Yeah!!! Thanks IPL...for promoting what we should not...
In one of the recent advertisements promoting this new mode of cricket...a patient is asked by the dentist about his likes for teams....the poor guy grins and names Delhi...and in the process loses all his teeth...because the dentist was for Mumbai.
This concept which is so prevalent in the European countries for various games is being imitated by IPL in India now. Unfortunately, it so happens that India has a cultural diversity which showcases a different India after almost every 100 kms...In such diverse environs, it anyways becomes a big task to ensure that people call themselves Indian and not address themselves by areas (thanks to Chak De! and SRK for promoting Indianism which seems to be losing its importance and relevance in this new India...really unfortunately) And now IPL is making things even more stingy...
I keep saying this and I keep thinking about it...I just hope that a day does not come when people forget that their is an India which they live in.........
Rgds,
Falcon
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Learnings on unity...from a taxi driver
We call these huge ambassadors in Kolkata as Yellow Buffaloes...one such buffalo was taking me from my office in Taratala to my guest house in Alipur - a small distance of around 15-20 minutes. These were some of the most interesting minutes of mine for quite some time before.
The driver was from Bihar - a small district called Burdwan. I had felt that my knowledge of development was too good and started having a small conversation with him regarding the latest development related activities which the new government of Bihar was doing. This includes setting up of educational institutes, infrasrtucture, setups for MNC's etc.
This is what the driver had to say (the entire thing was in Hindi but translated here for convenience of the idle reader) :
"Saab, I am matric pass. I call myself educated from Bihar standards but I know that I am still uneducated. When we uneducated people have a dispute, we have a fight. It may or may not be a fist fight but we definitely fight. We abuse and we shout and scream at each other. We say things about each other's mothers and sisters. We do everything that our feeble mind feels will give the other person pain. But we do it on their face. AND we forget about it as soon as the incidence is over.
What do educated people do saab? Look at Maharashtra. These people call themselves educated and developed? They keep small things in their hearts till these small things become big and then simply cut up the poor person who is living away from his village working in their homes, offices and factories, doing menial jobs just to ensure that his family back home is able to eat two meals a day! Will you call Bal Thakeray or what is his son's name...educated? If this is educated and developed, then I will not want Bihar to be this saab.
I will want that before opening all these IIM's and IIT's, we should first teach our people to live like one...to ensure that the education - if and when they get it - is used for purposes that it should be used for...and these are for the development of the fellow beings living not only in their localities but also in their states and even more importantly...in their country.
Its been such a long time since I last heard someone saying that he was from India saab. All that everyone says is that he is from a state of a region."
Eye opener? I was stunned by this seemingly 30-35 year old who claimed to be just class X pass to say something so astounding that I wish I could make him stand on a podium and say these words in front of the entire country....I wish I could hear him speak for some more time...
Rgds,
Falcon
The driver was from Bihar - a small district called Burdwan. I had felt that my knowledge of development was too good and started having a small conversation with him regarding the latest development related activities which the new government of Bihar was doing. This includes setting up of educational institutes, infrasrtucture, setups for MNC's etc.
This is what the driver had to say (the entire thing was in Hindi but translated here for convenience of the idle reader) :
"Saab, I am matric pass. I call myself educated from Bihar standards but I know that I am still uneducated. When we uneducated people have a dispute, we have a fight. It may or may not be a fist fight but we definitely fight. We abuse and we shout and scream at each other. We say things about each other's mothers and sisters. We do everything that our feeble mind feels will give the other person pain. But we do it on their face. AND we forget about it as soon as the incidence is over.
What do educated people do saab? Look at Maharashtra. These people call themselves educated and developed? They keep small things in their hearts till these small things become big and then simply cut up the poor person who is living away from his village working in their homes, offices and factories, doing menial jobs just to ensure that his family back home is able to eat two meals a day! Will you call Bal Thakeray or what is his son's name...educated? If this is educated and developed, then I will not want Bihar to be this saab.
I will want that before opening all these IIM's and IIT's, we should first teach our people to live like one...to ensure that the education - if and when they get it - is used for purposes that it should be used for...and these are for the development of the fellow beings living not only in their localities but also in their states and even more importantly...in their country.
Its been such a long time since I last heard someone saying that he was from India saab. All that everyone says is that he is from a state of a region."
Eye opener? I was stunned by this seemingly 30-35 year old who claimed to be just class X pass to say something so astounding that I wish I could make him stand on a podium and say these words in front of the entire country....I wish I could hear him speak for some more time...
Rgds,
Falcon
Monday, March 03, 2008
Waiting....
Still waiting....for "something" to happen to me that will make me appreciate my own or anyone else's existence in this world...
Still waiting....for "someone" to appear who will make us understand that we dont exist just because we need to and their could be other reasons...
Still waiting....for "someplace" to open that could give me the solace and the peace that I feel is what we should endeavour to achieve in our short stay here....
TRYING....to understand that maybe that "something", "someone" or "someplace" could be inside me rather than outside....
If their is God....Prayer to thee for everyone here......help me live or help me otherwise
Still waiting....for "someone" to appear who will make us understand that we dont exist just because we need to and their could be other reasons...
Still waiting....for "someplace" to open that could give me the solace and the peace that I feel is what we should endeavour to achieve in our short stay here....
TRYING....to understand that maybe that "something", "someone" or "someplace" could be inside me rather than outside....
If their is God....Prayer to thee for everyone here......help me live or help me otherwise
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