Clean India starts with a Clean Home

If a human being really believes in themselves, the whole world echoes their call... Mr. Narendra Modi stands testimony to this fact.

The Clean India Mission really took off on a very successful note. The truly admirable thing about it was that Mr. Modi was able to bring the common man/woman with their 'brooms and brushes' out on the streets.

Presumably, some of the lot were people who did not share Mr. Modi's conviction that we could really be a lot 'cleaner', literally as well as figuratively; many of us were of the opinion that cleanliness is our neighbours' job. 

So far, so good. But the real question Mr. Modi really has been asking (and one which half of the lot have not been able to grasp) is this one: IS A CLEAN HOME TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR? DO WE NEED THE HON'BLE PM OF THE COUNTRY TO TELL US TO STOP LIVING LIKE PIGS...???

We don't need the brains of Einstein to figure out that Mr. Modi can give us a Clean India, only if we are willing to give ourselves a Clean Home.

Do we dispose off our waste responsibly..?? Do we live in synch with nature..???

Do we use resources only as and when need warrants?? Or are we lords of glutton, eventually throwing our lints, lice and left-overs in our neighbours' backyard ??

For me the mission means:

1. Prudent use of resources at home.

2. Avoiding wastage -- be it food, fuel or face packs.

3. Disposing off waste responsibly

4. Helping, in ways small and big, to minimise pollution -- environmental as well as otherwise. An clean mind is as much my responsibility as a clean house. 

5. Avoiding the use of non-degradable material.

'Nough said... !!! More for later... time to prune my garden...

Work-Life Balance

The ultimate irony...we work to have quality life with the latest gizmos at our disposal making living a walk in the park; and we spend the better part of our lives only saving to buy that dream house or that dream car, only to realise we are way past the point where we could squeeze life till the last drop of joy.
The modern executive works out his individual schedule of 24 by 7 week into a meaningful mosaic of do's and dont's... and spends the rest of his life trying to achieve that golden balance between 'Workaholism' and the legendary ever-fiddling King Niro in burning Rome.
I have given up on sticking to a pattern. As that wise saying goes, " The journey itself is the destination"

Any takes??

Job Promotions versus Job Relocations

In a world taken apart by the monster called Recession, the rules of the game are being redefined. The people across the desk are trading places and the persecuted are turning out to be the terminated... It was raining 'Pink Slips' till recently. I still have the long-familiar shadow of fear of being the next to be shown the exit door... Seems like I am reaching the end of the tunnel... But light forever seems to be those two paces ahead....!!
Job promotions are hard to come by....even the few lucky ones to be offered promotions are forced to relocate to other locations with the company....!!

Office squabbles

Inter-personal skills are of paramount importance in a corporate hotchpotch of heterogeneous colleagues... There are 'N' number of employees with equal number of perceptions, preferences, quirks, and qualms. Getting your job done would be a piece of cake, had we been interacting with inanimate calculating machines we know of as desktops. But far from it! the surface friction of two polarised personalities grinding together toward the same corporate goal is anything but enjoyable. Now, add to this umpteen permutations and combinations...as many as the number of employees.... Now we see the enormity of the issue and the inevitability of personality clashes.