Rape of My Motherland

Any crime is pardonable in world

Provided its no sin against a mother

And when it’s the matter of mother of millions

How can I forget how they tortured my motherland?                                   ------1

Many came, invaded time and again,

Had their share in the cruel crime

They had fun, they enjoyed but for me

It was rape of my motherland                                                                  -----2

Some attacked once, some did seventeen times

Looted villages, temples and shrines

Forget humans, even the god was not spared

In barbaric rape of my motherland                                                            ----3

Initially they came as traders,

Gradually built their army

Slowly and shrewdly they entered politics

As it was well planned rape of my motherland                                           -----4

They forced opium into land and fire in stomach

Were inhuman to poor and helpless

They converted fertile land into heaps of sand

As they raped my motherland                                                                   -------5

Generation after generation they ruled

Generation after generation they sucked the blood

Carried away all the jewels and wealth they could

And so was the rape of my motherland                                                      -----6

They divided they ruled

We were the losers and our integrity lost

They tore her in pieces

As they raped my motherland                                                                   -----7

Away went the foreigners and in came her own sons

They sold her cunningly to the neighbors

And what continued there after

Was the pathetic rape of my motherland.                                                   -----8

The agony didn’t end

The terrorists continued their assault

The pain and torture only grew

As they continued rape of my mother land                                                  -----9

Why shall any one bother,

Why anyone shall feel the agony

Why shall anyone understand the pinch and pain

Because it was rape of my motherland                                                       -----10

It hurts me a lot, I feel sorry

I try to protest but in my own meek way

but I watch her sons attaining martyrdom

As they revolted against rape of my motherland                                             ------11

The Power of Destruction

When you strive for reaching thoughts, you may get constructive thoughts, destructive thoughts, random thoughts and absolutely no thoughts.

Constructive thoughts are good to have but more often, they are repackaging of solution or they revolve around an existing problem. Hence, in my view, they lack novelty.

Random thoughts are good to have provided they are not too random. They have the probability to swing to either side with high risk high gain situation. Worst case, the random thought can be astray and be totally off target as objective of thought is nebulous.

People with no thought are often left wondering and they sit in audience clapping and cheering for others or cribbing about other’s success.

For me, my thoughts lie in destructive zone. For me, destructive is not negative but joyous- How can I destruct something? I am not a violence lover. What I mean here is destruction of boredom, mindset, limited thought process, set way of thinking, one’s limitation, pessimism, monotone and many other things which will be good to destruct but we have often embraced most of these in our daily lives- professional as well personal.

One counter argument to my thoughts are why cant we be constructive and create new atmosphere of freedom, open-mindedness, new thoughts etc. Well, no argument there but in my view, you can only construct new things after you destruct your old patterns. To learn something new, first unlearn the past learning. You cannot build a house unless you clear the piece of land. 

Most of the organizations have their success stories based on one disruptive and destructive thoughts. Who would have thought ten years ago that James Bond will ever endorse a Pan Masala or there will be something like e-commerce and there will be fierce competition in the segment? 

We all need to invoke the lord of destruction, Shiva, to destruct our beliefs, then only a new universe will born. 

Fading glamour at campus placements??

Fading glamour at campus placements??

Joining B-schools was one of the top preference for all the talented young graduates in the country. Most of them post their ‘IIT’ preferred an ‘IIM’ tag (they are just representations of premier colleges) to attach with them which made them suitable for most job providers and matrimonial proposals in the country. In last 3-4 years, rise of start-up organizations created new kind of jobs which were much more entrepreneurial in nature compared to structured FMCG or paint companies who dominated the campus placements at management schools during the yesteryears. The young companies not only met the work profile aspirations of new managers but also took great care of them in terms of compensation package with each trying to outnumber the other to get the cream of the talent. However, the math has changed a bit now. The top domestic e-commerce companies are all set to ‘right-size’ their work force after big-bang hiring (often done for PR to show their big plans) and get a better ROI from their human capital and to attain profitability. Some other start up service aggregators also decide to fold their operations in many areas due to their losses and their VCs tightening the noose after the disastrous financial performance. With reduced number offers/ delayed joining and an uncertainty on future of business, the young managers are now a worried and restless lot. In most cases, a huge study loan further compounds their worry.  

Based on the hike in average salaries offered on campus- thanks to the start-ups, few management schools using the data of last 3-4 years and raised their fees recently. However, the algorithm followed in deriving the new fees structure does not appear to be very true in changed business environment. The rising fees structure at B School and start-up not being glamorous any more, are we going to see a lesser ROI from being an MBA graduate and will that mean lower demand for MBA seats? I don’t know the answer but surely it will not be a kumbh mela of start-ups on Day 0 of the placements and without the attraction of maha kumbh, how many devotees will still go to the meccas of management? Though the place still remains holy and will hold significance for many but surely one major attraction will go off. I would like to clarify that it is not end of e-commerce industry but it is beginning of their consolidation phase. From steel to IT, every industry has gone through consolidation after their rapid growth phase and recently, we saw some acquisitions and consolidation in e-commerce too- with objective of building greater synergies between two competing forces. It might be the end of only their mushrooming phase and now it is time to strengthen their core areas. This will still drive demand for skilled people but not in terms of number as number of competitors might be decreasing.

Another management program which flourished was one year executive program for people with minimum certain number of years of experience under their belt. Lot of people join such program after good 8-10 years of experience and with their last drawn salary bracket around INR 3-4 million. With one group of recruiters who were potentially high pay masters for such experienced talents, out from the auction race (my apologies for using the word-auction but the placement process and auction process are very similar), how willing will be such people to leave a settled job, at a mid-level position, shelling a huge fees from their pocket and joining back almost without a salary hike from their last drawn package? At least to me it doesn’t look like a lucrative deal unless it is partially sponsored with a guaranteed raise in position and financial package and I would like to reiterate the point of consolidation phase and demand for highly skilled professional but may be in lesser number.

In short, high fees structure and with not many glamorous salary providers, is the craze of joining B-school going to come down? Only time will tell. May be a new set of rescuers will come soon providing new dimensions to this demand and supply equation. We have always seen that ending of one era gives way for new era to come in. Campuses have seen dominance of FMCG, IT, Banking, Telecom sector for a brief period and E-commerce as prime recruiters. Who knows, there could be a baby already out in this world who in next couple of years will come up with his huge demand for the talented professionals. The demand will surely create a new imbalance to dictate the flow of raw talent to these polishing stations. Till then, we may have to wait.

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http://retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/e-commerce/e-tailing/snapdeal-to-lay-off-employees-soon-confirms-company-sources/52464356

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http://yourstory.com/2016/05/tinyowl-shuts-operations-except-mumbai/

http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/zomato-loss-runs-to-rs-1-5-lakh-monthly-116052601302_1.html

http://www.bigdecisions.com/article/is-an-overseas-education-worth-the-money?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=category_child&utm_term=ndtv