If
each one of us correct our own
failings the society will become
much better. However, the psyche
that most critical people suffer
from is that they point ten fingers
and ten toes at other people, other
societies and other countries but
none at themselves, their
neighborhood or the society they
live in. No responsibility should
come back to them.
One gives away things one does not
need. As for example advice. PD has
been overflowing with hollow advice
but, in comparison, it has not
percolated to a penny's worth of
action. The raja betas can do
nothing for their mother land but
complain. When the same betas run
their families they do not complain.
They find solutions and implement
it. On PD, it is different. Some of
us are always whining about things
being wrong but I have not seen any
plan of action emerging. One reader
suggested collecting some money and
got pounced upon. After that no one
has dared. So there are no
solutions. We come here to complain
about whose backyard is dirtier. We
complain for the sake of complaining
and become more are a part of the
problem than a part of the solution.
Let us face it. Do we come to PD
fired by a sense of belonging for
Bihar and India or do we peep in to
see if there is something worth
reading for self-entertainment? I
think each one of us have to answer
that question. If you are fired with
patriotic zeal do something on the
ground. One little action will speak
louder than the lorry loads of
advice piled in voluminous articles
by self-appointed advisors to the
PM/CM/whoever cares to read all
that. If it is for entertainment,
let us not be hypocritical, admit it
and then write something
entertaining for heaven's sake. Do
not bore other readers to death with
loads of ill-conceived advices. I
have seen readers attempting to
break away from this self-imposed
advisor mould but those articles go
un-commented. Write advise and all
the advisors perk up, put on their
reading glasses, reignite their
visions of Ram-rajya and load
copious amounts of advise to the
original article. Sometimes the
advisors cross swords. It is
amusing.
My advise to the permanent
self-appointed advisors on PD is as
follows: The people closest to you
are the members of your family. Try
finding flaws and advising them 24x7
and you will realize what a counter
productive exercise it is. Is that
the reason they lighten their hearts
by finding flaws and advising
imaginary figures on PD. The modern
day Don Quixotes who kill imaginary
enemies not with arms but bore them
to death with advise.
I hope some readers will contribute
some interesting articles.
Occasional suggestions, which are
practical, well thought of and
implementable are fine but, as
things stand, we are up to our ears
in Quixotic fault finding and advise
coming from people who do not
believe their own words as they are
not willing to spend a penny over
them. So those words are not worth a
penny. - Rajesh Chaubey - Apr.
12, 2006
I
asked one of my friends from Kerala,
"How is Kerala?". He softly replied,
"Kerala is known as God's own land".
I know Kerala too has it's share of
problems but I appreciated his part
of marketing the brand "Kerala" when
he, himself, choose to live out of
this place.
Every system has bugs, but It's the
features which are trumpeted around
and bugs are religiously and
internally worked out. No product
waits to completely fix all the
problems before it go to market.
Bihar is making it's all effort to
wining the confidence of investors,
businessman, tourist etc, let's not
exaggerate the problems and paint it
black in the air to harm those
sincere efforts. Let us not complain
just for the sake of complaining
when we are hardly doing anything
for it. - Md. Aslehullah, Dubai,
UAE - Apr. 12, 2006
Long back I had seen a cartoon. A
man gets scolded by his boss in
office for not keeping files
properly. He feels like yelling back
but the odds are too great. So he
returns home fuming. He enters the
house, finds a towel on the sofa and
yells at his wife. Now the wife is
fuming. She yells at her daughter
for not arranging the house. Now the
daughter is fuming. She goes and
slaps her little brother for
littering things. Now the little boy
is fuming. He goes and kicks the
family dog. The family dog whines
not knowing what the kick was for.
I suspect writing advice on PD is a
similar chain of events. People
absorb advice reluctantly at the
work place. When they try to find
faults and advice at home there are
long faces, swollen cheeks,
non-cooperation and, at unfortunate
times, return advice. So battered by
advice from all quarters they run
the the oasis provided by PD. Aha!!!
Now there is no threat of return
advice!!! What a relief!!! They fire
advice in all directions. President,
PM, CM, DM, and cm (common man) all
are targeted. The advisor feels
brilliant and empowered. The firing
continues till the advisor feels
avenged. By now he is happy but
tired and goes to sleep with the
satisfaction of a victorious General
who has addressed his troops and
told them to "Sweat in peace, lest
they bleed in war".
Next day is a repeat performance. -
Rajesh Chaubey - Apr. 13, 2006 |
