authors and their books

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam :- Wings of Fire, Ignited Minds, Target 3 Million, The luminous Spark, India 2020, Mission India, Indomitable Spirit, The Life Tree, India My Dream, Inspiring Thoughts, Thoughts for Change, Spirit of India, Evolution of Enlightened Societies, India Wins Freedom, You are Born to Blossom, Turning Point.
• Amrita Pritam :- Forty Nine Days
• Anil Padmanaban :- Kalpana Chawla – A Life
• Anita Desai :- Fasting, Feasting
• Annie Besant :- Wakeup India
• Arundhati Roy :- The God of Small Things
• Barack Obama :- Dreams From My Father
• Bill Clinton :- My Life
• C.S. Pandit :- End of the Era
• Chetan Bhagat :- The 3 Mistakes of My Life, Five Point Someone, Two States, Revolution 2020, One Night at the Call Center
• Diplomat Pavan K.Varma :- When Loss is Gain
• Dr. Bimal Jalan :- The Future of India
• Dr. S. Radhakrishnan :- Indian Philosophy
• Dr. S. RadhaKrishnan :- Indian Philosophy
• Dr. Salim Ali :- The book of Indian Birds
• E K Nayanar :- My Struggle
• G.D. Khosla :- Last Days of Nethaji
• Indira Gandhi :- My Truth
• Jackie Chan :- My Life in Action
• Jawaharlal Nehru :- Glimpses of World History, The Discovery of India
• Jonathan Swift :- Gulliver Travels
• K. R. Malkani :- India First
• Kalidasa :- Megdoot, kumarasambhava,Swapnavasavadatta, Malavikagnimitra
• Kautilya :- Arthashastra
• Khuswant Singh :- We Indians, Train To Pakistan, Women and Men in My Life
• Koutilya :- Arthashastra
• L.K. Advani :- My Nation My Life
• Lala Lajpat Rai :- Unhappy India
• Leo Tolstoy :- War and Piece
• Mahatma Gandhi :- My Experiments with Truth
• Mrs. Indira Gandhi :- Eternal India
• N.R. Narayan Murthy :- A Better India A Better World
• Nandan Nilekani :- Imagining India
• Narendra Modi :- Jyoti punj
• P. V. Narasimha Rao :- Ayodhya
• Panini :- Ashtadhyayi
• R. C. Dutt :- Economic History of India
• R.K. Narayanan :- My Days, The Guide, Malgudi days, Waiting for the Mahatma, The Dark Room, The Bachelors of Art, The English Teacher, The Financial Expert
• Rabindranath Tagore :- Lipika, Chandralika, Chitra, Geethanjali, Gora, Ghare, Broken Ties, Malini, Sacrifice, Two Sisters , Bhaire, Chaturanga
• RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan: Aid and Growth, Fault Lines, India’s Pattern of Development, The Real Effect of Banking Crises Controlled Capital Account Liberalization
• S.K. Banerjee :- Independence
• Sarojini Naidu :- Broken Wing, Golden Threshold
• Shakespeare :- Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear
• Sharat Chandra Chatterjee :- Devdas
• Shiv Khera :- Living with Honour
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Sunil Gavaskar :- One Day Wonders
• Swami Vivekananda :- Inspired Talks, The Sleeping Giant, Living at the State, Way of the Saint, Jnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, My Master, Women of India, Vedanta Philosophy
• Tolstoy :- War and Piece
• V.S Naipoul :- Half a Life
• V.V. Giri :- My life and Times
• Valmiki :- Ramayana
• Veda Vyas :- Bhagwad Gita, Mahabharata
• Vikram Seth :- Two Lives, The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy, Arion and The Dolphin, An Equal Music, From Heaven Lake:Travels
• Vishnu Sharma :- Panchatantra
• Yann Martel :- Life of Pie

Few Things for being extraordinary person in life

1) Choose one difficult or challenging thing to complete within 3 day which you resist to do.

2) Start the day with work which is difficult or challenging to do, which allow to stretch your mind, body and you.

3) In morning get something good in mind like watch video, read paragraph or quote which inspires you the most.

4) Always complete the task, minor or major, with best solution.i.e Be good what ever you do.

5) Improve 1% every day in one specific things, which results in SUNAMI in your productivity.

6) At the end of every day , think for one thing which u will do tomorrow will increase your performance one level up.

7) Fix the time for gmail,facebook, blogs.

8) Every single day learn something new and be ridiculous passionate for that.

Some tips on professional hoodwinking

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© Reuse thisSince it is January and not much is happening, I thought I would give readers some tips on how to make some quick bucks over this quiet period.

Now, note well, none of what I am about to reveal is necessarily illegal, but that is my opinion only – you try the scam that follows at your own risk.

This scam works best if you do it by means of the Internet, but a simple mail shot is also good.

It works like this: dream up some tantalising project, such as ‘Drakensberg Amphitheatre Cableway Project’. Next, write out a description of the project in glowing terms such as: “Following the recent legislative changes in the Conservation Act (Act 123 of 1998), it is proposed to submit to the Minister a plan for the build, operation and transfer of a cableway system in the Amphitheatre of the Kwazulu-Natal Drakensberg.

“The cableway will be similar to the Table Mountain cableway, but will have a rise of 1 333 m, and will accommodate 60 passengers a trip.” And so on, and so on. Next, you get the names of a whole slew of consulting civil engineers, quantity surveyors, consulting electrical engineers, architects, and environmentalists, etc (just look them up in the phone book or the Yellow Pages), and post them the above project description, and invite them to request preliminary documents relating to the appointment of the professional design team.

Your letter should request that, for the preliminary documents, a deposit of R1 000 be paid, which will be refunded if the firm that sent it is not appointed to do any work, but which is forfeit if the firm is appointed.

Next, just sit back as the cheques pour in. To each firm that has sent a cheque, you send a letter asking them to submit a statement of work done, a curriculum vitae and a schedule of fees proposed, as well as any so-called preliminary documents you can dream up.

Next, you wait for all the statements of work and fee schedules to come back. And here is the trick: to each and every person who sent a cheque and a curriculum vitae and a schedule of fees, you send a letter appointing them to be on the professional team, with the advice that, when the project gets government approval and moves ahead, you will be in touch.

Now, since you have appointed each firm, you do not have to send the R1 000 back. And it does not matter if you have appointed 50 or 100 firms to do the same thing, since the project will not go ahead because the chances of getting government approval are minimal, to say the least.

If any firm realises that it has been hoodwinked, it is unlikely to sue – the legal fees would be too great. But, in the meantime, if you manage to sucker just 50 professional firms, you have got fifty grand for doing very little.

Have I been caught this way? Well, no – my cash flow is such that I cannot afford R1 000 deposits. But I do know some firms who have.

How do you avoid being ripped off? Simple – it is common practice to ask for a deposit for documents (it ensures that only serious people ask for them), but it is never (normally) the case that the deposit is not returned.

So, if the initial letter mentions that the deposit can be forfeited even if a submission is made then beware.

Edited by: Archivist

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Brain teasing Questions

Q1: A father and his son are involved in a car accident, as a result of which the son is rushed to hospital for emergency surgery. The surgeon looks at him and says "I can't operate on him, he's my son". Explain. (The answer is not "step-father"!) Q2: What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left? Q3: How many birthdays does a typical woman have? Q4: If a plane crashes on the Indian/Pakistan border, where do you bury the survivors? Q5: A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you account for this? Q6: Which side of a cat contains the most hair? Q7: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister? Q8:Jhon looked through the dirty window on the 24th floor of his office building. Depressed, he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop from the building to the ground. Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. There was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, yet he survived. Explain? Q9: A man and his wife drove at full speed through the streets. They stopped, and the husband got out of the car. When he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. Explain? Q10: Why can't a man living in Delhi not be buried in Mumbai? Go Down for Answers: . Q1 Ans: The surgeon is the mother! Q2 Ans: Left Elbow. Q3 Ans: 1 birthday. Q4 Ans: You can't burry survivors! Q5 Ans: The name of his horse was Friday. Q6 Ans: The outside. Q7 Ans: The man is dead so he can't marry even if he wanted to! Q8 Ans: Gaurav being a window cleaner, was cleaning the window form the outside, opened the window, and jumped inside. Q9 Ans: The wife had a baby inside the car but died. However, the baby survived. Q10 Ans: Because the man is still alive!

5 Minute Management Course

Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.' After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, 'Who was that?' 'It was Bob the next door neighbour,' she replies. 'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'  Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.  Lesson 2: A priest offered a Nun a lift.. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?' The priest removed his hand But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?' The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.' Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'  Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.  Lesson 3: A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.' 'Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. 'I want to be in the Bahamas , driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.' Puff! She's gone. 'Me next! Me next!' says the sales rep. 'I want to be in Hawaii , relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.' Puff! He's gone. 'OK, you're up,' the Genie says to the manager.. The manager says, 'I want those two back in the office after lunch.'  Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.  Lesson 4 An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, 'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?' The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.' So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.  Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.  Lesson 5 A turkey was chatting with a bull. 'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy.' 'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.' The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.  Moral of the story: Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there..  Lesson 6 A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.  Morals of the story: (1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy. (2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend. (3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

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PRESENCE OF MIND---DO YOU HAVE IT?

Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
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Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take
four men to build it?
A. No time at all its already built. (UPSC 23 rd Rank Opted for IFS)
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Q. Approximately how many birthdays does the average Japanese woman have?
A. Just one. All the others are anniversaries. (Not Known)
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Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and
three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands. (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)
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Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A.. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one
hand. . (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
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Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. He sleeps at night. . (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
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Q. Why it is impossible to send a telegram to Washington today ?
A... Because he is dead. (IIM-A)
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Q. If you throw a blue stone into the red sea what will it become ?
A. It becomes wet. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
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Q. What often falls but never gets hurt ?
A. Rain (IIM-K)
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Q. What is that no man ever saw which never was but always will be?
A. TOMORROW (Not Known)
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Q.. What looks like half apple?
A. The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper)
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Q. What can you never eat at breakfast?
A. Dinner. (Not known)
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Q. What gets wet while drying?
A. A towel. (IIM-B)
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Q. What 3 letters change a girl into a woman ?
A. AGE. (IAS-12 rank)
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Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A. It caused a revolution. (Not known)
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Q. How is it easy to weigh a fish?
A. Because it has its own scales.( IPS--1997)
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Q. Why does a bike rest on its leg?
A. Because it is too tyred. ( IAS-67)
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Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A.. liquid (UPSC 33Rank)
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Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or only one
really difficult question.
The probable thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really
difficult question."
"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this.
"What comes first, Day or Night?"
The boy was taken aback to reality as his admission depends on the
correctness of his answer, but as he thought for a while and said, "It's the
DAY sir!"
"How" the interviewer asked,
"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will ask me only one  difficult
question!" He was selected for IIM

Check ur presence of mind.............Take d test.
relax, clear your mind and begin, what's the 1st answer that comes to ur mind???...........

1. What do you put in a toaster?

Answer:
"bread." If you said "toast," give up now and do something else.. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said bread, go to Question 2

2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?

Answer:
Cows drink water. If you said "milk," don't attempt the next question.
Your brain is over -stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself by reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World. However, if you said "water", proceed to question 3...

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a
green house made from?

Answer:
Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks," why the hell are you still reading these?? If you said "glass," go on to Question 4.

4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane crashes from 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into East and West Germany) Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany, West Germany, or "no
man's land"?

Answer: You don't bury survivors!!! If you said ANYTHING else, you must stop. If you said, "You don't bury survivors", proceed to the next question.

5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from Mumbai to Pune. In Mumbai , 17 people get on, in Pune , 16 get off. Name the driver.

Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name? It was YOU!!

Now pass this along to all your friends and pray they do better than you...
PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

With regards,

Senthilkumar

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Presence of Mind Test Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK? Let's find out just how clever you really are. Ready? GO!!! (scroll down) First Question: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second! Try not to screw up in the next question. To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the first question. Second Question: If you overtake the last person, then you are...? Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person? You're not very good at this! Are you? Third Question: Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000 Now add 10. What is the total? Scroll down for answer. Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your day. Maybe you will get the last question right? Fourth Question: Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter? Answer: Nunu? NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question again Okay, now the bonus round: There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself? He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple.

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1. Where was the first potato found? Ans: In the ground. 2. What comes down but never goes up? Ans: rain. 3. If three cats kill three rats in three minutes, how long will it take hundred cats to kill hundred rats? Ans: three minutes. 4. What can fly but has no wings? Ans: Time. 5. What always goes 2 sleeps wearing its shoes? Ans: Horse. 6. I m like a ribbon, tied by nature, across the sky, what m I? Ans: Rainbow. 7. How would u write nineteen that if one is taken out, then its remains twenty. Ans: XIX when one is taken out, its remains XX. 8. There were ten sparrows sitting on a tree. A hunter fired and tow of them fell dead. How many sparrows were left on the tree? Ans: Non. 9. Two sons and two fathers went hunting. They succeeded in hunting one pigeon each on counting it was found that they were only three pigeons.How is that? Ans: They were only three persons, son father and grandfather. 10. Which is the hardest key to turn? Ans: Donkey. 11. which part of London in France? Ans: -N- 12: why ur nose is not twelve inches long? Ans: Because then it would be a foot. 13. What r the largest ant in the world? Ans: Elephant. 14.what is the easiest way to get to heaven quickly? Ans: just stand in front of the fast moving car 15. Where do fish keep their money? Ans: at the river bank. 16. Which sea has waves but no water? Ans: BBC. 17. What do u calls an Arabian milkman? Ans: milk shaikh. 18. Which is the most shocking city in the world? Ans: electricity. 19. Why Pakistani cricket team given cigarette lighter? Ans: because they lost all their matches. 20. Which fish lives in heaven? Ans: Angel fish. 21. What do u calls a sleeping bull? Ans: A bulldozer.

"Decision"

A company was hiring new staff. One question in the written exam was:
You are driving your car in a wild stormy night. You pass by a bus station, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
A doctor who had once saved your life.
A man/woman you have been dreaming to be with.
You can only take one passenger in your car. Which one will you choose?
Please explain your answer.


Think about it before you continue reading.




This must be some kind of personality test. Every answer has its reasoning.



You could pick up the old lady. She is going to die, and thus you should save her first. You could take the doctor, because he once saved your life. This will be the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you could always pay the doctor back in the future, but you may never be able to find the perfect lover once you pass this chance.

The candidate who was eventually hired (out of 200 applicants) did not have to explain his answer.
WHAT DID HE SAY?

He simply answered: "Give the car key to the doctor. Let him take the old lady to the hospital. I will stay and wait for the bus with the man/woman of my dreams."

Sometimes, we would gain more if we were able to give up our stubborn limitations.

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"Smart Answer"

There was a student who was desirous of taking admission for a study course. He was smart enough
to get through the written test, a GD and was to appear for the personal interview. Later, as the interview progressed, the interviewer found this boy to be bright since he could answer all the questions correctly. The interviewer got impatient and decided to corner the boy.

"Tell me your choice," said he to the boy, "What's your choice: I shall either ask you ten easy questions or ONE real difficult. Think well before you make up your mind."

The boy thought for a while and said, "My choice is ONE real difficult question."

"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice!" said the man on the opposite side. Tell me : What comes first , Day or Night ?"

The boy was jolted first but he waited for a while and said: "It's the DAY, sir."

"How ???????" the interviewer was smiling ("At last, I got you!" he said to himself.)

"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!"

Admission for the course was thus secured.

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One day, a man walked into the produce section of his local supermarket and asked to buy half a head of lettuce. The boy working in that department told him that they only sold whole heads of lettuce. The man was insistent that the boy ask his manager about the matter.

Walking into the back room, the boy said to his manager, "Some jerk but there wants to buy only half a head of lettuce." As he finished his sentence, he turned to find the man standing right behind him, so he added, "and this gentleman wants to buy the other half."

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Cow College

The school of agriculture's dean of admissions was interviewing a prospective student, "Why have you chosen this career?" he asked.

"I dream of making a million dollars in farming, like my father," the student replied.

"Your father made a million dollars in farming??? echoed the Dean, much impressed.

"No," replied the applicant, "he dreamed of it."


Here I will narrate an incident and members need to post there action regarding the same.
" You are a newly recruited RPF and its your first day of work in a sub urban railway station. There are two people without ticket.A poor man and business man (who actually lost the ticket which he bought). What will you do?"

It is the highest stupidity of the interviewer to ask a person such a question. RPF(Railway Protection Force) personnel are not authorised to carry out checking of any tickets from the passengers. It is the duty of Travelling Ticket Examiners in that station responsible for such checks. They have all the right to penalise or excuse the passengers. How come RPFs new recruit on the first day of his duty comes to play such a role.

An interview question asked to Dr. varun kumar(AIR-3)-
You are an officer in railway protection Force. one poor man does not have travel ticket. one university professional who has brought a ticket has lost it. How will you handle both of them?

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