Tribute to the legend for taking Royal Challengers to the finals!An interesting quote that a colleague shared today…
“I am not worried about the men who come thru BOATS
I am scared of the men who come thru VOTES”
Very ironical and true, not sure if this originated from despair or creativity.
Thinking of creativity, on a different note, I guess all the media bashing on RGV for accompanying Maharastra CM to Taj on Monday was uncalled for.
Common, give RGV some credit for creatively thinking about nexus between underworld and terrorist forces in his last movie – CONTRACT.
Now, please don’t argue that his movie provided the plot to do the same in real life. At least, Ramu was creative in predicting such incidents if not in similar fashion.
At times to draw up huge predictive, preventive and pre-cautionary measures and mechanisms not only intelligentsia is required but also creativity.
Deaths have not woken up our governments; hope some of Ramu’s creativity can make our representatives think adding to the futile list of attempts to wake the duds.
Back from a very long blogging vacation!!
Its a very sad, despair and anguish week, its not easy to digest the fact that my country is and was at WAR.
First and foremost, deep condolences to all those who lost life in 26/11 - Mumbai Terror. Hats off to security forces and the officers who laid down their lives for us. They are the heroes of the day and lets treat them that way for ever.
Btw, I am not a mumbaikar but cannot stand the fact that life can come to an end in such a disastrous manner in this beautiful and democratic to-be superpower.
Lot of thoughts run thru my mind and heart but couple of them are too disturbing. One, time & again we are struck and son of a gun who takes my taxes uses only for his security and leaves common man like me stranded. Two, its scary, living in Bengalooru and at this rate, that day is not far when my lovely city will be turned into another war zone. It sounds emotional outburst because its not about right or wrong, left or liberal but its a matter of being ALIVE.
I know some politicians may argue that its happened in an urban arena hence so much attention and call for an action but there are lot of people who are suffering and dying in the rural arena. I would call that line of argument absurd for two reasons, one the bloody political class has failed to do something positive for rural arena and urban arena as well. They have failed in both.
Two, DEATH by TERRORISM according to me is worse, heinous and highest form of ego, pride & self-respect being hurt in a free country like
To start, its a situation of "Aa bale mujhe maar". Starting with 1993 mumbai blasts to till date, numerous blasts & terrorist incidents have happened and our government machinery & political class have just not learnt any lessons. They have failed to value human life for years, 15 years since 1993 is a enough time to change the system, process and more important ATTITUDE. They have not changed and we have allowed them to be that way.
In the corporate world we live with the line "You do a mistake once you will be forgiven and repeat it you will be forgotten". We need to extend this line to measure the performance of the government at least limiting to Terrorism issues in the near and short term.
We need to absolutely learn from Kiori Singh Bainsla,the Gujjar leader who brought NCR to halt for the cause of identity, right or wrong is debatable but can we bring the nation to a halt for the cause of being ALIVE until our politicians and governments act.
All causes branch from two roots - VOTE BANK POLITICS and CHALTA HAI attitude especially latter one which has dwindled us into such a pity situation where we have become soft targets.
I hate the term soft target, this is a country which has seen birth and rise of warriors such as Chatrapathi Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Tippu Sultan and now we cannot save our people and come across as a weak & helpless country. I wonder if the political class has any pride living in this country and being an Indian.
As somebody mentioned on the TV today, MIGHT is RIGHT. Its not sufficient we show our might as a reactive process, it needs to remain in our DNA and ATTITUDE of legislature which will automatically reflect in our laws, judiciary and all executive machinery. Fanatics will think 100 times before entering our soil to cause harm.
* Can we learn from
Had we done this after 1993 carnage, today the same conspirator would not have masterminded / supported this deadly war today.
* What did we do when our Prime Minister, the charismatic Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by external forces, absolutely nothing. I am no INC fan but a successful external attack on the Prime Minister is the deepest insult on this country. Lack of will of our governments to bring the conspirator to justice and all associated exposes the vulnerability of our lives.
Its this sick attitude shouts out to the world "Aa bale mujhe maar", if Prime Minister's assassins are left to scout free, rest of the citizens and respective lives will be wiped out.
* Least, can we learn from animals, the famous Battle of Kruger (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM). The video shows the FIGHT
BACK of buffalos against lions defying the order and logic of food chain. In comparison, it appears that we have lost our instinct and its the worse harm we can inflict upon ourselves. Are our politicians' intelligentsia and attitudes worse than buffalo?
Problem is not entirely about neighbors, religious radicalism, processes and systems but our governments' ATTITUDE and just ATTITUDE. Set the WILL and ATTITUDE into appropriate mode, all our neighbors will mind their business.
Finally, I am forced to remember my text books from school thru which I learnt about Netaji, probably we need Netaji today more than ever.
I know all of this is easy to blog by punching few keys, I have not done anything so far but I will start searching for avenues and opportunities where I can contribute to make CHANGE in this regard.
Few months back I was in pursuit of a reason of my existence but after few words and advices from my best buddies and friends I understood a bit and have actually put that in a parking lot for sometime now. My sub-conscious will always search for this one until I find an answer.
To move on, few days back an interesting thought stuck to my mind when I was discussing about our new project with my boss. Two months back we put a new solution to support a business process in Australia, we used the same solution and replicated it in UK now. After we presented solution to our business partners, I told my boss, "Sitting in India we are convincing someone in UK as to what is the right way of managing the process based on something we put in for Australia, is this globalization?"
This is not something new to me or my boss, we have been doing it for 4+ years now but for some reason this question of mine tickled our brains for rest of the day. That day I decided I need to know what’s the true meaning of "Globalization", some are against it and some are for it in this world. I belong to the second category based on the understanding that Globalization is what responsible for providing me the job I have.
One question intrigues me, is this all Globalization about or am I missing something? I know I am at a potion of miniscule to question this but not to find an answer.
Another interesting fact my boss introduced me to, NRNs response when asked about what Globalization meant to him on the day Infy was listed on NASDAQ, in his words "Sourcing capital from markets where it is easily available, building products in markets which is most efficient and
selling in markets which is highly profitable". Brilliant definition I have ever heard.
There is an argument against this, the second piece of NRNs definition is more around cost efficiency that is prevalent in India and it leads to one funda "Labour Arbitrage". So, is phenomena around us end once we are done with "Labour Arbitrage”? all the numerous articles I have read in various journals say "no".
I am sorry I am back to blogging about this topic: RESERVATION. There are 2 reasons behind this, one, I am not able to completely sleep over the fact that this country is going to have a legislation based on caste system and two, bug of optimism in me.
I was really hoping that SC is going to come up with something to stop this reservation system but looks like madcaps (more symbolic) based out of the semi-circle building up there have again made things their way.
If you scroll down this page, you will find my pleading letter that I actually sent it to
Mr. PM with a hope!!
Let’s make a deal. Its quite simple. Anyways reservations will be a reality in no time, so lets "adjust maadi" (Bengalooru's home grown concept) with the new legislation. By this I am not favoring a win-loose situation.
Since 33% reservation will be done in phased manner, let’s have a equal representation in the government for the educated in a phased manner.
Starting this year, lets government earmark of the 543 seats in parliament 10% can be contested only by educated citizens of this country, out of this 10%, 4% should be at least PGs, 2% should be from IITs, IIMs and other top institutes like BITS etc and 2% should be at least PHDs and remaining 2% should be from professions like Medicine, Law etc.
Lets hike this percentage as we move ahead and in next 5-10 years it should be 33%. This should be applicable to state assemblies as well. I would like to name it as "Education based reservation system". The optimism bug in me is crying out loud saying 'this could happen, something better than nothing'
The argument against this is that, by allowing a caste based reservation system, meritocracy will be compromised and quality of incoming students to some of the prestigious institutions will go down and the output will be bad and this lot will make it to parliament and state assemblies under the "Education based reservation system”. Basically this ends up with GIGO.
My bug of optimism is knocking again, I strongly believe that the country's premier institutions have in them to churn any GI (Garbage In) into world class productive individuals.
Not sure if this arrangement can work in this country but if it works we have won third of the battle!
But now remains the big question: Mr. PM, Are you game for this?
