12 10 am September 13

Interesting conversation on who carries the power and the onus to change India's dwindling corrupt and terror prone condition. Is it top down or bottom up?

Such Inspiration!

You'll love it, even when you don't understand a word!

Happiness?

Pure unadulterated happiness. When you see the two people you really love full of life and smiling like this is the only moment.. it is what the wise saintly men call "pure unadulterated happiness"

Lets see if this posts.

Testing if i can post a blog from my phone. Btw - I love sheldon in Big Bang Theory. I do.

If this does not make sense, then what does!

Amazing point made in less the 3.11 mins!

... and you thought it was just TRAFFIC. Hah.

It's amazing as to how a simple thing like TRAFFIC can snowball and change life.


A lot of my close friends, not so close friends and other people I know live in Non Stop - Growing at the rate of fungus - Big Metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore. 

Just as these cities offer.. They have high paying jobs, Cars, some have houses.. some are renting and some have invested into buying one.. 

Lets take a closer look. 

They moved from Tier 2, Tier 3 towns to these big cities. They moved there for ambition, money, career, happening weekends or simply because they thought living in a bigger city is going to make them happier or keep them away from relatives or lead an independent life.

A typical day in life of these people include - getting up early morn to get ready and move outta house by 8 / 8.30 am so they reach in time by 10 / 10.30 making their way through the endless traffic which makes a Snail look like a Michael Phelps in action. Slog Part 1 over. Slog part 2 starts with 10-11 hours of office work, in some cases even more. It's 9 pm in my watch, lets move back home. Yay! but wait. Slog part 1 recurs and its gonna take another 1-2 hours to reach back home. 10.30 Pm. (recently a friend told me his timing to reach home sometimes was 12 pm, scared the wits outta me) - What does one really feel like doing after slogging for 15 hours, my guess is watch a lil television, eat take out food - SNOOZE. 

Statistics -

5 days of week = No time for family, No time for peace, No time to spend time with children, No time to call up friends, Din't know what a healthy meal looked like, Constant Stress & Irritation (Calculate the long term costs of all this)

2 days a week (Weekends if I may be precise) = Simple Lazing around, Doing Nothing, Watch movies, Catch up with your housemate (family, spouse, friends), or a 2 day trip to try to Rejuvenate

40 days a year (which I deducted after use of profound algorithms) is purely wasted into being in Traffic. 40 ****ing days of 365!!!

and please notice, that most of the people who give up spending 15 hours on their work, don't even enjoy it, they are just their because they have to earn and live.

Is this the pursuit of happiness? What does one get out of it - Does one realize the cost they are paying for a HIGH PAYING JOB in Big city? (Life)

My hats off to people who live like this. It's really hard, I've been there and I din't really enjoy it much, because somewhere at the back of my mind I had a recurring flash, 'Important things in life are missing'

What's the harm in earning a lil less, and living a fulfilling life? Isn't good living a day to day experience rather then that of waiting for those few holidays on mercy of our employers where we 'might' do what we always wanted to do.

News Flash : I love My City! 

5 Years of Inconsistent Blogging - I am a Veteran Blogger

I was just going through this old low lying blog of mine and the older entries and guess what.. Its been FIVE years since I am blogging inconsistently! Five Years! 

I feel like a veteran because five years back, most people in India din't even know what blogging was. Thanks to my dear friend C who introduced me to it. :) 

Some of the things I wrote 4-5 years back are beyond my comprehension now, Was I just plain stupid or had a much more vertical thought process? 

Life takes uncertain twists and turns. Who knew I would be blogging as a profession now. 

Anyways, Cheers to the freedom of writing bull**** as and when you please! 

My love for Typos

A leading Indian Daily newspaper (What, when did I say Hindustan times) can come up with Typo like this on front page? Tch tch

(I know I know I make a lot of Typos too, but criticizing is fun ... :D)

How much do you want to do?

Past few weeks, to be true.. past few years..
..have gone by, thinking about what I want to do in life. What would be my passion, what would be my motivation.. and blah blah blah.

Last few days, Yes last few days..
I saw a very old man riding a bicycle, then I saw a couple having coffee, then I saw a person driving a Beamer, I met a woman who drove alone from Pune to Jaipur, I also talked to somebody who has already skydived 3 times, Met a man who has seen 40 countries and culture, I saw people working 16 hours a day for couple of thousand bucks, I witnessed millions worth deals being struck, I saw a couple with two kids taking their yearly off to goa, I saw their holiday pics, I watched 'Moment of Truth' on Star world, I saw F.R.I.E.N.D.S .. yet again, I saw people leaving their jobs, I saw them jobless for months, I saw a 6-7 year old kid on streets begging, I saw his mother pushing him towards car to do it, I spent all day at friends place watching crappy movies and eating Maggie, I saw people taking cabs to 5 star hotels, where I took an auto to a budget one, I also saw people partying late in night, People getting high and wasted, I saw pictures of people having a pool party, I sat through a meeting where people wanted to change the root cause of backward education, then I saw an old couple yapping over a cup of tea, I saw people sleepless over screwed work, I saw them getting back in action next day..

Last few days.. I Realised,
I want Everything.

The Ordinary Joe

Lately my work makes me get in touch with a lot of Start-up related news and happenings in India. Its evident from everywhere that entrepreneurship is quite glorified and its hep to be an entrepreneur these days.

For some reason though, Media and even common people who blog, only thinks that when people who come out from IIT/IIM and start their own ventures are the real heroes. Is it?

Few things that come to my mind-

We do know that they are not the lesser mortals in terms of IQ (with the hectic selection process they go through to get into one)

We do know that they have the best networks in terms of contacts, coz all their batch mates get placed at crucial postions in big companies.

We do know that the IIM stamp get's them moolah flowing in quick. VC, Institutional Capital, Angel Investors.. all are just looking with a torch for some IIM guy to triple their money.

We do know that as soon as the IIM guy opens something, media flocks around to cover it. Coz OMG! he left his 1 crore job oppurtunity to sell vegetables. He's from IIM! Click Click Click!!

No, I am not further glorifying these guys, I am not degrading either. Have huge respect for them. After all they have also put years of hardwork to get into that institute and clear it.
Just trying to put across an overlooked fact that things are 200 times more easier for them as they are from THE institute, which pulls crowd. which makes things automatic for them.

Real heroes are the one, who have nothing coming towards them, they have to run after all. They loose their weight, their shoe's loose their sole, their hair strands choose to leave their head. They are the average people, ordinary people who walk past you everyday, but just dare to dream for themselves and choose the most difficult route.

This ordinary Joe is the one who deserves the Spot.

Its time media realizes where to focus.