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I volunteered at the Angel Xpress Foundation at their Andheri (East) center. It is an NGO that connects the educated with those children who are first generation learners in their family. These children have a very keen desire to learn and if they get that extra nudge from our side then that can help them make it big in life. I am sharing my teaching experience in the hope that it will inspire you to take that step towards better education for at least a few more young ones.Taking a walk is something that has always changed my life - be it relaxing just before an exam or brainstorming ideas for work. It is when I was taking one of my favourite walks that I saw one of the posters put up by AXF at their ALM park and came to know that they needed volunteers.Immediately, I got in touch with the founder and I started teaching the next day. It has been a learning experience ever since. Volunteering at AXF is one of the easiest ways in which you can give back to society.Moreover, social work is not only for others - it makes you feel worthy and gives you a sense of happiness too (science says so). Those shouts of 'bhaiya' or 'sir' with the genuine smiles every time the kids see you are just the 'cherry on top'.This was just my story. There are countless stories of volunteers like this. Yet we, at the Andheri (East) center of Angel Xpress Foundation , are running short of volunteers. So if you have a couple of hours that you can devote per week, teaching kids Maths or English, please get in touch with Aparna Saboo or even me. Trust me, all you need to do is START making a difference somewhere and what's better than playing a small role in shaping the future generation.Here's a snapshot of what the organisation does and how you can help:

HOSTILE FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER'SThis e-mail written by an aricent chennai employee will define aricent chennai.Hi,Very good day.I am from Aricent, Chennai.I joined Aricent as a fresher. Earlier, I used to boast about the company and the work environment.But recent trend at Chennai Aricent is not very good, always wanting us to work for extended hours and on weekends.This is about every engineer and not me alone. Please bear with me, as this is going to be a long one.Most of us are very submissive and are obedient. Many will be the bread winner for their family.Also no one speaks out their concerns. Management is en-cashing this, which unfair and immoral.Still the "Carrot and Stick" approach is used to make us work on holidays.So here I am putting the real picture, and representing all the engineers.Every weekend we are asked to work. The reason mostly being "for the customer", "for the release", "for the team", "Bug blitz", etc.And every time we need to come up with some reason for not coming to office on a holiday. Usually on Friday or Thursday, we will get a mail from the management, and the content will be on the lines of "We request your work on this weekend" or "This Saturday is an official working day". Following that everyone will be individually asked about their decision. The decision will be either "will come" or "will not come". If our decision is "no", we will be escorted to a meeting room. And the proceedings in the meeting room are typically as follows:First we will be asked for reason for not coming. And slowly the conversation changes from request to persuasion to intimidation. The management will reason, why we coming to office on the following weekend is more important than our personal work. Most of us will agree to come with reluctance. If we still have our personal commitment, we will be told directly or indirectly that "It will be taken care of in our annual performance review". How can someone be penalized for not just coming on weekend? And all these happens off the record, and for the record it will only be weekend "request".Also we cannot request for leave other than for medical reasons. If requested, once again the above mentioned persuasion and intimidation will happen. One quick verification is, most of us would not have even exhausted our "casual leave" in the last calendar year. Also they take the liberty of calling anyone at any time (early morning, mid-night) in their phone, not only for getting clarified with technical doubts, but also for scolding for not being at office at that time. If anonymity is ensured, I am sure many will come and speak out. If possible a survey would be a good idea, asking the employee's happiness, the number of times they are forced to work on weekends, and the number of times the managers are not listening to their concerns. Just like iPerform, there should be a system in which every employee should be asked to rate his/her manager under various aspects, and it should also be taken into consideration.I am a victim to this domination. I personally have heard lot of unprofessional statements during the meetings.Three of the statements which I felt very offensive: "We family people are working on weekend, what is the problem for a bachelor (me)."; "We are not running charity, you should come on weekend"; "what is your body temperature?", when I told them that I was down with a severe fever. And finally the very system which is meant to scale the performance of an engineer is misused.Is it not what we do on working days that counts in performance, rather the number of weekends we come to office does.Is it not possible for someone to go for a class (say a guitar course) on weekends and work in Aricent at the same time.I am sure the existing "HR Xpress hour" and "HR connect" are effective in addressing everyone's individual concerns. And also I have tried to bring this issue, but the management does not seem to care, if the issue is about weekend work. It is, as if no one can question them.As of now, from my point of view, "Life @ Aricent Chennai for a healthy bachelor is pathetic".I have brought this issue to this forum as my last resort.I hope the work environment for me and my colleagues will turn good.

I will try to explain this thing because i sometimes also paint ..I will try to explain this via my own paintings that will dipict the relationship between the three in simple terms…I have given a title to this paintingFEEL LIKE A HOME because it depicts my inner self.The painting reflects that there is a strong connection between the boy and girl like soul and body…This also signifies that art and love go hand in hand..Love is the highest feeling a person can experience. We project this feeling to the Universe and back and we can give it to each other. When combined, Love becomes stronger and higher and creates a special connection between partners…..THIS IS MY OWN PAINTING…SOMETIMES I FEEL TO PAINT MY INNER SELF ON A SIMPLE PAPER WHEN I DONT WANT TO XPRESS MY THOUGHTS TO ANYONE…Art and love always went together – in literature, paintings, and for the real-life artistic couples. Today we reminisce about all things love and the forms it takes for human beings, the only specie capable of making it so complicated…..The relationship between art and its creator has also been in question for centuries….Love, the word that never wears out, the word that represents the feeling which becomes a part of our lives before we step into the world and continues being present in every chapter of our existence. It seems so clear to us at points and then goes back to being an unresolved mystery, and why is that? We have got this one word when speaking of so many emotions, experiences, people we meet and the paths we take. One word that everyone knows, the feeling everyone feels, however, struggles to define. Love is what we feel for our family, for our friends, it is what we feel for the world that we live in and for the nature surrounding us. We can even feel love for unexplainable reasons in unexplainable situations, so how can one word envelop so much? The ancient Greek Philosophers were trying to deepen into it and came up with seven different types of feelings that all fall under what we call love……From Adam and Eve to modern man, love and desire are a foundation of both life and art…To paint feelings on paper…IS A BEAUTIFUL GIFT FROM UNIVERSE..UNIVERSE IS TRYING TO GIVE U A LANGUAGE TO EXPRESS URSELF AS UNIVERSE…THIS IS AlSO MY OWN PAINTING…SOMETIMES I FEEL TO PAINT MY INNER SELF ON SIMPLE SHEET OF PAPER INSTEAD OF TALKING TO THE PERSON I LOVE…Pain is one of the most poignant of human emotions. It can be nearly impossible to articulate exactly what pain feels like, let alone describe the multitude of forms pain can take on. Whether physical or emotional, pain is our mind’s way of telling us it is uncomfortable with something. Pain is the body’s attempt to reject things it doesn’t like. Much like the contrasting emotions of love, pleasure, and happiness, our brains have powerful mechanisms in place to let us know what they want, and what they don’t want. When we tap into these bodily mechanisms (the heartbreak experienced after a breakup for example), we can often achieve a higher level of creativity than we would have access to under normal circumstances.So what exactly is the connection between art and pain? Is it possible that pain could in fact fuel creativity? Maybe so. There is much speculation in scientific fields that FEELING SAD MAKES US MORE CREATIVE, which may very well be true in many cases. However, it could also be true that pain drives us to reach deep into our minds to find new ways of expressing ourselves. We need outlets for our hurtful emotions such as sadness, loss, heartache, and anger. Art can allow us to articulate these feelings in more detail and vividness than words can describe. Maybe pain doesn’t necessarily make creativity, maybe creativity just allows pain to be felt more fully…..HOPE U ENJOYED THE POST…IF SO PLS FOLLOW MEUPVOTE AND SHARE…