They say 24th Jan (correct me but i think its some date in third week of Jan) is the saddest day for all. They have some quotient that holiday season is over, year looms ahead, new years resolutions end here for many and so on... I think some points are true but i think its just useless study. Here i am am finding time to muse on this day. On work side things are hectic and looking up as here in IT things seems to have gathered momentum since third quarter of 2010.
Start to 2011 can be summed as Two positives and one negative for me.
On personal side, physicall fitness and detox has worked. This resolution is still intact. tough as they say shwaznegger was not built in a day. its ongoing process. I had opportunity to climb sinhagad, ARAI,parvati twice. also had chance to enter swimming pool on the coldest day in this winter (5.3 deg c) for acquaerobics session with some lovely ladies. All this thanks to solaris xform challenge.
Second postive is the performance of Indian Team in SA. Though Durban test was won last yr and fightback started at centurian in dec, it was wonderful fight at Capetown between legends like kallis, sachin and good cricket all round. India earned respect through this series. They will not be criticzed anymore for being lucky test team to be No1. No1 ranking is justified with tied series. Though we had golden opportunity on fourth day at Capetown. we let them through the jail... ODI series also was close inspite of absence of sachin, sehwag, gambhir . I really though we would struggle but bowlers did good job along with few batters like pathan, Kohli. Rest batting collapses but fight shown was great. With us winning T20 and they winning by 3-2 again i feel limited over series was tied. Looking forward to great world cup. But keeping fingers cross as in past we have seen strange things happen.
Last thing which made 24th Jan the saddest day in real sense is demise of panditji. Great singer Pt Bhimsen Joshi. I feel a personal loss. I remember attending his santwani prog with my grand mom when i was 7 yrs old. That voice mesmerised me. That baritone, melody, discipline, style everything. Though i am not classival buff, but his voice (along with pt Jasrajji) i feel some great feeling which i cannot define. The depth of voice, some magic. His film songs, abhangs are the ones i really like. Remember Ramya hi swargahun lanka, majhe maher pandhari, yachi sathi kela attahas, amazing.... feel like this gap can never be filled. People like PL, Panditji, Latadidi, sachin have made our lives rich. We are poorer today....
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Time flies
I remember that evening in march 07 when all plans of world cup went awry. India played 2 matches, we had partied on both days with friends around. I remember the agony fans faced and the jokes , postings etc .That time facebook/twitter had not caught on like today, but those savvy people used to forward mails... Now its 2011 . Month to go for another world cup. Four years have zoomed past, sachin has gone from struggling mode to different level another. we have seen worst recession of our professional lives (though end is not yet near esp in US and europe). We have seen UPA1 and UPA2 . Thankfully left parties have been shown door. UPA2 fumbles on all fronts. we have seen terror in 2008 bomb blasts in five cities, 26/11, pune, varanasi. we have seen dirty politics in coloring terror from ruling party. we have seen inflation. we have seen obama, we have seen pak blown away, we have seen MJ's death, we have seen spain winning soccer WC, we have seen some classics at wimbledon, we have seen IPL, we have seen indian team playing very good cricket.. coming back to where i started
anyways lots of things happen in four years. It seems just like yesterday. We are so busy in our lives that days pass, weekends are spent, quarters zoom past with varied numbers, academic years end, you turn older....
so whats new in this, we all know . why lament, live in a moment... i can hear all those cliche advises and know it all cynics who migh scorn at this posting to be non issue. why i thought, i should share this. Its just the fear, at this rate we will soon go past our whole life span. I am sure most of us feel that way but for few really balanced and yogic people.
Other day few friends from school (including some old flames from school days) met, all of us have cross wrong side of 30s with families etc taking priority. someone shared school snaps, 25-30 yrs ago. That seems different age. College days at Kharagpur seem another era,... thats a paradox as we cant track time at all on one hand and feel those early stages to be years gone on other hand.
anyways no one can stop time and there is no point in complaining as my know it all freinds can advise.
But point i am making is the scary feeling of running out of time in hand.... Is this mid life crisis? Time to follow your heart....
anyways lots of things happen in four years. It seems just like yesterday. We are so busy in our lives that days pass, weekends are spent, quarters zoom past with varied numbers, academic years end, you turn older....
so whats new in this, we all know . why lament, live in a moment... i can hear all those cliche advises and know it all cynics who migh scorn at this posting to be non issue. why i thought, i should share this. Its just the fear, at this rate we will soon go past our whole life span. I am sure most of us feel that way but for few really balanced and yogic people.
Other day few friends from school (including some old flames from school days) met, all of us have cross wrong side of 30s with families etc taking priority. someone shared school snaps, 25-30 yrs ago. That seems different age. College days at Kharagpur seem another era,... thats a paradox as we cant track time at all on one hand and feel those early stages to be years gone on other hand.
anyways no one can stop time and there is no point in complaining as my know it all freinds can advise.
But point i am making is the scary feeling of running out of time in hand.... Is this mid life crisis? Time to follow your heart....
Monday, January 10, 2011
Wish list 2011
Welcome 2011. Having seen past 2010 across the memory lane, at a popular sea side beach in Konkan, I had a great start to 2011. Reason for that being Indian teams drawn series in SA. It had never happened be it 1992, 1996, 2001, 2006. It used to be same old story of tendulkar hitting century in losing cause. It happened same at Centurian. But this team is special. It bounces back as they did in Durban and fought in Capetown, But for kallis and some defensive cricket on fourth afternoon , we could have made history.. anyways a great acheivement.
2010 saw corruption taking all limelight. IPL, Adarsh, CWG, telecom. Not say that NDA regimes have been clean, atleast they were functional like we had on roads and infrastructure. UPA1 and UPA2 have failed nation on NREGA, UID whatever projects they undertook. Plus they are corrupt to core. Totally non functional. eg agriculture ministry. Thanks to it, we have unprecedented Inflation esp on food. On oil one can blame global economy, on food we can blame on climate but what about simple steps to avoid supply chain jackups of item cost, hoarding, storage, planning. All that agri ministry is interested in Land around Pune-mumbai, Lavasa and IPL.. Create meaningless controversy on historical greats under name of maratha pride ..
Shivaji was a great king. His biography is lesson to all politicians and so called netas. I see an attempt to make his career drawn on caste lines. We had seen that in past. Great leaders like B R Ambedkar, Mahatma Phule have already been marginalized on caste lines. Every citizen has right to feel proud of these great leaders. But our politicans create heady concoction of caste, religion, vote politics depriving young impressionalbel minds to really understand essence of teachings of these great leaders. what remains is jingoism
Another trend I see is unaccountable power enjoyed by non democratic power house which is first family. They hold no constitutional post apart from being MPs. But they have unlimited power. Its high time they should get on some post in governance.
Our fight against terrorism is also politicized by serious attempts made to color the terrorism on religious lines. This will weaken our fight. Also no concrete steps are taken to follow vigilance, alertness, preparedness to fight terrorism or naxalism.
Only effective people we have is FM, Home minister, Ramesh, Sibal on educational reforms. PM himself should come out of political compulsions and loyalties to revive all above as he did in 1991 with help of PV Narsimharao , a great leader maligned by petty politics. Thats my dream for 2011.
On economy side recession seems over apparrently. Though in US and Europe experts disagree. Here in India, job market has picked, so has sensex (which had greatest loss in a day due to inflation). But let there be no unreal growth story this time. Let us all follow correct valuations , let managers not leverage out of mob mentality. Let job market not result in unrealistic wage demands. We can thus lose cost competitiveness without really going up value chain (many companies claim that but differ when it comes to numbers and scrutiny). Let real estate prices be realistic atleast in urban india. else housing will be unaffordable for many.
Government should play active role in ensuring supply of land in non corrupt manner, with proper planning of environmental and growth issue (plan for next 20 yrs).
Our growth story for last two decaded and so called rise has only few dimension: consumerism from large middle class, innovation in IT/education/manufacturing, good manpower and liberalization in that order. It all was private initiative with out any significant Governance done except for what P V Narsimharao govt did in 1991 and what rajeev gandhi did in 1986, and infrastructure focus in A B Vajpayee govt in 2001. Another problem is non inclusive growth. Anyone can drive 5 kms from city limits to understand stark difference in basic life defining parameters.Time to go to villages for nationally inclined youth. Thats when we can do real nation building.
Tasks are enormous. But let 2011 be a good start towards that. It will define our survival as nation after two decades. Its very important for me as i have my daughter who will live then. Thats how everyone should think. Starting with me doing things very important: save environment, follow rules, vote, and so on....
The change starts with me. Then only we can change system and yes system can be changed. It has to. ....
last point in my wishlist is that India should win world cup 2011 and Pune team shoudl win IPL, and i lose few kgs,.....
2010 saw corruption taking all limelight. IPL, Adarsh, CWG, telecom. Not say that NDA regimes have been clean, atleast they were functional like we had on roads and infrastructure. UPA1 and UPA2 have failed nation on NREGA, UID whatever projects they undertook. Plus they are corrupt to core. Totally non functional. eg agriculture ministry. Thanks to it, we have unprecedented Inflation esp on food. On oil one can blame global economy, on food we can blame on climate but what about simple steps to avoid supply chain jackups of item cost, hoarding, storage, planning. All that agri ministry is interested in Land around Pune-mumbai, Lavasa and IPL.. Create meaningless controversy on historical greats under name of maratha pride ..
Shivaji was a great king. His biography is lesson to all politicians and so called netas. I see an attempt to make his career drawn on caste lines. We had seen that in past. Great leaders like B R Ambedkar, Mahatma Phule have already been marginalized on caste lines. Every citizen has right to feel proud of these great leaders. But our politicans create heady concoction of caste, religion, vote politics depriving young impressionalbel minds to really understand essence of teachings of these great leaders. what remains is jingoism
Another trend I see is unaccountable power enjoyed by non democratic power house which is first family. They hold no constitutional post apart from being MPs. But they have unlimited power. Its high time they should get on some post in governance.
Our fight against terrorism is also politicized by serious attempts made to color the terrorism on religious lines. This will weaken our fight. Also no concrete steps are taken to follow vigilance, alertness, preparedness to fight terrorism or naxalism.
Only effective people we have is FM, Home minister, Ramesh, Sibal on educational reforms. PM himself should come out of political compulsions and loyalties to revive all above as he did in 1991 with help of PV Narsimharao , a great leader maligned by petty politics. Thats my dream for 2011.
On economy side recession seems over apparrently. Though in US and Europe experts disagree. Here in India, job market has picked, so has sensex (which had greatest loss in a day due to inflation). But let there be no unreal growth story this time. Let us all follow correct valuations , let managers not leverage out of mob mentality. Let job market not result in unrealistic wage demands. We can thus lose cost competitiveness without really going up value chain (many companies claim that but differ when it comes to numbers and scrutiny). Let real estate prices be realistic atleast in urban india. else housing will be unaffordable for many.
Government should play active role in ensuring supply of land in non corrupt manner, with proper planning of environmental and growth issue (plan for next 20 yrs).
Our growth story for last two decaded and so called rise has only few dimension: consumerism from large middle class, innovation in IT/education/manufacturing, good manpower and liberalization in that order. It all was private initiative with out any significant Governance done except for what P V Narsimharao govt did in 1991 and what rajeev gandhi did in 1986, and infrastructure focus in A B Vajpayee govt in 2001. Another problem is non inclusive growth. Anyone can drive 5 kms from city limits to understand stark difference in basic life defining parameters.Time to go to villages for nationally inclined youth. Thats when we can do real nation building.
Tasks are enormous. But let 2011 be a good start towards that. It will define our survival as nation after two decades. Its very important for me as i have my daughter who will live then. Thats how everyone should think. Starting with me doing things very important: save environment, follow rules, vote, and so on....
The change starts with me. Then only we can change system and yes system can be changed. It has to. ....
last point in my wishlist is that India should win world cup 2011 and Pune team shoudl win IPL, and i lose few kgs,.....
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