HR Interview

HR Interview Questions For Freshers


1. Tell me about yourself?

I am down-to-earth, sweet, smart, creative, industrious, and thorough.

2. How has your experience prepared you for your career?

Coursework:

Aside from the discipline and engineering foundation learning that I have gained from my courses, I think the design projects, reports, and presentations have prepared me most for my career.

Work Experience:

Through internships, I have gained self-esteem, confidence, and problem-solving skills. I also refined my technical writing and learned to prepare professional documents for clients.

Student Organizations:

By working on multiple projects for different student organizations while keeping up my grades, I've built time management and efficiency skills. Additionally, I've developed leadership, communication, and teamwork abilities.

Life Experience:

In general, life has taught me determination and the importance of maintaining my ethical standards.

3. Describe the ideal job.

Ideally, I would like to work in a fun, warm environment with individuals working independently towards team goals or individual goals. I am not concerned about minor elements, such as dress codes, cubicles, and the level of formality. Most important to me is an atmosphere that fosters attention to quality, honesty, and integrity.

4. What type of supervisor have you found to be the best?

I have been fortunate enough to work under wonderful supervisors who have provided limited supervision, while answering thoughtful questions and guiding learning. In my experience, the best supervisors give positive feedback and tactful criticism.

5. What do you plan to be doing in five years' time? 

Taking the PE exam and serving in supervisory/leadership roles both at work and in professional/community organization(s).

6. What contributions could you make in this organization that would help you to stand out from other applicants?

In previous internships, my industriousness and ability to teach myself have been valuable assets to the company. My self-teaching abilities will minimize overhead costs, and my industriousness at targeting needs without prompting will set me apart from others. Additionally, one thing that has always set me apart from my scientific/engineering peers are my broad interests and strong writing abilities. I am not your typical "left-brained" engineer, and with my broad talents, I am likely to provide diverse viewpoints.

7. What sort of criteria are you using to decide the organization you will work for?

Most importantly, I am looking for a company that values quality, ethics, and teamwork. I would like to work for a company that hires overachievers.

8. What made you choose your major?

My academic interests are broad, so I sought civil engineering to achieve a great balance of mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, and writing.

9. Have your university and major met your expectations?

The College of Engineering at MSU has exceeded my expectations by providing group activities, career resources, individual attention, and professors with genuine interest in teaching.

My major has met my expectations by about 90%. I would have enjoyed more choices in environmental courses, and would have preferred more calculus-based learning.

10. What made you choose this college?

I chose this college for the following reasons: my budget limited me to in-state schools, I was seeking an area with dog-friendly apartments, the MSU web site impressed me, I saw active student groups, and the people were very friendly

11. List 2-3 of your greatest achievements since you've been in college and why? 

Receiving the SWE Outstanding Member Award and College of Engineering Student Service Award

I got involved with student activities to overcome my debilitating shyness. Receiving these awards signified that I had accomplished a transition from dragging myself to participate to feeling energized by it.

Receiving the SWE Web Site Award

Without training in web design, I competed against not only the other student sections, but professional sections around the nation. Despite competing with more HTML-experienced people, I brought this award to my section. After getting so much from SWE, I was able to give something back.

Earning the highest grade in an organic chemistry class of ~200 people
I worked very hard for this grade and loved the subject, so it was a great feeling to see that the hard work paid off.

12. Which subjects have you enjoyed studying the most and why?

I have enjoyed hydrology, fluids, solid & hazardous waste management, water and wastewater treatment, and oceanography because I love water and environmental topics.

Calculus and linear algebra excite me because I love logic.

I enjoyed the writing and analysis in economic history.

Business law thrilled me because I have a strong interest in legal matters.

13. Which subjects did you dislike and why? 

Introductory soil elicited little interest in me, most likely because the professor was inexperienced, the book was ineffective, and I had little spare time that semester to look into other resources.

14. Do you have plans to continue your education? 

Yes, but not immediately. I plan to continue part time with either an MBA or an environmental engineering masters, depending on which will be more beneficial to my work.

15. How would a professor who knows you well describe you? One who does not know you well? 

A professor who knows me well would likely describe my personal qualities: sweet, down-to-earth, smart, hard-working, and conscientious.

As specific examples of those who did not know me well, my soils professor and soils teaching assistant each considered me smart and respectful, and both thought that I must have enjoyed the class a lot, due to my performance.

16. Given the chance, how would you alter your education? 

Knowing now what I like the most, I would have used my electives for extra math and psychology classes, since I tend to be well-rounded enough that a variety of classes are unnecessary; my personal reading is diverse enough. I have found that mathematics and psychology are helpful to all career and life paths.

17. Which part-time job did you enjoy the most and why? 

Working for PM Environmental was most enjoyable to me, since I felt like I was significantly contributing to the company, and I enjoyed learning on my own.

18. Interests: 

Some of my interests include dogs, hiking, snow-shoeing, water sports, writing, reading (especially Charles ****ens' novels), skiing, drawing, crafts, and computers.

19. What are your strengths? 

My strongest strength is the ability to teach myself difficult material, regardless of the subject (with the exception of theater and drawing blood from dogs, which I have no talent for). Additionally, I have always excelled verbally and look forward to writing opportunities.

20. What are your weaknesses? 

I tend to try to do too many things, leaving little time for myself. I have worked on balancing myself for the last several months. I am also working on improving my public speaking skills. 









HR Interview Questions For Freshers


21. What sort of serious problems have you experienced, and how have you handled them? 

My apartment building burned down at the end of January during one of my semesters at MSU. Before the fire got too bad, I was able to rescue my pets and the neighbor's dog, as well as my textbooks and backpack, but I lost most of my mementos and possessions. While the firemen were preparing their hoses, I drove to school (with the animals in the car) to meet my lab partners, who were waiting for me. I explained the situation, emailed my professors, and rushed back to the apartment.

Fortunately, I had renter's insurance. I missed about a week of school to deal with the insurance matters and find a new place to live. In order to salvage my grades and sanity, I dropped a course and honored my existing student group and research commitments. Staying active socially and keeping myself well-rounded were the best healing tools for me. Within a few weeks, I was caught up and had recovered reasonably from the loss of sentimental items.

22. Do you or have you in the past experimented with illegal drugs? 

No. My only addictions are caffeine and sugar.

23. Would you be willing to take a drug test? 

Of course.

24. Do you drink alcohol socially? 

No, but I enjoy Shirley Temples quite a bit.

25. If you had your whole life to live over, what would you do differently and why? 

I was always good in math, but I wish that I would have focused on math more. I feel that mathematics can lead one anywhere, and is the basis of most disciplines.

On a personal level, I would have ensured that, despite pre-teen angst and insecurity, I would have been nice to everyone, even on especially bad days.

26. Which is more important to you, your salary or your job? 

Salary is important, but I couldn't stay with a job that brought me misery when I could support myself doing something else; hence, my job is more important.

27. What have you found to be the biggest source of motivation in your life? 

Taking advantage of my strengths so that they are not wasted. Since nobody is lucky enough to be strong in every area, I think it is important to make good use of one's strengths.

28. What sorts of things cause you stress, and how do you deal with them? 

Lack of organization throws me off. To deal with this, I come up with some kind of system to organize things, even if it is only in my head, in the case when chaos is desirable.

29. What is your definition of success? 

Being a good person by improving the quality of the lives of others, whether it be through work, doing sweet things, improving the environment/community, taking care of one's family, etc. Superficially, I tend to measure success by level of education and abilities within one's career; however, I try to remind myself of the things that are more important.

30. What qualities should a successful supervisor possess in regard to job requirements and those who report to him/her?

A successful supervisor should be able to tactfully give criticism, guide, motivate, encourage and foster a positive work environment.

31. How would you develop team spirit among the people that you supervise?

My experience in student groups has taught me that people work best when their friends (teammates) are counting on them to do well; therefore, I believe that bonding motivates people. I would also foster team pride by promoting our team's assets.

32. Do you like to work independently or as a team?

I like to work independently towards a team goal.

33. What kind of work environment do you like the best?

I enjoy working with friendly co-workers who can share a laugh while working hard and overachieving.

34. How would you resolve conflicts with employees, coworkers, and supervisors?

If possible, I would refresh my memory on what I've learned about conflict communication, and then I would discuss things, honestly and tactfully. I am a big fan of kind sincerity and honesty, as well as humility (when appropriate).

35. In what ways have you learned from your mistakes? 

Upon getting myself overwhelmed with involvement in too many projects, I changed my approach. When possible, I now start with less than I can handle and add more only as time allows, and in small increments.

36. In what areas do you need to improve your skills?

I would like to improve my public speaking skills. 

Strange History

ITs Strange Fact From The History
1. The Romans used to use asbestos in their cloths for daily use – such as dish-towels, napkins, and table cloths. Pliny the Elder (a Roman naturalist) said that they could be cleaned whiter than normal cloth by simply throwing them in the fire. He also noted that the slaves who wove the mineral for cloth often suffered from lung disorders.


2. In Ancient Egypt, the heart was considered to be the seat of intelligence – not the brain. Egyptians thought the brain was just a stuffing for the head. For this reason they scraped it out of the head during embalming and discarded it, while treating the heart with special care.


3. During the plague in the Middle Ages, some doctors wore a primitive form of biohazard suit called “plague suits”. The mask included red glass eyepieces, which were thought to make the wearer impervious to evil. The beak of the mask was often filled with strongly aromatic herbs and spices to overpower the miasmas or “bad air” which was also thought to carry the plague.


4. During the last 3,500 years, it is estimated that the world has had a grand total of 230 years in which no wars took place. That is enough to make one wonder whether there is any benefit at all to the “peace movement”.


5. In urban circles of Western Europe and the Americas, beards were out of fashion after the early 17th century; to such an extent that, in 1698, Peter the Great of Russia ordered men to shave off their beards, and in 1705 levied a tax on beards in order to bring Russian society more in line with contemporary Western Europe.


6. The best selling book of the 15th century was an erotic book called The Tale of the Two Lovers – it is even still read today. The author of this book was none other than Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini – otherwise known as Pope Pius II who reigned from 1458 – 1464.


7. In Ancient Egypt, cats were considered sacred. When a family pet cat died, the entire family would shave off their eyebrows and remain in mourning until they had grown back.


8. The model for Uncle Sam on the famous 1917 post “I want you” is the face of the painter, James Montgomery Flagg. For effect he aged his own portrait and added the goatee beard. Flagg used his own picture in order to avoid the need to find a model.


9. There is no such thing as the Congressional Medal of Honor. In 1862, Lincoln signed into law a resolution creating a “Medal of Honor” which is the official and only title for what most people think is the “Congressional Medal”.


10. In 200 BC, when the Greek city of Sparta was at the height of its power there were 20 slaves for every citizen. Imagine how tidy their houses must have been!

Unethical Experiments

Nazi Experiments



Nazi human experimentation was medical experimentation on large numbers of people by the German Nazi regime in its concentration camps during World War II. At Auschwitz, under the direction of Dr. Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various experiments which were supposedly designed to help German military personnel in combat situations, to aid in the recovery of military personnel that had been injured, and to advance the racial ideology backed by the Third Reich.
Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics and eugenics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated. The central leader of the experiments was Dr. Josef Mengele, who performed experiments on over 1,500 sets of imprisoned twins, of which fewer than 200 individuals survived the studies. Dr. Mengele organized the testing of genetics in twins. The twins were arranged by age and sex and kept in barracks in between the test, which ranged from the injection of different chemicals into the eyes of the twins to see if it would change their colors to literally sewing the twins together in hopes of creating conjoined twins.
In 1942 the Luftwaffe conducted experiments to learn how to treat hypothermia. One study forced subjects to endure a tank of ice water for up to three hours (see image above). Another study placed prisoners naked in the open for several hours with temperatures below freezing. The experimenters assessed different ways of rewarming survivors.
From about July 1942 to about September 1943, experiments to investigate the effectiveness of sulfonamide, a synthetic antimicrobial agent, were conducted at Ravensbrück. Wounds inflicted on the subjects were infected with bacteria such as Streptococcus, gas gangrene, and tetanus. Circulation of blood was interrupted by tying off blood vessels at both ends of the wound to create a condition similar to that of a battlefield wound. Infection was aggravated by forcing wood shavings and ground glass into the wounds. The infection was treated with sulfonamide and other drugs to determine their effectiveness.







Unit 731

Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.
Some of the numerous atrocities committed by the commander Shiro Ishii and others under his command in Unit 731 include: vivisection of living people (including pregnant women who were impregnated by the doctors), prisoners had limbs amputated and reattached to other parts of their body, some prisoners had parts of their bodies frozen and thawed to study the resulting untreated gangrene. Humans were also used as living test cases for grenades and flame throwers. Prisoners were injected with strains of diseases, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape, then studied.
Having been granted immunity by the American Occupation Authorities at the end of the war, Ishii never spent any time in jail for his crimes and died at the age of 67 of throat cancer.










The Tuskegee Syphilis StudyThe Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis.
This study became notorious because it was conducted without due care to its subjects, and led to major changes in how patients are protected in clinical studies. Individuals enrolled in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study did not give informed consent and were not informed of their diagnosis; instead they were told they had “bad blood” and could receive free medical treatment, rides to the clinic, meals and burial insurance in case of death in return for participating. In 1932, when the study started, standard treatments for syphilis were toxic, dangerous, and of questionable effectiveness. Part of the original goal of the study was to determine if patients were better off not being treated with these toxic remedies. For many participants, treatment was intentionally denied. Many patients were lied to and given placebo treatments—in order to observe the fatal progression of the disease.
By the end of the study, only 74 of the test subjects were still alive. Twenty-eight of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis.










Poison laboratory of the Soviets




The Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, also known as Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12 and “The Chamber”, was a covert poison research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies. The Soviets tested a number of deadly poisons on prisoners from the Gulag (“enemies of the people”), including mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and many others. The goal of the experiments was to find a tasteless, odorless chemical that could not be detected post mortem. Candidate poisons were given to the victims, with a meal or drink, as “medication”.
Finally, a preparation with the desired properties called C-2 was developed. According to witness testimonies, the victim changed physically, became shorter, weakened quickly, became calm and silent and died within fifteen minutes. Mairanovsky brought to the laboratory people of varied physical condition and ages in order to have a more complete picture about the action of each poison.
In addition to human experimentation, Mairanovsky personally executed people with poisons, under the supervision of Pavel Sudoplatov.








The Aversion Project 



South Africa’s apartheid army forced white lesbian and gay soldiers to undergo ‘sex-change’ operations in the 1970′s and the 1980′s, and submitted many to chemical castration, electric shock, and other unethical medical experiments. Although the exact number is not known, former apartheid army surgeons estimate that as many as 900 forced ‘sexual reassignment’ operations may have been performed between 1971 and 1989 at military hospitals, as part of a top-secret program to root out homosexuality from the service.
Army psychiatrists aided by chaplains aggressively ferreted out suspected homosexuals from the armed forces, sending them discretely to military psychiatric units, chiefly ward 22 of 1 Military Hospital at Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria. Those who could not be ‘cured’ with drugs, aversion shock therapy, hormone treatment, and other radical ‘psychiatric’ means were chemically castrated or given sex-change operations.
Although several cases of lesbian soldiers abused have been documented so far—including one botched sex-change operation—most of the victims appear to have been young, 16 to 24-year-old white males drafted into the apartheid army.
Dr. Aubrey Levin (the head of the study) is now Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry (Forensic Division) at the University of Calgary’s Medical School. He is also in private practice, as a member in good standing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.










North Korean Experimentation




There have been many reports of North Korean human experimentation. These reports show human rights abuses similar to those of Nazi and Japanese human experimentation in World War II. These allegations of human rights abuses are denied by the North Korean government, who claim that all prisoners in North Korea are humanely treated.
One former North Korean woman prisoner tells how 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves, which all the women had to eat despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 were dead after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat would have meant reprisals against them and their families.
Kwon Hyok, a former prison Head of Security at Camp 22, described laboratories equipped respectively for poison gas, suffocation gas and blood experiments, in which 3 or 4 people, normally a family, are the experimental subjects. After undergoing medical checks, the chambers are sealed and poison is injected through a tube, while “scientists” observe from above through glass. Kwon Hyok claims to have watched one family of 2 parents, a son and a daughter die from suffocating gas, with the parents trying to save the children using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for as long as they had the strength.










Project MKULTRA




Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, that began in the early 1950s and continued at least through the late 1960s. There is much published evidence that the project involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methodologies, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.
Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject’s knowledge and informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after WWII.
Efforts to “recruit” subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, and the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors and the “sessions” were filmed for later viewing and study.
In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKULTRA virtually impossible.








Project 4.1




Project 4.1 was the designation for a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which had an unexpectedly large yield. For the first decade after the test, the effects were ambiguous and statistically difficult to correlate to radiation exposure: miscarriages and stillbirths among exposed Rongelap women doubled in the first five years after the accident, but then returned to normal; some developmental difficulties and impaired growth appeared in children, but in no clear-cut pattern. In the decades that followed, though, the effects were undeniable. Children began to suffer disproportionately from thyroid cancer (due to exposure to radioiodines), and almost a third of those exposed developed neoplasms by 1974.
As a Department of Energy Committee writing on the human radiation experiments wrote, “It appears to have been almost immediately apparent to the AEC and the Joint Task Force running the Castle series that research on radiation effects could be done in conjunction with the medical treatment of the exposed populations.” The DOE report also concluded that “The dual purpose of what is now a DOE medical program has led to a view by the Marshallese that they were being used as ‘guinea pigs’ in a ‘radiation experiment.’”










The Monster Study


The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Johnson chose one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, to conduct the experiment and he supervised her research. After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life. Dubbed “The Monster Study” by some of Johnson’s peers who were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to prove a theory, the experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson’s reputation would be tarnished in the wake of human experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II. The University of Iowa publicly apologized for the Monster Study in 2001.










Stanford Prison Experiment



The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Prisoners and guards rapidly adapted to their roles, stepping beyond the boundaries of what had been predicted and leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. One-third of the guards were judged to have exhibited “genuine” sadistic tendencies, while many prisoners were emotionally traumatized and two had to be removed from the experiment early. Finally, Zimbardo, alarmed at the increasingly abusive anti-social behavior from his subjects, terminated the entire experiment early.

Salary NagotiaTion

7 Tips to help you in salary negotiation

Salary negotiations are tricky things. You hate to ask for more than the employer wants to pay you, but you also don’t want to ask for a salary that’s too low. Not only might you look desperate or unqualified, but you will probably end up with that low salary. Here are 7 tips that might help you when it comes to salary negotiations:

Wait as long as possible before providing your number:

Whenever possible, let the potential employer throw out the first number. You can go up from there. However, if the employer insists that you come up with the number first, share a range that is acceptable to you. This provides you both with room to negotiate, and keeps you from being locked in.

Do your research:

You have to know your own worth, and what sort of worth the market is likely to assign you. Do your homework. Know how much others make with your experience and with the job responsibilities you will be expected to shoulder

While you are doing your research, be sure to read up on employee benefits, perks, bonuses and other forms of compensation. Think about your compensation package as a whole, and not just your salary. Consider accepting stock options or some other type of compensation. Remember that your compensation package is just that — a package. You can negotiate the whole thing, and be more flexible on your actually salary.

Show your worth:

Make sure you have concrete examples that demonstrate your ability to perform the job, and perform it well. Be clear about your past successes, and if you have numbers to show that you improved something by x%, make sure you share those. You will need to sell potential employers on the fact that you are going to be worth what they pay you.

Employ silence:

If you are negotiating, silence can be an effective tool. If you are not happy with the first offer, fall silent and show that you are deliberating. If you have done your homework, and demonstrated your worth to the employer, you might get a different offer if you just wait a minute or so, in an attitude of hesitation over the compensation package. However, be aware that in the present climate, too much silence might lose you the job. If the offer is fair, don’t hold out too long, or you might miss your chance.

Be honest

This seems like a no-brainer, but a number of people try to lie — or stretch the truth a little — during salary negotiations. Remember that potential employers can double check information on your job performance and compensation. Make sure you are up front about your current salary and benefits package so that, if you are asked, you can answer accurately.

Be prepared to walk

Do you have a back-up plan? Back in journalism school, If you aren’t being treated fairly, do you have enough to walk away? Before you go into a salary negotiation, take stock of your emergency fund, and whether you can afford to turn down an offer that seems too low. If you are in a position where you have to take what’s offered, there’s not much you can do. But if you are in a place where you can walk, show that you mean business, and be prepared to walk away unless the potential employer comes up a little bit.

Food Intake

Food Intake Before and After you hit the Gym.

What you eat before and after you hit the gym is also equally important.

An effective gym turn-out depends on many factors.Most important one is the food you take, that is your diet.What you eat before your gym lessons prepares your body for the stress. 

What you eat after your gym lessons is responsible for muscle buildingand the body repair.

Herein below I have compiled some important tips from health magazines.

Before the Gym:-1. 

Get the carbs. Give your body a dose of carbohydrates one hour before you hit the gym.Eat an apple. You may also have as breakfast toast, cornflakes or idlis.You may also eat a banana with lukewarm milk for the complex carbohydratesit provides.Such type of foods before gym need comparatively little time for digest,are easy on the body, and provide you with maximum energy during the Gym.Also ensure that you drink a glass of water before you take the gym lessons,so that your body is well-hydrated.


2. Never go hungry.Do not hit the gym with an empty stomach. The stress that the exercise has on the body, combined with the lack of sugar energy will lead toHypoglycaemia, a condition that will make you prone to fatigue.For a diabetic it is important to start to hit the gym lessons immediatelyafter a heavy meal. However normal healthy individuals must maintain a gapof two three hours before a meal to take up the gym lessons. The logic is toallow the sugar level in the body to reach an optimum level.

During your course of gym lessons level of cortisol, the destructive hormonesin the body increases. Therefore the human body is prone to infection. That isprecisely why, the hour after gym course is known as the window periodas it allows infections to enter the body. Use this opportunity and eat as soon as possible. 


The body loses salt due to sweating. That is why it isimportant to compensate the loss with a rich source of electrolyte like ORT.Have proteins but do not completely rely on proteins for your supplyOf energy as they are far more difficult to digest and take a toll on yourKidneys. 

Therefore to aid digestion make sure, you add lot of greens In your meal as they are rich in fibre.The body needs a high-protein diet for muscles building. 

However relying on the supplements is not the alternative. The best option for a post-gym supplement is to take the watery part of yogurt Curd that is very rich in Proteins, chop a banana and an apple, into it, put it in the blender.It is a perfect combination of proteins and carbohydrates. The apple is rich in fibre also.

film industry has talent

It gets my goat when people grumble about there being a dearth of talent in the film industry today. Maybe they live in caves, because the industry is overflowing with talented people who are doling out cutting edge work, people whose bold choices are being noticed and accepted today. Here’s my top ten list of cutting edge personalities to come out of the industry. 

   1. Dibakar Banerjee: Dibakar Banerjee’s genius stems from the fact that he doesn’t try to impress you, yet his films are so impressive. His strength as a director is directly related to his talent as a screenplay writer. His stories are interesting because his humour is organic and observational. With LSD, Dibakar does what few filmmakers dare to do; expose stories through a form of voyeurism that is creepy but true, adulterated, scintillating, and thoughtful. He knows how to provoke you and humour you with seemingly effortlessness. 

   2. Abhay Deol: There is a whole section of the urban audience who think Abhay Deol is a demi god, someone who refuses to conform to industry norms and regulations. He is experimental, quirky, intense, witty, and more importantly, doesn’t really care what you think of him. His performances speak for him, and it’s safe to say he isn’t capable of giving a bad one. A young producer in the making, Abhay had already learnt how to balance his films so that he’s doing a little of everything, without ever seeming burdened. His performance in Dev D may have reached cult status, but it’s Manorama Six Feet Under and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! that show his range. 

   3. Vishal Bhardwaj : Vishal’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays resulted in Maqbool and Omkara, cinematic masterpieces both. While some in the industry felt he lacked originality, what people fail to notice is how wonderfully and organically he adapts masterpieces to fit our times, culture, and politics. Vishal has a great visual vocabulary, not to mention a remarkable ear for music. His compositions, both musically and cinematically are earthy and deep. Not one to try to wow you with accessories, Vishal focuses more on having fun with structure, narrative, and inspires actors to deliver career changing performances.

   4. Imtiaz Ali: Imtiaz’s films delicately balance new age perspective in storytelling with all the requirements of commercial cinema. Imtiaz’s strengths lie in his ability to nab dialogue where it sounds conversational, and his observation of the smaller, simpler moments that make up romance. His films have gotten bigger in scale, but his characters have remained rooted and sincere. In Imtiaz lies the soul of a romantic with a lot to share. 

   5. Deepa Bhatia: In an industry, which prefers to work with just an operator while they call all the cuts, Deepa provides an invaluable perspective as an editor. Intelligent, keenly observant, brutally honest and instinctive, Deepa finds the essence of a film through hours and hours of footage, and oftentimes gives the story a structure and soul that even the director might not have seen. Her work on Taare Zameen Par, Rock On!, and of course, My Name is Khan illustrate her exemplary sensibilities as an editor but more importantly, as someone who can create magic on the edit table. 

   6. Anurag Kashyap: Anurag has gone from being an underdog to being a filmmaker with a strong and powerful bark that makes people take notice. He has a dark streak that he channels beautifully through his films. Dev D is an example of how seamlessly he is able to take a story that has already been explored and give it a modern day interpretation. As a producer too, Anurag takes bold leaps. Never predictable, and always brutally honest, this filmmaker has found a solid foothold in an industry that often scowls at change. 

   7. Amit Trivedi: Two of Amit’s most widely known contributions to Indian film music are Emotional Attyachar from Dev D, and the soulful Iktara from Wake Up Sid! Two starkly different melodies, from different worlds of music, coming out of the same man, speaks volumes of this musical prodigy. Amit’s sensibilities are classic but his presentation is modern, making his sound an ideal bridge between younger and older audiences. 

   8. Zoya Akhtar: The challenges Zoya faced to get her first film made is no secret, but with perseverance and faith in her abilities as a filmmaker, Zoya gave the industry Luck By Chance, a first film that didn’t feel like one. Confident, exuberant and supremely talented, Zoya extracted wonderful performances from her equally talented actors, and proved with no uncertainty that she is a filmmaker to keep watching. 

   9. Prateik Babbar: He made his debut in a film where all his co-stars were playing bubbly and energetic college kids, while he played an introverted young artist, doling out sage advice without even realising it. With a joint perched behind his ear, his quiet performance made everyone sit up and take notice. It’s hard not to think of his mother, the beautiful and remarkably talented Smita Patil when you watch him, but Prateik holds his own on screen, to the point where it’s hard to look at anything but him in a scene. His career has only just begun, but he’s definitely on the right trajectory. 

   10. Aamir Khan: You can’t have a conversation about cutting edge filmmakers without including Aamir Khan. It’s refreshing to see that he has parlayed his skills and talents towards being a successful and avant garde producer. With films like Peepli Live, Dhobi Ghat, and Delly Belly all promising something new, something untold before, he remains a true visionary, a glowing example of the kind of education that can be achieved by making the industry your institution

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