I Me Myself

500 B.C. Tao Te Ching (Classic text) - Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Confucious (philosopher) - Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. [which is power] 30 B.C. Horace (poet) - Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. 1830 A.D. Honoré de Balzac (Writer) - Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. 1850 A.D. Benjamin Disraeli (politician) - Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. 1900 A.D. Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist) - Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. 1930 A.D. Harry Emerson Fosdick (religious teacher) - Our power is not so much in us as through us. 1970 A.D. Sathya Sai Baba (religious teacher) - Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is pow...

It is sometimes easy to escape the minds of young. This is manifested in people thinking of us as the Generation Q (Written for the Americans, yet I believe it is more true for Indians - just replace Facebook by Orkut!!) Such depressing thoughts were going on in my mind (it is depressing to be labeled such), when I again wasting time on Internet stumbled on the website of Crisil and the Young Thought Leader Competition. Excited to channel my boredom into some idea generation, I greedily browsed through the topic list. It turned out to be an absolutely fascinating list of topics. But my adrenaline rush was put on hold by two observations: the last date to enter the competition had passed by and the competition recognized as post graduates only MBA and CA students !!! Maybe others are not even qualified enough to express their thoughts. In any case (I should stop cribbing about the supremacy of the MBAs of the world), I believe it is an excellent venue provided by CRISIL to bring fresh...