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This Hotelier places his cookbook in your hands, listing the ingredients you need to use to prepare the delicious dish – ‘your life’. He gives the recipes in exact proportion for success in life. He sends charged impulses through the punchline of his column.
S. Shadakshari, an electrical engineer, a hotelier, a builder, a professional trainer, has used all his skills in reaching people through his writings; helping students, teachers, parents, IT professionals and the general readers of course. The quintessence of this book will help one establish new goals, develop a sense of purpose, generate new ideas about oneself, enabling lifetime success.
“Kshana Hottu Aani Muttu’ in Kannada, has broken records by selling over 36,000 copies sold in just 60 days. It has run into nine editions, and the second part is also out. As Edwin C. Bliss has rightly said, “Success does not mean the absence of failure… It means winning the war, not every battle…,” Shadakshari’s punch lines puts the reader on the success track. A three-minute read, practical, common sense approach of each episode in the book, will take you from ancient wisdom to contemporary thinking. The writer through various instances also helps evaluate a situation. For instance, an engineering student lost her brother, who hung himself two days prior to exams. On the day of her I paper, she could see only her brother’s face on the answer sheet and could not write a word. She was on the verge of committing suicide too. But Shadakshari’s lines apparently gave her strength. “Thanks sir, you have given me fresh leaf of life…,” the grateful girl is supposed to have messaged.
The eloquent speaker has all hails to his early education in Kannada medium, which has laid a strong foundation in both English and Kannada languages. After working for some time as an electrical engineer, he took up a job in ITC hotel wing. This opened a new vista in his career. “Why not build my own hotel group?” he had asked himself. The result was the Ramanashree group of hotels. He didn’t stop at this, but went on to start the Manipal Hospital. He remembers Ramdas Pai, his mentor with gratitude. Shadakshari travels holding free personality development programmes for school and college students.
He has held over 300-400 programmes teaching more than 25,000 students. The programme spans for two days, enables one to develop positive mental attitude, healthy self image, pleasing personality, values and vision, goal and work ethics, according to him.
When the Editor of a popular Kannada daily attended one of Shadakshari’s personality development programmes, he asked if he could write a column. “They asked me to write 280 words that could be read in exactly three minutes. And that’s exactly how the name Kshana Hottu came to be, and Animuttu is the punch that is packed into the end of the column,” says Shadakshari. Since then, every morning he gets a minimum of hundred messages from appreciative readers.
GEETHA SRINIVASAN
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