Random thoughts – I
There is one question, which always pops up in mind. Is it worth doing a job and earn fixed salary for rest of life? When I see lakhs of people working in IT industry I find that they are not doing justice to their lives or at least I am not. I am not made for this job. I want to do something more worthy and meaningful. As I have already started talking philosophy. I talk about the span of a human life; it’s only 60-70 years. I have already spent one third of it, doing study and job. Now I want to do post graduation after completing 3 years in job. Now the same question is in front of me.
Sometimes I think, this world is so beautiful that we should visit each place in our lives. But what we do: study, job, marriage, children, retirement, death and this cycle goes on. People who give a thought to it, definitely makes some place in hearts and mind of society after their death also. In spite of doing something worthy for society, everybody is busy in running the rat race. As of now I am also part of this never ending marathon. People have left behind our culture and thinking in this modern time. We search happiness in malls, shopping a, eating junk food at foreign food joints, in other words, following western culture. This culture gave so much in terms of diseases, narrow-mindedness and most importantly loneliness.
Last Moment Relief…
Global warming , is the only term, balmmed for every environmental change. This year mansoon was not on time and it created situation of drought. The Government has declared 26% water deficit.
In NCR region , it rained around for 48 hours just before 9/11 and meteo does not seem to become better in next 48 hours. This continous rain has created a situation of flood in lower places in delhi. The dranage system of NCR is too poor to handle such rain. Because of rain roads , nowhere exists anymore and water has logged everywhere . The heavy rain has also destroyed kharif crops.
Apart from destruction and havoc created by rain, it finally gave a relief from drought. It has also created good prospect for good Rabi crop.
Economic Katrina
Although this time is not so beautiful to call it up , with name like , “Katrina” . This name has other meaning also , which is deadliest destruction. Here we are not talking about natural storm or some disaster like that. It’s about the world’s economic crisis. Nobody in this world is able to keep him away from this economic crisis. Even financial experts and f-gurus are uncertain about ending of this era of economic slowdown.
In terms of ground realities, property market is badly hit. All big construction companies have fallen in the deep trench of slowdown. In India , except from metros, tier II and III cities are more affected due to this. Major construction work was based on IT industry’s demand, which has stopped for a moment , with no time limits. Rates of material is falling down day by day. Real states business, which was supposed to be most profitable during few months , has broken down. This has caused a sharp increase in unemployment of low class labors. Their working days are reduced to three days a week.
IT industry of India has already proved its calibre in the world. In this dreadful time, the IT industry is one of the most affected sector. People are losing their jobs. IT companies are taking hard decisions , they have already applied harsh cost cutting majors. Performance measurement bars have been raised . Promotions are on hold. There is no question on pay hike. Working hours have been increased. Besides all these steps , employee have job insecurity in his mind. Despite the fact , almost all companies are still earning profit , these steps were taken. After all they are doing business but they also have some social responsibilities. By giving pink slips, employee faith is losing from them, which is a key factor for a growth of a company.
Automobile sector which was also up like a rocket. Chennai(Tamilnadu) which is considered Detroit of India , has almost all auto companies. As there is sharp fall in demand from every sector ( commercial vehicles, cars or two-wheelers) , production has also reduced. Employees of these companies are impacted unfortunately. Some of them has loose their job.
Still there is no hope of any improvement to overcome from darkness of Katerina. This time coin is not flipping around.
Terrorism in India
Terrorism in India sounds very common. In the year 2008 , there was not even a single month , in which there was no terrorist’s attacks. People were killed , politicians mourned and media covered everything from blast site to security agencies activities.
Politicians and media come into picture only when some disaster or casualty happens. what about our so called intelligence and secret wings. We have second largest population in the world and these 10-20 inhuman activist come and do whatever they have planned. Politicians are safe they always high securities but common men are always victim.
We are fighting with each other for land issues , some state related issues , reservation and so many other things that we don’t have time to see to our motherland. Someone said correctly ” History repeats itself. When English came to India , it was almost same condition. Now some small neighboring countries , which have existence due to India, are attacking on us.
Now this should be last time that we were faced by terrorist activity , otherwise the everybody in this world will try to attack. Our top security agency official should co-ordinate and take some bold actions so that they can reply to these terrorists.
India is surrounded by water from three sides and easily accessible from each side. Most of neighboring countries are trying to acquire some part on India and infiltrate. In summers of 2002 , Akshardham in Gujarat was attacked. After that Mumbai local train blasts and then this year a series of blasts in Lukhnow , Jaipur , Mumbai, Surat etc. and recently open gun fire and blasts in Mumbai. This is a clear indication that terrorist are organizing activities from India itself. Although they are getting help from some other countries but they are now operating from here only. This is the worst situation and it should be controlled at the earliest to prevent future attacks.
Media should understand it’s role , as at the time of attack media is the delivering every bit of information to whole world including terrorist’s operators. They should provide the information which is not related to security activities and operation going on at that time.
Politicians are also Indians , at least they should not fight and blame each other. This is the right time to get united and to solve this problem. Until unless they don’t come over this dirty politics India is not safe.
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche…this is just another way to enjoy life for French people. Nuit Blanche is a festival that starts at evening and ends till morning. The city of Paris is illuminated all night long. The Artists get a chance to perform in soft lights. Many famous artists give live performances and some others do dance , reading , theater , plastic art etc.
I was excited about this because of a virtual Moon created by focusing tens of light beams at some point upwards, and most astonishing thing was that it was not on sky. It was indeed a great experience to stand in the middle of those light beams.
It was organized in a way to avoid hustles. Primarily at all main stations like Gare de naurd, Gare de Lyon, Gare de saint Lazare etc , people were celebrating the festival. I had gone to Gare de Lyon. This is one of the station in Paris , where all international trains arrive. Shaad Ali, the famous Indian movie director, was shooting an upcoming film with his team here. I got a chance to see a Bollywood movie shooting for the first time in my life. Even French people were going crazy to see the whole drama. The crowd was uncontrollable , everyone was eager to see the style of dance of Indian girls. Infact , the performers were wearing typical Indian dress, which people used to wear thousands years ago. Nowadays we can only see that in paintings , statues or TV serials like Mahabharata.
Saroj khan was giving instruction to main actress Urmila Matondkar and her assistants were guiding to others. French media was covering every bits & bytes of this event. This makes their festival more special. We were surprised whether they were checking our patience or vice versa. Alltogether it was a very nice experience to visit today night.
A Day with French family…
It’s almost seven months being in Paris. I have been to many places till now. Most of the trips were great. What we normally do on trips , visit the city and famous monuments, museums, palaces (chateaus) and eateries. At the end of the day totally tired and then only one thing in mind that we should reach to our apartments anyhow.
Today we were invited by a French family for lunch. I was already so excited about this invitation. As i am very curious to know different cultures. I didn’t make any picture in my mind before going their place. I think, presumption for something , sometimes ruins the taste of the life and surprise of the moment. I honestly say i didn’t much read about French culture and cuisines, but as i am here from long time so have some feeling about this. We took some wine and fresh lilies with us. Some of our friends prepare Indian dishes like chole and pakore. So here starts , my one of the most exciting lunch.
We took RER from La defense and started to go out of Paris. I could feel some relaxation when my train was passing through countryside. After getting down from the RER , i could even breath more fresh air. It was 15 min walk from that station to their place. As soon as i entered into their house, i admired it from heart. It was a house maintained by the lady of the house and i specially mentioned it because she herself painted her house and all interior was done by her. I don’t know how does she get so much time after working 5 days in office and that too , at the age of more than fifty. I saw a scout sign in her showcase. I couldn’t resist to ask here about that and she told that , she is a scout administrative authority for young people. She involves in activities of scout often. As i was expecting a question from her , she asked , were you in scout in India? I said , yes i am a scout , because once a scout is always a scout. After that some exchanges of gifts like wine, perfumes , fresh lilies etc. We met with her Cat and dog. They were quite opposite to each other. Cat was too quite and Dog was too restless. She arranged everything in her garden at the backside of her house.
There was tandoor in garden, some apple and cherry trees etc . There was also arrangement for dinner the garden, it was well equipped with chimneys and candles. it was very pleasant weather outside. We could easily hear the sound of silence, and man made stream’s sound was breaking this. It was a perfect place to spend sometime with family or friends some times.
We started lunch with wines and coca, then some snacks, then tabbouleh , chicken tandoori, chole, then dessert , then coffee. So it was a long meal, it required a lot of patience to eat and appetite no doubt. But today i didn’t feel how 4 hours passed. So i had a great lunch today and more importantly, i got to know about the French way to welcome guests.
Democracy…is India/Bharat on right Path ?
Democracy is for the people , by the people and from the people. This is the classical definition on democracy. Basically, all power is in the hand of the people.
India is largest democratic country in the world. We are proud to say that. That means people are doing well to take India to the peak of development in every aspect.
The milestone of democracy was kept in the time of the King Bharat. By mentioning him , i am not diverting from the topic. He was a true leader of democracy, who believed in Karma and gave more importance to Karma than birth. He was the real judiciary , who used to give justice to his people after listening to them. He had a vision to make Bharat as Bharatvarsh.
Bharat was past and India is present. These two are different geographical region with different vision. These two has similar definition on democracy but with totally different meanings. In Bharat, people used to have freedom of everything that is supposed to in a democratic country. In India, do we have this? I strongly doubt. We can say whatever we feel, but after that , there is fear of death. We can go to wherever we want, same fear. We can publish whatever we think, again same fear in our mind. So what kind of democratic is India. According to current situation, some unsocialized elements are taking advantage by frightening people.
India has largest youth population in the world, it can achieve the best of most of the things. Besides this precious thing, it is not able to stop these terrorist’s activities, corruption , unemployment, starvation etc. The soul of democracy is politics, it plays a huge role to support it. But politics in India is like a profession to make money and power. These are worst enemies and best friends. People start thinking for themselves above nation.
I reach to conclusion , if People of India want to make it again Bharat, then they need a leader who can show them a correct path and the most important thing is its people, who should think of nation , because they are the ultimate leader.
Zindagi Ka Swad…
FOOD, the word when we listen or speak, suddenly many things come to our minds that we want to eat to satisfy our taste of tounge. Nature provided many things to eat for human being. Man started eating from raw meat to uncountable cuisines. He just keeps on adding and experimenting different things and keeps on making new-new dishes. People in old days used to keep them fit as they were having good eating habits or there might not so much varieties of food. These days we can easily find 2 out of 3 people having some problem with food. People living out of their home for some purpose are facing this kind of problem more often. They don’t get good and healthy food to eat and today’s generation is no more interested in cooking food for them own like our old generation, they just want ready to eat kind of things. They find wastage of time in this activity. I say, we are here for some purposes definitely but without good food how one can achieve his desired goals. I am not saying we should live for food but we should at least satisfy the needs of our body.
Nature has given us thousands of Spices. In fact every spice has its own purpose. Every human being is related to a particular spice, in other words, we all have a spice for us gifted by almighty God. Spices give taste to food , peace to mind, happiness to sad people , wealth to poor , friends to lonely , love to unloved ones, good health to unhealthy , better remembrance to our own , in short they fulfill all our desires. We should respect them.
In our country, India, we use many spices in our daily lives. In Ayurveda all these spices called “Aushdhi”, the medicines. This is the thing that is doing something to keep alive the name of spices. If we love spices they will love and take care of us.
MicroCredit/ MicroFianance
Microfinance or Microcredit is term, which is a hope for poor people to live their lives again in much better manner. Mohamaand Yunus is the man of Microfinance , who started this in around 1970 as institution named Grameen Bank. Infact nowadays in many parts of the world , many people are entering in this field and starting their organisation and NGOs to serve poor people.
This is true , when a new process starts it takes time to give results and in case of Miscrofinance we can observe very good result. Poor people from villages are using this facilities and starting their small businesses to educate their children , to feed their families , to fulfill their basic need of daily life , in short people who had chose this , got a new direction to live their lives.
In India some states like Gujarat and AndraPradesh are doign well in this field. In Gujarat , People of tribal region like “Chota Udepur” near Baroda are taking benefits out of this new process.
I want to mention about those people who operate these kind of oraganisation/ institutions. They really put their lives in this and doing something at grassroot level. I salute to those great souls.
People,Media and Cricket
Effect of media in today’s world is everywhere. People take every thing from heart. When sachin plays its very good, this is the player, every other should look at him and should learn from, his batting and efforts he put in his game. But when same sachin plays little bit slow, he has become old, he never plays well. I think no player in this world can hit century in each and every match with strike rate 100.I am not saying that new comers should not get chance to play or sachin should play slow.Afterall this is game and it has competition with best teams of the world. Main concentration of our cricket board should be towards making new players and they should follow rotation policy in right manner. As currently they are following this policy but some good players like Irfan phatan who was came up with the best swing bowler for India but what happened to him after he came into so called “rotation”.
Politics is ruining this game from its roots. If players get fair chance he will put his best efforts otherwise it stops him to play well and win games. Why we always loose to SriLanka, Australia and other teams and why they win? Because of standards that their cricket boards are maintaining and they apply them to all players. There is nothing like senior or junior player, whatever be his previous performance. Every player has to perform in the next game. Once you win the game and play new its all new start. So this is the way to win and play matches and series.
Cricket club in India is still a new thing to come.Kapil Dev started some new intitution.This was step that, i think most of the people appreciated. But our main cricket board is denying helping it or it may be some rumor.
In India, people still thinks to choose cricket as a career for his child. Why? Because there is no cricket academy, which provides training and opportunity to them. That’s the thing that applies to all games in India. I am dam sure when these kind academy get started in India we will rule the world in games.
