Man Ni Tarango (The Waves of Mind)

Bhavin is a team leader of a sales team. Nearly fifteen people report to him. Ramesh, one of them, is a very loyal, engaged and committed employee. He is generally very professional and punctual in completing all the tasks assigned to him. Even the clients are generally delighted with his service - he tries to solve them problems as fast as possible. He equally effective. Once it so happened that Ramesh was engaged in some personal work (which was critical). Bhavin was fully aware about it and had been very supportive to Ramesh. Ramesh was officially on leave because of the same.  A potentially profitable client (Let us call her Disha) called Ramesh. Ramesh didn't receive Disha's calls more than once, because of above mentioned condition. That annoyed Disha thinking that Ramesh was not sincere in his work. When Ramesh called back to her, she said that she didn't like his attitude (of not accepting her repeated calls). Ramesh felt very sorry about it. He knew t...

“A Case Study of Business Ethics” (For teaching notes, please contact me on pvariya@gmail.com) Pathik B. Variya pvariya@gmail.com  An MBBS – named – Dr. Mehra – was with a very reputed hospital of Trichi for last seven years. His performance feedback was exceptional and he had received many promotions during this tenure. Prior to joining this hospital, he was the student of medicine in a reputed University and his behavior and performance as student were also quite laudable. He was an excellent student with very good academic track record. His father was a renowned scientist. Dr Mehra was also involved in a lot of social activities apart from his job. The hospital he was serving was also a name to recon with in the society. It had set high standards of employee ethical behavior and it was known to follow its ethical code of conduct “in toto”. In the past, the Chief Medical Officer of the company was heavily fined (financially) when one of his actions had violated the co...

Dos Write a clear subject line. It should be neither too short or too long. It should convey the essence of the e-mail as clearly as possible. Write proper salutation like Dr., Prof. etc. even to the person, who may be your friend. KISS – Keep it short and simple. Remember, the e-mail is to express your thoughts and not to impress the reader. Don’t use slangs / informal stuff. Make sure there are no typing errors or grammatical errors in your e-mail. Make sure you add your signature at the end of the mail. Use BCC judiciously Don'ts Don’t press “reply to all” if not necessary. Don’t mention all mail ids in “to” box. If it is a mass mail, mention them in BCC Don’t send too many e-mails or use PS too often. Don’t write too long an e-mail, if not required. Brevity is the soul of wisdom. Generally, the person shouldn’t have to scroll-down your mail. Do not use the exclamatory sign too much or too often. Avoid trying to satirical or funny. Do not share confidential ...

મિત્રો! આજે વાત કરીશું ખોડિયાર માતા ની. માં એ માં, બાકી બધા વગડા ના વા. બસ એવીં  જ મારી ખોડિયાર માં! ખોડિયાર ખોટી નથી, ખોટાની ખોડિયાર નથી! વાત છે આજથી લગભગ 1200 વર્ષ પેહલાની.  રોહિશાળા નામનું એક ગામ. એમાં એક ગઢવી રહે. ગુજરાત માં ચારણ લોકો ગઢવી ના નામે પણ ઓળખાય. ગઢવી એટલે ગંધર્વો ના વંશજ. માતા સરસ્વતી ના ચાર હાથ એમના પાર. એમના ગળામાં ખુદ સરસ્વતી બિરાજમાંન. રોહિશાળા એ વલભીપુર રાજ્ય નું ગામ. હાલનું ભાવનગર કહી શકાય. એ રોહિશાળા ના ગઢવીન નું નામ મામદ જી. મામદ જી એ રાજા શીલભદ્ર નો ખાસ સલાહકાર. મિત્ર પણ કહી શકો. રાજા એની સાથે બધી બાબતે ચર્ચા કરે. રોજના કલાકો ના કલાકો એ રાજા ને મામદ જી વચ્ચે ની વાતો માં જાય.  બસ. શું જોઈએ? દુશ્મનો ની ક્યાં તંગી હોય સારા માણસો ને? રાજા ના ઘણા મંત્રીઓ ને મામદ જી ની ઈર્ષા આવે. ને એમને બહુ પ્રયત્નો કાર્ય મામદજી અને રાજા ની મિત્રતા તોડાવવા ના. પણ કઈ થયું નહિ. પણ આ ઈર્ષાળુંઓ ને એક સફળતા મળી. એમને રાણી ને સમજાવ્યા કે આ મામદ જી અને એમના પત્ની ને લગ્ન ના વર્ષો પછી પણ સંતાન નથી. એમની રાજમહેલ માં હાજરી અશુભ કહેવાય.  બ...

I was recently surprised to learn that many of us (including me at times, of course) do not know a lot of things about the Indian religious scriptures (The Hindu Scriptures by and large). I don't like the word mythology. It is derogatory and fails to convey the true spirit of the great scriptures like The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.  It gave an idea to write some blogs on certain unknown aspects of the great Hindu religion. Mind you, I am not, neither do I claim to be, an expert of The Hinduism. But yes, my curiosity and compilation should allow me to write a reasonably valid piece of text on these aspects.  So, today, I have decided to write an introduction of a character called "Baliyadev" from The Mahabharata.  He is  also known as Khatushyam / Barbaric / Barbarik / Belarsen / Akash Bhairav / Yalambar / Lakha-Datari etc.  Now, the problem for Lord Krisha was that the army of the Kauravas was definitely more powerful than that of the Pandavas. ...