This one is a very strong post I have been looking forward to share, but really never ever got the strength to do it. We Indians (with me as the 1st one on the list) are prone to get carried away and take things for granted. This is specially true with respect to the topic/subject line. Personally I think we received more than what we(associated to IT industry) deserved, and instead of thanking God, we started exploiting it.
Has any IT professional ever wondered how much he would be contributing to the revenue and then compare it with his salary.
Has anyone ever bothered to look on statistics that state that on an average 40% of the people who accept job offers do not join the Organizations. Maybe we do not realize, but mistakes are not spared in the kind of Industry we happen to be a part of. The country bleeds as a whole, and the signs have starting showing up.
In past over a decade I have seen so many Organizations shutting down as we as human beings have been having short-sighted visions and do not look the overall picture. But the time has come when even the good guys will also have to pay the price. When the mob starts, it does not recognize the color of the blood. No one gets away from consequences of karma, and in this case its the Nation which suffers at the end of the day.
Around a decade back, I was so impressed when I had heard right from the horse's mouth who had brought Motorola to India as he wanted to give something back to the country (was also one of the most down to earth guy I have come across in my lifetime). That particular BU had shut down (due to engineers like us), and today I feel ashamed even to contact such a great man. Forget about hundreds of people losing jobs (the good guys also).
I really wonder at times as to what kind of generations are we building. Do we tell our kids to be selfish in life, have short-sighted-ness, either leave nation or suck to whatever extent possible. Have no ethics, no values, no principles and basically dispute everything that's being taught in schools.
We definitely tell them about the political in-competencies, but do we tell them:
1. Narayan/Sudha Murthy have been running orphan-ages.
2. Sabeer Bhatia has been setting up schools and teaching poor children.
3. Sridhar Jayanthi goes to clean the parks wearing office unforms over the weekends (morning 5 o clock) with other colleagues. Without any show offs.
4. So many organizations have been running orphanages to old age homes contributing to whatever extent possible.
5. Pakistan media states that India has multiple heroes, but have we ever bothered to know who they are and how they happen to be. Have we told them that Azim Premji, Narayan Murthy, Ratan Tata, Anil Ambani and so many others are the most approachable-and down to earth people.
2 comments:
Hi Abhinav,
Yesterday I came to know about you. Today after doing some research on web, now I know who actually you are.
It was very good to read your articles. In many ways we both share common points for this article. I loved your patriotism, humbleness and writing skills...Good work.
Hope one day our people of India realize what they are doing and change their attitude towards others.
To give an eg., In Japan, people may not maintain there own house properly, but public places will be as clean as our temples :-). We have long way to go to achieve that kind of perfection, when our men treat all public places as toilets.
ey Manohar, I read your message after many many years. Thanks for your words. Yea, I am an Indian by heart and that's why never settled abroad.
I agree that we need to work on public places, make people realize the importance of civic sense and so on.
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