A THING ABOUT COMMITMENT

Author:- Sudhananda Rath

Any business you are in, commitment is absolutely necessary for the sustenance and long-term development of the business. Commitment refers to any kind of sincere binding whether it is a moral responsibility or legal obligation. If you are committed to do any action not only to your customers or potential customers, but also to your superiors, subordinates and colleagues you should perform that in the specified time. Otherwise it creates a negative impression for your and your organization’s image.

If you are not fulfilling whatever you have promised, you will be called as unprofessional and from next time onwards the person will not believe you. We can discuss it with a very common and day to day example. Suppose you are going to a vegetable vendor regularly. You need 10 K.G. of potatoes for a big celebration in your home. The vendor has promised that on the specified day he will provide you what you want. But on that day he refuses to provide that much of potatoes to you. And because of that you are feeling insulted for canceling the party. Will you ever go to that man again? I don’t think so. Because of his lack of commitment he loses a vital customer.

Think it in a broad sense. In a big organization also, it happens. But here the lack of commitment affects in a big way. In this case, your reputation, which you have earned after years of hard work, can be at stake. Taking your customers into consideration, in most of the cases, it is not their requirement to have a deal with you. Rather it is your need to close the deal in a positive note with the customers. They may have a number of options. But you can not afford to lose even a single account (customer).

With position and power come responsibilities. Anybody who is having those should look back and see what are the responsibilities and commitments he/she has and he/she should try to take those and find out better ways to fulfill those. The individuals as well as the organizations while getting bigger and wealthier should be up to the mark with their commitments.

Thus, I want to say here if you are committing something, fulfill it. Otherwise do not commit anything. For longer and healthier relationship in a business scenario, commitment is the only way to keep it intact and then success will definitely kiss your feet.

AVATARIZED

WRITTEN BY: ANURAG SAHOO

It was October 2009 when I saw the trailer of AVATAR for the first time. From this movie my expectations were very high. The main and probably the sole reason was the behind AVATAR. James Cameroon, after making the 1997 cult classic TITANIC, has taken a long gap of 12 years before returning to the silver screen with the 2154 MAGNUM OPUS AVATAR. I was taken aback by the glimpse of amazing visual effects I saw of AVATAR from the trailer. Finally on December, the movie saw a worldwide release. When I saw this visual extravaganza, I knew it was one of the finest cinematic experience I ever had along with KING KONG. The lush world of PANDORA, the wonderful and beautiful NAVI tribes and the futuristic yet primitive battle scenes made me hold my breath.

Frankly speaking, the storyline was nothing special. It follows the exploit of JAKE SULLY, a US MARINE who undergoes AVATAR program and is converted into a NAVI alien. At the same time he develops a bondage with the tribe and falls in love with NEYTRI and finally decides to fight for his adopted home against the greedy human race who is after a mineral deposit which lays under the settlement of NAVI. The movie uses many path breaking technologies when it comes to visual effects. I liked the movie very much but never expected that the movie would shatter all the box office records. The movie surpassed the record held by another JAMES CAMEROON MOVIE TITANIC of being the highest grossing movie of all time. It became the first movie in the entire history to earn revenue of more than 2 BILLION USD.

AVATAR became the frontrunner for this year’s OSCARS. It has earned itself 9 nominations including best picture and best director. Running alongside is THE HURT LOCKER which is a WAR THRILLER. It follows the missions of a 3 member BOMB DISPOSAL SQUAD of the US ARMY during the 2004 Iraq invasion. This movie has its fair share of thrilling moments and can be coined as a masterpiece. But according to me, the best movie is INGLORIUS BASTERDS. What more can you expect from a genius like QUENTIN TARANTINO whose movie PULP FICTION is my favorite movie. BRAD PITT is the major star in this WORLD WAR spaghetti movie but CHRISTOPHER WALTZ as HANS LANDER steals the show. This movie has earned itself 8 Oscars nominations. Whichever movie wins the awards, for me all these three movies are winners. They define every aspect of movie making in a vivid and near to perfect manner. While AVATAR continued to break every barriers of technology and is a magnificent display of visual and special effects, THE HURT LOCKER describes a hard day at office for a soldier at a battlefield in a dangerous  yet thrilling and realistic manner. Inglorious basterds is a hard hitting entertaining movie with dialogues being a very strong point.

INDO PAK- A SINGLE LIFE APART

WRITTEN BY: ANURAG SAHOO

The year was 1947 when thousands of Indians faced an identity crisis after the BRITISH RAJ decided to divide INDIA and form another new Muslim Dominated nation named as PAKISTAN. This decision was followed by mass protest somewhere and was welcomed somewhere. Further blood was added to this boiling issue by HINDU-MUSLIM and SIKH-MUSLIM riots. This was well portrayed in the blockbuster movie GADDAR.

The following years saw this issue reaching more heights of tension. The subsequent wars in 1948,1965,1971,1999 wars are testimony of how the two countries and also the entire international community are unsuccessful in resolving the main cause of the dispute i.e. KASHMIR. But have we questioned ourselves who are the persons from both the countries hating each other. Is it the government or is it the people of these two large dominions?

These two countries have great potential to emerge as powerful economies. KARACHI COMPOSITE 100 is one of the largest stock exchange index of the entire world. KARACHI and LAHORE are becoming the investment darling for the cash strapped CORPORATIONS from the ARAB WORLD. Pakistan has a rich culture just like INDIA when it comes to food, clothes, manners or lifestyle in general. The ONE KM. LONG FOOD STREET in Lahore is a symbol of culinary choice the PAKISTANIS have. The ever rocking music bands from Pakistan are a continuation of the great PAKISTANI MUSICAL LEGACY.  But lately talk shows featuring individuals like war strategist ZAEED HAMID who is a regular feature in the Pakistani media increases the friction of hostility between the two nations.

From the Indian side, efforts like SADAA-E-SHARAD bus service from DELHI to LAHORE or SAMJHAUTA EXPRESS train from ATARI to LAHORE acts as a catalyst in the relations. The sharing of culture in entertainment field is a melting point of hatredness in the relation between these two nations. The successful operations of many Pakistanis in INDIAN HOSPITALS are gesture of friendship towards Pakistan. But still everyday rockets and mortars are being exchanged from both the sides on the FRONT.

This issue can be resolved by promoting bilateral trades as there are many anti social parties who are benefitting from this hostile standoff between these two nations. Education in both these nations will ensure the eradication of poverty and in a literate society it is difficult to create dangerous ideologies which would harm the nations in a potentially great magnitude. We, the people should realize that boundaries are drawn but human spirit is above all. Let’s hope that both the countries go hand in hand in the peace process and the white dove fly peacefully around the world.

NEW DESIGNS........BY ANURAG SAHOO

BATTLE ROYALE

India may sound a land of poor masses and starved urchins but this beautiful country had faced countless wars in its heart. It’s own children have fought for their own greed and many times martyrs have laid their lives to save this holy land. No place in India describes better than KASHMIR or PANIPAT. While the former is continuously subjected to modern warfare, the latter saw 3 major battles which redefined the Indian history.

The first major battle to be recorded was ironically on our homeland i.e. KALINGA

The furious annexation of KALINGA by a hot blooded ASOKAVARDHAN MAURYA or ASOKA saw the death of over 1,00,000 lives including royal soldiers and civilians. This tremendous loss of lives changed ASOKA’s mindset to embrace the teachings of LORD BUDDHA. The first battle of PANIPAT saw the clash between the forces of an AFGHANI chieftain BABUR and The sultan of Delhi IBRAHIM LODHI.

Babur had a force of only 8000 men while Lodhi had a 1,00,000 men strong army with 300 war elephants. But the decisive point of the battle was the use of field artillery by Babur. The sound of artillery made lodhi’s elephant panicked and they tramped their own men. Thus with that battle, the foundations of the greatest empire in India was built. After 30 years, on the same plains of PANIPAT again the MUGHAL empire under the leadership of a teenager JALAL-UD-DIN MOHAMMED AKBAR and his guardian GENERAL BAIRAM KHAN faced a brave and strong SAMRAT HEMRAJ VIKRAMADITYA or HEMU. Defeat was almost inevitable for the Mughal forces but Bairam Khan with a small troop of army shot an arrow straight to the eyes of Hemu. Seeing their leader almost dead, the forces lost their morale and finally the war was won by AKBAR. The battle of PANIPAT in 1761 was one of the biggest battle in the 18^th century. It was fought between the MARATHA CONFEDRATION and an AFGHANI invader AHMED SHAH ABDALI. The former turned up with a army of 70000 men including infantry, civilians and Pindaris. The latter came up with 42000 cavalry,48000 infantries and 200 cannons. The battle was waged for the capture of DELHI SULTANATE. It resulted to the defeat of MARATHA CONFEDRATION.

India had been a mute spectator to many bloody wars. Unfortunately till now also India is witnessing a never ending legacy of battles. The 1948,65,71,99 wars against the traditional rivals PAKISTAN has seen the loss of numerous lives. Today, our country is pitted against battles of illiteracy, hunger, poverty and many things else. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF and if we don’t learn from it we are bound to repeat it again. :

ANOTHER MASTERPIECE

SORRY GUYS......it's been a long time since my last post. Life was in a turmoil so cud get few or no time for blogging. NOW, i am back on track and am working on a short story.

NEW YEAR

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