Gold Is Old

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.