DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019
IN This Issue
FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR’S DESK EDITOR’S NOTE MILESTONES 14 WAYS TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE ADARSH CAPITAL (A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE) SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION 5 SMALL CHANGES FOR BIG SAVINGS! THE LOST WALLET HISTORY OF THE MANGO THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, GO I APPENDIX Cover page photo: Architect’s impression of ‘K Dinesh - Family Office’, Bangalore
THE ISSUE OF DIMENSIONS IS FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY
FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR’S DESK Editor’s Note It is very heartening to note that both Asha and Rajesh have come forward to implement suggestions made by The amount of work required to them. complete the last issue of Dimensions was about twice that of the earlier Vyas made a suggestion that we must issues, the reason being the fitting in of we have ‘team building’ sessions and all the photos taken at the Employee I have requested Vyas to take it Recognition Event and ensuring that forward. the names do not get mixed up. The date for publishing of the newsletter Eagerly looking forward to the approached and it was not ready, outcome. with the birthday list yet to be put in; to make matters more difficult, the month had the maximum number of During my interaction with our senior birthdays (24 of them). engineers in one of the in-house It was then that a brilliant idea monthly meetings (PIR), I asked a few occurred to me - the last year’s issue questions, answers for which any PMC for the same month would have all engineer should have known. the photos readily available and it I was not only disappointed but also was just a matter of copy-paste and appalled to learn about their poor removing the names of those who level of knowledge. had left and adding any new employees. I liked the idea so much This became a matter of concern for that I decided to just do it and also to me. It is very disappointing to learn write about it in the editorial for the that some of seniors who administer coming issue. contracts are not aware of even the few basics. So I am writing the editorial now but with a confession that there was a I shared my concern with my PICs and goof-up. I had overlooked the fact in turn received suggestions from all of that the persons at site get transferred them. to other sites. This was the reason for some of the employees being shown We have started implementing one of as working at their previous sites. the suggestion made by Sreevathsa, which is to invite all PMs to attend the Moral of the story is: When cutting and CRISP meetings. pasting, check and double-check. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 2
MILESTONES Birthday Celebrations Birthdays in the month of June VIGNESH R, Airaa, 7 June
LAKSHMANAPPA G H, HO, 1 June RAMA KRISHNA K V S S, Ramky 1 Galaxia, 8 June
MEGHA MUPPADI, ADPL, 1 June
RAVIKUMAR K, Harsha Developers, 9th June RAMESH Y B V, Jayabheri Properties, 1 June
HARISH C S, B & B, Science The Birthday as well as wedding Gallery,, 10 June anniversary of H S Ravi, SIC of Parsons site THIAGARAJAN S, SRM University, was celebrated on the 9th May. 1 June
SHANKARA C S, Himatsingka, 12 June
PRADEEP GOUD, Jayabheri Properties, 1st June
CHANDRASHEKAR M, HO, 14 June
SANTOSH, Go Native,1st June Mary, Muniraju, Lijesh (looking away), VENKAT KALYAN, Jayabheri – Vijayamahantesh and Vamsi Anand Properties,, 17 June enjoying the Goodies sent by Ravi MAHESH, Adithi Mallya School, 1st June
SURESH B L, HO, 19 June
BAJIBABU P, SRM University, 4 June ASHOK KUMAR B, Jayabheri Properties,, 20 June
SWATHI K S, ADPL, 4 June
R N Prasad wishing Asha on her birthday, PRASAD R N, HO, 21 June on the 18th May as Chandrashekar and others look on DIPALI A D, ADPL, 4 June
BHARATH KUMAR E, B&B Opulent Spire, 23rd June KRANTHI KUMAR, Jayabheri Properties, 4 June
AJAY DESHPANDE, Airaa, 24 June KANNAN A, Fomra, 6 June
Asha with Mary, Varsha and others during PRATHAP N, Maya Indradhanush, tea break after being wished by one & all NATARAJAN R, HO, 7 June 26 June A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 3
Sendoff Party
Sendoff party for PIC Prasanna Kumar M, when many of the SICs and other staff of
Shanthkumar S being wished on his A N Prakash participating in the puja Hyderabad region attended birthday (16 May) by Vijayamahantesh Employee Recognition - Nemmadi Employee Recognition – Certificate & Prizes Memento
ANP recognizes the contribution of Manikant S Certificate and memento of Employee Swastika P of HO receiving the prize for the Recognition (5 years) was handed over to Best Answer of the last issue of ‘Dimensions'. Shankara C S at the Himmatsingka site on the 24th May
Seminars Seminar on “Enhancing Leadership Skills Training for Managers” By Dr. V. Padmaja was attended by Shanthkumar S & Sadashiv R L
ANP congratulating Sridhar K E
Siva Rama Krishna A receiving the prize for Felicitations the Best Answer for the earlier issue of ‘Dimensions' from SIC, BMV Kumar
Bhoomi Pooja for the New Project at NIE- It was attended by A N Prakash, Swastika P Shanthkumar S & Sadashiv R L (Back row 7th and Harish Kharvi & 8th from left)
Feedback of the Attendees: “Enhancing Leadership skills training seminar was excellent. The information was very thorough and useful, the training was covered on Leadership Communication, Coaching for performance improvement – GROW model and various perspectives of Leadership styles, traits & behavioral aspects etc., I appreciate that the seminar was informative, but the speakers brought humor and made it easy to understand and follow.” A N Prakash being felicitated at the 27th ACCE(I) Annual Awards Nite We would like to thank our management A N Prakash & Swastika at the Puja for nominating us for this seminar. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 4
Know Your Colleagues Murali who is in charge of the pantry Shivaramu B and coffee/tea preparation is married Karthikeyan M to T Geetha, a housewife but also an Shivaramu who has completed more expert tailor doing work when than 10 years was recognized at the available. They have a daughter M recent Employee recognition Pavitra presently studying B Com. function. He is married to Radha who is housewife. They have two children, Murali has completed 10 years with son Nitin Kumar studying in the 1st year company and was recognized during degree class and daughter Sahana the Employee Recognition Function studying in the 8th standard. held on the 13th April.
Karthikeyan M
Shivaramu with wife Radha and children Nitin and Sahana
Sathish Kumar M
Murali with wife Geetha (centre) and Karthikeyan with wife and children daughter Pavithra Karthikeyan who works in the Security Madappa K A Thalaiva Department is an ex-army man married to Deepa K who is a housewife.
They have two children - daughter Shreeya K studying in the 7th standard and son Deepak K in the 5th.
Murali M
Madappa with wife Premalatha and sons Bhavith and Ashith
Madappa who works in the security department has served in the BSF from 1989 to 2012 and is married to K M Premalatha who is a housewife. They Sathish Kumar (striking a Thalaiva pose) have two sons – Bhavithbidappa, studying in the 6th standard and Sathish Kumar who is a recent entry to Murali M Ashithappanna who is in the 3rd the department is a Bachelor and a standard. great fan of Thalaiva Rajanikanth. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 5
14 WAYS TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE to let the other know that you are yourself if you have to change a honest about things pertaining to preconceived opinion. Have a free, knowledge. broad, open mind! Be fair to the thing studied as well as to yourself. When it 3. DESIRE By Thejesha MM comes up for your examination, walk around it! The short trip will bring long You never learn much until you knowledge. really want to learn. A million people have said: “Gee, I wish I were 6. EXPERIMENT musical!” “If I only could do that!” or “How I wish I had a good education!” The world honors the man who is But they were only talking words — eager to plant new seeds of study I In 1936, at they didn’t mean it. Desire is the today so he may harvest a fresh crop the zenith of the Great Depression, the foundation of all learning and you of knowledge tomorrow. The world is prolific self-help guru and famous can only climb up the ladder of sick of the man who is always harking eccentric James T. knowledge by desiring to learn. back to the past and thinks everything Mangan published ‘You Can Do worth knowing has already been Anything!’ — an enthusiastic and If you don’t desire to learn you’re learned. … Respect the past, take exclamation-heavy pep-manual for the art either a num-skull or a “know-it-all.” what it offers, but don’t live in it. of living. Excerpts from the Book, on And the world wants nothing to do different ways to acquire knowledge: with either type of individual. To learn, experiment! Try something new. See what happens. Lindbergh 1. PRACTICE 4. GET IT FROM YOURSELF experimented when he flew the Atlantic. Pasteur experimented with Consider the knowledge you already You may be surprised to hear that you bacteria and made cow’s milk safe have — the things you really know you already know a great deal! It’s all for the human race. Franklin can do. They are the things you have inside you — it’s all there — you experimented with a kite and done over and over; practiced couldn’t live as long as you have and introduced electricity. them so often that they became not be full of knowledge. second nature. Every normal person The greatest experiment is nearly knows how to walk and talk. But he Most of your knowledge, however — always a solo. The individual, seeking could never have acquired this and this is the great difference to learn, tries something new but only knowledge without practice. For the between non-education and tries it on himself. If he fails, he has hurt young child can’t do the things that education — is not in shape to be only himself. If he succeeds he has are easy to older people without used, you haven’t it on the tip of your made a discovery many people can first doing them over and over and tongue. It’s hidden, buried away use. over. down inside of you — and because you can’t see it, you think it isn’t there. Experiment only with your own time, Most of us quit on the first or second your own money, your own labor. attempt. But the man who is really Knowledge is knowledge only when it That’s the honest, sincere type of going to be educated, who intends takes a shape, when it can be put experiment. It’s rich. The cheap to know, is going to stay with it until it is into words, or reduced to a principle experiment is to use other people’s done. Practice! — and it’s now up to you to go to money, other people’s destinies, other work on your own gold mine, to refine people’s bodies as if they were 2. ASK the crude ore. guinea pigs. Every person possessing knowledge is 5. WALK AROUND IT 7. TEACH more than willing to communicate what he knows to any serious, sincere To acquire knowledge walk around If you would have knowledge, person who asks. The question never the thing studied. The thing is not only knowledge sure and sound, teach. makes the asker seem foolish or what you touch, what you see; it has Teach your children, teach your childish — rather, to ask is to many other sides, many other associates, teach your friends. In the command the respect of the other conditions, many other relations which very act of teaching, you will learn far person who in the act of helping you is you cannot know until you study it more than your best pupil. drawn closer to you, likes you from all angles. better and will go out of his way on Knowledge is relative; you possess it in any future occasion to share his The narrow mind stays rooted in one degrees. You know more about knowledge with you. spot; the broad mind is free, inquiring, reading, writing, and arithmetic than unprejudiced; it seeks to learn “both your young child. But teach that child Ask! When you ask, you have to be sides of the story.” at every opportunity; try to pass on to humble. You have to admit you don’t him all you know, and the very Don’t screen off from your own know! But what’s so terrible about attempt will produce a great deal consciousness the bigger side of your that? Everybody knows that no man more knowledge inside your own work. Don’t be afraid you’ll harm knows everything, and to ask is merely brain. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 6
8. READ Write! Writing, to knowledge, is a nothing, are nothing. Observe them certified check. You know what you and then differ from them. What you read is important, but not all know once you have written it down! important. How you read is the main 12. PUT IN ORDER consideration. For if you know how to 10. LISTEN read, there’s a world of education Order is Heaven’s first law. And the even in the newspapers, the You have a pair of ears — use them! only good knowledge is orderly magazines, on a single billboard or a When the other man talks, give him a knowledge! You must put your stray advertising dodger. chance. Pay attention. If you listen information and your thoughts in order you may hear something useful to before you can effectively handle The secret of good reading is you. If you listen you may receive a your own knowledge. Otherwise you this: read critically! warning that is worth following. If you will jump around in conversation like a listen, you may earn the respect of grasshopper, your arguments will be Somebody wrote that stuff you’re those whose respect you prize. confused and distributed, your brain reading. It was a definite individual, will be in a dizzy whirl all the time. working with a pen, pencil or Pay attention to the person speaking. typewriter — the writing came from his Contemplate the meaning of his 13. DEFINE mind and his only. If you were face to words, the nature of his thoughts. face with him and listening instead Grasp and retain the truth. A definition is a statement about a of reading, you would be a great deal thing which includes everything the more critical than the average reader Of all the ways to acquire knowledge, thing is and excludes everything it is is. this way requires least effort on your not. part. You hardly have to do any work. Listening, you would weigh his You are bound to pick up information. A definition of a chair must personality, you would form some It’s easy, it’s surefire. include every chair, whether it be judgment about his truthfulness, his kitchen chair, a high chair, a dentist’s ability. But reading, you drop all 11. OBSERVE chair, or the electric chair, It must judgment, and swallow his words exclude everything which isn’t a chair, whole — just as if the act of printing Keep your eyes open. There are things even those things which come close, the thing made it true! happening, all around you, all the such as a stool, a bench, a sofa. time. If you must read in order to acquire 14. REASON knowledge, read critically. Believe The scene of events is interesting, nothing till it’s understood, till it’s illuminating, full of news and meaning. Animals have knowledge. But only clearly proven. It’s a great show — an impressive men can reason. The better you can parade of things worth knowing. reason the farther you separate 9. WRITE Admission is free — keep your eyes yourself from animals. open. To know it — write it! If you’re writing to The process by which you reason is explain, you’re explaining it to There are only two kinds of known as logic. Logic teaches you yourself! If you’re writing to experience: the experience of how to derive a previously unknown inspire, you’re inspiring yourself! If ourselves and the experience of truth from the facts already at hand. you’re writing to record, you’re others. Our own experience is slow, Logic teaches you how to be recording it on your own memory. labored, costly, and often hard to sure whether what you think is true is How often you have written bear. The experience of others is a really true. something down in order to be sure ready-made set of directions on you would have a record of it, only to knowledge and life. Their experience Logic is the supreme avenue to find that you never needed the is free; we need suffer none of their intellectual truth. Don’t ever despair of written record because you had hardships; we may collect on all their possessing a logical mind. You don’t learned it by heart! good deeds. All we have to do have to study it for years, read books is observe! and digest a mountain of data. All The men of the best memories are you have to remember is one word — those who make notes, who write Observe! Especially the good man, compare. things down. They just don’t write to the valorous deed. Observe the remember, they write to learn. And winner that you yourself may strive to Compare all points in a proposition. because they DO learn by writing, follow that winning example and learn Note the similarity — that tells you they seldom need to consult their the scores of different means and something new. Note notes, they have brilliant, amazing devices that make success possible. the difference — that tells you memories. How different from the glib, something new. Then take the new slipshod individual who is too proud or Observe! Observe the loser that you things you’ve found and check them too lazy to write, who trusts everything may escape his mistakes, avoid the against established laws or principles. to memory, forgets so easily, and pitfalls that dragged him down. This is logic. This is reason. This is possesses so little real knowledge. Observe the listless, indifferent, neutral people who do nothing, know knowledge in its highest form.
A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 7
ADARSH CAPITAL (A UNIQUE Meanwhile, the client purchased an The proposed line of action were: EXPERIENCE) additional land of 0.5 acre abutting Contributed by A N Prakash the site on South side. Demolish the basement roof slabs and foundation structures. INTRODUCTION: The client at this juncture found it viable to construct a luxury hotel in Retain the existing retaining wall on Problem: the same site as against the the West and North sides by providing commercial complex earlier temporary support systems and To increase the depth and proposed. replacing the same with post width of excavation to tensioned anchor piles. accommodate third Change of the project from a basement from the existing commercial complex to Luxury hotel Construct micro piles to prevent the two basement depth and necessitated a third basement. As a movement of existing retaining wall width. result, the 2nd basement structure and to carry the vertical component which existed had to be dismantled. of force. Ensure stability of excavated Further, the depth of excavation had sides of soil from collapse and to be increased (to - 14 m lvl). Construct grouted anchor piles to avoid damage to prevent the micro piles against neighboring structures and a This posed a challenging and an buckling due to earth pressure and public road on the east side. interesting problem to the engineers. the pressure exerted by the self weight of the existing retaining wall. To dismantle existing The site conditions had serious foundations and two floors of complexities. Construct touch piles beyond the abandoned project meant extent of proposed building on East for a commercial complex The site is bound by buildings on three and South directions. building. sides and a road on the east side. Construct grouted anchor piles to Further excavation below the 2nd keep the touch piles in position basement level might cause sliding of against overturning & buckling due to PROJECT: Adarsh Capital is a 7 star earth and due to which the adjoining earth pressure. hotel project located at Palace road, buildings could be damaged. Further, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore, being the formation level of the building on Provide de-watering system. developed by M/s Adarsh Developers. West side was about 5 m higher than The site is bound by Mount Carmel the natural ground level of the site in Implementation of the strategy College on North, residential houses the east. The construction was Demolishing 2nd basement roof slab on South, residential apartment on complete up to ground floor level West and Palace road on East. building with retaining walls all round A building demolishing raised up to the ground floor slab level agency was engaged. (+1.60m) and two basement roof slabs. The entire slab was dismantled both manually It required careful planning & design and mechanically. to excavate the site further below the 2nd basement level without causing The embedded any disturbance to the existing reinforcement steel inside the buildings and road around. Also, it concrete was separated and was required to retain the existing taken out as scrap. retaining wall in the west and north sides which had supports from roof The broken concrete pieces Project details: slabs. were transported outside the site. No. of floors: 3 Basements + Ground PROPOSED STRATEGY: floor + 18 upper Floors + Helipad. Retaining the existing retaining wall on A team of engineers representing the West and North directions No. of Rooms: 415 clients, the Structural Engineering Consultants,M/s. Potential Consultants, Before demolishing the basement roof Discussion of Problem: Technical Advisor Prof. Srinivas Murthy slab, the retaining wall on West and and the Construction Project North directions were retained with The client had proposed to build a Management Consultants, A.N. temporary supports using ISMB steel commercial complex with two Prakash CPMC Pvt. Ltd. together sections for strutting. Base plates with basement in an area of about 1.5 worked out a strategy to sort out the anchor bolts were provided to fix the acres. Accordingly, the construction various problems which could possibly ISMB support to the floor. The second activity was started and the structure be encountered during execution of basement roof was dismantled. nd was built up to 2 basement roof. basement construction. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 8
This system would take care of the and grouted at designed intervals Micro piles retaining wall up to 2nd basement floor perpendicular to the plane of level. But, the plan was to excavate retaining wall and anchored in to the Micro piles are bored vertical piles the soil below the 2nd basement level bed rock encountered at around 12 those are of smaller diameter which up to the proposed footing bottom m behind the retaining wall. After are less than 300 mm diameter. As level, below the 3rd basement floor these piles gained their strength (after the post tensioned grouted anchor level. In other words, 7 m deep 21 days), post tensioning activity was piles failed, a different system of micro excavation had to be carried out started. piles was introduced to provide a below the 2nd basement floor level. It solution for the particular problem of was feared that after the excavation, The principle of post tensioning is to sliding of retaining wall and the the load transfer mechanism of the pull the cable string outside by which retained earth behind. These piles of soil beneath the retaining wall would strain energy will be induced in the 200 mm dia MS pipes were designed be endangered and due to which pile resulting in the increase of pile as vertical piles bored continuously in there would be a possibility of the capacity. After tensioning the cable, two rows, in a zigzag manner at a movement of the retaining wall a locking arrangement was made distance of 1.75 m inside from the line downwards. Particularly, on West with the retaining wall and the piles. of the retaining wall. side, there was earth retention of The details of the anchor piles were: nd around 11 m high from the retaining These piles were started at 2 wall bottom (from +5.45m to -5.65m). Dia. of pile : 125 mm; basement floor level (-5.65 m) and With further excavation the difference Steel : Cable string 10 mm dia – 2 nos; bored up to a depth of 7.5 m (up to - in level could be about 16 m. Depth : 12 m and more; 13 m) level. It may be noted that the Inclination : 300 to the horizontal; foundation level of the building is -11 Hence, a solution was worked out to Grout : Cement grout m. The piles were cast up to 2 m keep the retaining wall in position Spacing : 2.5 m c/c deeper than the foundation level as even after the 3rd basement well as a minimum of 2 m was excavation. A system of Post Pull out tests were conducted for the anchored in to the rock beneath. Tensioned Anchor Piles was planned completed piles. Unfortunately, most These piles were reinforced with ISMB and executed. of the piles failed in the test. Hence 150mm and the concrete mix of M25 this system was declared as failure was filled with the pipes. VIEW OF SITE AFTER DEMOLITION UPTO and the grouted anchor piling work FOOTING (WEST) was stopped. Then, many new Dia : 200 mm; Steel : ISMB 150 / 25 mm thoughts had emerged to find a rod – 2 nos; Casing : M.S. Pipe up to 3 solution for this problem. The feasibility m deep; Concrete: M25; Depth of the implementation of these : 7.5 m (from -5.5 m to -13 m) thoughts was tried one by one and finally the micro piling with passive grouted anchor piles worked well.
PLAN SHOWING MICRO PILES
A PILE WITH POST STRESSING COMPONENT
VIEW OF SITE AFTER DEMOLISTION UPTO FOOTING (NORTH)
Post tensioned grouted anchor piles
As briefed earlier, post tensioned grouted anchor piles were planned as SECTIONAL ELEVATION OF MICRO PILES part solution to hold the retaining wall in position against sliding due to The second part of this article will be further excavation for the 3rd A VIEW OF POST STRESSED ANCHOR continued in the next issue of the basement. These piles were drilled PILES newsletter. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 9
SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION absenteeism and turnover, increase Hazard Prevention and Control productivity and quality, and raise employee morale. In other words, Effective controls protect workers from safety is good for business. workplace hazards; help avoid injuries, illnesses, and incidents; minimize or eliminate safety and health risks; and help employers provide workers with safe and healthful working conditions. Khaja Hussain S, The processes described in this section Safety Engineer at Ramky One will help employers prevent and Galaxia, Hyderabad control hazards identified in the previous section. “Safety means keeping yourself and others free from harm or danger. It To effectively control and prevent means taking care not to fall or bump hazards, employers should: or run into things. It also means to avoid accidents by being careful with Involve workers, who often have the what you are doing.” best understanding of the conditions that create hazards and insights into how they can be controlled.
Identify and evaluate options for controlling hazards, using a "hierarchy of controls."
Use a hazard control plan to guide the selection and implementation of
controls, and implement controls Listed below are just a few of the main according to the plan. hazards that are encountered on a typical construction site:
Working at Height. ...
Moving Objects. ...
Slips, Trips, & Falls. ...
Why is Safety Important to you? Noise. ...
Workplace safety is very important for Hand Arm Vibration each and every employee in the Syndrome. ... industry because all the workers desire Housekeeping at Ramky One Galaxia to work in a safe and protected Material & Manual Handling. Develop plans with measures to atmosphere. Health and safety is the ... protect workers during emergencies key factor for all the industries in order and no routine activities. to promote the wellness of both Collapse. ... employees and employers. Evaluate the effectiveness of existing Asbestos… controls to determine whether they Purpose of Safety: continue to provide protection, or Electricity.. In a nutshell, the purpose of whether different controls may be workplace health more effective. Review new and safety compliance is to protect technologies for their potential to be employees and other stakeholders more protective, more reliable, or less from risks, hazards and incidents in costly. their term of employment or visit to a workplace.
Benefits of Safety:
A safe and healthy workplace not only protects workers from injury and illness, it can Mass Tool Box Talk Program at Ramky also lower injury/illness costs, reduce One Galaxia, Hyderabad. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 10
5 SMALL CHANGES FOR BIG SAVINGS! or to flaunt a particular brand. A small Don’t be a compulsive shopper! change in your spending behavior will go a long way in ensuring that you Being a shopaholic might help you achieve your goals. feel good but does a world of harm to your monthly savings. Going When it comes to transport, go mostly for shopping with a list is an old-school public! idea, which still works in helping you avoid frivolous expenses. So, don’t be Shanthkumar S Using cabs or autos for daily a compulsive shopper, rather, a commuting has become a common Being a shopaholic might help you sensible spender. habit because of the ease of access feel good but it impacts your monthly available. However, it can’t be savings. Going for shopping with a list denied that a comparative analysis of is an old-school idea, which still works such modes of transport and public in helping you avoid frivolous transport would often show that when expenses. it comes to choosing the mode of transport, it’s better to go public.
Avoid plastic money
One can say that the more cash- based a payment is, the more likely it is that people will be cautious about spending. When you spend money from your wallet, you can see it Knowingly or unknowingly, we often You will save on petrol or diesel and reducing, which makes you more indulge in frivolous expenses, which maintenance costs associated with conscious of your spending habits. when avoided can boost our savings your own vehicle and end up with substantially. Increasing your sources valuable savings at the end of every of income is not always the solution to month, which you can direct towards achieve your financial goals, such as spending on other important a secured post-retirement life, an expenses. It doesn’t mean, you need expensive purchase, creating an to completely avoid using your own emergency fund, etc. Just a few vehicle but use public transport more tweaks to your lifestyle here and there often. will do the trick. Take a look at these
lifestyle hacks, which will help you in Reduce the frequency of eating out, living a financially stress-free life make a lifestyle change Credit card, on the other hand, is just without sacrificing your happiness… a piece of plastic, in which one can’t see the result of the expenditure for Buying items you need, not to impress! almost a month. We can conclude that the habit of impulsive spending is reduced if we spend cash rather than plastic money. Focusing more on the benefits of the card and ignoring the fact, that ultimately, the entire amount would have to be paid is what makes us use plastic money more.
Eating home cooked food not only The above-mentioned lifestyle helps you lead a healthy lifestyle but changes are simple and easy, but Purchasing items to impress others is also helps you in increasing your daily one needs self-discipline to inculcate something, which many people are savings. Getting up a bit early and them in his/her daily lifestyle. Going by guilty of doing. This particular habit ensuring that you have a home the plethora of benefits offered by would keep on burning a hole in your cooked breakfast maybe a tiring these lifestyle hacks, a little self- pocket and deviating you from the activity but helps you in avoiding the discipline should not be a problem. track, which you need to be on, for rising costs of restaurant meals and So, adopt these simple changes and achieving your financial goals. Let’s the probable medical costs live a financially stress-free life. take an example, a simple item like a associated with often falling ill watch can be purchased for its utility because of unsafe food. Source: Moneycontrol.com A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 11
THE LOST WALLET Seventeen-year-old Regina Györfi just calling… My wife once lost her called the cellphone number wallet. It was found and returned. Isn’t included in one of our wallets honesty wonderful?” immediately after finding it a Berlin, Germany shopping mall. “I remember being in a Wallets returned: 6 out of 12 car, when my dad noticed a wallet by the side of the road,” she said. “When Megha Muppadi, we reached the owner he was very Nemmadi grateful: Without the papers in the My Story is at the end of the Reader’s wallet he would have had to Digest article, don’t miss it. postpone his wedding which was to
take place the very same day!” Seyran Coban, a teacher in training There was an article in the Reader’s Digest about a test to find the ‘Most called us: “People have often treated New York City, U.S.A. me with honesty, and if I do the same, Honest Cities’. It was called the “Lost Wallets returned: 8 out of 12. Wallet” Test. that’s what I’ll get in return,” she said. A global, social experiment was Abel Ben Salem, 46, told reporters he conducted to find this out. How? returned the wallet because, “I saw “Our reporters “lost” 192 wallets in the photo of the mother with her cities around the world.” child. Whatever else is important, a photo like that means something to
In each, we put a name with a the owner.” Richard Hamilton, a 36-year-old cellphone number, a family photo, government worker from Brooklyn, coupons, and business cards, plus the Ljubljana, Slovenia found a wallet near City Hall and Wallets returned: 6 out of 12. equivalent of $50. We “dropped” 12 reunited it with us. “Everyone says wallets in each of the 16 cities we New Yorkers are unfriendly but they’re selected, leaving them in parks, near really quite a nice people,” he said. “I shopping malls, and on sidewalks. think you’d be very surprised to see Then we watched to see what would how many New Yorkers would happen. Here are the results: actually return [a wallet].” Not all New Yorkers were so honest: we watched a We asked Manca Smolej, a 21-year- Most honest: Helsinki, Finland man in his twenties take money from old student, whether she considered Wallets returned: 11 out of 12. the wallet to buy cigarettes at a taking the money when she found our Lasse Luomakoski, a 27-year-old convenience store. wallet. “No!” she replied. “My parents businessman, found our wallet taught me how important being downtown. “Finns are naturally Moscow, Russia honest is. Once I lost an entire bag, honest,” he said. “We are a small, Wallets returned: 7 out of 12. but I got everything back. So, I know quiet, closely-knit community. We Near the city’s downtown zoo, Eduard what it feels like.” have little corruption, and we don’t Anitpin, an officer of Emergency A man in his early fifties picked up our even run red lights.” Situations, handed our reporter’s lost billfold, started to dial his phone but wallet to a security guard. “I am an then stopped, took the wallet, and Mumbai, India officer and I am bound by an officer’s drove off in an expensive car. Wallets returned: 9 out of 12. ethical code,” he said. “My parents
raised me as an honest and decent London, England man.” Wallets returned: 5 out of 12.
Ursula Smist, 35, who is originally from Amsterdam, the Netherlands Poland, retrieved our wallet and Wallets returned: 7 out of 12. handed it over to her boss. “If you find
Rahul Rai, a 27-year-old video editor, money, you can’t assume it belongs said, “My conscience wouldn’t let me to a rich man,” her manager said. “It do anything wrong. A wallet is a big might be the last bit of money a thing with many important documents mother has to feed her family.” [in it].” Vaishali Mhaskar, a mother of two, returned a wallet left in the post Warsaw, Poland office. “I teach my children to be Some people who found the wallet Wallets returned: 5 out of 12. honest, just like my parents taught were more moved by the euros inside Biotechnologist Marlena Kamínska, 28, me,” she said. than the photos we planted. But Julius picked up our wallet and called us: “I Maarleveld spotted the lost wallet thought that someone might badly Budapest, Hungary: Wallets returned: 8 and entered a nearby liquor store. need that money.” As for the other out of 12. Our reporter followed, prompting seven wallets, they were all taken by Maarleveld to speak up: “Are you women whom we never saw again. here for the wallet? If so, [the clerk] is A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 12
Bucharest, Romania the two weren’t from Lisbon at all— was then I remembered my Boss Wallets returned: 4 out of 12. they were visiting from Holland. The telling of what he used to do when remaining eleven wallets were taken, travelling – he used to stash enough money and all. cash into his socks, just in case.
The bottom line I cried on the way back thinking of all Of the 192 wallets dropped, 90 were that was in the bag - in addition to returned—47 percent. As we looked some cash and two ATM cards, the Sonia Parvan, over our results we found that age is original Aadhar card, Voter id, PAN a 20-year-old student [right, with no predictor of whether a person is card and the college Identity card. I Cristina Topa], found our wallet and going to be honest or dishonest; cried some more at night as I told my tracked us down. “I know how it feels young and old both kept or returned Mom about it all. to lose your wallet. My mother lost it wallets; male and female were once and didn’t get it back,” she unpredictable; and comparative The next day was quite bad, thinking said. wealth seemed no guarantee of of all that I had lost with the purse. It
honesty. was thinking of the three original Rio de Janeiro, Brazil government documents that gave Wallets returned: 4 out of 12. In a My Story: Bangalore, India me the chills, about what I would commercial area, a woman in her have to go through to get them done late twenties returned our wallet— again. without any money. But 73-year-old
Delma Monteiro Brandāo handed It was around lunch time that I got a one back after finding it while picking call from my college and they told me up her granddaughter at school. that my wallet had been found by a
lady by name of Prema, whose phone Zurich, Switzerland numbers were given to me. Wasting Wallets returned: 4 out of 12. After a hard no time, I called the lady and got her Jeanette Baum, a 38-year-old music day’s work inspecting an apartment on the line. We fixed up to meet at teacher, discovered our wallet and along with my senior colleague Divya, the Byapanahalli station at 6 p.m. the sent email and texts to our reporter I was on the way back to my place at same day. after calls didn’t go through. “I know Jayanagar. I was in a bus going what it’s like to lose something,” she towards Byapanahalli Metro station I reached there and the lady was said. “The ‘not knowing’ afterwards is (and from there planned to go to my there too, and gave the wallet to me. terrible. That’s why I responded as fast place by Metro). I brought the ticket My first question was: Are there such as I could.” and put it into my wallet. I was so tired good people in the world today who
that I did not even put the wallet into take all this trouble for someone not Prague, Czech Republic the bag but kept it on the top of it as I even known to them? Not just that, Wallets returned: 3 out of 12. travelled along. the lady was even planning to courier Petra Samcová recovered our the wallet to my hometown at the reporter’s wallet and didn’t think Once I reached Byapanahalli, I got address mentioned in the cards, if I twice about returning it. “It’s down from the bus and entered the could not be located. something you simply should do metro station and went to the counter naturally,” she said. Not so two young to purchase a ticket. That was when I teenagers walking in a suburban realized that the purse was missing. housing estate on the outskirts of For the next half an hour I spent the Prague, who pocketed the wallet and time running around, to the Bus depot left in a very good mood. talking to various conductors and the Depot Manager but none could help Madrid, Spain since I did not remember the bus Wallets returned: 2 out of 12. route and neither could I locate the Prema Saikrishna Beatriz Lopez, a 22-year-old student, Conductor of the bus I travelled in. found our wallet in an upscale Prema also told me that when she downtown area with her friend Lena I asked for a re-run of the CCTV found the wallet, she asked around, Jansen, also 22. “We only wanted to coverage at the metro station, but for enquiring if the wallet was theirs. One give it back,” she said. Jansen told that I was told that a police complaint woman came forward and said that reporters, “I couldn’t keep a purse was required. she knew the person who lost it since that wasn’t mine.” she stays near her home. When Finally I gave up and now I found that questioned further, she could not give Least honest: Lisbon, Portugal I did not have even a rupee upon me the correct answers and so she did Wallets returned: 1 out of 12. and it was already dark. Fortunately I not get away with it. It only shows that A couple in their sixties spotted our still had my phone with me and using there are all sorts of people in this wallet and immediately called us. it booked a cab to take me back. world – the good, the bad & the in- Interestingly, our reporter learned that What if I had lost the phone too? It betweens. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 13
followers, as there were several Khusrau called the mango Naghza HISTORY OF THE MANGO legends about the Buddha and Tarin Mewa Hindustan, the fairest fruit mango trees. Among Buddhist rulers, of Hindustan. mangoes were exchanged as gifts and became an important tool of The Mughals relished their favourite diplomacy. During this period, addiction, with Jahangir and Shah Buddhist monks took mangoes with Jahan awarding their khansamahs for their unique creations like Aam By Mary A them wherever they went, popularizing the fruit. Panna, Aam ka Lauz and Aam Ka Mangoes have delighted people’s Meetha Pulao, a delicate mango senses with their sweet fragrance and Legend has it that the Buddha was dessert sold all through the summer in flavour for ages. However, while presented with a mango grove so he Shahjahanabad. Nur Jahan used a Indians have been cultivating this juicy could rest under the shady trees. mix of mangoes and roses to create fruit for more than 4000 years, the her legendary wines. Western world has savored it only for The Peshwa of the Marathas, the last 400! Raghunath Peshwa, planted 10 million The mango has been known to mango trees as a sign of Maratha Indians since very early times. supremacy. The advent of Europeans Scientific fossil evidence indicates that eventually affected the mango, the mango made its first appearance which fell from its position of empire about 25 to 30 million years ago in builder to simply a fruit – the British had Northeast India, Myanmar and no use for it in matters of diplomacy. Though it retained its superiority of Bangladesh, from where it travelled Buddha resting under the shady taste, many varieties disappeared down to southern India. Mango trees from the scene while several new The earliest name given to the mango Megasthenes and Hsiun-Tsang, the ones emerged. was Amra-Phal. It is also referred to in earliest writer-travellers to ancient Over the ages, the mango became a early Vedic literature as Rasala and India, wrote about how the ancient household fruit and odes were sung in Sahakara, and is written about in Indian kings, notably the Mauryas, its praise. Rabindranath Tagore was the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and planted mango trees along roadsides extremely fond of mangoes and has the Puranas, which condemn the and highways as a symbol of written several poems about the felling of mango trees. On reaching prosperity. South India, the name translated to fragrant flowers of mangoes. Aam-Kaay in Tamil, which gradually In the medieval period, Alauddin Khilji Today, the curvaceous shape of became Maamkaay due to was the first patron of the mango and mangoes, which has long held the differences in pronunciation. The his feast in Sivama Fort was a real fascination of weavers and designers, Malayali people further changed this mango extravaganza with nothing has become an iconic Indian motif. to Maanga. The Portuguese were but mangoes in different forms on the The mango is seen as a symbol of fascinated by the fruit on their arrival lavish menu. Next came the Mughal good luck and prosperity and in many in Kerala and introduced it to the Emperors, whose fondness for the parts of India mango leaves are strung world as Mango. mango is legendary. The obsessive up over the front doors of homes love for mango was, in fact, the only as Toran. In ancient India, the ruling class used legacy that flowed untouched from names of mango varieties to bestow one generation to another in the A Purnakumbha is a pot filled with titles on eminent people – like the Mughal dynasty. water and topped with fresh mango honour given to the famous courtesan leaves and a coconut. It is considered of Vaishali, Amra Pali. Akbar built the vast Lakhi Bagh near to be the foundation of a puja, with Darbhanga, growing over a hundred the mango leaves symbolizing life. The mango tree was also associated thousand mango trees. This was one with the god of love, Manmatha, and of the earliest examples of grafting of its blossoms were considered to be mangoes, including the Totapuri, the the god’s arrows by the Hindu Nanda Rataul and the expensive Kesar. Kings. It was during the Nanda rule that Alexander arrived in India and Shah Jahan’s fondness for mangoes fought the famous battle with King was so deep that he had his own son, Porus. When it was time for him to Aurangzeb, punished and placed return to Greece, he took with him under house arrest because the latter several varieties of the delicious fruit. kept all the mangoes in the palace for himself. It was also mangoes that With the rise of Buddhism, mangoes Aurangzeb sent to Shah Abbas of came to represent faith and Persia to support him in his fight for the prosperity among the religion’s throne. The famous Persian poet Amir A Purnakumbha A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 14
With mango festivals being This theme persisted. Through history, panna,which is still popular and aam celebrated in Ahmedabad, Lucknow, there are many references to local ka meetha pulao. Allahabad, Delhi, and Goa, mangoes kings planting mango trees as a mark in India have become a symbol of of their prosperity. Even King Ashoka According to the noted food summer and are no less than a proudly mentions it in his pillar edict at historian K T Achaya, the Portuguese cultural legacy. Feroze Shah Kotla in Delhi. were the first Europeans to use the grafting technique on mangoes. This The very name for the fruit - ‘Mango’ It is intriguing to consider if the many led to the creation of some unique comes from the Malayalam word for it different names of the mango, mango species which were also later - Maanga, which Portuguese traders indicate different waves of its travel, named after the Portuguese! One picked up as they transported the lush out of India. Take for example the such is the famed Alphonso mango. It fruit , back home from the ports of Persian word for the mango is named after Afonso de Kerala. ‘Anba’ which is quite similar to the Alberquerque, a Portuguese general Marathi word for it ‘Amba’. and military expert who helped It is a point to note that the fact that establish Portuguese colonies in India. India is the original home of a mango Within India itself the mango was is reflected in its botanical name - always popular. Ibn Batutta , the Some culinary details: Mango pulp Mangifera indica. noted 14th century Moroccan traveler made into jelly or cooked with red wrote about how Indians were fond of gram dhal and green chillies may be The earliest evidence of the mango in their mango pickles. served with cooked rice. Mango India comes from sixty million year old lassi is popular throughout South fossils found in Damalgiri in But even though the mango has been Asia,[29] prepared by mixing ripe Meghalaya. The mango was a wild around for so long, it took the mangoes or mango pulp fruit which grew in the thick forests of Portuguese travelers to come and with buttermilk and sugar. Ripe India at that point. take it to the western world. In 1498 mangoes are also used to make the Portuguese came to Calicut curries. Aamras is a popular thick juice In her research paper the ‘History of and took this fruit to Europe. made of mangoes with sugar or milk, mango’ Dr Indu Mehta, Professor of and is consumed History from the University of Kumaon, The earliest reference to the name with chapatis or pooris. The pulp from points out that the mango took its ‘Mango’ in a European language ripe mangoes is also used to make current form around 2000 BCE, when appears in a text by Ludovico di jam called mangada. through the grafting process, the wild Varthema in Italian in 1510. It is also variety was developed so that it could mentioned by Hendrik Van Rheede, Did you know that the Cuckoo bird or be grown in orchards. The earliest the Dutch commander of Malabar in ‘Kogile’ as known in kannada has a literary reference to the mango his book Hortus Malabaricus, a strong relation to the mango tree? The comes from one of the oldest compilation of the plants of economic song ‘Maamaravello Kogileyello’ from Upanishads, the Brihadaranyaka and medical value in the Malabar the 1975 Kannada movie Devara Upanishad, dated to around 700 BCE region. This work, the only one of its Gudi, starring Vishnuvardhan, & There is a reference to ‘Amra’ there. kind, was published in 1678. Bharathi and rendered by S. P. Balasubramanyam dwells on this Subsequently, there are numerous In India, the popularity of mango theme. To listen, click on: references to the mango through continued as dynasties rose and fell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jrsgJxNAI literature - proving that not only was Perhaps, the most fervent Mango the mango a favorite, it was also holy. lovers were the Mughals. Memoirs and Like the Hindu texts, Jain and Buddhist historical records of Mughal emperors texts also mention the greatness and like the Babur Nama, Ain-e- ‘sacredness’ of the mango trees and Akbari and Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri talk fruit. There are references to Buddha extensively about mangoes. meditating and performing miracles under the mango tree. For instance in With the love for mangoes, the royal one such tale, Buddha is said to have patronage extended to horticulture made a white mango tree appear and grafting of mangoes. Various out of thin air. As a result, Buddhists still mango varieties were grafted, consider the mango as a beacon of including the popular local varieties knowledge and peace. Planting like the famous Totapuri, which was mango trees, for them, is a necessary the first variety to be exported to act of faith. Persia and other kingdoms.
Even in Jain tradition, the Goddess The Mughals relished their favourite An African Proverb Ambika, the harbinger of wealth and addiction, with Emperors like Jahangir and Shah Jahan even handsomely prosperity, holds a bunch of mangoes Thanks to Wikipedia & Sanchari Pal’s article in her hand. In this case the mango rewarding their Khansamahs or cooks - Food for Thought: Unpeeling the Mango’s represents fertility. for their unique creations like Aam Interesting History in India
A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 15
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, GO I Our pity may not be limited to they are in need of money, and mankind alone, we could feel sorrow hands over the cash. upon seeing a dog abandoned by its owner when it has become old, Of course, Natarajan also continues because of which it lies slowly dying the custom of distributing sweets and on some road. You may also read stuff at the office but no other about the children whose parents expense is incurred. In fact, he is to have abandoned them or died and celebrate his wedding anniversary at now they have no one to care for Hyderabad soon, where the them; how if they are not taken in by celebration is not by way of blowing All of us must surely have felt pity someone, a very cruel fate awaits up money, but having a simple dinner when seeing a particular aspect of them. with the family and giving what he mankind in pain or distress. It could be would have splurged, for any good an old man or woman begging at a cause. traffic light. This same person would have raised children, struggling Is the correct way to give alms to the against all hardship to bring them up woman at the traffic junction who and when they have grown up, approaches you with a child in her abandoned their parents. hands? No, that may not be a solution, in fact you may be adding to the problem. But, why? Because, when you give alms to such a woman, you are most probably enriching a Orphaned children being fed mafia who is organizing this begging and who take a major share of the If you are the kind of person whose beggar’s earnings and of course heart is touched by seeing any of protects them from being harassed by such sufferings, then you are like many you know who. who want to help but do not know how to do it. You may not be able to To increase their earnings, more take an abandoned old person or children are abducted and put into child or a dying animal to your home, the begging chain. So you become since the facility for such a care may an abettor to the harm done to these not be possible there. So we stop at children. Instead of doing such a that because we do not know what mistake, search for genuine to do next. organizations who take care of these unfortunates like abandoned children, If that is the case with you, then you women, aged or animals. By giving to could follow the example of them you can rest assured that your Natarajan R, our Administration money is helping them rather than Manager. hurting. Don’t believe it? Click on the link below to understand more:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&u Abandoned old woman begging on act=8&ved=2ahUKEwivpd2drsXiAhVymuYKHSeZAEsQjhx6BAgBEAM&u the streets rl=https%3A%2F%2Funicornomy.com%2Fbegging-in-india-child-rich- beggars-in-india-beggars-trafficking%2F&psig=AOvVaw2c7J- Natarajan R 4tiwlC2nmtFxPXywY&ust=1559377975004885 Or it could be a dead body with nobody to claim it; this person as a Natarajan was not keen to tell about If you strongly feel the necessity of child would have once been in the the good deeds he does because he doing something genuine for the arms of its mother and loved, but feels that one should do such things society, you can give for whichever today that mother is not there to see not for the sake of appearing as a do- cause is closest to your heart. That her child lying dead and unclaimed. gooder but because that was the way we become a better human right thing to do. being and with each such good person the world will become a better When asked more about how he does place. something for the society, he told us that on his birthday, the money which he would have used to celebrate and the gifts his family members would have given him is collected in cash and he goes to the nearest An abandoned old dog orphanage or old-age home where A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd DIMENSIONS VOL.11, ISSUE 5, MAY 2019 16
APPENDIX Question of the Month Representative for Pakistan and take it up one notch, but don't go Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, and over the top. In the article ’14 ways to Acquire Karl Eikenberry, America's Knowledge, one of the methods is ambassador in Afghanistan. ‘Put in Order’. Can you give an example of how this can help. Reactions to the Rolling Stone piece came quickly. Before the article was Question of the last Month even published, McChrystal called Biden to apologise, and put out a In the article: ‘LEADERSHIP TIPS FROM written statement saying that it was a THE RUNAWAY GENERAL’, why was the "mistake reflecting poor judgment General nicknamed so, and what do and should have never happened." we learn from it? Please send your 3. Don't fail to prepare your guest or reply by 15th May. "Throughout my career, I have lived significant other. by the principles of personal honour There was only one answer, from and professional integrity," the Many times you're allowed to bring a SreeKumar A G, SIC of CMR Ekya statement said. "What is reflected in guest or guests. School, but it was a wide ball and so this article falls far short of that Let them know about appropriate disallowed. standard." dress and topics of conversation to The Answer: Then, on June 23, 2010, a day after stay away from, says Pachter. Also, the article was posted online and two make sure your guest follows all the Meaning of ‘Runaway’ is: An animal days before it hit newsstands, rules. "His or her behavior will reflect on or vehicle that is running out of McChrystal was summoned to the you." control. Such as "a runaway train" White House where President Obama 4. Most Important: Don't get drunk. General McChrystal's unrelenting accepted his resignation. McChrystal's pace and larger-than-life personality remarkable career was over. "You don't have to drink, but if you do, made him a legend among his stay sober," says Pachter. "It's easy to What do we learn from this incident? soldiers. He was said to only sleep four do something outrageous when you hours, eat one meal and run seven Let us look at an article by Jacquelyn have had too much to drink." miles a day. He earned the respect of Smith in the Business Insider soldiers by participating in dozens of Remember what happened to the dangerous missions despite his high "People need to remember that Runaway General and stay sober: rank, sometimes unannounced. although an office party is a time to “Many of the story's most notable celebrate, this activity is still a business quotes were taken during an during McCrystal's career came undone at event and how you behave matters," an evening of particularly heavy the hands of Michael Hastings, a says Barbara Pachter, an etiquette drinking at an Irish pub in Paris.” young Rolling Stone reporter assigned expert and the author of "The Prizes for the Best Published Articles to do a profile of the general. To gain Essentials of Business Etiquette." Let us insight into McCrystal and his team, look at a few of the several rules listed Prizes for the best Technical and Non- Hastings accompanied the general in the article: on a whirlwind tour of Europe, technical articles published in the Newsletter – Dimensions, for the designed to assure America's allies of 1. Don't skip it. the Afghan war strategy. Many of the period Apr 18-Mar 19 are awarded to: story's most notable quotes were Unless you already have other plans Technical : ‘Why Investigate Building taken during an during an evening of that night that you absolutely cannot failures’? by Suhas N M particularly heavy drinking at an Irish miss or change, show up to the office pub in Paris. holiday party. Non- Technical: ‘Management Lessons from the streets of India’ by The article Hastings wrote - headlined "Your absence will be noticed, and Thejesha.M M "The Runaway General" - was a most likely, noted by your boss and disaster for McChrystal. Seemingly other higher ups," she adds. Editorial team oblivious that they were on the record, the general and his staff 2. Don't dress inappropriately. Roy Zacharias, Editor ruthlessly mocked and criticised senior members of the Obama The party may not take place during Editorial Board: R Suresha, Divya K administration, ranging from Vice traditional work hours--but that doesn't We welcome your valuable suggestions, President Joe Biden ("Biden?" mean you should dress like you're going to a nightclub. comments and articles. Mail it to: McChrystal said. "Who's that?") to [email protected] National Security Advisor Jim Jones Wear work-appropriate clothing. (who was characterised by a Publication of comments and articles are Since it's a special occasion, it's fine to McChrystal aide as a "clown"), Special subject to editorial control and discretion. A Journal of A N Prakash Construction Project Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd