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We are all familiar with the age old saying ‘Time and tide waits for no wo/man’. We are all caught up in our race against the clock in our daily life. From the time the buzzer of the Alarm croaks until late in the night when the clock/watch indicates that it is past our bed time, therefore we must sleep! ‘Time’ it is an absolutely inherit part of our daily life. It is an irreversible force that carries us from birth to death the natural process called aging indicating that the body clock is ticking. Time is one of the fundamental dimensions of the universe we know. But what is this ‘Time’? For all those Indians like me who grew up watching the mythological soap Mahabharata on television; Time was denoted as a picture of the stars whizzing past as the camera spear headed through space. At the center a wheel that rotates clockwise and a voice that said ‘I am time’. As a child this image had an everlasting impact on my thinking. If I have to visualize time how would I do it? In our conscious mind as we grow up from being toddlers to adults we ‘learn’ to have a measure of time much like learning a language but that is really nothing but a acquired skill. continue

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The Mango Man is back on Strat. In, this time with another post. Read his first post here. | All of us at some point have had our little rendezvous with the traffic cop where you were stopped, allegedly for violating some traffic rule. Many a times we have tried to wriggle our way by trying to veil a bribe to the cop, ‘I was in a hurry sir, perhaps we can settle this amicably?’ an indirect speech. We almost never walk up to the cop and tell him’ take this 100 rupee note as bribe so that I can go!!’ A veiled bribe to the cop is understandable because this involves legal implications. What if the cop is an upright policeman (I must be dreaming but just in case he is) then he could actually charge you with ‘Attempt to bribe’ in addition to the violation of traffic rule (assuming that you did volatile some rule). Rather if you hint at a bribe more like in the form of indirect speech the corrupt cop will sniff the Innuendo (suggestion) behind the statement and accept it. If the cop is an upright guy (have a hope!) he still cannot charge you with attempt to bribe because he needs to prove that ‘beyond any reasonable doubt’ in the court of law. Therefore the art of indirect speech turns out to be a win-win situation for you. continue

This is a strat.in ‘Runup to the Budget 2009′ series. Every day from now, till Monday, readers can find a finance related article uploaded at 5 pm IST . The articles will be unconventional, innovative and present a refreshing perspective. This is the first article in that series: With this article, we also welcome our new strater who wrote to us on the Write a post page, Amit Namjoshi, from Pune university. He is currently a Design Architect at Tech Mahindra. continue