Evolving Thoughts ......

Now this has been another looong gap since I had written last .... there have been so many things that have been happening all around me ... life is moving a bit too fast for my liking .... but then if i think of the positives the learning curve for me over the last two months has been a lot steeper than it has been in a very long time .... and this is not only abt learning in the sense of what i hav been upto professionally .... but a lot more in the direction which has .... i believe made me a lot more mature as a person ..... and my active association with Bharat Uday Mission in bangalore over this period has a lot to do with this...

So i will try to start off from where I left last .....The initial euphoria and rhetoric about being part of a revolution and changing the face of the nation (a new world order ??) ...died its natural death as was expected and the realization about the actual ground situation came fast ... the challenges that lie ahead , the hurdles ... internal contradictions ... differences in opinion ...ego clashes ... there were ppl who walked out .... and then there were new enthusiastic ppl who walked in ...but what is important is ... whatever the differences in opinion about the path to follow ... the objective and the final destination among all of us is clear ....

Over the last two months I had the opportunity to interact with many people from across the country and abroad under the BM banner .... some interactions were pleasant and some not so pleasant .... but the learning’s from these have been immense .... the intricacies of group dynamics could never have been more apparent ... the realization that what you feel and what you believe will not always be what the team you are working with will agree too ... and more importantly there can be some one who has a better perspective and a point of view ..... I have been working in Teams in the s/w industry for round 3 years now .... but believe me its never the same when you work in a team which is formed, based purely on a common vision with no one in the group having anything personal to gain .... walking out on a difference of opinion in your professional career is not an option .... but in case of a group like BM it is the easiest and there lies the challenge .... to keep yourself motivated and synergize your efforts together even when you have a different view and even when you dont gain anything personally ...... that is the ultimate test of selfless work and the biggest challenge.

Not long ago I strongly believed that the cure of all the ills of our Indian society is simple .... you just need to be ruthless .... maybe a strong willed dictator with the right intentions will do the trick in a matter of 5 - 10 years .... but that was when i was a drawing room analyst of issues .... within the comfortable 4 falls of my house and looking at issues from there ... you just need to scratch the surface and then you will realize the enormity of the issue at hand ..... India being the country is it has its own unique challenges ....the kind of diversity in faith culture, language, social and economic status you find here will be somewhat equivalent to the diversity you find maybe in the entire continent of Europe ... and that is something real difficult to handle and manage efficiently ... any solution should be equally acceptable to every class of citizens of this country and believe me that is not at all easy ...

In the last couple of months I got a chance to spend some time with children of an Orphanage / Hostel in Bangalore though i would have liked to spend a lot more time but things in my professional life had got real hectic off late ... but whatever time i could spend over the weekends was another experience for me .... I was supposed to teach the children basics of Spoken english ... and inspite of me not knowing kanadda at all and the children able to understand my English with great difficulty .... i could see the enthusiasm in them .... you couldnt miss the glitter in their eyes .... for them someone coming down just to meet them ... talk to them meant a lot ...and who better than me to understand what they feel like ....this was the period where the reservation debate was all over the place ....... I have always believed that there should not be any kind of reservation at any level .... but a few days of interaction with these children who didn’t even know what an engineer is and what he does ... i could understand that given the current structure of basic primary education in India .... we need some support for children like these .....but should it be based on caste ??? In the attendance register most of the children didnt have a second name ... if there is anyone who needs reservation then its these kids ... who dont even know what caste they belong to ...

I think will leave this account at this ..... have a lot more to write will try to get my next post soon :)