Right Person at Right Place - Nation

First of all I would like to start by conveying my appreciation to the supporters against corruption. Our country has once again proved that the peaceful approach is still a powerful medium to fight against injustice. There were few articles against the development relating it with the attempts by other personalities who tried similar ways for valid causes but in vain. There is always an argument that glamor holds a key position in sports for the players to get quick and heavy sponsorship but let’s not look at the current development using the same lens. One should realize that unlike the previous instances, the current one is questioning the dignity of the governing system, which they have to respond or else will be like accepting that it is not clean.

The mass agitation gives enough proof that each and every one is affected because of corruption one way or another. People should have felt this is the right opportunity to question the irresponsible and inhumane, who sucks our blood misusing our delicate situations. So the direct involvement of the otherwise silent citizens of our nation is the evidence of the realization of the doubt if we are becoming slaves to our own bureaucrats who are keen to satisfy their greed and selfishness.

The list of scams like CWG, ADARSH, SPECTRUM and so on currently on the radar has given enough evidence that the corrupt officers are only dedicated to catch hold of the biggest possible pie when it comes to money and are never bothered about our “Motherland or its reputation”, or the dedication of our “Jawans” or the growth of the “nation and its people”. All they are focused is money, money and more money. I wonder how much money will make them feel fulfilled and start doing their duty properly (is it ever possible to satisfy them) or do they have account in any Banks in the “HELL” so that they can transfer these “hard-earned grabbing” while inhaling the last breath of their life.

In any profession, depending on your skill and qualification, you will be placed in different designations. Probably what we are witnessing now is the hierarchy for Thieves. If one is not smart enough, he becomes Petty Thief. Be courageous and daring, then he succeeds being a burglar. If one can manage to hold up key position, he ends up being White-Collared Thief. If one can invest and get into politics, then he becomes Professional Thief. These thieves are wide-spread throughout our nation and it is a very important challenge for all of us to ensure that they are cured at the earliest.

Let us be the right Citizen (Child) to our motherland and understand that there is no shortcut to being righteous. Let each and every one of us perform our duties truthfully and happily accept the outcome for our efforts. Small droplets make big ocean, so let us join hands and form a perfect citizen group which is impregnable by any untrue deeds/actions/individuals. Luxuries are exhaustible and short lived, let’s not be blinded by them and lose the value of the big picture. If we don’t organize ourselves soon, corruption will slave us soon creating more and more imbalance and finally ending up a scenario which is insecure and unstable.

At this point, I wish to say that one thing puzzles me. While the citizens of our nation are pulling their act together to make a corruption fee nation, are we missing active involvement from other politicians and parties at the ground zero level, whom we believed and handed over the responsibility of prospering our nation? Is it that their key income source is being scrutinized that they are getting only some representatives to come out with some “beating around the bush statements”? We select and elect our representatives, so let’s make an honest review and understand. With the option to vote for President’s Rule available, we can also display our disbelief on the dedication of officials. Let’s also make a point that we first will become the RIGHT CITIZEN (CHILD) to our WONDERFUL & BLESSED NATION (MOTHERLAND) and stand together always and establish a righteous and prosperous NATION – OUR INDIA.

SATHISH N

Right Person at the Right Place - Intro

Literature have shed ample light on the different stages of life as well as different slabs of living in the world. In spite of the differences, we unite to accept that all of us belong to the same species. Beyond that there are always differences in our perspectives that decide our actions and thus the happenings in the universe. Probably, one statement that most will stand united will be “I’m suffering”. Check with anyone, there will be very minimal individuals who say I’m happy. Everyone will have something or other that makes them “feel” incomplete, which acts as the reason for their pain.

One special feature about human beings is the notion that we are always correct, so all the problems are reasoned because of others. Whereas, during success, the statement changes, often it will be I did everything and my smartness and intelligence were the reasons, maybe the people who supported were just robots programmed by the claimer.

The truth always is that irrespective to success or failure, everything comes as a result of the collective effort. So our involvement is default and mostly the major reason for our own happiness/pain. This may lead to an argument that how can one state so for events where others pulled the strings. Such arguments are result of incomplete analysis. Often our analysis limits to the current events and we judge ourselves based on our involvement in those events. Also our justifications to portrait ourselves clean makes the analysis biased. So the result is invalid.

Also every action will have a root which will have a sequence of events before the ultimate. Our involvement at each and every instance will add to determine how much we are the reason for the final outcome. So the percentage of involvement may vary from 1% to 99% but never will be 0% or 100%.

Everyone on Earth are blessed with the common sense to differentiate between what is right and what is wrong (Exceptions: mentally disabled). Also every individual knows what gives happiness to them. Depending on how intense a person holds the hand of right/wrong in the journey towards one’s own goal, the right/wrong action is decided.

Imagine you have a big garden that has a lot of seeds sowed. One may like few types of plants, so will give more attention in its growth. Seeds that were cared at most will have maximum growth relative to others. Depending on the dominance of the type of plants in our garden, one decides the type of garden we own. As the ultimate owner of the garden, we can weed off the wrong plant and replace it with right, transforming the garden judiciously. Creating the right combination of plants will be always advisable as it will have positive effect on us as well as the creations dependent on the garden, not to forget the plants themselves and thus the garden too. Being flexible and adaptable to right practice is the best solution to become a good gardener.

Now relating the garden to our mind and caring of the seeds to nurturing the right/wrong, we will get the bigger picture of our soul. So the options are always open, choosing the right one at the earliest will give righteous outcome consistently. The world is nothing but combination of individuals, so zooming into the life of an individual, it can be learned that most of the negative happenings were due to the absence of the right person to guide and support. So the simple solution at the atomic level to this macro problem is “Right Person at the Right Place”.

We will try to get in detail about the influence of the difference key roles in an individual’s life that validates the blessings of the Right Person or rather the goodness of being the Right Person in our current role.

SATHISH N

Every Drop of Sweat Counts!

One of the most powerful means to churn money nowadays is “Emotional Utilization”. We often see this vastly used by the entertainment media. The more one succeeds in tuning the effectiveness, the greater the reach, let it be the serials or the reality shows or movies.


There is another strong field that works on the same platform which is very powerful and vast, “the sentiment of poverty”. This is one area that can easily win sympathy and never come on the radar for scrutiny. This advantage has paved way for a successful business in the form of “beggars”. There isn’t a minimum cut off to enter this field or any retirement age. We come across beggars of all forms, right from the newborns with their mom to the grand old who may be immobile or moving around with the aid of wheeled platform.

This weekend I had to wait a little bit long for my bus that gave me opportunity to scan around and witness the different forms of living. There were stalls selling fruits, sweets, et cetera. Some had piled the cucumbers at a place for sale whereas some were carrying them to the passengers waiting and travelling. There was a mom and small daughter entertaining the people with their acrobats and making their living. (Few places we often come across people selling books, papers, lottery and eatables.)

There was another group that was moving around easily and making their effort count, probably at a better profit margin than the rest – Beggars. The investments that they make are minimum but the returns are manifolds.

Let’s do a simple math. Currently the minimum rate is Rs. 1. Assuming the success rate per round is 10, and every round is at a gap of 15 minutes, for a shift of 8 hours, the net output will be Rs. 320. Tallying it for a month, the net income is 9600. Isn’t this greater than the average salary of the youth in our country, who has more commitment and responsibilities.

Take for example the job of a normal Sales Executive. The effort they put in to make themselves successful is born-crushing. They should make themselves appealing and impressive and should be well groomed. Need to go on tiring long travels to try meeting their steep targets. Undergoes mental and emotional pain because of the clients, the superiors and in addition attitude problems and long faces. Their day start at 7 AM and ends only by 7 PM or even late, which is 4 hours-plus more than the calculation we did earlier. If everything goes fine, get incentives and if not, deductions. With all these, they may earn in the range of 7500 or so.

A call center employee needs to make his effort every minute to make his day count. The specified break timing is the only relief and after that the automated dialer will ensure they are on calls throughout. Same is the case with most of the professions. A split second is sufficient to cause major harm to themselves and equipment for professionals in hardware line, mechanical, civil or automobile, hence mental alertness is an added skill on demand to survive. So everything comes at a price.

We also have this group in the society that states themselves to be downtrodden (maybe with attitude and self respect) and lives as parasite on others’ hard work. Few have part time jobs too, Theft. There are different strategies that these groups employ like: lost in an unknown city and want to go back home; hungry and need money to have food (providing food is not entertained), eager to learn but dad is irresponsible and want to pay fees, emergency surgery/medicine and so on. In the above cases, they can be normal and need not picture themselves shabby. If successful in convincing and being sympathised, the yield is better, the minimum will improve from 1 to 10 or even 20. The city is vast and population is huge, so even success rate of 10 per hour will friend them with a monthly income of a staggering Rs. 24000!!!

I am not saying that there aren’t people in need of support and help but the message is let’s be cautious, conscious, smart and choosy. Professional beggars are not quitting it because they or their users are well paid for their effort. If this embarrassment needs to be erased from our society, then let’s not entertain blind service. To do service, let’s find the real helpless, verify and then support. Let’s value our intention, effort and hard work. Let the benefit and noble deed reach the needy and not the greedy.

SATHISH N

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ROLE MODELS...

Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Sachin Tendulkar, Alfred Hitchcock.... What is the primary impact of all those remarkable personalities? They become role models or benchmarks for individuals to aspire for. People can look up to someone's journey towards success in their "respective fields" and learn from their triumphs and failures. That is the normal case that we usually encounter but there is another dreadful impact which is leading to misery for young minds. Remarkable personalities and them impacting negatively doesn't jell well, right? Yes, but it is not the personalities who are directly influencing things but the parents who are setting these personalities as "targets" for their kids to achieve for. It doesn't matter if the kids are capable/interested or not, the kids are the parent’s angels (puppets) who are supposed to make the parents' dreams come true. Never dare to ask any parent why they didn't try to make their dreams a reality by themselves rather than passing the buck!!!

The real meaning of guidance is misunderstood and is ending up being forced. If a sportsperson shines in his field, the kids should grow to match him. If a scientist comes out with sparkling success, then the kids target is changed. Every parent wants their kid to be a star, so whoever is there on the top, shinning, should be their kids. Of course they should be cashing a lot of money too, financial security is the ultimate goal of any human being, right!!!

Off late the scenario is changing with people who suffered from it determinant not to inject the same venom into their kids but at times they tend to overdo things. Too much of pampering and overly cocooning is leading kids to be in an imaginative world filled with fun, safety and unaware about being responsible towards thyself or the society. Many teachers are getting affected because of this. When we hear about the suicide or suicide attempts by kids for being scolded by teachers, we tend to imagine that the teacher should have been so harsh for the kid to take such extreme steps but that is not always the case. Often the teachers are on the receiving end of the byproduct of illogical pampering, which is costing their career and life.

The primary thing one should understand is, the parents are the first and best role model for any kids. There can't be anything better than their acts and deeds that can mould them towards being a smart and successful individual. The world is not full of happiness or success, it is mix of everything and it is the responsibility of parents to make their kids be aware of it and make them educated about the value of being righteous. Showering money or materialistic stuffs will give happiness but more than that sowing the right attitude and character and grooming them as responsible individuals is more prosperous. Everyone wish to be in the limelight or recognized and kids should be made to realize that it is to be earned and for the right reason which will have chain reaction of right things, which will be long-lasting.

I would like to quote an example of the inspiring worlds of a mom that helped her son to grow to heights. Rajalakshmi was a homemaker and she didn't set targets for her kid to be an engineer or doctor or scientist or sportsman or whatever but she asked him to give the best irrespective to the field he was in. She quoted that even if her son chooses the profession of housekeeper who cleans the toilet, he should "give his best" and should learn and grow to be the best in what he does. It was very obvious that the stress was on giving your best and that probably made it easier for the kid. For him everything he does was an opportunity and the competition was within and not with the lakhs who contest for limited seats or designations. Had it been a specific target set, his choice would have limited and been under stress to catch the bus and never miss it. The kid's first job happened to be a barber (though for very short time), and even at that time the mom stuck to her words and didn't criticize. The kid ended up being a versatile performer in Indian Cinema. He took his mother’s inspiration words throughout his career and excelled in all that he was exposed to, whether he took up role of child artist (where he won the national award in his first movie itself), or being dance master, or script writer, or singer and so on, grooming himself to be well-versed in all those fields. The kid is "Kamal Hassan".

Preaching alone has not yielded results, so parents it is time for practice. Be the hero to your kids, they will become heroes by time.

SATHISH N

Our Culture

One day I was waiting for the bus to my home. Nearby was a college student holding his books. One of his books had few wordings behind it which caught my attention. It said that the East India Company before invading India had asked to conduct a survey. The person after his study reported that to conquer India, the first thing to break into was the richness of Indian Culture. There was no/minimal theft, suicide rate was negligible, people had challenges but they didn't see those as demons.

Now whether the East India Company was successful in sowing its seed or we lost track of our roots and its value, vast majority of the current generation is highly insecure deep within. The raising crime rates, suicides, psychiatric problems, violence etc are testament of the same.

The century long fight for freedom lasting for three generations resulted in paving way for a new generation that was stranded and unaware/uneducated about the value of its culture. The maturity level and perspectives started to shrink due to the lack of guidance by generations before (whose key focus was independence) and made them directionless. Mislead by our invaders, materialistic achievements and pleasures became the new benchmark of happiness but they didn't realize this was set at the cost of peace of mind, safety of the conscious and socioeconomic prosperity. Gradually, life became less for living and more of business focused on returns and profits.

The path of self discipline, contentment, and self realization may not be as flamboyant as the current scenario but on a macro perspective it is far more prosperous and yields rich dividend, both for the individuals and the society. Now, for the sake of argument, let's not pull in selected failures and differences and delay our enlightenment and re-establishing the richness of our culture. Let's not continue with failed practices but hold hands of our successful and prosperous culture by upgrading it for the current century and setting a glorious path for the generations ahead.

SATHISH N - Still more to come.....:-)

FRIENDSHIP

Friendship!!! When we flip over the pages of our Autograph Book of our school/college days, we would come across ample lot of definitions on friendship. But on growing up, when Love, Career and Responsibilities take the primary position, friendship slowly takes the backseat, and we often find that the most intimate person is no more part of our life itself.


In anybody's journey towards self realization, the role of friends is vast and deep. Some influence you indirectly whereas some directly. Some supplies you with free advice whereas some will be there with you as your shadow never bothered to be noticed but still always there for you. Some teaches you by leaning on you whereas some put the arm around and take you around comfortably even through the tough days. Some remembers during parties alone, whereas some grows to the stature of being a role model and guidance. Some friendship will be redefined as brotherly or sisterly whereas some are born as brothers/sisters but becomes the best friend available. More of the latter of the above list, the better.

Any successful/peaceful person will have a huge role of his/her friends. If anyone says that they are self-made, it is more of their "ego" of the "I" that is dominating their conscious and intelligence. As mentioned earlier, we fall apart during the journey of life and nowadays Orkuts and Facebooks helps to "keep in touch" but real friendship goes beyond to being celebrated and adored. Let us remember those great souls who made us what we are.

I would like to start remembering a few who stand apart for their uniqueness and molded me to be what I am with all their care, positive vibe and inspiration. In the order they came into my life, to start off: my sis, Sandhya, who is more than just any other ordinary sis. Sunitha, the first person who stood apart for her smartness, character and simplicity. Manu, for his intelligence. Ramya, for her innocence, care and support. Shilpi, for her self belief and self confidence. Premjith, a great motivator. Ambrose, humble and humane. Ramesh Bai, for his wide perspective, fun filled, and setting standards. Subash, spiritual enlightening. Mahesh, silent but anywhere, anytime reliable force. Christopher, Raguvaran, Sajitha and Murugan Anna transformed me into a new life taking all the pain and pressure of the rebirth. I wish everyone gets friends like I got who could transform even ordinary things to beauty with their sheer presence.

Though friendship doesn't fall to any mathematical equation, if one asks me what I had done for them, the answer would be "meager" but they continue to be what they are, boundless and boundaryless, and that's friendship. Each of us will be having such friends, let's have them back in our life and cherish their presence and relation forever.

SATHISH N (Thanks a lot for the contribution and the mention)

Importance of Implied Communications!

Communication Skill

I would like to share an interesting incident that happened few days back. I was traveling in a bus on way to my home. It was crowded and I didn't get a seat. I wanted to work on my reading habit and had just purchased "The old man and his god" by Sudha Murthy. Inspired by my friend Shilpi, who always submerges herself into books whenever she is alone, I too thought to utilize the time and have a feel of the book. I enjoyed the book right from the first page and couldn't resist it.


A fellow passenger who was standing behind me was looking over me. Being a Saturday evening, it seems he had already started with his weekend partying, which was obvious from the scent that he had on him and his rhythmic steps. As if keen to know, he asked what I am reading. I said it is a book on various life experiences. For that he stated, I don't know all those things but just wanted to learn what you are reading standing here in the crowd. Then I realized his problem was not me reading but had misunderstood it for showing off.

There was another similar incidence with my friend Sajitha. She was chatting with her senior officials over phone on her to way to home and the communication was through English. One person, who again was in his weekend party mood, passed her listening to the conversation. He had walked away few feet but returned and scolded her for talking in English. Again, communicating in English was misunderstood as showing off.

Communication is key skill to move up the ladder professionally. What is the use of taking everything on the shoulders but not able to express the ideas properly? I often ask my team to work on this skill but mostly they failed to know its value and the bigger picture, which was very annoying as that habit was not going to help them justify their effort. There are three key people in that branch who actively involves in making the team better but only one communicates on the happenings, the other two carries believes in action speak than words.

When I and Sinoj were there for a routine visit, the name of the person who usually communicates often came to mind easily and often, which I felt made the other two feel odd. During the one-on-one meetings we had after that, both of us shared the same point on improving the communication skill. We quoted that since I knew them and their effort, I was available to mention it but that need not be the case always. What if I was not there but someone else who was new to the entire system and never knew about their effort?

I think it is time for us to come out of the misunderstanding and ignorance that communicating in English is showing off and an effort to market oneself. Effective expression of ideas and opinions is key for any individual's growth as well as the growth of the team that they are involved with. Probably we can rate the people who still carry a wrong notion of communicating in English or efforts to improve that skill as one who are having hangover of ignorance and are still in their school days. Worth noting is, it is important to enrich our own literature, so let's balance things by effective time sharing and choosing good authors.

 

Sathish N

(Thanks again for the contribution - Ingu Porattey :-))

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Time to React....

Our Mother Earth, our Motherland, wow! How exciting to hear those terms. People who live away from their native would have experienced goosebumps just by thinking about it. We may do anything to defend our Mother Earth during a crisis, even if it is at the cost of our own life. The army at the border will be accepting it chorus. But other than that are we really doing anything special for our world. During normal situations we think about prospering our wealth and resources but then what about our motherland's resources? Have we personally felt it is our responsibility to enrich our nature? Yes, there are dedicated groups who are involved, but when a small family needs everyone pulling the strings in the right direction to grow, what about our universal family?


We often feel it’s other’s mistake and I am perfect but let's realize we have responsibilities beyond being perfect or correct. Correction and cleaning is also our duty. We need to hold our hands together for combined strength in making things happen. If we need pure water, we should be bothered about the state of our water bodies. If we need healthy food forever, we should be interested about the condition of agriculture lands and the farmers engaged in it. If we need clean air, we, along with our near and dear ones, should be happily involved in preserving the natural vegetation and controlling pollution.

It is said that Evolution has brought about a lot of changes in human beings wherein the physical features were altered as per its utilization - some sort of nature's optimization process, which is external. But internally, as a soul, we remain the same. Only we forced or trained our mindset to shrink from universal to global to national to local to joint family to nuclear family and now moving towards I, me and myself.

We are happy to see our home neat and clean but forget to understand that the basement for our living place is our surrounding and it is an integral part of us. If it stinks, our home too stinks. When the drainage in our area overflows and is all around the street, we are irritated with the government but is it justifiable? What is the core reason for this? Is this not the result of our own family members or servants being lethargic and dumping garbage into the drainage? In what way should the government be pulled in? Did they advice you to keep surroundings unclean or appoint the servant? Now let's not point finger towards the neighbor, which is even worse. If self discipline is in place, the entire system will be in place, and will help in solving the problem to a great extent.

Look around to the present state of natural resources. If there isn't much to learn and realize from it now, a day will come when the world will tilt towards very pathetic days. Rich and poor, poverty and theft, violence and fear will rule the world. All current necessities will become luxuries. Crime rate will sky rocket but none will complain other than people suffering from it because we too may be part of it.

Today we justify ourselves saying we are too busy not to spend time with our family, to accumulate wealth for their safe future. We want them to be well educated and placed in better positions but it is better to teach them some martial arts and make them experts in it. If the current scenario prevails, safety will be out of question and survival will not be dependent on wealth or knowledge but one's ability to self defend. Let's not allow Charles Darwin’s theory of "Survival of the Fittest" become practical, but act together smartly saving and prospering our mother nature.


Via SATHISH N
(Thanks a lot for this thought-provoking article contribution)

Friggatriskaidekaphobia

Millions of people, especially in the US, suffer from Friggatriskaidekaphobia. Folds appearing on your forehead? Well nothing but the irrational fear of 13th of a month falling on Friday, or simply put "Friday, the 13th." This superstition costs US hundreds of millions of dollars on that particular one day, as millions avoid their normal routines on this day.

With that in the backdrop, two days from now we have the next Friday, the 13th. This time around, Friggatriskaidekaphobia is supposed to hit India too. The assembly election results in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Assam are due to be declared on Friday. Definitely one set of people are going to be believers of this superstition. Red has always been a sign of danger, but this time around a danger is seen to Red in Kerala and West Bengal, if exit polls are to be believed. BP must have risen for all the contestants and party workers. Well let their heart and brain work at least one day.

Whether Friday, the 13th affects you or not, dear politicians, our work is over. We've all voted. But spare a thought for all of us who have made you victorious - by not gathering on public roads to show your happiness blocking transport. A few of us who have voted for you might even be on our way to hospital, being extremely sick. A few of us might be tying the knot on this particular day. A few of us might be having interviews to shape up our careers, and need to catch our trains and flights on time. You have all rights to celebrate, but do find a spacious ground for that. Please, it's a request. Don't make your voters suffer from Friggatriskaidekaphobia!!.

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NOSTRADAMUS - BOOK II, VOL 5, PARA 3, LINES 24-28

>>Brent Crude rises to $121 from $85 levels, thanks to the unrest in the Middle East.

>>Central Govt. mulls a Rs. 5 per liter increase in petrol prices next week.

>>Both inevitable and uncontrollable.


ENTER NOSTRADAMUS:
"One of the Friday/Saturday or Monday in the month of May, in the year 2011 A.D., Kerala govt. will be gifting its people a HARTAL holiday!! The universal remedy to all problems in Kerala. (The only hindrance is election results on May 13th)." This will be followed by indefinite private bus strike (as a part of their long-term efforts to improve passenger service) and a one-day auto and taxi strike.


We need to wait and see if this prediction of Nostradamus holds good:-)

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The Shaolin Drunken Monk (EY)

The Taste of India

Prepoll, on election campaign Rahul Gandhi visits Kerala...requests to vote for Congress saying if CPM wins, we will again get a 93-year-old CM. VS replied calling Rahul an "Amul Baby."


Guess what. Amul was prompt to act on this and has leveraged this incident with their latest ad.

Happy New Year - Happy Vishu To All