A Hymn from Shri Guru Granth Sahib(SGGS)
On occasion of Women’s Day, I most humbly post the translation of a very apt hymn from SGGS regarding the Status of Women in Sikhism.
This hymn,originally in Gurmukhi script,was composed by Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji and it is on page 473 of SGGS.
The most common and literal meaning of the hymn is expressed herebelow :
One translation goes thus :
” From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.”
Another translation, in slightly different words,goes like this :
From a woman he is born,
With a woman he is betrothed and married,
With a woman he contracts friendship.
Why denounce her, the one from whom even kings are born ?
None may exist without a woman.”
The Case Of the Curious Chicken-Part V
After a long break subsequent to Part IV a few months ago,I have now caught up with the chicken saga.Here is some thing more funny and ridiculous :
Why Did the Chicken Really Cross the Road?
OK, relish this piece,till I enjoy my chicken sandwich with my favourite sauce !
Byravee Iyer February 02, 2010 (Business Standard)
Naukri.com celebrates the nascent economic recovery by bringing back the demon boss.
Remember Hari Sadu, the arrogant boss who is shown his place by a junior who has just landed another job? Well, he’s back. This time, you don’t see him but there are profanities scribbled on his door. Every letter of his name has been expanded: Hernia, allergy, ring worm, insane, swine, acidity, dandruff, underwear and so on. The background voice intones: Who is this rakshas (demon)? The chorus replies: Hari Sadu. The 26-second ad ends with the tagline: “Bye bye recession, Happy New Year”.
The insight of using difficult bosses in its commercials came from the finding that 90 per cent of people leave their jobs because of their bosses. “Which is why Hari Sadu has become synonymous with unreasonable bosses,” Singh says.
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When you take a long time, you’re slow.
When your boss takes a long time, he’s thorough. When you don’t do it, you’re lazy.
When your boss doesn’t do it, he’s too busy. When you make a mistake, you’re an idiot.
When your boss makes a mistake, he’s only human. When doing something without being told, you’re overstepping your authority.
When your boss does the same thing, that’s initiative. When you take a stand, you’re being pig-headed.
When your boss does it, he’s being firm. When you overlooked a rule of ettiquette, you’re being rude.
When your boss skips a few rules, he’s being original. When you please your boss, you’re arse-creeping.
When your boss pleases his boss, he’s being co-operative. When you’re out of the office, you’re wandering around.
When your boss is out of the office, he’s on business. When you’re on a day off sick, you’re always sick.
When your boss has a day off sick, he must be very ill. When you apply for leave, you must be going for an interview.
When your boss applies for leave, it’s because he’s overworked. |
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Whether you are a student looking for that first time or summer job or a long time veteran looking for a change of pace, this JOB SEARCH JARGON should help you get on your way…
COMPETITIVE SALARY:
We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors. FLEXIBLE HOURS:
Work 55 hours; get paid for 37.5. GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
Management communicates, you listen, figure out what they want you to do. ABILITY TO HANDLE A HEAVY WORKLOAD:
You whine, you’re fired. CAREER-MINDED:
We expect that you will want to flip hamburgers until you are 70. SELF-MOTIVATED:
Management won’t answer questions SOME OVERTIME REQUIRED:
Some time each night and some time each weekend DUTIES WILL VARY:
Anyone in the office can boss you around. COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT:
We have a lot of turnover. SALES POSITION REQUIRING MOTIVATED SELF-STARTER:
We’re not going to supply you with leads; there’s no base salary; you’ll wait 30 days for your first commission check. CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE:
We don’t pay enough to expect that you’ll dress up; well, a couple of the real daring guys wear earrings. SOME PUBLIC RELATIONS REQUIRED:
If we’re in trouble, you’ll go on TV and get us out of it. SEEKING CANDIDATES WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIENCE:
You’ll need it to replace three people who just left. PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS A MUST:
You’re walking into a company in perpetual chaos. |
Keep smiling …….
Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class.
Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.
Etymology
The meaning “fool, simpleton” is intended in the song title “Yankee Doodle”, originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning “to swindle or to make a fool of”. The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb “to dawdle”, which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.
In the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Deeds mentions that “doodle” was a word made up to describe scribblings to help a person think. According to the DVD audio commentary track, the word as used in this sense was invented by screenwriter Robert Riskin.
Automatic writing
Graphology
Oekaki
Scribble
Marginalia
Stream of consciousness writing
Stick Figure
ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE, AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:
1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.
2. I see your face when I am dreaming.
That’s why I always wake up screaming.
3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;This describes everything you are not.
4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you ’cause I was pissed.
5. I thought that I could love no other
– that is until I met your brother.
6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead,the sugar bowl’s empty and so is your head.
7. I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But don’t take that paper bag off your face.
8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I’m good at telling lies!
9. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?
10. My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe ‘Go to hell.’
11. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.
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Pistacia vera
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| Pistacia vera Kerman fruits ripening | |
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| Salted roasted pistachio nut with shell | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Anacardiaceae |
| Genus: | Pistacia |
| Species: | P. vera |
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Pistacia vera
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History
The modern pistachio nut P. vera was first cultivated in Western Asia. Its cultivation spread into the Mediterranean world by way of central Iran, where it has long been an important crop. The early 6th-Century manuscript De observatione ciborum (On the observance of foods) by Anthimus implies that pistachio nuts (”pistacia” in vulgar Latin) were well known in Europe by late Roman times.
More recently pistachio has been cultivated commercially in the English speaking world, in Australia, New Mexico, and California. The United States Department of Agriculture introduced the tree in California about 1904, but it was not promoted as a commercial crop until 1929.
Biology
The bush grows up to 10 meters (30 ft) tall. It has deciduous pinnate leaves 10–20 centimeters (4-8 inches) long.
Pistachio is a desert plant, and is highly tolerant of saline soil. It has been reported to grow well when irrigated with water having 3,000-4,000 ppm of soluble salts.Pistachio trees are fairly hardy in the right conditions, and can survive temperature ranges between −10°C (14°F) in winter to 40°C (104°F) in summer. They need a sunny position and well-drained soil. Pistachio trees do poorly in conditions of high humidity, and are susceptible to root rot in winter if they get too much water and the soil is not sufficiently free draining. Long hot summers are required for proper ripening of the fruit.
The plants are dioecious, with separate male and female trees. The flowers are apetalous and unisexual, and borne in panicles.
The fruit is a drupe, containing an elongated seed, which is the edible portion. The seed, commonly thought of as a nut, is a culinary nut, not a botanical nut. The fruit has a hard, whitish exterior shell. The seed has a mauvish skin and light green flesh, with a distinctive flavor. When the fruit ripens, the shell changes from green to an autumnal yellow/red and abruptly splits part way open (see photo). This is known as dehiscence, and happens with an audible pop. The splitting open is a trait that has been selected by humans.
Commercial cultivars vary in how consistently they split open
Each pistachio tree averages around 50 kg of seeds, or around 50,000, every two years.
Cultivation
| Country | Share of 2005 production (tonnes) |
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 Iran |
190 000 |
 United States |
140 000 |
 Turkey |
60 000 |
 Syria |
60 000 |
 China |
34 000 |
 Greece |
9 500 |
 Italy |
2 400 |
 Uzbekistan |
1 000 |
 Tunisia |
800 |
 Pakistan |
300 |
 Madagascar |
160 |
 Kyrgyzstan |
100 |
 Morocco |
50 |
 Cyprus |
15 |
 Mexico |
7 |
 Mauritius |
5 |
Uses
| Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |
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| Energy | 2,391 kJ (571 kcal) |
| Carbohydrates | 27.65 g |
| Sugars | 7.81 g |
| Dietary fiber | 10.3 g |
| Fat | 45.97 g |
| Protein | 21.35 g |
| - lutein and zeaxanthin | 1205 μg |
| Thiamine (Vit. B1) | 0.84 mg (65%) |
| Riboflavin (Vit. B2) | 0.158 mg (11%) |
| Niacin (Vit. B3) | 1.425 mg (10%) |
| Pantothenic acid (B5) | 0.513 mg (10%) |
| Vitamin B6 | 1.274 mg (98%) |
| Folate (Vit. B9) | 50 μg (13%) |
| Vitamin C | 2.3 mg (4%) |
| Calcium | 110 mg (11%) |
| Iron | 4.2 mg (34%) |
| Magnesium | 120 mg (32%) |
| Phosphorus | 485 mg (69%) |
| Potassium | 1042 mg (22%) |
| Zinc | 2.3 mg (23%) |
| Manganese 1.275 mg | |
| Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. Source: USDA Nutrient database |
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pista waala main hoon pathaan
khaane waale ka dil hota
gul gul waah re waah re
waah waah..(2)
hamaara pista bahut achha
leo ji memsaab
hamaara pista nahi kacha
aap ka baal bachcha
kha ke dekho very very good
mera charlie badaam pista
abdul rehmaaniya (2)
yahi meri duniya
aa..aa..
chaahe mujhe rakhe jis haal mein(2)
ya tooti phooti chaal mein(2)
main hoon is ki chandaniya
abdul rehmaaniya(2)
abdul rehman
abdul rehman
khaaye sikh isaai
mera pista khaane waale
hindi bhai bhai
masjid ho..
ya sikhon ka gurudwara
sab ko allah ka ghar samjhe
kabul ka banjara
lo badaam
achha maal aur sasta daam
aani jaani duniya faani
baaki hai allah ka naam
pista waala main hoon pathaan
khaane waale ka dil hota
gul gul waah re waah re
waah waah..(2)
Funny & Thoughtful Quotes About Money
Recently our Budget was presented and we talked about money,more money and more inflation etc. So I thought about sharing some funny and thoughtful quotes on the subject.
E..n..j..o..y..!
There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~Coco Chanel
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty
We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. ~Michael Leboeuf
Money is a headache, and money is the cure.~Everett Mámor
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~Joe Louis
It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~Albert Camus
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~Alexander Pope
The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb
Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills. ~Clifford Odets
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. ~Bob Hope
Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ~Henry Fielding
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving. ~Dan Millman
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.~Woody Allen
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann
If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.~Gloria Steinem
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~Henrik Ibsen
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. ~George Horace Lorimer
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~Henry Ford
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley
Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money. ~Satchel Paige
We ought to change the legend on our money from “In God We Trust” to “In Money We Trust.” Because, as a nation, we’ve got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Money often costs too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ~W.C. Fields
Money doesn’t talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman
Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale. ~Zig Ziglar
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde
Women prefer men who have something tender about them – especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Leona Lewis the British singer, has now got herself inked down her back. Tattoo is a habit than style statement in Hollywood and Leona Lewis seems to have made the best out of it.
This beautiful (?) write-up in form of a body art is her tribute to her favourite animal the horse.
Lewis, flaunted the risque tattoo as she donned a figure-hugging dress at The Love Ball at The Roundhouse, north-west London on 24th Feb 2010.
Leona is often branded dull and mocked as a lacking personality. This is her way of getting out of this image.
One of her friends revealed: “Leona loves tattoos and she felt having a really bold design running the length of her back would have a real impact. She’s seen what other people like Victoria have had done and used her passion for horses as the inspiration. She’s really proud of it and isn’t ashamed to show it off.”
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.- Spanish Proverb.
The latest issue of Business Today, is on the Gen Next and The New Inheritors from the business world with Rajeev Piramal,Nisa Godrej and Aditya Burman on the cover. It is a very good issue and needs to be read by todays students of MBA.
This is what I wrote to the Editor of BT :
Dear Sir,
Your Issue dated 7th March 2010 on “The New Inheritors” was a great compendium of “Who Is Who of Next Gen.”
It was well researched and presented a vivid picture of the youngsters from the business world,with their vision,mission and strategy for survival in future.
Yes,they have stars in their eyes, a fire in their bellies and sky is the limit for them in the present opportunity-filled Indian economy,dovetailed with the global scenario.
The previous generation’s views and ideas are subject to modifications and tweaking to fit them in todays environment,since,in the words of Gilbert Bateson :” In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”
Further, I tend to agree with Edward O Wilson who had said that : “There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.”
Extending this further,to the subject under discussion,it is felt that If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, they need to be educated to be original as well as competent.
It has also been said by various eminent thinkers that ” each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names and they want to divorce themselves from their predecessors”.( Jim Morrison) and ” each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” (George Orwell).
Sol LeWitt has opined that “every generation renews itself in its own way; there’s always a reaction against whatever is standard.”
On the other hand, Ninette De Valois holds the view that:” hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.”
In the final analysis,we should keep in mind a quote of Shri Abdul Kalam:” We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.”
Overall,this BT is an issue worth collecting and our new generation students pursuing MBAs, can learn several lessons from these inheritors !
- J S BROCA
New Delhi
FIB Poetry… his and mine
Fib is an experimental Western poetry form, bearing similarities to haiku, but based on the Fibonacci sequence. That is, the typical fib and one version of the contemporary Western haiku both follow a strict structure. The typical fib is a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8 – with as many syllables per line as the line’s corresponding place in the Fibonacci sequence; the specific form of contemporary Western haiku uses three (or fewer) lines of no more than 17 syllables in total. The only restriction on a Fib is that the syllable count follow the Fibonacci sequence. An example of a typical fib:
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The other day Atreya Sarma posted the following fib on Muse :PoetryBy U Atreya Sarma, Feb 16, 2010 You, male or female? “Male Or Female?” “Why ask me? Your damn doubt itself Answers, I’m guilty of neither.” __________________________________ A Fib with its 1-1-2-3-5-8 syllable count I liked the above FIB and sent my response as under : Dear Atreyaji, really uber-c-o-o-l ! Here is an attempt to copy you, but I am sure your original will remain the best : Me Tarzan And you Jane? Me Tsunami You Hurricane? Let’s meet at the swanky club And share a peg at its pub See what develops and whirls all around If not, I go to my swing on tree-tops And you will go back to your lonely lane! J S Broca, New Delhi Here is Atreya ji’s response to my novel attempt at FIB-bing ! |
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Dear Brocaji, Your twosome is quite a gusty awesome. Whereas mine is a conventional 6-liner Fib with a 1-1-2-3-5-8 affair, yours is a novel 9-line ‘FIBROCA’ with a 3-3-4-4-7-7-10-10-10 syllable count. A good innovation. Warm regards.
U Atreya Sarma, Greenfield, Wisconsin
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Kind words