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A Tip For Your Safety

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Bharat
5 months, 4 weeks ago in Health & Lifestyle. 5 Comments

We at Wipro Technologies are always looking for ways to invent new things, what more we also keep trying to find new meaning in old things.  What does this mean: Innovation.

We cannot keep dreaming of Innovation and then suddenly hit upon a million dollar idea. We continuously need to think of new meaning in the things that we do each day and in items that we use everyday.

Take for example, Business Cards: An exchange of Business cards is an age-old tradition in the corporate environment which started in the 20th century to enable our casual encounters in the society turn into regular contacts. Today we still see a lot of this activity in the business environment. I too exchange my business cards a lot during the course of my daily interactions and then suddenly I purchased this mobile telephone which had a function of sending business cards. This has got me thinking, Do we exchange business cards just because it is a habit with us? Do we still need to exchange cards in this new information age where, we can send our business cards at the press of a button? I might be thinking of an idea which may cause some people in the printing industry very uncomfortable. But It’s an IDEA and it’s INNOVATIVE. I need to put up this idea to my colleagues and try and find if it has any takers. I will not mind if I do not get a buy in, at least I made an effort to live up to the Wipro motto.

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A day of work at Wipro

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Bharat
6 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Lifestyle. 11 Comments

What is culture?

I am supposed to be the culture vulture of the campus outfit of Wipro Technologies. I had spent the first ten years of my  career with an organization that is steeped in culture, a culture that is unique and distinct in each of it’s flavours, I am speaking of the Indian Army of course.  And when I joined the campus team and was given the sobriquet of the Culture Vulture, I got down thinking. This article is born out of that thinking, ………The last ten years of my life was spent with the Indian Army. Ahh., those were heady days of adventure and fun. The work was hard of course but that ever present threat to one’s life was a drug which always had me on the high. Sweet was the aroma of adventure and sweeter the ache in my muscles after the long arduous treks in the mountains. How much ever the work, however hard the task, we always went about it with a cheer. Never did we cry, never did we crib. We always used to convert the work assigned into a challenge. 

     In the National Defence Academy,  our punishment for failing to get the weekly haircut was to be sent on a 20 KM trek with 20 kilos on  backs. Did we cry?  Did we crib?  Did we write to our parents crying our hearts out ? OH NO!!   We were bashful enough to engage ourselves in a competition with each other, for the closest time possible to complete the run. Oh! They were days. We were on a masochist trip.

 What challenges could the corporate environment throw for me. And then they told me to resource people for Wipro Technologies, I laughed to myself and thought “Yeh to baya haath ka khel hai ”.  And then the requirements started pouring in. 

My boss called me up early one day and said, Bharat, we have an urgent requirementand we need tons of resources, What are you doing about it? Hardly had I had the time to articulate a reply and my mobile phone started buzzing. This time it was the campus head: “ Bharat, Can you a draw a strategy for us for next year?”         

Even as I was trying to make a plan this task, I receive yet another call. Oh our operations manager:  “ Bharat, We want you to plan and conduct a drive  the  day after tomorrow”

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Swasth, Arogya, gesondheid, sundhed, gezondheid, sanitas, salus

Published by
Bharat
7 months, 1 week ago in Health & Lifestyle. 3 Comments

Gibberish…………….. what absolute nonsense……………………….. what is this ?????????????????……………Who posted this @#$…………..&*

What we are unaware of, we tend to pass away as gibberish. What we fail to understand, we ignore and brand as nonsensical !!!!!!!!!!!

Today, we are as unaware of health and healthy living as we are unaware of the words above. (Incidentally, they all mean health, in Hindi, Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch or Latin.)

These are the days when a half clad bearded man has taken the entire nation on breathing epidemic. ( Call it Kapal Bhati or Anulom Vilom, hey I just learnt some sanskrit)

These are the days when a bollywood protagonist in his middle ages shed 6 kgs and built a six pack to make a come back against the young turks like Shahid Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan.

These are yet again days when everybody, be it a granma in her deathbed marrying for a second time or a young damsel looking for a break through in the Indian Idol (I thought they were looking for singing talent) hits the exercycle to shed those love handles to get into tights and halters.

These are days when captains of gentlemanly games throw out their Ts to the crowd. (No great muscles there either, What were you up to Dhoni, trying to get married ?)

What is this CRAZE that is blowing in the wind ?????????? How do we join this Band Wagon.

What is health then ? And why such importance. There is not a newspaper without an article, nay an entire section on the subject, there is no television channel which does not broach the topic, not a lane without an advert on the good things come with health and hey when we go home, all we get to hear from dad and mom is ” Why don’t you get some exercise for yourself.

SO! For a beginning, let us try and define health. While the word and this blog site have a very broad outlook, we shall restrict the meaning to this.

The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. (Brainy Quote)

Keep coming back and we shall see how we can achieve all the above and more. Keep coming back guys. You will enjoy the show !