India

Writing on one’s own country can be easy also and at the same time a tough task. India a land of unity in diversity, a country of rich tradition, culture and inventions and great people. It is a vast country wherein various nations of different beliefs are bundled together to give a definite shape. Perhaps it is the only country in the world which has assimilated so many contradicting beliefs, religions and traditions in one rope.
In today’s world where casteism has taken a ugly shape imagining a country like India is really a whim.
Every country in this world has got its own beliefs and they hardly can accept the beliefs of other people. But in our country every one has got right to practice its religion in the way it wants. We have got largest number of temple of crores of Gods and Goddesses.
Still we respect each other and accept as they are. But then for how long will it be possible. We can see some faction demanding their separate state; we have already witnessed some pie added to the already existing cake. We have also seen various cities have got their name change. We have seen political parties emphasizing on their culture people, language and values. Some where people have started keeping the state and the religion before national interest and jeopardizing the unity of the country.
This is not the only challenge affecting our country. There are various other challenges which can dealt a great blow to the country’s existence. These are-
Terrorism- there is nothing to be said on this
Politics and its dark side- we have largest number of political parties which are more of a religious faction then a national party. The fight just to fulfill their mean interest without giving damn to the nation.
Our values- yes somehow and somewhere our values are also affecting us. We are too compromising, people blessed with weak memories when it comes to remembering the blows dealt on us by the foreigners. Whenever some incidence of terror attack happens we just forget everything the very next day. All these things are taken for granted.
Internal conflicts, internal act of terrorism
Lack of education and lack of sense of responsibility for own country and the list goes on.
I am not criticizing India as man people do. Infact I consider myself blessed to be born in this country but then we have to leverage upon this blessing and fight against various evils afflicting our country

Boys Vs. Girls

One of the most controversial topics. Right from early childhood we can find males and females fighting over this and trying to prove their superiority knowing very well that o on will come out as a winner. And infact no one is superior to other. Both are unique having particular behavioral aspect that separates the two. But for a successful living actually both of these behavioral aspects are needed.
Lets take women first (Ladies first concept)!!!! Women are more emotional, less logical, emotionally stronger than man and very creative. They are more flexible easily adaptable to any situation and are also good crisis manager. They are less demanding, more childish, understanding, good listener and so on.
To highlight a few negative aspect then- they are too emotional to handle this emotions. In the gush of emotions they don’t logically weigh the situation and may take hasty decisions which they at times regret later. Also they are very impatient and can get hyper even in those situations which can be handled peacefully. Undoubtedly, they are good at maneuvering, scheming and can change the face of the situation in a subtle manner. They know how to leverage a particular situation better than guys.

and ofcourse the biggest strength and weakness is their tears
As far as guys are concerned they are no doubt logical, business oriented, focused and ofcourse less creative. They are in the better grasp of the situation which needs to be handled with patience and logic and do not get carried away by emotions. They ofcourse don’t understand subtle emotions which they call as small-small useless stuff. They don’t have much ego issues and can prove as a better friend only if they know how to maintain the relations. They are good at taking care only if they know how to show it.
But then they are highly stubborn and this stubbornness of their can injure great relations. They don’t give a damn to emotional aspect which at times is necessary. And ofcourse they are more insecure and suspecting when it comes to relations. They value everything in terms of money.
But ofcourse then both are needed to run the family, society and this is world.
World cannot be imagined in the absence of one.

Birds !!!

I love seeing the birds flying high in the sky with virtually no restrictions, no fear and no bondage. Daily sitting in my office I see a group of pigeons take long flight together making loud sound, atleast twice a day. I love watching them flocking together in the group and see the camaraderie between them. Ofcourse I am not an ornithologist to understand this aspect of birds (but I would like to know if someone can tell me).
What I imagine is that I also want to be one of them flying high in the sky, without caring for anything or anyone, deep in own thoughts and masti.
Really if we want to learn then the animals and birds have lot to teach us.
They are free from any bondage. They don’t carry any emotions, grudges or ill feelings. They are all independent and blah, blah and blah.
But ya then they do not have family system like us, they don’t fall into emotional traps which at times may be good and they don’t have mind to perceive so many things.
I am thankful to God to grant me this life but still I would like to fly high in the sky like a bird away from this material world.

Movie 2012

I am not a movie critique, but then there are few movies which inspires/force you to write about it something.
Movie 2012 is a theme based movie, with good animations to be watched on a big screen ofcourse and not devoid of various stupidities like catching the flight while running, escaping danger every time, to name a few.

However what touched me the most is the underlying theme of this movie which is- “live your life as if it is your last day”.
This movie touches on basic emotion of human beings- the love for each other. We love our family, relatives and friends. This movie reminds us that today in this fast paced world we have not just got away from them physically but even emotionally. We hold onto grudges for long and don’t forgive our kith and kin-which is actually bad. But we fail to realize that we have just one precious life which is very uncertain and we may not know when the person we love go away from us. We will not get the time to communicate our feelings, to say the person how much we love him/her, to ask sorry and say thank you.
Hence this movie is a good reminder to forget the past, start a new beginning every day and express our emotions atleast to the people who value them.

Thanks to Orkut

Friendship is one such topic, on which one can write anything in length and anytime. It’s a blessing in disguise, a precious gift and for some a river of sorrow. But one thing is for sure it is like a rainbow, full of colors and when it is there in your life, your life is worth it.

But how about when your friend goes away from you for any reason- may be change in the location, job, college or school or any other reason. I know its pretty sad.

And then one fine day you either receive a surprise mail, call or just a scrap on your orkut. How do you feel??? Surprised!!!! Happy!!!! Don’t know how to respond!!!

Similar was my state on Saturday November 7^th 2009 when I received a scrap from my old school friend. She was not in contact with anyone as such right after tenth std. as she moved to Mumbai. Just a few days back I was remembering her, the precious phone call from her when I was in tenth std. regarding change in exam schedule and simply everything. And now today I received a scrap from her. I was indeed flabbergasted, not know for a moment what to do, how to respond, what to scrap her and is this a reality. But ofcourse this was a great moment of my life. Same day I saw scrap from one more school friend with whom I was not in contact after leaving school. Its really great when your old friends come in your life.

Thanks to orkut and other net-gifts that help us finding our old friends and be friend to them.

Similarly I received mail from one of my friend and I am still in soup as I am not able to recognize this friend of mine. This is pretty sad but I will recognize her very soon.

No doubt, net- surfing is good.

Vulgar competition

I guess this is the most befitting term for the competition that is witnessed by various players in the market today. Major industries are telecom, communication and retail.

To attract customers and to prevent churn rate the companies are on a price war.

To justify lets take example of telecom industry. More and more players are coming into the ever-growing market with varied schemes to attract more and more customers. Schemes like STD @ 50.ps, pay per call, pay 1 ps. and talk unlimited are deluging in the market.

Then there are schemes going in retail segment also. Like the past decade witnessed the tough competition between cola companies. Various FMCG companies, apparel industry are also witnessing this cut-throat competition.

No doubt the customer is at an advantage as he gets the bargaining power and a wider basket of goods to choose from. But, till what point of time?

At some point the balance has to come and market will see the saturation.

One more question comes to my mind is that are customers paying some indirect cost may be in form of hazard to environment, inter-generational equity or any other hidden cost which will show its face in future.

How about companies, there profitability, effects on shareholders, employees and various other stake holders? Are they not into loss?

All these questions need to be answered. No doubt, competition is healthy, but excess of it is not ripe for the market. There should be proper regulatory framework to address unnecessary competition in the market and make it a fair play.

Learnings

We all might have read a great many quotes. Mails are abounded with the stuff on positive quotes. At times its seems good to read this quotes, but then there are the times when our life is a damn hell and we feel what the fuck this quotes are and they are just good in preaching but not in practice. Very true!!!

Only we can understand our problems, how gigantic are they and we only know how difficult it is to come out of them. And you can always find every second individual crying on his/her fate. We keep cribbing on various things. And the only reason for this to happen is that we forget our core values along with others, our very purpose of life. We just know that small-small problems takes the shape of big problems, but we don’t know that small-small blessings also add to one big blessing. We forget to delite ourselves from small-small things.

Just have a look and you will find-

That the world is really beautiful. There is Mother Nature to enjoy with; there are atleast few friends in our life who are angels on this earth for us. These friends might be far away from us but then they are somewhere in this world praying for us. We have relatives, siblings and above all our parents.

When we have so many blessings then why do we cry for small-small things that are actually insignificant and beyond our control. I know these words are easy said then done. I also know that when someone else is in problem it is quite easy to assuage that other person. We may give wonderful sermons and allay fear of other person. But when the things come on us, we forget everything. Then we want someone else to remind us these wonderful words.

But then there can be times when we are all alone and at that time we should count small-small blessings of our life and increase our joy and not pain.