Just Thinking

I am. Not to the actual technology, but the use of it. Technology has immense power to alter human life may be also in a unwanted way. Due to technology we are doing things we might not have been doing otherwise like online shopping. We might not be spending so much so easily. I am scared because we might be stretching it too much. We are analyzing everything, we are recording everything, we are processing everything. Actually not we, they. Do you want this? Do you want to be monitored 24 hours? If not, then give up on technology, which is again not possible. It has penetrated our lives at such a level, it has become impossible to shake it off. It has become a part of humanity. You give up technology, you will eventually be considered an animal. Just tell someone that you don't know what internet is, see if they have a laugh of their life. The kind of data we are collecting, soon we will be sold things we ourselves don't know we need, but we will be trusting the technology s

Satisfaction. Satisfaction of where you are in life? Do you have it? If yes, then either you are super rich or a saint. Most of us are living the life to make it better. What a vicious circle. We are giving away the asset which we want to improve. How ironic. Like most of you, I suffer from the fear of mediocrity. The fear to live a compromised life. It may not affect or day to day life or we don't realize it has taken over our day to day routine, but it is there. The struggle, the desperation, the fight, to improve, to reach a higher level, is itself tearing us apart. We satisfied because we are not reaching where we desired and we have fear because we are satisfied. Those who break the loop of routine get ahead or behind us, they are the fearless. They have taken their chances and we are waiting here for ours. Will waiting be worth it? Who knows. Will quitting be worth it? Who knows. What will remain is the fear, whether you get out or not. Because there is always something hi

  This is not about the cricketing extravaganza he gave us. This is not about his good sportsmanship or clean off the field record. This is about the belief he gave us. The belief that, Yes, It can be done! A common man can rise above all.  For atleast two generations and three decades, Cricket meant Sachin and Sachin meant Cricket. I don't know if there is any other person on earth, on whom so many people have always put their hopes on. Anyone else, would have easily gone down with arrogance, pride, over confidence, etc. But not Sachin, he kept on hitting the ball perfectly for 25 long years. The straight drives, the pull, the cover drive, the upper cut. He might not have asked for it, but a complete nation was putting its hope on him and that's a huge burden.  If I had one good day and 2 people praise me, I would be in the seventh heaven and spoil myself. And then there is this man who had 25 good years and over Billion people praising him, even calling him god, I just don

We all know that decisions of a few rich people are still impacting majority of the population. But, most of us don't care to ask how or why, especially middle class population. We don't feel that it is impacting our lives much. But the time is about to change. If you don't know the answers of how or why, please read ahead. If you know, still read ahead, you might gain a new perspective. Few rich people are basically the money lenders of the world. They lend it to big organizations through shares. Suppose we have an investor Mr. A who has recently invested in Company XYZ. Now Mr. A can earn from his investment in two ways, first is dividends given by Company XYZ as percentage of share value held. Second, share of XYZ goes up to a value at which Mr. A is comfortable to sell it. Performance of XYZ is measured by growth, both in revenue and profit i.e. topline and bottom-line. If during 1st year of investment, Mr. A sees 3% of growth in performance of XYZ and gets a

I had an accident a few days back. One of the cars in my left lane decided to take a sharp turn towards right. In that speed I couldn't avoid the back of it passing by and my front tyre brushed to it's side, throwing me and the bike off balance. I hit the road. My bike went on skidding a few feets away. A few people came and picked me up. The car also stopped a few meters ahead and the driver came to see if I was ok. Then came the moment when I felt empowered. Everyone's sympathy by my side. The guy was at my mercy. People around began charging at him. I ignored them, saw the fear in his eyes, extended my arm for a handshake and said "take care from next time". Everyone around me calmed down. People started disbursing. The guy also went back to look at his car. I looked at my wounds, started my bike and went to the office.  You might have ignored this, but our roads have became the most violent places to be. When people came to know about my accident, the very n

Today I was held up by a traffic police officer in Hinjewadi for driving on the wrong sideof tge road. If you haven't heard about hinjewadi, let me tell you, it is one of the IT parks of Pune with terrible traffic conditions. So, I start negotiating with this officer. I said, " warning deke chod do, fine kyu le rahe ho ( give me a warning and let me go, why are you charging me fine)". He said, fine is to make sure you don't do it again. I paid the fine and left. Almost everyday you will get stuck in traffic if your office is in hinjewadi, irrespective of where do you live. So after paying the fine for driving on the wrong side to avoid traffic, when I was stuck in traffic for around 30 mins, I thought why can't I charge a fine for this traffic jam to some government body like The RTO or PWD or Municipal Corporation. Yes, there are alot of people travelling which mostly causes the traffic, but even the authorities have failed miserably in planning. Narrow roads,