INTERESTING GYAN

“A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.”   “All customers are important but some are more important than others.” “Be a cause, not just a business.  Have a higher mission.” “Business, investor, and consumer confidence is shaken and the contraction phase begins.” 
 “Calling a market “mature” is evidence of incompetence.” “Commodities are simply products waiting for a redefinition.” “Companies need fewer bosses and more self-managers.” “Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something.  They should worry more about the cost of not doing it.” “Competitive advantage is a company’s ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.” “Cost is of no importance in setting the price.  It only helps you to know whether you should be making the product.” “Don’t buy market share....

After 150 years, the people of India are still groping in the dark to pinpoint the exact legacy of  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi  thanks to reams of propaganda that has managed to obfuscate several important truths that would provide us a clear picture about the man. Any honest attempt at this exercise will be rewarding if it proceeds to examine the said legacy based on Mohandas Gandhi the committed freedom fighter, the shrewd mass leader, the crafty politician, and the vacuous, Christian moralist. This exercise necessarily involves studying Gandhi’s life-work: his writing, speeches and deeds. After all, Gandhi himself famously declared, “my life is my message.” Manufacturing the Mahatma Myth One of the most enduring myths that has lasted for nearly a century is that of the appellation, “Mahatma” applied to Gandhi. But for this myth, it is doubtful whether a single dynasty would be able to rule over such a vast nation and  the world’s most ancient, non-Abrahamic ...

Deprecating the Indian manners Early European observers and British administrators in India repeatedly came across the Indian habit of offering food and hospitality to all those who happen to come to their door or the village, and they often wrote about it in rather deprecating terms. One of the better known among such observers is Abbe J.A. Dubois, the French missionary who arrived in India in 1792 and spent 31 years enjoying the fabled Indian hospitality in the villages of Mysore, pretending all the while to live as one amongst the villagers. The Abbe is revered as the first sociologist of India for his observations on what he calls the “Hindu manners, customs and ceremonies”. And while documenting the manners of the Indians, he writes extensively about the strict discipline that Indians followed in the matter of eating and sharing their food. The Abbe writes about the elaborate ceremony associated with the meal of a grhastha [householder]: about the scrupulous attention th...