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(The blog was written around a month back!) What is assertiveness? Usually, people associate assertiveness with the capability to say "no" to people because more often than not, people end up saying "yes" when actually they want to say "no". How many times have you yielded to a friend's request to go out for a drive when you wanted to lie down in your bed? Or, how many times have you lied to your relative about the abysmal state of your car which is in good shape and she asked for it. Assertiveness is much more than that. It is the ease with which one can state the correct irrespective of the odds without being rude or offending. It might sound easy but in practice that's one of the toughest things to do. Today I was coming in a train. I was lying on the upper berth. Suddenly I smelt a cigarette. A guy was sitting on the lower berth and was smoking happily unaware of the problems being faced by me because of his...

These summers I am staying at a place called Bharwari. It has been my native place since 1991. My father joined as Principal of a Degree College. Since then, I have been staying here. I studied till 8th in a school at Bharwari after which I left for Allahabad for remaining classes in pursuit of a better career and good academics. I did Engineering and got a job. For more than 2 years, I couldn't come to Bharwari during summers. In winters I did come for my sister's wedding. I could barely sleep the last two nights. Not because I got nightmares or I was busy thinking about someone or something, but because its Hot, Flat and Crowded. HOT: Its so hot here that you would sweat even if the fan is working. Our bunglow is a beautiful place to live in. However, since there is no construction on the roof and Bharwari being located in the plains of Ganges, the Sun rays are direct and non-relenting. Throughout the day the sun rays fall on our house and make it a boiler. So even at night, ...

My first ever resignation. This is written with the help from google and one more mail :) Hi (Manager's name) Please accept this letter as formal notification that I am leaving my position with Amdocs, DVCI after around 22 months from the position of Subject Matter Expert. This decision is because I would like to pursue my higher studies and not due to any issues with the company. Everyone was exceptionally helpful to me. However, for betterment of my own future, I wish to go ahead with the higher studies. Thank you for the opportunities you have provided me during my time with the company. If I can be of any assistance during this transition, please let me. Kindly accept my resignation and relieve me from my duties as soon as possible. I would be highly obliged if the relieving be done in the third week of May. I request you to confirm my reliving date on 21st May, 2009, if convinient. Thanking you. Regards, Yashowardhan Chaturvedi Subject matter Expert Please care for environment...

Generally, when you spend a good amount of time at a place which isn't particularly fascinating and not even close to what you thought it would be, you gain a newer experience which quite often is cherished later on very fondly! College days are just like that. You are angry at each and everything. Faults are ever-ending and never-ending. Professors are boring and troublesome. Attendance is always short. The monetary condition identical to the attendance. You have issues everywhere yet you take time out to have some fun to get your mind off these hard times. But what if you get harsh times even when you go out for fun?!?! My friends and I decided to go for a movie, the first one at Ranchi. We had received quite a few warnings from fellow batchmates who had had experience of watching the movie there a day before. There were many a suggestions as well which we scoffed at since we found what they told to be highly exaggerated and fabricated. How illeterate we were! After leaving BIT b...

There is more than just one aspect to a human being’s personality. The K-serials showed just the opposite. The good were always good and the bad, perennially evil. Leave K-serials, they were the worst possible things that could have been created. In general, only one shade of a person’s character is shown if one reads some other novel or watches some movie. However, what is true in reality is that without fail every individual has various traits that define his/her nature. Good, bad, carefree, cautious, evil, divine….. a person has everything in him/her. What I feel is every individual is a split personality. The same person might act different in same situation. Godaan was first published in 1936 and is considered the greatest Hindi novel of modern Indian literature. What I liked about the book is portrayal of variety of shades of human personality. A man who was a baddie also had benevolence for others and it was circumstances that brought other aspects of his temperament. Same was t...

There was a King in ancient times. He was ruling his kingdom sincerely and intelligently. His masses loved and respected him. He took great care of them. There was a famous saint in a nearby village. The king went to him to seek his blessings so that he would serve his kingdom better. The saint told the King that he was discharging his duties honestly and earnestly yet since the King had come, he (the saint) would give him something which would help the King handle drastic situations better. The saint gave the King a locket and asked him to open it and read the contents only under two conditions: either the King was so happy that he got overwhelmed by that or he was so doomed that he could find no way to handle the situation. If the locket be opened under any other situation, the effect of the locket would be of no use. The King thanked the saint and left. Many years passed. During all those years, the King came next to opening the locket, however every time some or the other thing mad...

I went to office and my manager (let’s call him Elisha) started asking me about the blog I had written earlier. “O God! How come he knows about it?”, I thought. I had not given him the link. I did forward the link to a few of my colleagues, but never to him. He was cracking his jokes regarding the blog and all I could thought was about, “Has he read the other blogs?”, “Meri to watt lag gayi beta…!!!”. What perplexed me the most was how the hell he could get my blog link. Probably you read my previous blog, 3 IDIOTS. I sent the link to one of my colleagues (let’s call him Dick!). He was reading it when Elisha came to him. Elisha saw 2 familiar names. This aroused his curiosity. He asked about what Dick was reading to which Dick told it was a blog which I had written. Oops! But I was on a sick leave!! Elisha then asked for the link. Dick had no choice but to give. Elisha might have read the blog. In my previous blogs I have written quite shamelessly about my future plans and how I hate m...