I.T industry in India is still in its cradle though it is bubbling and bloating at a great pace. High tides of I.T waves rising in west have brought bundles of dollars and euros to Indian shores. But in spite of high revenue growth in I.T sector, it is different from many conventional sectors in terms of working culture, workforce composition and working style. It is a labor intensive industry or better say people are the most important ingredient of this industry. Access to handsome salary at an early age, party culture and a good social status fascinates youth towards this ‘honey’ sector. Handling human beings especially those with degree and high skill set is not an easy soup.

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Morning walk is very beneficial for our body. It is better to walk during early hours of morning because the environment is considered to be fresh and not polluted. The air that you intake during morning is free of polluted gaseous matters and has low level of carbon dioxide. This supplies good amount of oxygen to the internal organ. As we all know that plants sent out oxygen during morning we get plenty amount of oxygen and also the air is fresh during morning. It not only keeps our lungs healthy but also our respiratory system efficiency increases by breathing in the pure air. During morning walk, our brain gets plenty of oxygen which in turn increases the efficiency of our nervous system and also increases our thinking power. Its also advised by doctors that we should walk in morning for at least 30 minutes per day.

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Mobile applications are softwares which are developed for small low-power handheld devices such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. These applications are either pre-installed on phones during manufacture, or downloaded by customers from various mobile software distribution platforms. In the twenty years from 1990 to 2010, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 4.6 billion, from this data, you can understand of importance and popularity of mobile applications. Let’s see the list of Top 7 Mobile Applications.

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Now a days, Vastu has become a buzz word for real estate experts and flat or home owners. But what exactly is Vastu? Today we will look into the intricacies of Vastu Shastra. It is a traditional Hindu system of design, primarily applied in Hindu architecture. From thousands of years, Vastu Shastra has been applied to Hindu temples. It is concerned primarily with building architecture – building houses, forts, temples, apartments etc. There is a great importance of Vastu shastra in our life, as it is directly of indirectly linked to happiness and prosperity. And the best thing is that it is based on scientific study and not on assumptions.

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Delhi Belly’s song Bhaag D.K. Bose has become one of the most popular songs of the year. It has been composed and sung by Ram Sampath, with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya. The promotional video has also been released for the song, featuring Imran Khan, Vir Das and Kunaal Roy Kapur, has been directed by Sajid Sheikh. After the release of this song, people are trying to guess meaning of D K Bose in the song. On first impression, it looks like a common Bengali name. However, if you write it as ‘Bose DK’ and it would sound like a common Hindi slang Bhosdi ke. 🙂 The singer repeatedly sings dk bose dk bose dk bose dk which eventually sounds like Bhosdi ke.

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Salman Khan started his career with family drama Biwi Ho To Aisi in 1988, where he played the role of hero’s brother. However, his first leading role in a Bollywood movie was in Sooraj R. Barjatya’s romantic love story Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). It is still one of India’s highest grossing films. After the great success of Maine Pyar Kiya, he became the heart throb of Indian cinema. Following with other box office hits he showed his terrific performance in Saajan (1991), Sanam Bewafa (1990), Andaz Apna Apna (1994), Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994), Karan Arjun (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). He lived all types of roles on silver screen, sensitive, vulnerable, funny, aggressive and charming as his role demands.

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I was living in this illusion since I arrived in U.S. But today all the traces of my doubt vanquished away when I saw an old lady driving a luxurious car. What a big deal if an old lady drives a car? It may not be news for an American but for an Indian it is nothing less than a miracle. You still think it cannot be big news even for an Indian. But your eye balls will definitely roll up if I say that lady works as a sweeper in my office and she was driving “Honda Civic”. She is Mary Pauline and she is 65 years old. I greet her every time I find her sweeping floor or cleaning glass panes of my office door. She always reciprocates my greeting with a more generous giggling smile showing her toothless jaw.

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Global FMCG giant Unilever appointed Harish Manwani as its Chief Operating Officer as part of its global reorganization in the business structure of the company. Manwani graduated from Mumbai University. He also obtained Master’s Degree in Management studies at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and studied Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. In 1976, he joined the then Hindustan Lever Limited. So this is one more example where an Indian manager has got success in getting one of top positions in a global corporation. Indian managers are rocking the world business with their strategic analytical ability, cultural fit and good knowledge of English language. The mindset of western business world is changing, it has started appointing more executives from emerging economies. Let’s see the list of Indian managers who are at the top of the corporate ladder.

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After long wait of 5 years, Aanchal Khurana has become second girl to win Hero Honda MTV Roadies. There were three contestants in the grand finale – Mohit, Suchit and Anchal. Suchit was voted out in one luck based task. As a result of Suchit’s vote out, the final was between Anchal and Mohit. The final winner was decided on the bases of vote in by the current roadies and ex-roadies. In the vote in based finale, Anchal swept nine votes of the ten and many of the contestants who voted for her said that they voted for Anchal as they wanted a girl to win Roadies 8.

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Stockholm Syndrome is used to describe the behavior of kidnap victims who, over time, become sympathetic to their captors. This kind of behaviour has been shown in many movies Hollywood and Bollywood movies. In Bond movie “The World Is Not Enough” Bond girl Elektra King has her villainy blamed on Stockholm Syndrome to her captor Renard, whom she supposedly falls in love with and joins in the pipeline terrorist attack. The name derives from a 1973 hostage incident in Stockholm, Sweden. At the end of six days of captivity in a bank, several kidnap victims actually resisted rescue attempts, and afterwards refused to testify against their captors. There are many example from world history. Mary McElroy, a young girl of a rich Judge in US was kidnapped and held for ransom in 1933 and released by her captors unharmed. When three of her four captors were apprehended and given maximum sentences (including one death sentence), McElroy defended them.

According to reports, she suffered from feelings of guilt concerning the case which compromised her mental and physical health. She took her own life in 1940. What is the cause behind Stockholm Syndrome? Captives begin to identify with their captors initially as a defensive mechanism, out of fear of violence. Small acts of kindness by the captor are magnified, since finding perspective in a hostage situation is by definition impossible. Rescue attempts are also seen as a threat, since it’s likely the captive would be injured during such attempts. These symptoms occur under tremendous emotional and often physical duress. The behavior is considered a common survival strategy for victims of interpersonal abuse, and has been observed in battered spouses, abused children, prisoners of war, and concentration camp survivors.

An inverse of Stockholm Syndrome called “Lima Syndrome” has been proposed, in which abductors develop sympathy for their hostages. It was named after an abduction at the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996, when members of a militant movement took hostage hundreds of people attending a party in the official residence of Japan’s ambassador. Within a few hours, the abductors had set free most of the hostages, including the most valuable ones, due to sympathy.