Well, well.
My first day in office! Having been shortlisted to work for a PR firm in India, i was quite excited since while passing through the MBA phase i had always wanted to get into advertising / PR and here i was working for a highly rated PR firm in India!
Here i come and the first thing i am told is to get into newspapers and magazines. I am thrilled. Imagine being paid to go through magazines and newspapers the whole day! Before 11 a.m., however, i realize that it is not about reading the stuff...its simply about noting down any and everything relating to any and every client of the firm. So the whole day spent reading, or rather, going through 24 newspapers and 11 maagzines! At the end of it, if you were to ask me, what was the news, probably i wouldnt remember a thing since the only thing i was tracking was aerated beverages, shoes, liquor, telecom, heavy machinery, television, computers, u name it!
Before, i realized, the day was over and my boss, a lady, no less, asked me to cut all those articles that mentioned anything remotely related to any of the above and many more. Once the articles were all cut, they were to be pasted on white sheets of paper, photocopied in sets of three and one copy faxed to the respective clients. I came to the office at 9a.m. and left at 9p.m. on my very first day at work! And all that i got was gummed fingers!
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Indian National Congress
The problem with the Congress is very well explained. The issue is how to go about doing this? TO begin with, why doesnt the Congress hold genuine organizational elections for each of the party posts. What is this nonsense about High Command deciding vital positions?
Why cant the High Command demolish itself for the betterment of the party? Because there are just far too many vested interests. Why does the party that brought India freedom have to pander to religious and casteist emotions when it is this same organization that gave us Nehru, Patel, Azad and Gandhi.
Why is it scared of anything at all? It needs to revamp the organization and thats about it. Yet again, who will do it and who has the time?
Can Rahul really bear the heat and dust of India? Can he really travel across India like Gandhi did when he vitalized and made the Congress relevant to the masses? How does anyone feel that a Rahul so out of touch with ground realities can really do it, sitting in Delhi? Its a long road ahead but if someone can withstand the heat and dust, then India is there, waiting to welcome with open arms.
Why cant the High Command demolish itself for the betterment of the party? Because there are just far too many vested interests. Why does the party that brought India freedom have to pander to religious and casteist emotions when it is this same organization that gave us Nehru, Patel, Azad and Gandhi.
Why is it scared of anything at all? It needs to revamp the organization and thats about it. Yet again, who will do it and who has the time?
Can Rahul really bear the heat and dust of India? Can he really travel across India like Gandhi did when he vitalized and made the Congress relevant to the masses? How does anyone feel that a Rahul so out of touch with ground realities can really do it, sitting in Delhi? Its a long road ahead but if someone can withstand the heat and dust, then India is there, waiting to welcome with open arms.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Whats with the politicians
The theatre that is Indian politics gets stranger by the day.
Imagine, secular CPM trying to eject Taslima whilst the non-secular, err, communal BJP trying to have her in Gujarat!
When will the politicians ever come out of their weird world or rather when will the Indian citizens show them where they belong, truly!
Imagine, secular CPM trying to eject Taslima whilst the non-secular, err, communal BJP trying to have her in Gujarat!
When will the politicians ever come out of their weird world or rather when will the Indian citizens show them where they belong, truly!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Smaller States
i think that very dispassionately the Indian and the US government, along with the rest of the powers that be, should also start promoting the idea of Pakistan being broken up into smaller countries.
I mean come on, what is the problem with that? And in any case it would be better to manage smaller countries than one big country which is anyway not manageable! No one seems to be presiding over anything in that country since the last 60 years. So what better than to have smaller countries where at least there would be some countries which could be better governed. The ones that are not, probably, NWFP or Baluchistan would have their own ethnic chiefs presiding over and it would be better to control them rather than someone sitting in Islamabad and trying to exert control where none can be.
I mean come on, what is the problem with that? And in any case it would be better to manage smaller countries than one big country which is anyway not manageable! No one seems to be presiding over anything in that country since the last 60 years. So what better than to have smaller countries where at least there would be some countries which could be better governed. The ones that are not, probably, NWFP or Baluchistan would have their own ethnic chiefs presiding over and it would be better to control them rather than someone sitting in Islamabad and trying to exert control where none can be.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Why reservations for OBCs?
What is wrong with the Indian politicians? Have they lost it completely?
Rahul Gandhi, Varun Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, i think you are the guys who can take us out of this mess.
India has always been ruled by so called foreigners. Lets get them back again coz Indian politicians will only give us misery as what they have given in the last so many years.
Imagine, not one of them has the courage to get up and say that the reservations are a total mess! Not one of them!
How much can they fall and to what level? When will this end? After everything has been reserved, who will give those additional voted to who? And who would lose at the end of it all? Only India and the Indians?!
This is as frustrating as it can get. No hope for the country that is supposed to be soon becoming a world power. Jeez!
They are all getting together to gang up against the Supreme Court, the one institution that is left with some semblance of deceny in public life. Just imagine what would happen when these idiots kill the Supreme Court as well.
Who will come to this country's rescue? I think the best way out of this mess is to get some one else from some other country to rule this nation as otherwise we are simply not capable any more since even the President and the Generals are helpless!
Rahul Gandhi, Varun Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, i think you are the guys who can take us out of this mess.
India has always been ruled by so called foreigners. Lets get them back again coz Indian politicians will only give us misery as what they have given in the last so many years.
Imagine, not one of them has the courage to get up and say that the reservations are a total mess! Not one of them!
How much can they fall and to what level? When will this end? After everything has been reserved, who will give those additional voted to who? And who would lose at the end of it all? Only India and the Indians?!
This is as frustrating as it can get. No hope for the country that is supposed to be soon becoming a world power. Jeez!
They are all getting together to gang up against the Supreme Court, the one institution that is left with some semblance of deceny in public life. Just imagine what would happen when these idiots kill the Supreme Court as well.
Who will come to this country's rescue? I think the best way out of this mess is to get some one else from some other country to rule this nation as otherwise we are simply not capable any more since even the President and the Generals are helpless!
Saturday, April 14, 2007
The game of elections in India
A game of money and muscle power to see who best traps the illiterate and uneducated simpletons.
We have one corrupt criminal politician playing against the other with the general population being the pawns.
The one who collects the most pawns wins the game.
The best way to collect these pawns is to efficiently use money to buy them or force to threaten them!
If one has to collect these pawns en masse, a third weapon in the armoury is to make them into blocks of vote banks rather than as individuals and then collect them through fear or money. The only way allowed to group them into blocks is to ironically divide them on the basis of caste, religion or language.
Welcome to the great Indian game of elections!
We have one corrupt criminal politician playing against the other with the general population being the pawns.
The one who collects the most pawns wins the game.
The best way to collect these pawns is to efficiently use money to buy them or force to threaten them!
If one has to collect these pawns en masse, a third weapon in the armoury is to make them into blocks of vote banks rather than as individuals and then collect them through fear or money. The only way allowed to group them into blocks is to ironically divide them on the basis of caste, religion or language.
Welcome to the great Indian game of elections!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Uttarakhand - What needs to be done!
Dear Mr. Khanduri,
Congratulations on the swearing in ceremony!Having closely followed the BJP and your career within the BJP (I really admire the way you changed the face of the Indian highways with a single minded devotion seldom seen in the Indian politicians, BJP included!).I am tempted to offer you my own two pence worth of humble suggestions. It is ofcourse most certainly upto you to consider the same or not:Please shift the capital of the state from Dehradun to Girsain. Lets not lose touch with the people on the ground. For too long in India, people have been taken for a ride. Lets not do this anymore. Uttarakhand is Devbhumi! Lets strive to make it a true devbhumi! Now it is the turn of the BJP, ostensibly a Hindu party and a party pledged to good governance. Let us ensure that all the religious places (I mean ALL of them) in Uttarakhand are cleaned up, made hygienic, renovated, even if through public - private partnerships, and made pilgrim friendly. Let our own Devbhumi be like the Vatican. Have you been there? Its absolutely religious, really clean, safe, secure, pilgrim friendly and tourist friendly.Can we aim at turning our Devbhumi into a place where truly even the Gods would love to come and stay! Can we clean up Badrinath, not just the temple but the city as well? How about the route to Kedarnath? If the route to Shree Vaishno Devi can be renovated why cant the same be done for the route to Kedarnath. I am not talking of widening the roads for cars to go. No, pilgrims need to walk it, if it be so. I am simple talking of cleaning up the route, providing lights, drinking water and toilet facilities en route etc.How about the route from Gangotri to Gaumukh? Have you been there? Its one of the most dangerous routes. If God forbid something happens to someone, it is nearly impossible for the person to get medical help. Can we have Radio en route to Gaumukh? What about Tapovan? What about Brahma Sarovar? Hemkunth? Joshimath? Yamunotri? Oh, the list is endless. But believe me, if the government focuses on simply making the tourist and religious places more accessible and friendly, just improves the roads,electricity and health facilities at these main points across Uttarakhand, more than half the work would be done. We dont need polluting factories in the hills. We need Uttarakhand to be a true Devbhumi. We need it to be an ecologically safe place, open to visitors and secure for the residents. We need to de-congest Nainital and develop Kausani, Jogeshwar, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Chopta, Almora...All this of course cannot be done by the government alone. The government just needs to take out money and get in private investment to develop the roads and electriciy and focus on a complete makeover of the religious places spread all across Uttarachal. Just developing these would ensure the development of the people living in those areas. Believe me, the rest will happen on its own. You see the example of India, unfolding right in front of our eyes. Just have to provide the right conditions and the Indian psyche will take care of the rest. We are all across the world, doing well for ourselves everywhere. We are more than a billion in India itself. Why does anyone feel that we cannot do things or we need the government to tell us how to do things? After all the government also comprises Indians. The government just needs to provide the right conditions. Focus on the basics. I repeat. You can do all of this in the first two years of your government. Just like what Mr. Nitish Kumar is doing in Bihar. I love Uttarakhand and I dont want to see it going to waste. It is our Devbhumi and we owe it to ourselves to make it a true Devbhumi!RegardsGaurav
Congratulations on the swearing in ceremony!Having closely followed the BJP and your career within the BJP (I really admire the way you changed the face of the Indian highways with a single minded devotion seldom seen in the Indian politicians, BJP included!).I am tempted to offer you my own two pence worth of humble suggestions. It is ofcourse most certainly upto you to consider the same or not:Please shift the capital of the state from Dehradun to Girsain. Lets not lose touch with the people on the ground. For too long in India, people have been taken for a ride. Lets not do this anymore. Uttarakhand is Devbhumi! Lets strive to make it a true devbhumi! Now it is the turn of the BJP, ostensibly a Hindu party and a party pledged to good governance. Let us ensure that all the religious places (I mean ALL of them) in Uttarakhand are cleaned up, made hygienic, renovated, even if through public - private partnerships, and made pilgrim friendly. Let our own Devbhumi be like the Vatican. Have you been there? Its absolutely religious, really clean, safe, secure, pilgrim friendly and tourist friendly.Can we aim at turning our Devbhumi into a place where truly even the Gods would love to come and stay! Can we clean up Badrinath, not just the temple but the city as well? How about the route to Kedarnath? If the route to Shree Vaishno Devi can be renovated why cant the same be done for the route to Kedarnath. I am not talking of widening the roads for cars to go. No, pilgrims need to walk it, if it be so. I am simple talking of cleaning up the route, providing lights, drinking water and toilet facilities en route etc.How about the route from Gangotri to Gaumukh? Have you been there? Its one of the most dangerous routes. If God forbid something happens to someone, it is nearly impossible for the person to get medical help. Can we have Radio en route to Gaumukh? What about Tapovan? What about Brahma Sarovar? Hemkunth? Joshimath? Yamunotri? Oh, the list is endless. But believe me, if the government focuses on simply making the tourist and religious places more accessible and friendly, just improves the roads,electricity and health facilities at these main points across Uttarakhand, more than half the work would be done. We dont need polluting factories in the hills. We need Uttarakhand to be a true Devbhumi. We need it to be an ecologically safe place, open to visitors and secure for the residents. We need to de-congest Nainital and develop Kausani, Jogeshwar, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Chopta, Almora...All this of course cannot be done by the government alone. The government just needs to take out money and get in private investment to develop the roads and electriciy and focus on a complete makeover of the religious places spread all across Uttarachal. Just developing these would ensure the development of the people living in those areas. Believe me, the rest will happen on its own. You see the example of India, unfolding right in front of our eyes. Just have to provide the right conditions and the Indian psyche will take care of the rest. We are all across the world, doing well for ourselves everywhere. We are more than a billion in India itself. Why does anyone feel that we cannot do things or we need the government to tell us how to do things? After all the government also comprises Indians. The government just needs to provide the right conditions. Focus on the basics. I repeat. You can do all of this in the first two years of your government. Just like what Mr. Nitish Kumar is doing in Bihar. I love Uttarakhand and I dont want to see it going to waste. It is our Devbhumi and we owe it to ourselves to make it a true Devbhumi!RegardsGaurav
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Work without the fear of results
Karmanye vaadhika raste maa phaleshu kadachan!
This is not just a statement. It has a very deep meaning. It is only when you focus on the work and not on the end result that you can do the task at hand better. If the result is what concerns you while performing a task, the task itself will never be completed optimally. Hence it is necessary to identify the goals and objectives of a particular work, whatever it may be. Once the goals are identified, you need to then set down the modus operandi, clearly breaking up the job into small, measurable activities and then get about doing these activities rather than constantly worrying about the end result. Take time in deciding what you want to do and why you want to do it. And then, once decided, dont look back, just get going!
Planning like the Japanese, Working like the Americans, with a mindset of the Indians!
This is not just a statement. It has a very deep meaning. It is only when you focus on the work and not on the end result that you can do the task at hand better. If the result is what concerns you while performing a task, the task itself will never be completed optimally. Hence it is necessary to identify the goals and objectives of a particular work, whatever it may be. Once the goals are identified, you need to then set down the modus operandi, clearly breaking up the job into small, measurable activities and then get about doing these activities rather than constantly worrying about the end result. Take time in deciding what you want to do and why you want to do it. And then, once decided, dont look back, just get going!
Planning like the Japanese, Working like the Americans, with a mindset of the Indians!
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