during the election campaign of 2009 narrated by a friend Vinay Talluri.

Situation at a polling booth

Hi all I just want to share how was the situation in a polling booth in our locality(I reside near ECIL Xroad/Nredmet X road secunderabad).My uncle(peddananna) is an active member(kaaryakartha,treasurer once) in ABCD party since decades,so in this elections the person who got MLA ticket from that party is very close friend of my uncle.On the day of election generally a person from every party sits in the polling booth in the name of polling agent. The actual intention behind this polling agent concept is when a member of everyparty sits there they will check whether the actual person in the list is voting or any other person is voting on his name(donga votes,rigging) etc. Why my uncle asked me to be as an agent is the members of the party asked huge amounts to sit as a polling agent and the contestant is a good person and he donot have much amount and don't like to distribute money,liquor for votes etc.He spent 2 lakhs totallyfor campaigning(think its the lowest according to my knowledge).
Coming to the scenario ,members from TDP,congress,PRP,BJP are in the booth.The most worst thing is those who are coming as polling agents are not coming as they got attracted towards the partie's ideologies, but they give us some amount as we are sitting here. They will be giving us a liquor party the next day. I would like to quote some dialogues of those people here.

A person asked me how much are they paying you?
Me:I said I have come as a volunteer not for money.
He:anna ilaa aithe neekemi vastadi anna?maree antha sincere ga
unda kooDadu.(Brother what will you get from this ? you shouldn't be that sincere)

Another person(we call him reliever)of congress came and asked the congress agent in our room whether he needs any food?
the person(agent) said that its thursday and I donot eat anything. Later the same person is telling that today however its holiday and moreover its thursday tomorrow let's all have a grand liquor party with remaining amount they have given us for campaigning.

After completing our lunch the agent of congress party started saying that in the last moment(last 45 to 30 min of polling) we can go for rigging.I was just stunned to listen to this When the time has come he and another person from PRP started requesting the presiding officers that want to do rigging atleast five or ten votes.
At the beginning the officer didnot accept it but later he also accepted.
Except one lady officer and me everyone is ready for rigging/false votes.They all have come to an understanding and started forcing us, at the beginning the lady officer didnot accept it but because of the force from other officers she too accepted reluctantly. She said if anyone(polling agent of other party) has any objection you cannot do this .So I thought that it is the best chance to make
use of ,if I donot hesitate now, later though I feel that that day I could/should have gone against them there will be no use. So I have objected to that gathering all the courage in me.Finally What I want to say is people should come from every political party volunterily to avoid rigging,they have to come based on the ground that they like the principles of the party but not for this money ,liquor etc hope this situation will change atleast in the coming years. There were no agents for parties like CPI,CPM,LSP. The reason might be these people donot have money
and are against to these things I hope.

They said what happens if they give some false votes?
I started shouting at them.Ok lets all do rigging.(sarE manamantha ilaagE rigging chEddam,desam naasanam aipothunna/aipoina parvaledu,dabbulu kosam evaDo pOsE oka peg liquor kosam dEsa bhavishyathuni naasanam chEddam)inka desam eppatiki baagu padakapoina parvaledu mana cheap desires satisfy aithE chaalu ani annaanu)The lady asked me to calm down and said that she will be on my side and we together didnot allow it After that I was abit afraid that whether anyone would beat me after
coming out but luckily it didnot happen.I was really happy for my reaction.


Jaihind.

I welcome all your opinions on this issue but please donot start fighting with thers points.And please stop posting replies like kudos ,great etc because the reason I started this thread is not for applause but want to reveal what is appening when people with registered numbers in the voters list are not coming forward to vote, their votes are being misused.

Thankyou.

A SANSKRIT SUBHASHITAM FOR A CHANGE

chintaayaashcha chitaayaashcha bindu maatram vishishyate...
chitaa dahati nirjeevam , chintaa dahati jeevitam!!

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meaning : There is a very little difference between chinta(worry) (चिंता) and chitaa(the death blaze) (चिता)..In fact its just the difference of a DOT.. But they make big difference-in-effect..
While chitaa burns the dead, chinta burns the living..

REALITY ABOUT REALITY SHOWS IN TELUGU CHANNELS !

This was a very good post from a discussion on reality shows in orkut, its pros and cons to the society...

Coming to the topic singing shows were good because seniors and eligible people use to come and are coming as judges.So they know what is our language ,tradition,values,etc and they encouraged those who came up with nice songs other than these meaning less club and mass songs(until ,unless they have a special round for this)so they were totally decent and entertaining most of the time.
But they started conducting for children below the age group of 15 which is really a bit dangerous cos as someone already said it is amounting to a lot of pressure on children they need to practice day and night and the channels sponsors announcing alot of prize money etc parents are becoming crazy that their ward should be the final winner irrespective of his interest and talent.Ultimately the children are the loosers .They are loosing their most memorable and enjoyable childhood.

They are creating a false illusion to the audience or aspirants that if we win in a reality show we will be going places in near future,etc but one must understand that its just a step to get a chance and a bit of stardom, but not true success, cos true success never comes in a day or an year.

Coming to the dance shows they are not at all good according to me



In many a dance shows most of the time the songs for which the contestants perform are songs with a mass beat/club songs.
I rarely find performance for a good melodious song with good meaning in lyrics and chance/scope for expression.
And here after the interference of choreographers from movies ,it has become much worse ,when the contestant whom the choreographers have trained losses in the competition they start over reacting particularly in the DEE program in ETV.

And the kind of dressing is really worse even the lady contestants.
And its more dangerous that children are being encouraged to do these programs.
Parents are not thinking about the dressing of their children .
I don't know the exact word in english(asbhyakaramaina dustulu)

Some one is saying why if we donot like them other lower class people are liking them.
I would like to say one thing for those who support these kind of programs which are creating a lot of negative impact on our culture.

Every person in our country thinks of improvement in the lifestyle of his and their next generations, which is really appreciable but then why not these people are not thinking about inculcating better and rich culture which we had in our past?

Along with the improvement in the financial position there must be improvement in the culture ,tradition ,ethics of the family but not degradation .But the latter is happening now in India

CORRUPT LEADERS... CORRUPT PEOPLE !

Having seen appeasements, publicity stunts, not matter all talk from many parties in 2009 elections, this is what I felt !

-People bash at politicians for giving money during elections, but they never speak with others about not to accept money !! They feel happy when they get money.

- People laugh when one politician speaks about other and comments that system has become bullshit, but they never stop watching the tamasha and never attempt for a change !!

- Our media portrays every absurd logic to increase their TRP ratings, but people never neglect them !!

-People never check the overall manifesto... they always hear the boons given by govt. during election times.... and they never check about the efficiency with which the manifesto was maintained in their tenure ! They rarely monitor change.

- People seldom think about overall development, they think of developing their own community.

I feel that there must be a school/system/schedule to educate about the development done and to remove such ignorance !

QUESTIONNAIRE WITH APJ ABDUL KALAM

This was an article from the site of The Indian Express

•Coomi Kapoor: Which of the former presidents were you most inspired by?

I believe every President before me contributed something in their respective fields -- some in politics, some in education and others in social activities. I was going through some papers at Rashtrapati Bhawan and I found a letter our first president, Rajendra Prasad, wrote to Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman in 1954, asking him to come to Rashtrapati Bhawan to accept the Bharat Ratna. Anyone would have jumped at the offer. Then I saw Sir CV Raman’s reply to President Prasad’s invitation. It said, “Dear Mr President, I thank you for giving me such a great honour, but I have a problem. I am guiding a scholar and he is submitting his thesis in December-January. I have to sign the thesis and won’t be able to accept the invitation.” The message here is that for Sir CV Raman, his student’s research meant more than anything else. The Bharat Ratna, of course, was awarded to Dr Raman in absentia.

Rajendra Prasad is one of our great Presidents, so iss S. Radhakrishnan, Zakir Hussain and there are a number of other Presidents too.


•Dhiraj Nayyar: One of your passions is the youth of this country. But is there any reason to assume that the youth is any different from the older generation? So what make you optimistic about the youth?

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams. For example, tomorrow if I address a group of youngsters and talk about the flag flying in my heart and how I will uphold the dignity of the nation, I can get them to dream. But if I talk to people who are 40, 50 or 70 plus, it will not go down that well. Secondly, the youth have fewer biases about their society as compared to the grown-ups.

•Sameer Kumar: Do you think India can successfully develop indigenous defence systems?
Many nations economies are driven by the type of defence system they sell. If they don’t sell defence systems or defence products that country’s economy will collapse. So aggressive marketing is going on wherever defence systems are manufactured. But India must learn to be competitive too. Competitiveness involves cost, quality, and marketing.

•SEEMA CHISHTI: On your website, in your e-newspaper Billion Beats and in all the issues you discuss, there is an engagement with ideas but it seems as if you are skirting the social context in which India lives. What are your thoughts on the context that an average Indian finds himself in?

I will ask you three questions. One, is providing urban amenities in rural areas an abstraction? No, it is not because it is the reality. India has 600,000 villages but few towns and cities. So if you go to my website, all the lectures will be about how to establish this and how it has been established by individuals. Number two, my website talks about the importance of primary education. Third, a nation that does not have a vision dies. My 2020 vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract, it is a lifeline. That is what my website and my e-paper talk about.




•SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI: What was the reaction among senior leaders in the government, first in the NDA and later in the UPA, to your vision? Were they just polite or did they take you seriously?

First of all, I don’t have a Kalam vision. India 2020 is the national vision. As the Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee announced ‘India Vision 2020’ in Parliament and then he announced it at the Red Fort on Independence Day. And he definitely meant it. Then, after Manmohan Singh took over, at a governors’ conference, he said the Government would do everything to make ‘Vision India 2020’ a reality. No political system can survive without a vision for the nation.

•Shekhar Gupta: How did the political class respond to a technocrat President?

When I took over as President, I studied the Constitution and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the President of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies, everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations. For example, my guru, Dr Vikram Sarabhai, had a vision. In 1970, there was no geo-synchronous satellite in orbit but there was an experimental satellite. He said India should build a satellite launch vehicle to put a communication satellite in orbit to connect that country and a remote sensing satellite to find out all the resources. Now, there are 11 communication satellites, nine remote sensing satellites and we can go to the moon too. Likewise, the green revolution happened because of two visionaries -- C. Subramanyam, the food minister then, and Swaminatham, the agriculturist. They said we must become self-reliant. Today we make 230 million tonnes of food. So, vision drives the nation.


•Shekhar Gupta: When you addressed politicians with your vision, was there ever any conflict?

Yes, when I touched the political side. For example, when I suggested in Parliament that we need a two-party system, there was a lot of criticism. It is all part of the game. That is democracy and that is how we survive.

•Shekhar Gupta: Did any politician ever tell you this is the business of politics and that you are an oddball?

No, they were very comfortable with me. Somehow it clicked because I had no axe to grind. When I say I have a vision for the development of the nation and its rural areas, who can say no? Can you find one politician who can say that development is not necessary for the country? He will not get votes if he does.

•Vandita Mishra: In the run up to these elections, there is a general perception that regional parties are driving a hard bargain and that national parties have lost ground. Do you have a prediction for this election?

This is the era of coalition politics, whether you like it or not. I had promoted the two-party system. But the coalition system is what has emerged. A new situation may emerge. We may have a coalition in the state and a coalition at the Centre and the two coalitions may become two important political parties -- like groupings. Like-minded people come together -- even if the ideologies are different, they come together for power or to make the nation prosperous. If you have well developed minds, then a good political system may emerge where you have a two-party system. If you look at the country’s economic record, economic prosperity happened when coalition governments were in power. That means we should all work for two-party system.

•Surabhi: What do you think should be done to bridge the digital divide in the country?

With IT, it’s like this. If IT produces $60 billion worth of products, $40-45 billion is exported. I advocate that IT industries and IT products should become IT system products. That means you integrate multiple systems and evolve one system. So we should be talking about system development, not development of parts. You see the cell phone penetration in India. Similarly, IT will reach rural areas.

•Shweta Dutta: What is your vision beyond 2020?

I have given a Vision 2050 in my area -- the space industry. The world forums are accepting my visions 2050. I am busy with my vision 2020 for the nation because we only have 11 more years.

•Sunny Verma: Have you ever thought of changing your hairstyle?

Whether I like it or not, my hair grows. Whenever I feel like it, I cut it. The same fellow comes and cuts it. I don’t say how it should be done. But it flows, natural phenomenon. That is all I can say.

•Praveen Singh: What’s the role of the media in nation-building and what, according to you, will be the shape of media in 2020 and beyond?

The media is the only system that can become a partner to national development and in building a good society. I call it ‘media for a billion’. That means, you can’t just be an urban media, you have to be the media of the nation.

•Dhiraj Nayyar: Does it worry you that there are not enough people in India who do science and engineering?

Science leads to technology, technology leads to products and marketing. Now the type of technology we used in India has already been developed elsewhere. So if you want to be in the top 10 of the global competitive index, science -- the fundamental nature of science – has to grow. I am promoting what is called ‘science cadre’. According to this, 400-500 people who do their MSc and PhD will have assured employment. And then, we need leaders like Sir CV Raman. For him, a Bharat Ratna is not important, a scholar is important.

•Dhiraj Nayyar: Most of our researchers go abroad. So unless our own education system is reformed, all our best people will go for research elsewhere.

I saw the Professor Yashpal report. It talks about our university set up. We have two systems-- the university system and the IIT system. The IIT-IEC is a powerful establishment for India as well as abroad. Regarding the university research, teaching research definitely a movement has started. Out of two per cent GDP for a science and technology .8 per cent is to be pumped into fundamental research.

•Sameer: How did you tackle Mr Musharaf when he visited India?

I met Musharrafji at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Just before that the SAARC countries chief? paid a visit and I said that India and SAARC countires have two enemies: poverty and disease. When the former Pakistan President was with me, I gave a presentation to him on how instead of fighting each other, the two nations should get together and fight disease poverty through development. He calmly heard and smiled. Come to Pakistan, he said. I told him, first you resolve your problems with India.

WHO THE HELL IS SACHIN TENDULKAR

Sachin must have got vexed up with questions like - "What are you made of ?", "Still howmany days you'd play" and so on.... I sometimes think why on earth is Sachin playing cricket for so long time. Is he insane, he could have given opportunities to many cricketers. Whats great in achieving records ? Its just like me playing the same EA sports cricket-07 whenever I get time. Playing the same shots, facing the same bowlers, playing on the same pitches and repeating the same shots and scores.



But Sachin has now become an exception, he answers every time... ask these questions to someone like Saurav or Dravid. Though everybody is exceptionally well in their their own styles, this passage is all about Sachin tendulkar.
Most of the worlds batsmen show their class. Sachin show the path to live.He just tells u - "concentrate","fight","survive","take responsibility"... whatever u grasp from his temperament on the pitch !

Its not so surprising that he has influenced so many people... so many people that - a student who aims for a good career pastes the newspaper article of Sachin making 12000 runs !.. so influencing that the influenced ones established a religion called Sachinism (http://www.sachinism.com).

The 10 commandments of Sachinism are as follows ! (Source : An article from www.sachinism.com)

1.COURAGE CONQUERS FEAR--- Believe in yourself , You can do better than what others expect from you , 75 + international hundreds wernt dreamt off a decade ago .

2.READ ,ANALYZE ACT ---Its important to have a plan B. SOmetimes things dont go as planned ,analyze the situation before reacting to it , like every wicket is not a 300+ wicket similarly every war cant be won .

3.KEEP THE FIRE BURNING--- No matter what height you reach , sky doesnt have a limit , there's always scope for improvement ........remember ur as good as your last Inning .

4. A TREE WITHOUT ROOTS IS JUST A DEAD PIECE OF WOOD --- Keep your feet firmly rooted to the ground , its easy to get carried away by success, greats dont let it get to their head .

5. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS --- Keep ur tongue where it belongs (firmly in ur cheek) , your acts can make people look at the mirror and introspect .....harsh words merely reflect frustration .


6.TOUGH TIMES DONT LAST, TOUGH PEOPLE DO ---- There are highs and lows in everyone life , You have to be strong when the time demands it .

7. KEEP IT SIMPLE ---- The simpler you are , the lesser are your chances of messing up , Style fades away , simplicity is always in vogue .

8. TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY ----Take the responsibility and act accordingly , 91 in 190 odd balls can make you look very very ordinary , but if it helps in the bigger objective(Winning) than its worth it .


9.BE PATIENT --- Rome was not built in a day , 26k runs were not made in a single series , when it took 18 years for Sach to achieve all this , what makes you think you can make a difference in a day, week, month or year .


10.KEEP ON MOVING ---Failure is a part of life ,and like success you shouldn't allow this to effect you either , one chance, one, year , one choce , one world cup .................it doesnt mean the end of the world ....

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Hope people stop being obsessed treating Sachin as God and live upto what Sachin is for cricket ! I wish to meet Sachin one day and decide that hes shorter than me !!