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“Self & Social” is the e-Space of Bishnu. Here Bishnu expresses his feelings, thoughts, views and shares his and others’ experience, information, knowledge, skills and ideas about Self and Social development. Bishnu is a development professional striving for a equitable, sustainable and better world.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2010

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Two Advice for Career and Life

March 03, 2017

S & S # 6 (dated 3rd March 2017) Different Knowledge base and skill sets are required to perform different tasks and to pursue different careers. But positive attitude and certain values are important for all jobs and careers. If a person practices certain values then he /she may not reach the top of the ladder of career but will have inner peace and get respect from colleagues and people. I had noted two advice – one from RD Tata and another from Maulana Wahiduddin Khan in my diary which I think are relevant even today for career and life. I do practice these two advice. I. “You will find in your path many pitfalls and temptations which you will have to shun and jump over, through great difficulties. If you always keep before your eyes truth and honesty whatever happens, you will come out safe – at least you will never be discredited or dishonoured”. - JRD Tata’s father RD Tata wrote a letter and said above thing in Dec. 1921 ...

Of Ends And Beginnings

January 02, 2011

By Marguerite Theophil , The Times of India, Ranchi (Saturday, January 1, 2011) A gift of a bracelet from Ghana at first looks like a series of linked hearts, but on closer inspection i notice a stylised bird. I learn that this is the Sankofa, a mythical bird from their culture that flies forward while looking backward, with an egg held in its mouth. The word Sankofa derives from the Akan people, a West African ethnic group that today resides in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The Akan, over centuries, developed a highly artistic and communicative system of ideographic and pictographic symbols, each representing a specific concept, proverb or saying rooted in the Akan experience. These symbols can be found used extensively in indigenous textiles, metal and wood work, jewellery and architecture, too. The older African religions had no sacred texts. Their beliefs were handed down mostly orally through proverbs and stories or through pictorial symbols. A proverb from which the co...

It takes Courage to answer a Call: ANNA you did it for India

August 22, 2011

It takes courage to answer a call It takes courage to give your all It takes courage to risk your name, It takes courage to be true. It takes courage to say, what no other will dare, To be standing alone, one whom no one will own, To be ready to stake, for another man’s sake, It takes courage to be true. It takes courage to say, what you know will not pay, To give each one share, though will be less to spare, To be seeking no more, than the neighbour next door, It takes courage to be true . ( The above poem is from my daughter Shubhra’s school Book but it is very much relevant with present movement against corruption in India by ANNA) “ANNA” did it when other Indian could not think about it. It was easier to fight against British rule than to oppose inaction of a democratically elected own govt. on CORRUPTION issue. It is easier to post a “tweet on TWIT...