It’s been a while since my last blog and have been meaning to write for a long time now, but just haven’t managed to find the time, energy and anything interesting to write about. Or like my friends say – maybe I finally have some work to do!!
Speaking of work - I have been enlightening the Swedish junta here on Swedish labor laws. The expression on their faces when they listen to their own laws is priceless!! It just got me wondering to how some people can manage a business without knowing where the money goes. I guess it’s my fault for having been here for this long and still manage to get shocked but such things. Let me just stop ranting about work right now, or this blog will go on forever…
What is it with Indian cricket fans all of a sudden- They have suddenly become all too aware and intelligent enough to relate monkey chants with racism!! Either that or it was Symonds’s imagination in Baroda and the second time, well after so much of hype in the media, how could the infamous Mumbai crowd resist?? Not that Australians should be the ones complaining about it considering their obsession with Muthiah Muralitharan was no less than racism. However I hope that what happened in Mumbai was not done with a racist mentality. Considering we are a society still obsessed with the fair skin, this incident could be a mirror of what our society is all about. We still have matrimonial adds by educated men stating that they want fair wives. How on earth is fair related to being a good life partner is something beyond understanding. It however doesn’t take away the credit from us to blend as easily despite being a country full of diversity, and this is why I hope that the incident was purely fun and not racist. India has an image of a good blend of different types of people and it’s good to keep it that way.
The other piece of news that caught my attention was the whole fiasco in Bangalore politics- A complete abuse of democracy!!! It was disgusting to see the “supposed leaders” of the country reduce themselves to clowns for power. I know expecting integrity from politicians is too much an expectation, but this kind of stooping low was dumb founding. It is high time that we change some bits of our constitution to make it an efficient democracy. First of all we should have a retirement age for politicians. Our corporate houses have a retirement age of 58, and we should follow the same for politicians too. We do not need leaders who have one foot in the grave, making any sort of policies for the country!! Secondly, similar to corporate houses, there should be a background check on all candidates, and people with any sort of criminal history should not be allowed to stand for elections. When we do not trust people with a murky background in business, how can we trust them to run the country? And lastly, we should have a bi-party system similar to the US – the problem of not having majority, coalitions being formed just for seats and not ideology and then pulling out for the flimsiest of the reasons will be solved. When I was growing up my parents always told me that I had no right to ask for freedom of choices if I didn’t behave responsibly. I guess the same applies for every sphere of life!!!
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