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5 Leaders, who changed the face of the World

Gaurav — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:30:59 +0000

Some people are born with a distinguished ability of leadership and proficiency to change ‘what others cannot’, to do ‘what is indispensable’, and to establish, ‘what is needed’. These are those, who change the World and leave their impressions on people’s mind. These people are called ‘Leaders’. Although we might know about many great Indian leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose etc. but are we aware of the great leaders who not only influenced the each and every person living on earth and made special place in World History?
This is a list of those ideal leaders and revolutionaries who are the ultimate source of inspiration for all the present leaders as well as our budding leaders and youth.

George Washington
George Washington was the first President of America, from April 30, 1789 to March 4, 1797. Due to his nationalism and his excellent military skills, the Continental Congress in 1775 appointed him as Major General and was elected by congress to be the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. He led the Continental Army against The Great Britain in American War Of Independence and finally established its independence from the mighty British Empire.
It was all due to Washington’s courage, determination, passion, authority, idealism and his supreme leadership that America came to be known as an independent nation and fought with the British for its independence. Due to these achievements he came to be known as the “First American” and “Father of the Country.”

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is considered as one of the greatest leaders and personality of all time. He rose from a log cabin to the White house. But his greatness lies in his guidance, leadership, love and passion for his nation and humanity. He was the one who led America effectively through its greatest crisis “The Civil War”. Due to his firm determination and leadership he defeated the Secessionists and piloted America through the fire of The Civil War. He not only guided its nation like the GOD but also abolished slavery by the Thirteen Amendment in 1865.
In 1865 he was assassinated and became a national Hero and is still observed as such and regarded as one of the greatest American Presidents and a deity for brilliant leadership, patriotism and determination.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American pastor and a prominent leader for civil right movements in USA. He from a very young age led many civil right movements against racial discrimination that prevailed at height in America at that time. Like Gandhiji as his inspiration, he too used non-violent means like civil disobedience etc and due to his determination, courage and leadership he was soon able to end the racial discrimination and segregation and changed America forever. Due to these achievements he became the youngest recipient of the Noble peace prize in 1964 and was assassinated in 1968.
It is due to him only that the human rights and civil rights were secured in America and the whole world. He was seen as a public hero and a great leader.

Che Guevara
Che Guevara was a medical student who traveled through Latin America and was transformed by observing the worse economic conditions prevailing there. He thought it to be the result of imperialism and colonialism and decided to fight against it. This persuaded him for a worldwide revolution and for that revolution he set up organizations like Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution. He believed in guerrilla warfare and invaded Cuba like other revolutionaries to overthrow US based dictatorship.
Due to his courage, determination, and military skills he was able to bring a revolution in Cuba and establishment of Government. He took the mass movement to Congo and Bolivia, but within 2 years he was captured and executed in 1967 by the CIA.
Soon Che Guevara became a global hero and an inspirational leader among youth, children and even aged. Even today he has the same legacy and is still recognized by everyone as a great leader and a brilliant personality.

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is the former President of South Africa and a Noble Peace Prize laureate in 1993. In his early years he was an anti apartheid protester who had been imprisoned for 27 years due to his protests and movements against apartheid in South Africa. He set up the African National Congress for protests against apartheid and used non-violent means, but was also prepared for using violent means of destroying places with apartheid symbolism. But in 1962 he was imprisoned and was finally released on 1990, which had a worldwide significance.
After his release he once again became active in negotiations for ending apartheid in South Africa and for the first time ever in the history of South Africa, he led the ANC for first multi racial elections and successfully won it and became the first black president of South Africa. He ended apartheid, and took major decisions as the president of South Africa.
It was his able leadership, and determination that even after 27 years of prison he stood by his struggle against apartheid and became an idol, hero for all loving freedom, equality and justice.

Although the list isn’t confined with these 5 great people, and there are many more leaders and revolutionaries who are similar sources of inspiration and have their own place in World history.

Interview with NGOpost.org founder- Parul Gupta

Zazo — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:46:16 +0000

Ngopost.org is an online podium for people sharing and discussing various social welfares inventiveness. Launched in 25^th August 2007 by a group of Indian students studying in US, NGOpost.org soon became a good source of information and a place for many like minded people who have one noble reason to join NGOpost.org and that is doing social work.

Few days before I tried contacting one of the founder of ngopost Parul Gupta and requested her to give a small time to answer my few questions, I am very much thankful of Parul for giving me this opportunity and making this interview successful.

How did the idea of a website like ngopost come up? Please share the story behind it.

NGO Post’s origin goes back to days at University of California, San Diego where Nitin (co-founder, ngopost) and I were students. We were a part of a student group called Udai where all of us volunteers worked with NGOs and created awareness about different social issues. During our activities, we felt the need for an open, global platform where anybody interested in social welfare activities could come together to share their knowledge, learn from each other’s experience and also find other motivated people. Both Nitin and I have been deeply involved in the social sector since our early college days – I have been volunteering for many causes and Nitin was a founding member of an NGO called Shiksha Sopan in IIT Kanpur and Udai at UCSD. Nitin is also a web-technology enthusiast and a computer scientist by education. One night, during our chat sessions, he suggested NGO Post as a means of using technology for social good. I got hooked on to the idea and then slowly fellow-believers like Goli, Aneesh, Mayank and many others joined forces! What NGO Post is today is due to the efforts of all these champions.

Parul can you please tell us about yourself, your birthplace, education, profession. In short, your biography.

I was born in a small town called Khetrinagar (near Pilani) in Rajasthan and my childhood was spent in many cities all over India. I have a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and a M.S. in the same from University of California, San Diego. Currently I am working at IBM India Research Labs and devote my free time to NGO Post.

Being a social worker you provided a platform through NGOpost.org for many other social workers like you. How much successful you feel at this point of time when ngopost completed its 1 year being live on the internet?

NGO Post has had its small successes where people found some stories and discussions very useful or it helped like-minded people connect with each other and pool resources. But I feel that worldwide the community is much larger than is currently involved on NGO Post – means there is a lot more work for us to do J

India, in terms of internet awareness is still on its developing stage, are you taking any productive action to spread word through out India?

Absolutely. We realize that even though internet access in improving in India and worldwide, there is a large segment of population which doesn’t have access to it or is not comfortable using it, so we need alternate methods to reach them. For this, we do talks, presentations for groups and man booths at social events. In addition, a lot of NGO Post members are active volunteers in different areas, so they are the foot soldiers of the knowledge-sharing and collaboration goal J For future, we have some dreams about extending NGO Post’s reach through other channels like print media, mobile devices so that many more people can benefit.

What are the statistics of registered members you have on ngopost and majority comes from which age group?

NGO Post currently has ~1100 users and most of them are young people passionate about social change. In addition, we also have social workers and NGO representatives who are usually more experienced.

What are the developments going on from technical side? Are you going to introduce any new features?

We are continuously introducing new features and programs to improve the usefulness of NGO post. Recently we instituted a “best story award” to highlight the best contributions every month. Then, we added locations to stories and users, which make it easier for people to find articles, NGOs or users in a particular area. We have also made changes to the networking features making it easier for users to find/contact other users, follow their friends’ activity etc. There are many more ideas in the pipeline - please visit the NGO Post blog to read about developments on the website.

What was the most memorable moment since you attached with ngopost?

I would say there hasn’t been a single memorable moment, but it feels good whenever someone tells how they benefited from NGO Post. Redoubles our faith in what we are doing and makes all the hard work worth it J

The team is full of youngsters? Do you guys do get-together sometimes?

We are a very scattered team with NGO Post members spread across various cities like San Diego, San Francisco, Mumbai, Bangalore, Austin etc. We try to meet regularly in our cities for brainstorming and execution of ideas or volunteering as a group. Besides that, the whole meet through web-conference every fortnight and whenever one of us is traveling to another city, we try to meet up people there.

What are your hobbies? If you are not online, where do you hangout?

I like doing so many things that I am always confused which one to do J In general, I love to try out new things, whether it be a new book, new cuisine, new place for travel or any new activity. Listening to music, reading, dancing, outdoor activities and travel are all very high up on my fun list.

Thanks for your time and making it possible for me and hallabolo.com.

It has been a pleasure. Thanks for giving me this opportunity!

9 impressive Indians, outside India.

Zazo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:59:25 +0000

They are successful, intelligent and rich. I am impressed by the personalities of following 9 Indians who are from India or either have an Indian origin, based outside India and made us proud of their work and success. I know that these are not only who made their presence among the world but they are among those who received a very little or probably no media attention in past.

These people can be a good example for young Indians specially students and my only intention is to motivate them by listing these extra ordinary people.

In IT & Programming

· Anoop Gupta

Joined Microsoft in 1997

Profile: Corporate Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group, Education Product Group, and Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation.

Education: Bachelor in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He received Gold Medal from President of India in 1980.

More…Anoop Gupta lives in US with his family and have three children aged 15, 13, and 10. Anoop grew up in a middle class family in India.

Before Microsoft: Gupta was a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University for 11 years

Reference

· Ankit Fadia

Profile: Ankit runs “Ethical Courses Certification Program” in alliance with ReliaceInfo on www.ankitfadiacertified.com/

More…20 years old, is an independent computer security and digital intelligence consultant with definitive experience in the field of Internet security based out of the Silicon Valley in California, USA. Fadia who was born in Delhi and studied in DPS started writing book on hacking and network security in the young age of 16.

· Seetharaman Narayanan

Joined Adobe in 1991

Profile: One of the programmers in making of the Adobe’s popular designing software Photoshop.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli, India.

More…Seetha (nickname) came to the U.S to pursue my Masters in Engineering at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, he is a biker from heart, ride bikes everyday to work in any condition.

Reference

In Media and Journalism

· Nisha Pillai

Joined BBC in 1987

Profile: Nisha Pillai is a news presenter for BBC World television.

Education: Graduated from London School of Economics.

More.. Nisha Pillai was born in Calcutta and educated in Bombay. Before joining BBC she was at Schroders Investment Bank as a graduate trainee. Mother of 2, Nisha stole the popularity from “Panorama”, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme.

Reference

· Shankar Vedantam

Profile: Staff Writer and Columnist in Washington post

Education: Have a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University and an

Undergraduate degree in electronic engineering.

More…Also writes stories and books, most popular is The Ghosts of Kashmir

Entrepreneurs

· Bicky Chakraborthy

Profile: Owner, Elite Hotels Stockholm, Sweden.

About: Arrived in Sweden as a student, turned as an entrepreneur owns chain of 24 hotels and 30 pubs. Started setting up student dormitories in Stockholm with a tagline “If price matters, then I am the only alternative in Stockholm”, from setting dormitories Bicky started buying heritage buildings and turned into budget hotels”

More….winner of the Pravasi Samman Award of the ministry of overseas Indian affairs for 2008.

Reference

· Pankaj Oswal

Profile: Chairman | Managing Director, Burrup Fertilizers Perth, Australia.

About: Pankaj came from Delhi to Australia to start a plant of natural gas. Pankaj’s investment in Australia is one of the biggest investments by any Indian till date. Living with wife and two daughters, Pankaj Oswal is one of the richest in Australia.

More…Pankaj is religious and love greenery, Shail; a bollywood singer is Pankaj’s younger brother.

Reference

In Sports

Vikash Dhorasoo : Footballer FC LYON Dhorasoo, a creative midfielder, became the first footballer of Indian origin to be part of a major European title-winning outfit.

Reference

Ajay Subherwal: works as an IT Executive is also a rugby player from Northern Ireland club rugby with Dungannon,Ajay was also selected in national ruby team of India.

Do you love math? check out these cool websites.

Zazo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:06:16 +0000

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If you love math or even scare of it, I have some cool and interesting websites to share with you on the subject Math.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ One of the coolest places on web for wide resource on Math.

http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/dict.html Encyclopedia of Math.

http://www.sosmath.com/ Another good resource on Algebra, Trigonometry, Complex variables and many more mathematical resources are available free of cost.

http://www.webmath.com/ A very well organized website for every problem on math.

http://www.mathpower.com/ A renowned Professor Freedman is ready to help you on this website.

http://www.math-atlas.org/ This is very interesting, an example of modern mathematics.

http://www.youngmath.net/ An online community of mathematicians.

http://www.math.okstate.edu/~wli/teach/fmq.html Mathematics Quotes.

9 very odd freelancing jobs you can make a career in

Zazo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:14:05 +0000

Making career is the most stressful subject to think when you are not selected in IIT or IIM. More sad if you are unable to secure marks for IPS or IAS entrance exams. But the fact is that not everyone can be a doctor, engineer or scientist. Nor every student wants to walk with the crowd. If you think you are something out of the crowd and still feel no options left then have a look on 9 very odd freelancing jobs listed below where you can earn more then what you will invest for anything else.

May be, it’s not so odd for those who know or have an established career in any of the listed profession here. But surely, for some or most of the Indian youth who don’t know anything about

Music DJ
Tattoo artist
Logo designer
Content writer
Linguist
Pet trainer
Voice dubbing
SEO
Fashion stylist

I tried to find out the job opportunities, how much you can earn and where to find more resource or information on these subjects. Please have a look, it is a way to different career options and an introduction to more opportunities for Indian youth.

1. Music DJ (Club Disk Jockey) : Disk Jockey or simply a DJ is one who rocks the party. Who turn and swirl people on his/her fingers. Originated from hip-hop or rap music in late 80s, Djing today is simply on demand in India.With the growing western culture through bollywood and media, entertainment is today one of the high earning zones in Indian market.

Not only in nightclubs and discotheques, but Indian party Djs are also highly required on almost every festivals like Navaratri, Holi, Diwali and NewYear .Moreover, functions like marriage, birthdays and get-togethers look empty without a DJ.

Being only a DJ is easier than being a good DJ and very few out of 100s are rewarded as a good DJ in India.

How much a DJ can earn?

How much you can make people tired dancing? How much understanding and tactful are you? So, it’s on you. But to say normally DJs in India charge around Rs1000 toRs 10,000,00 for one party, but limit is sky.

Who are the famous DJs in India?

Some most famous and successful djs in India are Dj Aqeel, DJ Suketu,, DJ Jazzy Joe etc.

What qualifications are required to be a DJ?

Passion in music is enough to give you an entry to the world of professional club DJs. All you need to do is hard work and have patience, you should not expect to get rich overnight.

What are the equipments and best place to get it?

Check out the biggest and most famous shop deals in electronics and music systems in your city. The main “box like” thing that DJ always carries is called DJ Mixer.

Any websites you know?

Check out these sites

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2. Tattoo Artist : The tradition of some most oldest tribes of the world has now became a fashion statement for many. Tattoo became more popular in this century then any other, especially if we talk about India, tattoos were from olden days and still in trend among many tribes and villages across India. But becoming a part of metropolitan Indian culture, tattoo definitely changed the definition of fashion to some extent.

Being a tattoo artist is not so much in a trend nor will you find many tattoo parlors or tattoo shops in cities except some in metro cities of India. This makes the tattoo business less competitive for few more years.

How much a Tattoo artist can earn?

From Rs 5000 to Rs 50000 per tattoo, it all depends on the art and the client. Also many tattooists charge according to per hour or per inch they design which goes from Rs1500 to Rs3000 per hour or per inch.

Who are the famous Tattooists in India?

Doktor Kohiar is a first tattoo professional in India who started tattooing since 70’s. B.Singha aka Bobby is another very famous tattooist.

What qualifications are required to be a tattooist?

Knowledge of art, drawing and sketching is one most important thing required to be a tattooist. Another important thing is your supremacy in imagining art, and drawing it on client’s body perfectly and uniquely.

What are the equipments and best place to get it?

You need an apprentice tattoo kit which has all needful equipments and machines to use.

Any websites you know?

Check out these sites

Tattoo information

Tatoo Books

Tattoo tool kits

3. Logo Designer: Business today is not less than any war like situation. Big or small every company and industry want to be in the position of No.1. In this run ,company logo is one which represents an organization and its service. To be more precise logo of a company is first thing to be noticed whenever you see any business card or a corporate website. More attractive and unique the logo will be more you can strike the eye of your client with a long lasting impression.

How much a Logo Designer can earn?

Depends upon the knowledge, experience and creativity the artist can show from his past work and present projects. Logo Designers are counted among some very talented and expensive artists.

What qualifications are required to be a Logo designer?

Graduation in fine arts or related subject can be the best help, knowledge of graphics and multimedia is important too. But I find an individual’s own capability of art and creativity most important then anything else.

What are the equipments I need?

What you need to draw anything on paper? And What you need to draw anything on computer? I think the most geeky can answer this.

Any websites you know?

Check out these sites

Logo Sauce,

4. Content Writer : Website content writing is another job on demand. A writer should fill relevant text contents for client’s websites to make it more interesting for visitors/customers of client to read and also should be very search engine friendly. Content writing is one of the growing businesses in India since the internet surfers are growing in a tremendous speed.

Usually, content writers are hired for marketing the service or product by particular websites/companies. Content writers should also have little knowledge of “keywords” and “key phrase” to be used for making the website and its content search engine friendly.

How much a Content Writer can earn?

Depends upon the quality of writings and experience, though freelancer content writers in India charge approximately 130-150 INR for per 500 words article. Sometimes even less then this but not less then Rs 60 per 500 words.

What qualifications are required to be a content writer?

A degree in journalism can help you making good and quality content. Content writing is a profession which needs lots of writing and you cannot be a good writer if you are not a good reader, so try finding articles of your interests and read it, read it loud and try writing your own article. More you write, more you polish your writings and at last that is going to pay you.

Any websites you know?

Check out these sites:

Totorials

Tutorials1

Click this

5. Linguist/translator: In a world of more then 200 different countries and millions of traditional and common languages, translator or a linguist is one who makes things more easy and understandable to many. From historical scriptures or diplomatic meetings language translation is one never dieing job. Translating documents, projects, articles, books, resource or verbal translations are some important part of this profession.

India has so many different languages therefore translating religious scriptures, tv programs, movies etc makes a very fair chances to earn.

How much a linguist can earn?

Normally linguists charge their clients according to per word or it depends upon the work, the client itself, and the translator’s ability and experience.

What qualifications are required to be a translator?

Knowledge of languages, what else?

World’s one of the top institutes are :

iol.org.uk

iti.org.uk

Any more websites you know?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html

http://www.translationdirectory.com/

http://www.translationdirectory.com/working_as_a_freelancer.htm

6. Pet (Dog) trainer: Who don’t want to make their dog obedient? To take care of children and old aged person in a family? This needs a complete formal and strict training for a dog and most of the time lack of information and education on animal behavior many un wanted situations come across. For that, a best man to be hired is a professional dog trainer.

Not only in a family but for many outdoor works, dogs are great help since 100s of years. For security, detection, rescue and combat dogs are used as a big co-coordinator of man.

In India, most of the dog trainers are self taught. The growing awareness on a formal training is encouraging many pet owners to start hiring professional and learned dog trainers.

How much a dog trainer can earn?

A certified dog trainer charges anything from Rs 500 to Rs 1000 per session (30-40 mins each) It takes around 12-14 sessions to train a dog.

Who are the certified dog trainers in India?

In India, Shirin Merchant teaches dog training. She is the only one qualified enough to teach. She has an organization called “Canines Can Care” and can be reached on 9821054690. A canine behaviorist named John Rogerson has also started training courses in India since 2008.

7. Voice dubbing: How many of you saw a recent animated movie “Hanuman” ? There are many other movies and TV programs which are either animated or dubbed from original foreign language to Hindi or English. The background voices of the characters are called voice dubbing which is done by voice dubbing artists.

How much a voice over/dubbing artist can earn?

Generally dubbing artists are always required in tv and film production house. Experienced voice artist can earn Rs 5000 to Rs 10000 per episode. In short tv serials. Around Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000 are being paid for documentaries. Approximately above Rs 15000 can be earned through movies.

What qualifications are required to be a dubbing artist?

Voice and diction clarity, dialogue delivery and emotion in your voice are the key differentiators of a dubbing pro.

Any voice dubbing institutes in India?

Mumbai Xavier’s, Anil Mani’s voice bazaar, Live Wire, cartoonvoicing. In Delhi there is AAFT, ISOMEC, IAAN, Shamshir Rai Luthra also conducts workshop.

How to proceed further?

Record your voice and distribute the tape to production houses and studios. Have patience and keep your fingers crossed.

Helpful Website: voiceartistes.com

8. SEO: Search Engine Optimization is a process to improve the traffic volume and quality of the website from the search engines like google, yahoo, msn, lycos, altavista, ask and many others. The growing number of websites and online business makes a tough competition between the online companies. SEO is most important part to make more genuine and big traffic to improve the business.

Learning SEO is not a traditional subject so you won’t find any institutes or personal tutor so easily. I found the best way to learn SEO and i.e. by online resource available.

How much a SEO can earn?

Indian SEO professionals charge 25,000 to 70,000 INR for one project which has to complete within 6 months of time.

Where to learn SEO?

There are many online forums and blogs where you can get useful materials related to learn SEO. I want to share some of my search of helpful resource for the same

Seo Book

Seo Chat

Tutorials

9. Stylist: Who don’t want to look good, attractive and beautiful? Don’t think stylist is only needed for ramp or bollywood. Stylists today are very successfully making metropolitan people “ready to steal the party” be it a festival of garba or an occasion of wedding , stylist are being hired for anyone who is style and look conscious.

Skills needed: A fashion stylist should have an eye for style, knowledge of perfect combination of style and culture both, dressing sense,that means which cloth will be perfect for any special occasion or festival etc. The perfect choice of color, blend and an ability to make a person look someone extra ordinary, after all that’s what a stylist is paid for.

Important/Useful websites.

http://www.stylecareer.com/stylist.shtml

Qualification needed : 2-years or 4-years degree/diploma in Fashion commodities and Fashion Design can be a very good add to the portfolio. One very important thing in being a successful fashion stylist is a big network. So, the best and the most trendy way is to work as an apprentice under any big stylist to learn and to make a good client network.

How much a stylist can earn?

Big money is there in this business if you have an ability and luck. Top stylists of the world earns more than 4500000 INR approximately 100,000 USD.

So, with all the wishes! I would like to end it here and hope you will somehow get benefit with this article.

Disclaimer: Special thanks to Sanam S. Karunakar (professional pet trainer), Alok Raj Singh( professional content writer), Bobby(Tattooist), Neeraj M Mehra(Voice/dubbing artist) and Shyamal Sinha for helping me in writing this article.

Information are also collected from different websites, tutorials, articles and wikipedia.