Scenario, Afterthoughts & Prompts

Your first teacher always happens to be your parents. While mother takes the route of inspirational stories and soft techniques, father goes the real life experience way and we all know that those lessons set the direction and speed of our life. Every child is unique and unique are their characteristics and behaviors. So, a benchmark or comparison does not help much; rather it hurts the prospects more. I am not a parent, so, I am definitely not the right person to dole out any advice on parenting, but there are lots of things which I learnt from my father, which proved to be very useful in my professional life; though those were not meant to be a professional advice from my father. Since I was an talkative, arrogant kind of child who use to be more busy in doing multiple things in one go rather than focusing on one and was very short on one thing, which is ‘attention’, my father had his tough task cut out for him. Though never realized then, but any other person would have changed th...

I was listening to panel discussion consisting panel members like Rajdeep Sardesai and Arnab Goswami on YouTube other day and it left me amused (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w9bgAdFYXM). These people were discussing about the role of media in creating a wave in favor of Shri Narendra Modi, who is Prime Minister of the country now. Why I was amused listening to them because, in this discussion, journalist brigade were smacking with certain kind arrogance about their status. They seems to be still living in the elitist era where level of education in the country was low and flow of information was restricted in the country. They seems not to acknowledge the fact that India’s literacy rate has increased over a period and this is same country, which boasts more than 900 million mobile connections, more than 150 million board band connections, more than 100 million Facebook users and many thing more. What remains intriguing that their eyes are fixed on some 27% of the population of th...