My Contemplation

6^th December, a date that will be always remembered as a most distressing date in the history of India for years to come. However the last 6^th December, 2009, made this date as one of the most remarkable date for few of us – SCIT Systems 2007-09. This was the most memorable day for all of us as majority of our class mate (SCIT- systems 07-09 batch) were together for the whole day after a long period of time. This memory will truly be cherished down the line. We had convocation on the same day but hardly 4 or 5 students from our class went on the venue to attend the ceremony. Its not that we were not excited about our MBA degree, but we were more thrilled to catch our friends after such a long time and more important we were seeking the opportunity to remember those good old hostel days and being together. Nostalgic you see!!!

It’s always great to be with friends… no doubt…nor can anyone debate over this…and dare not.

We were all meeting after 7 months and the best trait was none had changed; one by one everyone was taken into consideration (scapegoat) very well and their good and bad memories were brought back live before everyone. The whole day we were laughing at those, who were been selected as the center of discussion, enjoying and making fun of each other (making sure that no one takes it personally) being in limits, without hurting others sentiments.

Sharp at 10.30 in morning, Dinap (we call him “Tao” as he is known for giving advice for free) first time raised the question: “What’s the plan?” Since than every half an hour this question was raised as we always used to get diverted to our talks and used to get engrossed to our memories of blunders done during the college days…

Few to recall here:

Rohi known for his rapport with Admin (Very cool - I mean “very Sh__t_l”) used to get many of our lectures and exams postponed/cancelled…by his sweet/flirting behavior…which would suffice Rohi to sweep off her feet…hahahaha (being a CR his name should be the first one)

Subu’s lungi, his funny jokes and the most important, his creation (meaning “R_chn_”)

Mayank’s Full moon story (meaning P__n_m). Chai wala…Mak Chai was amazing. I badly miss your tea.

Venky’s Lemon Tree brownie (I am still looking out the opportunity to eat a brownie at Lemon Tree, Venky!!!)

Ingle’s chicken parts (Rahul, ye kunsa part hai?) and admiring him for watching “Radio”

Mohsin’s Thunderbird modified to Unicorn…may b Luna in few years

Rahul Singh’s “Subh__” Undergarments (Rahul Sir don’t get angry it’s just a fun)

Mayank and Manu – the tale of never ending Friendship and LOVE

Samuel’s hits (most of them were recent ones and the best one was “Spot jogging”) and his marriage. If Samuel gets married, then only we guys are eligible for marriage, this is the oath taken by System 07-09 Boys…not mentioning Girls…bcos u never know about them…

Yogesh finally got his degree correctly though his marksheets were never correct. Commonly known as “blockale” he was blocked in Convocation as well.

Samudra’s BevDas (Bevda and Devdas) Devdas bcos he lost his love -”Sharif”

My BI’s relation (more importantly with BI Ma’am); thank God they didn’t recalled “DCS”…and Fragrance (Kh_s___)

We also recalled one of the Samuel’s greatest hit of millennium and we ended up laughing boisterously:  “About IS audit objective paper where Ingle asked Samuel answer for question 1 gesturing his index finger, for which Samuel looked up.”

In between all those hilarious conversation after raising the same question for almost 20 times (I know 20 times is exaggeration), somehow by 4.00 pm we could manage to decide that we will go to “Toons” – all thanks to Sharif.

For me it was difficult to reach Toons as I had to catch the bus to return back to my place. But Tao as usual known for his experience, suggested me an excellent plan that can help me attain the fun at Toons and catch the bus on time. However to fulfill the plan Mohsin’s Thunderbird aka Unicorn had to suffer.

All said and done (this is the most used saying during the presentation in our class), we reached Toons and there we saw Mayank in cool Brown Leather Jacket making a statement for the girls out there – Beware the men are back…… Though it was looking bit funny out there but Mak that jackets suits you.  Hey guys I wonder I saw similar Jacket with Manu as well, I guess it could be MP’s style statement or something fishy between them he he he.

After the permission was granted we all set in and tried to order some drinks. Me and Yogesh were new to such place so were planning what to drink? All bevda’s ordered Beer and to the surprise Samudra was not among them. Subu and other few who don’t drink ordered Red bull the energy drink, I am sure they could have banged the table after having a sip. Me and Yogesh hardly aware of any such drinks were still struggling to decide the drink and finally an initiative taking skills started pumping (I recalled many things from this word, Rohi) out of me and asked me to order some drink called “KHUS SODA”. Yogesh has always been a good follower and so he also joined me with Khus Soda. Aiweeeeeeeee…….. it was so…………pathetic. I request Toons to stop selling it or people to never order it if you go to Toons. Venky again an exception to the list…call him “Foreigner” or “CEO”…had his own drink (Breezer). You know “Unche log Unchi pasand.”

Looking at two huge Jug full of beers Samudra could not resist any more and he finally had a peck, which was very much obvious. But something was wrong with him; he went to washroom thrice that too at interval of 5 minutes. Either he must have seen a hot babe somewhere near the washroom or his natural call was activated (Aage vala nahi peeche vala.. stop thinking weird).

Rohi and Abhishek were trying to replace Subu’s glass of Red bull with beer but they hardly succeeded. Subu is street smart no one can bit him except his best friend … Guess who???????? – The answer is “FUNNY V_j_y.” He was also one of the topics of our discussion but he not being a part of SCIT - Systems family; let’s not get into it.

All together it was a great fun meeting friends after such a long time. But all good things have to end and so was this get together. Finally having drinks and dinner at Toons we departed. Subu, Rohi, Venky, Abhishek and Samuel went back to Mumbai; Ingle, Mak, Tao, Samudra, Manu & Rahul Singh back to their house in Pune itself. Mohsin unfortunately was tied up with me so had to drive fast his bike to drop me at my bus stop. Apologies to Mohsin…his thunderbird had to suffer…a scratch or couple of scratches bcos of me.

I hope we always get an opportunity to meet atleast once a year. This post was possible because of the efforts from two people, one is me and other is Venky. He has helped me a lot (in fact contributed equally) in writing this post. Thanks dude. So we both are equally responsible for whatever we have written, if any of you feel it’s personal and think we should remove it, go ahead and let us know, but we are not sure whether we will remove it or not? he he he he. This is not to hurt anyone’s sentiments but to cherish those memories in the years to come. Also I request all those who all were part of this memorable day to contribute to this post either by posting their comments or reminding anything missed out here so that I & Venky can further add them to this post.

SCIT Systems Rocks!!!!!!!

- by Bhuvan and Venky

Everyone in India celebrates 30,000 milestone reached by Sachin Tendulkar and we all Indians are proud of Sachin Tendulkar being Indian. We all cheers when A. R. Rahman wins Oscar, when Yuvraaj hits 6 sixes in a row, when people like Rabindranath Tagore, Subrahmanyan, Venkartraman shares Nobel prize. We all, no matter which religion we follow, in which state we are located - Gujarat, Maharashtra, UP, AP, Delhi, we all celebrate the victory of India.

At one end we want to develop India globally, we are fond of globalization and want people to know more about India. We want to go abroad and make a mark on the globe and tell everyone that we are from India. Globalization has given India a great growth potential and India is certainly growing (are we?). Whatever the case but globalization has created tremendous opportunity for Indians and we are enjoying the consequences of globalization.

But if we look on the other side of the coin, then a question always beeps in my mind that do we really deserve globalization. We Indians are very double minded or two faced people. We want to be a part of other countries, state and city but we don't want others to be part of ours. We want to go US, Europe, Australia and other states and cities of India and settle there, make a mark, grow and simultaneously make India proud. But we don't want people from other State, City of India to migrate in our City or State. When some one from one state of India migrates to another for better opportunity people there don't like it, but when any one from later state moves to any other state in India or out of the country, they celebrate the success. We are not happy with nationalization how can we be happy with globalization?

People are now fighting with near and dear ones, with whom they leaved for years together. They say people staying next to them for more than 20 years, with whom they would have shared food many times, does not belong to their religion or their tribe. People now want separate state for each tribe, each religion and each language and don't want people from other tribe or religion to be the part of it. If we cannot be happy with people around us because they belong to different tribe or religion, do we deserve to be happy with globalization?

In many states and city of India people are reluctant to national language and if they heard other speaking national language instead of local language they are looked upon with humiliation. We are not ready for national language do we deserve to be a part of global language? No offense against using local language but if someone does not know the local language, can't we help him by speaking in national language (if we can do the same thing in global language why can't we do the same with national language)?

Several people in India are not allowed to visit various places in their own villages including temple or where religious ceremony is taking place. Dalits face untouchability mostly at religious places as untouchability is centered around the religion and purity. In some areas of India Dalits do have good lifestyle but in few regions its still a harsh reality. We cannot unite regionally how can we expect to unite globally?

Do you think we Indians deserve globalization?

First we need to unite regionally and nationally believe in INDIA first and only after that I think we deserve to think about globalization. If we celebrate India in all prospects by uniting in same way as we celebrated India in every Cricket Match and when some Indian wins a Nobel Prize then India will truly deserve to be one of the best country on the Globe and we being Indians will deserve to be part of globalization.

I have heard people saying that if your prayer is pure you will always get whatever you ask from the God. Since we are part of a creature on this earth called humans, we are very selfish and we pray most of the time for us and that too when we want something from the God. But do we always get what we pray for? If I look at my past I had never got whatever I prayed for. But life has given me enough to enjoy my life at fullest.

I am physically and mentally fit though cannot be sure about the later one; I have my own house, though it was bought by my parents but its mine. I have everything that a human being should have to enjoy their life. But still I am seeking for something in my life. I always regret that I didn't get what I wanted in my life. But I hardly remember to cheer for what I am having.

But this time I want something from the God and I want it anyhow either by hook or by crook. And I am not even trying to be selfish this time. This time I am asking something from the God for someone else. There is one of my very good friend and she is facing lot of troubles in her life. In fact few days ago I added some more problems to the existing and I apologized for that. This is my personal matter though I am revealing it in my blog and the only reason is that I want it to be very pure. I have nothing to hide and no issue in praying for her in front of this world. Before you start making any thoughts or conclusion let me tell you she is my very good friend and only friend, nothing else.

She is married and a mother of a very beautiful girl. Looking at her and hearing troubles she has faced in her life any one will pray for her and I can bet for that. Then why can't the God hear her. Due to the her problematic life, she has started thinking negative in everything. She is even addicted to one of the bad habit. She always say, once problems in her life will be resolved she will quit the addiction. I want her life to be good, obviously it cannot be completely free of troubles and problems but it can obviously be better than what it is at present. When she smile she looks very beautiful, believe me her smile can make any one's life however she is not ready to believe this, she thinks her smile is not that good and I am just overreacting. I want to get her smile back and wish that she gets all the happiness she deserves.

You must be wondering why I am so much worried about her if she is just my friend. May be because that is how I am - I always care for people around me and also this is the first time I have met someone who has suffered so much that too because of other's fault. I don't know why I want her life to be better, its not going to make any difference in my life except I will be one of the lucky person to see my good friend smiling and I think that is what is defined to be a selfless prayer or request. My friendship with her might be strange for the society and may be for her as well but since I don't have any wrong intention for her I think whatever I am doing is correct.

So this time I am praying to the God for her happiness and I wish that my prayer this time will be heard very soon. If any of you are reading this blog and feel whatever I am doing is right, you can pray to the God to help me in getting what I want.

Friendship and Love, two most complicated relationship between a guy and a girl. If someone ask to define love or define friendship what would be your answer? If we follow the dictionary, Friendship is defined as "The state of being friends". So now what is the definition of "Friend"? The answer is - "A person you know well and regard with affection and trust". Very interesting, keep this in your memory for some time, in particular the use of word "affection" and now lets see how love is defined. Love - "Have a great affection or liking for" as a verb and "A strong positive emotion of regard and affection" as a noun.

Now can any enlightened person in the entire world through some light and of course enlighten us on the difference between love and friendship. I bet if there is any?

In my recent conversation with one of my friend, she told that a guy and a girl can never be good friends. Same statement was said by one of my old friend few years back, and I strongly argued them on it. I am bit stubborn, at least on some points; and so in end either the discussion stopped or I won, just kidding.

Sometimes if I give a thought, in fact a deep thought on it, I feel they are right. If a guy and a girl gets close, they can never be friends any more. Though they get close claiming to be the best friends but they can never continue doing so for their entire life. And if they do so, there must be some reason behind it, like either a girl  or a guy get married to someone else or must be in love with someone else, or they both get departed by getting relocated to new place, or by any means they don't stay close to each other.

This is what I believe from the experience of others, but then why every time I try to oppose people claiming this fact. This is because deep in my heart I always feel that a guy and a girl can be friends forever. A friend is one with whom you can share everything in your life, but you never own her/him because you can never be sure whether he/she will stay with you for your entire life, you can never claim that he/she will follow you for lifetime or vice-a-versa. But you usually own your love. This do clarify the difference between a friend and a love. (This is my own belief, I apologize if my this statement has hurt any one emotionally). But when a guy and a girl are close friends what makes them feel like friends or like they are in love?

I think answer to this question lies in ourself, when we approach a girl or a guy for the first time, we are very much sure for what we are approaching for and even when some circumstances make people meet, the  following consequences are always well planned with some thoughts in our mind. So we are always very much sure of the kind of relation we are expecting. But if the other person does not have the same feeling, they both mostly gets departed or they both try to be good friends. Focus on my last sentence, I have used "try to be good friends", because they control on their thoughts, emotions and try to be good friends, won't that affect the relationship that they had earlier, I think it won't.

People say first step to love is friendship, but if you are a friend to a married guy or girl, or both of them are married, or any one of them is deeply in love with some one else, then there should be no chance of ending your close friendship in love. No matter how close a guy and a girl are, feelings should be limited according to circumstances. The young generation usually don't understand the importance of relationship and tend to fall in love with people who are married or in love with some other (even though there is years of gap in their age) leading to an extra marital affairs. We being the youth of India should realize the importance of people and their relation to be happy and let other people, who are related to us, stay happy. Every relationship between a guy and a girl cannot end in love, they have to get hold at some important intermediate state called "best friends".

"Agle janam mohe bitiya hi kijo" is one of the very popular show on Zee TV, but don't worry I am not going to write anything about its episodes or that television show. I have just used this title to narrate the condition which almost every women in India is facing.

Girls or womens have to struggle throughout their entire life right from their birth to end of their life. Although the condition in India is improving, I personally feel the situation is still the worst in many parts of India. Some community in India still regrets on the birth of girl child. Some family forces girls to stay for all 24 hrs in Ghoongat. They are not even supposed to speak against their parents even though the later are at fault. They are not even asked for their opinion or not allowed to participate in decision making. This is though the situation only in some part of India, but even if one family is doing so, it hurts.

Let's forget the rural India, and talk about the urban India, the modern India. Girls are being raped, girls are asked to compromise and they end up their life into some big trouble. When a girl gets pregnant before marriage, girls are accused or blamed but guys are not even asked a single question. Is this only a girl's responsibility?

Right from the day when girls are born, they are always looked upon differently by at least few members of our society. During their teenage they are not allowed to go to play with guys even though they are good at sports. They are not supposed to talk to strangers, they are not supposed to move out of their house without informing parents. All this is good, its always better for her, but why same thing does not apply to guys as well. All their parents dream of making their son independent and some even dream of girls being independent, but every time they ask girl to be there in kitchen in her free time and learn to cook. Why a guy is not supposed to learn the other household stuffs?

I have seen parents whose daughter is a MBA, working in MNC and earning good, but they expect their girl to know cooking even though she has what 50% of guys cannot even dream. Is this not enough for her to get a good guy in her life? When a guy is studying, he is never asked to compromise on his studies and in free time he is allowed to watch movies, listen music and play than why can't a girl also do the same. If a guy can be independent and hire a cook, same applies to a girl as well.

Right from when girls get mature she only learn one thing and that is "to compromise"; to compromise with studies, with friends, with interest, with love, with job, with marriage and finally with life.

Once she get married, she changes her surname, sometimes even her name, her lifestyle and enters in a new world. She is doing so much for a guy, but guy many a times don't bother while taking a side of his parents even though they are at faults, he don't bother when he goes out and sleep with other women, he don't even bother shouting her, fighting with her. Same applies to in law parents, in particular if mother in law being a women cannot understand a girl, what worst can we expect? A husband is the biggest strength for any girl and if he does not support, how difficult it will be for her to continue with her life. She leaves her entire world for him and in return if she does not get support from him, how difficult it would be for her?

If we are asked to leave our parents, our house and asked to stay with 5 people who are very close to strangers, and if they are there to ruin your life, take away all your freedom, your liking and interest, what do you think, will you be able to survive easily? No "Mard" will be able to, even though we claim "Mard ko kabhi dard nahi hota".

It is always difficult to give up all your interest and liking of 20 to 25 years and adjust with new people. But if other members support her and help her, that won't be difficult. Guy should be smart and diplomatic, if he could not take a side of his wife in front of his parents but he should at least not take a side of his parents. Be diplomatic and than try to sort it out in personal with both of them. Always help your better half to understand your parents better, instead of lying to her and getting her into trouble later. Even parents should understand and allow their daughter in law to enjoy her life as she used to at her house.

This is just a 0.01% of problems girls have to face in India. If we go deep in every year of their life, it would be difficult even to narrate it. The purpose of writing this is to make everyone realize their mistake and think deep about improving the condition of girls and helping them achieve the respectable status in our "Purush Parathan Samaaj".

You must be thinking that falling in love is same everywhere on the globe then why am I writing specifically about India? What's so different about falling in love in India? But if you have experienced  it, you can clearly make out how falling in love is different in India? I am going to talk only about the experience of guys who were truly in love and not just looking out of sleeping with girls and than ditching them. I know almost 70% of guys fall in love or claims to fall in love only to enjoy sex or to get "Stud" status among his friends. So I am not going to talk about those 70% of guys but I am going to talk about 30% of poor guys who are truly in love.

So normally, how love story starts? A guy see a girl, fall in love, propose her, girl accepts the proposal and they lived happily ever after. But in India it is very different, a guy see a girl, even girl look at a guy (at least in Y2K generation this happens) they both like each other and somehow after struggling so many times and making hell lot of attempts, this guy successfully make a point to propose a friendship with her and  that too not directly; either by helping her in some of her problems or assignments (in college or office). Obviously he cannot directly approach girl with "I like you" or "I love you" otherwise he will be slapped or will be ignored for the entire life. So to be on a safer side, he somehow manipulates his thoughts and settle down to friendship.

Now he cannot reveal it to his friends because if he do so he will soon either become a talk of town or joke of the day and soon he will find himself as a stand up comedian in front of his so called love. So he claims saying that "we are just friends" to his friends as well as to his love. Now if he is good looking and smart enough to take on the responsibilities of girl, somehow girl accepts his proposal of friendship, particularly if the guy has contributed in many cute and good things in her's life.

And girls, I will tell you will never let go or miss any single chance to use him at fullest in all her stuffs. Girls are growing smarter now. The poor guy in love, claiming to be the best friend of her have to do what she says thinking that this will strengthen their relationship and someday she might accept her proposal.

Slowly and gradually their friendship grows stronger and this would certainly take not less than 1 or 2 years. He, after waiting for so long, somehow manages to gather some confidence to propose her. Assuming that all 100% of guys in this condition manages to gather the confidence and decides to propose her on one fine day. Out of those, for 50% of guys on the very same day when he had thought of proposing her, she either comes with a guy introducing him as her boyfriend or tells him the love story of her life. Till than she never had a time either to share her love life or talk about her boyfriend. So they end up there love story either by helping his friend to get married with her boyfriend or they cut down every possible contacts with her.

Out of remaining 50% cases, 30% of girls refuses the proposal of love saying that "I have never thought you in that way, I have always considered you as my best friend." However from these cases if the guy is smart & lucky enough which has a probability of only 10%, girls turn up to him by accepting his proposal after taking some days or months or may be even years (I think most of girls look out for some more options by that time or checks how much he loves her?). While remaining 20% accepts the truth and either try to continue their friendship or try to forget her and move on.

So last but not the least only those 20% percent of lucky guys get success in proposing her love on right time and lucky enough to get the response in acceptance of the proposal.

So is this the happy ending for those 20% of guys or still there is something there to bother them? Of course yes, how can falling in love so very easy in India? Now comes the biggest challenge, convincing their parents. Imagine, proposing her and getting acceptance or convincing a girl whom he loves, took him months and years, by what time he will be able to convince both families, where he will have to convince on an average 5 members per family? In India almost 10% of girls are afraid of talking to their parents about her boyfriend and thus everything is now left on the convincing power of a guy, his family background, his job and two most important factors such as "Kundli" and "Caste". If a boy's family or girl's family are reluctant to the marriage they can argue on any of the above factors and in particular the last two and the poor guy (and girl as well) will don't have any answer for factors like Kundli and Caste. He has no option but to elude, of course if girl is ready for it. Hardly 5% of guys from those 20% are lucky to get success in convincing their parents while remaining 15% have either to escape or compromise with their love life.

So if you count the conversion ratio of love getting converted into happy marriage it is only 5% in India. If every year 1000 guys in India are falling in love (true love) only 50 guys successfully gets married with support of their family. Thus falling in love in India is not that easy. In fact I have not discussed the post marriage situation in this article other wise the conversion ratio of happy marriage would be worst. Of course after marriage a guy does not have to face much of the challenges, but the main challenge actually starts for girl and this in turn imposes some challenges for a guy like making a choice between a loving wife (his beloved) and respectable mom (the reason of his existence).

I know I am biased towards guys but problems for girls starts only after a guy has proposed her, but for a guy challenges starts much before a guy propose her and lasts till they happily get married and sometimes even after that. I apologize to girls for being biased towards boys and I am very well aware about the challenges that girls have to face after marriage, but in a journey of falling in love in India (till they get married), a guy have to suffer more.

Sach ka Samna the reality show on television was a big hit. Have you ever wonder why it was one of the biggest hit among television reality shows? May be because people are interested in knowing personal information of celebrities, or may be people are interested in watching celebrities getting humiliated or may be every one knows that none of us can claim that "we always speak truth, we have never kept anything secret or private from our near ones and we will never lie even though we have everything on stake".

How many can confidently come forward and claim that they have never lied? I haven't met a single human being on this earth who has not lied in his/her entire life. We get a call and we are not in good mood so we don't pick up the phone saying it was either on silent or it was not with me. We don't realize but with technology becoming integral part of our life we are lying at each and every second with someone or other. We are in fact lying to our own self.

Sach ka Samna would be one of the worst reality show on television according to me but I think by watching that show made me realize how we are lying for some unnecessary stuffs, where in fact if we can speak truth we could have been in better situation. We are actually addicted and are more or less dependent on giving excuses and lying to our own self and people who are close to us. We lie to our self, our parents, our friends, our college/office mates, our siblings and to each and everyone. Most of the sales man lie about their products (they had to other wise who will feed their family), politicians make fake promises and give excuses, celebrities advertise the brands that they would have never owned (exception is always there, Shah Rukh Khan owns the brands he promotes). Rich people lie because they cannot reveal their property or they are used to lying because that made them rich and common people lie because they need to match up with those rich guys because they also dream of buying Mercedes and BMW.

The point is, if we can realize the way we lie in our life we can improve on it. But the toughest part is that we are not able to realize where and when we are lying, it has become the part of our daily routine and we will keep on doing it unless our conscious does not realize it. And realizing is near to impossible because we are used to it or in other word addicted.

Today we are so very much addicted that we say "Agar kisi ke bhale ke liye juth bola gaya ho to use juth nahi kehte (if we lie for betterment of others, it is not called lie)". But the fact is that we lie only to avoid trouble in our life. We are in habit of getting everything in shortcut and that is why we think if by lying once or twice we can maintain our relationship, our job, our security, our status, etc. what's wrong in it. The fact is we don't just lie for one or two time but we keep on doing it for our entire life and to hide one lie we make deliberate act to deviate from it many times and it never stops.

It is a high time we realize and do something to face the truth so that we don't have to face any such reality show in future that has to make us realize to be honest.

Swine flu is causing a great trouble in India these days. Day by day numbers of victims are increasing. To add to that swine flu has made one of the very high profile as its victim. This high profile victim is not any celebrity neither a bollywood star nor a cricketer but he is a Chief Minister of Gujarat State, India - Mr. Narendra Modi.

The honorable Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi visited to Russia for three days and returned on Wednesday was feeling down, tired and coughing frequently which later resulted in fever. Doctors checked him and samples were taken to check for H1N1 virus and to all surprise the Chief Minister was confirmed to be H1N1 positive and he became the first high profile victim in India to be tested positive with Swine flu test. After this was announced on Friday, few top industrialists who accompanied the chief minister on the trip to Russia got panic and went through the test and were found to be negative thus relieving them from danger of swine flu.

It’s for sure that the entire Gujarat will be praying for Mr. Narendra Modi and hoping to see him back soon to continue adding more shine to Vibrant Gujarat. I am praying for him and I hope you are doing the same.

However this is the high time when people in India realize the importance of precautions against Swine flu. If it can reach to such high profile people it can easily cause damage among common man. Read more about the precautions against swine flu.

"Rules are made to be broken" - That is what we all believe in. Of course some rules are to be broken while some are to be followed. No one can always be right not even the rule maker. After all we leave in a democratic country and we have to make our own rules and regulations and we have all rights either to follow those rules or just keep it aside and let it be on a paper.

While we make rules and regulations we also have to focus on its implementation. Yes, while we make any rules the most important thing is to focus on its implementation. Today government comes with lots of rules and regulations but how many are actually followed. Recently I read in a newspaper, government in our city came up with a regulation in which if any one will be caught spitting on the road they will have to pay Rs. 1000 as punishment fee. But no where it was mentioned about who will regulate this? Who will be the accountable for it? Who will observe it and when? This is where India lacks,  implementing it physically rather than keeping it on paper.

Blaming government completely for all these is not fair. Because we all some or other way are responsible for these. In one speech on Independence day one of the top notch MBA college's director said one simple thing which i would like to repeat over here. She said "If every individual in India understands their own responsibilities and be accountable for it, India will be free from most of their problems and would achieve the highest possible growth."  If I take the above example every individual should understand that workers of municipal corporation every night give up their sleep and clean roads to make it walkable for us. People without any hesitation spit on roads not even realizing what they are up to.

Many times Government have taken suitable steps to define some regulations and implement. But you cannot expect government to observe all 24x7 every individual whether we are following them or not. We should take a step forward and realize the importance of those regulations and be accountable for it. If we observe thoroughly how many of us follows traffic rules? I do agree every time you don't have to stop on traffic signal at least at the point when signal is not working. But we should at least make sure that when ever we stop, we stop behind zebra mark. While we are walking on road we make sure when to cross and when to not. Tie a seat belt even if we go a kilometer far and wears a helmet at least a front runner should wear a helmet.

It is not compulsory to follow all the rules but we should realize and make a point to prioritize those rules and make at least 50% of them compulsory. Imagine if every one starts following 50% of all the regulations it will be easier for all of us to move freely out in India. Police will be lenient with people because they will observe the difference. We and authorities will be able to think and focus on other major issues rather than running behind each of us for such small matters.

Taking up our own responsibilities can make a big difference in India. It just about understanding right and wrong, prioritize important things and make sure to follow it till end. At least if every educated people can be responsible and realize the importance of our education, it will create a big difference because in our educational curriculum we all learn all do's and don'ts.

It has been 60 years of our independence from Britishers but how many of us think that we are totally independent. I am too young to say these but I guess the situation today is worst than it was 60 years ago. At least there were Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Sardar Patel and many more to fight for independence. Today even if any one tries to be Mahatma Gandhi or Bhagat Singh, he or she will either be killed or will be thrown in some barren land where finding him/her could be near to impossible.

60 years ago we were dependent or we were servant because of money. We were having loads of money and that lured people to come to us and rule us. However today we all are "servant of money". Condition is still the same even though on every 15th August we celebrate our independence day, send sms to people around the country, listen patriotic songs, write blogs on independence or enjoy the holiday sleeping or roaming around with friends. We are still ruled and this time its money who is ruling India.

All parents want their child to become doctor, engineer, MBA, MCA with only one aim of earning fat salary. Almost 90% of children blindly follow what their parents say and become the follower of buzz in the country. Parents send their children to other countries so that they can earn in Dollars, GBP and EURO so that when they come back they get lots of Rupees, thanks to the global currency rate. And to add to that majority of those who go to other countries never return.

We all are running behind money. If we say this sentence in other way it will be : money makes us do whatever we are doing now a days, in short "money rules us". Till we are 20+ we are still not aware about where our interest lies?, what we want to do?,  what talent we have? While in other countries people at 20 becomes entrepreneur.

50% of students in 12th and colleges do not know which exams they have to clear for getting admission in IIT or IIM. However 100% of students are clear what should be the score of TOFEL and GRE to get admission to MIT or NY university.

I am not against people earning fat salaries, neither I am against globalization. My concern is that do we need to run behind all these for money. If I am interested in nano technology and go to US to learn nanotechnology its fair enough but if I am going US only because I can earn Dollars, it means we are still the servant. I know every one cannot make it to IIT and IIM but we all know why are they different. Today with Internet we can have any information on click, than why we in other colleges don't do what they do in IIT and IIM.

We feel politicians are corrupted and they will never allow us to do what we want. But they are also being ruled by Money; they are corrupted because they run behind money or money makes them do so. Almost every Government officer today don't hesitate in taking bribe for doing their regular task apart from salary. Those who have money they give them and they are happy with it. We all sit and criticize Dhoni when we loose match or any good competition by saying he is more busy in earning through ads. But if we will go to his place we will do the same thing because we all want to be rich and want to make hell lot of money. Being Cricketer and getting selected in top 11 is not a easy task. We should have talent and right opportunity to show that talent. Opportunity will come only if we at least put some efforts to get into it. I know many of my friends who were good sportsman but they either stopped playing or left their dreams only because they thought (or their parents thought) being engineer and doctor will help them survive rather than experimenting with their life to get selected in top 11 even though they are talented, even though they are interested in cricket, even though they never wanted to be a book worm.

Talent is something which can help us survive in our entire life. But today we think talent have no place in India. Electrical engineers, Chemical Engineers go to IT companies, because manufacturing firm does not give white collar jobs. Students interested in music and literature takes up engineering course because being engineer gives money and its a status symbol now a days. Those who cannot make it to Engineering college they do B.Sc or B.Com and than jump for MCA to get in top notch IT companies because those graduate degrees have no ROI. We are interested in doing coding for whole day, copying a few lines of code from one module to other, but we never create any Google, Facebook, Twitter or SecondLife. Every night we dream of becoming rich next morning but we never dream of getting success in our talent.

I personally feel young India should realize importance of talent, their own interest and know what they want to be and why? Not just become doctor or engineer to be rich. I am not against earning good or being rich but if we can earn in the field of our interest we can probably do wonders.