Showing posts with label Year end. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year end. Show all posts

07 September 2010

Supply & Demand

 

India is on a race to be the most populated country in this world. Its literally an Abundance …err.. of people though. Most HR people will only be more than happy to see more heads around

Last week i had to take a print of some documentation and since my home printer wasn't working, had to get the prints from a cyber cafe. The dingy little place and its smaller cubicles was least to say crowded. Many youngsters waiting for their turn… privacy was lost for some and i could see a lady jeering at a person standing beside her. The best thing i liked about this cafe was that, all their PC’s were so outdated by looks, but the Operating System was the latest Windows 7. The monitor was a 14’ CRT … 100% of zoom on the screen made the fonts look huge size on them. I finally managed to get my hand on a PC after about half hour wait, my prints were fired onto a printer that was connected to the WLAN (!), the printer was a HP Laserjet. Print per copy was charged only at Rs 3

As i was walking out of the shop, i was thinking to myself the way population has outstripped supply in this great country of ours ‘India’. A railway station, bus stand, auto / taxi stand.. .its all filled with people. Railway stations even in a cosmo city like Bangalore are far short of space for the crowds that it was meant to operate with. A city bus is something that you cant step into during peak hours… well you may think the Volvo buses that are operated on premium by the bus corporation has space… no longer are they spacious, regardless of the premium fare collected on them

The cyber cafe when it started was meant for those who knew computers only… now there is hardly any grown-up person who doesn't know computers, so you will find this place always crowded. That's the way India has grown… we have absolutely lost our handle on the resources that need to be to support such a large population

Will a we 2 ours 2 revival help ! ?

17 December 2009

Another year ending

December it is and 2009 is going away. Its rather going away very quickly i feel


Most of us would have made pledges for the new year and its now time to walk the talk backwards to understand, if we really did adhere to those pledges we made. It’s important we do this because, the next year is already on us and we will need to approach it with a newer perspective and newer pledges

Its also a good time to remember of positives. God has kept me safe and i am sure you the reader too are alive and safe. More often than not, we tend to forget the goodness of God’s mercy. Its new every morning as the Bible says.

 

What was our influence on this society… a good question to ask ourselves. Shouldn’t we be doing some good for other people rather than be inwardly focused?