I am as proud as any other Indian as we continue our journey of development and success. It is such a great story in itself that India has always been ruled by a government that is elected by her citizens and not by a power hungry dictator. The story gets even better when we realize that we have remained united in spite of speaking different languages and being intimidated by power hungry lunatic politicians. There has never been any question of any loss of integrity and let us hope there never will be one in foreseeable future.
The pace of our development has brought even the most powerful of nations to their knees. We can stall a WTO deal and even demand a nuclear deal signing NPT. Globalization has benefited us greatly and there have been innumerable India success stories as far as entrepreneurship is concerned.
I faced an awkward situation last week at work. We follow the Agile model of software development at Symbian and half of my team is in Britain. In the kickoff meeting of this iteration on Monday, we (the Indian part of the team) duly reminded the Scrum master (at Britain) that we would not be working on the 15th of August. When asked for a reason, we said that it was becuase of the Independence day and the Scrum master added (read with a British accent) "Um, Independence from Britain, isn't it?". What followed immediately was an awkward minute of silence and moment of awkward laughs from both ends of the teleconference device.
I wanted to tell this story to emphasize the level of development and respect that we have garnered in the past 61 years. People who treated as slaves of a petty colony are our business partners today and take a bow at our skills. This was the proudest I felt of being an Indian in my life and hope to cherish more such moments. Wish you all a very proud and prosperous Independence day.
Regards,
Anirudh.
P.S. Could not get this post on time as I was in Kemmangundi on 15/07/2008, which will be the topic of another post.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Life's like that.
The week leading up to the Bangalore blasts had been a dream epoch as far as my professional front was concerned. Anirudh, the "graduate" software engineer had won a Value Recognition Award for demonstrating the Symbian value of Excellence and also had been bestowed with a very good mid-year appraisal. I was on a high as gift coupons too accompanied the award.
Around 3'o clock on that fateful afternoon, my office was buzzing with news of bomb blasts in Madivala, which I dismissed as some sort of rumor. Then, news of serial bomb blasts in Bangalore started trickling in and to my horror, I found these to be entirely true. The ibnlive website confirmed 4 blasts in Bangalore and all the happiness drained out of me.
One could argue that these were low intensity blasts and had caused very little mortal damage. But the fact that some people could go to the extent of killing innocent civilians, who do not even know these people and then mask it with a religious name and label it as crusade disturbed me the most. I am hard pressed to find a cause that justifies these murderous acts.
However, what followed this was even worse as serial blasts rocked Ahmadabad the next day. I thought the perpetrators of these blasts had succeeded in their motive of terrorizing the mass as I was praying to god to save the next day off any news of more deaths or blasts.
As far as some imbeciles who run this country were concerned, they could do no better than utter those cliches of 'we condemn this heinous, cowardly acts of terror, blah, blah blah'. I hold them as much responsible to this as much as the people who executed this plot. Intelligence failure on our part is the main reason this machination succeeded.
People may call it freedom struggle, revolution or even fight against oppressive powers. Nothing can justify these acts of terror. May god bless every soul that has suffered because of this violence. A bright sunny morning always dawns after a chilly dark night. Life is really like that.
Regards,
Anirudh.
P.S.
I would like to thank BSNL for repairing my modem, which was out of order for more than a week. Their swift action of redirecting me to numerous telephone numbers, people and offices when I approached them for not taking action on the complaint registered is highly appreciated.
"2 mbps super speed, BSNL is all you need!"
Around 3'o clock on that fateful afternoon, my office was buzzing with news of bomb blasts in Madivala, which I dismissed as some sort of rumor. Then, news of serial bomb blasts in Bangalore started trickling in and to my horror, I found these to be entirely true. The ibnlive website confirmed 4 blasts in Bangalore and all the happiness drained out of me.
One could argue that these were low intensity blasts and had caused very little mortal damage. But the fact that some people could go to the extent of killing innocent civilians, who do not even know these people and then mask it with a religious name and label it as crusade disturbed me the most. I am hard pressed to find a cause that justifies these murderous acts.
However, what followed this was even worse as serial blasts rocked Ahmadabad the next day. I thought the perpetrators of these blasts had succeeded in their motive of terrorizing the mass as I was praying to god to save the next day off any news of more deaths or blasts.
As far as some imbeciles who run this country were concerned, they could do no better than utter those cliches of 'we condemn this heinous, cowardly acts of terror, blah, blah blah'. I hold them as much responsible to this as much as the people who executed this plot. Intelligence failure on our part is the main reason this machination succeeded.
People may call it freedom struggle, revolution or even fight against oppressive powers. Nothing can justify these acts of terror. May god bless every soul that has suffered because of this violence. A bright sunny morning always dawns after a chilly dark night. Life is really like that.
Regards,
Anirudh.
P.S.
I would like to thank BSNL for repairing my modem, which was out of order for more than a week. Their swift action of redirecting me to numerous telephone numbers, people and offices when I approached them for not taking action on the complaint registered is highly appreciated.
"2 mbps super speed, BSNL is all you need!"
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