Saturday, March 16, 2013

Famous Chartered Accountants (CA) Part - 2.

After I published my article on http://www.caclubindia.com/ about famous chartered accountants , I came to know about some more famous Chartered Accountants (CA), courtesy: people who commented on my article. After reading about them too, my pride in my profession sought up like an inflated cash balance account. The following people are those who have pushed the benchmark of this profession higher than ever:

CA Harish Salve: The Courtroom Badass.

Harish Salve is currently one of India's leading lawyers, who primarily practices at the Supreme Court of India. His demeanor during argument is often forthright, even while appearing in constitutionally significant cases, often surprising judges and audiences
. In 2009, India Today magazine ranked him the 18th most powerful person in the country. Harish Salve was the face of Vodafone.
Recently, he represented the Italian marines in the Italian Marines case. He withdrew because the Italian government had reneged on its assurance given to the Supreme Court that the Marines would be produced before the appropriate Indian legal authorities.
He wanted to do engineering. He failed thrice in his CA exams.                                                                 More: More: http://www.taxtitans.com/index.php/my-name-is-harish-salve


CA Naina Lal Kidwai: The Businesswoman. 

A male dominant society and here she is: Naina Lal Kidwai, a chartered accountant by profession, is an Indian banker and business executive.
She is currently the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India. She was the President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
She also holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from University of Delhi and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982. She has repeatedly ranked in the Fortune global list of Top Women in Business, 12th in the Wall Street Journal 2006 Global Listing of Women to Watch and listed by Time Magazine as one of their 15 Global Influentials 2002.
                                                               
More:
http://thewaywomenwork.com/2011/05/naina-lal-kidwai/
http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/05/06women_india_slide.html


CA N.K.P. Salve
: The Cricketer Politician Dude!

A chartered accountant by profession, he played club cricket in Nagpur in his early years.  He was the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
It was during his tenure that India won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, plus he managed to get joint hosting right for the 1987 Cricket World Cup for India and Pakistan.
He was appointed a Union cabinet minister in 1982, under Indira Gandhi. He also remained chairman of the 9th Finance Commission of India. Father of CA Harish Salve.


More:
 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/top-stories/NKP-Salve-Statesman-raconteur-visionary/articleshow/12497296.cms




CA Rahul Roy : The Reformer.

He was a former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He headed ICAI when he was just 34, thus being the youngest person to head ICAI.  The highly acclaimed "campus interview" scheme was introduced by him when he chaired the Committee for Members in Industry of the ICAI.
He was also the director of Ernst & Young India Pvt. Ltd. His daughter Rohini has authored his biography "Remembering Baba" which has been published by Penguin India.


More: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/financial-statements-have-become-unintelligible-to-lay-readers/article1656387.ece?ref=archive 
CA Sanjay Subrahmanyan: The CArnatic Singer.

Sanjay is a Chartered Accountant and a rank-holding Cost Accountant
. . He later switched to vocal music and was trained by Rukmini Rajagopalan for a period of almost eight years. He has been the subject of documentary film Aaraar aasaippadaar by filmmaker Prasanna Ramaswamy. It opened to rave reviews in November 2006 in Chennai.  He has performed with excellence and has enthralled the music loving audiences in Chennai as well as in Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Delhi and other places all over India. He has toured Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, US, Canada, UK, Switzerland and Oman.
More: 
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-01-04/edit-page/27743792_1_carnatic-music-classical-music-music-concert

CA Visakha Hari: From Commerce to CAtha

She has a State rank (Commerce) in school, and an all India rank in Chartered Accountancy. Visakha Hari is a mesmerising harikatha artiste, enchanting audiences in Tamil Nadu, India and abroad. Her remarkable eloquence is matched only by her delightful singing. Neither is used to astound the listener. Rather, the skills are geared to move hearts. Visakha Hari's style bears the unmistakable stamp of humility. More:http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/07/14/stories/2006071402080600.htm


CA T.N. Manoharan: The Padamshri; Satyam Shivam. 

He became a Chartered Accountant in 1983 and set up his public practice in the same year.
 He was elected to the central council of ICAI in 2001 and its Vice President in 2005. He remained as a Central Council Member till 2007. In 2009, Manoharan was one of the four members (as representatives of Government of India) appointed to the board of the scandal hit information technology company Satyam Computer Services for restructuring the company. In 2009, he won the CNN-IBN "Indian of the Year" award in the business category. He was awarded the Padma Shri  in 2010. More:
http://www.mahindrasatyam.com/about-mahindra-satyam/Manoharan.asp

Thursday, March 7, 2013

How to save yourself from being Plagiarised

One day, I was reading about IIM Alumni. The fact that so many of them had excelled and reached to great heights deep down frustrated me. I wanted to be one of them but then, I wasn't from the IIMs.

I am a Chartered Accountancy student and in order to get inspiration, I decided to search for CAs who have excelled and reached to similar and greater heights.

See, the problem is not with my profession. The problem is with this media. Every time an entrepreneur from IIM or IIT gets successful, the media never fails to highlight the fact that they are from IITs or IIMs. Have you ever seen the media adding B.Com grad or Uneducated or CA before an entrepreneur who is such? No.

I respect the people from IITs and IIMs a lot since it takes a lot of hard work and mental acumen to get into these prestigious institutes but somewhere I feel that the media is more focused on them and also, they get a lot of coverage
because most of them are into e-commerce business. 


So, moral of the story is that I was frustrated and I searched a lot and wrote an article.


The article was titled, “Famous Chartered Accountants”.
Just as a matter of fact, I wrote this article on Thursday, February 16, 2012




One random day, I thought of posting this article on http://www.caclubindia.com/articles/famous-chartered-accountants-16789.asp
I edited the article a bit because http://www.caclubindia.com/ is a website for professionals and since I actually wrote this article when I was a pretty rebel teenager, it had some funky words.






I was pleased when my article got amore than 7.5k hits, I had never received this kind of response on my  article or on any of the numerous poems that I had written before.
I even tweeted to CAclubIndia about it. Being the good people that they are, they also retweeted me.








 So Far, So Good.

Enters Bhavin Pathak:

http://www.caclubindia.com/profile.asp?subdomain=bhavinpathak#.UTik5KIi4Vg
https://www.facebook.com/bhavin.pathak

He successfully plagiarises my article and is busy earning the praise for the same.

The only foolish thing he did was that he wrote it on February 28, 2013 at 12:18pm







 
















































@Devyash Patel: Haa bhai, mera hi article hai.
@Bhavin Pathak: Chalega to hai hi; waha pe post kiya to turant sab samajh jayenge.

So, just because you have a wider reach doesn’t mean that you can plagiarise articles from students and post them as your own. Also, being a CA article; I have done loads of vouching and have checked thousands of invoices. So, I am adept at checking dates. 


Just a word of praise for Mr. Bhavin Pathak: I loved your edits.

  1. All the pictures: Good job man, all you did was run the search query in google.
  2. Adding information on Aditya Puri: “Her daughter is well-known actress named Amrita Puri, recently acted in Kai Po Che! and earlier she acted in Blood Money as well.” Seems like, you read more of Bollywood Magazines than you read Chartered Accountant journals.

So, this is how you stop yourself from being a victim of plagiarism; you show the true face of the people who plagiarise your articles.


Warm Regards:
The original writer of this article
Akash Sarawgi