Thousand birds pass by
one by one
I keep on counting them standing
there
Waiting for them to come back
just standing there
Thousand birds for thousand days
going beyond the black sky
and my black eyes
Eyes that wait just standing there
Thousand birds with thousand wishes
Wishes with wings of angels
To fly away far away
And I wave them goodbye standing there
Sky turns blue, colours come
Birds are gone, their song still
echoes in my ears
Ears that wait for their murmur
again just standing there
Now it's time for me to be home
But birds, tomorrow I ‘will be
again standing there, waiting beyond
these mountains just standing there
Jo tum the zindagi mein
thi bahaar in hawaon mein
ab toh barish se bhi naraazgi hai
jo baar baar tumhara naam yaad dilati hai~
I was just thinking of a list of things that are NOT taught in a Bschool -
1. How NOT to network
2. How to get rich quickly
3. How to love your future employees and bosses
4. How to speak your mind without fear
5. How to enjoy in a free time (without booze :P)
6. How to trust the other person
7. How to be a modest manager
8. How NOT to get into RG game :P
9. How to praise your competitors
10. And most importantly how to love the world!~
Well things that are taught:
1. How to impress the opposite sex
2. How to waste your money and time
3. How to manage last minute contingencies
4. How to run fast when late for class
4. How to copy and term it research
5. How to cheat in examination
6. How to extend the same line in 5 different variations
7. How to answer to get good marks
8. How to party :P
9. How to say good things about the other person even if you don't mean it
10. Most importantly it teaches you to be a "smart" manager.
Finally after 900 crores and 25 years, Government has finally woken up to the idea of cleaning up of Ganga.
Holiest of all rivers Ganges/ Ganga is the lifeline of our Indian subcontinent.
We all grow up listening to the fabulous tale of the journey of Ganga from Shiv ji's locks to the Earth for us. The river epitomizes the heart of India. It is the soul, the culture, the lifeline, the way of living, the reason for existence of millions of Indians. We treat Ganga not just as our National river but as our Mother, our Goddess. Hindu life is incomplete without a dip in the womb of the river. The doors of the Heaven itself do not open if the ashes are not offered to our Mother.
Perhaps it is the very significance of the river, that it has reached its limit after absorbing the sins of the billion Indians.
As per the UECPCB study, the level of coliform in Ganga at Haridwar is at level 5500. The level of coliform in the water for drinking should be below 50 for drinking and below 500 for bathing. 89 million litres of sewage is daily disposed into our Goddess river. 6 million tonnes of chemical fertilizer and 9000 tonnes of pesticides are offered to our deity every year. Decomposed corpses are also left to float in the river leading to the extinction of important marine life.The soil erosion which is depositing silt at the higher sources in the river is another large threat looming ahead.
The initiatives that have been taken in the past to tackle this issue are:
**The Ganga Action Plan 1985 (GAP)
# $600 million
#15 years
#Results debatable
**National Ganga River Basin Authority 2009
The recent move to take help form the seven IITs- Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Madras, Roorkee, Guwahati and Kharagpur is indeed commendable. Nehru's dream of creating a highly talented, technological workforce that would help our nation to create dams, industries, power plants and research and development is turning out to be true. From being the butt of the jokes ( "One foot in India, other in Air India"), to the drivers of the Indian economy, IITs sure have their brand name. The technical expertise brought by the institutes will surely help the cause if the Government bureaucracy doesn't slow down the cause. IIT Kanpur will monitor the effort, progress of the plan, manage the project and coordinate with the ministry. Kudos to IIT Kanpur foe the initiative.
Turning a blind eye to the situation is blasphemy against our own values, our culture, our traditions, our heritage and most important of all our Mother. Hope that this initiative will do much more than draining the taxpayer's money.
So today 6th July 2010, was "Bharat Bandh" declared by the Opposition parties (read NDA and Left Parties)in opposition to the deregulation of fuels.
CII reported losses on account of this to be $641 million. ASSOCHAM had loss estimate to be $2.1 billion.
Newspapers, trade pundits, managers, B-school grads all were busy calculating the per day loss on the gross domestic product of India. The common man was enjoying a cup of tea in the lovely weather thanks to the unexpected break after the weekend.
We all ignored a "small" issue.
The daily roadside hawker who feeds his family everyday by buying bread earned everyday from his sales. In all these macro calculation, we forgot the heart of India. According to NSSO survey reports, there are over 80 million urban poor living in towns and cities of India. We talk about "Double dip recession", "Double digit growth", "Wholesale Price Index", "Food Inflation" and so on.
But what about the poor man who cannot earn on a working day because we were opposing fuel hike and inflation? That is the paradox of India. We are the country of paradoxes.
**India's rank in Human Development Index is 134 out of 182 countries.We are the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal GDP
**India ranks fourth in the world by Purchasing Power Parity. Even then nearly two million children in India don't celebrate their sixth birthday.
**410 million Indians are below the poverty line. 126700 Indians are "super duper" rich who can wipe out the trade deficit in one go.
When we talk about millions and indexes and percentages, we lose the human touch. How is the daily worker is concerned if RBI increases repo rate and reverse repo rate? How does the safai wali concerned if the ESI limit is increased? A farmer in debt is not even bothered by BPLR or the Base Rate.
"We" who dream of plush offices, skip a beat on talking about Sensex, Employer of Choice, just turn our backs on these questions.
"How come his salary is more than mine" might
be answered but the agony of 37.2% of the population will not end unless something is done.
I guess I will be blacklisted from the girl's community for writing publicly about the things which go inside the girl's loo. But I have such an urge to write that I really can't help it :P
So for all the starters ( I mean guys who have never seen the LADIES toilet) it is never clean, sparkling, pink and perfumed.
Especially if you are living in the hostel. Talking about girls hostel there will be always 3 categories of girls using the loo.
Category number 1: The "junglee" girl
These girls have never seen a toilet in their life. Probably they used to squat in the fields/ forest/ deserted place whatever. So it's their first time in the civilized toilet. So they squat on the western pots leaving their beautiful footprints on the flap. I always wonder how come they manage to balance themselves on such a thin line. Probably they have great experience like Mogli jumping around trees which has made their bodies highly flexible. In fact we should send them to Olympics to represent India in Gymnastics. Their body balance is perfect. All the Chinks will be nothing compared to these super balancing girls.
Coming back to the topic, these girls blatantly lie when confronted and any hygiene lesson for them is waste of time and resources.
I wish all these girls best of luck with their career. And hope they do not repeat this balancing act in their offices or worse don't teach that to their kids. :D
Category Number 2: The "hygiene" girl
Hygiene is good. But there must be some proficiency level in that too :P These categories of girls will always carry a toilet paper with them, a hand sanitizer, a tissue, room freshener, pair of toilet slippers and what not. they twitch their noses moment they enter a common loo. For them it's like being condemned to hell for a decade.
They keep an eye on who is doing what, how and why. They are the future leaders, future CEO's. I am sure when they will grow up, they will have a magnanimous washroom jeweled with all the modern day luxuries. The first they notice while checking in is washroom in a hotel. They will never fall for a guy who has ever used a road to relieve himself.
These girls can help India to build a clean future. They are usually the creme-de-la-creme and one should learn a lot from them.
One more thing you will never find such girls in bus stands, railway stations,metros. So they have no experience of the real "Indian" loos. :P
Category Number 3: The "normal" girl
This normal girl or "aam" girl or "mango" girl or the "common" girl is torn between the first two categories. She likes hygiene but is too laid back to follow with passion. She doesn't like blood stains, used things, broken hair, empty shampoo sachets and what not in her washroom. But she won't complain. This girl will quietly lower her head and move on until she finds a clean loo. She is the girl next door, the real Indian who has learnt to compromise with the situation.
So these are the girls who rule the washrooms and make it a scene to watch :P
Rest there will be always some hidden dark stories which for their own good are circulated inside the loo's only :D
It is that part of the year again when clouds play hide n seek with you and you wish to keep them with you forever..
It is that part of the year again when you long for the moon to never hide away in the clouds..
It is that part of the year again when love is in the air and you wish its fragrance to continue...
It is that part of the year again when certain excitement fills you up for unknown reasons..
It is that part of the year again when strangers smile at you and you smile at them back from your eyes..
The most enigmatic time of the year is back again...
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