Why PGDM? by Manisha

Management is required in every walk of life. Every individual should be able to manage his/her personal life with professional life. In fact, managerial skills are the summation of all possible types of skills that one likes to accumulate over one's career. With a management degree from a premier college in India, I can have the best of human and conceptual skills. In fact, I would be moving up the corporate ladder at a much faster rate.

I worked with IBM India Pvt. Ltd. from August 2008 to August 2011. The job experience made me realize the importance and criticality of the services as well as business application of the clients. So the desire to enter into the managing domain turns into the responsibility of duties.

I came across the PGDM programmes that are offered by autonomous institutions which are student centric. The institutions are responsive to industry needs and they continuously change their curricula and syllabi to address the concerns of the corporate world and to incorporate new developments in the discipline. More importantly, they offer high value added courses and workshop to enhance the employability of the students and to brush up their soft skills. Hence, they not only focus on academics but also on personal and professional dimensions of a student, which is quite beneficial for any individual. A PGDM will prepare graduates for senior level positions in industry and paves the way for a strong corporate career. Hence, as I was looking for a career in the challenging area of management, I chose to go for PGDM.

I believe that the Post Graduate Diploma Programme would enable me to channel my quantitative and conceptual skills on analyzing business issues and would open up new avenues. After completing the PGDM course, I would like to apply for a corporate position, where I can put my analytical and management skills to the best possible use and help make a significant difference to the performance of the organization.

Why PGDM? by Pavithra

I had a great desire to pursue PGDM since my college days. It provides a wide exposure to the business world. It enhances one’s career and helps a person in becoming an effective leader. It also offers challenging jobs and gives a lot of opportunities. It is a very innovative and practical oriented course. I believe, its a best way that helps a person to add value to the organization he/she works.  Also the PGDM degree program offers access to a network of students, alumni, faculty, and business and community leaders. This network can be very useful when beginning a job search, developing a career path, building business relationships in your current career, or pursuing expertise outside your current field.

The knowledge I gain from completing the PGDM program will add immense value to my current career path as well as any endeavour I want to pursue in the future. By giving me the hard and soft skills I require, I believe the full-time PGDM program will help me in developing the skills required to become a successful Manager.

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Power sector a big contributor to global warming

Global warming is a serious threat staring at us is well-known, but few would know that the power sector has been a major contributor to it over the years. Its contribution is significant in the form of ever-increasing coal power plants that hugely pollute the environment.

Experts said India may soon become the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally. To combat global warming, the need to minimize CO2 emission from the power sector becomes obvious. Moreover, within the energy sector, electricity alone accounts for 65.4% for all greenhouse gas emissions.

There is an urgent need to reduce emissions from the power sector, which is possible only by minimizing the number of large conventional projects, and not by increasing them by a wide margin. We can lead comfortable lives even if we use one-third of the energy (electricity) that we are utilizing now. The need is to figure out how to use, transmit and save energy.

Elaborating on the power crisis in the state, YB Ramakrishna, executive chairman of the Karnataka State Biofuel Development Board, said a high 35% of electricity is lost in transmission and distribution.

Unless the overall efficiency in transmission and distribution of electricity is improved, the combined losses at the national level may increase from Rs 68,643 crore in 2010-11 to Rs 1.16 crore by 2014-15. Such losses have led to deprivation of adequate funding to other crucial sectors of our developmental process such as drinking water supply, poverty alleviation, health, education, rural infrastructure, etc.

"Leisure" by William Henry Davies

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

Summary:

The poem "Leisure" has been composed by an American poet William Henry Davies. The poet believes that life must be enjoyed in a casual leisurely manner. He thinks that we should spend our free time enjoying and appreciating the beauty of nature. We should find time to stand under the trees and look at beautiful objects of nature as sheep and cows do. While passing through the woods, we must pause to see the squirrels busy in hiding their nuts in the grass. We should also stop by streams of clear water glittering like skies at night. We must also find time to see the beautiful glance of a maiden and admire the skill of her dancing feet. We should not miss the beautiful smile playing at her face. In this way we can fill our lives with happiness.

The poet expresses his grief at the fact that modern rush of life has deprived us of many commonplace pleasures. We run around after our material pursuits, so crazily that we get no time to spend in a relaxed manner. He warns us if our life remains full of worries and problems with no opportunity to enjoy its simple pleasures, it will be a very miserable life.

"Oh You Are Coming" by Sara Teasdale

Oh you are coming, coming, coming,
How will hungry Time put by the hours till then? --
But why does it anger my heart to long so
For one man out of the world of men?

Oh I would live in myself only
And build my life lightly and still as a dream --
Are not my thoughts clearer than your thoughts
And colored like stones in a running stream?

Now the slow moon brightens in heaven,
The stars are ready, the night is here --
Oh why must I lose myself to love you,
My dear? 

Summary:

“Oh You Are Coming” from Teasdale’s work Flame and Shadow, is a beautiful commentary on the girl who is eagerly waiting for her beloved. In the first stanza, she describes her excitement and frustration, about how hard it is for her to wait for the love of her life and wonders, why is she so desperate to meet just one man among all men in this world. In the second stanza, she wishes to keep her feelings to herself only and live a simple life, but then she realizes that it would be no reality, but just a dream. She even used a metaphor to relate her clear “thoughts” with the “colored stones in a running stream”, where she thinks whether he is able to understand her or not. Finally, she closes the poem with the third stanza stating that the moment has come, but still she is not able to stop her thoughts of loving someone special.