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PATRA

E-ZINE

E-MAG CREW

Ram Praveen; Bhaskar VK; Pradeep Bonam; Chidvilas Yadav;
KLM Vara Prasad; Divya Deepthi K; Rama Devi B; KSN Murthy;

BhavyaShree; Vikas Tripathi

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JOHN S. SIMPSON

CEO

Team, I am honored to kick off Patra India's first E-newsletter.

I thought I would start with a recap of our history for those
employees new to Patra and then share with you some initiatives
close to my heart.

Patra Corporation was founded in 2005 by me and Dan Easterlin in my backyard
in San Carlos, California. From this humble beginning Patra Corporation has
grown to become a large company with 200+ employees in the United States and
2400+ employees in India.

-Like Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Many of these employees are our
Apple our awesome company was started leaders today. I wanted to remind
in my garage and the Print Shop was you of few here:
located in a shed in my backyard for the
first 2 years of our existence. However, Sudeep Thekkedil joined as Process
the story changes here. A critical Executive on 31st August, 2006
component of Patra Corporation from
the very beginning was you.  A trusted Shaju Madhupully joined as Process
friend and brilliant business partner Executive on 21st August, 2005
Murali Chirala assisted me in locating a
vibrant city with truly great people in Pragathi Guntu joined as Process
which to start completing the back-office Executive on 19th September, 2005
processes that Patra is famous for today.
As you should know, Murali’s sister in Suresh Karri joined as IT Executive
law Madam Lakshmi Mukkavilli and her on 24th October, 2005
esteemed father Mr. Murthy were the
first leaders to join us in India on this Smriti Lekha Ray joined as Process
journey of building a world class Execuitve on 24th October, 2005
organization.
Vijay Bhaskar joined as Process
Matt Easterlin joined Madam Lakshmi Executive on 05th October, 2005
and Mr. Murthy and they spent a full
year transferring the United States My purpose is and has always been
insurance knowledge to our first the creation of vibrant and just
employees. organizations that allow me to
provide not just jobs but careers to
the many great people I am blessed
to meet.

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-In the last decade, the insurance as an I would like to highlight some
industry has grown tremendously and programs I fully support and our
Patra has grown with it. In fact, in the 2018 priorities before I leave you.
last 4 years alone, we have grown from
$8.2 million business to a $40 million I am very proud to witness the robust
business.  We have had rapid expansion growth of Patra’s Corporate Social
and all but $5 million of this was organic Responsibility “CSR” programs,
growth.  We still do what we originally Women Cultivating Confidence
started doing by issuing insurance “WCC” program, CISR program and
certificates for agencies (more than 2.4 the Patra India Ambassador program.
million certificates in the last year!), but These programs not only link our
also our mission has expanded to great people across continents but
provide more than 100 distinct services push forward my commitment of
for retail agencies (commercial, personal building our Women Leaders’
lines and employee benefits), MGAs, contributions at Patra and benefiting
wholesalers, carriers and more. the well-being of people in the
communities in which we operate.
Today we have 7 offices in two countries Patra’s Core Values
and I am just proud that we treat other - Integrity
well and prosper together. - Honesty
- Clean Data

Patra’s 2018 Priorities
1. Increase Margins and Efficiency
2. Grow Revenue
3. Embrace and Develop Technology
4. Upsell/Cross Sell Customers
5. New Product Development

As I close, I would like to extend my
warm wishes to you and your families
and thank you for your contributions
to our company as we walk this
journey together.

Namaste
John Simpson

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Greetings

I believe we are in the new age of human exploration with the use of
technology for the information exchange from one end to the other.
I personally believe that the Information and communication play a
vital role in personal and organizational development. In a year
filled with challenges the idea of E-Magazine is a perfect go at the
right time. I'm confident this will bridge the communication gap
between US and India staff to know the regular eventualities. Alone
we can do so little together we can do Wonders - Wishing all the
best to Patra E-Mag.
In closing, I would like to thank the entire E-Mag team for an
outstanding job.

Sudeep Thekkedil

General Manager

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LEAD THE WAY

-Shaju Madhupully, AGM

-Do you possess the right skills to build and keep a Decision Making: This is a key skill at the
strong team? Did you ever have a tough situation to workplace, and is particularly important if you
manage poor performance and difficult behaviours want to be an effective leader. Identify
from your team? Do you have someone who can different solutions to a cause of the issue.
guide and support you to face these challenges, as Communicate with the team; consider their
well as mentors you and assist you to face IJP? opinion before making a decision.

Leadership means handling different things in Be A Guide: A leader plays an important role
different situations with different people. Promotion in guiding the members of the team and
is actually a responsibility; one should have a motivating them to stay focused. You ought to
personal assessment before getting ready for it. be a facilitator and strive for team member’s
There are key points that management looks at he or success. Appreciating the team whenever
she when they appear for IJP. needed is an important quality that is
required. The leader should be amicable to the
Shaju Madhupully, AGM is here to help you to reach team and should have the liberty to walk up to
your goal. With his experience, he shares a few tips to you to take help. A leader should also be able
adapt to be a prospective leader. to delegate the work to subordinates and
provide required support to complete the task
perfectly.

Performance: Those who are striving to meet the Communication: If You Can't Communicate,
expectations of profit, viewed as effective leaders. You Can't Lead. Communication is not just
Leadership is always combined with Performance of conveying the message, but it is an
reaching the set goals. interaction. Poor listening will end up with
destructive results. With verbal
Ownership: A leader should possess the dedication to communication, written and presentation
whatever they are assigned to. He or she needs to be skills are also equally important to be an
dedicated towards work, feel responsible and take effective leader.
the ownership of the job. Once you take the Be a Role Model: Role models are meant to
ownership, leave no stone unturned to do justice for inspire, instruct, and to set a good example. A
the tasks that are assigned. talented professional influences the team.
Follow the rules, treat everyone with respect
and create a strong team sense.

Finally, leadership can be defined in many ways.
According to John C Maxwell, “A leader is one
who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the
way.” I hope you find this useful to reach your
goals as a new leader. See you people soon with
another helpful topic.

Vol 0.1 April 2018 SUCCESS

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SPOTLIGHT

"I always believe in focused work and positive results" says Madhavi, known for
knowledge and dynamic working style, Dan Easterlin Global Impact award winner and
who successfully entered in her 10th year of service as AGM is sharing her thoughts
and experience in her unique journey with Patra E-Mag on the occasion of
International Women's Day celebrations.

-You are associated with Patra for 10 years, how do you see -What is your observation that took place for gender equality at
Patra then and now? Patra?
A vast difference! 90 degrees change in terms of business This is a global issue. In comparison with other known companies
development, infrastructure, resource structure, public talk, around, Patra stands at the justified mark in this concern.
CSR activities, what not? This brings in a huge pride in me for Women employees are at 40% in total staff and among 25% are
being part of this company from its pilot stage. in leadership roles. This is very positive point and the good sign.
-How do you see and define your success from PE level to We initiated women support group meetings whose core
AGM at Patra? purpose is to empower women to reach higher positions in their
People define me as professional, but I always believe in careers.
focused work and positive results perhaps that is the key -How do you vindicate yourself as a good mother and wife?
driver for my hassle-free journey from PE-1 through AGM. I This is essentially important for me to justify myself as good
also consider that I’m fortunate to work with wonderful, mother and wife than any other thing in my life. I’m fortunate to
supporting and experienced mentors to whom I reported have such a wonderful soul mate in my life. As a wife, I always
from PE-1 level to this stage as AGM. I inculcated these traits ensure I never let down my husband’s trust on me and live up to
from my bosses and reflected the same with my downlines. his expectations. Motherhood is one of the most beautiful
After all, I get to enjoy the taste of my position when I experiences that a woman can have in her entire life. My girl who
witness the same pride in my succeeding along with me. is in kindergarten is my first and high priority no matter how
-How do you keep yourself updated to cop up with the busy my work schedule. Could be tough and stressful, still, I
current competition? enjoy doing the daily chores for my cutie pie. I cannot
I always update myself with the company’s new changes, new compromise on my quality time with her.
policies, and new processes information. Keep checking the -Message to your co-women staff.
process and updated workflows in a regular manner. I keep There are many ladies in Patra who inspired me greatly, and
updated with the general news in the city. I also stay amongst them, the first one is Lakshmi Mukkavalli who is a
connected to professional networks like LinkedIn that gives constant motivation to me and to that fact to every woman in our
knowledge about changing trends in the technology and organization. I was so much influenced by her personally. And
approach. also there are many young women in our company from all levels
-Any time you gave up / totally lost and again took complete who shared their difficulties they faced and overcome them with
control of a situation that turned your favor. great confidence, courage and positive thinking. What I learnt
I must confess here, this happened a couple of times with me. from all these great women in our organization is what I wanted
Being straightforward does not help every time; instead, it to convey a message today.
hurts the other person. Fortunately, I’m able to take control
of the situation with a quick realization of my mistake, and  “Believe in yourself. Know your worth and value
later that actually favored me to build a strong rapport with yourself. Be proud to be a woman. Let’s rock!”
the persons for we are able to know each other inside out.
-What are the challenges / Problems you overcame as lady
boss?
I want to see myself as just a Boss rather than a lady Boss and
I projected the same view to my team as well. Of course,
being a woman in a responsible role, I'm glad to help all the
women folks, with their female-related concerns and ensure
for free to approach.

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SPOTLIGHT

Smriti Lekha Ray played key role in the start of Patra in Raipur. After a remarkable journey in
operations for 9 years in different roles, she is now taking responsibility of Office management at
Raipur. Sharing her past and present experience on the occasion of International Women's Day.

How do you see your comeback to Patra? Smriti Lekha Ray
Surprising. Started as a small entity then, but
now Patra is one of the fastest growing BPMs How do you see Patra’s venture in Raipur?
with 3 branches in India just in 11 years’ Chhattisgarh as a state known for diversity,
time. Patra recognizes and values for its especially Raipur as a city known for
employees…so in my case. I am glad “I am in Business, Study centers and Govt
Patra” again. organizations. The young and energetic
generation from the city is seeking decent
How did your journey start with Patra? Job opportunities. Patra plays a vital role in
I have started as a trainee in 2005 with Patra. offering a wonderful career-building
The journey from PE-1 to Office Manager opportunity for the new generation of
was full of excitement, challenges and Raipur.
learning. I was handling one of the biggest
clients in Certs as a Team Lead and as a Sr. What would you want to effectuate in the
Team Lead I have implemented multiple year 2018-2019?
clients in Policy checking. As Implementation Being an oldest employee, I would like to
Manager I was part of SAMS, RHSB, Select ensure ‘Patra is the best place to build their
Solutions and Marsh Endorsement career’ for all the employees at Raipur.
implementations and I am proud these
processes are doing great currently. Among
all, my US visit was the most unforgettable
moment. Visiting Clients and learning
personally from them was a wonderful
experience. My sincere thanks to Lakshmi,
Dan, Matt and Lynne for all their support in
building my career.

What is your experience with current
Position?
The day I rejoined Patra as Office Manager
for Raipur branch in 2015, made me explore
different angle in my professional
experience. I was used to dealing with
operations for 9 years’ time. Now handling
Admin & Facility was unique. It is not easy
but is exciting and thrilling.

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#CSR

"Traffic Awareness"

@Vizag
Under the CSR initiative, Patra has conducted
a massive Traffic Awareness Programme on
27th January at Satyam Junction, one of the
busiest junctions in the city. Managing Director,
Sr. Managers and more than 120 employees
participated. Slogans are given with citing
examples of road safety and to follow traffic
rules. The event was conducted for 3 hours in
morning and 2 hours in evening.

@Raipur
With the successful campaign on traffic
awareness in Vizag, it's decided to take it to one
of the other locations in India, Raipur. With the
collaboration of Raipur Traffic Police, Patra
employees conducted Traffic Awareness drive on
17th February 2018 at Ambedkar Chowk. Key
chains were distributed to those following traffic
rules.

The event made special as Mr Sean, VP IT and
Mr Simon, COO Finance along with visiting clients
and dignitaries from the US, graced the occasion
with their participation.

Patra donated four road barriers with our logo on
them to traffic police, which will help the Police in
controlling traffic. Also, more than 500 key chains
were distributed to commuters for following
traffic rules.

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#CSR

"Blood Donation Camp"

@Vizag
A Blood Donation Camp conducted at Patra
India, Vizag premises on 24th and 25th of March
with collaboration of AS Raja Blood Bank.
Around a hundred volunteers have participated
in the camp and donated blood for the noble
cause of helping those in need of blood. The
contribution of the volunteers is priceless and
will inspire lot others to come forward for the
great cause.

A Visit To Charitable Trust

@Bangalore
Volunteers from Patra Bangalore visited Sai
Krupa Charitable Trust in the city on 24th March.
The trust houses old aged people as well as
orphaned kids. Team spent some valuable time at
the trust, served breakfast and conducted fun
activities with the kids. Patra has sponsored two
fire extinguishers to the trust and distributed
fruits to old aged and stationary kits to the
children.

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INSPIRE

Charity Unveiled

Humanity has become an unidentified Thirty employees have actively
commodity these days.  At times people think participated and made the day
this is something they cannot afford to. Proving memorable for the underprivileged
that to be wrong, a team in our organization kids. Games played, fun generated,
made it possible. brought smiles and filled the day with
B Shift policy checking team demonstrated joy for both kids and the team.
their generosity by sparing a small contribution Sparing a little money and time they
which brought about a big difference in the got a great feeling of contentment,
lives of others. The team reporting to Sr. the team is now determined to
Manager Anil and Manager Sujatha had formed organize many such events in the
a voluntary group. They pooled some amount future. Hats-off to kind people for the
and visited an orphanage, Gnanananda Ashram generous act. Indeed you are the true
Sadhu Mutt in the city on 18th February 2018. inspiration to all on the path of Social
The ashram is taking care of around 50 orphan Responsibility.
children and it is maintained purely on
donations.  The members of Patra offered them
food for one complete day.  They also helped
them by providing other basic needs like ceiling
fans, blankets, books and clothes.

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KUDOS WELL DONE

APPRECIATIONS

Client:
"Thank you ProSight Superstarts, for the excellence you
bring everyday!"

TNELAT Painting Talent By Raipur Team
TOG ARTAP
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RADIO TIME

India - US Ambassadors

This is first of its kind program initiated
by the organization primarily to bring
down the disconnect between employees
working in India and in the United States.
The idea is to create a platform wherein
two employees, one from each country
will partner up and share the cultural,
regional and social differences among the
two nations, mostly through their
personal experience and interests, thus
making their counterparts familiar to the
lifestyle in another country.

With the successful conclusion of the first season, the second batch is ready to commence
from April with another 20 ambassadors and continues for next three months. The program is
now rolled out to other locations at Patra India making everyone a part of it, learning
diversified cultures across the country and improving the employee relations.
                                                                                                                      -All the best, Team Patra!

Analytics Department

As part of fast growing, ever changing
competitive world and to reach the client
expectations by providing better services from
time to time, company has inaugurated a new
department “PATRA Operations – Analytics”.
The department personnel will work closely
with operations teams to build reports,
analyze the data, optimize the workflows,
finetune the processes wherever possible and
improve the overall efficiency.

The department is led by Mr. Eshwar, AGM and has five analysts initially.
 -Kudos to the team of analysts who got selected.

-Pradeep Kumar B
-Basheer M
-Naveen T S S
-Satya Srinivas P
-Sudha Rani P

Let’s applaud, look forward for the team to bring more progress with their skill sets and
analysis across all productive areas.

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RADIO TIME

ITAAP Sports Meet

In February this year, ITAAP has conducted annual
sports events for all its members from Vizag region
and there is huge participation in all events by Patra
employees. Around 150 employees participated in
seven different events conducted from February 10
through March 04, 2018.

Here is the list of those represented Patra at ITAAP
annual sports and won one of the top 3 positions in the
events participated. Congratulations to the Winners!
We are proud of your success.

Jagadesh Kumar Ch. Narayana Rao Gulivindala Jagadish Uggini
Srikanth Singamsitty & Venu Narendra Bora Wilson Pal
Narendra Teppala Satish Sarvamangala Anil Kumar Sanapala
Sarath Kumar Murala & Shiva Kumar Pampana Narayana Rao Gulivindala
Abraham Lincoln Guntur Abraham Lincoln Guntur Anil Kumar B
Geetha Tamada Aswini Akula Nagendra B
Sravani Godugula & Shakila Sheik Sandeep S
Mahalakshmi Malipeddi Ramoji Rao Gorle Sandeep Kumar Jinna
Santhosh Kumar K Jyothi Swarupa Nakka Lokesh Kumar Karri
Jagadesh Uggini Gayathri B Harish Peluri
Venu Narendra Bora Yashoda Moturi Ram Mohan Saripalli
Ramalaxmi Alluri Usha Rani Akula Dharini Kranthi M
Jyothirmayi Maruvada Mounika Virothi Lokesh Nammi
Mounika Srivani Nakka Ramachandra Rao Mamidi Vamsi Krishna Pemmadi
Sravani Godugula Iliash Sheik Santhosh Kumar K
Geetha Tamada Madhusudhan Vaddadi
Pavani Payala & Vinay Kumar Chinthada Raja Ananth Chaganti
Leelavathi Rongali Gowri Shankara Rao Yeddu Appa Rao D
Sarath Kumar Murala Yuva Shankar Koduru Sunil Kumar Sanapala
Gayathri B Santosh Neelam Eliah Theeda
Ram Mohan Saripalli

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Development Team

The Development Team that started with 4 employees,
a year ago is now with 14 and expected to expand to
30 team members by end of 2018. Led by Branton
Harris, Director of Development Team and Srinivas
Chitturi, Manager, the team mainly works on
developing the applications like Alpha, SQL Server and
Node and make them more user friendly for the
operations and analytics teams to access the data.

Seminars in Q1 Lakshmi Mukkavilli is
CII – IWN Chairwoman
Seminar on Operations Management:
ITAAP, Vizag region has conducted a best Lakshmi Mukkavilli, Managing Director of
practice session on Operations Management on Patra India is now appointed as Chairwoman
20th January 2018. Around 50 participated of Confederation of Indian industry’s –
from different companies in the city and 10 Indian Women Network, Andhra Pradesh
employees at management level has Region for 2018-19. Shubhra Sharma,
represented Patra India. Mr. R L Narayana, Human Recourse - Head of HSBC appointed
location head of WNS has presided the session Vice-Chairwoman.
and explained the best practices to be followed
and get successful in managing Operations. CII – IWN started in 2013 for Career
women, Faculty & Students who are
Employee Benefits Session: ambitious and dynamic. It works for a better
A session on Employee Benefits was held on environment and equal opportunities for
10th February 2018 at Tech Mahindra and women in the Public and Private sector.
several IT/BPO companies in Vizag took part in IWN focus on Learning & Development,
the discussion about different benefits Health & Wellbeing and Policy & Advocacy
provided to the employees. HR team and 10 to strengthen women role in the Industry.
employees at management level has
represented Patra India in the session. CII-IWN is managed by Women independent
committee and directors for the betterment
CII Summit: of women workforce in the industry. CII –
CII (Confederation of Indian Industries), IWN will surely succeed its tasks under the
Visakhapatnam Chapter, has conducted a guidelines of Madam Lakshmi.
session on “Future of HR” on 22nd March 2018.
Managing Director, Lakshmi M was one of the Congratulations to Madam Lakshmi on behalf
speakers in the COO Forum. Patra was of Patra Family!
represented by Sr. Executives HR – Vijaya and
Shashikant. The summit was attended by top
leaders across India and many HR partners
across Andhra Pradesh.   

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RADIO TIME

PINKATHON India Going Pink or The Pinkathon is
JAN 2018 India’s biggest women’s run founded by

Milind Soman and organized by United
Sisters Foundation. India Going Pink is an
initiative run under Pinkathon's umbrella

to propagate the breast cancer
awareness to all the cities and towns in
India and to encourage women to adopt

healthier lifestyle and have a positive
attitude towards life.

India Going Pink or The Pinkathon is India’s biggest women’s run founded by Milind Soman
and organized by United Sisters Foundation. India Going Pink is an initiative run under
Pinkathon's umbrella to propagate the breast cancer awareness to all the cities and towns in
India and to encourage women to adopt healthier lifestyle and have a positive attitude
towards life. The running distances were 3 kms, 5 kms, 10 kms and 21 kms, giving each
runner an opportunity to run in their comfort zone. Out of 300 runners, there are around 50
women employees from Patra including Managing Director, Lakshmi Mukkavilli who has
actively taken part in the run and encouraged the women contributing their part for the
noble cause.

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STAR SPACE 2017 4th Quarter Awards:

Best Employee Awards Bangalore:
Asif Akram Shaik – PE1
2017 Annual Awards: Krishnamoorthy V – PE2

Bangalore: Raipur:
Sandeep Varadharaju – PE1 Neelima Khare – PE1
Mohammed Salaudin – PE2 Manoj Kumar Patel – PE2
Jagan Reddy – PE3 Ashtik Praveen Kujur – PE3
Sreetej – Team Leader
Jagadish Reddy – Sr. Team Leader & Best Vizag:
Attendance A Shift
Lakkaraju Mohan – PE1
Raipur: Manimala Bangaru – PE1
Sachin Prakash Mishra – PE1 MBS Sirisha – PE3
Manoj Kumar Dwivedi – PE2
Mohammed Awais Raza – Team Leader B Shift
Susheel Kumar Singh – Best Attendance Peethala Bhargav – PE1
Smriti Lekha Mukherjee – Support Staff
Salman Ansari – IT Executive Akula Usha Rani – PE1
K. Santosh Kumar – PE2
Vizag:
Dinesh Kumar S – PE1 C Shift
Divya Sri Koka – PE2 Sandeep Kalepu – PE1
Ch. Hema Latha – PE3 Nambaru Pavan Kumar – PE1
Attili Siva Prasad – Team Leader Ch. Rama Krishna – PE3
Ravi Kumar B – Sr. Team Leader
Sheik Feroz – Manager Madhavadas Shashikant,
Allu Kalpana – Best Attendance SrHR Executive – Support Staff
K Kiran – Facility Executive
Sree Hari Charan – Sr. Finance Executive
K Naveen Kumar – IT Executive

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STAR SPACE

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P-FUN

TALE TIME

Vector will be Victor

-By Purneshwar Sahu, Raipur

In day to day life, we can feel that Science and Philosophy belong to two opposite
ends. But the fact is that Science itself has originated from Philosophy. Here I am
going to talk about a scientific word ‘Vector Quantity’.
We all know Wikipedia. It is an online encyclopedia where we can get information
about almost everything. It is referred to be ‘an ocean of knowledge’.
Just click on the very first searchable word (a word which appears blue) in any
Wikipedia page. New Wikipedia page will come for that word. Again, click on the very
first searchable word of this page. Keep doing this and within your 10th or 15th
search, you will be on the page of ‘Philosophy’. It proves though humans have
classified the knowledge in many streams, all knowledge ends up at ‘Philosophy’.

In science, physical quantities are classified into two groups.
First is Scalar Quantity, in which we must mention the
magnitude (quantity) only. For example, temperature (5-degree
C, 18-degree C) or Length (5 meter, 20 feet) etc. Second is Vector
Quantity, in which we must mention quantity as well as the
direction. For example, Displacement and Force. For force, we
must mention how much force applied and in which direction.
Similarly, we must mention the direction for displacement too.
This story is about Jack Daniel’s. Better yet it is about two
horses named Jack & Daniel. Jack and Daniel were in a desert
and reached a square in search of food, water and shelter. They
had three ways to lead on. Jack traveled whole day long but
ended up in the same square from where he started. He actually
traveled in each way one by one, but after traveling few
kilometers he got disappointed and came back to the square to
try the other way. Now he was faded up physically and mentally
as well.
On the other hand, Daniel chose a way and kept traveling. Before
dawn, he reached an oasis. He got food, water and shelter there.
He too got disappointed several times in his journey but had
faith in his choice. He kept leading on and got his goal. So,
friends, philosophy of life works in the same way.
We all use our energy and capability to reach our goals. But
energy and capability are scalar quantities, which have no
direction. All that is needed is the proper direction, which is a
vector quantity. Add proper direction to your energy and
capability and become a ‘Vector’. Vector will be Victor one day
friends. Like Daniel did.
We will discuss in next edition about how to choose the correct
direction and how to deal with the difficulties that we come
across in the journey.

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P-FUN

FUN-TASK-IT

1 DO YOU KNOW? 6 HEALTH TIPS
Once Charlie Chaplin entered a
contest for "Charlie Chaplin look- Summer is on and we all know that it can be fun-filled
alikes" and he came in third. and hot, and as with any season, it takes awareness
and actions to maintain balance. Summer is the
2 SOLVE THIS! season when you sweat too much and get dehydrated.
I Speak without a mouth and hear Here are some tips for staying healthy in Summer:
without ears. I have nobody, but
come alive with wind. What am I? Keep yourself Hydrated Heat and sweat can leave
your body dehydrated. Lack of water is harmful to
3 LAUGHTING TIME your body and can also make you crave for food when
The Point of A Conference Call: you're not actually hungry. Bored of water? Go for
"A conference call is the best way healthy alternatives like green tea or coconut water
for a dozen people to say “bye” and fruit juice.
300 times."
Food and Diet Don't skip your Breakfast. It is the
4 APP FOR LIFE most important meal of the day that we must not skip
in order to stay healthy. Regular breakfast keeps your
"Tapp Me" is a 'One Stop Solution' heart healthy, improves metabolism but not to gain
extra weight by oily food. Have a rainbow-coloured
for all Renovation, Installation, plate of food that  include Tomatoes, Watermelon,
Oranges, and Salads with dark & leafy greens in your
Repair & Maintenance services for breakfast.

Offices & Homes. Try it! Tips for better sleep during the day:
-Try to avoid long travel that takes time away from
5 ADVICE FOR ALL sleeping.

Remember you’ll always regret -Keep your workplace brightly lighted to promote
what you didn’t do rather than alertness. Circadian rhythms are the body's internal
what you did. clock that tells us when to be awake and when to
sleep. These rhythms are controlled by a part of the
Read the MAG, WIn the Prize... brain that is influenced by light.
Q: By all means, how many
-Limit caffeine. Drinking a cup of coffee at the
times the word "Patra" is been beginning of your shift will help promote alertness.
used in the eMagazine; But don't consume caffeine later in the shift or you
may have trouble falling asleep when you get home.
Please send your answers to
[email protected] -Stick to a regular sleep-wake schedule as much as
you can.
Hurry Up!!!
-Take help from your family to limit phone calls and
visitors during your sleep hours.

-Use blackout blinds or heavy curtains to block
sunlight when you sleep during the day.

Vol 0.1 April 2018 [email protected]

-Throwback-

epilogue

Skills are a pathway to prosperity and personal development; they are
the driver of competitiveness and growth. Finding the skills within needs

an opportunity. We are proud and delighted with the opportunity.
Technology continues to develop and give us more ways to communicate

and invoke emotion with words, The rise of visual and digital
communication has broadened our effective communication.
Patra E-Zine an endeavor to interpret Patra India for Patra India by

Patra India. A humble request to ignore the mistakes.
Team E-Zine

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