Over communication:: 21 century`s first problem

I was travelling from Bharuch to Baroda on a sunny Saturday. Train was as usual jam pack and there was no place to keep foot. All of a sudden an uncle woke up and recognized his station and jumped out of train making “a seat vacant in general class”. I sat there first so it was mine; after a long time I got a chance to “sit & travel in train” at same time. But as soon as I came out of the moment, I saw a very old age person (in his early 90s) standing near me, reading book “conclusions of Rig veda” (Rig veda ka saar). From his cloths he looked poor but from his book he was richest man to me. I requested him to have the seat and as can be prejudged by his character, he declined. I requested him again and he accepted (considering age factor, I guess!). Now I was standing on his shoulder. Few other people appreciated the gesture and all of a sudden he said “Give me 5 mins. And I will be done”. I didn’t know what so say, And in like 7-8 mins. He turned to me and started casual conversation, name, place occupation etc. Few other travelers joined conversation by introducing themselves. As soon as I said my name and told him that I work in sanitary ware, he said “well someone is working on Gandhi’s dream”. Me a Gandhi`s dream, what the hell was this man talking about. And I turned this question to him and he replied “Gandhi`s dream was to see upper cast working in sanitary and lower cast in governmental or official class; meaning every one and every work is equal”. We both concluded by smile. People all around were listening. Further conversation turned into debate, and as usual I was standing against Gandhi. In between came a topic that stormed out everything.

Communication

Now, the man introduced himself as senior person in Army Bhola Pratap – some kind of communication`s department post independence. He was a big fan of “Garam dal” before independence. He explained the importance of communication before independence and reminded me few of examples like “Chapatti & Lotus Flower” (Roti Aur kamal ka fool). He said it was his dream to see communication flourishing in India. It was his dream to watch Congress rule like “a people`s government”. But then everything changed inside the congress and good people were thrown out and bad were becoming more captive. He said “my father use to tell me after all Congress party is a British party as it is started by A.O Humes. It may have Indian faces but its intentions will always try to run things like British”. He told me how angry he use to get when his father use to abuse Congress. TO get him more into deep, I pushed him “Do you think its all Congress`s fault?”. His reflexive answer was “No no - not at all. Congress share is 20%. It’s the people who couldn’t draw the line of their roles and functions post independence. You can blame my generation and my son`s generation (Or your father`s generation) who enjoyed the independent rights without writing their duties. We all abused our available resources and keep them in our house. All family were having 4 kids in 50s and 60s (Your father mother must be a 4 brother or sisters). That’s when family planning was set. Since 1960s population growth fell but we never closed our borders or checked our infiltration from all sides. We never know the cause of this population explosion till date? Why are we 100 Billion?

Post independence when celebration of independence was on going and was taking this face of madeness, there were awareness camps by Swami Vivekananda Societies for society but nothing came concrete. In less than a decade to make matters worse – there came T.V & Ramayan and all. Till radio it was OK. Initially T.V broadcast of 1 Hour of news was also good; but when 24 hrs of Doordarshan came it went to over communication. And the only reason India did it was because world was doing it!! Before independence, the plan was “to lead the world” but the truth was we were far behind the world to lead. And instead of telling this bitter truth “colorful tube-lights were required in Mumbai to make the arrows of Shri Ram and Ravan look real”. I was posted in “Government communication improvement program with Eastern states”, I was good in flying due to war with China and war with Pakistan. In 1980s after making Bangladesh country`s government were in fear that people in favor of calling east Pakistan may attack eastern territories. So to make communication strong I was allotted full Authority of “keeping communication 100% up by any and all means”. In order to maintain such high demand; I asked Army and government to give me any plain so that I can take a stop at Lucknow, Allahbad Kolkata and reach Siliguri (Assam) in Less than 6 Hrs. But our government couldn’t find a single plane out of Army as Army clarified it’s not a war situation and most fighter planes are on Repair. It was this time when TATA handed the Air India fleet and proved its loyalty to nation but in against to their loyalty. Air India was nationalized and merged to Indian airlines. This is how actual communication (the necessary one) was established while country was watching T.V. Its ever since that incidence, I am watching India go mad like anything on any kind of communication and these devices are make people more stupid and lame day by day without giving them the hint.”

A first class bogie silence ran through the whole general compartment.  Another gentleman asked “How is T.V and internet making us lame day by day?”.

He smiled and said “You tell me cause of any invention or discovery?”

Some college kid replied “Need or passion; desire to solve a problem!!”

Agreeing to man uncle again started and said “If everything can be googled or searched or bought over internet; how are you going to inspire the new generation to invent?  If you tell an upcoming generation a story you will feel that they can’t imagine it. My great-granddaughter is lucky to have us, and she may realize this decades later when I am not here; but few of my great granddaughter’s friends leave their children infront of T.V happily claiming that “she likes to hear this song, its his/her favorite”. What does a 4 year know about those songs? What do they like in it, I cant understand.

Let me take you back to our time, Imagine a time when news paper of 22^nd September tells us that 24^th Sept there is a match says India Pak 1 day and all players are fit and doing their practices. On 23^rd September they will tell roughly about who is umpire and how is the pitch? And again player fitness and ticket status. On 24^th Sept you have to put your ears on radio and hear the whole commentary or else India-Pak may win or lose but you will definitely loose the joy of match. This use of ears; this use of maintained desire to hear kept us keen in our time. It kept our ears connected to brain continuously for larger period of time and these hearing is to understanding capacities use to be very high. Moreover, Kids use to have aims of life like this “buying tickets and going into stadiums to watch match”. These days’ matches run in offices & hall as a background and work is pretty much affected. The more future generation kid you pick up they think they can more multi-task but in reality; they don’t do a single work upto the mark. A similar example of my experience is the letters I have read for all the family people in the village and the money order notes that I have read. They use to gift us with char-ana and say “write a reply”. How emotional they were; how much relation depth was there due to distance and no-connectivity. They valued their relation because of this. Talk more about it; our “gift” was termed as “bribe” by over communication.

Teach me something; Isn’t MBA colleges teaching “connect to your customer” in various ways? And if your customer is willing to pay an extra penne to stay connected to you; what is the problem with that? You are an MBA tell me?”
After a pause and a gulp of water from his bottle he said “Over communication causes over processing and an extra-load giving lesser time to process in brain and hence lead to defective results and causing bad situations at every part.

Look at the Euro crises; does that group of country needed to Make Euro? Their system was fine Greece was having low value on money, so Rest of Europeans uses to go there as it was cheap and enjoys their weekends and come back. After this political dream of Euro; Greece is too costly to travel for Europeans also. This overly fast communication got them into such a big trouble. People in Europe never wanted Euro – It was just a politician`s dream. A bad dream. It came this far only because over communication and forceful questions asked by media again and again and again. Every time they(media) ask the question got an answer and it become more real day by day.

For us the good thing is; now we are putting signs like “do not talk on mobile phone while driving”. “Keep your mobile on silent”. I wish you all a good luck in coming out of this communication dilemma and actually start acting on issues rather than telling more people and making a heap of not required information”.

It was his station!

Reply to Tata`s fake Appreciation

This letter is in response to the “fake-appreciation you gave in UK”. 14.06.11

Dear Mr. Tata,

We received our appreciation from your mouth while you were in Europe explaining employees of TATA over there that how smartly we harass human resource in India which Britishers left.

No employee in India can leave office if there is a meeting at 5 o`clock in evening because he will be fired in morning by your high profile HR department and new frog will be hired uptill he turrs at the company rhythm.

Don’t you think that 8hrs is bottom line of working in India also as in Europe. In UK your company has to show Profit:Devidend:Avg Employee pay; Instead in India you get to hike your own salary by 120 times without explanation.

TCS India :: Data Entry world wide

In conference to a friend in USA I came to know that “ All companies like TCS Infosys etc do the lamest work in the field of computers. Indian software engineer is far worse than any other Geek who do not have any degree. I don’t know how much of it is true but If it is true it should be noted a worth while.

Claw of TCS are above Human Rights

The human right clearly mentions “Emotional matter” as a cause of service break for indefinite duration. These matters involve “death of family person” to “birth of child” and “pregnancy 6 to 8 month leaves”.

I can show you 100s of cases in which TCS has fired a trainee candidate on the basis of “being absent more than 2 days” when he was giving fire to the pyre of his father or mother.
In explanation to this your tamed HR officials say “we have mentioned in our contract”. What exactly have they written is not known to me but I can surely say “whatever it is written is not above the Human right or constitution of India”.
“Job of fear” and “job of interest” are 2 different products and cannot make same way.

HRs of TATA

TCS HRs are like college faculty or Dog. They like it only when you lick them like a dog. If you don’t serve them entertainment wise or any other way they won’t support you. It’s mostly like a kid – unless u give him dairy milk he won’t sing for you.

Problem for any new fresher in new city is of accommodation which most of HRs don’t wanna look at it unless you are a beautiful girl.

Tata Institute of Social Science

I was there for a visit of 1 Hr. tour. I saw that ERO research is mostly of how to use more and more machine in place of people. Statistics and researches are more inclined towards use of machine where men can be used just because machines don’t make that much complain and don’t go on strike.

I asked them how you defined TATA HR offices. Their answer was lame in every way. They dident knew “If there is no 1 above any another Indian then even you and me will start corrupting that post. Its something in our blood.”

Tata Steel : Tata Steal

Your plants are suffering from manpower requirement from min. of 30 engineers in each department to cumulate the load at almost all sites. Its easy to say “ you are stealing the labor jobs and harassing the current employee”. Service of fear is working here too. Your own furnace men told me he hasn’t taken lunch for past 2 days because he was the last to leave the plant, in his shift.

“The romance of Tata steel” clearly mentions that “biggest asset is “company`s employee and nothing else”. The thing that draws my attention is “nothing else” part involved in the quote by Rustam jee. He could have said stopped at “company`s employee” but he wanted to indicate 1 step ahead.

TATA Nano : Sanand

Past year when you shifted to Gujrat I was able to see your Singoor plant in Sanand. Not only it’s awesome but services of Guj Gov are also awesome to you. Again when you get so- much discount then you should give benefit to employees??. Why there is no “bonus of tax benefit” Colum in salary slips.
Your production is slow then line capacity and creates bottle necking from time to time; only reason is HRs; they are not sincere to their duty and nor they give any attention to the training. Least is they are most disturbing on shop floor.

You are outgoing TATA and all this has also happened under your nose.

If anything that has hurt you in my article; well what can I say “Truth bites Tata jee but Truth is truth.”

Your company dont want to be second worst thing that ever happened to Indians in name of company; first one was Britishers – atleast they don’t belong to us but you belonged to us and that’s how this article bleeds out.

Regards,

Mayank

Google Another professionals to challange the Democracy of India

There are about 20,000 Professional blog writer whose technical and non-technical articles are read. All these bloggers earn their bread by praising google. If they stop praising they will not get the fat cheque from Adsense departments of Google,instead they might get a ban.So, I cannot assume that this article can come from a PRO-writer hence Naive such as me has to pick up pen.

I am not the first one to blame Google for something.But when it comes to my country I think Google goes to Rank-2. Recently I came across Article on Rajneeti.comwhere 3 links of Maps of India are shown in google Maps. (See link). The map of India is accordance "what that country desires" and not according to DGSI (Director General Surveyor of India) or UNO.

It is clear that to overcome the China`s Firewall " The great firewall of China"; Google has changed the map of India, showing not only Arunachal as its part but also Kashmir. It is clear that corporate lust of "more clicks" to Google has gone so down hill that they never think of 1-billion sentiments.

This cheap step of Google can clearly mean that moral of company towards "Social Responsibility" is really lower then its "ambition of earning."

These are links for proof…………….

For China- http://ditu.google.cn/

For India- http://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

For US- http://maps.google.com/

Lame Media Shame Media

If, for instance, we believe that 10 political disgraces of India are right as published.Then why the people accused of that are still respected in society.Are people really preying them?

Distorted media has now become a method of earning.If you have 1 crore and wanna make it 10 crore. Start media channel.Publish few truths and you will receive your share in every bribe every central minister is gaining.

Not a single common man will ever mourn over death of leaders like - Any Gandhi (Other then Mahatma), P.V. Narasimha Rao, Lalu Prasad Yadav, etc. But you will always see Media tail legging these dead ones.

Its like 25 years a rich lady of Gandhi family become PM of poor India.Killed several.Made several mistakes that made Indian public more appart from eachother.And later on was assassinated by her own guards.

Still media calls her as "if she was with us India would have become haven ."

Its time for public of India to re think the consequences on which they are being governed and re establish the media houses slowly becoming their eyes.