Issues and Results

Finally the verdict came which was long awaited. Though it is early to comment on the final settlement but one thing got noticed is the change in paradigm in context of thinking of people of India.

Everyone including government prepared for the worst. The people in their forties and above were skeptical since they carry the marks of old wounds. They knew what will happen if pain starts rooting again. So majority of them showed the unwillingness to take either sides. Whereas the younger generation has grown up with fresh minds who were virtually cut off from the past realities. All they want is to develop their own world with their own bricks. They know old bricks do not have strength which is required to face challenges of new world.  So they preferred the gray area. When everyone was just waiting for time to go and resume the daily life as usual, I think that was the moment we entered into the new era of civilization. 

Peace is the result of wars of all times. We all had our share of fight. We gained we lost. But the need to develop and built was greatly felt among the people. Yesterday's per-verdict and post verdict reactions were the indication of beginning of the NEW.

When resources are few, the rule of existence says that "Start with equal divisions, protect the each pie and exist, otherwise there is higher probability of disappearance". Now one should not go into the deep of this newly formed law and break their heads by giving proofs of gone era. This is not the end of all issues. Issues would come but the treatment to them needs to be focused considering the development of the society as a whole. It is better to maintain the now chosen path. Though this is less traveled but at least somehow someone had to start. That start has started and it is required to maintain the harmony and respect for the PEACE. 

Well at least Commonwealth Games can go with game spirit...That is another issue...rather a headache for the OC now. India....Jai Ho..

Mapping for Negotiations

It’s been some time since i started dealing with people on professional level. Now days are not like as they used to be. There are greater responsibilities and equally great rewards as well. But it won't come unless you prove yourself better in discussions. As you come to close to people you start mapping their profiles. If correct then it is a great benefit for you to make the necessary rather essential preparations before you approach to the situation. 

Here I am talking about the Experimental Psychology. Though I don't carry it on personal levels but still somewhere knowingly unknowingly it is being used. The moment you show a stimulus and understand respondents reply to it, it enhances your understanding which in turn helps to build the memory database. This in particular helps when you are in negotiation with other party, be it client or business partner. The mapping helps you to prepare yourself before any round of discussion. Although everyone is equally prepared but you are satisfied that you have left no stone unturned. Mapping defines your strategy which in turn results in to a plan.

So I can infer that it’s always better to allow other person to talk more and in mean time you better observe the subject. Let it enjoy the freedom of speech and allow you to map him. After some time when ball comes to your court, play it wisely. After all you have waited and listened to opponent for long.

What Others will Say??

“What others will say?” is the common question whenever we try to achieve our desires. The desire can be anything like freedom of expression or any decision and actions made. You do anything and you will be asked this question at least by one of the members of your comfort zone. There we curse the society by thinking what the matter with them is. Why others don’t mind their own business? Let me do things on my own! But these thoughts remain in our minds only and the game of persuasion begins.

But why we need to think about others? In fact why are we forced to think about others? I guess the answer lies in relativity concept. Whatever human does, it takes someone as a reference. Then we measure the relative difference and then decide what is right and wrong. This relative difference comes from the society. Now those who are careless about this distance are called as individualistic and those who care are called social animals. Though we are an individual and live in democratic society, we are the part of the society. Also it depends upon the individuals as well. Here I divide people into two groups, one consists of those who perceive society and individuals are mutually exclusive and other group consists of people who think individualism is part of their society. Now the above mentioned question will not be asked to everyone, it will be asked to those who are not ready to follow the traditional path. Now change seekers are present in both groups but this question is asked mainly to the people from first group.

Change seekers from first group are labelled as rebellious. They have ideas, mechanism to implement those ideas, courage and sources. Individualism is acceptable in capitalistic countries but in Asian countries this mutually exclusive concept is not appreciated. So these people have to concentrate on their convincing power. If they are able to convince then their rebellion will be well accepted. But change seekers from the second group are smart guys. They are labelled as revolutionaries. They have convincing ability because they realise the interdependence of individualism and their society. Before they put forward their revolutionary idea, they are smart enough to dilute the environment by making others mentally prepared for shocking revelations. So whenever they do such things there is less probability that they have to face the society.

Change is the essential element of life and any structure. But how to introduce that is an art, be it small or large change. Even if you are in capitalistic society, you have a small comfort zone of people for whom you have to make necessary adjustments. It is true that every time no one can satisfy every expectation but go for minimal damage. Because we can not remain isolated from the society in which we live our daily life.

CEO’ public opinion

Yesterday I read an article which posed a question- What CEO should speak publicly?

CEO not only is a manager but a leader of its organisation. Whatever it speaks can influence all stakeholders of the business. Sometimes investors’ decision is based on the CEO’s public statements. Therefore it is always expected from them to articulate their statements which will have positive impact on organisations image. Can CEO speak their mind?

CEOs can speak their mind but they always have to keep in mind about their business activities. Every human has personal views towards many issues and especially business environment. Being a leader, a CEO should always think about betterment of its stakeholders. His or her small statement can become an issue. But when it comes to give personal opinion on any issue they have to articulate their statement so it becomes more balanced opinion. Then what about their freedom of expression? They can do that with their modus operandi of business. They should implement those strategies in business and corporate social initiatives which will differentiate themselves from others. Then their work speaks more about them rather than their statements. They have the choice to showcase their talent in their work but when it comes to the public address, majority of them follow traditional methods.

Can CEO eat Vadapav in public?? Of course not, it has to eat burger even in recession time and might remain hungry if quarterly growth is negative but no Vadapav under any circumstances.

The Discrimination

Few days back, we had a debate on the issue of discrimination in Indian society. Few of us were arguing that ours is the society which discriminates people on the basis of their casts. We are living in such a society where we are not ready to award same social status to our fellow citizens. Argument went forward and our society was compared with developed western societies. Here arose the real problem. All of us were aware about loopholes in our social behaviour but when we were compared with western developed countries, there took place another big debate about the supremacy of the traditions in various societies.

No doubt cast based discrimination is still dominant in India but that does not mean only Indians are discriminators. It takes place everywhere. Now one thought came out that westerns discrimination is based on abrasion and not on casts.

For me, discrimination in either of the forms is fatal to any society. It is not about the Indian or other civilizations but its about the basic human nature. People like to differentiate themselves from others irrespective of their geographical locations. Rather I would say they like to find commonality among each other. Indian civilization is the oldest among other societies. Cast based discrimination became dominant hundreds of years before. The Indians found the caste as the common factor among themselves and various Varnas came into existence. Initially these Varnas defined the day to day job responsibilities of individuals belonging to their Varnas. Later on when time changed these Varnas started creating major problems in Indian society. Same is the case with westerns. They found skin colour as the common factor among themselves. So they became racist. After macro differentiation people will go to the micro level e.g. nations, states, cities, behaviours, languages etc. More or less each human has contributed in this discrimination with above mentioned parameters. So it doesn’t make any sense to term Indians as only discriminators in the world.

This is the social problem and everybody is aware about that. We have mastered the art of problem findings but we are poor in solving them. If we can’t work on solutions then it would be better to avoid creating other problems.

Instruction

Giving public instructions in a billion plus country is one of the most economical ways to spread message. But sometimes these instructions can become a good entertainment.

In nineties, Indian government took an initiative to increase the literacy rate in India. They targeted villages where literacy rate is poor. I remember my childhood days. Whenever I used to visit my grandparents place, I often came across such public awareness ads written on walls of several households. The wordings were like this- “Sakshar Janata- Bhusan Bharata” means literacy is an ornament of India. Now think, it was written to inform the importance of literacy among illiterate. Those who could read that for them it was ok but what about those who could not read a word. For them there is no message at all! Why would illiterate people bother about the written instructions? And those who know how to read letters, for them it is of no use because they already had achieved basic literacy. In villages this initiative was a grand failure as nobody paid attention to these messages.

Take another example of instructions on vehicles especially on trucks. While I was passing nearby a standing truck, I read the following instruction- Keep safe distance of 2 metres. And it was written in very small font which I could read when I was almost a foot away from the truck. There I wondered that how a person seating in another vehicle is supposed to read that message. It would not be visible to the driver of the other vehicle. And if the driver gets curious about those unreadable small letters, it has to take its vehicle almost near to the truck which would violet the instruction given on the truck itself. So in no circumstances two vehicles will come too closer. So such instructions are also useless.

Well it is not right to say that these instructions are useless at all but minimum care should be taken while planning for such initiatives like, who is the target audience and what platform should be used. It is not too difficult to evaluate. And if this is not done then new jokes will entertain us regularly.

Stars in the Sky

It is not secrete that the sky is something very huge and all other words relating it to its vastness. It has been proven number of times that it is something which we can’t touch. That is why we always say ‘Sky is the limit’. The sky has always fascinated me because of lots of reasons. Many times I look above and I shall find at least one painting formed by conglomeration of clouds on the canvas of the sky. The arrangement of clouds becomes so beautiful that it becomes very easy to identify something meaningful. Of course this happens with me only day time but at night the sky becomes the most beautiful thing in this world. The reason is known to everyone. This is the time when the Sun God goes for the rest after day’s hard work and asks its little friends to please the mankind with their splashing beauties. It is so amazing how these stars can do this beautiful thing since ages. Every night they will come and do their job but they never will expect anything from us. I used to observe them in my childhood. My father being a geography teacher, always encouraged me to observe the sky. He helped me to identify different stars and their formations at particular point of time.

We all can identify that not every star shines with equal intensity. Some are bright and some are not. Even the farthest star tries to reach out to us. But still they never compete with each other. They are happy with whatever they have and they believe to share their light with us. But the truth is every star is equal in its capacity. What matters is their relative distance with us. Some are much brighter but enough far to look dull. But the nature has a perfect harmony to balance this and that’s why after ages of formation of universe it looks as beautiful as it used to. We also have to realise the relative distance of so many things in our lives. It is true that closer things always look bright but if we are pursuing the beauty of life we need to reach out to the distant points as well. We need to try to reduce all relative distances if we want to. And if we don’t then also it is fine with the stars because they know in all probability they have to do their job as usual. So decision is always ours.

One Year

Today I completed my one year’s stay in Bangalore. I came here with a small dream in my mind. Though it was the first day, I didn’t feel like that. In fact I found bangalore much more similar like Pune. The weather and social structure was more or less similar. Here I met few of my best buddies. It is rightly said that you will always feel scarcity for friends, more you get more you want. The management education life began with full speed. Late night working for lots of assignments and waking up late and getting late for everything became a part of life. Though presentation was not a new thing for me but it definitely had a new dimension. I still remember my first presentation which was a grant failure from my side. I took feedback from several people and they really helped me out. Later presentation and other work really became part of life. Slowly I tried to overcome all deficiencies in that. There was not much interaction with seniors so everything was new with every new day. Then we shifted to our new campus.

Here after my graduation I got involved with new and wonderful people from my batch. What we didn’t enjoy? Everything. WonderLa was awesome, parties, regular outings and all. We used to fight because of group working and at the same time we used to help each other. More or less we all increased our social exclusivity. Sundays were more than festivals for us. Meeting after Diwali was as if we were meeting after a long gap so were we associated with each other. This was the first year where I celebrated my birthday after a significant gap. First time I made the mistake while riding the bike and still I am enjoying the injury. This was the year where I learn that drastic changes can’t affect us much if we are determined because economic slowdown scared us literally but I became more optimistic and confident in myself.

This was the year where my academic records were very low during initial days. But I regained after that and now I am in a comfortable zone. In this year I took marketing as my field of career. This was the year of lots of ups and downs. One of my friends used to write “every wound causes a scar and every scar reminds us about our survival”. This year gave me such scars but I came out of them successfully. I survived from them. It is a truth that life doesn’t wait for anyone. We have to accept truths and have to move on.

This was the year when I did some serious job during my internship. That experience gave me the enrichment in my life.

Now after one year my junior batch has started its course in this campus. We are seniors now. But nowhere have I felt that a year has passed now. I remember everything as if it happened in last moment. Anyways I can’t pull back the time.

I always perceive that Life is beautiful and we have to make it more beautiful. During this entire year, my friends made my life much easier than I expected. This was the year I never did any thing which I used to do during my graduation. I lived this year as a holiday from my regular life. That’s why this year is special to me. Thanks to all those who made it more special.

Amaziiiiiiiiing Goverment

Air India is in trouble now. It is seeking some 20000 crore bailout from government of India. It is well understood that who are responsible for it. Interesting news I read about government officials who travel on government expenses is all of them have to travel by Air India for their official visits. So government is making sure some financial retrieval of AI. How much this will help them that is the million dollar question. First they bled it by all possible means and now useless covering is going on. And just because some are government servants they have to abide by rules, just to save AI.

One PSU is in danger and government had taken this decision, what would happen if other PSUs also start to seek bailout. I assure you that it will be great to observe that situation. Just imagine Hindustan Latex is in financial trouble. So what next……………..???? In order to increase the sales, government will make mandatory to its employees to use only Latex ltd. made products like condoms and it will request its citizens to do the same (they will appeal as responsible citizens of this country). I am sure this will be a perfect mess. No choice in that case. Life will be full of colourful balloons. Government will come out with some paper giving clear guidelines about the product use features based upon its inventory. What should be on Monday, Tuesday….etc. I guess in that case Saturday will be half day….. Very good… and Sunday…a holiday…much better. And people will say, oh god tomorrow its Monday again with same product…….

Sp its easy to understand why weekends are so important in married life…..

So what else we can do…… I think we should pray that our PSUs perform better.

Governanance of ISRO

Indian ISRO launched a moon mission way back and even it is on the verge of collapse prior to its scheduled date. It was really a great experience for the country that we launched a mission which proved our strength in space technology. The risk factors involved in such missions are high. Space equipments have to be controlled from thousands of Kilometres and it is not a simple thing for a commoner like me. Missions result in success or in failure. Success is always admired but failures create problems for an organisation in terms of belief.

Historically, developed nations have kept failures as secretes. They never disclosed it in early stages. But ISRO admitted technical difficulties in its moon mission. The programme was scheduled for 2 years but now it is feared that after 8 months of its launch it may not function properly. ISRO like others could have admitted this truth later prior to its end but it went public and told the truth about the mission to citizens.

Indian technical expertise has always been a question for Indians only and such failures may add fuel to it. But what is important here is ISRO’s immediate statement. I think it was really a courageous step taken by them. ISRO didn’t feel the guilt about it. Confession from Indian PSU is a rare thing and ISRO proved its transparent governance policy.

Our country has always faith in ISRO and it will remain as it is. I believe that true organisations are enough capable to sustain such shocks. ISRO will come out of this.

All the best to ISRO for all future space programmes.

Family Balance for Homosexuals

I heard the recent judgement given by the Hon’ble Delhi HC regarding to Gay Rights. The HC protected the basic rights of human being of India irrespective of their sexual orientation. At least now onwards the gay community can leave a peaceful life in India. I am glad that this group were assured of their fundamental rights. Well one thing I must clear, though I say it is a well decision that definitely does not mean that I belong to that group. My only intention to write this is to realise us about the basic nature of our constitution. Our Hon’ble constitution itself gives guidelines about the fundamental rights of people of India and their protection is the duty of law making bodies. Laws should be clear enough to avoid the confusion about interpretation of constitutional guidelines.

I just gave a thought about this and I found few interesting things. If same sex marriages are allowed then one thing is for sure, population growth will be in control. But they also will expect to have babies. They know naturally it is not possible then what??? I have a good suggestion. In our big country with huge population there are lots of orphans who need deserved shelter and proper parental care. So these couples can adopt them. It will be a great help for both i.e. couples and children.

I guess, if this happens then it will be a good step towards social modernisation in our country. Think about this.

Songs and Films

Masses in India cannot imagine Indian films without songs. For them it hardly matters whether it is bollywood or other regional movie industry. Though its presence is significant in recent times in commercial context, its roots go to the ancient and historic era as well. Poetry was the major contributor in then time entertainment. In fact, in every kingdom, one honoured poet was the part of King’s council for general meetings. Even for general public, there used to happen street shows where story was explained in poetry. The reason for this is poetry conveys message effectively with few words as compared to story itself. The same thought was reflected in our greatest epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. After it, the tradition of “Sangeet natak” came and same legacy continued in modern version of entertainment, i.e. movies.
But there are so many differences in these two types poetry inclusion in entertainment. Obviously old is gold and that is true because poetry or songs of that era really conveyed the message which was well understood by those people. Even the content was related to day to day life matters of aam aadmi. Songs had meaning that time. But what do we observe today is totally different from its natural essence. The major difference is, today it became too commercial to digest. I accept that poetry is still alive in its natural form but what about its reach to the common man? Today’s poet write good but how many of us really read and appreciate that? Hardly few!! And this does not mean we should blame public. The world is fast today so the taste of the society has changed a lot. Today the mode of entertainment is movies rather than reading poetry. People prefer to listen movie and album songs because of there easy availability.
But here also the change is not satisfactory. The reason is large number of quality less songs in movies. In fact, 75% movies are waste for many but still they can have good songs and this is what is missing. The content of songs nowhere resembles to what is should be. Many songs are forcefully included in storyline and their music is altogether a different story!
Thanks to the people like Gulzar sahab and Javed Akhtar, their many songs are worth to listen. But their numbers are very few as compared to the whole. The lyricists and movies makers should realise that quality matters and not the quantity. Or else they should go without songs which anyways don’t contribute to the film. At least such movies can be finished earlier as well with lesser expenditure and even people can enjoy such movies without wasting their entertainment time. Because for them, it’s better to watch a complete story without hustle of pathetic songs and that is also within time. What else we want, everything within time with full entertainment. Or my honest advice to all, please read quality poetry, it is worth.

General Elections 2009

World’s largest democracy’s elections are over now and even results are out. The Indian voters showed their expectations from these results. It was no surprise that no single party will gain clear majority but still its quite surprising the success of UPA in 2009 general elections. The kinds of results are out clearly showed that society’s perspective towards government is changing now. If we are to discuss the outcomes of the election then situation seems to be promising now. With UPA gaining clear majority assures that for this term government would be more stable as compared to the last term.
The leaders of UPA really projected the good image of their alliance in the minds of voters. Mr. Clean image of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh clearly gave an edge to UPA over other PM hopefuls. Every party tried to suggest the names for the top job but for voters Dr. Singh remained the first priority. His good image in Indian politics, balanced nature, calmness, expertise in economics and his international image among world leaders were significantly helpful to the Congress and its allies. His nomination as the PM assured voters that they will vote for the right person. Not only had this but Rahul Gandhi’s charisma also helped the Congress especially in states like UP. But it was Sonia Gandhi who managed everything very well right from choosing allies, party’s manifesto and party’s attachment to voters.
Now what would be the future course of actions now? One thing is clear that economical decision process will become faster to recover the slowed economy. Same people will hold the power (with minor changes) so they will continue with reform procedures with more effectiveness. Decision making and implementation would be faster because government will have enough number of MPs in Lok sabha to avoid the threat of confidence motion.
I accept that new challenges will always be their but at least for this time the nature of challenges would be different from age-old and traditional challenges like maintaining power etc. In this election people refused the orthodox voting pattern and they really voted for party and its ideology instead of candidate centric voting. They sidelined many outdated issues and gave importance to economic development, good governance, social security, issues like energy deficiency, education etc.
Here I don’t want to discuss which the best party is and who is who. Rather for me, needs of the common man of this country are the most important. Leaders must understand the changing trends in society; they should be able to read their minds. Leaders should not focus on what they are offering instead they should realise the needs of the people and then try to fulfil them. Society changes as per the time and so the ideologies of parties must change according to that. Needs of the masses and not the classes should be taken in to account in party’s manifesto. Remember, we are a democracy where people have different perspectives on different issues. That is why it is important to build a common consensus. 100% satisfaction of 100 crore plus people is a dream but leaders should aim for that and proceed accordingly.
Someone will form the government and mobilise the development; that is their job but those who will be in opposition must remain alert to check on government’s behaviour. This I say because they are not sitting there for themselves. They should take care of sections which will be left out from the development process. Because in a true democracy, no matter where do you sit, your job to protect the interest of nation ant its citizens.

Terror and We

Once again the destiny played with our patience and it allowed the evil powers to disturb the normal life of brave Mumbaikars and rest of the human society. It’s not the loss of some 100 and plus people but the loss of our faith in our honourable government. It’s a shame for us that our so called power holders have failed to protect the interest of people of Republic of India. Their inefficiency has once again caused the loss of life of innocent people who really deserved a good life. Even foreigners also lost their lives that came to visit our country. Now they perceive our country as one of the riskiest countries and it is really a serious concern for us that our image is constantly being damaged. And we have no option rather than being mute spectators of disasters. Kashmir, North east, Jaipur, Varanasi, Surat Ahemdabad, Bangalore ……………. The list is increasing.

The virus is infecting us in every sect. The economic slowdown is already bleeding us and such terror attacks add fuel to it. Several questions come into mind; are we safe? Is our government capable to protect us? The answers are not satisfactory.

We must stand for families who lost their dear ones not in Mumbai but other parts of country as well. We must extend our support to Mumbaikars who are constantly under pressure of such attacks. Despite of uncertainties they make assure country that The Financial Capital will not go on back foot and it will give prosperity to nation; no matter which part of country they belong. I respect their efforts.

Salutes to the brave defence personnel who always make sure that we are under a secured cover no matter how our government is. Especially to people like ATS chief Mr. Hemant Karkare who laid down his life for people. Being as senior officer he could have avoided the scene easily but he was a true fighter. He led from front with immediate effect, tried to save people and received bullet of honour. Same with Mr. Kamte. Being a management student I learn qualities of The Leader from them. I pay homage to all police person who gave pride to their department and to all aam aadmi who left this beautiful world. May god give strength to their families to come out from loss!

At last I would like to appeal to all that time is testing us and we must prove ourselves. We must stand together to make sure that no such incidents can destroy our integrity. We must prove those impotent bugs that our foundation is strong enough to sustain such negative vibrations. Such days brief us about importance of Disaster and Emergency management. Now its time to understand it and make people aware about it. One thing, please do not relate these deeds to any region and religion because we are enough mature to differentiate this and if we do that then it is worse than the worst.

In this era of recession India is still least affected and world is really appreciating this.
Such attacks are hindrances in achieving economic stability. It’s our duty to put all our efforts in our respective areas of interests. So we can assure rest of the world that our forces are strong enough to protect their investment physically and our mind is excellent and efficient to take care of business part.

I consider it as national loss and our values, ethics and our national ideology are our assets. It’s simple that we have to minimise losses by effectively managing our asset.

Let us stand together and show them that we are not cowards. We are Indians and we are prepared to protect our motherland physically and economically. No one can stop us. NNNNNNNOOOOOOOO ONE.

मुझे फिरसे एक बार अपने स्कूल जाना है ।
दौड़ते हुए मुझे अपने रोज के बेंच पे बैठना है।
रोज सुबह उची आवाज में राष्ट्र गीत गाना है।
नई किताब के गंध के साथ पहले पन्ने पे,
सुंदर अक्षरों में अपना नाम लिखना है।
मुझे फिरसे एक बार अपने स्कूल जाना है ।। १ । ।

दोपहर की छुट्टी होतेही वाटरबैग छोडके ,
हातोंसे नल का पानी पीना है।
जैसे तैसे डिब्बा ख़तम करके नमक लगाये हुई
इमली, बेर, ककडी ये सब खाना है।
सायकल के पैय्यो का विकेट बनाके क्रिकेट खेलना है।
मुझे फिरसे एक बार अपने स्कूल जाना है ।। २ । ।

कल बारिश होके स्कूल को छुट्टी होगी,
यह सोचके रात को सो जाना है।
अनजाने से मिलाने वाली छुट्टी के मजे के लिए
मुझे फिरसे एक बार अपने स्कूल जाना है। । ३ । ।

बेल बजने तक दोस्तोंसे क्लास रूम में बातें करनी है।
बेल बजते ही दोस्तों से सायकल रेस करके घर पोहोचना है।
मुझे फिरसे एक बार अपने स्कूल जाना है। । ४ । ।

कितना ही भारी क्यो न हो, जिम्मेदारी के बोझ की जगह,
स्कूल बैग पीठ पे रखनी है।
कितनी ही गर्मी क्यो न हो, एसी ऑफिस छोड़ के
बिना पंखे की क्लास रूम में खिड़कीयां खुली करके बैठना है।
कितना ही ख़राब क्यो न हो, ऑफिस की अकेली खुर्सी को छोड़ के,
दोनों के बेंच पे तीन दोस्तों के साथ बैठना है।
मुझे फिरसे एक बार अपने स्कूल जाना है। । ५। । /