Racism is a reality, not a show in the world.
Before the front teeth of Newyork fell in 2001, I used to work in broadsreet, next to Nassau and wallstreet. Early morning on cold chilly winters, I used to walk from home in Jersey city to board the path train to world trade center. Betwwen WTC and broadstreet. In the morning, good number of carts sell bagels and tea/coffee for breakfast. I used to enjoy the aroma as I walked past them to reach my broadstreet office. I used to work for a Stock management company as a software Architect.
I had lot of yankee friends and during one of the luncheon discussions, I referred one day that, we Indians always relished cooked and freshly prepared food early in the morning for breakfast( steaming piped hot Idli or Paratha) and never had any thing like a cold bagel and coffee. Out came a comment saying it as a racist remark.
Racist remark! True it is as explained to me by my yankee friend that what we prefer may not be a thing soothing to others. We cannot state it aloud and it amounts to racist remark.
Back in India, every thing I heard was racist. We live with racist remarks all the time. We have lot of cultural differences within India. We never denounce ourselves dumping tonnes of plastics and making the land infertile. The tribals in the forest live a better life surrounded by nature, yet we look down upon them as uncivilized. Aren't we hypocrite?
We buy oxygenated water to drink and go to oxygen bars to rejuvenate ourselves, not concerned about what best nature can provide us. That is the way we live. I guess, raising pollutants in the air and increasing our estrogen levels and slowly turn us into weaker(st) sex?
Wayback in 1982 when I lived in switzerland in Appenzel area, Frequently young people used to ask me why we Indians eat with Hands?
I always used to say, if food can not be touched by hand, it is not food at all. well the answer may suit us Indians, but when we rethink, we will know what is the best way to eat food.
Questioning the way people do things or live is not right and it amounts to racist remarks. We need to exercise wisdom to put things across. Most of the times people will not identify themselvs in the similar situations you maybe familiar and would not understand the point.
It was very offending oneday when my son commented that how primitive way I lived listening to the whole movie on a radio for entertainment on a sunday afternoon. He never understood how people could live without remote in the hand switching channels.
Parasa
India needs to feed its children better
I guess, it is true and the UNICEF reports, We need to take care of our children with more care and ensure the children are fed better. Every one knows, the future society/ nations wealth depends on how the present day children perform.
We need to think big, and look at global pictures and look for over all development.
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Parasa
Sad! Damn Hussein.... Was he really so, as portrayed?
Who is not a friend of India?
Saddam was and so are British, if not why would they put a stone from India on their queen's head?
I remember reading Omar Sheriff's ( lawrence of Arabia)article on Iraq saying the middle east need
dictators like Saddam, otherwise it is difficult to rule the tribals with different opinions.
I guess this is going to be WMD again, this time being Washington's Massive Dilemma to get out of Iraq standing on the ruins.
Parasa
Process Improvement
The Attitudes of Process Improvement:
1. Most problems are in the process, not the person!
2. Don’t blame the person - fix the process.
3. Every process can be improved forever!
4. Problems are normal each an opportunity to learn.
5. Measurement of processes leads to improvement.
6. Every process must have a process owner or team responsible for its execution and improvement.
7. We know what we are doing by knowing the process.
Parasa
Let us Be Empowered to serve all
The ones in real authority are known by their humility and self-sacrifice and show no attitude of superiority over the friends. All are servants and maidservants, brothers and sisters. As soon as one feels a little better than, a little superior to, the rest, he is in a dangerous position, and unless he casts away the seed of such an evil thought, he is not a fit instrument for the service.
Happy Holiday season
Savineers
Santhi Soundararajan
Salute the lady who brought honor to the country and curse our social system for her gender test failure. Let the society take blame on how we treat our girl child.
It is shame on us. The world knows us as female infanticides. And let us not be known too as the people who do not feed a girl child to blossom into a woman.
Who is to blame for her gender test failure?
"The quality of our lives is judged not so much by the complexity of our technology as by the inclusiveness of all. Not so much by the sophistication of our elite as by our compassion for all. Not so much our affluence as by our justice. The community is judged by how it treats the least, the last, the lost."
Savineers
Buffalo as Blackboard in Indian schools
Well, undoubtedly, we Indians are the only people in the world who milk buffalos and 55 % of Indian milk production comes from buffalos. What do you do when they are not being milked? Give them chara and use them as blackboards in schools.
Cows/buffalos need to be milked.
Desi ideas can turn around the corporations. Even if there are no priorities for corporates about social responsibilities, they can continue to steal ideas from the innocent village folk.
Donate the proceeds from the sale of bands carrying your corporate logo to village schools.
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Parasa
Learn from Laloo's land
After the Rang de Basanti, the kids donot seem to be enjoying regular school and prefer to go to Laloo's Masti ki Pathshala, where even wharton and Harward blokes are seemingly inclined to join.
The other great thing I learnt is how to tummy tuck from laloo's land. The obese obelix cousins from Uncle Sam's land should get a lesson or two from Magadh brethern on how to avoid tummy tuck operations.
I earnestly request, Professor Laloo to consider applying for patent for this process, before all the patent attorneys swoop in the near future.
Three cheers from Savineers
It is all in the mind
It is all in the mind.... How we bias the circuits in the brain for optimum benefit of the mankind.
It can be
I,
I,
Me or can be biased to
Be
Enabled for others
"To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing," says a well-known bull fighter. "And not to fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared -- that is something." What gives you the courage to act on your ideas? Having a well-thought plan? Encouragement? Faith in the idea? Past success? What puts a lion in your heart?
I guess we al know how bulls stand in the middle of the road with their dangling bells. A farmer from Prakasam district presented an ongole bull to our Laloo prasad yadav, visiting professor at IIM Ahmedabad.
Lesson from Laloo at IIM .... Milk the Cow... Cow needs to be milked...
You know the reason why Monsieur Yadav keeps bulls in the farm?
Coming together is beginning
Staying together is progress
working together is success.
Three cheers from Savineers
