Questions…

Adversity is the best teacher. But can’t we mange to learn without that? Can we always afford to learn at the expense of some thing? The philosophy of losing the battle but winning the war goes fine, but can’t we win the war without losing even a battle?

I am asking a hell lot of questions. But without them I am feeling suffocated.

That oppurtunity is completely mine

What am I doing? What am I getting? Is that the worthy getting or is that worthy doing? I think I am getting what I am giving.Then why should I complain? Why should I go and ask any one’s favor?  I should not cry… because I don’t deserve that. It’s me who is responsible for whatever is happening. Why should I give that responsibility to some one else? Why should I give that opportunity to some one else?

Fraud-free company…

Background checking to make the company fraud-free?

Rural Economy minus Agriculture

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha writes in ‘The Rising of India ’ as,

“Some changes are already evident in the rural economy. It can no longer be blindly equated with the agricultural economy. Economist Omkar Goswami and marketing consultant Rama Bijapurkar have constructed a detailed representation of rural India based on economic, demographic and consumption data from 530 districts in the country. They say that rural India accounts for 52% of India’s GDP. They break this into the three basic components: agriculture accounts for 46%, industry for 21%, and services for 33% of the rural economy. So a moribund agricultural sector does not necessarily mean a dead-end rural economy. In a newspaper article, Goswami and Bijapurkar give one indication: the 1991 census showed that only 30% of rural households lived in permanent houses. Ten years later, the next census shows that 41% of rural households have decent housing. This fact does not quite fit in with the politically attractive view that the whole of rural India is suffering because of problems on the farm.”

My Valentine’s day Plan

14th Feb. Valentine’s day…

Ahhhhh! The day is coming , after a long one year. What all would I do?

Hummmmm……. aaaaaaa…….

Okayyy….I will get up at 9 O’Clock and be at the office by 9.30.

Prime ‘Coalition’ Minister!

  Now what will these Dal Badlu Neta do?  

 If the recommendations of the Veerappa  Moily headed Administrative Reforms Comission find their way, then midterm changing of a coalition partner would not be that easy. 

 And Prime Ministers like Manmohan Singh can do their work with a free hand.

I had no answer

“Photographs that changed the world” was the subject of the e-mail. I don’t know whether they have changed the world or not, but they left me with a shaken emotion for a while.  The harassment of the first black girl in an American school, the murder of the Japanese leader, the dying soldier hanging on to a priest and the silent and tranquil monk sitting quietly even when he was burning.  

 The mother crossing a flooded river with two kids on her two hands fighting against the river and her fate to move away from an American bomb, was asking me the question ‘Is this the humanity what we were going to protect?’.   The body of a martyr being dragged by an American tank, the free falling bodies of a girl and a woman were asking me the question ‘Why do we make systems that often fail?’

The hand of a dying kid in Uganda on the hand of a missionary was telling me the importance of a hand full of grains that I never felt before. The mountains of dead bodies of Palestinian refugees and the apologizing mother crying for mercy of the son who protested a malfunction in a general election and the Iraqi war prisoner calming down his child – each one of them were like a hundred questions to my humanity for which I had no answer.

After Tata…

After the much awaited Corus deal was won over by Tata now its time for the Birlas to go on the way of global takeovers… Great going India… 

Who’s next?

Luncheon Meeting…

Over the lunch I had a discussion with Amit,  a friend of mine. He was talking about the (ridiculous) communities I have joined in Orkut. As I believe, he had no intentions neither to hurt not to fight, but he was  is confused like how do I have joined or created such  alien(irrelevant for him) communities. The discussion was rather hot! But anyway my point was diversity in life should be there to utilize its potential to the fullest and some body pointed out that I am not diverse.   

  Really?  Then I have to think about that…

Time to Act

 I got a PowerPoint presentation ‘About India’ from a friend. The slides are full of the glorious facts about India, that any Indian will feel proud of. The contents of the slides vary from the scientific achievements from the ancient Vedic civilization to the Vision 2020 of president Kalam. 

The author has done a great job in trying to collect whatever has been achieved by any Indian till now, which includes the invention of Zero to Sabeer Bhtia’s Hotmail. Going through the presentation made me feel proud to be an Indian and I bet any Indian would feel that. But is it enough to feel proud about what our ancestors had done or what our fellow countrymen are doing somewhere else  and be satisfied that we are going to have a great time ahead ?

  I feel this is the time to act upon and do our part out of it so that we won’t feel the success as alien when the time arrives, as I feel now when some one talks about our great history.