Infosys Co-Founder and Tech Billionaire Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini Nilekani have joined 'The Giving Pledge', an elite network of the world's wealthiest individuals committing half of their wealth to philanthropy.
The Giving Pledge was created by Bill and Melinda Gastes and Warren Buffett in Aug.2010.
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If somehow you found a way to extract all the gold from the bubbling core of earth, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
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Just after birth of Independent India, the world’s largest merger and acquisition activity, 560 small
princely states merged into the Union of India. Hardly any blood was
spilt, nor any bullet fired.
Sometimes
you are the toxic person.
Sometimes
you ar the mean, negative person you are looking to push away.
Sometimes
the problem is you.
And
that does not make you less worthy.
Keep
on growing.
Keep
on checking yourself.
Keep
on motivating yourself.
Mistakes
are opportunities.
Look
at them, own them, grow from them and move on.
Do
better, be better.
You
are human. It is okay.
- Unknown
The bad news
is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot - Michael Althsuler
Not
everyday is a good day. LIVE anyway.
Not
all you love will love you back.
LOVE anyway.
Not
everyone will tell you the truth. BE HONEST anyway.
Not
all deals are fair. PLAY FAIR anyway.
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Never judge someone by the opinion of others.
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An American woman asked Swami Vivekananda:"Can't you wear proper clothes to look like a gentleman?"
Swamiji smiled and said: "In your culure, a tailor makes a gentleman; but, in our culture, it is character which makes a gentleman."
Sharks have existed on Earth for more than 400 million years. That is longer than TREES
Time is free,
but it is priceless.
You can't own it,
but you can use it.
You can't keep it,
but you can spend it.
Once you have lost it,
You can never get it back.
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A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected - Unknown
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you Happiness. Bad people give your Experience. Worst people give you a Lesson and best people give you Memories.
No poison can kill a positive thinker - Unknown
Just
after birth of Independent India, we executed the world’s largest merger and
acquisition activity, when 560 small princely states joined (merged) into the
Union of India. Hardly any blood was spilt, nor any bullet fired.
Cities
with the richest tax fugitives
The
Times of India has published an infographic in its column of Oct.12, 2017 the following,
quoting the Income Tax Dept as its source:
Under
its ‘Name and Shame’ policy, the income tax department publishes the list of
income tax and corporate tax defaulters. So far it has named 96 defaulters.
They all have tax arrears above Rs 1 crore, but are either not traceable or
their assets are inadequate to cover the tax dues. Hyderabad was the last known
address of 24 of these 96 defaulters, followed by Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
Tax
defaulters and Tax arrrears:
Hyderabad
24 (Rs.1027 crores)
Ahmedabad
20 (Rs.486 crores)
Mumbai
12 (Rs.1,063 crores)
Delhi
6 (Rs. 24 crores)
Visakhapatnam
5 (Rs.17 crores)
Kolkata
4 (Rs.77 crores)
Pune
4 (Rs. 337 crores)
Surat
4 (Rs.76 crores)
Lucknow
3 (Rs. 284 crores)
Ludhiana
3 (Rs. 23 crores)
Bhopal
2 (Rs.20 crores)
Chandigarh
2 (Rs.26 crores)
Jaipur
2 (Rs. 90 crores)
Mangaluru
2 (Rs. 23 crores)
Guwahat
1 (Rs. 12 crores)
Panchmahal
1 (Rs. 27 crores)
Secunderabad
1 (Rs.2 crores)
Excerpt
from The Times of India, Oct.12, 2017
Grateful
thanks to The Times of India
As of the year 2012, IT sector in India provided direct employment to 2.8 million and indirect employment to 8.9 million individuals. Considering the consistent growth of about 13% per year on workforce and revenues, we can assume that by the end of 2016 the entire IT sector will have close to 4.6 million direct employees and 14.5 million indirect employees in the sector.
Source: Quora.com
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Ikigai
Ikigai
is a Japanese concept that means "a reason for being." It is similar
to the French phrase Raison d'être. Everyone, according to Japanese culture,
has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self.
Such a search is important to the cultural belief that discovering one's ikigai
brings satisfaction and meaning to life. [Examples include work, hobbies and
raising children].
In
the culture of Okinawa, ikigai is thought of as "a reason to get up in the
morning"; that is, a reason to enjoy life. In a TED Talk, Dan Buettner
suggested ikigai as one of the reasons people in the area had such long lives.
The
word ikigai is usually used to indicate the source of value in one's life or
the things that make one's life worthwhile. Secondly, the word is used to refer
to mental and spiritual circumstances under which individuals feel that their
lives are valuable. It's not necessarily linked to one's economic status or the
present state of society. Even if a person feels that the present is dark, but
they have a goal in mind, they may feel ikigai. Behaviours that make us feel
ikigai are not actions we are forced to take—these are natural and spontaneous
actions.
In
the article named Ikigai — jibun no kanosei, kaikasaseru katei ("Ikigai:
the process of allowing the self's possibilities to blossom") Kobayashi
Tsukasa says that "people can feel real ikigai only when, on the basis of
personal maturity, the satisfaction of various desires, love and happiness,
encounters with others, and a sense of the value of life, they proceed toward
self-realization."
Excerpt
from Wikipedia.
Grateful
thanks to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Seek the
lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day - Thornton
Wilder
What percentage of the human body is bacteria?
Jun 13, 2012
The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Because of their small size, however, microorganisms make up only about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass (in a 200-pound adult, that's 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria), but play a vital role in human health.
Source: Google.com
We are the only
nation in the world which gave every adult the right to vote from its first
day. In the US the world’s second largest democracy this right was given more
than 150 years after their independence.
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