Day 245

I’m confused today. Not regarding the topic but regarding how to write. I have couple of topics to write upon. My confusion is which one to write. Should I write only one topic today? Should I write both the topics? If I write both the topics then which one to start from. A lot of confusion. Okay, let’s have it in the order in which I came to know about it.

First one is about yesterday’s cricket match between India and Sri Lanka. The end part was really awesome. It would not be wrong if I say that it was power packed. The whole stadium was thrilled with the adventure. Virat Kohli did an applauding job in the last overs. The different strokes which he played eventually lead to a victory which India needed desperately.  All the stroked which he played were aggressive. I think that was need of the hour. Mallinga, who used to be the one of the most efficient and effective bowlers of Sri Lanka, was literally smashed by Virat Kohli. But the match was worth watching. There were many people across the country who had watched the match on television. I think they were equally thrilled at the end like me.

Second topic is related to the misbehaviour of the nephew of West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee. Her nephew, Akash Banerjee, slapped a traffic constable on duty. His car was coming from the wrong direction. The traffic constable stopped him and booked him for breaking the traffic rules. At this Akash Banerjee assaulted the traffic constable. The public came in rescue of the traffic constable. Akash Banerjee was taken to the nearest police station but few other men came and took him from the police station. The senior police officers were silent. If we consider the statement of the victim police constable, then he has logged his complaint in the same police station. But the senior police officers are denying that they have received the complaint or have heard about the incidence.

This is the clear case of hiding the truth and making the culprit escape. Although, the report is that Akash Banerjee has forcefully entered the Shibpur botanical garden a week ago. Mamta Banerjee has intervened and Akash Banerjee has been arrested. But one question is arising here that is it tolerable that any person whose relatives are at high post can misbehave like this? Why isn’t the police officers are becoming strong enough to resist to any pressure from the senior officers or from the guilty politicians? Mamta Banerjee has laid the perfect example of zero tolerance in breaking any rules and regulations. Why can’t other politicians become like this? Now its time for the public to develop the habit of stopping the rule breakers and to ask questions from the politicians and police officials who try to save the rule breakers. 

Day 244

Yesterday, I was supposed to write a post in the blog. But I couldn’t write it because in the evening, I was tired. I wasn’t getting any idea to write. I was busy yesterday in my survey. Survey isn’t an easy job to do. It makes the surveyor to interact with a lot of people or respondents. A surveyor doesn’t know about his or her respondents. Sometimes the respondents are smart enough to fill up the form of pre set questions which a surveyor has with him or her. But sometimes, the respondents aren’t friendly. Some respondents are just irritating. They irritate the surveyor intentionally. Few respondents think that they will get money for giving their response to the surveyor. A survey not only gives the physical tiredness but mental tiredness also. But I think survey gives a chance to a surveyor to interact with the people to know about the thoughts of the mass.

In modern time, every business is depending on the taste and preference of the customers. This rule is applicable to every sector. Even for the promotion and advertisement of a new product, the companies are doing survey. Sometimes, the company do the survey to get the feedback about their products or services. It’s not like only the companies are doing the survey. Sometimes the government agencies and some media houses, also, conduct the survey. We can’t ignore the fact that population census is an example of survey only. So, in modern time, we need to rely on survey a lot. 

Day 243

I know I was absent for the last two days. Actually, I was attending the international conference on spirituality and its paradigm in the corporate world. This international conference is being held in my college. In the last two days, I have heard many speakers who gave their lectures in this field. Some speakers were from spiritual world, few speakers were from education field and few were foreign speakers. Yesterday evening, Mahesh Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt also came to my college. Mahesh Bhatt shared his experience about spirituality. In the last two days, I had couple of yoga sessions, which really worked as stress buster for me. After having those short yoga sessions, I felt a new energy flowing through me. Mostly the speakers told about the important of spirituality. As the spirituality tells about the ethics and morals, these are very much needed in the modern business world. In the modern era, where the companies are driven by the tough competition, every company is setting targets for its executives to achieve; the ethics is loosing its meaning. The life of every one is getting stressed and they are becoming more machines than just a human being.

Spirituality is the food for the mind. It helps a man to understand what is right and what is wrong. It’s totally the decision of a human being to do his action. But when the action of a person becomes bad for the whole society then it becomes unethical. That’s the point where we began to thing what is right and what is wrong. Now in this tough competitive business world, people are turning towards spirituality to have some peace of the mind and for the right direction where they can decide what is the right path to move forward? In my view, these conferences like the one being held in my college are necessary for the future managers to get in touch with the spirituality. 

Day 242

Yesterday, I was talking to an old friend of mine. We were talking on general topics. Then we came to politics. We were discussing about the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh. He told me about Rahul Gandhi’s election campaign. I was surprised to know that how much these politicians lay to public. During the election campaign, Rahul Gandhi tried to connect himself with the poor man. He was having his lunch in a hut of a poor man. But his plate consisted of good quality of rice along with chicken dish. There was a bottle of mineral water. Now how many households of the poor man across the country afford to have such dishes in lunch? I was wondering that how many poor people use to drink mineral water. If the answer to these two questions is none then it simply means that Rahul Gandhi isn’t connected to the poor people neither he has any intention of that. And this isn’t the case of Rahul Gandhi. All the politicians make appearances during the election campaigns only. They aren’t bothering about the real miserable condition of the poor population of the country. They do these type of publicity stunts to have the momentarily support of the mass to win the elections. If Rahul Gandhi is really worried about the poor people and if he really wants to be connected with them then he has to live with them without his security guards and away from the flashlights of media’s cameras. He has to face the daily difficulties which a poor faces in the daily life when the shopkeeper of the public distribution system sells the commodities after making a poor man wait for hours. Rahul Gandhi has to face the problem of electricity and water just like millions of poor people in India. Just having lunch at a poor man’s house or carrying the basket on his head isn’t making him the real poor person of India. 

Day 241

I know that there has been a short gap between my last post and this post. Actually I have got two reasons for this. First one is that I wasn’t getting in mood to write anything. Sometimes I feel lazy so I just take a break of the days which suits my mood. Second reason is that I wasn’t having any topic to write. Most of the times, it happens with me that I don’t have any topic to write. So that’s not a big deal. Then you must be thinking that what made me write today? Good question, I would say. But the perfect answer is that right now I’m travelling in the train. Going to the holy city of Varanasi from my home. Hold on. I’m not on a pilgrimage. I’m going to Varanasi to my college from where I’m doing PGDM. So I thought to utilize this time in writing something.

Well, there is a girl sitting in front of me. By her looks, she is looking nice. I would say that she is average looking but the hairs coming on her face due to winds are making her a bit attractive. But it seems that she isn’t an extrovert. We have a very little formal chat and she is busy in reading some magazine. Frankly speaking, we haven’t told our names to each other. But something is there which is telling me that she is attractive. Generally people don’t chat with strangers in a journey. But I think that if we don’t talk to co passenger then the journey becomes very boring. Isn’t it? As I’m writing this post, our conversation is going by a snail’s pace. I hope before reaching Varanasi, I’ll have her name and may be we will become friends. 

Day 240

I was watching television yesterday evening. Advertisements have become an important part of any serial or the news channel. One advertisement caught my attention. It was the advertisement of Proctor & Gamble. The advertisement was about buying any product of the company and some part of that will be donated for the construction of schools for the education of children in villages. Indeed it’s a noble cause. This is called the Company’s Social Responsibility or commonly known as CSR. Even ITC is doing the same thing. If a customer buys the notebooks of ITC, then a part of that goes for the education of village children. Many companies are advertising for their CSR like this. But in view, the companies are doing this out of compulsion. Not on their free will. CSR is a concept in which a company has to do for the betterment of the society and the environment.

Theoretically, the companies are supposed to do all these things on their own. But the companies are making advertisement in which they are blackmailing the customers emotionally to buy their products. The companies are required to sponsor the CSR on their own funds. But the companies are making the customers buy their products by showing emotional advertisement and they are taking the money from the customers to sponsor the CSR. Technically, this isn’t allowed. The real picture is that the companies are required to do their CSR from the net profit they are earning from their sales. But the companies are showing in their balance sheets that they have a provision of CSR and they are taking the advantage of tax rebate to save their margin of profit by paying less tax.

All these are the traps to confuse the customer. If the companies are really worried and interest about their CSR, then why aren’t they doing it from their net profit. As the companies are having provision of retained earning, which they can use in their tough time, that amount can’t be used for the CSR. If the companies will use the money from the net profit then they won’t be able to survive the competition. So they are luring the customers with their emotional advertisements to sponsor the CSR of the company. I think the companies are really using the English proverb ‘two birds in a single stone’. So now its time for the customer to be aware of these traps for the next time before going for shopping for those products of which the CSR factor is showed in the advertisements. 

Day 239

Today is one of the most memorable days of my life. I’m not going to forget today. I met the love of my life today. It was our plan to meet at somewhere else at a schedule time. It was my friend’s house. But I cancelled the plan of meeting there as my friend was ill. So she told me that she will call me after reaching her friend’s house. Then she called me an hour earlier than the schedule time and told me to reach the botanical garden of Patna. Both of us reached together but she couldn’t see me as I was behind her. Then I took the entry tickets and we went inside. We were roaming in the botanical garden. She said that she want to sit on a lonely bench where no one could disturb us. I told her to sit near the lake. We went and sat on a bench near the lake. We were holding each others arms. We were talking and the smile of her face was making my heart beat faster. Oh! God, her smile was the sweetest thing. I kissed her forehead. She kept her head on my shoulder and she took our photographs from her cell camera. We sat there for one and half hours. Then we had a walk around the lake. While walking, I checked that no one was in the vicinity. Then I hugged her and kissed her on her cheeks. Then we came out. Walked with her till the entrance of her colony. The smile on her face before saying bye to me was the killer smile. What a lovely smile she had. I thought that I’m going to be hit by the thunderbolt. The moments which we spend together were just awesome. I want to relive those moments again.