We IT coolies...

It has been 4 years since I completed my graduation and joined an IT company. When I look back these years, I realize the changes I have witnessed both in my professional life and in my personal life. I am here to neither whine about what I couldn't accomplish nor about my bad luck. This blog is just to make like minded people realize, that there are very good opportunities outside IT too, as a matter of fact they are better than IT.

Like every other fresh graduate, I too had lot of dreams and hopes. I too was excited and had high aspirations. But my question is how many of us get the right opportunity to excel or to prove ourselves. I was assigned to a production support team in an SAP Basis project which was in no way relevant to what I had studied during graduation or related to my training induction in one of the best IT companies in the world (An Indian Company, Of course). SAP Basis, of course has great market value but at the cost of our health. And to my knowledge and what little experience I had gained, all these Production support work can be done by a higher secondary pass-out with basic knowledge of computer handling. But, ultimately, we sell our health and peace for money.

Have these IT giants ever cared about its employee's or did the government ever worried about the condition their young generation is put into? After all, when did we loose our courage to stand against these? I feel education has made us cowards. Of course the world we live in is a very competitive place and the road to success is not a bed of roses. But Is it not the duty of educational institutes to teach us how to walk on these thorns while we enjoy the journey? No pains No gains. How many of our parents are well educated? How many of them had income all through the year? After all these, were not they bold enough to face the world? The human rights in their country does not allow people to work after 5. IT companies come here for cheap and flexible labor. We, for money, work round the clock compromising every thing in life.

In fact, IT companies pay you more than any other field. But have we ever thought about the quality of our lives. We don't get leave on Gandhi Jayanti but we celebrate Martin Luther King's b' day. We live far away from our loved ones. Lives have become more virtual nowadays. We Indians, all love to settle down in the new world, the United States of America. I know many people who live abroad leaving their family here in India. Oh yeah, we have technologies to see our new born son daily. But will it replace the feeling of hugging our son? This work culture has brought down the family structure, the discipline, the love, we had in the last generation. We all are wonder struck with their world and we never want to come back even though they forcefully push us our of their country. But we never care to build India such one. America is just 500 years old and I don't think anybody knows how old exactly India is. When did they overtake us? When we were fighting between ourselves. Why talk history, now we witness another country, China, overtaking us. Still we watch them moving ahead of us with our mouths wide open, blaming our government, our politicians, our fate for being in this state now.

When are we going to realize that these IT companies are ruining our ingenuity, our lives in fact. Where has our entrepreneurism, (which has been in our blood since ages) gone? Its high time we should stop being coolies to these giants and create a better India. At least the coming generations should have a better quality of life. Our ancestors made more money being self employed? Then why cant we? Whats wrong with us? Whats happening now is more like a colonization under the name of employment. Aren't we people involved in trades when they were still hunting animals for food. We had Vedas when they didn't have symbols for their language. Though we are capable enough, we dont want to use our talents in the right path. Lets stand up before we become handicapped.

I call upon the people who like to be a rebel and desire to take India to heights. Jai Hind...

Ladies day out

As this is going to be my first blog, I decided to write about a trip that will make me laugh whenever I think of it. Hope that will make everybody who reads this laugh. All the credit goes to my friends Meenal and sriramya. Keep reading.

I did my graduation in a reputed institute which is located in a lovely place called coimbatore. It is, of course, a cosmo-politan city in Tamilnadu but with its own values and cultures. less westernized, less polluted, less populated and a great weather too. You can find lot of places to roam around with your friends. But our friends, been lazy potatoes, spent most of the weekends chit chating, watching movies, reading books, cleaning and doing a bit of assignments.

It was on a lazy friday evening in our final year, we decided to see few good places in coimbatore before we finish our graduation. We planned to visit a ganapathy temple in Echanari, which is about an hour from our place. we got ready in the morning. Since it was very sunny that day, we got umbrellas from our friends and started our trip.

A bus arrived at our stop, already fully packed. As every other bus will be packed like this, we didn't have much option except to board it. I got in first. Meenal followed me. As soon as she stepped in, she stamped a lady's feet. A good start. Guess you could imagine what would have happened next. She really got wild and started shouting in her own coimbatore village accent. hahaha. Who will not go wild when somebody with a heavy wooden high heels stamps you in a already packed bus. If it was me, I would have torn her into pieces. As it was we who stamped, Me and Meenal pretended as if we didn't hear her and moved forward to make ourselves accommodate in that fully loaded bus. I ended up standing in front of a stout lady who was sitting on the bus engine and meenal stood right behind me. We placed the umbrellas on the bus engine. Unfortunately, Sriramya had no place to move. she stood near that lady hearing all the curses. After some time, she lost her tolerance and she started fighting back with that lady, with all her chennai accent. Me and Meenal, just couldn't stop laughing looking at Sriramya with her hi-fi looks fighting with a village lady, that too for meenal's mistake. We never knew she had such a talent until then. Though they both were fighting, all the eyes in the bus were on us. Yes, we were laughing loud enough to wake anybody who was sleeping in the bus.

When the first fight was about to settle down, the bus conductor came asking us to buy the tickets. Our super comical meenal, again did a performance there. She took her purse out from her handbag leaving both the hands from the grip. That was when the driver stamped the break. How lovely. She, with all her belongings fell on me happily, laughing again. Before I try something to stop myself from falling, I was already there, in the lap of that stout lady. "What on earth are you people?". Yes it was her turn to shout at us. Hey it was in English this time. She sounded like an insulted English teacher. As she went on shouting, her temper kept raising. Only then we realized, we were still on her and laughing hard that we couldn't even get up. Every time, we tried controlling our laugh, we did burst out with more noise. After about half an hour of struggle, we calmed down. She looked very angry and kept staring at us. We too looked her back the same way, feeling so proud of staring back boldly.

Atlast, we reached Echanari. We got down still staring at those two ladies. We gave a sigh of relief and exchanged comments and laughs. We started walking, as we had to walk around a km to reach the temple. It was damn hot by the time we reached and when we searched for the umbrellas, we found we missed them in the bus itself right next to that stout lady. Ha ha ha. We started laughing again, talking how much keen we were on staring at that lady and how we forgot to get those umbrellas.

We reached the temple and took some snaps for memories. We returned back buying new umbrellas. It was a great fun trip. I still catch myself rolling and laughing whenever I think of this trip. Miss them both and those days too.