Words Of The World

This is going to be long but in the end you will find it worth while. I clearly remember my father bringing home the very first cellular phone launched in India. The geometry box, so rock solid that it could be used as weapon in self defense. Back then, it was all exclusive. Having a cellular phone and making calls from it was one thing that added to a man's repute. Till i completed my graduation and did my post graduation, evolution took it's toll. Technology advanced and evolved. The same phone which could be used as weapon in self defense was available in a size that could fit in your palm. I was smitten by fantasy of cellphone possession. I got one when i stepped into college. There were less of calls made but more of text messages exchanged. If there was a love affair happening, the spine would be the love TEXT message coming from the beloved.

 शुभ दीपावली  Here's wishing you a very Happy DIWALI in advance today. This is one of the times when every city looks beautiful as anything. It does not matter if you witness this scene while you are on one of the streets of any city or you are in a plane flying over the skies of any city or you are in a train crossing the distances from one city to another amid st some villages too. It has to be a visual treat. From small houses to big mansions to corporate towers creating the skyline lit up so beautifully, they surely make up for a visual treat . It's like being invited to the visual Feast of the Almighty himself. All that is good but there's one thing that's not good post Diwali. While we enjoy Diwali with our family and friends by burning crackers, there is a Cumulative Diwali Syndrome being build up in the air which would act very soon on every one, once Diwali is over. We, the people, birds and animals are the ones who suffer from this la...

I just had a situation. I was browsing an e-commerce portal and found a nice deal. I entered my debit card number. Wolla! It just got declined. I am very sound on cash in my account. Just that the card was not yet activated for online transactions. And that is when the man of the moment, the messiah, the Personal banker heroes in. Hence, i got my deal. Ha Ha! Talking of E-commerce, have you realized the way whole buying behavior of the consumer has changed. May be, the buying behavior has changed because the buying procedure has changed. There were times when you browsed the collection in the retail stores and asked the price. You either proudly ordered  "Pack It" or to avoid the embarrassment, quite sheepishly you would say "I'll Just be back". I have had this great experience working with an E-commerce company post my post graduation. The concept then sounded new, exciting and very much enticing. Today the concept of Online selling and buying is ca...

Anybody who can answer this question in a convincing manner, wins respect and admiration from my end. I fail to understand why is it and what is it that Indians, Yes INDIANS in foreign lands are so law abiding and so into the limits. I have seen live examples whenever i am on an international tour. Be it Mauritius, Europe, Singapore, America or any other nation for that matter. Indians act so careful about the respective country's norms and regulations as if they are born, brought up and served by that country. My brain nerves bleed pain as they are unable to find a convincing answer to the same. Indians, when on international tours do not drop there cola glasses out of the window in the middle of the road. But here, they do mind putting that glass on a glass holder in there car instead of throwing it out on a busy street. Indians, when on tours in other countries do not drop the fruit left overs and other trash out of there coach's window in the middle of a busy...

     Today morning i were in my car driving down to some place for some work and Delhi rained good. When i say good, it stormed and the streets got water logged. Well it happens when ever it rains in Delhi. Forget Delhi, it happens in the biggest and the most developed of nations. So hey, i am not complaining. I am here to talk of something else. I usually keep my cars updated performance wise. I don't mind the seat covers being dirty, a pack of wafers or crunchy lying in some corner. Blame it on me or the men, we like our rooms shabby, so our cars. At least i do. But this beautiful morning, in the middle of a jam packed street , one of my car's wipers breaks creating a mess. I tend to avoid it and then another surprise, the engine heats up. I see smoke coming out of the bonnet and i don't know what to do. I start hoping for the best that could happen. And the best that could possibly happen is, when the car breaks down(God forbid if it does) it should b...

Today it's payback time. The good's and the bad's sowed all these years are reaping fruits today. The U.S. government faces a shutdown, for the next budget for 2014 fiscal year fails to gather confidence and approval from those in authority. I better not describe the after effects of the shutdown. America, the nation that acts an arbitrator to settle a dispute between two nations. Even if the two nations are not willing to settle, they better settle coming under the pressure of United States Of America. It's America, that enters and invades Iraq, in lieu of saving the citizens of Iraq. It's America, that plans to enter, invade and capture Syria (not visible enough to the people, more of behind-the-scenes act). It is America, who intervenes the nuclear power project of Iran strangling it's economy to death, by asking it's allies not to trade with Iran. Further Iran (one of the major Crude producers) refuses to export oil to other countrie...

Politics never seemed as entertaining as it is today. When i were a kid, entertainment to me meant cartoons, video games, music and sometimes the circus. To my parents, it would have been movies, picnics, family functions and social gatherings and activities. But as far as i can remember, politics was never as entertaining, and as enthralling as it is today. And the reason i personally believe to be explicitly true is that earlier, politicians did there job, there duty in fact. Maybe a bit of it, but they did it. Today, entering politics brings less of social and moral liability and more of a celebrity status with it.  I grew up listening to the GUT BASED LEADERSHIP examples of the iconic Indira Gandhi. I grew up seeing Lalu Prasad Yadav giving enormous profits to the nation from Indian Railways during his tenure as Railways minister. It further went as a case study in IIM's. Today, kids are more aware and participate in India's future and it's happening...