Revolution in India

Well this is an after thought writing after a interesting and rather provocative conversation with my boss, her view is India is not capable of revolution! I need to give a background to the readers from where this conversation stemmed in first place.

Well we were discussing about Indians being content with what we got and my point on this is it is driven by how our family is structured. I always felt we are more emotional and deep down value driven then materialistic and the old joint family system and respect for elders and their support all pool to gether provides the peace of mind which materialistic world can not offer!. Her view is most of this indian family system are hipocrytic in nature (more from women empowerment angle!) though I may agree with certain cases on that but what is the alternative to it!?

One of the colleague pitched in saying only close to 2 % people of our country are in the salary bracket of above 10 lakhs / yr ( I need to verify this stats!) shocked me beyond words , think about being content with that!! I may be glad that i am in that 2% but i am definitely not happy that 98% of my country men are not even able to afford the best of basics (food / cloth / house all prices shooted to sky high now and add that to medical / education bills if any!!) Then the talk moved to having Industrial revolution in this country, thats where India not capable of Revolution came to focus

Surprisingly I found many share her view of India not capable of having revolution i.e fighting / sacrificing for a larger benefit than their own kind of attitude and many think that is lacking here!! then what do we call about Our Freedom fight!? (oh we got the freedom because britain wanted our help during wwII) or All our Punjab farming brothers fore fronting Green revolution (Oh they wanted to earn more!) Mind you my boss is not the one who thinks India will not improve quite contrary I found she is very patriotic! Many in young generation look up to us and if we don't give them the confidence and direction (the need for change!) where we will head! I can't be content being a part of country where the life line comes from selling labour than products. Where others dictate what we earn or how we live our lifes , if we need more control we need more enterprenurs here, we need microfinance helping jobless to become enterprenurs , we need Venture capitalist helping young enterprenurs to think Big! and we need accountable poiliticians to support all this and above all we need to be that change!

Revolution not necessarily correlates to violence, it can be like a silent prayer , a transparent change with wide impact. I see the change happening with many youngsters (refusing to vote during election!! actively discussing issues in media) all we need to do is channelize this energy and as educated I believe it is our duty to consistently advocate on need for change and direction for change and avoid negate statements .... What you think?

Update: just saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XTPSYdP08

01:47 What is the value of 500 Rs for different people ...

Bangalore Experience!

Bangalore is a fun place to live you know! take this for a sample each day my driving skills are put to new test, manuevering through the scores of bikes all parked at its own right angle and cars through my narrow lane takes extreme patience and stable mind! each day as i finish this ordeal i.e driving through our bengaluru traffic i pat myself on the back!

The best part always wait near the finishing line i.e near to my house , in the end of my lane which is also my entry point comming from office to home there are bunch of cattles catered by this milk seller who lives near by , all these cattles are fed and sheltered on the road. you need to be doubly careful not to hit them when you cross by (i.e if you don't want to be chased by angry mob for hitting innocent cow!)and mostly they don't give a damn to my car horns! i have to use all my priliminary cattle chasing techniques (creating strange noises and slightly tapping them on the tail etc) to shoo away them , i suspect now a days there is a larger crowd than usual to see my daily stunts in the evening :)

When I had a chance to chose bengaluru (bangalore then!) and chennai for my transfer couple of years back i chose bengaluru with out hesitance. I remembered my job searching days here .. it used to be one of the cheapest city that time. I stayed in basavangudi in a pg for 2.5 k (with food mind it huh!) and i always found the natives are very helpful and friendly. back then i used to commute mostly in bus and it used to be reliable. the best part is the auto guys never argued with me to pay more than what is on the meter ( I know you won't believe me) more than all these there is one more important reason i decided to stay here i.e Infant Jesus church in vivek nagar, this is our favourite shrine for more than 20 yrs in fmly and i used to frequent every week and have my private conversation with God :) It always gave me great amount of peace and focus in life. I also remember having butter dosa and aloo in basavangudi eateries it used to be one of the best tasting dosas! hmm there are few more favourites of mine here
* the old coffee shop in MG Road(now moved)
* Morning ride in golf course road near kumarapark , all those trees and fine weather !!

I hope all this will come back one day with new infrastructures in place and companies scaling out in the city , Hmm let me keep my hopes up!

Is Board Exams necessary?

Our education system sucks! no doubt. I never liked the way it is designed and I am pretty sure many of us share my view. I think it is designed to produce a technical labour than Free thinking enterpreanurs or for that matter any mature thinking professionals.Just take this sample We have been taught all long our History!
which has no practical purpose today and there is little focus on civics.
It is a shame to see a Masters holder don't have the basic understanding of his fundamental rights and can't use his knowledge to exercise his rights. No wonder why we turned out to be so tolerant of the ineffective governance in this country and
accept poor civic amenities we are subjected to endure. I can see politicians vested interest in keeping this system this way!

The Board exams are another useless measure which lost its relevance decade ago all it does is basically to disable a kid and categorise him as either a doc / eng /xyz ..when we will have a freedom to do what we want to do irrespective of age. Today the system expects a school kid to be mature enough to decide his career when he is 15!


With 1 bn population we can do wonders in this world, we have a great man power which is the most essential component for all the advancements that are available today yet we get treated as third world country people in every part of the globe! Why can't we have a Industrial revolution in this country which pushed US to its number one position few dacades ago! Don't we have resources! or Manpower or Will! What we lack is Visionories! and I lost my hope long time back that the current education system is capable of producing them! What can help?

1) Get rid of Board exams - this will remove the pressure from the kids to prove themselves before the system and they will start thinking what they really want to do!
2) Keep all the subjects which has no practical relevance as optional and put more focus on subjects which are essential for a person to survive
3) Teach the subjects in intuitive way - Let them learn by exploring it rather than mugging it
4) REMOVE QUOTA - It is a crime against nation - I will vote for educational subsidies, financial assistance, anything but NO QUOTA
5) Remove all age boundaries for Higher and professional education , as long as a person is able to clear an entrance exam he should be allowed to purse the career