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From the Year of Choice 2007 to Year of Hope 2008

2008-01-07T10:54:00.000+05:30

Dear Friend,

Year 2007 passed as dramatic as any other 46 years of my life. If you live an adventurous and successful life, it has to be like this. But as world is becoming better place every other day, our life too are becoming beautiful, interesting and successful. And I am sure this could be true for many of us. If we are able to reminisce past, manage our present and plan our future, life remain complex but sweet, sour and adventurous.

In the history of human kind, humans have never had so much aspirations, satisfactions, frustrations and misery as we have today. As I always try, I shall make it simple. Present situation, I call it an ‘abundance of everything’. I call this era as Abundance Era.

But the main question comes to my mind, what abundance we think, live, dream, encounter and face, what is its impact on our life? Are we able to digest these abundances properly without getting diarrhea? It may not be a challenge always but from my point of view, it could be a choice. I know many of you may not agree with me at this moment but you all will accept my view sooner or later. I shall explain the reason.

Life goes on as usual. Life complexities and privileges both enhances astronomically and most of the times simultaneously. We just need few basics to set right and that too not through hard conditioned learning but unlearning. It is within reach of everyone. We all can achieve growth and success. But over and above, we all should feel honored to live in a world full of choice.

“Unlearning is Devine Dear! It’s like Moksha, when we come out of every bond, wonderful thoughts, Good collection”, writes one of my blogger admirers Ashok Sharma, an author from Lucknow.

I shall be discourteous if I do not quote USA soon in my writings whose armies are dying everyday in Iraq, Afghanistan or even Pakistan. And they are just not doing this to bring missed glory for USA; they are doing these sacrifices to bring peace, tranquility and democracy across the world. How many of you want peace, tranquility and democracy on earth and do not know what to do? I think many of my blog readers fall in that category. They have abundance of information, knowledge and even wisdom but they are lost. They do not know what is right and what is wrong. My suggestion is simple, instead of following your own governments; you just observe and follow American government for their rightness, boldness and futuristic views. Just follow America and Americans. That’s what Swami Vivekananda did and that is what now Narayana Murthy or Indira Nooyi is doing.

Growth is always a complex phenomenon of human history. As an Indians we have seen wars, rulers and governments, but we have yet to see growth. We have seen deprivation, we have heard good words which keep us happy even as deprived people, but where is growth? We need wisdom and right approach to our social, economic and political growth. And that will come at cost of pain of change. We just can not be contented and grow. I can not tell you good words and make you grow. I have to use hard words. We all have to take hard decisions. We have to make hard choices.

War may not be choice many a time but it is necessity for peace and growth. I shall quote from Hollywood movie ‘Independence’, “We will not perish without a fight. We are going to survive”. It is true for today world. We have to fight to survive. That’s why Ex Prime Minister Tony Blair said, “We may live entire life without going to war. But I did best.”

As I mentioned in my first blog of year 2007, I am happy to confirm that world has moved an inch ahead in bringing peace and growth and I am very-very hopeful and satisfied too for the years to come.

Few of the messages which kept fire within ignited in this year 2007.

Dawn and Dew (Sulekha.com) writes

“I really hate Jassi though I never watched that serial even once! But what these directors must be showing, I know very well. They would demand a girl to be the symbol of sacrifice for their enjoyment and praise the girl or women "jaisi koi nahi!" You know I was once such a girl in the whole of my family circle and they called me the same way! But I realized their hypocrisy very soon though they are respectable people. I thought in my mind "When I grow up and get the right words to express myself just let me see how my smile at their stupidity would kill their conscience!" I really swore at the height of seeing their hypocrisy. They said, "Wow such a good girl! She washes our jhutta plates without being asked or told". I was not at all pleased and felt so shy at their comments. But in stead, I felt, "Why mister, if you feel that that's such a wonderful job why don't you take pride in doing it?" Now they see a sea of change after my marriage and they go dumbstruck and awestruck at my genuine arguments. Of course I put forth politely without failing to acknowledge their many goodnesses otherwise. They are good people. But as you said they are unable to come out from the quagmire of conservatism.

We need you and your voice sir. Go ahead!”

Do I have choice?

You can always read more of dawn and dew at http://dawnanddew.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/unlearn-before-you-learn.htm

And at the end of the year, I received another encouraging compliment from South Africa.

Wing Commander Rajappan writes at the fag end of this year

“Dear Wg Cdr KK Verma & family,

As the year is drawing to a close, I am sure you may be quite happy with your achievements in the past twelve months. I on my behalf and on my family's behalf extend hearty congratulations to you on your success. The reviews and comments which you are receiving stand as testimony to your popularity and the influence you wield on the intellectual community within India and abroad.

I feel proud to be your friend and consider lucky to receive snippets of wisdom from you. You have embarked on a mission to change the way people think and learn. Many a times, the learning what we received in our formative days and the values we imbibed become a hindrance to our new learning. You have tried breaking many myths and I wish you success in your future endeavors. You are the future Stephen Cove of India.

May God give wisdom, energy and the drive for bringing out many such works in future?

Your loving friend

Raja

HAPPY X MAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR”

The great year for the world which was 2007?

- India remained a strong democratic republic
- Indian growth remained intact in spite of dirty and cheap politics
- India by and large started learning few of ground realities from China
- China remained good competitor and emulator
- Pakistan moving inch by inch towards better and stable state
- Bhutto’s death may give wisdom and democracy to Muslims world
- Less bloodshed in Iraq.
- Less terrorists attack in India
- Indian Inc grew without any Institutional support
- Indian government survived
- Communist showed its dirty face in Nandigram
- China unlearning communism day after day
- Russian remains far-far away from real democracy
- Euro challenged dollar…
- Billionaires became more commoner

Indians have come a long way towards development and prosperity. This is time when Indians need not rely on perceived notions of the past. Indians can never earn glory on the past achievements. Indians will have to shape up the future. And this has to be achieved through focused effort, hard work and systematic wisdom creations. Wisdom has to be created and harnesses based on recent technological and social changes. Become bold and shape your future. That is what I do and that is what I tell others to do.

Life is full of ups and down and I am happy to witness all these as a simple Indian. I am happy to share all these with all my friends and readers across the world. It is pleasure to live life experiencing the finest.

It's my life full of events

- Got published my first book “Unlearn Before U_learn”
- My daughter played junior national squash
- I meshed up my investment because of unorganized, dangerously aspired and probably a cheater at heart person like Mr Amrendra Tripathi
- My wife completed her Post-Graduate course in medicine and recovered from bullying by her colleagues
- Received few intimate and forceful reviews of my ‘great’ (thinking) work
http://matheikal.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/unlearn-before-you-learn.htm
- Joined Centre for governance with Mr Prabhat Kumar Ex-Governor.

Future remains hopeful

- Hope to have more sensible world
- Join and be the part of human growth
- Be able to undertake innovation
- Enjoy world peace
- Have part of abundance and enjoy them
- Become part of construction
- Remain enemy of destruction
- Contribute in civil governance

Life does not give too many luxuries of times to keep trying few extremes. We all have twenty four hours a day and we have to make choices to build ourselves or preserve our traditions at the cost of growth, success and peace. This is the time of true professionalism. I do not think that we should live life as a traditional keeper. God has sent us here and in 21st century to be creative and innovative.

Every individual has the power of creations. Only thing, creation demands time, space and effort. It demands resources. It is within all of us.

We all can be innovator and we all should be. The technological resources which we have at hand would be of no use if we don’t create or innovate. We have to do it. We have to unlearn old beliefs, traditions and systems. We have to come out of clutches of our wrong perceptions, belief and expectation. We have to create own path, new road, new avenue and new opportunities. It is all within us. We can do it.

Innovation is the key to growth. We have not seen the growth, success and happiness what western people have seen just because we have not been able to innovate and create. The soundness of all the happiness and prosperity depends upon creations and innovations. Unless we learn to innovate, unless we unlearn to keep following, copying and Xeroxing, we will never be able to innovate. We have to innovate to achieve our dream. We have to innovate and create to make ourselves prosperous the way we expect. And it is not difficult. It is all within us. We have to do it.

Today, wherever I go, I see, I read, I find people doing, working and propagating things, knowledge and products developed by some westerns. How far these proud Indians who feel themselves great can keep doing like these? You have to create your own. You can not keep making some westerner famous and rich. You can not keep doing and working for westerners. You have to do it for yours. You have to it within you. The New Year presents you with new resolution, new opportunities and new direction. Make it happen!!

We have very different era. Here, we are forced to do new things on daily basis. We are forced to accept new things. We are encountering new things most of the time. We are doing new things most of the time unknowingly but what I communicate that we all should do these intentionally and with full conscience.

I must thank all of you for being there for me through out year 2007. I consider you the best of the society and I hope you continue getting the best.

New year 2008 is waiting for us to create, innovate and march forward!!

Happy New Year…. Have great journey 2008!!!

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Subsidies Must Go To History Books

2007-12-21T22:46:00.000+05:30

It is believed that the man speaks his mind. As a Finance Minister, it was believed that he is the only Finance Minister in independent India who knows what he does and he does what he knows. But those were the golden moments of this man when he was sheltered and protected by Narshimha Rao as Prime Minister. Gone were the days. He speaks less now because of his orphanism but even today, whenever, he gets free hand, he speaks his mind.

He spoke again without getting noticed by many especially media experts when he shouted openly against all who are saviors of poverty. I call them saviors of poverty because they make policies which are helping poor to remain poor. Popular policies are keeping the poor deprived for centuries. This has to be understood by the policy makers as well as citizens. West Bengal is very right example. So Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister spoke in clear terms. He said what is hurting Indian growth. He said what is needed.

"Subsidies not reaching the poor": Manmohan Singh said.

I think we spend far too much subsidies in the name of equity, with neither equity objectives nor efficiency objectives being met," Singh said while speaking at the golden jubilee celebrations of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG).

Conveying the clear message of unlearning past, he said, "I think we need a new wave of creative thinking on these issues. Old ways of thinking have run their course." As a Prime Minister, he may not have time and support to carry out administrative and policy reforms, but he feels these needs for the development of the nation.

Singh regretted that "mixed economy' often becomes "mixed-up economy" and called for adopting new middle path for development that combines the efficiency consideration of the market with the equity considerations of the liberal economy." It is an open education for all communist way of thinkers that old ways are not going to serve humanity in 21st century. We have to find new ways.

Manmohan Singh admitted that the experiment with "mixed economy" in the early decades of independence had been disappointing. The country was unable to achieve growth more than 4% for decades. This happened when Industrialization and Automation through Electronics were at the peak all over the world. The nations which followed competitive and capitalist policies were the winners. India remained the losers and was satisfied to maintain its poverty.

Today we are spending 1 lac crores on subsidies and if they are not serving purpose, we must find the ways and means to divert this wastage. Manmohan Singh proposes to give focused attention in agriculture sector and energy sector issues. Energy sector is still worth talking but he wastes the time of the nation and its people when he tries to convince that such an approach was also necessary to address the major concerns pertaining to rural-urban divide and interregional imbalance. For that we need to focus on many other important issues.

Government needs to take some hard stand on issues pertaining to eradication of poverty. The careless talking and exposition of frustration by government agencies and that too Prime Minister is demoralizing for the people of this great nation. Prime Minister must do things which he can do. And certainly he would like to see subsidies disappearing from developed India.

We need to unlearn old ways fast to catch up with the new things are being developed everyday.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Time To Look Within

2007-12-07T11:19:00.000+05:30

In India, it is almost a fashion to abuse Hinduism on the name of secularism while on the other hand, protect Muslims and other religions on the name of minority. This might have been good philosophy in the last century when people were happy to get their basic rights. But this is not the case in 21st century. Are you satisfied with your basic rights? I say no, no way. Basic rights are the thing of past. People want their basic amenities and basic privileges to grow and prosper and be happy.
Last week when Muslims protested and wasted their time to protest against Taslima, one of them who dared to write things for Muslims, I felt the miseries of deprived communities. Even leaders make use of the weak emotions to fulfill their own aspirations at the cost of growth. But it must be understood by all educated and informed people that you can never be rich by keeping even deprived and fools poor. (This is my researched statement.) West Bengal and Indian governments have to realize this. They can not keep deprived poor for long just because they are not well informed and emotional. Indian government has lost its credibility when keep focusing on trivial issues.

Similar was the case in Sudan, just over a week ago it was hard to imagine how the international reputation of the Sudanese government could sink any lower.

Accused of sponsoring the killing and rape of hundreds of thousands of its own people in Darfur and then of blocking the peacekeepers who might protect them - barely a week passed without a threat of sanctions or a new UN resolution.
But thanks to the Gillian Gibbons saga, Sudan has managed to transform its public image from pariah state to something approaching a laughing stock. Wisdom prevailed at last. But the sequence of events must be of interest to all educated Indians.

Sept: Gillian Gibbons's class votes to name a teddy bear Muhammad
25 Nov: She is arrested for allegedly insulting Islam's Prophet
27 Nov: Gordon Brown says efforts are being made to release her
28 Nov: Mrs Gibbons is charged with insulting religion and inciting hatred
29 Nov: A Sudanese court finds her guilty of insulting Islam and sentences her to 15 days in prison and deportation
30 Nov: Angry protesters in Khartoum demand a harsher sentence
1 Dec: Two British Muslim peers press Sudanese officials to pardon her
3 Dec: Mrs Gibbons is pardoned by Sudan's president and freed from prison

Gillian should never have been arrested in the first place, let alone held in jail - she had done nothing wrong says Inayat Bunglawala Muslim Council of Britain

In the name of people and their emotions, shrewd leaders are making their way to the top like 19th and even 20th century but in this era of pure democracy as Imran Khan of Pakistan said once, people need better and sensible leaders to take futuristic decisions.

The mob demanding the execution of Gillian Gibbons — for allowing her seven-year-old pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed — may have been government prompted. In any case, it represents the latest example of one type of Islamist aggression. Most Muslim-majority countries have rules against insulting the Islamic prophet — most notoriously, clauses 295 and 298 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Islamists capriciously use such laws as a weapon to hound free-thinking Muslims and non-Muslims. And I feel that Muslims leaders are doing this at the cost of the growth of Muslim communities.

In 2002, for example, 105 people were killed in riots in Kaduna, Nigeria, following the publication of an article suggesting Mohammed would have approved of a beauty contest. These incidences across the world, including what happened in West Bengal, are the shame for civilized society. Mobs are howling for the death of Taslima Nasreen, the Bangladeshi author critical of Islam. If India has to developed, it has to learn to respect intelligence. It may be true that India can be ruled by not so intelligent people but can not be run without it. Statements coming out of the West, from the Salman Rushdie affair in 1989, to the Danish cartoons, to Pope Benedict's speech in 2006, have inspired multiple violent eruptions.

These Incidents point to two of the deepest problems in modernizing Islam. One is permitting freedom of speech concerning Mohammed, the Koran, and other aspects of religion. The other concerns the right of Muslims to leave Islam. These twin transitions must be accomplished for Islam to leave its current backward and oppressive situations.

The way Hinuds have been marginalized in their own nation, it is not good for anyone who respects democracy. But thanks to the broad heart and social brought up of Hindus, the country like India, China and others are growing astronomically. We all need to take a lesson or two from emerging events. This is the time of consolidation. This is the time to look within.

Can this informed world be made fool like this at the cost of their basic amenities? Why do not we move from our basic right to basic amenities? Indians need to look within. All deprived people across the world need to look within. All those people who feel emotional about growth of deprived and poor should look within. This is the time to act not just react.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Taslima - A India Prestige

2007-11-28T11:50:00.000+05:30

Why should Taslima stays in Rajasthan house? Why Modi should invite her to Gujarat? Why an industrialist and reformist like Buddhadeb fears Muslim fundamentalist to oust Taslima? There are many such questions in this country which disturb me where secular fundamentalists reside and rule.

Society has its own way of evolution. I do not have doubt about the evolutionary processes of human beings. Every human being wants time to grow. Every human being wants time to get educated. That's why even learning took 1900 centuries to be made as basic human rights. Education was not prevalent just three generations back. Today when even educated Muslims and secular Hindus talk and discuss about right and wrong of Taslima, I feel pity on the evolution process of human being.

Can human beings learn things faster? In this 21st century and a more clearly global world, why should we take so much time to learn good things? Why we are still continuing with so many bad and fatal thinking and actions? We have some serious problems of fatal thinking. That's why an author like Taslima is insulted. The only known female author in 21st century who had courage in poor, illiterate and deprived Muslims are being treated badly. Why poor do not learn more than doing fatal worship at the cost of their own life?

Taslima has become 'Harijan' of Muslims. What an irony of an educated society? Every body wants to study, get educated and learn but no one wants to unlearn conservativeness and ugliness of society. How can you insult educated author in a civilized society? After such incidence, can Muslim society ever think of producing a vocal and outspoken author for generations and decades?

Is it surprise when Muslims are struggling to get democracy in Bangladesh or even Pakistan? Why should anyone? In a society where you force educated and learned to run away from pillar to post, you will have to die of bomb attacks. You can dream of democracy and good governance but you can never get. You have to be controlled and manipulated by Western power or developed powers. A conscious Muslims and secular Indians must awaken to face the challenges of growth and wisdom.

It is shame on the part of West Bengal and Indian government who call themselves on one hand secular and on the other hand work for terrorists. Can not we respect law and order? Are law and order in India for majority only?

On the other hand what is happening in Malaysia or even Burma? They are the result of brutal ness. All educated and claimed secular people must speak against fundamentalists. The people who believe in human rights and democracy must come out and fight these fundamentalisms at the core of their heart. Why do not Shahrukh or Shabana speak in favour of Taslima? Why we have so much distinction between M F Hussain and Taslima Nasreen?

It is a golden opportunity for India to respect the democracy and individual freedom of people across the world. Taslima is the symbol of liberty, knowledge and humanity. Taslima must be preserved for dying terror world. If MF Hussain can live in UK, Taslima can stay here in India?.

I am surprised why Mayawati or Jayalalita have not offered Taslima a place in her state especially when center is in doldrums. But sooner or later Indians irrespective of caste, creed or religion will welcome such dignified scholar on this land which is going to be developed shortly. India will develop by welcoming such intelligence at their soil. India will become developed at the cost of conservativeness of its neighbours.

How can India hide its boldness? India must have courage to face fundamentalists. This is an opportunity for India to provide full protection to Taslima and make her a symbol of its secular philosophy.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Exposition of Indian Lady

2007-11-22T14:06:00.000+05:30

Dear Kamekish sir,

So it is quite clear in my mind that I am contradicting you at two places:

1. Mallika Sherawat's decisions are appreciated in the book.

But it could have been some other example who had done something good to the society. This is what I felt. How can a girl who has contacts with many men can set an example for the society? If the society grows in that direction, can we call it a healthy society? Or is there any peace of mind and good health possible, if the society takes the path of such lewd examples? How about Kiran Bedi? Definitely, she can set a wonderful example in all facets of her personality! She has revolutionized the concept of disciplining the criminals in Tihar jail through Vipassana meditation.( For your kind information I am also a vipassana meditator but not regular in my practice !) She could have become a good testimony for all your good words. This is what I feel.

2. Parents should not be heeded at all.

What I felt was that they need not be heeded in the matters they are not at all familiar with. Like the example you had given about a pilot who took the advice of his mother for his career in flight and about which the mother knew nothing! That is why I appreciated that the examples you have given "are very strong" and really valid. (Personally speaking, when I was not allowed to go to college to pursue my higher studies and faced storm, all the relatives "kindly" adviced me to stop my higher education. Discouraged me as much as they could. Otherwise I was known as the only child who heeded the words of elders so well. So they wondered that my rebellion in this regard (higher education) was quite contrary to my good nature. But I never listened to any of their "advices.")

Good, it really paves way not to listen to the parents or elders in certain things. But is it adviseable to come out of their house? Even here I could reallly agree with you. Because, if I had settled there with my parents and relatives I could not have been what I am today. So my own examples were too strong to support your views. That is why I called you a real saviour of women in my earlier comment sometime ago. This may not sound good for gents. Because they enjoy good amount of freedom from their parents and their small sense to underscore the thirst of women to achieve and grow may not allow them to agree with you or me at all! I have no concern for such words at all! I don't even waste my time in listening to such empty and hypocritical advices given by such narrow minded gentle men.

Where I contradict with you? Leaving them behind and forgetting them to settle in a developed environment! Of course that is shocking to me. We may do it in order to change their mind for sometime. But is it good to keep ourselves completely forgetting them? How far we are thankful to these good human beings who had sweat for us till we got our wings to fly?

To tell you something very frankly, after this contradiction, when I pondered for sometime, I did not fail to see the weaker side of my argument. That is, if the parents are so egoistic to deny settlling in a better environment where their children are ready to embrace them without any objection, why don't they change their mind to go and settle with them? If they bring damnation to themselves because of their own negative and narrow thinking who is responsible? Good. Let's all go ahead.

But definitely, the children also should not take any chance of neglecting their parents even when they are ready to settle with them. Here I am strong. Children,(ie. young generation) in the name becoming developed, should not discard their parents as if they are the objects of "use and throw"! Certainly, if they do such negative unlearning they are bound to be condemned. Your book should have insisted on this point, I researched and felt.

Your book is a wonderful and daring attempt to put your index finger on the nose of the conservative ignorant and even educated but hypocritical society! You really deserve a big accolade for your daredevilry. Go ahead wing commander! Command the world to UNLEARN! Here is one such spirit by your side! Thank you.

With loadz of thanks and regards,

Dawn and Dew.

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My Reply to this daring response from an Indian lady,
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Dear Dawn and Dew

I think you are correct. We contradict at two places.

1. Mallika Sherawat’s decisions are appreciated in the book. As far ‘unlearning’ is concerned, this is correct. However, I have mentioned about the contributions of Kiran Bedi in generating wisdom else where in the book which you must have noticed. But then as far as unlearning is to be discussed, I could not get any better example than Mallika at that moment of time when I wrote these lines in 2005 middle. If I had to write these lines in 2007, I could have thought of another Mallika who grew on Mallika and now competing with her and she is Rakhi Sawant. In recent Hot Times of The Times of India, she declares she has better brain than Mallika. Keeping it short, I had no other daring example than Mallika as far as unlearning is to be communicated.

2. Parents should not be heeded at all. This may be correct in most of the cases but certainly I have never said that it is to be done in every case. I have own logic to put across this point. But if parents are ready to unlearn and follow the path of growth and prosperity, there are no contradictions. So I think you have explained with many of your daring examples which many of Indian ladies feel shy in narrating. But you have done it and I hope your messages are going across many Indians ladies for a more conscious and prosper society where parents have a choice of better life. This is the responsibility of all educated children to provide developed life to their parents.

I have commented few of these in Matheikal blog too. I hope you may have seen them.

http://matheikal.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/11/unlearn-before-you-learn/comments.htm

I do not know whether I am savior of women but thanks for calling me so.

I agree that the book should have been researched further. I hope to do it if I get time and money.

Contradictions are part of learning. It could be the part of unlearning too. So feel free to contradict if you feel so. I respect the emotions of human being. I understand and appreciate individual choices. But then I only say one has to be aware of own potential.

And that is what is unlearning!!

kamekish

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

How To Innovate?

2007-10-03T16:42:00.000+05:30

To be innovative is the biggest craze of the people of 21st century. Everybody wants to be innovative. The educated, well placed and good earning individuals are searching and devoting valuable time for innovation. But very few have knowledge of its internal ingredients. But the secret lies somewhere else. I firmly believe that there is an urgent need to unlearn past to become innovative.

I get surprise when people enter in domain of innovation through historically irrelevant characters and stories. The things which have been researched heavily, written extensively and propagated mercilessly have no innovation left in it. We need to look into more dynamic domain for innovation.

Unlearning past is tricky like learning must been just three generations back. Today we might feel comfortable to decide about learning needs but remain puzzled to find unlearning needs. But without framing unlearning needs, you can never dream to be creative or innovative.

Deepak Chopra rightly says that to create something new, the old has to die. When we are constantly recreating ourselves at material, intellectual and personal levels, what stops us to unlearn those irrelevant characters of history?

To create is to bring into being or existence. And to create something new, we have to die to what is. Something has to dies for something new to emerge.

“Every death is an opportunity for a quantum leap of creativity. Through death, we recreate ourselves at every level; the material level of the body-mind, the intellect, the personality. All of these have to die in order to recreate ourselves.” says Deepak Chopra.

Deepak says that with every death we store the wisdom of our experiences since the beginning of time and take quantum leaps of creativity so that we can look at ourselves again as if for the first time. I disagree with him. The things which are available today in 21st century were never there in the history of human kind. How can we store wisdom? Which wisdom is he talking about? The old wisdom which are stored have to be unlearned to be creative. And that is the challenge of innovation.

Deepak says many beautiful stances for unlearning needs but he remains quite away from reality. In biology there is a term called apoptosis, which means programmed cellular death, in the absence of apoptosis, cells forget to die and this condition is called cancer. Cancer cells don’t know how to die and in their quest for immortality, they kill the host body upon which they are dependent for their life.

Lack of unlearning is like developing cancers. Individuals, societies or nation which do not unlearn basically develop cancer and will die in the time to come. UPA governments under Sonia with phobia of Gandhi, Karat with socialism or BJP with nobleness are like a cancer for India. The cancer is going to kill India. Gandhi and communism are like cancer to the growing society. These cancerous ideas have to die from Indian minds to be innovative. These cancerous elements have to die for India to survive and grow.

Instead of focusing our mind, time and energy on irrelevant histories and characters, we need to let them die for recreating a new India. Innovation will emerge then. A new India with confident outlook will appear then.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Read Before Others Even Concieve

2007-09-20T09:42:00.000+05:30

Read the world affairs before others as all other channels report things much later than me. With my critical analysis, I have been able to write about happening around us with more authentic accuracy. I have always been very judicious in my writings and I hope you all must be enjoying it.

Just few days back I wrote a blog immediately after the massive bomb blast in Hydrabad titled “Is it difficult to find terrorists?” I am surprise to see the similar heading in today’s Indian Express. Please see yourself to believe about my individual capability to bring you the best in this reporting world.

http://kamekish.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/08/is-it-difficult-to-find-terrorists.htm

I repeat few lines for the information of all

“Terrorists are roaming in the form of legislators. They are moving In India in the form of educators, IT professionals and respected leaders. But unfortunately governments are unable to find them.

Indians are being killed by terrorists irrespective of their religion. Over and above young Muslim youths are wasting their life to learn revenge, hatred and animosity. In weak indiscipline governance, anger takes over any other form of emotions easily. In stead of constructive work, they are busy in planning and executing destructions. The youth are being misguided in IT hubs like Bangalore, Hydrabad and Mumbai. “

I do not rest here. I am surprise to see the recent study conducted in United States of America. Many of my friends on yahoo360 blogs from USA even may not agree 100% but I have been informing people through my blogs about the situation which are going to emerge in the world. This is not horoscope or prediction, but this is knowledge based on simple awareness, conscious monitoring and critical observations. When I do this, you all can do this.

I said in the beginning of this year that the years which are ahead of us going to be the best. The world is becoming a peaceful place. I understand the amount of sacrifices; Americans are doing to achieve this, but the whole humanity including Muslims across the world are going to get benefited from this emerging peace in the world. There is a less chance that Muslims parents will worry about their children becoming human bomb, or becoming terrorists or supporting terror group, there is more chance that their children will write some software and help humanity to grow. So Muslims also can take part in constructive work rather than generating destructive mentality.

A global think tank says in their latest report, “The world still has a bright future”. It adds further, “Although great tragedies like Iraq dominate news, the world is living in peace, conflicts actually decreased in the past decades”.

So just relax, enjoy the privileges you have got to be born in 21st century. You all are privileged lot. The peaceful world is waiting for all of us. There is just need to have broad mind, open thinking, innovative ideas and keep away from conservatism and lead a pleasant and successful life. You will have prosperous life. I am not telling this now but I have been writing this from the beginning of this year.

http://kamekish.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/01/world-is-becoming-better-place.htm

I wrote these lines in my write up for welcoming 2007. I still enjoy these lines and found them so relevant and accurate.

http://kamekish.sulekha.com/blog/post/2006/12/adieu-2006-welcome-2007.htm

Regarding peaceful world, I have used almost similar lines what were written in this United Nations report.

“Peaceful World – As democracy and freedom will spread, the world will move towards more peaceful environment. Amidst all the developments in North Korea or Iran, world will become a peaceful and more pleasurable place. We need to appreciate these developments and enjoy it. ”

I am confident that I shall be doing my best to convey the accurate and authentic analysis of the world affairs. Only thing, you have to generate some confidence in what I write. You must try to understand the depth of my analysis. Because no amount of writing can ever quench the thirst of human curiosity, please feel free to express yourself to make your life better. I shall be glad to explain.

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Christian-Muslim Animosity Threatening India

2007-08-31T21:57:00.000+05:30

Terrorists attack on Indian soil is nothing new. But after the massive bomb blast in Hydrabad which has killed more than 60 people and that too after few days of the attack on Taslima Nasreen, compelled to think about the world scenario from a different angle. I do not know how many of you will be ready to take my view on this? But I have reasons to believe so if I recall the history of more than 500 years of world.

Indians and Hindus are suffering heavily of the animosity of a new kind. The reasons are vague and ambiguous. But it is interesting to analyze.

I want to raise a simple question. How many of us will agree that there is an animosity between Christian and Muslim? I think – everyone irrespective of caste, creed, religion or region. After 9/11 this animosity became the world affair. Earlier this animosity was being fought under the carpet. Hardly any intelligentsia from Hindus, Muslims or Christians took notice of happenings. But now world is witnessing Christian-Muslim animosity.

It all started with the division of Indian continent. Till today, BBC is unable to carve Kashmir with India to ensure that the wound remains live. Why?

There is a new dimension to the world problems. India is suffering heavily because of Christian-Muslim animosity. But the most important question comes, why India is suffering as a result of animosity between Christian-Muslim?

India remains on top in the map of Muslim terrorists after USA, UK or Israel. India suffers because of this on regular intervals. A weak governance act like fire and Indians suffers without break. The world media, intelligentsia and powerful lobby are unable to notice the India’s situation. Indians leaders and media are illiterate enough to ignore this.

The attack on twin tower killing 4000 at once was a clear indication of Christian-Muslim animosity. This brought the animosity in open in the eye of the world. Today, it has reached at peak when US is attacking on Afghanistan and Iraq and now planning to attack on Iran. The world is sorting out the old issues. There is a possibility that the animosity will convert to friendship in some form or other because it is an unequal war, but it has to take some time.

Now the question comes, in such turning moment, how India is going to save itself? USA and even UK are able to protect themselves and save the anticipated huge blasts one after other. But what is going to happen to India run by weak people at top from Sonia to Manmohan to Pratibha Patil.

Indians are suffering miserably. The toll has grown ominous. For the past two years, India was second only to Iraq in the number of terrorist fatalities worldwide, with 1,361 deaths in 2005 and 1,256 in 2006, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. government's National Counter terrorism Center.

India has to suffer. Indians have to face the music. Indians are being killed on regular basis. Indian Muslims are becoming terrorists. Indian people are getting killed. And all these happen because of poor law and order and above all poor appreciations of the global situations. Indians will remain deprived and become terrorists. Whether Indian Muslims become terrorists or Hindus are killed, it is a loss to India.

I was shocked to see the news analysis in one of the Western channel (Yahoo News) that: a pair of almost simultaneous bombings by Islamic extremists tore through a popular family restaurant and an outdoor area on Saturday night, killing at least 42 people in this southern Indian city was because of Hindu-Muslim tensions.

Did anybody talked about Christian-Muslim tension when world trade center was brought to ground? How can the systematic and planned bomb blast on poorly managed Indian city be attributed to Hindu-Muslim tensions? It is pathetic to find that even Indian reporters do not notice these writings. Why should not this biased approach of western media be reported on Indian TV channels?
Similarly I was surprised to see the article of Daniel Pipes. He in an article ‘Ban Islam’, published in New York Times writes, “In perhaps the most serious contemporary attempt to ban the Koran, a Hindu group argued in 1984–85 that the Islamic scriptures contain "numerous sayings, repeated in the book over and over again, which on grounds of religion promote disharmony, feeling of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and incite people to commit violence and disturb public tranquility." It is good for Western thinkers to quote Indian statement for their benefit.
One side they talk about Hindu-Muslim tension other side they write something else. The same yahoo news writes, “Officials confirmed on Sunday that foreign-based Islamic extremists may have been behind the attacks.” Then from where the question of Hindu-Muslim tension was raised and why?

It further contradicts on its own idea of tension when it writes. "Available information points to the involvement of terrorist organizations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan," Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, where Hydrabad is located, told reporters after an emergency state Cabinet meeting. Combined Forces are attacking in Pakistan without asking the local government to ensure that terrorist activities are curbed. Reporters must understand the responsibility of combined forces to fight against terrorists.

Reddy did not name any groups, but Indian media reports, quoting unnamed security officials, identified the Bangladesh-based Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami. Reddy declined to provide more details. "It is not possible to divulge all this information," he said. Harkatul, which is banned in Bangladesh, wants to establish strict Islamic rule in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation governed by secular laws.

The news article writes further about the tension that Hindu-Muslim animosity runs deep in Hyderabad, where a bombing at a historic mosque killed 11 people in May. Another five people died in subsequent clashes between security forces and Muslim protesters angered by what they said was a lack of police protection.

This is a terrorist attack and it has been confirmed by many earlier attacks.
"This is a terrorist act," said Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister for Andhra Pradesh state, where Hyderabad is located.

But I am unable to understand why these events are being categorized in animosity angle. This is ridiculous. From my point of view today world is facing the global threat because of the Christian-Muslim animosity and there is no reason to think otherwise.

Much of India's Hindu-Muslim animosity is rooted in disputes over the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, divided between India and Pakistan but claimed in its entirety by both countries. More than a dozen Islamic insurgent groups are fighting for Kashmir's independence or its merger with Pakistan. I doubt that any insurgents are fighting for Kashmir. They are fighting unresolved battle of Al-Qaeda who has successfully globalized the animosity between Christians and Muslims.

The report writes that more than 80 percent of India's 1.1 billion people are Hindu and 13 percent are Muslim. But in Hydrabad, Muslims make up 40 percent of the population of 7 million. But there has never been any fighting between Hindu-Muslims. If there are any it is all just a law and order problems. Even Gujarat has no such problems. India has been able to resolve the issues. Even there used to be riot in 70s or 80s but they were mere a governance problem because I can quote the example of Bihar where riots were frequent. But as soon as Lalu came to power in the beginning of 90s, there have been no riots in Bihar. Bihar has forgotten that there used to be riot, Hindu-Muslim riots.

The idea conveyed in foreign media and even Indian media reporting like this is poisonous to Indian society and global peace. The concept of Christian-Muslim animosity is deep rooted, it must have started with British overthrowing Muslims to rule over India in 16th century. A Christian as top leader may be a hidden threat to India and Indians.

It is unfortunate at this critical time that we have weak people at top in India. When George Bush is threatening Iran from Washington to face dire consequences for Iranian misadventure, Indian home Minister shows his incapability openly. "Our country is so big that even if we have the information that something is planned, we do not know where or when," Home Minister Shivraj Patil said after the Hyderabad attacks. It appears that a senior minister of economically fastest growing nation talks like coward manager as far as safety of the people is concerned. It is shame.

A series of terrorist bombings have ripped across India in the past two years. It’s all not because of Hindu-Muslim animosity but because of India’s closeness to USA. In July 2006, bombs in seven Mumbai commuter trains killed more than 200 people, attacks blamed on Pakistan-based Muslim militants. There have been some intentional biases in report like this what I saw in yahoo news. This must be going on for long time but in today connected world, we need to understand the world differently. This is a wrong way to understand the world dynamics.

Hindus have a long way to go before it becomes a potent threat to Muslims so talking about Hindu-Muslim tension from my point of view is ridiculous. But certainly as China’s GDP is rising with more than 10%, there is a possibility that Chinese-Muslim animosity will be seen in the world scene shortly. A changing geopolitical situation must encourage people to look the world from different angle.

Presently world must prepare and face the consequence of Christian-Muslim animosity. India has to prepare well to fight these ugly battles if at all wants to develop.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Mashelkar Innovation

2007-08-03T22:18:00.001+05:30

Dear Friend,

The program was available in iiuindia calendar. It was a usual evening Friday monthly membership lecture at AIMA headquarters at Lodi Road, New Delhi.

Like last time, we had lecture delivered by Shiv Khera, this time, it was delivered by Mashelkar.

Theme: Civil Society and Governance

Dr R A Mashelkar, Former Director General, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, and Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, an eminent internationally recognized personality.

During Shiv Khera time, hall was full while this time all oldies were in presence. I personally feel that Mashelkar is one of the few well known scientists available in the country. I am privileged to know this man since last many years. I am fortunate interacting with him earlier too. This time also I enjoyed every moment I spent in his presence.

India needs not only few persons like him but many-many more. And I hope that India will have those people around.

It is my pleasure to present the abstract of his presentation (especially for those who could attend the lecture).

The topic is new for me but I will try to do justice with time and effort. I will be presenting outsider view of civil society. Basically, I am scientist and technologist.

Let us see what is happening around the world.

One new thing is eminent - Changing geography of science.

If we compare three different continents in the world – America, Europe and Asia, earlier research works in science were in the order mentioned.

Now it is in reverse order - Asia, Europe and America.

All the centuries have been ruled by IC

19th century – Internal combustion engine
20th century – Integrated circuits
21st century – India-China, but I say Innovation-creativity,

If we study history of growth and development, we find that it was always innovation and creativity which led to growth and development for human society.

I have done extensive research to find the definition of civil society.
Civil society is the integration of shared interests, shared values, shared purposes and collective action.

Corruption and re-tapeism are the biggest hindrance of civil society. There is an urgent need to take some concrete steps to remove this evil however this remains a big challenge for us. (A weak Prime Minister and a dump President can hardly give courage and confidence needed to hard working Indians.)

If India has to be a great nation it needs great governance.

I have also raised questions like, what academics are doing.
We need to have enlightened democracy. But how can we get enlighten democracy when it relies heavily on uneducated voters.

Information Technology plays a very critical role in the development of our society. It has changed life style. It remains a challenge for us to exploit IT for our growth and development. (On my question that why Infosys is still doing 90% business with outside India? Mashelkar had no answer. India needs to awaken of its own potential. India has yet to learn to respect its own professionals and experts.)

IT needs to be used to spread literacy and education. TCS has shown through practical exercises.)

With proper education, future should emerge like as follow,

Child centered education
Women centered family
Family centered humanity
Knowledge centered society
Innovative centered India

Civil society – refers unquashed, collective interest, shared values, shared purposes. However, even in governance, we are not using the combined wisdom for our growth.

I am pained to hear about the impositions of Directors by governments in all IIMs in the country. Higher institutions need to be protected for their autonomous functioning.

We need citizen centered democratic governance

But what is happening… we are in mesh… you are correct.

I am happy that at the end of the lecture he replied only one question and that was mine. Not only that, he was thrilled to know that I have developed a theory for human development and written a book. He took the book and promised me to give feedback as early as possible.

The book was also liked by Mr Prabhat Kumar, Former Cabinet Secretary, who remains the brain behind the series of lecture on Civil Society and Governance. He has also promised to read the book and comment on it as early as possible.

India needs innovation. Amidst all these, innovation must remain the priority of intellectuals. You need good theories, right innovations, enlightened democracy and a civil society with good governance.

Thanks.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Squash Girls From New Delhi

2007-07-30T10:53:00.000+05:30

India badly needs excellence in any field you can name. In spite of tremendous institutional growth achieved by individual inspired organizations, excellence at large is deceiving us at every front. Today when people’s President who still claims that India will become developed by 2020, I feel the need to talk about excellence becomes more important.

Sania Mirza is a big hope in this country of more than 50 crores females. Today Sania has reached to the final of the $600,000 WTA Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, where she will play with the top-seeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze, ranked No 7 in the world.

Amidst Sania and Saina, recently, National Squash championship concluded at Chenai. And two Chenai girls fought in final to clinch the medal. Joshna Chinappa defeated Surbhi Misra 9-5,9-1,9-4 in just 22 minutes and Depika Pallikal defeated Anwesa Reddy 91,9-3, 10-8 in 20 minutes and were in the final and Chinappa won the title for fifth consecutive times and over seventh time. It is a great achievement. Depika is following the path to achieve the title. She is just 16. She lost fighting but I expect that she may cross hurdle next time to win the title.

Today, when DSOI squash champion Sohail returned after the tournament, reminded us of condition of National Championships. On the boys’ side, Saurav Ghosal remains at top. He defeated Siddharth Suchde of Maharastra in the final. I remember him playing in last year final at Gymkhana club squash court. He is good and needs more support and encouragement to beat the battle.

Squash is not very familiar game in India. This has some recognition in defence frorces and we need to be thankful to British for this. For civilian even the resources are not available in general. Now a days, this game is gaining popularity and many courts are being constructed. People are finding fun and opportunity to reach to foreign univerisiites through such game. But achieving excellence is tough because we do not have good court, good coach, competitive players and world class kits. One has to put up too much effort to make good all these.

In such scarce situation, when Rahul arranged a summer squash camp at Kendriya Vdyalaya R K Puram in New Delhi, all the five squash playing girls like Sachika (Delhi champion), Shelly, V Shruti, and Janet were there. For fifteen days, it was good fresh up camp and training for good squash under the guidance of Col Manprit who himself was a national champion for many years. The boys and girls struggled hard to learn and horn their skills for the game.

The training resulted in Delhi boys’ team coming third at national level. As per Sohail, it is a good achievement. Girls’ numbers were not enough to form the team. The coach working at DSOI, Dhaula Kuan confirms his helplessness in generating interest in people to play games or encourage their children for games.

Even if Delhi Chief Minister relative plays squash, this game has very few takers. Media hardly talks about these issues which remains busy in the runs made by Sachin Tendulkar. Individuals have to put up tremendous efforts to achieve a simple growth. Excellence is too far even to be talked about. A highly developed city of India New Delhi has no girl’s team in squash. There is no plan. There is no encouragement. There is no awareness. We still have a long way to go as far as achieving excellence is concerned.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Wonders of the World

2007-05-19T10:01:00.000+05:30

We all are aware about the wonders of the world which our ancestors have made through bricks and stones. From my point of view, they are just the physical wonders. If I compare today with modern wonders, I find them insignificant. I will talk about few virtual wonders about which experts are not talking today, people are not discussing about but for the betterment of coming generations, we must discuss more and more about these wonders that I am going to write in this blog. And I will try to explain that why they are better wonders than physical wonders.

These few virtual wonders occur because of technology, globalization and democracy.

The technological wonders are now everyday affair for many people in this world. These wonders are airplanes, computers, and mobile phones and so on.

The wonders because of globalization are alleviations of poverty. The accumulations of assets by individuals in this world have been done not through the efforts of few generations but just in one generation. I like to quote few of these individuals. Narayana Murthy and Ambani from India who created billions in just one generation, Bill Gates and Google brothers from USA created billions and so on are wonders of 21st century. Are not these a wonders?

But my focus today is for democratic wonders.

The democracy is a beautiful form of governance in this modern world. All conscious and educated individuals feel the necessity of these. You ask any free people he or she will never get tired of telling the plus points of democracy but when people want to die for democracy in the countries like Nepal or Pakistan, it speaks volume. People even in the Muslim world will be ready to die for it if they taste freedom just once. Till the time rituals keep them busy and entangled, they may be controlled through military rulers or dictatorships or pseudo-democracy but once they are free from rituals to think aloud, they would like to have full real democracy where any individual can get capability to create wonders.

A point to note: In 21st century, every individual has the capability to create wonders!!

That is what happened in the recent elections in Uttar Pradesh, the biggest state of India. Democratic wonders have occurred. All intelligence failed. All predictions lagged behind. The established organizations were demolished. Communist and Congress lost to harness credit for past glory. The established khandani party managers lagged miserably in their strategic efforts. Gandhi failed. Bachchan failed. A wonder took place. Mayawati wins election with majority. Mayawati is a democratic wonder.

She wins when Gandhi was at peak with young Rahul taking politics as his birthright. Young Priyanka tried all her smiles to rule ignorant crowd. But democracy played its wonder. It produced Maya. Sonia may complain about organizational fault but she must know basic. If Congress has no strong organization, then who has better organization on this land - Mamta, Jaya, Rabri or Chandrababu Naidu? The time for established khandani elitist has come to the stage of extinction. Now, Gandhi will be wiped out from this land in next 4-5 years.

Earlier and even now our media, print as well as TV, experts are hardly aware about the reasons of these wonders. They keep guessing and wasting educated and intellectual’s resources. They keep talking about caste, which has no relevance to this flat world. The established intellectuals and social researchers like Yogendra Yadav and others are unnecessary talking about caste. Because of these people are forced to waste plenty of time discussing insignificant issues. Is it a surprise if established and famous people do not have time to breath properly?

Talks about these wonders will be the topic of discussions for long time to come. Like people are studying the success of Lalu all over the world even in Oxford University, they will study about Maya for long time. The change in syllabus will be essential necessity for growth and innovation.

But is it easy to understand these wonders of democracy. It is not unique, there are many and I would list few of them-

1. Obama thinking to become President of USA
2. Bill Clinton as US President and now trying to be the first husband.
3. Hamas ruling Palestine
4. Ahmadinejad ruling Iran
5. Rabri as Chief Minister
6. Lalu as Railway Minister
7. Jayalalita as Chief Minister
8. Uma Bharti became the Chief Minister

There are many examples but I shall leave them for my readers to guess.

Talking about all these wonders extensively in blog may not be feasible especially when people hardly have time to read the write up from not so famous writer. People have no obligation of regionalism, casteism or religious backing to read and praise. All are happy in their small circular world in this flat environment. The fantastic writings and superb analyses go waste most of the time. I have given the glimpse of many of these happening in the world in my book written in 2005. But, people are still searching for reasons and wasting their time. They are busy in reinventing wheels and claiming to be their innovations and contributions. With time, this disrespect to creations has to vanish for the growth of human beings.

But for the time being, this much is good enough to throw some light especially for those who dare to respect innovative ideas.

How wonders like Maya occurred to this civilization. I challenge to all the experts to throw some light upon this, I doubt for their successes. They will fail. Not because they do not have intelligence, it is because they have never witnessed such changes. They are trying to look towards future with the spectacles of past. Can you ever know future without experiencing the changes? You have to live to experience. There are no write-ups for such successes. Writing about 1857 is different ball game. Writing about these wonders of 21st century is another. How can they predict?

Even India Today does not hesitate to show Maya dictatorial view when it writes, “The age of Maya will be marked by dictatorial temptations of the supreme leader.” What are they talking about? They still think in the dictatorial terms of Congress rule of 1947 when there was no opposition. Today there are list of oppositions. Mulayam, CBI, Rahul and Kalyan will ever allow anyone to rest? It may be easy for our established analyst to write about dictatorial mentality of Maya. Can they ever dare to write dictatorial mentality of Arjun or Sonia when she forces all poverty stricken polices for the nation? We need to understand the ground situations in new perspectives.

Like technologies have produced wonders in the area of product and services, can you expect that it can produce wisdom and experts too? Just think over. And read the reasons for how the wonders like Maya are created because of democracy. Few of reasons for democratic wonders are as follows.

1. Never ask favour from established professionals
2. Focus on your wisdom and direction
3. Don’t rely on old conservative intellectuals from developing world
4. Set your goal and unique path
5. Never talk to Press because most of the time they are part of established organization which has no future unless revamped.
6. Disclose destinations at time but not path, let people keep guessing
7. Leave parents shadow to give due gifts of 21st century – Don’t behave like Abhishek or Anil to remain in the shadow.
8. Never get discouraged from the view of majority because they are the part of feudal system
9. Use modern resources to augument your efforts
10. Search a godfather
11. Create wisdom domain
12. Do it alone.

How difficult it would be for Maya to prepare herself for such a big achievement all alone? There is no coterie, no managers and no family to share the successes. That’s why she almost giggled during swearing ceremony. In this if she behaves sometime like Jaya, sometime like Lalu or other time like Sonia or Indira Gandhi, she has all the right to behave like that. She has to set her own goals. She has to scribe her own reactions. That is where I feel I have explained in bits and pieces about the growth mechanism of individuals like Maya.

Life has given you opportunities. Everyone has capabilities to do wonders. You have potential. You are not scheduled caste, backward or forward, you are not Sikh, you are not Muslim, you are not Bengali or Tamilians. These are all wrong perceptions. You are energy. You can create wonders. Believe me!!

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India's Missing Superstars

2007-04-27T22:09:00.000+05:30

On Monday 23 Apr 2007, The Economics Times reported news about Gallup CEO Jim Clifton visit who is coming next week.

The Gallup World Poll, which is measuring the well being and overall status of the world’s citizen for the next 100 years, it is a mega exercise spanning more than 130 countries and representing 95% of the world’s adult population. The points which he has raised are eye opening for India. Our policy makers who may not have knowledge and wisdom to understand these but must try to read them.

Leaders today have to build new institutions to compete globally.

India has to be able to manage migration patterns to retain its most successful people.

For all those sitting pretty with BRIC report projections, Mr. Clifton had a warning: “The US as an economy was predicted to fall to third place by now, after Germany and Japan. When we compare to the members talked about the projections, today the US has $11 trillion of unplanned, unpredicted income – most of its wealth has generated by a small band of inventors and entrepreneurs, of which half were not Americans and a large part of them were Indians.

India can not lose its superstars!!

Gallup World Poll data from 2006 shows that only about 20% of urban Indians even in the younger age group had even heard of outsourcing or BPO. It is shame for the country like India.

It is a shame to media who remain busy in showing Aishwarya or Prince without giving due considerations to knowledge, information and wisdom. Indian print media and others are failing India.

What a disturbing ground situations of India. I wrote a book in 2005 with main emphasis on the new breeds of youth who are going to shap this nation. These new energetic youth emerging out of call centers and BPOs are going to change the shape of this growing nation. But this survey confirms that knowledge is not that deep in the society. This is a difficult task. How to take these great Indian messages to people when they are wasting time in watching trivial news or information?

There are 16000 publishers in India and they publish 2000 titles. It is a shame for the nation. In spite of this less work output, when you go to publishers, they do not give due attentions to new ideas, books are not getting published. Society remains ignorant. People are not aware about new avenues. Country is at loss.

Can India afford to miss Information opportunity too in desire to save its old culture?

Indians sitting on network fail the data of Gallup. Indian needs to be awakening from their day to day problems to compete with this world.

He surprises with his critical statement. Places like Google celebrate the individual; India does not.

How can Indian inventors and innovators flourish?

How can India grow? Till the time, we learn to respect our talents and assets, India will remain backward. We will have to keep working for reservation for even forward people too. Even on Sulekha, most of our blog writers and readers concentrate on some trivial stories rather than some critical analysis or wisdom. We need to change our attention. We need to change our area of focus. We need to think beyond Cricket, Bachchan, Gandhi etc. to move and prosper.

We all need to think over our deprivations!!

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Attending Funerals

2007-04-23T10:49:00.000+05:30

Virginia Tech killing has sent chill feeling to all the conscious people across the world. This is one of the deadliest events in the history of America. There are various form of expressions for such event. From Indian point of view, I would like to write about the social complications which become obvious from this event.

Professor Loganathan was killed in the shooting. This killing reminds me a different concept.
Just a day before his death, Professor Loga called his parents and told, “You’re getting old, why do you want to stay in a remote village all alone? Your grandchildren would love to have your company here.” He had implored his parents similarly many times before and even goaded them to get passports. But, how many conservative parents are ready to listen their intelligent sons or daughters?

Professor Loganathan moved to the US from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to teach. He joined Virginia Tech in the late 1970s and had remained there ever since, working in the department of civil and environmental engineering.

He is survived by his wife, Usha, and two daughters.

His brother, Palanivelu, said his elder sibling had been "a bright boy since birth".
How difficult even for a bright son to convince even not so intellectual parents to have a prosperous life? I personally feel that all this happens because of lack of unlearning habits in the individuals.
I wrote a story of similar mature in my book “Unlearn Before U-learn” and tried to find answers for many hidden questions. I am reproducing the story for my entire blogger friends to make sense of these complicated questions of unlearning.

Why people are forced to join funerals?

What are the compulsions of parents? What are the options with sons or daughters? How to handle them?

Read the story to believe the similarity.

Binda, who had a problem with his father, forgot him for approximately fifteen years. During this period, he became the proud father of five sons and one daughter as per his mother’s wish because she had only one son and one daughter. He earned a little money. After exiling himself for so long, he felt homesick. He went home to his father. Mungi had also become mild by that time. He did not mind his son’s homecoming.
It is very difficult in this world to have faith in someone when you want to invest your hard-earned money. The best bet goes to respective hometown or village even if we are not very sure of any return or future. Binda also spent his hard-earned money of Rs 40,000 in his small village to build a pucca makan, so called a concrete building in the year 1974. He thought that since his children were small and there was not much expenditure, he could bear this burden and do something for his better future. Rs 40,000 in the seventies were a huge amount. As he made the Pucca makan, he made sure to take his entire family to the village every year to make them aware of reality and to get attached to the old culture and traditions. The children who were studying in various classes, used to hate spending that one month’s vacation in the village. They were too small to have a choice. In a poor family, when the elders live life on chance and luck, how can the children have choice? Time passed, every year the same routine continued till his eldest son Bhola joined a college in the city. He refused to join them. He became serious about his career. He saw opportunities. He saw that the engineering students used to study hard and enjoy life. He saw the magnificent difference between the people of the village who had no fun and hope in their lives and the people of the city who had a better and brighter life. He started realizing the differences. He studied hard and cleared the engineering entrance test.
Binda hardly visualized the repercussion of his son’s success. He celebrated his son’s admission in engineering college. He distributed sweets. He had lots of praise for his son in front of his colleagues and neighbours. In the neighbourhood, his status had improved overnight. People also congratulated him. He was thrilled at his son’s performance. The son was also delighted that he could do what his father had dreamt of since his childhood. Time flew and the other children also followed the path of the elder brother. Three of them joined engineering colleges and one did medicine. The house now had four engineers and one doctor. Binda hardly got help from his aspiring sons to look after his ancestral house. For many years, they could not take care of their investment at the hometown. Mungi was managing that. Once in a year, Binda used to go to village and spend some time to ensure that his retirement would pass happily. What a mirage!
For a working class family, it is a great privilege to put their children into good professional courses. Engineering and medicines were the sureshot professions of the 1980s, which made children from poor or middle class families executives. Bhola, being the eldest and brightest, finished his engineering and joined a good company. He was earning well and staying in a metro city. During that time, he witnessed the difference of life at various places in the country. The life at smaller and poorer places is like hell compared to life in metro cities. In a short span of a few years he saw the length and breadth of the country like India. He observed that in a small town, there is nil or very meagre opportunities while in the metros, you have tremendous opportunities. The difference in the quality of living is tremendous. Bhola was very conscious of these developments. He made sure that all his brothers could find jobs outside that small town and move to big places. There were significant changes of the status in the lives of his brothers. All were very well settled and earning good money. All were able to exploit the secular credentials of the country. During the 1990s, when Narshimaha Rao opened the economy, all brothers could buy cars and houses through bank loans. They tasted the growth in a rising economy.

Binda had to retire and he was planning to settle in his hometown. Bhola didn’t like this idea. He tried his best so that they settle in a metro city or at least a good city. But Binda did not agree. He did not have any responsibility to his rising sons. He went to the village with his wife. He again spent a lakh of rupees in repair his pucca makan. In the eighties too he had spent some eighty thousand rupees on the same makan. Bhola was frustrated, demoralized and disgruntled. He had so many dreams to keep his parents in a better state. When he joined engineering, he would study all night thinking that he will be able to earn enough to look after his poor and deprived parents. He will be able to take care of them. He will be able to provide them with all the basic comforts of life. But nothing happens in life in an easy way. Bhola could hardly get time from his highly demanding job to convince and educate his father about a better life. There is a limitation to wisdom. Your knowledge enhances till you keep reading and learning. You keep learning till you are compulsorily unlearning. Once you start working within your existing knowledge domain, you stop growing. The same thing happened with Binda. For fifty-eight years, he kept on changing and progressing, but when the question of reaping those fruits came, he almost behaved in the same fashion that his father had long ago. He did not listen to the advice of his bright and highly educated son. Is this what happened between the generations? Is this what happens in the family of a developing country? Who is going to understand?
There is a severe limitation of learning or even unlearning. Like learning good things, even unlearning bad things does not come naturally. One learns the same thing that he has hated in his environment unless he tries to change. He has no option to learn from anywhere. He learns all the unwanted behaviour from his environment unconsciously. He hardly comes to know about these developments. Binda also faced the same problems. He behaved in a similar fashion that his illiterate father had around 30 years ago. Binda never liked the way his sons married the girls of their choice and that too two of them from other castes. His wife also could not tolerate this. When the children wanted to enjoy their achievements with their parents, Binda and his wife were living a secluded life in the village. The changes in life are so fast and drastic that we hardly comprehend things even for our own comfort. We find difficult to bother for our basic necessities. While all the children were struggling in their respective jobs including one in Boston, US, their parents were living a miserable and deprived life in a village. Bhola had felt from the beginning that the village property was not worth maintaining; rather it was more a burden than an asset for an educated person. He was correct. The parents could not live even for a year in that remote and miserable place especially after staying for thirty years in town. They changed their location to a small town at Dhanbad but continued with a deprived life despite the richness of assets in rupees and dollars.
Life hardly gives one the luxury or choice of a good life in a bad place. Bhola tried his best to make his parents dispose off their property in the village and small town and join him in the metro. But it did not materialize. Rather, his illiterate mother even suggested at the age of sixty six to his highly educated and most successful son of forty four should spend a few lakhs to build a house in the small town. What is the compulsion of poverty? Bhola rememberd Rs 40,000 spent in the seventies in the village. Today, in the 21st century, it has become a liability after forty years. The house has become depleted and managing it is difficult. Because if you go to the village, law and order is so bad that you are not sure whether you will be able to come back. How could you think of anything else? Since the 1970s, the equity capital in India has increased 460 times; it means that if Binda had spent Rs 40,000 in equity in the 1970s, today in 2005, he would have got Rs 40,000 X 460 – Rs 1,84,00,000 (approx Rs 2 crores). Forget about the Rs 80,000 he spent in the 1980s and the one lakh he spent in 2001 on the same house in the same village. What a richness of continuation of poverty! Can help from the World Bank or United Nations be able to eradicate the inbuilt poverty in the traditional system? Could the advice of Jeffery D Sachs help this self-imposed poverty? Is eradication of poverty going to take a few generations in developing countries even in the 21st century?

Bhola’s illiterate mother hardly understands mathematics. In a developing world, there is a very different kind of inertia. Clear and open mathematics is not understood. The common man is hardly aware or even conscious about common ideas. The parents educate their sons or daughter, but they are not ready to listen to their advice and not even ready to take their support. They do not believe their wisdom. They do not rely on them. They are not ready to enjoy the newly achieved luxury of a good life. Their ego system remains at a peak. Their decision making systems remain of 1960s in the twenty-first century. This results in a total waste of their lifetime efforts. They remain deprived, poor and miserable. Binda also passed his last days in a similar fashion and one fine day, amidst all this prosperity, he left this world like his father, Mungi.

Like father like son. Binda’s youngest son, a civil engineer employed in the Public Works department in the United States of America along with his civil engineer wife, a Gujarati Brahmin girl and their one son and one daughter came to the small town of Dhanbad (where there is no landing facility) to pay homage to his father. What a rich homage to a deprived father, deprived of basic living facilities!

Today, when Professor Loganathan’s parents and relatives were provided passports and immediate visa to join the funeral, it verified my faith of the unlearning needs. Parents and relatives were obliged for this kind support of media and government but what happened to that intelligent son who gave the life to ensure that their parents visit USA at least once.

What a great tragedy of developing sons?

Sons have to give life to ensure a simple change.

Are parents in all over the world listening to ensure change? Can we unlearn to enjoy life?

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

How Families Are Producing Osama and Cho?

2007-04-23T10:19:00.000+05:30

Today whole world is discussing to know how families across world are producing Osama or Cho knowingly or unknowingly. The matter is serious and it concerns one and all. As I talked about disastrous force in human’s life which makes an individual a disastrous person, I shall talk about how contradictions are generated in a very simple life.
Today, in this information age, information is not limited to few selected privileged individuals but is available to one and all at very meager price. In this environment, families need to focus on few of the critical issues while they bring up their children towards some major success and achievements.
In due course of time, we rear so many contradictions in our existence that we make our life miserable. I shall narrate a real life story of a growing individual, in his own words -

“I am working in the Delhi Police. I am staying in one of the posh areas of Delhi. I have four children. The eldest daughter stays in the village and studies in a school in Otava near Agra so that she can learn the old culture of our society for which we Indians are very proud. I have put my one son and one daughter in DPS RK Puram. They are learning all the latest developments of society. They are learning things very fast. They speak in English. They are studying in English. It is a different story that we never speak English at home. My wife joins sometime at my Delhi residence. Otherwise, she stays in the village to look after farming with another son three years old. I have my two brothers and four sisters staying in the village. They are staying in the joint family except my eldest brother who stays separately in the same village. He and his wife are teachers and they have two children. They are studying in the same school where my brother and sister-in-law are teaching.

I am the only advanced and most literate one who could get service outside the village and work in Delhi. I am staying outside and seeing the advanced world but, you see sir, I have not forgotten the village and my ancient culture. I am so proud of my traditions. I still remember when my father refused to allow me to marry a daughter of my senior with whom I fell in love. We saw few movies together. I took her few times to famous Lodi Gardens to understand each other in a better way. Sir, Lodi Gardens is really a nice place to take your not so knowledgeable girlfriend to learn a few basics of love. There are many live examples there to show to your girlfriend. But after all this, finally I married, as per my father’s wishes, a girl from nearby village. My wife is not very literate. She has passed her sixth class from her village school. When she got involved with a boy of the tenth class, her father refused to send her to school so that she should not learn bad things of society. Over and above, it is so difficult to keep our prestige intact if our daughter gets involved in some love affair. My father-in-law that way was very strict. He was disciplined too. He carried out all his family responsibilities in time. He married his daughter at the age of sixteen. My wife is very hard working and sincere. She takes care of my entire house-hold activities. She gets up at 4 o’clock and sleeps at 12 o’clock at the night after everybody sleeps. She has never complained to me about anything.

I am very proud of my achievements. In life, you have to sacrifice a bit to get some prestige. I am very sure that I shall always try to teach the ‘cultural richness’ of my ancestors to my children. Once in a year, I bring my son and daughter studying at DPS, to the village for two months during their summer vacation. I leave them in the village with their mother so that they can learn the basics of the ‘sound culture’ of our village. They do not get a chance to speak in English in the village but I am hopeful that the sound culture which they learn during the vacations will be useful in the long run compared to those who send their children to “Your Kid ‘R’ Our Kids” for summer camp and learn salsa, painting, acting, modelling, horse riding or instrumental music etc.

I want to educate my children with the best of education available so that they can become good officers in some government department and earn a lot of money and prestige. Officers in government departments get lots of prestige and money from the public. At the same time, I want to maintain the village set-up so that after retirement I or even my children can settle there and live a good life in old age. I know there are lots of problems in the village like poor electricity, no medical facilities, no good school or college, no road, no communication and so on, but at least I am very proud of my village. My grandfathers have taught me that I should not sell or dispose off my ancestral property. I shall not do it at least during my time. I am not sure of my children especially who are studying in DPS. Sometime, their talk gives me shivers.”
Today when heinous crime has been done in USA by a small boy of 24 years old, killing 32 people at stretch, this story reminds me some basic queries. The contradictions are more prevalent in the families from third world. However, the families in developed nations if rearing contradictions at home may face these dangers.

My mind kept on dwelling on voluminous contradictions in the life of a common man. How can an educated person marry an uneducated girl? How are the women of a middle class urban society forced to live a miserable life in a village between 4 o’clock in the morning to 12 o’clock in the night? How did the people were taught about the ‘cultural richness’ or ‘sound culture’? Does living in scarcity, indicates a sound culture?

How to spread the message of good living and sound culture in such a vast and contradictory population of South Asia in general and India in particular? You force your children to study English and modernity on one hand and on the other hand you ensure, they learn poverty, deprivation, scarcity and misery. What do we want from a child of nine? Is it not a criminal offence to force your nine-year old son or daughter in such a ‘contradictory microwave oven’? The contradictions of life narrated here are not less than an oven.

The life of the individual is full of contradictions. A person puts himself in such a critical contradiction and makes his own life miserable. Over and above, it is a heinous crime to expect small children to learn English, modern things and old culture simultaneously. It is too much for the individual to cope with the demand from two extremes. It is a crime to expect from a wife to be homely, educated, submissive and modern as well. It is too much a contradiction to have a modern life and keep the old traditions intact.

The common people with minor education and resources are accepting these contradictions in day to day life irrespective of location in the world. But the same things are not observed in a high class family or society. That’s how Rajiv Gandhi married an Italian; Imran Khan, former Cricket Captain, married a Jew; Shahrukh married Gauri, a Hindu girl etc. Examples are plenty, leaving normal middle class people to suffer indefinitely. Is it not a ‘contradictory microwave oven’?

Contradiction has become lately a part of human society. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Korea, Sri Lanka or rather the whole of the Asian region and the whole world of miserable people are the burning examples of these contradictions. Almost 95% of people are badly or dangerously involved in these contradictions. Everyday, they live life in those contradictions. Even the families who have migrated to USA or other European nations are forced to live life with these contradictions. And these contradictions become incubators of suicidal human bomb.
There is no clarity available to them in society. Every person takes various examples of whatever is available and gets some dose of contradictions in her life. These contradictions are prevalent in society in the name of cultural richness, heritage, modernity, broad thinking or vision. A normal human being is not in a position to understand or come out of these contradictions. And in these contradictions, people generate aspirations or so called fatal aspirations.

In these contradictions, I personally feel that Osama or Cho can grow any time, anywhere and at any place. Any family who are forcing these contradictions on their family members may suffer the way Cho family is feeling miserable today. The growth of Osama or Cho is nothing but extreme mis-utilization of magnificent technologies. Earlier governments were stopping Fashion TV to bring moral in the society but when Cho is shown on TV day and night who blocks the channels? No one. When 12 year old boy is shown brutally killing throat of a man on TV, who is blocking that from our children? Various websites are available on 24X7 basis to make a person religious fanatic and hard core nationalist. I feel our families, our children and our youth all are under threat unless we unlearn … and unlearn immediately.

We have to unlearn deprivation fast to ensure that our children do not fall pray of killers on net.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Unlearn Saris To Learn Skirt!!

2007-04-11T11:59:00.000+05:30

India has come a long way. Religious democracy has played a major role to shape the destiny of the country. It is not very difficult to analyze the major causes of the change. It is not very difficult to find the reason for the growth of few individuals. It is simple but hard to discuss. It is equally hard to follow. But fortunately, recent changes have acted like serious catalytic affect.

A sincere observation reveals the cause of slow growth in society. The majority have remained obsessed with the old and conservative traditions at the cost of their own growth. These traditions have coolly kept them backward. These traditions have worked as a biggest obstacle in their ride to success. The leaders, rulers and intellectuals have always exploited these weaknesses of human nature to keep the majority in deprived and helpless condition. But, now they should not do anymore for the sake of their own achievements.

People in general have not been able to understand the hidden agenda of many of our well recognized leaders. People have fallen in their trap. People have remained deprived. Today, when information and opportunities have paved the way for commoners, the prospects of growth have become brighter. But, individuals who wants to grow has to understand the basic needs of growth.

One such need is to change the dress code. Long back when I was doing engineering college, I remember the dress code given for girl students. The dress code was pant-shirt, salwar-kurta or skirt-top etc. Sari, a traditional dress for majority of Indian ladies was not allowed. Shall we unlearn ‘Sari’?

Why talk about college, I have observed that even school children have dress code of skirt-top at most of the places. These girls use this dress code for years. They must be getting attached to these dresses. Psychologically, it must be difficult to change the dress at every stage. The girls are put in a situation where they are conditioned to encounter unlearning on regular basis. But, surprisingly, unlearning forced on these helpless girls make them deprived. The unlearning forced on them make dependent. Sari is one such example blatant enough to be seen by everyone but hardly ever sensed to be recognized its negative impact because of traditional attachments.

In contradictions, all these girls are always forced to wear sari in pretext of traditions. This is a big contradiction in society. Girls are always made a scapegoat for changes. Why should a grille be forced to so many changes in one life? Why?

If a simple survey is done on dress code, anybody can find that sari is the dress for deprived, dependent and conservative ladies. The ladies who are convinced to accept saris as dress will be mostly house-wives, generally semi-illiterate, highly conservatives, deprived and economically dependent on male counterparts. The independent and forward looking ladies can be found at working places like call centers, BPOs, banks, airplanes etc. or in five star hotels for parties, conferences etc or educational institutes as teachers, student etc and so on. All these forward looking ladies can be found in modern dresses.

Sari has lost its significance to exist in vibrant, dynamic and progressive society like Burqua. Recently, in one of the center page article in Times of India, Shashi Tharoor appealed to the women of India to save sari from a sorry fate. I am unable to understand the logic of these appeals. Why Shashi should appeal to women to remain backward and dependent? Why as an intellectual is he attaching modern dresses as western dress? Why do we attaché anything progress and good to western values? Are we have our birthright to born backward and die backward? Why Shashi should teach our ladies to be in conservative attire? It is a fatal aspiration.

If you have to grow, prosper and succeed, you have to unlearn sari, you have to accept modern dresses. You have to unlearn that Sari is Indian and modern dresses are western. Sari might be a good dress when you were in village without much external travel, work or pressure. Sari was good for women who used to be a display material for family. Sari is not good for women who are the bread earner, executives and person who drive progress and economy. Shashi must stop communicating responsibility to save sari on the shoulder of growing and struggling girls and ladies who want to grow. Shashi must stop convincing male to force their female to dress sari. Sari must go like Japanese kimono as he said in his own article.

The things which are vanishing in a slow manner, Indian intelligentsias should never preach general people to protect them. If villages have to go, why should farmers is preached not to leave villages? Why should menial and deprived people be preached not to march to the cities? Why should illiterate and deprived children be forced to study regional languages? All these questions are related to the drawback of Indian media, leaders and intelligentsias. They need to be conscious of what they preach others.

Sari must vanish to bring prosperity to this land. Women should not be unnecessarily taught wrong things. Women have also the privilege to be independent and growing.

Take Hard Decision in Lighter Moment!

Dedication To Hidden Millions

2007-01-26T12:37:00.000+05:30

DEDICATION

Poverty is a gift for most human beings since the evolution of civilization. Success and achievement are the paradigm of the selected few in society. Reaching to the top has been a gifted asset from ancestors for people belonging to the most advanced and educated society of human history. People have become elected Presidents, Prime Ministers, Entrepreneurs, Heroes, Artists, Defence Chiefs, Professionals and many more because of the assets inherited from the ancestors. Millions of high calibres human remain untouched in the dark tunnel of sincerity and hard work. Nobody encourages them for the benefit of even themselves. Today when a vast area of civilization on earth is on the verge of tasting the fruit of becoming developed, it is very-very difficult to ignore them.

Will modern technologies create new opportunities for those hidden millions?

All my writings are dedicated to those hidden millions!

Learning English - A Global Necessity

2007-01-20T10:03:00.000+05:30

Wisdom is a scarce material. I am of the firm belief that there is only one language which can provide you a taste of wisdom in today’s world. Especially in 21st century, if even a part of Ray Kurzweil’s law which claims to be generalized version of Moor’s law becomes true then every educated person irrespective of his or her profession has problem without English.

By 2010, this world will be forced to unlearn what have been pretty good till 20th century. At the same time, people will have to learn things which will not be available in regional languages. The updated knowledge and wisdom will not be available in any language other than English. This is a caution to all the non-English speaking people across the world.

The governments of almost all the developing countries are suffering from ego and power politics. They fear to lose their chair to go against the comfort zone of the people. As life has its own hardship; there is hardly any growth or success in comfort zone. People have to come out of that comfort zone and march into new domain to enjoy the pleasure of development. Why governments fail to react in right direction?

Recently, just last month, I wrote a blog regarding extinctions of regional languages titled “Politics of Regional Languages” on 8 Jan 2007. I understand that people are very emotional and sentimental about their regional language that too in India. They can not believe the fact that it can ever extinct easily. Wherever, they go, they always look for regional people to satisfy ego. And then they shamelessly do regionalism to keep themselves in comfort zone. They still feel proud to talk in regional languages even in the international conventions with global people. Regional language is the biggest sentimental issue of almost every rising individual.

The emotions work well for those who have already built the empire to enjoy life. But think of many ever energetic and dynamic courageous youth who have capability to do miracles but unable to find knowledge and wisdom in the regional language. I always feel handicap of my loss of initial 20-25 years of my life. What is the benefit of cursing life at the age of 30s or 40s if you are unable to take corrective action during teenage? Above 40s, life already becomes a sad story.

Coming to the rescue of millions of children deprived of studying English in schools, the Knowledge Commission has recommended teaching of the language as a compulsory subject from class I across the country. Will country implement these bold but necessary steps to reduce digital divide?

As I have always pointed out the integrity factor of Sam Pitroda to ensure few of the forced unlearning process in society. He had been to US for long time. Today, Indians are reaping the benefits of the brain drain of 60s and 70s through Pitroda’s recommendations. We must be thankful to US that such brains were preserved to be useful at later age. Can we forget the development of Bangalore or Hydrabad? Common Indians are reaping the benefits.

There is a need to enforce unlearning to fetch the benefit of growth for all. The entrepreneur, executives and managers working in BPOs, Call Centers and IT industry will immediately appreciate the necessity of this step. Sam Pitroda rightly says, “Starting now, English would help us build an inclusive society and transform India into a knowledge society.”

Presently, only nine of the 28 states and three Union territories in India have introduced English as compulsory subject from Class I. This kind of severe discrimination to divide the people exists in Indian sub-continent without a protest from any social activist. Is there any surprise if poor remains deprived and Indian entrepreneurs are unable to get educated English speaking youth to run their outsourcing companies? How people get time to fight for unnecessary issue like racial discrimination not for learning English?

Sam Pitroda said, “Even now, no more than 1% of our people use English as a second language, let alone a first language.” This statement means that the country economy is booming only on less than 1% people. Rest of the population is electing conservative leaders and parties to rule them. What a tremendous potential to this sleeping country? Racial discrimination is being done here in India with the less privileged people.

I get surprised when people do business just by teaching English language. The books on learning English become famous. All these happen in a country which has been ruled by British for more than 400 years. Is it such a big problem to understand wisdom?
Now, the problems emerge for all those who are successfully running Institute just for teaching English. They will have to look for alternative professions. The people who are doing good business in regional languages will have to close their shops. The poor and deprived can not be easily fooled by the mediocre on the name of foreign language.

“English should also be used to teach some non-language, content subjects, starting from Class III in schools,” the Commission has said. What a forced unlearning to a civilized society? But it is mandatory to bring prosperity. It is a government responsibility to force on people to unlearn things which are not required through such steps. Now, India should take some steps to implement these changes suggested by the Commission.

Since last few years, one crucial comparative advantage enjoyed by India as opposed to its rising neighbour China has been relatively widespread presence of English-speaking people. This advantage will not be there for long unless Indian government takes some drastic steps. The recommendations of knowledge commission provide wisdom to Indian government. But, let us see how far government reacts on wisdom? In the absence of English, India will be at disadvantage and Indians will be at loss.

Now, the latest craze is American English. India must move towards American English for wide acceptance. 'Gotcha! So you gonna chicken out, brotha? I ain’t know nothin’. These are common talk in Malls across Metro cities. I receive from friends – Yup dude, you’re bang on! D’oh…” These are the American way and Indians of Gen Y loving it. With Indian students going to the US in bulk, the American accent will surely plague India. All modern equipments and job assignments along with latest technologies, websites and wisdom come from US only. There is no other way.

Now thanks to ex-IBM professional Jean Paul Nerrihre advised us to try “Globish” instead of tough English. His famous book “Don’t Speak English” already became famous and advises us to learn language called Globish meaning global English. This involves a vocabulary limited to 1500 words, short sentences, basic syntax and extensive hand gestures to get the point across. What a different way to become global. Try it!

So there are plenty of opportunities. No society can prosper on old traditions, ethos and even languages. Government which is busy in opening schools based on religion and region to ensure discriminations to fulfill its desire to rule on deprived people will find difficult to accept the recommendation by Knowledge Commission. How far can you ban the integrated networked people across the world by banning on AXN or issuing warning to TV channels? People have the power to reach to the real knowledge and wisdom. Networked people sitting in front of their screen will make a difference.

Government may not generate courage to implement such policy immediately but certainly conscious people should understand this. That is what I always emphasize.

So let us unlearn regional language and regional feeling. Let us get detached from regional attachments. Learn the language which keeps you ahead for the years to come. Select a book which talks about future rather than glorify the past. Read the blogs which keeps you ahead. Learn the language in which tomorrow’s wisdom will be typed and printed.

Be global, learn global language and act global.

Why Are We Rich and Unhappy?

2007-01-17T12:45:00.000+05:30

Becoming rich is one thing but getting happiness is entirely different ball game. World economy is growing but not happiness. People are becoming better off but feeling worse. This is a very common problem. It has always been a challenge to find the exact reason. The reasons are being searched in this article.

Once upon a time, the results of market capitalism was generally agreed to make people better off. Nowadays that is not clear. A number of economists and politicians think that it ought to be doing something else: making people happy, says The Economist in an article titled Happiness (and how to measure it).

I as a technocrat feel that the reasons of happiness can not be easily traced by economist, politicians or other professionals. Earlier technologies and inventions were not impacting the society in a big way at one time. But, the inventions of last few decades have changed these old beliefs. The changes which have taken place around the world in last few decades are mainly due to electronics and Information Technology. So, the reasons of happiness can only be found by some technocrats who have seen the growth of electronics and IT. The world will have to accept this new dimension.

Growth Charts

With an annual growth rate of 3.2% per head since 2000, the world economy is heading towards notching its best decade ever. So, in this situation, 6 billion people of the world will have to face a different world order. The changes are new. The resources available are different. The accessibility is different. The connectivity is different. The borders, languages and regions are becoming irrelevant. The quests and means to find job, earning money and making social circles are changing.

Now David Cameron, the latest leader of Britain’s once rather materialistic Conservative Party, has espoused the notion of general well-being (GWB) as an alternative to GDP. In the US, meanwhile, inequality, over-work and other hidden costs of prosperity were discussed in mid-term elections. In India on the name of common man, government tries to find the reasons why prosperity not spreading widely. The developing world is struggling to provide basic amenities. The reasons of finding happiness amidst prosperity remain a burning issue.

There has always been a good discussion among the people of developing world to talk about the unhappiness of the people of developed world. People again got a point when a survey data reveals that affluent countries have not got much happier as they have grown richer. The same thing may happen or is already happening even in developing countries. Luxuries have become the necessity. Management of richness remains a challenge. In addition, it remains a challenge to bring the masses what elites have always enjoyed. Once, you get the most starved things take for granted. The process is unending. In all these different situations, the questions remain that how to achieve happiness?

In Search of Happiness

In my point of view, happiness becomes very complex in the midst of growth. As growth becomes exponential, the situation becomes explosive. In these circumstances, there is a need to look at things differently. That is what I am going to do here in this article.

There are various books on human psychology and managerial philosophy. There are plenty of write-ups on how to learn the important characteristics which all successful people possess or are supposed to possess. There are books on thinking, dreaming, meditation, yoga and so on ….there are volumes written on these aspects of human activities and personalities. But are there any books written on what you need not do. What you should not learn? What you should not work on? There is hardly any research on these aspects of human complexities to understand what you are supposed to UNLEARN if you want to belong to the category of successful and happy people?

Everybody talks about one or other trait to be developed. How to acquire characteristics of successful people? How to learn lessons from the success? People join various institutes to learn these traits. There are many teachers or so-called preachers who are willing to enhance your capabilities to learn more and learn fast. They are ready to teach you some more human traits besides what you already have. They are also ready to tell you what are the most necessary qualities that you lack. They teach you how to develop positive attitudes. They do not feel shy in telling that the only thing you ever lacked in life is a positive attitude. She becomes a big failure in spite of her great learning. How the happiness will emerge amidst lacking?

Even with the sharp rise in social and economic growth in the poorest parts of civilization, the growth has never been homogeneous; rather, a huge benefit has gone to few individuals or families and meager benefits to the remaining individuals and societies. Is it any surprise if the world’s 500 richest people have as much wealth as the poorest three billion put together? Even in the developed nations, if the changes are not monitored on a regular and constructive basis, the society or even the country could suffer and would suffer more in future. Such suffering has occurred at the individual level. This has been witnessed in the life of an organization. This is being observed in the nation build-up. Fast changes taking place in various aspects around the world have to be integrated into our policymaking process to harness the benefit for the human being, organization and nation. That is what Microsoft did. In the 1997, in the first CEO summit, they declared the objective for the next ten years as ‘friction free-capitalism’, in the 2006; they changed to ‘friction free-innovation’. Individual, society, organization or even nations have to keep ‘unlearning on a regular basis’ to reap the benefit of civilization.

Unlearning Past to Achieve Happiness in Present

Learning is not at all a solution but many a time, these are the big problems, because you will have to unlearn, whatever you have learnt, if it is not good for your future. Unlearning will be more difficult than learning. But you do not have any choice. You will be forced to Unlearn. So Stop Learning, Rather UNLEARN or LEARN TO UNLEARN before it is too late to unlearn. It is time to concentrate and know more about your Unlearn Quotient (UQ). (UQ is based on the critical factors. These factors work as a theory of human growth.)

Your UQ will take you ahead more than others. Your UQ will pave the way for your better future. Your UQ will reduce the contradictions and ambiguities of your life. Your UQ will show you the path to achieve next generation of time management. Your UQ will be the measurement of your happiness.

The beginning of the 20th century was the year when the major emphasis was on learning, while by the end of the century, the year could be defined as ‘How fast and how much can you learn’. But the 21st century has started with the critical need of unlearning. The years could well be defined as ‘How fast can you unlearn’. Unlearn was not found in earlier dictionaries, however in the recent ones, it has been explained and elaborated on in detail. As per Encarta, Unlearn means discard something previously learnt like an old habits, try to forget, put out of one’s memory or knowledge. Oxford English Dictionary writes, Unlearn - verb - aim to discard (something learned) from one’s memory. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines it very suitably to meet the present day requirement of understanding unlearn. It says that unlearn is to make an effort to forget your usual way of doing something so that you can learn a new and something better way.

19th century - Limited Learning
20th century - More Learning
21st century - Unlearning

Learning and Unlearning Dilemmas!

I define unlearning as an extension of learning. Unlearning means to remove, discard, forget, and leave undesirable things from minds. Unlearning means keeping mind free from unwanted information, deleting irrelevant data from memory and having more free space in minds for future thinking. Unlearn is the process of removing something from your priority list of doing things. Unlearn is the way or path to move from self-defeating methods of performing something to different methods, leading to the road of success. Unlearn is the method to prepare a list of parameters to discard from life for a better life. Unlearn is the preparation of futurist steps for a successful life. Unlearn is the challenging age old traditions and customs which are keeping a human being away from even basic amenities. Like you put up efforts to learn something good, you need to put efforts to unlearn something bad. Learning can be done through various methods, similarly unlearning can also be done through some other methods. It is important for all of us to learn more about unlearn to live a better life in the 21st century.
Irrespective of the country or place, individuals will have to unlearn to have more happiness in life. There are few factors which are essential to achieve the tough task of happiness.

Theory of Human Happiness

The necessity of unlearning is basically to satisfy the various needs of human beings. However it is necessary to know seven critical factors (SCF) to achieve the objectives. I have personally experienced and implemented these factors since the last thirty years. With critical observation of self, family, developing society, reading and seeing the developed and developed world, I have concluded that these seven critical factors as ‘theory of human happiness’. In the first instance, the factors may not appear as critical as any postulate in the development of scientific theory, but once critical analysis is done then the importance and effectiveness can be understood and appreciated. The seven critical factors are -

1. Thinking and Action – In search of truth. How could you think and act correctly? Is it easy to find truth?
2. Aspirations – Goal of life! Are you capable enough to decide about your goal?
3. Sex – Human Relationship. Relationships are the most complicated aspects of human growth. Sex is at the core of all the human relationships.
4. God – Ethics and Behaviour. God makes you a gentleman or gentlewoman otherwise you remain a demon. Understanding God is essential for human growth.
5. Parents – As you sow so you reap. Parents are responsible to sow a seed of growth. Are you sure of your correct seed for growth?
6. God Father – Sense of security. Th human is a fearful creature. Always look for a godfather for your growth.
7. Wisdom Domain – Knowledge Source! Life without knowledge is hell. Create wisdom domain (WD) in this world of Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO).

The details of all these seven critical factors have to be monitored on regular basis. It is important to know that how these are keeping the human progress restricted. Once these critical issues are clear, we would be in a better position to understand and analyze happiness.

No amount of money or position can make us happy. Life needs few basic things for smooth journey. Unlearning has potential to bring normalcy and contentment back to anybody’s life.

Politics of Dying Regional Languages

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I am fortunate to have sufficient education to understand the growth contradictions of society. Especially, when I am trying to find the reasons for individual development, my education and experience helps me to look at the problems differently. I am convinced about the fact that the regional language plays a very significant role in our overall behaviour, relationship, habit and personality. It is not very difficult to find the people with regional accent at any platform in India. But these regional languages have no future in global village. Let us study why regional languages have no future? We will look into different aspects like education pattern, class struggles, professional options, and unification of languages.

Changed Education Trend

“I have never allowed my schooling to interfere with my education,” said Mark Twain, commenting on the lack of fun in learning in schools. Today with all the multimedia skill sets, you need a different kind of education. Life is fun and education must be focused on enhancing fun rather than making a school or education a prison. The depth of any subject you choose has increased tremendously. You as a human cannot go on learning to enhance your capabilities for a better life. There is no end of information or even knowledge to acquire. Today, you need to get educated to have a good and enjoyable life. Schooling is becoming a thing of the past. Now-a-days, people are forced to talk about unschooling. The educated and learned parents are not concentrating on course, syllabus or school. They are concentrating on other human or environmental activities.

School children need not go to library to search for books all the time. Sitting comfortably at one place at home, café or even a shopping mall she can access complete list of libraries at just one click of the mouse. And whole set of encyclopedias are available at a much cheaper price. It is not necessary that she spends Rs. 40,000 to 50,000 to have the entire set of Encyclopedia Britannica at her premises; she can just spend Rs. 1000 approximately and have the original Britannica displayed on the computer monitor. Internet and other media have made knowledge accessible at your finger-tips at a much lower cost. Children can have access to information so fast and easily as never before in history. But the only constraint is the language.

Class Struggle and Language

We must understand the age old class struggle to evaluate the importance of language. Today, the whole of Indian continent has one of the biggest enemies of development and it is its regional languages. People are killing each other. Leaders in Assam, Maharastra or Karnataka are doing politics over it. People are dying for language affections. Language is dividing the networked environment developed by the growth of Information technology and telecommunication. This division has engulfed every walk of life. This division can be seen in politics, society and even in corporate world.

The struggle of class is not exclusive to Indian environment. Even US is discussing this issue on regular basis. Oprah Winfrey show is a typical example. She does not hesitate to discuss on latest issues disturbing people like class, language, sex, relationship and so on. In one of the show on class, she discussed that how people of different class can be categorized even the way they speak English. English is a global language and people have to understand this. In India, this discussion is very old but still not matured. Today I would like to remind all my friends who are religiously attached to their regional languages to get detached immediately to have a better and successful future. Language is the biggest hurdle in your global outlook.

For more information on Oprah Show, you can go to the website as below

http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060421/slide_20060421_350_102.jhtml

The main question comes, is anybody interested to fall behind and see others moving ahead? I do not think anyone intentionally would like to do it unless compelled by the situations. Let us create a situation where we do not creep at later stage of our life.

Professional Options

The horizon of professions has altered drastically. The technological and economic changes have made profession a new domain altogether. Few years ago when beauty shops came in the limelight hardly anybody had an idea that it would emerge to be such a big profession. Today it has matured. Many ladies and gents are working in these shops. Similarly, other professions like modeling, stewardship, journalism, fashion designing, entrepreneurship, catering and hospitality management, tourism jobs, services industries and so on have emerged. The sudden emergence of call centers, BPOs (Business Process Outsourcing) and other IT related services have changed the concept of working in society all across the world. These services have such manpower-intensive jobs with high financial stakes that it will almost delete the concept of the Gandhian philosophy of Charkha and Chakri. The requirements and search for jobs has to be done based on the latest craze and availability. The expertise of English language remains at the forefront in all these professions.

People cannot afford to rely on the old concept of government jobs or other conservative and conventional jobs. The new generation and the guardians of the new generation have to move from conservatism to look for better and progressive appointments. Today, organizations are not finding suitable educated people in cities. Jobs are moving to smaller towns and villages. Once, it reaches small towns and villages, the educated boys, girls, housewives, househusbands and parents will be forced to change the concept of job-search for their benefit and the benefit of the society. The unlearning of the old conventional jobs has to be done on a priority basis. With, this it brings the necessity of learning a global language to move ahead. It is not the question of getting the job today; it is a question of complete cultural shift.

Earlier, jobs were restricted to agriculture, law, engineering, medicine, management etc. The majority of the people were dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. But, now people will move to cities to get the basic facilities. As per, United Nations estimate, by 2030, 50% of the human population will live in cities. The global language will play its role in a new emerging society.

Trying to get government jobs is the old concept now. Few educated people could get government jobs. Very few will join the loss-making public sectors to have secure jobs. Gone are those days in this fast developing professional environment. The concepts of hard work and joining a profit making company have evolved. The open economy and market has given freedom to join multinationals. It has given freedom to select professions. People change professions like their clothes. Companies are starved of people. People have a luxury of choices. The changes have to be felt, realized, soaked, conceived and understood. Whoever has done this, unlearned the old trends and fears, is enjoying the fruits of growth. The fresh IIM graduates are on auction like the eligible grooms of Andhra Pradesh. Be proactive and chose the professions of the time.

English Has No Alternative

In a recent report, it became clear that regional languages have no future. Many languages are dying out because of population movements, cultural oppressions, wars and economic disasters. Experts say as many as half of the world’s 6,900 languages are endangered. In the name of Olympic Games even China is quietly learning English to join the global community.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a huge discussion in all the institutions across India whether we should study English or not. Even today, there is great confusion prevailing in India in particular and other developing nations in general. The people have been given a dose of nationalism in terms of languages. But how far is it advantageous? Is it in a position to give you comfort of knowledge? Is it giving you a better life?

You join any professional Institute; you are forced to study in English. There are hardly any good books available in other languages. All the high level professional books are available in English. There is a tremendous difference in the availability of professional books in English and any other language. The local languages are left for the utilization of local ‘tribes’ only, not for the global person. There was a time when there was a requirement of less information and that too in a different mode like books or drawing or painting or any art medium; but, today when you surf the net for the ocean of information, you are forced to learn, think and act globally. You can not access global information in regional language. The people across the globe are feeling the handicap of being attached to regional languages. Many have started cursing their parents and teachers for the failure. People have started questioning the governmental indecisiveness to implement global languages in school. Karnataka is a typical example of this. Narayana Murthy has already questioned the apathy of governments in state and center. A digital divide starts from regional languages. People are being forced to remain deprived.

Language Unification

The advent of technology has forced humanity to think about the concept of unification of languages. Even the famous Nobel Laureate, Rabindra Nath Tagore, who wrote many poems and prose in Bengali, a local regional language of India, was forced to learn and translate his own writings in English to get a wider audience and recognition, leading to the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

The advent of the computer has given a beautiful tool to humanity. If this intelligent machine is to be utilized then in the years to come, the people have to learn fewer languages. The development of an Operating System is a very difficult and tricky proposal. Once it has been developed and matured in approximately a decade’s time, it may be very difficult to develop with those rich features in any other languages. The availability of www.google.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, indiatimes.com and so on would ensure some kind of unification in the development and spread of languages in the years to come. As the use and spread of mobile devices increase, more unification of languages will be forced upon the human being. When good professional books were not produced in the last century even with the high level printing technology, is there any reason to believe that, operating systems or other software would be produced in any regional languages?

There was a time when people from South India used to fight against the forceful imposition of Hindi on them. The people from North used to get emotional about the language issues. Schools, colleges and institutions had the tremendous task of keeping a balance between the propagation and utilization of different languages. Now the situation has to converge. Language unification should be taken as an international mission to avoid the gaps between different people and to spread a global culture in this world. The spread of one language will put less pressure on students to learn and master it. People will be able to concentrate on more fruitful work for humanity rather than fighting over languages. We must learn from the statement of the famous thinker, Edward de Bono, who says, ‘Language has been a most important step in human evolution. Language is now the biggest barrier to further evolution.’ He writes further in his famous site http://www.edwarddebono.com that language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Politicians who send their children to Harvard or Boston for higher studies and do politics over Hindi or other regional languages at their native place should not be able to make a fool of large sections of people.

It was the far sighted vision of American policy makers to accept English as national language after British left their land. The two centuries of magnificent development is the result of this policy. People are not killing or dying based on languages, they are focusing on development and better lifestyle. The result of learning English is so obvious, US is able to create Bill Gates and Stephen Covey.

Today, there is no other option than to unlearn regional languages. People need to unlearn their attachments to regional languages. People must keep themselves away from regional feelings. To have global access, global opportunities, global success and so on people need to be a global citizen with the ability to speak, read and write in global language.

Age Old Game - Blame Game to Win Sympathy

2007-01-12T13:30:00.000+05:30

Blame Game – Is west responsible for east misery?

If East has not exploited Industrial Revolution, leadership of developing countries should look internally. Why only leadership, even the intelligentsia’s mis-information creates contradictions in the growth of civilization. The right information is not reaching to right people at right time.

The growth of electronics industries remained untapped by the developing world. The semi-automatic and automatic machines based on the electronics circuitry were never exploited for the benefit of the people of developing world. The inventions remain with west. The products like Intel or Microsoft were used by the people all over the world. The benefit certainly went to the inventor and that is west.

Information technology especially services part could develop because of its technological depth. In this field, logic and conventional wisdom did not work. It became difficult for the governments of developing world to put hurdle. Now, governments of few countries from East have shown remarkable shift from the traditional wisdom to grab the opportunities. However, many countries lacked behind miserably. Just take the example of very successful venture of an IT company called Infosys. After 23 years of long struggle, Infosys could make $2 billion; while on the other hand, Bill Gates alone earns around $20 billion every year.

The reason appears to me quite simple. The leaders and media from developing countries are concentrating on trivial issues rather than focusing on innovation. People talk about innovation but they hardly have knowledge, courage and wisdom to understand and accept innovation.

Just take the example of Indian Prime Minister. He is supposed to be one of the most educated PM of recent past. He knows economy, he is aware about growth requirements; he is concerned about India’s poor, but see the scarcity of wisdom in his speeches. Recently, he is again using the very old game of east to blame west for poor shows.

Manmohan uses the act of blaming and begging simultaneously when he says, “West’s green drive can’t be at poor world’s cost”. He further says, “The new environmentally-friendly technologies being developed must be shared and made available to all of us so that the planet is saved”. India should take some steps to achieve development. As a Prime Minister, he must try to formulate the plan of the nation to achieve these objectives rather than blaming West.

Manmohan Singh said that developed industrial economies must realise that they should alter their consumption patterns so that so few do not draw upon so much of the Earth’s resources. There has been a set pattern of the leaders of developing world in blaming the developed people to counsel the citizens. The statement given by the rime Minister could be same what Jawaharlal Nehru would have talked in 50s or Indira Gandhi talked in 70s or 80s and then Rajiv talked in 80s. The country should look inward to find the reasons. Even in India, there is so much difference between states. Can Jalandhar be ready to reduce Heart hospitals to redistribute resources to other not so developed part of the country? The answer can be big no. Anybody who has developed after lot of struggles and efforts would not like to simply give away resources. Even if rich people give resource, what is the guarantee that it will reach to poor. Even Oprah Winfrey could not get that assurance, how will others get?

Why Prime Minister wastes time in talking like this. In whole of his speech, he has hardly touched the reasons of India’s dismal growth in science R&D in last decade. When there has been 100% increase in science R&D in China, there has been only 3% in India. Science in India is in shambles. Prime Minister should have intimated the country about the proposals submitted by SA Mashelkar before retiring from the post. There is absolutely no need to keep the country in dark on our failure. Why should we blame others?

The other minister while addressing the fifth Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas said, “We need investments in areas like infrastructure, agriculture, education, drinking water and health.” What a statement by a cabinet minister? What Indian government is doing? The government is unable to take care of any area. In education, they can do only reservations. He further says, “It is essential that the states lagging behind carry out needed reforms so that they can attract investments which are important for growth and poverty alleviation.” My point is that when reforms are needed for poverty alleviation, why central government is working on Rural Employment Scheme? Why not reforms? Why we are not concentrating on sorting out the problems of land acquisition for SEZ which is so necessary for growth?

There are many heads and leaders who need to clarify their speeches to make it more relevant to well informed society. The leaders appear ignorant. They show their lack of vision. They are unable to appreciate the future need of the nation. They are unable to see the changed world order. They are unable to comprehend the future world order.

Follow Western Cultures

2007-01-12T13:22:00.000+05:30

“More and more couples are indulging in anything from full-bodied hugs to full-on kisses in the public eye. And no one scandalizes any more. The masses seem to have embraced public display of affection whole-heartedly.” wrote Times Life.

I wrote a book in 2005. National fame editor did editing of the book. She has also edited the recent book on "Governance" authored by Mr. Jagmohan, Former Cabinet Minister of Government of India. She said that the western life style I am predicting is not going to happen in India at least for few decades. I fought with her to maintain my conclusions that there is no way and the people have to follow western life style. It has started happening and will catch up soon. I am happy that within a year I see, read and hear about these things. It is happening. It is happening within a year.

PDA is becoming famous in India. It is not an electronic device but it is public display of affection (PDA). Even rickshaw drivers in the cities like Mumbai, Delhi , Pune and Bangalore are accepting the changes. If Hrithik and Aishwarya can kiss why not normal person on road?

Indians are following western life style. However Indian elders, thinkers, media people, politicians, Bollywood experts and religious gurus are trying to tell that following western life style is disastrous for the people of developing world. But I think all these people are either wrong or too selfish in their predictions. There is nothing wrong in following western life style. What is wrong in this? I am convinced and have been telling since beginning. Is there any other life style for growing human beings to follow?

Why India, all the people of developing world have to follow the same - Western life style. There is no other life style in this world which need any attention forget about following. Russia and China have already followed the toe of US. They are not losing any opportunity to come closer to American counterparts. I have invariably explained in all my previous blogs regarding these dilemmas.

Can any literate or conscious person try to think of following Muslim life style with Quran, Mosque or Burqua? Absolutely not, is there anything worth to be talked about Iran, Iraq or Bangladesh? There is nothing to be even looked at. There is no question of following these medieval cultures and traditions. People can only follow such crippled culture in duress.

West has struggled to grow. They have grown to present level after sincerely working for last more than 200 years after fighting two world wars. They have taken long time to understand and certify the present life style. The people who are growing today have advantages of these western experiences.

The time is short to learn and unlearn. But, it is not difficult. When we are getting used to throw one old model of mobile for new one every year, there should not be any hardship in forgetting the old cultures and traditions to give way to the new one. This will be the advantageous for all. People sitting on network from west will be doubly happy to give helping hand and juicy lips. People all across the world will be able to enjoy the fruit of growth of 21st century. Enjoy!!

Unlearn: Age Old Game - Blame Game

2007-01-10T15:42:00.000+05:30

Unlearn: Age Old Game - Blame Game

Epochal Shift - 6000 Years After Urban Centres Emerged

2006-12-26T23:17:00.000+05:30

Epochal Shift - 6000 years after urban centers emerged. This population shift will lead to a new kind of city - "Hyper cities".
At times, what I feel that policy makers have significant problems in understanding data. Data itself is never clear unless we have sufficient ‘knowledge’ to understand this. Especially in Indian scenario, I can say with guarantee that this problem is very common. We have been very poor to appreciate the data properly.
One United Nations estimate says that urban population is expected to overtake the rural population by August 16, 2008. I remember predicting similar ideas in my book “Unlearn Before U-learn” written around a year ago with the detailed justifications which I observed to be very obvious one. The matter does not end here. By 2030, two third of humanity will live in cities. Keeping these changes and statistics in mind, I had advised my rural friends to unlearn village life. The data are becoming true with reality.
Civilization has witnessed tremendous changes in almost every aspect including GDP and employment. There have been tremendous changes in different sectors in the last few decades and these are going to change further impacting transactions. Invariably, there is a large difference in the understanding of facts by policy makers. This results in wrong policy decisions. They are unable to give emphasis to correct approaches. This can be seen in the following example. There are three major sectors –
(a) Primary Sector – Agriculture

(b) Secondary Sector – Industries

(c) Tertiary Sectors – Services including knowledge, information and value-added. This also includes innovative knowledge intensive products/services.

Figure:- EFFECT FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS (In %)

Sectors/Year
1979 2004 2020
GDP Contribution
Agriculture
39 22 10
Industry
24 27 30
Services
37 51 60
Employment Generation

Agriculture
64 54 44
Industry
16 19 21
Services
20 27 35

(courtesy www.presidentofindia.nic.in)

As technology leads to non-linear business growth, the predicted value for the year 2020 may not be totally correct. I feel that it will be different because of many social compulsions. Even if the prediction is assumed to be correct, there is a drastic need to change the orientation of thinking because of the following illustrated reasons–

1. As the agriculture contribution is going to be less than 10% of the overall GDP of the country, the agriculture sector needs to be made attractive, competitive and friendly. Accordingly, the priorities of the planner and thinker have to change.
2. As employment from the agricultural sector is going down drastically from 64% to 44%, the majority should move from conventional locations and profession to new opportunities in value-added services for innovation and knowledge-intensive products. Policy makers are afraid to accept the facts of this data.
3. The people working in the agricultural sector have been traditionally very conservative and rigid in their approach to life; they need to be encouraged to change their profession for the betterment of themselves and the country. They should never be given the consolation that their life-style will improve amidst deprivation.
4. The backward classes, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, who have been predominantly left behind in the last few decades from being part of the economic growth or ‘India Shining’ and ‘Incredible India’ have to be educated and encouraged to move out off the frog well to harness growth of civilization with minor disturbances and dislocations. They should be educated, motivated and encouraged to move to towns and cities to take up better and well-earning professions with a dignified life. This is a sever diversion from the earlier concepts by the renowned thinkers of developing countries but this has to be adopted to avoid future catastrophes.
5. The Indian intelligentsia is still busy finding the strategy to bring down the scale of perpetuating rural migrations to big towns and cities in search of job opportunities which I believe is in total contradiction to the need of a developed society. We need to learn first and educate the others about the significant statistical changes which are taking place overthe last few decades. People must move out from village or smaller cities to the big cities. People must move to special economic zones (SEZ). Government must improve building infrastructure to support these movements. More planned SEZ is the need of the future.
6. IT and BPOs together earned India $12 Billion in 2003 and by 2012, it is expected to touch $148 Billion according to NASSCOM– National Associations of Software and Services Company. The number of people employed in the BPO sector will be over 200,000. This manpower will be available when the people move from conventional professions to value added services.
7. There is a tremendous scarcity of educated and semi-educated person in service sectors like call centres, BPOs, software sectors, R & Ds, manufacturing plants, etc. The recruiter needs to move to small towns and villages to appoint and train the poor, dedicated, sincere and hard working people for the benefit of this sector, irrespective of caste, creed or region.
8. The area where exploitation has been severe and no priorities have been given for growth, are more prone to attract the attention and demand of the new industries. Either resettlement plans in those neglected areas could be considered or people can be encouraged to move to planned colonies for better amenities and better work output for systematic growth.
9. In the last few decades, there are locations in India which have witnessed tremendous neglect from the planner to take care of the basic infrastructure like road, electricity and water etc. These are Northeast region, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jammu & Kashmir. The situation is ripe enough to utilize for systematic growth of the new sectors. These areas have to be considered for future growth.
10. In the years to come, a large population will move from these neglected areas as mentioned above for a better life in Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Chennai etc. These movements will accrue many benefits for those neglected areas. They will reduce the burden on the land. The people who move out will get a better life. The remaining people will have more land to feed fewer stomachs. However, due to enhanced economical changes they will have to have a more sophisticated and systematic life. They will have to understand these changes and mould themselves accordingly. They will perforce have to unlearn all habits of so-called poor people.
11. The availability of basic amenities will broaden the living standards of large sections of the population. They will unlearn things faster to have a better and more dignified life.

Since the time, President of India APJ Abdul Kalam has talked and worked on PURA, I have my own predictions that these policies do not have future. These are the waste of government resources. We have to educate the people from village to move to cities to have a better and prosperous life. One side when President talks about big dreams on the other, he works on PURA to keep the poor deprived for life. Instead, government should join hands with private sectors to build a Special Economics Zones (SEZs) with basic infrastructure and employment opportunities for all.

The technological evolution will bring about the changes smoothly. The change practice has to be mastered by the population to harness the benefits of technology. There is a necessity of new thinking and ideas. Ideas should not be slaves of caste, region or religion. Ideas should not be the result of political compulsions. The ideas should not be the result of a selfish attitude. Ideas need to be rational, based on future prospects.

I am the Person of the Year 2006

2006-12-18T23:14:00.000+05:30

I have been chosen as a Time magazine Person of the year on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace. I am privileged, excited and flattered.

I took premature retirement from normal government job at the peak of my career to join this bandwagon. I created blogsites. I wrote blogs. I created large number of friends on yahoo 360. I am fortunate to have 174 virtual friends on 360 and many more on other on-line sites today. They generated confidence in me. They showed purpose for my life. They brought ideas and motivated me. http://360.yahoo.com/kamekish

Based on the core issues of the theory of Unlearning, I have written a book, which is at final stage of getting published in India. However, when I wrote my book in 2005, I got first on line site lulu.com. When all the publishers in India refused to even speak to me on my project, the book is published on-line from Feb 2006 at www.lulu.com/content/231873/ . In the conclusion of this book, I have made ‘you’ as main constituent of this forthcoming growth and I feel that Time magazine has realised the power today. You are the Person of the year.

“For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time’s Person of the Year for 2006 is You,” the magazine Lev Grossman wrote.

How true each word is coming? Since last more than one year, I am writing blogs for nothing. I am spreading my messages without any preconceived results or expectations. I am trying to spread wisdom. Even if my relative, friends and colleagues wanted me to join a good job in some IT industry, I chose to write my views and spread democracy of knowledge and wisdom through blogs and different site. I found the power in you all. I am proud of you all.

I am thankful to the blogsite like Sulekha who made me star blogger and given me prestigious rank below 1000 and wrote my name in bloggers list. Sulekha made me featured blogger for its Current Affairs section where I wrote extensively on current burning issues. http://www.kamekish.sulekha.com . It is a great journey.

As I always feel, we need to share more information. We need to share our thinking with all like minded people to generate confidence in life. I thought, creating a group will be a good step. Yahoo provided me the option free of cost. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iiuindia
It helped me to make me the Person of the Year 2006.

Wide Experience Pays

India is a vast country. I had been fortunate to visit all nooks and corners of this huge country in last 25 years. I have not only seen places, I have lived, experienced and analyzed. Even the book which I have written is the result of my conscious living of last 25-30 years. I feel that knowing this vast country is a challenge. I have met this challenge in the year of Information age. The technological tools have provided me instruments to steer the course of history.

I have worked on creation of godfather and wisdom domain. When, I receive different point of views, I feel that creating godfather and wisdom domain for self and for the benefit for all are coming true. The technological resources are providing us tool to achieve the tasks. Today when you and I am the person of the year, I generate more confidence to build a better and conscious society. You are the part of this consciousness.

In almost every Blog, I have written my views freely and without fear. I feel that there is no need to feel inadequate. You are power. You are the force of the coming change in society. You must feel complete. Be positive, learning or unlearning will come to you correctly. I have got continuous encouragements from my friends across the globe who made me feel that I was in a right direction.

I have written extensively with the hope that people are able to come out of daily ruts, frustrations and depressions to live and contribute for a better world. I have especially talked about seven critical factors which are making us distinct and successful in this 21st century. You have proved that they work.

How to conquer Future?

Just read the actual writings done last year by me in the book – “Unlearn Before U-learn”.

Thinking of Development without YOU!
It is next to impossible to have a development where it does not take the shape of a Mass movement. Society can never get the pleasure of development unless all the people around are not developed. ……

Slums and flats side by side will remain dangerous for humanity. We must try to find a means to replace all slums with the flat system where all the occupants have all the necessary ingredients for a prospering and developing society like clean water, clear drainage system, electricity, medical facility, telephone network and coverage, cable TV or broadband connectivity, road, nearby bus and train terminals, good schools and park in the near vicinity, good shopping complexes, good security for individuals and property and so on. It is not very difficult. When a big corporative could be established for a large section of fragmented population, these basic amenities of life through proper housing could be provided to people.

The involvements of large number of people are necessary to achieve better results. The changes are very difficult to comprehend and implement. But it is mandatory to provide basic human rights to the people……..

These changes because of compulsions will enhance the standard of life. It should never happen to the people of this era of civilization that the energetic and dynamic person has to come back to slums and stop the development of individual and society. Similarly, the rich and educated have responsibility to maintain their standard life. They should not mix richness with cheapness….. and so on….(refer book.) These chapters can also be downloaded free of cost from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iiuindia )

I wrote these lines in the year 2005. Today, Time magazine almost confirms these ideas. The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its Person of the Year issue, released on Monday 18 Dec 2006, “because it literally reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age,” Editor Richard Stengel said in a statement.

I (or You) beat Tough Competitions

I beat out candidates, including Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China’s President Hu Jintao, North Korean leaders Kim Jong-il and James Baker, the former US secretary of state who led Washington’s bipartisan Iraq Study Group. I am proud to be better than all of the above mentioned people. Because my concepts for a better and futuristic world is more precise and clear than all of the above mentioned people. You all have confirmed to me through your writings and comments. You have made me the Person of the Year.

Time has been naming its person of the year since 1927 and the tradition has become the source of speculation every year. Now only I came to know that earlier also once, I was declared Person of the Year in 1966 when Time declared this status to the 25-and under generation. I was just five and Person of the Year.

I am happy to make lot of American female friends on my Yahoo 360. Today, I am proud to say that most of them were also declared the Person of the Year earlier. As Time declared American Women as Person of the Year in 1975. Congratulations to all of you. You all have made me proud.

Dilemmas of Developing Nation

I wrote a book after leaving my regular job. I was looking for publishers. When I found it as tough job, I moved to some on-line systems like lulu.com and 360.yahoo.com and then I found the ways to express myself. Approximately, one year passed, I have been writing regularly for many sites without any remuneration. I have not got any financial assistance to do this job. But everyday, when one or other person was benefited of my writings, felt well. I felt the purpose to carry on. One side, I worked for my book publication while on the other I spread my knowledge. At the same time, I gained extensive knowledge. It helped me to create wisdom domain for me and many others.

“It is about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way world changes,” said Grossman, Time’s technology writer and book critic. That is what I felt through out my last one year of blogging. Even if I did not get sufficient encouragement from different quarters, I remained firm. I was surprised with the conservative ideas of even big thinkers of the country like Jagmohan, Arun Shorie, Medha Patkar and Congress Managers. I confronted them and found them lacking. The nation faces the music. The deprived population faces worst results of the faults of their leaders. Life is a tragedy if we do not understand properly.

“The tool that makes this possible is the world wide web,” Grossman said. “It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.” The exploitation of the modern technology was started by me with my Electronics engineering degree in 1985. Just before that, Time had declared Computer as a Person of the Year in 1982. Accepting correct tool and medium can take you long way.

Changing Scenario

“These blogs and videos bring events to the rest of us in ways that are often more immediate and authentic than traditional media,” Stengel said. How correct these facts are? Especially for the developing countries like India, where all conventional media are governed and controlled by people whose thinking is of medieval era. Blogs provide us updated information. Blogs are the good source of wisdom domain. Conventional media or even TV continuously feed people with the conservative ideas. New medium is a boon for the people who want to grow. I always give emphasis on this aspect of human needs.

Presently, I am writing for various blogsites like Sulekha, Blogger (On Human Resources concept), the details are given in my signature space.
http://www.kamekish.sulekha.com and http://www.kamekish.blogspot.com or http://www.managementlogs.com/human_capital.html

I have written broadly on human growth. You can always find my management theories on the human_capital site of blogger. It is a great experience to get the exposure of the world even though you are surrounded by developing people who want to remain developing.

The way I have lived my life with the ideas and www, Time’s declaration has confirmed my resolve for the future. I have felt it so. I have written extensively on this. You all are futuristic who do not go conventional ways and opt for this futuristic means. You all are great who do not sleep in the night to communicate to the people across the globe. You share ideas and suggestions. You carry out your businesses and professions. You achieve pleasure. You share excitements. You share intimacy and make love. You share commitments. You learn and unlearn regularly.

I feel that I am the Person of the Year like all of you.

Reduce Stress Thru Unlearn

2006-12-12T11:22:00.000+05:30

Note: The issues mentioned here can be used by one and all however is more so applicable for the employee and executives of Call centers, BPOs or other IT and ITES companies. Any specific question resolving complicated issues are always welcome.

Growth and Stress

The developments, which were witnessed in the Western countries, took more than 100 years to mature. The long period of 100 years provided enough time for individuals to unlearn and make changes. They remained comfortable unlearning and learning new things over a period of a few generations.
But the kind of development, Asian countries are witnessing or shortly will be witnessing in the Information Technology era is hardly giving time to individual in one life-time, forget about generations. Practically facing the situation is really mind-boggling. That is where, the importance of unlearning is vital not only for individual growth but for the growth of society, state, country and humanity.
The changes are not affecting million but billions (As per estimates of 2004, 1.1 billion people live in extreme poverty). The development estimated in next few years has potential to bring many towards a much comfortable financial situation. However, handling situation on personal and social level will throw a huge challenge to all of us. The new kind of stress related syndrome can be witnessed in the growing society.

Unlearning is key to Stress Management

The skill for unlearning has to be acquired, harnessed and innovated. The NGOs and other charitable organizations have to come forward to take up these Herculean tasks of eliminating social gaps. The human rights activists have to initiate their activities in these directions. Unlearning has to be converted into mass movements.

Areas where Unlearning mandatory

The following areas deserve mandatory appreciation and understanding.

1. Living Style – We have to forget to live a poor life. We can not hate rich. We have to create and cultivate habits of the rich. In every aspect of life we have to see how we can improve our lives. We have to work out the means and process by which we can be in a position to provide the basic amenities to every one. It is next to impossible to provide today’s basic necessities to slums or road-side houses. We must create societies to provide the basics amenities. And for this we will have to unlearn slums, road-side and other related living habits. We should never look towards SEZ or Singur as a threat. Rather, they are the options to unlearn.
2. Family structure – The family is a very important constituent of an individual life. The concept of joint family in today’s knowledge world is a curse. In a joint family, the biggest sufferer is the individual, especially the girl child or female who faces the brunt of the rotten system. She loses her identity. She is taught to sacrifice all her desires, ambitions and aspirations. In the old times, a joint family was support for individuals to grow, but today, the individual needs all sorts of different infrastructures to grow including good food, efficient institutions, reliable connectivity, time for creativity and so on. Individuals should have the privilege to live their own lives. We will have to unlearn many prevalent traditions and follow new rules.
3. Eating Habits - Good health is a very important aspect in life. Good health in the long run is achieved by good eating habits. These habits are not available ready made. One has to learn good eating tactics but before that bad eating habits and associated fears have to be unlearned. Eating habits should be created based on expert advices rather than trivial preachings. It should never depend on old traditions. Bad eating habits consume a lot of time. Without improving eating habits, it is not possible to keep healthy, it is not possible to have creative time, it is not possible to enjoy life, and it is not possible to become developed.
4. Global Language – Every educated individual and policy maker of the nation should think about the language issue. We should not keep the regional language for the poor and deprived people. We should provide equal opportunities to them to learn a global language. All government-run schools must teach English from primary school to bridge the gap between rich and poor. The government rather than talking about the first claim on resources, should provide equal opportunities to learn modern education and up to date wisdom. The poor should not feel it as their duty to force their children to study the regional language. We must learn and ensure that others learn the global language. Knowledge of the global language will pave the way for a very bright future of a developing nation.
5. Religious Faith – One recent study confirms that people are very religious in nature. But we need to understand religion for the benefit of human kind. Rather than generating blind faith, we must create a religious environment where people are respected and no discrimination exists in society. Religion should make us better individuals rather than crippled and burdened ones. We must restrict religious activities to generate a good life. We should never allow ourselves to think that God will do things for us. God is not going to help anyone unless a person tries to improve her own life. God has given us everything and we have to create our world with growing knowledge and sustained effort.
6. Understanding Self – It is very essential to understand oneself with all human frailties. A person knows herself best in this world. No other individual knows her better. She must take decisions in life according to her basic necessities. She has to make herself healthy, happy and knowledgeable to make this world a happier place. Without keeping yourself happy, you can never think of a happy world. We must unlearn other teachings to realize the importance of self. Self is essential and important. If you cannot understand and take care of yourself, you can never take care of anything else.
7. Education – Quality education broadens the views and vision of a person. It helps us to understand the world better. It promises to make life and this world a better and enjoyable place. One can have any amount of assets and resources but enjoyment and success come from balanced understanding. Understanding develops from good education. We must unlearn that education is necessary for a job only. Education is essential for a balanced happy life. Education should never mean that children are forced to study a particular book or epic. In that case, the purpose of education gets defeated. We must allow our children to get education on the subjects which open their thinking skills. Education must enhance constructive creative mentality. This will ensure the growth of humanity at large.
8. Entrepreneurship Skill – When we are entering the era of the developing domain, it is important to understand the needs of the time. We should never depend upon the government agencies to help us, but we must generate innovative ideas to create an environment where a large section of people get benefited along with self-development. In this Innovative Century, entrepreneurship skill with the right aptitude and correct unlearning skill can do wonders.
9. Working Culture – We must create a good work culture in our blood. We should forget and unlearn the old work ethics. Now as we are going to be a part of a developed world, we should feel proud and privileged in our work whatever and wherever we do it. We should create a work culture like China or Japan. People should not turn their faces on visitors during working.
10. Social obligations – We cannot be happy in isolation so we must try to fulfill our social obligations. We must take some time to think of our society’s development. We must see how people around us grow. We should try to create better and healthy surroundings. We should work hard to develop parks and other recreation centre in our neighbourhood.
11. Social Interaction – Technology is the biggest tool to interact with the world. We should be open enough in our thinking and action to exploit the privileges of this era. We must interact with all human beings on this earth. We must unlearn earlier interaction instincts, which were mainly based on caste, language, region or religion. Society has suffered heavily because of caste and religion-based interaction in the last century which should not be allowed to prevail in the new era.
12. Eradicating Discrimination – Social discrimination has been a critical and prominent part of the human civilization until just a century ago all across the world. However as society developing and education and prosperity increases, the discrimination between humans is vanishing. But, discrimination is still the biggest challenge to human civilization. It is like a cancer to humanity. We must make a policy so that all human beings are considered equal. There should be no need of reservations. Has America ever thought of reservations for the Blacks to eradicate the drawbacks of black society? Is China doing anything like this? Indian political bosses also should take a lesson and find some substitute for reservation for backward classes, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, Muslims or even women. We must eradicate discrimination by removing reservation. Why educated doctors, engineers and other professionals have to face police atrocities to eradicate this discrimination in society? We should take other steps so that all humans treat other humans equal. Reservation remains a biggest source of discrimination.
13. Natures responsibilities – Once we are on the way to becoming developed it should be our responsibility to ensure that the atmosphere around us remains healthy not only for us but for future generations too. We should be ready to take hard decisions to make our air clean and healthy like Jagmohan took tough decisions as a Cabinet Minister and implemented CNG in Delhi. Supreme court moved polluting industries out of the city.
14. Global Thinking – We should not restrict our acquaintances with people of one country, rather we should move across the world. We should be ready to accept calibre from any part of the earth to improve life. We must unlearn the old missionary phobia. When Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporations can fight to remove ‘visa’ restrictions in the United States of America, there is no reason why we should not enhance the system and improve infrastructure to attract brilliant minds from across the world in various fields.
15. Global Family – We must consider the whole world as one family. We should cross the barrier of religion, region, caste or creed in relationships and marriages. Generally, we were content with meeting and marrying on the basis of caste, language or region. We should stop marriages based on caste or region. We must learn from Hema Malini and Amir Khan. The time has come when we should openly welcome and institutionalize the entry of people from across the world. We should stop asking people their caste and region to form an opinion or have a companion.
16. Democratic Behaviour – The time has come to accept basic democratic behaviour in our personality. It is next to impossible to have a prosperous world if society is built without the contribution or sense of involvement of each and every individual rich or poor, male or female, educated or illiterate, without caste barring, believers of any religion or faith, etc. Democracy cultivates a sense of involvement.

Many views with typical solutions appear in media to counter emerging stress in society, but in my view, the above mentioned points need specific attention from all the concerned people to combat stress threat.

Gandhigiri Kills Innovation

2006-12-11T15:48:00.000+05:30

In a society, where human rights are violated left and right, the exploitation of poor and deprived are taken for granted, the clear violation of democratic rights is maintained for the sake of power and positions, illiteracy is considered a bliss for continuance of undisputed leaderships and poverty is continued at the cost of large sections of deprived population, it is shame to talk about something like Gandhigiri.

I get surprised when Institutional efforts are systematically put in action to ensure the continuance of Gandhigiri in this country. I am surprised to see the ignorance of policy makers of India in pursuing such irrelevant and outdated concept like Gandhigiri. I am devastated on the wisdom level of such managers who propagate such systematic misinformation in this information age. I feel pathetic about the leadership who glorify themselves for continuance of Gharib (means poor).

Gandhigiri is not at all advantageous to any section of society. It has lived its life. We have wasted much of our time, money and resources in acquiring the detail of these historical achievements that I feel pathetic about the prevalence. We have shamefully exaggerated the glory of Gandhi to ensure the continuation of a single family dominance on the history of such a vast and colorful country called India.

We have many new ideas and concepts to learn and understand. Gandhi has taken plenty of our mind space and today, it has become a burdensome to carry with that information which is almost irrelevant. The idea of Gandhi is making the people mediocre. The idea is keeping the people away from excellence.

Gandhigiri has ensured unnecessary positiveness in deprivation. It has become a tool to forcefully ensure contentment for the people in poverty, lawlessness, failure and mismanagement. The society is unable to get the basic human needs. Talking about Gandhigiri is something like talking about post graduation to an illiterate person. It is something like talking about five star cuisines to a hungry man on street. It is something like talking about air-condition who does not have cloth to put on. It is a slap on the open face of poverty.

In this society, where few people have taken power and high authority for granted, talking about Gandhigiri or non-violence has no meaning. Without having capabilities to govern, rule and manage, few people are trying to rule large population. The situation appears to me like one of the medieval period. This has to vanish. I am doubtful about the wisdom of such people who have taken all powerful positions for granted without understanding the vulnerability even though they have suffered miserably in the past. In the networked environment, more people will be able to understand these hidden games played by the few resourceful people.

There is a clear warning to all the people of 21st century. If you remain attached to your past and even the present gifted by ancestors, there is a possibility that you are going to encounter biased results and illusive achievements. They are not going to work for a long time. The changes which are taking place in society do not allow one to accept things easily.

Rahul Gandhi may go some distance based on the empire built by his great grand-parent, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, but he would not be able to go very far. In the 1960s or 1970s, empire building might have been easier. In three decades of rule, Nehru could ensure momentum for the few generations to continue ruling the largest democracy in the world.

Even in the nineties and the beginning of the 21st century, empire building mechanism could be traced in every decision-making process in a democratic country. Even now, buildings, stadiums, flyovers, roads, colonies, colleges, IT parks and establishments are being built in the name of Nehru, Indira, Rajiv, Sonia, etc. We are unable to find any other attractive and good name. Other rulers come and go without giving their name to any of these new constructions. An Ex-Prime Minister, dead body did not find place in the capital because his relatives are feeling homesick even if they have never stayed with him. Recently National Thermal Power Station was named after Firoz Gandhi. Is Gandhigiri has to do anything with these developments?

But all these may not go very far in a civilized world which is emerging due to technological inventions within a very short span of time in the 21st century. The easy accessibility and availability of information through various means provides ample opportunities to find truth beneath contempt.

Recently, so much hue is being created with selfish interest regarding Gandhigiri. The actor like Sanjay Dutt, who has already been kept in watch for committing a crime during 93 bomb- blast, is projected as a scapegoat. It is ridiculous for the nation who faced threat from misguided and disgruntled youth. There is no point giving so much significance to one individual who has failed at many stages in his own life. Is it right to project such defective hero in this hero-starved land?

This is the same Sanjay who has drugged himself at the age of 21. Thanks to his powerful father that he was brought to life. He marries Richa Sharma a bitter, brief union and crash land into disaster. In Lage Raho Munnabhai, he plays as a gangster. Why are we shamefully relating Gandhigiri with this gangster character?

Sanjay is guilty of possessing illegal arms under the Arms Act. That could mean another five years to freedom. The person who has been unable to create a wisdom source for him in spite of such a powerful family background can never be a hero of this great land like India. Linking Gandhi with such person may be a scar on the glory of the father of the nation. Was there any need for Bollywood to rally a campaign for Sanjay? Thanks to Bollywood that they called off such shameful campaign. Wisdom or fear prevailed at last!!

Earlier, we used to take care of the moral value of the people before projecting him at national level but today because of our selfish interest we tend to forget these basic aspects. Media keep writing about these because of their self interests. Leaders keep talking about these. Even Prime Minister is forced to talk about Gandhigiri. He was forced to see the movie with his family. He has been forced to speak twice in public (once in Durban and other at CBI’s Biennial conference) about the movie and Gandhigiri. What a tragic mentality of our policy makers?

Few years back, even Anupam Kher made a movie based on Gandhi. The negative and sick psychological impact of Gandhi has been demonstrated in this. However, I am unable to understand how these negative traits are shown as a positive personality trait? Gandhi generates a fear psycho in the mind of normal people with the kind of Gandhigiri which have been spread in India after independence. These traits are ruining the sentiments of individual. The country is unable to mass produce excellence. In this era, when excellence is must to achieve success, Gandhi creates mediocrity in the system.

Similar to Gandhi, we have many historical personalities which are ruining the Indian systems. One of them is Ambedkar. Keeping the existing situation in mind during freedom, Ambedkar proposed to have reservations for ten years after independence. But what is the situation on ground? People are unable to get rid of reservation and Ambedkar even after 60 years. How long can you build your future on past personality and old policies? Today, when even Moor’s law of electronics industry have to continuously change to meet the growing developments, there is no reason that we do not forget reservation and Ambedkar. There was no reason for all the deprived people to gather in Mumbai to celebrate the birthday anniversary of Ambedkar. There was no treason to bring Mumbai to halt on the name of Ambedkar. Even if reservation provides you education, good lives remain a lure. Facts must teach some bright lessons for future.

Ruling party has some interest in continuation of Gandhigiri in society. That may be the reason, all the programs related with Gandhi approved and implemented on top most priority. Dandi March pathway were clear for reconstruction. 1857 will be celebrated to remember Gandhi. Programs are being organized to spread the messages. Awards are given based on these issues. A systematic and organized propagation of Gandhigiri is conducted to cripple the society of its ego. Gandhigiri ensures ego less society where no body has any respect for anybody except Gandhi. Individual excellence remains a slave of mediocrity.

After independence, we had many people who have sacrificed their life in bigger proportion than what Gandhi did for this country. There is an urgent need to fabricate history in real and practical perspective to avoid vacuum ness of hero from this land. Past glorifications will never guarantee future growth.

Gandhi has lived its life. Gandhigiri has no relevance except some political mileage. Excellence remains illusive in the Gandhian approach towards life. Gandhigiri must go. We must unlearn Gandhi and Gandhigiri immediately.

China India Story - Institution Vs Individuals

2006-11-25T10:22:00.000+05:30

China and India are two distinct lands. Because of the border proximity, it is always felt comfortable of comparison. The economists have already given the impetus to dig into these contradictions. The visit of Chinese President has brought this comparisons and discussion to the fore. But in my opinion, there is a vast basic difference. China works on Institutional basis while India as individual approaches.

China always gives different view from what it does. One side, they have accepted USA as a single power, on other when Chinese President is in India, gives different impression. Chinese President HU in a keynote address at Vigyan Bhawan, stressed on the need for a more equitable and fairer political and economic order.

More equitable and fairer both are ambiguous words for Chinese. Till the time they accept democracy, how can they talk and preach about fairer political order. Similarly equitable is again not justified. Chinese have opened the market. They are ready to unlearn their whole history to learn the modern life style of Americans, they preach others differently.

“We should promote multi-polarity in the world and democracy in international relations and work to make the economic order fairer,” said Mr Hu. Mr President must ensure democracy and freedom to Chinese. When President goes to USA and meets Bill Gates, talks about Windows and English, he must maintain the integrity with his talk and nation policies.

He emphasized that both China and India face “rare opportunities in a world moving towards multi-polarity and growing economic globalization.” China has accepted all the preconditions of USA to get nuclear deal through. While in the same situation, China’s President can not divert Indian attention and preach multi-polarity. It is not India business but let it be Chinese one if they wish to.

China must learn to differentiate between enemy and friend. China is committing the same mistake what USA committed to arm Muslims to combat Russia long back. Today, China can take a lesson or two from history before they unlearn their own historical events. Chinese President HU does the mistake to weigh Pakistan on the similar yardstick like India.

“China does not seek any selfish gains in South Asia and stands ready to play a constructive role in promoting peace and development in the subcontinent,” Hu said. The way China is learning English and unlearning Chinese, I do not find long when Chinese will speak English, chat English and unlearn Chinese. The sources of wisdom lies in English and Chinese understand this very well. In the pretext of Olympics, China is ensuring that many Chinese get used to English. Call centers, BPOs and other outsourcing jobs will ensure extinction of Chinese in few decades time.

When the Chinese visualize things they would like to learn from India, most notably in recent years in software, they are quick to send delegation after delegation to Nasscom’s doors to figure it out. China has Institutional support for this purpose. India has not even individual. All high level executives here are busy to save their chair or finish their tenure. India hardly reciprocates with any alacrity. This is the biggest loss to India and Indians.

Narayana Murthy of Infosys has felt the need of assimilation of Chinese for their growth. Infosys has trained around 200 Chinese last year and has planned to train many more in the days to come. Murthy may be moving with passions to win the order from Chinese establishments, but India as a nation is not the responsibility of anyone. Most of the people just like to take credit for the good things and runaway from negatives.

Indian Intelligentsia has prominently spread wrong fears. The evaluations have been not worth mentioning. Just few years back, there was so much writing about the fear of Chinese products. But what happened at last. All the markets in the country is flooded with Chinese products and even crackers and colours of Chinese make are coming to India, but Indian market is able to accommodate properly. Chinese are equally struggling to survive in the open and competitive market.

China works on Institutional basis, while Indian growth is mostly individual. If Nooyi becomes CEO, our dailies cover as big Indian achievements. If L N Mittal buy Arcelor, it is Indian victory. How far this individual growth or success be transferred to nation growth? Government must streamline its act. RA Mashelkar briefed Prime Minister about the abysmal state of scientific and research work in India. India is still busy with reservation and sealing. Indian intelligentsia is unable to come out of the vicious circle. Government rests with glory of past.

There is absolutely no point comparing Chinese growth with India. Chinese growth is voluminous. Recently, all the news papers are covering extensively about the Chinese growth. The data are available. Chinese are way ahead.

Chinese will falter only if something drastically wrong happens. There is a possibility of such occurrences in near future in the changed language and networking world. When Nepalese can turn down the governance, there is no reason in my mind, Chinese will not do it. China may face such problem anytime. But then these are Chinese problems and India has nothing to dream about.

There is no point even talking about Chinese growth. India has to deal firmly with its own problems. India has to set its own path. Opportunities are available and they have to be grabbed. India must work on Institutional basis. All the government babus should de-link glory with growth. They should get themselves away from glory to understand the path of growth.

Dutch Unlearning Burqua

2006-11-23T22:23:00.000+05:30

Just few days back, when I wrote a blog on banning Burqua, many raised eyebrows on the issue whether it is feasible or not. In general, people accept the ideas and views which remain close to their perceptions. If anything talked new and fresh, they immediately go against that.

People are apprehensive to accept my views. But, they are doing at the cost of their growth. Today on Sunday, all Indian dailies have come out with the news of Dutch plan to ban burqua in public. The Asian Age writes this as a BIG STORY. The same is shown in the diagram. http://360.yahoo.com/kamekish

Netherlands planned to introduce legislation to ban burqua and similar garments in public places. It is said that full body garb worn by a small number of Muslim women in the Netherlands posed a grave security threat. There may be a time when Burqua must be providing security to vulnerable Muslim women in war torn society, but today, they have become a threat to existing peace loving nations and secured society.

Any clothing which hides the wearer’s face has a potential to be exploited by destructive and cunning people. Terrorist may use such garments to move beyond security checks to carry out an attack.

Jack Straw, Briton’s former foreign secretary, recently urged Muslim women to remove full facial veils when talking to him, saying the veil was “such a visible statement of separation and of difference” that it jeopardized British social harmony. Prime Minister Tony Blair subsequently backed Mr. Straw.

Indian government is struggling to improve the status of Muslim fraternity. After Sachar’s report, country is unable to find a solution for the upliftment of Muslims. Instead of thinking and discussing on reservation, which has kept even scheduled caste backward for last sixty years, they should open their ears for the happening around the world. The government can take a lesson from Dutch move. Government must ban veil not only from Muslim women faces but all other poor women from Haryana, Rajasthan or remote tribal lands so that Mallika’s mother should enjoy her daughter’s successes or Rakhi Sawant should not feel humiliated in front of her conservative mother.

Indian government should not fear of losing elections. Like West Bengal government, center may not be able to fool Muslim without their real development in 21st century. They will have to take some concrete steps for the growth of backward community including Muslims. As such in society, only few are left in burqua who are making all the female population vulnerable. Even the developed men can quote about veil to suppress their women counterpart.

About a million Muslims live in Netherlands; hardly 50-100 women regularly wear a Burqua. In India of Shabana Azmi, there may be only poor ladies who follow these trends of 16th century. There is no reason that we do not take some hard decisions. There is a need to unlearn Burqua for the homogenous growth of society.

Dutch is not alone in such steps of unlearning. France banned from its school the hijab, the head scarf worn by many Muslim girls and women, along with other conspicuous religious symbols.

Britain’s highest court ruled this year that a secondary school was within its right to bar a female student from wearing a jilbab, a loose, ankle-length gown, instead of a regular uniform.

Prime Minister Romano Prodi of Italy has also joined the debate. “You can not cover your face, you must be seen,” Mr Prodi said in October. “This is a common sense. I think. It is important for our society.”

Is Sonia Gandhi, Italy born UPA Chairperson of India, listening? Has she this simple common sense for common people? When Prime Minister of Italy can issue such wise statement and prepare to take some unlearning steps, why can not Sonia Gandhi and her government take some such steps to curb the menace in society. Even if Sonia may not be interested in making India Super Power, for normal growth, such steps need to be initiated.

Reservation for female may not serve that much purpose as unlearning veil and burqua will serve for the Indian society. Will government take some constructive steps or continue thinking in populist line?

Respecting the tradition of some religion or culture is one thing while keeping the community backward for generations even in 21st century is a crime. This crime is being committed by leaders and government of developing countries in this Information age. People sitting on network or even reading the news paper are aware about the recent rape case of 50 year old lady in Pakistan. One side, we keep them in burqua, other side we make them so vulnerable? People sitting on network will never excuse such ongoing brutalism on society.

Society will have to unlearn irrelevant traditions fast. The issues of unlearning which I am raising in my blogs continuously are essential for human survival. Growth comes next. The choice of burqua or unlearning is not an option; the choice is between life and death.

Burqua or Veil - Only For Poor Ladies

2006-11-07T10:56:00.000+05:30

Is Burqua or Veil for poor ladies? This is the fact, I find so clear in my daily conscious living.

Are religious traditions for poor only?
Are the poor responsible to carry out the old and conservative systems to the next generations?
Why do not rich and privileged follow the old tradition as meticulously as poor follow them?
Why leaders do not preach to eradicate the menaces? Why do they remain satisfied in keeping poor poor?
When Government can ban Child labor, why can’t they ban veil of women?
When government can ban sati, why living female are kept in veil without any ban?
Veil or Burqua is keeping female ineffective. They are forced to live like slave of father, father-in-law, brothers, husband, sons and friends.

Today when world is moving fast to become developed, these questions have become too relevant. We can not take chance to keep poor deprived, conservative and uneducated. Even if we do, it will be at the cost of our development, peace and freedom. Poor or underprivileged will be kept so at the cost of development of society.

Till the time, any female is in veil, uneducated or deprived, we have plenty of chance to disrupt the peace of the world. All educated and privileged people are compelled to eradicate this discriminatory attitude from the society irrespective of religion to bring sustainable peace in this world.

Pakistan preach whole Muslims world to show sympathy about terror in Kashmir. They become happy when some terrorist outfits give fatwa against Burqua. They argue that Muslims female are supposed to be in Burqua. But why do not their rich and famous be in Burqua themselves? The picture shown by Indian dailies proves this point. http://www.360.yahoo.com .

Burqua is old and lived its life. Like we had apartheid, today we have serious problem almost equivalent as veil of female. The government must ban Burqua or veil in every nation. This will make the female productive. They will make family happy. The children will get educated and futuristic education. The society will get benefited. The developing nation will become developed. The people of developing nation will forget cursing or blaming rich people or rich nation for their miseries. The world will become a peaceful place.

Government or NGOs (non-government organizations) take any step to improve the ground situations of the deeply religious people of developing countries; they are not going to have any impact on the life of poor. We may carry out any amount of reservations for these poor in government or even in private sector jobs, the deprived people will not able to prosper. Some leadership may talk of pouring more money for these deprived sections, but that also will not help. It has not helped in past. It has not given result earlier.

The society need clear cut directions and banning of unnecessary traditions like we have done with Sati are required. That is the need of hour. The poor will continue suffering.

We need to take some harsh decisions to maintain the human rights in society. People will become more effective. The family, society and countries will be able to maintain a sustainable economy to carry forward prosperity.

It would be my privilege to accpet any relevant comments regarding the usefulness of this article. Thanks.....

Muslims - Dalits of 21st Century

2006-11-03T23:04:00.000+05:30

When India got independence, two communities in general were in worse condition. They were scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. They were generally referred as Dalits of India. Gandhi for clear demarcation and continuance of caste system termed Dalits with a better name and called them Harijans. Today, Allah has become generous and Muslims are becoming Harijans.

After sixty years, Muslims in India have become Dalits of 21st century. What would be the fate of Muslims in other developing countries?

Muslims are worse off than Scheduled Castes when it comes to education. They trail behind Other Backward Classes (OBC) virtually across the board: education, employment, poverty and assets. Is Osama listening? Muslims are in bad shape. Their religious leaders and blind following habits are making them the Dalits of 21st century.

Thanks to Western world and especially Americans who are trying to educate Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq at their cost. The whole Muslim world should be obliged to Americans who are helping to see the better and free tomorrow at the cost of their soldiers and their families.

Muslim leadership has failed Muslim community badly. They have kept them hardcore religious without growth. They now fear growth and freedom. That’s why, they keep their female under veil or Burqua. They do not allow modern education to their youth. They do not allow Internet access to people. They must awaken fast before they become the tribal of 21st century in the midst of developed world.

The findings from the data based on the 61st round of the NSSO survey and inputs from states have been recently published on Indian dailies. When even in India, condition has deteriorated so much, it can very well be understood what would be the fate in other parts of the world.

It is not new that such data has been made available regarding the pathetic condition of Muslims. Around 26 years ago, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, seven members committee (headed by Dr Gopal Singh) carried out similar survey. The results and observations were similar. I have my own doubt that whether Government has any idea about the problems and its solutions. The community will continue suffering from the lack of policy decision of the parties sympathetic towards them.

In India, so called secular parties need to be blamed for the pathetic conditions of Muslims because in the name of secularism, the leaders have encouraged the community to continue in their regressive vein even after Independence. Muslims are little better off in Gujarat compared to any other state. The record in a state like West Bengal run continuously by Left for last three decades and even Uttar Pradesh or Bihar which for the past 15 years have had leaders claiming Messianic status, are pathetic. Hindus offensiveness may be a catalyst for Muslims growth.

Communist may have been able to give more space to dead Muslims in history book but they have been able to ruin the condition of present Muslim population. They have ensured that community becomes the Dalits of 21st century. They may not have ever thought of these situations when they talk about poor or common man. It is pathetic to talk about inclusions when we make policies and plan for exclusions. They have been able to exclude Muslims from growth and development. The time is not far, unless some internal measures are taken at administrative front; when the community will become tribals in their Burqua. Their religious leaders must unlearn part of Quran and get some better education of modern world to live a civilized life.

Secularism must bring Muslims in the main stream. London must ban Burqua. MNC must stop people to have beard. Muslims must be brought to the mainstream at the cost of hurting their religious sentiments. It is required not only for Muslims but for the peace of whole world. We have to bomb their old traditions mercilessly before their old conservatism bomb this world with their atom bomb.

Come forward and join hands to stop Muslims becoming Dalits of 21st century!!!

Unlearn Veil To Understand Development

2006-10-28T11:47:00.000+05:30

Veil being used or forced to being used by women is a shame for a civilized society. It is a clear violation to basic human rights. It is a clear violation to keep half of the population as slaves. It is curse to human society. Veil, irrespective of religion, is the biggest impediment of growth. Veil will create riot not by anybody but those who are being veiled for centuries.
Mallika Sherawat, the famous Indian actress, rebelled from her family setup to work in movies. Her parents never agreed with her ideas. She broke relations with her parents to pursue her career in movies. In a press conference, she roared, ‘My dad comes from a very old-world setup where everything is very traditional. The attitude is still, “girls from good families shouldn’t go into films.” Their thinking will never change. My mother still wears a gunghat (veil). Veil is creating havoc to a civilized society.
I feel so lost at times.’ She is correct. Anybody will feel lost when she has to change her level all alone. She has to take her decisions in life all alone. Parents are worse than enemies in such cases who pursue the tradition of veil for any reason. Such conservative people cannot accept or understand and appreciate Mallika’s tremendous efforts. Mallika once confirmed, ‘My dad has not spoken to me for the last three years.’ There is no way out. The progress of the offspring of this generation has to pass through a dark tunnel without veil. A progressive society have to throw veil for growth. People have to unlearn veil.
Veil removal is directly related to sex. Sex is a very integral part of social evolution. An individual or society passes through the most difficult phases in handling sexual necessities. There are continuous up gradations, discussions and research going on to meet the demands of individuals. But the sexual needs remain behind the veil, concealed, disguised or obscured. Why draw a veil over humans?
Developing society is hardly mature enough to meet the requirements of individuals. There is so much hidden pressure and conservatives to acquire information. Marriage itself is not yet clearly understood and explored. The famous writer Shobha De when she launched her latest book from the ninth floor of the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi, in her fantastic backless dress, it still attracted lot of shyness, glaze, media attention and discussion, but all under a veil. The removal of shyness could be the first step to explore the depths of sex. A simple step of removal of shyness or initiation of smartness has taken generations for a individual. The reason has been quite complex. The individual and society has to understand and conquer them first.

Munna Devi was a woman from a very small village. She hardly got any proper education. She was the sixth child of her parents. She was born to do service for society starting from her family. She used to cook food for the family of twelve. In villages and even in small towns, it is a common phenomenon. She is hardly aware of the time she started menstruation.
When she was fourteen, she was married off in a very remote village, where you reach after walking for about six kilometers. Her parents married her early because they got an educated bridegroom for their hardworking daughter. At the time of marriage, her husband was studying in class twelve in the city which was around forty kilometers from his village.
After marriage, there was the gauna, sending off from the parent’s place and as per tradition; she came to her husband’s village. She used to remain inside the kuccha house with her father-in-law, mother-in-law, nanad (husband’s sister). She, as a bahu, had no privilege to go outside the house in the daytime. Only during night time, she could go to field for her natural calls. She used to keep ghunghat, a veil to cover face, in front of the males of the village, including her father-in-law. Her husband used to come during vacations from college. They used to remain away from each other during the daytime and only at night, after everybody slept; they used to come close to each other. The same tradition of purdah, veil continued for a long time. She became the mother of six children.
Fortunately, the country was passing through independence and the concept of a liberal society. Because of the consciousness of her mother-in-law, her husband got a job as a draftsman in the public sector. They started living in a small town. After becoming the mother of six children, and spending fifteen years of her married life, she started talking to strangers who used to visit her house. She garnered this courage against her mother-in-law’s wishes who always used to volunteer to talk to any strangers. But after six children she also got the courage to come out. Whenever any visitor came to her house, her children used to open the door, she used to hide her face, inside the room and say, ‘Ha, Kya bat hai? Saheb tho duty par gaye hai.’ (What is the matter, Mister has gone on duty.)’. Even at that stage, she never got the courage to confront any adult person even her husband’s friends.
Time is the best medicine not only for the diseases or sorrows of the poor but it is a medicine for modernity too in a conservative society. Time changes things but very slowly. Time passed, her elder son Bhola crossed the age of twelve. He started seeing and understanding the world better. He was getting his education in the town school. He always applied his education to the improvement and modernization of self, family members and if possible society. He always believed modernity and prosperity are synonymous. He felt that there is no pleasure in prospering if you remain conservative in your lifestyle. He forced his illiterate mother to remove her veil on the arrival of visitors to the house. There was no pressure from the father-in-law because he was not staying with them. Things changed and the education of the small children of an illiterate mother brought about some improvements. After around twenty years of marriage, Munna Devi was able to talk to strangers without a veil. A significant change of civilization has occurred. This could be the few first steps towards modernity.
New research confirms a belief that society is the strongest and biggest ingredient in improving the life of human beings. They learn faster from their colleagues, neighbours and society than through any preaching or lectures. The change of place or society is thus the most important aspect of the growth of individual or family. Being at one place, you cannot learn better things or progressive things. Fortunately, Munna Devi was lucky. Her husband got transferred and moved to a better place in a better township. She could see a better society. Her husband could see the smarter people. Her children could see a better society. Her mother-in-law could see a different world.
At the new place, people were mixing more frequently and openly. Earlier she had seen the ladies in sarees only, but at the new place, she saw the ladies in salwar-sameez, kurta-payajama, a few even wore pants-shirt, jeans too. Her children were going to a good English-medium school. They were learning better things. Slowly she left her shyness, removed her veil, pallu, the end of saree from her head. She used to talk to strangers openly without the pallu on her head. It was a great individual change like a triumph. As per compulsive social needs, she started going to markets, she started going to clubs with the children to see movies, she escorted her children to school for tuitions and so on. Even though, she was illiterate, she started speaking a few English words like ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘apple’, ‘egg’, ‘book’, ‘thank you’, ‘Tata’, ‘bye-bye’, etc. She became educated. Her husband used to proudly say, ‘Mural’, lovingly he used to call her with this name, ‘has learned more English than many men in the village.’ He was correct. Changed society had compelled her to learn and improve.
Modernity has its own compulsions. Munna Devi also wanted to have some intimate friends. The concept of friend at the age of forty-five with six grown-up children in a developing world is worse than thinking of committing murder. But this is a need of human beings. It is a physical compulsion. The body needs something and gets fulfilled in its own way. A barber, Rajendra, used to come to their house to cut the hair of all the males of the house. He was very talkative. He was living single in the town. During the haircut, he used to keep talking to Munna. Slowly a relationship developed; Rajendra became a good friend of Munna. He used to visit almost every week and used to spend hours with Munna. This new development made Munna a very bold person. She started enjoying the closeness of her husband even in the presence of children and outsiders. After around twenty-five years of marriage, she realized the needs of her body and self. This kind of time, chance, environment and opportunities are required for conscious evolution of individuals in society in normal circumstances.
Growth has its own limitations and tragedies. When Munna’s educated son got married, she forgot all her misery, pain of progress and modernity, she started preaching to the highly educated bahu of a highly educated son to follow all those old traditions of ghunghat, veil, puja and respect for elders, etc. which she used to do when she was fourteen years old, newlywed and staying in the remote village with illiterate people around her. The old shyness and painful customs, which she forgot or rather, got rid off after a lot of coercing and forcing, she was forcing on her bahu.
With lot of difficulties and the wise tricks of her educated son, she herself learned a part of modernity in her lifetime with so much pain but when as a mother-in-law, she had to handle and teach her bahu, she went back to thirty years of life and forced things to be done in the same way as she did thirty years ago in that remote village. This is the biggest irony in the normal growth of human civilization. Progress, development and achievements takes their own toll but once achieved instead of forgetting the painful past and dreadful path, people are compelled to rewind old experiences. Can we not unlearn them? Is it such a big challenge? It all starts from simple veil. Can we unlearn veil to achieve desired growth?

Cursing the developed society will never make the conservative people of developing society to grow. Women have to throw their veils irrespective of their religion. Women have to burn their veil permanently for their development. Women have to unlearn veil for their basic freedom and privileges. There is no growth of any society whose female are in veil. There is no progress of a family whose female are forced to be in veil. Veil is the china wall between deprivation and luxury. Veil must be deleted from a dictionary of a progressive person.
Veil and conservatives continue because of social history. Life remains secretive in nature. Fearfulness of uncontrollability always threatens the spread of knowledge and wisdom. Every human remains quite overconfident of his/her control and prowess. But, who takes chance for others, that too for next generation? Unlearning even painful customs and traditions remains a big challenge to people of a developing nation especially when moving towards a developed society or develop nation.
People have remained poor and deprived even in developed societies whose female are in veil. The children are still dying as human bomb whose mothers are forced to be in veil. The brothers are becoming terror whose sisters are forced to be in veil. The daughters are becoming the followers of Osama to become human bomb if they are convinced to be in veil. Veil is the biggest enemy to freedom. For recent new coverage please go to http://360.yahoo.com/kamekish.
The history of appeasements is costing the people across the world dear. Who can forget the appeasement policy of Rajiv Gandhi in case of Shah Bano and now Imrana? Society is paying for all these fallacies of leadership. The growth is remaining illusive. Veil is keeping knowledge and wisdom away from people.
Frankness, openness, understanding of life, living like an independent and free soul, having the freedom to live like a human being, especially for ladies, comes with a lot of sacrifice, training, opportunity and boldness. A women or even men need to be courageous enough to reduce the conservativeness, forget about eliminating them.
Munna passed through so much pain, sacrifice and personal courage to come out of the conservative traditions of the veil where she was living like a ‘cow’ during the last thirty years. She was tied and milked as per the owner’s wishes. But the irony of the growth of human generation is that they are not passing this freedom and progressive thinking to the next generation. On the contrary, they want to take the people of the next generation back by thirty years. This is a tragedy of human civilization. Is there a surprise when veil in Muslims in India have pushed the whole community to the level worse that the scheduled caste. Veil will take the people back to Stone Age.
In a society, veil and such conservatism passes from one generation to next forcefully because the person feels comfortable to deal with that conservatism experienced of early stages of life. They are just not bothered even about the growth of their own offspring. In these conservative and selfish environments, sex has remained the most unknown, hidden and complex subject. Everybody feels that he knows enough about sex and there is no need of any education, training or experience. This results in the situation that we remain illusive about the biggest and most pleasurable aspect of life. Sex and growth are interlinked with the tradition of veil. We need to unlearn veil to have fun. We need to unlearn veil to have pleasurable sex. We need to unlearn veil to learn about growth and prosperity.
The growth is a very slow process. The economical, social and technological growth has impinged new hope to all deprived people including the women in veil. As the changes in last decades have surpassed the changes in last centuries, there is a tremendous hope that people will discuss and sort out those changes which provide a better living to people. Jack Straw has made the beginning by raising the issues. The present generation leadership has come out openly to make the change. The same leaderships who kept all illiterate and semidetached behind the veil for all these years for human history are forced to talk to come out of veil.
The young boys and girls are not going to follow the conservative traditions. Statistics show the changes in the mindset. The numbers of people trusting their parent in last 20 years has declined from 23% to 21% while those trusting a sibling from 21% to 14%. These declines in the existing trust between two generations are the good sign of growth. I conclude that growth is compulsive and changes have to be accepted by the people forcefully or by choice.

Ideas Which Matter

2006-10-22T21:54:00.000+05:30

I am quite happy and satisfied to announce that I have written about the issues which have come on the center stage of developing country like India. The day before yesterday when I uploaded my article, titled ‘Dangerous Optimism: A Crackerjack’ on my blog, BBC started showing ‘Tata’s acquisition as major event of India’ in its international news. The other issues raised followed.

Today is Saturday. I am happy to see that editorials of Indian Express and The Times of India have written what I wrote in my article. TOI editorial writes, ‘Om and the world, Diwali as a global festival’. Diwali is celebrated with fanfare in all corners of the world – from Natal to New York, from Singapore to Surinam. Diwali has something to do with the nature of the festival which resonates across cultures and geography. The issue has been clearly and firmly dealt in just one paragraph of my blog.

On the other hand, IE writes, ‘India of ideas and the ideas of India, Celebrate the fact that complicated new questions are being asked’. If you feel increasingly optimistic about India, you should also be looking at various questions. Editors write few questions which are as irrelevant as Intelligentsia of Indian society appears today. I feel that I have asked more relevant and burning questions which need to be asked at this time. I have asked those complicated new questions. You must read my post to know those questions. However, as I finally say that this is the time of celebrations and we should be alert and conscious about it.

To read my blogs with attached picture: http://360.yahoo.com/kamekish

I am feeling excited about the issues which I raised. I have not received many comments about my writings but with my understanding of the happenings around the world, I am sure that any body who reads by blog is fortunate to get the first hand information about the real issues India and the world are facing today. I write world class issues.

Further, when I raise world class issues, I also enjoy developing some theory and principle. These new developments need to become the integral part of our life. For the benefit of all, I have devised five steps to achieve excellence. I have published these steps in the form of an article. When I was writing this article for management blogsite, one very brilliant idea came to my mind. I would like to repeat that for the benefit of you all.

The other inventions of last few centuries have given the luxuries to every
individual while the recent technological inventions have given wisdom at the
hand of every child born on this earth in 21st century. The time is not far when
excellence will be the common phenomena of a rising society.

They are available at management blogsite. You can view, read and if feel excited then can comment there. There are many valuable management articles. You can enjoy them at your will.

http://www.managementlogs.com/human_capital.html

The five steps to achieve excellence are as follows:

1. Unlearning conservative ideas towards innovation

2. Selecting sources of wisdom

3. Ensuring encouraging environment (EEE)

4. Excellence is a necessity

5. Excellence is achievable

These steps have been elaborated in the above given blog. As I believe that excellence can be achieved by any one at any time, I am sure you all can take benefit from these steps. The time is not far when excellence will be the common phenomena of a rising society.

Think global, go global.

Kiran As Today's Godfather

2006-10-19T22:05:00.000+05:30

India again felt proud of a brain drain. Kiran Desai an Indian born author, settled in England won Man Bookers Prize. She has hardly experienced the hardships of a developing country. She had been living in developed country. She had all the privilege and facilities of a developed nation. She had environment of a developed nation. She is fortunate to have all those privileges, even though she tells about her hardships. Is her feelings or Booker’s award justify brain drain? Alas some more brain drains should have taken place few decades back. But, when we can not do anything about it, why to talk about past? Can we make use of present situation for our future growth?

Resident Indians have to take few lessons here and there. The excellence creation is almost impossible in developing countries at this juncture. That is why the country is devoid of individuals who excels. The situation in the first decade of 21st century had been difficult in India. However, the way situation is changing; at least I find some hope that in next few years some improvements should take place. People in general will become more responsible to give due respect for excellence. Individual will be able to excel. World class creativity will emerge from new respectful and understanding environment.

As Kiran has won Bookers Prize, few factual incidences about her life of last few years are being written. News papers and magazines are writing about her. Now she has achieved international fame, but it would be interesting to know those old stories. I hope few lessons from these stories of non-resident Indians will help all conscious resident people. These writings at times work like a godfather. You will have to feel it to find it out. I shall just put those points one by one.

“I think more Indians should write,” she says.

The famous female editor from The New Yorker magazine was in no doubt about the quality of Kiran Desai’s new novel. “This is,” she told the apprehensive author, “the worst book I have ever read in my life. It is perverse, horrible and awful, and there is no way to rescue it.”

John Sutherland, chairman of last year’s Booker panel, noted that the book needed “a good going-over by a good editor”.

Her first book took four years to write and she labored for eight years on the latest. Emerging as a virtual unknown from her long self imposed isolation was painful.

The book had become a “monster”, growing out of control. “I wrote 1,500 pages and cut it down to 300. When I finished, it wasn’t greeted with great love, especially in England. No one wanted it. No one cared.” Kiran told after winning the coveted Man Booker Prize of ₤50,000.

Her book had sold only 2,396 copies when it entered the award’s long list, rising to 500 copies a week when she was short listed. It can now expect the 15-fold sales bounce of a Man Booker winner.

Transformed from obscurity to international fame is an instant.

Her grandfather was a judge who studied at Cambridge, just like her leading fictional character, although the latter was consumed by self-hatred of his Indian-ness.

She was shocked by the differences between India and the rest of the world. Although she says she still feels foreign in America, she is clearly a product of it.

As a penniless writer in Brooklyn, she shared a small apartment with a former clown, a fashion designer and a waitress. Their noise drove her to distraction and into the kitchen, where she wrote and nibbled biscuits. Eight years passed.

“I was living in a completely different time frame, completely isolated. I wouldn’t answer the phone in all those years. I was scared of it.” Publishers had forgotten her and moved on.

But one day last month the phone rang and an instinct made her pick it up. It was her publisher. Twenty calls followed in quick succession. The dizzy whirling of recognition had begun.

Indians on the path towards developed nation will have to pass through significant changes. The excellence will emerge from a better environment. There is a need to have urgent behavioral changes towards competitions and excellence. I have personally faced the situations since last more than one year which forces me to rethink what keeps on moving? What really motivates you? What keeps your balance intact? Kiran story may be today’s solution? Is it not a good godfather for the people like me for achieving those desired excellence? I shall explain how and why?

It would be interesting to study the responses I got from one of my highest educated relative. He is post graduate in Engineering from McGill University Canada. He communicated his anger on my work as follows.

I happen to read some of the portion of the book. Some of my initial thoughts.

1. Now a days anyone can become a write, simply its needs dedication, passion and hardwork. You have proved it.
2. As I said earlier, why you did not research the topic earlier, and may be would have got Master or Ph.D. for this. This would have given you more credibility to write even non-sense and people would have beleived you more. However, in absense of that, why you didn't got it forwarded by well known author.
3. I was not sure you wanted to write biography or wanted to give live and real example in making your point. However, you missed some points which is known to everybody.
4. Till now I got a mixed feelings. Some time I became happy that you took courage to write something, sometime angry as why you discribe so much of your personal details.
5. I don't know how much comfortable are you about yours detail, but certainly I am not comfortable with mine. At least make sure you take out my name out. I could easily ban the book being published at at least being circulated in US easily as it deals personal detals which most likely matches personal life without prior consent.
6. The book needs to be halved to be more focussed, concise and relevant. Otherwise its non-sense and random frustration of life.

Hope you get somethngs. Keep in mind we don't have much time to serf internet and blogging for nothing. Who will pay for this. However, you are lucky. Umesh

----- Original Message ----From: Kamendra Verma To: "Umesh Prasad, Dr." Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 1:58:43 AMSubject: Re: Fw: Order Receipt # from www.lulu.com
Hi

Thanks for writing to me personaly and exclusively. Thanks also for calling on my mobile first time. It is great.

I am very very sorry if I have heart you anywhere. Pl give me few lines writeup and I will replace with the exisitng one in the website.

Thanks for ordering the book. Pl read it, there may be some objectional sentences, opinion and nalysis there too which may remind you to call me and tell me about some my sore points. Pl go ahead.

I love you all and continue doing it in my way. When illiterate elders have confidence to do their way, I am at least literate one.

Bye.
kamekish "Umesh Prasad, Dr." wrote:

KK, your comment on me on the public domain was very painful. I think you have gone crazy; especially, knowing about you from parents, brothers, and other family members. You cannot stand the criticism which I may explaing on your website also. However, I will not do. It personal grudge only and will keep it personal.

I hope you realize it.
Umesh

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Recently, Umesh Prasad came to India and stayed with me. He is in US for last ten years. The quality of living style of his family forced me and my wife to cry. They are living a pathetic life even in US. I pray God, he could have had time to read my book. It would have helped them to live a better life. His wife is a post graduate. She is a home maker. She has free time to read. But she is not doing this. In spite, the whole family live a confused, disorganised and discontented life. The fate of children remain at risk in the confused environment. Hope, they remain free to do something better in life. I am pained because I have written one of the best book. I have my earnest desire that people read them and at least make their life better and prosperous
Some of the responses from Indian Publishers are as follows.

From Rupa & co.

Dear Mr. Verma,
Thank you for considering our Company. Unfortunately the publishing list is full right now and we are unable to take on any new projects. We wish you luck in placing your manuscript elsewhere.With regards,
Editorial Deptt.
Rupa & Co.

From Vivekafoundation on Thu, 13 Apr 2006

Dear Mr. Verma

I am terribly terribly sorry for the delay in replying to your query about the manuscript. I was travelling and then had to rest at home since I was quite unwell. I have come to office just today.

About the manuscript, I regret that this is not the kind of work that Viveka Foundation publishes. Our work is altogether of a different nature. However, I'm sure you will find another publisher whose work corresponds more closely to what you do.

I hope you undersatnd.
Warm regards and good luck
Rukmini

From anil.chandy@oup.com

Dear Mr Verma:

Thanks for your mail and details of your proposed book.

We have had a chance to look at it and feel that we may not be the most appropriate publishers for you. We are primarily publishers of academic social science and given this, we may not be able to take your project on.

Thank you for considering OUP India and I wish you the best in finding a suitable publisher.

with best wishes,

Anil Chandy

Anil Joseph Chandy
Editorial Development Manager
Oxford University Press India

Mail sent on Thu, 10 Nov 2005

Dear Mr. Sharma,

Thank you for considering us for publication of your book.

This new topic appears to be interesting. As the book doen not fall in the our desired subjects, so we may please be excused.

Warm regards

D Kumar
----- Original Message -----
From: Kamendra Verma
To: siprapub
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Shipra Publications - Book Publications

Dear Mr D kumar,

Happy and propserous Diwali for you and you family.

Please refer to our discussion on day before yesterday. I am enclosing a 20 pages synopsis for your ready reference. I feel the topic is very new and certain amount of confidentiality needs to be mainatained. As the topic is fast changing there is a need to take up the task on priority. Keeping this in mind, I request you to give due priority to publish it as early as pssible.

I am available on my mobile and it would be my pleasure to clarify any points.

Thanking you and waiting for a positive response.
siprapub wrote:
Dear Mr Verma,

Seasons' Greetings.

Seen your mail, thank you very much.

Your book falls in the category of "Personality Development", please correct me if I am wrong. Any good book on the subject should be acceptable. Once you complete it, you may kindly send it for its review.

Regards,

D Kumar
Director

Some interesting responses from well known personalities are as follows.

"NK Dhir"
Dear Kamendra, Thanks for your mail. I'm delighted to go thro' the att of the mail,and would be delighted to meet you on a convenient date and time. Presently I'm out of town but will be back soon to catch up with you,Regards,
Maj Gen Dhir

Sat, 22 Jul 2006

Dear Verma,

I will do the needful.
regards.

Brig Sapra

From "Sabharwal D.P." Sat, 8 Apr 2006

Dear Kamendra Verma

I have gone through the synopsis.The theme is good and so is your handling and presentation.I feel your book is more meaningful to younger generation than the older people and meant more for international audience than Indian. Publishing a book (by yourself)as I said earlier is easy but marketing is difficult, so you ahve to look for a publisher. For that you have to try really hard.So, make a beginning and best of luck DP sabharwal

From "Gurcharan Das" Fri, 5 May 2006

Dear Shri Kamendra Verma,

Unfortunately, Mr Das is away for the next 3 months. He is hard at work on his next book as he has a deadline to meet. He hopes that you will understand if he cannot help you and not able to write to you personally.
Warm regards,

Shiju Chacko
Personal assistant to Mr Das

There are many people who have not responded. The list is long and it may not be justified to list them here. All these occurrences depict one thing and that is the tremendous hardships in the path of innovation. It becomes difficult to maintain a balance between confidence and ego. The direction appears vague. The destination remains vague. All these are the challenges to leave the level to reach to a distant level. Any growing person can relate these situations for their own satisfaction and direction. The story of Kiran gives some hope and direction. Wisdom flows from unexpected sources. We need to be conscious and aware.

Gold Is Old

2006-10-17T22:48:00.000+05:30

Old thinking and action processes are ruining people of any level. There is an urgent need of balanced thinking for simple growth. This appears to be a simple task for me but I get puzzled when I read news papers, see media reporting, listen to politicians talking or even at times professionals giving opinion. In a rising country like India and fast changing world, these people who control and monitor various existing media of mass-communication appear ridiculous as far as their thinking and action are concerned. I know that many people may not agree with my views at first stance but this is true and I call it a brutal truth of 21st century. Any body may be found ridiculous because of lack of knowledge and appreciation of the changes taking place around us unless he or she gives due consideration to his/her views and vision.

You may say why I am raising these issues in my blog at this time. I have reasons to write this. We need to understand the compulsion of journalists, reporters, politicians and even professionals. If we are aware about the ground realities, it helps us to understand this world better.

I respect Pronnoy for his excellent entrepreneur skill but as far as his thinking and action are concerned especially in 21st century, they still give the stale taste of 1947. Recently, he organized one talk on famous channel, 24X7 NDTV. He writes, “The lessons from the past, the leaders of the present, the dreams for the future.” He chose a title as Dr Pronnoy Roy in ‘Tryst with Destiny” as he analyses the Role of Media in India’s History with Vinod Mehta, Madhu Trehan, N Ram and Anita Malik. Be awake - Pronnoy, do not be kiddies. How can these people talk about dreams for the future? They are not the leaders of the present. Their lessons from the past may be as useless as your selection of title, “Tryst with Destiny”. India has come a long way from tryst with destiny. India today believes on its own wisdom. Destiny can be created through wisdom. Do not remind Indians about its pre-conceived destiny?

Destiny is in the hand of people. Democracy, free media and technology has given the future in the hands of every individual. You may be controlling NDTV, but think of other media which are available to the world. There are 55 million blogs operating in the world communicating information. There are thousands growing every week to quench the thirst of the freedom of individual power. Dr Pronnoy should not be able to influence people with misinformation.
This world understands the reason behind. People are also aware about Pronnoy compulsions to enjoy the fruit of closeness of few celebrities so that he keeps visiting with them to France or Italy. Pronnoy should have liberty to send any one to Frankfurt for International Book Fair along with Shobha De. But I request Pronnoy if he cares to propagate wisdom, he must think innovative and think better to think for the future. Do not fool Indians like Arjun Singh is doing to this country. Be rational to your listeners, your countrymen and your own integrity. You also understand what is correct for India today? Please no history, no regionalism, no religion, no casteism…. We have had enough of them.

There was news in the recently concluded Durga Puja that veteran politician used the event to propagate his politics. He used the channels which were under his power. Isn’t similar thing happening to propagate sickening regional feelings by the bosses of other channels? When you just observe the channel like NDTV, you can not deny the fact that they are mainly operated by Bengalis. They cover the news about Bengal and Kolkata. They always feel great in talking about our dada Saurabh Ganguly. They feel pride in depicting Madhu Trehan and N Ram as the leader of the present. They feel privileged to show Shushmita Sen or Bipasa Basu. They feel good in interviewing Shobha De. How can these hard core biased professionals be the leader of the present? How do they ever be able to visualize the future when they are unable to understand the present?

Life is complex and understanding your own thinking and action may not be very easy. Your regional thinking may be too biased for your growth. And that is what happens with the entrepreneur like Pronnoy. He may have grown with his old ideas for some time but for more overall growth, Pronnoy needs to change his way of thinking and action. Is it surprising that his old partner like Rajdeep Sardesai deserted him to leave him alone with Brakha Dutt? Like Pronnoy, all future entrepreneurs need to be cautious not about others thinking and action but own to decide about future. More balance thinking and action based on correct information may be the future, not anything else. Innovation does not emerge from repeating old ideas. Future is not the incarnation of past.

Fortunately, there are many other sources of information and news available to the people of this era. It is not very difficult to distinguish the differences when you intelligently observe two channels. One side when you see NDTV with Durga Puja, Sushmita and Ganguly, other side BBC talks about North Korea, Japan New Prime Minister and brutal Taliban’s influence on Afghanistan etc. There is a difference of appreciation of present and path to future.
To avoid this creation of ridicule of thinking and action, there is an urgent need to focus on few basic changes. I have listed few of them in the following table.

Thinking and Action

Unlearn Needs

Traditional and conservative ways of thinking,

Think only what you know,

Take action only on whatever you have learned,

You can not think better,

You can not achieve excellence,

You are born to suffer,

Old is Gold,

Brainstorming with mediocre people will work.

Learn Needs

Change your Learning Domain,

Use modern resources,

Change your views, contacts, and understanding,

Educate continuously,

Never rely on old knowledge,

Take a creative pause if not able to think big,

Gold is old,

Always act based on your advanced thinking.

I hope the concepts are made clear for the benefit of the futuristic people on the Internet. There is a need to make these medium more focused and authentic to reduce the reliability on the conventional medium. The people using Internet, Blogging or e-mail must get the richness of information and wisdom to face the future. And that is the present; certainly that is the future too.

Is Excellence Achievable?

2006-10-15T13:55:00.000+05:30

I generally get puzzled when I read editorial of daily. Heavy handed government interventions may have thwarted the growth of individual excellence, but the various systems prevailing in Indian society is just not conducive for the comfortable survival of excelling individuals. There are many disconnect in the caliber of the intelligentsia of this country. They pose knowledge in part and try to communicate frustrations, deprivation and outdated ideas.

Is growing individual a superpower to be able to handle this misinformation? I say, no individual is superpower himself. Individual needs support, information and system to grow and become powerful. However, in the prevailing society structure, growing youth is at risk. These situations result in slow death of excellence. It has happened in last few decades quietly and comfortably in Indian society. Will it continue in this century too?

In the recent editorial note of The Times of India, editor writes, ‘Individual Indians excel not the country’. This statement is completely wrong. If editor of most favorite Indian daily writes wrong, what impression will the countrymen make for future? How can you visualize present? Is this the reason that life in this country becomes failure? Excellence remains illusive.

The fact is entirely different from what our editors feels, India is a shining example in the world today. Stock exchange index (Sensex) at peak reveals the faith of foreigners on India. India as a brand is on peak in the eye of the world today except few people (editors, journalists, publishers, reporters etc included) who have misinformation like editor of Times of India. India as a brand is famous, successful and proven. However, the challenge in this country is to have access of right information because all khandani thinkers have poor perception of present and almost negligible appreciation of future. They generally talk with herd instincts, which might have worked few decades ago. Today, you need knowledge. You need information. Editors must spend some time in acquiring correct information before they write editorial on famous new paper.

I do not know if editor of Times of India is aware about the front page article of the same news paper in the section of Delhi Times, which reads, ‘Does writing run in the blood?’ Dear editor, if excellence runs in blood then for your kind information developing countries can never become developed. Poor people can never become rich. RP Singh could have never become the fastest bowler of India. Harbhajan Singh could have never spun the ball to the tune of Indian skipper. Abdul Kalam could have never become President. Dhirubhai could have had the gene of Tata or Birla. On one side when editor writes about excellence, how can he say that excellence runs in blood? Editors are communicating disconnected wisdom. News paper must not communicate misinformation.

India is a country where most of the people still believe in copying. People follow herd instincts to even excel. I live near tennis academy at Delhi and I find surprising when I see small children of the age of 4-5 years old come from distance of more than 26-30 Kms to take a training of tennis. If Sania in third generation could achieve something remarkable, it does not mean that other will also achieve excellence. If you visit sometime to British Council, there are many small children with their mothers or servants, being forced to read books so that they can become writer. Does herd instinct take to excellence? Herd instincts will never take anybody anywhere. We can never achieve excellence.

India still has 70% population relying on farming. It means that if India has to keep up with the growing economy at more than 8-10%, around 400 million people have to be shifted to different professional activities in urban or semi-urban areas. This means that the large number of future caliber has to evolve from those 400 millions. They will be able to shine only when sufficient opportunities are given to them to excel.

Editors when they compile the paper for tomorrow, they must ensure that they are not pursuing age old conservative ideas to frustrate the today’s youth. If people have to excel how and why society keep concentrating on Khandani individuals. What is the fun in keeping on writing about Shahrukh or Amitabh Bachchan? Why should we show bearded Rahul Gandhi? Why do we waste time and energy in reading and remembering frustrating history? Can they ever inspire our youth? They frustrate them.

What is the fun in showing and writing details about Lata Mangeskar? If we have to produce next Lata for 2020, our media people should search and concentrate on new caliber and fresh faces. Why can’t media concentrate little more on Shibani Kashyap or Jyotsana Chinappa and others? Excellence comes from individual with total backing of social systems. However, Indian media abhors talking or showing excellence in their reporting except at editorial level. If such situation continues, excellence will remain illusive to the people of this country.

Recently, in an award ceremony in Mumbai, Prime Minister said, “Just few weeks back, at a similar business award ceremony in Delhi, I found that more than two-third of the nominees were not even in business in 1991! They were all children of reform, not necessarily children of businessmen.” (The Economics Times, Monday October 9, 2006). Alas, the editor could have read this speech from his own paper and understood the meaning of blood? Excellence will emerge from information and vision.

Indians have a long way to go. Almost in every field, we are at rock bottom in the world statistics. Infosys might have become a 2 billion company in last 24 years, but just think of any global company. Google is $1,465 Billion p.a., Yahoo is $1,896 billion p.a. and so on. That too, Infosys does 90% business with Western world. We should be thankful to USA and other European countries, which helped Narayana to build a dream for Indians.

Indians are still very-very conservative to use new ideas. Indians are very-very emotional to forget old traditional concepts. Because few people talk about new ideas and innovation, it has become a trend to talk about them without believing on them or without having courage to accept them. First of all, our editors or educated class will have to be strong to accept new ideas. Herd instinct will keep Indians away from achievement. Only new innovative ideas may lead to excellence.

Indian editors, journalists, thinkers, reporters and other professionals all are too busy in enjoying their present glory. It is not very difficult to find them in every party in Delhi five star hotels. You can always check them in any discussions, lectures or meetings irrespective of their interest of subjects. You always find them giving interviews and talks on television. Where do they have time to gain information? Therefore, is it surprising when all these people talk history only? Similarly our film actors and actresses hardly have time to do some creative work? They remain busy in selling pen, shirt, banyan and so on. Why can not they leave less creative jobs to beginners so that they can concentrate to excel in their own creation? Why should senior achievers remain busy in doing advertisements, receiving awards or doing menial interviews? Where is the time to excel?

A normal person needs just few grams of food, clean environment, good society and encouraging company. There is very less need for excellence. But certainly we need excellent environment to excel. We need world level competitions to excel. We need support and system to grow. The society must provide these basic amenities. The developments after 1991 have shown many Indians this brutal fact in reality. They are very simple and plain. Excellence will emerge from this simple situation.

My Prediction Came True

2006-10-14T12:32:00.000+05:30

Just yesterday, I wrote a blog titled ‘Terror Confronts Mighty’ and clearly explained why the situation of terrorism developing around the world is in favour of India. Today almost all the daily news papers gave Nicholas Burns statement on the front page. I wrote my blog yesterday night and today morning all the dailies spoke my words. My prediction came so fast.

The Times of India reads, ‘Stop export of terror to India, US tells Pak. Islamabad must rein in Kashmir Jehadis on its soil’

Indian Express reads, ‘US to Pak: End terror attacks aimed at India’.

The Economics Times writes, ‘Ask terror groups to stop attacks on India: Us to Pak’.

US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Oct 12, 2006, ‘We wish to see no more terrorism emanating from Kashmiri terrorist groups and we have told the Pakistani Government that we would hope that Pakistan would use its influence with these groups to curb and stop altogether any attack on India’

USA now does not want to see any attack on India. It is so clear. That is what I predicted in my previous blog. I am happy that it is happening this way. It has happened first time in the history of India-Pakistan conflict when USA has told what India will like to tell to Pakistan.

General Musharraf understands the vulnerability of Muslims. He warns openly that Pak will be no more if extremists win. Terrorism has to vanish from this world. It will be in the interest of freedom and life of all Muslims too. Mighty powers have taken the responsibility and I hope that it will bring peace to this world.

I am happy that my observation is accurate and precise. My understanding of the world scenario is in right direction. I hope that with the blessing of my yahoo 360 friends, I will continue doing it.

Terror Confronts Mighty

2006-10-12T22:45:00.000+05:30

India fought terrorism all alone for the last sixty years. Since the time I was born, I have heard about Hindu Muslim riots. Muslims used to kill Hindus in bulk whenever they get opportunities. Hindus remain secular in nature. Since independence, governments have been able to suppress majority to avoid clashes in the country. Thanks to the democracy and freedom, proper amicable situations prevailed for the right kind of growth in the society. India has been fortunate to handle these religious differences alone through these tough years.

After 9/11, the world order changed. Muslims have declared USA as an open enemy. They have focused their attention towards USA. USA too has retaliated and confronted Muslims head on. They have used their own wisdom. They made Pakistan as a fighting partner, even though terrorists were groomed and prepared there. Terrorists are being still trained on regular basis. However, being the most powerful state, USA has a privilege to police these countries. They have done it simply and without any hassles. They have shown this in Afghanistan, Iraq or even in Lebanon. The policy makers in Western states realise these superiority, however there is a problem in clear understanding of the ground situations of disgruntled forces across the world.

Today when NATO general confronts Musharraf and gives him the address of Mullah Omar, it appears to me something like Indian Government gave the name and address of twenty terrorists just few years ago. Pakistan may not have given suitable replies that time other than they also gave the twenty name to India. But this time when NATO general makes a point, it is a different ballgame. Pakistan may not have chance to escape. Why only Pakistan, Muslims are trapped in their own shell.

Earlier, when India used to tell the world about Pakistan terrorist activities, USA or UK hardly ever gave heed to it. But, now the world has seen 9/11, 7/11 and London bombings and are now convinced about the ill plan of Muslims. Is it wrong if Straw tells Muslims to remove Burqua? Unless, Muslims give freedom to their women folk, they will never progress. They will remain poor. Children will keep becoming terrorists. Muslim mothers will keep crying in veil for giving birth to a terrorist. Salman Rushdie declared that ‘veils suck’. He gave his full backing to leader of the commons Jack Straw for raising the issues. Surprisingly, even in 21st century, the silent cries of Muslim women are not being heard by Allah.

In the name of Allah, Muslims are committing crime on their women. This is resulting in large number of death among Muslims. Poverty and deprivation remain a part of Muslim communities. Ignorance and illiteracy has become the birthrights of Muslims. I am unable to understand why these terrorist call themselves Muslim when they are killing Muslims? Muslims are the biggest enemy of Muslims in this world today.

A British officer says, ‘I feel real vitriol seeing our boys dying because of Pakistan’. NATO general is aware about these problems. They are conscious and taking appropriate steps. But what Musharraf is doing to stop Muslim youth becoming terrorists in their homeland? Absolutely nothing has been done. After many years of Kargil war, he writes a memoir about those Pakistan army personnel’s killed in that war. Once the youth becomes terrorist, it works just like unorganized military. Any body can disown them any time. Their lives become a cheap object. Muslim youths are wasting their life like these.

The dictator of North Korea or President of Iran may be out to talk about destruction without giving heed to progress and development, it is a shame. The Muslim country like Malaysia is thriving to become developed nation in next twenty years; there is no reason why other Muslim nations are not talking about development? China wants progress by organizing Olympics. China is showing the bright example of change management for the development of people. China has never felt shy in accepting Bill Gates Windows or USA Nuclear doctrine. In all these, USA has big challenge to maintain their growth. People are waiting to experience development across the world. USA has to exploit the situations for its own sustainability and growth. USA has a challenge to maintain world peace.

The rising country like China has to understand these threats of future. Today, they may not feel the heat to become the part of reducing terror from this world. But by the year 2015, when China economy will become comparable to USA, China is going to face terror threat from Muslim group. China needs to take today’s opportunities to curb the future threat. China must come forward to help USA in this endeavour.

India remains beneficial with all these developments. Indian Muslims remain conscious of their aspirations and growth except few who come in contact with Pakistani generals and ISI. In the time to come, India will be in a position to consolidate the situations and will be able to handle them for her benefits. India has vast experiences. USA has chance to exploit the experience of India to segregate bigger enemies. USA needs to move fast and firm. It generates tremendous hope for the peace of the world. NATO forces in the neighboring state must remain conscious about this ground realities.

Economics Times AS Godfather

2006-10-11T22:46:00.000+05:30

The Economics Times of Monday 9 October 2006 front page heading reads, ‘ET STOOD BY US & GUIDED US’.
Simple Theory of Human Growth
In my maiden book, I gave a concept of ‘searching a godfather’ for all growing people. When I was writing this book and trying to elaborate the concept of godfather, it was real difficult subject to explain. It was more difficult to make the topic relevant to the people who may not have faced such dynamics in life. In the present era of digital world and information age, it is very important for us to understand the concept of ‘dynamic godfather’ (commonly called as DGF). Today, when Manmohan Singh talks to The Economics Times during the award ceremony for corporate excellence and confessed about the existence of godfather in his life, it certifies the factors of theory of human growth.
Without diluting the contents of Prime Minister Statements, I would love to put it down here for reference to editors of blog sites and all my blogger friends. ‘Let me sincerely compliment The Economics Times for thinking of this innovative manner of marking 15 years of economic reforms. I am truly grateful to you for inviting the five of us here. My cabinet colleagues Shri Chidambaram and Mr. Ahluwalia, my friend and advisor Mr. Rangarajan and RBI Governor Reddy were undoubtedly part of the original team of 1991. I must place on record the unwavering commitment of The Economics Times to economic liberalization and reform. In those early years, The Economics Times stood by us, supported us and guided us.’ The Prime Minister said.
Refer www.economictimes.indiatimes.com/
Future Revelations
The world is all alone especially when you leave your level and move to a new and unknown level, domain and platform. Things change even in normal movements, forget about the changes, which are going to be encountered because of changes in level and growth. The moment you change the level, plenty of aspects of life change. Your circle of friends becomes new. Relationships become different. The people you are going to encounter on a day-to-day basis are different. The aspirations of the people around you change. The expectations of those people left behind get a surge.
With all these changes, it is a real challenge for an individual to face and sustain the new status. In a changed and new status, every other person appears an enemy. Not only appears, every other individual behaves like an enemy because of social and human compulsions. You, as an individual, cannot blame them. They are also human and they also have problems. They are there with all their human frailties. All this results to and leaves you all alone in this world to fight and survive.
Today society has become conscious. People have infrastructure for basic education and other facilities. It is very common to find situations such as a boy from a poor family topping the CBSE board exam, a daughter of a rickshaw puller competing for the medical entrance exam, the sons of a poor farmer getting admission into management institutes, a daughter from a small village getting selected for US airspace missions, and so on. Some of these boys and girls, when pass through various professional courses, they are left behind on the ladder of success because of non-availability of godfathers. Even if some are in a position to go to some distances, they are not able to sustain it for a long time. They are left alone to face the turmoil of life in a real sense.
What is Godfather?
When you are growing, you acquire knowledge, you acquire degrees, you generate and maintain zeal, ambition and mission. You want to excel. But how can you go all alone? It is a human instinct; you need someone, who stands by you, supports you, and guides you in your endeavour. In all probabilities, let us list out, what all you expect from a godfather-
- Helps to prepare resolutions of life at different stages,
- Suggests solutions during crisis,
- Helps to formulate big dreams,
- Proper guidance in your mission in life,
- Professional guidance to take decisions,
- Social or spiritual guidance,
- Improve the decision making system,
- Support when needed in life,
- Encourages continuously on a regular basis,
- During crises, comes back and tells you to move on,
- Provides a sense of availability and togetherness,
- Surpass others comments of surrounding,
- Keep hopes, aspirations and the future alive and brighter,
- Imparts basic physiological needs of an individual.
Amidst all the chaos in the world, the question arises, who is going to provide you all these. Who is there to work like a godfather? When you start growing, you get a feeling - you are alone. You do not have anyone on whom you can rely, in whom you can believe, from whom you can get support, somebody who encourages you to excel, somebody who guides you at a higher intellectual level, someone who excites your creative skills, imaginations, ideas, someone who enjoys your success, achievements and someone who is always there for you. But in this so-called and hyped global village, you feel - you cannot be alone? Let us try to find some solution.
Searching Godfather
In this era, information is available all across. We are fortunate to be educated. We are fortunate to be free to choose our language, religion, professions or even godfathers. It is not very difficult to choose from them.
Now I will show you two godfathers who have been with me in the long years of my research. They have been with me whenever and wherever I have gone. They have been my only continuous companions. They have always given me confidence. They have always reminded me of my worth. In the world of cheaters and deceivers, when I have moved alone in my endeavour to achieve a life of dignity, they have worked along with me day and night.
The best part of these godfathers was that they were non-demanding and non-committing. They have never asked anything in return. They have never tried to give me a bad opinion or bad impressions. They have never given me wrong views. The reason also may be simple. This may be because; I have wished to choose them. I have selected them on my terms. I have referred to them on my intelligence. They have been there based on my aspirations and knowledge. I have never relied too heavily on any of them at any time. I have never complained about their services, I have believed in their wisdom before I selected them and so far so good.
It is my responsibility and duty to communicate this to all of you who are in dire need of a godfather. This is required for those who have no godfather. This is required for those who want to achieve excellence. This is required when you want to cross and jump to higher levels. This may not be required by those who are happy with their achievements. This may not be required by those who do not want to excel. But for all those who want a godfather, just see the beauty; it will give a new lease to your life. The two godfathers are – Everlasting Quotations and Horoscopes.
Similarly, godfather can be created from the daily news paper. Today, it is the biggest source of wisdom for the growing people. The Economics Times is the best from all of them. This is reliable, authentic and regular. They never miss you. They live with you and probably will die with you. Today, when Kansi Ram dies, I remember one of the train journeys with him. He was a simple man with great ideas. He boarded the train at Delhi station with just one small suitcase and two news papers. He enters in his First Class compartment or rather coupe of two berths. Most of the train journey, he hardly talked to anyone. He read those news papers. Even in the night, I saw him just lying on the lower berth without any pillow or cushion or bed sheet. He always preferred to keep his life simple to have mind and time to solve the complex issues of society. What I want to convey is that, news paper can act like a dynamic godfather. Just try this. It has worked for Manmohan Singh. It will work for you all. To read the complete chapters on ‘Searching A Godfather’, you can join my yahoo group (iiuindia - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iiuindia ) free of cost.
Compulsive Changes
As you grow in life, the beauty of this universe is that everything grows with you. Some may grow slow, some may grow fast, some may grow super fast, and some may grow dynamically. The things which do not grow with you are generally passive things. All moving, non-moving, dynamic things grow with time. Your knowledge grows, wisdom grows, qualifications grow, your library grows, your collections grow, the number of your friends grows, family grows, society grows, and nations are growing. You need to be aware and conscious of the growth of surroundings. That is the beauty- the beauty of life. If everything around you has grown, how could a source of knowledge not change? Therefore, do not wait or rely on conventional wisdom source. Search your dynamic godfather!
The paper cutting of The Economics Times is displayed on my 360 blog at www.360.yahoo.com/kamekish
For further queries on godfather concept, please feel free to contact me at kamekish@yahoo.com .

You can win Nobel Prize.

2006-10-11T22:18:00.000+05:30

Nature is very strange. The growth of humanity takes it own pace. The factors responsible for the general growth of individual and society remain a complicated issue. It has taken centuries to resolve and get any clear-cut views on this matter. Scholars, researchers, scientists, politicians and other leaders of society had been putting in their bit to understand and clarify this complicated aspect. It is a continuous evolution. Today, when father and son get Nobel prizes and mother and daughter aspire for Bookers prizes, study of parents and children are discussed in positive direction. But since the time immemorial, this relationship has been put to disadvantage for humanity.
Parents in general act as the first role model for a person. The opportunities, exposures and options available to growing individuals remain limited. Parents with their wisdom and knowledge are in a position to guide the offspring successfully. This was the case a few decades ago. As I mentioned the Herculean changes, which have taken place in the last few decades have left this role model and path-bearer almost redundant. The child, by the time finishes schooling, is so well versed and knowledgeable because of present day exposures to ideas that her parents appear like fossils as far as the guiding factors in life are concerned and I will not be wrong if I claim that this is a practical reality most of the time except few exceptional cases like Nobel laureates or Amitav Bachchan etc. It is interesting to read this real life story.
Binda was the only son of his parents. His father Mungi was a very poor farmer, living in a very small village. He was a very hard working and egotistic person. He had approximately five bighas of land from his ancestral property. He meticulously ploughed the field. He used to look after his family of four from his earnings. This small area of land was the only source of income in his family. Life was going on smoothly. Mungi did not have any exposure for better aspirations. He was satisfied with his life.
Binda was a very studious child from the start. He loved studying. When he was in class X, he had to walk approximately five kilometres to attend classes. During the rainy season, he had to swim cross approximately ten raw canals by swimming to reach his school. His father never wanted his son to put in so much effort to attend school for class X. This level of study was good enough for his son. He always felt that more study was not required to plough his five bighas land. Mungi was correct. Why not? Even Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi during the same time in South Africa felt the same regarding his four sons. There was no one in Mungi’s entire family who had been educated to this level. Mungi therefore did all he could do to stop his son from appearing for the Board exam. But he was helpless in front of his wife’s tricks and lady chall called intelligence. His wife used to borrow money and get guidance for her son’s education from her brothers who were a little more educated and forward looking. Ultimately, the mother and son’s efforts worked. Binda appeared for the Board exam and passed in third division.
Binda’s aspirations had no end. With the help of his mother, he joined college in a city nearby, approximately thirty five kilometres from his village. Mungi never liked all this. He continued hoping that his son would join him in farming. Like any other farmer in the village, he also wanted to plough the field every year and earn more produce to increase his wealth and ultimately increase his field from five bighas to at least ten so that his son’s family could lead a better life than him. But it remained his dream.

Binda had his own mission. He felt that five bighas was not enough to provide adequate income for his family. He always looked for better and greener pastures of the cities, which he had got a glimpse of during his studies. By the time, he was doing his Intermediate, he got married to an illiterate fourteen-year-old girl. When he was appearing for his Intermediate exam for the third time in the city, because he could not pass earlier, his wife was delivering their second child in his village. Because of the tension of the exam, he could not afford to go for the delivery. He tried his best to pass the Intermediate exam without any support from anywhere. He studied day and night. He stopped thinking about his young wife also for sometime. Just after his exams, he could not wait anymore, and went to the village to see his second child.
Binda was very happy to see his newly born, bright son. His mother was curious to know when he would get a job in the city. He promised his mother that after passing the Intermediate exam, he would get a good offer and job. After one and a half months, he went to the city to find out about his result. He was highly depressed that he had failed again. He was frustrated. He did not have anyone in life who could console him. The path of growth passes through lonely patches. He tried to console himself. When his mother came to know about this, she was demoralized, but regained her strong personality and advised him to look for a job.
Life is peculiar. Things happen at its own pace and its own time. It gives sadness, and then sometime it gives pleasure too. Within a few months of his struggle, he got a good yellow collor job in a recently opened public sector, ‘modern temple’ of Jawaharlal Nehru. He and his mother were very happy. Mungi was very angry at this development. He wanted his son to join him in farming but because of his wife, his son was spoiled. He was very annoyed. As such, he used to beat his wife on a regular basis. This time also he planned to beat her so hard that she would remember it throughout her life. It was a punishment to the lady for spoiling his son.
Mungi tolerated the new development for six months. One day when Binda came on leave to meet his wife for quarterly sexual overall, Mungi became very angry. He shouted at all of them. He picked up a brick and tried to hit his spoiled son. Fortunately, Binda was saved by God’s grace and her mother’s prayers (that is what his mother felt). But this was not enough; Mungi threw out Binda’s and his family’s luggage and wanted them along with his mother to leave his house immediately.
Binda with his wife and two small children left their ancestral home and landed in the small township where he had a job. Life is very cruel. Parents are supposed to be a support but that too if it works out well. Like property, a good wife, a good job, one gets good parents depending upon the luck, the lines on your hands. It is God’s wish to have sensible parents, especially for a poor person like Binda. But in the present who knows what is good or bad in life for the future? This is a million dollar wisdom.

Parents are responsible for the growth of their offspring. Through centuries of evolution, they have performed their duties meticulously; they are still doing it very effectively and efficiently. As we say, time and tide wait for none; time plays a very crucial and cruel role in the growth of a human being. The time has come when parents are becoming the biggest enemies of their offspring’s not by choice but due to situation. They are unable to grasp the changes taking place in this era of civilization. They can hardly perceive the growth themselves. They are not in a position to comprehend the changes, which are inflicting society.

Parents need to be cautious about these changes. All parents can not be Nobel laureates like Arthur Kornberg who won Medicine Nobel Prize in 1959, management guru Malay Chaudhuri who build IIPM for his son Arindam Chaudhuri, renowned players like Vijay Amritraj, successful businessman like Dhirubhai Ambani who gave Rs 100 crores 26 years ago to Mukesh to make 100,000 crores today, leaders like Ramadoss who made party for his son Jr Ramadoss to make him health minister, famous writers like Anita Desai whose daughter Kiran Desai won Bookers prize, and many more. But the real hard facts remain that when countries have to move from developing to develop in the time span of just few decades not even a life time, there are the serious problems of this relationship. Children have to become rebel to achieve desired goal. Parents have to sacrifice their life support system to witness successful generations. Both have to understand these difficult times to maintain their fondness.
Today, when son gets Nobel Prize, we talk about gene, but what about the millions of children who followed the age old deprivation, poverty, backwardness, conservativeness on the name of gene? Why scheduled caste children are still becoming scheduled caste? Is there some greatness involved in genes?
The fate of the children of 21st century can not rely on the gene. This has to be clear. The news paper reporting giving unnecessary importance to gene is useless and futile. If Kiran Desai becomes youngest female Bookers prize winner, there is no surprise. It is not gene. It is the accessibility. It is the knowledge. It is simple wisdom. It is just the concentrated efforts. It is simple ballgame of fabricated complexities of life. If Budhia can run 65 KM to beat the world records, the talk of gene remain a very conservative subject.
Children born in 21t century have privileged to do anything in the world. Bill Gates, Narayana Murthy and Abdul Kalam have shown it clearly. Next few decades are the decades for all who understands these seriousness and simplicity. Gene has nothing to do with your success. You all can become most successful and famous. You just have to know the tricks. You have all the chances to win Nobel Prize like Sushmita and Aishwarya became Miss Universe and Miss World. It is plain and simple.

Minority Dose for Majority

2006-10-05T13:04:00.000+05:30

I might have done correct thing that for the last few years, I did not rely for information and wisdom on newspapers, magazines or written articles completely. I sensed the flaws in the system long back before it started creating injury to my being. Today, newspaper itself gives heading like, ‘Newspapers can be injurious to health’. And it is not only true, it is much more dangerous than even anticipated by normal human beings. It is more dangerous than talked in media or news papers.

Newspapers can be critical to your growth. One side when it supplements to your wisdom domain, on other side, it can be fatal. Newspapers have been successful in ruining not only the characters about which it writes wrongly and systematically but it is working as poison for the normal individuals. That may be the reason, even Mukesh Ambani said just few days back in one of the interview to the news paper that he did not read news paper for one month when the problem with his brother was at peak. Can a normal person rely on the news of the newspaper? I say – big Noooo….

Some of the biggest flaws in the newspaper are the quality and authenticity of news articles, the seriousness of the issues raised in it and subsequent follow-ups to build the cases. Especially, the front page of the newspaper consists of old conservative and irrelevant theme in its headings. Long back I was advised by some senior to read the front page news and editorials. Today, when I refer the front page headings and editorials, I feel ashamed in considering them worth spending my time. This is true most of the days. The issues are ridiculous, irrelevant and not justified. Most of the time, I feel disgruntled not for my sake but for the majority of the people of this country. The majority gets the minority dose. Problem is unique. Today we have means to prove its vagueness. I have summarized this problem as ‘minority dose for majority’. Why do not we get experts view on http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4025 .

The newspaper articles, even the television media headings are full of the issues, which have already lived its life. When Juswant Singh writes a book, ‘A Call to Honour’, it is a simple process of evaluation and critic, but it turns out to be big daily news about the irrelevant mole, which can easily be forgotten if Mumbai blast takes place. Prince, the boy of Haryana takes the front page news while it is not even supposed to be covered for single day forget about so many days. TV news covers Prince live for full day, and next day, news papers discuss about the advertisement prospects of Prince. Musharaff writes a book, ‘Line of Fire’, which may have some or other irrelevant information, but Indian news papers never fail to cover in the front page. Why only news paper, the entire Indian media covers these left and right. Why should we cover things which are not at all relevant, nor authentic?

‘Iraq war spawned terrorism, radicals’, said US Intelligence report. What is so great in it? Why Indian newspapers should be filled with such analysis? Terrorists strike America in its heart on 9/11 and kill more than 3000 people. The attack destroyed capital worth $40 billion. It does not end there. It generates confidence in all radical thinking youngsters to undertake terrorism as a progressive profession. Muslims young must be motivated enough sufficiently to undertake terrorism at any level. People witnessed successes of few such emerging radicals in terrorism during last few years. Even today Muslims leadership talks about moderate views without curbing the basics and root of terrorism.
Starting from Musharaff to Osama, they talk tough. The majority Muslims have no choice. They are forced to pray, protest and procreate. Unless people are directed towards real progressive life with hope and success, there is always a threat that young people from Muslim community will opt for terrorism. The war on Afghanistan and Iraq has given advantages to the West while it also give fear factor in normal Muslims to keep themselves away from terrorism. The fast communication medium may be giving an illusive report regarding enhancement of radicals, but in long run, the ongoing war of America is going to bring peace and prosperity to not only to developed people but also to the deprived and poor people of developing world. Which Muslim does not want bread and butter? Who wants to die? Why to concentrate on minority views when majority is going to be benefited?

The dose of minority for majority is not a new concept. In IIC-IDSA Eminent Person’s Lecture series on 3rd Oct 2006, Dr Arun Shourie rightly said that 89.8% elected representatives are by minority in current parliament in India. They have less than 10% casts of votes. Today, the situation is like that independent candidate can win election based on minority votes and dream to become Chief Ministers or Prime Minister. The leader wins election on minority votes and makes policies for majority without having any concern for majority. The reasons are obvious. They are assured to win even next election on minority votes. The flaw of democracy is intelligently exploited by few cunning and sadistic leaders. How long majority will get minority dose?

Even for the sake of leadership, there is a time of retrospection. I am not surprised when News paper writes, ‘the selection of news, especially front page news, is largely determined by the old journalistic axioms: Bad news sell better than good news’. Who pursues these old journalistic axioms? Certainly, they are followed by the old guard and owner of the news paper houses. They must correct themselves in the modern time. The bosses who command the front page headings must take remedial action otherwise they are going to be as irrelevant as their headings are becoming today. Now, the era of mass communication is ending. The emerging time is the era of mass generation and mass accessibility.

I have always conveyed to rely on data. But unfortunately the traditional intellectuals, who hardly have complete knowledge about the accessibility and authenticity, pursue the old and irrelevant concepts. These old concepts hardly take cognigence of available data. When 80% people say, Gandhigiri is irrelevant in today world, congress management is going ahead in all direction to spread Gandhigiri to achieve their own selfish goals. Munnabhai has been made famous. Shabana Azmai has been conferred Gandhi peace award. Manmohan Singh has been sent to Africa to propagate Gandhism. Rs 50 crores have been sanctioned to rebuilt the road of Dandi march. Anupam Kher has been awarded to work on issues like Gandhi. Gandhi will not help Congress to come out of its old and traditional ways to achieve political mileage.

Is it surprising when Finance Minister P Chidambram reacted on first quarter growth of 8.9%? He said, ‘Some numbers don’t lie. Some myths don’t die’. Can the old myth to attract followers by keeping them poor and deprived work any longer? I personally feel, it is not possible now. You have to opt for progressive data than conservative myths. Majority is aware about their rights than anytime ever in the human history. Majority wants the dose for majority. Minority dose will not work.

One of the major myths is the Hindu rate of growth (HRG). Who has spread and used this word HRG? Who is responsible if Tata could not build Indica in 60s or 70s or 80s? Is it any Hindu? Who did not allow any Ambanis or Narayan Murthies to be created in 60s,70s or 80s? The earlier growth was not HRG but it may be NRG and GRG. As Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia tells to the crowd in almost every speech, those growths were Nehru and subsequently Gandhi rate of growth. Based on that growth, poverty alleviation was promised which remained as dream. The country has experienced another NRG and that is Narshimha rate of growth or we may call it MRG i.e. Manmohan rate of Growth. Even today, who are becoming hurdles in achieving more than 10% GDP growth which is expected to remove poverty from this land? Any thing good happens to this land is hardly credited to majority. Anything bad happens, never goes beyond majority. Majority is suffering at the hand of majority at the cost of majority as well as minority. Majority may not accept this for long especially when the culture of majority has shown the world direction and hope for the future. The tradition of majority of this land has given the concept of globalization through Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam. Let us be little rational in calling today’s progressive growth as IRG (Indian rate of Growth).

India is a peculiar land. It is not surprising when 90% of the people feel to be reborn in this magnificent country. This is a country where 85% Hindus reside. This is a country where largest number of Muslims lives. The kind of freedom people get in the disgruntled system is the sign of emerging future. The majority is becoming aware and powerful. They have a sense of their growth. They have not only read freedom. They have not only witnessed freedom. Fortunately, starting from religious to regional and language compulsions, people of India have experienced freedom in every walk of life. The few disgruntled Intelligentsia who try to command the authority of the deprived people will no longer be able to fool people for longer time. People want their share of freedom, priviledge, prosperity, success and achievements. Is it surprising that Indian entrepreneurs are making headways in the growth of Asia? Majority are awakening. They are conscious. Majority wants their share of power. Majority wants their prosperity. Majority wants majority doses to build their future. Majority dose is needed for majority.

The situation is complex. The educated class of networked people feels the difference. I come across various news and views daily through different sites on Internet. I am fortunate to have access to many of the best newsletters on Internet on various fields of human concerns. I am happy to have virtual world of my own with different human needs like relatives, friends, seniors, colleagues, partners, God, godfathers and certainly a source of wisdom domain. The details of these parameters can be accessed from www.lulu.com/content/231873 . I feel privileged to have access to these vital infrastructures of the 21st century, which is making the ball game entirely different from the earlier one.
I have been blogging for approximately one year. This is providing me immense satisfaction to maintain my mental and physical balance. Till one year back I forcefully used to deliver lecture to relatives and friends, today I need not to do that. My friends and relatives must be breathing well. Instead, I have hundreds of willing intellectuals, sincere readers and miser critics who listen to my views and comment regularly. Blogging provides me the platform. In the time to come, Internet may provide some relief from existing drawbacks in the democratic system. Majority is expected to get the majority dose. Blogs like www.360yahoo.com/kamekish and sites will provide solution.

Do Not Learn

2006-10-02T12:44:00.000+05:30

India is struggling to come out of the Xerox era in this information age. Today, India needs innovation - original one, not the Xeroxed creativity. But, surprisingly poor and deprived Indians, starved of publicity, are still feeling fascinated with minor growth and success. People with high resources and caliber are finding themselves contented with meager achievements. All these self inflicted contentment are keeping individuals all across the board to be satisfied with mediocrity. People remain far behind from achieving excellence. There may be many reasons for this but in existing scenario; I would like to discuss the Xeroxed sense of learning which are so ridiculous.
Who says learning is important? Gone are the days when learning was the only means to achieve confidence and satisfaction in life. In the 20th century, when we have material of over twenty centuries to learn, it is almost ridiculous to presume that anybody would be able to learn all this. Invariably as you learn, it becomes clear how little you know. When learning is not giving us confidence, then we are forced to think of an alternative. More learning is making you more bare and exposed. More learning is making you under-confident. More learning demands further learning. Learning is not at all the solution. If we just try to analyze the situation emerging out of learning, we shall observe that it is unlearning, which we are supposed to do for a comfortable situation.
A totally illiterate person has a terrific feeling that he knows everything. The person from a village or town with less or negligible knowledge appears very confident from the outside. It is very difficult even to convince the person about the utilities and advantages of education. That’s why in a few cases, we find difficulties in educating. That’s how a small child is sent to school. Children from an early age are trained to go to school on time. They are taught from the beginning to read and write various subjects. They are trained to be disciplined from the beginning. They are moulded from an early age. If someone does not get educated at an early age, it becomes very difficult to educate the person at a later age. He remains either less or marginally educated. He always has the illusion that he can live a better and successful life without bookish knowledge. These confusions prevail in almost all negligible or less educated people. The concept of ‘Do not Learn’ may not be applicable to such a person. The concept of ‘Do not Learn’ can be applied only to the person who is sufficiently educated. The concept can be applied to a growing person. The concept can be applied for growing or changing society and organizations. The concept can be used for those who want to achieve a developed status. The concept can be exploited for a sharp and exponential growth from the existing status. These growing individuals or institutions need ‘Do not Learn’.
Once you start learning things, you find that there is an endless list. Today, the subjects have become so vast that it takes years to finish the syllabus in one area of activity. A typical example is the study of medicine. You start seriously studying for approximately one and a half years for admission to medical college during or after finishing 10+2 schooling, then you take five years to graduate, one-year of internship, three years for post graduation, a few years for senior fellowship, then further research on a specialization and so on. It is a long list. As you keep acquiring this education, you keep feeling that you know less. This is the typical paradox of learning. Similar kind of learning is required in other fields. Take the example of information technology. Today, children are taught computers from the kindergarten itself. At any time, the education on information technology is never complete. A person can keep acquiring degrees and continue doing courses, but it will never end. Every year, there are plenty of changes. There are new subjects, new hardware, new software; new areas of activities keep emerging. You have to keep learning or continue refreshing. The learning never ends. On the contrary, it keeps increasing.
Can you ever meet your learning instincts? I feel a normal person with a normal intellect will never be able to achieve even a part of her learning desires in the 21st century. It is very difficult to define and elaborate learning needs. It is almost impossible to define the road map of learning for a child. There are a few very typical examples in society, which forces us to think about the learning needs of human beings. It is very interesting to learn a little bit about the learning instincts of some famous personalities, most of us are aware of.

Sonia Gandhi, the third powerful woman of the world in 2005 as per Time magazine,
Rabri Devi, Former Chief Minister of Bihar, India,
Bismillah Khan, famous Shehnai Vadak, Bharat Ratna Awardee,
Gyani Zail Singh, Ex-President of India,
Mother Teresa, famous Nobel Peace Laureate,
Lata Mangeshkar, famous singer, Bharat Ratna Awardee,
Zakir Hussain, renowned tabla player

It is very difficult to define the learning needs of life. There is no end to learning. On one side we have the above examples with us and on the other hand, I quote the learning instincts of a normal person. Punchsheel was very hardworking and sincere student. Because of some family pressures, he joined for the job in 1985 at the lowest rank (with the minimum qualification of matriculation) after completion of his graduation. Subsequently, while in job, he did his Master of Arts (MA) in English in 1988 from Meerut University. He did his MA in Public Administrations in 1992 from Rajasthan University. He got a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching English (PGDTE) in 1995 from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He did a Graduate Diploma in Material Management (GDIMM) in 1999 from the Indian Institute of Material Management, Bangalore. He continued working in the same organization. After all these qualifications, he now feels that he is lacking in computer education so he has started doing computer courses starting from the Basic Computer course from IGNOU, New Delhi. Thanks to the IT development of the last few decades, the gentleman will never be able to quench his thirst for learning. In spite of all this, he continues doing the same work for the last twenty years, even in the year 2005. His decisions impact hardly a few of his co-workers. His knowledge and sincerity of effort are the privilege of a few people and that too in a small remote place of a developing country. Can learning by this individual benefit society? In this world of Vashistha Narayana Singh of Basantpur, is it surprising to find the wastage of knowledge and learning? Individual efforts go haywire in the absence of a sound unlearning system. Puncsheel is not an exceptional individual in the developing world. There may be lakhs among the billions in the developing world going down the drain; I call it the learning drain. Knowledge and qualifications remain as cheap as the developing human.
Is there a road map of learning? Or shall we prepare a road map for unlearning? Once a person understands the dilemmas, it is easily agreed that there is no need to learn until there is clarity of the learning requirements in life. However, before somebody thinks of learning, it must be clear to the individual that there is absolutely no advantage of learning things, unless the person has undergone a systematic unlearning process. What happened to Dr Vashitha Narayana Singh whose research paper is being used as study material in Washington? He is compelled to live in the remote village of Ara, India, where electricity, water, road or even minimum medical facilities are not available. His heart wrench clinched to nationality is not allowing him to unlearn the necessary things and this result in an absence of the basic necessities in his life. Mind boggling contradictions prevail. In the course of our lives with the tremendous changes of environment and situations, unlearning needs have arisen significantly. The graphs of unlearning and learning need are to be continuously updated to face different situations and occurrences in this Super Dynamic Era.
In the midst of the Xerox environment, it is important that wise people keep themselves away from copying. Newspapers, Medias and all the medium of mass communication except internet, blogs and some modern communication systems, are just not aware about the Xerox trend. Such trend is not good for continuous desired growth. Wise people are advised not to learn irrelevant and ridiculous things.

I Saw Future

2006-09-27T23:06:00.000+05:30

Around a year back one fine evening I was walking on the footpath of Cannaught Place in Delhi along with my wife and daughter. It was the same path from where I started my journey to this metropolitan city of a beautiful country called India. I originate from a very small place in India. I have seen deprivation from very close. My earnest desire to grow and witness growth has given me opportunities to see riches and successes on the way. On the footpath on that day when we were passing through a bookstall, I showed my wife the kind of books available on that stall for Indians.

In the bookstall there was not a single book authored by an Indian writer. I explained her that how I have lived my life observing this situation for last twenty years. I claimed that this situation would not continue for long. Indians need books of Indian authors. Growing Indians are impatient to read the mind of growing Indians. They need solution of their problems according to their own situations and surroundings. There is no way; I can ignore this emerging trend. If I have the capability to write, I must write whatever I feel. Young and vibrant India and energetic Indians need this. Age old Ravindra Nath Tagore alone can not quench the thirst of impatient Indians. I anticipated, within few years, Indian authors are on demand. That is coming true slowly but steadily. Even if I am not on demand, my prediction has come true. My wife is the lone witness of my path- breaking prediction. I saw future.

The courses in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and subsequent career in Air Force gave me immense opportunities to see the emerging world. I saw the great opportunities from close quarters in the field of communication and computers even though I was unable to harness the complete advantages of these opportunities because of many inherent hurdles associated with a common man. I have lived professional career life for more than twenty years and still living with all my predictions and anticipation without making much headway. The books have always been fascinating to me. They have information and knowledge. I considered books as aspiration, inspiration, motivation, inner strength, god, godfather and certainly a source of wisdom. Books have shown me the path in this long journey of lone battle. Today, I am happy that India is thinking the way I thought for last twenty years.

I moved from telecom to Information technology in last twenty years of my professional career. When I took premature retirement from Air Force, there was again a big dilemma to set course of the life. I remember adding more than five zeros in my income in my last twenty years of my earnest profession. But the question is can I do the same in next twenty years? Even if yes, shall I be able to achieve the desired contentment? What should be the future? The vision of future seen on the footpath of Cannaught Place should give some direction. Is it future? I have set some direction and moved. I am moving in blind tunnel without any light from other end. Is it future?

The new breed of writers includes VS Naipaul and Salman Rashdie. We have Tharoor, who resides outside India. I have my own doubt on the wisdom of this news article written in Delhi Times of The Times of India, titled ‘Read an Indian Author Lately?’ When reporter talks about Chetan Bhagat, Ashok Banker, Kiran Desai and others, it makes sense of Indian ness. But I am surprised when reporters talk about Jhumpa Lahiri, Vikram Chandra, and others. India still needs writers from its soil. India needs writers who have emerged from this soil to face the future world. That remains a challenge for all these reporters to search little more and wide. Reporters need to come out of their own shell of comfortable reporting.

Indian Editors and publishers are the biggest hurdle in achieving the dream of Indians. Indians can never get good books and futuristic writings till the time these so called editors and publishers are ready to lose their regionalist, religionist and sectarian views. Indian editors and publishers abhor creativity. They are on run to look for famous and beautiful to earn their bread. They are conservative. They are not ready to take risk. They have to become futuristic to see the world of tomorrow to overcome these problems. These are not hypothetical views but a real fact of the publishing industry. Since last one year, I have experienced these in my close encounter with editors and publishers in India. When, www.lulu.com provides online publishing of any written material, there is no way, why Indian editors and publishers can not enhance their resources? Why do not they see future?

In last one year, I have attended plenty of book launches at Habitat world, India International center and even at Taj Mahal Hotel when Shobhaa De gave free cocktail party open to all, I have met Khushwant Singh in his book launch at IIC, I have heard Medha Patkar and others, I have experienced the scarcity of relevant materials in Indian publication. People are in general avoiding risk. They do not believe in researching future. They are busy in researching their past. From my point of view, you can not have a better future on glorified past. We need to research on future. We need to talk about future. We need to discuss future. We need to write future. We need to see future. Future is future; no body would like to have their past as future in this 21st century. Let us concentrate on future.

English is an universal language. Even Ravindra Nath had to translate his own writings in English to garner the recognition. Still, we find hell lot of Bengalis speaking true to their core to have the love for their mother tongue. The concept of mother tongue is restricted to the poor and middle class achievers. The situation is obvious among the people of all regional languages. But with emergence of Internet, Bloggings, Networking and communication, the extinction of this love of mother tongue should not last a lifetime. Universal language should not remain in the custody of rich and privileged only. It has to reach to all educated people on this earth. Who does not want to be networked and heard? Yahoo answer provides the tool. Future relies on future language.

I consider it a crime when developing countries are not teaching their citizens developed technologies, futuristic education and universal languages. The governments of all developing countries are ignoring this obvious future. They are committing crime on their citizen. That is the reason, youths and educated people are getting frustrated, depressed and disgruntled. The rise of Indian authors writing in English will certainly improve the existing intellectual bankruptcy. The future will tell the stories of future in the language of future.

Leaders Abuse Power

2006-09-23T22:39:00.000+05:30

Leaders of poor people all across the world are abusing the power bestowed on them through democracy. Leaders are neither using the intelligence nor sources of wisdom available at their disposal to eradicate poverty and deprivation among the poor people. Most of the leaders are engulfed in praise and glorification of self or their kith and kin. This is criminal offence in the court of law of humanity. These are being committed shamefully by these leaders. And surprisingly most of the intellectuals around them are also exploiting this human weakness to maintain their undeserved status.

This subject is very vast and certainly difficult to recognize. We all are engulfed so much in our own problems that few shortsighted leaders are taking the whole of community for a ride. This is happening all around us. The normal intelligence remains baffled, confused and vague. I have taken the responsibility to take up this complex issue and will try to explain for few people who really get interested to know the facts out of massive misinformation in this information age.

The recently concluded NAM summit fortified my belief. The leaders from 115 countries gathered together in this well developed unipolar world just for their own sake. They gathered not to remove poverty. They gathered not to overcome the problems of malnutrition, mismanagement, deprivation, human rights, drug abuse or terrorisms. They not even gathered to solve the problems of weapons of mass destruction which some of the partner countries are quietly continuing. They did not gather to discuss their problems. None of these countries took up the problems of their own people. This is the total abuse of the power bestowed on them through democracy (at least in most of the cases).

The leaders of 115 countries gathered and talked about the policies which have become irrelevant around 30 to 40 years back. They just talked about the drawbacks of rich countries. They passed the messages that how rich countries are exploiting poor countries. They talked the ill intention of the developed countries. They talked the flaw of free world. They discussed the drawback of human rights without getting an inch of inhibition about their own human rights violation records. They made all poor and deprived people little more poor, deprived, sick and fearful. They motivated few more poor intellectuals to fight with rich countries for the irrelevant causes.

Some of these leaders of poor and deprived people gathered again at UN General Assembly and proceeded doing what they do best i.e. abusing the developed countries. They do not feel ashamed of using such platform to extend and glorify the status of the poor. They do not feel ashamed in talking about the rights of poor. Leaders of poor should try to eradicate poverty first then anything else.

Are poor born to remain poor for life? I have my own doubts. My perception is that these leaders are taking these irrelevant issues unnecessarily to bring their doomsday closer. In this world of awakening, such conferences, meetings and seminars has no future. NAM has no future. NAM has future only when these leaders sit and discuss to eradicate poverty. They discuss to enhance education standard. They discuss the crime against women. They discuss to provide basic amenities to poor societies. The leaders of poor have some responsibilities than blaming rich especially if they want to eradicate poverty and deprivation from their own land in this era of opportunities.

It is an irony for the poor people. Their leaders talk about domination and threat while leaders of developed world talk about democracy, human rights, peace, tackling terrorism, eradication of poverty and so on. The leaders of poor have some responsibility when they talk to their partner across the world. They must talk and discuss about the problems which the country is facing. The leaders of poor must re-awaken to realise their own potential.

Even Hamid Karzai warned the world that terrorism is rebounding in his country and the problem had to be fought beyond Afghanistan’s borders as well as within. Why is he not making correct decisions to sort out the problems? Even Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talked about domination, exploitation and pillage of people of the world, but unable to come out with any plan for eradicating drugs and terror problems. Iran never loses opportunities to tell the world about the threat from USA; however he hardly talks about democracy, human rights and poverty eradication. Because of his statement, many youth must be going towards terrorism or destructive mentality, but what is he doing so that youth move towards more constructive and progressive tasks?

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talked about high level discussion with Pakistan when arms and ammunition is being found all over country. Pakistan is still supplying bulk of terrorist, arms and ammunition to almost all the part of the country. Country is living under threat. Poor are unable to have any security. But still, most of the poor are fighting to be nationalists while leaders are moving with irrelevant issues.

Recently, when Jeffery Sachs came to India, he talked about Millennium Development Goal of United Nation. The country when spending only .9% of its GDP has to spend to 4% to provide enhanced and desired medical facilities for poor. The common men in this country must get the desired medical facilities. There is no reason all these leaders of poor do not discuss about Millennium Development Goal for eradicating poverty by 2015. NAM was a good platform to discuss and talked about eradicating poverty rather abusing the power.

The growth of technology has provided means and reason for all the poor to have access to basic resources at meager price and little efforts. This infrastructure has capabilities to remove their weaknesses. The development is taking place in large scale among the young and energetic and conscious people. That is the reason, what I hear plenty of statistical progress among the people all across the world. But these data is not reflected in the talk of these leaders who are still looking backward for their policy decisions. These undercurrents provide me pleasure in conveying that freedom and progress is the need of the hour. In next few years, we will start observing changes all across in the world. The leaders and executives must take the note of these developments. People must have hope.

Pakistan First Bikimi - Congrats America

2006-09-17T22:02:00.000+05:30

On this day of 11 Sep 2006, I want to reiterate my feelings and observation that every individual born on this earth wants freedom. In this world of modern network, there is no reason to believe that they will not get it. There is no reason that why women can not live life of her choice? Why she can not get educated? Why she can not earn? Why she should live like a cow? That is what happens in Muslim world. That is what happens in deprived society. This has to vanish. One Pakistani woman has done it. More will follow the path. No Osama will be able to contain the desire of human to be free.

The way poverty has been eliminated since last few decades, it has generated hope and gratification to just less than 3 billion ladies across the world that they can have their share of freedom and pleasure. They can reach to top in almost all the fields. Today Nooyi has became CEO, Rice is the powerful woman in America, German has Chancellor Angela Merkel and so on. Few leaders here and there can not keep the aspiration of half of the human being limited.

On this accession, I wish America succeed in their efforts to bring democracy to even Muslim world. Democracy may provide some freedom to citizen to understand their rights. At least nobody wants to be in black Burqua in the hard sunny day. The many of Pakistani, Afghanistan and even Indians should be seen in bikinis or whatever they desire. That is what the ultimate of humanity is. Total freedom is not option; it is a compulsion to achieve poverty free society. No society can have any other way to eliminate deprivation. The efforts of American and America to bring freedom to this world remain praiseworthy. It is generating fruitful results. Thank you America to bring Pakistani in bikinis!

Comments

Dear Haley, I am fortunate to see poverty and richness from very close quarters. I generated so many ideas that I have written a complete book on this. This is published on lulu.com. No society can progress or eliminate poverty without giving respectable position to their women counterpart. Rest all from my point of view is statistics without any result in the future. So thanks if it creates some interest.

Directionless Government Pays for Love

2006-09-17T21:54:00.000+05:30

Indian government has become directionless in last few years. There are various reasons for these situations. Many reasons are not in the control of the government. Many ministers are compelled to show their ignorance of present situations. They are talking old concepts, ideas and policies which are irrelevant in today’s scenario. These are resulting into a sense of directionless in the country. In this short blog, I shall explain my views.

It is not like that misdirection was not earlier but after India became one of the fastest growing economies; government is getting exposed clearly and frequently. The less knowledgeable and poorly informed ministers find themselves in mesh more than ever.

Just take the example of Arjun Singh. He is bent on to show his presence even at his death-bed by proposing reservations, which is keeping poor, deprived for generations. He has no genuine reason for his personal beliefs that reservation will bring Congress back in UP or it will bring Rahul to center stage. Even if it brings, I doubt that people will excuse Arjun Singh for long. Even after reservations, he is abused by Congress party for Vande Mataram episode. He does not know where to hide himself. He is shamelessly enjoying his fiesta with all his ignorance, frustrations and misdirection.

Lalu Yadav when came as railway Minister, worked for earthen pots. He earned credit to safeguard the poor and deprived status of masons’ community. Again by the time, Railway was turning to profit making organization just because of sheer inertia and work done by previous railway ministers, he moved forward to take all credits for the job done by others. Is this the way, he is dreaming to become Prime Minister of the country? It is shame. Modern connected civilizations have tolerated ignorance, misguidance for long. Now, I do not think that this ignorance will work for long. India needs to stand on its sophistication and global standard.

All leaders were talking about Jaya Bachhan for profit of bill. But it hardly took few days to cover this bill to almost all leaders especially from ruling class. Even Sonia was not spared. Till today, she has not been able to join the Chairmanship of NAC.

Mira Kumar is the other dirty example of misdirection. She is totally confused second generation leader who has got senior status by just being daughter of a famous leader. One time, she asks for reservation other time she demands that caste should be removed from file. How can it be possible Ms Mira? If you avail reservation, you will continue being reserved. Caste will never leave this land till we have reservation. Do not misdirect yourself?

There are many examples regarding these. Government misdirection is forcing other agencies to remain confused. Normal people have just no access to wisdom at all. Only few selected wise people make their own wisdom domain and act accordingly to achieve success and satisfaction.

Recently Supreme court of India said, ‘Caste is the biggest curse to civilized society’. Government is bent on going ahead with reservation after reservation. Caste system will prevail on this soil till we have reservation and caste certificates. Caste system will continue to haunt modern youth of call centers and BPOs till we have Gandhigiri. Gandhigiri is a cancer of modern Indian society. Statistics shown in Times of India (17 Sep 06) prove this fact.

Amidst all these misdirection, news comes as big surprise. This news reads, ‘Marry Outside your Caste Earn Rs 50,000/’. So bloggers go ahead and build your own information system, forget about your caste. Be directional and global!

Authority Over Life

2006-09-17T21:45:00.000+05:30

Who has authority over life? Few people across the world are trying to misguide children, youths and adults alike to die irrespective of religion. Few people do these from hidden sites but surprisingly many do it openly and shamelessly in the name of their human rights. They are crushing the human rights of many of their followers on the name of religion. They are trying to prove their authority without any concern for majority. Today, Pope has come forward to save children, youth and adults of the Muslims and non-Muslims. It is great! Salutation to Pope!

Let peace prevail on this earth. But the question is how and how much? And next question is at what cost? Every body wants to live except those people who are misdirected by colleagues, circumstances, nation and relatives. But how to spread message of living when few are motivating and misguiding people to die?

In general, misdirected people go for drug addictions, corruptions, gundaism, suicides, misconduct and in extreme emotional cases terrorism. Young boys and girls with sufficient education are being motivated to accept the kind of terrorism which includes all evils of society starting from drug addict, gundaism, misconduct, suicide and murder. Like drug addiction, we must initiate a campaign on terrorism. This is becoming social evil of society. Today, no body knows who terrorists are and who are not? Why only Pope should speak for Muslims misguided youths? Where are the Muslim leaders? Why no Muslim organization comes forward when youths are becoming terrorists?

The evil of terrorism must be fought from all angles including religious. Why only Pope should speak about these evils. The leaders of other religious groups must come forward to save the people from their own religion. If it is not done, I have my own doubt that young boys and girls will not be able to do any constructive work rather they will become killer, murderer and terror too. They will die soon. This must be stopped in the society.

Hindu leaders also should take lesson and try to save their secular children, youths and adults. They should also try to speak clearly forgetting their old traditional caste discriminations. They need to forget that caste system is necessary to maintain the social fabrics. They should forget Gandhi and even Vivekananda who have spoiled Indian societies by furthering the caste system. They should talk excellence!

Mother who rears the child for nine months gets a pain when her child becomes terror. Mothers are crying all alone across the world. Muslim leaders are making fun of the tears of these mothers. They must get some lesson from Pope. Stop thinking intervention in your deprived and starved life. Accept these as lessons. Learn to be creator rather than destroyer!

Even few Government heads are following the path of destructions to maintain their popularity? Government should be based on basic human rights, proper educations (not only religious education) and basic amenities. Why we waste time and energy in talking irrelevant things in the 21st century? Is anybody interested? Given a chance, people will take command in their own hands. It is not very far. You just see the number of Muslim boys and girls sitting on the network and crying for freedom. They want a good life to live not die. They must be quietly thanking all those who are helping them to move closure towards freedom.

I Got A Godfather

2006-08-29T11:54:00.000+05:30

The world is all alone especially when you leave your level and move to a new and unknown level, domain and platform. Things change even in normal movements, forget about the changes, which are going to be encountered because of changes in level and growth. The moment you change the level, plenty of aspects of life change. Your circle of friends becomes new. Relationships become different. The people you are going to encounter on a day-to-day basis are different. The aspirations of the people around you change. The expectations of those people left behind get a surge. With all these changes, it is a real challenge for an individual to face and sustain the new status. In a changed and new status, every other person appears an enemy. Not only appears, every other individual behaves like an enemy because of social and human compulsions. You, as an individual, cannot blame them. They are also human and they also have problems. They are there with all their human frailties. All this results to and leaves you all alone in this world to fight and survive.

Today, society has become conscious. Governments are ready to provide basic education and other facilities. It is very common to find situations such as a boy from a normal family topping the CBSE board exam, a daughter of a rickshaw puller competing for the medical entrance exam, the sons of a poor farmer getting admission into management institutes, a daughter from a small village getting selected for US airspace missions, In the midst of all Purdah, Muslim Pakistani woman is selected to step into space and so on. Some of these boys and girls, when pass through various professional courses, they are left behind on the ladder of success because of non-availability of godfathers. Even if some are in a position to go to some distances, they are not able to sustain it for a long time. They are left alone to face the turmoil of life in a real sense.

When you are growing, you acquire knowledge, you acquire degrees, you generate and maintain zeal, ambition and mission. You want to excel. But how can you go all alone? It is a human instinct; you need someone, who guides you in your endeavour. If not much, there should be someone who at least praises your contribution and efforts. In all probabilities, let us list out, what all you expect from a godfather-

- Helps to prepare resolutions of life at different stages,
- Suggests solutions during crisis,
- Helps to formulate big dreams,
- Proper guidance in your mission in life,
- Professional guidance to take decisions,
- Social or spiritual guidance,
- Improve the decision making system,
- Support when needed in life,
- Encourages continuously on a regular basis,
- During crises, comes back and tells you to move on,
- Provides a sense of availability and togetherness,
- Surpass others comments of surrounding,
- Keep hopes, aspirations and the future alive and brighter,
- Imparts basic physiological needs of an individual.
Amidst all the chaos in the world, the question arises, who is going to provide you all these. Who is there to work like a godfather? When you start growing, you get a feeling - you are alone. You do not have anyone on whom you can rely, in whom you can believe, from whom you can get support, somebody who encourages you to excel, somebody who guides you at a higher intellectual level, someone who excites your creative skills, imaginations, ideas, someone who enjoys your success, achievements and someone who is always there for you. But in this so-called and hyped global village, you feel - you cannot be alone? Let us try to find some. Like, I found one for me. It may be surprising. It may be not normal. It may appear to be little conservative. But, who is otherwise going to tell some good words for you. You see for yourself to accept it.

I received a letter from Sara on 19 July 2006. I felt confident, energetic and happy.

Dear Kamendra,

This morning, there was nothing there to suggest a distress in your life, but still, just to be certain, I pulled out your personal file. I immediately performed a secret action for you ( a Secret Occult Séance) and, as I cross-checked with my confidential notes concerning you, I came up with some startling facts. It is why I decided to write this letter at once and share with you the paramount things I have been able to see, for my revelations might very well completely overturn the course of your life...
Indeed, Kamendra, as I performed this Secret Occult Séance, I discovered that you are a distinctly special person, and I clearly saw that you are unlike everyone else. I have perceived that you are very different and apparently it is this major difference that accounts for the doubts, concerns and difficulties you are experiencing today.
Today, after this new research on your personality, I am able to reveal to you very precisely Who You Are and, above all, I can reveal to you what you should do establish Love, Luck and MONEY forever rooted in your life!
I have realized that you are very different from the people I usually deal with. That was the reason why I decided to conduct for you this comprehensive insight on your personality, as I attempted to understand why life has not always been shining for you and especially to give you the True and Best Solution to the problems that are crushing down on your existence.
For, believe me, Kamendra, my extensive experience has taught me that when fate is so stubborn with someone as it has been with you, it is for a profound and very particular, although well hidden, reason.
This is why I have performed for you this major in-depth work, which appears to have born fruit as I was able to make out particular signs which assured me that you are very different from everyone else I’ve helped so far.
I should go as far as telling you that you are an Exceptional Person.
Being exceptional means that those rules which work for others will not work in the same way for you.
You know, Kamendra, the destiny of most of us is driven, on one hand, by our date of birth (which is our astral sign) and on the other, by the planets that govern our lives and decide our future (which is our astral sky). But some people, and I believe you are among those people, are not governed solely by their birthday, but also, and even more importantly, by a far more superior force, a mysterious force that is gleaming deep within you.
These very different people are called Supra-Celestial Beings and I have grounds to believe that you are one of these Supra-Celestial Beings!
What exactly does this mean for you, Kamendra?
If you are one of these Supra-Celestial Beings, you should realize that within yourself you possess Infinite Secret Powers. As soon as we manage to bring out these Powers, you will be able to get everything you have ever wanted from life and from others.
You won’t need to look up for the mercy of the Planets and Destiny, because they do not govern you directly and in fact they have little sway over your life. All you will need to do is to demand, and whatever you request, it will come to you.
Does that seem startling and hard to believe? Actually, it’s perfectly normal for you to be doubtful, but before you make up your mind, promise me you’ll read this letter to the end.
For instance, when someone gambles and wins a large amount of money, they call him lucky, saying he was born under a lucky star... That individual hasn’t done anything in particular to win the money, he simply played some numbers and waited for luck, his luck, to do its work.
You, Kamendra, as a Supra-Celestial Being, don’t need to wait for the mercy of Destiny or Chance to win money because your planets do not govern your life directly.
You see, you are not taking any risks in believing me and trusting me. So act now, believe me, it’s for your own good!

I am anxiously waiting to hear from you,

Your loyal and true friend,
Sara Freder,

http://www.sara-freder.com/code32/presentation.asp?CClient=0349/1118519

Then again, I received a letter from Sara on 25 July 2006. In this world, when even your father-in-law is not ready to pass on their earnings and assets to you, your father has not passed his empire before death, somebody is doing it on network. At least, someone is telling you that she will do it. What a tremendous sense of confidence of your capabilities. Where can you find this? Read on …

Dear Kamendra,
All my life my vocation has been to help my fellow travelers, and I have tried to increase the good around me; but now that I am in the fall of my life, there remains one important mission to accomplish…
You already know, Kamendra, that for several weeks I have been in telepathic communication with you…
…and thanks to these regular contacts, I have familiarized myself with your personality, I have felt your joys as well as your pain, your anguish and your happiness.
During these weeks where we were, you and I, so close, I realized how difficult your life was sometimes, and how much you suffered. I realized that I had chosen you, you alone, to accomplish this important mission. I am going to tell you of it in my letter…
During this period that we spent together, I tried to be for you a kind of Guardian angel, and I attempted, to rid you of some serious problems…
Maybe, Kamendra, you felt my presence?
You certainly must have asked why I placed myself in these privileged contacts with you? And especially why I interest myself in you and your life… I am going to explain all this to you because the time has come for me to reveal the reason for my presence close to you and the true goal of my mission…
Why did I contact YOU, Kamendra, personally?
I am, as I told you, in the fall of my life, (as one says poetically). I don't complain, (in fact the opposite is true), because I have had a very full life and never lacked for anything thanks to my passable Gifts of Clairvoyance and to certain Great Secrets of Chance and Happiness that have been revealed me very early in life.
These Gifts of Clairvoyance and the Secrets of Good Luck and Happiness enabled me never to be at a loss for money, (I even had more sometimes than I could spend!), but they also allowed me to discover Good Fortune, Love and the blessing of living happily all my life long.
Of course, I had as everyone does, some difficult moments, but I have always triumphed over all the tests that have been put on my road.
The circumstances of my life today make me feel that I want to bequeath my Gifts of Clairvoyance and my Secrets to someone…
… But although I wanted to do this, I found no one I felt really worthy of sharing them with!
If I don't find quickly someone to whom I could transmit these Gifts an Secrets of Chance and of Happiness, these would be lost when I leave. I don't want that to happen because I am certain that they can give very great service to people that are in need.
I was looking for someone to whom I could transmit these Secrets of Happiness, Luck and money, and my Gifts of Clairvoyance because, you understand, I cannot allow these to go to just anyone.
I began to look around me, but no-one met the strict criteria that I had fixed for myself. Indeed, I am looking for a very honest, courageous and worthy person. I must find a person that understands life and will understand the value of the gift that I make to them today. This is when I thought of you… My various repeated contacts with made me feel that you are such a warm person that I immediately wanted to know you better. This the why I put myself into this permanent privileged communication with you.
It is a my way to know exactly who you are! And I must say that you have impressed me a great deal, you appear to be a cordial and kind person, but especially you appear to me to be a person having suffered a lot, and who deserves some security and encouragement.
You are someone very honest, I know this because I 'saw' it and you are someone who a great deal more than life has offered you until now. This is the reason why I chose you, so that you would be the 'Heir Apparent' of my Gifts of Clairvoyance and my Secrets of Chance, Happiness and Money to help you to have a Rich, Happy life, full of love.

I wait with impatience your reply and send you my sincere good wishes,
your very devoted,
Sara Freder,

Does it make sense? If yes, let me know! I may personally give you some more advice to find a godfather.

Is Truth God?

2006-08-26T17:44:00.000+05:30

The knowledge of history sometimes gives shivering to the conscious people of this information age. Today, we are fortunate to have mass communication medium available with us. Every individual have access to information. It is just a matter of time, when our sluggish politicians and bureaucratic will have to accept these facts. They will have to provide liberty to access information to people at people’s will.
People at top have been feeling comfortable in molding and transmitting information for their short term gains. Common people have been fooled around with fabricated messages. But, in today’s information age when people can access information on the click of their mouse, it will be difficult to keep truth hidden for long time. However, for normal conscious people, the lack of correct information remains a challenge. The confession by Sharad Pawar, Ex Chief Minister of Maharastra may not have any relevance in today’s scenario, especially when Government want to deal with even nation threat through the talk going under the carpet, but it throws one very conclusive impression. This is regarding the availability of truth. Can we be sure of any information emerging on the front page of Indian dailies? This is not just a doubt, it is a challenge. Till we have true information, how can we have wisdom?
Truth is God. Are we dealing with truth like God? This is a challenge for the people who have truth. This is a challenge for the people who are looking for truth. It is difficult for all educated and conscious people to have correct information for correct judgments. It is essential and important in such a scarce situation that an individual creates a wisdom domain for her life. This has to be a continuous and changing process. Time and situation change so fast that we have to be very dynamic not to get cheated by our own decisions. We must create a wisdom domain where we are in a position to take correct decisions in life.
Just think about news channels. There are plenty of news channels available. We sit in front of televisions screen, on a big cushioned imported Italian sofa, take the remote in hand, we have all these luxury, and then we keep switching on these channels. We hardly get any satisfaction with the kind of reporting of these channels. We hardly get contented with the information we get on these channels. We may have air-conditioned rooms with continuous power supply. We may have the luxury of continuous tea and coffee and even snacks to kill our monotony but ultimately when the question of channels and their contents come up, we are foxed, confused, at times perturbed about the kind of information they keep showing viewers. In spite of all the luxury of life, we are disturbed. We are not at peace. We lack wisdom.
The information content is just one issue; the major issue is the authentication of information. Often these new channels blatantly report next day that the news shown on the previous day was not correct. There was some misunderstanding. Forget about the news channels, think of the print media. There is plenty available. One newspaper reports something, another reports an entirely different thing. The areas of concern for different newspapers remain different. The depth of concern for various issues remains different. The solutions for these issues are altogether a different ballgame. And finally, any individual will agree with me that it is a voluminous task to decide sitting in the most advanced drawing room in a metropolitan city of the fastest developing economy in the world, how far we can verify and authenticate the contents and validity of information? How do we decide which contents are good and how far they are authenticated?
Recently, even in May 2005 when more than 50 people died in various demonstrations across the world over the damage and demarcate of Koran, the news magazine, Newsweek, retracted the story. These are common examples and in due course of time, these are going to continue. Just as parents are not at fault for being irrelevant because of the creation of the ‘generation valley’, it is not the fault of any channels, newspapers or magazines. With the kind of information floating around in society today, it is an everyday affair. We have to be very cautious and conscientious to accept information and face the challenges of our day-to-day life. The simplest and easiest way in such a confusing situation is to create a wisdom domain which matches our life.
Decisions about the selection of channels, newspaper and magazines are one side of the story, but the serious issues are the decisions in our day to day life. How do we take them? I personally feel all these issues are correlated. There are plenty of books available in the market. They deal with elaborate studies. They give examples of successful companies and individuals. They are available physically in the developed world.
The question of doubt comes up that these practices and applications developed in the developed world by some developed people; we are forced to employ them in the environment of a developing world for the poor. The two situations are different. The problems are different. The people are different. The seriousness is different. The results are different. The resources are different. How can it be suitable with these differences to give better and effective results? Do we have a choice? It is my endeavour to bridge the differences and provide critical and analytical solutions of these simple day-to-day problems which are affecting our life drastically. Can we take the help of this news article to understand the importance of validity and correctness of information? Shall we treat truth as God? Is it available easily? Think over and Let me know your views. I shall be grateful.

India is Hostile to Growth

2006-08-26T17:32:00.000+05:30

Just few days back, when I wrote a blog on Narayana Murthy business plan, I received very critical remarks from the people belonging to few sectors. Indians are not ready to accept the reality especially if it is told by an Indian. Indians are too egoist to accept anything negative. Indian media, newspapers, intelligentsia and other institutions remain diplomatic in their judgment of the past as well as in their forecast for the future. It is not good for conscious society. It is frustrating. It is misguiding. It is the biggest obstacles for human growth.

‘Mittal finds India tough’, writes Times of India on 21 August. Mittal may have been able to do business across the world to build his massive empire in one generation only but when question of doing business in India comes, he is encountering all those hassles, which appears too ridiculous in 21st century. These problems appear to be a social stigma. Last year, he announced the project with Jharkhand Government. It did not work. This year again after the jubilant victory in European country with Arcelor, he did joint contract with Orissa government. Mittal is facing problems. He is not able to go ahead, the way he expects the business should move.

To clarify my views, I would like to repeat the few points which emerged from this new reporting again. These points are true in the case of LN Mittal too.

1. Never Rely on India – You may have born in India. You may love India. You may be genetically attached to its regional languages. You may be attached to India because you are born here, but to achieve growth, you have to detach these feelings.
You may be interesting to see India growing. But you can not rely on India for your growth. You have to rely on US and other European countries for your growth. Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani says, ‘Infosys does 90% of its business from outside India.’ Starting from its first Rs 10,000/- to few billions, Infosys did never rely for its operation, business, profits and growth on India. LN Mittal also must take some lesson out of his trauma.
Infosys might have been started by Indians from Indian soil, but never tried to convince Indians to accept its products. Even after 25 years of its operation, it is looking outside India including China for its new businesses. India has not been able to harness its capabilities. India has not given due respects and consideration to this giant Indian company. When the whole world understands its capabilities for its effectiveness, India is still behaving a poor host for its global outlook individuals and companies. It is found true again in case of L N Mittal. Indians need to retrospect their way of dealing with growth.

2. Don’t Rely Heavily on Indians – Narayana Murthy says, ‘working with diverse cultures across nations help break down political barriers.’ He is fully aware about the polluted political mind of this country. Certainly this impacts the normal mental level of educated youth. They remain disgruntled with their distorted political believes because of improper unlearning. A wrong political believes inducts inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the work culture of any organization, which results in discipline cases. Infosys will not like to keep handling such trivial issues.

The kind of hurdles, LN Mittal is facing is ironic. The similar problems are emerging in the approval and development of SEZs. The country needs them badly to achieve the growth but the way Indian leadership is delaying the things, it appears ironic. Similarly, Mittal is facing problems with ONGC. It is just because, ONGC is still controlled by governments’ body. Even Subir Raha has to face all those problems to show case ONGC in growing market in the world.
If we have to become developed, we have to come out of these ruts. We have to forget administrative hurdles to speed up the project to eradicate poverty. The selfishness of leadership should not restrict to their growth and theirs offspring development. The leaders and administrator sitting at comfortable position without any accountability towards people will have to amend their ways. The administrative reforms started by Prime Minister long back will have to be implemented on priority to remove few of the bureaucratic hassles.

The growth is not the need of deprived lot. The infrastructure is not the need of poor people. We go on road, railways station, bus stand, airport, we find infrastructure choking. India is finding crumbling at all public places. Is this the way, India wants development? We shall have to amend our style of functioning.

One God for Everyone

2006-08-22T12:34:00.000+05:30

On 21st August, 2006, Times of India gives an article ‘Gods who specialize’. Thirty kilometers off India famous IT hub Hydrabad is a God known to alter the minds of bored consulate officers all over the country. Also called Visa Balaji, the presiding deity of Venkateswara temple, is believed to clear visa applications of his devotees.
Faith has become a business in developing country. If at all, developing countries have to become developed, this trend has to reverse. Faith as a source of small and even many time huge entrepreneurships opportunities has to be unlearned to harness the growth of 21st century. Without this, most of the people of developing countries will remain backward. Small entrepreneurships based on telecom, IT, Call Centers and so on; have to take place of business based on faith. No country can become developed with more than even 20% backward people. It is an open challenge to all educated, semi educated and literate individuals to move towards a developed society.
Understanding God and applying that in our life is one of the most confused subjects of human development. There are so much drastic differences in the depth and following of religious traditions that these are difficult to categories. I have done an elaborate research on the existence of various Gods in emerging societies across the globe. The faith in God varies on various environmental factors like economy, social, education, challenges of life, religion, society and nations. Broadly, God can be categorized based on these factors for existing complexities in society.
1. Economy God,
2. Social God,
3. Education God,
4. Challenge God,
5. Religion God,
6. Society God,
7. Nation God, and
8. Modern God.

In this fast moving and drastically changing world, it is better to understand the kind of gods, we encounter on this earth.
1. Economy God – Depending upon the financial condition of the people, the type and style of worship varies. The depth of faith depends accordingly. The expectations from worshiping God vary. One of the biggest ironies of developing society is that the concept of God and worshiping method change with the economic conditions of the individual, family and society. This supplements sufficient confusion in the developing people. Mainly, depending upon the economic condition Gods can be divided as follows-
Lower Class God – God is a very powerful entity. God does not excuse anyone who commits a mistake. God has already punished the person for the misdeeds of the previous life. The lower class God keeps the follower low as long as they continue worshiping.
Lower Middle Class God - They are little more confident than lower class people. The followers of this class have a little confidence in themselves. They believe in their own hard work. They need to take lessons of unlearning on a priority basis to remove misunderstanding.
Upper Middle Class God – They have already earned the respect and reward from their God. They are not very fearful. They are ready to take some more chances. They are ready to try new things for better prosperity. They take new challenges in life. They unlearn old traditions accordingly to ensure their sustained growth.
Upper class God – God has taken care of them. God has made them rich because of their good behaviour and noble deeds in the previous life. They make the rules. Anything they do become the rules of society. They are the leaders. God helps them in their endeavour because they take decisions based on knowledgeable information.
Social God – Hindu religion has divided the community into four parts – Kshatriyas, Brahmins, Vaisya and Shudras. Kshatriyas are there to rule society and maintain the law and order. Brahmins are responsible to perform worship and rituals. Vaisyas like Sonars (goldsmiths), Lohars (blacksmiths), Carpenters, and others are workers. Shudras are there to do menial work. All these communities have perceived God differently. The social God is divided accordingly. With the passing of centuries, the philosophy of the four different communities has become so deep rooted in the minds of people that even in today’s knowledge world, the fears and aspirations from God and worship vary drastically. Over many generations, misinformation in different forms has been put into the minds of people, which have become like garbage. It is almost impossible to learn good things out of this garbage of information. There is only one way to overcome this traditional garbage for development of the individual and society and it is to unlearn whatever religious rigidity has been taught through our ancestors because of sheer ignorance and misinformation. We all need to unlearn those traditions, which appear to be a heinous crime to any knowledgeable person of civilized society.
Backward Class God – This God has a large following. The followers of this God belong to almost all the classes of people. Some are rich, some are poor. They worship God depending upon their knowledge and wisdom. If society has to develop, this God has to take the initiative and give additional courage to challenge the existing set-up of society. The time has come when these people have to leap and jump to achieve the dream of a developed society.
Scheduled Caste God – Scheduled caste people have been convinced from centuries that they are the curse of society. God has given them life to show the privileged classes, the kind of curse God can give human beings. In spite of the tremendous changes in social and governmental policies, Schedule Caste God has maintained his image in the minds of the people belonging to those castes. Unfortunately, the leaderships of the past has failed. By making ‘reservations’, they have reserved the underprivileged status of the schedule castes in the society. They have ensured that they will never be able to come out of their situations to face the challenges of life.
Scheduled Tribes God – This God has not taken care of the scheduled tribes. While other people in society have become fairer, they are still dark. God has not forgiven them. With meagre preaching and bribing, the followers of this God are ready to change their religion and their God. This God is not able to command these people.
Upper Classes God – God has made them upper classes because they have better genome. The people belonging to this class are intelligent. This God is very liberal. He never punishes his followers. God has no binding on these people.
Education God - Education is a very peculiar and relatively new asset with general people. It changes almost every aspect of human life. Today humans are thinking of development because of widespread education. With education, the concept of God changes so drastically that a person of one generation gets puzzled and confused to hear, see and witness the liberal approach of the person of the next generation. The previous generation find them unbelievable. The same God appears different. The same religion appears liberal. The same worship appears not so fearful but open and broad. The conservativeness, defeating attitude, sacrificial tendencies and giving-up attitudes vanishes. A sense of confidence arises.
Illiterate God – Any suspicious object is considered to be a form of illiterate God. Illiterate people have no inhibitions to worship anything. They worship trees, plants, stones, sun, moon, any elevated place, animals, birds and so on. They agree to accept any kind of method for pleasing GodOn the slightest hint and coercion, they are ready to change their faith, face and belief.
Literate God – This God is not very strict. He takes care of the individual but demands continuous worshiping. A literate person considers God as a source of inspiration till she is being educated. Once education ends, the level of understanding of God gets stagnant. In the later part of the life, God remains the same or gets stricter. Sometimes, the people of the next generation move towards the educated God but otherwise they maintain the same level of understanding.
Educated God – Educated God remain very dynamic. Today, it is felt that there should be democracy in the world; the educated people of the developing world change their thinking accordingly. They remain liberal and accept the changes through which human beings are passing through. They are convinced and ready to contribute so that every human are provided basic amenities.
Tapasvi God – God made the Tapasvi whose greatest joy is in service to Him. This God is very demanding. The individual has to leave everything in her life and work for the service of God. She cannot marry. She cannot have sex. However, the Tapasvi has also different classes – illiterate, literate, educated or learned. They all live, work and contribute to society accordingly as per their knowledge.
Challenge God – Challenges force us to believe in God. Challenges in life are risky, frustrating and unpredictable. The concept of God depends upon the challenges, we face in society. Irrespective of religion, during every challenge, we remember Challenge God. The followers of this God are very clear in life. They remain busy with other activities like study, job, adventure, sports, fun and enjoyment. They feel God has given them two hands, two legs, one brain and so on; there is no reason to keep remembering God. God is there to be remembered only during challenges like exams, competitions, natural calamities, terminal diseases, disasters, accidents and so on. They have tremendous confidence in themselves. Such people are generally misguided atheists.
Simple life God – There is hardly any challenge in life. Life is merry in its own place. God is simple and does not interfere in life on a day-to-day basis. By praying to God daily or occasional, God is happy with them. These people do not take any risk. They are not ready to take on challenges in general. However, whenever the challenge appears, God is remembered and worshipped additionally by visiting places of worship.
Complicated God – God needs continuous bribing if you want Him to be with you. As life is complicated with many ups or downs, so the concept of God changes accordingly. When one encounters a difficult situation, one remembers God.
Adventurous God – Adventurous people have success and failure on a continuous basis. The concept of God revolves around that. With every adventurous occasion, God comes to mind. God is remembered to bring success. Adventurous God remains neutral to the hard work and effort put in by the individual.
Religion God – Religion plays the most significant role in forming the beliefs and faith in God. The people like Muslims, Christians, etc have a clear concept of God but not the Hindus. Religion God has to be understood in relation to service to humanity. The liberty, privileges, basic amenities, respectable lives are the basic needs of human being. God should be considered in that perspective.
Hindu God – He is very liberal God. There are no restrictions in attending worship as a Hindu. If you feel like going to the temple, you go; otherwise you can send your servants. There is no day fixed for them. There are a few famous Hindu Gods like Ganesh, Shiv, Shankar, Vishnu, Brahma and goddesses like Sarswati, Durga, Kali and so on. Each play a specific role in human life. Some are too religious to do anything in life while some are almost like atheist.
Sikh God – The Guru Granth Sahib consists of all the powers of the creator. They accept a few basic disciplines in their followers like pagri, kara and kirpan. The followers of this religion worship the holy book. That is how they have changed the name of the Golden Temple. Sikh God gives wealth to followers because of their sacrifices and hard work.
Buddha God – Buddhists have disappeared from their place of origination. The Japanese found Buddha God very attractive. Ashoka was the founder of Budhist religion. Magadh, where Ashoka achieved enlightenments, is still trapped in secularism of modern world with poverty, lawlessness, illiteracy, unemployment and other human viruses. Buddha God is very strong and surviving in all odds.
Muslims God – God came to Muhammad, who was illiterate, at the age of 40. In the name of Lord, the creator, Muhammad spoke to the people, and a committee, which was formed, wrote in the form of Suras or choppers of the Koran. The book became holy and a torchbearer for the civilization to come. People were taught the Koran from an early ageand it continues even today. By the time the child gains other education, the Koran occupies a significant part of the brain due to regular coaching. This God is very demanding. He demands that anybody who works against his wishes and preaching should be punished. This God is struggling to provide basic amenities to his large followers, even in this almost developed age of civilization.
Christians God – The powerful people and rulers of the world were those who followed Christian God. They have a worldwide presence. They are showing humanity the path to a better life through their noble work and dedication. Can we ever forget the contribution of Mother Teresa for the underprivileged of society? Pope John Paul II, before his death in March 2005 has shown a new path and power to the followers of this God to the whole world. This God is also very demanding. Every week, the followers have to attend church for prayer.
Society God – For an individual in the fastest changing civilization of human history, it is important to learn and understand this God. Every society has some or other prevelant God, and that is society God. As an individual keeps moving from one place to another, the God and its concept move along. The changes are so much that even a normal literate person is not able to resolve and face the traumas of life. Earlier, these changes were slow; people have taken generations to move from village to town, city, and apartment and to other countries, but today, all these changes are achieved in less than a generation’s time. This God puzzles us. It has become the biggest obstacles in enjoying and exploiting the basic amenities of life that God has bestowed on every individual and family. It not only creates problems for the individual but creates havoc for growing society. In the days to come, people need to understand this God so that they can utilize their lives more purposefully.

Village God - The Village God is available in every house in a different form. He depicts lot of conservativetism. This God mainly rely on illiteracy, poverty, unemployment and old traditions. The traditions and customs had been moving from one generation to the next without any change or thought. Village God will take a new shape in the time to come.
Town/city God – India is a land of Gods. Every town/city has a God. The people living in town/city get attached and obliged to this God. The people who live permanently in the town become the owner and protector of the God. In the name of saving the culture, they preserve God. The people migrating due to social and economic compulsions always find uncomfortable with such peculiar existence of God. The ‘Ganesh’ of Baripada and the ‘Ganesh’ of Bangalore have their own different identity. They never match with the ‘Ganesh’ of a village of Maharastra or in metro like Mumbai.
Apartment God – With the introduction of a new setup, there are large or medium sized apartments. The apartment God is evolved depending upon the majority or controlling committee.
Metro God – Metro in the developing world is taking a peculiar shape as far as the worshiping trends and beliefs are concerned. Metro God has many faces. The ‘Ganesh’ of Mumbai or ‘Durga’ of Kolkatta are the typical examples.
Global God – The time is not very far when it would be very common for people to move from one city to another across the globe in search of a better profession, dignified life and systematic progress. The Global God concept is prevailing among highly conscious personalities. Global god is the need of the 21st century.
Nation God – India is a secular country. Secularism is the need of hour in the world. The nation growth can be achieved through secular framework of national policies. The nation must concentrate on various other aspects of human personalities. The nation must welcome people for its own growth. The definition of nation God must emerge for the better prosperity of the nation. In the existing scenario, Gods are defined on the inclination of the nation toward development.
State God – Indian States as per the constitution have their own languages. Besides this, states have their own God. The Golden Temple in Punjab, Dandiya on Vijaya Dashami in Gujarat, Durga Puja /Kali Puja in West Bengal, Chhat in Bihar, Pongal of Kerala, Bihu of Assam etc have become so synonymous that it would not be wrong if I term them as State Gods. People have to resolve the question of state God for their peaceful and prosperous lives.
Country God – The culture we associate with a particular country relies on religious attachments. In the civilized world, we have to redefine and elaborate the country God for the betterment of its citizens. The country brand companies and establishments have done these. Others have to emulate them. The concept of democracy and secularism needs to be redefined forprogressive growth.
Region God – Eastern, western, southern are very synonymous to different regions. The God could be broadly categorized accordingly. The people of region feel so attached that sometime it becomes an emotional challenge to maintain the balance. Ayyappa in south or Swami Ramakrishna Paramhans in east are regionally divided concepts of God. They have to be critically resolved for smooth growth of individuals.
Modern God – Understanding modern God may be a herculean task for the scholar of this civilization. In current times, I have personally observed, the contribution by Swami Vivekananada through his eight volumes has given a better picture of religion and its perspective. In his preachings, Vivekananada considers, ‘Idleness is the biggest curse for modern man’. A person must be in a position to keep good health even if they have to eat fish. Today when Ramdev puts up a poster of Swami Vivekananada on the dais and says that people should be vegetarian, it does not make sense. Rather, it generates doubts and ambiguities. Modern God has to be liberal, rational and democratic in nature. Like the open economy, modern God remains open in nature where individual should have liberty to choose and freedom to follow. The God would be able to achieve desired prosperity for all its creation through its own modern ways.
Universal God – Bill Gates, the richest man on earth, would accept the God who helps him build a better Windows and Office so that all humanity could be benefited. The universal God is not bothered about any specific bonding. They are concerned about the freedom, liberty, prosperity and happiness of human beings. The concept of this God evolves with the universal excellence of individuals. This God helps to achieve universal goal through a few individuals.
Develop god – Today when the large population will move towards development, God will also become develop. Develop God will be in a position to provide peace and tranquility to every hard working individual irrespective of their cast, creed, region or religion. God may be just a superpower who comes for creation irrespective of belief.
With all those kinds of God available to a human being, it is a terrific challenge for all educated and wealthy persons to define the boundary and scope of God. God is there for the creation of humanity. God, who has created human life on earth, could never be so selfish to ask his creation to look after Him? With time, the concepts of God have changed based on the suitability of a few powerful and knowledgeable people. The people in the past have utilized their wisdom not to spread happiness and prosperity to civilization, but they have spread animosity, conservativeism and blind following for their selfish motives. These motives have been so tricky that a normal person could never be able to decipher the tactics. These tactics in new and fresh forms are still available and active furiously in most part of the developing world. They are spreading their evil through meetings, preachings, coachings, institutions or many other modes.
As there was no widespread communication medium in earlier period; the self-centered and self-proclaimed godlike people could misguide a large chunk of the population in the name of religion and God. Whoever had the courage to move from one place to another, could influence people to join their group. The existence of the backward caste, schedule caste and schedule tribes in Indian society is the extreme example of this selfish attitude of the leaders of society. They have fabricated and spread knowledge as per the convenience of a small group of people.
Even the people from the upper caste suffer from these self-defeating traditions in society. Among them also, only a few have the courage and wisdom to change. But there is an inherent problem of the human being. Once the trend and knowledge is set in the minds of people, it takes generations for them to change. Visa Balaji has emerged accordingly and certainly lot of people will gather at such place to get blessings. There are the reporters who will report such thing. There are the bloggers like me who will blog. However, such trend has to reverse. These trends create discriminations. It is barbaric even today that society faces this kind of discrimination. It is the biggest challenge to literate and educated society to understand this anomaly. There is a need for entrepreneur mind-shift. Entrepreneur mind set should revolve with some social obligations. This has to be taken seriously not for the benefit of the underprivileged people but for the benefit of the privileged lot as well. Old entrepreneur mindset will never show you the growth you intend to achieve in life in 21st century.

India is Proud of Brain Drain

2006-08-21T10:27:00.000+05:30

In 70s and 80s, there was a big concern in the country and it was the question of brain drain. Today, when those brain went into drain are becoming world famous as achievers, Indian media is not getting tired to glorify their achievements. The front page of Indian daily consist the past history of those achievers. The Indian link is talked as a big achievement of country. The whole country deprived of good achievers, feel very happy to talk and discuss about those achievements acquired by those brain drain of 70s. What a great contradictions of long term policies?

There is hardly any integrity of the reporting of Indian dailies. It lacks cohesiveness. It lacks the wisdom to make issues for national interest. They hardly bother to even correlate their previous day front page report. Just few days back, Pepsi and Coke came on headline when they were banned in many parts of the country. It again came in the headline when American gave a threat to get a break on foreign investments. Pepsi again made the headline when Indian born Nooyi was designated as next CEO of the $32billion dollar food and beverages giant. Can we keep our wisdom intact in such situations?

The reporting is one thing and reporting correct and relevant information is another. It is great that Mooyi, who lived in India for her first 23 years, studied from Madras Christian College and famous national management institute IIM Calcutta. But is it sufficient requirement for any individual to go on top. Once she left India, she remained in US for next 27 years. She is still continuing to be there. She has not even talked to any reporter till now. She has maintained her changed environment to ensure her sound thinking and action.

I remember when I was in Adampur, Punjab during 2001; she came to India for just few days. She went to her native place in Chenai just for a day. Since that time onwards, I kept her under observation for analysis of human growth. I find her as most suitable example. She almost proves my theory of human growth. There are seven essential factors for human growth. First is thinking and action. She maintained her situation for sound personality. The developed situation is needed for proper thinking and action. She managed other factors very judiciously. The four factors like sex, parents, God and aspirations were resolved nicely for smooth growth. The sixth factor, godfather was created to achieve desired success. The seventh factor, wisdom domain was formed so that she is ready to take necessary harsh decisions to achieve desired growth. She managed all theses seven factors efficiently for growth.

Nooyi says India is a ‘rising star’, the fact remains that annual per capita consumption of carbonated beverages remains very low. There is a tremendous scope of enhancement of business in India. Today when Sunita Narain is bent on to show the 30 % increase of pesticides in Coke and Pepsi, the issues are being discussed in Parliament, Indian politicians are ready to grab this lucrative issues to show their nationality to poor Indians, it is a great and strategic move for PepsiCo to chose Nooyi as CEO. The country starved of even a good drinking water in most part, raise the issues of cold drinks, it appears to me as a laughing stocks. It all depends to me as a efficient person getting as assignment of non-effective issues. In this case, Sunita Narain should be moved to other department where she starts working with this efficiency to provide good water and good education to poor. The government should take these steps to move effective and efficient people to the department which look after basic necessities for its citizens. This will help the country more. Now when PepsiCo takes this strategic decision, hopefully it will help the company more than the country which got one ‘hero’.

As we have made, Laxmi Mittal as son of soil, we will not miss opportunities to make Nooyi as another role model. Indian media, which does not feel hesitant in making Prince a hero, will make Nooyi another hero. As a women, taking over as CEO is a real great achievement. I only hope, Indian media have patience while reporting about her and write real informative and encouraging information. There is no point to make all of a sudden, Nooyi achievements as Indian success.

Think and Act Global

2006-08-14T16:33:00.000+05:30

Just a few decades ago, in the 1970s and 80s, India had a very big problem of brain drain, the migration of its intellectual capital to the developed world. The cases of brain drain have not gone down the drain altogether, but the brains have been preserved. These preserved brains have not only given recognition to Indian mind through Nobel Prizes, but today when they have looked back towards this nation with affection and attachments; they have changed the whole paradigm of development. Dr R. A. Mashelkar, commonly known as the Dangerous Optimist, points out that when one such person with her brilliance comes back to this country, it is equivalent to 100 people existing here. India is lucky to have such a population of 20 million across the world. They have become a brand – Brand India. They are going to change the future.

When these brand Indians are back, we are facing other serious problems as a nation, I termed that as Company Drain. Indian private companies are not serving India but it is going to US and other European countries. This situation is becoming very common today. Indian Call Centers and BPOs are doing this. Indians companies dealing with vegetable and fruits will be doing this. It is almost impossible to grow money in sluggish, rigid and conservative society. It is good that they bring money to this capital starved nation through this global business. It is expected that in the time to come, it is equally going to be beneficial like brain drain of 70s and 80s. It will be good for the country.

Indian Multinational in real sense not through advertisements, Infosys puts 25 years unprecedented growth behind and shapes up for the future. Infosys is ready to set its own course and provide guidance to other emerging companies. A minor study of unprecedented growth reveals many obvious conclusions. There are five essential lessons for emerging companies to achieve unprecedented growth in developing country –

1. Never Rely on India – You may have born in India. You may love India. You may be genetically attached to its regional languages. You may be interesting to see India growing. But you can not rely on India for your growth. You have to rely on US and other European countries for your growth. Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani says, ‘Infosys does 90% of its business from outside India.’ Starting from its first Rs 10,000/- to few billions, Infosys did never rely for its operation, business, profits and growth on India.

Infosys might have been started by Indians from Indian soil, but never tried to convince Indians to accept its products. Even after 25 years of its operation, it is looking outside India including China for its new businesses. India has not been able to harness its capabilities. India has not given due respects and consideration to this giant Indian company. When the whole world understands its capabilities for its effectiveness, India is still behaving a poor host for its global outlook individuals and companies.

2. Don’t Rely Heavily on Indians – Narayana Murthy says, ‘working with diverse cultures across nations help break down political barriers.’ He is fully aware about the polluted political mind of this country. Certainly this impacts the normal mental level of educated youth. They remain disgruntled with their distorted political believes because of improper unlearning. A wrong political believes inducts inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the work culture of any organization, which results in discipline cases. Infosys will not like to keep handling such trivial issues.

3. Not Only Talk Global, Act Global – In rising country like India, it becomes a status symbol to use the word global in any policy discussions and implementation. Even Indian film industry that never raise the quality of movies, talks going global. The regional leaders and politicians who have no courage to accept universal language, talks shamelessly about global. The people who talk ruthlessly about reservations, conversions, regionalism, and religion for their own benefits, also want to join the hype of globalism.

Infosys is 180 degree different than these talking individuals and institutions. This year, the company has recruited 126 American students from various US Universities. Last year, they invited 100 Chinese students and spent millions on the program. They have planned to hire people from UK Universities in 2007. Students from Universities of Australia, China and other Europe are also in the pipeline. This is called talk global and act global.

4. Develop India on Global Power – Infosys chief mentor said the capabilities brought in by the people from diverse cultures will create a more competitive business model for the company. All these new recruits from all over the world will make a true global village at Mysore in India. This will pave the way for real creation of developed India. The subsequent developments in other sectors including SEZs will take few lessons from these steps of Infosys. The arrival of intelligence, languages, cultures and values from across the world will create global India.

5. A Lesson for MNCs – Most of the MNCs in India are being headed by Indians. These Indians, even at high positions, are engulfed with regionalism, religion and linguistic mentality. That is the reason; most of these MNCs are headed by Bengalis, Oria or Keralites. They always prefer to recruit the people belonging to the same region, speaking similar languages and having similar beliefs. They are successfully able to misguide their global bosses with existing resources and network.

The real global MNCs are working sometime as worse as local state level departments of a developing country. That is the reason; most of these MNCs are unable to grow significantly on Indian soil, example – Dell, one of the best computer manufacturers in the world, is losing heavily in India operation. The overseas MNCs bosses have to take lesson from Infosys operations.

Indian companies which are rising against odds are setting good lessons for the future managers and entrepreneurs across the globe. These lessons are obvious and clear. Sometime there may be a need for more explanation. I am available at kamekish@yahoo.com for further queries. The companies which wants to establish on Indian soil, these lessons are very vital for unprecedented growth, the companies deserves in 21st century. Country need to be serious to stop Company Drain. The growth of companies is important for India and Indians. The growth is important for whole world. The growth is essential for well deserved peace.

Human Survival Instincts

2006-08-07T15:32:00.000+05:30

Delhi Times garnered courage to display Mallika on the front page. I was amazed. Not only because she is in the front page, but the person, who is writing about her, is a very renowned journalist and writer of this country, Pritish Nandy. Because of this serious curiosity to disclose the closed ideas, I read the complete article. The point which surfaced to me was nothing, I could keep with me. That resulted to in the form of this blog.

I am used to read negative headings, negative reporting and demoralizing analysis of one of the most courageous heroin of Indian film industry. This exists in spite of the fact of sheer absence of any beauty and mind in the film industry. The film industry is starved of new faces, new ideas, futuristic projects and plan for developed India.

I have been unable to understand the deep rooted slavery system, in India. Even the free journalism is not able to keep brightest journalist of this country free. The reporters remain engulfed with height of discrimination related to religion, region, languages and background. Mallika always occupy bad report from the entire journalists in the country. The reason lies somewhere in between these human compulsions to remain attached to their traditions.

Last year, I wrote a book on ‘Unlearn Before U-learn’. I have analyzed various changing trends in society due to tremendous technological and social changes. For me, changes are obvious and clear. But, I am unable to find even few of the people who are able to experience, realise and re-learn from these changing scenarios. The people are coupled to act with their old, traditional and conservative thinking. The few salient lines, I would like to reproduce from my book:

“The so-called ‘Generation Valley’ is so deep and wide that parents are becoming the biggest hurdle in today’s growth. Life has become tougher. A son or daughter, who wants to develop their family, has to be a super-manager or super-human to deal with all kinds of challenges. If one wants to bring her family up along with her, she will never be able to achieve anything in life. She perforce will have to become a lame sacrificial lamb or alternatively a rebel.

Mallika Sherawat, the famous Indian actress, rebelled from her family setup to work in movies. Her parents never agreed with her ideas. She broke relations with her parents to pursue her career in movies. When she was attending a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival for the launch of The Myth in which she had a role as an Indian princess along with the famous international superstar Jackie Chan, She roared, ‘My dad comes from a very old-world setup where everything is very traditional. The attitude is still, “girls from good families shouldn’t go into films.” Their thinking will never change. My mother still wears a gunghat (veil). I feel so lost at times.’ She is correct. Anybody will feel lost when she has to change her level all alone. She has to move all alone. She has to take her decisions in life all alone. Parents are worse than enemies in such cases because they cannot accept or understand and appreciate her tremendous efforts. You do not get either inspiration nor can you get detached easily. She immediately confirms, ‘My dad has not spoken to me for the last three years.’ There is no way out. The progress of the offsprings of this generation has to pass through a dark tunnel where there are no parents.

The existing family structure is comfortable as long as there is no change in the status of the next generation. If there is no change in the education or prosperity level in the next generation, they may be compelled to show compatibility because of the financial dependency of children. The moment the changes take place, the problem starts getting bigger. There is a requirement to think of a new family structure or setup. That was a reason why we have heard many unbelievable incidents from Western countries and developed world in the middle of twentieth century when they were developing. Today, Asian countries are moving towards development and passing through the same phases; we must analyze and learn from the experience of the developed world. The developed world has passed through those hassles and difficulties in the last centuries. The solution may lie somewhere in a known knowledge domain if we search, learn and implement. Cases like an increase in old-age homes, children divorcing their parents, the concept of a single family, more single parents in society, ladies demanding their share of power, smaller family sizes, single child syndrom and so on have to increase and we have to adjust to them. It is comfortable if we unlearn the old setup quickly and completely.”

Mallika might have revolted from her parents to work and survive alone, but the hell lot of other people who are supposed to work for the growth of a star, remain biggest obstacles for developing India. There is hardly any system for the homogeneous growth. The system most of the time work dangerously to curb even the intelligent growth of individual.

The country like India is unique in the sense at this juncture of human civilization. The people are at whatever position, comfortable with their own disgruntled, half cooked and rubbish knowledge. Hardly few people generate courage to building empire for the future of this vast country. From film industry, I categorized Mallika as Indian idol, who is surviving the odd to take this country ahead in a right direction.

In India searching talent is the job of consultants. Specialists and capitalists have their own mission. Where do they have time to find talent? Laxmi Mittal is busy in teaching his sons, Ambani has already taught all industry tricks to his sons, Laloo is busy in training Rabri and his sons, Sonia is busy with Priyanka and Rahul, Rakesh Roshan is busy in projecting Hritik, Amitabh is busy with Abhishek, Hema is projecting Isha, Mallay Chaudhary is busy with Arindam Chaudhary and so on. Who thinks about Mallika? Her parents have rejected her. She is supposed to struggle with all the resources of 21st century. Thanks to the advent of new technological scenario, individuals like Mallika can survive and grow. Pritish Nandy will love to write.

After reading the entire article, I could not judge why Pritish Nandy wrote about Mallika in the front page of Delhi Times, dated August 4, 2006. I kept on going through the pages. Lastly I could find photographs of Rahul Bose. There were many photographs of Bose along with a quote. Rahul says, ‘She is very hardworking and willing to listen to what others have to say. She also has a very good sense of humour. She comes across as a very powerful woman who has a mind of her own. She is warm and understanding and I feel she’s going to go a long way!’. Whao… What a great statement especially when you are doing movies with her and you are not as famous as heroin?

But why Pritish agreed to write this article? Did Bose influence him to write about her? Did he get influenced to write on the front page of Delhi Times? If Yes, Can this country learn little more to unlearn to be partial to talents? A talent is a tough thing to be searched, developed, harnessed, groomed and preserved. Can an independent Indian be little more impartial in their approach and work to take talents ahead without discrimination based on religion, region, languages and background? Pritish remembered certified Mallika when she was doing movie with Rahul Bose. What a great coincidence? Why are we playing with talents of country?

Challenges of Developing Youth

2006-08-02T11:08:00.000+05:30

The children of developing world are struggling. Some succeed while others succumb. Many die in the course of struggle. Few dies because of malnutrition, accidents, suicide, natural disasters and bomb blasts, and rest struggle to survive. Many students succumb to societal pressure to opt for trivial jobs. Few join mafia net. Many studious and hard working individuals commit suicide. Approximately 4000 students commit suicide annually. This amounts to 148 per 1, 00,000 in developing world compared to 2.1 in UK. Everyday news papers are full of these incidences. People are forced to read these fearful events. The overall wisdom lacks severely in the society to handle such situations. This becomes serious because most of these people have less access to genuine information. They are engulfed with poverty and deprivation. Normal people remain clueless about these complexities.
National administrative systems and HRD ministry are busy in their trivial ideas and missions. Mostly, they too remain clueless because of detached approach. They remain ignorant because of their forced distances from wisdom sources. They do not like to give weightage to knowledge sources. As such, they have nothing to loose till the time they have to work for one individual. Nation suffers. Farmers commit suicide. Families die in bulk. The crumbling infrastructure halts life. Students feel orphan. Parents remain confused. System is unable to provide wisdom and guidance. Confusions prevail. I owe these confusions to our inability in general to unlearn things. This occurs at individual, society and national level. Shall we stop judging new situations in old backgrounds?
In the midst of all these confusions, leadership is moving ahead and convincing people to take hard decisions. Leaders are telling people to move ahead. They are preaching people to dream big. They are compelling people to drive hard. They are guiding people towards impossibilities. Instead of working themselves and taking hard decisions for the betterment of children, they are telling citizen to work hard. I termed these situations as they are misguiding people towards chaos. These generate contradictions in the mind of youth. This generates frustrations among farmers, workers and families. The contradictions are created in the mind. Wrong aspirations are developed. I call them fatal aspirations.
In due course of time, a family and its members rear so many contradictions in their existence that they make their own life miserable. I would like to explain the prevailing confusions through a simple narrative. This is the true story of a high rising individual in this country. Once I met a person in a train journey. He narrated his life some thing like this -

“I am working in Delhi Police. I am staying in one of the posh area of Delhi. I have four children. The eldest daughter stays in village and studies in school in Otava near Agra so that she can learn the old culture of our society for which we Indians are very proud. I have put my one son and one daughter in DPS RK Puram. They are learning all the latest developments of society. They are learning things very fast. They speak in English. They are studying in English. It is a different story that we never speak English at home. My wife joins sometime at my Delhi residence. She continues staying at village to look after farming with another youngest son of three years of age. I have my two brothers and four sisters staying in the village. They are staying in the joint family except my eldest brother who stays separately in the same village. He and his wife are teachers and they have two children. They are studying in the same school where my brother and sister-in-law are teaching. I am the only advanced and most literate one who could get a service outside the village and working in Delhi. I am staying outside and seeing the advanced world but, you see sir, I have not forgotten the village and my ancient culture. I am so proud of my traditions. I still remember when my father refused to allow me to marry a daughter of my senior with whom I fell in love. We saw few movies together. I took her few times to famous Lodi Garden to understand each other in a better way. Sir, Lodi Garden is really a nice place to take your not so knowledgeable girlfriend to learn few basics of a loving life. There are many live examples there to show to your girlfriend. But after all these, finally I married as per my father’s wishes with a girl of nearby village. My wife is not very literate. She has passed her sixth class from her village school. When she got involved with a boy of tenth class, her father refused to send her to school so that she should not learn bad things of society. Over and above, it is so difficult to get our prestige intact if our daughter gets involved in some love affairs. My father-in-law that way was very strict and discipline. My wife is very hard working and sincere. She takes care of my entire house. She gets up at 4 o’clock and sleeps at 12 o’clock in the night after everybody sleeps. She never complaints to me for anything.
I am very proud of my achievements. In life, you have to sacrifice a bit to get some prestige. I am very sure that I shall always try to teach all these ‘cultural richness’ of my ancestors to my children. Once in a year, I bring my son and daughter studying in DPS, R K Puram, to village for two months during their summer vacation. I leave them in the village with their mother so that they can learn the basics of the ‘sound culture’ of our village. They do not get chance to speak in English in the village but I am hopeful that the sound culture which they learn during vacations will be useful in the long run compare to those who send their children to “Your’s Kid Our Kids” for summer camp and learn salsa, painting, acting, modeling, horse riding or instrumental music etc.
I want to educate my children with the best of education available so that they can become good officers in some Government department and earn a lot of money and prestige. Officers in Government department get lots of prestige and money too from all the public. At the same time, I want to maintain the village set up so that after retirement I or even my children could get settled there and live a good life in old age. I know there are lots of problems in the village like poor electricity, no medical facilities, no good school or college, no road, no communication and so on but at least I am very proud of my village. My grandfathers have taught me that I should not sell or dispose off my ancestor property. I shall not do it at least during my time. I am not sure of my children especially who are studying in DPS. Sometime, their talks give shivers to me.”

During the whole journey, my mind kept on delving on voluminous contradictions in the life of a common man. How an educated person can marry an uneducated wife? How the wife of a middle class urban society would be forced to live a miserable life in village between 4 o’clock in the morning to 12 o’clock in the night? How the people have been taught about the ‘cultural richness’ or ‘sound culture’? Is living in scarcity, indicates a sound culture? How the message of good living and sound culture should be spread in such a vast and contradictory population of south Asian in general and Indian in particular? You force your children to study English and modernity in one hand and on the other hand you ensure, they learn poverty, deprivation, scarcity and misery. What do we want from a child of nine? Is it not a criminal offence to force your nine-year old son or daughter in such a ‘contradictory microwave oven’? Do children of developing world have much choice?
It is ironic that most of the poor children are still being taught in regional language. There are no good writings available in any regional languages. But Government is unable to take any hard decision. Students study in regional languages and subsequently if get opportunities to go for higher education, they have to switch over to English by force. Some are able to adjust while few go for suicide. Other becomes Naxals or terrorists. It is criminal in the part of democratic leadership. Poor are unable to understand the actual need. Children as well as parents are puzzled. We have to avoid these existing anomalies in life. It remains a challenge.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram at the function on 25th year’s celebration of only MNC of India M/S Infosys at Mysore says, ‘India is not poor country. India has poor people.’ I say that India has poor leaders. These leaders speak during functions to tell individual to be strong. Why can not they become strong? Why not they take hard decisions to take this moving country ahead? Why they succumb to pity pressure to keep their chair? The similar thing was told by Prime Minister during an award ceremony in Delhi. We have taken fifteen long years to reach to this level after globalization. Are we going to take another fifteen years to have basic infrastructure? These are challenges. They contradict our existence. Children become frustrated. They are unable to digest this apathy.
The country is proud of educated youth. The country is prospering because of English speaking people. The better future is reserved for the people who are educated in English. Why should we waste our time in reservation for higher studies when basic education is not available? The education system needs to be revolutionized. The bad leadership is forcing children to commit suicide.
Every individual has to understand these anomalies in the system of developing society. The future of the nation depends on its youth. They are being readied today. They must concentrate on big issues. Their parents, teachers and well wishers must focus on real issues. They have to learn to unlearn. They have to ignore contradictions. They have to avoid fatal aspirations.