If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

Aldashi la jagacha tatvagnyan

This is a marathi saying that my dad used to scold us with every time we slack on something and try a shortcut. The saying means that a lazy person has the knowledge of the world. In one sense it gives a usefulness to laziness which is always treated as a bad habit. But aren't human beings inherently lazy? It is our want of comfort that pushes us to use brains more and reduce he use of hands. Agree that too much of laziness if bad. It should not make you shut your brains too. One should be lazy but not content.

In response to mint article quoted at sooo many places on web

First and foremost, Mint agreed that the article was incorrect and Poornima Mohandas made mistake. When I pointed out all errors in the article, the mail from their senior editor Nabeel was:

"Dear Mr Bakshi

Following our inquiries, we find the reporter made an error of judgment and presented an incomplete picture in her story. Given this, we are taking the story off our website and in line with our policy, we will be issuing a correction in the newspaper. 

Sincerely yours
Nabeel Mohideen
Senior Editor
Mint
New Delhi"

I don't have to say much beyond this straight forward acceptance from LiveMint.