Don't Quit

It’s all about Debit and Credit; is it!

The assistant to the chief accountant is puzzled. Most of the time when the chief consults some accounts or is preparing a report and is searching for some answer or something he pulls out his desk drawer, takes out a worn envelope, removes a yellowing sheet of paper, reads it, nods his head, looks around the room with renewed vigor, returns the envelope to the drawer, and then successfully solves the issue or completes the report. The assistant always wonders: what is written in that piece of paper that gives answer to most problems!

After a few years it’s time for the chief to retire and the assistant is considered for filling in his shoes and hence given a promotion (and a raise). He is happy.

After the old man retires and leaves the office the new chief accountant goes and occupies the seat. After sometime he pulls out the drawer and to his wild surprise the greying envelop is still sitting inside the drawer.

He can’t wait to read for himself the message contained in the envelope in the drawer, particularly since he feels so inadequate in replacing the far wiser and more highly esteemed erstwhile incumbent (the old accountant). Surely, he thinks to himself, it must contain the great secret to his success, a wondrous treasure of inspiration and motivation. His fingers tremble anxiously as he removes the mysterious envelope from the drawer, empties its yellowing sheet of paper and reads.

The yellow sheet contains only two lines:

"Debits towards the door”
“Credits toward the window."

After the completion of the 2 day Students' National Convention at Swosti Premium- Bhubaneswar on 29 November 2013.

It was a great event! 

Inauguration of 2 day Students' National Convention at Swosti Premium- Bhubaneswar on 28 November 2013.

Wish you all the best!

Dear friend,

In a weeks’ time- precisely on 15 December 2013- you will face your CPT exams. It’s time to consolidate. However, it’s also time you stilled your nerves.

I wish you all, all the very best and hope you will come out with flying colors.

As for your confidence I can’t think of signing off with a better poem that the following from the inimitable Walter D. Wintle (from his “If you think you can”):

If you think you're outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.”

what is destiny?

Good morning!

As we are going to talk at length, and at any rate you will have to endure me over the next many sessions, I will not further exacerbate the situation by launching a long winding harangue now. I would just touch upon one issue: silent resignation.

Now, it has almost become a fad to blame the fate- the destiny- for almost anything and everything.

What is destiny?             

I am not going to give my definition. I came across this somewhere and it is perhaps not attributed to any one: so anonymous. It goes like this:

Sow a thought and reap an action;

Sow an action and you’ll reap a habit;

Sow a habit and you’ll reap a character;

Sow a character and you’ll reap your destiny!

Capacity to contract

What is the capacity of the following to contract in India? How do they differ from each other in that respect:
    a) Foreign sovereigns

    b) Accredited representatives of a foreign state

    c) Diplomatic staff of foreign state?

All the above persons enjoy diplomatic immunity and hence can not be persecuted in Indian courts, in normal circumstances. But please remember they do not suffer from any incapacity- as such; so, if they enter, as per their free will, into a contract in India that would be enforceable. The question is where? They can certainly be tried at an international court but that would put the other party into undue disadvantage. Hence, it is advisable to put a clause, in the contract, where it is explicitly mentioned that the disputes arising, on the basis of the contract, would be tried in an Indian court. If the person accepts such a clause - as per her free will- then subsequently she can not invoke her diplomatic immunity and seek trial elsewhere.