Karmic Synergies

Disclaimer: Below are the ramblings of an insomniac mind. Comprehend them at your own risk.

At 2.30 in the morning this insomniac mind coins a concept Karmic Synergies. How jobless does one need to be to first observe and then think of such concepts? The ground work started during the placement session followed by CAT results and the thoughts got consolidated while I was chatting with a dear friend, courtesy her experiences (Of late I have been spending a lot of time gossiping online with friends/cousins, blame the vellapa). I can’t but help observe and get amazed at this concept. Every individual seeks success and happiness, both being relative concepts. The approach is varied, the extent is varied yet in the end things do fall in place.

I admire few of my acquaintances who have mastered the art of excelling at everything they pursue. What does not surprise me anymore is that a few are not sure or cannot reason out why they pursue a specific career path.Yet they succeed and are happy. Their hard work,focus and sincerity being their key virtues. There are others who seem to reason out well their choices, they come close yet are far from their immediate goal. Those among the latter who do not settle for mediocrity and continue their efforts eventually live their dreams. For them the key virtues are patience and sustained  efforts. When it comes to your personal self, many interesting observations can be made. There are some who despite being heart broken twice or more have their energy levels/spirits high to consider another plunge and others fear to commit at the outset, the fear of change, the fear of deceit etc.

The best part is we still learn from each other’s experience. People from another school of approach and thoughts still inspire us. There is a reason why the variety exists and the beauty lies in the synergies between them. They gel well and in the end we all contribute to the equilibrium, the equilibrium that exists around us.
 
Thought of the day: You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. – Steve Jobs.

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

Almost a year back I got a link instant messaged on yahoo! It was the text of the commencement address to the students of Stanford University by Steve Jobs. I have read it many times since. Two days back I searched for the video on youtube and have lost count on the number of times I have seen the video. Watch it people. Its so real.

The Tatas

You fly into Mumbai in Air India (started by the visionary Late J R D Tata) and check into the Taj group of hotels. You have a good sleep with the room temperature maintained by Voltas air conditioners. Electricity is supplied by Tata Power. You wake up to an alarm set on your Titan watch. You drink Tata Tea/Tata coffee in the morning and feast on a breakfast prepared in Tata salt.You hire a cab for the day, say Tata Indica. You decide on shopping and enter Westside. To please your wife/girl friend you move into Tanishq, need not worry about your bills, you are carrying your Tata Credit Card.You keep in touch with her on services provided by Tata Indicom. You get back to your room and catch up with some news/movies/soaps on Tata Sky. Log on to the net, services provided by Tata Indicom/VSNL. Post dinner you read a book published by Tata McGraw Hill. Also to include Tata Steel, which supplies the steel for the aircraft you flew in, the car you travelled, the buildings you moved into etc.What more, your life is insured by Tata AIG Life Insurance.

Some facts: 96 operating companies in seven business sectors, revenues (in 2005-06) of $21.9 billion, the equivalent of about 2.8 per cent of the country’s GDP, a market capitalisation of $51.3 billion, employee strength of 202,712 odd,shareholder base of over  2 million, operations in more than 54 countries across six continents, and its companies export products and services to 120 nations.

I salute the four Tata titans: Jamsetji Tata, JRD Tata, Naval Tata and Ratan Tata. The Corporate Group that I look upto for their products & services, governance, business ethics, social responsibilites, employee care and vision. Would someday like to see them as the leader in every sector they are involved in and also be a part of the extended Tata family.

P.S: I could not include TCS

I confess to being excessively intolerant of slipshod work and irritatingly insistent on pursuing excellence even in tasks which hardly demand it – J R D Tata

India Poised

The year 2007, our 60th year as a free nation is predicted to be a year of reckoning where India is expected to literally seize the moment. TOI and Times Now have come forward with an inspirational intiative. As part of a six-week long ‘India Poised’ campaign they plan to give us “a critical assessment of India ’s readiness for any serious claim to international fame”. The India Poised Anthem has the theme of an Optimistic India vs a Skeptic India.
 
                                                                    India Vs India
 
There are  two Indias in this country.

One India is straining at the leash, eager to spring forth and live up to all the adjectives that the world has been showering recently upon us.

The other India is the leash.

One India says, give me a chance and I’ll prove myself. The other India says, prove yourself first and maybe then you’ll have a chance.

One India lives in the optimism of our hearts.The other India lurks in the skeptism of our minds.
 
                                                        One India wants.The other India hopes.
  
                                                        One India leads.The other follows.

But conversions are on the rise.With each passing day more and more people from the other India have been coming over to this side.And quietly, while the world is not looking,a pulsating,dynamic new Inda is emerging.

An India whose faith in success is far greater than its fear of failure. An India that no longer boycotts foreign made goods but buys out the companies that make them instead.

History, they say, is a bad motorist. It rarely ever signals its intentions when it is taking a turn.

This is that rarely-ever moment. History is turning a page.

For more than half a century, our nation has sprung, stumbled,run,fallen,rolled over,got up, dusted herself, and cantered, sometime lurched on.But today, as we begin our 60th year as a free nation, the ride has brought us to the edge of time’s great precipice.

And one India-a tiny little voice at the back of the head- is looking down at the bottom of the ravine and hesitating.

The other India is looking up at the sky and saying, it’s time to fly.

India Poised…our time is now.(Watch the video here)

Proud to be an Indian! and fortunate to be a part of the youth brigade that would change India’s image on the global platform.

The New Mantra

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body; but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ WOO HOO what a ride!

Wishing everyone a very happy new year