Shameful Act By Mr. Pravesh Rana !!

I was really shocked and astonished by the fact that on National Television people are throwing food items and grains in the swimming pool; that too in a country like India, where thousands of people die out of hunger and many of them cannot get a clear water to drink leave aside the food.
This should be considered as a hidious crime. And what a contrast!! This man was doing this for gaining justice (may be sympathy?) of common man !!! He calls himself a common man,what a great irony....

Check out the below mentioned link on You Tube...



The reality shows like Bigg Boss were always under scanner for obscene words and foul language. But showing a content like this on National television should not be taken lightly!!
This shows that sensor board only acts to cut the sensual scenes, but what about act like this...
Do they only nominate Voyeurs on Sensor Boards, who can only sexual content and not a serious offence like this !!
The situation in India on par with the world scenario is not that good! Many people have lost their job due to recession. And food and grain prices are sky high. India have long history of deaths due to Hunger and Mal-nutrition issues. There are many people still who eat only one time and daily sleep with hunger. And many of them do not get food sometimes.
Such is the scenario and this man ( self-proclaimed common man) wastes the whole lot of food that can be enough for 4 families for atleast 2 weeks. I consider this as a Biggest Crime !! That too done on national television. He should be punished for this... and should not be taken lightly for the incident.
The offender is Mr. Pravesh Rana, Mr. India 2008. His title should be scrapped as he is not deserving to hold Mr. India !! For the people who don't know, the title is about fashion and galmour and not related to any government award or social service... This guy always potrayed himself as a common man and be at morally high positions always. He always talked about high principles and moral values.But how fake was that !! This is what his real face is.. No culture no No value..
I think a strict action is required against him !!
He comes from a Police Background. No wonder that shows a typical arrogance of Haryanvi policeman in him.. As we all know reputation of policemen is not good in India. Many have faced corruption charges and it goes on (Rape, Bribes etc.).. So for whatever Mr. Rana says, we know that he doesnt come from family of saints and priests.
It was just shocking for me to see this on you tube today !! How can they allow the person to be still on the show after this? India is certainly going ahead with such young brats are being idolized by the youth.
And on you tube entire world watches this idiotic acts !! He is defaming India and Indian people on the world stage !! Such a fool .... I am sorry to waste my precious blog space for an idiot like him but I just strongly condemn this act !!

New Generation Blues!!

IT (Information Technology) is the hottest field in India. Everyone want to be part of the IT success and join the bandwagon of already saturated yet exciting industry. Almost every other graduate, no matter comes from which backgroud wants to get injected in it.

For new entrant the industry shows lot of dreams. And as India has lot of big IT giants with their success stories (Not only companies but their managers and founders), its quite obvious that young generation is attracted to this industry. There are many more reasons other than the one mentioned above. IT has no specific requirements, if you are good computer operator along with an engineering or a science graduate degree you are the one ready for it. After working in it for almost 3 years I seldom wonder that why they require so many engineers. For me even a 12th graduate with a proper knowledge of english and computers can work easily on the most basic job provided by the so called IT giants.

Many of us come from a simple middle class families where getting a job is almost paramount in shaping your future. And in many cases it becomes compulary rather than a choice. And IT is the ideal field for the lazy indian generation who spend most of the time growing with either social networking sites or playing PC games or for that matter their XBOXs n Playstations. And it is supposed to be more respected than slavery job in call centres. We celebrate our freedom on 15th August but do we really enjoy it? Almost half of our young generation does this slavery job for western world spending their time working in call centres. We are really proud of our education and how good we speak english but what is the use? Do you learn english to practise it in the call centre and telling people that you either want to borrow their product or service ?

When IT and call centres were launched in India. It was welcomed by everyone with big hands. Everyone was astonished by the money involved in the business. Call centres have now spoilt our social and intellecutal health as a nation. When young boys and girls studying in college see the amount of money they are getting by working in Call Centres, why would they want to study then? Sometimes due to financial problem they start working in call centres. But I still doubt that once getting money in the kitty how many people would actually leave the job. The rest of the demons that comes with call centre culture are very known and I don't want to generalize any of them. So half of the generation is just ruined by working in so called call centres. Where after 35 or 40 as per the policies you are not allowed to entry level work. And obviously its not big enough to absorb all the ageing resources. But government also never had any say on this angle of the business, called "Middle age Unemployment scenario"

On the other hand call centres' big brother called IT is supposed to be lot stable and prestigious business. Almost all the cream of good Indian universities gets sucked in as soon as they graduate or sometimes even before they graduate through campus recruitments. A student always has a dream of getting a job in a reputed big firm with good salary. And IT giants have that glamour and glitter associated with them. When they come to campus you can feel the buzz with their audiovisual preplacement talks and fascinating stories about the industry and the variety of opportunities they have for students...

Everything goes well till the student actually steps in as a trainee. Its totally different world. You are forcefully allocated to a place irrespective of your choice and the reason given is the global logistics arrangements. They dont even consider your preference of technology. As for your boss and managers you are just another fresher, who they want to shape in a so called "Usefull and Productive Resource" for their project. Till this point of time I never understood the policy of allocating people to different places like a lottery system. (oh and its done only to freshers and not to senior resources who join from other firms). The reason the companier give is an utter rubbish and just cant be explained. So after you are done with this high suspense drama. You are allocated to a project, where only if you are lucky you will get a good mentor. I have personally seen some people having no sense and calibre working in. There are only 2 types of people who survive in this. Those who are really great and those who are really dumb. The middle ones either switch due to frustration or just leave the job. The great ones learn good things and achieve success in the firm and they are always appriciated. The dumb ones, as they are dumb n shameless they dont get affected till the time they receive their monthly dog food. The middle ones either get frustrated with themselves and keep in search of good options. But on an average almost 90% people end up with lose-lose situation. As they work for about 8-10 years in IT that makes them ineligible to switch the industry and the work becomes stagnant.

I feel because of the IT and Call Centre wave, the amount of people choosing core science fields are negligible. India is losing its brain power. And due to the quota system and dirty politics the brain drain is even more. People go outside india because there are no premier research institutes available. And those which are there are so premier that hardly 5% of students can get into it that too after studying for tough entrace exams which already reduces their enthusiasm before entering the schools. Promoting IT and Call Centre can be ok for a short term rise in economy but in long term its like a cancer, which has already spoilt one generation.

Exams Over !! Blogging Start !!

Just finished with my first exam ever on the foreign land. I must say it was far more difficult then what I was anticipating..Thats why they say, There is No Free Lunch !!!
Lets hope for the best. It happens with me almost everytime, after the exam is finished instead of enjoying I always go through exam papers in my mind and tend to recount my marks with differnt perspectives. Like if this goes wrong how much I should get for what I have done. Let me see it from the professors or paper evaluators point of view. Hmm.. I know kind of childish thing to do!! But now it has become a habit and somehow I cant (or may be don't want) to get over it.. And this time the tension is quite a bit more because of the marking and correction pattern of the university is quite unfamiliar to me as it's my first exam here in HKU. Anyways lets not get into that.
So holidays for almost a month!! And I really don't know what to do.. May be I will go to some nice restaurant and have some good Indian Food. I am just missing my BUTTER CHICKEN AND BUTTER NAAN too much in Hong Kong. Gosh.. Those were the days, when I used to sit in a restaurant (sometimes even alone) and order one full butter chicken and have almost 6-7 butter naans with it. mmmm... mouth watering experience.
Anyways Life here in Hong Kong is quite different ! I am just a student here. No additional luxaries of having a healthy salary and spending it with quite a free hand. So just need to be in check all the time. No regrets offcourse. But just comparing with my lifestyle back in India quite a lot constrained one. I just finished all my pending work today. So now just relaxing and waiting for the grand grand result, which is due in first week of January. Its a grade based system so quite ok with that but still I need to pass all the modules...lol. Because they do Curve fitting after the result. Being in IT industry for 3 years, I very well know advantages and disadvantages of curve fittings. So keeping my fingers crossed !!
Hope this free time will kick my rebelious mind to write some masterpiece...
Miss you all my dear friendz..

I Love My Life.. I, Me and Myself...

Hmm.. I dont know from where should I start..
When I was in school the outside world seemed to be a very bad place. I was very much comfortable with my parents, home environment and all the comforts that come along with it.
I was one of the fortunate kids whos mother used to drop him at the school and then pick up again when school ends. In a way my childhood went in a very much like a celebrity, as a student my teachers used to like me, as a son I always gave my parents proud moments with some good marks and achievements, as a kid everyone in family loved me so much as well as my close friends. My parents always give me the things that I ever wanted. But I think I never ask for anything fancy for my age that they could deny.. But I am so lucky to have such parents and more than my parents it was my aunty (I call her Aai) who took care of me like no one does.
So in all , I was a child brought up in very secured environment.
While I was growing up, may people including some of my teachers and our family well wishers told my parents, my aunty that you are making him very dependant. He wont be able to survive when he goes to the outside world and wont be able to compete as he does not know what the hardship of life is. I always listened to these comments made about me but never said anything, mostly because I never realised what they are talking about. But Whenever I heard something like that I always thought that I wont let down my family when I grow up and prove these critics wrong.
And years went very fast, and soo I was out of my school and started going to college. I had two major challenges to face at that time. First, It was about travelling alone in BEST bus (Local Transport system in Mumbai) and the second and the biggest one is about learning and writing exams in English. As I was taught in Marathi (My Mother tounge) for all my life, it was very uncomfortable learning the stuff in English. Many time It happened like, I knew the concept but could not able to recognize how to present it in English. And I used to try may be 400% to learn the terms used in English to be able to present the concept I already know in Marathi. My close friends always helped me during those days. They never let me feel lonely in the class and always answered my all questions. We all are still great friends and I am proud of them all.
Rushikest,Akshay, Makrands, Abhijit, Swapnil and Saurabh we all were very close to each other and still are. I must say that they played a very vital role in providing the support I needed that time. And about the travelling, I never had a doubt in myself but it was just that I had never tried it. So I managed to pass my first hurdle, though not in a very satisfying way but atleast it gave me confidence to go on...
Oh I missed something in beetween. The classes I had joined for my HSC boards locked out in mid-way due to some management issues. And I did all the studies on my own in the last and crucial stage. One thing I learnt from my 10th exam is no matter how skillful and recognized teachers you have but you should always study in your own comfortable way. Just dont go on and follow the trusted way to success because it may not be the right way for you. I learnt this from my 10th SSC boards. I had joined very prestigious classes in our locality who produced toppers year after years and may be now also. And to their credit they took a lot of effort in organising my studies. But somehow it was not my way of studiying. I was very young to understand it that time. After that I always studied as I wanted to and guess I never did that bad. I dont like to bind myself in time tables and study according to that. I am not slave of the clock. If I am OK I can study for 24 hours non-stop and if I dont feel like I cant even sit with a book for 10 mins. Now many people have arguments over this patteren but its my way!!!!
Actually many people including my parents were panic about the situation as my class closed mid-way. And everyone thought that may be I wont be able to cope up with the English ( As this is a common problem with vernacular medium students!!) and some of them already told me that if you can get 80 I will try for your admission... I never said anything to anyone that time.
So I did whatever I could manage to score 93 in boards ( It was just a mere 75 in January school exams). So I was very much satisfied with my performance, and again I proved everyone wrong who lost all faith in me. Sometimes I even surprise myself that how could I managed to do!!
Its all about family and support of the loved ones!!
These two months always gave me the confidence I needed to go on. Whenever I used to study and something is not getting right for me, I always thought of these two months. If I could do that time why not this time... I always asked this question to me. Hopefully I managed to pass all my engineering courses without a repeat. The difference beetween this time and the time I gave my SSC exam was I knew my limits and I knew what is to be done exactly to get through. Hmm.. it comes from experience I guess. You should never curb your natural instincts and follow the routine path because your natural style may be best suited only to you and others are unaware of it.
Then I did more than 3 years of service at TCS, it was a nice learning experience. But I always followed my instincts and chose what I felt was comfortable for me. Development projects are very interesting and attractive for freshers but I chose to be in operations and maintenance project. Many people laughed at me that time as I chose O&M. But guess my life is about proving people wrong and creating a new way..my way.. After 3 successful years in the project I dont think there is someone who can say my decision was wrong. I did more development and in depth analysis of system then any development guy could have...So it really matters what you are comfortable with..
Now again I took a wierd decision ( As people say !!) to come to Hong Kong for my Masters...
For me its a well calulated and well analysed decision... Lets see what happens this time...

Ha Ha Ha..Do I talk sensible sometimes? People who are usually around me dont think so...
I dont think I am that serious... But sometimes you have to be..he he he (As said by Miss XXXXXX) lol..

See I wrote two blogs in two days!! Actually todays China's national day 60th....
So I am having off... Bye bye for now..
Next post ..I really dont know when..