See what this Chetan Bhagat did to Indian youths. Whether his stories inspired the youth in right way or not but many young professionals across the country turned English authors by night. Some of them even the best sellers! Ok any how it’s a good scenario to see young people not just reading but also writing. We got some variety, new and relevant fictions to read.
Chetan’s 4 Books till date Five Point Someone, One Night at the call center, 3 Mistakes of my life, 2 states all are based on college life. (Observe all these books start with a number in their titles) These books reminded today's youth about their college life, love stories and inspired them to write a book. Earlier writing a book was not such simple one. Many think that you have to be a scholar or at least a student of literature and have lot of life experience to write books. But now anyone can write books. Even the success of chetan bhagath’s books inspired publisher’s to believe in today’s youths and their simple stories.
So while browsing for some light, cool reads I came across some books which are almost in line with chetan’s books, light on story, light on pockets too. So I’ve purchased 5 books to read. A Romance with a chaos by Nishanth Kaushik, Nothing can be as crazy by Ajay Mohan Jain, Love, a rather bad idea by Anirban Mukherjee, Of Course I love you by Durjoy Datta and Maanvi Ahuja, I too had a love a story by Ravinder Singh. All these books cost me only around 350 bucks purchased online.
Let me see how many of these authors and their books stand the expectations. Soon I’ll publish the reviews here. Watch this space. Flipkart which provides an online book shopping service ships the books for free within India(Orders more than Rs.100/-). The Books will be delivered within 4-5 Business Days.
Finally the 3 Idiots bringing some changes in the country. The core message of the movie Life is more than just an education has touched the people of IIMA. Now IIMA has introduced a new elective course called 'Learning What is Not Taught (LWNT)'. In-house and visiting faculties are adopting the line of 3 Idiots and teaching students to learn about life from beyond the textbooks and curriculum. The course took off on Saturday.
"What the students learn in the classrooms is only the beginning of learning. The rest of the lessons are to be learnt from what life teaches them." Said Executive director of Tata Sons Ltd R Gopalakrishnan who is the lead instructor of LNWT.
The early success in terms of earnings by young professionals creates a illusion that they have achieved a lot and better than their predecessors. It also results in over confidence. But life is not just be successful in terms job and money. It’s more than that.
We hope the leading Management Institute like IIMA bringing in something like this will definitely inspire the academic industry to follow the same suit.
Somebody might have hurt you and the memory keep hunting you from ages, Even after many year of incident you can’t forget it and the sad thing is that those memories keep hurting you more than the actual pain. Why? Because you never forgive them. Forgiving the person who hurt you will not for the betterment of him/her, but for the betterment of yourself.
Whether you forgive them or not it may not have impact them but it directly affects you. If you have read Chetan Bhagats Best selling Novel 2 States you would have understand the importance of forgiving.
Forgiving really makes you feel better. But how to forgive? Yes. It’s a challenging task. It’s not so easy to forgive. To hurt back it won’t take anything much but to forgive it demands lot of courage and inner strength. Here is an e-book by Thomas Herold who teaches you “How to forgive even When you can’t Forget”. The e-book is available for free download. Hope this book changes your lives, bring in peace and harmony to your sour and body.
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As the summer is coming up, not many students will joy of thinking the vacation. Because there are majority number of students for whom summer is the time for internship projects and the nightmare might have started by this time. For those of you who are finding it difficult to get summer projects, here is an article which guides you in the right path.
Rediff Get Ahead lists these 10 points to focus on Summer Internships
From 1998 KPSC KAS Exams are conducted in the lines of UPSCs IAS Exams. There will be 3 levels of Exams conducted. Except a 300 Marks Essay writing in IAS, Most of the methods, guidelines and procedures used in IAS are used in KAS also.
KPSC will conduct KAS exams in 2010 for recruitment of 268 posts vacant in various departments of Karnataka government.
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Students studying in final Year/Semester of their degree can also apply for the exam provided they must produce the marks card at the time of main exams
General Category candidates can attempt for max. 5 times and OBC category candidates for max. 7 times. SC/SC can write any no. of times.
Age Limit : General : Max. 35 Years. OBC : Max. 38 Years and SC/ST : Max. 40 Years
There are 3 levels in KAS
Preliminary Exam
Main Exam
Personal Interview
Preliminary Exam (Prelims in short) :
There will be two compulsory Question Papers in Prelims. First paper will be General Studies with 150 Marks. Second Paper for 300 Marks Specific Paper. Candidates can choose the specific subject that they want to write exam. The KAS syllabus for this exam will be of degree level.
Each paper will be given 2 hours of duration. Usually Exams for both the papers will be conducted on the same day. Prelims exam will be of Objective type questions where you have to choose the write answer from the four options given.
Paper 1 : General Paper (General Studies / General Knowledge)
This paper is set based on the general science, State, National, International current affairs, Indian History, Geography, Constitution, Economy, Indian National Movement, Mental Ability etc. The question paper will be in both Kannada and English. Candidates has choose one language to write exam.
Paper 2 : Specific paper / Elective Paper
The subjects for Specific Paper are as follows
Agriculture, Sericulture, Agricultural Marketing And Co-Operation
Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Sciences And Fisheries
Botany
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Commerce, Accounting:, Business Organisation & Secretarial Practice:
Criminology
Economics, Karnataka Economy
Electrical Engineering
Geography
Law
Mathematics
History
Mechanical Engineering
Philosophy
Geology
Physics
Political Science And International Relations
Psychology
Public Administration.
Sociology
Statistics
Zoology
Rural Development
Hindi
Anthropology.
Urdu Syllabus
Kannada
English
Management
After the prelims exam the candidates will be selected on 1:20 ratio for the Main Exam. A separate Application has to be submitted for Main Exam with the degree marks cards. In case if the candidate successfully crack the Prelims exam and fail in the degree exam he/she will be disqualified for Main Exam.
Main Exam (Mains in short)
There will be total 8 papers in Main Exam.
Paper 1 – Kannada (150 Marks)
Paper 2 – English (150 Marks)
Papers 3 & 4 – General Knowledge (300 Marks each)
Papers 5,6,7 & 8 : Four Papers on Two Elective Subjects (300 Marks each)
Kannada & English Papers are Eligibility papers means you have to score minimum of 35 marks in order to be eligible. The scores in these two papers will not be considered for the calculation of percentage. These papers are descriptive type. Syllabus for Kannada and English Papers are of SSLC Level and Mains exams will be of Degree level.
Personal Interview
Those candidates who successfully cracked the Main exam will be shortlisted for the Personal Interview on a 1:3 Ratio. Here the candidates Leadership Qualities, Mental Stability, Decision taking abilities are measured.
Preparation
The final and important question How to prepare for KAS?
The General Knowledge paper in prelims will contain questions from various fields and will be vast in nature. So preparing with any one book is not sufficient. You have to read at least two Kannada, two English news papers, Magazines on a daily basis to gain more knowledge and up-to-date about the current affairs across the globe. With that you need to make important points and notes for revision at the later stage. Don’t depend on the books which comes to market at the time of exam. Instead of that keep reading the books write now.
Joining the KAS training institutes are another best option. Where you will be given a structured, organized way of preparing for the exams. But before joining such institutions query about the quality of Materials, Teaching staff and resources provided.
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