Random Thought of the Week

1) Imran khan being replaced by an Owl in Break ke Baad. imagine that.

2) Is it possible to get out of a bus in Bangalore with your shoes still shiny?

3) Does driving in the wrong lane or against traffic anywhere in the world automatically make you a Hyderabadi?

4) Bangalore needs Trash Cans Immediately.

5) Why is it always YOU who never "tried" to stay in touch with your friends?

" As easy as Pie! "

One of the most challenging and sometimes frustrating aspects of expressing oneself though words is writing. There are a million things going on in one’s head. To channel every thought and to write something that actually makes sense to people is probably the toughest task a person can do.

Simply put writing anything in particular is difficult.

We live in a generation where communication is quite open. If you just log into the net you can see a million views posted for various articles, some diplomatic, subtle and some plain crazy and irrelevant.

People reading try to understand what is this person is trying to convey though his article? It’s not difficult to do that, what is difficult is to write stuff that you actually read.

I haven’t written many blogs, but I always do struggle with the occasional blank white page, just before I do write something that makes sense to me. I have a friend who used to work as a reporter for one of the most popular news papers in India. I used to discuss few issues with him that he used to write about and one thing that he mostly complained about was where do I begin with this subject?

I ask myself the same question. Where does one begin writing anything? I guess all it needs is one thought that you are pretty much clear with.

Human minds are quite puzzling. We may have conquered many aspects of understanding our world and the species that exist in it, but we still do not know much about our own “Noodle”.

It starts off with one thought and pretty much you make stuff up as you proceed. If you feel strongly about a particular subject or topic, am sure you will have a lot of stuff to say about it. Writing it is a whole different battle.

Sometimes, it can be so crazy that you have a thought and you have written some stuff, but it makes sense only to you. That’s when I just save my copy of whatever I have written and keep it there for a day that I have patience to look at it again.

It’s frustrating when people think writing is easy , or can actually justify what one has written , as each one of us reads in a different way and think differently , what might seem nice to one person might offend another. A good writer balances all the issues and I guess in the end tries to read his own article from a third persons point of view. That works pretty well for me.

So for people who feel writing is ‘easy as pie’, I never quite got it,

Do they mean making pie? Or eating it?

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A Losing Battle

A lot is being written about the latest scams in India. It is really a matter of great concern
when a country cannot keep its own people in check against corruption but which country can?

The "Youngistan" generation has begun to accept it, a once behind the doors activity that got some people with money and power to achieve their own ideals.

I recently read a blog that posed an open question to Mr Ratan Tata, afer he made the dramatic and somewhat personal comment that he was once asked to pay a 15 cr bribe to setup his own airline
sometime back. The question was what has his organization done to stop corruption in India?

I would like to rephrase that question. What can any organization do to keep a socially existing through the ages and is now more open than before activity that engulfs life itself on a daily basis in check?

There is little that can be said or done, we all have experienced corruption at various levels. There are quite a few who have openly tried to deal with it, but as usual its too big a problem to get rid of .

like so many more.

It plagues our country that is counted as one of the most corrupt to get its act right.

But really on a common forum that discusses various other issues corruption has always been a hot topic. People make many speeches, hold many rallies, organize various groups,make movies mocking it, and showing us various slap on the wrist ways to fight corruption, but reality check can an organization really have that much power to change a billion people?

It sucks that we have generations of Indians growing up with the same ideas and principles that are socially unacceptable and quite frankly immoral.

Even though we have a few people brave enough to fight corruption even though they have the money and all the help possible, if a man like Ratan Tata cannot do anything about it I dont think a common person stands a chance.

There are only two things that can be done in such a scenario,

you either die a hero fighting or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Guess that holds true to what we are witnessing today.

I have a solution which is very controversial but its worth a shot, make corruption legal, we cannot fight it, atleast we can stop complaining. have positions in the government that dont pay any salaries, there is a fixed rate to get stuff done , and that would pretty much be it.

its not operational is the slightest sense possible especially in a complex place like India.

But as oganizations grow and chrun out a lot of money , investments rise ,and the global standing of our country reaches new levels, the monster of corruption is growing too. we have very few people who are really true to their conscience and do their job, but as and when they see their own colleagues resorting to such practises they either get in to it or be thrown out. there is really no choice left to them.


It waits to be seen when, how and where the buck stops!!