A Feeling Called LOVE !!

Hello Folks,

From the inception, I have always written on topics like Current Social Condition, our skills, the way we should better ourselves and always mentioned CRICKET somewhere or the other. This time I am attempting to write in the words of Gordon Gekko aka Michael Douglas in Wall Street on  "the longest running myth of the world, LOVE."

LOVE is a very strong word, used in a real apathy. Western culture has just made a mockery of the expression. Associated with tardy infatuations, unending lust of acquisition and the personal ego to land with the best, Love has just lost its divinity and real meaning.

Today, we love people and things which yearn and yield for us. We love people for their looks, way they talk and other aspects and if at all anything we love in them changes, our love just ends its course and we start finding another person to suit our requirements and fit the bill so we can love that person. This is purely Need to have the perfect things in life (Perfect to every Individual "IDEALISTIC"), and no LOVE. One fine day, we blurt out, you are no more the person I loved and it is all over.

LOVE is not this fickle and brittle. The only definition of LOVE is what each of our mother's have for us. That in true respect is LOVE. You may be a billionaire, successful, failure, fraudster, the best looker or probably the ugliest person on the face of the earth, for a mother's love all these are never the parameters. She loves to give not to want and demand. She doesn't expect an iota of even gratitude, even if you don't bother, she will never stop loving. Sadly, this is never given importance and respect in our Definition of Love, except on a Mother's Day when all hypocrites sing songs, glory to their mother just to show the world that Yes we care, the other 364 days when the world isn't bothered, they too are not bothered to show Love.

Love has no demands, no expectations and it just makes a way through all the bad qualities the person you love has. It is never found and never lost. If its there, it will be there ALWAYS.

Movies, some people who claim to be in love, some stories of true love are all the wrong PRO's of Love. They do not tell you the end but just end the drama when everything is rosy and nice. Whereas, a mother of a dreaded criminal or a bad man can show you what LOVE is. The feeling that doesn't change like seasons, with evolution of the person, success and failure or looks of the person is LOVE, rest everything is Opportunistic way of getting the Best and claiming love to it.

From a 2 year old kid to a 60 year old person, will always like, if he gets whatever he wanted and desired, because of an inherent need for the thing or person, but with time if it never changes, that is Love.

I made a small attempt to put in perspective, a feeling experienced by all of us, in many different ways for many different people and things. Everyone of us is right as Being Right is a matter of personal opinion and choice and no personal opinion can be wrong to the person having it.

I hope the change is refreshing and worth a thought !!

Cheers,
KS :)

Run of Ruthlessness

Hello Folks,

After a sabbatical of a month and a half, I am a changed man. Ideologies and Notions have changed like clothes in the wardrobe. The world has really gone to Dogs, and to get a part of it you need to become a Dog. 

The principles of Selflessness and Philanthropy are looked down upon as a mere joke and suspicion for the underlying profit of the person doing the noble act. Its all about Self and only Self. Relationships are just need based and upon the extraction of every single ounce the relation is left and rendered useless. Relationships are more like Condoms these days, use it till you can and satisfy your need and then use another one when you are in need again.

It is all about doing the right thing every single time. Mistakes are the biggest social taboo of the world. Once on a pedestal, committing a mistake is as good as committing suicide. The Indian Cricket Team is the best sought example, where the World Champions are compared to a School Team just in matter of two games. The room for error is demolished and you just pay the price instantly if you are found committing a mistake.

We are heading towards disasters in this Run of Ruthlessness. But the person who will not want to Run it will be villain, after all he is the one resisting CHANGE. Detrimental is not a parameter of change but not accepting something that is grossly wrong in the name of CHANGE is Resistance to Change.

After much contemplation and heavy verbal duels with many people I know in person, I have come to a conclusion that better or detrimental, there is no way you can stay away from Ruthlessness, if you have dreams and ambitions to pursue. Instead, joining the fray and leading it, is a more sought out answer.

Chuck family, friends, community its time to just look for I, ME and MYSELF. If you won't look after them, no one will, SAD but A COLD FACT.

Any views to be expressed are very welcome.

Cheers

 KS :)

   

Corruption Begins at Home

Hello Folks,

The word Corruption is not a new one nor has it been brought into public existence lately, everybody knew and knows about the most dangerous and rampantly practised social evil. But, who is responsible and why does it happen ??

The answer to this is not very easy and shallow. I am trying as an humble effort to give it an explanation. The answer lies in the Definition of the Science of Money ECONOMICS, to a part at our upbringing and habit cultivation at the best school THE HOME, and to a part in Bhagwad Gita.

As per Economics, Human Wants are Unlimited and the means to satisfy them are limited. This gives rise of the human going to any extent in fulfilling his wants. It is but natural that scarcity in resources will give rise to a cut throat level of competition and well, where there is competition, everything is fair and legal to survive and Achieve. In fact, Survival of the Fittest (jungle law) is applicable everywhere around us.

INCENTIVE !! The whole world works and functions on this word !! From a grade 2 kid to big corporate honchos. What is an INCENTIVE ?? The carrot attached to a stick to get desired level of output irrespective of your inherent feeling about doing the work. Even the TIP we pay to cab drivers, waiters, etc has a meaning To Insure Performance. Bribes and Corruption is just a Glorified Incentive which lures people to take up job irrespective of their willingness or love to perform a job. As a kid, I was always given an incentive to bring marks in my exams, which always made me work hard to get the gift rather than understanding the inherent importance of studies and scoring well as a big step of my life. From that small gifts, to big Payouts in the Financial Market, everybody works towards achieving it no matter how. Shady Deals, Frauds, Scams everything in the way of a ruthless pursuit to achieve the carrot of Incentive and after a point in time meet Personal Ego Demands.

Sacred scriptures, very well philosophised, in Bhagwad Gita tell us to work honestly, without actually expecting and attaching rewards to the work performed. But Incentive decided before hand of the task performed just makes us go crazy to get it and we fall into doing tacit stuff. It is perfectly natural, cause the seeds sown are itself faulty.

It is very deep rooted in us, Corruption and its a Demon which can be destroyed only by education and the right way of looking at stuff. Going on a hunger strike, or getting public support and agitations can tame the devil for the moment, but not destroy it completely. Its about morals of the individuals involved and not with the lax of governance and law. All laws are passed with the inherent existence of loopholes. With time, smarter individuals will find it and capitalize but the Devil will always raise its ugly head again and again.

Mahatma Phule, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Raja Ram Mohun Roy did not end evils like Sati, Child Mariages, Dowry, etc by going on an indefinite fast unto death but by leading with examples and education. Even Mahatma Gandhi did not sit on a Fast Unto Death till the British Leave India but took steps like Non Cooperation Moment, Civil Disobedience Moment and Quit India Moment. It is a process but we believe always to skip the process and come out with a result on ransom. We do not want to stop doing it at a smaller scale but want it to be stopped at the greater scale. Just because, we are not in that opportunity, the person there should be brought to book.

Stop doing stuff to get the incentive tagged to it and start doing it because you want to do it and lets inculcate the sacred value of doing things without thinking of the reward in us as well as the future generations.

As the good old saying, Charity Begins At Home !! or else lets stop whinning about it because then its Hypocrisy and no Concrete word against it.

Do offer your opinion, and we can have a dialogue about the most discussed topic of all for time being.

 KS :) 

Resurgence - Part 2

Hello Folks,

To continue, from where I had left in my previous article, Mr. Murthy had become the uncrowned king in the Company he worked for and in the real sense was responsible also, for its stupendous growth from a small startup in the early 1990's to a mammoth IT Giant in a span of 10 years.

In that decade he had a ride without any bumps and only on the uphill. But then, in June 2002, the American Journey came to a sudden full stop. Mr. Murthy was accused of sexual harassment of his executive assistant, and was dragged into courts. He would stand accused of suppressing facts, misrepresenting them to the board and, as a former colleague points out, "guilty of a serious error in judgement". Rather than choosing to fight, he agreed to a $3 million payout to the person accusing him. Phaneesh denied being a party to the settlement, but the company says the exact opposite. With Karmic wheel in complete spin, the price was dear - loss of job and definitely reputation.

Cast down from nine circles of heaven into purgatory, he wandered looking for a fresh start. He f ound temporary relief in Quintant, a consulting outfit. He raised $30 million ($15 million was actually invested) before his funding agency, the Rs. 2,500 crore GMR Group, a successful investor in ING Vysya with large interests in power, decided to pull the plug. GMR said it wanted to invest in its power business. But there was talk of Phaneesh being unable to get revenues and business, and his investors getting impatient. Without the redoubtable army of developers, Phaneesh was forced to abandon the fresh start and allow himself to be courted as CEO of a software company iGate. Life slowly slipped back into the familiar. The future started looking more like a linear extrapolation of the past, Phaneesh woke up from a new dream into an old reality. But what matters is that it is real.

He was ready to float once more.

 When you listen to his interviews it feels, he works like a modem. Like modem screeches, whines and wails as it tries to match its thoughts with the modem at the far end of the line, Phaneesh keeps rummaging, shuffling and hunting through analogies, metaphors and incidents to help prove his point. It is the glimpse into the mind of a man who is claimed to have scaled up the IT Giant's sales from $2 million to $700 million. He did it all over again.

He is travelling to various offices of iGate across the globe and confesses it to be tough and gruelling, the man who never had to try too hard to make things happen. He cheekily says "Sometimes I wonder if it was all a fluke. I really want to test myself again." referring to his innings at the IT Giant. The innings unfortunately ended in way that was never ever imagined or anticipated.

Today, iGate being much smaller company, went ahead and acquired Patni Computers, a much larger company in size and also very old and reputed company to bring him back in the Billion Dollar Club. He again reached a position where he belonged all his life, but which was not given to him as a gift just because he was worthy of it and deserved it. He had to prove his worth again to get it even though his Talent and Work was already witnessed once and was a blue chip running script for inventors across the globe.

Phaneesh Murthy will not go down in the history books with the accolades he actually deserves to achieve a no mean feat, because of lack of consistency and the scandal, but for people who actually read about him will surely not disagree that he was a Phoenix in real sense.

Hope to have offered something new and very viable to understand through the two part story of Resurgence. Please offer opinions and views to have a constructive dialogue.

Till the next work

  Cheers !!
 
   KS :)