With 'Like' to my Dear Friend Facebook

Dear Facebook,

I am feeling a little weird while writing this letter to you, as I could have simply posted on your wall but I rather chose this way to express my gratitude to you for being such a nice friend to me. It’s been quite some time now since we've become friends studying in the same school ''The school for bored & nothing to doers'', you've been the dearest amongst all my friends so far. I've always fell back on you when ever I’ve felt lonely and bored, you've given me your shoulder to rest on and your wall to post on, when ever I needed either of them. In fact since I've met you I don’t think I've spent as much time with all my other friends put together in comparison to the amount of time I've spent with you.

The time spent with you is not dull or boring even for a moment as you provide innumerable ways for me to entertain myself when with you. I hardly used to have a few friends before I met you, but now my friends list keeps growing everyday, I am glad I have more than 300 friends (thanks to you) now and I can get in touch with them as and when I like to, I can also 'like' or comment on what they have to say or do. It’s nice that I get to spend most of my time with my friends while you are around; you always stay back for me. There's something I need to tell you, I think for what I am today in terms of my social life, all the credit goes to you and your networking skills. None of my other friends have had more than 500 friends at any point in their life but you seem to be universes apart from them as you boost the friendship of 500 million people across the globe, also giving me an opportunity to make as many friends as I like to through you.

Your friendship has had such an effect on my life that I even end up spending more time with you than my girlfriend and even most of the time spent with her is when you are around rather than time alone with her. While you are around I can give her all the fake smiley’s which I ideally wouldn't be able to give her while we are together physically or talking on phone, you've made life so better for me my friend. Now I don't even have to buy her expensive stuff every now and then, I can just do that with you through some applications. And you know what, last night I threw a bottle of champagne on her that made her happy and I also got her, her birthday cake with you and we celebrated it with you cos we were miles away and you my friend made this celebration possible that too with me having to spend nothing, absolutely nothing and for a change she did not crib about it. Now my girl friend doesn't get pissed off even if I don't spend too much time being physically present with her, nor does she mind if I am with my other friends, as I am always in touch with her through your mobile version. We are with one another every moment even as I get to enjoy my freedom like before.

One other thing that makes you an out of the league friend is the fact that you are the richest friend I have and I don't believe I will ever be able to make a richer friend than you. And so I request you to be my friend forever and please don't change ever for the worse like our ex classmate Orkut did just after you joined our school and we became friends. Poor fellow couldn't take the pain of seeing all his friends moving away towards you and got an F in the semester exams leading to his restigation from the school due to relative marking system adopted by the school from that year. He used to be a dear friend once up on a time but as time passed he couldn't keep up with us. All the rest of us grew up in age and maturity while he remained as he was, leading to his name being dropped from the school due to lack of performance and a laid back attitude. It’s nice to see that you are not like him, you give your best in everything you do and are always proactive (suggesting friends, adding features and applications) to stay at the top of things.

I overheard someone last week saying that you are worth $50 Billion today; I haven't had rich friends before so I am not sure how to keep you happy but I try my best to remain in your best books, so, I 'like' everything that you post/like, I share everything that you share and I add all the applications that you add, if that counts (all these things I also do to a lot of other friends, to seek attention, if you know what I mean).

Anyways I just had a few requests (points) to make before I close this letter to you, hope you would consider them in your free time.

1. Why don’t you add a ‘dislike’ option for comments and posts? There are a lot of people who do and say dim-witted stuff and they need to know how the rest of us feel!!
2. Isn’t it stupid when someone likes their own status or comment themselves? Why don’t you disable that kind of an option? It will help save a lot of irritation.
3. Like I said I over heard someone saying you are worth $50 billion and I also know that you don’t have a family per say and we your friends are your only family, as we’ve always been there with you and for you. So when and how do you plan to share your fortunes with us? I don’t think we are being greedy, are we? Aren’t we a crucial reason behind your success and popularity? I just happened to calculate and each of us are worth $100 a piece at this moment, my heartfelt thanks in advance, in case you are planning to write us a check some time.
4. Though you are so rich why do you always dress up in just a blue t-shirt(top) and white pyjamas(bottom)? Are you trying to be a simple person like Warren Buffet or something? Why don’t you get yourself something nice to wear? I know you won’t take anything as a gift from us in real.L (not even a template? :D)
5. Last but not the least, why did you choose to share the information of your friends (us) with third parties? Aren’t you supposed to safe guard our privacy and interests? What if your third world (party) friends misuse our private information? We are not happy with this decision of yours my friend, please reconsider the same, we are not interested in your third world friends, it would be a great feat for us even if we can manage a small fraction of your first world friends.

Hope you agree with me on some of the points above, anyways I just wanted to tell you how important a place you have gained in my life and how you are so different from all my other friends, hope you feel the same way about me too. Please write back soon to me and needless to say, don’t forget to post this letter on your wall and ‘Like’ it on mine.

Best Regards,

Loner

Today’s Favorite Line – Don't be content with Average because average is just as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

Today’s Favorite Song – More Than a Friend (Michael Learns to Rock)

The Gods Must Be Crazy

If you were a conscious middle class consumer or if you have attended a marketing course, you would have realized that we in India have more car brands than say tooth paste brands, though the fact is that there are more people in the country who must be using a tooth paste than the number of people who buy/ travel in a car. Now if this fact has come to you as a surprise, then you'll be astonished to realize the fact that we in India have far more number of GOD brands than any other product or commodity brands and obviously so because the customer base is huge, in fact the largest in this category.

Just start counting the number of gods small or big you pray to, on an average on any given day. I won't be surprised even if you come up with a number that's greater than a dozen. The product god is the most carefully studied, researched and delivered product, or is it? The number of brands of this product must be running in hundreds and in fact certain brands have their own extensions and sub categories. Still there is hardly any cannibalization, actually there is no fear of cannibalization as multiple units/ brands can be used at any point in time, so margins might not really get affected much unless and until there is a huge let down by a brand. And in fact every now and then a lot of new brands are being launched in some part of the country or other. Some reach the masses quickly; others take a little time while certain others prefer to remain in their own territory. Starting a new brand is quite easy as no mega budget is required, just a 2 by 2 feet space and a trick or two would do to get started with. Expansions can be taken care of later as per market conditions and demand, and a large land shall be acquired to open a super center just like Wal-Mart does.

A lot of marketing and business gurus must have been boasting about their discovery of the concepts of segmentation and product family and so on, but they have failed to realize that the gods had (I know that the product god is a man made one, still I would like to stick to god being his own creator in this context) already very consciously done their human study and home work. They had already categorized each one amongst themselves as per their advanced market study, for instance they gave Goddess Lakshmi the money market, and Goddess Saraswati the education industry, lord ram the general welfare and so on. If someone really wants to understand and study supply chain management and channel management, they should take this product as a case study. In India there's no other product which enjoys such kind of a reach, they have multiple centers in every street, in fact they are connected from door to door in every home that too without using social media or a 3G network, not even a discount sale ever! Just some freebies on a regular basis do the trick. Their treasury is the wealthiest one in the world, be it recession or inflation they are always secure, they have hedged all their risk and have no down side loss, they have most prompt payment rate as well, their repayment rate is even higher than that of Grameen Bank.

They get paid in billions on a daily basis for the one and only service rendered by them - HOPE. Quite a price to pay for that four lettered service I guess. We are glad to see the product doing so well, as it can be used for various fund raising and research activities. In fact when the whole world is out of business and unemployed, that's when their demand is at its all time high and the bank balance of all these brands touch new highs. And yet god doesn't give a discount during inflationary periods even after earning extra ordinary returns during other times. I guess like all other products even god is always looking at maximizing their EBITDA and PAT.

Product design and Packaging are key elements of any product or brands success apart from its functionality and other attributes. The product ‘God’ has been designed and packed in a really innovative way across brands that each one stands out for its own specific design. For instance Lord Ganesha has been given a designer nose where as Lord Hanumans mouth does the trick for him. In fact most of these gods have various add ons or applications built in with them in terms of a creature or an instrument, like Lord Krishna has his Chakra that he can spin around as and when he likes, while Jesus has been given a designer cross to rest his back on in a stylish way, and certain goddesses have been given the liberty to use animals as their couch. Each of them have their own customized dress code and accessories specially designed using finest material available. I am just wondering, if they had annual awards ceremony, who would they honor in different categories and who would be in the jury?

The gods must have had a real eureka moment when they thought about entering the human market to provide their services, how would they have known this industry would flourish as much as it is doing in India today? They are a big failure in China, as 90% of the Chinese don't have a religion. The gods must have really gotten crazy while trying to create the blue ocean strategy for the world’s second most populous country and you bet, they have been doing a great job so far, it’s the wealthiest industry in the world today and hopefully will remain so for a long long time. Amen

P.S. - Obviously the title has been inspired by the movie. I do look at the concept of God more firmly as a product than anything else, so most of the things that have been said above are a result of the thought process thereof. Anyways disclaimers are inevitable as usual; this piece was written in a completely fun mood and was to just look at things on a lighter note rather than to make a statement or mockery of these highly followed brands. Hope you understood and enjoyed the attempt at subtle humor. Last but not the least, the names that have been taken were incidental and not deliberate to put some brands above or below some other brands,

Today's Favorite Line - "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Dr. Robert Schuller

Today's Favorite Song -   Aye Khuda (Paatshaala)

The MBA curse

How would it feel if an MBA which was supposed to make the career prospects of an individual better and boost his esteem becomes a curse for him while trying to move ahead in life post the MBA? It is the last thing one would expect out of an MBA. It’s about how the fact that the person being an MBA (or for that matter a post graduate) is used against him in various scenarios, haunting him every now and then. The MBA that was supposed to act like engine oil making the ride easy for a vehicle, at times seems to work like a nail hit punctured tyre making the ride a lot tougher due to the egoistic and other issues around (the ego & other issues acting as a nail).

The MBA in itself is not the curse, but the way a lot of people treat the ones with an MBA starts making the MBA look like the curse. The expectations and the treatment of an MBA vary widely from place to place and person to person depending on what each ones egoistic value is.

Some commonly known ways/situations in which an MBA pays a price for his keen desire to grow fast in life are listed below:- (The first statement in each set is the kind of crap we have to hear and the next one in italics is my response to it)

What? You wanna do business? Then why did you do an MBA? You are supposed to/ made to work, not own! You were trained to be a manager not a businessman/ entrepreneur.

(Now, what the heck!? MBA is just an additional qualification to learn a few things to understand how businesses run and the allied stuff, it certainly isn't insane for an MBA to dream running his own show. Why restrict his domain just to a JOB?)

What? You don't have a job? No one has taken you yet? What's the use of your MBA? 

(Excuse me, if you may please! MBA's don't fall under the NREGA scheme and yet again it’s an educational qualification not a 'make me your slave' certification.)

You can make 20-25K/month anyhow; you said you are an MBA right? Why bother?

(20-25K your ass!! Those 'I don't know anything, so I shall write codes' engineers make that much today, I deserve better don't you think? At least cos I've spent a fortune to get the additional education)

So, now that you've started working, I think you'll tell me what your package is? What? Its not even 25Lakhs?! Then what’s the use of having spent 2 years & close to a million for that god damn degree?

(First of all, for the love of god, try to understand that the article you read in the newspaper about some geek getting placed at an 8 digit package is only about THAT geek, and not about the entire MBA universe. Another point you must understand is the fact that, the geeks who are getting placed at an extravagant package like the one you expected me to, stop living the moment they get placed and start working, and they stop only after they've either been fired(by themselves or by the employer) or have committed suicide due to depression or fatigue. I haven’t planned for any of those so far.)  

 

MBA - Sir, why is my package less than half of the CA, sitting right next to my cubicle while we do the same work & have the same profile?  We also joined together, remember?

BOSS - You see, the CA brings a lot of value to the table, he is a CA & you are just an mba after all!!!

(Holy Crap!! For the last 6 months, I have been teaching him, how to use excel sheet, how to make a PPT and in fact at times how to operate on the computer. And guess what, all the reports that he has sent to you so far have major inputs from me! And he brings more value to the table? Which one? If I stop helping him from tomorrow you'll realize our values, you bitch.)

You MBA's are very bookish, come out of your case study mode buddy, look at the real picture. Stop acting like a student and understand the problem the right way.

(Weren’t you the one who asked a zillion definitions and formulae during my interview while the other panelists were talking about practical stuff?! You forgot how difficult you made my life for that half hour, you loser! And by the way, you were the one who asked me to stick to the basics and take learning’s out of what I learnt during my MBA in the last meeting! Didn’t know that was being bookish!! And just to remind you, you are yourself a visiting faculty at a bschool appreciating the case study mode of looking at the problem always & recommended us to be the change agents in this aspect.)

What do you think should be done about the inflation in terms of the key policy rates? What? You don’t know for sure? Aren’t you an MBA?

(First of all, I am no Montek Singh Ahuwalia or Pranab Mukherji, how am I expected to know better when there are experts in their teams who are hardly able to do anything about it. Secondly I am an MBA, which does not mean, I should be a master of everything, spare me! I told you what ever I knew.)

The MBA is being used as a double edged sword against people like me who want to make it big ( I am not too sure how to define big) in life, at least in terms of doing something phenomenal if not anything else at least. Our knowledge is used to show us, how we can be used as cheap labor and our ambitions are used to take advantage of our financial compulsions. Our qualification is at times used as a tool to decide our fate and more so against our capabilities and intelligence. Every time we try to make a point or a contribution in our own way, we are being shot down by our artillery (The MBA) as a weapon against us, by either putting us too above in the league or throwing us deep down in the ocean to make us feel beaten. Can the world stop trying to beat us and instead understand our capabilities and ambitions instead of creating a counter productive environment like a capitalist state? I agree there are a lot of instances of a lot of MBA are doing better than they deserve, but does that mean that the complete herd is always better off? Lastly, my understanding says, most of us do an MBA for it to work as an insurance policy which could pay off like a long term investment does while it could secure us our careers and job prospects to an extent, so kindly stop cursing us using our own only real asset.

Today’s Favorite Line – "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

Today’s Favorite Song – Flying without wings (West Life)

Stop being scared of the F Word

As humans we live every moment of our life thinking how we could make our life failure free, we always like to ride on success and when we attain success we never see beyond it. We get hungry for more, we stop realizing there could be bumps/ pot holes that could be on our way, we are so confident and over sure that, we think nothing can go wrong anymore and that’s right when we fall in to the pot hole of failure. And now this is the situation that actually decides if we have it in us to make it big from here or will we remain inside the pot hole as we never reflected up on or were prepared enough to get over the road block.

Most of the world had written off ‘The Amitabh Bachchan’ in the late 90’s as he sunk deeply into the sea of debt and the success wave that he was riding on for over 3 decades had all unexpectedly come to an unceremonious end by the bankruptcy of the company he had fielded to make it even bigger in Bollywood. No one ever thought he could ever rebuild a better ship and bounce back as a larger than life person by the kind of success he started getting in early 21^st century especially by his splendid performance as a host of KBC on Star Plus. Now the world just looks at the line graph of Big B’s fall and rise in these 2 decades while the much larger learning’s lie in the kind of things he has been through and how he got back, as they teach us, ‘why failure is important?’, ‘what failure could do to you?’.

If we use some historical data or just some memory of past and take 5 such people whom we’ve observed for years together and who have made it big in life, in what ever field or context, few things would stand out commonly in all of them, these people would have faced more obstacles, would have made more sacrifices, would have faced a lot of criticism, would have been tagged as a loser by a lot of them earlier in their life. Yet these people face all that and make it big, it’s not just about their talent, skill set or knowledge, not even experience. It’s purely about their attitude, their focus and more importantly their faith in their own selves. But for these 3 qualities, they wouldn’t have made it anywhere close to where they got. Now take up another set of 5 people whom you think you thought would make it as big, but they dint, and try to think why they dint make it where you thought they would. After a level of analysis you’ll figure it’s just because of the lack of these 3 qualities in them right when they needed it the most. They would have had these qualities in them for a major part of their life, but if they don’t possess them when they needed it the most, especially when time was testing them, they would have lost it and more often than not, never bounced back or at least back to the earlier level.

Let’s just talk about Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar, great friends, great cricketers right from a young age, but one made it as a god of the sport but the other turned out to be a sore loser. We could simply see the difference in the attitude of these two from a couple of instances, the semifinal of the ’96 world cup, where Kambli wept like a child would; he couldn’t take failure well and post that match he was dropped from the team for the next series due to other disciplinary issues. The aftermath of that match prompted us about some inherent qualities of Kambli, his attitude, his focus and his self belief.  As a result of his behavior he dug his own grave and we would never see any more of him with respect to a cricketing field except for a few series till 2000/01 when he was dropped for the last time due to his inability to play short pitched balls (he never really tried to rectify or learn) and poor form. He did not know how to overcome that one weakness and his talent wasn’t sufficient in itself to take his career any forward and so he lost the race of making it big in life and now we remember him for the wrong things often than for the right things. That’s what failure precisely does to you, it over shadows all the good that you have done before.

Another interesting case in the context of failure is the apple of the worlds eye (quite literally) – Steve Jobs, someone who was thrown out of his own company, who built something great, could not keep tempo with others and his own men showed their back to him. Where did all the success go? It just couldn’t come to his rescue; he was simply shown the doors! But this man was not someone who’d succumb to such hasty actions, he still possessed self belief, he was still focused on what he wanted and he knew what he was capable of, he had the right attitude and that’s the reason we all see him back to where he belonged with products much more innovative than we could have ever expected of him (his company). That’s the differentiator between a diamond and just any other piece of stone; how the stone takes the heat and other things in the process of becoming a diamond from just being a stone, and now that is Steve Jobs for us today!

Now let’s move from individuals to corporations, what differentiates those on the top to the other thousands of them who never make it? Some of them do well for some time and then aren’t able to sustain and slowly get back to where they originally belonged, to the bottom. Now what have the corporations that are at the top done and how? What differentiates them from the ones not at the top or from the ones who lost the race by some margin? Corporations that have done well over a period of time haven't done so cos of their quality or price alone, they have done well cos competition has kept them on their toes and they have faced the competition head on with the right attitude. Microsoft for instance has been on its toes since ever not just cos of the companies that are in the same line of business but also cos of companies like Google, Apple etc, who are all in the business of technology. The fear of being taken over has always made these companies perform better than the average; they learnt rapidly from every failure and bounced back with better offerings to all their stakeholders. Not once did these companies remain in the pot hole after an accident or failure, every time they faced failure, they took it very seriously and worked back up with focus and right attitude.

On hindsight we realize that failure really plays a crucial role in determining who has a pleasure ride and who remains in the pot holes and today if I had to understand an individual or a corporation I would not ask for its track record of success, I’d rather ask for the track record of its failure, that would be a more authenticate way to assess the capabilities and the heights a person or corporation would reach over a period of time. Failure doesn't necessarily have to be big, to test a person’s capability and attitude, even small set backs every now and then can give an idea about an individual’s character. But let’s agree on one thing, Failure is necessary!!

P.S – This write up was inspired by the talk of Harsha Bhogle at IIM-A a few years ago. 

Click here for the complete talk or Here for just a small bite on failure.

Today’s Favorite Line – Failure is the stepping stone to Success (class 3)

Today’s Favorite Song – Cry Cry (Jhoota hi sahi)

Grow up OLDIE and let us too!!

We often complain about progress in a lot of things in our life as citizens, as humans. We say the government has not done much for infrastructure, for education, for poverty, blah blah blah, yap yap yap, buk buk buk. Hold on!! Have we ever thought about ourselves? How far have we progressed in our thinking?

We are still the same old British ruled creatures who keep getting imposed up on. The only difference is, now the imposition is more to do with thought process and its outcome and not as much of slavery as during British rule. We haven’t progressed even a mile in terms of maturity in thinking, in thinking ahead, in adapting ourselves to the changing time and ways of living. We still take all the shit that people around us give, just because they think something is right, are we obliged to take it as they give it to us? Let’s stop taking it!! Who do they think they are? They aren’t doing any favor by sharing their wisdom or experience. They are, simply said, just dumping their own view on us by exhibiting it as a ritual or so. It’s a plain white ‘lie’, is how I see it.

Lets take a few examples of how things have changed in decades and how different things are perceived now vis a vis how they were being perceived in the past supposedly.

Disease – It’s easier to start with a topic that at least most of them would agree with me on. If someone would have uttered the word ‘cancer’ a few decades ago or for that matter even a few years ago, it would have meant only one thing to anyone whether literate or illiterate, the word would have only related to end of life, ‘death’ (whether soon or a little later). So generation over generation, people started believing in that and lost hope. Scientists around the world have been working hard to find a cure for it and thankfully to an extent there seems to be some relief and cure for some of them who caught this deadly disease.

But today if one utters the word ‘cancer’, ‘death’ is not the first thing that comes to ones mind, its dialysis, treatment, cure, hope or life that comes to our mind. To quote an example we can look at the story of Lisa Ray, we read and understand that she fought the battle and survives today trying to lead a better life. There are thousand such stories today and the numbers are just going to increase manifold in the coming days. I guess the older generation better start believing in the future and the youngsters who are working hard to make it a better one.

Cricket - Now coming to a sport that a large proportion of the country follows. If we would have spoken about cricket say 3 decades ago, we would have nothing more to talk about than test match, bouncers, West Indies, defensive batting and so on. No mention of the terms money, cheer leaders, doosra, sixers, 20 – 20, power play, day – night games (in fact soon we are gonna have day- night test matches!). It’s clear that with time, we have come a long way. A lot of things have changed and a lot more will change with time. But if we still keep talking about how a team batted for 3 days continuously in a test match and the match ended in a draw, people would laugh at that team and of course us; it’s not the way we play cricket now. So instead of complaining about how people/money have changed the game, lets take what’s more relevant today and how to make it better with how its working better today. The veterans have no other work, they have already retired, they are obviously expected to speak highly about the past, but how does it matter? They aren’t the ones who are gonna play the game now, are they? So it doesn’t matter as much as to what they felt like while playing the game then and what they miss now.

Communication – Our grandparents would tell us, we used to write letters and it used to take 2 weeks or so for it to deliver and so on. While our parents would tell us we used to make trunk calls and at times we had to wait all day before we got the line free and so on. Now with the launch of 3G technology, we can communicate live from anywhere at any time seeing each others face and for as long as we want. If an oldie still is against such stuff because he/she dint have access to it during their times, ask them to get a life now! We have it now, are we still supposed to listen to those people who don’t even have an idea about what we are doing, why and how?! Think of a scenario where instead of these oldies grumbling about the advancement and the way youngsters use it, start trying to understand it and use it for their own good. But no! They have to impose their thoughts (wisdom), don’t they?!

Marriage – Its one of the things that we are most backward in our thinking till date about. We to an extent have progressed in our approach with a lot of other things mentioned above, but when it comes to marriage we are still old wine in old bottle stuff. We have neither changed the wine, nor the bottle (if that sounds like a saying at all). Earlier it used to be 2 families getting together into a relationship through 1 person from each family and the affair would be concerned more with the families and not the bride and the groom whose lives were at stake ultimately, but the oldies wouldn’t care less.

Now marriages are more concerned with the 2 humans whose lives are going to be affected the most and we seem to think that’s the better way to approach this institute of love and life. But can we ever get rid of caste, khap, honor killing, sati, child marriage, female girl killing and so on? We have all these problems in abundance even today across the country. Can the thought leaders of such chauvinistic attitudes ever find a rational behind their acts? Where have we progressed in these issues yet? We are still many centuries behind with our approach to these issues of immense importance to every individual life on earth. It’s all just because of the thoughts of the older generation who are so myopic, that they don’t want to see progress; they can’t bear a better life for the younger generation, because they themselves haven’t lived one, how can they see their younger generations live happily after all? 

Education – To my understanding, the older generations studied only for one reason – to secure a job. There was no other meaning to them when it came to education. It did not mean progress or innovation or growth or intelligence or wisdom and so on. All it meant to them was, ‘it’s going to secure me a government job’. A good proportion of people in the country have realized how important it is for them to enroll their kids to school, instead of using them for chores or working on farm or doing some kind of bonded labor. But there is still a majority of population spread across the country which doesn’t understand and realize the importance of education and how it can make or break lives in today’s context. Children are still used on farm or as bonded labor (agreed that in certain cases it is because they can’t afford it, but it’s not the same in all the cases, I guess we needn’t worry about it now though, RTE has just arrived). This requires a radical shift in thought and attitude towards the life of our beloved. Education would certainly lead to a better life no matter where one lives, what one earns or thinks like. Need I mention about the reservation system we have in our country that the older generation has believed in firmly for the last 6 decades and more, which is literally killing the country and its younger population in some way or the other. The more we dig deep into the reservation problem the lesser it is. It is such a big mistake the government has down in decades and more so lead by a lot of old generation power houses to seek votes of people whose lives they are working to not be better off ever, so that they keep getting their votes for ever by highlighting the reservation favor.

We need a huge thought revolution (like the green revolution), which puts sense into millions of people who are fooling and billions of them who are being fooled by a lot of bigoted people. We need to adopt progressive thinking, the world is changing a lot for the better and even more for the worse, but we need to still adapt to it for the better, by not staying regressive. If we stay regressive worrying about the world getting worse, we’ll get no where, we need to understand that first.

It’s a humble appeal from a novice to all the oldies out there (across classes, castes, generations, colors, genders, regions, professions, literacy levels) – Please kindly stop imposing yourself and your thoughts on the younger generation. They don’t need your wisdom; it is no more relevant in today’s context. So kindly get with them and acquaint yourselves with the current trends and try to work together for a better life both for you and them.

Today’s Favorite Line – The older I get, the younger I want to be and the younger I am, the older I want to be. That’s life!!

Today’s Favorite Song – Man in the mirror (Michael Jackson)

What about now

I was the topper in high school…

You were such a nice guy when you were a kid…

I will be a billionaire some day…

You are spoiling your future…

To all these statements I have one question - What about now?

What are you today? What do you think today?

Are you happy, successful, well mannered, responsible, etc today? Now?

I basically subscribe to a school of thought that doesn't believe in past, doesn't listen to or agree with what the ancestors or earlier generations did or thought. It doesn't matter what and how they thought about certain things and how they dealt with issues or circumstances.

They did what they liked, the way they liked! They must not have necessarily followed or agreed with their own ancestors. None of us actually ever bothered to check that, not that we could check it actually. So why are we being forced to follow them or their thoughts/views?

They had their reasons for doing the things they did the way they did.

• They got back home before sunset because there wasn't light in their times, so it was best getting back home safe early.
• They dint go to disco cos there wasn't one.
• They woke up early in the morning because they had nothing to do till late in the night so they fell asleep early and weren't feeling sleepy anymore in the morning and of course since there was light only in the day they better did what ever they wanted to in the day. They walked miles cos there wasn't a vehicle back then or they couldn’t afford it, if at all there was one.
• They used to talk only for a short while on phone because it either wouldn’t get connected for long or it was costlier than robbing a bank.
• They ate more natural stuff because they hadn't invented the stuff used to make these junk/fast food which got invented much later.
• Who said they dint have ailment like sugar, bp and so on? There wasn't a lab out there for them to checkout so they never knew and just lived with it in denial.

It’s all rubbish when people use past instances and future predictions to dump their views on you.

• We get home late cos we are busy meeting friends or doing our own thing as evening is the only time we get after office/college, why not use that time?
• We get up late cos we hardly slept for a couple of hours by the time they woke up, don't we need some rest? What’s wrong if that's our lifestyle in the changing times?
• We have the convenience of transportation so why not use it?? What’s the point in comparing by saying ‘in my young days I used to walk so many miles', who cares?
• We talk on phone for long cos it costs just a handful of peanuts worth money to talk for a while.
• We consume more of junk food cos we have improved taste buds than they probably did, is that our fault really?
• Disease was not uncommon during any period in humanity and neither will it be in the future, so why always crap about it?

Talking about the future, no one knows what’s there in store for us tomorrow. We could be anything, anywhere, we just never know. No amount of experience can predict tomorrow in these times when change happens like the speed of lightning. So no amount of gyan on future is of any use, its better they rather shut it.

I firmly believe, the younger generation is a victim of false information and self opinionated guidance which doesn't necessarily have a empirical evidence from past and even if it does it is most likely going to not work in the future, cos with time situations and a lot of other things have also changed. Experience is the most irrelevant thing in today’s context. What you do or be now decides your now, not someone else's experience from past is gonna do any trick. In fact the use of past examples is a trick to fool you, to get your actions and thoughts under someone else's control. The older generations are just adamant and dictating which is neither good for them nor for the younger generations.

Respect for all is the call of the hour. So stop getting fooled by useless wisdom from the creators of history at their own will and handle your situation your own way. All you need to be asking yourselves when ever in doubt is - what about now?

Rest will following automatically!!

P.S – This is just my take on living, probably it feels harsh and rude but don’t forget that’s how life is. If humans are not easy on change they either will be left back or will keep fighting their ego and get no where. I guess older generations should get a little easy on the younger ones so that we could live in a better world where the thought divide is not as large as it is today. This is just an attempt to bring to fore a certain common examples that everyone could relate to, can come up with many more examples though, but this probably is not the right way or forum, one sided affair. Just wanted to emphasize on the importance on now and progressive thinking.

Today's favorite line – Past is a cheat and future is a liar.

Today's favorite song - What about now (Westlife)

I feel numb

You think that I don’t care,

But that thought isn’t fair.

Its not tat I’ve forgotten,

It’s just that my feelings have rotten.

You think that I am not hurt,

But believe me I am a hiding expert.

I said that I’ll always be there,

Whether you give me happiness or despair.

I’ve always tried to be funny,

To bring a smile above your chin(ny).

And I miss that smile,

Cos I haven’t seen it for a while.

You never had to lie,

For I was never going to be a spy.

For believing in u was so dumb,

That’s why today I feel numb.

P.S – Sometimes its fun to write such sadist lines, doesn’t necessarily have to relate to the writer. Work of fiction.

Today’s Favorite Line – Maafi talaafi kar li, minnat bhi kaafi kar leee, kho dia phir bhi.. tujhhe…!

Today’s Favorite Song – Fool Again (West Life)

What’s your BET?!

It’s been a while, since I am upset

Cos I look for freedom, which I don’t get

These are the days I don’t wanna regret

The worlds watching, with both eyes set

I’ve already wasted a lot of time, but I don’t fret

I’ve not earned enough, to wear a bracelet

One day ill be a big shot and I’ll own a jet

It’s up to you what you wanna interpret

I need to work hard and focus on my target

And I’ll soon start, what’s your bet?

Today’s Favorite Line –Khushiyan aur gham sehti hai, phir bhi yeh chup rehti hai.. ab tak kisi ne na jaana.. Zindagi kyaa kehti hai..

Today’s Favorite Song – When you love someone (Bryan Adams)

ANYWAY

ANYWAY….by Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some genuine enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you;

Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;

Give the world your best anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.

P.S - This for a change is not my own work, liked this poem a lot, so thought must share it with everyone.

Today's Favorite Line - At times i prefer to talk to the wall, am at least sure i dont have to except a reply/response

Today's Favorite Song - Last Resort

The specimens called FRI ENDS

Can it be rephrased as free ends?

Just a random thought and an urge to write something and I ended up with this basic question.

Why do we need friends?

You’d say ‘a friend in need is a friend indeed’

You’ll say we need someone to talk to, someone to share our thoughts/feelings and so on.

You’d say you need company to go out, to shop, to explore places, so a friend could be the best person to fill this place

You may also befriend someone because you have similar likes/dislikes

You always get to here goodie goodie stuff when u talk about friends and having friends. You’d also boast for the kind of/number of friends you have.

These same friends though are really essential part of our lives, they aren’t at the best of their behavior and attitude some time or the other. You take a lot of shit.. from different people in different ways at different times. Its about how patient you are, how long are you ready to hold on and give your best. Through these ups and downs you still try to continue being good/best/nice friends.

Like above I ve put up a few lines that come to ones mind when you think of friends in a positive (normal) way. What if I play around a bit with my thinking process and try to recollect instances and ways when I haven’t really liked or understood these specimens whom I call friends.

These specimens show the maximum attitude, at times even more than they possess.

All their ego comes into forefront with you, as if they were Sachin Tendulkar of Cricket or Aishwarya Rai of bollywood.. reality check pleaaaaaaseee!!!!!

Talk about the word ignorance and I bet the dictionaries of the world can rephrase the meaning some how and include the word friend in its explanation. They’d ignore you as if you never existed or were never noticed and then pounce back on you accusing you of being ignorant! Crap…!!

If there is a last person from whom you must expect something, then it cant be anyone else than for a friend. Do all that you can, be as good a friend tat u can be and whatever, but never ever except something, that is if u don’t wanna be disappointed..!

Remember the last time someone hung up a call on u? I can bet it would have been a friend!! No one else in the world would be nice enough to do this.. They can hang up on u whenever they like, as many times they like! All u get to do is take it!!

Wait a minute, hanging up is just one part of the story, the other part is even more funny.. they wont take ur call, fine they are busy, they wont return back that missed call also!!

Did I say missed calls just now? Ouch. Wait…!! Where do I fit in unanswered text msgs and gtalk pings? And what about those BRB’s which at times seems to one like ‘Bye!! REALLY BYE!!!!’ and not whatever u thought it meant all this while, cos they never come back! They are so damn busy tat they don’t even afford to answer you back.. True enough.. it’s a waste of time and energy to respond to some crap you’ve sent. They rather not do formality..

You could have had the best of the times of ur life with them but at times you also tend to get the worst of the treatment u ever deserved. You try, u try hard, u give ur 100% every time, u get taken advantage of, u get diplomatic answers, u get ignored and u end up seeing them changing over time (obviously for the not so good) and all u get to do is, Take it all! Just sit back and watch… and what do u do finally?? Give UP!! Either the friendship or your own ego/attitude/ self respect (now this is exaggeration)!!!

Someday people will realize your worth. They have always needed u and they’ll need u. and then u show them!! Wat it takes!!! But why would you? If u wanted to, u would have already..!! So u just go with the flow, and understand that its FREE ENDS!! Meaning either of the person are free to do whatever they like, how ever they like from their end!! No questions asked! If required only answered or better put explained.

Anyways everything is not just one sided, there are various things above tat even you do at times and even you receive from these over valued people called Friends. Anyways world cant change, you got to have friends and live with what you are and what they are.. Rest is individual traits.

P.S – Just an out of the ordinary way of venting it out, held this in drafts for quite long. Finally thought its ok to post it, anyways who cares?? :D and for heaven sake don’t ask me questions like what/who triggered this post, am not gonna answer. To check out a couple o f other posts I’ve put up on friends, use these links.

Games Friends play 

Friendship as a Commodity

Today’s Favorite Line – I’ll be friend to my friends who know how to be friends

Today’s Favorite Song – Teri meri dosti ka aasaman ( Radio)

Habits?? Not me!!

When’s the last time you heard/said something like this…

-         Hey it’s Friday, time to booze. Let’s go!!

-         Its 3(pm), why hasn’t the tea come yet? My head will tear apart, I can’t work!

-         I need to fag. Too much tension today!!

-         Let’s have pan/gutka before going back to office.

-         Wake up, its 8!!!!! I always wake up at 6 sharp!! You are a lazy/good for nothing

-         Its 2(pm)! U haven’t had lunch yet?? I always do lunch at 1

The list can go on, but the point I am trying to make is, there are small small things we do in our day to day life and we, over time become so adamant over them, that we forget why we actually did it the first time or over a period of time.

Let me answer (back answer) each of the above statements the way I see it. Though I wouldn’t be able to say the same to someone on face, cos am not expected to be rude, but here I have the freedom to do what I like, so I better take advantage ;)

-         Why be so fizzy about a Friday night?? U have the whole weekend just in case u need to booze. U sound like, it’s the last Friday in ur life when u say u wanna booze cos its Friday! Life is yet to go.. Things are yet to happen! Booze as and when you want to, no ones stopping you!! And just to remind u there are 6 other days in a week apart from THE Friday!

-         Oh you mean if u don’t get the usual cup of tea at 3, ur brain stops working? Get a life! If u want a break ask for it… don’t blame the poor brain.. its anyways hardly used.. why waste a cup of milk and that black color thing into your body? Just go have a break!!

-         Go burn the buck in ur wallet if u want to. Why create imaginary tensions just cos u wanna burn some freaking thing and make some circles in the air? Anyways the tension u r talking about is not present now.. Will come soon, if things remain this way!

-         How will that betel powder help the delicious meal tat u just had? Or how much better will u be at work if u have that green leaf? Ur tongue deserves better things and do u still remember the last visit to the dentist? Guess ur planning another visit soon!

-         Now who is to blame if u aren’t sleepy past 6?? At least let me catch up a few more dreams! Anyways nothing great is happening in real life.. let me be happy in the dream world at least. Anyways will have to wake up once the happy dream gets worse…

-         In which book of history is it mentioned tat lunch should be done by 1pm? I guess we eat cos we are hungry and not cos something was cooked in the morning and is gonna be thrown out if I don’t eat by 1. So ill eat when am feeling like. What’s the hurry anyways?

Though the above back answers seem to be rude and stupid.. The point I am trying to make is, in life when we like to do the things the way we like to, then why condition our brain in certain ways? Why cant we be open minded always and do things the way we like at that very moment? Why fix things like ‘I booze only on Friday’s’, ‘I drink tea 3 times a day’, ‘I have 3 meals a day’, ‘I leave for office sharp at 8.37’. Why cant one booze on a Monday at times? Why cant one have tea as per the mood on a particular day? Why 3 meals a day? Cant I eat 4 times someday? Or 2 times when I don’t feel like? And why do we give this crap that I leave for office at X hour and Y min, why cant I leave for office as and when am ready and feeling like with some deviation now and then.

It’s good to be disciplined, I don’t deny that. But the point is, we condition our brain so much that we forget the basic motivation behind doing something. Life is not too long to be so adamant and rigid, lets be a little flexible. Let’s wake up at 6 some day, at 6.45 some day and if there’s not much to do at 8 that day. I think we kill creativity by being so inflexible, we kill our own likings and priorities in life due to our stiff attitude.

More over if one is used/ addicted to something; it brings a lot of disadvantages with it. For instance if someone has the habit of having tea 3 times a day, though its just a matter of 5 rupees per cup/time, it means one ends up spending 450 bucks for sure on tea in a month (tea is just an example, u can substitute anything else and calculate accordingly) which means 5400 bucks on tea in a year. Just for instance if I say, what if at times u have tea only 2 times a day or even once when ever u don’t really think u need it? What if u have coffee instead of tea sometime? And how about a pack of biscuit at times with the tea/coffee? Think how every other day would be different! U get saved of that boring cup of tea which even the person who makes it, makes it half hearted! U don’t even know if he/she made it long back and served u now.. Knowing for sure that ur anyways going to have it!

I think when we start thinking this way, we may end up saving a lot of money if we don’t get used to certain things in life. Plus we also get to have variety in life and anyways no ones really bothered if u r perfect or not in having tea at 3! I guess things in life should be done out of genuine need or wish and not because someone else does it this way

While thinking about all this, I just got a counter argument from some corner of my brain. Is it good to be moody? What about discipline? What about planning? Can being an instant person lead to disappointment in certain things?

All said and done, I feel it’s worth giving ones brain a chance, to think and do even small things in day to day life. It’s at least better than blindly doing something without even knowing why! As far as we can do things as required without much deviation and without getting addicted to anything I guess its fair enough to let the brain decide what’s to be done and what not every now and then.

P.S – I guess I lost track of something I wanted to convey somewhere in between, anyways the main point am trying to make is, lets keep our life Addiction free!! Be it consuming habits or for that matter even people or money… Live life every moment…!!

Today’s Favorite Line – Sometimes u feel like giving a damn!! But when u feel tat way, tats not deserved!! Even tats too much to give!

Today’s Favorite Song – He could be the one (Miley Cyrus)

In god we believe… But why??

Never seen, felt or known… just heard and nothing else but brainwashed…!!

What if for once I say there is no god?!?! Universe runs on its own.. there is nothing called luck, prayer makes no sense.. what has to happen happens.. what we do or be decides the outcome and nothing else..

We have been cheated all our life just to assume there’s someone watching and creating whatever.. all these miracles that we never understood are no miracles, they just happen because they are bound to. Now don’t ask me who decided that X or Y was bound to happen.. sometimes people do feel miracles happened or god appeared or whatever… its just like a magician fools us by his tricks.. some human is playing the same game and giving all credit to god and indirectly brainwashing us.

What if we stop praying and start believing that there’s no god (are there not atheist in the world? Don’t they have luck? Don’t they live life happily/sadly just like you and me do??).. its all an illusion!! All these days we were fooling ourselves..!! Tough thought but there is still some sense in this piece of nonsense.. why always think conventionally and as taught by others.. world is out there only to cheat u… once u start believing there is god then u need to chose of which religion/caste, what subdivision in tat caste/religion and so on.. its all too complex.. lets just assume there’s nothing called god…

People say there is only one god.. Jesus, Ram, Allah are all one! Then why do different people call them by different names? And pray in different ways? And fight over things like, should there be a temple or a mosque here?? Let me tell you, all this is done by we humans, some human tells us ‘ram is our god’ and we follow ram. Some other day some one else says ‘Jesus is our god’ and we try to find reasons to believe him.. its all stupidity!! Utter nonsense!! If its one super power (god) then why a million names? Or if its multiple super powers.. Who is the biggest one? Who decides? Who over rules the other and why? Does it depend on ones fan following? Or do we need to send some sms to ‘55995’ (or some crappy number) with our option and the one getting the highest number of votes wins and proclaims the throne of being ‘THE GOD’. Its all we humans who have created these brands called ‘Ram’, ‘Allah’, ‘Jesus’ and million other such small and big brands.

Yes agreed all these mega brands were humans some day (even this is something heard and known from people, may be we can accept at least this, no proof required ;) ) and they lived their lives in a really good way, did nice things, sacrificed worldly pleasures, did meditation or other such things. But how did the other humans living along with them or after them come to know or decide that these super humans became god? (did they visit heaven or hell to find out if X or Y is there or not?? Or did these super humans come back from hell or heaven to inform the world that “Yeah!! I am your GOD, pray to me” or what ever) Even they were just another set of humans like you and me. Even you and me do great things in our day to day life and may be what we are doing and did is also great, so will even I be called or known as god, if am able to convince a huge chunk of population that the things I am doing, the powers that I have are extra ordinary.. So will I also be pronounced as god?? (LOL :D, super weird thought :D)

When something good happens or when we succeed we thank god.. we say.. god u ve been so nice to me and so on… we thank him in different ways… why don’t we curse him when we are sad, when things go against us and when the world seems to be against us.. why cant we say ‘god you are a loser, u dint give me something I think I deserved…’( we were never taught to do that by those people who brainwashed us, as that will start affecting that particular god’s brand u see). Am not saying we don’t complain, we do complain, we don’t show the other extreme way of reacting like we do when we are happy and good things happen to us.. why does god always get thanked for the good that happens while when something bad or wrong happens.. people say its your karma u have to face it.. so cant we say its your karma also when something good happens instead of thanking god..?? When its only about the karma.. why all that importance to this illusion called god?? Why do we offer material things to god? (Prasad, flowers and many other things including Vitamin ‘M’) does it mean we are trying to please or bribe that super power when we need something? If the super power is really bothered you’ll get what ever u want/deserve! We do lot of such nonsense, just assuming and presuming what ever some priest says… why wont he ask you to offer such things when he would get a decent ‘Dakshina’ at the end of all that (no offense meant) and many such material benefits (needless to mention)

There’s no incentive or rationale for me to think that there’s someone called ‘GOD’ sitting somewhere there in the blue sky. May be if the so called god can wave to me some day from the sky, ill try and think of ways to convince myself that there is someone sitting there, watching us! But Nah! Wait a minute, in this era of science and technology, where going to moon is a hobby a million people have developed, may be some human will reach the blue blue sky and wave to e from there, am I supposed to take him as god?? Lol in tat case Neil Armstrong and many such others can claim having been god for a while.

This is such a weird thought I can keep on going with arguments endlessly because there is no rationale or scientific evidence to convince me on this!! Am just plain simple confused.. not that I don’t pray (infact I did just before I started writing this piece :D) or am not an atheist, its just that its all weird!!

P.S – I hope this piece of writing is being taken lightly, I still have my senses in place.. thought I could make this one a lil humorous while making my point.. but failed in tat attempt.. still.. its been fun thinking differently for a change.. really helps at times!!

Today’s Favorite Line - I'm gonna try in the future, not to live in the past..

Today’s Favorite Song – You are my only one (Yellowcard)

I am a Rightist???? Am I

I do almost all the most important and auspicious things and acts of my life with my Right hand, I think most of the time with my right brain, I like to take Right decisions more than wrong ones, I always wonder am I using my fundamental Rights and other social and national Rights without any problem.

I am not writing this to talk about myself, but to talk about people in my left and right all over the country. People who say they are leftist, people who say they are rightist and people who don’t know who they are. For some time now since I have become a bit more mature, a bit more childish, a bit more stupid, I have been thinking about a lot of things and those lot of things always end up me thinking about the Indian Politics and Politicians, and the reason for this is, every situation has either arisen due to politics or has been influenced due to a politician. I will give you a few examples of how and why I end up thinking so.

Since I said I am a rightist let me start with instances about the leftist first.

Till date since I have grown up I haven’t understood the motto and the sense behind the ideologies of the leftist. They say they want equal opportunities, they say they want job guarantee, cheaper food and other products and services; they want everything to be under public/government corporations, they dislike any private corporation to do anything in the country and they have many other different versions of their demands and ideologies, I am not sure of any of their ideologies and basically because I haven’t understood their motto at all till date. I just know one thing; they almost always are the reason for cold in the central government (this is something all of us see and hear everyday).

- They say they are against privatization and they have 1000 reasons to justify their stand. But I think I am not looking at their stand, I am looking at common sense and I believe what I am thinking is acceptable to some extent keeping their ideologies apart. If they say privatization is ill, then let me ask them, who made it possible to make air travel as cheap as it is today, who made it possible to have telecommunication facilities all over the country, who made it possible for technology to be the in thing in the country, and many such endless areas to explain in detail.
- They say they are against foreign goods and people going abroad to work etc., but who is going to remind them that the state which they run the government for so many years now is one of the biggest consumer for Foreign Liquor, that state sees the most number of people leaving the country for job opportunities abroad including Saudi and Dubai. That state has the most literate but uneducated people (would love to explain the difference between literate and Educated some other time). And that state also leads the chart in many other social and economic injustices happening. Yes I am talking about Kerala.
- Don’t we know about Nandigram, it is again in a state where the leftist have been ruling for long time now and if I can remember well and if I am right and conscious, the initial problems in this place started only because of the state government not treating the farmers well i.e. not paying the farmers market price of the land.
- At one end they say cut taxes, reduce prices and so on and at the other end they want loan waivers, social spending and so on, so some one ask them where will the money for this come from. I don’t say they are completely wrong, but being rational and logical is more important that just being adamant and old fashioned.
- I still think that India needs a mindset change, a mindset for the global environment we are living in, a mindset for the challenges and competitions we are facing day in and day out in the international arena, a mind set to grow and involve everyone in the growth, a mindset to have a competitive world and most importantly a mindset to grow by oneself and not by being dependent on others or others help, support or resources (not even the government).

Now coming to the party which is running the Central Government of the country.

- I haven’t yet understood how any reservation can bring social justice and uplift people and castes, what I feel is it creates more divisions, more differences, more problems. Think about this with a rational mind set
- And we see every other day some new caste or religion or section of people hitting the road for their reservation, I believe it has become a pride to be called backward in our country. My appeal to such people and section of the country is to stop fighting to get reservation and be daring enough to stand on its own instead of depending on the government, which can just give promises and nothing more.
- I haven’t also understood how many loan waivers the government will be able to give to help the poor farmer come up in life. Can such short sighted, vote bank oriented, ill planned policy ever bring our farmers up in life, can they ever have a positive mark or change in their life or are is this just another way to please as in case of a child.

Now coming to an overall general overview of the system and of politics.

- I haven’t understood yet how can political attacking and clashes make any political party or politician feel that they are serving the country and its citizens. Will just pinpointing and accusing each other for their mistakes ever help the country actually develop.
- One government does something wrong, then the other government does some other thing wrong and then accuse each other for every other problem. Can this ever lead to something right for the country?
- I know power is very important for everyone in this world, but using the power in appropriate ways is more important than the power itself. So why don’t these political parties take an oath to do what is right for the country instead of doing what is right for their party and for the election.
Can the party in power and the opposition ever work together for the cause of the nation, does just being in power mean serving the people, and does working with the government to do social welfare not mean power. So why fight for power? If your intention is to serve the citizens of the country stop fighting for power and start fighting for good, and by the by if you want good, I don’t think you need to fight, you just need to do it.

I have never liked Indian Politics and Politicians, I can mention other hundred, thousand instances and thoughts but what’s the use if again tomorrow morning I have to read headlines of one party criticizing other and concentrating on what the other party did than what actually is the problem. God please help my country. I am just 21 and I am not able to see the kind of politics and politicians India has grown, I believe the British would have been far better, because at least their motto was clear to the people that they want to rule and not do any good, unlike Indian politicians who show one face before elections and another after elections and the 5 years they are in power end up identifying what they actually are elected for and making policies ready for winning the next election instead of using this opportunity for doing Good.

I am not for or against any particular institution or school of thought but what I just live for is Common Sense. I have very well understood so far in my life that the definition for common sense is quite different for every one, but I don’t think common sense is so complicated. I also know and agree that different people see things differently and have different ways to do the same things but I just don’t understand, is it that difficult in this world of God to have a common “Common Sense”.

If this would remain the situation of politics in the country, as I see in every forum today, god save me, I never would like to be a part of any political outfit, I am happy the way I am. I am happy with my thoughts and my Life, I neither have time for the rat race and nor energy for the bull fight going on in the country.

And yes I am not a leftist, so neither am I a rightist. I am who I am!!!!!!!