What can Indians learn from the rest of the world?

Work is worship. Well, almost always. - Learn that from the Americans.

Be friendly and smiling - Learn from the Nepalese and Bhutanese.

Be very very proud of who you are - Learn from the Japanese. Shinkansen-style.

Think big - No one beats the Koreans at that. Lucky gold diggers!

Never say die - Russians all the way. Come attack us, and discover for yourself!

Be a friend in need - Russians all the way! Thanks guys for all you did for India.

Focus on the micro and the finesse - Achtung! Germany leads the way.

Be very thankful - Learn from the Afghans.

Once an enemy, always an enemy - Yo, Pakistanis! (Umm, not exactly)

Me correct, my philosophy correct, you horribly wrong - Saudis rock.

Revolt like there's no tomorrow - Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

I am the world, need no more (Aham Brahmasmi) - Kim to the North

Love your peace and empty spaces, and burn the most carbon per capita - Down under

Give the best public healthcare at reasonable cost - Salute to my former colonists

Rise like a phoenix, even if you were almost dead - Israel, Israel, Israel

Think gigantic - Umm, my Chinese friends are teaching that the hard way right now to the rest of the world economy!

Claim what's yours. Make it yours. Don't let others steal it. - Long live the American and European patent offices. 

Don't play with my privacy. I'm warning you Google! - European Competition Commission rocks

Play the powers against each other - Sri Lanka. Hmm.

Keeping others' secrets forever. Well, almost - Panama, Liechtenstein, Switzerland!

Deep philosophy, nature's secrets, mankind's place in Universe, effective organic medicinal formulations - We Indians really must learn that from our own ancestors.

Thanks!
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Spiritual management of traffic stress

I live in a beautiful mid-size town - Indore (MP) - that has an amazing sense of traffic. People create their own rules, and  live strictly by them. Some such rules that I have encountered are:

• Move when the lights are red, and stop when green
• Stop ahead of the 'stop-line'
• Criss-cross the road without warning
• Never cross the road at the zebra crossing

Many more ingenious versions of these exist in my nice little town.

Now as I am a law-abiding citizen, this gets me really worked up badly. I get angry when I see that a lot of citizens are simply, blatantly, and without a sense of remorse breaking all traffic rules. I start cursing them, and swearing at them, and ultimately have a bad headache.

A practising manager's spiritual pursuit
of equilibrium amidst chaos

And the beauty of it all : nothing changes! In fact, it gets worse by the day :)

So I have found a cure for this huge internal strife that goes on everyday I drive in my town. This intelligent formula is what I call "A practising manager's spiritual pursuit of equilibrium amidst traffic chaos". I will be submitting the writeup of this theory to one of the new IIMs soon for a technical paper presentation, under the modern evolving HR theme (the older, more established ones may not entertain me). Perhaps one of the leading newspapers will also feature me on their front page, with a catchy headline.

No action replay, please.

The emptiness, fluffiness, unbelievable-ness and thoughtless-ness with which a movie can be made becomes visible to the audience. You cannot hide it. Even the lightest and most humorous of movies need solid gravity to succeed. They need at least one solid anchor to pull them off!

Unfortunately, if the quality of the movie "Action Replayy" is anything to go by, I would request the director Vipul Shah that "No action replay now, please!"

This movie has seriously dented the image (at least in my mind) of the much-applauded director. And in this fiasco of a wannabe blockbuster, the biggest losers are those who are actually not at fault - the actors. And the audience!

One enters the movie theatre with high expectations as the promos seen on TV are excellent, the cast is solid, and the director is a proven one. Yet, one of life's surprises is sprung when we find that even all these do not add up together the way they should.