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"To everything there is a season... A time to be born, and a time to die." - Ecclesiastes "A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown." - Albert Camus "The Biggest changes in a woman's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition." ― Rabindranath Tagore "Bitterly disappointed teachers can either be very effective or very dangerous." - Sean Connery in Finding Forrester "Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be." - Chenjerai Hove "The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation." - Umberto Eco "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos."...

1- Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Social CRM and the Social Enterprise - The reality of Social CRM is that many enterprises aren’t finding what they need with existing vendors. So they are quietly building their own CRM systems. It’s all about using technology to support and streamline relationships not control them. 2- Prof. Cornel West on the moral obligations of living in a democratic society . 3- Information Bureau For Microfinance by C.P.Mohan and Simanchal Sahu 4- Is Micro Finance leading to a Macro Mess - The AP Ordinance by Aloysius P. Fernandez 5- Rockstar of Financial Inclusion: Business Correspondent Model of India . 6- Death by Indifference : AIDS and Heroin Addiction in Russia 7- What Social Sector Needs to Learn from the Private Sector 8- Vakrangee Finserve becomes Common Banking Correspondent for Gujarat - The bid is the outcome of a "suggestion" from the Department of Financial Services which basically told public sector banks to divide I...

1- In economics, the Dutch disease is a concept that explains the apparent relationship between the increase in exploitation of natural resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector. There is an over-dependence on exports of primary products pushes up the value of its currency, leading to a downward spiral in its manufacturing productivity and competitiveness. Same analogy in reverse notion can be put in the case of placement of rural managers. Unless the economy is worse, most of the rural managers are placed in either Banks or Sales job. With the expansion of the batch size and recession in Indian economy forced them to diversify their target organizations. Thus it has resulted in the placement of rural managers in diversified sector. 2- There is no placement week but a placement season. 3- Attendance falls drastically in this trimester. There are just different reasons before and after getting placed. 4- As per Prof Banikant : Ans. Nowadays the students are brighter but th...

1- Why we need better economics. 2- A risky strategy, born of panic : Building ‘capitalism with Indian characteristics’ means decisions cannot ignore concerns of voters and communities. 3- Fear of a Black President :As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama reveals the false promise and double standard of integration. 4- Psychology of Social Networking 5- Peace, Progress, Human Rights - Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 by Andrei Sakharov. 6- Democracies in the World 7- Behind Robert Vadra’s fortune, a maze of questions - Property empire was built on soft loans handed out in unusual circumstances, documents show. 8- ' India Is Racist, And Happy About It ': A Black American's first-hand experience of footpath India: no one even wants to change. 9- The po...

I didn't come down to XIMB to oversleep. I've worked below what I am capable of. Here in 5 points what I learnt in last 3 months: 1- Generally, the clashes within lobbies of students are less real than the ones between the outsiders and system who find themselves in places where they are not a good fit. There are few people in our batch whose distinct and peculiar view make them to stand out from the rural manager's community. 2- College should be able to assist a student because they had structures in place for people seeking entrepreneurship. We lack an ecosystem to discuss social barriers for an entrepreneurial activity. Climbing corporate ladder is respectable but exploring new venture seemed as "worst fears" come true where person is tagged as "confused". 3- In life, as one achieves success, the ability to take risks falls in almost the same proportion. Hence, it is better to throw away some securities in the search of unknown territories. I am ...