The life of a consultant is full of amusing lifestyle.... He lives out of hotels, flights and airports... He eats three different variety of food every week; of his home, client's food service and of airlines... He interacts with the biggest of the group in organizations and is known to be a key influencer but yet he takes decision on none... He speaks to many people in many different languages and is supposed to be a jack of all trades... even if he has no clue of one... He has the gold and platinum card memberships of all the airlines and still he's planning for more...The day will not be far in the life of a young consultant, when his child will tell his mother... "Mom, Sunday uncle has come.... Who comes only on sundays". Yet consulting is a yearned field for a lot many in the biggest of business schools... People desperately wanting to jump in the ditch and have their happiness and family life mothered... Well I also belong to that group...
So what is it that excite me the most? Whats is it that keeps the blood gushing thru the veins? What is it that keeps him awake on wednesdays and thurdays after commiting such a blunderous decision (Joining consulting).. A simple truth of his life... The weekend flyback... More than the kick that a victory or winning a deal gives, or a successful client meeting gives... Its this bliss of going home and visiting his nears and dears, an outing to the best pub or the quietest pub in the town that keeps his heart thumping... The reader must be wondering why I am bragging and confusing and blabbering about it? Well the answer is simple...
"Today is my good friday.. I am flying home..."
Now don't expect a mail on monday morning blues
Friday, July 4, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Amarnath fiasco An unimaginable shame for us
Someone ... Long time back told me... People ineherently are good creatures... I believed in that... What he forgot to tell me was the fact that... If not directed properly... we are the most gulible creatures of the world... And the biggest failure I have witnessed with what we all have seen and heard on the Amarnath Land issue... A shameful yet very very true depiction of human mind...
Here are my 2 pences on the argument and the incident that pained my heart and soul and cut deep marks in it... A cave of holy hindu god Shiva, found by a muslim and maintained by his caste and family for ages bacame one of the biggest identities for the regions. Today to give a small tract of land for its pilgrims' better comfort & facilities, the very same race came up in arms... Here is how bluntly spooked the story is...
1. Kashmir's road to history and legacy, had the hard work of local muslims who worked tirelessly to do the tame chores of everyday work and the local kashmiri pandits who were very famous for their intelligence and looked after the development of the area... Today Kashmiri Pandits are a just a trace.. Thrown away from their home towns, wives, sisters and daughters raped,,, uncles, fathers and sons brutally murdered,,, Ancesteral property taken over by those who were their servants,,, they are scattered all over the country.. and still as humble as they have always been, they are again establishing themselves and spreading the frangrance of saffron to whatever they touch... So when did they and their religion become an outsider?
2. INDIA, is home to the biggest population of muslims in the world in one country... It has the best arrangement for Haj pilgrims going to Saudi Arab. To a city which does not allow Hindus or Sikhs to enter its territory.. It gives heavy discounts to ensure people can practice their faith as they want to. This happens from the cities which have the highest population of hindus & Sikhs.. and No one has ever objected to it. Today in my country, I am being asked to vacate a place which is again not for worship but to ensure that the biggest source of revenues (i.e. Tourists) can have a smooth ride and would want to come back... And people object to it? And govt listens to them and cancels the order? The other party withdraws support on moral grounds? Justified......? I wonder
3. There is no city in the country which was not ravaged by Mughals. Indian still adopted the race after their kingdoms were wiped off the maps, after we allowed a country to be made for muslims (Pakistan & Bangladesh). Whoever was left, was an INDIAN first and a muslim or a hindu later. And here we are, allowing people to strike on roads, formally demanding wiping off one's right to practices his or her religion? and we hear it, see it and believe it? And do Nothing.....
4. The biggest masjids & imambaras of the country are located in Hindu & sikh dominated cities. They have been made on the biggest ancient hindu temples... No one reclaimed that back.... All I am questioning is that when govt passed a logical order of improving the life of a pilgrim and thus helping the economic stature of the locals... Who gave them the rite to roll it back and that why should a normal citizen in my country (Be it Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian) not be irritated by and wanting an end to this needless, illogical, uneducated tirade on humanity... more than anything else....
I am deeply hurt, anguished and ashamed. I will now ask every kashmiri muslim ever wanting a help, a job or a guidance.... Why do you think you deserve it? As Lord Krishna had said... "You reap as you shall sow" and for the inquisitive ones... I am not a Kashmiri Pandit.. But moved by their plight and innocence... May the same lord shiva open his third eye one day on the defaulters... Amen!!!
Here are my 2 pences on the argument and the incident that pained my heart and soul and cut deep marks in it... A cave of holy hindu god Shiva, found by a muslim and maintained by his caste and family for ages bacame one of the biggest identities for the regions. Today to give a small tract of land for its pilgrims' better comfort & facilities, the very same race came up in arms... Here is how bluntly spooked the story is...
1. Kashmir's road to history and legacy, had the hard work of local muslims who worked tirelessly to do the tame chores of everyday work and the local kashmiri pandits who were very famous for their intelligence and looked after the development of the area... Today Kashmiri Pandits are a just a trace.. Thrown away from their home towns, wives, sisters and daughters raped,,, uncles, fathers and sons brutally murdered,,, Ancesteral property taken over by those who were their servants,,, they are scattered all over the country.. and still as humble as they have always been, they are again establishing themselves and spreading the frangrance of saffron to whatever they touch... So when did they and their religion become an outsider?
2. INDIA, is home to the biggest population of muslims in the world in one country... It has the best arrangement for Haj pilgrims going to Saudi Arab. To a city which does not allow Hindus or Sikhs to enter its territory.. It gives heavy discounts to ensure people can practice their faith as they want to. This happens from the cities which have the highest population of hindus & Sikhs.. and No one has ever objected to it. Today in my country, I am being asked to vacate a place which is again not for worship but to ensure that the biggest source of revenues (i.e. Tourists) can have a smooth ride and would want to come back... And people object to it? And govt listens to them and cancels the order? The other party withdraws support on moral grounds? Justified......? I wonder
3. There is no city in the country which was not ravaged by Mughals. Indian still adopted the race after their kingdoms were wiped off the maps, after we allowed a country to be made for muslims (Pakistan & Bangladesh). Whoever was left, was an INDIAN first and a muslim or a hindu later. And here we are, allowing people to strike on roads, formally demanding wiping off one's right to practices his or her religion? and we hear it, see it and believe it? And do Nothing.....
4. The biggest masjids & imambaras of the country are located in Hindu & sikh dominated cities. They have been made on the biggest ancient hindu temples... No one reclaimed that back.... All I am questioning is that when govt passed a logical order of improving the life of a pilgrim and thus helping the economic stature of the locals... Who gave them the rite to roll it back and that why should a normal citizen in my country (Be it Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian) not be irritated by and wanting an end to this needless, illogical, uneducated tirade on humanity... more than anything else....
I am deeply hurt, anguished and ashamed. I will now ask every kashmiri muslim ever wanting a help, a job or a guidance.... Why do you think you deserve it? As Lord Krishna had said... "You reap as you shall sow" and for the inquisitive ones... I am not a Kashmiri Pandit.. But moved by their plight and innocence... May the same lord shiva open his third eye one day on the defaulters... Amen!!!
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