DAILY EXERCISES: April 2015

wow! I wonder what logic relates opinions on bad writing and the geographical location...guess such a train of thought is beyond us simpletons living in "Amreeka"

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

Aishwaryadev Banerjee - (we have common friends notably Twisam Dattaof XL - my first Kolkata MBA student ) - I ask you ? How many of us can get a story published. Leave alone sell.? Where does this armchair commentary expertise come from? Esp in the Kolkatans and the Bengali..30 years of ruin came from this attitude..not from the CPI M

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

Aishwaryadev Banerjee..CB >AB even on a simple fact that he stuck to his country. What will you do for Bengal? What will you do for Kolkata? What will you do for India ? I don't care about people stuck abroad - it was their choice .. Don't turn your nose up at people like CB who are building India..- taking English to the masses..successfully..and did not have to run to a foreign country to eke out a living..

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

Thodisi Khushbuu Baurai Si Mast Pawan Ki
Thodisi Dhondhane Waali Dhak-Dhak Dhak-Dhak Dhak-Dhak Saansein
Jin Mein Ho Junoon Junoon Woh Boonde Laal Lahuu Ki
Yeh Sab Tuu Mila Mila Le Phir Rang Tuu Khila Khila Le… (2)
Aur Mohe Tuu Rang De Basanti Yaara
Mohe Tuu Rang De Basanti
Mohe Mohe Tuu Rang De Basanti

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Aishwaryadev Banerjee

Ohh...I didn't check our mutual friends' list..

I thought we were debating on his writing prowess, not his marketing skills, which are fabulous by the way

Well, since you have taken the debate to another completely ridiculous turn, by your argument, those of us who have not acted in a film should not comment on the actors of bollywood, those of us who have never directed a film, shouldn't comment on the films made by the same industry, those of us who have not played cricket for India, should not comment on the performance on the Indian team......

I hope you see where I am going with this.

About your jibe about what brought the downfall of Bengal, let's not get into that, we know very well what brought the downfall of Bengal.

And yes, this expertise comes from knowing the basics of the beautiful language...

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Aishwaryadev Banerjee

Dude, you need to relax a bit it's been fun having this verbal joust with you... but clearly, you have other issues.... sort them out...think logically, and perhaps then we can talk

till then, enjoy Nach Baliye, which will be judged by the 'greatest' author ever

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Aishwaryadev Banerjee

P.S

amazing film...amazing lyrics...glad to see not all your choices went the other way

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

I don't think you got my point..

Mutual Friends - was research - before you take on somebody - you assess him/her- The problem with Bengal is effing armchair commentary and no spine or action to back it ..and jealousy of people who have done well ..by trying to pooh pooh their achievements.. You came in the line of fire of your own choice AB ..else my conversation was with Suhail Ghosh my aim is to erase this armchair mediocrity ..and for that we need to work on the upcoming generation..in the current one ..the cancer of compromise has spread too far..

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Aishwaryadev Banerjee

your point was too blunt to take any cognizance of

i won't even bother going through rest of the
Aishwaryadev Banerjee

your point was too blunt to take any cognizance of

i won't even bother going through rest of the text

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

Yeah - that is the normal attitude - I don't like it - it hurts my poor ego - I won't read it.... My point was simply Why is it only the Techno India guy commenting on the IIT guy .. .. Could it be?? Just think ..Just think.. Could it be that subconciously it is not the writing you are angry with..but angry with ..yourself ..exiled from your motherland ..because you were not good enough for an education in India.. ‪#‎justasking‬.. Also you don't answer what will you do for Kolkata?

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Aishwaryadev Banerjee

Hahahahahahahah too good man!

keep the comments coming..you are hilariously brilliant ! i'll just make some popcorn and read the rest of your rants

p.s brilliant use of the hashtag

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

Your laughter talks of your pain.
Why does the Bengali run away from Bengal like a coward?
Why can't the Bengali develop some spine and CHANGE Bengal?..
Why does the non resident Bengali forget Bengal?

What will you do for Bengal?
What will you do for India?

AB!

‪#‎aduro‬ ‪#‎kolkatarising‬

P.S. - You do realise the conversation is for the Indian audience .. Do not massage your ego . I don't give a damn about you

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Tanveer Iqbal Ahmed

Tanveer Ahmed - Conversation carried forward from yesterday.
Edition 2 of a long chain..

Sunday 26 April 2015

RC002

Amid the bustle of Tony Blair's Britain, the tradition of the afternoon tea is one of the last remaining traces of the country's genteel past. There are few places that conjure up that past better than the oakpaneled
King's Bar Lounge at the Hotel Russell, a fading Victorian pile that sits on the edge of Bloomsbury, only a few short blocks from the British Museum. On a drizzly summer afternoon, I sink into one of the Lounge's overstuffed leather chairs, feeling as if I were being transported back to an earlier, more leisurely era–far from "cool Britannia" and
debates over the future of the euro. The spell is abruptly broken, however, by the sudden, agitated entrance of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who is in town to deliver a series of lectures at the British Film Institute.

"We must have the most fanatically precise English tea," Zizek insists, gesticulating dramatically in the style of a European dictator. "Everything must be exactly the way the English do it: clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, scones. It must be the most radically
English experience possible!"

Bearded, disheveled, and loud, Zizek looks like central casting's pick for the role of Eastern European Intellectual. Newspapers are lowered and conversations stop as a skittish waiter shows us to a small table in the far corner of the room. Barely pausing to sit down, Zizek launches into a monologue so learned and amusing that it could very well appear–verbatim–in one of the many books he has written about the obscene rules that sustain our supposedly civilized social practices. With lightning speed, he moves from the decline of British culture("They took perfectly good tea, added milk, and made it look like filthy dishwater!") to Hollywood ("Brad Pitt's Seven Years in Tibet–a terrible movie!") to the Tibetan legal system ("a process of formalized bribery where opposing parties bid against each other in a ritualized auction–I absolutely love this!").

Zizek talks exactly as he writes, in a nonstop pastiche of Hegelian philosophy, Marxist dialectics, and Lacanian jargon leavened with references to film noir, dirty jokes, and pop culture ephemera. "Discussing Hegel and Lacan is like breathing for Slavoj. I've seen him talkabout theory for four hours straight without flagging," says UCBerkeley's Judith Butler. When not mediated by the printed page, however, the obsessivecompulsive quality that makes his hyperkinetic prose so exhilarating is somewhat overwhelming–even, evidently, for Zizek himself. Popping the occasional Xanax to settle his nerves, he tells me about his heart problems and frequent panic attacks. As his eyes dart around the room and his manic monologue becomes more frantic, I fear that I may be his last interviewer. Zizek is like a
performance artist who is terrified of abandoning the stage; once he starts talking, he seems unable to stop. "You must be much crueler, more brutal with me!" he pleads, even as he speeds his pace to prevent me from cutting him off. "You should never enter a sadomasochistic relationship," he scolds, a sly smile peeking out from his bushy beard. "You wouldn't whip your partner hard enough!"

When the waiter returns, Zizek finally pauses, studies the menu, and orders a pot of mint tea and a plate of sugar cookies. Mint tea and cookies? What about our "radical" English experience? "Oh, I can't drink anything stronger than herbal tea in the afternoon," he says
meekly. "Caffeine makes me too nervous."

FOR ZIZEK, a conversation–whatever the topic–is an exercise in selfcontradiction.
When he thinks you are beginning to get a handle on his motives or desires, he pulls an aboutface, insists he doesn't mean anything he has just said, that his own views are the exact opposite. His contrariness is famous, and as a writer it has generally served him well–helping to earn him a reputation as a dazzlingly acute thinker and prose stylist and to win him a cult following among American graduate students. In person, however, it seems that Zizek's contrariness is at least partly an uncontrollable compulsion. And yet his manipulations and subterfuges are so entertaining, and his intellect so stimulating, that it is far wiser to surrender without a fight than to try to trump him at his game.

33. What according to the passage might be inferred about Zizek?

(1) He wants the author to treat him badly.
(2) Taking the herbal tea in the afternoon will make him relaxed.
(3) He had a fetish of doing everything the English way.
(4) He believed that the author wouldn't overcome him.
(5) His gestures bear a strong influence of the Slovenian dictator.

34. What can be an inference from the passage?

(1) British haute cuisine is declining.
(2) Zizek has been critical of diminishing civic society, in one of his books.
(3) Zizek exercises selfcontradiction on his motifs.
(4) Tradition of afternoon tea was revived during Tony Blair's rule of Britain.
(5) Zizek had a literary shadow of Hegel and Lacan in his writing.

35. Of the following, which is the idea that most strongly leads to the line "Discussing Hegel and Lacan is like breathing for Slavoj…"?

(1) Zizek might be an ardent follower of Hegel and Lacan.
(2) Slavoj has written a lot about Hegel and Lacan.
(3) Zizek has been a contemporary of Hegel and Lacan.
(4) Slavoj was closely mentored by Hegel and Lacan.
(5) Zizek had a fleeting influence of Hegel and Lacan on his writing.

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A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,

choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

Individuals owed their existence to their parents; without their countless sacrifices, they would never

survive nor grow into sane human beings. They realised their potential in a stable and peaceful

society, made possible by the efforts of thousands of anonymous men and women. They became

rational, reflective and moral beings within a rich civilisation created by scores of sages, saints,

savants and scientists. ______________________.

(a) Even a whole lifetime was not enough to pay back what they owed their parents, let alone all the

others.

(b) In short, every human being owed his humanity to others and benefitted from a world, to the

creation of which he had not contributed anything.

metaphorical way of describing one's response to unsolicited but indispensable gifts.

(d) Every individual is born with a debt, which is beyond his capacity to repay.

A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options,

choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.

A century and a half ago, Charles Darwin detailed his theory of evolution by natural selection in his

book 'On the Origin of Species'. How does this remarkably successful theory apply to life on our

planet? How have the scientists of subsequent generations built on Darwin's ideas?

______________________.

(a) Darwin's general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely

naturalistic (undirected) "descent with modification".

(b) And can Darwin's theory of Evolution be aligned with the evolutionary worldview, which is as old

as antiquity?

better in the wild

(d) And does revisiting the original theory shed new light on the remaining puzzles?

Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical

order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate

option.

A. The recent communal violence in Hyderabad and in Bareilly a month ago has remained on

the sidelines of national attention.

B. In both cities, the present round of violence was preceded by mobilisations and speeches,

primarily by Hindu fundamentalist groups.

C. Fortunately, there was no death in the violence in Bareilly, while in Hyderabad only three people

were killed.

D. Yet, the scale, planning and causes behind the riots indicate a certain change in the morphology

of the typical riot, a change which needs to be identified and understood if we want to keep

religious sectarianism and violence in check.

E. Communal violence has become so endemic to the polity of India that it has ceased to attract

much attention outside its immediate area of impact, or unless it crosses very high levels of

fatality and barbarity.

(a) EACDB (b) ABEDC (c) EABCD (d) ABCDE

Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical

order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate

option.

A. That too was historic.

B. The word that immediately rolled off of every tongue after the presidential election was "historic";

and rightly so.

C. It would have been unimaginable forty years ago.

D. The fact that the country has become civilized enough to accept this outcome is a considerable

tribute to the activism of the 1960s and its aftermath.

E. The two candidates in the Democratic primary were a woman and an African-American.

(a) BCDAE (b) BCDEA (c) BEDAC (d) BEACD

Five sentences are given below, labeled A, B, C, D and E. They need to be arranged in a logical

order to form a coherent paragraph/passage. From the given options, choose the most appropriate

option.

A. The revolution began as an attack on despotism.

B. Already by 1762 Rousseau was implying in his "Social Contract" that there was no meaningful

difference between the authority of a despot and that of a monarch

C. As usual, regular usage soon diluted the original rigor of the expression's meaning.

D. Montesquieu has defined its spirit as "The rule of one, according to no law".

E. Obeying no law, authority was arbitrary and its animating spirit was fear.

(a) ABDCE (b) AEDCB (c) ADECB (d) ADEBC

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Re: CAT Doubt

Hi,

Waiting for your reply sir.

Regards.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Ishaan Sinha <ishaantoiim@gmail.com> wrote:

Respected Tanveer Sir,
My self Ishaan. Completed my graduation in commerce in 2012. Then i did job for 1 year and after that i had started the preparation for MBA exam CAT along with my job. I had given CAT 2014 scored 40%tile overall. And in that paper i had attempted around 40 questions out of 100. I had realise that my prep. Was not up to the mark,as i had solved only past year papers and given some online free mock test.Other than CAT i didn't given any other entrance exam.
But this time i want to prepare damn seriously for the CAT 2015. I also started my preparation. But as u told in recording that we have to crack the CAT not only by hard work but also by smart work. So, this time i am also planning to give SNAP,XAT,IIFT. And i need your guidance for that.

I have some doubts which are as follows.
1. Which Mock test series to join?
2. I am planning to join 2 mock cat series, it will be fine or only 1 is enough.
3. For QA preparation i am using Arun Sharma but please suggest me good book to prepare to Verbal Ability.
4.Daily how much hours preparation is needed for next 6 months for working professionals.

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