Agony.....Apathy

My Lord I have come here with a question, an accusation and a grievance.

Put your case in front of the Jury and Justice shall prevail, echoed the vast room.

Very well, I started my case:

Respected members of Jury, I have come here to accuse the guilty of Attempt to Murder.

Attempt to murder the very software industry which gives them their bread,

Attempt to murder the mutual trust which people put in them,

Attempt to murder the sacred cow that they were asked to guard, they have misrepresented the country that they live in, because in a world of rapid globalisation people have started to accuse us Indians with their traits. They have started to believe that Indians are cheats, crooks and liars. They dont honour their commitments, respected Jury I ask you today, isn't this the land where millions gave their lives in the line of courage just to honour their commitments. "Pran jaaye par vachan naa jaaye" so goes the adage, which means I might lose my live but I wont dishonour my commitment.

A project manager ceases to be an ideal, an example in front of the team who everybody wants to emulate. Today nobody wants to be like his Project Manager, because he is the most spineless guy in the team, he is the person who would lie in the face of lie even. "I wrote you a mail about this", " But I thought you said you were not well yesterday", "Yes i wrote you that mail at 2 'o clock at night while I was on my way to hospital". This is the typical conversation he would have when he is talking to the client. Sitting behind you, he would go on to tell the client how he is not well and barely living on medicines and give out a fake laugh. After shamelessly praising the client for some decisions he has taken, he would gently put the phone down.

After that he would call another fellow project manager and start to boast, "Maine usski lagaa di" meaning I just screwed the guy and would go on to add how he has told him not to mess with any of his colleagues and he is a fool etc etc. He in every word of it ails with Dual Identity disorder.

I have seen and heard a lot of HR policies regarding how you should not talk in derogatory language with your managers and always wondered who would do such a thing. But after seeing such people I have come to realise why these policies were framed in first place. I fail to understand how a project which is never critical from morning 8-4 suddenly starts getting critical when evening comes and its time to stay late. These people make a perception and impress over people that if you are not staying after office hours, you are not at all concerned with the project. why dont they work during office hours and why they cant complete their work within office hours. Now they have mdae the world think that Indians are incompetent people who cannot complete their work in time but they dont respect their family life, so they still spend more time in office trying to do what entire world completes within office hours. While in India the who's who would be sitting over together and pondering how only they are concerned about work while nobody does that in the world. So much so for "self-appreciation".

In a room with a manager everyone would make sure that they do not speak anything that might be quoted against them, while people would make sure to appreciate their managers in every possible way though they would be ready to trash him once they are out of the room. Suddnly manager's manager enters the room and situation changes, the manager would don the mantle of follower and suddenly everyone else becomes trivial in the room. The topic of conversations change and everything is meant to please the BIG BOSS. The unctuarity just assumes mammoth proportion.

Saint Valentine in land of Kaamsutra

Indians are compulsive celebrators, they love to celebrate almost everything under the sun. So if you meet them and tell them that this is a particular day, they would spare no time in latching on to the time and celebrating. Infact i feel, most of the time we ask for days later but start the celebrations before that. We already have innumerable festivals, but when a new day called valentines day came to the fore, we thought to ourselves 'what the heck' and started celebrating it. So the businessmen starts thinking how to screw the money out of the pockets through a new day, young guys not in love turn to beer, young married couples turn to wine, lots of gifts flock the market, roses are aplenty and they are not just monochrome but plurality of the colours in the flowers and their derived meanings are enormous.

Humne jabse hosh sambhaala...pyar k baare mein bahut suna...pyaar kyaa hota hain kaise hota hain kiss tarah sey issey dur rehna chahiye...kaise pyaar ek baar zaroor karna chahiye...pyaar kiya nahii jaata ho jaata hain.
Pyaar ko leke bahut kitaabein hain humaare saahitya mein...har doosri movie kii central theme pyaar hoti hain humaare yahaan. bachpan sey jawaani takk pyaar k kaseede padey kisse suney magar pyaar nahii kiya.
Kyaa kare Har doosri ladki sey pyaar ho jaata thha, karne kii zaroorat nahi padhi, fir humne dil ko samjhaaya pyaar yehh nahii hota. Logo sey sunaa pyaar wohh hota hain jissme aap ghanto fone pey lagey rehte hain, din ko sham aur shaam ko subah samajhne lagte hain, Jab din bhar aapko uss phone kii gantii bajne ka intezaar rehta hain, jab aapko apneaap ko paagal kehlaane mein garv mehsoos hota hain.

Humne apne aap ko samjhaaya k vyangya rass k kawi hone k naate humein pyaar karne kaa hak nahii fir dekha jab poori duniya pyaar mein doobi hui hain tohh socha hum kyun nahii. Soca chalo yeh shauk bhii sahii, aakhir hum bhii pyaar karke dekhe. Dekhne mein masha allah hum bhii kam nahii thhe aur ek haseen mohtarma kii kamii thhi. Tohh humne apnii talaash shuru karii, aur shubh muhurat nikaala gaya Valentines day. Humne socha jab chhote langot pehne uss nange Cupid ney duniya kii icchayein poori kari tohh humaari bhii karega. Kya karey thhe bhii tohh hum christian school sey, Moral science kii class mein Jesus sey leke St. Paul, St. Peter, St. Francis aur St. dominic tohh bahut padhaya magar saint valentine ke baare mein kisi ney humein nahii bataya. Par aakhir kalyug aa hii gaya jab St valentine ney humaare kaamsutra ke desh mein badi ummeedon ke saath pravesh kia.
Lekin stakes bahut high thhe, hum tohh hamesha FOSLA(Frustrated One-Sided Lovers Association) ke sarve sarva rahe, aur aaj agar Valentine day pey laal gulaab leke baahar jaayenge tohh duniya humare baare mein kya sochegi. Samaj mein humaari bahut izzat thhi aur college roopi samaj ke thekedaar samjhe jaate thhe, aise mein kahin yehh logon ko khula vidroh tohh nahii lagega jaisi baatein dimaag mein ghoomne lagii.


To Be continued...... Kramasha...