Did you know this ???? Gujjus R Gr8! !!!

Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat.

 

Few more from Wikipedia:

Gujarat controls some of the largest businesses in India. Major Agricultural produce of the state include cotton, groundnuts, peanuts, dates, sugar cane, milk & milk products. Industrial products include cement, and petrol.

• 19% of India's Industrial Output^{[citation needed]}
• 10% of its Mineral Production
• 20% of its exports
• 25% of its textile production
• 40% of India's pharmaceutical products
• 47% petrochemical production
• Largest Sea shore, 1670 km.

The worlds largest ship breaking yard is in Gujarat near Bhavnagar at Alang. Reliance Petroleum Limited, one of the group companies of Reliance Industries Limited founded by Dhirubhai Ambani operates the oil refinery at Jamnagar which is the world's largest grass-roots refineries. The company has also planned another SEZ(special economic zone), in Jamnagar.

Gujarat ranks first nationwide in gas-based thermal electricity generation with national market share of over 8% and second nationwide in nuclear electricity generation with national market share of over 1%.

Over 20% of the S&P CNX 500 conglomerates have corporate offices in Gujarat.

As per RBI report, in year 2006-07, 26% out of total bank finance in India was in Gujarat.

For more details:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarat  

 

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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:37 PM
Cc: 'Chirag Gandhi'
Subject: Did you know this ???? Gujjus!!!

 

 

Did you know this ????

 

August 8 report of the

National Council of Applied Economic Research, says

• the richest city in India is now Surat, ahead of Bangalore and Madras, with an average annual household income of Rs0.45 million (over $11,000 per year).
• 80 per cent of all diamonds sold anywhere in the world are polished in Surat's 10,000 diamond units.
• The only non-Jews in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem diamond bourse are Gujjus.
• Between 2004-5 and 2007-8 Surat's middle class doubled in size and its poor reduced by a third.
• The fifth richest city in India is now Ahmedabad, ahead of Bombay and Delhi, and miles ahead of Calcutta.
• The percentage of man-days lost in Gujarat due to labour unrest is 0.42 per cent, the lowest in India.
• Of Gujarat's 18,048 villages, 17,940 have electricity.
• Under Chief Minister Modi, the face of industrial Gujarat is changing.
• The world's largest oil refinery is coming up in Jamnagar. Owned by Reliance, it already refines 660,000 barrels of oil a day and will double that this year.
• Thirty per cent of India's cotton is grown in Gujarat, 40 per cent of India's art-silk is manufactured in Surat, employing 0.7 million people.
• The world's third largest denim manufacturer is Ahmedabad's Arvind Mills.
• A KPMG report says 40 per cent of India's pharmacy industry is based in Gujarat, with companies like Torrent, Zydus Cadila, Alembic, Dishman and Sun Pharma.
• The state of Gujarat's GDP has been growing at 12 per cent a year for the last 12 years, as fast as China's.
• India's wealthiest man, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance, is Gujarati. Forbes says he is the world's fifth richest man, worth $43 billions.
• Azim Premji of Wipro, is Gujarati. He is the world's 21st richest man, worth $17 billion.
• Ten of the 25 richest Indians are Gujarati.
• Some of the best business communities in India -- Parsis, Jains, Memons, Banias, Khojas and Bohras -- speak Gujarati.
• The two great leaders of the subcontinent, the Mahatma and the Quaid, were both Gujaratis from trading communities. One a Bania,the other a Khoja.
• Gujaratis number 55 million, five per cent of India's population living on six per cent of surface area, but hold 30 per cent of all Indian stock.
• Gujaratis account for 16 per cent of all Indian exports and 17 per cent of GDP.
• Around 3500 festivals are celebrated in Gujarat. - the state is known as the land of fairs and festivals.

Way to go, Gujjus.....! !!!

Haalat ...

Very Funny one…

 

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Chacha kaise ho ??? ??

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BECOMING HAPPIER BY FOCUSING ON HAPPINESS!!! ---> 100 ways

Too too too good…. Think for happiness & become happy…

 

"Happiness is like a butterfly which when pursued, is always beyond our reach but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you"

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BECOMING HAPPIER BY FOCUSING ON HAPPINESS!!!

While this list is somewhat repetitive, reading through the statements occasionally will help you tune into and remember the kinds of thoughts that will make you happier.  Don't be overly concerned if some of the statements do not ring true; the more you repeat them the truer they will feel.  Creating your own personal list is also very helpful.

 1.  Thinking about happiness makes me very happy.

  2   Not comparing myself with others keeps me very happy.

  3.  Realizing that I have everything I need keeps me very happy.

  4.  Getting better at feeling happiness makes me very happy.

  5.  Meditating on happiness makes me very happy.

  6.  Loving and caring for others makes me very happy.

  7.  Being happy about other people's happiness makes me very happy.

  8.  Stopping my unpleasant thoughts makes me very happy.

  9.  Being good makes me very happy.

10.  Thinking about my friends makes me very happy.

11.  Imagining the world getting better and better makes me very happy.

12.  Admiring everyone and everything around me makes me very happy.

13.  Liking myself makes me very happy.

14.  The better I remember that happiness is the POINT of my life, the more I'll work on it.

15.  Being courageous enough to be happy keeps me very happy.

16.  Helping others become happier makes me very happy.

17.  Not feeling angry, sad, or afraid about anything keeps me very happy.

18.  Remembering that happiness is a skill motivates me to work on being very happy.

19.  Staying relaxed keeps me very happy.

20.  Spending time with others makes me very happy.

21.  Making lots of plans keeps me very happy.

22.   Seeing happiness as an art to be refined makes me very happy.

23.  Pretending to be happy makes me very happy.

24.  Constantly striving to make new friends makes me very happy.

25.  Not overworking myself keeps me happy.

26.  Everything happens for the best.

27.  Appreciating everything I have keeps me very happy.

28.  Being considerate of the feelings of others keeps me very happy.

29.  My happiness is entirely dependent on my thoughts.

30.  Forgiving others makes me very happy.

31.  Using spare time to work on getting happy makes me very happy.

32.  Not becoming disturbed by others’ sadness, anger, and fear makes me very happy.

33.  Loving my work keeps me very happy.

34.  Thinking of ways to become happier makes me very happy.

35.  Working to correct my mistakes makes me very happy.

36.  Noticing the wonderful things in life makes me very happy.

37.  Seeing the best in others keeps me very happy.

38.  Getting enough sleep and exercise, and eating well, keeps me very happy.

39.  The more happy thoughts I will myself to have, the happier I'll be.

40.  Spending a lot of time with family and friends makes me very happy.

41.  Thinking about God or goodness makes me very happy.

42.  Minimizing misfortunes keeps me very happy.

43.  Seeing the bright side of everything keeps me very happy.

44.  Seeking out people to be with makes me very happy.

45.  Reading these self-statements daily makes me very happy.

46.  Bearing pain well makes me very happy.

47.  Not wanting what I can’t reasonably have keeps me very happy.

48.  Helping others with their problems makes me very happy.

49.  Pleasantly evaluating everything I see, hear, feel and think makes me very happy.

50.  Understanding that sadness, anger, and fear are unnecessary keeps me very happy.

51.  Not needing others to like me keeps me very happy.

52.  Expecting my life to keep getting better and better keeps me very happy.

53.  My sense of humor makes me very happy.

54.  Quickly forgetting past unpleasantness keeps me very happy.

55.  Understanding what makes me happy keeps me very happy.

56.  Sharing my happiness with others makes me very happy.

57.  Not being afraid to die keeps me very happy.

58.  Visiting with friends and family as often as possible makes me very happy.

59.  Talking about happiness with others makes me very happy.

60.  Never feeling sorry for myself keeps me very happy.

61.  Seeing other people as a great source of happiness makes me very happy.

62.  Feeling like a lucky person makes me very happy.

63.  Not expecting us all to be perfect keeps me very happy.

64.  Making the conscious effort to be very happy makes me very happy.

65.  Praying that everything keeps getting better makes me very happy.

66.  Pleasantly telling my problems to others keeps me very happy.

67.  Remembering past pleasures keeps me very happy.

68.  Not fearing other people keeps me very happy.

69.  Laughing makes me very happy.

70.  Considering myself a good person makes me very happy.

71.  Being kind to others keeps me very happy.

72   I never find it necessary to worry.

73.  Being polite keeps me very happy.

74.  Helping the less fortunate makes me very happy.

75.  Feeling love makes me very happy.

76.  Not judging others keeps me very happy.

77.  Hobbies and other personal interests keep me very happy.

78.  Going to spiritual services makes me very happy.

79.  Finding things that I have in common with others makes me very happy.

80   Not being disappointed when life takes things from me keeps me very happy.

81.  Working on, or distracting myself from, my problems makes me very happy.

82.  Smiling as often as possible keeps me very happy..

83.  Doing a lot of what I love to do keeps me very happy.

84.  Imagining the future as very pleasant makes me very happy..

85.  Meditation makes me very happy.

86.  Feeling grateful for the good things in my life keeps me very happy.

87.  Doing everything as well as I can makes me very happy.

88.  Working on, short, and long, term goals keeps me very happy.

89.  Practicing wisdom makes me very happy.

90.  Staying in touch with my feelings keeps me very happy.

91.  Always seeking more happiness makes me very happy.

92.  Having many friends keeps me very happy.

93.   It is never useful for me to worry.

94.  Being in touch with the wonder of existence makes me very happy.

95.  Enjoying the time I spend alone keeps me very happy.

96   Not considering myself better or worse than others keeps me very happy.

97.  Understanding that my feelings are dependent on my thoughts keeps me very happy.

98.  Having people over to my home as often as possible makes me very happy.

99.  Not expecting the world to be perfect keeps me very happy.

100.  VALUING MY HAPPINESS KEEPS ME VERY HAPPY!

One of the better ways to reach home faster !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too good TVC…

 

"The way to get started is to quit talking & begin doing."

- - - Walt Disney

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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:51 PM
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New Japanese Chair

Too good…

 

"The way to get started is to quit talking & begin doing."

- - - Walt Disney

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Subject: Fw: New Japanese Chair

 

"Hindu Terror" --- Francois Gautier

Too good…

 

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
--Catherine Ponder

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Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:38 PM
Subject: "Hindu Terror" -- Francois Gautier

 

If you are a conscientious Hindu, read on

 http://francoisgautier.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/the-hindu-rate-of-wrath/   

The Hindu Rate of Wrath

When the Mahatma's cowards erupt in fury, it hurts. It isn't terror.

Francois Gautier

 

Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign correspondents—a lover of Hindus! A born Frenchman, Catholic-educated and non-Hindu, I do hope I'll be given some credit for my opinions, which are not the product of my parents' ideas, my education or my atavism, but garnered from 25 years of reporting in South Asia (for Le Journal de Geneve and Le Figaro).

In the early 1980s, when I started freelancing in south India, doing photo features on kalaripayattu, the Ayyappa festival, or the Ayyanars, I slowly realised that the genius of this country lies in its Hindu ethos, in the true spirituality behind Hinduism. The average Hindu you meet in a million villages possesses this simple, innate spirituality and accepts your diversity, whether you are Christian or Muslim, Jain or Arab, French or Chinese. It is this Hinduness that makes the Indian Christian different from, say, a French Christian, or the Indian Muslim unlike a Saudi Muslim. I also learnt that Hindus not only believed that the divine could manifest itself at different times, under different names, using different scriptures (not to mention the wonderful avatar concept, the perfect answer to 21st century religious strife) but that they had also given refuge to persecuted minorities from across the world—Syrian Christians, Parsis, Jews, Armenians, and today, Tibetans. In 3,500 years of existence, Hindus have never militarily invaded another country, never tried to impose their religion on others by force or induced conversions.

You cannot find anybody less fundamentalist than a Hindu in the world and it saddens me when I see the Indian and western press equating terrorist groups like SIMI, which blow up innocent civilians, with ordinary, angry Hindus who burn churches without killing anybody. We know also that most of these communal incidents often involve persons from the same groups—often Dalits and tribals—some of who have converted to Christianity and others not.

However reprehensible the destruction of Babri Masjid, no Muslim was killed in the process; compare this to the 'vengeance' bombings of 1993 in Bombay, which wiped out hundreds of innocents, mostly Hindus. Yet the Babri Masjid destruction is often described by journalists as the more horrible act of the two. We also remember how Sharad Pawar, when he was chief minister of Maharashtra in 1993, lied about a bomb that was supposed to have gone off in a Muslim locality of Bombay.

I have never been politically correct, but have always written what I have discovered while reporting. Let me then be straightforward about this so-called Hindu terror. Hindus, since the first Arab invasions, have been at the receiving end of terrorism, whether it was by Timur, who killed 1,00,000 Hindus in a single day in 1399, or by the Portuguese Inquisition which crucified Brahmins in Goa. Today, Hindus are still being targeted: there were one million Hindus in the Kashmir valley in 1900; only a few hundred remain, the rest having fled in terror. Blasts after blasts have killed hundreds of innocent Hindus all over India in the last four years. Hindus, the overwhelming majority community of this country, are being made fun of, are despised, are deprived of the most basic facilities for one of their most sacred pilgrimages in Amarnath while their government heavily sponsors the Haj. They see their brothers and sisters converted to Christianity through inducements and financial traps, see a harmless 84-year-old swami and a sadhvi brutally murdered. Their gods are blasphemed.

So sometimes, enough is enough. At some point, after years or even centuries of submitting like sheep to slaughter, Hindus—whom the Mahatma once gently called cowards—erupt in uncontrolled fury. And it hurts badly. It happened in Gujarat. It happened in Jammu, then in Kandhamal, Mangalore, and Malegaon. It may happen again elsewhere. What should be understood is that this is a spontaneous revolution on the ground, by ordinary Hindus, without any planning from the political leadership. Therefore, the BJP, instead of acting embarrassed, should not disown those who choose other means to let their anguished voices be heard.

There are about a billion Hindus, one in every six persons on this planet. They form one of the most successful, law-abiding and integrated communities in the world today. Can you call them terrorists?

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(The writer is the editor-in-chief of the Paris-based La Revue de l'Inde.)

 

Breaking News: Obama's family moving to Washington

Too funny…

 

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

~~~ Albert Einstein

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Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:51 PM
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Obama's Family Moving To Washington

 

 

 

 

Say no to Plastic

Go Green…

 

"The way to get started is to quit talking & begin doing."

- - - Walt Disney

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Great Glass art Live Video!!!

Just view the creativity…

 

"The way to get started is to quit talking & begin doing."

- - - Walt Disney

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Subject: Great art!!

FW: Infosys exhorts employees to go on 1-yr sabbatical, work for NGOs

Ufffffff, ye Financial crisis kay hoga aage?????????????????

 

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is only success delayed.

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Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 2:10 PM
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Infosys exhorts employees to go on 1-yr sabbatical, work for NGOs

Bibhu Ranjan Mishra & Leslie D`Monte / Bangalore/new Delhi November 15, 2008, 0:17 IST

http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=340253

India's second-largest information technlogy services provider, Infosys Technologies, has issued letters to its employees stating they could opt for a one-year sabbatical to engage themselves in philanthropic activities. They would continue to draw 50 per cent of their salary during the period. Infosys crossed the 100,000-employee mark in India in the quarter ended September 30, 2008.

he company said that while the move may have coincided with the global financial turmoil and slowing growth rates of IT firms, it should be perceived as a pure voluntary act by employees who are prompted by altruistic motives and inspired by the example of its chairman and chief mentor, NR Narayana Murthy.

The employees, an internal memo said, need to be on the company rolls for at least two consecutive years before they are eligible for the offer and a panel comprising senior members of the Infosys leadership team will decide each case. "This policy will promote volunteerism among employees and we believe that the value and benefits arising from it will have an impact on community, the employees and ultimately, the company," it said.

Sources said that the policy came into force only a few days back and the company is working out the finer points like whether the employees will be given any salary or emolument during the sabbatical. However, it is understood that the company is planning to pay some amount of the salary, while the rest the employees can earn from the NGO they are working for.

An Infosys spokesperson confirmed the development: "We introduced this policy almost two months back, which allows the employees to go on up to one year of sabbatical to engage in philanthropic activities. All the employees have been communicated the policy internally." When asked how much the employees will be paid during that time, the spokesperson said they will be given 50 per cent of the salary, while the other half will be given by the respective NGOs they work with.

"It's a part of Narayana Murthy's desire to give back to the society, which is driven by the fact that many employees quit their jobs to pursue philanthropic activities. This would give such employees an option to pursue their hobby while still continuing with the jobs, even if they will be paid a small amount by the company. The employees can go out with a cut in their salaries, even though the final details are being worked out by the company," a source close to the development told Business Standard.

Infosys has a good deal of exposure to the sectors which have been worst hit by the current global economic meltdown such as banking and financial services, telecom and retail. In the last quarter, the company had announced that some of its clients in their sectors are coming back to re-negotiate. In a recent report, brokerage house CLSA had forecast that Infosys might miss its dollar revenue guidance for the third quarter, and may even post a sequential fall in the quarter.

The CLSA report also acknowledged that the flow of IT deals from the BFSI segment has "worsened substantially" and that long-term deals are being offered on "very tough terms", thus putting pricing under serious threat as customers play one vendor against the other.