My Thought-pieces...

Missing colours of the rainbow

Today I feel like writing after so many days...I don’t know what will I be writing here; but it somehow feels right to pour out my emotions today. Today, all my past memories are rushing before my eyes, so why not simply write them down?

When does a rainbow occur in the sky? When there is rain as well as sun. It needs both of them. So if I can say that the rain represents pain or sorrow and the sun is like happiness or optimism, then the rainbow represents those incidents or moments in life that occurred at the juncture of pain and happiness and coloured your existence. Like someone with tears in their eyes and a smile on their face.

There are very few moments we feel like there is full rainbow in our life. We have our own sun shine and rain and rainbows as well, but when you look back, you will find that most of the times the rainbow was missing a colour. What do I mean by this statement? When I rewound my memories, I could see rainbows, but every time I saw a rainbow, there was something missing. When I got good marks in 10^th or 12^th, there was the tension of admission in good college for higher education, when I completed my engineering there was confusion about the way ahead, when I completed my Post Graduation, there was fear regarding my career, when I got placed there was the tension about my future job and so on. This is not just about the education, but whenever I achieved something or won an award, there was a moment of satisfaction followed by emotions about consistency, feelings of ‘I could have performed better’ and there appeared a rainbow albeit, with a missing colour.

I don’t know whether this is the case with me or everybody - that at the time of extreme joy, I miss out on something। This can be fear of the future, emotions, past memories, my loved ones or my friends... There are very few moments those gave me the joy of full rainbow in sky. Is this true with everybody that they miss something or someone, while having a colourful sky in their life? I don’t know...but I do.

Hide and Seek places

Every individual must dream. It doesn’t matter if those dreams are realistic or not, possible to achieve or not… Through these dreams you learn to find missing pieces of your soul and learn to lose your way in your thoughts. This is like playing ‘Hide and Seek’ with yourself. Sometimes your soul hides somewhere. You forget everything while seeking it out. When you finally find it in something, you realize you’ve discovered something unique about yourself…

These places to hide and to seek are different for different individuals. If a couple find out that they have some of these hide and seek places in common then they start to understand each other, start to share their pain and joys, find a common thread between themselves and they come closer to each other. However if these hide and seek places are different for the couple (which is true in most of the cases) then they should admire each others’ places. For example, by listening to a particular song, the man goes into a trance and starts thinking about the past. BUT it is not necessary that the strings in his wife’s mind will vibrate with the same frequency by listening to that same song.

Now, to discover these hide and seek places belonging to each other is journey of a lifetime and that’s why marriages are usually made to last a lifetime. It’s fun to know each other. These places can be anything- a song, music piece, a movie, CD, a book, a sport, a stamp, match box, shirt, skirt, handkerchief, TV serial, computer game, jewelry, scent, a line, greeting, a poem, story, a place, literally anything… Sometimes you find out one of the places where your partner forgets herself is a poem. You should sit next to her, listen to the poem from her, try to understand the poem and enjoy the moment. The delight you will see in her eyes will be heavenly. Both must try to know each others’ hide and seek places and try to enjoy the discovery with each other.

These places should not be made fun of. Rather one should look to respect, admire and value the other half’s hide and seek places…

Thanks Kurush for helping me edit this post... :)

Yatha Raja Tatha Praja (As the Ruler so the Ruled)

It's been said that organizations are like trees...People at top see monkeys down and people at bottom see a$$h*les up...Its true in most of the organizations. People who are at the bottom of this organizational value chain don’t get or forget the original purpose of their own organization i.e. organization’s Mission/Vision/Core Values. As long as the organization is smaller, it is evident that the organization follows its CEO’s attitude, but as soon as the organization goes into growth phase, its purpose of existence starts diluting and the organizations inculcates a mix culture. Major part of it comes from CEO and other part comprises of the attitude of its top management and employees. The organization fails to instill its CEO’s attitude or the CEO fails to indoctrinate his/her own attitude/values in the organization. And the mixed culture makes the employees feel that the top management has lost it. And they start following that same mediocre culture in their work. This in turn fuels the top management’s perception about the bottom layer i.e. there are monkeys sitting down. After all, organization absorbs its CEO's attitude.

It is very difficult for the organization to understand its CEO's attitude and thoughts. Rather I would say it is difficult to inculcate CEO’s attitude. He has not become CEO overnight or just like that. There were enormous efforts, hard work behind his success. His position is not any stroke of luck. He has earned it with shear amount of work, talent/intelligence, and risk taking ability. CEO’s are never fools. They are visionaries. But this is true in case of those organizations who sustain over a period of time through all the huddles, problems and crisis situations. Those organizations are Great organizations and I believe in the fact that CEO’s play vital role in it. His own attitude and value system defines his organization’s value system. That is why the title, ‘yatha raja tatha praja...’

Whenever you enter any organization you feel the culture of that organization. That is the reflection of CEO’s attitude. If the CEO himself doesn’t respect others then you will feel that disrespect from the employees or top management won’t respect the employees. If the CEO is loving and caring, you will be greeted wholeheartedly and warmly. Obviously the organization is CEO’s baby and will follow Dad’s/Mom’s attitude…

कुब्जा

This is for the first time I am putting my poem on my blog... this poem is about one of Kansa's (Lord Krishna's Mama) servant/dasee, 'Kubja'. She was very ugly looking and physically deformed in shape ( the hunchback woman ). Recently read a marathi novel 'अजून नाही जागे गोकुळ' about her written by famous marathi author 'गो. नी. दांडेकर'. Can't put everything on this blog, however I could feel the pain Kubja went through... She suffered a lot. Her mother was killed by Kansa in front of her eyes and still she didn't have any choice but serve the cruel Kans.

She awaits the arrival of Lord Krishna, who will end this nightmare. She urges Lord Krishna to come for the rescue.. I have tried to put her pain in words here... I wonder if our mother earth is crying the same...

वाट पाहते आहे कृष्णा, मधुर तुझ्या मुरलीची,

पायांमधले त्राणच सरले, दमले की रे मुरारी...

साहवेना, पाहवेना, ऐकवेना यातना,

डोळ्यांमधले अश्रु सुकले तरी ना संपती वेदना.

ऐकू का रे येत नाही हाक मम अंतरीची,

वाट पाहते आहे कृष्णा, मधुर तुझ्या मुरलीची

देह दिधला तो ही असला, रूप तेही नासले,

माझिया मनीचे दु:ख ह्या कपीतच राहीले.

सर्व देहाचेच व्हावे कान इच्छा अखेरची

वाट पाहते आहे कृष्णा, मधुर तुझ्या मुरलीची

सावळ्या,

मेघांना रंग दिला,

मोरपिशी पंख दिला,

गोकुळास सखा दिला,

मधुर असा डन्ख दिला...

ह्या पापी कुब्जेस क्षणभर सूर ऐकू दे,

प्राण सरण्यापुर्वी तुझिया पाव्यातील अमृत दे...

वाट पाहते आहे कृष्णा, मधुर तुझ्या मुरलीची,

पायांमधले त्राणच सरले, दमले की रे मुरारी...

Are we 'Independent' yet?

15^th Aug…Our Independence Day… Yes, it is fine to wish every Indian, but frankly speaking this is one of the gloomiest and depressing Independence Day. Swine flu, draught, flood, earthquake, terrorism, inflation and ‘good ol’ issues like poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, corruption (this list doesn’t seem like ending…), population, pollution, dirty politics, ‘religion-cast-etc-etc ‘based racism and what not… This never ending list is making me panicky. What the “@*$#” are we doing to this awesome country???

We are doing something wrong here, aren’t we? Definitely…

We all are good at talking, but when it comes to execution we fail (except in case of destruction where we show great mob mentality; but when it comes to doing something right everybody shows their back to us)

Most of us have turned into ‘Eunuchs’, including me… and more than that we have accepted this. This is more frightening than anything.

Whenever I look around, what do I find? Our basic necessities are plagued with.

Food we eat, screwed…

Air we breathe, ditto…

Water we drink, ditto …

Transport, ditto …

Political system, ditto …

Education system, ditto …

Police system, ditto …

Economy, ditto …

Natural resources, ditto …

Laws and regulation system, ditto …

Money we use, ditto …

Media, ditto …

And so on….

In short, our country is suffering from not only one disease, but its health is in chronic state. And we all are fine with this… “Chalta hai (Its ok)”, “Kuc nahi hoga iss country ka (nothing’s gonna change)”… what is the use of such lines? Why can’t we do something about it? What is the use if we can’t even capitalize on the point that we have the larger percentage of young Indians?

So, NOW IT’S THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION… enough of this Gyan… I am fed up with myself, my helplessness… There is no one to guide a single Indian… Whom should I follow? Is there a single ‘Leader‘in this huge country?

I am proud to be an Indian… I am proud to be a part of country with this great heritage… but we should build our country over it… we can’t live in past and glorify things… on one side we have corporate India and on the other side, poor India… so in short, ‘Richers are getting richer; and poor are getting poorer…’

I am not blaming anyone, I am blaming myself… I am frustrated with myself… We all remember out country in the month of Aug or Jan… Why so? How many of us are actually proud to be an Indian? How many of us even know the meaning of our national anthem? There is lot of things to write about…

Just need your inputs on what should we do to rectify this…We need to come out of this ‘Hibernation’