Festivals are an inseparable part of life in India not just because people are so religious towards God and they feel that they really show their gratitude (majority don't - no offence here) but because its a damn holiday, and festival like diwali brings yearly bonus together with it. Everyone starting from a petty maid to a high class employee from any Indian organization expects gifts and bonuses.
With so much of 'give and take', the economy is bustling, sudden demand for all items in market, Gold prices and Real estate prices skyrocket and even the local tailor makes a huge sum because of sudden increase in orders for custom made 'grand' suits to be worn on the occassion of diwali.
The custom itself is being religiously followed and all the idea behind the festival is smeared deep beneath dust.Even a 5-yr kid will tell you that People burst crackers for their enjoyment, not for God's.
So, where does the fault lie. Its hard and bitter to hear the truth and this truth has been debated upon in many occassions, it has been suppressed to a large extent and nobody will believe such a truth, so I wont give away the answer but leave you pondering about it, hoping that you wont celebrate diwali the way other's do.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Can anybody tell the future
Read the front page article of all daily newspapers dated Oct 11th 2008, in big bold letters, you want to avoid seeing it but its there and the commonest man on this earth is talking about it
"Sensex sheds 1000 points"
Wow, we really need to check tommorow's paper for the number of suicides or murder-suicides committed, but I can't tell you the exact number sitting here right now. Nor can anybody, its the irony that we live with every day
We can never predict the future
People who anticipated that markets would touch 30,000 levels and rupee will appreciate to Rs 35 per dollar were just onlookers to the sad and eventful month, in fact 9/15 has become a global historic date. Its when the big three of the US gave up.
The point that I am making is
-Never be lured by the stock market and never buy shares directly, invest in mutual funds and leave it to the fund managers. Common people like us will get nothing but suffering and huge losses if we start predicting future of markets and stuff.
-About forex, well dont even think in your wildest dreams to become a spot forex trader, its the most dreaded jobs you can ever do which will never let you sleep even if you have had a bottle full of sleeping pills.
These learnings have not originated from me but from my Profs and guest lectures at IIT, so its authentic 'gyaan'.
"Sensex sheds 1000 points"
Wow, we really need to check tommorow's paper for the number of suicides or murder-suicides committed, but I can't tell you the exact number sitting here right now. Nor can anybody, its the irony that we live with every day
We can never predict the future
People who anticipated that markets would touch 30,000 levels and rupee will appreciate to Rs 35 per dollar were just onlookers to the sad and eventful month, in fact 9/15 has become a global historic date. Its when the big three of the US gave up.
The point that I am making is
-Never be lured by the stock market and never buy shares directly, invest in mutual funds and leave it to the fund managers. Common people like us will get nothing but suffering and huge losses if we start predicting future of markets and stuff.
-About forex, well dont even think in your wildest dreams to become a spot forex trader, its the most dreaded jobs you can ever do which will never let you sleep even if you have had a bottle full of sleeping pills.
These learnings have not originated from me but from my Profs and guest lectures at IIT, so its authentic 'gyaan'.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Shaastra and its aftermath
Almost forgot that I had a blog that people would be waiting to read and was so engrossed in wondering why it takes so much time for human beings to recover back from some daily routine. Do humans also follow the Newton's first law, of course the answer would be that every particle of which the human is made of, behaves that way and so the human as a whole has some inertia.
But what is the inertia I am talking about, what is the 'recovery'. Well, the recent tech fest in IIT which was obviously bigger and better than any other fest on Earth, did not spare me from the intense labour and my sleeping habits changed drastically. Even during Shaastra, the environment was so technical, the most common words I used to hear in the morning were Einstein, turbine, patents, brainfck, quiz, DRDO, aerofoil, boomerang, laser show, robot, fire n ice, finance, Video conference etc.
In the evening, it used to be classical IIT lingo with fellow coordinators and volunteers like maccha, dude, coord, vol, mawali, dhule, bhojpuri, fundae, gen, junta, pain, cup, fart, peace etc along with f-word and m-words and etc.
Involvement also reached new high. Imagine me writing a Science fiction story, about 'a Robot who knew everything', what fart I would have left and me with all the social fundaes of common junta would have pained the reader of the story so much that he won't dare to be an event coord next sem.
On the whole, coming back to normal does take time; hope my next post is atleast slightly better than this one and my memory system does not backfire.
But what is the inertia I am talking about, what is the 'recovery'. Well, the recent tech fest in IIT which was obviously bigger and better than any other fest on Earth, did not spare me from the intense labour and my sleeping habits changed drastically. Even during Shaastra, the environment was so technical, the most common words I used to hear in the morning were Einstein, turbine, patents, brainfck, quiz, DRDO, aerofoil, boomerang, laser show, robot, fire n ice, finance, Video conference etc.
In the evening, it used to be classical IIT lingo with fellow coordinators and volunteers like maccha, dude, coord, vol, mawali, dhule, bhojpuri, fundae, gen, junta, pain, cup, fart, peace etc along with f-word and m-words and etc.
Involvement also reached new high. Imagine me writing a Science fiction story, about 'a Robot who knew everything', what fart I would have left and me with all the social fundaes of common junta would have pained the reader of the story so much that he won't dare to be an event coord next sem.
On the whole, coming back to normal does take time; hope my next post is atleast slightly better than this one and my memory system does not backfire.
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