Indian Speed Bumpers

Speed Breakers in India are planned in a way to punish people who drive fast rather than as a warning for them to slow down. We won't find any signs of a speed breaker untill we are bumped off by them.

Same is the case with RBI rising the CRR. Though it was not completely unexpected, the recent hike has surprised many. A warning sign of interest rate hike would itself have slowdown inflation without toppling the growth rate.

A long term plan on interest rates announced well before would really help SMEs, in fact, everyone to plan better.

Prevention is better than cure

Very often I have seen people complaining about the Indian mentality. Ex. Rushing into the bus or train to find a seat for themselves. And they admire people from abroad for their discipline ex. Following a queue.

One of my colleagues from US wanted to have the great Mumbai train experience. The first day he wanted to wait for every one to board the time. The train will either be full or will leave before he decides to board. It took us more than 45 mins to just board the train.

The next day, his human instinct made him rush into the first train. He no more waits for every one to get in. It’s not about people being good or bad. There are lot more things that influences people.

I have seen people waiting in a long queue of more than 100 people waiting for the city buses in Mumbai. But the same people don’t follow the queue in railway station. All we need to do is make it a habit and knowingly or unknowingly people would start to follow it and then it becomes a habit.

What we have done for bus queues in Mumbai has to be done everywhere and in everything. Its better to prevent bad habits than to correct them.

Mumbai – The Pareto City

• 20 % space of mumbai trains (near the doors) carries 80 % of the people and the remaining 80 % carry 20 % of people.
• 20 % road space carry 80 % of the traffic and the remaining 80 % is either under everlasting construction/repair work
• 80 % of the airport land is under slums and the remaining 20 % is used by the air traffic.

come on 24th...come soon...

csqa is wasting so much of my time. i know, there is not much to prepare and there is no reason to spend time on it.

but my 25 years of 'slow' reading is taking a toll on my time. ;-(

it's 3 pm...felling sleepy !

its 3 pm..feeling sleepy...don't feel like preparing for my csqa.. ;-( let me write something and go to bed...

Any one who follows a newspaper daily will accept the atrocities caused to dalits even today and the staggering insensitivity of the state machniaries towards them.

The second fastest growing economy with such incredible inequalities can no longer afford to neglect them.

The best solution is to educate them. But will a person who can't even afford his basic amenities be able to compete with other people from good background?

In that sense, the reservations seems plausible. But, inclusion of creamy layer and introduction of reservations in other institutions of high caliber clearly brings out the political motivies behind them.

Reservations should be targeted at the right people or should aim to give equal opportunities to every one by universalization of school education. A politically correct reservation policy is not going to help any one.

But, of course, its going to help me.
Good. let me go to bed now. already back to back 2 posts on reservation..

paradox(s)

refrigerants(mainly HCFC-22) are used to cool the place. they do so but the green house gases released deplete the ozone layer and the net effect is bilkul opposite - global warming.

And we continue to use them for our own short term benefits and don't care about the long term effects just like my organization and it's SAP(service aggrement policy)

weird analogy

India & Iran are friends.
Iran complains US for its double standards in civilian nuclear use.
India is benefited bcz of the civilian nuclear policy.
Iran is hampered bcz of the same.
But, the relationship does not get affected.

X & Y are friends.
X complains about the reserveration policy.
Y is benefited from the reservation policy.
But not X though X and Y are equals.
But, these things don't influence their relationship.

action items :(after 24th)

-join swimming on 25th. stop jogging. more ligament to tear ;-(
-1 hr magazine every wednesday & friday after lunch
-1 novel/book every week
-et+th every day
-prepare resume + job hunt
-gmat preparation

dilemma

its now 3 and half years with CSC. i have done nothing after coming out of college except reading 365 * 3.5 the Hindu and the economic times. its high time, i have to do something about this.

*my civil service dreams are moved back to the pipeline
*no more tinkering with cat

don't have much time to think/act. thinking of

*doing gmat. i can get into a good college in aug next year
*job switch. as i m pretty much decided not to continue fighting with computers, its time to switch now to a non technical field
+ do some social work for sometime as mooks has suggested
+ into consulting or financials as kunal has suggested

let me finish the interview on 22nd and the exam on 24th & then plan out well.

something from my CSQA

quality assurance vs quality control?

one is doing the product right and the other is doing the right product

some more punch lines ,

-don't reinvent the wheel
-the squeaky wheel gets the grease

leader vs manager

a leader takes an organization with him while a manager moves along with his organization

i may not be able to take an organization along with me and at least i should at least be able to take my project to a stage where it's not people centric.

a leader would create a leader while a manager would project himself as the only leader

i somehow feel that my organization is looking only for managers and not leaders. when i try to create opportunities for other people or try to bring out the best of other people, even my manager looks at me as if i m born to loose everything.

Golden jubilee!!

Today is my 50th day without a cell phone.

It’s really really easy to live without a cell phone. I still have access to all my family and friends as every one of them has one. Whenever I feel like talking to some one, I give them a call. I find it okay as long as I have access to everyone. But, everyone else is really pissed off with me. ;-(

The only difference for me is that now I have to setup the alarm in my table clock when I go to bed and I have to peep into my desktop to look for time while working. But no one disturbs me during my afternoon naps away from work or in the middle of movie or during the day dreams.

The advantages seem to far exceed the limitations. Hopefully I will celebrate my diamond jubilee soon!

Ban Child labour ?

Government has now banned child labor almost completely and thereby has blocked access to their already exiguous aliments. Banning child labor is not going to divert even a meager portion of these children towards schools. Instead it’s going to just push them towards more surreptitious illegal work

Govt could have at least perfected the already dilapidated Universal elementary education program before banning the child labor. Some of my solutions would be

1. Without completely banning child labor in non-hazardous jobs, we could have shifted some of the responsibilities of educating these children to their employers. May be a 4+1+4 hour schedule with 4 hrs for work, 4 hrs for study and a free lunch.

2. Instead of following the age old textbook-classroom teaching, these children could be given more of vocational training in special centers after identifying their inherent skills.
This would make them self-employed (carpenter, electrician, handicrafts, handlooms...) or at least help them in getting employed immediately after their education. The Govt could itself market some of their creations/ products and the profit shared with the children.

With access to education, food and money, children will be inherently attracted towards our vocational centers and our goal of Universal elementary education can be easily achieved.

What next infinity?

We have the distinction of inventing zero but we never cared to think beyond infinity. And now, our friends in West have taught us what actually exactly lies beyond this eternity.

Now, the story!

Some time back, in the West, a college dropout called BG, wanted to know what the hell lies beyond infinity. He had nothing with him to start with but worked hard day by day to accumulate his wealth hoping that one day he would reach infinity and beyond. The more he worked towards infinity he found there is lot more work to be done.

One fine day, he realised that addition and multiplication of his wealth wont work and he started to differentiate and integrate them. He started B&MG foundation, differentiated what ever he had aggregated till now to the needy & poor for them to integrate the wealth individually, so that he can finally aggregate them to infinity.

When he was trying solo to add on his wealth, he had a lot of problems & lawsuits to face every day. But now, he has gone back to nothing after differentiating his wealth and he now finds his popularity integrating day by day. He shared his discovery with one of his close friend WB and even our WB has joined this Diff-Inf band wagon.

So folks, there is nothing beyond infinity and no need to rush towards that. Better start differentiating today.