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today we feature Mrs suda myty an
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inspiring author and philanthropist
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addressing a young audience at the
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jamnabai nari campus in 2017 she shares
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personal stories and insights on the
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importance of discipline hard work and
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the value of Education Mrs myy
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emphasizes the power of choices in Youth
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and debunks myths about generational
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differences join us for a session full
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of wisdom and guidance for students and
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Educators alike
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teachers and my parents and my dear
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students it gives me enormous joy for me
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to come to school than any other place
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for various reason a I'm a granddaughter
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of a school teacher B I am a daughter of
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a professor see I the daughter-in-law of
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a school
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teacher D I myself am a
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teacher I used to teach computer science
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in Christ University and later I became
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so irregular than my own students then I
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said I will come on a management than a
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teacher because my my hectic schedules
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children give me enormous Joy because uh
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because they are
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innocent and this the first time I'm
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addressing any school in Bombay I have
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not addressed any school in Bombay I
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come only
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for I only come to Bombay for meeting
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never to a school so when there was an
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urgent meeting came down today evening I
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have a 7:00 meeting then I thought why
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can't I come little early anyway I I
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waste half a day in Bangalore traffic
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reaching airport I rather leave at 5: in
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the morning reach bang Bombay at 8:30 so
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that I can have a session with the
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students and that then I opted for
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this I'll tell you a small story
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I am a grandmother of two grandkids like
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today's how grandkids are there they are
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like that normal okay that means more
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talking and less
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listening and my granddaughter's name is
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Krishna and she told me they live in
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London one day I told her to eat banana
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fruits you know we India consider a good
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fruit eat and then she said me a give me
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La she calls me a like any Canada Grand
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is called or maharashtrian grandmother
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is called she said a give me a set of
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reasons why one should eat banana a 5
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years kid okay I said okay I will tell
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you a story and then you feel like
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eating you eat I said there was a Rishi
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by the name dwasa I'm sure most of you
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know whenever he used to go to anybody's
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place they used to get scared of him why
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this fellow has come let him go as early
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as possible I'm sure when you are not a
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nice person nobody welcomes you one day
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his wife told him look people when they
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you go people run away where I stayed
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with you for such a long time don't you
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think I deserve a boon or a special gift
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first he was very upset then he said
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okay fine I'll give you a special gift
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what do you want she said I want a fruit
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which is not grown in dealoka or up
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above heaven which is grown on the earth
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yet it should be used to worship God
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B it
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should it should flower once a year and
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it should not have any seeds C all parts
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of that tree should be used in cooking D
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it should give fruits only once in a
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year and the fruit should be not messy
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kind you know like not like a mango or
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apple and such fruit without giving that
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to God the Puja will be incomplete he
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said okay he made a banana he made a
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tree and gave the flower a fruit to to
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the God and then he called that her name
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was kadali so he called that fruit a
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kadali f kadali in Sanskrit became
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banana in English later so whatever
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banana tree you see that is the
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intelligence of a woman who told her
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husband the kind of fruit which is easy
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to eat whose leaves are used for eating
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whose bark is in the stem is used in
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cooking whose flower is used in the
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cooking which flowers once a year and
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there are no seeds so I told it's such a
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great fruit on the earth if you don't
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want to eat Krishna you don't have to
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eat but only learned people eat this one
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what I'm telling you
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is every
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generation it's really wrong to tell
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that our generation has lot more stress
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that is the totally wrong parents please
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please remove it from your head in case
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you have such things I was in Egypt
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about 15 years back then I took on
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egyptology that is a very a person who
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knows how to read hierography who knows
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more about Egyptian history and went to
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one place which is 7,000 years old and
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there I saw the pyramid inside the
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pyramid there was hierography so I asked
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that fellow what it is written here you
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tell me this fell told me the Builder of
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Egypt pyramid have written about next
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Generation next generation
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is it doesn't respect time doesn't
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respect money doesn't
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respect Elders they have less common
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sense they are less hardw workking I
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really do not know how they will survive
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suddenly I felt like you know my parents
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talking to me like that every generation
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feels next generation is less than ours
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we very hardw working we talk no that is
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really not true every generation have
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their own plus and minus some totally
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same any mathematics teacher or any
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students who love mathematics will
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appreciate this what is 1 by 2 half 1X 2
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is 2x 4 it is also equal to 3x 6 it's
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also equal to 4 by 8 it's also equal to
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16 by 32 the moment I say 1X 2 and 16x
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32 16 is a huge number one is small but
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the ratio Remains the Same and that is
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the way every generation has their own
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plus minus Their Own Strength I've seen
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my great grandmother my grandmother my
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mother and me and my daughter you know
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seven generation I have seen they were
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always worried about disease because
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there was no antibiotic in those days if
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the child get fever the mother would
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have been panicked today you go to a
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pediatrician in those days it was not
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there next Generation have seen there
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was no connectivity coming to Bombay is
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once in lifetime particularly from
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people from Karnataka every generation
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under Go a different stress but they do
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undergo
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stress now coming to this topic they
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told me that you have to address student
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parents I said I wanted to address
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students actually but if parents are
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interested I can but students may get
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bored I want to tell something to
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students and then I'll address parents
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students you should understand one thing
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when you are in school when you are in
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school somebody looks after you your
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teacher your parents look after you they
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will tell you some good words and you
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really get moved and they start cmon
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your mind goes away somewhere because I
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was also a student Once Upon a Time too
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many things someone tells you then you
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won't like it actually you won't like it
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and too many things we should not tell
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also if we want to tell parents you
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should always tell in the form of a
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story never tell directly you should be
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hardworking as a child you may not like
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it but please remember people who care
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for you only will tell third person will
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not tell please under don't don't
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underestimate your parents and your
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teachers it's your duty to understand
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what they are telling for what reason
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they are telling and you have to you
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have to actually accept it and later it
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will pay its price later part of your
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life what you don't learn now will never
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be learned later it always false ideas
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When I Grow Big you know I will do I
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don't know some how many of you have
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read my book The Story of portado Port
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is a real story Port was my classmate he
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was reasonably bright maybe very bright
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I suppose never he came to school never
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came to college I was an engineering
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College he used to stay he was from Goa
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he used to come he was in the hostel and
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he never used to come to college our
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College of 7 to 11 he will come around
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10:00 or 9:00 earliest mean 9:00 and he
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will sit here sit there attend two
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classes after that afternoon he will
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come for the lab Etc end of the year he
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will one month he will get up early L
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and he will study and you know there is
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a method in college you take question
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papers April and October whatever comes
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in October will never come in April okay
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I'm sure the school also you have
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midterm will never come to final okay so
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eliminate this question answers and then
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make a approximate question paper and
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study that and he used to get a first
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class he did all four years like this
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once I asked Port Port why you you are
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such a bright person you don't come to
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class if you come regular Sly he can get
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distinction you can get a rank he said
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sud you do not know in life it is not
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the education it the connection it
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really works and we have to build lot of
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connections you know in when you are
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young it helps you I came from a middle
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class family my father was a doctor a
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gynecologist I never understood this
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connection all those things then he said
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my father was in military we were in
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Kolkata there was a club which we have
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never seen in our real life so we
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thought maybe a big man years passed in
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1972 I finished my engineering so was
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port and I didn't meet him for a long
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time after 30 35 years I think 2008 or 9
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I had been to Dubai to deliver a lecture
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and when the lecture was over I saw
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somebody waiting for and then he said
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ma'am I was waiting for you I was
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surprised a place like Dubai who will
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wait for me then he said I Port I could
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not recognize because in 30 40 years
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people put on weight your hair will be
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gray you know all those physical changes
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will happen I said B I would not have
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recognized I was very happy I told him
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oh let's have let us sit down and talk
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he said no I just wanted to tell you one
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words one word to you so I was waiting I
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said what happened he said you know do
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you remember in college I used to Bunk
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class I said of course I remember you
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port means bunking
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class he said I used to bun class and I
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joined a job and because in those days
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the moment you have be used to get job
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in my time and my bosses came to know
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that my subordinates came to know that I
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don't have knowledge getting a first
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class marks are different than knowledge
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please remember parents your children
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should be in the pursuit of knowledge
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than the marks though it's a competitive
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examination I agree it is a competitive
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world it is a competitive World
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competition is thousand times or 10,000
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times more than what time I had but with
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all those things the knowledge which
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always helps you than your marks in real
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life so he said I got marks but I did
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not have knowledge once the subordinates
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know that you don't have knowledge they
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don't respect you once the boss knows
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you don't have knowledge then he wants
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an uh he wants a a reason to kick you
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out I was kicked out from one job then I
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took a second job and I was so much used
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to getting up 9: in the morning I'll go
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late to the office I was kicked out
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there also over a period of time I
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couldn't get job anywhere and now I have
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a job as a manager job job or a smaller
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job in Dubai and my I have two I said
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what about your family said I have two
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daughters I left them in Chennai to
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study I said what he said yes I want
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they should study well they should not
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become like
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me I just waited for you to tell suda
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one thing when you we were young I used
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to make fun of you he used to tell me
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you are like a you are like a uh running
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race horse because the horse will see
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neither left nor right it runs same way
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you always were academic and used to
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make fun of you today when we called you
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nerd and I thought I was very smart you
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know today I feel you are successful and
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I wasted my life I just wanted to tell
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you if you don't if you don't
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discipline if you don't discipline when
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you are school or in college you pay a
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heavy price in later part of your life
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discipline like coming up in a proper
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way writing properly
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okay talking properly communicating
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properly respecting people properly this
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really helps a long way in your life so
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I don't want you should be like Port
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regretting in your old age you should
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remember that to be successful in life
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there is no shortcut the only method is
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hard work and straight will and that you
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have to
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do thank you very much for giving me
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opportunity to address both of you and
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in case you have any questions in my
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limited knowledge and my answers are
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highly subjective okay it is not you
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know from any group Theory I have taken
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