* I realize that I have been posting too many cynical posts lately. Well I hope it is last in a line.
Now that we have started catching up with the American way of professional networking or forming social groups with like minded people; spare a thought for the old way of networking – the relatives. It is a hangover from the British Raaj when jobs were steady, clerical, boring and dull. In short, you were neither expected nor required to move here and there for your career. What was dynamic was the circle of your relatives which was lot more eventful – marriages, child births , funerals , second marriages , dowry killings etc etc. This is where you had to develop your circle as in the time of need there were the ones you expected to fall back on. continue reading…
Another one of those movies, where a white Caucasian comes to India and is completely baffled. In this case, he is not a tourist in India but on a corporate mission – something he was manipulated into doing by his slime-ball boss. Apart from the obnoxious and oversimplified stereotyping of Indian characters that is a usual in such movies , another thing that struck me was that they are actually giving us Indians way too much credit at many places. 
SACHENTERTAINMENT, the headline on the sports page of Times of India declared him the greatest player and the biggest entertainer in the cricket history. A country of billion get entertained, that’s a major chunk of entire world population so we can safely presume he is the biggest entertainer amongst all the sports. I don’t see why some people find him boring (as my fellow author of this blog), what else would make an interesting cricketer? – being involved in scams, hitting on bollywood heroines and getting rejected, fancy haircuts and extra marital affairs.
Sure you must have heard your parents reminisce about their golden days when they used to have 10p as their pocket money and how even that money was sufficient to fetch them, what was considered to be a sumptuous meals then. Thanks to inflation, coins are a rare sight now a day. And from barter system to present scenario, change has been continual except for some irregularities in the latter part. 
A great day in history, a great leader and a great inception to a great nation, everything seemed to make those words great. And indeed they were great, for they painted a true picture of India and Nehru’s great vision speculating the future of India, so vividly as to take ahead 40 crore souls along a unified path of glory.
