What can you say? Is it a progressive society

It was late in night and all the big shots in Indian business gathered. Right from liquor king to king khan. When you allow these people, they will talk in length about social responsibility. Their social responsibility stop at either putting a web link in their company website, establishing aviation academy in a tribal village, or at maximum doing a lip service in their movies. They were in a big posh place and guy hitting the hammer. All were wearing fashionable dresses. Gents were in full suit and ladies :-( (I dont remember exactly they were wearing, but I believe there should be some dress). Thanks to Modi, CEO of IPL, who commercialized playing cricket. Thanks to media who gave him award for being innovative. Thanks to BCCI for brining an excellent cricket session. I know they are working really hard, squeezing their brain to bring only best cricket to Indian cricket lovers. It was great to watch movie stars, business guys, cricket players, spouses of stars/business guys/players. Each one of them involved in IPL deserve special award. But it is the cricket lover who has been cheated by these guys to make money. Read on.

Unlike 20 years back, these days cricket are played frequently. One dayers, test match and recent T20 cricket. The main strength of T20 is that it steals a lot of time but we do not know that it is stealing time. A normal cricket lover watches a match for 4 hours and these match certainly will be in memory for another 4 hours. Another 4 fours he spends in mere dreaming on how the match is going to be and seeing highlights of watched match. Totally, the "cricket fanatic" is going to waste 1.5 day of productive work. This is a case of one match. But generally these matches never come in single. There is a proverb in Tamil - "Sani ponam, thaniya poogathu". Each match except Semis and final are "sani ponam". And this is going to happen for almost 2 months in year. So for every year, on an average basis, a cricket fanatic is going to waste 3 months (I lost count and hence let us maintain the lower limit as 3 months). Also, you cannot say who is going to be the cricket fanatic.

Once they decided to go mad, they go mad to an extent which you and I cannot imagine. It catches everyone right from Vice President to Software Engineer, Homemaker to Aeroplane pilot. The cricket can make anyone idiot. It doesn't care whether he is Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Actor Vijay, Vijay Mallaiya, Srinivasan, Ramamoorthy, Gunasekaran, Prabhakaran, Karthi, Jopesh, Aslam, he, she, they, it, you and I. I also feel that we can official introduce betting as a part of IPL T20 so that it also helps us to earn (this is joke. dont take it seriously. i certainly feel that it may happen and tomorrow CNN-IBN will give me award for innovation. LOL)

Is it a sign of responsible society? If you are reading this, please think for a while, are you gaining anything because of T20 or does it lead to any benefits to our country. When you sum up, India loses more, IPL T20 is making Indian lazy and unproductive. Playing in casino is a gambling and IPL T20 is an organized gambling with cricket lovers as mere jokers. The "cricket fanatics" has to remember that it is energy sucker and growth ****er.

Ironically, these business leaders when they go and sit in their office they want their employees to be productive. But they forget the fact that they are the main culprits for making Indians unproductive. It is good that this time we are not going to have T20 in Indian soil. Let us say good bye to 2-month long T20, Lalit Modi, BCCI, Owners of the team and players. Let us spend sometime in thinking on how to make ourselves better and India better. If you are one of the policymaker or responsible citizen, please spread the awareness to fellow Indian. It is the people of India who make the future India and not these kinds of energy suckers. As Gerald Weinberg says, there is thin line between doing and over doing. Even a good thing done beyond a point turns out to be the negative. IPL is now overdoing cricket and let us stop it before it becomes overly non-sense.

Let Indian and India to grow.

Have a Reason to Cheer - Indian IT

It is not even over a month that Mr Obama addressed congress and made a powerful voice against outsourcing. He announced the end of tax breaks to the companies that outsource jobs to other countries. Within a month, I hope, he understood the value that outsourcing creates to US. In the recent statement, Mr Obama, rewrote his words that he was not against outsourcing low-level, low-skill jobs. Is there a reason to say this? Are there any hidden agenda? I believe yes. The emerging markets like India have become no non-sense market place for MNCs because of their consumption power. It is that consumption power that made US, the super power and it is the same consumption power that is going to make India, a super power.

The consumption is so powerful and that is how Pepsi, Coke, Colgate and many other brands are making money. Thanks to globalization. If there is a policy decision against outsourcing, the other countries where the jobs are outsourced will also make some policy decisions against these MNCs. Without outsourcing, the existence of these MNCs is Win-Lose proposition with emerging economies in losing side. I hope that the business organizations in US have understood this and this is right time for the policymakers in emerging markets to keep a watch on the developments. Also, with the current economic slowdown, MNCs will not be able to withstand any further blow. When the economy recovers, the stand on outsource will become irrelevant. Even in the current climate, the US companies wanted to push some "risks" to high value & risk taking Indian companies. So, the outsourcing helps to diversify their risks. :-)

Overall, apart from direct benefits, the outsourcing leads to a lot of flexibility and this flexibility is quite essential for all developed nations, not only to the US. So, moving forward we will see the dilution in "stop outsourcing" slogan and this will be done or can be done as a lip service.