"A Better India, A Better World" is an excellent book by The Great N.R.Narayan Murthy

Recently I have read the book "A Better India, A Better World" which is written by The great Leader Mr.Narayana Murthy. In this book he clearly explain the difference between "India" and "Bharat".Eventhoug India is growing with rapid speed with new technology, Bharat is struggling to get basic needs( good food , Education and Shelter).

The Youth must read this book,, then only they can be good architect for the future India. He is really rare person and every one need to salute this great personality.

Here I am adding breif overview of this book,, is as follows.

With one of the highest GDP growth rates in the world and an array of recent achievements in technology, industry and entrepreneurship, India strides confidently towards the future. But, in the world’s largest democracy, not everyone is equally fortunate. Some 300 million Indians are still prey to hunger, illiteracy and disease, and 53 per cent of India’s children are still undernourished.

What will it take for India to bridge this great divide? When will the fruits of development reach the poorest of the poor, and wipe the tears from the eyes of every man, woman and child, as Mahatma Gandhi had dreamt? And how should this, our greatest challenge ever, be negotiated?

In this extraordinarily inspiring and visionary book, N.R. Narayana Murthy, who pioneered, designed and executed the Global Delivery Model that has become the cornerstone of India’s success in information technology services outsourcing, shows us that a society working for the greatest welfare of the greatest number—samasta jananam sukhino bhavantu—must focus on two simple things: values and good leadership. Drawing on the remarkable Infosys story and the lessons learnt from the two decades of post-reform India, Narayana Murthy lays down the ground rules that must be followed if future generations are to inherit a truly progressive nation.

Inspirational Story –one must read to know what is important in life

One day professor invited his students, after that he came with different types of cups and a coffee pot. He asked his students to take the coffee, he observed that students are rush to take the nice looking cups, then professor told that, "whatever the cup may be coffee taste will be the same", then why you people are rush to take the cups instead of enjoying the coffee.

Moral of this story : People are forgetting  the joy of life, they are looking for cups(accessories) not for the coffee..

What is Arbitrage in Finance?

Arbitrage is defined as generating risk-less profit because of law of one price, which states that the same item cannot sell at two different prices at the same time, is violated.

 i.e..The same stock cannot trade for one price at one exchange and for a different price at another unless there are fees, taxes, etc. If it does, traders will buy it on the exchange where it sells for less and sell it on the one where it sells for more.

Example:

1$=45 INR,   1Pound= 70 INR ,  1$=0.5 pound.

Here is arbitrage is possible.

Suppose I Have INR 7000, I sell it of against Pound, I will get 100 Pounds,

Now I Will buy  $ against Pound,  I get 200 $,

The last step, I will sell it 200$ against INR,, Now I get  INR 200*45= INR 9000..

My profit is INR 2000,, without any Risk.

This type of Arbitrage is called Pure Arbitrage in the currency market.

It can take a static form, where the trade is put on at the outset and liquidated once at a future date, or a dynamic one, in which the trader commits to a series of steps that eliminate all directional market risks and ensures virtually riskless profit on completion of these steps.

For example, a bond dealer purchases a callable bond from the issuer, buys a swaption from a third party to offset the call risk, and delta-hedges the rate risk by shorting some bullet swaps. He guarantees himself a riskless profit provided that neither the issuer nor the swaption seller defaults.

It is not Possible in these days financial Markets because of  today’s ultra-sophisticated technologies.

That’s why most institutions concentrate on Relative Value Arbitrage.

Most institutions’ money-making activities rely on the principle of relative value arbitrage. Hedge funds and proprietary trading desks of large financial firms, commonly referred to as arb desks, employ extensively relative arbitrage techniques.

Relative value arbitrage consists of a broadly defined hedge in which a close substitute for a particular risk dimension of the primary security is found and the law of one price is applied as if the substitute was a perfect match. Typically, the position in the substitute is opposite to that in the primary security in order to offset the most significant or unwanted risk inherent in the primary security. Other risks are left purposely unhedged, but if the substitute is well chosen, they are controllable (except in highly leveraged positions).

Like pure arbitrage, relative arbitrage can be both static and dynamic.

Let us consider examples of static relative arbitrage.

Suppose you buy $100 million of the 30-year U.S. government bond. At the same time you sell (short) $102 million of the 26-year bond. The amounts $100 and $102 are chosen through ‘‘duration matching’’, which ensures that when interest rates go up or down by a few basis points the gains on one position exactly offset the losses on the other. The only way the combined position makes or loses money is when interest rates do not change in parallel (i.e., the 30-year rates change by more or less than the 26-year rates). The combined position is not risk-free; it is speculative, but only in a secondary risk factor. Investors hardly distinguish between 30- and 26-year rates; they worry about the overall level of rates. The two rates tend to move closely together. The relative arbitrageur bets that they will diverge.

 The bulk of swap trading in the world relies on static relative arbitrage. An interest rate swap dealer agrees to pay a fixed coupon stream to a corporate customer,himself an issuer of a fixed-rate bond. The dealer hedges by buying a fixed coupon government bond. He eliminates any exposure to interest rate movements as coupon receipts from the government bond offset the swap payments, but is left with swap spread risk. If the credit quality of the issuer deteriorates, the swap becomes ‘‘unfair’’ and the combined position has a negative present value to the dealer.

Dynamic relative arbitrage is slightly more complicated in that the hedge must be rebalanced continuously according to very specific computable rules. A seller of a 3-year over-the-counter (OTC) equity call may hedge by buying 3- and 6-month calls on the exchange and shorting some of the stock. He then must re-balance the number of shares he is short on a daily basis as the price of those shares fluctuates. This so-called delta hedge, eliminates exposure to the price risk. The main unhedged exposure is to the implied volatility differences between the options sold and bought.

In the preceding static swap example, the swap dealer may elect not to match the cash flows exactly on each swap he enters into; instead, he may take positions in a small number of ‘‘benchmark’’ bonds in order to offset the cash flows in bulk. This shortcut, however, will require him to dynamically re-balance the portfolio of bonds.

Must See Movies for MBA Students

True movie classics find their place in history because they tell the stories that matter. These titles are no different; some are comedic, some are dramatic, and some are hair-raising thrillers. What they all have in common is they all provide indispensible counsel for students who want to know the ins and outs of the business world.

Citizen Kane(1941): (Download Torrent) : Widely considered the greatest movie of all time,  this classic is about the rise of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. Kane is a man who starts with good intentions but gets consumed by the pursuit of power. Citizen Kane takes you through a series of flashbacks as a reporter tries to unravel the mystery of the tycoon’s dying words.   

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942):(Download Torrent) A cautionary tale about a family business that faces ruin when it won’t change with the times. The family’s stubborn son even thinks automobiles "had no business to be invented. 

It's A Wonderful Life (1946): (Download Torrent) Good hearted man George Bailey is down in the dumps. His entire life’s work is on the verge of crashing down. In the pit of despair he contemplates suicide. But before he can act on his impulse he is visited by his guardian angel who takes him on a ride to show him what the world would have been like without good ole George. He sees that life is more than about work and money and when you look at it that way it truly is a wonderful life! 

Death of a Salesman (1985):(Download Torrent) Based on the 1949 Arthur Miller play, this movie details the life of Willy Loman, a struggling salesman whose goal in life is to be a hero in his family’s eyes. He works endlessly, toiling to pay the bills and earn the respect of his sons. Death of a Salesman reveals the shadowed side of the world of sales. 

Wall Street (1987):(Download Torrent) Bud Fox, a smart ambitious young Wall Street broker, will stop at nothing to gain the career he dreams of…but will he lose his soul along the way? Young business learners should watch closely the greed of Gordon Gekko, a corporate tyrant with an insatiable hunger for power and riches. 

Working Girl (1988):(Download Torrent) Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy — but villainous — boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over, revamping her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe.  

The Insider(1999): (Download Torrent)The Insider is a quasi true story of a man on the inside of a company who is doing wrong. He decides to put an end to it and blow the whistle on the company. However, by doing so he risks his life and the safety of his family. He is faced with a choice of doing the right things and risking his life to do it or keeping his mouth shut.

Office Space (1999):(Download Torrent) This is the classic comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy, selfish boss.

American Psycho (2000):(Download Torrent) A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Boiler Room (2000):(Download Torrent) A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.

Antitrust (2001):(Download Torrent) A computer programmer’s dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room(2005):(Download Torrent) A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006):(Download Torrent) The incredible story based on the real-life stockbroking career of Chris Gardner, who went from rags to riches, from homelessness to wealth, based solely on ambition.

Movies for entrepreneur torrents

Wall Street (1987)(Download Torrent)
Message: Every dream has it’s price.
Summary: Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980′s New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Fox finally meets with extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that “Greed is Good”. Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of “yuppies”, shady business deals, the “good life”, fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue-collared way Fox was raised.
Tucker: The Man & His Dream (1988)(Download Torrent)
Message: Leaders never give up on their vision.
Summary: Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some excellent salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola’s own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own.
Glengarry Glenn Ross (1992)(Download Torrent)
Message: Make success your only option.
Summary: Times are tough in a New York real-estate office and 4 salesmen are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only “closers” will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters.
Rudy (1993)(Download Torrent)
Message: Determination and heart will get you further than talent.
Summary: Rudy is a true story about Dan Ruettiger, an aspiring Notre Dame football player and his struggles to make it. Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people invested a lifetime into hard labor. With poor grades, mediocre athletic skill, and half the physical size of the other players, Rudy shows he can overcome all challenges with spirit and drive.
Forrest Gump (1994)(Download Torrent)
Message: Life is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re gonna get.
Summary: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events – in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes him. “Forrest Gump” is the story of a man who rose above his challenges, and who proved that determination, courage, and love are more important than ability.
Braveheart (1995)(Download Torrent)
Message: What are you willing to fight for?
Summary: One of the best movies of all time. When he was a young boy, William Wallace’s father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to earn Scotland’s freedom from English rule around the end of the 13th century. Wallace leads the people of his country into a outnumber battle and never looses sight for what he believes in.
Jerry Maguire (1996)(Download Torrent)
Message: The journey is everything.
Summary: Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he’s really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself?
Office Space (1999)(Download Torrent)
Message: The 9-5 may not get you very far.
Summary: Peter Gibbons is a cubicle-dwelling employee stuck in the rat race. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he has an obnoxious neighbor, and he’s completely miserable with his job as a small cog in a company called Initech. Then he visits a hypnotherapist, who put Peter into a state of complete bliss. Free of worrying about making a living, he no longer feels the need to keep his job, just as the company is going through a massive downsizing. However, his new attitude only makes him more valuable in the company’s eyes.
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)(Download Torrent)
Message: Copying may just mean good business.
Summary: From the obscure dorm-room and backyard origins to their very public battle for corporate supremacy, recap the journey of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak — the former a crafty Harvard dropout, the latter a pair of hippies with jobs at Hewlett-Packard and a yen to sell miniature versions of corporate mainframes to small businesses and at-home enthusiasts. The former plot thread recounts how Jobs and Wozniak “borrowed” key concepts from a Xerox computer lab, eked out their success as counter-cultural businessmen.
Boiler Room (2000)(Download Torrent)
Message: Selling will close one deal, caring will change your life.
Summary: A morally decent college dropout finds himself at conflict with his harsh federal judge father. From running a profitable underground casino, he gets a job as a stock broker and gets on the fast track to success. The firm is full of hard-nosed young go-getters striving to make it rich. Only things take a turn for the worst when he learns that his job isn’t what’s it cracked up to be.
Remember the Titans (2000)(Download Torrent)
Message: We all are one.
Summary: Suburban Virginia schools have been segregated for generations, in sight of the Washington Monument over the river in the nation’s capital. One Black and one White high school are closed and the students sent to T.C. Williams High School under federal mandate to integrate. The year is seen through the eyes of the football team where the man hired to coach the Black school is made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults learn to depend on and trust each other.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)(Download Torrent)
Message: The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart.
Summary: From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally – late in life – received the Nobel Prize.
Blow (2001)(Download Torrent)
Message: Cut corners to easy street and it can cost you everything.
Summary: I had to include my favorite gangsta flick in this list. George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes a druglord moving masses of narcotics. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.
Startup.com (2001)(Download Torrent)
Message: Through our failures we become a greater success.
Summary: Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom’s the technical chief, and a third partner wants a buy out. The constant need for cash and for improving the site brings venture capital in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?
The Corporation (2003)(Download Torrent)
Message: Will you do what’s right or what will make you rich?
Summary: Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of “person” typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
The Aviator (2004)(Download Torrent)
Message: Imagine a life without limits.
Summary: Phenomenal public success contrasts with private behaviors close to madness: Howard Hughes from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, from “Hells Angels” (spending a fortune on details) through the only flight of the Hercules, a huge, money-losing transport plane. Along the way, the public Hughes sees the big picture – in movies and in aviation, building TWA and leading it through a fight with Pan Am and the US Senate. In private, phobias and compulsions threaten him with self-imposed solitary confinement. How long can his imagination, drive, and the sympathies of Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and the men who work for him stave off these internal disorders?
The Secret (2006)(Download Torrent)
Message: You are what you attract.
Summary: The Secret is a feature length movie presentation which reveals The Great Secret of the universe. It has been passed throughout the ages, traveling through centuries… This is The Secret to everything – the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth: everything you have ever wanted. All the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret. The world’s leading scientists, authors, and philosophers will reveal The Secret that utterly transformed the lives of every person who ever knew it… Plato, Newton, Carnegie, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Einstein.
Peaceful Warrior (2006)(Download Torrent)
Message: Our true-self will always outperform our ego.
Summary: A talented college gymnast with serious Olympic aspirations, Dan Millman, leads a charmed life of first-place trophies, fast girls, and rowdy parties until a career-threatening injury and a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger named Socrates (Nick Nolte) show him how little he truly knows about living. In the months that follow his tragic injury, both Socrates and elusive beauty Joy impart to the growing young man the wisdom that he needs to leave the past behind and follow the path of destiny and fulfill his transformation into the peaceful warrior.
Pursuit of Happiness (2006)(Download Torrent)
Message: Life isn’t easy and we must make sacrifices.
Summary: In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invested the family savings in Ostelo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice more expensive than x-ray with practically the same resolution. The white elephant financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to the relationship with his wife that leaves him and moves to New York. Without money and wife, but totally committed with his son Christopher, Chris sees the chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, disputing for one career in the end of six months training period without any salary with other twenty candidates. Meanwhile, homeless, he has all sorts of difficulties with his son.
The Bucket List (2007)(Download Torrent)
Message: If you are not living, you are dying.
Summary: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)(Download Torrent)
Message: It’s not where you’re from, but where you’re going.
Summary: In Mumbai, the eighteen year-old orphan from the slums Jamal Malik is tortured by the policemen in a precinct accused of cheating a game show. Jamal, who has no education and works in a call center serving tea, is close to wining twenty million rupees in the show “Kaun Banega Crorepati?” (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) hosted by Prem Kumar, giving precise answers to the questions and raising suspicion of fraud. The police inspector shows the videotape and after each question, Jamal tells parts of his childhood with his brother Salim, his crush for Latika and their fight to survive on the streets to justify each correct answer, guided by his common sense and past experience, and prove his innocence.

Inspirational English Movies

Rocky- Famous for the scene where Sylvester Stallion runs up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky (1976) has inspired millions of people with the tale of the good-natured debt collector and club fighter turned heavyweight champion contender.

Men of Honor- Based on a true story, Robert Deniro and Cuba Gooding Jr. pair up for inspirational story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear (Gooding Jr.) and Master Chief Leslie William “Billy” Sunday (Deniro).

PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS- A rages to riches story about a man who goes for his dreams and wont let his circumstances get in the way

Remember The Titans- In the 1970S a black and white high school are closed down and blacks and whites are mixed together. Through all the racial tension a black coach is chosen to head the newly segregated football team

FOREST GUMP- The story of a man with a low IQ who rose above his challenges, and proved that determination, courage, and love are more important than intellectual ability

THE COLOR PURPLE-Its based on the life and trials and tribulations of an African American woman in the early 1900's

RUDY: A big football fan who always had the dream to play for the Notre Dame football team. He is told he is too small for the game but he perseveres on

ALI-Based on the true story of great boxing champion Muhammad Ali

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL-It's the story of a funny and carefree Jewish man who uses his comic talent to protect his son from the realities of Nazi occupation

BRAVEHEART-Story of William Wallace a peasant who unites the 13th Century Scottish in their battle to overthrow the English rule.

ERIN BROKONVICH- About an unemployed single mother who becomes a legal assistant and almost on her own brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION- Two men in prison bond over a number of years, they find eventual redemption through acts of decency.

REDEMPTION: The Stan Tookie Williams Story- About the founder of the street gang the crepes and how in prison he found redemption. On death row he is able to find redemption

THE HURRICANE- The story of a talented boxer who is wrongly convicted of murder and his fight for his innocence

Billy Elliot- A young boy decides to become a ballet dancer and he gets some resistance from his family. He faces many trials as well triumphs as he perseveres to change his family's narrow minded set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his own feet

A BEAUTIFUL MIND-A bio of the rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math genius able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he was able to overcame years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize in 1994

GANDHI-True story about Mohandas Gandhi a prominent Indian leader

Chariots Of Fire-About athletes who compete in the Summer Olympics about their perseverance and triumph.

PHILADELPHIA- Is a movie dealing with HIV/AIDS and homosexuality and it highlights the homophobic and stigma of the two

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES- Its a recollection movie where an older lady recalls the story of two women their trials and tribulations and lifelong friendship

RAIN MAN- About a selfish man who finds out his father left his millions of dollars to an older brother he didn't even know existed

THE NOTEBOOK- A beautiful love story which lasts decades

TITANIC- Is a movie set on the ill fated Titanic ship and its about a love story that develops on the ship

SEA BISCUIT- True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation

RAY-True life story of Ray Charles and his amazing story of overcoming the impossible

PAY IT FORWARD- About the miraculous story of how a young boy changes the lives of many people through the simple act of good deeds

Field of Dreams-This movie is about dreams and baseball.  Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is a perfectly sane man who is running a family farm in Iowa with his wife. 

THE BUCKET LIST- About two old timers who decide to do all the things they have always wanted to do before they die of their terminal illnesses

MILK- About the life of Harvey Milk the first openly gay man elected to public office in America in the 70s. It is about his impact on the gay rights movement. One of the best movies I have ever seen.

Coach Carter- A basketball coach at a high school works hard to change the bad attitudes of his students.

RADIO- About a shy mentally challenged man who inspires a community

FREEDOM WRITERS- About a teacher who teachers rough inner city kids who fights to make a difference in the students lives and set them on a better path

NORMA REA- About a mill worker in a southern textile company who stands up for the better working conditions of her workers and herself.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK- Based on the life of Anne Frank who hides from the NAZI during the invasion

GLORY : The story of the first company of black soldiers in the American civil war

LIFE SUPPORT- the story of a mother with AIDS who overcomes crack addiction becomes an AIDS activist in her community

BABE- A pig which is raised by sheep dogs learns how to herd sheep

WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT- The amazing life story of the great entertainer Tina Turner and the amazing obstacles that she overcame

HOTEL RWANDA- The true life story of a man who sheltered thousands of Rwandans during the Rwandan genocide from danger and death

G1 JANE- Is about the first woman in allowed in the navy seals and huge obstacles in her way

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD- Based in racially torn 1939 Alabama and its about the hearing of a black man accused of raping a white woman

GLORY ROAD- Is based on the true story of the first all black basketball line-up for the 1966 NCAA national basketball championship title

SARAFINA- About the Soweto youth riots against apartheid in South Africa

AMISTAD- Is about an 1839 mutiny of slaves on a slave ship

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE- The story of a slum kid who grows up and plays the Indian version of Who wants to be a Millionaire

AMERICAN HISTORY X- A reformed Neo-Nazi comes out of prison and tries to stop his younger brother going the same path he did

THE PIANIST- A pianist tries to survive the Nazi invasion

SCHINDLERS LIST- Based on the true story of the business man Oscar Schindler who saves thousands of Jews from the Nazi machine during world war 2

BOYS DON'T CRY- A story about the courage to be who you truly are in the midst of horrible opposition

CHOCOLAT- About a mother and daughter who move into a conservative narrow minded French town in 1960 and shake things up

MALCOLM X- The true life story of Malcolm X an influential black human rights activist

OLIVER TWIST- Based on Charles Dickens movie about a young orphan boy and the troubles he finds as he tries to survive in a harsh world

THE JESSE OWENS STORY- The true story about Jesse Owens the African American athlete who proved Hitler wrong about the Aryan physical superiority

Good poem from "As a Man Thinketh"

You will be what you will to be;

 Let failure find its false content

 In that poor word, "environment,"

 But spirit scorns it, and is free.

 It masters time, it conquers space;

 It cows that boastful trickster, Chance,

 And bids the tyrant Circumstance

 Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

The  human Will, that force unseen,

The offspring of a deathless Soul,

Can hew a way to any goal,

Though walls of  granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay,

But wait as one who understands;

When spirit rises and commands,

The gods are ready to obey.

                        By James Allen - As A Man Thinketh