Man Ni Tarango (The Waves of Mind)

Ragging is illegal. Ragging is immoral. It has no benefits. It is a menace that destroys careers, lives and self-esteems. Ragging, initially (very wrongly) viewed as something that melts the ice between the fresher and old students, has come to haunt us in many severe forms, with very serious consequences. Some people believe that the ragging continues as the victims display a behaviour, as depicted in a classical incidence, called, "The Stockholm Syndrome", in which, some victims, who were kidnapped, later developed soft corner for the kidnappers. One of the victims went on to get engaged with one of the kidnappers! Other view is that it is about 'effort justification' meaning that when a fresher is made to believe that he/she justifies her membership by going through the torture of ragging. The efforts in tolerating the ragging makes him/her qualified to continue the membership of the respective organization! The last belief is that many students, who underwent ragg...

  The Scientific Stress Management Series. Stress is as old as the mankind. It is more of a serious disease in the 21st century. It is one of the most written about topic, and yet, probably, is a topic, on which some of the highest number of wrong assumptions are accepted as facts by many of us around. So, I, as someone, who is pursuing his research degree in Stress Management, thought, it'd be a good idea to write a dedicated series of posts on this topic. All these posts can be viewed on:  https://lnkd.in/eNeeRRAp I know, in today's world of ChatGPT, writing is not one of the most important things to do! But then, it is something, that relieves my stress, and, so, I thought, let me keep doing it in a detached manner (nishkam karma). So, the first thing fist. Do you even 'know' whether you are stressed or not? Are you even ready to acknowledge that you have it and there could be serious consequences of that unacknowledged, and thus, unmanaged / unaddressed stress? One ...

  Some facts about Ramayan: - It is believed that there are 300 versions of Ramayana exist - Valmiki's Ramayan is the ORIGINAL Ramayan. Valmiki is called 'Adi Kavi' (The First Poet) for that reason. - The Buddhist version of Ramayan is called 'Dasarata Jataka' - Cambodia’s Ramayana version is called Reamker (Ramakerti–Ram + Kirti/glory) - The leading four popular versions, apart from Valmiki and Tulsi Ramayan, are: Dasaratha Jakarta: The Buddhist version, Paumachariya: The Jaina version, Gond Ramayani: The Gond version, Ramakien: The Thai version. - In many versions, Sita Mata's abduction is not narrated. In some, king Dashratha himself sends Ram and Mata Sita to the forest. - Some interesting facts about Valmiki Ramayan: @It is composed of 24,000 verses @It has seven Kandas (Bālakāṇḍa, Ayodhyakāṇḍa, Araṇyakāṇḍa, Kiṣkindakāṇḍa, Sundarākāṇḍa, Yuddhakāṇḍa, Uttarakāṇḍa) and 500 chapters (sargas) @Lord Ram was 27 when he left for the exile @Jatayu's father Arun...

The recently released Hollywood blockbuster - Oppenheimer - was no less than a perfume with fresh fragrance, at least, for the Indian movie buffs. The almost 'melodramatic' presentation, with a fantastic story telling, screenplay and series of extra ordinary performances, will be remembered as one more of epic from Christopher Nolan. The film asks more questions than many other films that we see now a days. While it does pose the questions of morality of nuclear bomb types of research and their subsequent long term effects on human lives, environment and the whole ecology, it also forces us to think on some very subtle issues, which we might generally not much think about: 1. Is knowledge really power?: The protagonist, Oppenheimer, is a famous theoretical Physicist in US. Throughout the movie, we can see that, as soon as the "need" of any scientist is over, his/her "power" gets switched off! After that, if one tries to "switch on" that power, lik...

DISCLAIMER: I am just a mutual fund enthusiast and not a SEBI CERTIFIED FINANCIAL EXPERT. This article is solely for educational purposes only and you should not invest in it, based on the opinions expressed in this article. You must consult a SEBI APPROVED FINANCIAL ADIVSOR before deciding to invest in this fund.  ========================================================================= [A] Background: Recently, someone, a colleague, asked me about how ICICI Prudential Innovation Fund is. In other words, is it worth investing in? I thought, rather than giving an answer to him personally, let me write a blog post on the same topic. As I have not written something for a long time now, this is a good chance to convert a question into a blog post. So, let's start! [B] Objective of the Scheme: Let us make it very clear. I will not do the review, purely based on what the brochure of the NFO claimed. I will present its "translation" or "meaning", as understood by me. ...

|જય શ્રી રામ| |જય માં ખોડિયાર| રાજ યોગ ભાગ ૧ (ટૂંક પરિચય) [અ] પ્રસ્તાવના:  આપણી મૂળભૂત સમજણ એવી છે કે યોગ ના મુખ્ય ત્રણ પ્રકાર છે - ભક્તિ યોગ, જ્ઞાન યોગ અને કર્મ યોગ, જે ત્રણેય ની આપણે અગાઉ વિગત વાર ચર્ચા કરી છે (જોકે તમારે આ અંગે પૂર્ણ રીતે જાણવું હોય તો સર્વપ્રથમ ગીતાજી નો અભ્યાસ કરવો જ પડે). પરંતુ જેમ જેમ મેં (વું એમ આઈ?) થોડો ઘણો અભ્યાસ કર્યો, તેમ તેમ  થોડું ઘણું અવનવું જાણવા મળતું રહે છે.  હાલ મને એવું જાણવા મળ્યું કે (હું ખોટો હોઈ શકું છું. વાચકોને ખાસ વિનંતી છે કે કોઈ પણ ભૂલ લાગે તો મને ચોક્કસ માહિતી આપશો. હું આપનો જાહેરમાં ઋણ સ્વીકાર કરી, મારી ભૂલ સુધારી લઈશ - જો તમે કાઢેલી ભૂલ ખરેખર ભૂલ હોય તો જ) યોગ ના અલગ અલગ છ પ્રકાર છે (માત્ર ત્રણ નહિ), જે નીચે મુજબ છે: ૧. ભક્તિ યોગ ૨. કર્મ યોગ ૩. જ્ઞાન યોગ  ૪. રાજ યોગ  ૫. તંત્ર યોગ ૬. હઠ યોગ  મને યાદ છે કે મારા કુળદેવી ખોડિયાર માતાના પિતાએ હઠયોગ થકીજ  ભગવાન શંકર ને પ્રસન્ન કરેલા અને માતા ખોડિયાર આ લૌકિક વિશ્વમાં પ્રગટ થયેલા.  તેથી મને પ્રેરણા મળી કે દર્શન (ફિલસૂફી) પર લખવા માટે થોડા નવા વિષયો મળી ગયા...

 [A] Introduction:  Mutual funds' asset under management (AUM) in India is 39.42 trillion Indian rupees (INR) as on March 31, 2023. Indian mutual fund industry has come a long way since its inception. With nearly 62.8 million SIP accounts, the awareness of mutual fund is increasing day by day.  The industry is one of the most well regulated (SEBI is the regulator) and is quite reasonably transparent. SEBI is working day and night to keep it that way. The trust that it has gained amongst the investors is quite high.  But with nearly 26 types of mutual funds under various categories like equity, debt, hybrid, solution oriented etc., an average mutual fund investor is left with too many choices to choose from.  This article is written in as simple language as possible to help the retail investors understand that there are some types of mutual funds, that are generally not meant for an average investor. Though I do not mean to imply that these are useless types of m...