The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the Independence Day speech last year, which was the first year of his governance, announced the Digital India initiative. It was not just any announcement that happens just for the sake of it. It was a promise to every individual for a better, digitally connected nation. It takes extreme courage, audacity and vision to allocate Rs. 1 lakh crores for an initiative that can change the future of our country.

Mr. Modi knows his potential and has set a deadline for the completion of this project as 2019. He knows that with an initiative so huge and of tremendous scale, he would need people who are experts in achieving these kinds of goals. He would need people who are as innovative as the world demands its people to be. He would need people who would evolve the digital dimensions of our country to an extent which is unprecedented. He would need people of extra-ordinary calibre to turn this vision into reality.

And of course, our country would need someone who would ‘look inside’ the problems that we digitally face. No one better than Intel could’ve done it.

With almost half a century of expertise in digitally empowering the world, Intel has done a splendid job by joining hands with the Indian government on making India digital in the coming few years. It becomes a responsibility for a group of people who are skillful enough to help this world become better and Intel by all means is doing that.

The Digital India initiative aims to digitize our country in ways more than one. And Intel is committed to creating a digitally enabled India and like always believes that innovation will drive this movement forward.

This is the age of technology and the lack of it can stunt the growth of our country. To meet the ever evolving and rising tech needs, it is of utmost importance to digitize the country for the future. This can be done with the technology of Intel and our government’s co-operation. Fortunately, both has been working hard for the same.

Our country’s people shall have appropriate access to technology so that they can enable its power to enrich their lives and on the other side, our government can connect with each individual regarding the governance and improve the standard of living of our people.

In the past era, we aimed to make people literate. Now, it has transcended to a complete different level and we are aiming to create digital literates. To make this happen, ease of technology, both in accessibility and in use shall be made sure.

Technology is anything that evolves our life to a simpler and faster life. Bringing this to a layman so that he can leverage it in his life is the challenge. When this comes to governance, the same stands true. Our people need not stand in long queues for petty tasks, they not need hesitate to raise their voice on opinions that matter and they need not waste precious hours of their lives just for things that could be done at the touch of their fingers. By harnessing technology in the right places we can do it with ease what now requires manual hard work.

There are benefits given by the government that no one knows of, there are subsidies for people who are unaware of them and there are policies that would make lives easier only if people knew about them. This happens because of a lack of proper communication between the government and its citizens. With the Digital India program, we hope Intel uses its state of the art technology to improve these conditions for our people.

The recent initiatives by Intel promise to make these ideas come true.

Digital Skills for India

On December 02, 2014, Intel has launched an initiative called ‘Digital skills for India’ which aims to empower people with locally relevant digital tools and services. Under the initiative, Intel has introduced Digital Skills Training Application that is comprised of modules on Digital Literacy, Financial Inclusion, Healthcare and Cleanliness in five Indian languages.

5 million people by the end of 2015 is what Intel is aiming for and the realization of this shall be a huge milestone in achieving a Digital India. The India that is still rural will be a great beneficiary of this initiative and should co-operate with Intel and our Government in all their plans they have for our better future.

I wish for a country where any person at his own will and ease shall be able to share his problems and communicate with the government regarding anything that he wishes concerning his rights in this country. After all, having a voice that is heard is what makes a country democratic.

Innovate for India

This year, it has come up with a new initiative which is a challenge too. It promises to leverage the skills of our young entrepreneurs to achieve a Digital India and for a better future as a whole. ‘Innovate for India’ will tap our country’s young minds and will surely help in harnessing their power for the better. With such challenging initiatives, Intel’s efforts towards a Digital India looks great. It has always encouraged the young part of a community to bring the change they wish to see.

The Digital India project alone has been estimated to create 5 crore jobs in the country and that shall be a huge step forward in tackling the unemployment problem too.

Young people when given credits and worth for their talent will surely engage in making India better. When given the right platform and support, I believe they shall be the driving force in our country’s progress.

It feels great to acknowledge the fact that our country’s government is taking efforts needed to make it a better country. And with Intel joining in, everything seems possible. We are on a great path ahead and shall live the life of our dreams while exercising every right as a citizen and definitely with a better future.

E-governance will be a key factor in improving the conditions of both, our country and its people. With the right people at the helm, the future looks great. And Intel knows it well that the best way to predict the future is to create it. Because they have been creating the future for quite a while now.

We wish Intel and the Indian Government the very best for everything that they are doing to create a better future and a #DigitalIndia.  

It would be nice if you give your opinion for a Digital India, use #DigitalIndia and tell what you feel we need for a better future. 

     

    

A healthy nutritious breakfast by Kellogg's

The first thing we need in the morning to charge ourselves up is a healthy, nutritious breakfast. With the passing days, where time has overlapped our health, we often forget to make sure our body gets in right amounts what all it needs. People have become lazier than ever with the surge in technology, doing most of the works automatically what we previously had to do ourselves.

Exercising has also been in the background and no effort is being taken by people to be in shape, at least most of them. Without a balanced diet and proper exercising, we are headed for health that shall last not much. With the rising effects of environment on our health if we carelessly keep on overlooking it, the consequences shall be harsh.

In these busy days, the right breakfast is the one that consumes the least time and effort by providing nutrition, and the most important factor is it should taste delicious. Kellogg’s corn flakes does all of it. Founded by W.K. Kellogg around 100 years ago, the vision for a healthier life couldn't have been better.

Kellogg’s newly launched ‘Anaaj ka nashta’ stands true to that vision. It is made from the choicest wheat, corn and rice that can’t get any more nutritious. And by saying these, let me tell you it is more delicious than any other breakfast we might ever eat. The recipes at Kellogg’s are mouth-watering and can lure anyone, a child, teen, an adult or our grannies as well, they would love the way these Indian recipes are made with Kellogg’s corn flakes.

The recipes are irresistible and so much fun to make.

Be it the Coconut Ladoo’s recipe:

Or the delicious Chapati Cornflakes Chivda:

These provide us with just the right amount of nutrition we need to start our day and require the least amount of time and effort, both to make and to eat as well.

Gupta ji’s family seem to enjoy this nutritious and delicious recipes made with Kellogg’s corn flakes every day and who would like to miss that. Breakfasts have never been so interesting before and with this new addition, it is irresistible. No more snacking on random food to fill our stomachs, we have got a better and healthier option now. With the mouth-watering recipes provided, we are sure to love it even more. Indians love Indian food and with these new delicious recipes we are even closer to our traditional food. For the breakfast, I would definitely love to go to Gupta ji’s house not once but always, everyone loves to have delicious food and I love it too.

Why not bring up more such recipes that we love and share our own ones with those made with Kellogg’s corn flakes and contribute a little to Gupta ji’s household recipes.

Watch this to know how Gupta ji’s family is asked by their friends to have breakfast’s at their home and check out Kellogg’s YouTube page for more such funny videos.   

                                   

I choose to start - a new journey..

There are always reasons to start things. Reasons that flame the spark in our souls, reasons that keep us awake all the night, reasons that push us beyond our limits. It is always the decisions we make that make us who we are and choosing to start is the best decision we can ever make. No matter the outcome and the hardships in the journey, it is always wise to choose to start.

We are all in the process to make this world a better place and to do so even in the smallest way, we need a companion with us for we all know how lonely it is on the top.

A companion that extends our personality, a companion that moulds itself to suit us and helps us in all what we need to accomplish.

One who helps us share our successes and gain courage to start over when we fail.

One who lets us explore the realms of the unknown and never stop discovering.

One who lets us clearly see our vision and the goals as they are.

One who makes us experience more and fills it with good ones. 

As we embark on a journey to fulfill our dreams and change the world, the new moto e promises to do all of it and even more.

The real purpose of the phone was to connect us with people and they were great in doing so. With the changing times, we always wanted our phones to do a little more and hence the smartphone was born. But with the ever rising expectations, we needed a device that could seamlessly make our lives better in ways more than one without being a burden on our pockets and hence the new moto e was born. It is crafted precisely to do all what you need it to do.

The lens through which we see.

I see myself twisting my wrist and clicking pictures. I see myself posing for those random face selfies with friends. Life becomes meaningful when we share our happiness and let others feel what we do and keep our loved ones always closer than our contact lists.

Moments would pass and no one would notice unless we capture them at the right moment. The Quick capture seems just wow. We are humans and can make mistakes, a little early or late and we lose the perfect frame. How easy it becomes with Burst mode at our disposal, we never have to worry about getting the perfect clicks and a treasure of Instagram likes, it will become a part of our lives with the new moto e.

Who doesn’t likes Snapchatting, now we will love it with the front-facing camera and always be at the moment. A new mirror for us, smiling to ourselves will now become easier.

The fuel we need.

We need our companion up and running all the time with us, while scheduling the next week, messaging a friend, watching a cool video or simply listening to our favourite songs. We need it to keep up with our energy levels and the new moto e for that purpose has an all-day battery life which promises to be with us in all our happenings.

It can be saddening to see our phone die of battery at the moments we need it the most. Worrying for it now stays in the past. We can enjoy our lives by going further and longer without stopping to recharge.

The beaming light.

What is life without having the ability to see beautiful things. When we have a smart phone with us, those beautiful things are in the form of pictures of our loved ones, videos that amaze us or the ones that keep us in splits, playing cutting edge games that we can play all day long or simply glancing through the sleek and elegant user interface of the new moto e. A stunning display makes all of this possible, the sharpest you can get.

Beauty without durability is fragile. It is fitted with a Corning Gorilla Glass that is tougher than any mishandled situation. We need not worry about the resilience of the beautiful display any more. This is not it, an anti-smudge coating that will always keep our phone looking new is an additional extravagance. Moreover, this is water resistant! Can it get any better?

The tech behind.

When we keep running and hustling for getting things done, the new moto e keeps up with our pace. It is powerful enough to assist us in what we do and never stops to catch a breath. A quad-core processor so fast that it keeps us going at blazing speeds, no matter the circumstances. That is what we need in an era where life travels at the speed of light.

It all depends on how the user interface looks, how the phone operates, to what extent is it intuitive and things only someone like Google can perfect. It comes with Lollipop, their latest addition to the world’s most popular operating system. We no longer have to glance at untidy looking interfaces anymore, it is beautifully elegant with material design.

The elegance

I no longer have to worry about dropping my phone anymore, it is designed meticulously well to feel great in our hands as well as provide a grip that would help in holding this piece of masterpiece better. Design is always the way how it works and the new moto e takes care of it.

The signature curved back that is ergonomically designed to fit our hands shows how much care has been taken to balance technology with design and it is always a winning combination.

Like I earlier said, our perfect companion is the one that extends our personality and moulds itself to suit us. The new moto e does it brilliantly through the customizable colourful bands that can change the accent of the phone and yet provide a firm grip to hold on to. It feels extremely exciting to change the accents of the phone daily to new colourful ones than stick to the one provided by default. Customization gives us more power and signifies our ever changing but strong personality.

Every other imaginable thing.

It only becomes better with what comes as additional features that silently help us daily and never get noticed much. It will now be extremely easy to ask the new moto e to not bother us while we are engaged with our important or while we are deep in sleep. With just a subtle glance we can know of all that is important by just engaging in an implicit way. The dual accelerometers adds those extra things we have always loved about moto.

It is hard to explain how much you love something, and with the new moto e it becomes even harder. On my way to conquer great milestones, to become successful, to change the world, I #ChooseToStart a remarkable journey ahead with the new moto e.

Looking up to optimism..

Life is all about experiences, little experiences that sum up to call itself life. A single moment, a single day is not what makes us we who we are, it is the series of things we go through that makes us what we now are. But there surely are days which we remember as our most special days. That we think changed the way things were before and made them seem alright. It is the people in our lives that make it special, and happy. If we were to live all alone ourselves, life would be boring, it would lose meaning and lack a purpose.

Friends, they say, double our happiness and reduce our sorrows. They indeed do. Life can be extremely generous while giving us friends, for me it has been. It is said that, we shall treat others how we want ourselves to be treated. I have not found a better philosophy for relations. We should think about others how we want others to think about us is what extends it further and refines it in the initial thought process.

Often times, life can hit us and we may fall. That’s fine. Everyone goes through it, the real courage is to rise up again, not once but as many times as it may thrash us. We can ourselves manage to rise up, but after a time, we tend to give up. We feel that life has been mean to us and the pessimist in us consumes the sane part that we have. The key is to not let it do so. Optimism is the only way. We can remain optimistic but it takes a great deal of conscious effort to make it sub-conscious and not everyone has the will to carry on for as long as they want, they break down before it is time to do so.

The loved ones in our lives is what keeps us going. They are there in our most happy moments, they cry with us in our saddest days. They rejoice when we succeed and inspire when we fail. They talk to ourselves better than we can do it, they hold our hands better than we can for them. They are what makes us who we are.

There are days when we might lack the courage to get started and keep going. They get us started and motivate to keep going. On such days, we need the people we love by our sides. Our parents, our friends, our loved ones, every person we can look up to.

In the past, I would always lose the faith to keep going and often break down by a cluster of negative thoughts riding in my mind. In these days, there were people by my side who made me aware of all the little happy things in life and refocused the purpose that had diminished. I am fortunate to always have people in my life that made me who I am today. Not much, but a nice individual. For the start, that’s fine. To be a nice person is what starts us on the path of greatness. And without optimism that is far from accomplished.

We spend a great amount of our times in homes and it is where we return at the end of the day. To sleep peacefully and to wake up again with the same amount of zeal to take on the day. Optimism is what we need imbibed in us, we need great places to reside to have the kind of strength we must have.

Housing makes it extremely simple and what they stand for is remarkable. You can always look up to innovation and they surely are bringing optimism to the world.

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Bringing Optimism to the World.

Optimism is seeing the streaks of happiness in the heaps of sadness. Optimism is what we were meant to practice and optimism is what shall guide us to prosperity. It is the little happiness’s when sometimes things go wrong. It is letting go off the things that stain our souls.

Sometimes, people seem to under-rate what optimism stands for. Actions are of course the things to seek but it starts with the thoughts in our mind. The inception of the thought is what leads to actions and to make our actions stronger, the thoughts need to be so. It is not about being rosy in our beliefs where we know in the back of our minds that things will go wrong and just for the sake of positive thinking maintaining an optimistic demeanor. That way we might fool ourselves and trick into believing everything’s right when the results are the very opposite of it.

Being truthful to ourselves is one of the key traits to live a successful life. We can fool the world but not our heart, not the soul that resides within. Optimism is the spiritual belief of thinking everything shall end well. The journey might be rough and it has to be, if we need ourselves to be wise.

The firm belief that the end result of anything we might do can only be death is one of the most enriching fact in living an optimistic life. Optimism sets our path in a way that trembles our legs. It is the right way to look at life. People with no purpose shall find one and people with a purpose can fulfill it.

Pessimist – the right word that defined me a few years earlier. Thinking random destructive thoughts and degrading the actions that resulted. There are a very few instances when you can talk about yourself being exactly contrast to what you are now. This is that instance for me. Life seemed to be going in a direction that I knew nothing of. Things always went wrong and I imagined why. We all know the simple values they teach us in our childhoods, only we don’t apply them. This is the case for every great value in life, we all know them but seldom follow the right way for our betterment. And they are as simple as it can be and we choose to under rate them, this is the mistake that we make.

As life had its ways to teach me of what optimism is and how it could change lives. I know because mine has been changed. It sets you on the right path just by changing the way we think. It is the starting point remember, the way we think.

The world needs optimistic people, groups, companies, organizations and only then can we be optimistic about our future. Only then can we be optimistic about the way we will lead our lives.

One such remarkable Optimistic venture on the way we live has been done by Housing Look Up.

Watch this brilliant video to know how

Housing Look Up – Bringing Optimism to the World.  

Changing homes..

We may choose otherwise but it never stops. Life goes on. To keep up with the challenges, we need to change as well. Change is a paradox in itself. Survival needs change, so does living and there is a difference. A stark difference that most of us assume ourselves to know but don’t live by it. There are times when our own beliefs haunt us, they ask questions that reveal our ignorance. One of the finest things once legendary Steve jobs said was about Connecting the Dots, the real essence of the phrase said that when we are faced with hardships, our life demands change and we must not fear it. We should change for the better and for the right things in life. The harder part is we know nothing of the chances that these changes shall give us a better life but we have to take the leap of faith and believe that things shall turn out good. And always know that we can never connect the dots looking forward, we can only do it looking backwards.

When we imagine ourselves a few years earlier, while being kids, the things we used to say or do makes us laugh now. And we think, how we have changed in life and for the better. We know that the present moment shall feel the same when we think of it years later because we will be changes then and for the better, of course.

There are a few things that one is proud of himself, few decisions, few moments, and few actions that we are all proud of ourselves. One of the thing I am proud of myself is the steps I have taken to be what I am from what I was. Sure, I am not the richest person in the world neither I have contributed great things to make the world a better place but what I know is that I am a better person than I yesterday was. And great things are always accomplished with small little changes.

I was an emotional dumb, holding on to things that didn’t matter and stressing over things that didn’t exist in the real world, it all happened in the mind. I don’t remember the time when I was positive in my thoughts and was always afraid of petty things. Shy of almost anything that involves people and as numb as one can be when alone. I don’t had any reasons though, but I didn’t feel any reason to be happy either.

I had lived 15 years in my life and had changed three homes. Changing homes doesn’t only means changing the place where you reside, it changes your values, your emotions, the feelings that you associate your home with. The memories that you have, the experiences you have lived. The people you have been with. Changing a home, changes your life.

For me, when we shifted to our new home 4 years back, it was a shift not of the location where I lived but of the person I was. It changed my life forever since, because of the little changes that it brought along. The friends that I had, the environment I lived in and the impact that it had was a paradigm shift.

As I started with, life goes on. We need to move with it to enjoy it. To live at the same place will always hold a special importance. But when we decide to move places, see different things, roam around and discover new places, in the age of internet, it has become a lot easier now to do so, by means of Housing. They have chosen the most complex thing in our life and made it as simple as it can get.

Watch this and you’ll know how.

Because, they want to “Help The World Live Better” and it only happens with unprecedented dedication.

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