Sansani ki Vidayi

Last evening Sansani (character from our team) bid adieu to all of us. It put me under a cyclone of thought. I started wondering, who should be blamed for Sansani’s departure? Is it the way IT industry is working? Is it the way people with not so good communication skill get victimized or is it a collective failure of a team. Or shall we blame Sansani himself for being not so smart in handling situations.

While I am thinking this, I remember a line from Tom Cruise’s movie – “A Few Good Men”, in which one of the officers says “we need to be punished, because we are supposed to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves”. I am having a similar kind of feeling here. But in this case I think the team tried, tried its best to help Sansani in every possible way. There was an occasion when team fought together in order to salvage his career and pride. But at the end of the day, it wasn’t to be and the doom’s day came.

Lives moves and so do we, characters in our life come and go, but his departure has jolted me out of stupor and I am beginning to firmly believe that this world does not belong to people who choose to sit silently. On a brighter day, Sansani will be happy, working at a better place with some other team and its member, but I guess the world around us will change for bad or worse and some other Sansani will bid adieu from some other team because he was not a smart cookie, because he was not good at speaking English and because he worked under a mean machine…………

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand............................

Maharashtra Assembly – What A Shame????

Once again the whole concept of Democracy was broken into smithereens. It was savaged brutally by a set of unruly people selected by us to rule a state. The question that always floods my mind is – are we so helpless that we cannot do anything about this? Do we really care about our country or do we love our country? If the answer to this is yes, then how can we sit silently and let incidents like this happen on a regular basis?

MNS members are proud of what they have done? They are issuing warning to Abu Azmi about his life being in danger. Like before, I am wondering where the hell they hide out when terrorists attack our country or the Maoists kill innocent people? Why in the world they shout when some Indian gets attacked in Australia. Aren’t they doing the same thing (promoting Marathi over national language Hindi)? For me they are the real traitors of our country. When the need comes to do something for the country, they will be the last ones to come out, but when it comes to power, lust and money they will show as if they are doing it for the country. These selfish people have pushed the country into a place where no one feels safe.

This incident has been truly a nation shame in all the senses. Democracy has been ravaged, freedom has been slaved and the worst part is the responsible populace is feeling proud of this. Though they have been expelled from the assembly for doing this, but does that make any difference? Does this guarantee that incidents like this will never happen in future? The Answer we all know is a big NO.

I am not sure what the solution is, because this has formed such a vicious circle around our society that it will take a revolution of some kind to remove this problem from grass route. However, I feel that it’s not only the politicians or the bureaucrats responsible for this; we as a common man are also responsible for whatever is happening around us. We tend to make a lot of shout but do nothing about any wrong doings; we do not make these guys accountable or answerable for anything.

I also want to understand from Marathi people, do they really think that Raj Thackery or his MNS really care for the well being of so called common people of Maharashtra? I sincerely and humbly request all you guys living in Maharasthra to come out and teach a lesson to these traitors.

Its time we do not sit silent and get tortured by these atrocities. Its time we should wake up and do something and tell these politicians that this is our country and they have to rule it the way we want them to. These are just handful of people and we are billions, can’t we take these bulls by the horns????