PUC..!! (Pollution Un-Controlled)

What funny world we live into. We only see what others wants us to see. We only hear what we are told about. We sympathise but are not ready to empathise. We stand firm pointing all our fingers on the safer side of the table, but when the table rotates we hide right beneath it.  We notice the aberration, but still we un-see it till we are shown.  And once seen, we create huge noise unless someone turns the table onto us!! And then we finally tend to forget.

But how far can all this be tolerated!! Nature needs the due justice! Enough of blame game had happened. Its time to retrospect. Lets not simply pity the showcased senarious but as well realize it being around us.  Let us not say 'chalta hai' anymore.

The cliche here is, as an individual how much can we really do to save our basic right of breathing fresh. The government and the officials are blind at the facet of precious. I wish to draw the attention to the various breach of humanity occurring in my vicinity that really disappoints.

1. Industrialization is good, and the need of hour for our country. Still can we afford it at the cost of lives of fellow citizens. Industries burn huge dump of prohibited articles and fire theur chimneys. The poor people /labors dwelling n working around such industries constantly endanger their lives. And Capitalist and Government fill their pockets from the extra money offered by the offenders as bribe.

2. Private vehicles are for comfortable transportation. But today its not amenity but a luxury. We tend to smoke up so much of essential form of energy, while travelling for work and leisure. In all the affluent families each member has owns his/her bike/car. I have heard and also believe on the idiom "Time is Money" but in the given scenario when we see the Oil price on soaring side only, Money and energy can also be saved by waiting and accommodating others(Friends, Family, Colleagues, Neighbors) to travel together, and save on the fuel and unnecessary pollution. On weekends and holidays most of us tend to go for aimless rides and drives. One should really ponder before embarking on such foolish activity. I am sure there are other means and better means of entertainment.

3. Burning for rituals/ for waste overs/ or rubbers, is another grave area where we have to blame ourselves for thoughtful negligence. Burning of woods, cowdungs, coals, for havans, holi, etc. is a common practice in our country. For collective festivals like Holi, we want to burn our own personal edifice of Lord. Which ultimately boils down to 5 - 10 such burning processions taking place in a vicinity of 5 Kms. I do not get the point of burning so many piles of wood at such near to each other place. When the festivals are occasions to come together we are not just destroying the objective but also creating unnecessary wastage and pollution.  How can we be so insane.
As far as the burning of wastes is concerned, we do not waste for Municipal Corporation to handle the waste we want to manage that ourselves. How foolish can it be to burn the waste to make it light and travel in air. Wow! What a way to get rid of it. But, hey are we actually? Imagine a situation where every household of the city starts doing the same. It would be such a polluted environment, the smoke of burning, the ashes travelling with air all throughout. Even its imagination generates nausea.

To not to make it big, I just want to conclude saying, "Lets act Humans". Lets think about the bigger picture before acting personal. Its time we THINK. Think the longer effect of our not-thoughtful acts.

Censorship Now it is Internet

   Blocking sites for secular and political reasons is nothing new and not something unheard of.  We have been getting such news from Middle East countries since long back.  Even Dubai and UAE had once blocked social communities like Orkut and Facebook.  But to hear something of that sort from West the real originator of the network is something surprising.

   With the latest discussion of COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) to be studied seriously it seems if the act gets approval the internet would become antiquated. COICA would challenge the websites indulged in any sort of infringing activity, viz. copyright infringement, cracked copy of softwares, free distribution of licensed materials, objectionable materials, etc.  The authorities primarily would list such websites in blacklists and would ask the global communities like google, paypal, etc to block the domain from first list.  However with COICA, they even reserve the rights to clean of the net with such sites.

So what happens with our YouTube?

   YouTube being widely used website to share free contents as present has many and uncountable objectionable contents adhering to fall in the bait of COICA.  So to prevent such giants from the threat there might be an underline to the act that, the objectionable content should be removed on notice or complain within stipulated time limit. 

So the Big Question

The big question is, in this ever fastening world of internet where infinite chunks of data transfer occurs every nanosecond, does the law with such amendment would yield the desired result.  The books which has been banned or video which has been rated “Remove”, or the software which is “Copyrighted” all would have resulted into thousands to millions to trillions copies. The irony to the matter that restricted things occurs faster and in myriads.

Effects on Indian Pirated Market

If this act is taken very seriously it might affect India’s piracy market and might ease the tensions of the government and ever worrying bollywood industry.  It might translate into restricted resources for software/movies/games download for young budding Engineers and gamers of India.  At the same time the vice versa effect can be the increased use of Compact Discs (CDs) and Digital Discs (DVDs) to share the copyrighted material.  The price of pirated CDs might increase and new softwares, movies, games from west could take some time to reach India (esp. Indian Piracy Market).

 My Opinion

   However if you ask me, personally I oppose this act, not for pirated softwares or movies, but for the common good of the word Internet which is derived from International Network.  Let information flow without restriction.  If the knowledge is controlled by few then there are possibilities that we might perceive what they want us to know and not what we should know! For me its about my right to decide what should I read, see, use.  If they think a book should be banned and not published then why not let me decide that!!

Your Views are solicited!!

Swastik Education: Ayodhya - The Real Issue..!!

Swastik Education: Ayodhya - The Real Issue..!!: " Babri Masjid pre 1992  Anyone following the general awareness is sure to know the hype Ayodhya Verdict has created in..."

the lost Laughter..!!

Haha... hahahaa.... laugh out loud..!!

Its seems to be a long time when I last laughed out loud from the bottom of my heart. I realize how difficult it is to grow in the serious and tensed environment as an adult and matured person. One gets so busy in life that time doesn't even spare him to share few moments of heartful laugh with loved ones. The time left after daily work pressures is spent thinking and worrying about the new day coming with new challenges. In midst of all those tensions its implied that the fast pace life takes away our fun from life. All you get to compromise with is small smiles when you read those Santa Singh jokes on your cell.

Now I know why do we have laughter clubs operating at parks and gardens in early mornings. But to me it indicates the hopeless condition of life where to laugh out loud one has to attend laughing clubs cause in the entire day one is not optimistic about a single moment where he would get the chance to laugh away his heart.

And this laughter thing is very important. I realized it today when the small irritating pain in my upper chest (near elbow) got relieved as I shared this laughter session with some close friends. And now I think even the pain was because of the fact that I lost my laughter in daily life long back when I jumped into the league of being businessmen. I got practical experience of laughter solving maximum of body ailments.

I think, we should arrange our work and personal life in such a manner that we always get chance to discover our laugh spontaneously with friends and family in lieu of laughter club members. Some-time should be spared for personal bondings with the people whom we laugh and share most of our sorrows. The heart is relieved and rejuvenated. After all life is not all about being tensed its about living...!!

so dear friends.. Call me today for a hang out...!! And I ll ensure a hearful laughter for you and for me..!!

Perception a Problem?

The topic refers to the tension, dissever and nervousness the human mind goes through after reaching the dividing roads of life. The perception plays an important role here. Cause the most important criteria of judgement is played by perception in such a situation. But perception is after all perception, it is believed to be right but cannot be ensured. And hence the tension, dissever and nervousness. Its a circle in itself. The more you know, the more you perceive and yet far more your perception changes (in same or other direction).

I often wonder is it only me for whom the perception has such a wide play ground to lurk around? As for me, the perception about few major things have altered drastically. The latest happenings in my life has helped me to evaluate the perpetually altering perception as the basic criteria for selecting the road's crossway.

To let you know about my present state of mind, I am at a junction and need to select a way as means of my livelihood, between Business, Job and Further Education. I am a graduate now, have 1 year full time work experience and belong to a business family. I am lucky to have all the three options healthily available to me. But the divide here is the choice of selection.

Its already been long that I have tried to perceive about the pros and cons of all the three streams. Yet the dilema of confusion persist. More number of people I meet more of personal advice I get, and I am sure you have your own too to pass on to me, but hold on till this one gets over.

I, in order to make the most aware decision, met well settled and highly acclaimed people of my family's social circle of all the fields. And the irony being I found hardly anyone acclaiming his own profession to be superior than the other. An highly earning employed person thinks there's nothing better than own independence and work, while an highly earning businessman suggests the business has evolved a lot and its not as easy in today's competitive world as a professional life. But however slyly the latter accepts that in some aspects its always good to be entrepreneur. But still everyone has his own logic to adjunct the debated topic.

Since childhood I had strong inclination towards job and profession. I remember, in my early school - 1st to 3rd grade, I did not like to say that my father is neither a doctor nor an engineer but a business man. Even till the time I been for graduation, I was so lured with high executive job profiles that I wanted to do my PG from one of the best institution. However, during my grads I got under influence of some learned men from industry, learnt about their experiences - History - the Great Men of Worlds. This affected my school of thoughts and gave me the deviated insight. And finally the entire perception changed. Today looking back I am surprised that its the same me, who looked down upon the business once is all ready to embrace it. Even my work experience of small tenure helped me to build my perception.

Such a major change in perception is still a mystery for me. But however I feel today I am more aware, and has developed the basic anvil of reasoning to make my judgement based on perception. Still whatever the decision that I take, will be based entirely on perception. And more I know, more I perceive. And as here its entirely the new road the only experience at hand is the past record of the role the perception has played in such dilemma-tic situations.

Consequently as without any experience, the entire decision maker is perception the tension, dissever and nervousness continues. It ends only once an unalterable direction is chosen.

Ye Delhi hai mere Yaar..

Been to Delhi last week for a short trip!! Loitered on many streets in and around Delhi..!!

Its an endless city, which seems to have no boundary limits. I wonder how do people commute in such a big city, especially earlier when the metros didn't exist. Still lots of places yet out of reach from Metro, and multitude are traveling from one part of city to another using government and private buses. One can travel one end to another for 4 hours and yet not be able to cross Delhi limits (in vertical or horizontal direction). Well 4 hours might seem to be some big time, however when you consider Delhi traffic which is growing at constant rate, inspite of Metros, it seems to be very feasible.

Metros is no doubt an excellent example of public transport services that any government can boost of. A well built metro with stations built in major crowded places like Chandani Chowk, Kashmiri Gate, etc is worth seeing.

Chandani Chowk, now the famous Delhi 6, is one of the most busy street of Delhi. The main road has got splendid shops and constructions which coverts the old city of Delhi. But if you enter any of the galis, viz. Parathe vali Gali, Maliwara, Nayi Sarak, etc, you get to see the real Delhi 6. Here one feels he is roaming in the main market of any UP/Bihar city. All small lanes, with no space for a car to enter, for the matter of fact even bikes are not permitted inside those lanes. The shop keepers here are running their ancestral businesses. Roadside small shops, like a cubicle where the shopkeeper is sitting at the entry of the shop waiting for customers. One might think that these shopkeepers are just trying to sustain themselves. But actually their business model gives them profit better than those of malls, shopping complex and well to do shops of Delhi. You enter these shops and you are treated with some tea, cold drink and if you are lucky than even with Chat Items like Dahi Balle, Sev Puri-Dahi Puri, etc. These area also caters to some chatpata delicacies of Delhi. You will also notice lack of civic sense among shop owners. Most of them do not keep a dustbin and all their litters are found loitering in front of their shops on the street. And this makes you wonder more if you are really in some tier 2 Indian city.

Well litter is a major problem of most metros and Delhi is no exception. But however to imagine a dumped stinking area near the Famous Red Fort was a blow to my expectations. Down straight the Chandani Chowk I found Red Fort. I walked down the street for about a kilometer to find that it remains closed on mondays (the day being monday). However after a look at its facet I felt being at one of the tourist place of India. The horizontol crossing street was one of the major street of Delhi and beared heavy traffic. So I decided to take the Red Fort subway to cross the road. I was shocked to see the pathos condition of the subway filled with litter and poor dwellings. It was unbelivable to see the area of so importance being so filthy. Even the other end of the subway-outside on streets, did not give a happy feeling. I felt as if all the litter of entire Chandani Chowk Area is dumped so near to the Red Fort.

Now coming to the fastest developing part of Delhi, viz area of South Delhi. With 90 Kms around Delhi being declared as NCR, cities like Noida(UP) and Gurgaon(Haryana) has bloomed extensively. Noida is now a city of Shopping Malls and Educational institutions, while Gurgaon, the most benefited one from NCR status, houses most of the Indian and Multinational Corporate Offices. The entry of Gurgaon from Delhi Expressway is such a splendour visit, esp at night, that one feels of traveling in one of the best city of world, viz. New York, London, etc. All fancy illuminated buildings and lanscapes and the state of the art infrastructure. I think now Haryana Government should declare Gurgaon as the state capital (at present day Chandigardh shares the common status of state capital for Haryana and Punjab.)

NCR has been developed with the view point of providing the modern amenities to people residing outskirts of Delhi so that they need not travel to the capital and hence the herding problem during business hour can be controlled. But today with such a fast, efficient and continous development of these(NCR) areas, it seems soon Delhities would be moving to the NCR for their day to day work.

Well to conclude I would say Ye Delhi hai mere Yaar.. Bas isqh mahobat pyaar.. Dilli dilwalo ki!!

Its a new beginning..!!

Its a new beginning..!! Indeed it is..

Its a year down from my last post. And since then lot of things had changed. Year, government, economy, attitude, thinking and the most important one my life!! Everything changed drastically since last year. There has been a new facet for all of them.

Its a year of change. And very optimistically I call this change a Good One..!! Its time to leave the past and hold the hands of future with a rejuvenated energy.