Basant Sanwal

Managing diversity at work place is as interesting as having a set-up of people in your family or team; who come from various educational, professional and at time ethnic backgrounds; which helps you understand their needs, social requirements and complications which they face on regular intervals. When you really interact with them, you feel that the factors; which are miniscule or negligible for you in nature or non-problematic at all, are their acute problems and you resolve it quickly and help them having a faith on you as a friend or family members. You, at times, come closure to the people, those, you can not interact on routine course because of your likings or disliking with an individual; helps you them diluting your ‘ego’ and other so called professional ethos. I am of the opinion that, people (or human beings precisely to describe) are unpredicted- for example; If you are meeting an individual for the first time, you out of your courtesy or wish to greet him professionally,...

Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions. "Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with...