THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Dreams

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. "

- Charles Lindbergh

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Sadanand Viswanath

Sadanand Viswanath (Kannada: ಸದಾನಂದ ವಿಶ್ವನಾಥ್‌) pronunciation (help·info) (born November 29, 1962, Bangalore, Karnataka) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 22 ODIs, from 1985 to 1988. Currently, he is a first class umpire and coach.
Vishy gained recognition during the height of India's ascendancy in world cricket in the mid '80s. He was first selected in the Indian team which won the World Championship of Cricket tournament in Australia and the Rothmans Cup in Sharjah days later, in 1985. The thumping triumphs, where India did not lose a single match, validated its claim as the world's best ODI team. People had started to believe in the qualities of a team they earlier thought had won the 1983 World Cup by fluke.

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Truth

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

- Oscar Wilde

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V.P.Singh

Few Indian political leaders have been as reviled as V.P. Singh. Few have made as lasting a contribution to Indian nation building. I refer, of course, to his decision in August 1990 to implement the Mandal Commission's recommendations and reserve 27 per cent of the jobs in Central government for the backward classes. I was privileged to witness the paradox at close quarters.

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Management

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

- E Golnik

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Suresh Raina

Suresh Kumar Raina (born 27 November, 1986, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian cricketer from the state of Uttar Pradesh. Raina has been a member of the Indian cricket team for ODIs since July 2005, and was included in the Test squad in early 2006, but has yet to make his Test debut. Domestically he plays for Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy and Central Zone in the Duleep Trophy. He is primarily a left-hand batsmen, who is known for his ability to hit the stumps from the infield. He is also a very occasional off-spinner

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Management

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

- Peter Drucker

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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born November 26, 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. He is noted for leading protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas and for alleging that the Argentinean police are forming children into paramilitary squads, an operation he compares to the creation of Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth.

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Buy

"When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears."

- Czech Proverb

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (November 25 1835 – August 11 1919) was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Lose

"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."

- Anonymous

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Arundhati Roy

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Life

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

- Mark Twain


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Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba (Telugu: సత్య సాయి బాబా) was born as Sathyanarayana Raju on November 23, 1926 — or later than 1927 — with the family name of "Ratnakaram",and is a South Indian guru, religious leader, orator and controversially described by his followers as a Godman and a miracle worker.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Success

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav was born on November 22, 1939 in a farmer family. His father late Sri Sughar Singh was a simple and hardworking farmer. Mr. Yadav passed his MA and BT examinations from the University of Agra. He was married in the year 1957 to Ms.Samantshree.

From childhood, Mr. Yadav was very sensitive towards social disparities and problems faced by the people of SC/ST and OBC. He was highly impressed by the thoughts of the famous socialist and thinker, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia. He was inspired by Dr. Lohia to wage a battle against injustice and harassment of the deprived sections of society.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Discovery

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

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C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, KCSI, CBE (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்) (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist, who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Work

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"

- Cicero

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Tippu Sultan

Sultan Fateh Ali Tippu, also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli – May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), was the first son of Haidar Ali by his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-nissa. He was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from the time of his father's death in 1782 until his own demise in 1799. Tippu Sultan was a learned man and an able soldier. He was reputed to be a good poet. He was a devout Muslim, but was also appreciative of other religions. At the request of the French, for instance, he built a church, the first in Mysore.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Work

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी) (19 November, 1917 - October 31, 1984) She was the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and to date only female prime minister. She is noted for creating a dictatorship by declaring Emergency after a court struck down her election in 1975, and also for her handling of the Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants, which eventually resulted in her assassination.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Trouble

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."

- Thomas Jefferson

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George Wald

George Wald(November 18, 1906 – April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Lost

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged."

- John M. Ford

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian author and politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. The freedom fighter was popularly known as Punjab Kesari (Lion of the Punjab). He was also the founder Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Company.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Advice

"Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble."

- Sidney J. Harris

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Kanaka Dasa

Kanaka Dasa (Kannada:ಕನಕ ದಾಸ ) (1509–1609)[1] was great poet, philosopher, musician and composer from Karnataka. He is known[2] for his Kirtanes and Ugabhoga compositions in the Kannada language for Karnataka Music. Uniqueness of his compositions is that he embedded common people's day-to-day language into the complicated classical Karnataka music which was mostly limited to scholarly language. He is also known for propagating Dwaita philosophy of Shri Madhvacharya through poetry and music to the masses in the Karnataka region of South India.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Experience

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

- Victoria Holt

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindi: जवाहरलाल नेहरू, IPA: [ʤəʋäɦəɾläl nɛɦɾu] (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was a major political leader of the Congress Party, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first and one of the longest-serving prime ministers of the Republic of India. He was also a key figure in international politics in the post-war period (in which he was considered the leader of Non-aligned Movement interests) and patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family, one of the most influential forces in Indian politics. He is popularly referred to as Panditji (Scholar) and Pandit Nehru.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Right

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain

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Scott McNealy

Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954 in Columbus, Indiana) was the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 1984, McNealy took over the CEO role from co-founder Vinod Khosla, who would ultimately leave the company in 1985. On 24 April 2006, McNealy stepped down as CEO after serving in that position for 22 years, and turned the job over to Jonathan Schwartz. Sun Microsystems, along with companies such as Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and Oracle Corporation, was part of a wave of successful startup companies in California's Silicon Valley during the early and mid-1980s. He is a self-described libertarian.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Economics

"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."

- Alfred A. Knopf

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Salim Ali (ornithologist)

Sálim Ali, born Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, (November 12, 1896 - July 27, 1987), was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Known as the "Birdman of India", Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys in India and his books have contributed enormously to the development of professional and amateur ornithology in India.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Right

"I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill."

- Holly Lisle

TOPIC OF THE DAY

J. H. C. Whitehead

John Henry Constantine Whitehead (11 November 1904–8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Madras (now known as Chennai) in India and died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1960.

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Experience

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

- Barry LePatner

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Winston Churchill (novelist)

Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. While he would be most successful as a novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Skills

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

- Peter Drucker

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Kocheril Raman Narayanan

Kocheril Raman Narayanan (Malayalam: 27 October 1920 — 9 November 2005), also known as K. R. Narayanan, was the tenth President of the Republic of India. He is the first Dalit and the only Malayali to have been President

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Life

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

- William Lyon Phelps

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P. L. Deshpande

Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (Marathi: पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे) (8 November 1918 – 12 June 2000) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra in India. Apart from his writing, he was also well-known for his all-round achievements as an accomplished film and stage actor, music composer, harmonium player, singer and orator. He wrote in Marathi under the nameपु. ल. देशपांडे ("P. L. Deshpande"), and was popularly known by just his initials पु. ल. ("Pu. La."). He was also affectionately called Maharashtrache laadke vyaktimattva or "the most beloved personality in Maharashtra".

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Risk

"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk."

- Oprah Winfrey

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C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, KCSI, CBE (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்) (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist, who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Speech

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

- Scottish Proverb

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Edsel Ford

Edsel Bryant Ford (November 6, 1893 – May 26, 1943), son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit. He was president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 to 1943.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Invent

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

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René Cassin

René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist and judge. A French soldier in World War One, he later went on to form the Union Federale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Forgive

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

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Vasudev Balwant Phadke

Vasudeo Balwant Phadke (Marathi: वासुदेव बळवंत फडके) (1845-11-04–1883-02-17) was an Indian revolutionary and is widely regarded as the "father of the armed struggle" of India's independence. He Preached that ‘Swaraj’ was the only remedy for their ills. Moved by the plight of the farmer community in Maharastra, Vasudev formed a revolutionary group, known as Ramoshi, with the help of Ramoshis, Kolis, Bhils and Dhangars which waged a struggle to overthrow the British Raj.

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Character

"Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."

- Evan Esar

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Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (Bengali: অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন Ômorto Kumar Shen) (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Learning

"A person graduated yesterday, stopped learning today will be uneducated tomorrow"

- Unknown

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Karnataka and Kannada Rajyotsava

The criteria for formation of Indian States is language [and of course politicians these days!]. India became a Republic in the year 1950 and in same year linguistic provinces were formed. The state of Mysore is one such state in south India.

The state of Mysore was created taking into fold various parts of the region, which were ruled by kings. Several districts in, now called North Karnataka and Hyderabad Karnataka were dissolved in the new state. The new state was named after Mysore, which by itself was a princely state.

People of North and Hyderabad area did not accept the name Mysore. People of this region were demanding a change...

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History of Karnataka

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