Random Thoughts

 19 Jun > ❤️ रात की नींद_ख़्वाब ❤️

हमें भी नींद आ जाएगी हम भी सो ही जाएँगे 

अभी कुछ बे-क़रारी है सितारो तुम तो सो जाओ ।

20 Jun > चाहे कितना भी वक़्त ले लो पर आना ज़रूर,

सब्र बहुत है मुझमें….

21 Jun > तमन्‍ना फिर मचल जाए, अगर तुम मिलने आ जाओ,

ये मौसम ही बदल जाए, अगर तुम मिलने आ जाओ..

22 Jun > वो देता है मुझे अपनी सबसे

क़ीमती चीज़…“वक्त”..♥️♥️

23 Jun > डोर चरखी पतंग सब कुछ था

उसके घर की तरफ हवा न चली 

24 Jun > and whenever I look into your eyes,

I know I’m staying there forever!

मैं तेरी नजर में नजरअन्दाज ही सही,,

मगर तेरी निगाहें मेरा पीछा करती हैं।

25 Jun > दिल तो क्या चीज है..

हम रुह में भी उतरे होते..

तू ने चाहा ही नहीं,,चाहने वालों की तरह !

01 Jul > बहुत कोशिश की 

       मैंने उसको समझाने की ,

फिर इक रोज मैंने

      खुद को समझा लिया..!! 💕

My Mother

Today, 13.06.2020 EDT and 14.06.2020 IST, I have lost my Mother. She was my first Guru and a friend. Taught me and guided me thru out her life. She has helped me a lot during my difficult time when I was struggling in building my career. I cannot forget her support thru out my life.
I have very fond memories of her. I remember the day when I have taken her out on a date with me. We have gone to a restaurant and enjoyed the food of her choice. I have taken her to various temples wherever she wanted to go.
Today I have lost her. I have lost my Girl Friend. She was herself middle school passed but ensured higher studies of her daughters and grand daughters. Her daughters and granddaughters are successful doctors, HR professionals, engineer, journalist and teacher. I salute her vision of women empowerment thru education whereas she herself was not that educated.
It is unfortunate, I could not get chance to meet her during her last time. I am so unfortunate, I could not see her. Could not talk to her. I am stuck in foreign country amidst covid-19 lock down. I cannot participate in her last rites. It is so unfortunate.
My Mother, you were a noble lady. You were a source of strength to me. I will miss you !!

TEACHERS

Will Kejriwalji ensure that teachers get full salary as per the scale in all private school and there will not be any payback ??? Need is to restore the dignity of teacher's community in India. No body wants to choose teacher job by choice... It needs to ensure that privately managed school should pay full salary to teachers, Increasing working hours without suitable compensation will lead to dissatisfaction and discourage people to opt for this noble profession. Need of the hour is to increase facilities in Govt School so that more children are attracted. Make free education for all in Govt school. There should not be any difference by caste, religion or economic condition. Make it free for everybody. Charge higher taxes from the citizens who owns big cars, houses and business. This is their social responsibility.

OUTSOURCING MENANCE

The other day, I was returning from Copenhagen Airport after receiving my family from India. The taxi driver is from Northern part of Iraq and in is living in Sweden since 20 years. I found the driver very talkative. And it recollected my days in Cab, wherein certain drivers were so talkative that invoke irritation some times. But this driver was different. He was discussing with me international outsourcing issues. He told me that European companies pay $ 2 per day at Bangladesh to worker for stitching of the clothes and does not provide any social security or facility. Whereas, for the same kind of work, the local cost is $ 100 plus other Government obligated social security and compulsory holidays.
I tried to co-relate the same situation with myself. I am a employee of well known company and working on almost similar pattern. My job is based on project, which always has a deadline. It does not matter if we have holidays or festivity around those deadlines. These projects are outsourced to us by MNCs with their HQ in developed western countries. I have been working in this environment since many years. What I have found, that these companies can not force their employees not to take vacation or work during weekend in order to meet the deadlines. However, these companies enforce the outsourced contractors to meet the dead lines, come what may.

Their employees enjoy the holidays and festivities to fullest, whereas we are required to work during those days. Even if we take a leave, our manager would call to know the status of the work, spoiling the mood of bunking work. We are required to work in major festivals as US is open, but we will not get Christmas holidays, as we don't observe that festival. So we are screwed. Since project has to be completed, we need to stretched ourselves , a bit, but outsourcing company's employees does not stretched. They even mind calling them during their leisure time. You need to say sorry first for the call and than put your problems. If the gentleman is in good beer mood, he will listen else yell at you for disturbing him.

Most of the time, our managers also agree to these MNCs and force their team to work during holidays, else they have right not to recommend performance linked bonus. Thus outsourced team neither enjoy work nor holidays or personal moments. They are always under pressure of performance. The worst situation is we are required to work during their office time, so most the team work half day / night or during night. This leads to serious health problem and impact circadian rhythm.
My one of the colleague is asking for a transfer from one city to another and her request is not granted, only because these big MNCs does not want her to relocate and our Managers also waggle like a dog's tail.
I feel that these western countries are treating us like a resource and our political leaders don't do anything to create jobs locally.

Price less ..Human Emotions

Last week, I was at Copenhagen airport to receive my family. I was very much excited to receive them and I had reached there couple of hours before. I checked the expected time of arrival of flight and it was reaching little earlier than the scheduled time. Since I had to wait for about two hours, I took a bench in a waiting lounge and started to see people.
People were anxiously waiting for their nears and dears one. This comprised all the age groups from seniors to tiny toddlers. Some of the teen aged were carrying banners with greetings slogan for their friends/ family members. While one group of people were wearing funny things to make their guests laugh. As I had come earlier, I noticed people were standing since long to see their friends. Employees of the tour operators and taxi drivers were also part of the waiting crowd.
Arriving People are greeted with same warmness and fondness all over the world. There is no difference in emotions with the color of skin or religion. Blacks / Browns/ Whites were sharing the same emotions. Heart and feelings are same across all over the world and go hand in hand. Onlookers also enjoy the moments when someone hugs someone. They start hugging to expected guests in their mind at that moment. Their heart also cries when they see people greeting with tears. It is difficult to control your emotions at that moment. Surrounding crowd participates in that moment, unknowingly. This crowd steels and share your personal feelings. Employees of tour operators and drivers feel relieved when their expected guests reaches to them and say I am the one, you are waiting for. They also show gratitude towards the guest and try their best to act and show the hospitality.
Alas, my own taxi driver did not wait, and left without taking us to our home. There are such people also among the crowd, who do not have patience or are suffering from their own biases.
It is interesting to see emotional expressions. I believe these expressions cannot be captured in writings or camera. Old people, young people and toddlers..all enjoy these precious moments.... Price less...

My Colleagues

It has been one & half month since I am living in Sweden. I am working with Swedish as well as Indian colleagues. I have found some of the Indian colleagues are working with Swedish people since 5 years. But Swedish people doesn't know our culture. It was strange.

When I was in USA, we used to tell our American counterparts about our culture and festivity. And they were very curious to know about this. That's how we respect each others culture and know each other better.

I started sharing about our festivity with Swedish colleagues and they appreciated and informed that they were not aware of it. My managers also appreciated this informal move and termed it as a wheel for better relationship.

Coming back to my Indian colleagues, we belong to different geographies in India. Most of them are from South, 2-3 people are from North, 1-2 from West and rest are from Eastern part of India. So we all are from different cultural and educational background. What I find common about all, they provide all free unwanted advises to new person like me in this country as well in project. I am tired of such advises. I just could not figure out, how to get rid of such advises. To me there are two option either not to talk anything or just don't discuss anything with them. I do not know which one is feasible.

My internet installation delay is also owe to advise of my one the colleague, who informed that I can have it very cheap and he can help me. Though he took me to one of the shop, but he could not get one cheap. Ultimately I decided myself to go for one with the help of my manager, who is an exception.
one day, I was telling my colleague about trouble I got in finding a bank, due to one wrong turn. Oh..God I did a big mistake. I just received number of advises, which was not required at all. I just got fed up and decided not to talk any more.

The other day, an issue was raised by client...it was a critical system issue...at that point of time, we forget that we belong to different cultures or geography and all tried to resolve the issue ASAP.  At that time, only single thing was in mind ... resolution.... That's the way I like it....we were helping each other and worrying about escalations... But thank God...We were successful....it was Just In Time :)

I have volunteered to give training on a topic which is not applicable in our project. However, it would be new knowledge for the team. I have already learned that in my previous project. I asked my colleagues of previous project if they can provide necessary information so that I could prepare the training material. But my request was not  granted due to one or the other reason. These colleagues used to spent most the leisure time with me in past. However, one of my colleague understood my needs and provided me information which I needed for training. That is what I classify as exemplary help.. I think God always create one human among the crowd who crosses the line and help you out from the deep trouble.

We The Indians

In Swedish TV channel, a program is broadcasted on Australian Border Security. This program highlights about the tough job of immigration department at airport, arrival visa interviews, raid on illegal immigrants and prevent smuggling . The program shows the passengers who are caught submitting false declaration about the goods they are carrying in their baggage from their own country to Australia.

I usually watch this program, not as a choice, but as compulsion as no other program is aired in English at that time. The security personals catch many passengers and interview them. Large number of passengers are caught carrying food items. The commentator of the program, exaggerate the food items in such a way that it looks like that somebody is caught carrying a bomb with intentions to bombard Sydney.

A British woman was caught carrying one banana and three apples. The narrator of the program described those food items as very dangerous items as banana and apple can spoil the soil of beautiful Australia. The woman accepted her mistake for not declaring the food items and paid the penalty of AUD 220. However, she didn't like the way security officer behaved with her.

There are other instances where other foreign nationals were caught and ordered to pay penalties for various non declared items like food items, seeds, weapons, cigarettes etc.

Similarly an Indian couple was caught for non declaration of food items. Their baggage was full of pickles, spices, sweets , namkeen etc and the couple did not mention that in declaration form. The man started arguing with the security officer that he did not take the declaration seriously. In his arguments he also said we 'Indians' are habitual of taking such things lightly. We 'Indians' do not read the legal things carefully. While doing meaning less argument with the security team, he was saying all the bad things about Indians and Indianization. When security team did not consider his pleas, than the man declared that he is a heart surgeon in India and should be taken leniently. His wife who was standing silently, all of sudden started coughing and said she was not well and had fever. Thus security should show mercy on her. This also did not impress security officer and they confiscated all food items and imposed the penalty of AUD 220. Watch this video here ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHbbAQmpJQ

The incident looks small, but in this process the couple has insulted the entire Indian society. Since Indians take all things casually, they are not civilized and do not observe law, that security force will see all Indians with suspicion. That couple does not know how much damage they have done to us. Such persons have no right to speak on behalf of the entire race. The couple also tried to show that they are respectable citizens in India by disclosing the professions. Do respectable citizens behave in this manner?

While watching that program, nationals from other countries did not speak any thing about their race or society or habits in general. Though they were annoyed but always admitted that it was their own mistake and not of Britishers, Chinese or Indonesian.

When will we learn to admit our mistakes and not blame our Indianization? We need to respect our own race and culture, else how the others will respect India and Indianization.