Thursday, July 9, 2009

Sad but True !!!

OK. So I know it has been a long time ('long' being an understatement) since I visited this place. Thanks to the amount of work and lack of jobless time. Still, no excuse for not venting my feelings out on millions of people who basically dont give a tiny rat's arse becuz of a million other reasons, half of which I'm guilty of myself. Confused ? Too bad !

Ok now for the Disclaimer, so that no one sues my hiney for saying the truth.
The comments made in this article are the sole opinion of yours truly and not a generalized motive. Reader should understand that this is not a reference to the general public but specific set of the crowd. People are advised to stop reading if found offensive (DUH !!). Article penned by expert (lmfao??). Please do not immitate in private or public (unless you wanna be crucified).

The definition of WORK DONE is
"Work is the amount of energy transferred by a force acting through a distance"
or in simple terms
W=F*D
(This is not an article about some physics theorem. Only references are made !)

But what if either of the energy or the force is negative. By negative energy, I mean working against the cause involuntarily (and not the generic negative aura stuff.... oooooooommmmmm....LOL) or in the case of negative force - a person who is a bad influence on others so that the work is affected. This is what is happening in India today and this is the gist of the blog.

32% of Doctors in US are Indians
28% of Engineers in US are Indians
41% of professionals in UK and Australia are Indians
The list just goes on... But for what?

I know the face curls into a frown as to why I'm betraying my county by bad-mouthing it myself. I am as much patriotic as any other. Sometimes even an eccentric. But its true that India-ns (by which I mean Indians in India), being one of the smartest race in general, are putting themselves and their nation's pride to shame. I dont make empty accusations. I have experienced this fact all over the country and when you compare it with similar situations invloving non-Indians, your head hangs. Here's a few examples - .

I have seen in India that drivers (even those who are decently educated), prefer to sleep at every second they get instead of doing something productive. On the other hand, I have had an experience of a philipino driver (who has only done his basic primary school) who prefers to read in his free time - right from newspapers to novels!!

In the so called 'corporate offices' (no offence to the hard working crowd but its the others who invite the sarcasm and its those germs i'm referring to), the junta has a very 'dont care' attitude towards their work and tend to make a mockery of the whole oganisation. A very irritating habit is the carelessness and laundering of property. There is a saying in Hindi "Tera baap ka maal hai kya?". Its clearly not, so they have no issues in mishandling the company's properties, voluntarily or otherwise. Its the attitude of "It aint mine, so why should I care".

You cannot give the whole responsibility of a job to someone without having to micromanage and follow up continuously. They basically become vegetables who do just what they are told and nothing more. Why does the country need vegetables..? We might as well import robots and program them.

All these issues may seem very trivial and worthless. But put together they make up the scary true story of our country.

The world is filled with Indians, doing a fantastic job. But its sad that the situation is such in our own country. We can blame it on a whole set of reasons ranging from bad politic(ian)s down to the overrated 'call centre culture'. But unless the people realize this and do something about it, no blog, no campaign, no tv ad can ever do anything about it...!

As mentioned in the beginning, this post is just my opinion thru practical experiences. All readers are welcome to agree and more than welcome to disagree...!

5 comments:

Deepali Jamwal said...

hmmm quite true... One such example that comes to my mind is these very literate people who travel by BMWs litter left right and center. But this same class of people will never litter abroad, out of dignity... What a shame!!!

Madan Chander said...

Truly sad... Lets hope they get some sense in their blob heads...

Raghu said...

Wow, I've thought plenty about this problem and the reasons to why people do this kind of thing. We should catch up and have a debate or something dude :P

I'll just say this : The problem will cease to be a cause for concern when the Gen Y's kids takes the reins, in about 40 years (I hope). Assuming mankind doesn't invent some superior cyborg race and we get eaten by them first :D
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biomass-fueled-robot

Madan Chander said...

@Ragz
Sure we will catch up and debate on this topic soon.
At which time I have a few other stuff to bring u upto speed with.

And get a hold of urslef... Cyborg, Gen Y, eating mankind...
As much as its a thought provoking idea, I would like to stay in my own peaceful dome rather than in something's stomach... :D

Sunshine said...

long is like an understatement to how long its been! i know ur very busy rite now but u betta get ur ass back to ur blog!!