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Dear Readers You may have paraskavedekatriaphobia (also known as friggatriskaidekaphobia) if you have the fear of Friday the 13th. However, if you have the fearful dislike for the number 13, you may just be suffering from Triskaidekaphobia. No one knows why we develop these fears and the correct history that implanted these fears in us. Yet, we are fearful. You would be doing the first reading of this 13th Ymag on All Fools’ Day in the 13th year of the 21st century. Don’t click the close button soon. People see the lighter side of this too. Mark Twain once was the 13th guest at a dinner party. A friend warned him not to go. "It was bad luck," Twain later told the friend. "They only had food for 12." Time to ask Y. WhY and how I should keep the fears aside and start moving faster and better from. Start MAG – My Actions Game to remain a true results lover. Cheers, Rajiv Khurana Editor PS – Please don’t forget to send your feedback at [email protected]. You may even call me at 9810211256.

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#13 April 1, 2013 • There are 13 months in the pagan lunar

calendar. • More than 80 per cent of high-rises lack a 13th

floor. • 13 turns make a traditional hangman's noose.

Anything less would not complete the execution.

• Airplanes have no 13th seat and airports skip the 13th gate.

• Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.

• Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.

• On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.

• any cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue

• In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.

• On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Phillip IV of France ordered the arrest of the Grand Master of the Knights Templar and his senior knights and other members who were tortured in to admitting "wrongdoings" and executed.

• In British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.

• There were 13 people present at The Last Supper (Jesus and the 12 Apostles).

• Alfred Hitchcock was haunted by the number 13 which is why he incorporated it in some way in many of his movies. He would have turned 100 on April 13th, 1999 which happened to be a Friday.

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I could be anybody. May be you! It does not matter. Some people reading this hardly shared personal account of mine may call me stupid. Let them. Who bothers? I know I am STUPID – Smart Talented Unique Person In the Department. I am not alone. I have hundreds and thousands of clones. They are spread all over the country. We have counter parts all across the globe. We think differently. We act differently. But we behave the same. Our un-written one line motto is: TO THINK NEGATIVE, ACT NEGATIVE AND BEHAVE NEGATIVE TOWARDS OUR WOMEN COUNTERPARTS IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL JUNGLE. How do we do it? Each one of us is an authority in oneself. We learn from each other. Where else would you find such a great team performance? I will share with you what I do. You can create your own encyclopedia by watching others and sharing with others. Don’t hide away to read this article. I dare you to share your negativities openly.

Rajiv Khurana is a transformationist through co-creative energy of people for individual and organizational impact. An International Management Consultant, Trainer and Executive Coach by description, he is a well published writer, author and digital expressionist.

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It's great to be a MAN in the office…

An imaginative first person confessional narration by the man in the office who hates to give respect,

equal treatment and care to his colleagues of the fairer sex

-A funny version of serious situations

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I believe in equality. I believe men are more equal than women. I

extend my negativity equally amongst the women.

I admire Bosses who are fond of embarrassing my women colleagues

in front of everyone. I have learnt new techniques of embarrassments.

I will show them when I become more responsible in the

organizational hierarchy.

I like talking about women in my office. I talk about them in my

chartered bus, in my friends’ circle and with some colleagues like me.

Even the chaiwala and paanwala near our office enjoys the stories

about the women colleagues who are old spinsters, separated or

single parents.

I feel even responsible for entertaining my women colleagues. I do

share my double meaning and sometimes explicit jokes. It’s their

outlook if they do not laugh. Women have limited sense of humour,

you know.

I do not like some of my colleagues who take extra care about their

women colleagues. Why should I hold the door or stand up for a

woman? I don’t even like it when the Big B holds the chair for a

women on KBC.

I think women take advantage of their proximity with men. That’s

why they get promoted faster even though, I feel, they should at the

best be doing only the support roles.

Women are not very intelligent. I strongly believe that men are. So

what if girls have been constantly scoring the highest marks in the X

and XII standard board exams.

I don’t think that women are serious about their jobs. They come to

pass their time and even claim all medical benefits. I feel that newly

married women should not be hired in the office as it amounts to lot

of time and money loss within 2-3 years.

I must tell you that I am very fond of poetry and graffiti. Haven’t you

seen my scriptures on the toilet walls and lift cabins? You couldn’t

have missed them.

Sometimes, I play with them. Making blank calls is a great office hide

and seek game.

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I am gradually learning but some of my friends have

mastered the art of making women cry. Great fun! No?

I am quite religious minded. Whenever there is an

office party, I and my friends adopt the mandir or

gurudwara approach. Women one side and men on the

other side. After all, we need our space to talk about the

three Ws [Wine, Wealth and Women].

Some of my friends have become quite hi-tech these

days. They keep mass mailing the XXX web-material

to each other. Few intentional accidental transmittals do

occur and my women colleagues do get them.

Technology has some short-comings too. What can be

done about it?

I am very generous. Who so ever asks me, I do provide

the personal home and office numbers of my women

colleagues.

Many a times, I think that I should be a newspaper

columnist on fashion. I have documented every nuance

of what I see in the back-up memory of my brain.

There are times when I feel reserved or may be a bit

shy but my kind of other colleagues do not. They do

indulge in a bit of strip tease when they move around

with their 2-3 shirt buttons open in the office.

I wish I was a bit more senior than I am. I would have,

by position of my authority, made my women

colleagues sit in my cabin for hours to have tea/coffee

and to witness my ‘majma’ style of management.

I wish I had the time and space to write more. But why

should I tell you everything. Go ahead, use experience and

creativity. The organizational jungle is big and wild. Roar.

Be a Lion. The other part is normally timid and defenseless.

Be mean. Be self obsessed. The life of a man will not come

again. Go for the kill. Don’t worry about what people say.

Be an MCP – Magnificent Creation in this Peninsula.

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Warning

Taking me seriously

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C Careers that are traditional are the safest What’s traditional? Children becoming what their parents are or following what the parents feel right is out of sync with modern day reality. Progressive parents know that. There are thousands of careers to choose from. Wake up!

A Actually, I have more intelligence but others are more successful How do you measure intelligence? Through marks in the rote-testing-exams?? Application of your Knowledge, Attitude, Skills and Habits to your situations and opportunities is more important than the percentage that appears on your marks sheet. Marks have nothing to do with success in a person’s life and career..

R Rest assured, someday, something will happen and I will be successful Sure. Something will happen when you keep sitting and do nothing. Success will come searching for you and then stay with you. We all have seen this happen in typical Hindi masala movies. Watch more of them!

Rajiv Khurana

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E Excellence in studies is sufficient Studies are very important. Have you seen a bus that moves on a single wheel? Education packaged well with a good personality adds the real value. Work ahead.

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E English proficiency is low, can’t move ahead Think of careers that do not demand a very high proficiency. English would remain the language of business. Don’t complain later if your friends forge ahead. What have you done about it so far? When do you plan to start?

R Remain glued to a career you pick initially This could be true if you were talking about marriage. Not careers! Studies reveal that every career matures in a span of ten years. You can’t be spending the rest of your life repeating that! Take charge. Add value. Change your line. Be a bit adventurous. There are so many careers now that were never visualized by people of a different generation. Prepare for surprises.

M My friends know the best and what they do is always better Peer pressure! Sure. This is not a matter of kids alone. Even elders suffer from it throughout their lives. Go ahead and live like that OR ask yourself a simple question. If my friends influence me, why can’t I influence my friends? You got it.

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Y Yes, but I have problems Well, well, well…the universe is not conspiring against you. Everyone has a share of his problems. What do you wish to be in life. A blamer. Becoming an aimer could be a better option. Try it. Whatever you think of yourself. You are always right.

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T To succeed, one should be lucky Benjamin Franklin said, “Diligence is the mother of good luck”. Frank Sinatra felt, “People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it”. Check out your beliefs.

H High contacts are needed to be really successful Your contacts, even if you have them, can not hoist you on the pinnacle of success. At best, they may put you on the right path. You still have to forge ahead on your own. If this myth was true, every actor’s, politician’s or the sportsman’s kid would have been equally successful as the parents would have the right contacts at the right place.

S Slow and steady wins the race Life is not the fable of the hare and the turtle. By the way, no one saw that race. Make them race today and the hare would be the outright winner, always. You don’t have the patience for a slow computer or a slow cellphone! Why fool yourself with an old saying that no one has ever tried and tested. This is a different era. Here, the fastest and the steadiest always wins the race. Always!!

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The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre On April 13, 1919, while people were celebrating the festival of Baisakhi, British-Indian Army soldiers, led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, the military commander of Amritsar, opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The shooting lasted about ten minutes. According to official British Raj sources, 379 people were killed. According to other sources, there were over 1,000 deaths, with more than 2,000 wounded. The Civil Surgeon Dr. Smith indicated that

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Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Time-less words…

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Guru Nanak Dev

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

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