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This is from a mail by received from a fellow Chartered Accountant. Total Scam Money (approx) Since 1992: Rs. 73000000000000 Cr. (73 Lakh Crore) Hard to digest ? Just check the below given details 1992 -Harshad Mehta securities scam Rs 5,000 cr 1994 -Sugar import scam Rs 650 cr 1995 -Preferential allotment scam Rs 5,000 cr Yugoslav Dinar scam Rs 400 cr Meghalaya Forest scam Rs 300 cr 1996: -Fertiliser import scam Rs 1,300 cr Urea scam Rs 133 cr Bihar fodder scam Rs 950 cr 1997 -Sukh Ram telecom scam Rs 1,500 cr SNC Lavalin power project scam Rs 374 cr Bihar land scandal Rs 400 cr C.R. Bhansali stock scam Rs 1,200 cr 1998 -Teak plantation swindle Rs 8,000 cr 2001 -UTI scam Rs 4,800 cr Dinesh Dalmia stock scam Rs 595 cr Ketan Parekh securities scam Rs 1,250 cr 2002 -Sanjay Agarwal Home Trade scam Rs 600 cr 2003 -Telgi stamp paper scam Rs 172 cr 2005 -IPO-Demat scam Rs 146 cr Bihar flood relief scam Rs 17 cr Scorpene submarine scam Rs 18,978 cr 2006 -Punjab's City Centre project sca...

This is adapted from a mail I received. In these days of daily scams, here is some food for thought - Learn the "Art of Giving" The Art of Giving "Rivers do not drink their own water, nor do tree eat their own fruit, nor do rain clouds eat the grains reared by them. The wealth of the noble is used solely for the benefit of others! Even after accepting that giving is good and that one must learn to give, several questions need to be answered. The first question is: When should one give? We all know the famous incident from Mahabharat. Yudhisthir asks a beggar seeking alms to come the next day. On hearing this, Bhim rejoices that Yudhisthir his brother, has conquered death! For he is sure that he will be around the next day to give. Yudhisthir gets the message. One does not know really whether one will be there tomorrow to give! The time to give therefore is now. The next question is: 'How much to give?' One recalls the famous incident from history. Rana Pr...

I was not as prepared for this marathon as the 2010 edition as most of December had gone indisposed due to cough and cold. Nevertheless, more than a year off drinks and a more scheduled and disciplined lifestyle meant I had increased stamina. In fact I was doing 10km in just about 65 minutes. I did the 21km trial run on the Sunday prior to the marathon in 2 hours 25 minutes or so. On the earlier Saturday, I tried matching my younger daughters’ folk dance steps and matched to tweak the muscle tissue on my left knee. The older you become the younger your mind thinks it is, but in actuality the body does age and if you listen to the mind and do something stupid the body says, “boy, are you stupid!” and promptly gets damaged. I called the physiotherapist and she told me to rest for a week, and when I told her that I cannot rest as the event just a week ahead, she said ok, apply ice packs and take Combiflam, if required. So that’s what I did for the entire week and just ran 7 to 10 km every...