Multiple Prime Minister for India

It may be a stupid idea ( with very high chances) but i like stupidity. I got this idea from our favorite kolkata knight riders coach, John Buchanan..and when a qualified and renowned
coach can suggest that stupidity (if it is?) i can as well go ahead without any fear.

India is a land of diversity and that diversity is now being reflected in political parties for few years now. Gone are the days of Congress! Getting 1 party in majority seems distant dream. The regional parties have come a long way and leave no stone unturned to exploit their strength and make a mockery of the largest democracy of world. Coalition is the unfortunate word. Unfortunate because it really test negotiating skills of our poltitical leaders who otherwise enjoy being untested.

I can understand how difficult it would be negotiate to the likes of Mayawatis, Jayalalithas, Mamtas, Yadavs and Singhs who all aspire to be PM. For the same reason i appreciate and respect Atal Bihari Vajpayee who was successful in managing the whims and fancies of Mamtas and Jayalalithas.

This whole exercise of give and take take a heavy toll on our leaders who get so exhausted by the time they form government that their only wish after forming government is to enjoy for the next 5 years. I guess the situation arises because every party want to have their own Prime Minister and we can have only one PM. Imagine if we can have multiple PMs, something like two largest party will have PMs. The whole game will take a U-turn. That would be OBAMA!(read CHANGE). Experts always say we need some one from BJP to deal with Pakistan and from Congress to deal with USA. That would be so easy then.

One more point, The Left should get their PM in each government for next 3 governments as royality to their loya state team revolutionary idea. I hope Sharukh will not ask for money as he is the owner of team and can claim copyright. But he should not as a good citizen of India. Moreover, he is a smart guy who can earn money easily in India.

I know for sure John Buchanan will like my theory and is free to claim the originality of idea.

A Letter to Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav

Dear sir,

Recently you presented the railway budget and i immediately went on internet to see the list of new trains you would have launched. I was diappointed yet again. No new train from pune to Delhi. I wonder how can you have neglected pune entirely in almost all of your budgets. 

Pune-Delhi is a promising route as so many students, employees and other migrants from all of north india stay here that i am sure if you launch a new train it will definately run for more than 100% occupancy. Although i know occupancy has never been a issue with railways. Railways is favourites for all sections of society. I could sense the jealously in the speech of one of the big airline official when he said that in india the number of people travelling in trains in one day is greater than the number of people travelling in one complete year in all of indian airlines.  How stupid i am? I should have known that all this economic reasons are never the priority with government as it is supposed to work for people. Does it? 

Then i thought may be all these decisions need enough political reasons. So what? Raj Thackery has given you enough reasons to focus on pune (Maharasthra). Imagine if there is a good train running daily between pune-delhi it will make life of so many migrants from UP, Delhi, Bihar so easy.  It will make Raj Thackery more irritating at the same time. I am sure this must have gone through your shrewd mind. Then what is preventing you?

I know enough people in pune who wish for a good train of the like of Rajdhani to run between pune-delhi. 

I must say something in your praise which might motivate you to consider my wish if you again become railway minister . Sir, you are immensely popular with indian people. Whenever i travel in train i always hear about you and your work from people around. Recently i heard one lady saying Lalu is best. He takes good decision, he is the one behind the turnaround of indian railways and he is the most entertaining in all of the politicians whose speeches are so hilarious yet so straight and comprehend able by the common man. 

I wish you again become railway minister in the upcoming election after all you are the one who is head of a such a profiting government organization ( I hope the balance sheet is not a copy of satyam). You have done so much and much more is yet to be done. Still there is so much to be done in many areas like cleanliness and catering service. Sir, your decision of introducing khullads was a great one which i don't know why it was discontinued. Khullads are more environment friendly and generate work for potters who are trying to keep this art alive in India.  I know it must have been done again your wishes. Indians have full faith in you. You are the one talking about bullet trains in India. It would be a wonderful sight to see a train traveling at 300km/hr. Sir, this way pune-delhi will be covered in 6 hours. Again i am acting selfish. So what? Everyone is.

I must end this letter now by thanking you. I may again write you if anything i have to wish for from you.

Full Cycle

Every day you wake up, you find a depressing news of economy diving deep. Time has changed very fast. Just 6 months back no one wanted to join a organization which may ask you to sign a service agreement ( bond as we call it). It was treated as a obstacle in your career development. People will say what if i find a better opportunity in the meantime, it would be a compromise to career. Job security was no where in question. The only direction in which people use to look was 'up'. See now what has happen and is happening. If you will ask a job aspirant to have a service agreement he will be delighted. It has been a dramatic turnaround. Don't be surprise if candidates ask for it in their salary negotiations.

Sukhoi for office cabs..they don't face traffic

I was sitting in my office cab in the morning when all of a sudden we heard a roaring noise in the sky..it was sukhoi..on its routine flight in the skies of pune trying to wake every night owl and asking them to come and watch what is at display. We were driving close to air force station so could easily see its acrobatics. What a sight!! What a machine! I wondered about its pilot, what a nice experience it would be for him to fly this one of the most sophisticated machine in India. It must be thrilling and adventurous. I remember whenever someone used to ask during our childhood what you want to become when you grow up boy? our favourite answer used to be 'I will become pilot'. I am not sure what children answer these days. May be they will say they will become shooting start like abhinav bindra or a boxer and wrestler like 4 kumars. Well in our cab the sight of sukhoi triggered a reaction by giving people an oppurtunity to start complaing about their job.

Following were the main questions and comments.
What all are we doing?
We are just software engineers living a sedentary life.
We should not have become software engineers.
We stay in a artificial environment in office and sometimes we are not even aware that it is raining outside.
Our routine is so monotonous.We go in the morning and come back evening in a cab.
One person suggested that if you fly a sukhoi then you will not have to face the traffic as our cab was facing. Amazing thought!!

Customer Care Phobia

Please Call our 24/7 call centre executive. I am becoming afraid of this line. Whenever any service provider tell me this i feel challenged. Although if you think about it logically it is very easy and physically comfortable. You no longer have to leave the comfort of your home or office to get petty things done. But the way service providers market this 24/7 call concept, they have increased our expectations too much and when we don't get things done it leads to frustration. You feel you are not smart enough to get your work done over phone. The outcome of your attempt to call customer care is all likely events of a probability question.

Every service provider wants to automate every service. They are becoming too obsessed with it. They want to eliminate all queries, requests and confirmations having face to face. They all boast of their customer care ( Do they really care? ) In the process of providing all services automated through IVRS they have gone monolithic. They don't even present the option of speaking directly to any executive unless you navigate and explore all their marketing offers and menus. I usually get lost in this maze and cut my phone to escape from it. They have completely forgotten the term 'User Friendly'. As soon as you dial they will present you with some marketing offer for some time. Then you will be presented with a language option. It doesn't matter if you choose hindi, many of the executives will initially speak in English. Then comes the main menu which is most of the times too long and even for 1 category like credit they will again have sub menu. Suppose you select credit card they will ask for 16 digits credit card number to go further. As soon as you enter it and it will give your present due amount. Who the hell asked for it? I called in for cancelling my credit card. By the time you end logging your request you have spent more than 5 minutes. Huh, that's the revenue for telecom operator in most cases.

Its not so smooth and comfortable after all. I feel afraid of the idea that they might bring in the option of customer care very soon to take queries and complaints about customer care itself.

Leaders are produced at Traffic Signals

Infrastructure is a bottleneck ! I have heard and read it thousand times. It has become a cliche, used whenever we discuss problems faced by India. I think all of us agree on this. But one more question arises. Whatever infrastructure we have do we respect it? Take for example Roads. People break traffic rules as often they desire. Some of them do it for shortage of time, some do it to save fuel and some do it because they want to prove themselves smart.I also feel sometimes rules are broken because of lack of awareness and proper level of facilities available.

Every system takes time to evolve and so do i feel for Indian infrastructure. Its only our response and respect to it that its evolution can be done at a faster rate. Today this rate in India is very poor and is unable to keep pace with our population growth. To increase it we need to respect it and response to it in a constructive manner. Traffic jams are commonplace these days. I encounter them more than once a week while commuting to office. What i have observed is, the cause of it many a times is lack of patience and sensitivity towards others. You can find people loosing common sense and coming head on with other from both side without realizing it will lead to a deadlock. Once i was coming to office on bike and was waiting at red signal to go green. Suddenly one auto rickshaw came from behind, went past the red signal without realizing that in doing so one of its wheel passed over my feet. I was fortunate that my foot was firmly on road and it didn't cause any damage.

And to my amazement the driver was looking back at me and shouting for my fault! I could only laugh. What was my fault? I guess my fault was that i was sincerely honoring the rule and keeping all behind me wait. I thought who said we don't produce leaders in India. Just go to any traffic signal you will find a person breaking it and triggering a reaction from others who follow him. Don't we call a person a leader who has followers ?

Airtel Ad!!

In Good Humor only!!

Recently there has been new series of Ads of airtel featuring R. Madhvan and vidya balan and one of them really forced me to think about how girls think?. I know i may sound male chauvinist. One of this Ad is about money transfer utility from your cellphone using Airtel operator. It goes like this
The man ( R. Madhvan ) comes from office and apparently looks tired. She asked ( vidya balan) the obvious questions:-"
Thak gaye?" ( Who will say he is not tired after coming from office ? )"
Aaj bahut kaam tha?" ( What else you do at office ?..work, work and more work )
"Lunch kiya?" ( As if she didn't want to feed him with dinner if he already had lunch..he he)
All this is i guess normal girls behaviour to show their caring attitude and how much they feel for their partners but here comes the final golden question for which i think she has been waiting the whole day anxiously to ask him --"Papa ko paise bheje?"
I have 1 question to her if she is so concerned about transferring money and if it is so important to transfer money then why didn't she do it herself ? I know she is not ignorant to use the cellphone because in other Ad of the same series she is shown giving instruction to him for a party over phone. I guess Airtel tried to play and make use of this quality of girls -- that they will always remember what has to be done but will still try to attack at his ego by reminding him and feel a sense of pride in it. Not good for females. Feminists should oppose this Ad.