Random thoughts and Rants

"Robbin Hood is the biggest criminal in the history of world". How does that sound? Cynical, Skeptical, Derogatory etc etc... But its none of them... because its true...

Robin hood is famous only for one reason and that is - he robs the riches to give it to the poors... I mean that is an act of guts and humanity.. isn't it?Hurting one human to please other... though none of them are aware of what they have done. The only mistake made by the rich one is that he worked hard to earn for himself and the only fortune the poor one has got is... wow! he is poor.

We have Robin Hoods in our days also. All those people crying about the underprivileged treatment, unavailability of facilities and need of special treatment to a particular class of society are current age Robin Hoods. No one should have a doubt about that.

Lets keep aside the poor ones for a moment and look through the life of rich.

Not everyone who is rich is a born rich and those who are not, they work hard through out their life to earn a fortune not only for themselves but also their country and the society. They are the biggest additions to a country's economy. They create jobs, they carry other industries along with theirs, they educate people who work for them.

But whats the point of doing all this. At last , everyone is going to cry out that the guy who made it got the opportunity and one who couldn't, didn't get it at all. Lets just leave them alone because one who has got to do it will do it anyways... and nothings gonna matter as a matter of fact. Lets talk about the poor. The poor who wanted to do a lot but couldn't do, the poor who wanted to live a great lifestyle but couldn't live and the poor who wanted to become rich but couldn't make it. Why is it so? Why couldn't he do? May be because he was incapable to do anything or maybe he didn't get the proper environment and opportunities (Dhirubhai ambani probably is the son of jamshed ji tata..thats why he made it...oh but who was tata then.. where did he get the fortune from.. family.. and it kept growing without working??)

Its not true. Because all of us are equally capable of doing a thing or the other. But none of us want the poor to come forward.. so we use a very easy, good looking and lethal weapon named "CHARITY" which can very beautifully break the confidence of any human being in such a way as if it was never there.

Just think about it. What do you exactly do when you do a charity? .Don't you make a person feel that he is need of help? Don't you make a him feel that he is inept? Don't you give him a false feeling that you are there for him which is not true because you wont feed and educate him for lifetime? You do. And this way you totally convert a human being into an animal which doesn't know what to do. One which doesn't know its potential. One which always looks at you with a needy eye and probably makes you feel good by letting you know that you are better than some.

If you really want to do a charity then don't make a child of your own. Instead, adopt one, don't let him know that he is not your child, Bring him up like anyone else, educate him and teach him life. That will be a charity in true sense.

And damn the old Robin Hood and the current ones because they are the one responsible for making some human beings feel that they are in need of help.

This line "The big fat Indian wedding" can have several meanings. Does it mean that people eat a lot and turn fat after each wedding or does it mean a wedding of two utterly butterly Fat person?? We all know that none of these is true. It means a fat amount of money spent over the agreement of two persons to stay together for their entire life and.....,times might have changed a bit today but till very recent days and even now this agreement happens between two person who haven't met each other ever before and surprisingly they agree and spend the money of their lifetime over the same... just to stay with a unknown person for their entire life.

Whatever, its afterall a personal choice that whom u want to spend ur life with.. lets nt get into that. But what about the fatness of our wedding season. When evryone is planning to go slim and green... Indian weddings are growing fatter and fatter. I mean who cares about the people who have loads of money.. they ve gt it.. so they ought to spend it. But what happens to the normal Indian middle class which always try to follow... and ultimately finds itself in deep shit...

Deep shit... sounds too exaggerated a word to criticize such a beautiful occasion....! But Its true! We dnt have figures about how many "Ram" and "Shyam" (couldnt think of better names) drop out of their studies after their sister's marriage. Probably Ram drops out when first sister gets married and shyam drops out at the seocnd.

Whats the point of spending an amount which u cant afford thru ur lifetime (done one mistake alredy by not being enuf to afford the fatness... commiting second by trying to afford when u cant).

We boast our thoughts about gender equality... but hw could we convince a father to agree on gender equality who knows that he is earning only for one reason i.e. he needs to spend an amount that is more than wt he earns thru his lifetime, if he got a daughter in his home.

I dont want to talk about old India cos I dnt knw hw exactly it was... giving and accepting dowry during those times might have been a status symbol.. and thats why parents are really interested... may be...but hw about the new gen India... the educated one... It's quite an irony... In some states, the more u r educated, the fatter amount u get as a dowry... Try negotiating for a guy who has competed in UPSC or IIT...nd u ll find that they get dowry as big as half of their lifetime salary...nd wow.. they accept it gracefully without any regret... Such people should be thrown out of their organisations not to teach a lesson to them but to those guys who paid dowry just in the name of their degree or job.

I dont need to mention the number of gals burnt evry year in the name of dowry... aah this topic is rusted now.

India - Our country... Doesn't she has a great future? Look at the booming economy... rapidly improving infrastructure. Be it telecommunications, be it internet, be it bridges, roads and flyovers, be it rail and air connectivity or be it the largest English speaking population, everything seems to be improving at the rate double to ever. And how can we forget our great culture. Isn't that admired all over the world? Last but not the least, increasing global presence of Bollywood, our great film Industry. Everything seems to be a dream come true....

Cut the CRAP. Whatever is written above, its total bullshit.

We are just a part of the ever increasing population of a totally fucked up nation.

India does have a great future but that will always be an event going to happen somewhere in the future and that future is never gonna happen in present. We all are going to die with this thought in our mind that our country has a great future and this is going to continue generations after generations as it has been happening since we became Independent.

India sometimes in past was considered to be a country where Golden Birds lived. It's true. There are Golden birds even today. Topping the list is great politician and probably freedom fighter of a particular community, from Maharashtra, who probably shits in a golden lavatory and that's why we call him a golden bird of our country. I always feel that communism is better than democracy because common man is not going to get hurt in either of them but communism defntly stops persons who want to stop people from travelling across the state of same country.

We have a country where people don't divide themselves based on caste and religion but Sub-Caste and Sub-religion. I must tell you that this Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isaai feud is quite old, it has no more GLAMOR. Like chicks on Ramp u knw, people want to look at fresh ones. That's why they created (2*100o+256) sub-caste. It's not their fault. They just want to maintain the GLAMOR part in their reason to fight. You go to states like Bihar, UP etc and you will deifnitely get to read a newspaper where kids and womens are burnt alive just because they belong to one community or other.

There are lot of Golden birds in our country. I cant name each of them but defntly throw some light on few great achievments.

Do u guys remeber Reservation? Isn't that one of its kind of achievment? We want places to be reserved for a particular community because we feel that the community is not eligible enough to compete with others or in other words I can say that our respected minister felt that the community is a total bullshit, So lets just have some pity on them and sadly the people of that community also fought for this reason. Now what is it? Isn't it a clear endorsment of divsion among people of one nation? What did the guy think while making such decision? That he is going to help a community OR totally ruin its confidence and self respect so that they become beggars and always keep him in power because he was able to throw a voluptous decision into their Kitty which actually brought them down to ground from whatever height they were at. Comon, you don't have enuf skools at primary level to accomodate all the children but you want enuf IITs to accomodate all. They talk about financial help and better education. Just go to a govt school and see what the kids are served with during lunch. I really found it hard to find a name for that meal but whatever it is, it will make you feel sick. Actually they themselves are uneducated otherwise even a mature kid can understand that building the base i.e building the primary education will build the secondry. You just need to provide fianancial help to people who are endeavoring and wait for results.

Another achievment - we have a political party and assocaiations in our country who have only one reason to endorse i.e. Hinduism. I can't blame these guys entirely because its us who vote for them for their reason. No body can believe that such people get vote because they are fighting (actually they are not, they are just playing around) for some temple that was brought down by nobody knows whom and they promise that they will succeed in hurting the sentiments of a particular community (actually its a fault of other community too, why to give shit to wtever they say).

Aah... our culture. The great Indian culture which teaches us to enter into a restraunt. pub or whatever and beat down the girls sitting their. I really feel proud... Why man... why just beat them... let's finsih them. After all its about our culture, rt? What can be the reason for such events? Is it because the people involved are really crazy about our culture (which never mention to beat a women and never prohibits anyone from doing anything) or are they just frustrated because they don't or I should say that they can't get it for themselves?

Whatever... its high time we stopped boasting our past. I definitely admire leaders like Gandhi and Nehru because they fought for us and they fought well. But past is past... if we keep satisfying oursleves with our achievments in past then we are done... we are totally done.

"Every day, on the roads of Delhi, some chauffeur is driving an empty car with a black suitcase sitting on the backseat.
Inside that suitcase is a million, two million rupees; more money than that chauffeur will see in his lifetime.
If he took the money he could go to America, Australia, anywhere, and start a new life. He could go inside the five-star hotels he has dreamed about all his life and only seen from the outside. He could take his family to Goa, to England. Yet he takes that black suitcase where his master wants. He puts it down where he is meant to, and never touches a rupee. Why?

Because Indians are the world's most honest people, like the prime minister's booklet will inform you?

No. It's because 99.9 percent of us are caught in the Rooster Coop just like those poor guys in the poultry market."

This is just an extract from a book that I read recently - The White Tiger by "Aravind Adiga".

How truly said... "99.9 percent of us are caught in the Rooster Coop just like those poor guys in the poultry market".

Doesn't this statement fits perfect into every context relative to 99.9% Indians.? It does...

It does because the thing that most of us have been taught or have seen so far is to work for someone as a servant. This is how entire Indian economy works. Isn't it?

Let's just take the example of services Industry in India which is considered and which actually is the true backbone of Indian economy because that's how the flow happens. Service guys are paid, they spend in market and so other industries flourish too and this becomes a cycle. Don't we remember the condition of Indian market before outburst of IT Service Industry?

But what is it actually?? What is this service industry all about, which is creating so much of hullabaloo in Indian market and society during the period of booms and recessions?

If we try to define it in true sense then it's just a place where people in bulk are fitted into small space (physically similar to the cages where the birds are kept in poultry market) and put on work whenever someone sitting as far as 12000KM needs a cheap white collared labor(however if you go to office daily then u must be knowing that your collar seldom remains white collared, thanks to city pollution). In business term we call the guy sitting 12000KM away as client and ourselves as service providers. But the truth is - we are servants and the guy 12000KM away is the owner. We serve him whatever way he wants (sex outsourcing is not far away).

The same applies inside too. We all are sitting and waiting for instructions from one of our bosses who actually is servant to someone else.

This so truly justifies this statement - "The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of entire Indian economy... ".

But what do you think? The guys sitting inside are not willing to move further, they don't want to be richer, they don't want to be their own boss or are they too loyal towards their company and client?. None actually. They all are just scared to break out and are waiting patiently for their turn to be culled.. They are scared to lose their job. They are scared to lose a constant income which is so microscopic that they can't even afford to have a full flight journey from one place to other. They are scared to lose the peace and little leisure of their life. AND they are scared to loose a false image of being settled.The only difference is that, in the market birds are culled at once and have to bear the pain only once while the guys sitting inside the company go through a gradual process and watch themselves and their career being culled everyday.

If ever someone breaks out, he creates history eg: Narayan Murthy, Dhirubhai Ambani.

This is not limited to just one industry or one company but our mindset is like that, willing to serve others...

The situation is very similar to the driver of the car carrying millions of rupees, who never touches the money not because he's honest but because he's too scared to get fucked up.

Mr Kumar to Mr Prasad - "Hey kumar, you know what, my son got into IIT, this is one of the greatest day of my life, I am so happy. Thanks God he was able to make it this time, otherwise his future would have doomed".

Mrs Kumar to Mrs Prasad - "You know what, my son got into IIT, this is one of the greatest day of my life, I am so happy. Thanks God he was able to make it this time, otherwise his future would have doomed".

Aren't these conversations very common?. You just need to change the couples name and you can find the same words being spoken everywhere with two noticeable points -
1.The ultimate sense of satisfaction with an achievement as small as making it to IITs or IIMs.
2.The thanksgiving, as if it was GOD (if at all it exists) who wrote the exam instead of their son/daughter.

Both of them are the factors which anyone can use to ruin his/her life.

Now, this is not about criticizing any of Indian class in specific or any of the merit based entrance tests and courses or any of those who truly believe in existence of a super power above all of us, but this is just about how conservatively we all think and how satisfied we are with our ability to succeed among very few.

Here it goes...

The day a child is born in an Indian home, the first thing that everyone indulges into is THANKSGIVING.... no need to mention that it always happens towards GOD... however nobody knows what role did he/she plays in the birth of that child.

Leave the initial few days of upbringing when the kid is busy growing his tooth bcos they count for nothing.

As soon as the kid grows a little, say around 10-12 he's taught to indulge into all kinds of prayer and enjoy himself during 2^n number of festivals in the name of GOD... again no need to mention that there are more than 30000000 GODS and GODDESSES in our country... wtever is the exact figure, add one more to it, thanks to Sachin Tendulkar.

In between all this festive kind of environment devoted to God and Family, parents start dreaming about their kid's success. And where does their dream limits!.... either IITs or IIMs .

This is the worst part... conservativeness in dreaming... people here (few exceptions like NRN murthy and Ratan Tata) decide their life even before they start dreaming. And unfortunately they do the same with their kids too. No one is ready to accept the fact the Scahin Tendulkar, Bill gates, Narayan Murthy, Shahrukh Khan, Bryan Adams... were just ordinary persons and it could be their son or daughter standing next in the list. The thing that matters most is a peaceful life where you could eat you meal three times a day peacefully and probably increase your body weight to 100kgs by the time you are 40.

Now, where does this peaceful life comes from according to the mindset of a normal Indian upbringing?? It comes from a healthy and secured job with Government or with one of the reputed low paying companies (most of the Indian IT behemoths are like that and they are the places where biggest Indian so called skilled labor force works), where it takes ages to buy a car worth more than 5 Lakhs.

Ever thought about why do we have to think so conservatively? It because this is what has been embedded into all of us. This is what we have been seeing since ages and we just expect a little better rather than something big. Such thoughts follow generation after generation. Grandfathers expect little better of themselves from their son and fathers expects little better from their's. Exceptions which break out create history.

This doesn't have to do anything with ur love towards your parents. They of course are the most beautiful things on earth and you have to love them more than yourself. This is about opening up your thoughts, bcos irrespective of being educated or uneducated, working or non-working, most of the times they are not able to see and feel what you can see and you can feel. They might not be the perfect ones to frame up an advice for you or your career.If any of this was untrue, then there wouldn't have been only one of the types of Narayan Murthy and Dhirubhai Ambani in our country and they too have hardly succeeded in making there firms as global as Google or Microsoft.

The thing that matters the most to make it to the top is one's personal thought and approach but if you have been fed with craps like religious belief, rituals, name of 100+ Gods since your childhood, happiness and satisfaction in small achievements, then you try to see a very small part of the world (i.e. your immediate surroundings), you try o satisfy yourself and find peace in small achievements and by the time you realize that there is a lot to do apart form all this time wasting religious and family stuff, its already too late, so you start compromising and ultimately ruin your life like most.

Now for all the parents reading it( I wish some of them read it), please let your kid be free and independent. Don't make him look for reasons like festivals to celebrate. Don't make him believe in God just bcos you believe in it or just bcos you want him to be confident by looking upto GOD and thinking that OKAY there is someone above me because its not true. Just try to memorize, when did it happen for the first time that you came to know about God and the religious beliefs. It happened only wen someone told u. Nobody comes on earth with all this stuffed into his head. These beliefs exist just because we all are looking for a reason to protect us from everything and a reason to look up to. Don't make your kid such coward. If he has to look up to someone then let it be you. And most importantly, don't try to decide his future bcos this way u r just goin to ruin it. You don't bring a kid into this world just to replicate a better you, but to create a new and unique identity, so just let it happen. Don't just praise the soldiers who died or survived, only because they belong to someone else's home. Let one happen in your home too.

Believe me, this way the kids definitely return bak to you and respect you more than ever. I am saying this because I am also someone's son and I feel like returning to them every second.

And if you are not doing this, if you are trying to put your child under conditions and boundaries, or unknowingly forcing your beliefs on him then mind it that you are not protecting him/her, you are just running away form your actual job of Guardianship which actually means letting your child free and watching him groom from a distance. You are in no mood to see your child doing something which no one else has done.