Story behind "Sardar and 12 o Clock"

There are hundreds and thousands of Jokes made on Sardars which makes us laugh and which are now part of our routine life as well and the best one is "Sardar ke 12 bajgaye."

Even I used to share a lot many jokes by the name of Sardars and the best one was Sardar ke 12 bajgaye.

Every time I share Sardar jokes Sardarji's never used to get angry on me and me casually saying (Sardar ki tarah tere bhi 12 baj gaye) so I used to think why so, even while making fun of them why are they not getting angry. And a few more experiences with Sardarji's made me spend time finding out the reason behind the taunt "Sardar ke 12 baje". Finally on Facebook I came across a video which explained the concept behind this taunt on Sardarji's.

The Concept is (Copied from Net)

During 17th Century, when Hindustan was ruled by
Mughals, all the Hindu people were humiliated and were treated like animals. Mughals treated the Hindu women as there own property and were forcing all Hindus to accept Islam and even used to kill the people if they were refusing to accept.That time, our ninth Guru, Sri Guru Teg Bahadarji came forward,in response to a request of some Kashmir Pandits to fight against all these cruel activities. Guruji told the Mughal emperor that if he could succeed in converting him to Islam, all the Hindus would accept the same. But, if he failed, he should stop all those activities. The Mughal emperor happily agreed to that but even after lots of torture to Guruji and his fellow members he failed to convert him to Islam and Guruji along with his other four fellow members, were torture! d and sacrificed their lives in Chandni Chowk. Since the Mughals were unable to convert them to Islam they were assassinated.

Thus Guruji sacrificed his life for the protection of Hindu religion. Can anybody lay down his life and that too for the protection of another religion? This is the reason he is still remembered as "Hind Ki hem came forward to lift his body, fearing that they would also be assassinated .

Seeing this incident our 10th Guruji, Sri Guru Gobind Singhji (Son of Guru Teg Bahadarji) founder of khalsa made a resolution that he would convert his followers to such human beings who would not be able to hide themselves and could be easily located in thousands.

Chaddar", shield of India . For the sake of whom he had sacrificed his life, none of the t

At the start, the Sikhs were very few in numbers as they were fighting against the Mughal emperors. At
that time, Nadir Shah raided Delhi in the year 1739 and looted Hindustan and was carrying lot of Hindustan treasures and nearly 2200 Hindu women along with him. The news spread like a fire and was heard by Sardar Jassa Singh who was the Commander of the Sikh army at that time. He decided to attack Nadir Shah's Kafila on the same midnight . He did so and rescued all the Hindu women and they were safely sent to their homes.

It didn't happen only once but thereafter whenever any Abdaalis or Iranis had attacked and looted
Hindustan and were trying to carry the treasures and Hindu women along with them for selling them in Abdal markets, the Sikh army although fewer in numbers but were brave hearted and attacked them at ! midnight ,12O'clock and rescued women.

After that time when there occurred a similar
incidence, people started to contact the Sikh army for their help and Sikhs used to attack the raider's at
Midnight, 12 O'clock. Nowadays, these "smart people" and some Sikh enemies who are afraid of Sikhs, have spread these words that at 12 O'clock, the Sikhs go out of their senses.

So friends reading this blog please don't underestimate Sardars as the statement "Sardar ke 12 bajgaye" has a meaning behind it and Sardars are brave enough to back answer on this statement but they never do it. So please don't feel its a taunt on Sardars. And Sardars are kind hearted, gentle and always ready to help.

Will government be able to make roads justfiable to the Public

Infrastructure is the backbone of any economy and Electricity, Water supply, Roads, Public trasport sustem, Fire fighting system etc. are parts of Infrastructure to be provided by the government of any country. India is still a Socialist country and providing Infrastructure is still in the hands of government with public- private partnership. The government is trying its level hard to provide best possible infrasrtucture to its public who choose its government.

But there are a few problems: Talking in specific about Indore city and its road development projects.

The government is spending crores of rupees every year for the building and maintaining of roads of Indore and its near by areas. But still the pace at which roads are bulid is very slow, can be becausse of many reasons like: lack of co-ordination amongst internal staff, clearing out stays given by courts, lack of funds supplied by central government, lack of technology available, lack of support given by local public and so on.

The road which can be built in 3-4 months are not finished in 1-2 years time as well.. Taking example of A.B. road which is a Highway which connects Agra and Mumbai crosses through Indore was supposed to be ready a few months ago but if you go there you can observe its still under contruction and a huge part is left till date. Other parts of Indore are also undore construction.

I say why the government is not giving full priority to this road building process as our whole economy is getting hamperd because of taking extra time to build roads.

This is a good part that government has decided to make concrete roads so that their life increases by more than 100% but this much time is not affordable.

More than 20% of roads of Indore are blocked and are undor construction and is hampering the public a lot in the ways like...

1. The roads are dug which creates a lot of traffic jams.

2. Diversions are to be used which takes time.

3. Businesses are hampered because if a road is to be constructed that area is closed and shops and offices of that area are affected because people don't prefer going to that areas as there is no parking space and vehicles have to be parked lolg away from the place

4. A lot of fuel is wasted as vehicles can't move on a constant speed, and in India the prices of fuel are far higher than its neighborings.

5. Accidents happen frequently because dug places are not covered properly.

6. It takes more time to reach to a particular place.

The time taken to prepare a road is far ahead than expected and the time the road is prepared the vehicles exceeds the limit of the road. At the same time the buses used by the government to provide aid to the common people is a far bigger problem than expected. The buses used for public transport are of big size for which the infrastructure of Indore is not ready, which creates huge traffic. The City bus passing from any any and every area creates traffic jams as the buses requires huge space and other vehicles have to be aside for a long time till the bus leaves that area.

Government should use small buses and should increase the frequency of the buses travelling to various destinations. This will reduce the traffic on roads and will be an aid to the common people.

The government of Madhya Pradesh is working hard for the development of Indore and other regions and especially the BJP government. But the government should increase the speed with which it is working.

We have full hopes from the government. And we expect Indore to be well equipped with good infrastructure so that industrial growth can also happen and at the same time good opportunities can also come to Indore.

Entrepreneurship............ A never ending process

In our PGP curriculum, we had a subject of Entrepreneurship, where we are taught about entrepreneual skills and how entrepreneurs become entrepreneurs taking example of few leading entrepreneurs.

In the same curriculum we had a project of interviewing an entrepreneur and ask him some questions regarding his entrepreneul life experience.

A few days after the announcement of this project and a few days before the completion date I met Mr. Rohit Inani (Director of myMO). The company is into print media (News paper publishing) "The unrestrained voice of youth", myMO events, web solutions (building websites) and Tech workshops.
So I decided to take interview of Mr. Inani as his venture is a unique one. Currently Mr. Anand has been a part of 10 ventures before and this is his 11th venture. At that time I was amazed to know, how a person can be a part of 11 ventures. Than an idea struck me as to even Ambani's and Tata's have more than 11 ventures. So the same can be with Mr. Anand as well. That night I was very excited to interview Mr. Anand, an amazing personality.

Next day we all went to F-Cube to meet Mr. Anand and take his interview. Initial few minutes were giving introduction of each other and then we jumped to some serious work.

We stsrted asking Sir about questions related to his journey as an Entrepreneur. And he started with his

1st venture of Fabric Agency (SAS Agencies)

(Started during higher secondary schooling, current status closed) (1990-1991)

2nd venture of Advertising agency (Prakriti Commnication)

(Started while pursuiing M.B.A., current status closed) (1995-1997)

3rd venture of Event Management (Provista Events, New Delhi)

(Current Status: Partnership split, stakes sold, business ongoing in different company by partners) (1998- 1999)

4th venture of Distributirship of Koutons (Proedge Distribution)

(Current Status: Closed) (1999-2000)

5th venture of Cloth Manufacturing (Brand: Body Language)

(Current Status: Sold the Business) (2000-2002)

6th venture of Software Development (Omniscient Technologies)

(Current Status: Closed) (2002-2003)

7th venture of Textile Machines Spare parts dealerhip (Vinayaka Textools)

(Current Status: Sold the Business to partners, firm's name changed) (2002-2005)

8th venture of Reliance Infocom dealership (Omnitech enterprises)

(Current Status: Closed) (2003-2004)

9th venture of Contract Farming (Fresh-O-Veg)

(Current Status: Ongoing, Stakeholdings. Operations handled by partners) (2004-....)

10th venture of Adventure Sports Campaign Site (Flame of the Forest)

(Current Status: Ongoing, Director and Biggest Stakeholder. Operations handled by partners) (2008-.....)

11th venture current venture of Cafe Lounge (F-Cube)

(2009-...............................)

The business summary:- Out of 11 ventures: 3 sold, 5 closed and 3 ongoing. In last seven years none of the business has been closed. All are doing fairly good in the market.

As he described about his 11 ventures, one unique thing which I observed was

Sir did whatever he does with great zeal and passion. He always gives his leel best into whatever he is doing. He has closed the business or has left the business, the reasons were very genuine. Like lack of support, enthusiasm and co-ordination from the partners, unsupportive external factors, unexpected growth in the business, so on and so forth. His 11 ventures are from different industries all together, let it be textile or event management and all over to adventure sports. Asking him questions on the same.

How did you managed getting into varied fields?

He said, I used to do thorough study of the field in which I am interested and I connect the dots as to related fields which actually supported main stream plan. For example: Before starting Flame of the Forest (Adventure Sports Company) he did thorough study as to which plantwill be most suitable, how much money to invest at the same time did deep study about the plants which will match the ambience of the area. So his special focus was on, do whatever you want to do, just spend some time doing a deep study about the area in which you have to work. "Less knowledge is worst knowledge".

How did you managed funds?

My friends invest on me. As they feel I am "the finest Horse in the Race Course". They always use to invest on me as they were sure that I am passionate about work and I do 360 degree analysis and study about each and every area I get into. Closing every business incur huge loses but I used to cover it in the next business and return it to them who invested it on me.

Any logic behind the name F-Cube?

Went to Delhi to study the concept og Cafe and Food lounge and was confused with the name of the Cafe. Travelling from Delhi airport to hotal room took me 30 minutes and at that time I saw a poster of Ram Gopal Verma and came to my mind was his name "Factory", so came p with the name Fast Food Factory. But it was a long and an unacceptable name. Than i got an idea as to my 9th venture was Fresh-O-Veg (Single F), 10th venture was Flame of the Forest (F Square) and the Fast Food Factory as F-Cube. I am really thankful to Ram Gopal Verma.

Any future plans?

Ya as I have live experience of 11 most demanded fields for which I have worked. I can start my own consultancy. It will really benefit my customers as I have exhaustive practical knowledge of all the fields I have worked.

My learnings:

1. Be passionate about whatever you are doing and success will surely follow you.

2. Do a lot of research before starting any business and continue your research for future developments.

3. Life is Zig-Zag, Ups and Downs will always be there is life. Don't get stuck in it. Find a solution and lead your life.

4. Follow your Ethics they will always help you.

Ye hai Indore meri jaan...............

Indore is well known as the city of Holkars.Located in the southern edge of Malwa plateau overlooking the valley of Narmada along the Vindhyanchal range. The city was ruled by Queen Ahilyabai Holkar, a famous queen of India, for a long period before she shifted her capital to Maheshwar. Madhya Pradesh is known as the Central part of India and its capital is Bhopal.

Indore is the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh with bulk of its trade comming from Large, Medium and Small scale manufacturing industries. These industries range from Automobiles to Pharmaceuticals and from Petroleum refineries to Textiles. Major industrial area surrounding the city include the Pithampur Special Economic Zone, Sanwer Industrial belt, Dewas road having two major industries (Ruchi Soya and Tata International). As Malwa region is famous for Soyabean growing and its refining. Ruchi Soya is one of the biggest plant in Asia for processing and refining of Soyabean and its oil.
Indore is famous for its history of Queen Holkar, Food and its people. It is well said that "khatirdari to Marwadion aur Indoriyon ki dekho". Indoris are fond of food. We can say Indoris are Gourmet. Who like having varieties of food.

Starting with a brief Introduction about the famous things of Indore:

1. The breakfast of near to 80% of Indoris is Poha and Jalebi. There are more than 1000 stalls and shops in all over Indore. These shops are open 24*7*365 at some places and at other places it starts at 6:00-6:30 in the morning where Indoris as per their comfort go there and have heavy breakfast. The breakfast is continued till 11:00-11:30 am. One can have Poha, Jalebi at Anand bazaar, Chappan, Rajwada and so on.

2. Indore abounds in numerous temples and heritage sires. Lord Ganeshas temples are one of the famous places in Indore as the people of Indore are Devotees of Lord Ganesha. "Bada Ganpati and Khajarana" are two famous temples where majority people of Indore Preach lord Ganesha. One uncommon trend followed in Indore is, People of Indore follow Wednesday as Lord Ganesha's day, where as in all over India Tuesday is the day followed. But thats what Indoris are all about. Its a worth going place where people preach the dark yellow ideal or statue of Lord Ganesha. Bada Ganpati is near to Airport road and Khajarana is near Ring Road.

3. The third famous place in Indore is Kanch Mandir actually a Jain Temple located at Indore. Jainism is a stringent and harder than Buddhism where the Jainis follow Lord Mahavira. Lord Mahavira was the last tirthankara, who creates the four fold order namely the Monk, Nun, Layman and the Laywomen. In it there are two different sects of Jains they are Digamvara and the Svetambara. While the latter wears white clothes and the latter does not wear any. Jainism has been elaborately inscribed in the glass paintings of the Kanch Mandir.
The Mandir is basically constructed from the glass cuttings. The glasses are colored and display rare originality and splendor. The Jain king also known as the "Cotton King" , Sir Hukumchand eracted te Kanch Mandir. The emple was built in the 20th Century and the materials for the temple have been colected from various sources like Italy and Europe. In the Glass one may find the Jain Scriptures and they are beautifully decorated in the wall over the glass.

4. Rajwada is the Historical place of the Holkars. It was built about two centuries ago and is located near the Chhatris in the Centre of Indore. It is a seven storied structure, which serves as the living example of the grandeur of the Holkers. The new plae is on the north side, while the old place is on the old side of the town. The old place is a multi-storied building which also serves as a gateway of Rajwada. It stands amongst the crowdest street of Khajuri bazaar and face the main square of the city.
The entrance of Rajwada leads to huge courtyard, wich is surrounded by gallaried rooms and the arcaded Ganesh Hall, which was once the venue of all the state and religious functions. This hall is now used for art exibitions and classical music concerts. Rajwada has been burnt three times in history. The recent one was a big disaster. Now only the front part remains. But the whole building is been renovated, which has managed to bring back the old glory to some extent. In the rear part of the palace, a beautiful garden has been created. It contains fountains, an artificial waterfall and some magnificent pieces of the 11th century sculptures.

5. Chappan Dukan, a famous place in the new part of the city. This street is famous for having 56 shops of same size at a time. And those shops were famous for serving its food and beverages of different cuisines and tastes. Now many shops are merged together and big shops are created in return. Still the lane is as famous as before. Sweets of Madhuram and Agrawal are very famous and specially Bengali sweets and shikanji. The Namkeens of Prakash and Aakash are equally important which are used in Poha as well as while having food, to adjust the taste of the food. The Namkeens are famous all over India as well as Abroad. Yummy and Delicious Pani Puri, Bhel, Chole Bhature, Pav-Bhaji and so on gets water in our mouth. The Hot-dog of Johny is also famous amongst youngsters and many other food stalls. So Chappan Dukan is also a worth visiting place.

6. Sarafa Gali, the name specidfies its occupation. In the Daytime the whole area is famous for Gold and Jewellery shops. More than 500 shops are there in Sarafa, who deal in Gold and Jewellery related ornaments. After Sun sets, the front side (Kattas) of these shops are used by specific people to put their shops there. The Sarafa Food Gulli starts around 8 pm and lasts late in the night. Here Indian kind of food is available. Starting from Chole-Tikiya to Sabudane-Ki-Khichdi, from Jalebi & Mal-Pua to Bhutte-Ka-Kiis, from Joshi ji ke Dahi wade to Kulfi and Faluda, all is available at one place. Going to Joshi ji's shop is worth as he shows some magic while preparing the Dahi-wada Plate and while serving it. Its a worth visiting place if anyone wants to taste real Indore food. A lot of localites as well as outsiders visit this place every day.

7. Shopping is also very famous in Indore. Lets start with traditional form of Shopping. Rajwada, Kothari Market and Sarafa are the famous places for buying Clothes, Apparels, Gold and so on. Novelty Market as the name suggests is famous for Cosmetics, Electronics and in specific Mobiles. All these places have many shops for a particular thing and bargaining is the base for these markets.

Then for the modern form of shopping includes Malls like Treasure Island, Mangal City, C-21 Mall, Indore Central and so on. These places are famous for one place shopping and all famous brands are available here. So People from all over the place come to Indore to shop in Traditional format shops. Marriage collection is also famous in Indore in places like: Ithlathi, Satya Paul and so on.

8. For entertainment purpose Indore has a lot of places as well. Starting from Nakhrali Dhani and Chowki Dhani. These places have a set-up of Rajasthani Culture and ambience, where magic shows, puppet dance, Traditional Dance, Animal rides, Delicious Rajasthani Dance, Water Park and many other things are there for entertainment. Friends and Family can spend whole day there and as there are in the outskirts of the city people can stay there ar nights as well.Then comes modern ways of entertainment. One can go to Sayaji for Swimming, Indoor and Outdoor sports, Disc and Bowling. Treasure Island and C-21 malls are another options for the same.

There are many other places near Indore where one can go and enjoy. The Video will explain far better than my words.

Dear Family and Friends, I hope you got some valuable insights of how Indore is and what all things are possible in Indore.

Love the work you do

Love the work which you are doing so that
Work will love you and you will start enjoying.

Observing people around, I have observed that there are a lot of people who work according to their will and wish, and most of them are successful, and there are people who by force of their parents, by peer pressure (following friends), not having proper guidance choose a path for which they are not sure about or for which they don't have interest. In such a situation their life starts becoming unsatisfactory. As they don't understand many thing which happens with them, let it be while studying or let it be while at work. Your productivity decreases and you loose your interest even more which results in depression.


Many a times it also happen that people forcefully give you work which you can do but is not of your interest. It also leads to frustuation.


The third case is you are doing work of your own interest and doing good but the macro level situations doesn't support you like you are not getting timely approvals, your boss is giving you less authority, decisions by top management are taking a lot of time in process, clashes between the top management and so on. Even these situations create a lot of disheartenment in the mind of person and the person starts loosing his/her interest from work.



All these situations dishearten us and we stop enjoying work. But this should not be the situation.

As we have done one mistake by choosing an area which is not of our interest, now its turn to enjoy our mistake as well by enjoying the work.

Said by a Famous person: "What kind of work you do in not important, but doing it enjoyingly, correctly and efficiently is important."

So we should enjoy the work we are doing by:

1. Taking interest in that particular work.

2. Updating ourselves regularly on that particular topic.

3. Taking different steps to let that work happen in an ethical manner.

4. Shifting to the work profile which suits us.


If we start loving our work the above mentioned ideas genuinely start strucking our mind and the work becomes productive and automatically we are happy and start working more with more concentration for more results. By this attitude our seniors become happy and our chances of growth increases. As we are motivated enough our energy level increases and we give 100% to whatever work we do. Let it be talking to friends, giving new ideas, maintaining social contacts and so on.

So I feel let what ever work we are doing in our life, love that work and do it with determination and we can see the difference. Just try out.

A lot can happen over a Coffee.........

A well known and accepted source of spending time with people is . Taking small small sips of fine taste of coffee over a long period of time helps build relationships and maintain the existing ones.

Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) has capitalized on the same concept. It offers a variety of coffees with a suitable ambience for people to sit and spend time with near and dear ones.

Cafe Coffee Day's main aim is to let people come to its outlets available almost allover India, with their family, friends, acquintance, Enemies and spend time there having different varities of coffees, Tea, Shakes, Juices, Snacks, Fastfood and much more, enjoy the young and dynamic ambience followed centrally and build relatioships.

Its aim is to call people to its various outlets situated all over India and provide them an ambience and musical atmosphere suiting them to spend time with their company for the day over a cup of coffee (cold or hot).

I have observed people of all age group who love to meet their friends in CCD and spend leisure time over a cup of coffee.

College going people after their long college hours visit CCD and relax there, group of students plan and prepare their PPTs and othere stuff in CCD, and a lot more can happen over a coffee.

I personally love to spend time there and suggest all coffee lovers to visit there atleast once so that they can have another place to spend time with near and dear ones.