Tuesday, May 5, 2009

This is why you are wrong Mr. Obama

"Buffalo over Bangalore", fair enough for a president of United States, but we need to weigh pros and cons around it.
First thing it’s easier said than done, Bangalore was not built in a day, it took hard work of a complete generation to build Bangalore, and when I say Bangalore I mean Indian IT industry. It was never an easy task to win trust of a new world and deliver to that trust, if you feel that only because of geography someone will start trusting an IT professional sitting in Buffalo more than one sitting in Bangalore than you need to revisit your feeling. Bangalore represents a trust which has been earned through relentless hard work and not through geography.
Second thing, It all start in Bangalore but the main beneficiary is not Bangalore but Buffalo and many other cities like Buffalo, Bangalore has helped Industries in USA , Europe, OZ and Asia Pacific in terms of workforce and effective working. It’s not only low cost; it’s a pool of dedicated professional who in spite of seating at 12000 miles away has welfare of his client as his primary concern.
Third thing this truly miss-represents the culture of countries like USA which are truly meritocratic, Dear Obama sir your rise to the presidency is one of the examples of this, The IT professional from Bangalore are just seeking their position in a meritocratic world based on their merit. They are giving their relentless service and then earning the status they have right now, so discrimination against them is something which USA has never ever represented in history.
And then there are other factors and there has been a lot of talk around how the people from outside has contributed to the growth of USA so I won’t get into that discussion but those factors can’t be ignored.
I understand that your country and rest of the world is going through a economic recession and a financial crisis, but blaming it to Bangalore will not help, Bangalore was not the real cause of it, the real cause was a bunch of greed infested Bankers sitting somewhere in wall street, So what will help is correcting the Banks not Blocking Bangalore.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Youth Representation

I always get out of my temper looking at the youth being misrepresented in this country; Let me come to the point what drives me really out of my mind.

When the youth is represented by some very young (in their late thirties and early forties) heirs of political families.
I have nothing against their fortune, they can have it in their cosy lives, but when they start boasting about the representation of the Indian youth than it’s unbearable. Ask them what do they know about this country, what have they seen till the public saw them, I bet you will get my point, they have never seen the hardships the youth of this country faced, for them getting into Wharton / Oxford / Harvard was as easy as to get a chocolate truffle cake on their birthdays. They will never be faced with a situation when a young guy will be visiting the site of Harvard and dropped the idea of doing an MBA from there because the cost would be somewhere around 10 million rupee in two years.

When some 20 something bunch of idiots (gender agnostic) in a TV reality show trying to prove themselves cool by using offensive language among themselves.
I classify this class of people as sick headed idiots who are trying to prove them self cool, but the problem with being cool is that the moment you try to prove you are cool you are no more. How can this represent the Indian youth majority of which is still uncomfortable seeing a not so clean movie in front of their parents.
I think out of above two cases I have made my point clear, than the point arises that what really represents youth in this country, believe me I am not trying to be representative of any one here but in my view the youth of this country is a group of people sitting somewhere in DU thinking about their career and how to make it big, and also a group of young techies in an engineering college who are working to get their degree and a nice job, the youth is a also represented by a team of IT folks working day in and out to get there project done. The youth is a bunch of UG doctors protesting against the reservation in PG entrance because it is already a pain to get the seat, The youth is me a 27 year old fellow who worked not so hard to get into an engineering college during my teen years, and then equally not so hard to get a job.
My pain is for being misrepresented...............my request is very simple, stop giving us wrong symbols. They are not us............!