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Do you know that whenever there is turbulence, the safest point is eye of cyclone. This is the crux of teachings of Mangesh Da who is called by his desciples as Sadguru Yogiraj Sri Sri Mangesh Da. His Kriya Yog Foundation has number of centres all over the country, he also travel abroad to deliver talks and demonstrate  yogic initiations.  Yesterday, Mangesh Da was invited by Indo American Society for a talk on his own journey. He narrated few instances from his life where he could survive from drowning in his childhood days, saved from severe accident in rock climbing in Himalayas, lost his vision recently all medical treatments failed but from his own will power and yogic initiations got his vision back. Mangeshda is not a yogi in the conventional format, he has been an ace classical dancer, karate champion, happily married and having children. He says that life is a journey of the soul and everybody is experiencing it at different level. Also it is true that we can n...

Like many other Forbes 100 companies, seed of Amazon were sown in a Garage.  The only difference is that within a short span of 20 years, this company has diversified business to such a magnitude that even the financial wizards would have not predicted. Jeff Bezos : king of Amazon   Jeff Bezos,    the founder and owner of Amazon, had been   impatient with ordinary from the outset, began with a road trip. In the summer of 1994 quit his job on Wall Street, flew to Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife Mac Kenzie and hired a car. While wife drove them towards the Pacific Northwest, Jeff sketched out a plan to set up a catalogue retailing business that would exploit the infant internet. The garage came later, in a suburb of Seattle, where he set up an office furnished with desks made from wooden doors. About a year later, Amazon sold its first book. The world saw a website selling books and assumed that Amazon was, and always would be, an online bookshop. ...

I was born and brought up in Western Uttar Pradesh. My parents were not so affluent to send me to some fancy boarding school  in Dehradun, Mussorie, Nainital or Panchgani, I got my education in my native city  Moradabad. It was around 1966 to 68 when the linguistic chauvinism was at peak in Uttar Pradesh due to  Samajvadi Yuvjan Sabha (SYS) an off shoot of Socialist Party. English used to be a compulsory subject but due to political compulsion it was removed from compulsory subject. When a subject is no more compulsory, why teachers as well as students will bother in its  study . So my basic knowledge about English was very very weak, I fared well in most of the written examinations for so many high end jobs but most of the time I could not make it up in interviews as there was no environment in my schools or college to emphasise on English conversation. It is not a story of me alone, thousands of boys and girls from Uttar Pradesh, who couldn't get a good job just...

इधर  बारिश थी  कहीं और रही  थी बदली  मेरे जख्मों को छू  के जो वादे सबा निकली  बेखुदी तेरे इश्क़ ने इतनी बढ़ा दी मेरी  मिलना तुझ से था पहुँच गए गली अगली  या खुदा जिंदगी किस मोड़ पे ले आयी है  हर वक्त सताती हैं हमें यादें पिछली  बदल के राह मुसाफिर ने मुंह मोड़ लिया  इंतज़ार करते हुए थक गयी नदी पगली  रात के अंधेरों ने जब भी हमें सताया है  तेरी यादों ने बना दीं मेरी  रातें उजली                                                                    @प्रदीप गुप्ता 

Imran Naqvi, Pakistani TV star interacting with bloggers Zindagi, a brand new channel from stable of Zee Group will be beamed across India from 23rd June 2014, and it is not just in the Hindi-speaking markets , initially featuring mostly syndicated content acquired from Pakistan. The group has already acquired 4,000 hours of content from prominent Pakistani TV  producers.  It will create a subcategory within the Hindi GEC space as the Group have a feel  that this kind of  contents of Zindagi will  suit taste of  ‘progressive mindsets’ cutting across markets. This is just a beginning, after Pakistan, the network will turn to countries like Turkey, Egypt and Latin America for content acquisition says   Punit Goenka, the network's  CEO. He further elaborate   ‘firstly, we identified content which culturally suits this market, and therefore, the audience will accept it. The idea is not to get foreign content for the sake of getting f...