How about buying back a part of my past? I have money. I can write a cheque. Will that help?
Can I buy back the time when the rat race for life was unheard of, where you could spend hours with your friends playing hide n seek in the dark till 11 in the night, when we would fight with each other on who will be the next one to bat, and then run away with the bat and let no one play, when we would go cycling with our friends traveling to places where we were not allowed to. Can I buy back the time when earning money and settling down was laughed at, when there were no client calls, no presentations, when we can sing, dance and shout at the top of our voices without people staring and giving us weird looks.Our first outstation trip, our first movie with friends, the first time we kissed, the first time we fell in love... these are all the glorious moments which are there in our hearts forever, with no monetary value but a HUGE emotional value. Can I, PLEASE, buy it back?
The attached nostalgia with the times spent leaves a kind of sweet pain in your hearts. Something which you'd like to get back to, but knowing that it can't be brought back. Probably that's what describes life, and it's all about moving on, maybe for the better...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Common Wealth Games
We as humans, or more precisely, Indians have a very cynical attitude towards everything that is happening around us. We always have a habit of seeing the negative aspects of a situation rather than appreciating the positives, be it anything. Common Wealth Games are a MAJOR example of this.
No wonder the CWG could have been better planned and organized by the government and there could have been stringent checks on the quality and timely delivery of stadia, and the overall execution and management of the events. But the negative publicity CWG got, thanks to the India media, the spirit of the games was totally lost. Everyone seems to be questioning the 70k crores spent on organizing the event and failed to see positive side of the coin. No one appreciated the reconstruction of the collapsed FOB in JN stadium is just 5 DAYS! No one appreciated the 2 metro lines which connected the entire south Delhi to it's satellite township of Gurgaon and Noida, construction of metro Airport link line, construction of the ENTIRE games village, complete renovation of the stadia and the facilities provided to the athletes, renovation of Connaught Place, beautification of Delhi roads etc. And for the uninitiated, the 70k crores money INCLUDES everything that has been mentioned here. If a single Emporio Mall in Vasant Kunj can take 11k crores in it's construction, I feel 70k crores is justified, considering the amount of work that has been done.
But sadly, no one seems to remember that. The credit goes to the mismanaged and corrupt media though, which in the race to increase their TRPs broadcast news which will gain maximum viewership. And who doesn't like bitching?
There was corruption, there was money which found it's place to the politicians' bank accounts which could have been better utilized in organizing the event. There as an article on BBC by Tom Fordyce showing pictures of Indian slums and the raising a "moral question" about whether CWG being held in Delhi and 70k crores being spent on it was ethically right when you see that many Indians live at less than a pound a day earnings. It was India's honest effort to be at par with the west which claims to be flawless. Every country has it's problems. Even the ultra elite west is fallible, people live below poverty line in western countries as well, there are murders, thefts and epidemics in western countries as well. Most of the negative publicity India gathered, again thanks to the bullshit media we have here, was exaggerated. John MacKinnon, a sports columnist from Canada who is here for 2 weeks covering the CWG said "I think the negative press the event organisers and India has been receiving are exaggerated and unfair. Most of the athletes from Canada, New Guinea, Tonga and UK have reported that they are pretty satisfied with the way things are taken care of, especially the security".
All in all, it is a successful event with a few glitches here and there, which is part of organizing an event of this magnitude. There could have been a better managed show, no doubt, but it was definitely not worth attracting this huge negative publicity. The Media left no stone unturned to tarnish India's image to the international community, but however, the opening ceremony said it all. It made me feel immensely proud seeing the opening ceremony, the spirit of the games came back! Jai Hind!
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No wonder the CWG could have been better planned and organized by the government and there could have been stringent checks on the quality and timely delivery of stadia, and the overall execution and management of the events. But the negative publicity CWG got, thanks to the India media, the spirit of the games was totally lost. Everyone seems to be questioning the 70k crores spent on organizing the event and failed to see positive side of the coin. No one appreciated the reconstruction of the collapsed FOB in JN stadium is just 5 DAYS! No one appreciated the 2 metro lines which connected the entire south Delhi to it's satellite township of Gurgaon and Noida, construction of metro Airport link line, construction of the ENTIRE games village, complete renovation of the stadia and the facilities provided to the athletes, renovation of Connaught Place, beautification of Delhi roads etc. And for the uninitiated, the 70k crores money INCLUDES everything that has been mentioned here. If a single Emporio Mall in Vasant Kunj can take 11k crores in it's construction, I feel 70k crores is justified, considering the amount of work that has been done.
But sadly, no one seems to remember that. The credit goes to the mismanaged and corrupt media though, which in the race to increase their TRPs broadcast news which will gain maximum viewership. And who doesn't like bitching?
There was corruption, there was money which found it's place to the politicians' bank accounts which could have been better utilized in organizing the event. There as an article on BBC by Tom Fordyce showing pictures of Indian slums and the raising a "moral question" about whether CWG being held in Delhi and 70k crores being spent on it was ethically right when you see that many Indians live at less than a pound a day earnings. It was India's honest effort to be at par with the west which claims to be flawless. Every country has it's problems. Even the ultra elite west is fallible, people live below poverty line in western countries as well, there are murders, thefts and epidemics in western countries as well. Most of the negative publicity India gathered, again thanks to the bullshit media we have here, was exaggerated. John MacKinnon, a sports columnist from Canada who is here for 2 weeks covering the CWG said "I think the negative press the event organisers and India has been receiving are exaggerated and unfair. Most of the athletes from Canada, New Guinea, Tonga and UK have reported that they are pretty satisfied with the way things are taken care of, especially the security".
All in all, it is a successful event with a few glitches here and there, which is part of organizing an event of this magnitude. There could have been a better managed show, no doubt, but it was definitely not worth attracting this huge negative publicity. The Media left no stone unturned to tarnish India's image to the international community, but however, the opening ceremony said it all. It made me feel immensely proud seeing the opening ceremony, the spirit of the games came back! Jai Hind!
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Babri mazjid issue resolved!
hahaha! too good :-)
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Ayodhya or CWG?
I was just wondering why the government has decided to announce the Ayodhya verdict just before the start of Common Wealth Games in Delhi. Is it because the government wants to shift people's focus from the corruption seen in the games to something which is apparently more sensitive issue for people? Is it an eyewash for the public, trying to divert the focus from the much hoopla and corruption issues in regards to CWG? Is it a planned move? Maybe yes.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Lets Solve Together...
Getting involved with too many things at the same time and you tend to lose focus! It gets really important to set the priorities right and maintain the right balance between things, and this involves the right work-pleasure balance as well.
For the past several months, I was trying to sort out a lot of things, both professionally and personally. Having started on with too many things at the same time gives you a momentary high but at the same times gives you the immense pressure to live up to everyone's expectations, including doing justice to all the projects you got yourself involved in, and you get a reality shock when you come out of the "hangover" phase. With emagespro.com and webcombiz.com having started showing results, it's time for letsolve2gether.com to start running on the highway.
With only 14 days left before the take off, letsolve2gether.com demands an excess of my involvement in making it a success with all the major planning yet to be done. With the content being revised and finalized, the website design still remains a challenge. And once that is done, which I am sure it will be well before the deadline, another task will be to promote it, organizing seminars and webinars, meeting people and the one's who actually need us to "solve IT together" with them. However, the major question still remains: what is this project about?
Letsolve2gether.com is a website through which we plan to target people who need us. It's about people. It's about those who are baffled by life's challenges and find themselves clueless of where to go next. It's about people needing assistance in deciding for their lives, whether in terms of making the right career move, taking the right relationship decisions, dealing with pressure (parental pressure, peer pressure) etc. It's about those who have the right mix of talent and a flair to excel in life, just that it remains unexplored due to various reasons such as lack of confidence, unwillingness of parents to let them take their own decisions, lack of resources, etc. It's about making people realize their worth and their potential, which, over the years has been lost, due to various social and parenting issues.
Letsolve2gether.com aims to help people who get daunted by the unkind and fierce face of life and get into depression; at times, suicidal. We are here to make people aware of various social and "sensitive" issues such as pre-marital pregnancy, awareness about sex and dealing with the same, something we would like to call as "youth awareness". There are a lot of other social causes and issues we will be providing help with, making the younger generation more powerful in their thinking and their approach towards life, educating them with what's what and giving them the right advice in dealing with difficult situations and making them more confident.
This is one project which will always remain close to my heart. Thank you Kiran Didi (short for Kalpana Jaggi, she's my cousin based in New York) for sharing this wonderful idea, we shall surely make it a success. Another 14 days to go for the website launch. So people, check out this space for further updates.
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For the past several months, I was trying to sort out a lot of things, both professionally and personally. Having started on with too many things at the same time gives you a momentary high but at the same times gives you the immense pressure to live up to everyone's expectations, including doing justice to all the projects you got yourself involved in, and you get a reality shock when you come out of the "hangover" phase. With emagespro.com and webcombiz.com having started showing results, it's time for letsolve2gether.com to start running on the highway.
With only 14 days left before the take off, letsolve2gether.com demands an excess of my involvement in making it a success with all the major planning yet to be done. With the content being revised and finalized, the website design still remains a challenge. And once that is done, which I am sure it will be well before the deadline, another task will be to promote it, organizing seminars and webinars, meeting people and the one's who actually need us to "solve IT together" with them. However, the major question still remains: what is this project about?
Letsolve2gether.com is a website through which we plan to target people who need us. It's about people. It's about those who are baffled by life's challenges and find themselves clueless of where to go next. It's about people needing assistance in deciding for their lives, whether in terms of making the right career move, taking the right relationship decisions, dealing with pressure (parental pressure, peer pressure) etc. It's about those who have the right mix of talent and a flair to excel in life, just that it remains unexplored due to various reasons such as lack of confidence, unwillingness of parents to let them take their own decisions, lack of resources, etc. It's about making people realize their worth and their potential, which, over the years has been lost, due to various social and parenting issues.
Letsolve2gether.com aims to help people who get daunted by the unkind and fierce face of life and get into depression; at times, suicidal. We are here to make people aware of various social and "sensitive" issues such as pre-marital pregnancy, awareness about sex and dealing with the same, something we would like to call as "youth awareness". There are a lot of other social causes and issues we will be providing help with, making the younger generation more powerful in their thinking and their approach towards life, educating them with what's what and giving them the right advice in dealing with difficult situations and making them more confident.
This is one project which will always remain close to my heart. Thank you Kiran Didi (short for Kalpana Jaggi, she's my cousin based in New York) for sharing this wonderful idea, we shall surely make it a success. Another 14 days to go for the website launch. So people, check out this space for further updates.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Cleaning your personal space!!
With ironed shirts having lost their crease, trousers having lost their shine, pyjamas and t-shirts having developed lint and other bare essential clothes stuffed within one another, cleaning my almirah was an ordeal this time!
With chocolate wrappers, stained barista bills smelling of caffeine, shopping bills still having the price tag intact, my locker had been the storage for everything small or large. With the faded aroma of greeting cards and hand written notes, credit cards, unused paper napkins from restaurants, bits of photographs and the associated nostalgia - gosh! what a mess.. All this seems a task, especially after a long day's workout and having my neurons cry for mercy! God, I am hungry!
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With chocolate wrappers, stained barista bills smelling of caffeine, shopping bills still having the price tag intact, my locker had been the storage for everything small or large. With the faded aroma of greeting cards and hand written notes, credit cards, unused paper napkins from restaurants, bits of photographs and the associated nostalgia - gosh! what a mess.. All this seems a task, especially after a long day's workout and having my neurons cry for mercy! God, I am hungry!
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Social media saves lives!
Social media has the potential to connect with millions of people all across the globe. There are a lot of people who use it everyday to remain in touch with each other, to play games to keep themselves entertained, business men and sales men market their products, etc. I too am an active user of the social media professionally. In Delhi, Delhi Traffic Police is using it to challan traffic law breakers based on the photographs uploaded by people!!
However I have a recent experience to share. One of my friend's sister was suffering from Dengue 2 weeks back and her blood platelets count had come down drastically. I wanted someone to donate blood for her since the blood from the blood back could not be used for some reason. Thanks to the social media and few of my friends, there was a rush of people wanting to help us. I wanted 3 donors, I got 12!! People from all across the country who were part of my network on facebook and twitter called and offered to help when I updated my social network about the need!! It was their genuine and honest gesture that my friend's sister is completely safe from the disease. Such is the power of the social media!! Thank you facebook and twitter!!! My words of appreciation also goes for everyone who helped and those who offered to help. Thank you Gaurav, Sheetal, Vikrant, Aditi, Arudreya, Sakshi, Varsha, and Amandeep. Really, it was a nice gesture!! God bless you!
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However I have a recent experience to share. One of my friend's sister was suffering from Dengue 2 weeks back and her blood platelets count had come down drastically. I wanted someone to donate blood for her since the blood from the blood back could not be used for some reason. Thanks to the social media and few of my friends, there was a rush of people wanting to help us. I wanted 3 donors, I got 12!! People from all across the country who were part of my network on facebook and twitter called and offered to help when I updated my social network about the need!! It was their genuine and honest gesture that my friend's sister is completely safe from the disease. Such is the power of the social media!! Thank you facebook and twitter!!! My words of appreciation also goes for everyone who helped and those who offered to help. Thank you Gaurav, Sheetal, Vikrant, Aditi, Arudreya, Sakshi, Varsha, and Amandeep. Really, it was a nice gesture!! God bless you!
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