Sunday, August 26, 2007

Dabral Sir and Chak de...


It was a cloudy evening. I was sitting on back seat my senior Mr Vishwas Dabral's MR RX135. We were coming form GR ( general Ragging). My face ws red (because of 40+ Mr slaps). But I wasn’t feeling bad at all, in fact enjoying the cool ride. Ragging period was one of the best period of my college life. Not because I enjoyed being slapped or I enjoy following fundas, but because it was the only time during college life when i share brotherhood feeling with 30+ friends of my batch.


I still remember the words MR Dabral told me during that ride

" Dekh logon ko 2 tarah se unite kiya ja sakta hain.
1. Sab logon ko bahut enjoy karo sath main. Roz party karwao.
2. Sab logon ko sath main suffer karwao.

Jab tak kisi ko extream condition tak nahi le jate tab tak wo log unite nahi honge.
par pahele tarike main ek problem hain. Pahel tarike main chote chote groups ban jate hain. Dusare tarike main 40-50 logon ka ek bada group banaya ja sakta hai. Aur isliye hi seniors hum logon ki ragging lete hain "

I really felt that he was honestly sharing his views with me. Though his views sound opposite to the popular belief, but i felt it to be very true.

An army training is one such example. Normal boys (Cadets) belonging to different parts of India, who doesn’t know each other, becomes formidable army where fellow solider comes before one selves. During initial days they curse and use all sorts for words for their trainer. As they start sharing their sufferings, they become a team.

This fact is very well used be Kabir Khan (SRK in ChakDe India). He realized that the first thing that gals should learn is to play as a team, without which individual brilliance does not matter (fortunately or unfortunately that was also missing).

He gave a very tough time to all gals.. He used foul language. He made fun of their inabilities. In the night all the gals were tired and full of anger. They decided against their coach and signed an application requesting Hockey federation to change the coach.

And this exactly what Kabir khan wanted. He wants gals to stand for one cause, even for the wrong one.

One can learn skills. One can formulate strategies. But to learn team skills is very difficult. Surely one can play team games, can attained seminars, but these things helps when the goal is not big enough as in the case of corporate project. But for the bigger goals, the only way is the way through SUFFERING.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

ICC - Indian Citizen Coalition

The way things are going since last 10 days, it seems that we are going to have elections very soon.

I would like to request people of India to vote for a national party this time so that we can have a single party govt.

The problem that we faced in last 10 years due to coalition govt must end asap.
Form the experience we had in last 10 years, it is clear that small parties plays spoil sports on development works esp. reforms.

Some people may feel that the regional parties stand for the right cause. But the end result is that govt end up doing nothing because of differences in the allied parties.
Regional parties follow there ideology more than anything. This is because they will loose the support if they make compromise on there Ideology. As only few people follow them these parties can’t take the risk to loose support even of small sect of people.
Due to all this coalition govt end up working only on COMMON MINIMUM PROGRAM.

Regional parties work well in their respective regions as they are directly answerable to people of those regions. They are answerable for the development of the region. But when it comes to Central govt they play dirty politics in order to get political mileage.

Parties which have national presence works with a vision. Not because they have better leaders than others but because of the fact that they will loose the election if they don’t work for the development of the nation. There prime objective is not to expand to other regions as they already have good presence through-out the country.
Same is true for regional parties in their respective states.
But on national level they tend to stick to idealistic approach which is far from pragmatic approach.

So it would be good for India to have a single party govt next time.
So please vote for National parties next time you vote (provided you vote) even you are not completely in sync with that party ideology.

Lets form a coalition amongst ourselves. Our Common Minimum Program will be to vote for a National Party next time.