Digital Resume

This is a blog in order to bring my life journey, learnings, and achievements in form of a Video+Resume i.e. Visume. As the world is moving toward digitazisation visume becomes need of the hour to reduce time and effort of hiring process for many companies.

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GPsBWoIRUU&t=110s&ab_channel=vishalkumarsingh

 

 

Prashar Trek - An Unplanned expedition

*View of Prashar lake

I was visiting my hometown, and to spend some time with my college buddies I made a 4 day stop in Delhi. Spontaneously on a  Friday evening, we decided to go for a trek somewhere north. Upon dwelling for some time over the internet we finalized our destination to be "Prashar Lake". Within two hours, we booked our bus, boarded that night, and reached Mandi by the next morning. We took the local vehicle to reach Bagi from where we began our trek through dense forest on foot.

*On the way to Bagi from Mandi 

*Getting ready for a trek on foot.

Our destination was visible from where we started, but we knew we had to put some efforts to reach our destination as we were completely unplanned, and also we had decided to complete this trek on our own without any guide or other help. It was a stressful task for both our mind and body. There were high chances of getting lost or stuck in the middle of the forest.

*Destination as visible from bagi

Our trek started on a rocky pathway which was a bit tough to navigate through because there was water flowing through the hills and the current were significant. We had to anyhow navigate through (but that was a very pleasant experience as the cold water running and giving a smooth musical sound is an experience something I always admire)

Navigating through rocky paths and river

 Upon traveling for some distance we found an alternative route, we started our journey through the new route, and at the very initial stage itself we lost our path in the woods. It took us some time to get back to the track and continue our journey ahead. Meanwhile, the rain showering started for which we were completely unprepared for, we stopped for some time under trees to let the rain stop, but still, we got drenched in rain and it took us some time to get dry, still, we continued our journey as time was a big constraint, we wanted to get to our destination before sunset. 

*Passing through dense forest

 *In between our journey

The climb was stiff and not very easy in the rainy season, the paths were quite slippery and tough to walk through. I had an unfortunate cramp in my left leg due to some ankle twist somewhere in the middle of our journey. The cramp made me much slower than others in the group, and I had to put extra effort on my end to make up for that. This was making me more exhausted and tired. I kept hydrating myself to avoid any further muscle cramps. At some point in time, it became very difficult for me to climb that stiff routes, but it was more about mental toughness than my physical ability, I kept going though. We reached our destination just before sunset, and the temperature started declining all of sudden. In the end, there was a small local tea seller, where we had our tea, before going to the ashram temple for our night stay. It was time for some rest as it was already dark all around and we were tired from our 6 hr long journey through jungles and hills.

*Tea at Prashar Lake

At night around 12-1:00 AM we woke up to see the milky way, as the sky was very clear we were lucky enough to have that astonishing experience of viewing outer space through our naked eye in such detail. Unfortunately, we did not carry any high-end camera with us to capture the beauty in a frame. In words, I won't be able to describe that sight.

*Prashar Lake in the morning

The experience of Prashar was so mesmerizing and blissful, calmness all around was so enriching that it felt like meditation by just being present there. The lake has a very significant historical story associated with it, which we came to know while interacting with the locals there. We visited all around the lake the next morning to have great views of hills and clouds around.

*View from hilltop next to the lake

We started our descent by noon, came back to Bagi on foot following the same path we followed while climbing the hills. We reached Bagi by evening, it took us 3 hr for the descent which was much easier than the ascent phase. We took a bus to the Mandi, from where we booked our bus back to Delhi by Monday morning we reached Delhi. The journey was short but the experience had an everlasting experience on me, and I will definitely take time to visit Prashar again with much more time in hand. 

The overall trek was easy to moderate, just our level of preparedness and rainy weather made it a bit tough for us. The ascent can be completed on normal days with the right equipment within 3-4 hours. It is a must-have trek for all trek lovers because you will get to see a lot of fascinating landscapes in a very short duration of time. 

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MahaMandi-2020 "Madhubani Painting"

Video Making 

Madhubani is situated in Bihar and is the most important city of the Mithila Kingdom. Madhubani means " Forest of honey". This form of painting originated at the time of Sita's marriage when King Janak ordered the artist of the village to depict the marriage ceremony. This form of painting remained at the backdoors for ages and was brought to the world in the mid 19th century. But still lacks its recognition and credit in the global platform.  

This video is an attempt to make Madhubani paintings visible globally. Information provided in this video is to make people realize the heritage and craft associated with this form of painting. 

We request you to kindly give it a watch.

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxlub-83pk

 

Blog writing using 4 P's of Marketing

Writing a blog is an easy task, but getting traffic is altogether a different ball game. Everyone today looks to get digitally visible, and among billions of blogs getting yourself highlighted is not an easy task. But is also not Rocket science.  So let's look at how you can do this with a simple application of 4P's of marketing.

You could refer to "Philip Kotler's" Marketing book to have a deep understanding of 4P of marketing. Without wasting much time lets dive into this technique and understand how it can be implemented. 

1) Product

First, you need to understand why you are writing a blog. This will not only bring the clarity of thoughts but also help you choose the right information and methodology to highlight the things you want to emphasize. This will help you determine whom you are writing to.

Readers will come to you only if you have something unique to tell them, inform them, or make them aware of.

And here’s more to make your product buyer-friendly:

Quantity does not beat quality: While frequent postings may help you go up the search rankings, don’t do it for the sake of doing so. Ask yourself if anyone would care to read what you are writing. Post once or twice a week if need be but ensure it is quality writing. You don’t want to turn away readers or bury your good pieces under the debris.

Is it unique? your content is valuable only if it is unique. “A combination of originality and quality works beautifully—it takes you higher up on the search engines," 

Is your content ‘buzzworthy’? A positive buzz will get people talking about you and send links and traffic your way.

2) Promotion

Not every best product sells itself, you need to promote it to begin the chain reaction. If it does sell by itself today no-sells job existed, even Apple product needs promotion and branding. So do the right promotion.

Get other sites to link to you: Other sites will link to you only if your content is good—period," says Amit Agarwal, a professional blogger whose three-year-old blog Digital Inspiration figures in Technorati’s Top 100 globally.

A social media strategy: Sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and many such are a great place to start your promotions, if the content is good it will start the chain reaction and will go viral as COVID did.

Grab all the free ad spots to publicize your blog: These include your visiting cards, email signatures, letterheads, mobile messages, bumper stickers, and other such communication. Let your daily emails end with a prompt to a recent post of yours relevant to the recipient.

Be proactive: Respond to all those who leave comments on your blog or seek further information—make their effort seem valuable. Let them feel a part of your blog community—and they will tell other people about you.

The title of your post matters: A simple yet overlooked factor that makes a big difference. “Most people read blogs on RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. 

3) Place

It's as simple as it seems, if the product is available at once doorsteps it's highly likely they will start using it someday. So make your blog easily accessible and searchable for others.

4) The 4th ‘P’

It is usually the price, but the content being free on blogs is almost a given. At the same time, the fourth P is relevant for adding other ingredients to the marketing mix.

So here we can modify the 4th P for "Passion", be passionate about what you write, have confidence in your content, and try to give your best every time. Success will follow eventually.

Shanti Mantra !!

 The Shanti Mantras means peace Mantras is Hindu prayer for Peace, generally use at the beginning or end of religious rituals.

ॐ द्यौ: शान्तिरन्तरिक्षँ शान्ति:,
पृथ्वी शान्तिराप: शान्तिरोषधय: शान्ति: ।

वनस्पतय: शान्तिर्विश्वे देवा: शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्ति:,
सर्वँ शान्ति:, शान्तिरेव शान्ति:, सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥
ॐ शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति: ॥

 

om dyau shaantirantarikshan shaanti,

prthvee shaantiraap shaantiroshadhay shaanti.

vanaspatay shaantirvishve deva shaantirbrahm shaanti,

sarvan shaanti, shaantirev shaanti, sa ma shaantiredhi.

om shaanti shaanti shaanti.

Meaning:

ॐ द्यौ: शान्तिरन्तरिक्षँ शान्ति:,

May harmony transmit there in the entire sky just as in the tremendous ethereal all over the place.

पृथ्वी शान्तिराप: शान्तिरोषधय: शान्ति: ।

may harmony rule all over this world, in water and in all herbs, trees, and creepers

वनस्पतय: शान्तिर्विश्वे देवा: शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्ति:,

May harmony stream over the entire universe. May harmony be in the supreme Being Brahman.

सर्वँ शान्ति:, शान्तिरेव शान्ति:, सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥

Also, may there consistently exist in al harmony and harmony alone.

ॐ शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति: ॥

Our harmony, harmony, and harmony to us all creatures!

Shanti mantras are regularly recited on Siddha Yoga path to nurture our awareness of the supreme peace that exists within all of us, regardless of our external circumstances, This practice, in turn, supports us to take action to cultivate peace in our daily lives, in our communities, and on our shared planet.

In our Business communication class, our professor Shri T. Prasad popularly known as (1/12) Mandi sir, gave us this mantra and communicated it's importance to us. He signified the importance of a peaceful mind in business communication and how a peaceful mind can achieve its goals. 

• What are the benefits of Shanti Mantra?

Shanti mantra streamlines and improves all the real capacities and empowers the diverse interior organs to work up to their ideal limits. At the point when recited, the Shanti mantra can soothingly affect the psyche and lead to profound unwinding.

• When is Shanti mantra chanted?

It is advisable that you chant the Shanti mantra during the early morning hours between 6 am and 8 am so that you can stay calm throughout the day.

• What is the significance of this mantra?

Through Shanti mantra, we look for assurance from three scorchers of the idea of :

1. The Inconvenience caused 'inside' oneself at the body level and psyche level
2. The inconvenience brought about by observed substances for example people around us.
3. The inconvenience brought about by 'inconspicuous'.

Shanti mantra is very powerful and miraculous and said to bring your inner self to the world, it helps you become calm and think properly without distractions. It brings out your creativity, breaks obstacles, and allows issue to calm down.

I will urge everyone to practice Shanti mantra daily in the morning and see the changes in their life themself.

Personal Branding: Guest lecture by Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni

 Personal Branding: Guest lecture 

Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni

Mr. Nikhil Kulkarni- co-founder, Darwin Tech (www.techdarwin.com).

The vision of Darwin Tech: As the power of the Internet enables people to know about any new place at the click of a button, instantly look up and book travel-related services (Hotels, Cabs, etc.); the travel industry is grappling with the rise of this Silent traveler. How does the travel agent fraternity add value in this age of the empowered customer - the silent traveler? Can it provide services quick speed and agility of online portals, while retaining the personalized touch of services? Darwin Tech's mission is to enable the fraternity with its tools to do exactly this!

Home Page of Techdarwin.

Business communication and its Implication in consulting.

Nikhil first talked about the importance of Microsoft tools such as, word, excel, PowerPoint in one's career in corporate life. He pointed out the importance of business communication in presenting one's idea to the team using these soft skills. He emphasized on various aspect of communication and tools that needed for that. For example:

• Proposals- PowerPoint or words.
• Reports- PowerPoint or word.
• Executive Briefing- PowerPoint.
• Detailed Project Report- Word
• Work Papers-Excel or words.

He then talked in very detail about creating your own brand, he gave the example of "M S Dhoni" to demonstrate the ability and impact of creating his own brand. As just by looking at jersey number 7 we can identify that it is M.S. Dhoni, people should recognize us just by our name.

He further went on to demonstrate how we should structure our communication. For which he gave us "The Pyramid Principle". Where you first identify the objective of your document, identify our audience, further knowing what is the context in which this content will be consumed, and finally checking all aspects of the problem has been addressed or not. He talked about the (MECE) method i.e. mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive method.

He further recommended a book called "How to write Reports and proposal" by Patrick Forsyth to help us understand the insight into business communication.

Mr. Nikhil further continued his talk by walking us through how to make an impact. He said only impactful slides without deep research never cut the ice with an experienced audience. So it is important that you have the right mix of content and impact in your output. He mentioned that is the biggest gain we are going to get from an MBA (Making an impact using your presentation is less about content and more about how you present the content).

He gave a few tips and tricks for us to make a higher impact during presentations:

• A startling statistic or image.
• A quotation from someone famous that is relevant to your presentation.
• A video to grab attention.
• A question
• An Activity.

He closed with a remark of " Our ideas should stand out of the crowd".

This guest lecture was made possible by our NITIE professor T. Prasad famously known as 1/12 Mandi sir.

I am attaching the link of his youtube channel, which highlights his philosophy of teaching and learning.

https://www.youtube.com/user/nitieprasad1

MahaMandi-2020: Inauguration and guest lecture.

MahaMandi-2020: Inauguration

 on the auspicious occasion of 

Independence day

This year on the 16th edition of NITIE's annual marketing fest "MahaMandi", inaugurated on the auspicious day of Independence. To mark the inauguration of MahaMandi Dr. Abhay jere, Chief Innovation Officer, Ministry of education, and Mr. Apeksha Haldia, NITI Alumna, Founder Zayka ka Tadka were present as chief guests. NITIE director Prof. Manoj k. Tiwari along with convenor MahaMandi Prof. T Prasad and MIG professor in charge Prof. Neeraj Pandey were also present to greet and highlight the relevance of the MahaMandi event.

Inaugration event of MahaMandi-2020.

Dr. Abhay Jere:

 

Dr. Abhay Jere.

Dr. Abhay Jere is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. He gave insight into various aspects of our countries growth and innovation. He mentioned how countries like China and the USA are much ahead of us in innovation, as they filled 13+lakh and 6+ lakh patents respectively last year in comparison to India only filled 40k patent during same time period. He emphasized becoming a job creator rather than job seekers. 

He lauded the PM's vision of a 5 trillion economy in the coming year. He said every ministry in the centre is working toward this dream, and it will be only possible if we start innovating and start creating jobs. He also lauded MahaMandi for having such futuristic vision 15 years ago, which our beloved PM is very vocal about "Vocal for Local". He encouraged students of NITIE to take challenges and come up with their own ventures to create jobs and make India a 5 trillion economy.

Miss Apeksha Haldia:

Miss Apeksha Haldia with her mother

Miss. Apeksha Haldia is a NITIE alum, graduated in the year 2009. She worked as a business manager in Procter and Gamble (P&G) for a brief period, after which she went on to study at University of Washington. She got multiple offers to work with various USA based companies, but she was looking at a huge opportunity in the Indian market. She came back and founded Zayka ka Tadka along with her mother in year 2016. She is currently having more than 4 lakh subscribers on her Youtube channel.

She encouraged us to take challenges and look for opportunities around us. She also mentioned how the business communication course and Mandi event changed her thinking and perspective. She shared her experience of going out on the street and selling products during the Mandi event. 

Mandi Sir:

Prof. Mandi sir.

Prof. T Prasad is widely known as Mandi Sir, who gave his lessons to students and his experience so far organizing Mandi event. His slogan " Socho, Becho, Seekho" is widely popular among students. He encourages entrepreneurial ability in students. He talked about the importance of our PM Narendra Modi Ji's vision "Vocal for Local". 

He encouraged us to take the challenge of starting their own venture and promote it to reach the right audience, he talked about the importance of business communication, and also talked about how this event is going to help each student in their journey ahead either it be in any firm or their own startups.

#NITIE 

#MIG

#MahaMandi

#VocalForLocal

Useful Links:

https://www.nitie.edu/index.php/en/student-activities-mainmenu-420/student-bodies-mainmenu-424/mig-mainmenu-94

https://www.facebook.com/mig.nitie/

https://www.youtube.com/user/nitieprasad1

https://www.instagram.com/migofficial_nitie/?hl=en