Sunday, 23 June 2013

Governance - Doctorate for Free - Enroll

An appeal to all those interested to pursue their Doctorates in Political administration and Governance. Please come over to India, in case you are based outside India. For people like me in India , we are a privileged lot coz we save on precious air travel cost and time.

Just take this master stroke of education on Governance:

Courtesy : Hon'ble Home Minister of India .

When the whole of Uttarakhand was devastated beyond recognition, while the whole country was mourning for the loss of precious lives here's what he had to say :

"This is not man made disaster but lack of coordination."

All my education has gone for a big toss!. My education had always taught me that coordination is a part of governance.

I quote the dictionary content too :

"
The synchronization and integration of activities, responsibilities, and command and control structures to ensure that the resources of an organization are used most efficiently in pursuit of the specified objectives. Along with organizing, monitoring, and controlling, coordinating is one of the key functions of management.".
Read management as Governance.
What a master stroke of wisdom !. He deserves nothing lesser than a Noble Prize.
High time we agree and rephrase that this is not a man made disaster but the politico-mafia nexus made disaster.
Fellow Countrymen, we deserve better than these caricatures.
 

Saturday, 15 June 2013

A realist

If life continues to be a see-saw battle for some, take recourse to the noble words from the learned Sydney Harris :

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count..a cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run".

Indian Politics

Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not....Prah Oprah Winfrey

Searching for that sort of a politician to take my proud country forward. Onerous task but still feel there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

Friday, 14 June 2013

Oh Bangalore

The Silicon Valley of  India :

Bangalore the city that is scaling empyreal heights to be noticed for all the wrong reasons.

Our Claims of being a Proud Bangalorean :

1. Redefining roads : While other cities have potholes on roads we have roads on potholes.

2.We are more worried about Infy 2.0,3.0 etc.. than the bludgeoning problems that we encounter day to day.

3.We can radically question as to how only 40 lakhs was taken by Sreesanth for spot fixing while we can ignore why cost a of kg of tomato in Bangalore equals that of a kg of apple.

4.We can hold our heads high for having a paper in English for medical entrance read COMED) and not having one for Ers. reason : medicos need communication and engineers do not need it. Eureka.

5.Autos to charge 3 times the fare for monsoon. Now taxis, railways and Airlines can take a cue out of it.

6.Electronic City to have a seperate civic body. Not that BBMP would have made things better or different. We are brilliant in creating a family tree of BBMP thereby de-centralising corruption.

7.KMF gives extra milk of 20 ml for just 50 paise.

8.Replace 108 Services with Pizza Hut Nos. They have better and timely delivarance.

9.With no front to take on unmitigated price spirals, H.E. Shri Deve Gowda opines that the Third front is the pill to cure the nation's ills. Bangalore and Karnataka are free from all diseases , so now the eyes on the nation.

Not all is lost amidst this mayhem. We may have multiple revolutions in the offing .
Imagine these :

A new recipe to be available in Darshinis across Bangalore.
a. Mossambi rasam
b. apple sambar.
c. mango palya.
d.banana kheer.

For a small family of parents and a kid, a free Engineering Seat would be given. With this master stroke we can become the biggest exporter of engineers across the globe.

Proud to be a Bangalorean.

Monday, 10 June 2013

Destiny or Destination

When BJP was routed in Karnataka, spokesperson after spokesperson from the Congress crowed at their best decibel levels that the trend is set for the Lok Sabha Elections of 2014 and that is the mandate.

When the Congress loses 2 lok sabha seats and 4 assembly seats in the bye-elections (held by none other than their own party) ..the clarion call is that it is decided by the local factors and nothing do with the ensuing Lok Sabha Elections..

If that is double speak or selective amnesia there is still much in store...

A ex-IPL Chairman takes exception to NM's utterance of the word shameless on his anoitment but then where was his honour when he decided to skip the BCCI meeting in Chennai ?...Was this on account of shame or honour ?..( Now what about Modi or Lodi)

Then we have the mighty DVS.. a sanyasin from MP politics ... a self crowned sooth sayer of India's political future...He knows everything that even the Madam or heir apparent does not know...

True excess baggage is there with BJP too.. yedis, gadkaris,bangarus etc...

But the excessive baggage of Congress has a mighty list clowning all these... Kalmadis,Sheilas,Maharashtra netas,bansals,ashwinis,Khurshids,PCs, to name just a few..

India is at Cross Roads ..Is it our destiny or destination...?....

Am not willing to guess!!!!