Women Empowerment

‘Women Empowerment’ has been the buzzword in the recent times. What does it actually mean? Is it about Gender equality (or)Women’s financial independence (or) Bright & safe future for the young girls (or) Women’s confidence level?  Today ,when women has been seen walking alongside men in all phases of life, striking a perfect work- life balance with remarkable ease,  no one can stop this world from becoming a great place to live in .

Empowering a woman means celebrating the beauty of being a women by letting her live life the way she wishes to ,by giving her unconditional access to the basic rights like right to education, right to live life with dignity & respect, right to safe & secure environment , improving her social, economic  & legal strength and making her competent enough of making her own decisions.

Empowering a woman is a process of transforming an individual’s attitude from  ‘I can’t ‘ to ‘I can’.

Importance:

1   Preserving Nature’s Balance: With the consistent increase in the horrific violence of  brutal rapes , female genocide ,etc, there is a considerable dearth of female force and hence there is need to provide women with a safe atmosphere at school , work etc

2  Socio Economic Growth: Around 50% of the world's population constitutes of female and most of them being unemployed! This leads to their talent & skill getting wasted affecting the overall development of the society.

3 Reduction in Poverty: Literate and Independent working women, apart from contributing to the national income of the country, can also lend a helping hand to their family leading to upliftment of living standards.

4 Reduction in Domestic Violence: Literate women can also safeguard themselves against any atrocities by knowing their rights and being able to defend themselves.

                                                      

Women Empowerment

‘Women Empowerment’ has been the buzzword in the recent times. What does it actually mean? Is it about Gender equality (or)Women’s financial independence (or) Bright & safe future for the young girls (or) Women’s confidence level?  Today ,when women has been seen walking alongside men in all phases of life, striking a perfect work- life balance with remarkable ease,  no one can stop this world from becoming a great place to live in .

Empowering a woman means celebrating the beauty of being a women by letting her live life the way she wishes to ,by giving her unconditional access to the basic rights like right to education, right to live life with dignity & respect, right to safe & secure environment , improving her social, economic  & legal strength and making her competent enough of making her own decisions.

Empowering a woman is a process of transforming an individual’s attitude from  ‘I can’t ‘ to ‘I can’.

Importance:

1.Preserving Nature’s Balance: With the consistent increase in the horrific violence of  brutal rapes , female genocide ,etc, there is a considerable dearth of female force and hence there is need to provide women with a safe atmosphere at school , work etc

2.Socio Economic Growth: Around 50% of the world ‘s population constitutes of female and most of them being unemployed! This leads to their talent & skill getting wasted affecting the overall development of the society.

3.Reduction in Poverty: Literate and Independent working women, apart from contributing to the national income of the country, can also lend a helping hand to their family leading to upliftment of living standards.

4.Reduction in Domestic Violence: Literate women can also safeguard themselves against any atrocities by knowing their rights and being able to defend themselves.

  ‘Empower woman , empower human community. The base on which the world stands is a women’.

                                                          Happy International Women’s Day.

Heaven on Earth? This is it, this is it!

If someone was to ask me a few years ago as to what would be my top few parameters while choosing a country to live as an Expat, I would have with ease listed cost of living, healthcare, tax structure to name a few and the ‘safety & security’ factor would have never surfaced on my priority listing due to my fatalistic thought of- ‘It can never ever happen to me ‘! The famous Murphy’s Law, a rule that states, “If something can go wrong, it will and usually at the worst time’ would have been my most convenient excuse made even without a hitch to cover up that non acceptance and complacent attitude in the pretext of false high optimism.

As someone rightly puts it forth – ‘Safety isn’t just a slogan, it’s a way of life’.

Under such a scenario, if I was to come across an article with captions in bold mentioning- ‘Dutch Prisons are closing’, it would certainly and unabashedly be the most welcoming news of my life! The Netherlands have gone to an extent that apart from closing down on the number of prisons, they have also started leasing the prisons to other countries such as Belgium and Norway. A former prison in the Dutch town of Roermond has been turned into a hotel, the vacancy rate is so high that even after leasing there is enough margin for such unbelievable ideas! Wow

Under the pretext of the same, there was yet another exhilarating article I stumbled upon very recently following Mr. Trump, the American President’s new policy on banning the inflow of immigrants into the country. The article captioned in bold – ‘Nederland opens up its empty prisons to the refugees ‘. Wow, yet again! Such a move would undoubtedly give anyone goose bumps and a reason to believe that world can indeed be a beautiful and a safe place to live in.

 A reality check to digest this unbelievable fact that somewhere in this world heaven exists, I further started digging into the statistics to validate what I just pleasantly stumbled upon.

Reasons for the high vacancy rate of Dutch prisons

1.    With a population of around 17 million people, only 11,600 of them are in jail!

2.    Due to this very tiny proportion compared with most of the other countries, prison numbers have been falling steadily since 2004. Eight prisons closed in 2009, 19 prisons in 2014.

Reasons for the closing of the Dutch prisons, according to Ard van der Steur, (Dutch minister, Security and justice) are:

Ø Shorter sentence granted by the judge.

Ø Decline in serious crime rate (crime rate has declined about 0.9% on average every year). The official figures, according to national statistics office CBS (2014 – 2015) indicates:

a.    Recorded crime was down by nearly 5%.

b.   Violent theft and burglary fell by 7.3%

c.    Sexual offences were down by 8.1%

d.    Drug offences reduced by 9.1% 

e.    Sex offences and violent theft or burglary were both reduced by more than 40%.

f.     Rape fell by 52.3%, although the number increased by 1.3% in 2015.

    

GfK asked over 25,000 people online how strongly, on a 7- point scale if they would agree or disagree with the statement, "I am always concerned about my safety and security".

It clearly highlights that Netherlands leads for feeling safe and has high levels of perceived personal safety as they show high percentage of people who firmly disagreed with the ‘always concerned about my safety and security’ statement.

Possible reasons leading to decline in the Crime rate

Living in this country for the past few years and being closely associated with the local residents here, following is a collation of the possible attributes encouraging the decline of serious crimes:

1.   ‘Fine’ Country:

Netherlands is indeed very fine -Fine with respect to its natural beauty, liveability, accessibility and it can go on but at the same time this country is also known for its harsh penalty fines too in the advent of rules not followed! The offenses are classified under six categories and have varying fines attached to it. Under Dutch law, repeat offenders will receive more serious consequences. If criminals are found guilty of more than 10 offenses within the last 5 years, they may be required to face custodial sentences for as long as two years with additional psychological treatment to reduce recurrences once the sentence is over.

2.   Robust socio economic security: 

The propounded ‘Basic Income’ plan, weeds out poverty from the grass root level exterminating the various crimes resulting due to the lack of basic necessities in life.

3.   Liberal drug Laws & Legalized Prostitution:

The recommendation to decriminalize the usage of drugs and not seeing it as a crime rather considering it as an issue relating to personal physiological problem. An attempt is made to help such people by accommodating such minds in work, in a way distracting them from the problem. The ‘Red Light District’ in Amsterdam is one of the famous tourist attraction spot and the prostitution is legal here.

4.   Robust security systems:

One example to highlight this point would be the traffic regulating speed cameras in the form of hidden camera, mobile cameras, moving cameras etc! You really can’t afford to make a mistake and no longer want to believe that ‘Rules are meant to be broken ‘.

5.   Ageing Population:

The old generation is in love with this country and carry immense pride in just the way they are! They leave no stones unturned in ensuring that the Gen Next continues this legacy forward by preserving their culture, their language, their nature, their hygiene, their pride etc.

6.   Family Bonding:

Yet another article doing the rounds very recently in the social media, is that the ‘Dutch parents raise the happiest kids in the world’. An encouraging point to ponder amongst the many listed in there was that the Dutch people believe in spending a lot of family time together (family holidays, family brunch on festive occasions) and they make it a point that come what may, they would definitely invest their quality time in a family breakfast each day!

7.   Let’s Go Dutch:

This famous saying comes perhaps from the fact that the people here are very straight in what they have to speak out. Just too straight and clear which may sound ruthless but over a period of time, one realises it’s better to be a cutthroat rather than a sweet candy!

Gone are the days when a phone call from our near & dear ones asking how were we doing was meant to specifically know if we were in the pink of our health.

In today’s world, everything still remains the same but with an unpleasant forced inclusion in our priority list which is being safe from an unexpected and an unprecedented risk. Being safe is indeed being fine as rightly put forth by Jodi Rell – ‘’At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security’.

References:

[1]Readers Digest International ,Nov 2016

[http://www.gfk.com/fileadmin/user_upload/website_content/Global_Study/Images/Infographics_Fullsize/Safety-concerns_Countries_Web-RGB-GfK-Infographic.jpg ]  

http://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2016/10/falling-crime-rates-and-prison-closures-what-is-really-going-on-in-the-dutch-justice-system/

www.digitaledition.telegraph.co.uk

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Call Centres and BPO’s – Time to scrap wrong perceptions!

This was the article I had written to be published in the Hindu newspaper in the year 2006 on the wrong perceptions related to Call Centres and BPO's . I found this when I was checking my old mails  so thought will share the same. Though the views expressed here would have now changed exponentially but still it was nice reading it.

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Night shift, strain, health problems, no pride, unsafe environment, no growth, no future, insecurity of the industry, experience not taken into account, total seclusion from the social life, the list can keep going… these are some of the very common perceptions that people have about the call centre industry which is on a fast track these days.

The human body is naturally designed in a way that it can adjust to time zone changes. We go through this phenomenon quite frequently when we travel from one continent to another. You start travelling in the day and stay in the air for almost 24 hours but still find the destination time to be in the day. The change in the body clock does take time, but for sure it gets adjusted in a couple of days. Same is the perception about loosing sleep when someone joins a BPO or a call centre. An individual looses sleep for the initial couple of days till his body undergoes time clock transformation. Slowly but steadily the life becomes normal as for any other individual who works during the day. All the over exageration that people say they go through working in the night is painful, is however overpowered by the charm of the various aspects of the industry itself. The pain of night shift is just a mental block.

The day has 24 hours and the individual whether he works in the day or night spends a total of max 11 hours outside his residence working which is inclusive of the travel time. The individual clearly has another 13 hours at his disposal. It is a proven fact that if a human body gets a 7 hours of sleep, it can function as normal as it can be. The individual is still left with a solid 6 hours at his disposal for his social life which for sure can be spent in the time zone 3 PM to 9 PM in the night. Apart from this he also gets 2 paid workings days as weekly off’s. Anything more than this is abosolutely unreasonable with the amount of other benefits that the individual gets. This is again all about the mental block that one has about this industry.

The size of the Indian BPO market is likely to be around $9-12 billion by 2006 and the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the country is expected to employ around one million people by 2008, ICRA said in its Indian BPO industry report. Also according to recent reports, the BPO market for information technology in India is all set to grow from the current $1.3 billion to over $8 billion by 2010. Though the market was tough and was under a high-pressure scenario, the industry was still able to garner 2% of the global market in financial year 2002-03. According to Nasscom estimates, Revenues generated by the BPO industry grew 59.1% to reach Rs 11,300 crore in 2002-03. This for sure is not an industry, which can be insecured or has a risk a high business fluctuation. This probably is one of the industry which is here to stay for ever till the time business has needs and wants high profitability which is only possible by outsourcing. I think one should really be proud of being associated with the industry which has grown faster than any other industry.

This tremendous growth of this industry clearly shows the success it has had in the last decade or so. I am sure an industry cannot succeed if it has all of its employees either sick or stressed out and also that this success has been consistent and not transitory. The growth has been an a constant upward trend. There are many anti outsourcing bills passed in the US, but again these are only governmental outsourcing which is less then 5% of the actual potential. We all remember that in mid 1900 when the manufacturing industry slowly started moving out of US, there was the same hue and cry and there were bills passed to stop it, but virtually was not possible. After all it is all about low investment and high profitability.

All of us go through a very tiring day’s start, as we have to travel long distances in jam-packed buses or trains. No industry offers you a pick up and drop at your doorstep unless you are at an executive level, but this industry offers this facility even to an entry level position, infact some of the call centers even have air conditioned cabs. This is a big boon looking at the heavy rush, body pain, pocket theft and the high amount of time consumption while travelling in a bus or a train. This pick up and drop facility removes the strain and the stress from the picture and it also gives a secured passage for the individual to the office.

All BPO companies provide food in-house. Some companies serve food free of cost, while others subsidize the food by 50%. According to estimates, the average spend per person per day on food comes to about Rs 60-70 and most BPO companies have arrangements for three meals a day. Apart from this many companies in this industry provides 24 hrs medical facilities with a doctor and nurse in attendance, gyms and also 24-hour health food café. What more can one ask for in a work environment? Every individual is convered by either Family Health plan for himself and other members of the family or is covered under Company’s group health Insurance.

Coming to very vital part of any one’s life – The career & growth that for sure needs to be spoken about here. Generally someone needs atleast a couple of years experience to grow from one level to the next level or have a salary jump of 5000 bucks or more. But here in the call centre world an individual jumps from a Customer service executive or an associate level to a supervisor in six months with a salary jump in excess of 5000 bucks.

Money is not the primary driver in a call centre, there are other aspects of association too which really matters. You get to work with fortune companies around the world, get to know their business, cultures, geographies and economies. No industry gives you the opportunity to travel overseas as frequently as this industry due to the type of work involved. Working with overseas clients gives you that international edge over others in your resume. This is the only industry which teaches you language which is an essential ingredient in a business environment, often missed out as an accessory by other industries. One also gets to learn business knowledge from difference lines of business, be it Insurance, Healthcare, Banking, Finanacial Services, IT, Services, Hospitality also get to learn effective Project management, people management, Quality tools – ISO, COPC, Six Sigma etc, analytics, finance, administration and so on. The amount of exposure that one can get is diverse and infinite.

No other industry spends a lot of money on parties, employee motivation, employee education and employee welfare. This is the only industry which offers incentives apart from the Sales and Marketting industry. For today’s youngsters, the call centers are a welcome addiction. The industry has woven such magic around the entire nation that these days a city without a call centre would be hard to find. Call centers contribute a fair share to the revenue of the Indian BPO industry. Atleast 50% of the employees in the major Indian BPO’s are women, both married and unmarried, so this makes the industry highly competetive too. This clearly shows that women are comfortable working out here and proves that it is a safe place to work too.

The middle class Indian who contributes to 40% of total population has undergone a drastic attitudinal changes towards life has undergone a drastic change in the last few years. Everybody here wants to live “life king size”. This demands for luxury and need for high-income spending groups coupled with a thoroughly cosmopolitan outlook life. BPO’s are a major turn on for young graduates. In addition to providing employment, as said above the industry offer excellent benefits, good working environment and attractive remuneration packages. So who wouldn’t choose to be a call centre employee?

Though this industry’s major work is carried out in the dark of the night, this booming Indian Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is called a 'sunshine' sector and would continue to be one whether people’s wrong perception changes or not! There is too much at stake here and there is no place for wrong notions!

Happy to be part of this Great BPO space

The Master Financial Independence For Married Women : 'Kyunki Paisa Boltha Hain!'

'Aaj Tak' News Channel is so much fun to watch on days when your life reaches heights of monotony and you feel like taking a chill pill by laughing your heart out .There was a breaking news I had come across on 'Aaj Tak ' on one such day that a man had filed a divorce petition for the reason that his wife was not efficient in doing the daily household chores like washing & ironing clothes,cleaning utensils,cleaning the house and you know the list will go on ... For a while I did definitely giggle at this crap but later unintentionally it made me wonder if women after marriage is really evaluated on only such metrics and perhaps this forces every women to crave for their independent stand in life which is not just based on such mundane , no brainer works but also has a substantial worth?

The power of a women is determined by the bundle of confidence she carries ,her positive attitude and approach, her maturity level to handle the most simplest to complicated matters with ease,her emotional maturity to adjust and live up to any situation, her belief in she being able to reach the sky on her own,her trust that she can change the world and rule it etc.

So if I were to put forth it upright – Power Of A Women is Based On Her Financial Independence.If financial independence is there , every other thing will automatically follow and this statement perhaps might go contradictory to my previous blog titled :'Independent Married Women – What Confusion' (http://priyaraveesh.blogspot.nl/2010/12/independent-married-woman-what.html)

However oflate, based on both active and passive experiences, I too somewhere strongly agree with all the married women fraternity that financial independence is the ruling factor or the ultimate rater for being considered independent and successful.

But why is financial independence so very important in a married life when you really got what you had dreamt of – Your Prince charming, White dress, joint accounts etc. Expert say its perfectly fine to create space for your own unaccountable and separate financial status since it brings with it a lot happiness, peace of mind and harmony in a married life and therefore in majority of the cases , the success of marriage solely depended on the sound financial independence of the both the partners.

Financial Independence means a lot of things to lots of married women-

1.Your Opinion Counts , You have a Say ,You are Respected and You Get Involved!

"A woman who has some financial independence is free to state her mind, disagree, ask for what she wants, and a woman who doesn't is not”

When you have the financial independence , you become an active and integral part of all the decision making process in all the significant and not so significant matters at home.This gives the women a sense of confidence and involvement in life. Otherwise it's just the passive involvement wherein you are still made aware of all the happenings but just as an information which is totally fair.When you can't contribute ,just wait and watch!! And eventually when the people around you understand the fact that the decision 's made has to have the say of the wife as well, she is considered important and hence there is more of her involvement . So the concept of male chauvinism completely disappears and if we were to take it in the positive sense- Both husband and wife contribute equally to the equation of a happy married life.

2.Establishes Your Future Security & Nurtures Your Positive Approach Towards Life .

Life is very uncertain and therefore looking out for options for safeguarding oneself ,be it a man or a women,for the future and do what one can when one has the opportunity

is absolutely fair.

When a lady Wants to be financially independent , it does not mean that she has no love or regard for her family, it's just that by fulfilling your ambition ,you are able to live a happier and more fulfilled life when there is equality and freedom for both !This again contributes to the equation of a successful and happy married life.

3.EnhancesYour Confidence Level & Cultivates Your Clear Thought Process

"Financial independence is important in a marriage because it can also mean 'independence of thought,'" says Tina B. Tessina, PhD, a psychotherapist in Long Beach, California and author of How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free (New Page Books, 2002).

Independence of thought can be directly related to your bundle of confidence level. You have the margin to think on clear term when you know that you can back up your decision incase it doesn't go in your favor.And therefore financial independence aids in your risk taking ability as in life everything cannot be planned the way you want and to move ahead in life, one needs to take those calculative risks and sometimes major risks.

4.Boosts your Self Esteem ,Pampers Your Self Ego and Satisfy Your Own Priorities.

Self Esteem is taking pride in yourself and Ego is a person's sense of self esteem or in other words self worth.

So if we were to take the term positively ,I would not be wrong if I were to say ,every one of us is egoistic. This factor is increasingly getting highlighted in our generation and this perhaps might be due to a lot many reasons – the long tail of never ending series of degrees against one's name , the high self esteem which brings with it the confidence and belief that sky is not the limit,the considerably rich lifestyle compared to our previous generation and this might go on ...

So to boost up their self esteem and pamper their self ego, a sound financial independence helps the women take a chill pill by not being accountable for every penny they spend unlike our parents where they used to pen down each day expenditure in a notebook .There used to be tensions all over if the domestic balance sheet had even a rupee mismatch.

Even the present day women aims at spending each penny on their family ,for their children but doesn't feel great being accountable.

Convincing people for their simple needs and taking the big 'NO' seems to be the biggest reason affecting one's self ego.This perpetuates more in the case of a husband- wife relationship. The Prince Charming might do his level best trying to satisfy his wife's needs but still the charm of spending your own earned money on things you desire and wish is absolutely out of the world.

Its still agreeable with a women that her husband doesn't mind spending for her ,on things which might rate highest on her priority list but not even feature in the husband's list.

But desires are not always for self. Every women in this world feels immensely happy by being able to buy those little things for her parents and siblings.Not that her parents and siblings would need it or cannot afford one, its just the gesture of being thankful to them for all that they have done which really lifts up the women's spirit.And even though the husband fraternity do really acknowledge this fact and do not mind the same but still this does not go too well. This might be due to two reasons: a) This being extra spending may come under the accountable expense b) The parents of the girl may not want to accept even a penny worth gift due to our so called cultural convictions that husband's earning is only for his parents and more than the husband ,his parents might somewhere make a statement that its all their son's money which is everywhere!Poor our son..Ah..::)

Such instances may go on .....

5.Polishes Your KI ,Matures Up Your EI and Manage Your Relationship Equations.

Elimination of factors which might disrupt the harmony and peace in a married life leads to loads of time to concentrate on relations .The everyday TU Tu Main Main revolving around ' Your Family ' Vs “ My Family' vanishes and this leads to some happy time with all.

Financial independence broadens up your conservative approach and helps you look at life at large.It takes you away from bothering about small things in life and enhances your knowledge by increasing your general awareness about whats going on around the world rather than just your family as a result of you meeting a number of people each day and the n number of conversation you have with them .

With so many good things coming along with a women's sound financial independence ,why would one want to negotiate?Having a separate bank account ,with account balance nobody knows except for you ,that swiping of the ATM card which carries just your name,the leeway to spend the way you would want , is feel which is better felt than expressed. If this is there , its happiness all the way.::)

Reference:

http://www.lhj.com/relationships/marriage/challenges/financially-independent-and-married/

Paa...Tujhe Salaam

                                                                                                

If someone asks me ,how would you define God – I would perhaps say – Loving,simple,forgiving,wise,humble ...and it might go on and on ...

If someone asks me ,what does God mean to you ,I would say -”My dad”.

One might perhaps think whats different about this !

Almost every girl on this planet by all probabilities would feel the same.

However I would still stand right upon my statement even if I were to look at my dad as a separate entity . I would just call myself blessed and fortunate enough for having a lifetime opportunity of being associated with this fantastic person and having the privilege of addressing him as my dad ..

Though I had and still do argue with him on a many a things and try to convince him saying all these practical fundas are not applicable to this present world and to be successful ,one needs to be really smart otherwise you get doomed. But apparently if success was the ultimate rater, then this person is equally successful.

Here are those compelling reasons which made me to make such a strong statement . One might think, why didnt this blog come earlier ? To this ,all I can say is – Maturity comes only with age and experience ,and all the more,when you become a mommy because this is the time ,you go back onto your memory lane and recollect what your parents have taught you so that you can impart the same to your little one as in the hearts of heart you always agree they were and are still right in every way!

1.Simple living and high thinking.

This is easier said than done . During school days, when I was asked to write an essay on Mahatma Gandhi, I used to use this phrase very often least realizing its significance.But today when I look back,I literally can relate this phrase to my dad.

• Be it the best of parties or the simplest of religious ritual, he believes in being dressed sober.He doesn't relish the idea of branded wears and lavish spending because its his belief that clothes don't make a man, it's his virtues which do so.
  
  

• Still believes in walking wherever & whenever possible or use the public transport curtailing on use of personal vehicle.Even today he travels in a second class train irrespective of the length of the journey.He strongly stood by his point of not buying a car until there is a valid reason and need to it,not bending down to the peer pressure or society stand,despite his respectable position both at professional and social front.

• Despite of all the luxuries in the world , he doesn't believe in show off's. He believes in relations based on genuine emotions and thought process match,and not because of the expensive attires or accessories he possesses or gifts others.
  
  

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Doesn't believe in boasting off his credentials ,though to me ,he remains one of the few very intelligent ,intellectual and knowledgable people I have come across in my life so far.
  
  

2.To err is human, to forgive is divine.

This quality of his, has always surprised me .How can someone always think good about everybody on everything and that too every time?Should I call it – Heights of Goodness!

I too, believe in being good to people who are nice to me but also retaliate when my goodness is manipulated.I believe this is every human's normal tendency .

To this all he has to say is -

• -“Good and bad is all perception..Something you think is bad might be good from other's perspective.Nobody on this earth is good or bad .Its only situation which makes them to be one”.

• -”Never think bad. Always be positiveLife is too short and very uncertain to pursue the blame game and keep fighting”..

3.Mr.Cool and Dependable

Violating the copyrights on the titles already been assigned to Mr.Dhoni and Mr.Dravid respectively, I choose to snatch them and confer it to my dad as its really worth the effort.

Mr.Cool: Be it the worst of situations or the best of times, his emotions are always composed and he seems unperturbed.Happiness doesn't excite him much neither does pain destroy him. He remains the same.

Mr.Dependable: A word is a word and a promise is it...

4.Cultured,Principled and Highly Disciplined

There is a famous line by Mr.Bacchan in the all time hit movie 'Mohabattein".

He refers to three important virtues to be always followed in life-

• Parampara(Tradition and culture),

• Prathishta

• Anushaasan(Discipline)

My sister and I ,have laughed our heart out,making fun of our dad, when he used to advise us on such idealistic values. However today when I take the role of a mother ,I feel somewhere this is all right.

• Believes in his religion and also respects others.He defines religion as a means of cultivating values of being good to all by not discriminating anyone and giving due respect to everybody.

• Extremely soft spoken and never has he, in his entire lifetime till now, illtreated and hurt anybody by trying to boss over them or shout at them at high
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• Very soft hearted and generous- Always ready to help the people who really are in need even though he might not be in the best of financial stand.He always says- 'Money will come and go but relations once strained can never be repaired'.

5.Contentment is the key to happiness

I had once asked him this question -'If God were to ask you to make a wish , what would it be ?' And he hardly took less than a second to answer it –' I would ask God to bless everybody with sound health and prosperity because if good health is there , everything is possible and I do not believe in any materialistic desires as those are all short-lived .'

6.Humble & Innocent

-Believes people by their word value least bothering about the fact that the conversation could have been sarcastic and satorial, meant to hurt him or might have had wrong intentions.He always says-"I will think and do good always.If someone wants to,I do not have the rights to punish him".

7.Honesty is the best policy

In today's world where honesty is synonym to being foolish ,I am amazed as to how he is able to always pull of this policy.

• Doesn't believe in flattering people and getting things done.

• Commitment to the core and if he takes up a task/duty ,he ensures its done with extreme dedication and sincerity topped with a lot of love ,passion and perfection .There's no room for superficiality or artificiality and moreover there is zero percent expectation in return .He often says- "Do your karma and never expect for the results"

8.Very Fair & Unbiased

Believes in appreciating what he genuinely thinks is good and incase its otherwise,he opts to stay neutral .And his judgement doesn't change with age,power or position of the person concerned.

9.Sathyameva Jayathe

Yes ,for this person ,truth only prevails.It would not be wrong if I were to register the fact in the Guinness Book Of Records that never has he lied in his entire lifetime so far.At the same time, expects the other person as well to be the same to him.

Mr.Aamir Khan , here is a person whom you really would want the world to know...!!

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This blog might go endless and could go onto become a biography as there is so I keep admiring about my dad.

Its often said - "God could not be everywhere so he created mothers" I surely do not deny this but at the same time would also say- God sent my dad on earth in his form to spread a lot of goodness and love and help make this world a better place to be in ... I am sure after reading this blog, you would also second me in my opinion - 'My dad means God to me'.