God - a myth?

GOD - a myth? - Part 1
Don't know why some of us keep thinking this! This is one of those things that we often tend to give a second thought before putting up for a debate or discussion. We all like to keep this thought within ourself! Dirty minds...its none of those I am talking about...I am talking about GOD - The Creator...From our childhood in India we are given quite a good base on this...whatever happens our parents teach us to keep faith...to keep thinking God will come to save you...GOD - The Saviour...

It is almost 11 years now since I started to think seriously about this subject..many of my close ones know very well that I am not THAT pious a person...Just to avoid confusion that may arise reading this blog...please understand that I am unimportant...but everyone needs to get heard so...think about my words...not about me or what made me write this...

Will type in a story to start with...also these stories are from somebody's life as always...then will go to my thoughts

Few years back, say about 12-13yrs back there was a boy who was not that good at studies but used to get the grades required to pass through...this boy had a secret power...nothing much but the gift of short term memory that we all Indians are blessed with during the exam days...The only difference was his was a very short term one...he used to wake up early morning on the exam days and read his lessons and seems like it was working for him...during those days in some Indian Temples there were some pujas or say kind of prayers held which would help the kids to excel in studies...so this guys parents asked him to go to that temple during the exam days early morning as early as 5am and pray to GOD...and be there with GOD during those early morning prayers to get blessed to have the brains...poor kid...had no choice...obeyed his parents...later when results came the family got the shock of their lives...kid couldn't secure good grades...why? who knows? ha ha...If the kids parents understood that the kid would have done better if he was allowed to study during those early hours rather than wishing and waiting for godly grace things would have been different...

When the result came there was no GOD seen around...there was no GOD MAN seen around...only thing that was said is some star running in wrong direction..poor kid! how he knows that stupid star is gonna screw him up badly...lol..

Why we keep thinking GOD is going to come to help us...is going to come to keep us succeeding? Why should we be successful? There is no state like all are successful...whatever it is life or game...I do know success means different for different people...but still...why u and me keep thinking G' will help us? Why? Are we doing that good that G' is tempted to help us? All of us might have thought of something that we need to change in life and keep thinking G' will help us to change it or hope it works out?
When we go to our prayer halls...we keep praying...I want this...I want that...all such stuff...how many of u there can say I pray for the world...or say the poor guys next door...u might think why should you? Right? ok think about the fact that those people who die without even getting a simple piece of bread for weeks together..don't they pray? Then why G' never heard that?...U think they had done some sin that was unforgiveable than urs? Then why they died of hunger? why peasants kill themself just because there is no rain?

Do you think all these happen because G' doesn't want to help them...if he was there why should he neglect them? comment ur good reason!...How many days could you neglect your own kid crying beside you...how long? hrs ? mins? secs? there goes...u know if you where around or unless u r the reason for the kid to cry you would surely make him happy or stop him from that...so there comes two possibilities...either u r not there or u r the reason for him to cry...


Please note that the honour of being G' is blessed to u now through my example...consider it as G' whenever I term U

Lets use these two possibilities to explore further...
1. You not there or G' doesn't exist
When the kid knows that you are not there still you think the kid won't cry...he will cry..why he cries? He cries because he has hope...he thinks somewhere somehow you will hear him...that hope makes him cry...cry out loud until he gets the feeling that there is no point in being so stupid...How many times in our life we have cried out like this to G'...eventhough there is no presence u still believe that is HOPE...this is one important thing that makes our life so enjoyable...so enriching...the Hope of a better tomorrow!
But in life what happens by the time we realize there is no point in crying out loud rather than doing our duty it would be too far from reality...

My suggestion to you all is that don't keep waiting that someone will come in life to get things right for you...the feeling of that someone supernatural is great...encouraging...but just for a moment think the other way...when u know there is nobody coming to help you out...to pull u off from danger is equally scaring as encouraging it was the other way...but there is one thing that we must not leave unnoticed in the second part...the very good thing of performing...to do ur best whatever it is...work...love or life...there is no 50% help that G' would give u...until u perform ur 100% nothing is going to work ur way...this is what each of us needs to learn...to have faith and hope is good for mind during a nice sleep...life is not a dream...its real...u need to do your part fully to succeed. I am not promoting anything here...this is to live ur life...to live ur dream...its good to have faith...but make sure it doesn't decide ur fate...I know all of you might disagree with me...but somewhere inside u might still give it a thought... :-)

2. You make him cry or G' Exist but ruins
When you make ur kid cry...it is true for sometime you may not try to calm him/her down...because either ur guilt or u feel he/she deserved it...but again...how long will u act so? there is always a limit...max say 1day...afterwards? So that is again the same thing I told above...if u know u have made him cry u know eventhough u might be ok with the fact that he is crying loud...but can't live with it for long...that is the so self explanatory about the existence of G'...read above...once more to explain more on that...

This whole blog is not against any religion or any community or caste...this is just the other side of the story that we are happily part off...in case you find this offensive please understand that I myself is a believer or in my words keeps faith and hopes for a good tomorrow...but this is only to help you all to HOPE FOR BEST AND PREPARE FOR THE WORST! There is no harm in believing or praying to G' but equally important should be to perform ur duties to ur best hoping no one else will fill your gap...I am not concluding anything just because my next blog will be on the same topic but unlike this trailer which gives a high level view...next one would be drilling to lots of facts to think about and also feelings from few pious lives!

Thanks for reading my blogs...keep reading...next blog on...GOD - a myth? Part 2...

India - time to change

It had been long time since I felt like writing something. Today when the whole world is talking about China becoming no.1 in the world by 2020 and U.S. relegated to a mere no.2. People see ourself taking the no.3 slot and waiting to capitalize on others flaws and enter the top 2. But will it be possible? Maybe yes, but how big is that 'yes' and how small is that 'maybe'?

We have lots n lots of things to change before we can reach the goal. If we reach the top of the world economically without clearing off all the bad things we have in our system, we will never stay in top. It can be for one fiscal year and that's it.
Let this blog start a new revolution, a revolution from thought and deed.
We often tend to believe that what others are doing is irrational or wrong in most cases. But we never tend to understand that it is just a perception. We see it in a different way. If everyone thinks the same, there won't be any need to make a black car and a white car. Since everyone will be buying the same color. I guess I am dragging to wrong topics here.

So what are the things that needs to be changed in India? I will draft out few things that I believe needs to be changed in our system and will welcome your comments on the same.

Let's start with what we can do and not what government can do. The whole idea of changing the perception of government is insane and such guys are projected as rebels.

We often overlook the importance of traffic signals. We are very fond of jaywalking in India. We should respect the signals and cross only when it is allowed. Since everything in life is a competition we mistake crossing roads too is part of it. We feel why to wait for few minutes and get late. But never ready to accept the risk that these few minutes holds when we do our jaywalking.

Corruption will play the keyrole in dragging down our chance to grow. Knowingly or unknowingly we all play a huge part in this. We tend to be happy to pay those Rs.50 rather than getting a Rs.150 fine for missing that signal or not wearing a helmet. This is a profit and loss game where ofcourse we are benefitted. This happens in all levels. There are innumerous instances when people in all levels take bribe to move things even though its legal and rational. This all starts with parents bribing their kids to study well or get good grades. We can see in India there is a practice that when kids get good marks, parents buy them gifts. I never used to get that from my dad since there was no such time when I was a brilliant student. :-).
I have often noticed other parents buying mobiles, bikes and other stuff. Maybe its my jealousy that is speaking its mind but this is from where it starts. Kids grow up to become adults and have this feeling that if a person is rewarded for his deeds how miserable it is he tends to do it better and quicker. Since we all are grown up now, why don't we just stop giving bribes. Next time a policeman catches you for overspeed, just tell him "Sir, tell me how much is the fine and I am ok to pay." Never allow him to bargain for the money which he doesn't deserve. If we take off this bribe from our society, India will be 50% better place to live.

Everyone is graded at every level. I saw an interesting study on internet on the failure of different countries to make creative people. Our schooling system is the backbone to this failure. As a kid when we draw a picture our parents encourage us, but how many parents we can see encouraging kids to draw a picture on the eve of their X standard exams. No one will ever dare to do that. Why? This is because not just them but the whole society grades us as children and now as adults based on the marks we score in school and college. But why? Anyone who has passed out of college would understand that these marks doesn't indicate anybody's brilliance. But we grow up to become a father or teacher one day and still gauge another kid by his educational brilliance. We often overlook the fact that our education system is created in such a way that they give the industrialist what they need next year. Every other year a bunch of these kids get into corporates or industries and try to run them. So where is the creativity going? It just becomes another industry advertising and media. Not joking this is what is happening to the world. We don't realize this fact because we all have got used to it. We live to get admission to big colleges, later big companies and then big families for a bride. Even there you can expect stiff competition from people who can be richer or from a degree from Oxford or working in US. I do understand that competition is good and it can bring the best out of you most of the times. My blog would not be able to change the education system but atleast it brings a thought in us indicating we need a change.

We often feel foreign goods are better and more value for money. We don't understand that how good Indian products are and how tall it stands in international markets. We need to understand this and also try to buy Indian products more. This will help Indian economy a lot. This is one advantage China, Japan and Korea has over India. The citizens there use the products made locally which gets the money rolling in their own country and later move big stones from their path to grow further and bigger. We should understand how much it can add to our country's growth and start doing it right away. I don't want to market any products here but make sure you do your study before buying next time. Let's get it rolling on our end and make things happen.

Together we can do a lot, as current generation of youngsters we can change a lot in India. If not India atleast our deeds we can change. To glorify this once glorious country.

Next blog more on India - Its time to change! Part 2

Indian Technology

Would like to start with a real life incident...Once a child was born for a govt servant who seeked the advice of great astrologers to write his horoscope. It was interesting for them to read that her baby would do great things some day...work abroad(the common Indian success feeling) and also earn lots of money...but the only thing that haunted them was the statement which always brushed their minds...the haunting sentence was that "baby would work for non-govt organization"...this was written about 30yrs ago and during those days in India, working for a private company was not something people would like to dream of...everyone wanted to be a govt. servant...secure and prestigious job...and what this guy will earn in a private sector...something that worried that parents all those early stages of their child's life...

Gone are those days now when people craved to be a govt servant, from last few decades something that has rocked the world apart from tsunami and other natural disasters is the word "IT" - Information Technology. In academics whatever you specialize, whatever you learn, 60% of India's youth end up in IT or ITES...why?

Would like to describe what is IT and how it works to some of you who may not have any idea of what it is....Most of you parents or kids or grandparents would always have told sometime or other in life that I want to become a doctor or engineer if you are an Indian. Even today we could hardly see some kid wanting to get into IT when he grow up. But in todays world there are only two kind of engineers, IT or non IT and same with jobs.

Today's world needs lots of IT professionals and tomorrow's world might need still more! In India, the academics revolves around IT...whatever college you study, most of the syllabus now talks of what IT company's are looking for and what stuff the students needs to be good IT slaves.

Its like a poultry farm where hens are fed with things that will grow them faster so that they can get the meat faster...Sad but true...our current generation of college-goers are treated this way...and towards the end of the course...starts some of your journey as an IT software engineer...

IT companies has great belief in training...whatever you are good at they don't care...they just want you to do what they want....no one has any choice until you gain experience....IT also stands for Egalitarianism. Here no two individuals are separate until you have proud it so. There are instances when you could just earn a 60% mark in your academics and be treated superior to your classmate who was a rank holder in your university. In IT marks doesn't matter, what matters is your attitude and flexibility. Your willingness to go that extra mile and hardworking nature is something that would always suit IT.

We could take innumerous examples out of our dear and near ones, who always wanted to be something else but not IT and eventually end up in IT. Now this is their own fault, can't portray it as lack of opportunity on other areas but greed is what drives most of them. People think IT can fetch them good money and there are more choices in case they get bored seeing the same people at work. The high attrition in IT field is also due to these type of people getting into the industry for just money and not really caring about their job and career. This is not just about non-IT graduates in IT but also again IT graduates in IT.

Indian companies are minting good money out of the Asian, American & European business providing IT services. Read more on Dream IT

IT could be compared with factories of yesteryears. If you could recollect from sources written well before the advent of British in India, we had a different education system. This system revolved around fulfillment. Whatever job we are doing was taken as a divine task. The person involved in the job or task would spend whole life devoting the advancement of technology or refinement of tasks which gave them a type of pseudo or real satisfaction. Later the current education system was introduced which according to experts are oriented on creating factory ready products from the college/schools. The industrial revolution needed lot of workers or working class to get the stuff ready and for all colonial nations it was inevitable. Most men were brain trained that education is required to earn them a job as a worker which is the only way they could progress in life. This was also required to attain a good marriage and much more. This slow poison fed in right level to the colonial people at right intervals made them think they are workers and need to work. This killed their creativity to an extent too. Now the erstwhile colonial population and their generations has it in blood to be a worker straight from college which drives most of them their whole life.

After all these history lesson, what's happening now? Again in IT, people are classified in different levels as old caste system. People are classified as Senior Mangement, Mid-tier management, HR Management, Finance Management, Developers, Testers, Support Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, BPO staff & Customer Care executives in that order in most cases where Customer Care executives are treated as the lowest grade and Senior Management as the modern day Brahmins. Now many people may not want to agree with the use of words here. But this is required for some others who doesn't understand how IT works.

Another funny fact is that when a political party calls for a bandh or some roadblocks, IT still survives using the power of Internet and some other techniques. Most of the IT companies dare to function on a bandh day since they cannot share the same with their customer in some cases. Work from home is another technique that is used for work continuity. There are companies which arrange for accomodation for core support staff etc in their own premises from the previous day. Now this makes us proud that there are workarounds(as in IT) for all these. But do we actual employ the same workarounds in other industries?

India needs IT as much as IT needs India but again the main focus would revolve around the cost of cheap labor. Once this cheap labor shifts to other English speaking developing nations, we Indians would have to start looking at other sectors or hope for a boom on something else so that the worker mentality is retained and properly fed.

Where is the "care" in Customer Care?

In today's world when we all tend to forget the good and keep ranting about the bad. It is no surprise that I feel like sharing my experiences with few companies operating in India. Now this is not a customer service review or the final judgement of anything, it is just my review based on my experiences with them. This experience might be a rare one too considering the brand value these companies have built over the years.

Even though this blog demands an extract my my older blog on the largest hiring company in India named Indian Railways. Please enjoy reading the service that Indian Railway parcel team provides to the whole India and behavior of their respectable officers.

The main issue that I find with the customer service operations India based is the lack of knowledge of the executives. I suppose the executive is rushed to his job without any sort of product training and companies expect him to pick up things on his job. This attitude is something that is killing the experience and affecting the customers badly. 

Most of the time the customer service executives of Indian companies like Axis Bank, Max New York Life, Bharti Airtel, Tata Indicom, DTDC & some others that I have dealt with, doesn't actually the know the value of customers and the significance of their jobs. Some are at their job just to get a living and some others just to pass time. With all respect for the hard working lot in there, a few such guys doesn't help anyone. It really needs to be a team effort. 

If you are to call any customer service, not pointing to anyone in specific but with most companies I had experienced this, the call gets cut at the crucial moment once you have explained everything to them and badly waiting for a response. How many times we could see it as a coincidence when the call is dropped? And guess what, next time you have to repeat the same story again to somebody else who again might end up cutting the call, passing it to someone who claims to be senior/manager. 

Some guys promise a call back after investigation in 24hrs or whatever and never returns any call. If you happen to check back with the team on the call back, they would start it all over again starting from you painting your sorrowful picture just for them to pour water on top of it finally.

Another interesting thing I have noticed with customer service is they are not given any sort of email access to directly email us or respond to us in email. Is this to save bandwidth? Not sure about that. Anyways this makes their job easier. They could say anything on the call with no proof and unless it is written they can easily back off from what they said or promised. 

Something that would catch your attention is the fact that most or all of the senior executives email that you can find from online or your friends would just bounce back to your inbox. This shows how much importance the whole company gives to your complaint or feedback. How often you have received any sort of response for such emails? 

At every instance when a third party is involved, say another company or bank in between, you can always notice that there is blame game that gets running. Every customer care tries to hang on until the blame game fails or ends miserably to start their actual work. This is called buying time from the customer to idle around and attend to already delayed issues on the desk.
Consumer court had been always a tough thing for common man to digest even though the name is equally famous. You can read more details on how to file a case on the consumer court from the link. 

What are they ways that this could be improved? If you look at the actual fact, these same executives who we blame as non-productive tends to work extremely effeciently and effectively when they operate for countries abroad. Does that sound funny? Yes, it is. That shows it could be the attitude of the Indian companies or the don't care nature towards Indian customers that requires fine tuning. People of India should start responding in a strong manner towards these associates and organizations so that they learn it the hard way that to survive they need happy customers which in turn is beneficial for all.

Go Global

The talk of the town is all about Indian economy. Once estimated as next big socio-economic power is in a phase where people are losing the trust in the governance and leadership. Wherever we could lay our consciousness we keep reading about how a common man can help Indian economy that too in n number of ways. No guys, this is not another blog to advocate a common man's power to boost Indian economy. Guess we have enough on them already in the electronic world (e-world/Internet). I would like to discuss few points to consider while implementing the much advocated methods.

I may not be able to discuss all the methods due to my lack of knowledge in the subject. Let's scrutinize the cause to buy only Indian products by Indians. This is for argument sake only and I don't intend question anyone's patriotic thought.

The idea of using Indian products only would have been a brainchild of some great thinker or a marketing strategy of a forward thinking company or notion on local political minds. Whatever it is, have you ever evaluated the pros and cons of implementing it in your day to day lives? I am sure most of you might have given it a thought and the patriotic heart in you which silently supports Anna Hazare's cause and prevents you from taking part in it physically would have said that "this is the way to go"! Now the simplicity in the idea helps most people to follow it if they wish to. But have you ever thought in what century you are living in? Isn't it a world of global citizens? We all want to help India in the easiest possible way and this do fit in that category.

When we decide to implement the use of only Indian products, have you ever thought of how many multinational companies we are talking about here? It would be thousands or so. Now each of these companies employ few thousand people way more than what Indian companies do in most cases. When Indian society decides to boycott their products, what's the thing they could do? Either closes their shops here in India or think of tie-ups with Indian companies. Now if they happen to give up easily and close their shops, millions of Indians become jobless and do you think these Indian companies are going to give jobs to these jobless people who are born out of their brilliant marketing idea? Answer is as evident as saying you see with your eyes. What if other countries follow suit and decides to implement the Indian way of saving economy? Do you have any idea what will happen to Indian economy without exports of our raw materials and products? All these Indian companies which sell B-grade products to Indians and sell their own A-grade products abroad, can they survive? In the unfortunate event of such a global boycott on Indian brands, what will happen to our economy? Do you think this country which is already buried deep in scams and corruption can survive such an event? In current world scenario, we should not think of closing down our doors rather open up to the world and bring in more investors this country from abroad. Money has to come to India and it cannot be printed as required. Let the money be Dollar, Euro or whatever, it really has to come to India for us to grow. Such negative tactics are not going to help us go forward.  

Why don't we move our attention to Information Technology or (IT, ITES) industry in India. Can these industry and companies survive without foreign money and projects? Can they keep these millions of software engineers and associates in job even if they claim to be Indian companies and non MNC's, still feed these employees? How many of you are even ready to quit an MNC and join an Indian company in same industry for a cheaper salary? My humble request to all my fellow Indians is to think rationally and decide based on your wisdom. Think using your brain and not using heart in this case.

If we are so concerned about our health and want to change to fresh lime and coconuts, why don't we start thinking about a cycle? How many of you had thought this? Cycling gives us most of those that hitting your gym may not give you. Now I don't want to emphasize the benefits of cycling which is available online for all of you to read. I never wanted to get political in this blog, but current situations demand a rational thinking rather than blindly following any party or person. I observed that there was a national bandh conducted on 31st May 2012 in India. I had earlier believed that Supreme court had banned bandh in India few years back. Maybe I am not updated about it or am I really missing something here? Considering it was banned, how can any political party conduct it and Police/Government stay silent? Is it the biggest contempt of court to openly oppose it and that too country wide? Now in case bandh is allowed by Supreme court and I understood that wrongly. What was this bandh for? This was for hike in petrol prices and showing government's incompetency to control the rates. Now before I get to discuss why government had to hike it. Let me cross check the national stats on petrol prices. And do you know what it says? Out of top three states where the petrol prices cross Rs.81, two are the same BJP ruled states which was conducting the bandh. What did they do to lower it in their own states? Not sure, maybe something is stopping them which only they can explain.

I am sure some of you might have this argument in your mind that this is not true. For all those who believe, a big thank you. For others, there is nothing wrong in cross checkin.( http://www.mypetrolprice.com/petrol-price-chart.aspx) Government claims they had to up the petrol prices to save the loss making companies such as Indian Oil Corporation and others.  You can have a look at the profit they had been making for last few years ( http://www.moneycontrol.com/financials/indianoilcorporation/profit-loss/IOC) and also look at this link from IOC's own website (http://www.iocl.com/download/Indian_Oil_Corporation_Ltd_280512.pdf). I can understand governments sentiments in saving their own company from making a loss and going bankrupt but it gets more difficult to digest to hike the money so that a company can make 12000+ crores as profit. Is this another form of tax collection from common man apart from the regular tax collection?

I do know this is not a way to end this post with zero solutions in here. But if you can spend few minutes more, please do read the solutions on

a.    India Inc., Investors Required - fallingmarkets.blogspot.com/2012/04/india-inc-investors-required.html?m=1

b.    More Traffic, More Oil - fallingmarkets.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-traffic-more-oil.html?m=1

c.    Dream IT - fallingmarkets.blogspot.com/2011/01/dream-it.html?m=1

India Inc

Every time when it comes to March, most people start thinking about their tax saving investments and decides to make some quick investments just to save some bucks. Even though due to this final minute rush we tend to lose hard earned money easily by opting for wrong investments. But the very human nature within us which once made us open textbooks on exam eve without even know which chapters to look for, makes us do this quick investments. Some guys can be really good at these final minute investments and they earn great benefits from it. But this trade is not for common man.

We need to plan tax in advance and do everything we could to save those bucks. In this blog, I am not going to discuss on how to plan for tax savings, because this could be the billionth blog to write that. So let's think about a plan of investing on India Inc. Now how is it possible to invest in India Inc. as a whole? We don't have any such physical entity called India Inc which could be found anywhere. It is just a jargon used by some wise men out there. So why not we make a real India Inc. out of it? How can we bring it alive?

Whatever you are going to read now is just a distant dream of a tax payer which may or may not materialize but if it does come alive, lot of things would change. India Inc. would work as a listed company. India Inc. would be the place where every single tax payers money in India would go. Every year the tax that we pay should go to India Inc., which will then be utilized by the Finance Minister of the country for growth or subsidies or whatever he would decide it to be used for. The whole sum that is shared by tax payers of India should be shared online on a website probably, also showing how much percentage of that money is invested in what sector. The sector wise investment may yield benefits or might just be an allowance for some group which actually doesn't matter for the investors or tax payers.

Government has full rights to decide how they want to utilize this money, but here they have to show what percentage of this money they have spend on a particular sector, what is the expected benefit out of that Year-on-Year and how much is expected by the end of 4years. Tax Payer should be able to login to the website of the India Inc. to see what is the current status of his investment. It should show the small picture by breaking down on different sectors percentage-wise/amount-wise the tax payed by him/her. He/She should be able to use his/her PAN number and secret password to know what is really happening with the money. Different sectors investment/payment/profit-loss data should be updated every month by the government and shared to public by this way. Every year there should be a newsletter send by post/e-mail to the tax payers to share what happened to their money. In case of huge profit which could be something above 20%, a small portion of it, about 5% should be shared with public as non-taxable income. The public here are tax payers only and not everyone having a PAN card since now you can have it without a job too.

In case a tax payer finds out that the information shared by the government is incorrect, he should be given legal rights to contest in court for the same. This will force governments to be more transparent. If a Finance minister cannot make profit or use the money as planned, he/she needs to explain to the nation on the failure and should not be given a second chance to handle the money for the India Inc. Making profit could be a distant dream, it would be better to quote using wisely for the growth of the country and where the growth is tangible. Every tax payer becomes an investor here forcibly since tax payment is a required thing for the growth of the country. There could be non-profitable investments like investing in Hockey welfare or  education for poor, but the stats should still show how many schools were opened, how many came through the classes, or did we win a Hockey cup/match...all this becomes the growth factor. This example was to show that growth may not be always related to money.

Based on the tax paid, he/she should be allocated with units which will be valued on the NAV of India Inc. The NAV method would be a good and easy way to track companies growth. People of India would be given a chance to vote for the key factors selection which will form the deciding factor for the net asset value for India Inc. Even though the weightage of tax payer votes will be lesser than weight of a Finance expert or government servants votes. Now when the NAV value keeps hitting the red, the people in charge needs to explain to tax payers. A government formed can decide whether to change the Finance minister or not every year if they find that India Inc. is not growing under him/her because the failure to grow would be treated as failure of the government since it makes it very tangible and transparent.

Now comes the real tough task of maintaining the data and sharing with the public. I would think of it being not with any government agencies due to n number of reasons.(Corruption, bribery, poor customer service to name a few). This should go to local/international private Finance companies which would do the book keeping. In case all this fails after two terms(10yrs), still we don't lose anything because we are still losing our hard earned money as tax with such high tax'es. But we are happy to lose it assuming it is for the growth of this great nation which was once at the helm of the world. We ought to be on top and would do everything what we could do best to get there.

it would feel painful when we lose those few thousand rupees end of a financial year, but at the same time be cheerful that there are few others(in billions) losing more than you and it is still for your country which still doesn't earn tax for oxygen and water!

Power of tomorrow

Disclaimer would say something like "I am not representing any political party or views" but sharing a blog from my heart. As my title says, I felt like writing it and now I am hear blogging it out.

In recent past, newspapers in India are flooded with scams & issues of corruption. Maybe it was the case before also but never dared to get necessary media attention. Now things are changing, with more private media and international media floating around and also because of the competition, most secret news are brought out.

We often think about all these news being true and at the same time also doubt its political motives. Many a times some political party A or B gets benefits from them politically or makes it a political issue with a pseudo representation of the people. We have also noticed that no news stays for more than 2 weeks time in television or newspapers or rather loses its importance and would be replaced with a better or more spicy one. Now is this human behavior to get dazzled by more spicy news and forget the other ones which was the most sensational one when first heard? Yes, it is...n people know this very well and uses it to sell their story. Who is to blamed for creating more story? We ourselves...

Now that another scam on trucks are out, I am just curious how many more as all those other Indians around...how many more buried deep under? And more interestingly, when are they going to be shared with public? I feel all these news sharing is timed to such a professional perfection that we gently smooths out of other ones...Is it really worth spending our time?

I think in any corporate structure there would be someone who gains by deals, be it politically or financially. But there is a profit somewhere which may not be tangible. Now how come it becomes the story of the year when it comes to politics? Are we really giving unwanted importance to politics? Is it really making any difference if we care for it? It never makes...unfortunately if you want to admit it or not, the common mans life in India is filled with fear..no one would dare to take on politicians, policemen, roadside gangsters, drunken youth or even an arrogant bus conductor. Because we all fear that the above said entities are all linked with a key called money!

People in India respect the judiciary system and deep inside trusts that it would give justice but after how many years? Will anyone be ready to sacrifice their whole youth to get justice when it really doesn't make any difference to their life? We would prefer to keep silent and stay away from all dangers of being frightened by the society and socio-political system. Now when a common decent human being has this fear, think about what a boon it is to people who really want to commit crime? They know upfront that they can enjoy their whole youth without any regret since there is nothing that is going to affect them adversely in near future.

Do you think after next 10years people of India can roam around on their roads without getting bullied? Maybe yes, but for that there are lot of things to be done. Everyday lost is a life lost and don't know when someone would really think about a change. We definitely need a change from our whole system. I don't want to discuss on corruption as a whole now, but good use of technology, computer systems and transparency through internet can really bring about lot of changes to the system. Now in cities like Bangalore where IT replaces oxygen, it is not making much difference because the civil servants who had to use this systems just either neglect it or uses it end of day to tally accounts. Therefore the enforcement of its use can only be undertaken by public.

Few months back Bangalore Traffic police launched a Facebook page which boasted of being public friendly. Many guys including myself had posted quite a lot of issues with nothing being even looked at. Every time we followed up, we were responded already transferred to concerned station, will update later. After consistent follow-up our posts were just neglected. If this is the way we want our government sector to go public, then it is a wastage of tax payers money. Finally this page looks like a radio transmitter where Police can share the messages to public when they feel and for all public complaints the same automatic messages. Now if this is how it is going to be implemented, then do we really need it?

Why is our media covering the political news almost 85% of their time? Who is really taking it seriously? Should we really spend our time and money on these news? My vote would be to leave it alone. Once the media starts doing this all these political dramas and games would cool off. With no audience who would enjoy acting in a play? If somebody really does enjoy it, trust me there ought to be something really wrong!

How else can we make a change? We need public forums which would care for the public! We need to young and old to understand the importance of following rules alike! We need a generation which doesn't live in fear! We need people to have more freedom of thought! We need a set of fresh minds which doesn't have the seeds of industrialization and office filling jobs in mind! We need leaders who can lead a whole nation to live the change rather than waiting for the change...n how?
The only way is to feed your own kids and kids around you with all the virtues and educate them with the ill-effects of current society and entrust them to make the change for all of us and do admit the fact that we all failed before trying!

Doomsday

The whole world had been talking about doomsday during this New Year when quite a lot of people are seen celebrating New Year so much as if this is the last New Year they’ve got. Is this really going to end this time?
I am not a great believer of any calendar be it Mayan or Indian. But there are quite a few things that I would like to bring it across. Let’s leave alone the fact or myth that world will end this year but can we try to evaluate the facts that we have & the observations of great men before us?
Let’s start with what is a Yuga. A yuga is an era within the cycle of four ages. The four ages being Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga & Kali Yuga. All this is caused and controlled by the stars revolving and rushing above our heads. The end described in some of the spiritual Hindu texts share that it will start raining continuously until everything is flooded and drowned. By this time the people’s mind would have been corrupted beyond repair. The seeds would have given up giving more fruits. But do you think we are yet there? Can this whole happen in another few months? They say that the four ages will be work in a circular manner. Once the Kali Yuga is completed, it will again start with Satya Yuga.

The planetarium software had helped to date the existence of Rama based on Valmiki Ramayana to somewhere in 5000+ BC. King Rama is still considered one of the best men to live in India considering his warring feats and administration. This is written into every Hindu’s brains as soon as they are born. People have excavated and located Dwaraka under water as described by the Mahabharata. Satellite pictures had shown the existence of Nala Sethu bridge under water connection India to present day Lanka & much more which is proving that it all existed long back. Some of the mythology classified texts had been turning into big bulky history books. Most things that people are finding out now had been found and used millions of years ago by humans as seen in Pyramid and other megalithic architectures and much more from the excavated facts.

Are we lacking something to understand and accept it all to be real? Yes, we are. It has become human nature to question everything that they cannot digest and disprove if they cannot prove. The Mayan calendar talks about world ending in 2012 due to many things. People who understand and talk about tectonic plate shifting which in turn causes a pole shift for the earth also believes in the same. There are quite a few evidences still left in this world that shows that there was an ice age with wooly mammoth and similar animals. There was an age with dinosaurs and men who were 15foot tall. All this had been found and examined, but still the same bunch doesn’t support a polar shift. What else would have caused a quick shuffle of the world if not for earth herself moving her internals? There are evidences left of lot of civilizations being swallowed by the sea across the world. People are also talking about the lost continents in Lemuria & Kumari Kandam and much more. Are we actually turning blind or is it really the start of perish?

Every religious text in case you are a religious person talks about the world ending and a new beginning in which their hero God starts everything for them all over again. Let’s not debate about God this time but do you actually think there has to be something to do with everything ending and starting all over again. Another interesting thing to note is that all the texts also talks about flood and continuous rain which is also the case as described as the end of Kali Yuga. Tsunami’s which started hitting the present day world in near past was unknown to present day intelligent homo-sapiens but well written and documented in tamil scriptures explaining the tsunami which ate away a big chunk of prosperous land few thousand years ago.

In case your spare time allows, read the interesting not of Kali Yuga on Wikipedia and see whether it matches with present day situation in India.(Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga). By the way we have great analysts and credible scientists in all industries in this earth. They had predicted that there won’t be any havoc this year and earth is not expecting any shock. Gist of it is business as usual. But remember we also had at least 500% more financial analysts and geeks who could not even predict a global slowdown and recession in 2008 when everything was rosy. To decide whom to trust is one’s personal matter which I don’t want to persuade.

Predicted doomsday is 21 December, 2012 which might just come and go like another day if we all got lucky and our kids luckier. A similar catastrophe was predicted in May 2003 in the form a planet heading towards earth to collide. It is end of cycle in Mayan calendar in Winter of 2012 too. NASA claims that it will be a normal day and year and earth will continue to exist in their websites.(NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html). If you believe in international politics and role of India in discovery and research, the Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser written 2012 movie would look damn real.

As per astrology, a solar eclipse is predicted on 13th November 2012 and a lunar eclipse on 28th November 2012. It is expected that the effect of these two back to back eclipse’s can cause earthquakes, floods, tsunamis or volcanic eruptions as mentioned in some of the studies. But this is not going to be end of world. It could be just another bad day for we earth inhabitants as it had happened in recent past.
As per world politics, considering the pace at which terrorism is heading and people/countries forming for and against it in groups, we could also expect a world war III, which could really be devastating given the weapons some countries possess. No one could predict when but if not handled carefully such issues which are at times religious in foundation, having political pillars and nuclear roofs could not be stopped. Anyone going against it or country for that matter would be isolated and could even be attacked equally from all fronts. The story of climate control & global warming would be forgotten during the battle for power and prestige. Remember that nuclear weapons when used can cause such effects that even the creators can’t predict by even eradicating a whole race. There are evidences of use of nuclear weapons in ancient warfare available in the present day earth. Will man himself bring the doomsday by such foolish acts?

As a matter of fact, anything can happen anytime to anyone. So let’s not worry too much whether world would end but think about what best we can do today when we are all alive and together. To get started, I would recommend you to do good research on following topics to know more about what happened to earth and on earth. I would also recommend you to look for things before 0 BC and not after that. There can be lot of fabrications involving foreign bodies and powerful organizations otherwise.

Trust me you would be fascinated!

a. Megalithic Structures
b. Alien life on earth
c. Lemuria
d. Aztecs
e. Atlantis
f. Peru secrets
g. Rama empire
h. World energy grids
i. Lost continents
j. Kumari Kandam
k. Ancient Civilizations
l. Tamil Texts
m. Sanskrit Language
n. Hinduism
o. Pagan worshippers

Life, Live it

The greatest memories that we treasure had always been from our childhood. When we happen to crash onto an old childhood friend most times we get a wave a events in our thoughts which had happened years back. That very night most of us would love to sleep early to dream about those days. Our age at this time is forgotten and doesn't affect. Our mention about past experiences and memories are ubiquitous in all forms of conversations. As great men always said, you should be child when it comes to learning. The key attribute that a child or baby possess is observation skills which we overlook as we get older. We overlook this considering the pattern that is build in our brain based on our observations as a baby, child and adult. We tend to assume as we get older and consider ourselves more wise than the next generation.

I think I had been floating around my topic without actually catching the flag. Let me come to my subject for the day which is impact of TV, Internet & Computers on us. By the way I am not discussing here to throw away all those boxes which you had bought worth big bucks. But I am talking about wise use of it and to make them feel the nature which we once did. There is a connection between every child who was brought up in India few years back and nature. This connection is something that cannot be explained in the few words that I know from schools. This association with nature is what is missing in most of the children today.

Every kid until they reach 8-10years old, you can find them in front of TV once they start perceiving few things. Parents actually are more relaxed due to this habit since they could find time for other house hold chores. If you ask any kid around 2-3yrs old he/she would have a favorite song, favorite actor, favorite cartoon and many more favorites. Do you think this is by chosen from many? No this is chosen from what elders decide them to see. It might be good or bad, it depends on the exposure every kid receives and what their parents want.

This is something we could work on make it better by guiding them to perceive good things and enhance their knowledge on the nature. When I say nature, I am not talking about National Geographic or Discovery channel but to bring them out of their house. You could see that most kids are happy this way. They enjoy being outside their houses or flats. The want to feel more things. This urge to feel more things is not for pleasure but to learn, the obsession to learn. Take it as tip to reduce your utilities bill too. This helps the mental growth of children and the data they collect at such a young age will always be with them.

Now what happens when they grow older around 8-10. This is when kids now get completely exposed to computer and internet. It is really great to know computer and internet at such young age. He/She don't need to spend much time getting it handy in later stages of life. Every parent would love them to be computer wizards. But playing games really making them that? It is good to play computer games as per some studies since it helps you develop you brain, reflex, this, that and many more. It is equally or may be more significant to spend quality time outside with friends playing a game of their choice. Which helps in building the team work into your veins. It is important that kids actually realize the fact that life is all about team work, be it with family, friends or work. It really matters to know how to mingle and be best at that. Again this is where you feel your nature and bond with people. This is where you create memories which you would once cherish.

What will be in your treasured memory container when your childhood is in front of computer playing that x game? Will it be filled with you shooting down 100 bots? It should not be that silly. We should engage in such activities during late evenings or early mornings when you really cannot do anything outside. Whenever you get a chance you should and even promote your children to feel the nature. It really would help them pick up few tricks in life.

Every day is moving so fast that no one realizes how fast we are growing grey. Take the example of yourself or some of your friends. What's their favorite pastime? Most of them would be tweeting that they had pizza, turned left from Big Ben and much more. Some would be busy just idling in front of Facebook refreshing their profile page to find more comments or busy copying from some online sites to paste some philosophical thoughts in Facebook.

All these social networking websites are just great and it helps us to get connected with all those dear and near ones which we once felt we lost them with time. This will again help you bring back your old soothing memories and might help you stalk someone you always wanted. But is it worth sitting in front of it and refreshing whole day? Or say 4-5hrs? You create Save Tiger cause on Facebook and your friends say...Yeah!Save tiger buddy. I support it and 100 others say, this rocks!, but end of the day...are you saving any tiger at least one in your whole life? How you think given a chance you would save a tiger? You can have discussion forums and discuss about real issues and find solutions but when will you act upon it? It is equally important that we adults learn how to effectively use all these technical wonders blessed upon us. When we were kids we all had a hobby and now we think we don't have time to chase it when we can actually do wonders. We feel a hobby is too silly and its more cool to be on Facebook all the time. You can find save nature, save trees and plants in your social networking sites and can find millions of people on it. We could actually save trees and plants if we really decide to come out of our virtual world and do it in real.

We should live to create memories because memories are the only thing that is going to be with you when time comes calling. We need to connect with nature, people and feel them in real.

More Traffic = More Oil

All compartments seem to be filled with dreams and hopes. You could see 100’s of people boarding from different stations filled with plans and hopes, some good, few bad and many evil. I am off to visit my family to have fun time with them for a week after which I would return to Bangalore and get back to work. Hope all the good dreams of all those nice people in this Island Express gets true. The train was parked in platform 3 from the time I reached there around 8 p.m. I was actually shocked to see that some women were attracting people into the dark compartments due to no lights given until 9:15pm. These women were making sounds to get attention by needy men. I found few guys going in too since almost all others waited outside the trains until the lights came. These women and guys were swallowed by darkness when railway police came for rounds.

I had been wondering what India really possess like those oil rich countries. As everyone out here would think, "Yeah, it really is talent". But our discussion is not on talent right now. What about making money from public for something that they won't digest and neglect to sure? That is to mint money from traffic rules. Idea might seem to be crazy but it really would do wonders.

Have a look around yourself and you would see few hundred riders everyday not following any rules or with vehicles with no valid documents and much more including stolen ones. Every state government could generate few million Rupees if the traffic police really start doing their job rather than just looking alone for people with vehicles registered out of state as in the case of Bangalore. If you look at the amount of people not wearing helmets on every other road you would understand how much money we are talking about. Not following lane rules, over-speed, not respecting old riders, not following traffic signals, cutting one ways, smoking while driving a public transport vehicle, spitting on bike riders from bus, parking in no parking places & much more. All these seem to be a common sight and part of life here in India. We believe that this cannot be corrected and better left alone. This is the attitude we as a nation needs to change for the development of this country. Couple of days back, I took Mysore Road towards Kalasipalayam. I encountered block for around 20mins to get past few blocks. I was all the while thinking lot of people or vehicles out here might be the problem. I was shocked to see what the real problem was. On one side of the road itself there was two lanes of vehicles parked; note that it is the Mysore Road which is busy throughout the day. Apart from this illegal parking; there are street shops on the main road leaving a whole track behind them & selling towards the center of the road. I could see policemen coming in bikes from other direction when it was a one way track on either side. They came to shop banana leaves for dussera. Then there was bike parking which was in two layers on one side & again promoted by policemen. Three policemen stood next to the signal talking while vehicles were going from all directions neglecting in the signal on such a critical road.

We citizens of India should not stop ourselves from expressing what is really wrong and coming up with solutions which can not only correct the system but also create a better environment for future generations. Imagine our traffic police going to get stricter and make people really follow the rules. Do you think the current police force in any state in India can handle the volume we are speaking about in case of vehicles and drivers? I would say never! This makes it a clear case of under staffed groups. Now why are they really understaffed? It could be because rulers or governments don't take it as a priority right now. But what if they really understand how much they are going to generate in fines, will they recruits more traffic policemen? Still not sure, since that’s how India works.

Consider that we have enough staff; do you think they would stick to the big plan and make it happen for government to generate revenue from fines? It needs to be seen as it happens to be frank. But what if government keeps a commission system based on the revenue they generate legally with no complaints from riders? Will it work? It can also work negatively where people are troubled n fined for no reasons. As I write this, I think we need to think of express judiciary systems which we lack.

We as a country needs to revisit the laws and regulations written in mid-1900 and rephrase or customize it based on current century. This step needs to be considered at some point of time by every country. Why not we Indians pioneer it? Many of our laws seems to be out-dated and neglecting the technology growth all around the globe. Last day I happen to fill indemnity note for the Railways and still found a column caste in there. The only thing they wanted me to write was name, age, father's name, caste and profession. I understand without proper scrutiny it would be impossible to remove the caste from Indian forms and law books. But something that we can definitely do right now is to make it an optional column. Any citizen of India should be given rights to fill in caste only if he needs to utilize the privileges that governments provide for the underprivileged. But otherwise he can opt not to fill caste if he finds it unsuitable based on his conscience.

We really have a long way to go and we definitely needs to work together as a nation forgetting the diversity and also demolishing the selfishness in us.

Back to Bangalore, India

India greeted me well as expected with it's notoriety. My days in Kerala went fine with no troubles or hassles to be cherished. It all started once I landed in Bangalore. Any mention about Bangalore nowadays starts with autorickshaw's and their pilots. Anytime you want to go somewhere or other, let it be morning, noon or midnight, rates are all in hundreds. I felt the pain of getting looted in bright daylight. I would like to narrate to you the following incidents that happened to me first hand in garden city with more dust than flowers.

I had received 5/7 boxes sent in cargo from Singapore and two more were to reach. The delivery guy called Sooraj my buddy n house owner's phone and asked for the route. After failing to reach home in 45mins from a 10mins distance where they were when it all started. Sooraj called them back. This time they changed their tone and asked Sooraj to get to where they were since it's we who want the cargo boxes according to them. The fact of respecting and doing once duty seems to be long forgotten here which was proved true again and again by auto's. This daylight looting made me force my dad to send my bike to Bangalore in train after booking parcel. The parcel reached Bangalore on 16-March-2011. Myself and Sooraj went to grab the bike by spending Rs.150 since most other auto wanted Rs.200. After reaching there, we came to know that we need to submit the original parcel booking slip here in Bangalore to take the bike. How on earth does this kind of parcel booking work where the sender has to courier the parcel slip separately? More fun was waiting for us. Every hour I have to pay 10Rs. until I get the bike. I asked them the logic of such a model for which they just laughed.

The only other way to get the bike was to get a stamp paper of Rs.100 and get the indemnity note typed on that and submit it. The night shift guy never told us that this was required. He said come next day morning and get the format of what need to be put in the bond. Next day morning to my amusement the lady sitting in the same desk where I met the first person pulled out a peforma and asked me to use it. I went to court to buy a bond after long fights with 3-4 auto drivers. I stood in queue to get the form and later again to pay the amount and submit the form after filling it. They said to me it will take 1hour to give the bond which tested my nerves. I waited there looking at them for 1 hour and finally got it. Later got the matter typed with the help of typist in court complex and returned to railway station. My autorickshaw charges in two days rounding railway station had reached Rs.500+ by now. I went to the 1st platform office from where they redirected me to 4th platform and again back to 1st platform. Each time carrying my new helmet and 1litre petrol hoping to take my bike out from there. Later they directed me to an office around 1Km far from railway station where I had to walk all the way. It was around 1:30 pm by now. While waiting for the bond in the court complex, I felt depressed and sad looking at Subhash Chandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi and Dr.Ambedkar staring at me. Felt is this what they really wanted India to become? Will this kind of irrational rules and corrupt progress get us in the summit?

After reaching the parcel shelter, they asked me to bring surety to sign on the form and also they required two witness. I told them that they bike is on my name, I have the registration card in my pocket. Original insurance, my driving license and my pan card. Why on earth do u require two witness and surety for me to take my own bike?
For which they replied this is a rule passed in parliament and if you have any compliance go and tell there. I enquired whether there is anyone who really can help me to file a suggestion/compliant. This made them smile and tell, why not you try depty.Station Master even though nothing will happen they said. Then asked me to write to commercial railways head in Bangalore and whole office was laughing at me. Later I asked them how can someone have original receipt for a parcel sent on his or her name before the parcel reaches in train from a different state. For which they said, it's the rule and no one questions it! Wow, what a way to set rules which guarantees minimum of Rs.240 for late charges to Railways. I felt helpless but accepted the fact that this is how India works and went home hoping to get back with original receipt tomorrow.
Now are you interested to know how to cut your queue to get a platform ticket? It seems to be sold out of the STD booth opposite to the railway station in Majestic for Rs.4 when the original price is Rs.3. I came to know when I the booth guy refused to give me change for Rs.5 and asked if it's really platform ticket for which you need this, he can give me the ticket. I had no idea it was Rs.4 until he took it.
On 18 March, 2011, I received my bike just by showing the original parcel slip which my Dad had earlier send through airbus driver on same day morning. They didn't even check any documents, just the slip was enough. Imagine what if we had kept the receipt in the same bike while sending! I am very pleased by the fact that there was no bending rules from either side and no bribes involved. Seems like it's really getting better in that front. My total autorickshaw and fine for taking it late went more than Rs.1000+.

There was another incident wherein the DTDC courier guy asked me to pay Rs.250 for a mobile which was worth not even Rs.100 to be send. This is because my mom had forgotten to carry her mobile and we didn't want to risk sending her brand new mobile but she still needed one since she was in hostel. Since my bike is there with me now, hope I don't need to fight auto uncles often.

Dreaming about IT had been the buzz in India for the last two decades. India makes people think it as Indian Technology rather than Information Technology. The growth story throughout the world for IT always was linked to India or Indians. Let me respect the fact that, the real fire took off in US in 1960s. Indians always made it big in all parts of the world for everything linked with science and technology. All of you know the education in Asia and especially India from 20th century focussed on creating industry ready people.The workforce creation which were the hybrid versions of the seeds once sown by the imperialist countries on their colonies still going strong. The brain rich geniouses from mammoth universities of India migrated to Western world considering the riches they could enrich their lives with, rather than staying loyal to a small developing nation. You all would take this as a case study for brain drain, but I would consider it as a test dose of Indian brains to the Western world. These are the guys who really played a pivotal role in the growth of India. These sample sachets in human form did perform past anybody's imagination. This might have made people think what a group of them can do for us which started it all.

My generation was never brought up to fit into IT world since it was a novice subject back then. The world now sees India as an IT hub. India is doing top class business in IT & IT-ES services bringing back the wealth to India in the form of dollars which was once looted in the form of gems. A job well done to all those big IT companies of ours. You could find that at least 4 out of 10 new IT companies coming up in North America has something or other to do with an Indian. Mostly started by Indians, sold to others by Indians, or employs Indians, or OUTSOURCES their work to India. What is outsourcing? Outsourcing just means to obtain services from another person or an organization often used with the term subcontract. In plain words it just as simple as getting your job done by somebody else for a cheaper expense. Imagine you have a job and you don't want to do it but still want the money. Maybe you lack expertise or brains or interest. But you still want the money. So how can you achieve that? There comes outsourcing to help you out. You find someone who can do the same job for cheaper amount for you and you just take the difference to your wallet which would still be thick. Is this commission business? Yeah, to an extent it is. But why to India? You can find an IT company in almost every street of Bangalore and most other parts of India. Again, why is it coming to India?

Most of my IT employed friends would be clear on the Onsite-Offshore model by now. So how does that work? For my non IT readers, let me put it in simple words. You place one guy(or many based on profit) to face the customer, get to know the requirements firsthand. While you have a whole team waiting out there in offshore in India to take details from this guy facing customer. This offshore(local) team in India does the job for the customer abroad while they are seated here in India. So is this model effective? It might be otherwise maynot survive so long. Or it would have survived due to the absence of any other models, which itself could be a good subject to explore if it tickles your interests. For a customer this model works, because they get the benefit of Indian brains sitting in India building it for them taking Indian Rupees while they pay in dollars. The communication is so easy due to this global medium called English and almighty Internet. Again it works out cheaper for them since it is outsourced! I don't want to explain how IT works and help you in starting a business. If we rethink this again, did I say Indian brains working taking Indian Rupees? Yeah, I did. This is what it is all about. The IT companies charge the customer based on their profit margin, business model, business strategy and much more and ofcourse considering what they need to pay for their team in Indian salaries which is cheaper than employing someone abroad due to the cost of living in India. But is that true?

You really think the cost of living is low in India? This is the real problem which is going to hit all sectors but for now lets focus on IT. It will bang hard on IT doors maybe faster than it once knocked on Indian doors. The cost of living is going higher and higher. This makes people in India expect more from every company. There are a lot of companies who pays that based on their profit margin and everybody on earth can't work for that company. This fact forces expectation to rise to those verticals where there are really no limits. Imagine that the business is still the same, customer is still the same, outsourced Indian/foreign company is still the same. The change is only with the employee or the workforce who has a bigger expectation now. This goes to an economic condition where demand is more but supply is less. Companies want people but there are very few grooming out every year to fit into their monetary bracket due to the industry ready education model which would forget IT if the workforce considers better profit elsewhere. Finally different companies succumb to this pressure where if they don't provide service due to the absence of workforce, somebody else will. This makes them start paying employees more. This is a kind of business model that can go crazy and bust in no time due to competition. Now the situation is employees happy, companies losing profit(still manageable), clients happy and business goes on. I think this is all gonna get to a limit where employees not happy(thumb rule: man is never happy with what he has), companies not happy, clients/customers unhappy and business fails. So does that mean IT is going to end forever?

That never means IT business will stop, it just means time for other countries who can provide cheaper labour due to their living conditions and good command on English would take up India's role in IT. Does that mean it was not really Indian brains that made the difference. Yes, it might have been to start off but not anymore. If not complete but at least, a big chunk of it will go out of India due to this. Can expect some Indians to go to that part of the world to find a living too but never to reduce their rising expectations which had already hit the roof. Again it goes on, it really is a vicious cycle and we are just in the middle of the first cycle. And again it goes on...

The advent of IT in India can be viewed as modern day colonialism which we had welcome with both hands. This emergence of MNC's in India had brought us jobs and money but that was the same thing industrialism gave us. Our forefathers fought for us to get freedom and now we are trying to boast of being a MNC colony.