Indian Election League: IEL

Welcome to the great Indian Tamaasha or Nautanki, or whatever you want to call it. Its here and how. The election season is on with great fanfare and loads of nautanki. Parties have released their manifestos claiming what all they will do, once they come into power, blaming what the incumbent couldn’t do, the incumbent claiming what they will continue to do if selected again, the hate speeches, the constant blame game. Now if that is not tamasha, then what it is?

Politicians can stoop to any level to win our votes. Samajwadi Party released its manifesto which stated that they want to ban English language and Computers along with futures and stock trading and merchandised farming. Only a moron can think the way this party thinks. Even the most insane person on this earth won’t make such a manifesto. India’s IT sector is pride of India and these cartoons want to ban computers. This very thought is outlandish to say the least. Majority of outsourcing happens to India and this party want to ban English. That is so preposterous. What on earth was going on their mind when they prepared such a manifesto? Together IT, ITES and BPO contributes handsomely to the Indian GDP. They are the invisible receipts of funds and one can only imagine what will happen to India’s BOP(Balance of Payment) if we end up banning computers or English.

Instead of focussing how to take the country forward the demagogue of this party is plotting how to take this country back to18 century. Instead of making a road map as to make India literate and technosavy these lunatic men are only interested in power and position and it is a disgrace that Sanjay Dutt is campaigning for such a party. Today, internet has the power to change the society and computers are a must if India has to progress. The classic example is mobile which has penetrated the rural India. Education is a barometer of Country’s progress and for that English is a must.

Nowadays lots of ads are coming urging people to vote. I do agree that people should go and vote and exercise their rights. But I don’t think that I'm going to vote this year.

My heart just won’t allow me to vote. For whom should I vote? For BJP, who are always bickering as to who has more power, who is more capable to lead, who has more experience and one of their leaders, Mr. Narendra Modi responsible for the ghastly godhra and is now busy accusing Congress for being budiya party and then backtracking and calling them gudiya party as if he has been inspired by the movie “The curious case of Benjamin Button”. For MNS, and that coward Raj Thackrey, who is playing the messiah of Maharashtra and creating rift among the Indians and when 26/11happened, couldn’t muster even courage to speak neither could tell his men to come and help those trapped people that day. He is not even a Maharashtrian, let alone an Indian. For congress, whose CM, after the day attacks were over, was visiting the Taj sites along with his son and a famous director. Or for that matter shiv sena, who at a drop of hat want to create violence and declare bandh and change name of various entities in Mumbai.

These politicians are worst than prostitutes. The latter sells her body for money, the former has sold their soul. The elections have become a battleground for blame game. Everyone is taking a shot at another and nobody is willing to talk about what they want to do for their country. It’s a shame that such harebrained men and women are at helm of affairs.

I’m not saying that perfection is required in politics, but neither do we require leaders who are inept, impotent(not in a literal sense), lunatic, coward and interested in playing blame games. We need leaders who can run this country selflessly and to their best of abilities, and who can put country before them. I want this country to vote but I won’t be one of them. Someday I will float my party and join politics but until then I will enjoy this Tamasha called Indian Election League.

P.S. Bring the cheer leaders.

2 years and a Lifetime of Education and Fun

When I think of IMT after graduating, there are host of emotions and memories which come to my mind. The 2 year stay at IMT was a big learning curve for me as a person. Apart from specializing in Finance, I also specialized in understanding of human nature.

I was cognizant of the fact that these 2 years wont come again in my life and these were indeed years of great learning, making friends and more importantly understanding one ownself.

On 24 June, 2007, 287 students came together from different parts of the country to form one big family which stayed together until March 2009. Everyone of us has some or the memory attached with this institute. If someone asks me what memories you will take home, it will be difficult to point one. Be it the first day of ragging, or the first time we got our results(1^st trimester results) or India winning the inaugural T20 world cup where every guy removed his Tshirt to celebrate(though I was too shy to do it), the Round Table Conference in Mumbai, the numerous booze parties we all had, night outs in girls hostel when rules were less stringent, the night walks which continued till early morning, the tussle with the managements or the mail which shocked the entire campus when all the commodities aka gold and silver wanderers came out, the placement fiasco due to economic downturn and egoistic Mr. Black or the final farewell, the list just continues to grow along.

During these 2 years I also learnt alot about how people behave, how they conduct and I was lucky to see some of the bright minds out here that had some serious talent. I did manage to learn a lot from them.

I also learnt that people will always find ways to bring you down by criticising you, by passing comments which are pugnacious or downright preposterous but the best way to deal with them is to ignore them else you will be hurting your ownself. I made some fantastic friends who I know will get busy in their own life sooner than later but the friendship will last forever.

Now that the batch of 2007-09 has graduated, life will never be the same for each and every one of us. Some will go abroad, some will get married, some will start their own business, but whatever it is nobody will ever forget the 2 years they spent at IMT Nagpur, the happiness they experienced, the friends they made, the girls/guys they had crush on, the lonely times they spent on campus, the fight they had on trivial things, the affairs they had, the assignments they did at 2 am, the night walks they took, the birthdaybumps they got, the professors they adored, the places they visited etc. Probably 20 years down the line, sitting in a balcony we all will be telling our families about all the things we did here at IMT.

After some years when we will have an alumni meet we might come with our family for the meet, we will laugh at absurd things we did, we will meet the girl/guy whom we had crush on and introduce them to our respective spouse, meet the professors who shaped our life, the canteen guys who helped us stay awake by providing us tea and coffee, say hello to our once close pals and inquire about each other’s life, exchange numbers and then go back home with a smile on our face, by remembering those moments we all shared together, because moments become memories and these will live with us forever because memories make a journey called LIFE!!!!!!

I had this dream of doing an MBA and 2 years of my dream has now come to an end. I have woken up, but some memories of this dream will be etched in my mind forever. So here Iam, logging off as a student and logging in as an Alumni of Batch of 2007-2009 of IMT Nagpur.