Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap … From Pakistan to Talibanistaan…

Recently read a news in Times of India... that Taliban controlled areas are now closer to Indian border than Mumbai to Goa…
The accompanying image was too bad….

(Image taken from Indiatimes website... for original Click here)

I felt sorry for the people in the region….
But then they are facing the consequences of their own actions. For many years now Pakistan has been using this terrorism As a means of proxy war against India whom they cannot defeat in the conventional warfare…

They also allowed a lot of terrorist organizations to flourish… gave shelter to Indian gangsters like Dawood Ibrahim…. And so on…

There is a saying something like one rotten fruit in the basket soon affects all others…
Here Pakistan has collected too many rotten potato’s into it’s basket….
It was just a matter of time before other fruits were spoiled…
Now all the rotten fruits are stinking and Pakistan is on it’s way towards becoming a terrorist shit….

There is story in Hindu Mythology about a devil called “Bhasmasur”
Story goes that the Bhasmasur was a devotee of lord Shiva… he performed great penance to get a boon from Lord Shiva…

When pleased lord asked him for his wish… he asked for a boon that whenever he put hi hand on someone’s head, that person should turn into ashes…
Without thinking.. the lord granted his wish…. And Bhasmasur started troubling everyone….

When people asked lord Shiva to intervene…. The Bhasmasur threatened to put his hand over the head of the lord himself.

the terrorist Bhasmasur created by Pakistan… is now threatening to put his hand over its creator….

But in the original story lord Shiva was saved by Lord Vishnu who took the form of Mohini .. A beautiful woman and lured Bhasmasur to put his hand over his own head….

There does not seem to be anyone who could save Pakistan….
The transformation of Pakistan into Talibanistaan now looks imminent….
The country that created and used terrorism as a state policy…. Is falling victim to its own creation….

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap - Bible, Galatians vi. 7.

I think soon there will be no trace of Pakistan that once used to be enemy of India…
There will be a country full of terrorists… who will treat entire world as their enemy….

India will suffer most just because it happen to be the next door neighborhood …. And not because of old rivalry…

When I think of this…. A picture of a place full of worms….
Similar to the one seen in the end of the Movie The Mummy Returns…into which Imhotep finally falls….

Or the one seen in the movie Aliens where all the alien creatures breed….

Disgusting……!!!!!
I really feel sorry for all those peace loving souls in Pakistan (No matter how small in number they are…)

A Truly Eventful Year...

Hmmm… so 2008 is over and we are already into 2009.

Looking back… 2008 has been a turning point in my life… the previous ones could be

2003 – I passed out as BE and Joined Infosys…,

1999 – I completed DME and joined L &T,

1995 – I passed SSC and walked into the new world called college…,

1994 – another eventful year ,

1990 – I completed primary school and entered 5th standard… ,

1985 – I enrolled into first standard…. Start of school life…

And of course 1980… the year when I arrived on this planet…

To be very brief…

It was a year of roller coaster ride. Not only on the global perspective but on the personal front also.

I had already put down my papers in Infosys in Nov 07… so this year started with one major career move where I left my 4.5 year old job… my first job… and entered the Lehman Brothers on 11th Feb 08. Got a huge hike in the salary.

It was just the right time for salary rise since I was about to get married. A lot of shopping… a lot of fun…

Finally the D day arrived on 20th April 08 and I lost my bachelorhood… entered a totally new word of Married life….

We started living at Virar, but soon after that we found that it was too difficult for Deepa to travel to her office from Virar

So we shifted to Thane in a rented accommodation… now it was like 4-5 days in Thane and 2 days in Virar routine…

After Ganapati we started off with construction activity for our new venture… A garden hall in partnership with my cousin Amit…

It was to take a lot of tolls on my finances later….

A few months high into it and there was another twist in the tale…

Lehman brothers declared bankruptcy….

So called Global meltdown was at my doorstep… A whole month of uncertainty and frustration…

Finally Nomura took over the Indian operation… but I have had enough of investment banking and decided to quit.

Here comes another new job… At Intrex India ltd.

I had a 4 and a half year straightforward career at Infosys… and after that within a span of 8 – months I was entering my third job.

A moth into that and A lot of trouble started starring at me…. This time on family front with my aunts starting property dispute…responsibility of solving that again rested on my shoulders… a lot of twists and turns there too which I would rather not mention here

But as Shakespeare said... All is well that ends well….

I signed off the year on a high note when I Booked my first car… Chevrolet Spark in the last week of December….

I am expecting to get it in next week now…

Hmmm… so 2008 is over and we are already into 2009.

Looking back… 2008 has been a turning point in my life… the previous ones could be

2003 – I passed out as BE and Joined Infosys…,

1999 – I completed DME and joined L &T,

1995 – I passed SSC and walked into the new world called college…,

1994 – another eventful year ,

1990 – I completed primary school and entered 5th standard… ,

1985 – I enrolled into first standard…. Start of school life…

And of course 1980… the year when I arrived on this planet…

To be very brief…

It was a year of roller coaster ride. Not only on the global perspective but on the personal front also.

I had already put down my papers in Infosys in Nov 07… so this year started with one major career move where I left my 4.5 year old job… my first job… and entered the Lehman Brothers on 11th Feb 08. Got a huge hike in the salary.

It was just the right time for salary rise since I was about to get married. A lot of shopping… a lot of fun…

Finally the D day arrived on 20th April 08 and I lost my bachelorhood… entered a totally new word of Married life….

We started living at Virar, but soon after that we found that it was too difficult for Deepa to travel to her office from Virar

So we shifted to Thane in a rented accommodation… now it was like 4-5 days in Thane and 2 days in Virar routine…

After Ganapati we started off with construction activity for our new venture… A garden hall in partnership with my cousin Amit…

It was to take a lot of tolls on my finances later….

A few months high into it and there was another twist in the tale…

Lehman brothers declared bankruptcy….

So called Global meltdown was at my doorstep… A whole month of uncertainty and frustration…

Finally Nomura took over the Indian operation… but I have had enough of investment banking and decided to quit.

Here comes another new job… At Intrex India ltd.

I had a 4 and a half year straightforward career at Infosys… and after that within a span of 8 – months I was entering my third job.

A moth into that and A lot of trouble started starring at me…. This time on family front with my aunts starting property dispute…responsibility of solving that again rested on my shoulders… a lot of twists and turns there too which I would rather not mention here

But as Shakespeare said... All is well that ends well….

I signed off the year on a high note when I Booked my first car… Chevrolet Spark in the last week of December….

I am expecting to get it in next week now…

Raj Thakre, Laloo Yadav and Abject failure of UP - Bihar

Once again the same old story…
Raj Thakre is once again at the center stage…

It had happened in past and I had written about it…
This times a little different thought…. May be I have begun to understand his stand now…

A few points strike right away…
First one being; why any advertisement was not given in any of the Marathi local news papers? Giving news only in north Indian papers…. Is it not discrimination? Or may be it was a preplanned act.

Second one being… when all the north Indian leaders stand in for defense of so called “Bhaiyaas”,
Why not a single Marathi politician supported Raj Thakre except for Narayan Rane?
I can understand that Shiv Sena must be in a catch-22 situation… they can not support Raj for fear that he will gain political advantage. And if they don’t then they appear like abandoning Marathi people…

Whatever happened was a little necessary because it brought out what is going on in railways under Laloo Yadav…and also it highlighted the failed state of UP and Bihar…
Anyway, let's come to the main point…. The point to ponder is, why do so many poor people from UP-Bihar have to migrate to Mumbai?

This highlights the abject failure of the local governments in UP and Bihar. They can’t even provide enough opportunities in the state that will keep the grass root level people employed.

I have stayed in various cities in India but everywhere I have noticed that people who generally migrate to other states are generally highly qualified professionals who go out searching for bigger challenges. But the grass root level jobs like the labor are always with the local population.

But in case of UP – Bihar people seem to be moving out even for basic jobs. Primarily because there does not seem to be any substantial industrial / agricultural growth in the region.
All the north Indian leaders who talk Maharashtra government and blame Marathi’s and so on… have they ever thought about why so many people migrate?

Bihar arguably has one of the best farmlands in the country… it is also home to a lot of mines…
Remember that Jamshedji Tata started his first steel factory in Bihar…
First President of India…. Babu Rajendra Prasad was also from Bihar…
But after that initial head start… everything went downhill after leaders like Laloo and Nitish took over the helm. I am not wrong at the time of independence Bihar was one of the richest and developed states due to all the steel plants... mines etc..

As far as UP is concerned… it has given the whole bunch of political leaders to the nation including Nehru - Gandhi family. The Most populated state in the country…. having maximum number of Assembly seats…it also has some good industrialized areas… in regions surrounding Delhi… but what about the rest?

And what do all these so called “representatives of the people” do for them? They somehow seem to be busy in fooling around the poor people and maintain their political positions… it is not that resources are not available… Especially the Eastern part of Utter Pradesh

Laloo… Nitish, Paswan and Mayavati better clean their own home first….. :-)
…Here is a good article on same lines

Nothing Official About It

After 15th September, though everyone was looking worried…confused… tensed… and all those similar words, the fact that everyone was trying to be secured for future had created a totally different atmosphere in the office…

Especially after our top brass itself told us to prepare for plan B, the office was completely transformed…

Here lay a bunch of people… in thousands… and all seeking for jobs… it reminded me of college days.

A lot of people were preparing together… all helping each other to get a job.
Information about interviews… referrals were openly exchanged, when someone came back from interview, all others should interview him again to check out the questions… reactions… treatments given and all to gauge the outside industry reaction to our crisis.

It also reminded me of the viva’s during college days. The moment someone came out of the examiner‘s cabin, all sitting outside would surround him to find out about questions… examiners mood… his favorite topics etc etc.

We used to come to office… as usual… but if anyone had any interview call then it was no more a matter of secrecy as it normally is. People would tell all others that they have an interview scheduled… if it is telephonic then sometimes even conference rooms were used for giving interviews.

If someone had to go to attend a face to face interview then people would inform boss and go for attending interview during office time.

It was a totally different office for at least 3 weeks period during which our future was uncertain. No work… the only activities were either study or surf or chitchat at desks or sitting in the canteen… sometimes I used to think whether to go to office or not after getting up…

Alas… gone are those wonderful days now… we are no more “Lehman Brothers” now…. We are “Nomura Holdings”… the work is slowly picking up pace… but the habits of those days are making it a little bit difficult to start work again in full throttle.

It was amazing to observe how people who were working full fledged just three weeks ago became so sluggish…. It is very easy to get spoiled I guess….