My speech about impact of Union Budget (2009-10) on Personal Finance:

Kizhakku Pathipagam, in association with Fundsindia.com, conducts a weekly workshop on Personal Finance. Topic for the last session was about impact of Union Budget on Personal Finance.

Earlier, when I read the news on the blog of Mr. Badri Seshadri (founder of Kizhakku Pathipagam), I was thinking of attending the session as a participant (if time permits).

But to my surprise, I was honoured to receive an invitation from him to deliver a speech to the participants and to have an inter-active session for clarifying their doubts.

Immediately after he blogged announcing my speech for the forthcoming session, I started receiving congrats-calls from many readers whom we both know in common.

I should mention that the program went really fine and the inter-active session was very energetic. Pls check Badri's after-session blog post here.

Here’s the link where you could find the audio file of entire recording. Pls listen the audio link and correct me if I was wrong on any of the points discussed.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN THE AUDIO FILE

Mr. Badri Seshadri complemented me a book which is the tamil version (published by Kizhakku Pathipagam) of a popular book written by Jeffrey Archer titled "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less".

Believe what you feel

On this day, Morrie says that he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates, and fall backward, relying on another student to catch us.

Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrassment.

Finally, one student, a thin, quiet, dark-haired girl whom I notice almost always wears bulky, white fisherman sweaters, crosses her arms over her chest, closes her eyes, leans back, and does not flinch.

For a moment, I am sure she is going to thump on the floor. At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders and pull her up harshly.

“Whoa!” several students yell. Some clap. Morrie finally smiles.

“You see”, he says to the girl, “you closed your eye, and that was the difference.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see; you have to believe what you feel.

And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too – even when you're in the dark, even when you're falling".