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This one’s for Mr. Wagh. A Rational Mind has been awarded – Ms. Gauri Gharpure bestowed it upon me, and I feel that the founder of this blog is the deserving recipient. So this post is a notification of the award, as well as me passing it on to my benevolent teammate, and also to my main blog. Congrats – now we need to pass this on to other deserving blog and their authors.
(EDIT: I’m breaking it up and making it into a 5-part series, as otherwise the length is proving to be a deterrent)
The first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club
I make it a point to mentally scoff every time one of my fellow urban youngsters says to me, ‘Dude! You’ve seen Fight Club right? Isn’t it, like, the most fucking awesome film, like, ever made?’ and I am compelled to do so in at least 9 out of every 10 cases, and at multiple levels.
Since I’ve not a clue what I’m getting at, let me move on to the not-so-literal levels. Here, it’s just the way my “hep” generation would say such a thing. In a way, it is intertwined with materialism. And while it’s great that you have access to everything global, nothing can justify your need to turn into clones. While I’d love to be part of a group that makes good use of the resources of this information age but at the same time is wise enough to pick and choose attributes from the West while maintain one’s Indianness, I’m sorry to say but I don’t see that happening. And say it if you really mean it, but please don’t say “change” just because a certain Obama says so.
(to be continued)
Human Chains, Candle marches, Signature campaigns….all according to me are of zero use. They have absolutely no impact on the ruling parties or on anybody.
You build a human chain to protest against terrorists…they don’t give a damn about it! Neither do the politicians. You achieve nothing more than media attention and just cause a distraction on the road and also tend to disturb the traffic sometimes!
You light candles to pay tributes to the martyrs..it is good that the citizens remember the martyrs, but these candle marches again have zero effect on the political powers. Above all, it causes wastage of wax and air pollution. Ofcourse, if you burn thousands of candles down, you expect it to be Eco-friendly?
And who is going to clean all the mess made by the wax after the candles have burned down? You?
NO!
It’s the same BMC that we blame for not clearing up our ‘kachra’ who will clear up this waste!
Human Chains,Signature campaigns,candle marches are all the weapons of, in my opinion, high society crowd who just want their pictures in the newspapers. They care for media-mileage not the deceased. That is why you have ‘prominent’ TV and Film personalities on news channels discussing about the security issues and political decisions when they know nothing much about them and the only sacrifice they need to do is appear without make-up and act by talking in agitated tones(at which they are experts!).
These high society guys care for only their fraternity. If you kill a common man, it doesn’t bother them! If you kill middle-class commuters returning to their loved ones after a hard day’s work it doesn’t matter to them. What matters are the deaths of the high profile people and the foreigners at the Taj and Oberoi.
Trust me, I have been part of such human chains and stuff…and the passers-by don’t even give a damn as to against what you are protesting!
I guess next time such attacks take place, the people should attack some politician’s house and beat him up. Maybe then they will wake up and be responsible towards the people whom they are said to represent!
MORAL:
It is better not to participate in such futile protests. Instead concentrate on your work and give it your 100%. Maybe that will help the country more than these ‘ZERO-IMPACT’ protests.
-Pranjal
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My thoughts on the current Wipro-Students jhol!
A few days ago Wipro Technologies sent out emails to engineering graduates that they had recruited from Kolkata that Wipro would not be able to offer them jobs in IT sector looking at the current market situation and that they would be offered jobs in Wipro’s BPO sector. Further they said that the engineering grads would be incorporated into IT sector after 12-15 months of service in the BPO sector.
There was uproar and a general wave of fear amongst the engineering grads from Kolkata, which was obvious. The protests that followed were apt and correct. But some of the statements given by the students that I read in newspapers were shocking!
One of the students said that since they would be offered jobs in Wipro BPO their pay scale would be reduced from the promised 2.75- 3.25 lacs p.a to around 1.5 lacs p.a. True, this may happen but what followed further was mind numbing for me! The same student said that they were ready to work in IT sector of Wipro for a lower salary than the promised sum but that they should not be put in BPO!
Also some of the students were saying that they were ready to wait a few more months but that they would want to join the IT sector of Wipro!
I was surprised to see such attitude from Kolkata youngsters!
विप्रो जोइन करने के अलावा और कुछ दुनिया में बचा नही है क्या?
Has the world come to an end?
Were you thinking that joining Wipro is the peak of your career? Were you thinking of never leaving Wipro and continuing to survive in that stagnant environment where their would be limited scope for your progress?
And what is this I hear about you people being ready to work for a lesser salary? Why?
Do you guys have no self-respect? Why should you work for a lesser amount? Why are you allowing Wipro to go on reducing your value?
Why should you work in the BPO industry which will ofcourse involve night shifts that will ruin not only your biological clock and your physical and mental constitution but will also involve hearing obscenities and racial abuse from self-proclaimed superior westerners!
Why are you guys ready to wait for some more months and join Wipro? Haven’t you guys waited enough? You were recruited in June/July 2008(atleast I was!) and are being called in March 2009!
Last year Wipro called recruited grads from my college in January! And when I was also called in March 2009 my decision to join Wipro started to dwindle! Well, I don’t think much of a company that wastes so much valuable time of their to-be employees! Why can Wipro not call its recruited grads if the other IT biggies of India can. And why the hell shift the recruited grads into BPO? नौकरी दे के एहसान कर रहे हो क्या?
I am surprised to hear such comments young Kolkatans. West Bengal is the land of Netaji SubhashChandra Bose. Of Ravindranath Tagore. Of Jatindranath Das …It is the home of so many freedom fighters, revolutionaries,scientists and great social workers that their names would require many such posts! Kolkata is the land of communist movement in India! The leaders here have long worked for the benefit of the working class!It is in is land that the youngsters are at the mercy of a company like Wipro? Why?
Is there nothing worthwhile to do than joining Wipro? Think. The world is an ocean of opportunities! Join the civil services! Get your masters degree! Do your MBA! Get your doctorates! Give GATE,GRE,GMAT and increase your qualifications rather than being at the mercy of Wipro!
Join governmental services or better, defence services to ensure job security and immunity from the pink-slip! It pays well now after the sixth pay commission and also offers variety of facilities!
As one of my teachers has said, ” This time of recession is the opportunity for youngsters to educate themselves more and more!”
Regards,
Pranjal
(Something on the lighter side that will have you seeing ‘double’!)
One fine afternoon (i.e. today afternoon!) I was just surfing the net when a thought flashed through my mind and I started making an unusual but quite interesting comparison between Indian politicians and…guess what? Condoms!
True…however absurd that it may sound if you think (and look at both of them too) you may find some interesting similarities and,well, differences!
Let’s see then….
If you see condoms come for a price and so do politicians! If you want a condom to work for you you have to pay the buy it! The same thing stands true for a politician! You have to buy him so that he can work for you!
Both condoms and politicians are servants of the people but nobody understands that!(Think on this statement and comment! Because your thoughts will help me understand this statement! 
) A faulty and corrupt politician spreads the deadly decay virus which kills off the immune system of the nation and weakens it. I guess I do not have to tell the experienced people what happens if a ‘faulty and corrupt’ condom is used in certain cases!
A condom is non-living thing.It does not feel ‘things’. Neither does a fat ass politician feel the pain of his people!
Politicians work collectively in benumbing their people and making them aloof so that they can enjoy the power of the power! Likewise,’Two’ many condoms, they say (How’d I know?) ,succeed in deadening the sensation of their ‘people’. 
But if you see, you have to pay a nominal price for one condom and it works for you! But there’s no fixed price for the services of a politician. So you see condoms provide reliable service!
Condoms come in different ’shapes and sizes’ and offer service not only to the user but also ‘long-lasting pleasure’ to the ‘opposition’. Have you ever heard of an Indian politician who has ever given pleasure to the opposite party?
Oh yeah! The main point is that Condoms provide protection to the people that use them! But what about politicians? Do they protect their people? NO! Instead these dudes themselves demand protection (and leave their people for the dead!)
So you decide who are better! I think condoms would rule India better than these blood-sucking, money-eating, hatred-spreading, dividing and ruling politicians!
Regards,
Pranjal
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Ashok Chavan has become the new CM of Maharashtra State…..New breaking news for the news channel…Good news for his supporters and his party…Bad news for bad boys Chhagan Bhujbal and Narayan Rane & Co..But what about us you dimwitted scumbags? Your greed for power has once again thrown the terror attack and the Mumbaikars out of the limelight!
On one hand we have a three month old baby who is the youngest victim of the attack, a Jewish baby who cannot understand where his parents have disappeared and on the other hand we have that Greedy Rane crying because Congress party did not announce his name for the CM post of Maharashtra. He keeps on saying ” Ashok Chavan mera spardhak kaise ho sakta hai?” You bastard…don’t you realise that it is not the time to carry on bickering amongst ourselves but to face the threat to our integrity with impenetrable unity.
Now Mr.Chavan has been appointed the CM..He will now select his favourite ministers….for that the to-be ministers will try to please him….their meetings….the announcement of the new cabinet or the so-called reshuffling of the cabinet and then the oath-ceremony of the new CM and his cronies….How much time will that waste? Can we afford to waste such valuable time that can be effectively utilized in filling out the gaps of our intelligence and internal security?
Was this new appointment necessary in such critical times? Could the so-called High command not have waited? Could the President not impose her rule on her Home state?
I really do not understand when our politicians will learn and grow up! Like in the story of the frogs in the pond and the boys who keep on throwing stones at them….. “It is just a game for you..but it is we who lose our lives in your games!”
“Tumchyasathi ha fakt ek khel aahe..pan aamcha hya khelat jeev jaatoy!”
” तुमच्यासाठी हा फ़क्त एक खेळ असतो ..पण आमचा हयात जीव जातोय!“
-Pranjal
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