Want Work Done - Learn to get it.

He is accused of carelessness, gross negligence, irresponsibleness, dishonesty, lecherousness. I too, think sometimes he is careless and thinks nothing about the organisation. Though i have serious doubts about other accusations.

But now-a-days, he is on fire trying to solve one of the big problem. With full vigour he is involved and almost spearheading in an area which is looked into only annually by some carping faces.

You can get work from any kind of person provided you are able to arouse right instincts in him.

Last week snippets.

1)During last seven days, one memorable event was to get a boy admitted in class 8 at NIOS. This boy has left his regular studies three years back after death of his father. Anything which is anyway related to education is always very satistying for me.

2)After RK's departure to Delhi for vacation, living alone in the flat. Sometimes, it feels great to live all alone but sometimes, it gets slightly boring.

3)Made my mind for next year plan. Hope to stick on it. Better to have stopped my notorious "Extra Thinking".

4)Thought i would write something over Rahul Mahajan. But felt him too worthless to spend any moment over him. But still i think that may be Rahul Mahajan as a person is worthless but as a growing ideology is defnitely something to be written about.

5)Only today, i could complete Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography. Would write an account over it by adding in the previous post on this subject.

The world around us is becoming Moron

I feel that we, as people, are becoming moron. And believe me, the trend is very fast. People have almost stopped doing intellectual discussions. Generally they talk about office, movies, songs, games or other household topics. When i read autobiographies or articles written by earlier generation, i feel that all such thinking has almost struck a blank wall. In general people do not have much interest in things demanding a more intellectual & farsightedness. How many of us discuss the development of democracy or Capitalism vs. Socialism or declining Educational standards. Hardly ever we discuss about them.

This thing is also evident in the shift from reading books to viewing idiot box (TV). Earlier people used to have good reading practices. Reading helps in increasing awareness about the important trends & events happening around us. It somehow forces one to think deeply about important questions of world. But this too, seemed to be too heavy for our current generation to carry. Now more & more people prefer to pass their time by sitting in front of TV instead of reading books.

Another indicator is the content produced by Mass Media. Observe the kind of stuff News Channels are offering. They are just giving out crap. Highly trivial things like Pramod Mahajan hospitalisation, Rahul Mahajan arrest, Amitabh Bachchan illness, Rakhi Sawant accusing Meeka etc etc are repeated for the whole day and on all the channels. Don't we have any real issues in our country. Why don't media covers suicide committed by farmers and poor people, abysmal attendance at government primary schools, electricity theft, openly drug consumption at railway stations, parents standing in scorching heat for hours to submit admission forms etc etc. But NO, these issues won't be covered because there are no takers for them.

People are happy watching Rahul Mahajan escapades and Tulsi's generosity. They don't need anything else which reminds them of dirty, bad reality even if it is on the cost of its continuance.

Me suspicious

i think myself to be more suspicious then other people. i never wrote down any of my id s and password. Whenever some new password comes to me in that ubiquitious sealed paper, i just read the password, try to remember it and then i just tear away that paper. It has been too scary for me to imagine my passwords going into some unscrupulous hands. But when i see other people, their laxity in such matters, i feel that may be i am over cautious.
Yesterday only, i saw that SU was keeping his online trading id & password in his valet at the place we keep photos. Anybody can see it easily. There are some other events also when i saw people sharing passwords freely. All this sometimes make me feel myself to be more careful than actually needed.

Is the democracy inherently wrong somewhere ?

Democracy was defined by some person as "where the heads are counted but not weighed".

This definition sometimes seems to be so proper. Recently, i felt it on the issue of extending reservation for OBCs in higher education. Despite its inherent dangers, no political partly spoke against it because it knew that speaking against it would mean loosing out a large vote bank. Every person, regardless of his wisdom, has been given one vote to cast. India, being a country which in its recent history was ruled by British is having a very large chunk of illiterate & ill informed people in its population. Though there is no direct relation between illiteracy & lack of wisdom but definitely a good co-relation is there. These ill informed people have always been exploited by those very politicians who make long bombastic speeches about how well-to-do people are not thinking for welfare of those who left behind. By doing this, these politicians manage to get their vote-bank intact if not growing. They bring up things which are ,in fact, against the welfare of these people but still they support them. For example, lets see the reservation in this light

Stakes of really poor & backward people.
* Discrimination over caste is there at many parts of our country but is reducing because money has now become the most important thing in social life.
* For this, politicians ask them to vote for them so that they would ask for reservation in job & higher education for these people.
* These people vote for such politicians, reservation is brought forward but never there is any mention to exclude the people of same caste but economically & socially forward.
* So in this process, only those who are already socially forward take benefit of reservation and those who are backward remain so.
* Again, politicians come to them and make speeches that how would they bring more reservation for them, if they vote for them (naturally!).
* These people would again caste their votes in favour of these shrewd politicians.

In this process, these poor, ill-informed people never get benefitted but they have been made to understand that it is for them. Hence, they vociferously support such thing which apart from not benefitting them, would make caste division alive for them. (but not for their caste people who are socially forward)

But unfortunately, these people are the biggest vote holders in our democracy. They do not even know what is good or bad for them but still have the power to send candidates to the parliament. The more shrewd the candidate is the brighter is his chance.

My experiments with Truth

My current reading is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi. I am totally amazed that how a person too shy to speak in his farewell speech at England became the biggest leader. He said in the book that he attributed this to the thoughts which were going inside his mind while he was unable to speak them out.

to be continued.......