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Are we going belly up as IT Professionals??
The answer for the question posted as a title of this article has to be "Yes" irrespective of whether we take the literal meaning of "Go Belly Up" ( which is the ballooning of our abdomen!!) or we take the phrasal meaning of "Go Belly Up" ( which is undergoing total financial failure!!). It is not a financial failure but a failure which can hardly be compensated with the help of finance. What failure are we talking about?? Or by earning lakhs of rupees per month, are we failing in any way?? By now, questions like these would have taken its incarnation in your beautiful mind. The answer for all such questions is "Yes". It is hard to accept but difficult to ignore either.
We miss to enjoy the most beautiful things in this even more beautiful world. We live a life of darkness and why I say so? We get up before sunrise and go to office and get locked in a tiny cubicle and switch on the computer and keep our eyes busy seeing that for hours!! We are too busy to take a break even which further restricts our exposure to the outside world. We return home after the sunset (sometimes in midnight!!) and sleep and the process continues like a chain reaction but the difference is this is even more dangerous than a chain reaction!! We are never exposed to any things (leave alone sunlight) other than the processor in front of us. Aren't we living in darkness??
We search for money which is not bad, but why do we search for it always?? We don't have to pay for enjoying some of the most beautiful moments. How many of us have gone for a walk early morning and enjoyed the sunrise?? Had diabetes not been there, we will not find many people walking!! How many of us allowed ourselves to mesmerize in music?? "Mozart's symphony was one of the secrets of my success. Every time I hear that beautiful piece of music, I get a new idea", Einstein said. Such is the power of music and we don't have to pay for hearing it. We don't have to pay for spending time with our family, and we will not be charged much for reading good books!!
But we work all day, chase money all day and we lose a wonderful day in the process although we would have gained lakhs on that particular day. I got a message two days back which summarizes everything:
"Life was much simpler when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits"
Has Spirituality become a tool for Perverts??
The hot news at least for the past two days was the exhibition of perversion from a man who masqueraded himself as one of the spiritual leaders in India. He has centers virtually at all places and he has many serious disciples all over the world which is even more shocking. The name of the man is "Nithyananda". For some of the people who don't know about this news, this man Nithyananda was alleged to have wrong relationship with an actress and his pervert feelings towards her was shown in a famous News Channel all over the world. This is not the first time this is happening and this will not be the last.
This incident certainly raises some serious doubts in my mind and one of those is given as the title of this article. Yes. Has Spirituality become a tool for Perverts?? It is one of the easiest ways of performing crime because once they become well established as a spiritual person, people stay behind them as their strength which hides all the illegal activities they perform. Only few exploit the spirituality as the way I mentioned above. But what happens as a result is it affects the whole community.
Who is the root cause for it?? Certainly us. We believe everything without questioning it. If someone says he has got enormous powers and he can rectify all our problems, we believe that. We don't reason why and how and the problem starts there. As they say, common sense is the most uncommon thing in the world. We encourage these least rated fellows and at the end of the day we are blaming him for cheating us.
Think about it. Who cheated us?? Is it he? or we ourselves?
Stand up and Salute the Batting Genius!!
February 24th might not have been celebrated for any special occasion till now, but from now on it would not be an exaggeration to celebrate that day as an "Exhibition of Batting Skills". I have written couple of posts about the artistry involved in the beautiful game of Cricket or for any game for that matter. Cover drive is considered to be the most gorgeous stroke in Cricket. We all can play cover drive but how many of us can play this gorgeous stroke even when all 9 fielders are there inside the circle on the off side. Such is the artistry involved in this game.
I have been privileged to witness some great batting from Brian Lara when he scored 400, Mathew Hayden when he scored 380 and Hashim Amla when he displayed the power of concentration against India not so long ago. If we miss to concentrate even for a single ball, we can only find our stumps going for a toss and that is the beauty of this beautiful game. Why I say all these?? Because, the Master Blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar batted throughout the innings and remained not out at 200 on the wonderful evening of February 24th. I have not seen him giving any chances what so ever during his innings. Concentrating continuously for three and half hours and score runs even after completing 20 years of International Cricket, he has to be the man whom we can look upon and say "Oh, this is how Passionate I should be in whatever I do and it is certain that I will break the record at some point of time"
I was taken by surprise when he crossed 200, not because he has made yet another record, but how can he be so greedy even after breaking so many records. But then I realized, even Greediness is good when it is mixed with Hard work and Passion!!
AIDS remains a mystery as the new vaccine effects wear off!!
Out of the hundreds of mysteries surrounding and surmounting us, AIDS is certainly one among the top 5 if not the first.AIDS was identified in the 1980s and since then it has killed roughly around 25 million people. The amount of people who are getting infected by this deadly virus is increasing day by day. Last September, Dr. Nelson Michael, a colonel at the Walter Reed Army Research institute in Maryland, surprised the world with an experimental vaccine, which can cut the infection of the disease by 31 percent over 3 years.
This gave a new hope to researchers who can build on it and find out a permanent cure for this killer virus. But the effects of this new vaccine have started to ebb and this has struck another nail in researcher's coffin. When speaking about this in conference, Dr. Nelson Michael has said that the 16,000 Thailand volunteers who tested the vaccine were not at the high risk of infection. But the researchers have kept their hopes alive as this has resulted in yet another dimension in this field of research.
As they say, every problem born with a solution. Some solutions can be arrived quicker, but some will take longer than usual. But certainly, the solution is there!! That has evaded from us for the past 3 decades, but not anymore. We are on our way to attain that. Hats off to researchers for giving out everything to achieve that coveted secret!!
When Nobody is watching!!
The topic is very ambiguous and it was intentionally kept so. Not the traditional meaning of ambiguous, which is unclear, will suit here. But it is unclear because the topic makes one to think in multiple directions. The subject which I am going to deal in this tiny little article is "What we do when nobody is watching"?? According to me, the character one displays when no body is watching is his personification. Let me quote an example here. What would be better example than the traffic signal? We all rush through the traffic and at the time we near the stop line we would encounter the red signal, which signifies that we should wait. We will have to wait for another 60 seconds to get green signal. How many of us will wait for those 60 seconds when traffic police is not there?? Answer it to yourself, because nobody knows about you better than yourself.
The reason why I quoted this example is does not that signify the integrity of the individual. This may be very simple but believe me some of the complex things are not clear to us just because we are not aware of simple fundamentals. We present ourselves in motley number of ways at various times which in turn make us lose our individuality in the process.
Be the same to everyone. Let it be arrogance or kindness. Be kind even to the most arrogant person at all time or be arrogant even to the humblest person. We are already acting in the stage of world as Shakespeare said; please don't act once again just because we should appear pleasing to other fellow men!!
2009- The hottest year in Indian History!!
Every Indian would have felt the peak of heat in 2009 and here is the evidence which says that 2009 is the hottest year in Indian history. The average temperature of the year was around 25.55 degree Celsius, which was 0.913 degrees higher than the long term average 24.64 degree Celsius(Courtesy Times of India). Discussions are going on around the world about the climatic change and the effect of it. This is yet another evidence which clearly suggests that some serious thought have to be put on before it gets out of our clutches.
As the technology grows more quickly than ever, it posts yet another challenge even before we start reacting to already posted challenges. By the time we realize that we have to act we would have already lost most of the gifts of nature. Globe is not warming nowadays, it is boiling!! If at all we need to preserve ourselves from extinction, we need to react to this climate change faster than ever.
Human Extinction is on the cards if we react late!! It is already late but we let's hope it is not too late.
Is Partitioning a Solution??
Most fancied word of the year 2009 and may be 2010 will be "Partition". It all started in 1969 when this huge crisis started to lift its heads up. Telengana is one of the three primary regions into which the state AndraPradesh was divided after independence. After 60 years of independence, this region is alleged to be underdeveloped even now. Sources say that the main reason behind this is the government is not taking much care about this region and it has not taken any steps for its development compared to the other parts of Andra. This agitated the people of telengana to demand for a new state and thereby hoping to get their region developed.
Although the reason behind the furiousness of the people of telengana is acceptable, the solution that they want for their struggle is worth pondering about. It is not the partition that matters for them, but the development. I can only see politics mixed up in this whole agitation. Some politicians make use of people's strength and unity to achieve power. Even if the people of telengana get their own state, if the politicians are not good, they are going to end up getting a horrible government again. What this partition (if happens), will do is to induce people all over India to demand a separate state for their own region and it will not be good for the country as well.
The ideal solution for this is to give preference to the people of telengana in various fields to improve their standard of living. Fix an agenda of the action items which are to be carried out by the government in the coming year and the expected development in this region. After all they need actions from government not excuses!!
Waiting list – A virtual confusion!!
Even if we have reserved a ticket two or three weeks back,
we would get only a ticket under waiting list. Daily we would check the status
of the ticket noticing only a no change. After a great frustration, we would try
other ways out to make the ticket confirmed. A list of our railway friends and
relations would come to our mind and a dilemma occurs as to whom to approach.
True Love - Is it a Paradox in the modern world??
The epitome of this particular article is obvious from the title. This article is about the two contradictory words (or made to look contradictory rather) TRUE and LOVE which are used together in the modern era. Love is one of the very few feelings which is common among all creatures in the world. If someone asks me to list the top five words in any language, I will certainly keep Love at the top. We have seen some fabulous love stories in the past and through the writings of Shakespeare. I have always admired those, not because it was written by Shakespeare, but because it delivers one of the most beautiful feelings within us whenever we read it.
Yes Love was the greatest in the past. But is it the situation in the modern world?? As centuries went by, we kept changing the definition of love according to our convenience and now we are in a situation where we really do not know what exactly Love means and how great is it to be loved by someone. To be frank, the modern day love has become like a T20 cricket. While T20 may last for 6 hours or so, this may last for a day as far as I know. I have not seen anything quicker than this yet!! We do not discipline our mind and that is the reason it always searches for the better even though we already got the best. I have also seen some people love for money. Believe me, which is the worst respect you can give to this FOUR LETTER MAGIC.
I do not attempt to correct this world through this article. If one person who reads this article can make a life long commitment towards his/her love, I have done my part pretty well.
That is why it is an attempt to mold things not people!!
