How to read a book !

I have read books majorly during 4 times.

1. To give exams on those
2. To get knowledge (yes, they are different from exams)
3. To enjoy the reading
4. To pass the time

The question is, do we really care to see where the book fits in? Suppose we pick up a novel, do we read it to get knowledge or do we read it to enjoy or do we read it to pass the time? I have seen many instances where a book gets quoted. Has the orator read the book for knowledge or has he read it to enjoy? When can you quote a book? When you start to read a lot of books, you easily get confused. You start to think, was this something that happened in your life, or was it something you saw in a movie, or have you read it? This happens a lot of times to people who are of the imaginative type. In such cases, even after reading a lot of books, you tend to say, ‘I read somewhere, that …..’ You tend to avoid using it again, because you fear, the audience will ask you the details where you read it. If you say, you do not remember it, they will just dismiss the thought as wishful thinking.

Is there a way for the person to remember what he has read? This is even more important while speaking to an audience which does not know you. Imagine saying ‘…..’ and imagine saying ‘The great author Malcolm Gladwel in his book The tipping point said …..’ Even if the sentences were the same, the second one gives a much more impact on the audience. The audience considers you well read, knowledgeable and gives the importance you deserve.

For this, there needs to be a foolproof way to read each and every book. You should remember at least the gist of every book you have read. When you read about 40 books a year, it tends to become more and more difficult. One method that I have found useful is the Mindmap. Although I haven’t time tried it much, it surely seems useful.
I know there might be many more techniques used by the avid readers and would like to know of a few.

What will happen if Google hated just you !

This idea was something propagated through the tag line set by Pavan Kulkarni.

How do we know the websites? How many sites do we know and use that were advertised to us or for that matter where told to us. There are websites that are of the famous TV channels. There are some social networking sites. There are some email service sites. And??? There is Google.

Is this the problem? Although we use thousands of sites every day, we can hardly name a dozen. For everything, we are so much dependent on the search capability of Google. For that matter, many of us haven’t even tried the other search engines available. Search engines from companies like Yahoo! And Microsoft, don’t even deserve the credit of one glance. Imagine the paradigm we are in.

Now suppose, you tell Google (as a noun) is not the best. This hurts Google (Google as a person!). Google decides enough is enough; I will not entertain anything related to this person. Whenever a person Googles (as a verb!) information related to you, the search just neglects you. What would happen at that time? Is your online identity dead? How many people would have memorized your online address? Does this mean that for all practical purposes, you have no online identity?

Is this the future power house? Can this happen in the future?

A beautiful short story

Once upon a time, deep in the Indian Ocean, there was a small ship that was sailing. The ship was lost. The sailors were sailing for days without knowing, where they were.

Daily morning, the Optimist on the ship would get up, look towards the rising sun and shout “Today is the day when we will reach the shore.”

After that, the pessimist would get up, look towards the vast streach of water, and shout “No land even today, we are doomed. We will all die today.”

This went on for a few days. Then the people on the ship got so fed up listening to the words of death, that they threw the pessimist out of the ship.

They then started listening to the Optimist. This would give them the motivation for the day to work hard. This too went for a few days and finally, they again got frustrated. They threw the Optimist too out of into the water.

Moral of the story: There is no point in being a blind optimist or a blind pessimist. There needs to be rationale in whatever you think and say. Only the rationale thoughts will survive.

Another moral of the story is, The optimist got thrown second! So if you cant reason out, better be an optimist, you will have more chances.

Disclaimer: This story was either read in some mail or was told to me by someone. The credit goes to the original creator.

Recession a mind phenomenon?

Once upon a time, in one of the cities of India, there lived a bun maker. He was illiterate, but hard working. He worked day in and out, made buns on the street and sold them for a profit. This profit he brought home and saved for the education of the child.

The hard work was paying dividends and the bun from this man got very famous in the city. The demand was so high that, he hired people to help him in the business, then he bought more carts, then he bought a shop, after that, he bought more shops. He was doing a roaring business.

The year turned to 2008, and the son, who was now an MBA from one of the international school, came home. He saw that, his father was in the process of buying more shops, hiring more people to satisfy the demand of his customers.

The son said, dad don’t you know there is a world recession? People in the US are being laid off. Big companies are closing. There is a very gloomy picture outside. The father who was an illiterate, had not read papers, didn’t have the time to see the TV. He thought, I am just a layman, but my son is an MBA. He must know more about the business than I do.

He started the cost cutting exercise. He put lesser cheese in his buns. He pulled down the neon signs on the shop. Sent home a few employees. Brought down the number of buns he bought.

This made the customers feel the change. They slowly started to stay away from the shop. The demand reduced and the father thought, Thank god my son came at the right moment to save my business. Else I would have been bankrupt.

Is this the situation everywhere? Is recession a mind phenomenon? The bun maker, had he continued his business, his business would never have seen the downturn, and instead, he brought the downturn towards him. Is this how big companies fail?

Is the scenario like, companies feel it’s the downturn, so let’s not ask for big projects. The project giving companies feel there are no quotations for my bigger project; this must be because of the recession. This starts the downward spiral and the whole economy starts to crumble.

Disclaimer: This story was either read in some mail or was told to me by someone. The credit goes to the original creator.

What is the Motivation to work?

Todays organizations are moving from the garage shop to huge offices with hundreds of thousands of employees. With so many people, is it fair to have the same performance criterion, and the same motivation techniques?

Look at these 2 people.

1. A campus recruit who always thinks, the best companies do not come to campus. This company is a step in the direction to get into the best.
2. A person who has not got a job. After a struggle of an year, he gets into a company.

For argument sake, let’s think that both these guys get into the same company. What needs to be the performance/ motivation techniques? Can the manager give both these guys the same type of job? Can the manager give ‘meets expectation’ when both guys do the same amount of work?

Now consider another set of people.

1. A person who is wealthy. Has seen money all his life.
2. Another who has come from a family that had just managed to makes ends meet.

Can a performance appraisal with a monetary benefit of 500Rs. entice both? Can the manager say, if you toil hard, give a productivity of 120% every week for six months. You will be rated high. This high rating will give you a monetary benefit of 500Rs. You think, both the people will grab the opportunity? Do you think the two people mentioned earlier will take this opportunity with the same enthusiasm?

Now how about a lady who has a family to run? Whatever the scenario she got the job and her background, her only aim would be to finish work by 6PM and rush home. Can any incentive motivate her for extra work?

These are just a few types of people. There is a large list of people characteristics. Then apply various combinations to them, because people don’t tend to have one type of behavior. Adding to the misery, people change and sometimes suddenly. This is what makes the life of a HR manager challenging. This is what I feel keeps them going.

Good things bring good things? Or is it luck?

Look at these two sentences.

1. This guy is living a dream life. Everything he does is a success.
2. This guy is going through a bad phase in his life.

Looks very familiar? Happened many times in our life?

Now the question is why people go through patches of great time and bad time. Why is it that good/bad times last for a ‘period’? Why is it not that, 2 good/bad things after 1 good/bad event (or something else? So that there is no pattern).
Sometimes I do feel, the law of attraction works (as told in the book ‘The Secret’). Good things make the person happy. They make the person have good thoughts. He becomes more optimistic of life. He ‘believes’ that he can change his life. This makes him attract more and more happiness. This self belief is the cause of future success/happiness.

Similarly when there is a bad phase, the person becomes pessimistic. He is hesitant in his thoughts and actions. He misses opportunities which could transform his bad phase to good. He is too busy brooding over the problems he has, and has no time to think about the solution required to turn the tables around.

The law of attraction of good/bad does explain this, but to think of how can a person in great happiness attract misery, or how can a person who is in pain think of happiness? What causes the good to go to bad and the reverse to happen? Is this a mere act of the human or is there a philosophical power behind this? Is this catalyst of change the god/daemon?

According to me, everybody in life holds a few things very dear to the heart. These include good/bad things. There are things that can make a person easily happy and easily sad. Just as a crude example, It doesn’t matter for a cricketer how quickly he covers the 22yards. He is happy if he has reached the crease before the ball and is faster (relative) than his partner. The same when you consider a runner, he is not bothered about the camera that is chasing him, nor his partners (although important for that race), he is more bothered about the world record and how to be better than that.

Whenever these things happen in life, they resonate with the mind/heart and the times change towards to the good/bad. So does the secret of life lie in knowing what causes the bad resonance and avoiding it? Did the happiness potion in happy potter work in this principle?

The Change in DNA

The human being is defined by his gene. This gene goes through a lot of changes. Consider the continuous changes during 1000BC, 0AD, 1000AD and now the 2000AD. The gene/DNA is going on fighting with the environment.

Maybe in the 1000AD, the time was such that, the human and the environment were equal. The environment would influence the man and man would fight it back. In the present time, whenever there is some kind of threat, there will be external stimuli to counter that. Consider the situation where the human has fewer. The humans’ common defense is, pop in a tablet. This is a form of external stimuli. This causes a change in the gene/DNA and gains enough power to equalize the threat from environment (get cured).

Whenever there is fewer, unlike the old days where it would take a long (say 15 days) while to get cured, in the present man uses external stimuli (Crocin?) and the fewer is cured in a day or two. When this process continues, the gene/DNA too undergoes modification and becomes lazy (just like the whole human being!). It fails to develop immunization because, it knows whenever there is an emergency the human brain is capable of finding the required external stimuli to counter it. The internal strength of the gene/DNA goes on decreasing.

A time may come in the future, when there is no internal fight and the whole fight is expected to be from external stimuli. This is the start of the decline of the human, and finally extinction.

Now, consider the change. The human is replaced by an organization. The time span is reduced from 1000 to a decade. The organization is facing threats and fighting against it.

The organization is defined by its DNA. We say DNA of Apple Inc is the innovations it is bringing to the table; the DNA of Toyota is the quality. When in the long run the organization with internal/external stimuli changes this very DNA for which the organization was known.

Is this (the change in DNA) the reason why a handful of companies see the 100 year mark?

Will the biggies of today Microsoft, Google be able to survive this long?

Colloquium @ SIBM Bangalore

Dr S. P Kothari was the chief guest. He was the former dean at MIT Sloan, prof at Harvard Business School. Mr. Apte the ex-director of IIMB was also the guest of honour. The topic for the event for “Global Economic Slowdown: Recommendations for India’s economic growth”.

Dr. Kothari focused his talk on 3 major action items for the country.
1. Improve the education
2. Better governance
3. Improve infrastructure

The education will be good, only if the parents take an active interest in the child’s education. This was the basis on which he proposed that, an incentive scheme should be introduced, where in the parents get an monetary incentive, if the child scores above a certain level. The exam for evaluating the performance should be outsourced so that, the parents do not harass the teachers for the extra marks. This idea when developed, can be an effective tool to get the education to the masses.

Comparison with the governance in the US, where even a small district has its own curriculum, its own management for the schools, the powers should be percolated down to the lower representatives. The country should be divided into smaller economic states which can help in easy management restrict the concentration of power.

The country is growing at around 8%, this kind of growth cannot be sustained only by the citizens. The country needs more FDI. The comparison with the China is 1-13. For every rupee that comes to India as FDI, 13 rupees goes to China as FDI. The government says it’s made policies that are very helpful institutions to bring in FDI. This statement can only be justified when there is actual flood of FDI in the country.

The other major issue was, everything said and done, there needs to be political will for the country to prosper.

SIBM Bangalore

It’s almost been 8 months at SIBM Bangalore. Having studied at technical schools, the experience of a business school has been totally different. A lot more of the global subjects-the subjects that have no diagrams or formulae, a few mathematical subjects that are so very elementary, and some subjects like current affairs that are very interesting to learn. The greatest fun is, when you write in your exams- with the booming economy and the ever so rocketing stock market… and then when the professor starts to correct the paper, the news paper says, the economy is in doldrums and the stock market has crashed! Just a glimpse of the SIBM world.

Quality of students
The friends that I have here are very different to the friends I have back home. My colleagues come from every part of India, there is not a single state that is not represented! And some (30 of them) are international students. This gives a very different perspective to the classes. The professor wont just say, the world is very emotional (people of India) because, there will be students from the US who will say, no the world is very void of emotions.

The procedure
The way to get into the college is tough. A all India test called the SNAP has to be aced. Out of the 1.1lakh students who write the SNAP, about 1000(0.009%) are selected for further screening. These students are put through a case study-group activity-psychometric test-personal interview. 150 students are then selected from this lot( 0.001%).

Academic rigour
Visiting/adjunct/guest faculty from university of Berlin, IIMK and IIMB. MOUs being signed with the various universities around the globe make SIBM Bangalore truly an international level institute. The assignments and the never ending case studies always keep the students on their toes

Faculty
I have seen 2 different semesters, and both have been very contrasting. The first was with the professors who were in Bangalore. Some of them are teaching at IIMB, but many didn’t. This 2nd semester has been a lot like studying at IIMK. About 90% of my professors are teachers at IIMK and are visiting faculty for us. The teaching and the expectation are huge. The dramatic difference between a national level college and a state level college was visible. Bangalore, before SIBM had only IIMB which was of national level. So the best faculty of Bangalore were not good enough. Hopefully with SIBM too coming to Bangalalore, it will develop its own international level faculty.

Check the website www.sibm.edu.in for further details.

The Big Bubble

This is a mail that I received. Worth reading.

Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around.

1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. B and C each owned 1 dollar.

2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1 dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar.

* The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars.

3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country, and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So, he borrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought the land from B for 2 dollars.

*A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B sold his land and got 2 dollars, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C owned the piece of land worth 2 dollars but with his 1 dollar debt to A, his net residual asset is 1 dollar.
* Thus, the net asset of the country = 4 dollars.

4) A saw that the land he once owned has risen in value. He regretted having sold it. Luckily, he has a 1 dollar loan to C. He then borrowed 2 dollars from B and acquired the land back from C for 3 dollars. The payment is by 2 dollars cash (which he borrowed) and cancellation of the 1 dollar loan to C. As a result, A now owned a piece of land that is worth 3 dollars. But since he owed B 2 dollars, his net asset is 1 dollar.

* B loaned 2 dollars to A. So his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C now has the 2 coins. His net asset is also 2 dollars.
* The net asset of the country = 5 dollars. A bubble is building up.

(5) B saw that the value of land kept rising. He also wanted to own the land. So he bought the land from A for 4 dollars. The payment is by borrowing 2 dollars from C, and cancellation of his 2 dollars loan to A.

* As a result, A has got his debt cleared and he got the 2 coins. His net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owned a piece of land that is worth 4 dollars, but since he has a debt of 2 dollars with C, his net Asset is 2 dollars.
* C loaned 2 dollars to B, so his net asset is 2 dollars.

* The net asset of the country = 6 dollars; even though, the country has only one piece of land and 2 Dollars in circulation.

(6) Everybody has made money and everybody felt happy and prosperous.

(7) One day an evil wind blew, and an evil thought came to C's mind. "Hey, what if the land price stop going up, how could B repay my loan. There is only 2 dollars in circulation, and, I think after all the land that B owns is worth at most only 1 dollar, and no more."

(8) A also thought the same way.

(9) Nobody wanted to buy land anymore.

* So, in the end, A owns the 2 dollar coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owed C 2 dollars and the land he owned which he thought worth 4 dollars is now 1 dollar. So his net asset is only 1 dollar.
* C has a loan of 2 dollars to B. But it is a bad debt. Although his net asset is still 2 dollars, his Heart is palpitating.
* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars again.

(10) So, who has stolen the 3 dollars from the country ? Of course, before the bubble burst B thought his land was worth 4 dollars. Actually, right before the collapse, the net asset of the country was 6 dollars on paper. B's net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is palpitating.

(11) B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. C as to relinquish his 2 dollars bad debt to B, but in return he acquired the land which is worth 1 dollar now.

* A owns the 2 coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B is bankrupt, his net asset is 0 dollar. ( he lost everything )
* C got no choice but end up with a land worth only 1 dollar

* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars.


**************End of the story; BUT ***************************



There is however a redistribution of wealth.
A is the winner, B is the loser, C is lucky that he is spared.
A few points worth noting -



(1) When a bubble is building up, the debt of individuals to one another in a country is also building up.
(2) This story of the island is a closed system whereby there is no other country and hence no foreign debt. The worth of the asset can only be calculated using the island's own currency. Hence, there is no net loss.

(3) An over-damped system is assumed when the bubble burst, meaning the land's value did not go down to below 1 dollar.

(4) When the bubble burst, the fellow with cash is the winner. The fellows having the land or extending loan to others are the losers. The asset could shrink or in worst case, they go bankrupt.

(5) If there is another citizen D either holding a dollar or another piece of land but refrains from taking part in the game, he will neither win nor lose. But he will see the value of his money or land go up and down like a see saw.

(6) When the bubble was in the growing phase, everybody made money.

(7) If you are smart and know that you are living in a growing bubble, it is worthwhile to borrow money (like A ) and take part in the game. But you must know when you should change everything back to cash.

(8) As in the case of land, the above phenomenon applies to stocks as well.

(9) The actual worth of land or stocks depend largely on psychology.

iPod Touch

The iPod touch just got better.
I got the Apple software update 2.0 onto my touch.
This enables a whole lot of features. There is a apple online store based out of India. So we can buy(!) songs, movies, softwares for the touch. Well the interesting feature is, the softwares, some of them are free. So I can download some cool stuff. Apple gets a part of the sale, 30% to be exact. The terms for software makers are, they can give it out for free. Which means apple earns 30% of 0 = 0$. Or, they can charge any amount they feel is appropriate and apple will make revenue out of this sale.
If we just browse through the softwares that are available, we see that, there are a wide veriety of softwares that are free of charge. I downloaded a game, which is based on the motion sensitivity of iPod Touch. Its a software version of what we used ot play as kids. A plastic box, with a maze inside it, and a ball-bearing to roll inside. Objective was to guide the ball, to the exit, clearing the maze. This is exactly the same game, but a virtual(software) one. The iPod Touch senses the tilt and the movements. This is transfered to the virtual-ball. The objective still remains the same:-)
Then there is mailbox support(POP,IMAP,Microsoft exchange)
A notepad, multiple calenders, maps, stocks, weather, direct link to youtube videos, iTunes store..... and access to innumerable software that can be downloaded.

Change Of India

This is a fwd mail that I got. The thing that caught my attention was, how well the line captures the change that has taken place in the last 50 years.

Thomas L Friedman- The NewYork Times 'Foreign Affairs' columnist once said,

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were
Told to eat our vegetables at dinner and not leave them.
Mothers said, think of the starving children in India
And finish the dinner.'

And now I tell my children:
'Finish your homework. Think of the children in India
Who would make you starve, if you don't.'?"

Linking Javadoc and Eclipse

I had been searching for ways to get the Java documentation from SUN integrated with Eclipse. The Eclipse IDE would not show the information. The information i am talking about is the one that you get, when your mouse pointer hovers on the predefined class. My IDE would just display the class name. It really becomes irritating when there are multiple options available and you aren’t sure what each does. Searching on the net, for each of those becomes a tedious job.

I downloaded the Javadoc for my JDK, and extracted the contents in the folder that contained Eclipse. I restarted Eclipse with the hope of seeing the changes in help. But alas, nothing had changed. Then I started searching for ways to get it linked. First and last stop google. But the search engine threw up wide range of websites, that either gave info of Eclipse or of Javadoc. In few websites that contained both, it was about 'use the javadoc in eclipse!'. Finally, after various websites and frustration, I set about trying to find, where the option is, in eclipse.

The way to do it is,
• Click on 'Project'---->'Properties'---->'Java Build Path'---->'Libraries'
• Expand the 'JRE System Library'
• Expand 'rt.jar'
• Click on 'javadoc location'---->'edit'
• Click on 'javadoc URL' radio button.
• Click on 'browse' and select the folder 'api'
• This folder should contain 'index.html' and the file 'package-list'.
• Say OK. Click on 'validate'. This should pass the internal validation.

Once this is done, enjoy the detailed documentation by SUN. You will no longer require the internet to know more about any predefined function. Of course, you should know what you are looking at :-)

Another hurray

I have been awarded the best engineer of the month. The nominations were chosen from my whole unit(PLES), across several locations. PLES Infosys, is located at Mysore, Bangalore, Pune and onshore at US. The award was given as a means to recognise value addition to Infosys. It was given in the all hands meet- a meeting where the whole of unit is present and connected. There are about 2000 people in the unit, which makes the award very very special. My tag line of orkut will still continue.
'The best is yet to come'.
Picture abhi baki hai mere dost

Hurray

Hurray I got selected to SIBM-Bangalore. Joing in june 2008
Details later..

Going home

This surely deserves a post..

I am going home for the weekend:-)

Bollywood

Something funny which is directly lifted from one of the mails that i got.
Observations made on some popular Bollywood movies
Baghban: Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini areseparated right after Holi remember Amitabh singingHoli khele Raghubeera?). They are said to beseparated for six months, ie from March toSeptember. Within that six-month period, theycelebrate Valentine's Day, which falls on February14, and karva chauth, which is usually observed inOctober. There is no way these two occasions couldcome between March and September!
Lagaan: Lagaan was shot in the late 19thcentury. At the time, an over in cricket used toconsist of 8 balls. But in this movie, an over has 6balls. Maybe modern cricket learnt from the movie.
Amar Akbar Anthony: Three men donate blood atthe same time to the same person.
Awwal Number: Dev Anand is an omnipotentgenius -- former cricketer,captain, army chief,commissioner, you name it. And Aamir Khan carries ahuge transistor in his pocket while batting!
Khalnayak: The police tracks the villain froman MS Word Document screen! something that officeteam will be interested in)
Pyar To Hona Hi Tha: Kajol gets off the trainto use the public toilet at the railway station andthe train chugs off without her. Poor girl,littledid she know that every train compartment has fourtoilets inside.
Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi: Akshay Kumar boards aJet Airways flight to America. Well, well, somepromotion for our Indian Jet Airways. Since when didthey start flying international?
Raja Hindustani: Navneet Nishan has short hairbefore marriage. After tying the knot, she acquireswaist-length hair overnight. What a hair-raisingexperience!
Raja: Dilip Tahil empties a can of petrol overMadhuri Dixit. Minutes later, Sanjay Kapoor takesthe same can and pours it over Dilip Tahil. That'swhat I call an autofill!
Guddu: Manisha Koirala and Shah Rukh Khan areseen hanging on a parachute during a song. But whenthe song ends, they land on a glider. What a switchabove sea level!
Tere Mere Sapne: Priya Gill is doing her BA.But at the bus stop, she is carrying an electricaltechnology thesis by B L Theraja. What anelectrifying interest!
Ajnabi: In "Ajnabi".....Bobby Deol typed the password "everything is planned"...which was shown as a sentence in password field. Rather than shown as encrypted.....that was too much.
Bunty aur Bubbly: In "Bunty aur Bubbly".....when Rani Mukherjee was first time introduced in the movie....it was shown that she is aspiring to be an actress....so she had too many idols...and there was pictures of many beautiful ladies(of Bollywod and Hollywood) attached in her room wall. Among those pictures there was also a picture of Aishwariya Rai (sorry Bachhan)....if Aishawariya is shown as a movie star... (Because Rani says that she wants rule like Aishwariya (I dont know what does it mean???))......then how can she get a role of a bar dancer (kajrare...) in that same movie???? Mind blowing Shaad Ali....

Sound effects

I was seeing a bruce lee movie. Chinese Connections. Its picturised in the early 1970's. The thing that facinated me was not the fight. Bruce lee movies are known for the exemplary skills of martial arts. There was a sound sequence in the movie. It has been used everywhere in the movie. Its like a tumbler, trown on the floor. The sound is clearly captured, with the natural vibrations and till it totally dies down. This one sound has probably so very facinated the music director(if at all he was there) that he uses it every 5 min:-)

Infy TV

Infy TV is the first corporate channel. This is not the information which made me sit and think. InfyTV was launched many months ago. The thing that really caught my eye is the live shows.
At the moment Samavesh- an inter DC(Development Centre) competition is going on at MysoreDC. These events are being streamed "LIVE". This is trully fantastic. Not just to Mysore DC, its being streamed to all the DCs of Infy across the globe.

Taare Zameen Par

This is a wonderful song from Taare Zamin par. Its in all my playlists. From the time I watched the movie, to date, this is the most listened to song. Enjoy the lyrics

Song Title: Maa - Taare Zameen Par
Movie Name: Taare Zameen Par
Singer: SHANKAR MAHADEVAN

Main Kabhi Batlata Nahin
Par Andhere Se Darta Hoon Main Maa
Yun To Main,Dikhlata Nahin
Teri Parwaah Karta Hoon Main Maa
Tujhe Sab Hain Pata, Hain Na Maa
Tujhe Sab Hain Pata,,Meri Maa

Bheed Mein Yun Na Chodo Mujhe
Ghar Laut Ke Bhi Aa Naa Paoon Maa
Bhej Na Itna Door Mujkko Tu
Yaad Bhi Tujhko Aa Naa Paoon Maa
Kya Itna Bura Hoon Main Maa
Kya Itna Bura Meri Maa

Jab Bhi Kabhi Papa Mujhe
Jo Zor Se Jhoola Jhulate Hain Maa
Meri Nazar Dhoondhe Tujhe
Sochu Yahi Tu Aa Ke Thaamegi Maa
Unse Main Yeh Kehta Nahin
Par Main Seham Jaata Hoon Maa
Chehre Pe Aana Deta Nahin
Dil Hi Dil Mein Ghabraata Hoon Maa
Tujhe Sab Hai Pata Hai Naa Maa
Tujhe Sab Hai Pata Meri Maa

Main Kabhi Batlata Nahin
Par Andhere Se Darta Hoon Main Maa
Yun To Main,Dikhlata Nahin
Teri Parwaah Karta Hoon Main Maa
Tujhe Sab Hain Pata, Hain Na Maa
Tujhe Sab Hain Pata,,Meri Maa

Song dedicated to my mom and dad.
I miss my parents:-(. Well I will meet them this feb:-)