Strategy
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Ahmed and Hamid are both beggars at several motorway services in England. Ahmed drives a Mercedes, lives in a mortgage free house and has a lot of money to spend. Hamid only brings in 2 to 3 pounds a day. Hamid asks Ahmed how he manages to bring home a suitcase full of £10 notes every day.

Ahmed says, "Look at your sign. It says, "I have no work, a wife and six kids to support." Britons who see that do not feel as if they have accomplished anything by giving you money. You will still have no job and a large family. Now look at my sign."

So, Hamid looks up and Ahmed's sign reads: "I only need another £10 to move back to Pakistan"


Be specific
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Man: "Give me a bag full of money, a job & a vehicle full of girls"

God replies: so it be, my son!

and made him a bus conductor of ladies special bus!

Moral: Be specific...


Pa Won't Like It
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A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise & yelled over to the boy, "Hey Willis, forget your roubles. Come in & visit with us. I'll help you get the wagon up later." "That's mighty nice of you," Willis answered, "but I don't think Pa would like me to."

"Aw come on boy," the farmer insisted.

"Well okay," the boy finally agreed, and added, "but Pa won't like it."

After a hearty dinner, Willis thanked his host. "I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa is going to be real upset."

"Don't be foolish!" the neighbor said with a smile. "By the way, where is he?"

"Under the wagon."



Oh, Those Darn Lawyers
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Two lawyers, Jon and Amanpreet, head out for their usual 9 holes of golf. Jon offers Amanpreet a $50 bet. Amanpreet agrees & they're off. They shoot a great game. After the 8th hole, Amanpreet is ahead by one stroke, but cuts his ball into the rough on the 9th.

''Help me find my ball. Look over there,'' he says to Jon. After a few minutes, neither has any luck. Since a lost ball carries a four point penalty, Amanpreet secretly pulls a ball from his pocket and tosses it to the ground. ''I've found my ball!'' he announces.

''After all of the years we've been partners & playing together," Jon says, "you'd cheat me out of a lousy 50 bucks?''

''What do you mean, cheat? I found my ball sitting right there!''

''And you're a liar, too!'' Jon says. ''I'll have you know I've been STANDING on your ball for the last five minutes!''
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1) Qus. : What are you doing?
Ans.: Business.
Tax: PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX!

2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business?
Ans.: Selling the Goods.
Tax: PAY SALES TAX!!

3) Qus. : From where are you getting Goods?
Ans.: From other State/Abroad
Tax: PAY CENTRAL SALES TAX, CUSTOM DUTY & OCTROI!

4) Qus. : What are you getting in Selling Goods?
Ans.: Profit.
Tax: PAY INCOME TAX!

5) Qus. : Where you Manufacturing the Goods?
Ans.: Factory.
Tax: PAY EXCISE DUTY!

6) Qus. : Do you have Office / Warehouse/ Factory?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY MUNICIPAL & FIRE TAX!

7) Qus. : Do you have Staff?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY STAFF PROFESSIONAL TAX!

8) Qus. : Doing business in Millions?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY TURNOVER TAX!

9) Qus. : Are you taking out over 25,000 Cash from Bank?
Ans.: Yes, for Salary.
Tax: PAY CASH HANDLING TAX!

10) Qus. : Where are you taking your client for Lunch & Dinner?
Ans.: Hotel
Tax: PAY FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT TAX!

11) Qus. : Are you going Out of Station for Business?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY FRINGE BENEFIT TAX!

12) Qus. : Have you taken or given any Service/s?
Ans.: Yes
Tax : PAY SERVICE TAX!

13) Qus. : How come you got such a Big Amount?
Ans.: Gift on birthday.
Tax: PAY GIFT TAX!

14) Qus. : Do you have any Wealth?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY WEALTH TAX!

15) Qus. : To reduce Tension, for entertainment, where are you going?
Ans.: Cinema or Resort.
Tax: PAY ENTERTAINMENT TAX!

16) Qus. : Have you purchased House?
Ans.: Yes
Tax : PAY STAMP DUTY & REGISTRATION FEE !

17) Qus. : How you Travel?
Ans.: Bus
Tax: PAY SURCHARGE!

18) Qus. : Any Additional Tax?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY EDUCATIONAL, ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL & SURCHARGE ON ALL CENTRAL GOVT.'s TAX !!!

19) Qus. : Delayed any time Paying Any Tax?
Ans.: Yes
Tax: PAY INTEREST & PENALTY

TAX STRUCTURE IN INDIA

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1) Qus. : What are you doing? Ans.: Business. Tax: PAY PROFESSIONAL TAX! 2) Qus. : What are you doing in Business? Ans.: Selling the Goods....
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NY Times Article On Bollywood And Saawariya
Tanya Palta August 14, 2007

New York Times published a very interesting article recently titled “Hollywood Starts Making Bollywood Films in India” and also focused on Sanjay Leela Bhansali “Saawariya”. Here is the article and a glimpse of the highly anticipated movie which also marks the debut of Sonam Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor.

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An Indian woman in a flowing beaded gown glides through a pond. A mosquito net brushes over her lover. And to insistent drumbeats of the Indian heartland, a dancing phalanx of tunic-clad women twirls.

These images appear in the trailer of a forthcoming movie, “Saawariya.” The melodramatic film, whose Hindi title means “beloved,” has an Indian director and cast. Its characters speak Hindi and burst into eight song-and-dance numbers. It is, in other words, vintage Bollywood — but for one thing. It is brought to you by Hollywood.

The studio behind “Saawariya,” Sony Pictures Entertainment, is the first in a wave of American studios to produce their own kaleidoscopic Bollywood musicals. The American studios are keen to make money in India, but in a nation where $19 of every $20 spent at the box office goes to indigenous films, the studios are deciding to join Bollywood, not conquer it with their American-made fare.

“The importing of American films into India is not filling a gap,” Gareth Wigan, a vice chairman of Columbia TriStar, the Sony division that produced the film, said by telephone from Los Angeles. “You’re not bringing a dish to a bare table.

You’re bringing a dish to a table where you have to move a lot of other dishes to fit in, and that’s not true in a lot of other countries.”

And so begins a strange competition to make the best Bollywood film, pitting Hollywood against India’s own studios, which make more movies and sell more tickets than any film industry in the world. With international revenues increasingly important to the conglomerates that own the major studios, Hollywood wants to tap into India’s market. But indigenous films captured 95 percent of Indian box office sales in 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The figure is identical for domestic pictures in the United States, but just 35 percent in France, 33 percent in Japan and 12 percent in Britain, according to 2005 data published by two scholars, David Waterman and Sang-Woo Lee.

“There is no country on the planet, other than India and the United States, that approaches that level of domestic business,” Andrew Cripps, the president of Paramount Pictures International, said by telephone from Los Angeles. And so Paramount, too, is contemplating Bollywood productions.

Walt Disney has partnered with an Indian studio, Yash Raj Films, to make animated movies. Their first film, “Roadside Romeo,” scheduled for next summer, is a parable of Indian inequality, featuring a dog abandoned by rich owners in Mumbai and forced to brave its hungry streets.

In addition, Warner Brothers is developing two Bollywood projects, including one song-and-dance smorgasbord, according to Richard Fox, a Warner vice president and the head of its international division. In a telephone interview he said the studio would seek to earn a majority of its Indian sales from Bollywood productions. It plans three to six movies annually in the coming years, all with Indian talent.

“We’re not coming to change anything,” Mr. Fox said.
That is Hollywood’s Indian mantra. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the director of “Saawariya,” was at first wary of Hollywood, and surprised when Sony left him alone. At most, he said, Mr. Wigan would offer gentle suggestions for the script, which is based on Dostoyevsky’s short story “White Nights.”

“There was no compromise asked of the film,” which comes out in India in November, Mr. Bhansali said, staring out at the Arabian Sea from his stylish north Mumbai apartment.

Hollywood is now Bollywood’s competitor, but local filmmakers say Hollywood is wise in trying to mimic, not supplant, Bollywood.

“They’re doing the right thing,” Yash Chopra, one of Bollywood’s most revered filmmakers, said. “To come to a country to make a film is either to understand the culture or break the culture.”

For millions of Indians without a television, movies are primary entertainment. For big families with divergent tastes, Bollywood packages romance, comedy, drama and action into a single serving.

“If you take all the pieces of Bollywood out of our lives — the celebrities on the billboards, the songs in the nightclubs, the stars on Page 3 — Indians would find their lives to be completely empty,” said Shuchi Pandya, a jewelry merchandiser in Mumbai. “It’s subconscious. Even if you don’t enjoy Bollywood movies, it becomes a part of your life.”
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Marriage is in the Hindu Tradition, a Samskara – a continued spiritual and temporal training and experience not a mere contract, or physical coming together of man and woman. It is “Atma Bhandam” says the Paramacharya of Kanchi, the sage who lived amid us for 100 years.

The Hindu conviction is that a man and a woman together make a complete human being. This is symbolized by the concept of Ardhanareeswara. There is a woman in every man and a man in every woman. The final appearance as man or woman is not representative of the deeper confluence inside. The marriage or the confluence of a man and a woman is to seek in the other the balance for completeness as a human being. “He is himself half a man, the other half is his wife” – says Taittriya Brahmana – a highly regarded Vedic literature.

Marriage is an ashrama, Grihasthasrama, which is the Foundation of the Society. It is a life long discipline, not a mere event in life.

In Vedic marriage ceremonies, the bridegroom addresses the bride as “friend” (Saptapati Mantra) embraces and touches her heart and says I take you into my heart; makes her ascend a rock and asks her to be firm like a rock looks at the pole star with her and tells her to be stable. Every one of the mantras shows that the marriage is a firm and stable union of the hearts of the two to become life companions. The Saptapati ceremony symbolizes moving together in life.

Marriage is the entry point for the accomplishment of purushartha – the four-fold concept of Dharma, Artha, Kama & Moksha. Marriage internalizes this creative, highly mystic and noble truth about man-woman confluence. This ensures total happiness and not mere transient pleasure.

Marriage - The Hindu View

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