Palash pulse oct2015

PALASH PulseThe Palashian's Imprint

PALASH Healthcare Systems Pvt. Ltd.Oct 2015

Index

From CEO’s Desk ................................................................................ 1-2In Conversation withMr. Narendra Barhate ................................................................................ 3-4P Flash Awards & Recognitions............................................................................ 5 New Clients in PALASH ........................................................................... 6 PALASH: to be a Microsoft Gold Partner................................................. 7

Seldom Personality - Swami Vivekanand .............................................................. 8

E Drive Smartphone: The New Blood Pressure Monitors ..................................... 9

Inspiration in a Box

Attitude Vs Comfort Zone ................................................................ 10

Picture Perfect

Snaps by Palashians ....................................................................... 10

Welcome Wellness

Pink Ribbon Movement ................................................................... 11

Jog One's Memory

World wide Month of October ........................................................... 12

Enlightening PALASH

Celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi and Onam ...................................... 13-14

From CEO's Desk

Dear Palashians, It’s a wonderful feeling of achievement to see this electronic version of Magazine coming out for PALASH – demonstrating it’s creative dimension, lett ing the cultural aspirations sore higher, bring out a complete ly d i f ferent share of everyone’s persona in front … I must commend the Magazine Committee, who raised to our appeal last month to start this magazine and have been able to get this first issue out right in Oct-15 and that too on the occasion of “PALASH’s 10th Foundation Day”. With the energy following in, I am sure that this initiative will pick up and keep it’s momentum for the time to come. The name of the magazine is also selected after a good amount of brainstorming - it’s called “PALASH Pulse - The Palashian’s Imprint” … how closely it relates to the pulse of PALASH’s hearth, .. how close we are to the PULSE of the var ious healthcare organizations that we are serving – which in turn serve PULSES of masses across… Very apt title and the punch l ine … brining the imagination, creativity and mind footprint in reality … Great job Magazine team and all of you who have contributed and will keep on contributing … PALASH Pulse, will generate a platform for the creative genius for the artistic Palashians to keep expressing themselves and their near ones. Thinking of last 10 years for PALASH, I went back in the memory lane – started as a ‘niche’ product company with the shear conviction of our Founder Director Mr Narendra Barhate – with his strong hunch to matter to the healthcare, well-being of the common man by leveraging the Technology. A great mission by a great mind – Narendra has stuck to his conviction all through this time and has been providing the inspiration, support and encouragement to the whole team always. His positive attitude is contagious and gets all the things working for you as you tackle them. The whole Barhate family has

supported this mission wholeheartedly and kept the ship flying. With Bharati providing her diligence to ensure the process alignment across the various umbrella organization, her smiling presence to encourage the talent, her resourceful abilities across the globe and her stern abilities to control the expenditure has been a blessing to PALASH all through these years. Looking back, these nine years have been a roller coaster ride – full of achievements, new customer wins, opening new geographies, new product designs / architectures, new competition growing up, customers demanding more and more in less and less … We are now at the pinnacle and are looking up for a sky rocketing journey ahead of us. We are seeing

ourselves as a world class Product Company to reach the top position in india and across globe in coming 5 y e a r s . We a r e i n s t a t i n g t h e performance based culture and our quarterly appraisal cycle will reinforce t h e s a m e fo r t h e co n t i nuo us improvement. The changes are both inward looking and outward looking. Inwardly, we have done the re-baselining of our Product Pricing S t r a t e g y a n d r e v a m p i n g t h e monetization process; we have instituted a focus on our key customers and have got a formal Account Management Process starting it’s effect by having the top 10 customers reflecting more and more conviction on PALASH and it’s products; Focus on Quality Management process has

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From CEO's Desk

started yielding us it’s fruits for customers being more confident about the stability and performance of our products; Product Management has provided the roadmap for the products and we are able to govern adoption cycles with customers. Outwards looking changes are in the form of our website getting revamped and more interactive, our collaterals being more apt and messaging the new Product centric positioning effectively, our proposals reflecting the thought p roce s s o f l i c en s e s a l e s , t h e Partnership focus to enable our ecosystem access getting strengthened. All in all, generating a very positive vibe inside PALASH, and the market place. The next year, 10th year for PALASH will focusing on the number “10” and we are carving out huge sets of initiatives to build the branding around it. We will have “Top 10” customers getting identified and we having our “top 10 PALASH musketeers (account managers)” managing these accounts. We will identify “Top 10 processes” getting identified and define the

transformational map for the same. We have already carved out “Mission 100 days” for our SWARM strategy and will keep momentum going on the same – we have articulated a “Top 10 incentive Scheme” – which will focus on incentivizing the employees to demonstrate their contributions for PA L A S H ’s b u s i n e s s a n d g e t remunerated. Our 10 steps in Sales Process are getting automated in the CRM tool as we speak. Our “Mission Critical” initiative focusing on Process Excellence will create “Top 10 Process Missions” to set the goal and keep the ball rolling for each one of them. All in all – “it’s going to be the number 10 that we will talk about for the next year” … Looking forward, I see PALASH becoming a stronger brand, beating competition on its strong foundation of domain, technology and customer alignments. PALASH as an organization will become more supple, flexible, efficient and capable to respond to the markets expectations and trends moving forward. There will

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence then, is not an act,

but a habit.

Aristotle

be sets of customers giving strong referrals to PALASH and we will have dedicated Center Of Excellences focused on serving these customers. We will open some very domain focused ventures to cater to niche market segment and attract talents, investments and markets to make those ventures successful. Sitting at the helm of this organization, I feel extremely satisfied by the contributions each one of you and your dear ones have made to take PALASH to this height and am confident that you will keep on giving the same support moving forward. I would like to leave you with the following thought – let’s jointly enable PALASH to get on to the “excellence” journey …

Regards, Shirish Kulkarni


Mr. Narendra Barhate

Can you share some insights on your personal history? I c o m e f r o m a g r i c u l t u r a l background from a village. I am hailing from Padalse part of Maharashtra and am still having connects with the place till now. My grandfather has been a farmer and I can associate very well with it even now and would like to associate myself back very naturally to the ecosystem and the people in this context. During all the ventures in my life, I have strongly believed in being self-dependent and building a network of like-minded brains. I have been deeply supported by the wide network of my friends, family and business believers.

How is your educational and professional journey? I have done my schooling in Pune from Jnana Prabodini and completed my Bachelor of Engineering from COEP in Electronics and Telecom and an M.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai. After completing my post-graduation, I worked for DRDO Labs from 1984 to 1994. Then I conceptualized SEED Infotech Ltd, a company that provides technology training and consulting services in 1994. Since then, SEED has set up 43


In Conversation with..

centers in India and has a global presence through it’s corporate training division. I am a passionate trainer at heart and have personally conducted more than 10,000 hours of IT t ra in ings, in var ious technologies, in the last two decades. Trained a large number of raw IT students and IT professionals and developed insight into their needs. SEED is also the winner of the Maharashtra State IT HRD award. I realized the importance and potential of healthcare in India and ventured a new company focused on “Healthcare IT So lu t ions” w i th the name SEED Healthcare Solutions in 2006 and has successfully installed Hospital Information and Management software in over 100 hospitals in India and the Middle East. PALASH serves as my venture in the healthcare space and SMS (SEED Management Services) is the venture to cater to the needs of the corporates to manage their Employee Attendance and related workflows. I am proud, that both of these ventures able to take their solutions across the globe and are making dent in the international arena. Making me as a proud Indian entrepreneur.

You get referred as “an entrepreneur at hear t and you l ive in wor ld of entrepreneurship” .. what is your view? I have never been comfortable with the concept of “doing a job” – I could barely spend some 10 years of my budding time to

be constrained in the job of DRDO – though it was a research centric a n d h i g h l y scientific job, my heart immediately started flying for the freedom and empowerment that I was seeking. I am i n d e e d a n entrepreneur at heart and get a q u i ck t a s t e o f “what’s new, what will work, will it work now / later, how will I make it work and how does it fit my scheme of

things / thinking” in a short period of time. Then my thoughts start connecting dots between my existing list of well-wishers and like-minded people that have a great trust and blessings on me. Once I connect the dots together, the idea gets a birth and the focus and intensity of my thoughts drives the structuring, people and processes together in a matter of a very short time span. The entity gets birth and start showing its presence slowly as the realities and constraints play their own roles. Every journey is enjoyable – a lot of learning and companionship along the way – some of them get commercially successful and some of them may not – I derive my satisfaction from the conception, inception, realization and execution. I always seek a spark in the eye for “entrepreneurship” and encourage and nurture the minds to launch themselves and strive hard to learn from the experiences.

What keeps you going now a days? I have been and am deeply concerned about the cur rent situation of education, healthcare and ecology india. I am addressing them in my current capacity, the companies under SEED banner are already targeting these challenges in their roadmaps. For ecology mainly the water usage and rain related imbalance, I have recently started an initiative at Pune level to drive Rain Water Harvesting awareness and getting the likeminded people together - within a span of a week, and the enabling social network, I am h a v i n g a n e t wo r k o f 1 0 0 + enthusiasts coming together for the noble cause . A formal structure and formulation is taking its shape in an aggressive manner.

H ow d o yo u s e e PA L A S H healthcare moving forward? I am having a strong conviction that PALASH has a huge potential and is sitting on a “gold mine” – great domain knowledge, deeply rooted Mr. Narendra Barhate

a n d l o n g l a s t i n g c u s t o m e r s relationships and forward looking technology landscape is the key success factors for PALASH.

How do you look at “challenges” in this world? I think that “challenges” are actually “opportunities” – to create something new, to think of a different way to solve the same problem / issues at hand. I think, this mindset at the leadership level is the key to success in any “so called challenging” situation. With the experience of the dark years of IT in 2001-04, the recent lean / recession period, I took the lead to find and realize what can be done pro-


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actively for a positive frame of mind and to build a 'Win' situation. While in the recession in 2008-09, I conceptualized a brand new “Top Gun” initiative with a winning attitude and daring to succeed, social initiatives like 'Lakshya' were taken up. This was with the thought that, whatever you Focus on Grows. To conceive innovative ideas and, to focus on, to succeed. It soon caught the imagination of one and all. The meetings were hugely over-subscribed and more joined with every meeting.

What is the message you would like to leave to the young generation? I strongly believe that positivity is the key to success, lets remove all the

I would like to leave you thinking with the following thoughts by great Swami Vivekananda. God Bless.

negativity in the form of thoughts, acts, scripts, actions from our minds and we become enabled and blessed with all the “opportunity” in this world. Let's confront the challenges, rather than sitting on them or complaining about them. Let's come together for the larger aim than just self-centered aims and then the things will start looking different and enable us to “unleash potential” each one of us have. As a last note, my doors and heart is always open for each one of you and I would like to bless you and your dear ones with the best of the best wishes for your future endeavor.

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PALASH was recognized with the Quality Brands Award for the period of 2014-16 given by the Quality Brands Times for creating a valuable brand in the market.

National Excellence in Healthcare award was given to PALASH for its commendable efforts in simplifying the use of IT in the healthcare industry thus improving the quality of patient care

PALASH Awards & Recognitions

PALASH has been ranked in the list of Top 10 most promising Enterprises published by Silicon I n d i a . T h i s l i s t w a s published in the May 2014 issue of the magazine

PALASH has been given the prestigious "Innovative Domestic Player of The Year " Award, by ASSOCHAM a t the ICT In Healthcare Summit cum Awards function organized in New at the hands of Shri . Lov Verma - Secretary Health and Family Welfare Govt. of India

Winner of World's Most Important Bus ine s s Exce l l ence Award thbizz2015

At the Maharashtra Healthcare Leadership Awards & Summit PALASH was dec l a r ed HIS Provider of the year 2014

Winner of “HIS & HIMS Provider of the Year 2014” Award at the eIndia's 10th year Convention Summit.

Winner of “Most Innovative Healthcare IT Initiative Award, 2015 at 4th Annual Healthcare Leader's Forum 2015


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New Clients in PALASH

Milann FertilityAchievements of Dr. Kamini Rao

Ÿ Padma Shri Awards in 2014Ÿ Karnataka State Award (Rajyotsava Award) for invaluable service in the field of medicine.Ÿ Vidya Ratan Award for invaluable service in the field of medicine.Ÿ Lifetime Achievement Honors Tribute Award, for dedicated service to the Nation & Profession, from the Vivekananda

Institute of Human Excellence, Hyderabad.Ÿ Aryabhatta Award from the Aryabhatta Cultural Organisation for excellence in the field of medicine.Ÿ B.C. Roy District Award from the Shimoga district unit of Indian Medical Association.Ÿ Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bangalore Society of Obstetrics & GynecologyŸ Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federation of Obstetric & Gynecological Societies of India

About KJ Somaiya Medical College And Research Centre:

The K. J. Somaiya Medical College is a Private Medical College owned and managed by the Somaiya Medical Trust. It is situated in the Somaiya Ayurvihar Complex which is located on a 22.5 acre campus in the heart of city of Mumbai at Sion. A Teaching

Hospital

Clients Name Location No. of Beds ProductSr.No.

Milann Fertility1 Bangalore Multiple Location IVF

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3

4

Ananta Charitable Edu. Soc.

K.J. Somaiya

Epicenter Healthcare-Diagnostics

Udaipur

Mumbai

Mumbai

750

300

DIMS

Web HIMS

Web HIMS

Milann Fertility: Milann, The Ferti l ity

®Centre has been helping couples turn hope into happiness for over 25 y e a r s . O v e r 7 0 , 0 0 0 couples have been helped since Milann was founded in Bangalore by Dr. Kamini A Rao. It is one of the most precious association for PALASH and i t wi l l d e fi n i t e l y l e a d t o transforming PALASH IVF application to a more succ inc t and robus t version.

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(K. J. SOMAIYA HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE) of 500 beds in the same campus serves to provide practical experience to Medical students offers affordable healthcare services in various disci

plines to society and participates in

National Health Programmes.

The primary aim of the institute is 'To be a leading provider of

professional Medical Education in the Country, integrating highest standards of academic excellence with ethics and spirituality and providing Health Care to the Society'.


Ananta Charitable Educational Society: Ananta Charitable education society is doing charity in educational area from very long time. Now they are opening there own 750 bedded multi-specialty hospitals in Udaipur.They wanted to do charity by contributing though hospital and even

with medical college.

ALASH's existing Association Pwith Microsoft is the Silver Partners. We are now in the

process of upgrading this partnership to Gold Certified Partners. There are Prerequisites for these up-gradations to qualify for one of the competencies available under Microsoft Competencies Portfolio. To complete the process of qualification there are protocols that needs to be followed. We have identified application development as one of the competency for qualification. The great news is that we are on the verge of completing this process and will be Microsoft Gold Partners in the near future.

PALASH: to be a Microsoft Gold Partner

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There are numerous benefits of being a Microsoft partner, including:

Ÿ Building networks within Microsoft and with other Microsoft partners

Ÿ Access to Microsoft software and in-depth product information

Ÿ Promote your offerings on Microsoft.com

There are 3 different levels of Microsoft partner: Registered, Certified and Certified Gold.

Gold Certified Partners This is the third and highest level of Microsoft partner. As a certified gold partner, you will have a very close working relationship with Microsoft and you will have access to the Partner Knowledge Base and receive priority listing in Microsoft directories.

Benefits:Ÿ Internal-Use Licenses Free licenses

for Microsoft software to use within your organization. Check this list for license entitlement.

Ÿ After you've attained Gold Certified Partner status, announcing it with a press release can help you generate new business, increase your credibility with existing customers, and distinguish yourself from your competition.

Ÿ Gold Certified Partner Logo Ÿ A key benefit for Gold Certified

Partners is the ability to use the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner logo in partner-branded marketing materials. Display your company's high level of industry experience providing services, software, or support for Microsoft technology. And show customers that you're reliable, thoroughly skilled, and endorsed by Microsoft.

Existing choice of Technology

hen we first chose Silverlight as Wour UI technology, we came up with a set of requirements. Our application should have a (near) zero footprint on client systems. It should be accessible through the web. Deployment on clients should be effortless. It should look great without a whole lot of effort. Silverlight fulfills all these requirements. In due course of time we started analyzing that people working on more different platforms than before and our customers began to ask for a browser

HTML5

Ÿ Mobile Friendly: HTML5 is the most mobile ready tool for developing mobile sites and apps. With Adobe announcing the death of mobile Flash, you will now count on HTML5 to do your mobile web application development.

Ÿ Cross Browser Support: All browsers supports HTML5 (Chrome, Firefox, Safari IE9 and Opera) and the HTML5 doctype was created so that all browsers, even the really old and annoying ones, User can use it.

Ÿ Better Interactions: we all want better interactions, we all want a more dynamic application that responds to the users and allow the users to easily interact with the contents instead of just look at it.

Highlights of ASP.net MVC are:

Ÿ Enables the full control over the rendered HTML.

Ÿ Provides clean separation of concerns(SoC).

Ÿ Enables Test Driven Development.

AngularJS:

Ÿ AngularJS is a powerful JavaScript based development framework to create RICH Internet Application(RIA).

Ÿ AngularJS provides developers options to write client side application (using JavaScript) in a clean MVC(Model View Controller) way.

Ÿ Application written in AngularJS is cross-browser compliant. AngularJS automatically handles JavaScript code suitable for each browser.

independent UI, not only on Windows, but also on a lot of other platforms. This lead us to conclude that we needed to do something to support a new requirement. Our application, should be available on multiple platforms. And we should make sure we could drop the browser requirement.


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Seldom

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he huge problem with high Tblood pressure—besides the fact that it can lead to heart

attack and stroke—is that it is hard to detect without the assistance of technology. According to the American Heart Association, high blood pressure is more often than not a symptomless ailment. For this reason, it is vital that patients regularly get checked, especially those who are known to be at risk. While conveniences are already in place to encourage everyone to regularly check their blood pressure, such as units at pharmacies, a new set of gadgets released under the umbrella-term of Accutension are on a mission to make monitoring blood pressure simpler. And unlike automatic blood pressure monitors (BPM) who have been shown to be subject to variation in readings, Accutension detects blood pressure by listening to the sounds of blood flow, just as doctors in a clinical setting would. The big difference is that this BPM is compatible with your Smartphone. It works like this: the sound of the tube from the stethoscope is fed into the Smartphone through a microphone hooked into the headphone jack. Users then set up and run their BPM as usual,

Smartphone: The New Blood Pressure Monitors

E Drive

but they video record the device's display with their Smartphone. Once the test has been completed, the user can replay the video of the BPM display, while listening to the sounds detected by the Accutension stetho-scope. This allows the user to match up the sounds detected by the Stethoscope with the visual results of his or her BPM. When the user hears the first Korotkoff sound (the sound heard with the help of Stethoscope while measuring the Blood pressure), the number that should appear on the screen is the systolic pressure and upon the sound's disappearance, the number on the screen should reflect the diastolic pressure. (For E.g. if the Blood pressure is 120/80 mm of Hg, Systolic Pressure is 120 and Diastolic pressure is 80) Alternatively, variations of the Accutension allow for more in-depth

reporting of blood pressure. The Accutension Classic allows users to test the accuracy of their BPM's algorithm as well as its pressure sensor by utilizing a module that connects to the arm of the BPM. The diagnostics will be displayed on the user's Smartphone via the Accutension App. Another option is to use the Accutension Cuff as a standalone blood pressure kit, which supplies both a visual and audio reading that can be played back on a Smartphone, and saved to show a doctor later. Last but not least, Accutension Doc allows users to conduct their own research with the inclusion of a few helpful extras. The conveniences afforded by healthcare technology are by no means a replacement for knowledgeable medical professionals. To the contrary, at-home tools such as Accutension, and telemedicine technology that allows doctors to assess patients' health remotely, are intended to enhance medical professionals' abilities to monitor our health with greater efficiency. Telemedicine, for example, allows doctors to treat minor ailments of patients in underserved areas who may otherwise have to travel great distances for medical advice that could have been provided over video conference. In the case of Accutension—and countless other Smartphone-based healthcare applications—efficiency is derived in the form of at-home medical technology that is advanced enough to provide accurate information, but also simple enough, and affordable enough, for consumer use. If the current mindset driving innovation in the healthcare technology could be summed up, it would be as follows: convenience cannot, and will not, be a tradeoff for quality. Let's hope it stays this way, and more importantly, let's hope that this mindset permeates other areas of our everyday lives.

Courtesy: Priyanka Khedkar

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Inspiration in a Box

ince the great majority of us Salready know what attitude is, we first talk about Comfort Zone.

Comfort zone is the mental place surrounded by borders in our mind where we feel secure. Even though this comfort area and its boundaries are just a state of mind that has nothing to do with reality, it plays a huge role in the progress of our development. Since the comfort zone is limited, there is not much benefit for you inside your comfort zone, but what you already are and have. Nothing new will happen until you open yourself and leave your comfort zone. As long as you still are having the same beliefs, you cannot grow and you cannot expect new things in your life. When you change your beliefs you will change your thoughts, feelings and actions and then, and only then you can expand and grow in all aspects of your life. Even though your background may be affecting your present situation, what really matters is not where you were born, your skin color, race, age, gender, religion, government, or even the poor environment in which you have been living for so many years, but what really matters and makes a big difference in your life is your attitude, to understand your comfort zone, how you limit yourself within it, who you are, why you behave the way you do it, and mainly where you are going. Sadly many people don't go anywhere because they stay within their comfort zone. They accept defeat after defeat before even trying or knowing how capable or valuable they really are. These circumstances are not the cause of our actual situation but the conformism and the poverty of our thoughts and therefore the weakness of our broken spirit. Leave your past behind; constantly transcend your comfort zone! Your past within this comfort zone is nothing but a wasted load that you don't need to carry, at all. Take constant action as many times as it is required and never ever quit. As Napoleon Hill said, "a quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Defeat is never a failure; no circumstance ever is failure until it is accepted by the individual as a failure". Whatever you are

Attitude Vs Comfort Zonethinking, you are feeling, and therefore what you feel is the way you are acting, and this action is what will determine how far you will go and how your future will be. Cheer up your essence; don't let the background of your comfort zone, or any other external circumstance defeat your spirit. Nothing is impossible for an optimist attitude; everything is possible when we start blindly trusting ourselves, when we have a burning desire to succeed and a blind determination to make our dreams come true; everything is possible when we don't take a no for an answer. Don't be afraid of change, life itself is change, change is growth, and regardless of how painful it may be, change is needed. Change will take you to a place full of new things, blessings and satisfaction, everything is for better. Just focus and only live your present with passion, focus on the things you want and what make you happy. Just believe in yourself, be open minded, open to change, be simple, flexible and take action.

This picture of burning scented sticks is taken in January 2015 at Tripura Sundari Temple which is situated in the ancient Udaipur, about 55 km from Agartala, in the state of Tripura. It is believed to be one of the holiest Hindu shrines in this part of the country. All though the shrine draws devotees of all denominations and sects all year round including some foreigners who are fascinated by the tribal heritage of Tripura and adjacent states of the Northeast, the crowds are particularly thick during Diwali, when a major fair turns the place into a tourist attraction. Thousands of devotees' visits their everyday and burn scented sticks and lights candles with hope that god will listen to their prayer and will remove all their sins.

Burning scented sticks

Marine Drive - Sunset

The great wall, the queen's necklace or simply Netaji Subhash Chandra Marg, whatever you may call it, Mumbai's Marine Drive is popular amongst the young and the old alike. I recently had an opportunity to spend some time at this windswept promenade located in the heart of Mumbai, flanked by the Arabian Sea on one side and by posh art deco buildings on the other. Initially I was going away from Marine drive and suddenly saw this awesome scene, crossed the road in rush and captured this beautiful moment. I took more than 30 snaps but found this one the BEST.

White Throated Kingfisher

This snap has been clicked recently at Pashan Lake. The White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the White-breasted Kingfisher or Smyrna Kingfisher, is a tree kingfisher, found through Middle East and most of Asian subcontinent. This species forms a superspecies with the Javan Kingfisher (Halcyon cyanoventris) and most major works recognize four geographic races. They vary clinally in size, the shades of blue on the mantle which is more greenish in smyrnensis and fusca and more blue or purplish in saturatior. This kingfisher is a resident over much of its range, although some populations may make short distance movements. It can often be found well away from water where it feeds on a wide range of prey that includes small reptiles, amphibians, crabs, small rodents and even birds. Their size is about 28 cms, slightly larger than a Bulbul and has a loud call. White Throated Kingfisher

Photography by Ruturaj Shelke

Photography by Ruturaj Shelke

Photography by Vishal Mane

Photography by Arpita Kar

Picture Perfect


- Courtesy - Dr. Priyanka Gore

Welcome wellness

“Pink Ribbon Movement”here was a time, not too many Tyears have passed when I or maybe we tried telling our

mother for getting tested for Breast Cancer or even just attend an awareness session. But what happened? Default statements were thrown on our Ear Drums of getting scared 'what if something comes out' and some were of superior category saying 'Hamari Family mein kisi ko nahi hai'. Unaware of the fact that 80% of the diagnosed Breast Cancers are without any family History. We all are well aware that such subjects are not openly discussed; even some may find it embarrassing to read it but why care for something which is a brain block. Why only women, why can't even men read this? Of course they can ,rather they should that too with equal curiosity and equal concern, for a very simple reason, their loved ones are women. It is alarming. Breast cancer cases show a drastic increase in last couple of years, the disease is shifting to younger ladies. Earlier it was common between the age of 50 to 70 years but now it has shifted to the age between 30 to 50 years Increased life expectancy, increased urbanization and adoption of western lifestyles are all responsible for the reduced distance between us and Cancer. It is surprising to know that in India Breast Cancer accounts for 25 to 30 % (Courtesy:WHO) of all the Cancers in women. A survey showed that India has 17% of the world population suffering from Breast Cancer. The motto behind this information is not to create a threatening atmosphere by displaying statistical figures nor is it to discuss the surgeries or the chemo therapies or removal of breasts and so on. It is just to create awareness amongst each and every individual and encourage prevention against the most common Cancer amongst Indian Women and a Global disease – Breast Cancer. The month of October is observed as the World Breast Cancer Awareness month. The Pink Ribbon is an international symbol of Breast Cancer Awareness. Pink is the quintessential female color. It has a calming, quieting effect, has a quality of lessening stress.

“We cannot prevent it; we can only detect it early”

The color is known to be health-giving. Wearing Pink Ribbon means that one promotes Breast Cancer Awareness and expresses moral support for the women with Breast Cancer. Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, fluid coming from the nipple, or a red scaly patch of skin. Distant spread of the disease may lead to bone pain, swollen lymph nodes, shortness of breath, or yellow skin.Risk factors for developing breast cancer include: Being Female , Obesity, Lack of physical exercise, Drinking alcohol, Hormone replacement therapy during menopause, Ionizing radiation, Early age at first menstruation, Having children late or not at all, Older age

What least can be done? Breast Self Examination is a basic step to put forth by every single woman. We can easily spare 5 minutes once out of 7 days.What is recommended?

Ÿ Clinical Breast Examination by your Gynecologist every 6 months to 1 year after the age of 25 years

Ÿ Sonomammography between the age of 30 to 40 every year

Ÿ Mammography after the age of 40 every year

Do not hesitate to talk to your Gynecologist for any suspicious lump/change in the breast. What least or what is recommended, is it something really difficult to achieve in busiest of our daily schedule? Do we really want to continue to be ignorant under the cover of our busy lives? Everything what has been put on view is pointing to one necessity and that is Breast Cancer screening. We will be able to find loads and loads of information on the subject on websites, newspapers but just reading all that and keeping self updated is not enough. Mind it! Put your best foot forward i.e Care; take care for self because you want to take care of your family.

The best protectionis early detection


Dr. Priyanka Gore

Jog One's Memory

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. While most people are aware of breast cancer, many forget to take the steps to have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. Pink Ribbon Symbolizes Breast Cancer Awareness hence it is also called as a Pink Ribbon Movement or a Pink Ribbon Campaign.

With people living and working longer, it's increasingly important that we recognise the importance of supporting senior citizens and OAPs within our society. Senior Citizens Day is an opportunity to acknowledge the long-term contribution and dedication of older people, and to ensure that we're doing our best to give something back to older people.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month - October 2015

Whether it's a moral, dietary, health or lifestyle choice, Vegetarian Day embraces and encourages respect for those who turn the back on eating meat.

World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is celebrated around the world each year in order to focus on b l indness and v i s ion impairment. This day was created by the Wor ld Hea l th Org an i za t ion in collaboration with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness and awareness is spread through a large number of different events. A large number of organizations around the world have been involved with World Sight Day for many years. Some people choose to show their support by

planting trees, while other people get involved by submitting a photograph tha t w i l l be used to c rea te an international photograph montage focusing on the theme of blindness. Other activities that take place on this day include special fund raising walks to help cover the costs of operations, book readings for the blind and a number of booklets and posters that are created in order to raise awareness of the issue.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. It's the World's 4th largest Air force. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict. It was officially established on 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire and the prefix Royal was added in 1945 in recognition of its services during World War II. After India became independent from the United Kingdom in 1947, the Royal Indian Air Force served the Dominion, with the prefix being dropped when India became a republic in 1950 and called Indian Air Force.

World Arthritis Day is a day to remember and raise awareness of the condition called Arthritis, and how it affects the lives of those that suffer with it. World Arthritis day was brought about by the Arthritis Foundation to do just that, and to encourage policymakers to help lower the burden of those suffering from Arthritis all over the world.World Arthritis Day is a great time to get out and lend a helping hand to those suffering from this condition. If you have relatives who suffer from it, take a day to go over and help them out with the things that are made difficult for them because of their condition. Take some time to do some research and get a clear understanding of how people have their lives affected by it.

st1 October 2015 – World Elderly Day

st1 October 2015 – World Vegetarian Day

th8 October 2015 – World Sight Day

th12 October 2015 – World Arthritis Day

th8 October 2015 – Indian Air Force Day


World wideMonth of October

Best Cubicle Decoration (Runner up) - HR & Admin

2. The colourful Maharashtrian attire that each person was wearing on that day clearly depicts their enthusiasm and participation towards the festival. This had made the environment more traditional and euphoric.

Enlightening PALASH

anesh Chaturthi is a Hindu Gfestival celebrated on the birthday (rebirth) of lord

Ganesha, the son of lord Shiva and Parvati. It was initiated in Maharashtra by Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaja, the great Maratha ruler, to promote culture and nationalism. And it had continued ever since. Later, under Lokmanya Tilak's encouragement the festival facilitated community participation and involvement in the form of intellectual discourses, poetry recitals, performances of plays, musical concerts and folk dances. People wait for this festival eagerly and it is celebrated in various schools, colleges, homes, public places, corporate offices etc. PALASH team had celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi in its unique way on 6th September 2015 by initiating cubicle decoration with the theme of l o rd Ganesha and t r ad i t i ona l Maharashtrian attire for all the employees which shows its devotion and dedication towards the culture and the event ended with the prize distribution for the Best cubicle decoration, the Best Maharashtrian attire and the runners up for each category. Here are the glimpses of how PALASH has celebrated Ganesh ji's Birthday in this year of 2015.

1. Every team had participated by decorating their cubicle with colourful materials by portraying lord Ganesha

Happy Birthday To Ganesh Ji With PalashHappy Birthday To Ganesh Ji With Palash

in different way. As it was a team work so employees had also experienced the team spirit as all were equally involved in giving their best. The creativity was flooded all around in PALASH as the team had preferred handmade materials more to ornament their cubicle.


Best Cubicle Decoration (Winner) -SWARM Support & Implementation

3. Mr. Shirish Kulkarni (PALASH Healthcare, CEO) and Mrs. Bharti N a r e n d r a B a r h a t e (Director) awarded the best cubicle decoration prize to the Support and Implementation Team and Runners up prize was given to PALASH HR Admin team.

Best Cubicle Decoration (Winner) - Team SWARM Support & Implementation

Best Cubicle Decoration -Team HR & Admin (Winner)

Enlightening PALASH

4. Mrs. Bharti Narendra Barhate handed over the award to Mrs. Manasi Deshmukh for best dressed female in Maharashtrian attire and Mr. Shirish Kulkarni handed over the award to Mr. Satish Kokate for best dressed male in Maharashtrian attire and runners up prize was given to Ms. Kamini Lokhande and Mr. Jayvant Jadhav.

PALASH Celebrates OnamPALASH Celebrates Onam Onam (also known as Harvest festival) is the state festival of God's own country Kerela. It marks the commemoration of Vamana avtara of Vishnu and the subsequent home coming of Mahabali who Malayalees consider as their king. Employees in PALASH celebrated Onam by wearing bright and beautiful South Indian dresses. This was a precious moment as it created a sense of togetherness and a spirit of joy amongst all employees.

Mr. Shirish Kulkarni (PALASH Healthcare, CEO) handed over the prize to Mr. Vishal Mane for the best South Indian traditional attire in Male category and Ms. Deepika Patra was awarded for the best South Indian traditional attire in female category.

Best Dressed Male – Vishal ManeBest Dressed Female – Deepika Patra

Best Dressed Male - Jayavant Jadhav (Runner Up)

Best Dressed Male - Satish Kokate (Winner)

Best Dressed Female -Kamini Lokhande (Runner Up)

Best Dressed Female-Manasi Deshmukh (Winner)


- Arpita Kar

Enlightening PALASH

(Left to Right): Chetan Ghaydar, Vishal Mane, Deepika Patra, Shirish Kulkarni (CEO), Anumani Mishra, Ashvini Patil, Arpita Kar, Manasi Deshmukh

(Left to Right): Somnath Sumbe, Nitin Shinde, Anumani Mishra, Priyanka Gore, Nilesh Dahake, Vipul Chauhan

(Left to Right): Nilesh Dahake, Kedar Kulkarni, Vishal Mane, Vishakha Karande, Dhanshree Patil, Reshma Kharade

Cultural Committee

Magazine Committee

Team Mission Critical
